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Company, a nt fuorait, teindertakings belonging to, or purchased by, this Til e „,1 1 _general purposes of the Company. reso d etTnntiFeting Will also be made special to receive, consider,an a d e n i )ci n any nutters contained in a Report required by b, ~„,,e n of the last Half-Yearly General Meeting ( f Proprietors to ti 0 4 co u by the Directors, with respect to the several recommends ,'s. ntalned in the Report of the Consultation Committee, which last . 4 fitted to the said Ralf-Yearly Meeting on the 14th February The Chair Trill be taken at One o'clock precisely. C. RUSSELL, Chairmari. piton- CHAS. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary. Station, April 4, 1850. • • CANTERBURY •SBTTLEMENT. their rams of the First Body of intended Colonists attend daily at " 1 0 ; l A. u , ~etitig A delphi-terrace; from Ten to Five o:clock ; and a clocgthe 13 00 y is held on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Twelve titaien %rangers desirous of communicating personally with gen b tto emi^rate are invited to visit the rooms. IlEt - . LONDON INDISPUTABLE LIFE POLICY COMPANY trpe h „ min -‘,II.PORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT, "e Principle of Mutual Life Assurance, the whole Profits belonging to the Assured. Ito, 72, LOMBARD-S TREET, LONDON. 46,, 4, -, ,,ali nh ., .„,___, TRUSTEES. `,44.4 M ali :. Esq., M.P. I Richard Spooner,Esq l. M.P. Esq., Q.E. I James Fuller Ma d ox, 2,5 q. William Wilberforce, Esq. DIRECTORS. _I VIII -, 1 " 1 Adams, Esq , New Broad-street. 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They fade available in money transactions, their validity not e , may at any b tl i T ir e her 4,,,e Iti_the ease of ordinary Policies. upon the im por t o f ov.3_, Made cer.sitapinor. n. 441 rm„ riltn is• Used as F•tmily Provisions, they relieve 111 A s .uereb -''' XII doubt and ' i t as to the result of Assurance skr e u ' ee g to , this I t ina an p l rOve y ment in thepractice of Life co A sa s: 41encen:e„,, Drogress of this Company has bee , a rapid from the tain pro sp ,' Of Its business and is steadily increasmr• -- ki it ' t 'tuse ' 4 l ie Ports ' a d other infirmation, th e c hief °ince: or n an e y v o c f rs; he Agenciei. may be ob- ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, Manager. b ll Alr t SS CANDLES, 41d. rnd sd. per lb.; 'wx-wik rmd:, 9d., and 9%d. ; ti. 4„ W e , _ Moulds, Gd• ; compos ite , „, „ f i ne was, Is. 101. ; Al '.'lritr e „, Andles, Is.; German wax, is. `"' ' . 4 " , is, S t" WaX. ls. 8d and Is 10d ; best wax, 2s. 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It is, therefore, of importancetha o t f Aar ' ',v , iiieb,"aid be acquainted with the common symptoms h ar e disagreeable odour of the breath, fevered tongue, 4ael it 4 % an d e aviness or languid bluish appearance about the eyes, Ver y . iteh h , Paleness of the lip., especially the upper lip, fre atirj 4feg,d2 . ef the nose, an unequal state of the pulse, t appetite tilesttb er 'illtad the bowels also, pale and ein . alated co o ? o en s an hort , `' t4great ti mes the face will be flushed, griping pat , 11, fre,Z ra t, vomiting, startings during sleep and grinding of aft; l ett ~,aent Pains in the sides, listlessness, and want of in arilijiale o f tre exercise, inflammation of the eyes, &c., &c. These . I t itiC s ,as 'Nu e general symptoms of being afflicted with worms , wiir, h `ae ta rn 'Ol children are subject thereto. Youth or age may t s t . 'e ad , ° , s 2afety have recourse to this old established medicine, "all '- ous ' " e ' Y e numerous families. It is with this view that thi:lll43,,attention of all afflicted persons is directed tb the symp -44414er,..te Nyhich areroduced by worms, and to a trial of Tn" 18 te sti 7lr t e h m ro e u dy gh th a e lo T n a g lu p e of which is corroborated by diegene Th ni Mie eriod of years. - ast 7ay be administered with confidence to children , it s etlitigated adult, without restraint in diet oriconfitnte -I)rotee4!', ion sib ly removing all impurities of the blood, &c., and itr'":si by ih aealt hful vigour to the whole system. t tot k kabser,,,°loas Prout, 229 Strand, London, whose name and ad -4c11,4t d ie v a s the Government stamp, and may be procured la Medicines, at 2s. 9d., and for children at ls. I%d. „h - -------_ - L p •• u - LvERwELL , s NEW, WORKS. wn4 m 'eel ° -e had of Sher woo d, 23, Paternoster-row karTalho, ( hte a t tee t ; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or direct front the `author ; -- ' 4l g each ; by post, Is. 6d. .._ f),,,.. ' TT. ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. t” -, NN - 7 4,1 h, Recreation, and rational Use of Time. F i 0 4 1 ,tb,—Keri . .Y Rising—S ring and Summer Mornings—Ea l''tip':t', F 4 4 ,,"'1e Environs of P London—The Parks, Lanes, Hills, `-, It, - 41 4147,N lligh-roads, and other pleasant places—Country '''tt -, ,, ie-- -TC, bl " —The Sea—London at Night—Evening., at Home ~o, r„.,, - cu r i3 a a m ti a o •= n, o B, n c E ., a a ti e n . g, Drinking, Sleeping, Bathing, Air, Ftt 4 . ' , MIN, 11. 4 v -- 48 FROM TIIE MOUNTAINS. Two Vpls. Is i T To , p 1/1 - LLE LAKES ; METOPE OF EDl.4l4l7tcill, &c. 'Aro Tol. 11. --4 S OF KILLARNEY ; REMINISCENCES OF DUBLIN, &c. Vob"h /71EAV op ia at tt ire . TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID• revi,,: seAD „ re years and ten onr course may run." ye , ghat °I almost every form (cause and cure) of ner ktiosr l , heathand enfeebled constitution, that harasses 11 40 . wilt ° man of pleasure , business, or study, and em ofeye, tables and rules for the diet and phys i ca l rept '''claY life. Iv. 4 W hat THE PASSIONS. " Dassions hurt the body—what improve, ,te'r • ir ta as refined as Athens ever heard." I ,7Nt - Z a Neos''' e , g , Pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The advent • , -nastity and its infringements. The casualties of qaediative" dissiPation, with illustrations, graphic, #arrative, • Advocacy of early marriages. . V. THE MARRIAGE STATE. - To be or not to be, that is the question.* "ill - .lts: thel eA rega rdi „ — Laws and obligations of nature, society, and re tikr' bog marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and Q, te are sides, as to am,e temperament, complexion, and t 't2!etud ef 're healthy offsprlng, with the art of rearing them. tte, "tiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion. (Ii h. 4,l kti t • TNy'LVERAVELL, M.D. (1841). M.R.C.S. ( 1827 ) , L.S.A. 1p entY-tlve years Medical ard Forensic Referee in these ..,:'ll.9ll.lZlltion hours daily till live. Evenings, seven till nine. 0$ tniltrat_,, THIRTY-FIRST EDITION. 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Consultation fee, if by letter, 1,, a ~,,"r detail of the castiis required: age, habits, and posi ‘:shen ---NY. 1 to be had at the Ffta kn. cat only, • Betas ; Nitta/ advice, gee, Y, by Ny ktre v -...5, are• i f r.„., ,hiph the fee, U., is saved. Messrc.. perry, tlaz.V4oisa nn "4. - dobrithed 'daily at 19, Berners-street , Oxford "Me /r 4 l -1 - " I tleven till Tivo• and Five to Eight; on Sun - / 41 1 11 tit 0m Itg ri-p_.,../ , ~, , ...„ ~,„,, .. ~.„.„. p„ ,,,,. til ;1,41,,,' xii,-11 1 - N/ _, fr ...,,, , i i N,.. i A 1 b/ ~~\ ~\~ ~- s. ~~~f~ ~~ ~ .~ ~~ ~~ Nu. 17,965.1 LOS A. DON TUESDAY 3 gr7: v ytla **- TYE . ' 11. 4 APRIL 23, 1850. Colonies were received yesterday at the Colonial- Elizabethan cottage for Sheridan Knowles—such as we knew him ten years ego, when he prudently passed every other glass of port (out of respect of the gout), but was in other respects the most genial soul breathing Shaks perian _alive. Whatever call" the honoured author of Virginius may have had, he may depend on it that none would become his lateit years so well as that of officiating as the high priest at the shrine of Shakspere. For he in fact—in spirit as well as fact—is the true custedier of the relics of Shakspere. No other man that we know of, since Shakspere's time, has more of the spirit of Shakspere in him than Sheridan Knowles.! It is a folly of him to abandon, his duty. He is pointed out by, nature and by his compatriots as the proper Keeper of the Remains. We will not flatter him by saying here (as has often been said to him, in green-rooms and galleries,. during the last five-and twenty years) that ho is Shakspere rediuivus. No ; but we will say, with honest and . heart warm emphasis, that he has about him more of the Shsksperian afflatus than any man we know— that he is indicated by all lovers of Shakspere as the test and most suitable High Priest at the Temple, and, therefore (sickness and sudden calls notwithstanding), we trust that dear old Sheridan will consent t.) do honour to himself and England (net forgetting ould Ireland), by becoming in due time the keeper of the relics of Shales- PUBLICATIONS. office. CHEAP EDITION Ot " JANE ETRE." WILLIAM SHARSPERE. Lust ready, in One Volunie small post Bvo., price 6s. in embossed cloth, the Fourth Edition or T A NE E Y R E. By