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Deposit Accounts, or Deposits for Six Months —Three per cent. wii i 7j 3 alances of Drawing Accounts, held at call—rates reckoned kg h day t o bday. wailed terms of business, and forms of application for opening ta, &C., will be supplied at the Chief Office of the Bank, and at the is rAnclits in the Strand, Lambeth, and Islington. By order of the Court of Directors, lIUGII INNES CAMERON, General Manager. Tokenhous3-yard, Lothbury, London. N°. 18,492.] LONDON, MONDAY Cr SUN, DECEMBER 29, 1851, [PRICE SD. PUBLICATIONS. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS frLIE NEXT PERIODICAL INVESTIGA TION OF TIIE AFFAIRS OF THE SCOTTISH WIDOWS FUND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY TAKES PLACE AT 3157 DECEMBER, 1852. PARTIES PURPOSING TO EFFECT AS SURANCES WITH THE SOCIETY, ARE REMINDED OF THE ADVANTAGE TO BE DERIVED FROM LODGING THEIR PROPOSALS BEFORE THE 31st DECEMBER OF THE CUR RENT YEAR, THEREBY SECURING THE BENEFIT OF A FULL YEAR'S STANDING OVER LATER ENTRANTS, AND BEING ENTITLED TO RANK FOR TWO YEARS' ADDITIONS AT THE ENSUING INVEST IGAON. JOHN MTIACKENZIE, Manager. WILLIAM LINDESAY, Secretary. EDINBURGII-5, St. Andrew-square. LONDON OFFICE-4, ROYAL EXCHA.NGE BUILDINGS. HUGH M'KEAN, Agent. This day is published, BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. No. CCCCXXXV., for JANUARY. Price 2s. 6d. CONTENTS. Political and Monetary Prospects. Dramas by William Smith. Mont Blanc. Rural Superstitions of Western France. Husbands, Wives, Fathers, Mothers. My Novel; or Varieties in English Life. Part XVII. Struggles for Fame and Fortune. Lord George Bentinck. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER, of nearly ftw o 4 ° years' experience, and now about leaving his present Yrrs (with whom he has been upwards of 11 years), is OPEN qI I L EIGAGEME NT with any respectable firm requiring a TR A ieh it• A recommendation from the firm he is n,w leaving, and b e.... ; , a c c i t ty er . for strict int , grity and perseverance in business, may st;' ll ed on. Address: G. S. EC., J. W. Masan, Esq., 16, Redcross ---- ETTS'S PATENT BRANDY ecti n maY be obtained of all respect ible spirit deale rs in town and tr liz z d Y. in single bottles, protected by the patent metallic capsules ; lnantities not less than two gallons or one dozen, in jars, at 4 43 ttlee at 18s. rer gallon, At the DISTILLERY, 7, SMITIIFIELD - BAR S. Glass bottles and cases included, and THE POEMS AND NOW B FI ST DOLLF RIR E. BULWER LYTTON. CTED. This day, handsomely printed in crown Svc., p rice Bs. cloth, THE POETICAL and DRAMATIC WORKS of Sir EDWARD BULWER LYTTON, Bart. 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London; Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. N --- ----- r —_________----_--- EC H I'S PREPARATIONS for NEW Ben gt YEAR'S PRESENTS. ~. hie that the season has arrived when love and friendship an' a their t • --. es tangible testimonials, MECFII has taken care to provide t r .'"undance of objects for tasteful selection. tl i and has always been renowned for its hearty Christmas libe latee'i ' ti ttle '' Le jour de l'an" of our lively neighbours the French is tke zi I consecrated to the gifts of affection. MECHI invites a visit Li" natives of all countries to his emporium, *her 7. 4, LEADENHALL-STREET, near the India House. ,Ibie s t t heY may be sure of putting their kind intentions into an accept ' e's n th -a Pe. A new feature has bc en added to his elegant show-rooms i t :removal from the Great Exhibition of the unique glass cases, th e excited so much admiration. Within them are displayed to tr4reittest advantage a superb stock of ladies' and gertlemen's ukirg-cases, work-boxes, tea-trays, work-tables, eht.ss-tables, tea *elite"' F 4 rd-cases, &c. Those who desiro tomake really useful pre late, tea- MU find in the general department the best table cutlery, sets brtieheshirnbles, penknives, writing-desks, ivory and other hair- Ulge n , and combs, and a variety of goods adapted to every aa it 1 ,1 3 :: Also bagatelle-tables, affording a charming amusement 4, T ..." 0 7 or wet day. ...........„...., ___ va iienhall-street. __------------ ♦UDI This day is published, 2 vols., Bvo., cloth, 325., THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF B ARTHOLD GEORGE NIEBUHR. From the German and Original Sources. With Essays on his Character and Influence, by L the Chevalier BUNSEN, and Professors BRANDIS and EOBEL. London : Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. °YAL PUL YTECEIN IC INSTITUTION lit nd Lecture by Geo-ge Barker, Esq. , on the Ballad Music of Eng thri4e"lMencing with his celebrated Entertainment, " An English iltifi Oel lno, " every evening for a fortnight , exce p t Saturday, at Eight oo — Lecture by J. 11. Pepp ne er, Esq., on Ward's New Sub lekl4rnlL—Lecture by Dr. Bachhoffner on the Philosophy of tra tt , Recreation.—Numerous Prize Mods, Works of Art, &C., x'." Great Exhibition will be explained el by Mr. Crispe.—Opti . elv er -e at' in Dissolving Views, Allcroscope, Chromatrope, &C.— u m ....and Diving Bell &c &c 441 t eri" )1011, is ; Schools " and . Ckildren u nder Ten years of age, o ; iw ee. ' t 41114.„ daily from Eleven to Five, and every Evening, except SA 11'001 ieven till Half-past Ten. ARGYLL ROOMS IDR re RENT'S s _ As s lN t °• Windmill - stre et, 1 44r .SL James's, is OPEN every Evening for the Winter Season.ton well-known and celebrated Ban d, p rincipal Cornet-a- Boulcourt.. The New Redowa every night at Eleven kl bu pr G ring Ms recess the Rooms have been re - de corated, and many Z e fients made, under the sole direction of Mr. G F. Bryer. th " open at Half-past Eight, to commence at Nine o'clock. Admission—ONE SHILLING. PRIZE QUADRILLE. —M. LAURENT be g s ;ittl a t to inform the Public that he Will gIYE a Prize of Ten s for the best QUADRILLE, to be comp eted for by Messr. +Lett , c r , ! Inney, R. Tutton, Callcott, Montgomery, and H. Lau 't 'l4 l ?N , Day, the sth of January, 1852, at Half-past One o clock, T he ~, 11 ,1.LL ROOMS. ttes, l ." o ° ) ", Will be composed of distinguished Amateurs and Pro -1 eminence. Admission One Shilling. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. tre ated t this festive period of the year more than usual anxiety is 14lin! tit f,,llowi PERSONAL ATTRACTION, ''' titer ng unrivalled discoveries for the T OILET aro called eased reputation, namely— for , new , ROWLANDS' ILACASSAR OIL, 'ng and sustaining a luxuriant head of hair, ter r e nderi ng ROWLANDS' KALYDOR, i 4 the Skin soft, fair, and blooming. t ar i t ,"VVLANDW ODONTO PEARL DENTIFRICE, Part i lig a pearl-like whiteness to the Teeth, and ari a , ROWLANDS' AQUA D'OR O, pl att; ant and spirituous Perfume, an essential aczompanitnent 1 of Public amusement and crow d e d assemblies. Beware of S Imita 041,1,?_ only Genuine of each be p ars urious the name of ons. " Rowlands' " pre tioil 1 tof the Article on the Wrapper or Label. eralaDt,,Y A. Rowland and Sons, 20, Hatto n -gar d e n, London, and by and Perfumers. _--------- „,,T 9 THE AFFLICTED. 'gen% 4 ” certain and speedy cure for all persons afflictedi wasieths kits It istn tn„ , pains in the chest or limbs, stiff joints, or any d A se_____ uitt colds, by the use of if E IVIEDIC erk4'3'sn'eliS9AP, the properties of which are so astonishing in dis ekti'ton, "!erYalPelas, ringworm, scrofula, and other cutaneous cln.,:" it Produces a regular action of the pores, rendering the ui fias,— ftild healthy. Its equally efficacious in burns, sea . id . s e , Min a Yr Wounds of long standing, that no family IthOUld D 0014 `•Dila Uea, depot, 238, Str and, ti, i n arn and Co.'s medicated crea m Pots at Is. l lid. and 2s. 9d. eack. itr" - ------_______T LS MISSAL OF LO RD PALMERST ON. tai Th e Ad- I s DlStr ati rorel g n Secretary who has served under every any body t h tir t , ° Ds has at length ceased to hold office, a an it to thouet„..:. o a f daiffirer.ent. reason for the separation. Some attribute ,0h,_,,,,re toalii difference 1),,,, address airs m France, some to his Maryiebone friends, with ,r 6. tallywhich do not n d e. re ,,, s_olution and his Lordship's answer, some to a th Earl Grey about matters w "".. 