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6 s,AIS scor l4 tof' re , r i res~c , sbi):,l mide gee. len" L A . --Ox-f Qr w ho ar t ' of ce mt. Lctio u 6 either ,bolYi n i, entail ected bsr• d deb ill. per Dot. Lo from " 4 ts.'` " retv , i.c tee 49. s "' -OP t o '4llC° n' l ir'' 'FAMINE in IRELAND and SCOTLAND.— A PUBLIC MEETING will be held in the Large Room, EXETER HALL, at Eleven for Twelve o'clock on THURSDAY, February 4, which will be address:.d by Deputations from Ireland and Scotland. This Meeting is convened by the Committee appointed at the recent Conference of Clergymen awl Dissenting Ministers held at Exeter Hall. The movement is entirely misectarian, as will appear from the following list of gentlemen who are expected to address the Meeting : lion. and Rev. Baptist Noel I Rev. A. King, Dublin Rev. Dr. Mc. Leal, Glasgow Rev. J. Treshsdl itev. Dr. Urwick, Dublin Rev. Edward Thompson Rev. Dr. Lcifehlld I Sir E. N. Buxton, Bart. Rev. W. Chalmers C. Cochrane, Esq. Rev. N. Shepherd, Sligo Hon. S. G. sborna SAMUEL GURNEY, Esq., will Preside. Rev. G. II Stoddart, A • sl "} lion. Secretaries. Rev. J. R. Baiter, A.M„ AR letters and communications to be addressed to No. 21, Cam bridge-terrace, Hyde-park, or 40, Leicester-square. 11 .11.---1 typographical error having occurred in some of the tickets as to the hour of meeting, all persons desirous of being Present are requested to notice that the chic will be taken at twelve o'clock precisely. CONTRACTS ft,r WHITE COTTON' DRILL, BUTTONS, and THREAD. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport Services, Somerset-place, 30th Jan., 1847. The Commissioners far executing the Office of turd High Admiral the United. Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do hereby give notice, thaton TRUIISDA.T, the 13th Feb. next, at One o'clock, they Will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and delivering into her 3lajesty's Victuallin Stens at Deptford the undermentioned Articles, viz.:— WHITE COTTON DRILL. for Seamen's Shirts...—. 100,000 yards WHITE METAL FOUR-HOLE BUTTONS .. •• 2,412 ►ross BEST PATENT WHITE LINEN THREAD •••• .. 1,400 10s. Half of each to be delivered by the 18th May, and the remainder by the 30th June next. Samples of the Articles and the Conditions of the Contracts may be seen at the said Office. No Tender will be received after One o'clock on the Day of Treaty, nor any noticed, unless the party at tends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every Tender mast be addresed to the Secretary of the Aduil raltS, and bear in the left-hand corner the words "Tender for ' " and must also be delivered at Somer4et-place, accompanied by a Letter signed by Two respensible Persons, engaging to become bound With the Person Tendering, in the sum of 2W. per cent. on the ♦alue, for the due performance of the CoAtracts. STEAM via the CAPE to MADRAS, CAL CUTTA, PENANG, SINGAPORE, and HONG-KONG. Calling at the CAPE, MAURITIUS and CEYLON. to T (eis Pe ninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company intend he pateh their Steam Ships. "POTTINGER " ef 1,400 Tone, 500 horse power, Feb. 16. The acco mmodation for passengers is of a very superior descrip tion.. The Cabin fitti ngs, together with bedding, linen, and every sa g e are provide.' at the Comp an y' s ex p ense , Th e r a t e s of pas sage are, to the Cape, 601.; to the Mauritius, 751. ; t.f Calcutta, 841., including a handsome to le, wines &c., awl every expense. For plans and further particular's, apply at the Company's 0210414 51, St, Mary Axe, London. ROrRYOAFTEAs7 E;tosirlETNEitei,llNN:s I cN r j a n i d W othe; Explosive Compounds, with brilliant Experiments, LECTURED on SY Dr.. ll .l4,Nolaily at Half past Three o'clock; and on the Evening! of'Motulays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. The principle of the T2lllOllB EL rCTRO-MAGNETIC TELE • GRAPHS explained daily by Professor BACIIHOFFN ER, including the Patent of Messrs. Cook and Wheatstone, in use on the railways, and the more recent Patent of Messrs. Nott and Gamble ; the various .Ilodols explained. Magnified Specimens of DISEASED POTATOES, exhibited by the OXYHYDROGEN" MICROSf7OPE, with tha DE STRUCTIVE INSECT, supposed by A. Smee, Esq , r.R.S., to be the cause of the disease. A beautiful Series of Nk.W DISSOLVING VIEWS. The DIVING-BELL and DIVER, with Experirnente. The PHTSIOSCOPE, new CHROMATROPE, &c . . &o. Admission is. Sehools, half-price. - BEARD'S COLOURED PHOTuGRAPIIIC PORTRAI 18. At 34, Parliament-street, Westminster; 85, Ring William-street, City ; and the Royal Polytechnic Institution, Regent-street. _ " A great improvement has been effected by the patentee. The al hod of colouring renders the portraits agreeable and life-like."— James. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, 26 CORNIIILL, LONDON, Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. This Institution embraces impertant and substantial advantages With respect to Life Assurances an 4 DeLrred Annuities. The assured bas, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for e ture of the Policy, two-thirds of the eremiums paid (sae Table) ; iso the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in erests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rate% DIVISION OF PROFITS. The remarkable success and Increasing proverlty of the Seciety has enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a ieurt'a bonus, varying from 3,5 to 85 per cent, on the premiums paid on each Policy effected on the Profit scale. Premium. EXAMPLES, Pen= I BMUS is aided. Cash. . y ip a. g frig Assured 3 Eay o ra r v . q, £ x d. 183714217 15 1 1 .£100 11k16 0 4.5445 0 0 1 , 138' 192 3 0 g 7 1 4. 13 10 2! 395 11 1 1000 3 41'439 105 11 10' 74 1 9 11 31i 346 2 3 11840 116 7 6 54 010 716 10 1 296 13 4 118411 111 6 8, 49 10 0, 710 4 247 4 5 The division of profits iR aanaal, sad the next will be madp in December of the present year. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX. Secretary. ARGUS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 39, THROGMORTON-STREET, BANK. EMPOWERED BY SPECIAL ACT OF PARLIAMENT. THOMAS FARNCOMB, Esq., Alderman, Chairman. WILLIAM LEAF, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. Blobard E. Arden, Rig. John Humphery Esq., Alderman William Banbury, Esq. M.P. Edward Bates, Esq. Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman. Thomas Cs.mplin, Esq. oremialt Esq. James Clift, Esq. Lewis Pocock, Esq. Rupert Ingleby, Esq. Prirsiclaw—Dr. Jeaffl'eson, 2 Finsbury-square. Scaueofi—W. Coulson, Esq., 2, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. CONSULTING Acycist—Professor Hall, of King's College. LOW RATES OF PREMIUM. Persons Assuring in this Office have the benefit of the Lowest rates of Premium which is compatible with the safety of the Assured, and which is. in effect, equivalent to an Annual Bonus; they have ikewise the security of a large subscribed capital—an Assurance lqulstotAaagly a Quarter of a Million—and an Annual Income of 0 u roitteo rohcies 10.6140004 -arigdng from the issue-oLlmstweeu 5,090 and C,OO. ANNVAL PRNMIUM T• ASSURE ZlOO. Age. 20 £0 17 3 30 1 1 3 40 1 5 0 50 1 14 1 00 3 2 4 For Ono Year. 1 For Seven Years. 