CURRER BELL, Author of " Shirley," London : Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill. (From the First Number of the Leamington his.) On this day two. hundred-and, eighty years ego, in a humble apartment in a neighbouring town, was born the greatest benefactor to the mind of modern Europe— William Shakspere. It is only fitting, therefore, that the pages cf a War wickshire magazine, commencing existence on this aus picious day, should contain some utterance of gratitude and praise, however feebly and imperfectly expressed, to him who has nut only made the county famous which gave him to the world, but whose life labour,'—more perhaps than any other single circumstance,—has made the country of his birth hallowed ground to all the civilized nations of the earth. For, wherever the light of modern civilization has penetrated, the name of Wil liam Shakspere has been borne, refulgent with the benignant radiance; end a herever, among modern na tions, the human intellect has found noblest utterance, how much of the voice and thought of Shakspere min gles with the strain? Not only in England, America, India, and all the wide scattered colonies wherein men speak the language that Shakspere spoke ; bat throughout thoughtful Germany, quick-feeling France, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, with their sus ceptibilities keen as their icy winters, and warm es their genial summers;—nay, throughout even eghte Spain and Portugal, and mingling with the splendid beabarism of the regions of the Shah, the rell age, tend the Czar, we hear the echoes of Shekspere's voice, and find his thoughts distilling through the hearts and minds of all these nations—civilising, purifying, elevating them all! Nut to speak i t profanely, and with the liveliest recollection of what wo owe to Homer, Mil ton, Chaucer, Dante, and him chute death -day was that of our Shakspere, as his genial genius was ef kindred birth, Cervantes;—not ungrateful to the many -other great, but lesser minds, to whom of late yeere we ewer i so much of elevation and delight—not to speak it prop fanely—to no other book except the Bible are the heart and spirit of man so much indebted as to that which Shakspere wrote. It is the fashion of very distinguished men now-a days to say, that Shalt-spell-4 was a mind, whose gran deur was unseen in his owenend tie immediate succeed ing times; and that, as we must recede from a mountain some considerable distance in order to perceive all its magnitude, so it is only at this distance of time, and with the aid of modern optics that his vastness and grandeur come into full view. A compliment we suspect - , this, to modern powers of vision, rather than to Shaks pere's genius or times! It neaskspere had been so little appreciated, as American Emerson and some score or two of the Poet's editors would have us believe, whence arose the glorious first folio editions of his works—the "tall copies" which book antiquaries are at this moment hunting for all over Eon lend, as for price less gt ms? How is it that three never was a time since Shakepere wrote, but that copies of his works were in &mend, and booksellers were found to bring forth new editions, and hire new commentators ,to wrap-up like royal undertak ers t h e illustrious remains in lead? They say—cur great modern essayists on Shakspere—that he was a man whom Lord Bacon, his contemporary, never mentions in his inventory of the men cf genius of his epoch, that Ben Jonson, though he knew and seine what admired him, uttered at his death merely a sonnet in his praise, par ticular:zing the fact that the dead immortal "had small Latin endless Greek;" and that Sir Hen:y Wotton, who lived during the whole of Shakspere'e manhood, and was familiar, for upwards of twenty years after his death, with all the distinguished men of that brilliant time, never speaks of him the noblest of them all. These great modern essayists farther say, that Cole ridge and Goethe a e the " only critics who haveex pressed oar convictions with anything like adequate fidelity," and that former critics have been quite feeble in ther appreciation of Shakspere. It may be very true that the outburst of modern German literature took place shortly after Losing had introduced, and Wieland and Schlegel had translated, him into that laiaguage,-- end it is doubtless title that none more profeundly than Coleridge—" the rapt one of the god like forehead, the Heaven - eye d creature,"—dived into the mind of Shakspere, brought from its serene depths the glorious gems that sparkle there, and held thern aloft to the common gaze of men. But it is just as great a mistake, in our humble judgment, to ascribe to the present age or to modern writers the full appre ciation of Shakspere's genius, as it was to ascribe tho acknowledgment of the excellence of Milton's " Para dise Lest" to the Saturday papers of Addison in the Spectator. In both cases the effect is taken for the cause, and that cause was the exceeding and acknow ledged excellence of Shakspere and Milton. No, we cannot join in this compliment to our own times, at the expense of all those which have intervened between us and Shakspere. The echo of his voice has been heard —melodiously loud—through all thews ages. True, it sounds louder to our ears at present, because we, the modern listeners, are in the focus of the modern reflec tors of the sound. We hear only or chiefly the voices of our own small circle of thee. But, at any period during the lust century, editions, selections, beauties of Shakapere, have been issued, appropriately prefaced by— At no period of time has the study of Shakspere been so universal as at present: nor is there any circumstance more honourable to the good taste of the public." At all times during the last, reading, century iu England, of Shakspere's book it has been said— " Age cannot wither it; nor custom stale Its infinite variety." And if, during the present volcanic times in literature, editions of Shakspere, by the names of octavo, duode cimo, pocket, diamond, and pearl, follow each other quick, thick and heavy like a thunder shower,"—this is no proof that Shakspere is better appreciated now than he was in the times of Raleigh, Southampton, Addison, Johnsor, Goldsmith, Garrick, any more than the lint that millions of Bibles issue from the press now, for hun dreds that were printed two centuries ego, is any proof that the heart of Eughted is more religious now then then. Alas, no ! What proof indeed—except the ereater demand for his works, arising from the increase in the population returns—is there that Shakspere is more or to much appreciated as of yore ? Are we to find it in the fact that the house ts which ho was born—the Pilgrim Shrine of genius, and of all lovers of genius for two centuries—is at this moment in Pawn ? Are we to discover proof that ( he present enlightened, wealthy age, girlsappreciates en d worships this bright peculiar star of the intellect of England, in the circumstance that after worlds of anxious endeavour on the pert of local and national committees; after feasts, fetes, l ecturer, processions; superhuman efforts of amateur dramatic novelists; a literary Cabinet Minister made one of the custodiers of the immortal relies; Houses of Parliament stirred on the topic; active agitation throughout th e coun t r y, runn y dinners eaten and digested; nay the whole English and P American press roused into paragraphic elequence,—the object to be e ffected, the bu y i ng of a poor little brick house in Stratford -on-Avon, is absolutely not yet achieved? All this enthusiasm and sentiment, all this Parliamentary and alter-dinner eloquence—all this playing of plays by gentlemen dramatists—if all this has realty resulted in our vast, intellectual, wealthy England, in the fact, that, after all, this little brick house where Shakspere was born, cannot be got out of the bands of the mortgagee for the event of four hundred pounds ; if, this is, as it is, the melancholy, pitiful, ridiculous fact, what pretence have we for saying that we reverence and love Shak spere more than our fathers, or that we love or rever ence him at all ? " Such graves as his aro Pilgrim Shrines, Shrines to no code or creed confined ; Th e D e lphian vales, the Palestines, The Meccas of the mind." Yet, excepting the circumstance that two ladies (while the old woman who kept the house was out) stole away a portion of the poet's matnel-piece, and that many royal, noble, literary, :and other notabilities, have cheaply done honour to themselves by recording their names in his visitors' book; and except that the Ameri cans have taken the opportunity of displaying their un fortunate peculiar natio nal vanity by placarding with unknown names—in large letters—the spots in the old whitewashed wall of Shakspere 's house, wh ereon b e t ter known names previously existed—except, in short, for the various methods by. which people speaking the English language have tried to make the house, name, reputation, centrality