41 ~, gut all at once but the fact of his lordship's separation 'Btu " 03 rest f ' Cabinet regretted b 7 many. We are 0 the is much -" ' aerrY t° part from old servants, and there are some sere-- eoto e. which cement parties together Wronger the older y and P.0 , ,i Of this kind f that rendered by E. MOSES _ tt lre i Wl,O have for many n service ear i s a caused a reduction in the expendi 11ns j i l t' dre ss of more tiia:l3.one- rul the longer we are used to half e l ess we could 110,,, z a 'nati on or do without it. In theearbylBEs.l MOSESnot ths i 3o ah `l althoug n hl a t e3' was saved to the ktris oo bil e at half 1 0 , f4. 3 " rk e t i n (I n ustl a %. lass th ai n i n d can b t e h e e l y ea e r h y sing public every article reaehes al e the whole world to a cotrnff- P The;-, by means of a large capital, asnudrpaasssaed s a r d e intendt' per fteec keept 1 y tile Pir)t e ! tl quality,utnbeeqlneaad by a system which to fully appreciates. It Ildon p i E. MOSES and SON, ~85, so • ty Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Minories, 811, V'" ) r110, .„,. 85, Aldgate opposite the Church, all communicating. ~' 3 , 4,i " est-end Biancia, 506, 587, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,5, .r.,1 4 7 - ttreet, all communicating. t+b, ny , jd Y orkshire Branch 15 , Bridge-street. ...Nier s 15 ranch, 86, Fargate . -ilter‘.4(othiers, Matters, ' Boaters, R s 'h e P t ,, l encral Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. Furriers. Boot and 5h00,,,. ,,,. r 1... "dahnunts are closed from sunset Friday to atm* on Th uile 1 4 when business is ressmed till Twelve o'cleck 111;r4Lan:onne°k, entitled " The Exhibition for All Nations," in full to "'ge °, viz. :—English, French, and German, and contain °D, directions for self measurement, can be had gratis, on appli on lu tn4 Z warded post free to any part of the kingdom. had gratis, 41'141eation: Alnanac, for the year ending 1852, can be T el Pon Ri ot Parlc Francais°. Qui si parla Italian°. a Pricht man Deutsch. Aqui se habla Espal__2°l2__ tillr 6--------/4 4 ea st, REN,FOOD FOR INVALIDS AND INFANTS. (1 ' R R Y'S HE ALTH-RESTORING _ In, ~, __ , LLE NT , ncoveni ;lnce, or'exelleeettial remedy (without medicine, purging, anus, how ARABICA FOOD is the only natural, plea ner com pi re) for all ns e• - as it saves fifty times its value in other . means of habitual o,4tiPationeier deeply rooted ' dyspepsia (indigestion), ha 1 1 1 -lnie eo ,, • hemorrhoidal affections, diarrhoea, acidity, heartburn,dropsy, ead aoh .•• • oppression, rheumatism, gout,cough, asthma, ' , ars, d: " • '• giddiness noises in the head and N., •stee s i , congestion of the brain, and po ny of th on, Palpitation eruptions of the skin, impurities. reg hancy, at s '' 1)1° W . sinking ' sickness at the stomach during P .ell j:_in'arit; ,depression and under all Circumstances, debility in the aged a. a s in m ps, ‘are nt .,. oPression irritability, wasting away,flts, sPasin s .• r e fevers, !lea f ,. matron and ulceration of the stomach, angina pectoris, ,__ es i t ,;:_intraly,i, a . ••" , c. The best food for infants and invalids generally, 11e04'or turns acid on the weakeststomach, nor interferes with ,44 lweral diet b for lunch and dinner, to th r : st "os the; ut imparts a healthy re s energy d muscular 14 - 'boat acuity of digestion and nervous and obtained 0,000 titiata.., enfeebled. The only remedy which has _, *hi e ), utals of cures of the above and other complaints, many o• liad • domedban .., resisted all other modes of treatment, and been a A r e ::!nntrable. " v at of 50,000 cures axe here given :- 11 4 kis s ~ Cure No. 47,121. qts •-lizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Walthain-crosSy; ;Ping - once of extreme nervousness , icli estious, gatherings, lo ,tild nervous fancies." " vee rs , i l . k , l ts Eliz Cure No. 48,314. cure of ten a v... 8 , v Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liverpeol,.a • , • ' 41.1 lie ~e P ata, and all the h f nervous irritability.' orrors oStuart - • • • of Dysp e the Lord Stuar Dyspepsia h o from tke Right Hon. I le I have De Decies. t a NIA,. ,o derived considerable benefit from Du Barry's Revaento ‘titlie r j.:, ( rd, and consider it due to yourselves and the public --"`" `u 6 Publication of these lines. " STUART DE DECIES." ri Cure 49,832. it% rt Y Years' inervousness, indescribable agony from dyspepsia, rulhaeconstip atflatulency, spasms, sickness at the ' tilt f oo h endovoruitings, have been removed by Du Barry s excel- 14 cue `ARIA JOLLY WORTHAM, Ling, near Hiss, Norfolk." •404,7ters, suitably packed for all climates, and with full in s s u tru e e r : ilb., 2 iti rec t n i; ei t , o s r lb. ".• ,228. h 2lb., 4s. 6d. ; 51b., 1 is. ; 121 b., 225. ; , 335. The 101 b. and 121 b. carriage free ) on t o t " 3l "Mee order. —Da Barry and Co., 127, New Bond aty , Fortnum, ason, and Co., purvyors to her Ma- C u e,. Se lledges and Butler, Regent-street ; North and Co. ; 4,`,/nd ; Petty, Wood, and Co 13 King William-street , .o, Gracechurch-street ; 49, Bi ' shop , sgate-street Within ; 30 and 451, StrandEccleston-street ; 5, Curzon trot Affair;; Gunter corner of Motcomb-street ; 54, Upper Baker .rotioat the Post-office, Camden. town ; 24, Motcomb•street ; and C •litittl o al n i r espectable Grocers and Chemists. --13 ewitre of ri and Injurious Imitations under pu ous closely similar names, t/ It ; CULVERWELL'S NEW WORKS. Ple e i b .str be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster -row ; Carvalho, e g eet; Mani, 39, Cernhill ; or direct from the author ; " ' 3 + l llllllg each ; by post, Is. 6d. ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. po Realth, F.ecreation, and Rational Us* of Time." o nion s "e Rising—Spring and Summer Mornings Ex -,,„tit the Environs of L ondon —Thearks, Lanes, Hills, High-roads ' and other pleasant pla ces—Countr y ~irnust:' Jr ...Valdes—Te Seit—London at Night —Evenings at Home pe'si--The Drama h —On Eating. Drinking, Sleeping, Bathing, ' Luc, Occupation, &c., &c. "EAR Ts FROM THE MOUNTAINS. Twe Vols. VISIT Tol. I. TO THE LAKES ; SKETCH or EDINBURGH, &c, TA* Tol. 11. L AKES OF KILL eatNET ; REMINISCENCES OF DUBLIN, &e. 111. „„ ' , MAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID, i x „...,eat three score years and ten our course may ran." j u g ly. 4. 4 "_;:r i review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner ha; itated health and enfeebled constitution, that harasses 14..tters b egets the man of pleasure, business, or study , and em -011 o r ace ; with tables and rules for the diet and physical regu eTerf-day life. Till PASSIONS. "What Passions hurt the body—what improve, Ile Truths as refined as Athens ever heard." 1. of • .."it .,.. *—Lfe's pl'grimage, from infancy to old ago. tikuv. -eelltiousness and dissipation, The ad. "tt oil,'" Passions. Chastity and its infringements. The casual: '' a "' r oulediative. Advocac y o w f t e t a h rl i early marriages. oar _ V. TIIE MARRIAGE STATE. "To be or not to be, and reit- Mop rAttlllt :—Laws and obligations of that is the question." nature, society, . m and chotee,:gardin. ..-, u 2. marriage, to be observed by either sex. TI !Vire 4 —. ',tit sides, as to age temperament, them. complexion, and cliym"° Becurs healthy offsprin ' g with the art of rearing . cal defectiveness and its removal. Sterility. ion , -- 1 7 17'4'e: and convers . (1827), L.S.A. 0 824 ). ' g: U LPERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. , • tiatt er , 4,,vienty.flve years Medical and Forensic Referee in these i k% ; ft 4,ectPtion hours daily till FIV L 11111491 6°13 yore azia..i..... lieglittltro.4 _ ...ruivil AND LIFE ASSUR omPANY. i-STREET, London. :CTORS. jun., Esq., Chairman. Ut, Bart., Deputy-Chairman. Stewart Marjoribanks, Esq. John Martin, Esq., M.P. R ow land Mitchell, Esq. James Morris, Esq. Henry Norman, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, jun., Esq. John Thornton, Esq. James Tulloch, Esq. Henry Vigne, Esq. 