1 Wholo Term. £0 19 1 1 2 7 1 6 9 1 19 10 3 7 0 XI 11 10 2 0 7 2 14 10 4 0 11 6 0 10 One-half of the " Whole Term" Premium may remain on credit for seven years, or one-third of tha Premium may remain for life as a debt upon the policy at 5 per cent., or may be paid off at any time without notice. Policies assigned as a security to others, will not be rendered void 4. consltt equence of death hy suicide, duelling, or by the hands of ins "no case of death by the above causes, where the Policies are siZned, the gross amount of Premiums received will be returned. •-lanns paid in ono month after proofs have been furnished. The Medical Officers attend daily at a Quarter before Two o'Clock, end Policies Issued the same day. EDWARD BATES, Resident Director. A liberal Commission to Solicitors and Agents. 1 E BENEVOLENT INSTITUTE for the TREATSIENT and CURE ofsT of the -44 u a 11 DISEASES of the GENITO-URINARYRICTURE ORGANS.URETHRA, This Surgeon, F. B.COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.L. Institute founded, awl partly supported by subscriptions, and theme under the supervision of a Commie tee of Subscribers, offers to -A-I)vr e tuvrions classes, IN ALL CASES, THE GRATUITOUS edi of an able and experienced Surgeon, and, in some cases, and „nes also free of expense. The guarantees for uniform, humane, hoped, treatment, which such an Institut! affords, will, sand th ti ; )l '.., induce the afflicted humbler classes to seek its aid, ereby avoid the waste of pecuniary means, and the risk to lite Y are sure to incur, by app'ying for surgical, or medical, relief to ignorant and unprincipled quacks, and nostrum- Vendors. Applicants for relict must apply at the Surgery adjoining the S urgeon's private residence, 2, Chandos-street, Cavendish-square. CHESTER AND lIOLYHEAD RAILWAY J HALF-YEARLY ORDINARY MEETING. The 'Half-yearly Ordinary Meeting of the Shareholders of this ,Company will be held at the Company's Offices. 61, Moorgate-str ee t, London, on WEDNESDAY, the 10th day of February next, at one o'clock precisely. SPECIAL MEETING. • And 'no:ice is hereby given, that an Extraordinary:or Special Oeneral Meeting of the Shareholders of this Company will be held at the Compan3's Offices, 61, Moorgate-street, London, on the said Wednesday, the 10th day of February, next, at Half-past One o'Clock Precisely, to approve of the Bill to be submitted to Parliament in the en suing session, for extending the Line of the Chester and Holyhead ~, a tivray at Chester, and Holyhead respectively—for authorising cer ;VII alterati ons i n the l eve l s o f th e s aid railway, and for empowering ,g e Company to subscribe towards the construction of a Harbour at " 461 Yhend and to purchase, hire, and use Steam-boats. And also to app rove o f a 8111 to be submitt e d to Parliament in the ensuin g session for making a Railway from Mold, in the county of Flint, to join the Chester and Holyhead Railway in the parish of II rallies, in the same county, with branches, to be called " The 410 -d Railway." The Register of Transfers will be closed from the 31st of January an after the meeting. By order, GEORGE KING, Secretary. 61 . Moorgate-street, London, January 6, 1347. BORDEAUX, TOULOUSE, and CETTE RAILWAY COMPANY. (Ezpcleta's Company.) ,The Shareholders of this Company are requested to meet, pursuant adjournment, St the London Tavern, Bishopsgate.street, on TIIL'B.9DAY next, the 4th inst., at llalf-past one o'clock precisely, to r c. ec ei're the Report o f the Committee), appoMted at the Meeting of S hareholders on the lath ult. DAVID SALOMONS, Chairman of the English Board of Directors. C. T. BEKE, Secretary. r - , etnbard•street, Fob. Ist, 1847. THE PERFECT SUBSTITUTE for SILVER, The high estimate formed by the public during the twelve dears WILLIAM S. BURTON'S (late nrrros and BURTON'S) lehemically purified material has been before it (made into every Ittsetcul and ornamental article usually made in silver, possessing, as existence charaeteristic purity and durab lily of silver), has called dntc the deleterious compocnds of " Albata Plate," " Berlin r i l tat:ion. odfotherse called substitutes ; they are at best but bad the genuine articles manufactured, and sold only by him. Table Spoons and Forks, full eta, per Pa F t i t td rn le Threaded King's 5.. 04 0 c l: Tl i s . .. dozen.. 12. • Pattern. Pattern, Dessert ditto and ditto ditto-..... ditt0...... 10.: Od. 28*. 01. 30s. Od, lid. °(l. 2 12 . 1: . • Od. thL Tea ditto and ditto, Gravy ditto •••• • • • . • NICKEL ELECTRO-PLATED. —Th e REAL NICKEL SILVER , Introduced and made only by WILLIAM S. BURTON (late RIPPON and BURTON'S) when plated by the patent process of kessrs. Elkington and Co.,i beyond all comparison the very best article, next to sterling silver , that can be employed as Such eith er bsefully or ornamentally. In the lengthened and increasing popu larity of the material itself, and the high character of the method of plating, the public) have a guarantee that the articles sold by NY. Et. liarton (and by him only) aro, as it regards wear, immeasurably s uperior to what son be supplied at any other house, while by no Possible test can they Fiddle. Thread. King s. be distinguished from real silver. . , .. 325. •• 3fts. _Tea Spoons, per dozen •••• • • • • kiessert Forks - I". 46e. 58 ~ . ... I) Mut Spoons •9 • • • 3 3p N g .. : •. 02 . : : 62: .• .•• • • • Table Forks . .... 40s. • • Gis• • • 75, • Table SpOeng :;;;Tea o g u and coffee -ets, waiters, candlesticks, & c., at proportionate .--ces. All kinds of ' re-plating done by the patent process, I.)etalled es e nt (Per with engravings, as well as of every ironmongery article, v... Post) free. wILLIA34 S. BURTON (late RIPPON and BURTON'S) Stock Zogrperal Furnishing Ironmongery is literally the co larg rre es et t do the its .„,nd as no language can be employed to give a u 2 . . . . . ___ell ' 4 l : s a l e t rt Y e a:d ls e , :tent, purchasers are invited to ca nd Inspect It 'ts• ' v xfbrd-street (corner of Newmau-street). Established a in AN INFALLIBLE HAIR DYE. lI O WLANDS' MELACOMIA, the most suc coml. .cess liquid preparation ever known in this or anyotlnr and eyei,rrY for d tiil yeing the hair of the head, whiskers, mustachios, 8e,69,vs a natu ra l an d permanen t b rown or bl ac k, so exactly re n p r n .' 