of Shakspere, subservient in seve ral shapes to their own little personal glory, what proof have we that men really reverence that shrine, or are willing that it should be held in reverence? Well may Sheridan Knowles, in despair and disgust, turn to the highest shrine, seeing how the best earthly one is dese crated and deserted ;—forgetting however that, howso ever robbed of its Easter dues, and unhonoured by the weakhy and the great (by the only honour they have it in their power to give), from the shrine of Shakspere issued more sayings in harmony with the Bible, and ' more truths which have kep t Englishmen (bad us we are) in harmony with the Bible, than ever issued from any other earthly shrine or Prophet of modern centuries. How much we owe to th e Bible for our escape from the perilous experiments of revolutionary France and Germany, acme of us know and acknowledge;—what we owe to Shakspere, as an auxiliary and expounder of the Divine Truth, few acknowledge, and yet (with all deference to those au thorised, expounders of that Truth who seem to deny the beneficent influence of Shakspere in this matter)—we believe that to him too—to his geniality, mora li ty, and piety—is, in no small degree, to be ascribed our escape from the heartless, impious, unsocial dogmas which are deselatieg continental society in our own days. No, we do not believe that Shakspere wa s l ess he neared in his own, or any int ervenin g age, than he is now. Even the cold-eyed Queen Eliztheth,—stilt', stately, and distant as Ale was,—round the icyness of her nature thaw beneath the genial warmth of Shakspere's genius; —she, who honoured few, honoured him. Spite of the spirit of the age which made men think it some sacrifice for a mortal coronetted Lord to associate with the immortal son of a wool-comber, he had men of honour and title among his friends. Now, how is it with our Queen? How with Lord Carlisle and his peers? Let the 4001. mortgage on Shakepere 's birth-ptace reply. Our own belief is that neither Queen Bess nor Lord Southampton would have consented to this national die grace; and would not only have purchased the humble glorious brick-house, but have provided some pleasant PARLOUR LIBRARY—NEW VOLUME. JAMES'S MORLEY. ERNSTEIN; or, the Tenants of the Heart. Also, by the same Author, in this Series, THE GIPSY. I THE ROBBER. ONE IN A THOUSAND. I MARY OF BURGUNDY. Each complete in 1 vol., price Is. in boards, or Is. td. in cloth. Simms and M'lntyre, 13, Paternoster-row, London, and Donegal street, Belfast. Sold by all Booksellers, and at all railway stations. 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Let England and America Lee that he is housed snd honoured us such a trustworthy servant of the world should' be; if he will indeed consent to fulfil this rule which nature has evidently "cast" for him, and which his country men, with the respect and love duo to his honourable and genial nature, desire him to fulfil. This Day is Published, Price One Shilling, • riIHE ART OF FALSE REASONING EMPLIFIED ; in sonic Extracts from the report of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S SPEECH in " The limes" paver of July ith, Lordon : Effingham Wilson, 11, Royal Exchange, and Oliver, 59, Pall-mail. SUSPECTED MURDER BY POISONING. Towards the end of last week reports were current in Edinburgh and Leith of another murder having been committed near this city, which have been strengthened by the epprerenSion of a man, - reeiding in Stead's. place, Leith-walk, and the disinterment of his wiii, who was buried two days before. From the gradual manner in which the various circumstances have transpired, and from the closeness of all precog nitions and examinations in reference to the matter, in which respect the law cf Scotland denies the full and authentic information which in England is made patent to the public, it is somewhat difficult to ascer tain and authenticate every particular, but we believe the following statement may be considered accurate: — On Friday week the wife of William Benson, a moulder in Shotts Iron Foundry, Leith-walk, whO resided in one of the old houses in Stead's-place, a little' below Springfield, was taken suddenly and seriously ill, and continued on Saturday and Sun day to retch violently and suffer severe pain. On Monday last the poor woman died, and was buried On Wednesday in ROsebank Cemetery ; but at this time the cause of her illness was not •suspected, and great sympathy was shown with the husband, who expressed much happiness that his wife had died in the full consolation of religion and confidence of a happy transition to the world above.• But by a fatality which seems to mark out all who die out of nature's course; two dogs catering for food entered the house of deceased, and shortly after died, appa rei.tly of poison, having in all probability partaken of poisoned victuals in the house; or of what the unfortu nate woman had voided in her vomiting. One of the dogs was the faithful companion of an old mendicantdeprived of both legs, and who for above a quarter of a century, has been seldom known to be absent from his accustomed spot near the middle of Leith-walk, where, in a little car, he is wont to sit pa tiently all day long, being duly drawn home by his ca nine friend as evening approaches. During the long period that this old man has been known to the passers-by, he has, it is said, had but two doge, and his last companion has attended him for a con siderable number of years. The other dog be longed•to a merchant in the neighbourhood. The death of these animals gradually excited the most painful suspicions and further investigation seemed to warrant the apprehension of the husband of the deceased, who on Friday was lodged in the Calton Gaol, after an examination, in which we understand, he admitted having 'purchOed a quantity of arsenic about three weeks ago from an apothecary in: Leith, for the destruction of rats. The body of the deceased was the same day disinterred, and the stomach examined, when it was found to con tain some arsenic, which unquestionably had been the cause of her sufferings and death. William Benson, whose behaviour was usually re tiring, if not forbidding, has generally borne a good character, and both he and his unfortunate wife were members of the Wesleyan Methodict Society, and attended the congregation of that body at the foot of Leith-walk. According to the testi mony, of a neighbour, be was never done praying and singing, but the piety and integrity of his con duct have recently been rendered questionable by injurious reports of his having paid undue atten tion to another female. It is also somewhat strange that rats, for which Benson alleges having bought the poison, have rarely if ever been seen in the building in which he resided. Whether any circumstances of weightier moment conspire against him we cannot tell; but assuredly nothing that has yet publicly transpired can be held as conclusive of the ques tion as to how and by whom the fatal poison was ad ministered. The deceased was about 40 years of age, and of quiet behaviour. She had but one child, a girl six years of age, who, even at that tender age, was em ployed beside her father in some trifling work about the foundry. A precognition of parties having knowledge of the circumstances took place on Saturday, and a searching investigation is being made into the case by the proper authorities.— Caledonian Mercury. REYNOLDS'S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER. Oit—the sth of May will be isisted, price enceOhe FirEt Number of REYNOLDS'S WEEKLY NE SPAPER Conducted by GEORGE W. M. REYNOLDS, Author of "'The Mysteries of London," " The Mysteries of the Court of London," " Faust," " Tim Days of Hogarth," " The Coral Island," " The Bronze Statue," Ste. &c. " The political sentiments of Iteynoldsis Weekly Newspaper will be thoroughly democratic while: as an organ of general intelligence it will yield to none in the copiousness, of its news, the interest of its miscellaneous matter, and the variety of its information. It will therefore prove not only a staunch, fearless, and uncompro mising friend of popular principles, but likewise a complete and faithful chronicle of all domestic, foreign, and colonial events of in terest or value. The assistance of some of the most eminent democratic miters of the day has been ensured : and the services of able correspondents have been retained in Dublin, Paris, Madrid, erlin, Vienna, Turin, Rome, Athens, Constantinople, New York. &c. OBSERVE I PRICE FOIJRPENCE. Published for the Proprietor, by John Dicks, at "Reynolds's Mis cellsny" Office, 7, Wellington-street North, Strand. 