'TORS. t. W. Robarts, Esq. I Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. Lewis Loyd, jun., Esq. I John Henry Smith, Esq. ACTUARY —G r iffith Davies, Esq., F.R.S. LIFE DEPARTMENT. —Under the provisions of an Aet of Par liament, this Company now offers to future insurers four-fifths of the Profits with Quinquennial Division, or akw Rate of premium without participation of Profits. The next division of Profits will be declared in Juno 1855, when all participating policies which shall have subsisted at least one year at Christmas, 1854, will be allowed to share in the profits. At the several past divisions of profits made by this Company, the reversionary Bonuses added to the policies from one-half the p amounted, on an average of the different ages, to about 1 per rofits, cent. per annum on the sums insured,, amt.the-total bonuses added .at the four septennial divisions exceeded 770,0001. FOREIGN RISKS.—The extra Premiums required for the East and West Indies, the British Colonies, and the northern parts of the United States of America, have been materially reduced. INVALID LIVES .—Persons who are not in such sound health as would enable them to insure their Lives at the Tabular Premiums, may have their Lives insured at Extra Premiums. LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their values, pro vided such Policies shall have been effected a sufficient time to have attained in each case a value not under 501. ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES —Written Notices of, received and registered. Notice is hereby given, that Assurances which exp ire at Chris mas must be renewe d within fift e en days at this Office, or with Mr. Sams, No. 1, St. James's-street, corner of Pall-mall, or with the Company's Agents throughout the Kingdom, otherwise they be come void. BOOMS FOR EVERYBODY. THE FAMILY ECONOMIST, Vol. IV., NEW VOLUME, Is. 6d. boards, is. paper cover. THE FAMILYECONOMIST, Vols. 1., IL, each is. 6d. boards, is. paper cover. THE FAMILY ECONOMIST, 3 vols. bound in 1, extra cloth, 45. STORIES FOR SUMMER DAYS AND WINTER NIGHTS, First Series. Twelve Stories at 2d. each, or 2 vole., neat boards, or boxes, Is. each. STORIES FOR SUMMER DAYS AND WINTER NIGHTS, Second Series. Thirteen Stories at 3d. each, or in 3 vois. or elegant cases, Is. each. (A. New Story on the First of every Month.) THE ECONOMIC LIBRARY : RURAL ECONOMY for COTTAGE FARMERS and GAR DENERS. By Martin Doyle and Others. 2e. cloth. DOMESTIC HAPPINESS, HOME EDUCATION, POLITE NESS, GOOD BREEDING. By G. E. Sargent. Is. 6d. cloth. CATECHISMS of GARDENING sod COT TAGE FARMING. By Martin Doyle. Is. cloth. CATECHISM of DOMESTIC ECONOMY. By Esther Copley. Is. cloth. COTTAGE COOKERY. By Esther Copley, bound In cloth, Is. THE ECONOMIC HOUSEKEEPING BOOK, g. THE WORKING-MAN'S HOUSEKEEPING BOOK. 6d DICTIONARY of DOMESTIC MEDICINE and HOUSEHOLD SURGERY. By Spencer Thomson, M.D., To be completed in 12 Monthly Parts at 6d. each. First Part ready Ist January. London Groombridge and Sons, Paternoster-row. Sold by all booksellers. MR. DIGBY SEYMOUR'S WORK ON WESTERN IRELAND Just published, the Third Edition, greatly enlarged, price Half-a-Crown. Dedicated, by express permission, to his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, HOW to EMPLOY CAPITAL in WESTERN IRELAND : being Answers to a few Practical Questions upon the Manufacture of Beet Sugar, Flax, and Chicory, in con nexion with a Land Investment in the West of Ireland. By WILLIAM DIGBY SEYMOUR, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law. London : John Hearne, 81, Strand ; James Ridgway, 168, Picca dilly; and Effingham Wilson, 11, Royal Exchange. Dublin: Hodges and Smith, Grafton-street. GEORGE KEYS, Secretary. UN ITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSI COMPANY. Established by Act of Parliament in 1834. 8, Waterloo -place, Pall-mall, London; 97, Geerge-stree' 12, St. Vincent-Place, Glasgow; 4, College-green, The bonus added to policies from March, 1834, Deeemtoer, 1847,1 s as follows RANCE Edinburgh; Dublin. to the 31st Deeemtoer, 1847, is as 101iuw .. Sit M Sum addedto , Sum addedto Sum payable Time Assured I.ssured. - - --- • Policyinll4l PolieyinlB4 ---- at - Death. --- ------ ---- ---- £5OOO 13 years 10 mths £638 6 8 £787 10 0 £6470 16 8 5000 1 year .. 112 10 0 5112 10 0 rs 100 0 .. 0 157 1 0 0 1257 10 0 1000 12 year 1000 7 years .. .. 157 10 0 1157 10 0 . 1 year •• .• 22 10 0 1 022 10 0 1000 SOO 1.2 years 50 0 0 7S 15 0 628 15 0 500 I 4 years •• •• 45 0 0 545 0 0 800 1 1 year .. .. 11 5 0 511 5 0 _ .. _ _____ 1,11 A nornott aced EXAMPLE. —At the commencement of the year 1841 a person aged thirtv took out a Policy for 1,0001., the Annual Payment for which is 24/. Is. ;in 1847 he had paid in Premiums 160/. the prollts being 2M per cent. per annum on the sum insured (which is 22/. 10s. per annum for each 1,0001.), he had 1571. 10s. added to the Policy, almost as much as the Premiums paid. The Premiums, nevertheless, are on the most moderate scale, and only one-half need be paid for the first five years when the In surance is for Life. E ve ry information afforded on application to the Resident Direc place, Pall-mall, London. tor, No. 8, Waterloo- SECURITY TO EMPLOYERS. TO SECRETARIES OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, CLERKS, STATION -MASTERS, RAILWAY OFFICIALS, BANKERS' CLERKS, TRAVELLERS, AND OTHERS. TIMES LIFE ASSURANCEand GUARANTEE COMPANY. 32, Ludgate-hill, London. Incorpora ted under 7 and 8 Victor ia, cap. 110. TIONOTURT rRENDENTS. CHARLES HINDLET, Esq., M.P., Dartmouth onSe , Westminster. JAM ES KERSIIA.W, Esq., M.P., Stockport.TRUSTEES. James Alexander Douglas. Esq., 11, Queen -square. Ambrose Moore, Esq., Endsleigh-street, Tavistock-square. James Nisbet, Esq., Berners-street, Oxford-street. CITAIRMAN—The Hon. FRANCIS VILLIERS, Berkeley-square. DEPUTY-CHAIRMANAES WYLD, Esq., M.P., Charing-crass. 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CHRONICLE.—If rumour is to be believed, Lord Palmerston's present feeliags towards Lord J. Russell strongly resemble those which Lord Thurlow expressed towards George 111. in 1792, when the King unexpectedly consented to his unceremonious dismissal. " I never," was his exclamation, " thought that he would have parted with me so easily." " No man has a right to treat another in the way in which he has treated me ; we cannot meat in the same room again." So long and so far as the recent change in the Cabinet shall be discussed as a purely personal or party question' the chances are that the Premier will have the worst of the argument, and it will be no easy matter for him to state the substantial rea sons for the move, without a damaging admission of former error and obstinacy. If we are not misin• formed, the Viscount may safely call for formal proofs—in the shape of dispatches or official communications —f o r his alleged support of arbitrary principles or Unconstitutional proceed ings in France ; and as to any hasty, ill-con sidered, or ill-understood expressions .which he may have let drop, he will neutralise their force, or boldly negative any unfavourable inference that may be drawn from them, by a confident appeal to the broad, palpable, and recognised features of his policy, from which he could no longer recede without disgrace. The data of his alleged personal approval of the coup di etat —said to be within forty-eight hours after its occurrence—will go far to mitigate the censures of his liberal or ultra-liberal friends, and these will readily accept, as an excuse for such an indiscretion, his assurance that he hailed the French Dictator rather as an ettatniaAteasseNa l litcal factions—who, if they had'siOt uppermost; ireftstrre(lie have co-operated with Russia and Austria—than as a military autocrat and a budding absolutist. A schism has already broken out amongst the habitual supporters of the Government on these points, and the prudence of lopping off its main limb at the present juncture is loudly and angrily disputed by the majority. On the other hand, most