111 2 the natural colour of the hair as to defy detection. It is , etl Y innocent in its natur e , is fr ee f rom unp l easan t smell, and , e ;ee used by any lady or gentleman with the greatest ease an d rati o c 3% Its effects are so permanent,:that neither water nor perspi ,,_ n will influence them ; and it is entirely free from those properties L' 4 nel in hair dyes) which give an unnatural red or purple tint to the '1"- Price 5 I tO t or th WLANDS ODOITTO ; or, Pearl Dentifrice, a white powder di._ . e teeth, compounded of the choicest and most recherche teeth, isof the Oriental herbal. It eradicates tartar from the teeth, iam_ ve s spots of incipient decay, polishes and preserves the enamel, merts_the most pure and pearl-like whiteness, and gives sweetness ...li'enuthe to the breath. Price 2a 'id. per box. L e r ici d by the Proprietors, A. Rowland and *en, 20, Hatton-garden, 914 641(1 by Ohezdsto and Perfluner e of Mr, apside-• Id three , King's r ld. in Alowing ns-yards Is. 2Md. 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TO MASTERS OF COLLEGES, SCHOOLS, &c. &c. M ESSRS. LONGMAN arid C.' OS' ANNUAL CATALOGUE of COLLEGE and SCHOOL BOQRS and EDUCITIONAL WORKS, for 1847, containing about Three Hun dred New and Established Works in all branched of Scholastic Literature., may be had tiratis of all Booksellers in Town and Country ; - or a Copy will be forwarded, free of postage, on application to Messrs Longman and Co., 39, Paternoster row, London. NEW WORK BY TILE AUTIIOR OF THE " NOVITIATE." Now ready, in 1 vol. post Svo., price 9s. cloth, THE JESUIT in the FAMIL - Y. A Tale. By ANDREW STEINMETZ. Author of " The Novitiate," or the Jesuit in Training, bein; a Year's Residence among the English Jesuits." London : Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhlll. HERALDRY, FAMILY HISTORY. Eec. THE PATRICIAN, price 2s. 6d., edited by Jorm BURKE, Esq., Author of "The Peerage," devotes a couslierable portion of its space to the subjects of Ilersldry, Gene alogy, and Historical Biography. Among the numerous articles that have already appeared, we may refer to the following :-- I. HERALDRY ; its History and Regulations—ll. FRAGMENTS of Family History—lll. The GENEALOGIST ; being a description of all the Public and Private Records elucidating Family History, with Lists of the Herald's Visitations—Dr. PRECEDENCE; fu Laws and Customs. E. Clairton, Library, 26, Holles-street. Now ready, IORNER'S HISTORY OF ROME; compiled • from acceited modern English and Foreign authorities ; and printed uniformly with CORNER'S HISTORICAL WORKS, for School and Family Reading, forming a complete Bistory of every Nation in Europe. Bound with Without Tho Historic, of the Questions. Questions. England and Wales ; live fine plates and map 48. 35. 6.1. Ireland ; three fine plates and map • • .. 3s. •• 2e. Gd. Scotland; three fine plates and map .. 3s. .. • • 25. 6d. France.; three fine plates and maps .. 3s. • • .. 2s. Gd. Spain and Portugal ; three fine plates and map 3a. • • .. 21. 6d. 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To show how these truthful Histories are appreciated, It may be mentioned that 8,000 England, 25,000 Ireland, 5,000 Scotland, 6,000 France, and 4,000 Spaia and Portugal, have beet, sold. CHARLES BUTLER'S EASY GUIDE TO GEOGRAPHY and USE of the GLOBES. With Seven Glyphographic Maps, 2s. cloth. THE GUIDE TO USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, by the same Author. Second Edition, enlarged, Is. 6d. cloth. London: Dean and Co., Threadneedle-street; and may be ob tained, by order, of all Booksellers. ON THE CONCEALED CAUSE THAT PREYS ON THE HEALTH AND SHORTENS ME DURATION OF HUMAN LIFE. ILLUSTRATED WITH COLOURED REGRATINGO, Just Published, in a Sealed Envelope, price 2s. 6d., or free by post, 3s. 6d. CONTROUL OF PASSIONS : a Popular Inquiry into the Concealed Cause of its premature Decline, with instructions for its Complete Restoration. Addressed to those suffering from the destructive consequences of excessive indulgence, terminating in Mental and Nervous Debility, Local or Constitutional Weakness, Indigestion, and Consumption. Including a comprehen sive Dissertation on MARRIAGE, Incontinence, an•.i Celibacy. Illustrated with Coloured *ngravings, explanatory of the various Cases, Ori. By C. J. LUCAS and Co.. Consulting Surgeons, No. CO, Newman street, Oxford-street, London. _ _ _ Published by the authors ; Hannay and co., 63. Oxford-street ; Noble, 114, Chancery-lane; G. Mansell, 115, Fleet-street; H. Wlnhal, 78, High-street, Birmingham; H. Whitmore, 119, 31arket street, Manchester; J. Howell, b 4, Church-street, Liverpool; W. and H. Robinson, 11, Grecns'de street, Edinburgh ; I. IY. Powell, 10, Westmoreland-street, Dublin ; and sold by Brittain, 11, Pater uoster-row ; J. Gordon, 116, Leadenhail-street ; and all Booksellers " The best of all friends is the professional friend, and in no shape can he be consulted with greater safety and secrecy than in " Lucas on Manly Health."—The blew Bell's Weekly Messenger. Persons desirous of obtaining the above work, and not wishing to apply to a bookseller for the same, may, to insure secrecy, have It direct from the Authors, by enclosing as. 6d., or Postage Stamps. The security of happiiies's In the Marriage state is the chief anxiety of all ; but many dread entering upon wedded union, through a secret fear of unfitness for the discharge of matrimonial obligations. This essay is most particularly addressed to all suffering under a despondency of the eharacter allude 4 to ; and advice will be found calculated to cheer the drooping heart, and point the way to renovated health. Messrs. Lucas and Co. are to Le consnited from Ten till Two, and from Five till Eight in the evening, at their residence, No. GO, Newman-street, °icorl-street, London, and country patients may be successfidly treated, en minutely describing their case, and enclos ing the usual fee of IT, for advice. B RITISH COLLEGE of HEALTH, New-road, London. The principles of the HYGELAN THEORY are contained in the following resolutions:- 1. The vital principle is contained In the blood. 2. Everything is the body is derived front the blood. 3. All constitutions are radically the same. 4. All diseases arise from the impurity of the blood ; or, in other words, from acrimonious humours lodged in the body. 5. This humour, which degenerutes the blood, has three sources— the ny;:ernine, the contagious, and the personal. 6. Disease and pain have the same origin, and may, therefore, be considered synonymous terms. 7. Purgation by proper vegetable purgatives is the only effectual mode of eradicating disease. 8. Experience of upwards of 20 years has amply proved " ]o rison's Vegetable Universal Medicines" to be such proper vegetable purgatives. 