'V , Orders will be received by all news-agents, and by all the venders of Mr. Reynolds's periodicals, in town and country. STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA. Just publisked, price Is., by post free, 4e. in addition, AFEW WORDS on PERIN/EAL SECTION as recommended ay Proiassor Syme, for the Cure of Stricture of the Urethra, and on Mr. Wade's recent Remarks thereon. • By F. E. COURTENAY, P u blished by 11. itailliere, Regent-street. Alto lately, by the same Author, pricg 55., The PATHOLOGY and RATIONAL TREATMENT of STRIC TURE of the URETHRA. With Important observations on the We and Abuse of Instruments. CANTERBURY SETTLEMENT. A Committee of the Canterbury Association sits daily at One o'clock, and will be happy to communicate personally with ap plicants for information, who may prefer this mode of inquiry to reading the Canterbury Papers, ›OS. 1 and 2, published by Parker, %Vest Strand, price 6d. each. • By order of the Committee of Management, IL F. ALSTON, Office of the Canterbury Association, 41, Charing-cross, April 20. 1850. EYEBROWS MUSTACHIOS, - and WHISKERS produced in a few weeks, and Baldness removed and prevented, by the use of G R S T.O N E'S AROMATIC REGEYERATOR. If you are in want of that beautiful adornment of the human flgare, a natural supply of human hair, obtain through the post, or of any wholesale or retail chemi st or druggist, or perfumer, an 11 s. 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 whom it is li.ghly 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 Orlmstone, Merchant, Herbary, Highgate, and will be found at page 11, unSer the copy of Mrs. Weekly's Letter to the Editor of the " Times" newspaper, 7th of August, 1846. This pamphlet is forwarded through the post, on 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 128., which in cludes the postage with the case. The 1 ls. size contains four of the 45. A few of its many vittues, as thousands can purr', are published in the pamphlet enclosed with each bottle.- Reader, reflect for a few minutes, and if you are el years of age you will remember the thou - sands of blind you m t 'th in your walks, others with various coloured eye-sh Rs ; , s as 'the demand - for 'qv:Shade% twat moved those sightless beings, and given place to a straightforward, clear-sighted people (the climate is the same) ? tell you the cause —the nniversal use of Grimstone's Eye Snuff ! and because it cured Ophthalmia, Gutta Serena, Cataract, Nervous Heatlach, 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 Grimstone, bearing date 18th February, 1525. This was on account of its curative qualities, being sold at that time ht canis ters, within the reach of' every poor family. But under this order of Government it is obliged to be stamped. GRIMSTONII'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. 6d., 3s. 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. H. Boutell, Professor of Galvanism:— " Southsea, near Portsmouth, Hants, sth Nov., 1848. " Ma. W. GamsTorm.—Sir—l must in justice to you send the fol lowing Testimonial with regard to the extraordinary efficacy of your Eye Satiff in cases of Gutta Seren'a. I have used it in five cases with the most astonishing benefit and cure. Sir, you may advertise this 1 ! or make what use you please. The cures have wholly astonished me and thousands of others—"l a U m. Sir, Ike., G. U. BOTELL, 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 much esteemed in all foreign parts. Tne following letter, in testimony of its delightful qualities, is from the author of the " Pleasures of Home:"— "Springfield Cottage, Honiton, Devon, 15th August, 1848. " Sir,—l cannot deny myself the pleasure of stating how highly I esteem your Herb Tobacco.. I have now found in it a substitute for the choice leaf, hitherto obtained by me from a friend in Constanti nople. lam sure that lovers of mild, fragrant Tobacco would find yours a great and acceptable gift, at a very reasonable price. " I am your obedient servant, " STUART FARQUHARSON, D.C.L. CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCRIP. TUBE READERS' ASSOCIATION. Yesterday afternoon the annual meeting of the subscribers to this association was held at the Ha nover-square Rooms, the Lord Bishop of Lichfield in the chair, supported by several distinguished ministers of the Established Church, the Earl of Harrowby, Mr. Cowper, :M.P., Mr. Villiers, M P., and other gentlemen. The chairman addressed the meeting at some length in commenting upon the utility of the society's operations. The progress made by them during the past year had been extremely gratifying, the opera tions having been greatly extended and the funds having increased. Two similar societies had been set on foot in North and South Staffordshire under his own auspices, and these also gave every reason to believe in their rapid extension and success. The report stated that the embarrassment under which the society laboured last year had been in a greet degree removed, and the committee, to prevent similar ones in future, had determined to re quire a small contribution from each district to which the scripture readers were sent. They had been obliged to withdraw nine readers from one district, but they had afterwards the means of placing them in other localities. The present income from funded property was 5,0001., leaving 2,5001. annually to be made up from various sources. The 97 scripture readers now engaged by the society had, during the year, made 355,284 visits, 200.280 to members of the Church of England, 23,850 to Roman Catholics, 34,840 to Dissenters, and 96,314 to persons who fre quented no place of worship at all. The returns of the rounds made by one single reader in a year showed that in 1,831 hours occupied he had made 3,869 visits. The result of his labours was, that 216 infants were sent to be bap tized' and also 7 adults ; 106 children went to Sun day schools, also 22 adults ; 29 persons were induced to attend at church, 22 to become communicants, 24 were confirmed, and 24 persons living in a state of sin were induced to marry. The readers had during the prevalence of the cholera seen 1,468 cases of the disease, 712 of which proved fatal, and a few of their number were attacked with great severity, but all of them recovered. The receipts for the year, including a former balance, amounted to 8,072 1 . 19s. Bd., and the expenditure had nearly equalled the am ou nt, a small balance of only 2361 . remaining . Upon the motion of Mr. J. Labouchere this report was re ceived and adopted, and a committee appointed for the ensuing year. Other gentlemen then addressed the meeting in support of various resolutions in ac cordance with its object, and the proceedings ter minated after a vote of thanks to the Right Rev. Chairman. . " To Mr. William Grimstone, Herbary, Highgate," This extensively-famed Tobacco is sold by all chemists and drug gists, and others, with W. Gemstone's signature attached, at 714 d., la. l lid. 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. each. Including the Government stamp, [ADvErvrtsEmENT.]—An Ulcerated Arm cured by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—Mr. Robert Gregg, jun., of Clinkeeland, Clowes, Ireland, was sorely afflicted with a severe gathering in his armpit, and which discharged very copiously for nearly three years ; another wound also broke out in his shoulder. His father felt alarmed, having consulted the most eminent surgeons to no purpose, while his son continued to was te away. At this juncture a friend advised a trial of Hol loway's Pills and Ointment, which was made, and in six weeks they perfectly cured him. He is now getting fat and hale, the sinews are restored to their wonted pliability and no discolors. lion i s v i s ible.—Sold by all Druggists and Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. ST. IVES.—THE EtsuEr.r.—The ,boisterous state cf the weather during the past week has hindered the fishermen trom going to sea. Three boats shot on Monday night; one took 300 fish; another lost eighteen nets; and the third was obliged to go to Newquay or St. Agnes. It would be an act of charity towards the poor, unfortunate fishermen, it any of our coasting vessels which may fall in with these lost nets, would take them on board, and on arriving in punt, publish hem in the Shipping Gazette, without asking - salvage, as `some gave clk)ne,—Cornwall Gazette. , . •• 4 41 V t ,; t , ,7''- • " ,/ e ITALY 44 -4vl l, ~,.' t'7l+: „/"-OX-1. 3p \,'C• • .', . li-. - , ,,;?,•;;. 1 " .1 1 ; t 4 IFdq,_ ___---,,,,,....„...-„.„. ..,,,,,, /, , - . Cs 'd '' —4;1! -'. - 1 ,25.. , ,)' '-' r" : " . r,f , , :?.;:',1,-;,4" .4.-,• ... ....,. :•-,•:,, it4 4 ' . .44 i,p, , ',' , ‘ , .1,,,,, v ,.. .Ths: ); b • 1 - '-:!.t'2' . . --• ".AA, "," '' I ,- . ‘,.*:,% . Accounts h vs been receive( gM 13th. The city was quit® tram . --., , i at the Vatican. / i i ,4.:;4i . t..,,4,4.,,,. , ~ 4 _ . , i .„ --- :-;.- ): 7 (;.--,, k ..ei f ,,1N . .1 1 , , ,- v, v 4 t\ ..., R. , -. (..../ 3.• ...,...,..V,...v•5i.., ' ' •.t 1 ~,, r I' -' . fr: P r . 4 l --- , Ki-- I %'''9--. i s ',A .1 ',„..----=.:,s -: ' .t,7„...- '''. , / .1 , ~,._,, -t . 4 . 7 The King of NAPLES has gin ~ --z r<,..,7 ( A2 , —%,.. 1,0-4 n, , I, ' r - 142 . 1trs ;-•:'C..: , ,!1. --- ,-,/_!:__\_. . ;`,- 4 , -, d:P - -.._.iik-m - 4111P i N /4: . ' • .-., „ ii ,... 