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• / ( - z 7 -: l> _ -•• • • i••• • • ' ; • • • P . 1 , , _ . r!' • , , • (1U hf 4 • It , • • / tkt, ' • - 5.. N. - +- . • • • - r • • . ‘ , • % i E? , o+ n 7tt or 1) • • 4 . IF air • . • . . . . . _ _VII' • . • - GUILTITTALL,nrrtstarn 21, 1150. - THE COMMITTEE! FOR •'LETTING-' THE CITY'S L A.NDS A ill meet at GUILDHALL, on WEDNESDAY, the 9th 'day of October next, at- One o'clock precisely, to receive TENDERS for LETTING on LEASES (in Lots), fcr 17 years (less three days), from Michaelmas, 1850, two Houses, Sos. 59 and 60, on the west side of Wilson-street, Finsbury ; a Static on' the west side of Finstuir% -pW's : sage, Wilson.strtet aforesaid ;, and , two nouses. Sos. 2i and 29, on the south side 01 Providence-row, Fins: bury. Further particulars - and - pips' may be seen, and forms of tender • elotainelfat the Office of . IVOrks. Guildhall. . • • THOMAS SAUNDERS, Comptroller. ontribute a greater sung-than 101. or 121. per share on t---2-"be 10,000 shares ta" complete - the contracts, w hi c h - baye been taken greatly under the engineer's esfitniite." - r ~~ THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. - • N. ° ..18,1.07.] LONDON, SATURDAY EVE . iNING SUN OCTOBER 5, 1850 I KING'S COLLEGE, LONDQN . • • GEO LOG IC INE It A LOG T.,. Professor TENNANT, F.G.S.. will commence - on R FnNF D AT, October 9, at' Nine o'clock A.M., a COURSE of LECTURES on MINERALOGY, with a view - to tas.:ilitate the study of GEOLOGY, and of the application of Nliner.l Substances in the ARTS-. i The Lectures will be Illustrated by au extensive Collectlbu of Specimens. • " • , Further particulars may be obtained at the Secretary's office. It. %V. JELE, D.D.; ;Principal [PRICE SD. DISPUTED LIFE POLICIES. FORD'S WELLINGTON FAMILY and COMMERCIAL HOTEL, DALE-STREET, LIVERPOOL. This Hotel, situated in, the immediate vicinity of the Exchange, Docks, and other places of public and commercial resort,,is fitted up in first-rate style. and the accommodations for American Foreign,.as well as English str angers , w ill b e found everything thati.4 desirable, while the arrangements of the "Cuisine" are itt the hands of a first-rate Cook. Thc,Proprietor urther wishes to intimate that his. Coffee and Commercial Rooms, as well as Sitting and Bed Rooms, will be' found second to none in the kingdom. N.B. The charges for servant! arc included in the Bill (except those who only stay a few hours), viz., Waiter, Porter, and Chambermaid, and'lt is respectfully intimated that' all further payment is unne cessary. ill•usage he had received from the police. He took to his bed, and was unable to leave the house ' for three weeks. Feeling better then he went to work for about 10 day's; 'when be :became so ill that, he again took to • hiS bed. • Mr. O'Finherty, surgeon, attended him until his death, which took place on the 26th 'ult. ' ' • • building, unknown at present: No. 23, J. Bathe (private), side windows burned out; back front burned and roof damaged by' fire ; contents not in sured. No, 24, ditto, E. 13eschiff, cap peak maker ; damage to furniture, &c., by removal ; insured in the Royal Exchange . office. • Ditto, W. Prose, similar da mage ; insured in the same office. No. 25, ditto, W, Ward, hemp, flsx, and cane merchant; serious da mage to back workshops ; insured in the Sun,office. but to proceed to the final operation, in which, per haps, I atn not a very handy workman; but I will be bound , to say that no workman ever undertook his task with more cheerfulness. readiness, and pleasure, than I perform that which I am about to do. Lord STANLEY then proceeded to adjust the stone, a. very handsome silver trowel having been presented to his Lordship for that purpose, with the following inscription : " Presented by the members of the Bury Atbe riscum to the Right Hon. Edward Geoffrey, Baran Stanley, on his laying the foundation• stone of that in stitution, October 3, 1850." The asseuthled company then adjourned to the As sembly-Tooins, where a cold collation had been pre pared, in .commemoration of the occasion, at which Mr. Edmund Grundy, of the Wylde, presided. After the usual loyal toasts, the Chairman gave the health •of " the Earl of Derby," to which Lord Stanley briefly_ responded. The CHAIRMA;4I then gave " the Bishop and Clergy Of the Diocese." ' " A trial of considerable Interest to Life Assurance Offices and the public was concluded yesterday in the Court of Exchequer. • The Eagle Company held a policy for an assurance of 5391. in the Albion Combany'lts.security for an advance, the payment of which policy was now dis;Mted by the Albion, on the ground that at the time it wasetreeted the fact of the assured party having been a man of in temperate habits was concealed from the office. '1 he chief evidence turtle +, upon the question as to the degree of intemperance that had been exhibited, and the result was, that a verdict was given against the resisting office, not only for the amount of the policy, but also for 40/. interest from the date when it became due. The circumstance of the action being brought by one office against another presenti a striking illustration of the uncertainty which may attach to all po licies under the present system, and shoes that the only mode by vitro Absolute security can be obtained by the public must lie in the general adoption by Assurance Offices of the plan of protefAing them selves in every case by due inquirieS before the grlntim f each po licy ; 'and of'afterwards - assnming the full responsibility of the com pleteness of such inquiries by holding themselves precluded from raising any future question. In the present case two offices are found to be diametrically opposed in their opinions as to what can properly invalidate a claim, and yet the public are expected to be able to guare themselves against such contingences. Similar cases have otturred before, arilf even if they were more rare, they would seriously injure the progress of life assurance. The very principle upon which the business is founded is the removal of uncertainty, and .whenever that principle is counteracted in the slightest degree, the ileople who would be the first to resort to its advantages are the first to bo deterred."—Times, July 11, 1860. • EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. BARLOW'S CAST-IRON SLEEPERS. , In consequence of its being necessary to make an alteration in the Specifleation for Alms° sleepers recently Issued from this Company, each party who has tendered under the said Specifleathn cae ,hare his render returned to him on application at this (Mice any dayrafter the 7th instant, when It copy of the amended' Silecification will be handed•to him gratis. The charge to all other parties will be ten , shillings a copy. The last day tor receivit4 Tenders under. the atnended.Specinca- Um will be Tuesday the 221 instant. The Dircet redo not bhid themselves to accept the lowest Tender. By order, C. P. RONEY, Secretary. /Several of thejury,reroarked that they were in the habit of seeing the deceahed pass their houses daily, and they knew-hint-to be a sober, quiet, and well• . conducted man. LORD STANLEY AND THE BURY ATHENIEUM. published, demy 8 TO., price 2d., •, AILWAY PROSPECTS ; or, a Glance into . jam. , , . . Bally Brothers, Cornhill, London. 'SLlsan - Geary, the deceased's wido*, wai tlext .ex amined. She corroborated the statement of the' pre vious witness as to the violence inflicted on the de ceased by the police with their staved, and she further stated • that on his arrival "home on Sunday . morning he was unable to raise his left arm, which was covered with , bruises from the blows inflicted with the policemen's staves ; he had also a black . eye, his jaws very much , swollen, and he vas bleeding from one ear. Mr. OTlaberty, surgeon, attended him, and he continued to complain of the violence he had received until be died. De ceased repeatedly said that lie had not given the pcdice any provocation for the violence, and the only way she could at all account fur it was, that some time ago deceased saw Sergeabt Bushell ill-tieat :a man, and gave evidence of the fact before the police magis trate, and whilst following the deceased to the station house she distinctly heard Sergeant Bushell say to the deceased, he had got him at last, and he would let him know it. LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE. Boar, LANCASiIIRE, OCT. 3.—Tbis large and thriving manufacturing town has been in a'state of excitement to-day, in consequence of the founding in it of a handsoine new building, to be called the Bury Athenmum. Lord Stanley had accepted an invitation to lay the corner-stone, a ceremony which .was: to be succeeded by a dinner at the Derby Arms, and a public soirée in. the evening.in one Qf the large mills of tbe town. Among the leading persons present besides Lord Stanley, were Lady Stanley, the Lord Bishop of Manchester, the Earl and Countess of Wilton, and their noble daughter, Lady 'Mary Egerton, Mr. James Heywood, M.P., Mr. William Brown, M.P., and Mr. Alexander Henry, M.P. The Bury Athentcum, hitherto denominated the Bury Mechanics Institution, was established in the year 1836. For some years after its foundation, however, the number of members was very limited ; and, consequently, no large amount of funds could be raised. The number having now attained to between 200 and 300, the members found - it necessary to make an effort' at 'obtaining- larger accommodation, the institution having been hitherto 'conducted in a small building in the Wylde. A 'strenuous appeal to the public was reSolved upon, and a number of gen tlemen interested in the new movement held meet ings in conjunction with the members, when it was determined to establish an Athenmum, and if the ne cessary founds could be raised, to erect a suitable building. 