9. From the 'filth:late connection subsisting between the mind and body, the health of the one must conduce to the serenity of the other. Hygeism—The science of health. Ilygelst—A promoter of health. Hygeian —Pertaining to the science of health. These terms have not been adopted through an affectation of sin gularity, but merely for the sake of drawing a sufficiently* broad line of demarkation between the old and new schools. Read the " Morisoniana." B RITISH. COLLEGE of HEALVII, New-. road, London. Au attempt is now being made by a portion of the medical press to prejudice the cause of Hygeism, in the following specious manner. The public is aware that for many years linelets have advocated a rational system of malleine, which assigns the cause of all disemes to an impurity of tho blood, and that, therefore, they are curable by proper vegetable purgatives. The success of thi4 theory is known to all the world, and the consequence has been that many individuals have availed themselves f such success, and brought out pills under all sorts of name., some of which arc mot fraudulent, such as "Old Parr," and also under the llama of eminent deceased physicians, who it is well known had nothing whatever to do with such pills. Some of the parties implicated have actually forged a mil, purporting to be Old flares, in order to impose upon the public. Now, what the mem bers of the British C liege of Ilealth wish to bring before the notice of the public is Ills--that they cannot be responshde for such nefa rious proceedings. In all callings there will be black sheep, the me dical profession not except ed. Hygeists, as a body, consist of honest individuals, who believe that the principles they advocate are founded in truth. Their principles are before the world, and upon them they must stand or fall. They have no connexion with the host of pill mongers throughout the kingdom, nod repudiate their ilshonest pro ceedings as much as anybody. Mr. Wakley may find it convenient, for the sale of his " Lancet," to class them together in order to pan der to the taste of a certain portion of the medical body ; but Hy ge ists trust that the public has sufficient discernment to draw the proper distinction. Everything connected with Hygeists and the British College of Health has been done openly and honestly, and therefore they do not fear the strictest scrutiny. They are, in short, the honest dissenters from the present system of medicine, as taught in the schools, and cannot be responsible for the dishonest acts of persons who please to take advantage of a successful theory in order to enrich themselves. Theories in medicine, as in other things, be• long to no individuals. NORTON'S TRULY VALUABLE CAA.IO - PILLS, FOR INDIGESTION, &c. These Pills are a pure extract of camomile flowers, prepared by a peculiar p• ocess, by which all the medicinal properties of rather more than one ounce of the flowers are concentrated into four moderate• sized pills, They are mild in operation, and have proved wonder fully successful in removing every syrapton of indigestion, sick head ache, loss of appetite, giddiness, heartburn, costiveness, eruptions of the skin, and all complaints arising from a disordered state of the digestive organs ; they require no alteration of diet, and their opera tions will be found so beneficial in giving tone to the stomach, regu lating the bowels, and in promoting a healthy habit, as folly to con vince all who take them of their great utility. Persons who have suffered from indigestion for several years, have, by their use, in a few weeks perfectly recovered, which is a convincing proof that in the smallest compass is contained the largest quantity of the tonic principle of so peculiar a stature as to pervade the whole system, through which it diffuses health and strength. Sold in !softiies at is. l 23.9 d., and I Is. each, in every town in the kingdom. CAUTION.—Be sure to ask for " Norton's Pills," and be not per • traded to purchase an imitation. OPENING OF THE PORTS. LORD RUSSELL and Co., it appears, have resoly'd To amend the dilemma in which we're involv'tl, Awl the ports of the realm, which so long have been shut, Will, doubtless, be open'd n ithout " if " or " bnt " You perhaps may suppose, from the way we commence, We shall write In a strictly political sense ; But no, worthy reader, E. MOSES and SON In political matters would meddle with none. The ports being open'd to let in the grain Will be treated In rather a different strain. E. MOSES an I SON have their own open ports, For matchless habiliments—dress of all sorts. By MOSES and SON was the first effort made To open the ports in the. tailoring trade. They expos'd tie high prices which govern'd the day, And threw down the barrier that lay in the way; And quickly Economy's flag was tinfuri'd To all in the widely-inhabited world. E. MOSES and SON leave created a stir Throughout the vast realm by the good they confer ; And none can be found in the kingdom dispos'd For the parts of E. MOSES and SON - to be clos'd. LIST OF PRICBS. READY MADE. X s. d • 10 6 Beaver TagHonig, front .. • • ..... • • • • • • • chesterfields and Coiringtons .. •••••• • • • • • • • Pashas, D•Orsaye, and Chesterfields, and every description 1 6 0 of winter Coats."... ........ ... . Boys' Wi n t er C oats, in every style and ma k e •• • • .... •.• • • • • 8 6 Tweed Trousers, lined Doeskin ... •• . .... . . ..... ... .... Dress Csats ...... •• • • . • ..... ~, .. 10 6 • • .......... Frock Cutts. •• • • •• •••• • • • 1 8 I .. :...... 0 0 10 4 6 6 i:eys' Winto t r oa Double-breasted Tests :. :•.• • • • • • ..... •••••• • • • • • 0 2 0 lto3-s' Hussar and Tunis Suite :: ••••••••••.• • • • • • • • • • • • 0 ig 6 Trousers extent . . a t iv e . minutes ' ...•.. n •— o : ti i ce . .. .. •• : : • Mourning• • • MADE TO M Winter Coats, warranted war e 1481711. Milled Cloth Coats, trimmed, vel • v;tCo e llar • .a • n • ti • c • u • • ff . ; .. •• 112 • ext • 21 6 0 handsomely trimmed ...... . Pre°r• made to "Y style, Tweed Overcoats. ...... • apino;e4l . •• • it•• • iick paite • rns • 0 1 2 8 6 6 Winter Trousers, in all the most 6 Best Dress Trousers ........ Bost quality made .. ...... .... ~ ••—•••••••• • • • • • • • • • • 1 12 0 Frock Coats • ..... .. „ . ..... . ,'• ' • • ........ ....„ ...„ 2 I i 0 Best quality made ..... ...... „ ....: .. .. '••• • • • ..... •• • • 1 lb 0 satin, plain or fancy .................. •.• ••• • • • • •• ••• • :: 0 8 12 8 0 6 C•o•s•t•u•M•e• Castle,' .• 111 . ; . 1; • Kill di!ection 6 s entitled icSults„ may be had on application, bart oAy self-measurement, e ' nl H r u rn s e a ss Work,ar u and re m T e n u t n or made to me,: or forwarded post free. Observe. —Any article purchased, ready m a d e , sure, if not approved of, will be exchanged, or if --- preferred, the money returned. E. MOSES and 80N, Tailors, Woollendrayers, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Farriers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters, for , Ladies and Gentlemen, 154, 155, and 156, 157 Minories, and 83 84, 85, and 86 Aidgate, :lay. London. , Caution.