4 _____.,, .›- 44..: *,. 4t; ,4 „ . --- „. -.,-, , , -''..„- NAN.. rocrress of all Swiss commerci P tz, ,u ---,„*.... ? ,A . „ .. ,........-_,,,A, 1 ...-4 , -...kaLar..41,,,, , - V, ;;;\-„ ..,......,..._... '- --t.,:. the Neapolitan states, and to. [PRICE SD. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the . Paris journals of yesterday. The PRESIDENT of the Republic and his Minis ters feel severely the check which they have received in the National Assembly on the Transportation and they are more especially annoyed at it, because it was inflicted on them by M. ODILON BARROT, as sisted by the Legitimatists. It is now discovered that there is no truth in the story of the Roman-like heroism said to have 3+een exhibited by M. LECLERC at the barricades in June, 1848. It is true he had his son shot by his side, but the rest of the story is a fabrication. Nevertheless, M. LECLERC will most probably be re turned for Paris, inasmuch as, being a moderate Re publican, he is supported by General CAVAIGNAC and his party from principle, while he is supported by the Legitimatists from spite and to keep out FERDINAND For, the Orleanist, and is accepted by the Orleanists and Bonapartiste as "a pis alley. Nevertheless his success, should he succeed, cannot be taken as an in dication of the popularity of the reactionaries. lie is a Republican, and will owe a large number of the votes which be may poll to that fact ; the Cavaignacists, fur instance, who will poll for M. LECLERC as against 111. EUGENE SUE would, had the original .candidatures been persevered in, have polled for M. Deromr (de l'Eure) as against M. FERDINAND FOY. That divisions exist in the reac tionary camp of a nature so irreconcileable as to preclude all chance of the restoration of monarchy in France, and thus to consolidate the Republic by ren dering it an inevitable necessity is evident from an article which appears iu the Journal des Debats, in which the hatred to the Republic of those who have sworn to serve it is naively admitted, while at the same time the utter impotence of that - hatred is candidly aclenowleged. " Ask (says this journal) each party in turn to sacri fice the klepublic, and they will do so with the greatest re•adiness, provided that the sacrifice turn to their own adVantage. , If, however, his neighbour he the party to profit by it, then he opposes all notion of the kind with all his might, and for sake of preventing him from reaching power, he employs an energy that fails him for his own proper Accous,t." The Debate then goes on to say— " ;Since tteni the Repu'elic becomts necessary because of our mutual jealousies, we beg to ask our friends of tl'e Orleanist party, of tlio Legitimatise party, and of the Bon.:aparttst` party, what is to be done? What is to be done if you belitive with great reason that the actual organization of the Republic compromises the safety of seenly—what, unless to give to this inevitable Republic inztitutions capable of defending and preserving society, arid of accommodating it to the nature of our civiliza tion? What,' some of our allies will reply, and if we do give Conservative institutions to the Republic, do we not prevent the advent of what we hope?' There may be truth in the objection, but we tell the enlightened men of the party, if they have made up their minds not to du anything in aid of the present, lest they should co , npromise the future, that their resolution to do nothing amounts to a resolution to perish, and to make us perish with them." The old Orleanist predilections of the ci devant organ of M. Guizor break out towards the con clt,sion of the article in a selemen warning to the Legitimatists, who are reminded that-7- ••• For eighteen years they laboured to overthrow the constitutional monarchy of July, thinking that by K. doing they would bring back legitimacy, instead of which they have now got the Republic. Let them take care lest, by now working to prevent the establishment of a Conservative Republic, they are not working against society itself I As their first effort produced the Re public, so their second may produce socialism. They are, indeed, powerful to do what they do not desire to see done." , d from Rome to the quil The Pore was ven orders to stop the ial travellers through _ expel all and admit none, for whom the Swiss Consul refused to give caution. announced that Cardinal DUPONT has been definitively appointed Ambassador from the French Republic to the Holy See. The 25th Regiment of the Line is about to leave the garrison of Paris. The Presse says, within the last fifteen days eleven privates of that regiment have been transported to Africa fur holding democratic opinions. The National states that the corps of Sapeurs Pompiers (firemen) of Paris are to be disbanded, in consequence of their Republican opinions. M. L' MILK OLIVIA, former Commissary of the Provisional Government, and subsequently Prefect of the Bunches du Rhone and of the Haute Marue, was tried before the assize court of Draguignan on the 13th instant, for having opened a political club without permission. He was acquitted by the jury. PARIS BOURSE, Aram 22.—Latest prices.—Five per Cents., 89f. 20c. ; Three per Cents. 55f. 50c. ; Bank of France, 2,115. f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE THE COUNTRY The following is the official state] corn, &c., received in the port of Esisex, from the 14th April, 1850, both inclusive : MARKETS. went of the quantities of London from the ports in , to the 20th April, kV, - 4.3 • ai r g • 4 7 :7, 271 O ' 4 F=4 --- - - Colchester ll7 Harwich Leigh ......... ••• .. 240 90 66 Matclon CHELMSFORD; Aram 19.—Prices to-day were as follow: — Wheat, white, old 35s to 425; new 35s to 435; red, old 34s to 37s ; new, 34s to 37s ; barley, 22s to 24s ; chevalier 23s to 25s ; grinding 20s to 22s ; oats 15s to 20s ; malt 53s to 55s ; chevalier 54s to 56s ; peas, partridge, new 23s to 255; old, —s to —s ; white, new, 24s to 261 ; old, —s to ; dun, new, 22s to 24s ; beans, tick, new 21s to 24s ; old, 22s to 25s ; harrow ticks. new 22s to 25s ; old 23s to 265; ma zagan, new 20s to 22s ; old 21s to 23s per qr. COLCHESTER, APRIL 20.—Wheat, white 40s to 445; red 341 to 38s ; barley 22s to 24s ; beans, mazagan 21s to 22s ; middle and small 22s to 24s ; peas 21s to 24s per qr. HADDINGTON; APRIL 19.—The following are the prices of grain at our market to-day:— Wheat. Barley. Oats. Bean?. First 38s 6d 24s Od 19s 6d 26s Cd Second ... 36s 3d 22s 5d 17s 10d 24s 5d Third ... 33s Od 18s Od 16s 6d 22s Cd Total quantity of Wheat in market 657 qrs., 632 sold Do. Barley do. 255 qrs., 234 sold Do. Oats do. 354 qrs., 354 sold Do. Beans do. 127 qrs., 120 sold KIREALDF, APRIL 20.—The following are the quotations up to this date: — Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. I Pea , . First 40s Od 22s Od 20s Od —3 Od I—3 Od 19s Od 18s 6d —s Od j --s Od 16s 6d_ 14s 61 . —s Od I-s 01 Second 38s Od Third 32s Od Oatmeal, per bag of 2801bs imperial, 24s to Os Od. GLASGOW, APRIL 17.—Provisions—Cheese, OOs to 00s Od per cwt • retail, Od to Od per lb. Skim milk , Os Od to Os p er cwt. &nary fresh butter, lid to Od per lb. Jrish pow dered, in lumps, 9d to Od; country powdered, wholesale, Sid to 9id. Country eggs, 9d per dozen ; carried hen ditto, 4s 10d per 20, or 8d per dozen. Hens, 3s 6d per pair; Ducks, 2s 6d. STIRLING, APRIL 19.—Wheat, foreign, 20s to 23s ; ditto, home, Os to Os; ditto ditto new, 17s Od to 19s Od; barley, per boll of 6 bushels, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto new, 12s 6d to 1850 d. Oats, common, OOs Od to Os Od ; ditto new, 9s 6d to its 3d; ditto, Flemish, Os Od to Os Od; ditto ditto new, Os Od; malt, distillers, 32s Od to 34s ; c itto brewers, 35s Od to 36s ; beans per boll, Os 6d to Os Od ; ditto new, Ils Od to 13s 6d ; pease 15s to 00s; flour, new per sack, 31s 6d to 32s 6d; ditto common ditto, 20s Od to 22s 6d; oatmeal, per load, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto new 23s 3d to 25s 6cl; ditto per peck of 71bs, 7d to 8d ; fresh butter per lb, Od to Od; eggs per dozen, Od to Od ; hay per ton, Os to Os. KELSO, APRIL 19.—Wheat, old, Os to Os ; ditto, new, 24s to 27s Od ; barley, new, Os to Os Od ; ditto old, Os to Os ; potato oats, 00s to 00s ; ditto new, Cos to 13s Od ; common oats Of:s to COs Od; ditto new, 00 to 00s Od ; peas, Os Od to COs Od; beans, 101 to ON per boll of six imperial bushels. PERTH, APRIL '4'o.—Wheat, 34s Od to 38s Od; barley, 17s Od to 193 Od ; oats, 14s to 16s ; peas and beans, 20s Od to 24s per quarter. Oatmeal, per sack, 22s to 245. HAwtcx, APRIL 18.—Wheat, new, 25s to 29s Od; barley, new, 15s to 17s Od ; ditto old, 005 to 00s ; potato oats, 12s Od to 16e Cd ; common oats, lls to 15s Od ; peas, 20s Cd to 23s Od; beans, 19s Od to 22s Od per boll of six imperial bushels. Bilasorcx, APRIL 18.—Wheat, 33s Sid ; barley, 18s 11id ; oats, 13s bid ; rye, COI Od ; beans, 20s 3id ; peas, 22s 8d average per imperial quarter. FA L KIRK, APRIL 18.