reflecting and disinterested politicians will side with Lord John Russell, or merely limit their praise of his late display of firmness and decision by a regret that it was postponed till so much mischief had been done. They will understand, in a restricted and qua lified sense, the Ministerial announcement that the business of the Foreign-office, under Lord Granville, will be conducted as nearly as possible in the same spirit, and with the same ulterior views, as under his able, indefatigable, and energetic predecessor. It can hardly be, meant that there is to be the same amount or manner of intervention—that weak States shall be bullied, and strong ones wantonly alienated— that deceitful encouragement shall be held out to the discontented of almost every European community— or that the correspondence with foreign Courts or diplomatists shall still be marked by flippancy, and still affect the smartness of a slashing review. Indeed, Lord Palmerston's avowed principles, considered apart from his peculiar mode of applying them, never constituted the whole, or even the chief part, of the well-founded objections to his statesmanship. We speak of these, of course, as he and his late col leagues have repeatedly described them in unexcited times; and for the purposes of analysis and apprecia tion, we make allowance for the high colouring and exaggerated glosses of his Radical allies in the famous Greek debate, as well as at the dinner given to com memorate Don Pacifico's short-lived triumph. We must do his Lordship the justice to say that, with his usual adroitness, he waved aside the red cap repeatedly tendered to him on these occasions, and mainly rested his vindication on his zeal to maintain peace, to pro mote freedom, to check oppression, to extend and confirm the influence of Great Britain, and to place, by firmness and conciliation, an Englishman of our day on a level with a Roman of the sera when Rome was the mi s tress of th e w orld. He did not tell the House of Commons, or his ,host at the Reform Club, that when w h a t be called firmness and con ciliation were pu t i n act i on , they strongly resembled the opposit e qualities—or that his schemes for elevating th e E ng li s h t ame had made it difficult for an Englishman to make the continental tour without annoyance, and bad left the United Kingdom without one efficient and trustworthy ally. His sketch of a patriotic Secretary for Foreign Affairs, therefore, was little better than a fancy piece or an abstraction ; yet, for that very reason, it may safely be adopted as a model by Lord Granville, wbom will be no easy matter to convict of departing from the " principles" of Lord Palmerston, although, vir tually and substantially, the foreign. policy of the Government may speedily have undergone a whole some and fundamental chang e . Lord S tanle y of Alderley—whose trick of carpi n g a t others has caused his own merits to be undervalued—has chosen to follow his late chief into retirement; and it is sail that be will be succeeded by a vefy young peer, who, on two r three occasions, has given promise of ability in the Upper House. The omission to confer the vacant Under-Secretaryship on a Member of the House of Commons, will certainly add credence to the semi official announcement that Lord John Russell intends to take the personal direction of the most important duties of the Foreign- office.: If this an nouncent has been m a d e with a view of quieting alarm, or as a guarant ee aga i n st the recurrence of in discretion in this department, we must express our conviction that it will n o t be received as such by the public. No contemporary statesman is more liable to sudden freaks or escapades than the Prime Minister, nor less fit to be trusted with the independent and un restrained use o f p en , i nk, an d paper. He is fully capable of provoki ng p r i nc ie Schwarzenberg to tell him sharply t o m i n d hi s own business, or of giving , Louis Napol e o n a rap over the knuckles which would be answered by a bl ow. Per hopes are rather pil lowed on Lord G ranv i l l e w ho, limited as his expe rience of official lif e h as b e en, has given proofs of tl temper, tact, dili gence, conse i en tiousness, and good sense. His f ormer res i dence abroad, and his con nexions, must h ave ma d e well acquainted with our foreign re l a ti ons ; and English Minister, with out pique to i n d u l ge, or self o ve to gratify, will not need or regret th e want of that familiarity with es rg local facti ons an d i ntrigu , which has proved the bane of th e discha ed " bottleholder." Su conferred•offi c great boon on far, theref ore , as directly concerns the Fos r e ign a e , re we at_ Cabinet have country. They have removed an insu rmounta bl e i m p e diment to the renewal of an amicabl e i n t ercourse w i t h the great Powers of Europe ; and we see no reason why separation from a colleague, f o r t a ki ng too m Ph upon himself in a very critical co n j unc t ure, e s h o uld be construed into the expressio n o f an unfr i en dly feeling towards France or her rul er . Wh et h er they have materially diminished th e i r own c h ances o f dissolution, is quite that the another matter. They have lost their right hand, their mainstay, the keystone of their ill-cemented arch, and the connecting link between them and one of the main elements of their stability. Whatever Tory or Conservative tinge Lord Palmerston may have retained during his twenty-five years of Whig gery " and something more,' he has contrived to concentrate the attention of a formidable band of ultra-Liberals on himself as their possible leader, and should he be tempted to raise an independent standard, the majority of these might flock to it. The Protectionists also have begun to speculate on his co-operation, and some of them think that he and Mr. Disraeli, being neither of the m over-burdened with scruples, would get en very we ll together ; but the Exe oration has been inopportunely revived, and (what is more to the point) the Viscount is aware that a Protectionist Government, or any Government composed of materials furnished by the " country party," is an impossibility or an absurdity. It will be, then, most probably from the Liberal camp that he will march to assail his old colleagues, if he should assail them ; and w,e are at a loss to see why he should not, or on what grounds he is expected to limit his opposition to so much of their future foreign policy as shall be found to differ from his own. At all events, the opportunities fur attack that are pretty sure to be offered by their incapacity will be irresistibly tempting to a man of his temperament who has rankling slights to revenge ; and it would be requiring too much of 'Door human nature to insist on his refraining from hostile comments on the budgets of Sir Charles Wood, or „on the colonial administration of Earl Grey. The short time that remains before the com mencement of the session will probably be employed by the Premier in patching, and mending, and beat ing about for recruits. 'But the general conclusion to which we are irresistibly conducted by a calm and comprehensive review of the situation is, that, unless Lord John Russell should suddenly exhibit an almost miraculous fertility of resources, his Government will perish like the patient who has postponed) the ampu tation of a mortified limb till the vital parts are affected and his strength is exhausted, and who— after manfully undergoing the operation—sinks, lan guishes, and expires. HERALD.