—E. Moses and Son regret being obliged to guard th e public against impostors, but have learned that the untradesman like falsehood of being connected with them, or it's the same concern, has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons. They have no connexion with any other house in or out of London; and those who desire genuine and cheat clothing, Ste., should call at, or send to, Minories and Ahlgate, City, London. Notice. .2 Co business transacted at this establishment from sun se t Friday ) till twist SoturdaY, when business Jo reamed tlil twelve 41004 . GZILDHALL, JANUARY 28, 1847. VIE COMMITTEE for:LETTING the CITY'S LANDS will MEET at GUILDHALL on WEDNESDAY, the 17th lay of rehruny next, instead of the 19th, as before adTertisecl, at One orlock precisely, to receive TENDERS for LETTING on LEASE a HOUSE, No. lip, on the North Side of Broad-.ttret Buildings, and a HOUSE, No. 3, Windsor court, Monkwell-street, for 21 years, from Lady-day next; and also a HOUSE, No. 2, Beehive-passage, Lime-street, for 13 :tears, from .Lady-day next. Further particulars may be nhtatnol, and r 13113 saes, by ap plying at the Office of Works, Gu!ldhall. THOMAS SAUNDERS, Comptroller. GENERAL CONVEYANCE COMPANY, 'for Passengers and Parcels; the former at a Penny per mile, the latter at a Halfpenny upwards, according to weight. Capital, 300,0001., in 60,009 Share-, .f 5/. each. An influential Board of• Directors of this Company heir.; now formed, Notice is hereby given that no farther ap,licatious for Shares will ho received after • WEANESDAT, the 10th of February instant. A revised Prospectus, containing tho NAMES of the DIIVECTOILS, will be forthwith issued, awl may be had, together with Forms of Application for Shares, at the Company's ofilzes, 5, Gresham-street, City, on and after Thursday, the 4th of C. MACKENZIE, Secrstary. • Feb..l, 1347. pl G RAND BAL COSTUM.E, anti FULL-DRESS BALL, at the ST. JAMES'S ASSEMBLY ROOMS (late the St. James's Club), this Evening (Wednesday), Feb. 3.—The Lessee of this magnificent and unrivalled establishment, at the request of several noble and distinguished Patrons, has the honour to announce a grand Bal Costume and Full-dress Ball. To-morrow (Wednes day), on a scale of unprecedented splendour. On this occasion the entire suite of rooms will be thrown open to the pullic, brilliantly illuminated, and adorned by the most experienced artistes of the day. Floral emblems, gorgeous draperies, carpets (rein the richest looms, palatial furniture, will all be combined to produce a coup d'csil such as can only be equalled in the salons of the royal, the noble, and the wealthy. All the resources of taste and power of money will he lavished to leave this fete without a parallel. The rarest productions of the choicest conservatories will charm the eye, and shed fragrance o'er the scene. The music will be selected from the repertoires of the most distinguished orchestras de dance. The much-admired band (considerably augmented) will be coacittetcsl by the celebrated Mons. Dubrcuil. The renowned Jullien has couvosed a new polka and quad' ille expressly for the occasion. In the course of the t ven lag there will be several quadrilles, in the costume of the different periods, as danced at her Majesty's grand Bsi Costume, at Bucking ham Palace. The whole terminating with a good old English Country Dance. Six Maitres des Ceremonies will be In attendance, to arrange the various sets. Supper will be served at one o'clock. The cuisine will be found worthy of the establishment tlestricd the genus of Ude, and long presided over by that illustrious chief. The number of cards being limited, an early application is re quested. Tickets, Gentlemen, lOs 6d. ; Ladies, is. 61. ; to be had at the principal Libraries and Costumer - le. , ; and at Mr. Clark's Office, 53, St. James's-street, adjoining the establislunent. Doors open at Ten o'clock. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.- Tio s jo o n c:[ % E d z i c iL i t tr ir a k . LIVERPOOL, FEBRUARY 2. sales n a e r a e fa — i t A r e m , h a e n r a g a c t l e ie , s N h o i r t e t n li g h p.—Bani rd. — enh T e h a Q d s , mingham and Oxford, 8% p.—Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham, 1% p. — Buckinghamshire, % p.—Chester and Birkenhead, 201. Shares, % dia.—Eastern Counties, 21% —East Lancashire, New, 2 p.—Ditto, New Scrip, 1% p.—East Lincolnshire, 1% p.—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 75—Ditto, Quarters, 183#—Great Northern (Nos. 1 to 108,000). rR p.—Ditto (Nos. 108,001 and upwards), par—Hudderitield and Manchester, 2% p.—Lancaster, and Preston, Quarters, 14% Leeds and Thirsk, Preference, 235. 9d. p.—Leicester and 13cdford, % dis.—Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, % p.—Liverpool, Man chester, and Newcastle Junction, 34 dis.—London and North- Western, 192—Ditto, New Quarters, 11% p.—London and York (Direct Northern), 3s. 9d. p.—Manchester and Leeds, 25 p.—Ditto, Extensions, 13 s p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Quar ters (No. 2), 22%—Midland, 12334 —Ditto, New, 3% p.—North Bri tish, Quarters, 41s. 3d. p.—Ditto, .New Thirds (scrip), 2% p.—North Staffordshire, 2% p.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A),11. las. 9d. p. —Ditto (Ii), 34 p.—Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, dis. ex int.—t'ontli Staffordshire, Junction, p.—West Riding Union, 13s, 9d. p. — York and Newcastle, New, 7%—Ditto, Preference, 5% p.— Nowry and Warrenpoint, 1% p —Dutch Rhenish, 2% Ms. MANCHESTER, FEBRUAZY 2. • STOCK Megrim:ie.—The sales are—Ambergate, Yottinghain, and Boston, 7-16 dis.— Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, i b p.— Birmingham and Oxford Junction, 8% p.—Blackburn, Clitheroe, &c., % dis.--Eastern Counties. York Extension, 3 4 p.—East Lanca shire, 1 15-16 p.— Ditto, New (scrip), 1 3-16 p.—East Lincolnshire, 1% p.—Ely awl Huntingdon, I% p.—Great Northern (late London and York), Scrip, 134 c. p.—Hudelersfled and Manchester Itailway and' Canal, 2% p.—Leads and Thirsk, dis.—Liverpool, Manches ter, and Newcastle Junction, % dis. —London and North-Western (Manchester and Birmingham), Quarters (r 1), p.—Mancitester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, % p. —Manchester and Leeds. Exten sions, 1% p.— Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Eighths, dia.—Ditto (Sheffield and Lincolnshire), lb-16 dis.—Manchester and Southampton, % dls.—North Staffordshire, 2 13-16 p.—Oldham Alliance, 7-16 p.— Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 1% c. p. —Ditto, 91. 12s. 3d. Shares (B), % p.—South Staffordshire, % p.—Ditto, Trent Valley 31idland, p. -• senth Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole, 1-16 p.—Nest Riding Union, 1 9-16 'p.—York and Newcastle, Pre ference, 5 k p. • LEEDS, FEBRUART 2 STOCK EXCHANGE.-The are-Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 7s. c. dis. -Buckinghamshi re, 5s - Easternrountiev,York Ex tension, 15s. p.-East Lancashire, I t. 18s. 9d. p.-Ditto, New, IL 18s. Gd. p.-Ditto, New Scrip, 245. Gd. p. -East and West Yorkshire, Ss. dis.-Great Northern (late London and York), 4s. p -Leeds and Dewsbury, Extensions Scrip (green), 15s. p.-Leeds and Thirst:, 2X n. dls.-Ditto, New, 15s. dis.-Ditto, Preference, 245. p.-Lccds, Wakefield, and Midland, 103. Gd. dia.-Leicester and Bedford, Zs. dia.-Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, Ts. Gd. die.-- Mallon and Driclield Junction, 18s. p.-Manchester and Leeds, Ex tensions, 235. p.-Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, And Midland, 12s. 6d. p.