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'UNITED STATES EMIGRATION SOCIETY. TRUSTEES AND DIRECTORS. T. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Cha'rman. Wallop Brabason, Es P.tauri e OVolimll, Esq.. M.P. Charles George Fairfield, Esq. M. Charles Maher, Esq. Anthony O'Flaherty, Esq., M.P. Edmond S. Symes, Esq. Colley Grattan, Esq. Col. C. C. Kemys Tynte, M.P. A• Valentine Maher, Esq., M.P. Clement Tabor, Esq. MEDICAL BOARD. E. S. Symes, Esq., R. F. Power, Esq. " The Association agrees bef.reliand to sell at COST PRICE, adding Merely thereto a commission."--(gee Pr ~pe-tus.) YORTH-RASTERN TEXAS HOPKINS COUNTY, consisting of 160,000 acres, in one block, for the most part prairie, abounding MI rivers stni springs. Recent and authentic information received from the Society's 11 ' 18 _ , proves that no other state offers such decided advantages to .manlgrant, with a small or large caoital, either in respect to the Salabrity of climate, health, and t imperature, soil, growth and Variety of produce and markets (see Dr. Smith's recent tr....vels and Work on North-Eastern Texas, price 25.) The Society contracts with the Emigrant to defray, for a fixed ' ▪ U ni (as below, varying with the number of acres and the number in One family) the cost of a free passage to their lands ; stock, seed, and _MAlM:tents ; six months' provision after arrival, a house, and a Ireehold of eighty acres of the finest land. The above for the sum of For each additional male, with implements, &c. 13 10 0 For each additional female - - - - 13 0 0 For each additional child under 12 years - - 6 0 0 If less land is repaired the cost proportionally reduced. The Society is in a position, from its extended connexions, to eltr lands and f arms i n near l y a ll th e o th er s t a tes of the U.. 1011. very information, with map and pl.m of settlement, description ~ • I fOrth-Eastern Texas, &c., may be obtained (gratis) from the Agents of the Society, or on application to the , ecretary. The first ship with emigrants will sail about the mid Ile of Feb • 7, and every succeeding month. Each application registered [Wording to priority. A PPlications for Agents to the Society must be accompanied by referen ces. Royal Exchange-building's. D. BYRNE, Secretary. CANTERBURY SETTLEMENT in NEW ZEALAND. Seine of the gentlemen intending to Emigrate as Founders of the cett lement, meet daily at these Rooms, from Tea till Five o'clock ; e nd will be happy to receive and co-operate with those who may / "311 to join them as the First Body of Intending Colonists, or to give. rn ' information on the subject to others, either orally or by letter. h Ada-street, Adolph!, January 12, 1850. CANTERBURY ASSOCIATION for Founding A SETTLEMENT in NEW ZEALAND. Incorporated by Royal Charter, dated Nov. 13, 1849. Notice is hereby given, that the Association being at length in a condition to proceed with their undertaking, have resolved to do so Witdout further delay. The territory of the Association is now under careful survey, and A:11 be ready for the selection on the spot of properties in land Oefore the close of the present year. _lt is proposed that the i n t en di n g Colonists shall proceed from Eng land to found the Settlement in the course of the ensuing summer. Further information may be obtained at tkis Office. By order of the Cemmittee of Management, 11. F. ALSTON", Secretary. 41 , Charing-cross, January 12, 1850. THE LONDON INDISPUTABLE LIFE POLICY COMPANY No. 31, LOMBARD-S MEET, LONDON. INCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT. TRUSTEES. ''arhpbell Renton, Esq., M.P. I Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P. st i r Melina, Esq., Q.C. Esq. er Madox, Esq. 1 ‘ 14 11 4 1 William Wilberforce, james War DIRECTORS. utrn Adams Esq Robert llenry Forman, Esq. Joh n Atkins, Esq. John Hamilton, Esq. enry • Tho Augustus Bevan. Esq. James Fuller Madox, Esq. J o h,, " ..'aPson Bramwell, Esq. John Matthews, Esq. -J aagerfield, Esq. C. 0. Parnell, Esq. AUDITORS. "ge Cumming, Esq. Samuel Field, Esq. '▪ akes Turner, Esq. I William Ghrimes Kell, Esq. MEDICAL ADV . 'S Ut. Benjamin Phillips, Esq., F.R.S. BANKERS. Messrs. Spooner, Attwoods, and CO. SECRETARY. David Alison, Esq. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Atkins and Andrew. MANAGER. Alexander Robertson. Esq. The th e c POLICIES are INDEFEASIBLE and INDISPU . TABT.E, Cetut t ri ) arlY being prohibited, by the ilath clause of their Deed . of Nair, ution, which is duly registered in terms of the Act, from disl 'ph g — a Policy upon any ground whatever ere . a Kates of Premium are calculated upon Carlisle mortality, and 1 1 4810 w as a due regard to complete security will justify. Dre 4 ,LF PREMIUM SYSTEM. —By this plan only one-half of the fo r r t n uras. withinterest of the retained halves, is required to be paid eon the first five years—the retained halves, being payable at the 4 P ni ence of the assured or allowed to continue, to form deduction from the claim ' on the Policy ; and as the As- Of raTee may be relinquished at any time without payment ..„.__e thefor retained premiums, this scheme enables a party to olt- the first five years at little more than half the usual rate, w to d tt.scontinue a Policy at about one-half the usual sacrifice. "v,iOLE WORLD POLICIES are granted, whereby the security n: ur c e reditor, holder of a Policy, continues unimpaired, although the " 8 d life should go beyond the prescribed limits. s tie l c ,'" are assured payable to the parties themselves on attaining a ; A ".e € 1 age, or at their death, whichever shall first occur. efr ee ,„TNERSIIIP POLICIES are granted, whereby ajoint assurance bY partners, at the charge of the firm, secures the capital in -14. 7,_• .• On the death of either, the survivor is benefited by retain th`e,ie whole capital, and the representatives of the deceased obtain 'r share without having to wait until it can be recovered from attstanding debts. eq u T a h t p- 0 7 . is no extra charge for residence beyond 35 degrees of the 110 Admission or Entrance Fees are required, nor is any charge mad e for the Policy beyond the amount of the Stamp. Clef th e a mitred life. ms are payable within three months after proof of the death of The usual Commission allowed to Solicitors, and also to persons, 41)Proved by the Board, who extend the business of Life Assurance in ',Xnutexion with this Company. Just published, QPINAL CURVATURE—Its Theory ; its Cure; illustrated by Cases and Coloured Plates. By GEORGE N. 'OPS, Surgeon to llarrison's Spinal Institution, 3 .3., &e. Sherwood and Co , 23, Paternoster-row ; Balllere, 219, Regent- Street ; James Epps, 112, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury. PRE NOVELTY most recently introduced by MESSRS. NICOLL is called NICOLL'S PATENT EIDER kr 4 wN PALETOT, such novelty consisting in the adaptation of ,legearnDown in the formation of NICOLL'S PALETOT, the original ce and utility of which is, however, faithfully preserved. hli t 'lers are found in great numbers in Iceland and the Fern Aro o nds, Where their beautiful and delicate down is well known to bc. ~,hgainst te most severe cold, and even the small quantit3 se - r Z i can be c l ompreised and concealed between the two hands, wir Ordin n the formation of a Paletet, which, while it has most extra and „ a ll' lightness, has, nevertheless, more warmth than the fines , ckeit blanket, the great desideratum for a 7 -inter garment iigt,hus accomplished, namely, personal warmth without fatigue. le InsPection is invited at MESSRS. NICOLL'S wholesale and 114 wareroorns 116 , and 120, REGENT•STREET, and 22, CO3NIIILL, London. , RE NICOLL PALETOT (Registered 6 and fl i ' ,,gict. Ca ,. 05) WAREROOSIS, 114, 116, 120 , REGENT , 1, 44 n, and 22, CORN lIILL. Igeor: na ye Mourned the use of the word P ILETOT, but Mears. The wholesale the sole Patentees of the design and material. and Counting House Departments for the London ( ! , n the Shipping and Woollen Trades are in CHA—NGE , Th e LtINHILL,, and 120, REGENT-STREET. ;ce ref r il lip, y r ,il is the distinguishing came given . te a garment t ilad van Y , l t_o e Letters Patent frora general imitation. It has all j •NTER T :,,,g 8 of Messrs. 'NICOLL'S original invention, the RE LETpT PALETOT of LLAMA CLOTH. The NICOLL PA nitie4: are liarge I One, Two, Three, and Three-and a-half us a ccording with the climate or purpose for which they anay FOGS AND DAME AIR. A RCLArs ASTIIMATIC CANDY has, for 111 cz ee n ' t a nY years, been proved an effectual preservative , from the are as of "f the Pegs an d D am p Air, which, in the %.% inter Season, Dreu,_ it e'valent in this Climate. Its effects are to expel Wind, to tli o — fte 've the St omach from the admission of Damps. and to relieve ,ha rei : v ho suffer from Difficulty of Breathing. Prepared only by alt,t h ? and Sons, 95, Farringdon-street, London ; and sold retail, „ aPPointment by 50, Oxferd-streeJohnsont ; Gifford and a , and H. Burfleld, 180, Sanger, ' Strand ; , 68, Cornhill ; Ob ser jaaPectable Medicine Venders in Town and Co.intr Barclay - "t S,,„ne can be genuine, unless the names of " - n 4 are on the Starap affixed to each Box. t i OUGHTS in a SNOW - STORM. These falling flakes, how cold they are, While dull tie vapours lour ; I really would prefer, by far, • -A. pleasant April shower. I have, at best, a chilly form, . MY glowlnis are but few ; And hence in such a wint'ry storm I scarce know what to do. no.wgiaa I am I ever went An Over-coat to bur, rrom Msses' Tamed Establishment, With such a prime supply. Bad I not hastened to procure .... The dress by M o ses sold, /Torn my own feelings, I am sure, I should have caught a cold. Itasca and Son ! to you I owe P rotection in the storm ; For, let it freeze, or Ist it snow, . . Your wrapper keeps me warm. 