—The full explanation of the intrigue —for intrigue no doubt it was—by which Lord Pal merston has been sacrificed, must probably after all our speculations be postponed until Parliament meets. The appointment of his successor is a subject upon which we must have a few words. To what is it that the Earl Granville—a young man of no expe rience—who never sat in the House of Commons— and has had but a few years a seat in the House of Peers-0 what is it, we ask, that this young noble ' man, younger in politics than in years—to what is it that he is indebted in times like the present to his elevation to an office of so much importance to the honour and interests of England and England's Sovereign as the Secretaryship of Foreign Affairs ? It is not to any public confidence he enjoys at home. It is not to any reputation he has acquired abroad. It is not to his experience as a states man, nor to his skill as a Parliamentary debater; it is—let the truth be plainly spoken—it is to the fact that he is nearly related to the Whig Dukes of Sutherland and Devonshire ; and by virtue of that relationship allied to one, if not more, of the three family clans that, associated into a little clique of political exclusives, are determined to confine all high offices in this country to themselves and their rela tives and dependents. The Cabinet of Lord John Russell is a Cabinet of the cousins of two or three " great houses." The only principle of his Ministry is to govern the country by the members of the aris tocratic cabal into which the followers of these houses have been formed. An aristocratic connexion in this quarter is now the only passport to the coun cils of the Sovereign. A Cabinet Council is now no thing more than " a gathering of the clans." The very worst kind of exclusiveness . guides the movements of the Whigs. It is the exclusiveness of a little knot of itristocratic monopolists, recognising as the only claim to public office a connexion with their own circle. The recent additions to the Cabinet, and now the appointment of Lord Granville to the Fo reign -office, emphatically mark the resolution of " the Council of Ten " to keep the doors of office barred against the admission to the Council-chamber of any who cannot qualify by connexion with the family party that tire p tiohin out the_ Government of this' aoun lardleatieraton was the only leading member of the Cabinet who had no re lative at the Council board. It is not worth while to notice the exception of the Chancellor. Every oae else had a cousin, a father-i n -l aw , a b ro th er -i n-law, or a son-in-law to stand by him. The Privy Seal is the father-in-law of the Premier—the Chancellor of the Exchequer brother-in-law of the Colonial Secre tary—the Colonial Secretary first cousin of the Howe —the Chancellor of Lancaster is cousin of the Foreign. We protest we do not undertake accu rately to explain all the degrees of relationship even between the leading members of the happy family that are encaged in Downing -street. A genealogist should be specially devoted to the task. An hour's study of the " Peerage" will leave any person who will take the trouble of reading through the heads of Bedford, Carlisle, Grey, and Minto under the impression that the recognised qualifica tion for a Minister of State is to be allied either by blood or marriage with one or all of the nurseries of statesmen which these titles represent. Still less do we undertake to settle the .degrees of consanguinity among the inferior personages, those whom we may call " the filling stuff" of the Cabinet—how Mr. This is married to Lady Mary That. But sure we are that there are not four members of the Cabinet who do not owe their seats at the Council-board to their "complicity" in that web of family connexions which has made the higher public employments in England the patrimony of two or three lordly houses. This is not even the exclusiveness that would confine the higher offices to the members of the aristocracy, though that were intolerable enough. But it is the exclusiveness that would monopolise them to a mise rable section of the aristocracy, to two or three fami lies and their connexions. It is an exclusiveness to which the manhood of the country ought not to submit for one hour. Regarding, as we do, the conferring of the seals of the Foreign Department upon Lord Granville as the indication of a perseverance in this system of " domestic nomination," and therefore an insult to the intellect of the nation at large, it is scarcely worth while to speak of the grave objections which exist to the appointment itself. Lord Granville may, for aught we know, combine in his own person all the talents of all the family party. He may, for aught any one can say to the contrary, be as discreet as Lord Minto, as good-tempered as Earl Grey, as wise as Lord Torrington, or even as able a financier as Sir Charles Wood. But when the present aspect of Eu ropean politics is remembered, we venture to think the Foreign Secretary of the British Sovereign ought to have a name that would not be wholly unknown in European courts. Never was there a time when, as regards the influence of England abroad, it was more essential that we should have at the Foreign-office a statesman of established reputation. Never was there a time when the people of England ought more ear nestly to demand that he should be one in whom they have confidence. To state these conditions is to pronounce the condemnation of the appointment of Lord Granville. Let iv, however, take heart. One thing, at lease, is gained—no vulgar hands have pro faned these seals of office, which are religiously re served for the relatives of " men in office." The mysteries of the Cabinet will not be divulged to those who can boast no relationship with a Cabinet Mi nister. The preserves of " the cousins" are still rigidly preserved. It is something emphatically to have taught this sturdy Anglo-Saxon race that to qualify for the highest offices of the State Parliamen tary ability and influence with the country are very useful accidents ; but the real, the indispensable re quisite, is to be related to the family " Council of Ten." How long will this great country submit to have its affairs so managed by a little clique, that have no sympathy from the aristocracy, and who pronounce the ban of exclusion upon every one that owes his origin to the people—upon every one, in fact, who does not belong to the small faction of exclusives, whom, and whom alone, the compositionof Lord John Russell's Cabinet represents,. DAILY NEWS.—The election of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, in whatever degree aided by falsification or intimidation, to be the dictator and legislator of France, is without doubt one of the mose serious blows that have ever been dealt to constitutional go vernment. We can account for many votes by the peculiar passions and_ignorance of the class which gave them. We can understand the Legititnatist voting for any heirless member, who would undertake to kill at once every principle of freedom, under republic or under monarchy. We can comprehend M. Mon talembert, who imagines human happiness and virtue to exist in but two mansions—the barrack and the cloister. We can understand the Socialist, who, in no possible contingency, could hope to put his own principles in practice, and who, therefore, is well pleased to be avenged of society and of all political parties, by stifling them. We can understand the ignorant peasant, the songs and traditions of whose family are of the Grande Armee, and who in truth knows no name save that of Napoleon. And we can also understand the Con stitutionalist and Orleanist, who despair of seeing a monarchy of the middle classes revive till the forward spirit of liberalism has received the dire lesson of many years' iron tyranny and exaction. All these, however, are mean motives to a mean act. And we believe that a far more universal and predominant motive than any was the conviction how utterly hopeless and useless it was to oppose Louis Napoleon's election, and the inability for any one to see their way to the substitution of anything else. The army had decided. For the people to decide anything con trary implied resistance to the military power. The French were no more prepared for that than the Germans. And they have submitted, as they gene rally bear adverse fortune, (with a good face. Of those parties who, adverse to Louis Napoleon and to tyranny, have still voted for both in the vague hope that they may turn to its advantage, the vulgar Socialists are those least likely to be mistaken. By