--The supply of grain in this day's market was 5'9 bolls; wheat at 17s Od to 18s 3d per bell. ; barley, 15s Od to 185 Od ; oats, lOs 6d to 13s Od; beans, 13s Ott Ito lbs Cd per boll ; oatmeal, 06 to Oi per load. COAL MARKET.-YESTERDAL Bate's West Hartley... 14s OdiFfetton BroonthillHartley lis 6d,Haswell l7s 9d Davison'sWestElartley 14s 6d Creswell ... East Adairs 12s 9dlLambton Holywell North Percy Hartley.. 14s Od!Scarborough .. 15s 9d New Tanfield l3s Gd Russell's Iletton Ord's Redheugh Ravensworth'sW.Hart 15s Od,Whitwell ... lss 6d Tanfield Moor .. Tanfield Moor Butes l3s 0.1 Cassop 16s 6d Walker's Primrose ... 13s Odbenisen .. West llartley Wylam Wall's End, &c. I Heselden ..... ... Brown's ... l4; Od Eelloe l6l 6(1 Bewicke and Co. Bell and Brown ...... ~. 15s 6d; South Hartlepool Gibson Gosforth‘ ..... Hedley Barton Hotspur Morrison lss 3d Northumberland Original Gibsou Percy....• l4s 3d Walker . Eden Main Lambton Primrose Bell Belmont l6s 3d Braddyll Maclean's Tees l4s 6d Seymour Tees South Durham lss ed Tees ... . . is Birchg. Graigola ...... 20s 01 , Hartley Der wentwaterHartley 14s 6d Howard's W. H. Neth. 14s 6d Sidney's Hartley. Gwendreath Stone Ships at market, 375. RAILWAY' SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL. APRIL 2L &wax EXCHANGE.—The market was firm to-day, but le sales were principally confined to the Great NV estern ine. The only transactions were—Great Western, 53—Ditto, ;quarters, 13 3.l6—Ditto, 171. Shares, VA dis.—Taff Vale LNew), I,s P: LIVERPOOL, APRIL 22, Szoca Excir4f , for,., The trausactions to-day—wero, as follow :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Consol., Preferenc, —Ditto, Fifths (West Riding Uniou), 91.- Is. 3d.—CaledOnian, Preference, s , 4—Great Western, 52 LA-.Ditto, 171. Shares, 8 dis.—London and North-Western, - 102:4 1 1 , —Ditto, New Quar ters' I%—Ditto, Fifths, 33 1 ,x—Ditto, Halves, 27 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 13A—Ditto Conol. (No 3), 13c9 —Ditto (No. 4). Registered, 4% — York, Nolldastle, and Berwick (Original N. and B), G. E. Purchase, 6 per cent. till 1850, 71. 35. 9d. dis. M.ANCEIESTER, Aram 22. STOCK EXCHANOE.—Though the market has not exhi bited at the close so firm a character as was maintained on Saturday, yet, upon the whole, a fair amount of business has been done. The transactions were as follow :—East Anglian, Preference, I—Eastern Counties, Perpet. 5 percent, (No. 1), 7 1 A --Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 104 dis. -- Ditto ( West Riding Union) ; 9 3-16—London and North- Western, New' Quarters, 1% dis.—Ditto, Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (C), p.—South-Eastern and Dover, 13% —Ditto (No. 3), 13 1 % Ditto, Thirds (No. 4), 4 1 1 3 North Staffordshire, 10 5-16 dis.—Whitehaven and Fur ness, 54. BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 22. STOCK EXCHANGE.— There was little variation to-day from the quotations of yesterday. The market was quiet, but, although little was done, prices remained comparatively firm. Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston were done at 73 x4 dis.—North btaffordshire, at 10 dis.—South Staffordshire, at 4% dis. YORK, APRIL 20. - , STOOK ExcwANGE.—The transactions to-day were as fol. low :—North British (guaranteed 6 per cent. for five years, and 5 per cent. in perpetuity), 4%—lireat Northern, 6% — York and North . Mitlland, 14%. REPORTED SAFETY OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. (From the Aberdeen Banner.) The following extract from a letter, just come to hand, canna fail to be read, at the present moment, with profound interest. We merely give the intel ligence as it has reached uF, without drawing any conclusion from it. The circumstances, are, how ever, we repeat, deeply interesting. The letter is from Captain Sawyere, in command of the British ship Lord Hardinge, to his father, Mr. Sawyers, the collector of the Customs. in this city, it is dated " Whampoa (China) 23d February, 1850," and says :—" California has been all the rage at Hong-Kong, lately, and the day before yes terday a vessel arrived from thence (namely, from California), with news of four hundred vessels there, entirely deserted. One had chalked upon her side, Gone to the diggings for a month.' She brought news also of Sir John Franklin. I have seen no par ticulars yet in the papers. One of the officers of the expedition had reached the Sandwich Islands, and' reported it (namely, the expedition) being in safety." Mr. Sawyers has communicated the above particulars to the Admiralty. We have also been favoured with a copy of the Current, published at Tictofirfc China, on - the 26th February, 1850, where we find the following:— " A gentleman from Mazatlan, and formerly con nected with an independent yacht expedition from England, informs us that the British Consul at Ma zatland told him that Sir John Franklin had been discovered by an English expedition on the Atlantic passage, in Prince Regent's Inlet, where Ile had been frozen in nearly four years. The weather during the greater part of that period had been un usually cold, even for that high latitude; while that of the past year has been, on the contrary, warmer than usual. On this account, the expedition referred to has been able, it is said, to penetrate the icy barrier, and rescue the unfortunate adventurers. The gen tleman who gave us the information is of the highest respectability ; and the facts be gave us were related with such a degree of caution, and so evident a desire to avoid all exaggeration, that we are induced, in the absence of other information, to regard them as pro bably accurate. However this may be, the report at least gives room to hope that this heroic navigator and his companions have escaped the dreadful fate which it has been so long feared that they bad en countered." TO THE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT WHO WERE TOO LATE TO VOTE FOR LORD DUNCAN'S MOTION FOR THE REPEAL OF ME WINDOW TAX. The Chancellor of the Exchequer having to revise his Budget with regard to the stamp euties on Thursday next, it will be competent for any Member who bas not voted for ii,indow duties to move that he tikes into his consideration the propriety of amending his Budget— that the window duties be repealed by the sanction and vote of the Commons ' for which the population of all England cry aloud, and have petitioned for until they are weary therecf. If the strong cord of taxation be forced beyond its power it may snap when little expected. By the abolition of this inhuman tax the people will be eatisfied. Its continuance will cause all who support it to be held as the bitter enemies of her Majesty's sub jects (particularly the poor and invalided, who feel it most).—Your obedient servant, ANTI-WINDOW-TAX. Exet2r, April 22, 1850. Y.S. Many of your readers bore and throughout England will feel obliged by your insertion of this letter to call the Members of Parliament (seven years' Mem bers) to their duty. Were Parliaments to be annual, one-half of the Rouse of Commons would give way to better men nest year. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert took a drive yes terday afternoon in an open carriage and four. The Equerries in Waiting, Lord • Charles Fitzroy and Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Seymour, attended on horseback. Her Majesty also walked yesterday in the garden of Buckinghitm Palace. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode' out on horseback yesterday morning, attended by Lieut.- Colonel F. H. Seymour. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, the Princess Helena, and the Princess Louise, took their accustomed exercise yesterday in the gardens of Buckingham Palace. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent dined with her Majesty yesterday evening at Buckingham Palace. Her Royal Highness's Lady in Waiting (Lady Anna Maria Dawson), and Baroness de Speth, had also the honour of joining the royal dinner circle last evening. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal High ness the Duchess of Kent yesterday. The Count and Countess de Neuilly also paid a visit to the Royal Duchess yesterday, at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's. The Building Committee of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 met yesterday in the New Palace of Westminster. There were present Mr. Cubitt, Mr. Barry, Mr. R. Stephenson, Mr. C. Cockerell, Mr. Brunel, and Mr. T. Donaldson. Mr. Scott Russell, Secretary , to the Royal Commission, was in attendance. Mr. M. Dighy Wyatt was also present. A deputation from the Rochdale Savings' Bank, consisting of Messrs. Holt, Livsey, Barrow, Tatter sall, and Roberts, accompanied by Mr. Wilson Patten, M.P., Mr. William Brown, M.P., Mr. Sharman Crawford, M.P., and Mr. Bright, M.P., had an inter view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Satur day, at his official residence in Downing-street. Lord Wharncliffe had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office. A deputation, consisting of the Earl of Harrowby, Lord Ashley, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and Sir Edward Buxton, had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Re'venue, had an interview yesterday with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer." - Disptuches from the Governors of the West India EONI.ION ziTOCK:I4.I-Xe ii4l..N GE, Arun, 22. Boulogne and Amiens, 6 1 4, East Indian, .5 1 .