'W hile winds blow bleak, and snows descend, , I 'll go to Moses' Mart, ''',. Purchase there a winter friend, lltt l il , TT/ th `:f a e P, durable, and smart. Apply by letter, on or tutu . I'l lursd S veral Youths as Casters. ott Nth, aY next the 17th inst. None need make appli —" cannot produce the most exceptuionable references. MAT OF PRICE. AIINT. READY MADE. —n and Winter Over Coats, in every tyle ... £0 8 6 • nto ••'' ** "•''•**"••'• •• " .• • 018 0 _ i we r , handsomely and warmly trimmed 0 18 0 ..eisra etot, ditto • -;,le terfield, 1 0 0 T he Albert Wrapper a very handsome style st,. °f Ove r Coat ' . ... 4 0 0tin z c oat , .. 0 8 6 . .. . A sutu ginB or Morning Coats ..............0 4 6 bitto nin t ad Winter Trousers, in Tweed .... 0 4 6 ; ', V itt() ditto Doeskin .. 0 7 6 Black „ 0 2 6 1) , e ,. ',,"k l r elvet Tests 13 6 . C oats ..•, ..... ..... .......... 017 0 Youths Fro ck bat° ... .'' • ' . ............ (;) 19 0 - n an . d B oys : . 6;et : dO;t ' s, In every style, _ 0 tines ''•• • • • • ...... 0 7 1a,,„,/mld Tunic suits —..— —••* 0 14 6 It unlit and Winter Pests • • *MADE TO MEASURE. Mew, A • Th e c utumn and Winter Over Coats ..from I 1 t • h"terfield 'Wrapper, in a warm ma -1 S 0 ,Itel io a a l l „, e'teliffte,liall n •• ds • Orn — eiy • ;tn — d • Wa — rm .. l • y • trimmed •••. 1 16 0 ''giintOn at Wrapper, a very elegant style of ' • vver e 2 0 0 4::Strathmore Witney Over Coat, newest , t Yle, lined thronghout —•• •• ••• • • • 2 10 0 • e r kil and Winter Trowsers, in Tweed and ie°eSkin . . 010 6 st tl —••••••—•••• •• • • • • •• . • • • 16 0 -.Atli ack Casslmere ditto •• •• •• • • •• •• 11,.... 14 ,__n and Winter Vests •• . ...... •.• .. 0 8 6 11, - "" 'slack Cloth ditto —.ACk silk 'Velvet ditto • • •• • • •• •• 0 18 6 • 33 reas Ceat5........ •• .. •• from 325. to 2 15 0 'iZl,l. sarrreck .................. from 255. t o 3 0 ernuand Tante S a lt a • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • from 1 8 0 1 15 0 illiegan°lll..°nurtetiss'ineo.oal.);;; • .1.T., • great•'••• • v • variety, e li ° 4 Iled.; °4 ' • • ......'.......; ...... ..16s. to 5 0 0 'll " 2, ' "nta ining an Almanac for the year 1850, wll b e p re - A , _ verY customer. '''''irge Stock of Fur Coats, in every shape, from 60s. to 201. .2• %Ta val and Mili tary Un i forms, Li ver i es , & c . noun', ng to any extent at Five Minutes' notice. ,1 1 1. 11 e , a A Suit of Mourning complete for 11. 10s. I,,: e otie n : w e book, entitled " The Minion of the Million." with fail -,,,,Med. bust 6elf-r neasurernent, • can be had on application, or for ',otl v"st free to e lth ce.... rhe v any part of the kingdom. • 01::a4on. ur Department is new replete with every novelty Ike,. r ve---.A.. - . l l.re,i f ---,3' article purchased, either ready made, or made to Il t. 1 10,4 n0t approved of will be exchanged, or the money return 1t, 41 ,, ors, p n ' and SON, Tailors, Woolleadrapers, Clothiers, Hatters, A 15 - 4 , —ri anA ers, got , and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters, 154, tsi ' "; ull ' 157 Minories, and 85, 84, 85, and 86 Aligate, CitY, abuys mrerninicating with each other, and forming one vast %.et gr aent. 4 tAIII an ''''t Ale 4,,i se t 4 408i . , _ s!ii and son regret having to guard the public ha s lu 'od of bean , but having heard that the untradesmanlikp ~_ 'sta ll r ___ , 11 connected with them, or" It is the same concern," i;s4qY be,„4,7.' 1 3efl to in many instances, and for obvious reasons, iv_r 041 ;;;„I,lTfne.that they have no connexion with any other house taT'l l leffleit u r an " d , 'smM:heir ,Branch Establishments, 36, F . ar- It or (4e Who re in __. . e'rhearntoa s-buildings, Bradford, Yorkshire; 4%11%d to the % m i n 13 and genuine clothing, te., should call ran ch _,,. es and Aldgate, City, London; or either of k 'kie lictree:"!sUrnents, as above. 61Uatt Buur4nis Establ ishment is dosed from sunset Friday, i /VIM bUgigION LI resumed till twelve o'clock. 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About 100, two? d .einents, are to be dispensed with )f March and June next. STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH AUSTRALIA. The project of steam communication with our Australian colonies has opened a discussion of re markable interest and extent. One-half the globe has to be circumnavigated, and the question is what direction this course should take—whether ships leaving England should sail east or sail west. In the considerations suggested by the inquiry are included, first, the actu a l di stance between the several depend encies of the British empire; secondly, the character of the countries to be traversed or connected by the various routes ; and thirdly, the general capabilities of t-,teatn. ships as hitherto ascertained. The easteen route to Australia may either follow the old track round the C of Good Hope or the new passage by the Mediterranean and Red Sets • the western strikes right across the Atl ant i c and South Pacific Oceans through the Isthmus of Panama. Thus the competing routes to Sydney may be respectively described as via Panama, via the Clot., or via Suez and Singapore, and the advantages cf each will be found plainly stated in a letter which we publish this morning. The distance from London to Sydney by the first of the routes above mentioned is 12,902 railer, by the second 12,870 miles, and by the third either 11,710 or 13,288 miles, according as the eastern or western pas sage is taken from Purt Essington round the coast f Australia. Cceteris paribus, the shortest of these lines would of course be the most eligible, but in point of fact there are so many considerations which take precedence of simple mileage that the distances may be almost reckoned as equal. The next question then arising is, that of the degrees of practicability which the routes may be severally found to possess, for seas must not be considered merely as so many leagues of water when they have to be traversed by steam-ships. The powers of a steamer depend upon her capacities for carrying fuel—capacities of course very limited, for in proportion to the tonnage and stowage of the vessel must be the power of her engines, and the daily consumption of coal. Speaking in round numbers, we may say, perhaps, that 3,000 miles is as long a stage as a paddle-wheel steamer can be expected to accomplish with certainty and regularity, until some substitute has been discovered for the coal-fuel now in use ; and although screw-steamers can be more eco nomically worked, yet what is saved in consumption is lost in speed. In a line of steam communication, therefore, it is necessary to have coaling-harbours at intervals of not less, say, than 3,000 miles. Our ships make the run of the Atlantic (2,6C0 miles) readily enough ; but this may be taken as nearly the maximum performance on which it is quite safe to calculate. Now, the Panama route to Australia is divided into two distinct parts—that across the Atlantic from London to Chagres, and that across the Pacific from Panama to Sydney. Tne former of these is already accomplished by our West Indian steamers, but the latter has never yet been tried, and when we come to examine its practi cability we find serious obstacles of the character we have been describing. The whole distance from Sydney to Panama is not less than 7,800 miles, and though this is broken by the Gallapagos islands off the American coast, by Tahiti in mid voyage, and by New Zealand at the other end, yet the second of these stages is nearly 3,600 miles long—a distance which would, to say the least, throw great uncer tainty on the voyage. Again, when we turn to the third point cf consideration—the countries to be con nected by the line, we find no conspicuous advan tages promised by the Pacific route. Up to the Isthmus of Panama, it is true, the proposed line might produce the most desirable effect of improving our communication with the West Indies, and of in troducing a new- and splendid class of steamers upon a field where our carrying traffic is likely to be stoutly contested ; but after the isthmus has been passed these advantages abruptly terminate, for there neither is nor is likely to be any commercial inter course between Australia and the western coast of America ; so that Sydney would, by this line, be simply connected with London, and nothing more. The same remarks will apply in some degree to the route by the Cape of Good ,llope, which i s b o th circuitous and unproductive, and even from the Mau ritius to Swan River is a dead run of 3,400 miles. Supposing, however, what is not improbable, that these difficulties of steaming may be hereafter surmounted by the advance of science, yet there will still remain the objections derivable from the unprofitable cha racter of the conrexions into which Australia would thus be drawn. The natural relations of these