2,0001. or 3,0001. having been subscribed in the course of a few months, the provisional com mittee procured estimates of the cost of a new build ing. It was agreed to accept that of Mr. Sidney Smirke, architect, of London, who proposed to erect the building at a cost of 4,000/. The site chosen is a plot of ground adjoining the newly-erected Town-hall, in Newmarket-street. The edifice is to be erected in the Italian style, from stone hewn entirely from the quarries of the Earl of Derby, in the neighbourhood of the town. The Noble Earl has also given the site on which the building is to be erected to the inhabi tants for ever. _ Bishopsgate Oaoper 2, 180. • Just out, price Sixpence, rJ ADKIEL'S ALlIA:INI ACK FOR 1851. Containing l'redictions of the Weather ; Voles of the Stars ; the Eclipses, ikc. A Hieroglyphic; and most Wonderful Revelations from the World of Spirits, through a ;Magic Crystal, in which nu merous Spirits of the Dead have appeared! Illustrated by Woodcuts of the Appearances of the Spirits ! Hall and C0.,.25, Paternoster•row, London ; and all Booksellers. KILLARNEY, and VALENCIA RAILWAY. Notlee Is hereby - given, that an EXTRAORDINARY GENE RAL MEETING of the Shareholders in this Company will bq held, at the Oftlees of the Company, No. 26, Throgmorton street, London, on WEDNESDAY, the 23d day of October, 1850, at Two o'clock in the' • AD.:noon precisely, for the purpose of conllrming the Declaration cf Forfeiture made at a.Meeting of the Directors, held on the 30th day ' of July List, and the 16th day 'of August last, of certain Shares in the said Company, and for directing the Shares so forfeited to be sold or otherwise disposed of. ATT WOOD, Chairman. 26, Throgmorton-street, London, • October 4, MO. • • T HE LONDON INDISPUTABLE LIFE POLICY COMPANY No. 72, LOMBARD-MEET, LONDON. TRUSTEES. J. Campbell Renton, Esq., M.P. , Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P. Richard 3ialins, Esq., Q.C. I James Fuller Madox, Esq. _William Wilberforce, Esq. DIRECTORS. Robert Henry Forman, Esq. John Hamilton, Esq. James Fuller Madox, Esq. John Matthews, Esq. C. Octayius Parnell, Esq. AUDITORS. George Cumming, Esq.. ' Jaines Turner. Esq. I William D. Starling, Esq. DaykLaeary Stone, Esq. FROM THE 'LONDON G A ZETTE • OF FRIDAY. ADMIRALTY, Oc;r. 1, 1850. , The following promotion has this day taken place, consequent on the death, of Rear-Admiral Sir John Marshall, C.B.:— Captain Edward Collier, C. 8., to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue. Captains Thomas Ball Sullivan, C. 8., and David Scott, have also been promoted to be Retired Rear-Ad ,reirals,, en the terms proposed in ,the London Gazette of Ist September, 1846, without increase ot . halt-pay.' Commissions by the Lord• Lieutenant of Somersetshire. North Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry— The Hon. Edwin Berkeley Portman, to be Cornet, vice Lord Dungarvon, promoted; Thomas Barren, Gent., to be Veterinary Surgeon, Sept. 20. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Herefordshire. Herefordshire Regiment of Militia 7 -William Money Kyrie, Esq., to be Captain. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. William Johnson, farmer, West Drayton. Frederick Johnson, watchmaker, Lincolnshire. • . „ To PARENTS and GUARDIANS.—A poition of the extensive Ptgrnises in Regent-street, ocCupiod by Messrs. NICOLL, will in future be devoted for the production of BOYS' and YOUTHS' CLOTHING, such to exhibit unusual good taste, style, and finials, besides having a farther recommendation to their sitrrability.aud 'vet* moderate cost. College Caps awl Gowns, with every kind of Garment calculated - for pleasure, duties; of exwoise, and,stich as are worn by Young - Gentlemen at the Colleges and Great Puolic Schools. These are al ways ready to be met with at the Warerooms of H. J. axd D. NI COLL, Merchant Clothiers, Paletat Patentees, and Manufacturers of Cloth. Itegent-street (from 114 to 120 inclusive), and 22, Cornhiil. CIUTION.—Many have assumed the use of the word " PALETOT," . but Messrs.. NICOLL are the Sole Patentees of the design and ma terial (its Winter or Summer Substances) employed in the manufae-' tura of this Inexpensive and gentlemanly article of costume. , William Adams, Esq. John Atkins, Esq. Hein" , 'Augustus Bevan, Esq. J. Thompson Bramwell, Esq. John Dangerlield, Esq. Mr. T. O. Flaherty, M.D., of 2, James-street, Oxford•street, stated that he saw the deceased on the B=IMT/tiff—David Alison, Esq. 3ANLERB—Nressrs. Spooner, Attwoods, and Ce. PADDINGTON LOCAL BOAR4O. 24, Connaught-terrace, Edgcware.road. Rev. James Sherbold Boone, A.M., Stanhope-street, Hyde-park. Captain Creed, Norfolk-crescent, Oxford-square. Charles Pemberton, Esq., Eastbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, and Lin- 19th of August last; he had h;s left arm in a sling, which he found covered with severe bruises, and com plained of having been violently beaten all over his body by the police with their staves. He continued to attend the decased until his death, which took place on the 26th from pleuritic, which nay have arisen from violence or from a cold. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION: Lecture on the Ballad Music of England, by Mr. George Bar ker, illustrated by his own compositions, every Evening (except t;a turday) at Eight o'clock.—Lecture on the Hydro-Electric Machine, by Dr. Bachhoffner.—Lecture on Chemistry by J. H. Pepper, Esq., il lustrating the Ancient Fiery Ordeal and the Dawning of Red Hot Metals. —Model of Weston's Patent Nova-Motive Railway, at, work daily.-,--Dissolving Views illustrating some of the Wonders of Na ture, daily at Half-past Four, and in the Evenings at a Quarter to Ten; also a Series, exhibiting Scenes In the Arctic Regions and Ceylon, daily at„Ona o'clock.—Diver and Diving-bell , &c., kc. coin's Inn-fields. Thomas Jeryis Amos, Esq., York-street, Portman-square. George Y. Robson, Esq., Eastbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, and New square, Lincoln's Inn. Catherine Linsky, living at 6, ,Conway-court, stated that on the evening in question she was talking to the deceased, who was quite sober, a few doors from his own house, when Sergeant Bushell came up and asked deceased how long he was going to stop there ? Deceased made no reply, but walked away, the sergeant and another constable following 'him. In a few minutes afterwards she saw the two police men having hold of the deceased, and both striking him over the arms and body with their staves. De ceased was offering no resistance to the constables, and begged of them to let him walk quietly along. William and Mary Ross corroborated the evidence of the previous witnesses. Morris Geary, a brother of the deceased, stated that he was following the deceased to the station, when observing the violence which the police were using towards his brother,'he begged them to desist. He was collared and dragged into the station along with deceased, and both in the charge room and whilst on their way to the cell witness and deceased were knocked about by the sergeant, who repeatedly struck them about the arms and face with his fist, and wit ness was thrown violently into the cell like a dog. Witness and deceased appeared before the police ma gistrate on the following Monday, when the charge was dismissed. Secretary, Chas. Hogbton, Esq. The POLICIES of this Company, being INDISPUTABLE, form Family Provisions and Negotiable Securities, for their validity is not .dependent,. as in the case of ordinary Policies, upon the import •f previous reports and other documents. BANKRUPTS. Thomas Horatio Jolley, fruit salesman, Farringdon street, to surrender Oct. 11, at half-past one, and Nov. 14, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Sharp and Inder maur, Devonshire-terrace, Marylebone. George Little, electrical apparatus maker, Holborn bars, Oct. 11, at half-past eleven, and Nov. 14, at two at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings; Fitch, Southampton-street, Bloomsbury. Thomas Fielding, hotel keeper, Rhyl, Flintshire, Oct. 11 and Nov. 7, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool; Evans and Son, Liverpool. Admission, le.—Schools, Half-price. Open daily from Eleven till Five o'clock, and every Evening (ex. apt ilaturday) from Seven till Half-past Ten. Owing to this important improvement in the practice of Life As surance, the progress of this Company has been rapid from the corn mehcement of its business, and is steadily advancing. Copies of the Report of the last Annual Meeting will be forwarded, on application, to Solicitors, to whom Commission is allowed. ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, Manager. A RGYLL SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, St. James's. Open every Evening with Laurent's celebrated and unrivalled Band. Principal Cornet-a-piston, Mons. BOULCOURT, from Paris, and Artiste Attache to Mr. Strauss's Orchestra at the Baths of Vichy, France. The Subscribers are respectfully informed that Mr. Laurent, jun., having become Lessee to the above Rooms, begs to announce his in tention of applying to the Honourable Magistrates for a Licence to the same Rooms, and, if granted, he w.ll give CONCERTS of is very 'superior description, in conjunction with his Dancing Academy. Mr. Laurent, jun., solicits the patronage of the subscribers and nobility in this new undertaking, pledging himself strenuously to cater Me their amusement, and hopes to deserve a continuance of that liberal support which has hitherto been bestowed on this distinguished and popular establishment. CATHOLIC LAW AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, it, NEW COVENTRY-STREET, LEICESTER-SQUARE, LONDON. The FOURTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Proprie tors of this Company took place on the 25th Instant, at the Head Office, at One o'clock precisely. The following is extracted from the report, which is too lengthy for publication : During the past year no claims have arisen from deaths in England, and but two in Ireland—one for 5001. and the other for 2801.—making together 7001., which have been paid. This is far below the expected mortality, and is especially favourable, when it is remembered how severely the life offices generally suffered from the epidemic of last year. The number of lives assured between the let of June, 1249, and the 31st of May, 1850, was more than double the number issued in the twelve months preceding. Proposals were made for 138 Policies, amounting to 52,9631.25. id.: of these 123, comprising 106 lives, were accepted for 45,1251. 65. sixteen Policies lapsed, representing 6,0481., upon which 3201. 35. was received by the Company in the shape of premiums Since the commencement of the Company to the Ist of June last, assurances were effected to the extent of 110,9721. 12s 6d,, pro ducing in annual premiums 3,7321. lie. 6d. Of these 54 lapsed, amounting to 23,9901. 16s. 6d., of which the annual premiums were 7411. Is., leaving the yearly income on the Ist of June last equal to 2,9911. 15s. I Id. Since last meeting loans were applied for to the extent of 17,7001., but 1,1831. I ls. 10d. only was advanced. The Directors were also highly gratified to report that within the last four months they had considerably extended their business on the Continent, having appointed, as Head Agent in France, Monsieur de l'Etang, a gentleman of high standing in Paris, distinguished for his integrity and ability in financial and in all assurance matters, who, under the sanction and patronage of the Archbishop of Paris, the Cardinal Archbishop of Lyons, and Monseigneur Paris's, Eveque de Langres, has already within the last three months effected a con siderabte amount of business, not only in Life Assurances, but in An nuities both Immediate and Deferred. After various resolutions, approving of the Report, and returning thanks to the Right Reverend Chairman, Bishop Morris, the Vice- Chairman, Actuary, Secretary, and Medical Officers of the establish ment, the meeting separated, highly gratified at its present results and future prospects. Lord STANLEY, on presenting himself, was received with several rounds of enthusiastic cheering. He said—Ladies and Gentlemen, connected as I am by many and close ties with the town of Bury, I have at once and cheerfully complied with the request made to me by several of the leading inhabitants of this town, that I would take part in the proceedings of this day, by laying•what I can hardly call the first stone, the corner stone of a building which I may hope and trust is calculated to promote in no inconsiderable degree the comfort, happiness, and improvement of a very large portion of the population of the town and neighbourhood.—(Hear, hear.) I say of a very large portion of the population, because I am un willing to believe—and, indeed, the great interest which I see excited in the crowd around me prevents me for a moment believing—that this thriving and prosperous community is behindhand with the rest of the age in that universal desire for knowledge, that thirst after mental cultivation which is the distin guishing and honourable characteristic of the present day. The days are gone by when science and lite rature were the luxury of the privileged few ; they have become in these days a necessary for the many, and not' a luxury of the few. • It is not the affluent classes and the independent alone who pursue the paths, the tastes, the enjoyments of literature and science; but also the manufacturer and the merchant —those who have still their way to make in the world, who have still their worldly fortune to realise—ay, and far more, the mechanic, the artisan, the man de pendent for his daily bread upon his daily labour, feels that thirst for knowledge which is the surest means of obtaining, as it is the strongest motive for leading to, intellectual improvement and mental cultivation. —(1 - lear, hear.) If there were no other benefit de rived from this universal desire for knowledge than that it tends to counteract the otherwise contracting and narrowing influence of all-absorbing pursuits, but more especially of those pursuits which depend upon the constant endeavour to acquire money and to obtain worldly advantage, which, after all, must be the mainspring of all commercial enterprise — I say, with regard to the mechanic and the artisan, if the pursuit of knowledge did nothing more than sub stitute the charms of literature and science for the de grading pursuit of sensual indulgence and brutal in toxication—if it leads the humbler classes away from mere sensual indulgence to the cultivation of the in tellect, and to the improvement of the mind, there is an important and signal benefit derived from the uni versal spread and thirst for knowledge in the present day.—(Cheers.) All classes alike feel that the pur suit of knowledge is, to use the words of the poet— DIVIDENDS. At tho Court, Basingltall:otreet. J. Tidmarsh, Regent-street, and Cheltenham, draper Oct. 25, at twelve—S. Gillatt, Chapel-street, Grosvenor square, builder, Oct. 25, at eleven—T. Dunn, Hastings, builder, Oct. 25, at half-past twelve—J. Sparrow, Ox ford, draper, Oat. 26. at eleven. In the Country. P. Vaughan, Brecon, scrivener, Nov. 13, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—J. Croome, Bristol, manufacturing engineer, Nov. 4, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol--.W. Hulme, Manchester, tailor and draper, Oct. 26, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—D. H. Haley, Lodge-road, Birmingham, iron founder, Oct. 31, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. • At the Court, Basinghall-street._ _ - Terms of Subscription months, 51. 55.; one month, IL is.; one emoting, is. Doors open at Half-past Eight, Dancing commences at Nine pre cisely, e!osing at Half-past Eleven. BE EIGHTH •of OCTOBER, 1850. 1 The EIGHTH of OCTOBER. 1850, will display a new trading feature, In the shape of an Establishment never betore equalled. The "town tourist" cannot have failed to notice, in his.progress to the west end of the metropolis, an extensive range of premises in c urge of erection at the corner of HART-STREET, NEW OX FORD-STREET. William Hommitt and others spoke to the same facts, observing that the conduct of Sergeant Bushell was brutal in the extreme. The CORONER, in summing up the case, observed that there was not the least doubt that the police had exercised brutal violence towards the unfortunate de ceased, and that it was the duty of the Police Com missioners to institute a searching inquiry into the conduct of several of their officers. Last evening, on the re -assembling of the jury, 'Sergeant Bushell, 9 D, and Sergeant M'Craw, 15 D, were in attendance, when each of the witnesses were called in separately, and desired by the coroner to point out the persons who had so ill-used the deceased. Each witness instantly identified Sergeant Bushell, but only one pointed out Sergeant M'Craw, on which the coroner observed that as the case was doubtful re specting M'Craw, it was nothing but fair that he should have the benefit of the doubt. The situation, extent, and character of these premises must, from the earliest stage of the undertaking, have impressed the public with the idea that such a project could be connected with no mean capi talists—no ordinary speculation. The gradual development of the building and the ultimate display, of the name of the proprietary at once disclosed to the passer-by the true character of the speculation ; and thousands in that and other important localities have ever since been looking forward with anx ious expectation to the opening of the West-end Branch of E. MOSES and SON. The expediency of opening an Establishment like that under con sideration cannot properly be called in question. The east end and the west end of the metropolis are two perfectly distinct localities ; and to such an extent has tile Capital grown, that a visit from one part to another involves both trouble and ex pense. B. B. Blackwell, Yerulam-buildings, Gray's Inn, coffee-house keeper, Oct. 25 , at eleven — J. and W. Poole, Spitalfields, builders, 0..31, at two—H. William s and J. We lsh, 0 Great Distaff-lane and Mile-end, builders, Oct, 31, at eleven. In the Country. - T. Thomas, Dudley, iron merchant, Nov. 5, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Jopling and J. Jopling, ‘A. olsingham, Durham, drapers—T. Neale, jun., and W. Thornton, Gatton and Reigate, Surrey, brick and tilemakers—C. R. Dames and J. F. Bowman, Osborn-street, Whitechapel, sugar re finers— H. de Cubes de Lizardi and J. de Lizardi, Aus tin-friars, City, and Liverpool, merchants—T. Allow and S. Crosse, St. Martin's-lane, surveyors—T. Ferries and R. Dickinson, Liverpool, victuallers—R. M`liean and S. Perkes, Liverpool and Birkenhead, engineers—J. Biddle and W. Bishop, Stratford Mills, Gloucestershire —W. Schofield and E. Schofield, Leeds, linendrapers— T. Richards and W. Taylor, Salisbury-place, Lock's fields, Walworth, , and Wood-street, City, wadding manufacturers—W. G. W. Freeman and F. E.