-North British, Thirds, 2% p.-Ditto, Extension (scrip), 14a. p.-Northern Counties. Union, 235. dis.- -North-Western, Bs. p.- South Yorkthire, Doncaster, and Goole, 4s. lid. p.-West giding Union, 3N. • NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, rEI2CATT 2. STOCK ExcuAzoni.—The sales are--Armagh, Coleraine, and Port rush, I dis. —Eastern Counties, York Extension, p. —East Lan cashire, New (scrip), p. —Newcastle and Carlisle, 115—North British, Extension, 16s. 6d. p. —North Staffordshire, p.—York and Newcastle, Extension, 8 p. FEBRVARY 2. _ _ • STOCK EXCHANGE..—Tho sales are —liull and Selby, Qturters, —North British, Quarters, 4% Blackburn, Darn en, and Bolton, Pref. (5 per cent. guar.), p.—Great Northein (late London and York), 21( —North-Western, Bs. p.—North Staffordshire, 21. 18s.— Northern Counties Union, 295. cash—Shropshire Union, 133. dl3. gIiBrrIELD, FEDan•nr Et. _ &mei Excx.sisms.-The sales are-Anabergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 6s. dis.-Eastern Counties, York Extension, Ifts. p.-Mau cheater, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Grimsby and Sheffield), 4' dis. -Ditto 20/. Shares, 265. dis.-Ditto (Sheffield and Lincoln), 19s. Gd. dis.-Midland (Sheffield and Rotherham), 3214-North-Western, . p.-West Riding Union, I.it p.-Leeds, Wal:efield, a d Midland. ) , s dis.-South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole, 4 p. 'EDINBURGH, FEnituaa2 1. STOCK EXMANGB. -The sales' are -. Aberdeen, 24/.-Airdrie and Bathgate, 41. 83.- Arbroath and Forfar, 281.-Ditto, Half Shares, 1 5 /. 55.-Ayr and Galloway, 21.- , -Caledonian, 16/. 10s.-Ditto, New, 21 - Bs. 6d. -Caledonian and Dumbarton, 21. 5e.-.Clydesdale Junction, 39/. 55.-Deeside, 31. ss.- Direct Northern, 21. 153. 6d.- Dunllane, Donne ' and Callender, H. 158.-Dund ee an d Arbroath, 421. ex new - Div°. New, No. 1, 32/. ex new-Ditto, No. 2, 251. 15s. ex new- Dundee and Perth, 26!.-Ditto, New, 111. 15:I.-Eastern Counties, 211. Its. York Extension, 51.-East of Fife, 2/. 10s. Cd. -Edinburgh and Bathgate, 21. 15s.- - Edinburgh an 1 GlaAcow, 731. 55.-Ditto, Half Shares, 19/. 155.-Ditto, Quarters, 19'.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Gran.on, 191. IN.-Ditto, Preference, 211. ex new -Edinburgh and Northern, 101. 15s. ex new-Ditto, New, 31. 17s. t•ltto, Newport, 51. 15s. ex new-Ditto, ditto, New, 21 155.- Edinburgh and Perri • (Old). 11. Ns. 6d. -Ditto (New), 21. In, Glasgow and Ayrshire, 65/. ex new .Ditto, New St , .,c c. 34/. ex new -Ditto, Quarter Shares, 161.'103. Gd. ex new-Ditto, Halves, 71. 15s. -Glasgow, Duinirtes, and Carlisle, 6/: 2A. M.-Glasgow and Dun dee Junction. 11. !CA.-Glasgow and Garakirk, 401.--Glasgow General Terminus, 121. 10s.-Glasgow and Greenock, 19/.--Ditto, New, 91.- Ditto, Preference, 81. 55.--Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 6/. IN.-Great North of England, 233/.-Great Nal* th of Scotland, '2l. .ss. 64.-London and York, 31. 124. M.-Manchester and Leeds, 1051.-Midland and Eastern Counties, Mt.-Newcastle and Berwick, 321. 158.-North British, 341. 10s.-Ditto, Halves, 161. 17s. 6d.- Ditto, Thirds; 31. 165.-Ditto, Quarters, 41. 7s. 6d.-Ditto, New Quarters (scrip), I/. Bs. 64.-Ditto, Fifths, 71. 2s. Gd.-Scottish Cen tral, 211. 15s.- Scottish Grand Junction, IL ss.- Scottish Midland, 281, 55.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 31. 9s.- Stirling and Midland, 21. 101.-Strathern Junction, 31. 12s. C(l.-Wishaw and Coltness, 50/.-York and Newcastle, 36/. 103. cx new-Ditto, New, 111. 115 s. -Ditto, Preference, 61. 155..-Direct Bombay and Madras, 3s. 6d. -East Indian, 7s. Gd.-Greatliorth of India, 3s. 6d.-Great Southern of Madras, 45.-Madras, Nellore, and Arcot, 2s. 9d. GLASGOW, FnauAar 1. Saves EXCHANGE. —The sales are —Ayr and Galloway, 45s.—Vale donlan, New, 498.—Caledonian and Dumbartonshire, 453.—Direct Bombay and Madras, 4s. 3d.—Direct Northern (Scrip), 57s.—Eastern Counties, York Extension, Si; —East o: Fife, 52s.—East Indian, 9a. Gd.—East Lothian Central, 455. 6d.—Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quar ters, 191.—Edinburgh and Northern (Newport), 5% —Edinburgh and Perth, 538. —Glasgow General Terminus, 11% —Glasgow, fibular flock, and Ayr, GM—Ditto, 351.—Ditto, Halves, No. 2, 91. 6s.—Glas gow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, Si. Is. Gd.— Glasgow and Greenock, 18 4 —Glasgow, Airdie, and Monkland Junction, 5% —Great Southern of Madras, 4s. 3d.—Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct, 495. Madras, Nellore, and Arcot, 2s.—Manchester and Southampton, 345. Gd.—North Bri tish, Thirds, 74s.—Ditto, New Quarters (scrip), 31s.—Paisley, Barr head, and Hurlet, 61s.—Scottish Central, 221—Scottish Grand Junc tion, 245. Stirling and' Dunfermline, 725. Gi.—Stirlingshiro and Midland Junction, 508.—WiLsontown, Morningside, and Coltneis, 55!. --Wish= and ColtnesS, 4936—York and Newcastle, Preference, 71. 7s. A COACHMAN IN TROUBLE.—The coachman of Lord Hastings, on Wednesday last, was directed to drive a gentleman from his Lordship's residence at Melton Constable to the railway terminus at Norwich, a distance of about 20 miles. He arrived at Norwich perfectly safe, and the gentleman proceeded by the next train to London. The coachnian, whose name is Haylett, is a married man, and has a wife and young family living at Lenwade, a village about midway from Melton to Norwich. Having no one to drive back, instead of staying at Norwich all night with his carriage and horses, he determined to go as far as his wife's cottage and stay there, putting up his horses at Lenwade bridge Inn. Unfortunately for him he did not keep himself sober in Norwich, and started from the Norfolk Hotel, in a somewhat questionable state, about eleven o'clock at night. After he passed the Drayton-tollgate, about five miles on the road, he appears to have fallen asleep, and the horses turned into a by-len; which ultimately led into a field. Here they seem to have wandered about, with Haylett sleeping on the box, the track of the wheels the next morning sh w iltthe o lto.h w c • ilo i ,n n uah g caicte, t ee l i iali.n z es t riep,nerctio t ihlib l i i eel e dst, imyf c oo a oauf r s.n r : i ati a mhk g t nir , egai occasion, passed e oti o ith f ci tae tot a hrt leit3edhyee tooke did edlmdanaaor again, I , miraculous way goTaeuyhse one direc tion for Ringland, and attempted to ford a wide watering of the Wensum, but the immensely flooded state of the low lands had given a great impetuosity to the stream, and they were carried away by it. At this time also Haylett appears to have been asleep upon the driving-box, and when he awoke, about four o'clock in the morning, he found himself in the midst of these extensive waters, both the horses being drowned, and the carriage severed, the fore from the hind wheels. We need hardly say he was dreadfully frightened; his screams brought up in a short time some of the watch from the game preserves of Mr. N. s licklettiwaite, who ren dered all the assistance they could. In the course of the morning the horses were got out, and the carriage also. Haylett was now in the greatest distress, and would probably have done himself some mischief but for th e police who strictly guarded him. lie was taken to the Bridge-inn, at Lenwade, and thence driven home to Melton, to tell hi s sad very valuable, his Lordship havi ng tale. The horses were d R IN SURGICAL OPERATI ONS .