colo nies are with India and the Archipelago, and it is this consideration which gives the chief superiority to the route by Suez and Singapore, for this will con nect Sydney not only with London, but with Bata via, Colombo, Bimhay, end Alen. It was with a view to this natural ,intercourse between India and Australia that the survey of the Torres Straits has been prosecuted with so much zeal. Our settle ments in this enormous tract ff territory lie almost wholly on its southern coast, so that the circumnavi gation of Australia itself forms no inconsiderable portion of the whole enterprise. In point of fact, our steam communication by this route has actually advanced to a point within about 2,000 miles of Australia, Port E sington being only 1,600 miles' run from Batavia', and B itavia being only 480 from Singapore. Taking Aden, however, as the starting-point, there are no fewer than five routes by which Australia could thence he reached by steam, and of these the best, in our opinion, is that via Ceylon, Singapore, Port Essington, and Torres Straits. Sydney would thus be brought within about 11,700 miles of London—a distance only twice that between London and Bombay ; whereas, according to the present arrangements Australia may be prac tically considered at least four times as far off as India. A proportionate result would be obtained if Adelaide or Port Philip were made the point of com munication, in which case the western passage might be taken from Port Essington ; and we may convey perhaps a good idea of the immense circuit of this island-continent by stating that the distance between the Swan River settlement on its western, and Sydney on its south-eastern coast, is only 300 miles less than the distance between London and Halifax. Whichever point, however, may be taken, we have no hesitation in concluding that the com mercial relations induced or confirmed by the route should determine its selection, for the difference of a few hundred miles cannot be weighed against the advantages which might be gained or lost by a judicious or injudicious connexion. We may here observe too, that while the Panama route is directed to Sydney and the eastern coast exclusively, that by the Archipela go , offers the facility, of diverging lines from Batavia, which is about equidistant both from Swan River and Port Essington. Beyond doubt, it is highly desirable that our communication with the West Indies and the Gulf of Mexico should be placed on an improved footing before a more spirited competitor appears on the field, but this object is surely important enough to be pro moted on its own grounds, without being discussed as a subsidiary consideration in the question of the route to Australia, which should be determined not e obynlythbeyinttheerefsatisrorfeqoutihreermentsof dependencies the 0 0l o r ninyo settlementsirtey s e n l i; a but rl and naturally connected with it tha n our in the Caribbean Sea.—Times. MERTHYR. --- ATTEMPTED MURDER.— Late on Wednfsday night, a diabolical attempt at murder was made at Aberdare. It appears that, for sum- time past, the greater number of the sea-coal men, at Cadlys and other works, have struck for an advance of wages. Some, who thought better of the matter, continued to work, despite the threats of the others. Owing to these threats, which the colliers so often receive as they leave work, there is a vast amount of ill feeling existing be tween the two parties. On Wednesday night the house of William Jenkins, Mill-street, was visited by, it is supposed, a gang of the " strikers." The first notice given of there being any one outside, was a stone throw n he with considerable violence at the door, evidently hfoort was purpose of attracting the attention of Jenkins, w then in bed, and getting him to the wint)ewd.ow, luckily Immedi ately after a shot was fired through h T ho e use, that their deed by the silence maintained in the though every escaping the intended victim. was accomplished, decamped; and exe rtion.l2 miscr eants, tew thinking our police force to find out yet been obtained of them. has since been made by ses, some slugs with which have been loaded, were found in the bed ()thee f m u c i te lliztl, o n f o th c e lu p e t h em as i the gun must fewo f and within a inches the head of Jenkins. Vhsrte'ecolliers are now under exami nat i on for having h rea tened other colliers, as they w ere l eav i ng work, w i th severet punishment, if they continued working. Unless some agreement is made between masters and men, we are afraid t`iis occurrence will be but the prelude to others. 201. has been offered for the apprehension of the misguided men who committed this outrage, but up to the present time no arrest has taken place.— Cambrian. i The Ma• pais of Lansdowne w ill enterta i n at dinner on the 30th nst Ant, the day before the meeting of Parliament, at his residence in Berkele ) -s quare' the several members of the House of Lords co nnecte d with the Government, and the mover and seconder of the address in the Upper House. Lord John Russell will entertain at his official residence in Downing-street, on the same day, the mover and seconder of the address in the Commons, and the several members of the Lower House filling offices in his Administration. THE TRANSIT TRADE WITH AMERICA. The steam-ship Commodore, arrived at the port of Liverpool from Havre, has brought the large number of 442 pack agessilks,B4c for " immediate portion of her cargo, which are intended shipment to th e U n it e d of solely States of America. These large arrivals of French manufactures in transitu to the United States of America, are, as may be' readily expected. owing to the facilities now afforded, by the removal cf the restriction by the American Government, for the importation of foreign goods into the portsof the United States in British ships. N° 17 881 • 1.. Zw4l 0711 LONDON TUESDAY 41 j A•. JANUARY 15, 150, • , - ,e 7 IMPROVED DWELLINGS for the POOR. The SOCIETY for the IMPROVEMENT of the CONDITION or the LABOURING CLASSES has now been occupied for more than four years past with these objects : It has built a r Inge of Dwellings for the Industrious Classes, on sanitary principles, at Bagnigge-wells, Gray's Inn-lane. llete twenty-three families and thirty single women arc accommolated. It has repaired and r littered fit for healthy occupation four houses in King-street and Charles-street, Drury-lane, wherein 105 working men are accommodated. It has built, in Ge;rge-street, St. Giles's, a Model Lodging House for working men, where 104 persons of this class find a comfortable habitation. It has repaired and fitted up, at No. 76 , Hatton-garden, a house for the accommodation of fifty eight females of the working•classes. It is now building. in Streatham-street, Bloomsbury, a range of dwellings for mechanics and their families, wherein about 43 such families will dud good and healthy habitations. At Tunbridge W. 7118 it is aiding to raise a series of cottages fo agricultural labourers, of which six and a lodging-house for single men are already completed and occupied. Besides these various works, it is In constant correspondence with a great number of benevolent persons in all parts of the kingdnm ; who ap7ly for its aid in the building or improvement of cottages, or the setting-oat of cottage allotments. In these various works it has expended, and is expending, more than Twenty-three Thousand Pounds. For tke works now in hand a further sum of between Three and Four Thousand Pounds is needed ; towards which the Committee now solicits the contributions of the benevolent. The following are the sums already subscribed towards the house now erecting in Streatham-street SUBSCRIPTIONS. Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert - - Her Majesty the Queen Dowager - Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Rent - Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester - The Right Hon. Earl Spencer Sir Joseph Copley, Bart. - The Right Hon. Lord Feversham S. M. l'eto, Esq., M.P. - Rev. E. Hoßond - - His Grace the Duke of Bedford - Miss Portal - - Messrs. Barclay and Co Kosmos - Abel Smith, Esq. Lord Willoughby de Eresby AFr end, by L Sullivan, Esq. - Total, to Jan. 1, 1849 - - - 300 0 0 - - 150 0 0 - - 100 0 - 50 0 0 100 0 0 - 2d donation 110 0 0 - - 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 - - 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 - 100 0 0 - £5,,i63 3 6 Donations since received : W. 5., a Tribate for the Thanksgiving Day -£lO 0 Mrs. Blair - 25 0 Mrs. Lambert Blair The Rev. Dr. Ellerton A Friend R. B. Cooke, Esq. Major Civil , shank - - - 5 0 A., per Nisbet 6 0 C. Saver, Esq. A. Palmer, Esq. - - - - - b 0 A. H. Bradshaw, Esq. - - - - - 10 0 R. C. Kidd, Esq. W. S. Angell, Esq. The Dowager Lady Cooper - - - - 10 0 J. E. Denison, Esq., 51.1'. - - - - 10 0 Rev. J. Ware - - - - - - 20 0 Mrs. Charles Pym Geo. Pearce, Esq. J. Sperling, Esq. R. 11. V. Walpole, Esq. R. A. Hornby, Esq. Viscount Brackley H. B. Hickman, Esq. Miss A. 51. Cotton Marquis of Blandford Rev. Dr. Pacey J. 0. Harris, Esq. 11. Unwell, Esq. Rev. Dr. Cotton. Principal of Worcester College 5 0 John Hardy, Esq. Mr. Hargraves W. E. Hubbard, Esq. - - - - 5 0 Lieut.-Colonel Seymour Mrs. llug,hatn - Major Little 1 0 51. 