• Sloper, Tenby, Pembrokeshire, chemists and druggists—J. Bar well and W. Burwell, Birmingham, button manufacturers —E. Billingsley, J. Tankard, and J. Cole, Bradtord moor, Yorkshire, worsted spinners (so far as regards J. Cole)—B. Slater, J. L. Cooke, and Mary , Slater, Jermyn-streot, St. James's, butchers (so far as regards R. Slater)—T. Hall and H. Hall, Brereton, Cheshire. millers—J. Sherwood, R. Sherwood, and J. Sherwood, jun., Birmingham, platers—R. Prescott and E. Prescot', Runcorn, Cheshire, butchers—S. Pryor and 11. Pryor, Holborn• hill, umbrella manufacturers—W. Cotching and G. Bull, Wing, Buckinghamshire, tarmers—B. Brether ton and P. Bretherton, Birmingham, livery stable keepers—F. A. Harris, Dudley, Worcestershire, and Lavinia Harris. Billiton, Staffordshire, lace dealers. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. The expediency of the present undertaking may be safely argued from the encouraging fact, that the proprietors number from the west end a large proportion of their wealthy supporters, whose interests and convenience will necessarily be better consulted in their own lo- Cathy, and who, in return, will have more ready opportunities of fa vouring E. MOSES and SON with their commands. It would be idle and umless to argue that such a vast speculation as the WEST-END BRANCH would not have been entered into, had not the voice of the public called loudly for it. E. MOSES and BON have had too much experience in such undertakings, and know too well how to improve the capital which the public have placed at their disposal, to enter into a project like the present unsupported by the public, from whom they derive that c .nfidence, without which such she enterprising speculation would never have been attempted. In Starting the Branch of the City Establishment at the West-end, E. SIOSES and SON have taken especial care so to model their ar rangements to the requirements if the locality, as to render this BratiGh suitable Uo all parties. The BESPOKE TAILORING DEPARTMENT is deserving of particular mention ; being, as It is, the first at the West-end,in point of business-arrangement, accommodation, and fashion. The Nobility and Gentry will here meet with no obstruction or confusion, and will have no necessity to pass through the more busy portfon of the Establishment, there ►eing a separate private entrance to this department, with distinct accomm , dation for servants in tendance. Attention Is also called to the fact, that Hart-street, which runs parellel With Oxford-street, being quiet and private, at fords safe standing room for carriages —a circumstance worthy the Attention of the gentry. In connexion with the Bespoke Department, there are SELE ';T HABIT FITTING-ROOMS, and FIT lING-ROOMS fir GENTLE MEN, besides DEPARTMENTS devoted to the JUVENILES. Everything has been done by the proprietors to render their Branch Establishment in these important respects (without qualification Of terms), the first Establishment in the first fashionable locality in the kingdom. SCOTTISH WIDOWS' FUND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. The high estimation in which this Society is held by the public may he judged of from the fact, that during the last Twelve Years the average amount of New Insurances effected has exceeded HALF A MILLION PER ANNUM. This Society commenced business in the year 1815, and the accum -mulation of Premiums since that date (after providing for emerged claims, &c.), has proiaced a CAPITAL OF TWO MILLIONS TWO HUNDRED AND FOUR THOUSAND PO.INOS. Notwithstanding the risk necessarily attending the investment of money to so large an extent, the Society has not as yet sustained any loss by bad debts, arid the whole Capital is at present invested in securities of unquestionable safety. An investigation into the affairs of the Society takes place every seven years. e hen the whole profits, es then ascertained, are applied fur behoof of the Members. who are the Only parties in any way In terested in the society's funds. The following Table will show the effect of the additions already made to Policies of this society : [ POLICY FOR 1,0001. The room was cleared of strangers, and after about half-an-hour's consultation the jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter against Nathaniel Eaton Bushell :" and at the same time regretted the inability of the witnesses to identify the other constable engaged in the outrage on the deceased. b Policy with I Amount payable, if Claim emerge after pay vested Addi- ment of the Premium for the Year. .tions as at "6" Ist January. 1846. 1 1 1850. 1851. 1852. X s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 1815 1809 8 7 , 1090 7 5 2026 11 2 1820 1533 10 7 16M6 17 8 1717 11 1 1825 1436 1 2 1579 13 3 1608 7 8 1830 1338 11 9 1472 811 1499 4 5 1835 1231 4 0 1354 6 5 1378 18 11 1840 1120 0 0 1232 0 0 1254 8 0 X s. d. 2062 14 11 1748 4 6 1637 2 1 1525 19 10 1403 11 4 1276 16 0 In the arrangements of the READY-MADE DEPARTMENTS there arc also those recommendations which cannot fail to elicit the approval of a discerning public. Isaac Dale, May Bank, Staffordshire, licensed victualler. John Harris, Kingswood, Warwickshire, innkeeper. Thomas Alcoek, Whitnash, Warwickshire, butcher. William Coleman, Coventry, Weaver. The classification of gocds, the ready ingress and egress, and every other arrangement, are such as must conduce to the accommodation and satisfaction of the purchaser. For such an Establishment, in such a situation, the most superior assortment of fashions has been prepared. The proprietors have determined not to be equalled in the collection of dress at their West-end Branch ; and, in order to produce the first specimens of attire, they have not only made purchases of the most superb materials in Cloths, Silks, Satins, Alpacas, Lustres, but have secured the most elegant and novel designs, by offering handsome prizes for the best Jpec , mens of artistic skill In cut and workmanship ; an experiment which has proved more than success ful to this end. Additions to Policies may either be allowed to remain incorporated with the original sum insured, or their present value may be received in cash, or may be applied towards the reduction of the future An nual Premiums. Charles Mander, Coventry, - tailor. Thomas Cooper, Coventry, tobacconist. Thomas Calvert, Rochdale, moulder. Joseph Butterworth, Rochdale, porter. Edmund Lord, Rochdale, manager in a cotton factory. Joseph M'Queay, Milnabridge, Yorkshire, woollen Loans are granted to Members on the security of their Policies to the extent of nine•tenths of their value, provided such value amount to 55/. or upwards. N.B. No Member is entitled to participate in the Profits of the So ciety, unless the Policy be of at least five years' standing. Head Office, Edinburgh, 5, St. Andrew-square. JOHN MACKENZIE, Manager. WM. GEORGE. Chief Clerk. LONDON OFFICE, 4, ROYAL EXCHANGE BUILDINGS. HUGH M'KEAN, Agent. manufactuier. - James Baron Lovell, Wells. Somersetabire, tailor. Mary Harper, Talawaine, Monmouthshire, beer retailer. John Jones, Ebbw-Tale, Monmouthshire, slitter. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. W. M'Kenzie, Edinburgh, cement manufacturer, to meet Oct. 10 and 31, at two, within Greig's Chain Pier Inn, Trinity. The GENTLEMEN'S WINTER OVERCOATS, and the other ar ticles of attire, when inspected, will prove that the proprietors are not dealing in exaggerated terms in thifs recommending the present Stock of Attire. In"LIDIES' HABITS, E. MOSES and SON intend to convince their supporters, that as Fashionable Tailors, they are neither to be surpassed nor equalled by many degrees. Their STOCK of JUVENILE CLOTHING calls alike for terms of the highest recommendation. Whtre this branch of the Tailoring Trade has been too often overlooked or slighted, E. MOSES and SON have made it a point of particular study ; nor do they question for a moment that their endeavours will secure anything short of the ,highest approbation. A conspicuous feature at the New West. end Branch of E. MOSES and sON is that of a STOCK of READY-MADE LIVERIES, which, though elegant in the extrern', and superior in material, are sold at prices exceedingly advantageous to the purchaser. The attention of the Nobility a, d Gentry is particularly directed to this branch of the proprietors' business in New Oxford-street. A &40Cli. of SUPERIOR MOURNING, at prices less than those charged anywhere else, by 50 per cent., is also deserving of promi nent mention. No advantage will be taken in the furnishing of these articles of the melancholy circumstances of bereavement, or of the haste in the adoption of such attire—circumstances which have too often led to imposition on the part of tradesmen. The SHOOTING-COATS, FISHING-COATS, LOUNGING COATS, and the'various ready-made goods are in keeping with the rest of the articles sold ; and the most extreme satisfaction must re sult front an inspection and trial of the Stock. A large and fashionable collection of II ATS and CAPS adds much to the recommends • 10118 of the new Branch house; and the Public are assured that here their interests are equally consulted. ' The system which the