—Great Peninsula, IN—Namur and Liege, 6—Paris and Or leans, 2S—Paris and Rouen, 197' 8 —Paris and Strasbourg, 5% SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 17th have arrived. The Paris mentions la report that the PRESIDENT of the French Republic had demanded in marriage an Infanta of Spain, the sister of the KING-CONSORT. Senor IsTuniTz is, it is said, preparing to proceed to London. Some sensation was produced in Madrid by the publication in the Clamor Public() of a letter ad•- dressed by the Emperor of RUSSIA to the Count of MONTEMOLIN, which that journal had received from a Carlisc source—a letter which, amongst other things, recommended patience, as an abortive move ment in Spain would delay the plans which are abbut to be laid down with a view of restoring legitimacy in every.part of Europe. Mannw 13oLsA, Aram 17.—Three per Cents., 29 15-16 for account ; Five per Cents., 134 paper. Exchange on London, 50 40. GERMANY. The People's Chamber of the Erfurth Parliament completed the revision of the Constitution on the 19th, and the . President congratulated the Members on the successful issue of their labours. The Prussian Staats Anzeiger of the 19th says, Major-General - Von BotUN has received the following Cabinet order : " By these presents I appoint you Commandant of Berlin, and enjoin you to repair immediately to your new post. " You are at the same time to acquaint all the Frill , - sign officers in service in Schleswig-tiolstein, or on fur lough there till the Ist of October next, with my orderi, that they immediately resign that service, and return to their respective garrisons. (Signed) " FREDERICK WILLIAM. (COUUttrsigaed) "VON STOCKIIAUSEN. " Charlottenburg, April 11,1850. " To General Von Bonin, at Kiel." Tice Breslau Gazette says that Austria seriously believes it to be possible to induce Denmark to enter with all its states into the German Confederation, and that the Danish and Austrian fleet would . form part of the German navy. The Duke of AUGUSTEN BURG would be excluded front the throne of the two duchies. It is said that the Austrian Ministry has prepared the new Constitution for the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom. DENIVIARK. na , His t C OPENH AGEN, APRIL 17.—The Russian Ambas sador at this Court is 'sa id to have delivered a p r i va t e ow th n eat h r a e nd st th M a d 3is d g done letter A j o o eneral surprise, la as be has n not tt i s ayt,esci n the v very Ki G she y his nccession t o t h e t h rone. NcErss into Te e: sincet tNot This was in honour of the Crown Prince of SWEDEN, whose reception at this Court is most flattering. On landing at Eisineur the PRINCE was received by the Hereditary Prince FERDINAND and several distinguished persons attached to the Court, the civil, military, and municipal authorities , who ° tiered their con g r a t u l a ti ons . Kjobenhavns Posten is of opinion that General Vox WILLISEN and the Stadtholdership have acted without any secret con currence on the part of the Prussian Government, and recalls the fact of General WRANGEL'S refusal to acknowledge the first amnesty. SCHLES WIG-HOLSTEIN. ALTONA, APRIL 18.—General VON WILLISEN left this far ]iendsburg to-day, probably -to inspect the garrison of that place. The Stadthalterschaft of the Duchies of Schles wig-Holstein has nominated Baron VON DER HORST, formerly colonel in the Prussian service, major general of the army. GREECE. It is rumoured that letters have been received from blalta that Baron GROS had given up the attempt at i arranging the differences between England and Greece, and that Sir W. PARKER had declared his intention of resuming coercive measures unless the demands of England were complied with. These reports, however, stand in need of c onfirmation, as the, truth is denied by those who ere generally con sidered well informed on that subject. That Russia has been intriguing both in Paris and London, as well as at Athens, to render the mission f Baron Gros abortive, and to implicate the question, there can be no dcula', but that these intrigues have been sue cessiul we have yet to learn. ILLNESS OF RUGGIERO SETTIMO. We regret to learn that the venerable RUGGIERO SErrisso, who was the President of the Sicilian Go vernment during the year of Sicilian liberty, 1848-9, is suffering from severe illness at Malta, and is not likely to recover. FATAL ACCIDENT TO MR. ORRIDGE, GOVERNOR OF CARLISLE Orridge went on Saturday last to Laithes Hall, near Penrith, on a visit; he retired to bed about eleven o'clock. It would appear that about three o clock in the morning he left his room. The morning was beginning to break, and a glimmering light from a window misled him from the right turning to the staircase, and stumbling against the balustrade, which is very low, he lost his balance and fell over into the hail beneath, a height of about sixteen feet. Groans were heard, and on Mr. Parkin going down stairs he found his unfortunate friend lying on the flags of the hall, quite insensible and bleeding. He lingered till Wednesday evening, when death put an end to his sufferings. Lie was perfectly sensible for sometime before his death, and recollected distinctly leaving his bedroom and coming in contact with the balustrade, but all the rest was a blank.—• Carlisle Patriot. AN EMIGRANT STOWED AWAY IN SALT. ---At the Liverpool 'Police• court, on Thursday, Andrew Dunn was charged with having defrauded Patrick Cain of 21, Th e complainant, a young Irishman, was about to emigrate to the United States, and, having fallen in with the prisoner, paid him 21. on account of his passage money,'as he supposed. When he was about to sail in one of the Tapscott's vessels, in company with a number of his countrymen, be demanded back the 21. ; but the prisoner was either unable or unwil hug to refund, and recommended Patrick to stow himself away in the vessel. The youth took the advice ;he literally packed himself in the salt, in which he made small breathing holes, and there ho was discovered and given into the cus, tody of a police officer. _ lie was almost suffocated when he was found, and looked as though he had been dragged through a pond. The prisoner declared that the 21. was a voluntary loan, and that he would have paid it on Saturday next, if the complainant would have stopped. This he would not do, and stowed himself away without • his (priso ner's) advice or knowledge. The prisoner was remanded.— Liverpool Mercury. PROSPECT OF A CRor OF ,Faurr.—Never, we should think, did the pear treesblessam more abundantly than they do in the present season ; and the apple trees, too, give pro mise that they will soon be covered with bloom. Should the crop of fruit be proportionate to the blossom, there is no doubt but it will be abundant; and the check which the weather has recently giveh to tbe'trees is considered rather favourable to the crop of fruit than otherwise. The blossom, having come Late, is considered safe.— Hereford Times. BRITANNIA-BRIDGB.—Some little- life • has" been exhibited here during the last week, orders having been given for'a gradual increase of the sailors' gang, which had. dwindled so low that only the oldest hands, those who have been from the first floating of the Conway tubes, have been kept on, and these have lately been working as excavators. Last week, however, Captain Claxton and Mr. L. Clark were for some hours consulting with the foreman at the site of the first tube, and it is reported that the westernmost tube (that which is to be next floated), and which is by more than two hundred yards farther from the bridge piers than either of the others, is to be moved, towards the end of Maw, to the site of the one so successfully transported in June last year. By this means it will not only be two hundred yards nearer its destination, but it will be placed where it will be ready, when the tides suit, for a repetition of exactly the same plans adopted and car ried through on the occasion alluded to. It happens, also, that the highest end is at present the nearest to the bridge, and that end belongs to the middle, or Britannia pier, whereas the lowest end appertains to the Anglesea side ; the tube, therefore, when moved in May, will be turned round in the Menai, probably a more imposing and beautiful operation than even that of floating to its destination. The tides for placing it on the proper benches will not suit until the second week in June; those in May will, it is supposed, be quite high enough for the first and more beautiful operation. It is said that Mr. Edwin Clark will join Captain Claxton in the ensuing week, and that Mr. Stephenson himself is coming round in his new yacht, so there is but little doubt that Bangor and Beaumaris, and all the inns of the Welsh northern tour, will, as last season, again swarm with visitors to this interesting locality. THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OF PORTSMOUTH.