0., one who has read Lord Ashley's Letter in the " Times" of the 19th ult., as a Thank offering of herself and family from the late Epidemic Lady Murray - - - - - 2 2 W. Jennings, Esq. - - - - - - 10 10 R. Wilkinson, Esq. J. Beaufort, Esq. - - - - - - b 0 Hon. Mountstaart Elphinstono - - - 10 0 Miss Ware - - - - - - 10 0 Edward Strachey, Esq. - - - - 2 2 Mrs. Dumaresque - - - - - 5 0 Thomas L. Ward - - - - 10 0 T. H. Bastard, Esq. E. Gardner, Esq. - - - - - 5 5 T. Twining, jun., Esq. - - - - 20 0 T. 11. Parker, Esq. - - - 5 0 C. V. - ----- - 5 0 Mrs. Bird J. J. Smith, Esq W. Penny, Esq. - - - - b 0 W. Sparkes, Esq. Christianus B. Smith, Esq. G. Harding, Esq. J. C. Hall, Esq. E. B. Bastard, Esq. Members of Rev. Dr. Cumming's Congregation 10 0 W. P. Angell, Esq. Mrs. Schael Miss Catherine Stuart E. W. M. L. Donations and annual subscriptions will be received by Messrs. Williams, Williams, Deacon, and Co., Birchin-lane ; Messrs. Herries, Farquhar, and Co., St. James's-street ; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand ; Messrs. Straiten, Pa 1 , , and Co., Temple-bar; and by Hatchards, Piccadilly ; Seeleys, Fleet-street and Hanover-street; and :Nisbet, Berners street ; or by the Secretary, at the Office, 21, Exeter Hall. rHE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, REGENT-STREET. 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HYAM and CO., Merchant Tailors, Woollen Drapers, and Outfitters, SG, OXFORD-STREET, and 3 , 3, G •ACECHUXCH-STREET, LONDON. 11 7 ELCOME NEWS for WINTER DAYS. If you are desirous of attiring yourself in the warmest and most beautiful garments, at the lowest scale of ,harges, visit the ex tensive Establishments of L. lIYAM and CO., 86, OXFORD-STREET, and 36, GRACECIIURCII-STREET, LONDON. Excellence in fabrics, perfection in cut, and superiority in workman ship are the great characteristics of these fashionable Establish ments. IS IT YOUR PURPOSE TO SAVE MONEY ? If so, patronise the extensive Establishments of L. lIYAM and CO., Merchant Tailors, Woollen Drapers, and Outfitters. METROPOLITAN ESTABLISHMENTS. 86, OXFORD-STREET, and 3;, GRACECHURCH-STREET, LONDON. BRANCH BSTABLISIIMENTS. 63 and 65, Lord-street, Liverpool 61, King-street. Manchester. 23, New-street, Birmingham. 26, Market-street, Manchester. 42, Wine-street, Bristol. 42, Briggate, Leeds. 6. Union-street, Bristol. 17, Market-place, Hull. 193, Iligh-street, Exeter. 48 Argyle-street, Glasgow. EYEBROWS MUSTACHIOS, and WHISKERS produced in a few weeks, and Baldness removed and prevented, by the ass of GRIMS TONE'S AROMATIC REGENERATOR. If you are in want of that beautiful adornment of the human figure, a natural supply of human hair, obtain through the post, or of any wholesale or retail chemist or druggist, or perfumer. an Ils. bottle of Grimstone's Aromatic Regenerator. This is an essential spirit, drawn from aromatic herbs and flowers (grown at his Her bary, Highgate), which has been long known to the nobility and gentry, by whorls it is highly appreciated for its manifold virtues, too numerous to be set forth in an advertisement, but may be read in his pamphlet, in which the bottles are enclosed. Each pamphlet has the signature of William Grimstone, Merchant, IlerbAry, Highgate, and will be found at page 11, under the copy of Mrs. Weekly's Letter to the Editor of the " Times" newspaper, 7th of August, 4846. This pamphlet is forwarded through the post, en receiving two postage stamps. The Aromatic Regenerator can be forwarded through the post on receiving a post-office order for 4s. 6d., 7s. Bd., or 125., which in cludes the postage with the case. The lls. size contains four of the 4s. A few cf its many virtues, as thousands can prove, aro published in the pamphlet enclosed with each bottle. Reader, reflect for a few minutes, and if you are 40 years of age, you will remember the thousands of blind you meet with in your walks, others with various coloured eye-shades ; indeed, such was the demand for eye-shades, that it was a business. What has re moved those sightless beings, and given place to a straightforward, clear-sighted people (the climate is the same) ? I'll tell you the cause —the universal use of Grimstone's Eye Snuff and because it cured Ophthalmia, Gutta Serena, Catar :et, Nervous Headach, and Deaf ness, the Lords of the Treasury directed it to be denominated a medi cine, and to be stamped. Although this advanced its character, 67 cases of cure being proved by the informers, still it was an act of oppression ; as in 1825 the Solicitor of Stamps, Godfrey Sykes, Esq., altered the label, and sanctioned its sale under order of the Lords of the Treasury ; the letter of protection, signed by Herries, Fsq., to Mr. William Grimstene, bearing date 18th February, 1525. This was on account of its curative qualities, being sold at that time in canis ters, within the reach of every poor family. But under this order of Government it is obliged to be stamped. GRIMSTONE'S MEDICATED EYE SNUFF, sold in canisters, inclosed in a pamphlet of medical and other testimonials, under the Government order, at Is. lid., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. each. The Pamphlets sold at Id. each. If through the post, Is. Bd., 35. 6d., and ss. Bd., including postage, &c. The following letter is one out of the many thousand proofs. Read the following Medical Testimony to the cure of five cases of Gutta Serena, from G. 11. Boutell, Professor of Galvanism:— " Southsea, near Portsmouth, Hants, sth Nov., 1848. " Ma. W. GRIMSTONL—Sir—I must in justice to you send the fol lowing Testimonial with regard to the extraordinary efficacy of your Eye Snuff in cages of Gutta Serena. I have used it in five cases with themmaoksetwashta useotoish y lng o r pnleeflatsea. The cures ndcure.Si h Sir, you may ly m w ay ho a l dver as tis t e on tl i i s i h s e ! or me and thousands of others.—l am, Sir, &c., G. H. BOUTELL, Professor of Galvanism." All letters to Mr. William Grimstone, Herbary, Highgate, near London, at which establishment he continues to manufacture his far-famed HERB TOBACCO, so mach esteemed in all foreign parts. The following letter, in testimony of its delightful qualities, is from the author of the " Pleasures of Home :" " Springfield Cottage, Iloniton, Devon, 15th August, 1848. Sir,—l cannot deny myself the pleasure of stating hew highly I esteem your Herb Tobacco. I have now foamed in it a substitute for the choice leaf, hitherto obtained by me from a friend in Constanti nople. I am sure that lovers of mild, fragrant Tobacco would find yours a great and acceptable gift, at a very reaso na bl e pr i ce. I am your obedient servant, " STUART FARQUH ARSON, D.C.L. To Mr. William Gemstone, Herbary, Highgate." This extensively-famed Tobacco is sold by all chemists and drug gists, and others, with W. Grimstone's signature attached, at 734 d., la. 1 d., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. each, including the Government stamp In a few days, in 2 vols., fear). Bvo., 155., T HE MARTYRS of CARTHAGE. By the Author of " Naomi." Richard Bentley, Published in Ordinary to her Majesty. 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For Terms of Private Tuition apply at the office.—Terms of Sub scription, for morning and evening practice:—Six months, Si. 55.; one month, 1/. Is.; one evening, Is. Subscribers' tickets not transferable. The Academy will open for evening practice at a Quarter to Elgh o'clock, and terminate at Half-past Eleven precisely. !R t -" (1 J 'ins half the world are desolately single, and the other •epoeiag them married, queetionably contented. Diffidence, or e use of right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes em •; tter the latter. The solitary one may shield himself under the plea caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un valprosing hurry ; but the truth lies deeper. Physical incapacity, mud breken health, are the great hindrances to domestic happiness end 500131 content. The dowry should not bo the only marriage set ernent. Honour and justice demand that health should form au item _n tie eonepact ; it alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes or Avg eet wound mere sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, if :rase surmises concern you, procure Dr. CIILVERWELL'S little "on Aingle and Married Life, " pub. in 2 vole., Is. lea (by post, in etampe, Is. 6d. each). Let no imaginatively canned, er prudish feeling deter you, by then - titles, nor be himedered enieinterpretation of their supposed contents, from obtaining They are net intended certainly for mere idle cariosity, but it the closet perusal of those more deeply interested, to whom t , n)y are offered as antagonistic to the empyrical trash put forth on tee above subpzets, by unqualified authors, which alone or .gether, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other file publications claim yottr attention (same price Is. each, ey Test Is. U.