— VAPOUR ETIIR St. dto a man at the Helen's Auckland An accident occurred ring the amputation of hi Colliery, on Tuesday last, req ;u. a few days before b een offered 1501. . for one. leg. The inhalation was proceeded with, the first insensibility, and the operation he vapour of ether soon produced Attended with the slightest pain. eration was quite com steps of which Consciousness returned before the r tin was ex erienced, ch were e re I amount of pain p pleted, when the usual Messrs. Hutchinson, Jooson, The medical men present, the wonderful effect of the and Kilburn, were satisfied with to the imperfection ether, and attributed the partial failure • —.lVezecost the emerbene) of the apparatus procure' on notiott 0 , Journal. METERIES SO METROPOLITAN AND SUBURBAN CE.. just terminated CIETY.—A Parliamentary Commissioner has the preliminary inquiries for the first Bill introduced U the es timates of which being proved, showed a return of a nett di vidend per annum of from twelve to twenty per cent ground may b e fill e d up i n 250 or 350 y e ars. The standing orders were declared to be complied with on Saturday, and Messrs. Masterman and Lyall, Members for the City of London, have undertaken the charge of the Bill through the House of Commons. • MAGAZINES CONTINUED. BENTLEY'S. Bentley opens this month with a prose burlesque by Albert Smith (illustrated by Leech), of an ancient ballad. It is entitled " The Boy :old the Mantle, n' Theft from the Percy Reliqurs." The incidents of the story are adhered to faithfutly, but by modernising the hinguege and the manners, and the metaphors, a most quaint effect is produced. Cooper gives us the fourth chapter of Capt. Spike, in which the plot begins to thicken. The Molly Swash having by the skilful nrlnceuvring of Spike escaped from the revenue schooner and the steamer, proceeds to the West Indian teas. They have been at sea about week, when Spike begins to speak to the Widow Budd .:bout love. At first the Widow faueies that she herself is the object of the Skippers admiration, but is soon undreLived, for Spike declares to her that his lore for her niece is " of so animated and tastily a !lour," that he scarce knew what he said. This con versation is overheard by Rose and Mulford, who are thus put on their guard against the machinations of Spike. On the morn i ng of 'this extraordinary declara tion, the " Molly Swash,' is hoarded in the neighbour. hood of the Mona Passage (the passage between the Islands of St. Domingo and Porto Rico) by the American twenty-gun corvette Poughkeepsie Captain Adam Mull. The second lieutenat of the corvette. Mr. Wallace, is sent on board the Molly Swash ; and, in answer to his questions, Spik e says t ha t his lading is eight hun dred barrels of flour and that he is bound to Key West and a market. While 'Wallace is there Rose and her aunt determine to ,apply to him to take them on board • the corvette, as they are suspicious as to the intentions of Spike ; but the nauticalisms of Madera Budd exoite such roars - of ;laughter 'from Wallace and his men, that Rose, calling her aside, itiduces her not to make the requA she intended. Wallace examines the papers of the Molly Swash, 1091:s into the hold, and sees sundry barrels, and, notwilhranding the brig is armed with eight 12-pound carronath s, which were sent up out of the hold, and mounted only thelernerifileg, Wallace declares himself satisfied, and returns t , ) his ship, leav ing the Molly Swash to pursue her coarse. Cap tain Mull, howcv r, is not quite so satisfied of Spike's honesty as his second lieutenant appears to be, and accordingly determines to keep a sharp look out for the brig. Spike, however, alters his course, doubles the eastern end of Jamaica. and runs down the con it of Yucatan. The ladies, alarmed by Spike's attention, snake a confidant., to Multord'e great surprise, of Jack Tier. The brig. is at : length fairly launched in the Gulf of Mexico, and then Spike takes all Mulford's charts, instruments, &c., into his own cabin, where they are to remain until th e arrival of the. brig. into port. At length the brig arrives at a group of islets in the Gulf ; aul, there, in a natural harbour, casts anchor in sa`ety. "Brien O'Linn" is also continued. Dr. W. C. Taylor, in an article on Nelson and Caracciolo, refutes the arguments which Sir Harris Nicolas has recently brought forward, with a view to extenuate the enormous crime which Nelson committed, in being accessory to the extra judicial murder of the unfortunate Prince Caracciolo in the bay of Naples. We are sorry to feel ourselves forced reluctantly to agree in the conclusion come to by Dr. Taylor. " The whole defence made by Sir Harris Nicolas turns on an attempt to:induce his readers to believe that which he does not believe himself, that Nelson had the legal sanction of the King of the Two Sicilies for all his proceedings. This he could not possibly have had until &afro's commission as Vicar-General was revoked. If Nelson held any commission under the King of Naples, a record of it would necessarily have been preserved in the archives of that kingdom. But no such record exists, and no such commission ever existed. It is possible that Nelson may have acted on a mistaken sense of right and duty ; he was infatuated by a guilty passion, and obliquity of intellect may have followed from perversion of•heart. We are ready to admit this palliation, though it increases our sorrow and deepens our shame for the c dis rd gr . f. , ceful deeds which wo have been compelled to re o It is pleasant, however, to find the memory of another great man rescued from the imputation of a crime of which he was not guilty. Several of our rcadcrs doubtless remember the intense sensation caused some eight-and-thirty years ago by the mysterious dis appearance of Mr. Bathurst, on his road home to Eng land, from a special mission to the Court of Berlin. It was.stated at the time that he had been murdered by order of Napoleon. The mystery of his death is, how ever, now cleared up. In an article in the pro ent num ber of Bentley, entitled "Reminiscences of the late Bishop of Ncrwich," by one of his daughters, the authoress thus relates the fate of this unfortunate Ambassador, who was the son of the Bishop, and ccnse quently her own brother : " At a small post town, named Perlberg, half wav between Berlin and Hamburgh, .he alighted to change horses ; it was late at night, during intense cold, and in . the midst of a snow storm. There being, as usual, in those post-houses, but one travellers' room common to