proprietors intend to pursue at their New .Establishment is not new. Their old system of cheapness, coupled with quality and fashion will be in operation at the Branch House as at the Original Establishthent. . ...... The Return of Cash or Exchange of Goods, and the marking the price of each article In plain figures, will in no way be departed from 'at the West-end Branch. Before concluding this announcement E. MOSES and SON would hint that their New Premises in Oxford-street are of the most novel, elegant, and commodious description. The Establishment is an Ex hibition itself, quite alone in point of style, convenience, and decora tion ,and is well deserving a visit from the curious in those matters. An excursion, in fact, would be well repaid by a view of this superb trading structure, of which no idea can be formed except u,on in spection. The proprietors take this opportunity o" inviting the Public to YIIINV their New West-end Branch Establishment, whether purchasing or not ; where every attention will be paid to them, and every informa tion Oven. Having thus, announced the opening of the New Branch Establish ment, and having touched (in as brief a manner as possible) on the r ecommendations there held oat, E. MOSES and SON would ac knowledge gratefully that vast amount of favour at the hands of the Pnblic, to which alone they can date this proud advance in their speculations ; and the proprietors would assure the Public, that it is n etrt letermination to merit renewed support, by an adherence at e hew Establishment to those principles which have worked so Well at 018 Old. W be OPENED at Ten o'clock on TUESDAY MORNING, the 84h of OCTOBER THIRTY-FIRST EDITION. ' Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Exgraviins on Steel. ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCA PACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. 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With Forty coloured Engravings, illustrating the Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, explaining their structures, uses, and functions, and the various injuries that are produced in them by solitary habits, excesses, and Infection. BY SAMUEL LAWERT, 3f.D.. 37. BEDFORD-SQUARE. LONDON. Doctor of Medicine. Matriculated — Membei;f ilialTniVeraTty of Edin burgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Member of the London Ilespital Medical Society, &c. This work contains an accurate and complete account of the Anatomy and Physiology of the Reproductive Organs. It un fortunately happens that the unhappy rictim of excessive indul gence and vicious habits, while suffering from their invariable con sequences, unwisely entertains a fear of ap plying to a qualified physi cian for relief. Shame and the dread so frequently, but erro neously entertained that these complaints are beyond the reach of art, alike restrict him and prevent his seeking for assistance where alone it can be procured. Dr. LA 'MERT has taken the highest medical honours, as his diplomas testify, and the great extent of his practice for many years is a guarantee for his professional experi ence, which has reference almost solely to the treatment of these diseases. Published by the Author, and may be had of Kent and Richards, 52, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Stade, Tichborne tr Haymarket; Mann, 39, Comhill ; Gordon, 146, Leaden hall-street, London; or, free by post for forty-two stamps. Prom the Author's Residence. 27, Reittord-souare London. DR. CULVERWELL'S NEW WORKS. To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho; 147, Fleet-street; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or direct from the author, price One Shilling each ; by post, i s , 6 d. ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. H e alth, Recreation, and rational Use of Time." Summer Mornings—Ex tEhearlEYnitvirhijonnsg—otPLorinngdoann—d The Parks, Lanes, Hills curs Co lo uzl i a N bo Ts u : t Forests, Fields, High-roads, and other pl easant places—Country Trips and Ramifies—The Sea—London at Night—Evening., at Home Music—The usll ase c—Tl:oectllurpamatiao—:;C. ,a. Eating,n e Drinking, Bathing, Air, Rest, FRAGMENTS FROM THE MOUNTAINS. Two Vols. Poll. . A VISIT TO THE LAKES; SKETCII_Or EDINBURGH & _ _ __ , o. Vol. 11. THE LAKES OF KILLARNEY; REMINISCENCES OF DUBLIN, &c. WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID. • "That three score years and ten our course may rm.', A popular review of almost every form ( cause and cure ) of ner vously-debilitated health and enfeebled constitution, that harasses the yonng, besets the man of pleasure, business, or study, and em. bitters old age, with tables and rules fbr the diet and physical rem. lotion of every-day life. - - IV. THE PASSIONS. " What passions hurt the body—what improvs, Tenths as refined as Athens ever heard." Sup/Rev : -Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The advent ofthe passiens. Chastity and its infringements. The casualties of licentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narrative, aid remediative. Advocacy of early marriages. THE MARRIAGE STATE. " To be or not to be, that is the question." Pa onaarastx:—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and re gion reg ar di ng marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and choice, on both sides, as to age, temperament, complexion, and dgurc, to secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them. Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and ita conversion. uses, &c. By R. J. CIJLVERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A. OHO. Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee in these matters. Reception hours daily till &vs. Evenings, Hien till an. 10 allyil-place, lusent-gtrgstt PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from returns made in the week ending Oct. 1, 1850, exclusive of Customs Duties paid or payable thereon on the importatien thereof into Great Britain:— From the British possessions in America 275. lid. per cwt. From the Mauritius ... 255. 9id. „ From the East Indies ... 288. Bd. ~ Average price of the three foregoing de scriptions of sugar, jointly, computed as above, and exclusive of duty ... 275. Id. By authority of Parliament, HENRY flicruism.. Clerk of the Grocers' Company. Grocers'-hall, Oct. 4. COMMISSION OF LUNACY ON J. FERMOR, ESQ. This inquiry was resumed yesterday, at the She riff's-office, Red Lion•square, before Mr. Commis sioner Barlow and a special jury. Several witnesses were examined to show that the unsoundness of mind was only of a recent date, the object being to prove that he was perfectly sane when he executed certain deeds and wills, likely to become .the subject of dispute. The inquiry was then adjourned. MANSLAUGHTER 'AGAINST A SERGEANT OF POLICE. Yesterday evening Mr. H. M. Wakley, deputy coroner, and a highly respectable jury resumed and concluded, at the Rising Sun, High-street, Maryle- , bone, an inquiry touching the death of James Geary, aged 28, a plasterer, of 5, Conway court, adjoining the Marylebone police-court who bad been ill-treated by Sergeants Bushell and M'Craw, of the D division of police. Mr. Duncombe, solicitor, appeared to watch the proceedings on behalf of the friends of the deceased ; and Mr. Wontner, solicitor, for the ac cused parties. Catherine Donoghue, of '5, Conway-court, Maryle bone, said that the deceased was her brother; be was a married man, and was in a good state of health up to the morning of Sunday, the 19th of August last. Between 12 and one o'clock on that morning she was passing throukh High-street, Marylebone, along with - deceased's widow, when they - observed a crowd of persons collected opposite the Angel public-house, and .on going to ascertain the cause witness saw a man lying on the pavement near thelkerb, and Ser geant Bushell, 9 D, standing over him with his left hand in his neckerchief and one knee on his chest. The man called out to the sergeant not to strangle him and said he would walk quietly anywhere if they would allow him to get up. Witness, recogniz ing her brother, begged the sergeant and another constable who was standing by not to use him so cruelly. Shortly afterwards, as they were dragging the deceased violently along, Sergeant Bushell dashed him against some area railings and struck him over the a rms an d s h ou ld ers with his staff. Deceased in treated them not to ill-use him in such a way, but did not offer the slightest resistance to the constables. Sergeant Bushell and the other officer who had hold of him continued to strike the deceased in the ribs with their staves as they proceeded to the police station. A cro w d was co ll ec t e d an d cr i e d " Sh ame " on the constables, and told them not to use the de ceased so brutally, but did not molest them in the slightest manner. Deceased was quite sober. He recognized witness and his wife, but begged them not to interfere with the police, as they would serve them in the same way. He was locked up until Sunday at noon, when he was bailed out, and on his return home complain M of pains all over his body from the MURDER OF A POLICEMAN AT BRISTOL, BY TWO SOLDIERS. BRISTOL, FRIDAY AFTERNDON.