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and emoid," and " How to be Happy." They are not merely pa.ep'lets, but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are they the Mere EpLemaral scribblings of the hour, but the study of the author's life who owes his present esistence, health, and position to this oh.. iervenee of the mantras he would inculcate—to do unto others as he WOLig me done rants—te live after nature's laws—and to keep always on the "sunny side of the way." The above works may be had of eherwoed, 23, Paternester-row Carvalho, 141, Fleet-street • Mann, 39, Cornell:; Spokes, 5, Holborn-hill ; or direct (by post or other- wiee) , et the runner (who may be conferred with personally, mornings oeet Pr% ree•le-roesee en, ~.teeet 991.C5 911 Booksellers TWA FY-I'll-LSI EDITION. Illustrated by :to Anatomical Colcurou Engravings on Stec/. PIIYST.CAL DISQUALICATIONB, GENERATIVE INCAPA CITY, &ND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. . :claims, enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 2s. 6d., or r.r .cst direct from the Establishment, 3s. 6d. in postage stamps, TiFIE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on the infirmities and decay of the generative system, from ex . indulgence, infection, and the inorPnate use of m arcuri, cltb remarks on Marriage, and tke means of obviating cc: t sin (La maTicatMns. Illustrated by 26 Colourefi Engravings. By R. and PERRY and CO., Consulting Surgeons, la, Berners-street, Ox ord-street, London. Published by the Authors : sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row: Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street; 3tarie, 53, Titchbsrne-street, Haymarket ; and Gordon, 146, Leaden sall-Areet. PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-produetiNe Tgan., and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings. PART IL treats of the consequences resulting from excessive hadul isuce, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing mental end bodily weaknass, nervous excitement, and generative neapacity. Illustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings. PAnT 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in ale primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions far their treatment. This section Is illustrated by Seventeen Coloured Kngravings.: PART IV. contains a Prescription for the Prevention of Disease !)y a simple application, by which the danger of infection ob viated. This important part of the Work should no ese^2o the eader's notice. i'L.PdF Y. is devoted to the considelatioa of marr , lge, and its dates. The causes of unproductive union are elso zonsidered, and the I' 1e subject critically and philosophicallr Lnqaired into. Trif.,ORDIAL BALM OF 3YRIACOM Is exelasi—^,ly employed in treat- nervous :mil sexual debility, impotlnce, ac., 11 s. and 335. per b The Concentrated Deters! re Faence, as anti-syphilitic remedy, for purifying the blood cans ofinfectiota, secondary r7mn toms, emptier-Y., and the abuse if rr^:eury, 119. and 335. per bottle. Perry's Purifying T,..'ecifle Od., 4s. 601., and I is. 1.. r box, a certain remedy for gonorr!.ma, rfleet, stricture, and chronic in;lainrna. lon of tile bladder. ,on-sr.lcation fee, if by letter, IL A minute detail of the case is lequ”sd : age, habits, and p^,sition in society. I 1.9.01,tt, ovi.h advice, to be had at the Establie.hment only, by ',hie i the foe, 4., /- saved. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, are in atte: , a , 19 ciermer3-streei.. Oztord-street, London, ire re, ft 1.. SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE AMENDMENT OF THE LAW. The society for Promoting the Amendment of the Law held a general meeting last night at their rooms in Regent-street, Mr. Commissioner Fane in the chair. Mr. S. M. Green, of Dublin, was elected a member. Mr. A'BECKETT then read the report of the com mittee of equity on his plan for the improvement of the law relating to deceased persons' estates. Two Bills were proposed : the first introducing new rights, the second a new procedure. The report proposed to give personal protection to executors, and for a certain period, until such time as the real assets were ascer tained. It also proposed to do away with the princi ple of priority that now obtained with respect to the division of deceased persons' estates among cre ditors ; the committee, in reference to the distribution of deceased persons' estates by the courts, approved of the adaptation of the machinery of the Courts of Bankruptcy to that purpose ; and the clauses of the Bill were, therefore, framed closely upon the model of the new Bankruptcy Act. The Bill, however, to create a special tribunal, entitled the Administration of Estates Jurisdiction Court, to be presided over by Judges of the Court of Bankruptcy. The claims of the creditors upon an estate should be considered paramount to those of relations; and, therefore, in the proposed plan, the debts were made a primary charge upon the estate, with the sole exception of the costs of administration. But all persons having claims upon the estate would be permitted to register these claims for the purpose of adjudication. Several instances of the ruinous cost of dividing the estates of deceased persons under the present system were adduced ; in one, where a sum of 2,5001. had been realised, only 351. were di vided among the creditors ; while in another, where 3,0001. were obtained, not a penny had been so ap portioned. The speaker asserted that this description was far short of the real evil, and that it was impossible to exaggerate the real wrong. The ruin of families was a constant result of the present cruel law, but still there was nothing done to remedy this wrong, or even to palliate these evils, though many of the latter lay on the suffice, and were mere anomalies that might be removed by a few words. He alluded in particular to the difference now maintained between specialties and contract debts, by means of which the former were preferred to the latter ; and he mentioned a case within his own knowledge, where there were specialty debts for 31,000/. on an estate, and only 1,5001. contract debts, but the latter ob tained nothing on the division of the property of the deceased, while the former received 15s. in the pound from the property. Specialty debts were causes of the greatest amount of fraud, as all solicitors knew ; and everyone was acquainted with the facilities afforded by the Legislature for confessing judgment. The remedy for this was simple—that the executor should not pay one creditor to the exclusion of another, until he knew the amount the estate under his administration would discharge. He hoped the act of the society would not end with the adoption of the report, but that it would be directed to carry the plan so approved of into execution. The CHAIRMAN suggested that as the system of preference among creditors had been abolished in bankruptcy 200 years ago, and in the distribution of equitable assets in Chancery, as contradistinguished from legal assets, that the Bill should embrace an enactment making all assets equitable assets, and as such placing them for distribution in Chancery. This he thought would entirely do away with preferences. Mr. A'BECKETT said one of the enactments of the Bill he had drawn up was to that effect. Mr. SPENCE said the distinction between legal and equitable assets was purely speculative, and the Court of Chancery made the distinction because it did not choose to take away from a creditor his right at law. The Court of Chancery knew no inequality, and never at any time recognised the justice of pre ference. Courts of law went on the principle that specialty gave a prior right ; the Court of Chancery went on the principle that the justice of the case was in equality of distribution in the matter of assets. One or other was, therefore, in the wrong, and according to his o pinion, it was not the Court of Chancery. He (Mr.. Spence), from a long experienc e of Chancery, and a full knowledge of the operation of bankruptcy, was of opinion that the duties created by the Bill tinder discussion should be confided to the commis sioners of bankrupts. There was no comparison, in point c if legal training, between a Master in Chancery and a Commissisner of Bankrupts, nor in the means and appliances wielded by the one and by the other. Mr. J. STUART did not oppose the reception of the report,, though to adopt it would be to tell the Court of Chi ;ncery that it could not do its business ; but he had some reason to suppose that, at an early period of the session, something would be done in relation to the subject z , <t issue, and therefore he should propose a series of resolutions which went to establish official assignees and official receivers in the Court of Chan cery, and also to have all the work done by one marl. These r+-solutions to be discussed when the adoption of the report came un fur discussion at a future period. The report was then received and ordered to Le printed, and the meeting separated. Look at the state of the franchise in Middlesex for instance. 1,500,000 persons only returned two members of Parliament, while the same number spread over several boroughs, returned 246 Niembers. —(dear, hear, and Shame.) Shame. Aye, but it was their fault, because they were not united. (Near, hear.) Toy ought to act differently. They ought to seek by every means to obtain an extension of tae franchise, for without it they could do nothing. \V not was the use of reducing the expenditure of the country by twenty millions ? Tney would he no better off afterwards, unless they were fully repre sented.