vulgar socialists we mean that large body of the struggling, the needy, and the ignorant, who are dis contented with their lot, and who seek by some poli tical legerdemain to turn society upside down, and plant themselves upon the top. Louis Napoleon has done, or is doing, this for them with quite as much efficacy as M. Proudhon. The main prop of his power is the support of the most ignorant of the population —the common soldiery, and the rustic peasants, and the monastic clergy. These are are the layers of so ciety, well represented by Montalembert and St. Ar naud, whom he is putting uppermost. The classes of society that he is extinguishing and treading down are the politicians, the professors, the men of letters, journalists, and in fine, the gentlemen. M. Guizot raved of a Government of notables and capables. Louis Napoleon puts" a gag on the mouth of every one that can pretend ,to either character. It is all the vulgarity, immorality, and brutality of the country that is uppermost ; and that stamps its seal upon every Government act. Look at the arrests the letters de cachet, forced exile, the extinction of the press, the restoration of the censorship, even upon books, the firing into first-floor windows—these all bespeak the ignorance, the coarseness, the defiance of decorum, the bachanalian triumph of the lowest class of mind and lowest class of breeding in the country. It is in fact sans-culottism, as yet without the guillotine . It is a serious disaster to have; the p o liti ca l educa tion of a country stopped. With the journals sup pressed, books submitted to the censorship ,—the gag• ging of the masters of publi c instruction,—France must retrograde if it bears its present yoke long. The counter revolution in P russ i a and in Austria did not at least, proscribe all the talent of the country. The bureaucracy of Prussia is able, though despotic. A nd even Schwarza n b erg availed himself of the Brucks and the Baches, thrown up by the revoluti on. But no ono with a soul or a ca pacity above that of a policeman would serve the present French dictator, who will ,be reduced to find c i v il e mployes as well as military ones by m e ans of the conscription. How the liberal and educated mind of France is to free itself from a yoke so galling and so disgraceful re mains as yet a mystery. The unfortunate schism between the upper and the lower classes, the propertied and the earnin g , has deprived the intellect of the country o r its right arm. And it is by this fearful separation, to which the upper classes of the Fren c h were not sufficiently ali ve th ese th ree years past, tha t Louis Napoleon has profit e d. H e i s, to some ext ent, the people's dictator, and hi s m i ss i on i s to scourge the intelligent, the co mmerc i a l, an d the middles classes. The balance may f or a l ong t i me tremble between his prudence and their impatience; but the day of deci sion and of retribution will come. There is one truth that must impress itself on the mind of every citizen in Europe, and that is, the impossibility of en joying the permanent advantages of 'liberty as long as rulers can dispose of armies of from three to five hundred thousand men. This large and disciplined body is necessarily raised from the most illiterate of the population. Brute power can be based on it. And the brute part of Europe must dominate over its intellectual part until means are found for all and each country dispensing with an immense military force. There is no use now in any class, however numerous, or any party, however well organised, attempting to effect a revolution until they are prepared to deal with the army, and shake off that incubus. We allude not, of course, to such an army as the British, but to continental armies. The great question now is - military or non-military rule ? The military principle predominates ovc,...s_ rope, and:we very muclyfear may crush in it fesirfaieks or months whatever remains of constitutionalism in Piedmont, Belgium or Switzerland. Military predominance is an inundation that must cover everything below its level. To oppose it, or erect dykes against it, seems for the moment impossible. All one can do is to be prepared for the sinking of the waters, and to labour for the restoration of constitutional, civilian, pasifio, and economic systems of government. The task is not an easy one, the end not to be attained save through much suffering, and many years of constancy and labour ; but that it is the chief thing to struggle for must be evident to one who contemplates the present state and future prospects of European society. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' ORPHAN SCHOOL, WANSTEAD. The anniversary dinner of the friends of this valuable institution was given on Saturday evening at the London Tavern ; the Lord Mayor in the chair. The attendance was very numerous. After the usual loyal toasts, The LORD MAYOR remarked that it was a very gratifying circumstance to him to find himself called upon so early in his year of office to preside over a meeting like the present ; but that gratification was doubled by the fact that the object they had met to promote was the education and advancement of the rising generation.—(Cheers.) He felt extremely glad to see that such an institution had been established by the gentlemen around him. It was a most important one, and he congratulated them most heartily on the success which had crowned their labours.—(Cheers.) Au institntion which in the fifth year of its existence could show 112 such children as those he saw before him was itself the best panegyric upon the ex ertions of those to whom it owed its formation. —(Loud applatse.) Such an institution could never cease to have claims upon them, especially as the children it supported and provided with the means of instruction were the offspring of those with whom, in times gone by, they bad been in the constant habit of associating.—(Hear.) He believed there was no class more entiled to respect than the great body of commercial travellers. There was no body to which a greater amount of property was en trusted, and none by whom it was held more sacred. —(Cheers.) He thought they would earn additional respect and esteem by the efforts they had made for the education of the orphans of their poorer brethren. These schools would stand high in this country ; nay, perhaps they would ultimately become one of the greatest establishments of the kind in the kingdom.— (Cheers.) He defied any gentleman to say that some of the children who would owe their education to this institution might not some day be called upon to fill the highest situations in the country.—(bear.) The instruction they received was of the very best de ecription, and none could tell to what distinguished positions talents developed in the Commercial Tra vellers' ie Schools hadln gigrbetatnpoltelaesaudretihneiprroppoosssiensg o posses sors.—(Cheers.) ee h r a s n .) i " Prosperity to the Institution."—(Loud applause.) s r l s l . s Sir J. K. HABERFIELD briefly proposed the health of the Lord Mayor, who acknowledged the compli ment in suitable terms. sbwpeheT T icineth h hie e eortnleh c is h ,oty i f ld o ren educated in the institution, who had been placed in the gallery opposite the chairman, now sang an effusion rsceuombms a: rtracoinaphyptetpihd; subscriptions nspo management wn a ca d t ena e rasttgha t e o tie hum t ler h yeno e non: nfroeoetsafhft for the festival, h , e a ot f ui t in e lnd r . were thee creditable insti tution than the appearance which they presented. eluded the Lord Mayor, 30 guineas ; Sir J. K. Haberfield, 30 guineas ; Mr. J. R. Hunter, 2 0 guineas ; the Sheriffs, Mr. George Brown, Mr. Howell, Mr. Willcocks, Mr. G. Moore (the treasurer) Pell A r . ( M 3 r d . d ß it a t g o g , al A l t y r ,. A w ir . . N M ic o h rr o i l s son ( , 2 m d d r. on ß at e io d n m ) a , y M ne r George Hitchcock, Mr. Bates, Mr. R. Russell, Miss Emma Dean, of Hull ; Miss Elizabeth Williams, of Liverpool ; Miss Sarah Ann Leadman , Miss Eliza ' Daniels, of Shrewsbury; Mr. (xibbs, Mr. Rhodes, and Mr. Coleman, 10 guineas each ; Messrs. Bishop and Son (2d donation), 50 guineas ; the National Mercantile Assurance Office, 100 guineas ; Messrs. Hooper and Sons, 12 guineas ; Mr. Tilt, 30 guineas ; Mr. James Hughes, 5 guineas annually, &c., &c. The Lord Mayor's list amounted to 200 guineas, and Mr. Morris's to 1491. 