—T wO private sol diers, of the 15th infantry, named Andrew Daly and John Macfarlane, alias M`Fetten, were brought to this city in custody to day, and committed to gaol to await their trial, upon a charge of murdering a po liceman named Pimm, No. 206, of the Bedminster division of Police, while engaged in the discharge of his duty in Thomas-street, in this city. The murder took place as long ago as the 4th of May, 1849, and the circumstances connected with it were these :—Ois the night of that day the prisoners, another soldier, and some girls of the town, had been drinking toge ther at a public-house in the neighbourhood of Thomas-street, and upon going into the street they commenced making a noise, so as to disturb the in habitants. The policeman accosted them, told them they would not be permitted to create an upror in the streets, and ordered the prostitutes to go home. The girls obeyed, which irritated the soldiers, one of whom said to the constable, " Who are you ; what right have you to interfere ?" The deceased replied that he was a policeman, whose duty it was to keep order in the streets, upon which Macfarlane said there was no harm in killing a policeman, and called . tohis " Let us kill the The deceased, in reply, again urged them to go home to their barracks, upon which they both struck him with sticks they were carrying, and knocked him down, and while be was on the ground they and another soldier beat him very much, one of the men picking up a stone from the street, and striking bins several blows on the head with it. The constable was rendered insensible by their violence, but on recovering consciousness, and finding that he had received an extensive wound of the head, he pro cured assistance, and appr e h en d e d Daly and Macfar lane, who were at once taken before th e magistrates and charged with th e assault. At their examination a sergeant of the r eg i ment atten d e d, and stated that the men were part of a company d r afted for Ceylon, and had in his belief go t i nto t h e q uarrel for the pur pose of getting confi ne d t ill t h e company had sailed— a trick which one of them had tried twice before with success. This Bristol magistrates, upon this repre sentation, and acting in the belief that the wound would not prove serious, handed the soldiers o ver to their sergeant, by wh om they were dispatched t o India with the rest o f th e i r co mrades. On the 9th Pimm, who h a d b een progressing favourably, was eri n taken t heworse. 15th, E he ry diedsiel a. Th e soldiers had then s came on, and aft er lin g of wilful mur d er d al coroner's jury, a beingleft England n fo g u l anndd against a b i u b t s t upon tbem a b v y e r representation w as ma de t o the Government, which return to England. a T t b o e nce yw o i r ll de b r e ed tr th ie e d ir a a t rr t e h st e and "next Gloucester county assize. THE FIRE IN -road, was attended SOUTHWARK. The fire night on the with a grea w t h d ic es h tr b u r c o t k io e n ol :f t premises of Messrs. Brooke, tallow chandlers and opnraTpehrutrys.daylndepe welters, of the Southwar k-bridge-road, premises, upwards of a dozen other persons received of the extensive loss of proepsetretrydaoyn serious injury to their houses and furniture, and when the ruins were inspected y light, it was a matter of astonishment that every house. surrounding the place h a d not been destroyed. Sub joined is a copy of the of fi cial report of the. damages : —" Thursday, October 3, half-past nine P.M.—A fi re broke out on the premises of Messrs. Brooke, tallow meters and chandierb i t i.the Southwark-bridge-road. The, damage done Was ‘ as , under: , —Melting house burned down and consumed, the factory and the con tents destroyed, the warehouse with contents burned ; the making-house, store-house, and counting-house considerably daMaged by fire, and tbe stabling slightly injured. The premises and their contents were insured in the Phoenix and National Mercan tile Fire-o ffi ces. The cause of fire, a copper of fat boiling over. The fire was extinguished by firemen with six engines of the London Establishment, one of the perish,' a nd that of the West of England morning M essrs. Banrtdoeodnkate:: office. No. 5, Mary Ann-place, Mr. F. Thomas (private), back front damaged by fire, and furniture by removal ; not insured. No. 3, Brunswick-place, jr. C. Barrett (private), similar damage to building and contents ; f u rniture not insured ; building in the ad rval ; Phcenix. No. 2, ditto, ditto, Mr. R. Harris, premises and contents da ma g ed, b y fire, water, insured in the Phcenix office. No. 1 , ditto, n M emo Al- gar, similar damage to furniture, and the front win dow pulled out ; insurance not known. No. 2, Peter street, T. Edmondson, copper smith, workshops very severely burned, and contents injured by removal; insured in the S un ; No. 3, ditto, ditto, W. Millest, marble-mason, stock damaged; contents uninsured, building not known. No. 21, Little Guildford -street, R. Havill, coffee-shop keeper, great damage to furni ture by removal; uninsured. No. 22, ditto, F.°Barn well, turner, similar damage; contents not insured; - . " Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute; And a perpetual feast of nectars sweet, Where no crude surfeit reigns." I say " no crude surfeit reigns," because the thirst for i knowledge, like some other less innocent desires, n . creases the more it is indulged ; and, to use the words of another poet— . " The increase of appetite cloth grow By what it feeds upon." • But, gentlemen, there are other and higher advan tages. The study of science and ,literature sharpe ns the intellect, enlarges the faculties of the mind, and gives a more just appreciation of the movements both of the natural, the visible , and the immaterial world by which we are surrounded, and enables all men to feel more forcibly and powerfully th e won d ers o f c reation, and the wisdom and intelligence which has produced them.—(Hear, hear.) Lastly, gentlemen, there is one great and prominent advantage in insti tutions such as I trust this will be whose foundation we are this day celebrating : it brings together in one common, one rational, one laudable pursuit, classes of society, who, but f or i ns tit ut i ons o f t hi s ki n d, wou ld see little of and feel little for each other, and have little feeling or sympathy in connexion. It brings together classes of men whose pursuits in life are widely differ e nt, wh os e occupations are widely distinct, whose sphere of action is wholly separate, and impresses upon them practically the conviction that from the highest to the lowest we are all.rational, intellectual, responsible beings, all en dowed with higher faculties than those which tend to the mere attainment of earthly good, or the mere ac quisition and support of bodily comfort ; it leads us all to feel, moreover, that we are members of one com mon family, the great human family, bound together in one great communion and fellowshfe llowship.—(Hear.) Gentlemen, I am quite sure I am expressing the wish, and the desire, and the hope of every one among you when I say that I trust that such may be the happy and beneficial effect of the institution which we are now now originating. I rejoice to hear, because I think it is a matter of . the most vital importance, from the chairman of the committee that one of the main prin ciples of this institution is that everything which can tend to polemical and political discord shall he sedu lously and carefully eschewed—(Hear, hear)—that in the management of this institution party politics and religious differences shall be altogether excluded. Gentlemen, if this be not the case — if this building, which I will not allow myself to believe for a moment will be cramped in its objects by the want of that fit liberal and generous spirit on the part ofthose who first established it—if it be permitted to degenerate into_ a mere reading-room or news-room for the e purposeof amusing the idle hours of any portion of. heste popula tion,d then I say that this ceremony is wasted and thrown away, that it is not worth t e pains which have been bestowed upon it.. I say, that if pocal or polemical differences be allowed to be introduced —if the building be diverted from any other of its legitimate, and lawful, and proper purposes —namely, the advancement of science, the promotion of knowledge, the diffusion of educational in struction, and, more sti ll, the diffusion of kindly feelings amongst all classes of the community—then, gentlemen, I shall deeply regret that I hav e tak en any part in the institution of a building which would lead to no good, but probably to much of evil.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, the advantages or di sa d van t ages o f th i s building, and of this institution, are in the hands of you, the subscribers, the committee, and the inhabi tants of Bury. It rests with you whether it shall he productive of the greatest happi ness t o t h e populat i on. I trust and believe that it will he so ; and if you support it as it should be supported—if the leading inhabitants of this town will put the mse l ves f orwar d for the pur pose of leading the way, and assisting their humbler brethren in the acquisition of knowledge and the cul tivation of their intellect—then we are about to com mence a great, and goo d, an d glor i ous work, and the building we are now commencing will lead, as I con fidently hope, to the moral an d soc i a l a d van t age —t o the rational enjoyment . o f th e popu l a ti on o f B ur y ; an d, as I also hope it will do, to the intellectual advance ment and happine ss o f it s i n h a bit an t s . —(Ch eers .) I accept with the greatest pleasure the very handsome trowel which you have done me the honour of placing in my buds, and I believe I have now nothing to do The Bishop of MANCHESTER, in responding, said he had learned' with the greatest pleasure that the institution, the foundation of which they were met to : celebrate, was intended for all classes of all shades and sects of men, whether in politics or religion.