—(hear, hear.) What principle then was butter than that every man of 21 years of age, of sound intellect, and untainted by should he entitled to vote for a representative ? \\That they wanted was to effect their object by constitutional mean.. They did not want revolutions, for revolu tions only ended in•promoting the objects of the high and middle class people to the prejudice (f the great body of the people.—(Hear, hear.) The Chairman, after referring to the necessity of entire freedom in the land, called on the meeting to act firmly together, closing his speech with these lines : " Unite, unite, ye Chartists brave, Let the land your watchword be; Scout, scout the servile slave That crouches when he may be free. Up, ye heroes, at the despots, Lick no more the despot's hand; Leave your pauper workhouse mess-pots, Live like freemen on your land. Then free-trade will be a blessing, When men can work, and eat, and play, When shepherds cease to live by fleecing, Then each flock its own will pay." —(Great cheers.) Mr. G. W. M. REYNOLDS rose to move the first re- solution, which was as followi:—" That in the opi nion of this meeting the alarming and downward ten dency of the labouring and general industrial inte rests of the United Kingdom and the colonies is the result of the present unjust and unequal system of Go vernment, promoting as it does the corrupt interests of a small faction at the expense of the people at large; and that this meeting expresses its deliberate conviction that the only safe and effectual remedy for the colonies is independent responsible government, and for the United Kingdom such a change of our representative system as will place the House of Commons under the direct control of the nation, and by the admittal of the entire male adult population within the pale of the electoral franchise, and which would be accomplished, most satisfactorily to this meeting, by the enactment of the People's Charter as the basis of a future constitution." He gave his hearty adhesion to this resolution, and he begged to express his feeling of delight at seeing that over flowing meeting. Heaven knew that reform was necessary, when they saw that poverty was stamped on the faces of nine-tenths of the people. The Chair man said that Lard J. Russell would bring in a Bill to extend the franchise. They might depend upon it the reforms in that respect would be of the most limited description. An attempt might be made to save the aristocracy, but the aristocracy were on their last legs, and they would fall by their own weight. After referring to the result of the revolution in France, and having expressed a belief that the prin ciple of democracy would yet be high in the ascend ant, and that kings and emperors would fall before its power, and such men as Kossuth and Mazzini would return to their respective countries, Mr. Reynolds proceeded to observe, that if England opposed herself to the spirit of liberalism abroad, she would suffer in her power, for America would take from her Canada, and other of her colonies, while France would invade Ireland, and thus the British people would be left isolated in their own island. He then observed upon the state to which the great body of the people was reduced, thousands and thousands of whom were to be fund seeking shelter either in the gaol or the workhouse. The only cure for this state of things was the extension of the suffrage, as suggested by the People's Charter. Mr. Reynolds here complained of the large sum paid to the Queen and Prince Albert, and asked, them if they were satisfied at King Leopold having 50,0001. a year from them ? (Hear)—or at the King of Hanover having 27,0001. a year from this country ?—(Hear, hear.) Could they wonder that the people desired republics when such things as these took place ?—(Hear, hear.) He called on them to oppose themselves to those laws that upheld the aristocratic principle. Let them agitate and clamour to widen the doors of the House of Common?, and if they obtained universal suffrage and the other points of the Charter, this end would be effected.—(lfar, hear.) If they gave in their adhe sion to those principles, the time was not far distant when there would not be a hungry person in this great kingdom.—(Hear.) Mr..l4l`GitaTu seconded the resolution, ar.4 ex pressed his satisfaction at the appearance of that great meeting, assembled, as it was, to hold up the banner of the People's Charter to the admiring eyes of the Chartists of the country.—(Hear.) The National Association was formed to carry out the object of the Charter, and they wanted the aid of people to carry out the purpose which they had in view. They were about to make a grand effort to pull down the cor rupt system which had existed for so long a time in this country, and to rear upon it the solid and substantial structure of liberty.—(Hear, hear.) The resolution said that the country had a down ward tendency. There could be no doubt of this fact, for the wages of the people testified to it in the fullest manner.--(Hear, hear.) This state of the people originated either in the existence of bad laws, or the want of good ones—consequently all this re sulted from class legislation.—(Hear, hear.) The resolution also referred to the colonies, and he was, therefore, justified in observing that the colonies were dissatisfied at the manner in which they were governed by this country, and he need only instance the East Indies as a proof of the faulty system pur sued by this country in respect to the countries de pendent upon her. He next referred to the question of protection, and asked what protection would Disraeli or Stanhope give them ? Just the same protection that the wolf would give to the lamb.— (Hear, hear.) The remedy for the present state of things was not a return to prohibit, as a reimposi tion of the corn-laws would be prejudicial to the real interests of the people. In conclusion, he would only observe that while he would advise them to take all the advantages they could get from Parliament by assistance of other persons, yet it would be their duty to stand by themselves, and carry nut the great obligations which they as Chartists had in view. —(Hear.) Mr. VERNON, described as a Chartist victim, then came forward to support the resolution, and was loudly cheered. He supported the Charter, because it would be the means by which great things could be effected for the people. They wanted a revolution for the benefit of the people. He trusted it would be a moral one, and he could only say that he would be ready to aid them to work out that end whenever called upon to do so. Mr. Hammy, in supporting the resolution, said he was one of those who had no confidence in the Na tional Reform Association movement. He admitted ,hat the plan of reform put forth by that society ap- proximated closely upon that put forth by the Chartists, but it had in it the flaw of the money qualification, for it made the payment of the rates a necessary con . sequence upon the right to vote. Then the paynient of Nlembers was not upheld by it —and until the work ing classes were represented by Members of their own body, their interest would not be fairly upheld in the House of Commons. And how could the working men go to Parliament without they were paid ? At the same time he had no objection to these gentlemen succeed ing, for then the great charter would fallow, and the people would never be satisfied until they possessed universal suffrage. He could not face Ernest Jones and the other victims of the Charter if he gave his support to any principle short of the Charter.— (llear.):Ile admitted that revolutions had not tended very much to exalt the condition of the people, but still the people of France had obtained a power which, if it was continued to them a few years longer, would enable them 'to overthrow Louis Napoleon, Theirs, and all the other rascals in France, restore the exiled patriots to their country, and establish the Red Re public.—(Hear, hear.) If Louis Napoleon succeeded in overthrowing the Republic, and placing himself in the Falaces of the Bourbon, still he (Mr. Harney) would not despair of France, for if he allowed the principle of universal suffrage to exist, it would in the end, overthrow him, and as the French nation moved they moved, the nations generally would imitate the example set them, and republics would rise up all over the world.—(Hear.) The Chairman said they ought to have a free trade ii land, but he protested against land being made a question of sale and bargain ; for the land was the property of the people, and ought to be held in trust for them by the Government.—(Hear.) He then referred to the case of the colonies, and said they ought to be allowed to govern themselves. If this were done, the colonies would be improved, and, joining hand in hand with the mother country, they would go down to posterity as one family. Mr. Harney then took a review of the foreign policy of this country, and contended that Lord Palmerston was to blame for sacrificing the honour of this country to treaties which were not in accordance with the wishes or feelings of the people.