--.. At an entertainment given last week by the commander-in chief of the south-western district to the railway empolyes, Major-General Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, in one of his speeches, referring to the improvements which had recently been made at Portsmouth, and the strictures on his conduct by alocal paper, said—" It is a curious circumstance, prior to my being honoured with the command of this district, the first time I walked upon Southsea-common was with his late Majesty, when he commanded the fleet in 1814; the common was then a wilderness—l am speaking of five-and thirty years ago—l recollect it was then covered with grass furze, and shingle. His Majesty said, ' What a shame that the Government does not ptace it in a condition to instruct young soldiers and sailors, who are always ready to defend your lives when called upon.' It is a curious fact that I should be the individual (with the help of the inhabitants), after such a lapse of time, to put his Majesty's idea into practice. In that I have merely done my duty, because it will not only be beneficial for the health of the inhabitants, but' also for the instruction of the troops. I know I have faults—l am aware of them, and being aware of them, shall study to avoid them in future; but fortunately for me I live in a country where a public in dividual, if he does wrong, is likely to be called to account for it. Thank God we have a press, and he who lives in a glass house is sure to be made amenable to its powers. I know the press, the free press, to be a special benefit to the land, and I love the liberties that press insures to Englishu:sn, but I cannot acknowledge the justness of the remarks that have been so frequently made of late in a certain portion of that press. If Ido wrong lam liable to censure ; but when Ido right, then do I demand justice. I love the press, but I have been pressed where I have not deserved it. My beet intentions have been misrepresented, and my most beneficial acts perverted in their character before the public. 1 have said before, I love the press, but it is a weapon which should only be used as the sword of justice. and not the shield of licen tiousness. Like a good child who dreads the rod, I bow to the press, but claim its justice."—Portsmouth Times. DISCOVERY OF A VALUABLE PAIN original portrait of Charles the First, supposed to have been lest during the Commonwealth, when, to prevent the dis covery of the portrait, it was reduced in size by cutting it, is said to have been found in Barnstaple. The portrait was painted by Vandyck in 1640, when the King was 40 years of age, one year betore the painter died. The painting just dis , covered had for many years been thrown about as valueless, and was so black that it was difficult to perceive what it re presented, and the frame was so rotten that it broke away as it hung. For the last ten years it was in the possession of Mr. Ward, at the Seven Stars, Anchor-lane, and when he left the house and sold off Mr. W. Lewis, furniture-broker, Silver street, bought it and took it home. It was thrown about for a long time under a heap of rubbish ; at last it was picked up, ordered to be scrubbed, and hung up in his ware-rooms to dry. Several people passed and repassed, who 'asked the price, but thought they would consider the anatter ; at last a Mr: Taylor bought it for 2s. ; within a week he was offered 20/. Mr. Taylor, however, thinking that it must be a valu able painting, took it to the National Gallery to know if there was such a painting missing, and had an answer there was ; he returned to Barnstaple with it, and has been offered as much as 2,0001. for it; but declines parting with it for that sum. GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION, REGENT-STREET.- The highly popular diorama, illustrating the overland route to India, has been attended during the past week with crowded and fashionable audiences. The inilowing distin guished parties have honoured the exhibition with their presence :-The Marquis of Anglesea and Lord Paget, Mar quis of Douro, Earl of Carlisle and party, Countess of Charlemont and party, Lord Bateman, Lord Kilmaine, Lady Seaton, Lady Exmouth, Lady Seymour, Lady Listowell, Lady Graham, Lady Ashburton, Lady Sutherland, Lady Brabazon, Lady Courtney and party, Lady Somerville, Lady Ashburnham, Lady Anderson, Lady Clerk, honourable Miss Talbot, Sir J. Hamilton, Sir Thomas and Lady Leonard, Sir Minto Farquhar, Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Admiral Collier, Admiral Dundas, Captain Scott, Major-General Caulfield, Colonel Bagnold, Colonel Wyatt, Captain and Mrs. Fremantle, Captain Frere, Major Edwardes, the Rev. the Dean of Chichester, &c. METROPOLITAN COMMISSION OF SEWERS..,---An account of the receipt and expenditure of the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers for 1849 has just been published. The receipts amounted to 71,623/. 13s. 10d., the items composing this total being 55,105!. 3s. from rates, 13,5181. 105. 10d. from contributions, &c., and 3,0001. from loans. The pay 'Rents were as follows :-For works, 50,3091.45. ld. ; surveys, &c., 8,3391. 19s. 10d.; manag emen t, 2 2,40 0 1. 1 7 s. sd . ; l oans, 4,014/. 12s. Bd. ; contingencies, 2801. 9s. 6d. ' • making a total of 85,3451 . 35. 6d. The c as h i n h an d a t the commencement of the year 1849 was 22,956/. 3s. 7d.; at the end of the year it was 9,2341. 13s. Ild. The total amount paid for contracts commenced and completed for general works during the year was 40,6061. ss. 4d., being 10,573/. Ils. 5d., for sewers, 5,577/. Os. 6d. for openings (side entrances, air shafts, gullies, private drains and flaps), 3,956/. 115. sd. for repairs to sewers, gullies, &c., 18,595/. 18s. Iod., for cleansing, including flushing, casting, and lifting, 1,460/. 2s. 9d. for incidental works, and 4521. lls. sd. for paving and gravelling rclaid. An additional sum of 2,318/. 14s. 11d. was expended under contracts for special works, being 1001. for incidental works, and 2.218/. 14s. 11d. for sewers. The total amount of monies owing to the Commis sioners on account of uncollected rates is 56,1711. 12s. 11d. The debts owing by the Commissioners amount to .1(0,7381. ls. Id., viz., 65,787/. for loans, 465/. 14s. for epecial contracts,and 44,485/. 7s. Id. for tradesmen's bills an d other obliga tions not under special contracts. BLIND LAW-MAKING.-The Rev. Mr. Frost, ad dressing a Yorkshire meeting on the defitcibenascybeofnnteheevofaTdteehdne Hours' Bill, said-" The war in wh ich forcibly reminded him of AmericanAmericanjst°r7; cle States pawed an Act that no dog should g o a t large without a muzzle, and a man was bro il ,ht up for infringing the sta mthsehoudiedfenb- e animal tute. In defence he alleged th at h ‘ ° is_dog had a m uzz l e . ' How is that?' quoth the justt ic w e: nerette uzee ' (said dant), the Act says nothing o placed, and as I though t th e would like the fresh air, I put the muzzle on his tail.' Or perhaps the working of the Ten Hours' Sill would be better illustrated by a G erman anecdote. The b ur g omaster of a German t own , ow i ng t o the frequency of robberies in consequence of the darkness of the streets, issued an edict that no person should go out at night without a lantern. A delinquent was charged with infringing the statute. He pleaded that he bad a lantern, but as the order said nothing of a candle, he had not used one . The order was amended and a candle directed; but the same offender again got off, because be pleaded that he had a lantern and a candle, and as he was not ordered to light it he had not done so. So at last the order was finally amended, and it was directed that every man should have a lantern containing a candle, and that candle lighted. Now, the Declaratory Act of. Lord Ashley provided for the lantern and the candle, and required that the candle should also be lighted."--Lirerpoo/ Chronicle. A new description of robbery hts lately been executed on a grand scale in Paris :-A fashionably-dressed young man has visited artists who make portraits by the daguerrotype, and caused his portrait to be taken, for which he aptly paid; he afterwards asked for a frame or for some other article which required the artist to leave the room, and during his absence he took out of the daguerrotype in strument the glass called the verre oljectij; the value of which varies from 501. to 801.- Gulignani. GARMENT WITHOUT A SEAM,-A weaver in Man chester has invented a machine by which trousers, or even coats, may be woven complete in one piece, requiring not s t. +h WIICM 9. e WedlC.wgeockPort Aiercury. efa T Cg • ether 3 OA lid cut ;CODS leg3l ;liCUi d acre; t thB ND ,