—(Hear.) Although the conduct of the clergy had s o m e ti mes perhaps bee n liable - to be unkindly interpreted or misunderstood when they interfered in public mat ters, yet, while they bad the privilege of visiting the sick bed, and of giving religious counsel to those who sent for them, it was also incumbent upon them tot 'to neglect those secondary and important measures which Might be necessary for the welfare of those aiound them. They Were, perhaps, excluded from moving in political life, but they were (unfaithful to their trustif they sought' not to mix themselves with everything that might otherwise tend to_ promote the welfare and happiness of their fellow-men.—(Ap plause.) He was anxious for the dissemination of sound and useful knowledge among all classes, and expressed his satisfaction that their young and re spectable rector was among the supporters of this institution.—(Cheers.) He was sure the clergy would not be wanting in their support to this institution, if they were allowed to do so. A wide and enlightened toleration, a faithful, yet fearless discharge of their duty, a disposition to look at points of concord rather than of difference, were the principles on which they invited the co-operation of all around them in the work.—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN then proposed " The distinguished strangers who have honoured us to-day with their company ;" to which the Earl of 'Wilton responded ; and also " The health of Lord Stanley," which was received with loud cheering. Lord STANLEY, in responding, said he assured them they owed him no thanks for any little services he might have performed in taking part in the ceremonies of the day. It was to him an unmitigated satisfac tion to assume that distinction, and if be did not per form his task in a manner calculated to secure the en tire approbation of a working man, at all events he did it with a good heart and a good will.—(Cheers.) If the exertion he was called upon to make were far greater than it bad been, he should have been far more than repaid by witnessing the universal and general good feeling and cordial union of all parties and all denominations which appeared to have charac terized the proceedings of the day.—(Cheers.) And it was to him the greatest satisfaction to find that in this work, which might, and he hoped would, contribute greatly to the improvement, comfort, social happiness, and mental improvement of the people of Bury, there appeared to be on the part'of all concerned, and of all parties in this town, a general and cordial desire to concur. He agreed with the Lord Bishop that it was by such concurrence, and to such union, that they must look for the success of an undertaking.—(Hear.) He felt most deeply and gratefully the kind manner in which they had received him. He would not make so ill a return for their kindness as to detain them by any lengthened observations, after having, both there and out of doors, trespassed on them to a considerable length. He was not there for the purpose of asking their support for the institution—be was there sur rounded by the promoters of the institution them selves, by those who had led to the completion of the undertaking, and by those who he hoped would be gratified by, and enjoy the results. Therefore it was quite unnecessary that he should dilate before them on the advantages to be derived from what was em phatically the work of their own hands and purses. But he would venture to say this, that he trusted the shows they had seen that day were not outward, that the enthusiasm was not evanescent, that they would not permit the first impulse to pass away, and then the institution which they had raised to languish for want a support and continuous encouragement. But, if they were deeply impressed with the ad vantages which it tended to confer upon themselves and those most dear to them, upon their fellow men of all denominations and of all classes, they would remember that it was not by a mere im pulse, a rrgard, for the moment, stimulated to enthu siasm in the first instance, but speedily to dwindle away, but by continual support, personal and pecu niary, that this institution and the benefits to be de rived from it were really to be realized and maintained. —(Cheers.) He trusted that what they had well begun they would not suffer to flag for want of con tinued support ; and with the sincerest desire, and the confident hope, that by their united efforts this insti tution might tend to the advantage of the town and neighbourhood of Bury, and to the moral and social improvement of all classes of the population, he called upon them, its patrons and supporters, to join with him in drinking "The Bury Athenaeum—may its success in promoting the intellectual and moral im• provement of the people of Bury answer the fullest expectations of its founders."—(Great cheering.) After several other toasts had been given and ac knowledged, including " the Members for the County," " the Magistrates of the division," " the Ladies," " the Chairman," &c., the proceedings ter minated. At a soiree held at the same place in the evening there was a very numerous attendance of working people and others. NORFOLK ESTUARY. The contract for carrying into effect this great work (one warmly advocated by the late lamented Lord George Bentinck) has been undertaken by the eminent firm of Peto and Betts, under the direction of the engineers in chief, Sir John Rennie and Rubt. Stephenson, Esq. It will, therefore, be commenced immediately. The great district of the fens, called the Bedford Level, and the adjacent low lands, comprising nearly half a million of acres, will be so effectually drained by this work as to be enabled almost entirely to get rid of the prssent very expensive system of artificial drainage by wind and steam ; and so fully convinced are the fen proprietors of the benefits which will re- sult from the completion of this work, that they have voluntarily contributed the sum of 60,0001. in order to forward the enterprise. The navigation of the Ouse from the sea to Lynn and upwards will be so much improved that the cor poration of Lynn have likewise made a present of a like sum of 60,0001. to the company who have under taken so vast a scheme. The grand and ultimate object, however, is simul taneously to reclaim from the sea a valuable tract of land, amounting to about 32,000 acres, which will form a profitable investment for the company's capital, as will appear from the following paragraph of the directors' report to the general meeting of proprietors in February last : "Your directors estimate the expense of reclama tion at 20/. per acre, and the value of the first intake to be sold at 551. per acre, which, after deducting the per centage of 300 to the Crown, will give a profit to the company of 52,000/. ; and your directors believe the net profit will be realized at the end of five years from the commencement of the contract, and they propose out of such profit to pay the whole of the interest of five per cent. that may have accrued to the shareholders, and at the end of every subsequent year a sufficient quantity of land will be reclaimed to pay the interest at four per cent. with a portion of the principal advanced; so that, at the end of nine years from the commencement of the contract, the whole of the capital, with in terest at five per cent. and four per cent. at the period above mentioned will have been repaid, leaving at least 30,000/. to be expended on the further work of reclamation, or otherwise to be disposed of for the benefit of the company, as may be both practicable and expedient; and it will not be required, in order to accomplish the above results, to reclaim more than 6,500 acres, or a greater profit per acre on 5,000 acres than 301. per acre. " The land belonging to the company comprehends 32,000 acres, which will ultimately he reclaimed, and it is calculated that the reclamation will proceed easily at the rate of 1,000 acres per annum, which, after paying the expenses, viz., 20/. per acre,which has been ascertained from experience to be amply sufficient, and assuming that the remainder of the land be only worth 451. per acre, will give a bonus of 25,0001. per annum, after paying the principal and interest of the capital, as above stated. " The total sum already expended is 35,0001., and, exclusive of the 120,000/. contributed by way of gift by the drainage and navigation interests, it is not ex pected that the shareholders will be called upon to ."" The following extract from a letter received from Commander Forsyth, dated Aberdeen, 8. 