—(Hear.) Mr. KIDD supported the resolution in an energetic speech ; after which the resolution was put from the chair, and agreed to unanimously. The Chairman then retired, and Mr. M'Grath was appointed to fill the chair for the remainder of the evening. Mr. - CeinKE then moved the second resolution, which was as follows :—" That in order to make effective the demand for the enactment of the People's Charter, it is necessary that the friends of that mea sure should forthwith form themselves into an asso ciation for that purpose ; and that this meeting hereby call-, especially upon the working classes, to adopt the course here directed, as the one most essential to their moral, social, and political elevation." He thought th:y ought to pursue their own course with out running counter to that which was pursued by others. Ile thought that an association which pro posed to give the franchise to four millions of persons deserved the support of all advocates fur an extension of the franchise.—(Hear, hear.) Such was the ob ject of the National Reform Association. Was he then to oppose such an association ? It was this unwise policy on the part of themselves that enabled the Legislature to cheat them out of their rights. Unaided and unsupported they could not carry the Charter. Mr. Clarke then protested against some strong expressions used by Mr. Harney, as to the manner in which the opponents of revolution ought to be treated by the democrats when the latter had the power in their hands, and said that the Republic of France never stood higher in his estimation or in that of the world, than when it decreed the abolition of the punishment of death for political offences. Mr. SrALLwoon seconded the resolution, and after a brief explanation from Mr. Kydd and Mr. Harney in reference to observations made by Mr. Clarke, Mr. BRONTERRE OTRIBN addressed the meeting in an able speech, in the course of which he said that, however they, might differ upon minor points, .the were all agreed in this, that every male adult ough to have a voice in the making of the laws of this country. He would only exclude the man that would exclude him.—(A laugh.) He protested against the key with which Mr. Cobden proposed to open the doors of Parliament, for it could not be pur chased by the poor working men in this country, or by the great body of the people of Ireland. Other speakers having addressed the meeting, the resolution was adopted, and thanks having been voted to the chairman, the meeting separated. CHRIS FMAS PASTIME. 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And, in addition to this mass of original Literature, Music, &c., a beautiful Steel Plate, " Hustle Civility." which would do credit to a much more costly work. The readers of "The Sun" may obtain this wonderful two-pennyworth, by applying to any Bookseller. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 14.—The Sidon steam-frigate has hauled into the stream, trimmed for trial at the measured mile in Stokes' Bay, which will take place to-morrow, wind and weather permitting. Much in terest is felt in the vessel's performance by the service. Mr. Goold, son of Commander Goold, R.N., late of her Majesty's ship Victory, Mr. Mosberry, son of the officer of that name just superannuated from this dock -3 and ; and Mr. Crozier, of Lymington, are appointed " extra" clerks in this dockyard on probation. They will not be established unless qualified at the expira tion of twelve months. The Termagant steam-frigate will make another trial at the measured mile on Wednesday, when it is expected a new screw and a little difference of stowage will improve her speed. We are requested to remind the inhabitants of this port of the necessities of the poor at this inclement season. The Gladiator steam-frigate will convey the nor mail to the coast of Africa. The Raleigh, 50, Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.8., is expected up from the Brazils on a change of wind, as are several other vessels whose terms have expired and reliefs been sent out. The following ships have served the usual period of commission : The Albatross, 12, Commander Farquhar, on the East I..dia station. The Bulldog steam-sloop, Commander Key, on the Mediterranean station. The Columbine, 12, Commander J. C. D. Hay, on he China station. The Geyser steam-sloop, Commander Brown, on the Cape of Good Hope station. The Griffin brigantine, Lieutenant-Commander Thurburn, on the Brazil station. The Herald, 22, Captain Kellet, on the Pacific station. The RAleigh, 50, Captain Charles Hope, on the Brazil station. The Rattlesnake, Captain Stanley, on the New Zealand station. The Ro-amond steam-sloop, Commander Foote, on the Cr.pe of Good Hope station. The Vengeance, 84, Captain Sir H. M. Blackwood, on the Mediterranean station. Wind-E., strong breezes and cloudy weather. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 12.-119 r Majesty's steam-vessel Myrtle arrived on Thursday from Portsmouth, with seamen for the Indefatigable, 50, Captain S:nart. The Myrtle left again on Friday for Portsmouth. Her M tjesty's frigate Constance, 50, was warped to the jetty on Wednesday, and will be taken into dock to ha examined. Preparations are making here for placing 500 tons of coals on board the steam-frigate Terrible, Captain Hope, on her arrival from Portsmouth, for Lisbon. DOCKYARD. The new system of separate payments to the arti sans and labourers commenced to-day at the iron shed, in the presence of Sir John Louis, Admiral- Superintendent, and the principal officers of the yard. All the men, except a portion of the ropemakers and smiths, were paid in twenty minutes—viz., between five minutes to twelve o'clock, and fifteen minutes after that hour. Upwards of sixty artisans, of different branches, were shut out of the yard on Thursday morning for being too late. The bell commences at half-past seven and ceases at twenty minutes to eight, when the gates are closed. Eighteen boys, ordered to be entered as ship wrights' apprentices, were examined by the school master on Monday. On Tuesday an Admiralty order was received to reduce the usual number of eighteen to ten. It is stated that for the next fourteen years two boys are to be entered annually as ropemakers' ap prentices. Six men will shortly be discharged from the Kin terbury Powder-works. _ Spawn off the port on Thursday the new merchant ship Gustave 1., Captain T. Beckman, of and from Antwerp the Ist of January, bound out. The smack William and Jane, Captain Marshall, of Bideford, from Llanelly, with copper for llavre, put in yester day v.ith loss of mast and sails. Wind, easterly ; cold and frosty. APPOINTMENTS. WooLwicu JAN. 14.—Paymaster and Purser— George H. L. Wise (1849) to the Hermes steam sloop, at Woolwich. John Yenning to be Master-Smith at Sheerness Dockyard; John Yenning to be Foreman of Smiths at Pembroke Dockyard ; and Richard Forbes to be Foreman of Smiths at Sheerness Dockyard. Considerable anxiety has existed as to who would be appointed successor to the late Rear-Admiral Sir Francis A. Collier in command of the East Indian and China station, and several officers have been named with the exception of the one who will obtain the command. I t is now all but certain that their Lordships have selected Rear-Admiral Charles John Austen, C. 8., for this important command ; and from the previous services of this gallant officer there is no doubt he will fulfil the duties of the command with honour to the country and credit to himself. Rear- Admiral C. J. Austen was promoted to that rank on the same day as the late Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Collier—the 9th of November, 1846—having been previously a Captain of the 10th of May, 1810. The Enterprise, Captain Collinson, C. 8., when she started from Greenhithe on Saturday morning last, towed by the African steam-vessel, made such pro gress as to be soon out of sight of the Investigator, and brought up in the Nob channel in the afternoon. The Enterprise proceeded on her voyage at nine o'clock A.M. on Sunday, and was towed through the Downs by the African steam-vessel, which cast her off at 4 30 P.M. The Investigator cast off the Monkey and proceeded under canvas, when she rounded the North Foreland and passed the Downs sat five P. M ., th e crews o f b o th vesse l s b e ing in _o went excellent spirits. Mr. Stuart, the Government pilot,w b round with the Enterprise, landed atlle of a_ Deal had i an d has returned to Woolwich. The inhabitants all their flags flying, and salut ed twenty-one rounds as they passed, w t the vessels the shore with w itness their was crowded with specta tors to they aorhrae to take on ereceived gat orders to call at Ply mouth , depar ture. The Enterprise and I w n h v e e r s e ti board thirty tons of p reserved meats and other stores, and are expect ed to be read y to leave that p ort on Friday next. It has been subsequently stated, on good authority, that Lady Franklin was not one of the ladies who visited the vessels at Greenhithe, in company with the Lords of the Admiralty, on Friday last. The llermes steam-sloop, Commander Fishbourre, will be complete and ready for sea by the 31st inst. Tne Niger steam-sloop is not expected to be ready to proceed to Devonport until about the 6th February. Twenty-five more of the operatives in the factory department were discharged on Saturday night last, and twenty-five more have received notice that their services will be dispensed with after Saturday next. PA 'MI A,ME,N TAR Y REFORM. The first