2s.i The LORD MAYOR then proposed the Sheriffs, both of whom responded. Mr. SHAW said it afforded him very sincere pleasure to address them once more in that genuine celebra tion of the great festival of Christmas—once more to see assembled in that room so many members of the great and important class of commercial travellers associated to advance the pure and philanthropic purposes of this excellent institution—once more to have seen so many cheerful and healthy faces and happy hearts, when hut for their aid those children might now have been pining in want, in wretchedness, in dthoeo : s dm i . oe c ev k bde n er eft, before the their a ahp n deo ds been to n a ie misery.—(Loud s deo r arn y. ( ne done there htterLu taken akeoveendl thate remainedr d swo cheers) high u ds standing still m uch have ed i l ui r eh ncegh: to which they were entitled.—(Cheers.) Until every orphan child received such an education as should enable him in future life to work out his own position, until every widow of their order was cared for, until every distressed brother was relieved, they would not be true to themselves.—(Cheers.) He begged to propose the health of their venerable and excellent president, Mr. Masterman, M.P.—(Cheers.) The LORD MAYOR then proposed the health of Sir J. K. Haberfield and the visitors.—(Cheers.) Sir J. K. lIABERFIELD in returning thanks de clared that he had often received much kindness from commercial travellers, and that he should always be ready to render suit and service to the institution. The LORD MAYOR gave the health of Mr. Moore, the treasurer.—(Loud Cheers.) Mr. MOORE congratulated the meeting on the fact that having paid all their bills up, to last night, they had placed in the funds the handsome sup of 13,5001. —(Loud cheers.) Two years ago they had com menced the building fund, for which they had esti mated 12,000/. would be required ; and he had the satisfaction to inform them that 10,0001. had already been raised. The subscriptions for the past year - amounted to 3,330/. ; donations, 424/. ; building fund, 1,074/. ; dividends, 387/. ; presentati ons , 2101, ;-- total, 5,425/.—(Cheers.) He had been with a deputation to Bristol, where he had been most kindly Sir John K. Haberfield. A public dinner received . 7 at which 120 gentlemen were presentanwdabseg(?_rj ' Moore) returned to town with 700/i; his pock . e . . (Cheers.) At Glasgow they bad received sum, at Manchester 1,5001, 7001. in a similar and Liverpool _at 6OOl. — (Cheers.) would be glad if any would volunteer to gentlemen . accompany them. Th e of boys in the school had still Yorkshire to visit, and they number was 64, an d blessed in had ueen 3 330. The institution had . been year k Of girls 44, - and the expenses for the last whole four years it bad been established there had a most remarkable manner, for during the He considered that been the boys were in all probability destined to take a only one death.—(Cheers..) very high standing in the commercial world. They had already placed out eight in advantageous situations. His own house (Greucock, Cope stake, and Moore) had taken one ; Spence Bagally's bad taken two, Wood and Westhead's a fourth, and other firms the rest.—(Hear, hear.) He was con vinced that no better education could be had than at the Commercial Travellers' School, and he could easily foresee that boys who had been brought up in it would one day occupy a seat at that table. The healths of " The vice-president and trustees, and of the board of management" (for whom Mr. cagey and Mr. A, Moore returned thanks) having A NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 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Perry, Burgeons, are in attendance, daily, at 19, Berners-street, Oxford street, London, from Eleven till Two, and Five to Eight; on Sun days from Eleven to One been drunk, the next toa Wag gi Commercia' 1 Tra ?!sellers." Mr. JAMES HUGHES, in responding, observed th a t there were t wo c l asses of comrrie d r l sial travellers oT which he had t o treat—those who those who did no t. Of the former i b d est s m u i b g s h c t rib b e e a a n l d . o a n n e d unturned lowed to say th a t th ey would leave no to add to th e li s t o f su b scribers; Providence bl esse d th e i r exertions and e th l at as their means th e y wou ld i ncrease their arg own r scriptions, and d evo t e more t i me to theinterestssu of the instituti o n. —(Ch eers. ) As for those who did not subscribe, be could only wish that they had been pre.. sent when the children passed round the room, and had seen what a sacrifice of happiness and gratification they made in not doing what they could to assist these schools.—(Cheers.) He had taken a little pains to ascertain what were their reasons for not support them. One said he could not afford it; but really to say that a commercial man could not save a guinea a year must be a joke ?—(Hear.) Why, what was it ? Half a glass of wine less a week, a cigar less in four days, travelling three or four short stages in a second class carriage instead of a first, or in a third instead of a second. In short, it was the accomplishment of the desperate feat of saving two thirds of a penny a day.—(Loud laughter.) Why, he had once met one gentleman who might have saved it in whips, and his horses he none the worse for it; and another who might have saved it in pills, and been himself all the bett er f or it.—(L oud laughter and applause.) A guinea a year would be a °trial' matter to them. They were not likely t o f ound a profitable business with it; they could no t purcha se muc h re p u t a tion, acquir e m uc h l earn i ng, or procur e much comfort or enjoyment with it ; b u t i t mi g h t contrib u t e much to the support and educati on of th e c hi ldren of those with whom they might per haps ha ve associated with that extreme intimacy so peculiar t o the co mmerc ial room.—(Hear.) Others had declin e d to subscribe on the ground that they should never marry. B u t he who could deliberately make such a declaration in the face of the girls of this country was a man that w out of the w or ld w i th only f his errand—that was as determined to go like a boy wh o h av i ng had a co ok'spastry shop left him, was cont en t to eat all cruststhe e pas y and - to leave the laughter.) sweets untasted.—(Loud In short, he was a. = e t c h w h om it were a tensible' Inan.—(L ou d c gross flattery hT to eri o Others, again, call said they could pr ov id e for their own children, but let none think himself above the reac h of adversity. (Hear, hear.) Their worthy secret could tell them that there were in their school s e veral children whose fathers were laid low in the hour of their prosperity —nay, almost in that of their boasting.— (Cheers.) A third class declined to subscribe because they thought the schools would never be of any ser vice to themselves. But sur e ly if t h at spirit" were general, who would subscribe to asylums for idiots, to hospitals for accidents, or to institutions for the blind, but such as expected to lose their senses, to break a limb, or to be deprived or their sight—en o th er words no one, for none anticipated misfortunes for themselves ? Commercial men ought to rem em b er that they could not, on the ground of their insignifi cance, lay claim to exemption from the duties that belonged to most other communities. If weighed in the scale of society by their numbers (about 30,000), they w ere no small body to be following one pursuit. If, again, they were considered with reference to their distinctions, talents, or notoriety, they might say that some of the head • partners of the chief mercantile firms had been com mercial travellers in their time—that Michael Thomas Sadler,. th e first powerful friend of the fac tory girl—Richard Cobden, and, he believed he might add, the Right Rom the Lord Mayor, who had so kindly c onsented to preside over them, were all commercial travellers.