30 ras., let October, 1850, contains several interesting details which have not been given in his official dispatches to the Admiralty : "We sailed from Aberdeen on the sth JUne, reached Cape Farewell on the 3d July, touched at Upper Navik on the 18th. On the 15th July met some of the whalers returning to the southward, •not having been able to get round. Melville Bay on ac count of the heavy ice. On the 20th regularly .en tered the ice off the Devil's Thumb. On the 21st overtook Sir John Ross amongst a dense number of heavy bergs--L-he had sailed from England a fortnight before me. On the 23d fell in with the remainder of -the fleet of whalers trying to get to the southward, as fast as they could, as they had abandoned the Mel ville route this year. Even could they .have accomplished ' it, 'it •would have been so late in the season that their northern fishing would have been • past. On the 25th • we dis covered Captain Austin's and Penny's, vessels beset to the northward of • use; from this tathe 9th of August we were occasionally beset, our diminutive little craft getting some severe pinchechetween the ice. Our men worked night and day to get up with Captain Austin's ships, and on the morning of the 9th we passed them still beset. It must -have surprised them very much to see us passing them,- as they left England a month before us. The next morning they worked themselves out, and were towed past us in a calm-by the steamers in gallant-style. These steamers have been invaluable ; the steamers. cut the road for the other ships by rushing at the ice - with full speed and cutting through it, their iron plated . bows not feeling the effects much. They have given mach sa tisfaction to Captain Austin and his officers. IThe same evening they were again stopped by the. ce, and on the 12th we again came up - to them close to Cape Melville. As it was calm Captain Austin desired Captain Oromanney to take the Prince Albert in -tow, whilst he- took the Felix in tow. On the 13th we landed at Cape York, and heard from the natives that la ship answering the description of . the. North Star bad wintered in •Wohstenholme Sound, near Cape Dudley Diggs. On the 15th Captain Ommanney was sent to ascertain the truth of the report. On the 17th the Prince Albert parted with the Resolute and Pioneer, about seventy miles from Possession • Bay, and proceeded to examine the south side of Lancaster Sound and Barrow's Strait, to Port Leopold, which she did most effectively, keeping close to the shore, within a quarter of a mile, and occasionally landing, without seeing any marks of the missing expedition. "On the evening of the 20th we arrived off Port Leopold, but found the port blocked up with heavy ice ; sent a party on shore, found that the North Star had visited there •a week before, but could not land her provisions on account of the harbour being closed. She then went to Port Bowen and Neil, and found these places blocked up also, and' then went to the Wollaston Islands and landed them there. Al this vessel had been fitted out purposely for Prince Re gent's Inlet, to proceed to Brentford Bay, or some where in its vicinity, we made the best of our way up the inlet. As we advanced to the southward we found we could not approach the shore nearer than four or five miles, on account of the heavy sea. Batty Bay and Elwin Bay were both closed. It was thought before our leaving England that we might have been able to lay the vessel up in the former, but we found to our great disappointment that there was no getting near either place. On the 22d we arrived within about fifteen miles of Fury Point ; here we found the ice extending in a barrier of heavy hum mocks right across the inlet to the eastern shore, without any appearance of it breaking up. After making certain there was no chance of penetrating it, the Prince Albert ran to the northward, and with much difficulty got out of the inlet, from the great quantities of heavy ice setting up. I then intended to have tried to effect a passage down the western side of North Somerset, but on arriving off the north end of Leopold Island, found the whole of that coast fronted with heavy ice, the pack extending across to the Wellington Channel. 'We now stood across the Strait and examined the coast as far as Point Innis, in the Wellington Channel. On landing at Cape Riley traces were discovered of an encampment, with some Queen's rope, and other indications of some parties having been stopping for a time, belonging to the Erebus and Terror, for we know of no other, with the exception of Sir E. Parry, about 1824, who ever landed on this point, and then only to take observa tions. Captain Ommaeney had called here two days previously, and had discovered other remains at Beechey Island. About three miles from here he bad left word, from what he had collected, that he had proceeded to Cape Hotham for further traces of the missing parties. " On the 25th August, when we last saw Assi,t ance and Intrepid, they were close over to Cape Hot ham. Penny's two brigs and the two American brigantines, all in the entrance of Wellington Chan • nel, which was much encumbered with ice. Seeing all these vessels close together, I thought it would be useless my proceeding in that direction, and therefore stood back again towards Prince Regent's Inlet; find ing it still closed, with no harbours to winter in, the Prince Albert proceeded to Eardly Bay, near Cape York, narrowly escaping being driven on shore in a gale of wind under that point. We subsequently visited Admiralty Inlet, Possession, and Pond's Bay. On the 2d of September saw the North Star enter ing the bay. We landed several parties about here, hut could discover no traces whatever of parties hav ing visited the bay. There were numbers of old Esquimaux huts, but no inhabitants. The season having now far advanced, and no port in the vicinity of our operations open, I determined to return to England, and on the 4th of September lost sight of Pond's Bay. Although this vessel has obtained no certain information, yet what she has brought is most important, proving that the Erebus and Terror did actually enter Barrow's Strait, whether they have been cast away or not; but it is evident a large party had been on Cape Riley for some time. Another thing, the vessel has visited an immense extent of coast, ascertaining that they are nowhere on the south side of Lancaster Sound or Barrow's trait. As we had no harbour to winter in, our returning will save an immense expense to Lady Franklin. " The Prince Albert is only 89 tons, the last ves sel to leave England, the first in Barrow's Strait, and the smallest that has ever been so far in the Polar Seas. This little craft has experienced some tremen dous weather, both in the Straits and on her return out and home, but by the help of Providence she has escaped without any material damage." TRACES OF FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION. The intelligence we published yesterday, brought home by Captin Forsyth in the Prince Albert, of traces of a party having been found at Cape Riley on the 23d of August by Captain Olumanney, has excited the most intense interest in naval circles, the more eo inasmuch as it has been ascertained at Chatham dockyard that the rope which Captain Forsyth found on the spot when he visited it, and copied Captain Ommanney's notice, is proved by its yellow mark to have been manufactured there, and certainly since April, 1824 ; and more over, from inquiries instituted, very strong evidence has been elicited in favour of the belief that the rope was made between the years 1841 and 1849. The only Royal expedition that has been within 40 miles of Cape Riley, we believe, was Parry's, but then Captain Beechy landed only for about ten minutes, and certainly formed no encampment there. Captain Sir James Ross's expedition could not get near Cape Riley on account of the heavy hummocky ice, which barred out the travelling party, so that it is altogether impossible that any party in possession of Government stores other than that of Sir John Franklin's expedition could have left the traces re ferred to by Captain Forsyth and Captain Omman ney. That the trail, then, of the Franklin expedition, or some detachment of it, has been struck, there can not be the slightest doubt in the minds of any one who has read the dispatches and reports. That Captain Ommanney .felt satisfied on this score is evident from the terms of the paper he left behind him ; but it is much to be regretted that the Assistance and Intrepid being in sight of the Prince Albert, on the 25th of August, two days after the discovery, no communication took place as to what "remains of materials were found" by Captain Ommanney, " what other traces were found of the same party" by him, and what were his inferences or hopes deduced there from. The squadron, it appears, however, were in full cry upon the scent on the 25th of August, and we must wait patiently, but anxiously, for the next accounts of the results of their indefatigable researches. Captain Ommanney was to push for Cape Walker, the point which Ross failed to reach. Here be will, it is expected, at once determine the radius of the search that it is imperative on the part of the squad ron to make. At all events, the alleged story of Sir John •Ross's Esquimaux is not the "best information we can find in aid of the exertions now making with such indefati gable vigour" to discover the fate of, and if possible to rescue the missing officers and crews of the Erebus and Terror. We have at least some actual traces of the wanderers, the discovery of whin justifies the equip ment of the searching, squadron, h and we have stout, gallant, skilful, oattres‘a.lhiiscehouitr is h hopes a nd enduring men on the track who t f t d h e ey ser d v o e in mortals to com mand. owfasuarceceL.e,lwl ialissustredle,asi Lord Stanley, one of the stewards of the Doncaster races, presented -to the members of the Racing Club a splendid haunch of venison, which weighed 57ilbs. The animal weighed, when killed, 30} stone, and was one of the largest red deer ever seen. It was shot by his Lordship in Knows ley-park.—Sheffield Times. . , i~