metropolitan meeting of the Nntional Charter Association was held last evening, at the Lxidon Tavern, and was most numerously attended. The great room of the tavern was densely crowded, end amongst those on the platform we noticed Messrs. Arnott, Clark, Harney, Kydd, Dixon, Reynolds, M'Grath, Graisby, Stanwood, and other active mem bers of the Chartist Association ; Mr. Feargus O'Con nor, M.P., was called to the chair. Mr. T. CLARK, who officiated as secretary to the meeting, then read the following address : " THE PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE TO THE CHARTISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN. . _ _ " Friends and Brethren,_Weavail ourselves of the opportunity afforded by the first grand metropo litan meeting held under our administration, to afford you some idea of that policy which we intend to adopt for the purpose of imparting vigour to the cause of resuscitating Chartism ; and by this spon taneous readiness on our part to give an account of our stewardship at so early a day after our election to office, as well as by the plans we are about to make known to you, we believe that we are affording the country the best possible proof that .no time has ken wasted in entering seriously, actively, and energetically upon the important duties entrusted to us. " In the first place, we have directed our attention to the propriety of holding several grand metropolitan meetings, at the largest places that can be obtained for such assemblage ; and also in localities the inha bitants of which have not hitherto been much accus tomed to hear anything of Chartism save through the studied, intentional, and unwearied misrepresentation of the principal newspapers of the day. Whether we have commenced our series of great meetings in a fitting place, and a proper neighbourhood, we must leave those who are, acquainted with the London Tavern, and who are aware that it is in the very heart of London, to decide. "In the second place, we are about to promulgate to the country, at an early day, a system for local organization ; and this will be the very first measure to which we propose to direct our attention in the course of the ensuing fortnight. "Thirdly, we have it in contemplation to hire upon lease some large, commodious, and well-suited place of meeting, where weekly assemblages may be held, and where lectures may be delivered; and should it prove difficult to obtain such a place as may be in all respects suitable for the purposes named, we propose to negotiate with a builder for the erection of a Chartist hall, in a spot conveniently central. " Fourthly, we have already deliberated, and shall shortly renew, the discussion upon the propriety of calling a conference to assemble in London, in the middle of the month of March, for the purpose of giving additional vigour to the Chartist movement, and affording the people's real representatives, thus chosen, an opportunity of Proclaiming the require ments and interests, the demands and th e r i g ht s , of the industrious classes, at the same time that the re presentatives of aristocracy, capital, and landed inte rest, are assembled at St. Stephen's. "Fifthly, we purpose to make arrangements for the publication and gratuitous distribution of tracts, written in a plain and calmly argumentative style, so that the wrongs and sufferings of the masses may be expressed at the same time that the remedies may be suggested ; and that the people generally may be well prepared to make a worthy use of those rights and privileges of which it is hoped they will soon become the possessors. " Sixthly, we have resolved to place ourselves in communication with the democrats of Ireland, and solicit their co-operation in the great moral struggle which the unrepresented and enslaved masses in Eng land, Scotland, and Wales, have undertaken against aristocratic tyranny, class-legislation, and oligarchical oppression. Seventhly, we shall appeal to the democrats in the colonies to unite their voices with those of their suffering brothers and sisters in the mother country ; and we shall assure the dwellers in those misgoverned portions of the empire, that they have our warmest sympathies and must give us theirs in return. "Eighthly, we have resolved to call upon the great cities and towns of En ;land and Scotland to adopt immediate measures for the furtherance of the good cause by a vigorous arid energetic, though peaceful, legal, and moral agitation, for the People's Charter. We invite our friends and brethren in those cities and towns to develope as speedily, and as fervidly as possible, all the resources of which local effort is capable, and which neither menace public tranquillity nor violate the law. We recommend large meetings to be called ; and, under suitable arrangements, we propose that deputations from your provisional com mittee should visit those places where their services would be useful. " This i 3 the outline of the policy unanimously adopted by your provisional committee. If the Chartists of the metropolis, and the provinces, will support us, we have no doubt of our ability to carry into execution all the plans just shadowed forth. The result will be to give Chartism such an imposing attitude a 3 it never has assumed before ; and with the middle classes agitatin g for reform on the one hand, and the industrious classes sustaining their own grand, enlightened, and majestic movement on the other, no considerable length of time can elapse ere monopolisers of power and oppressors of all kinds shall be forced to abandon their strongholds, and yield to the voice of justice and the pressure of truth. Signed by the Provisional Committee, " JOHN ARN OTT " G. JULIAN HARNEY " THOMAS CLARK "S. M. KYDD "WILLIAM DIXON " PHILLIP M'GRATH "JAMES GRASSDY u M. REYNOLLS EDMIINDSTALLWOOD. " January 14th, 1850." The CHAIRMAN then rose, and a f ter some prelimi nary observations proceeded to declare that the meeting before him was a proof that if Chartism was struck down to-day, it might remain so for a while, but it would rise up in its might again, when its time came.—(hear, hear.) Yes and Chartism was alive and stirring.—(Hear, b ear .; Sir J. Walmsley declared to his con s ti tuents at Bolton t h e ot h er d ay that he accepted the Ch arter.—( H ear , h ear .) W as that nothing ? In a fortnight from Thursday the show would be open again, and such a contest would be seen as never was witnessed before. Did they suppose that he wa s go i ng to abandon a s i ng l e b ris tl e of the animal to sup port any party , M in i s terial or Protectionist ? No, neither ambition or self would induce him to stand in the way of any relief to those orders.—(H ear , h ear.) He symp athised with the Poles, the Hungarians ' and the Italians, but he felt, as Shaksper e said—"lf England cannot keep back the dog from her door, let her be worried"—(Cheers) —and therefore that Englishmen should be true to themselves first In 1834, he declared that free trade would not do unless the land was thrown open, and he would oppose the Free-traders now, if it had not been that they had turned to the plan of the Chartists for free trade in land. The millowners had not come forward to join the new movement, because they knew th ey ma d e more pr ofit of the pe o pl e ' s l a b our than some la n dl o rd s did.—(Cheers.) He never bef o re felt m ore anx i ous l y on t h e subject of Chartism. His mind was full of thought for them, and Chartism was his night dream—(Cheers) — but then he could see well enough that if the millowner employing 2,000 hands struck off 2s. a week from their wages, it at once made for himself 2001. a week. On Wednesday he met Mr. Cobden at Aylesbury. He did not go there to meet Mr. Cobden, but to see if th e grea t Baron Mu nc h ausen , Mr. Disraeli, would b e th ere .— (Laughter.) On that occasion Mr. Cobd en carr i e 3 a resolution which amounted in effect to un i versa l suffrage.—(Hear, hear.) He(the Ch a i rman ) was well received by the meeting, and p rove d that the views w hi c h h e enunc iated in respect of the conduct of the landlords towards their tenants was appr ec iat e d by his hearers. The object of his life was to make free trade useful to the great body of the people, and what they waned was to bring th e l an d i n t o the retail market.—(Hear.) They would soon have Parliiment opened, and he would tell them w h a t th ey might expect there. Every Minister wished for a cr3 to go to the country. Lord John Russell w ou ld b r i ng in a Bill to extend the suffrage in this country and in Ireland. It would pass the Commons, but the Lords would throw it out, and the extension of the suffrage would be the cry to go to the country with.—(Hear.) He might be asked why he assumed to himself the leadership of the Chartists. He had hi s au th or it y there on parchment . , which was given to him by th e representative of the Chartist body in 1835, and fo' 15 years he had acted as the leader of the Chartists Let him tell them the reason why they did not effect an extension of the suffrage before now. It arose front their own disunion.—(Hear.) The trades and the unions differed, because one man could get 30s. a week, while another could only earn 10s. But if they all worked to , gether they would soon be in a position to earn 3/. a week.