—(Cheers) Might be not add that her Majesty's ambassadors abroad were commer cial travellers—slightly magnified.-- (Laughter.) They negotiated commercial treaties — so did they. They sometimes quarrelled with their customers —so did they. They attended banquets and ate good din ners—so did they. They had many servants to wait on them—so had they. They were well paid —so were they. They sometimes got discharged —so did they.—(Laughter.) Lastly, they obtained knight hoods and other titles—so might they.—(Laughter.) He did not despair, in this age of commercial " go-a-headisms,' that'they might live to read in a traveller's circular, an announcement that "our Sir John Smith will wait upon you on or about" such a day.—(Loud laughter.) Let him now earnestly ap peal to the ladies who had done them the honour to grace their assembly. If the husband of any mar ried lady in the gallery did not subscribe to the schools he hoped the sight of the children that even ing would induce her to excite his zeal in the cause. Every man had some kindly place in his heart some where, and most marrried ladies knew where to find it.—(Cheers and laughter.) With respect to the un married, if any non subscribing commercial swain should solicit their heart and hand, let them tell him that there was a lesson of love to learn before he could count upon their smiles.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") Let them forbid him to approach their presence unless he brought with him the talismanic ' receipt of their worthy secretary for at least a guinea's subscription ; for let them be assured, the traveller who cculi let pass such an opportunity of doing good as these schools afforded was not com posed of the right materials to make a good hus band.—(Cheers and laughter.) Common prudence, simple economy and self-defence, ought to make the commercial body exert themselves to support this in stitution. Who, but the men whose childhood had been neglected, and whose education uncared for, filled for the most part, our gaols, and made up the multitude of the disaffected ?—(Cheers.) Many and many a poor convict ending his days in exile and de spair might with justice retort upon society, whose laws he had outraged, and exclaim, "I was ignorant and you did not teach me; my path was beset with snares and quicksands, and you did not help me. Had you • cared more for my childhood I ban been a better man. —(Cheers.) There was yet another reason why it would be well for them to be among the charitable and benevolent. Let any man look back upon a long life and ask himself what circumstance he could re member tbat afforded him the most genuine happiness. It would not be any pecuniary success, any fortunate speculation, any convivial party, or wide-known distinction ; but it would be the remembrance of some unselfish benevolent'action by which he has borne some other's burden, and by which he has conferred happiness on the unfortunate members of that great family of which they all formed a part.—(Loud cheers.) They frequently saw in the newspapers that some conscientious gentleman has sent a sum of money to the Chancellor of the Exehequer for " con science money." Now, conscience ought to teach them that it was as much their duty to support their poor neighbour as to pay their taxes—(Hear, hear, and laughter)—and if, therefore, any one bad an idea of sending money to the Chancellor of the Exchequer he had better alter his mind and forward it to the treasurer of this institution.— (Laughter.) It would, probably, do him as much good here and hereafter, and the immediate results would be much more ap parent to his fri e nds.—(Cheers.) He (Mr. Hughes) could not sit down without thanki ng, on behalf of th e commercial body, those of their friends (not travellers) who, by devoting so much of their time, talents, and money to the institution, had raised it to the height of prosperity it enjoyed. They had had contributions both from ladies and gentlemen, of money, of musi c , and of verse—contributions, in short, of everything that kind-heartedness could suggest and able gene rosity carry out; and he moat earnestly prayed that He, the all disposer of events—He " w h o is a father to the fatherless and a consolation to the widow" might bless those contributions, and make this branch ' of the wide-spreading tree of c h arity that adorned our country as prosperous as they could wish, until every poor traveller's child should be provided for, and until a traveller's widow i n anxiety about the future of her offspring should not exist but in a tall that was told as a re mem b rance of yeste rday.—(ll°a" and long-continued cheering.) " Tne Nation a l M ercantile Assurance 01 1100, " " The Honorary and Medical Officers," an d " The Ste wards and Steward s El ect " were also toas ted before the party broke up. NEW STEAM AA ': ---- 1•101 ---4 1 AcT la .—On Wednesday next the New Steam AVl(? g ai stion Act, passed in August last, Nav i g ation other Acts on the same sub vill come into fog:Victoria, chap. 100, and 11th and 12th lect (9th aad 81) Victoria, will be repealed. The laws relating to navigation are now consolidated, so that they are to steam o a ••4 his an advantage—in one statute. The Act, d - w hi ch is be fowl stating the Board after rve that the naval department of of Trade is to assist in the execution of the Act, treats of the vessels and the number of passengers they su re to carry; of the build of iron steamers ; of safety valves of a boats, &c., in sea-going vessels ;of lights, and provisions survey of steam ng . . against accidents from collision; of the inspection of steam vessels, and of legal proceedings, with other miscellaneous matters. On all these subjects there are various provisions to render complete steam navigation. The Board of Trade is to fix the number of passengers for all steamers, and after the 31st of March steam vessels are required to carry safety valves, out of the control of the engineer, which valves are to be deemed a necessary part of the machinery of a vessel upon which the surveyor -general is to report. This regula tion has been ordered for the additional safety of the pas sengers. DARING ROBBERY AT SAFTRON WALD/N.—Oa Tuesday morning, about four o'clock, the shop Kent, jeweller and silversmith, iu High-street, was e ntered by thieves, who gained an entrance by breaking a t d b e n lar g ge the lath and plaster wall, by which a hole wa s n 2 ewnaosu sleepingg h to admit in a o room 0 a o m m man to th e gamecreep t h i ; o o o n rg, of Mr. Henry Bt: K ent, who -h i:leering a noise in the shop, immediately rushed in, wheng behind him a rope tinguished and the robber escaped, les i v ic z i n ntosh, a box of luci ladder, large cla.spknife, umbrella , fers, and a large bag, which was evidently and a few articles of the booty in ; a tray of weddinfL e .. silver were the only goods al arm, After the thief had which speedily brought the intended light was to place - escaped, Mr. Kent gave r an it was discovered that the rob assistance to the P° 8- t i;climbing over several high walls in ber had made his ea st leading" to the almshouses. At pre the rear of the pry, ins ' 0 the perpetrator of this daring r* sent no clue exls 5 ,, _ iti4/4, i—iford (ra i bery.,..Che "v`v L " LIFE A SSURANCE SOCIETY Instituted 1823. Office, Fleet-street, London. Parties assuring during the present year will participate in the Bonus to be declared to 31st December, 1854. Four-fifths of the profits are allotted to the assured. Reversionary Bonuses, amounting in the whole to 1,929,0851., have been added to the policies at the past divisions. The assets of the Society exceed Three-and-half Millions, the whole invested in Government or Real Securities. Prospectuses and proposals may be had on application at the o ffice. WILLIAM SAMUEL DOWNES, Actuary. October 1, 1851.