all, where many strangers were seated, he probably displayed his w arp', d‘thr.r vqh.ahles. Ile re•urned again into the carriage when ready, out, supposed, forgotten something, he once more alighted to enter the inn never to re-appear. s' Large rewards were offered by the British Govern. orient, and a free pardon, except to the immediate perpe• trat, - ,r, promised by the authorities to any accomplice who would denounce the murderer. Tho rivers and ponds were dragged far and near, but all to no effect ; not a trace of him could be discovered excepting a pair of overalls which he had worn at.the time of his disap pearance, and which were alleged by an aged female to have been found a few days after laid upon the snow in a copse near the village. The pockets were rifled, and nothing found within but a hurried letter addressed to his wife, in which, singular to say, he expressed a fear of personal danger. From this strange circurnamn.e some thought it possible that he had seamed himself, and a report prevailed that a person of his description had been traced in sailor's attire to the coast, where he had embarked ; this however was improbable. 11litny supposed that he was confined in some fortress by Na. poleon, others that ho had been made away with by some stratagem of the Emperor ; this, howev er, in an interview sought f o r w ith hi m b his widow, BUll parte entirely deni e d, assuring her y that he krew nothing whatever of the a ff a i r , which is, inrh.yd, mos t likely to be true, as the dispatches were hi the carri a g e, and arrived •in safety. Some imagined that he bad, in a fit of spleen, put an end to his own existence, which is nega ti ve d by the body not having been found after the most careful search. But the real circumstances of his death, and the most natural, although, alas I the most horrible, were in part cleared up twenty yea's a f terwar ds, when, in dig•glng ried very near the ground, in, or near, behind the same house where he had disappeared, bud - lime kiln, a skeleton with some lkeuliarity aboutdtboe form of the foot was discovered ;it was -aseertaine Y medical skill to have lain twenty years in the gs3lflonodt and was of the singular height of my brother, " f fatal three inches. This leaves but little doubt of the a re . - truth ; though some supposed it to have been the period. a long neglectie mains of another person missing about the same e police of suspicious character. The very bad state o retiepnt day, in Germany, worse even far than in the of making It appears that the owners of the inn were persons added to - the difficulty during the time of war _ still more hopeless.depth of - winter, rendered the task of discovery accurate searches in foreign lands, particularly in the In addition to these articles the Ma' several papers of a light and amusing character , among th f particularly or y o which we would particularise as , Tale of a perusal, a paper entitled " Speculation, draws from Bank," by John Parsons Hall. Mr. D who feel inclined the life, and it would be well that' a , _ d learn from Mr. cellany contains fall of the Liverpool Hall the history of the rise and the I Banking and Manchester Roper's Company. to indulge in share gambling, should from MAGAZINE.an interesting one for the public generally, is the first paper in Hood e ly ~ The Magna Charta of Resus- A strange - - f po ; S a magazine, for February, nun , preliminary ; a continuation of its elaborate nature, have the fourth act of Mr. Lovolrs Besides this, we poetical piece call 6. tragedy of The Avinger ; a _ is tailed The citated Greece." It is d oe ra e r Tip r: iees up Aeu w re i o t o h rnae c i a d i: e e fr , ab :n re d ::::: Old Maid," by somebody who Tauntingly styled the attempt at facetiousness, hight "Good Mr. Sueunerton;" and the usual omniutn gatherum of stale jokes and second-hand criticisms, which the editor is now naiscalling.a "Cabinet of Gems and Cu t riosities," the "Blanchelcljecgsias of Neville;" of puffll°°(l3l a ;: n : 1 i in" gems proving the e mercst paste, and the of pro- There is a remarkable falling off evuilricioi:iitnieeseteuprenpiiele.out to be th literary lumber p il r i i i n ili t it m ab a l k ° es the ma in the magazine ift these particulars, and the editor should look well to it. We are surprised at the very Volga allusion to Sir E. L. B. Lytton 's last fiction. r tagged on to a diatribe against " Lueretia, ,, quoted from a weekly periodical. The remark about ~ Bulwer's sug gestire pictures of filthy passions and foul crimes," se ," - v u i p T o i e n g r c T b l r i little for the acumen of the writer, and still leas for his for re taste. We thank the editor of " Hood " heartily elegiac 's re a satire . u om ar a y s ; worth double its ordinary price. Otherwise vrogzine could say little this month in praise of a periodical tilled with felicitous contributions. generally Ct that t singlet e r to n UNIVERSITY. Portu gal, where the sovereign and the people are leagued in arms against each other, severally under the guidance of Saldanha and Das Antes, the opening article in the Dub lin University possesses a singular degree of interest. Conside T rin H g E th D e p U r B es'C ' Zt IYUNI mournfu l 014 V p. This is a succinct but comprehensive review of " Portu guese liistory"—a review suggested by the work recently commenced by A. Herculano, and publishvd in Lisbon h il it Y h applied its ener gies anterior to the brcaking.out.of the civil war. The next contribution is an imaginative trifle in the shape of a little romance, entitled " the Thisicrucian : a talc of invested a class 'clu):runz potabi"c and elixir gw C i o iet l sh og tpo n o e teh . t " rey,f l at f hbra. e it s c e ap r ttr p t : i o e (n u , f d o o tfhi p et b d i ai l vita'. The believers i n those fantastic dreams, from their o riginator to Dr. Ike, and frcin Dr. Dee to Count Cag liostro, appear to have engaged i n the pursuit of those chimeras with all the enthusiasm sea credulity of lima- FEBRUARY 3 ) 1847. a a 2:4 7 tics. Their labours were of the most superhuman cha racter, their perseverance was worthy of a better cause, their reliance upon the capacities of the human intellect, had in it - something of the sablitne, and from these rea sons as Well as from the mystic nature of their creed, the history of the followers of the Rosy Cress has ever been a moat fruitful theme fur the writers of fiction. When properly employed for the dacoratien of a story. or ieher need in the way of allegory, the car er of the Resicru cians is always a' tractive and is mostly enthralling. In " Zanoni," this was peculiarly visible, though the vast majority of its readers did teat reeegnise the ulterior ob ject of its author. That object has been recently indi cated by Sir Eduard Lytton Delver Lytton in oee ads mirable sentence which for the sake of the undiscerning it is well ho bras written. Sir El ward says in bis mas terly pamphlet tai a certain portion of the critics—a pamphlet pnblishel a tew days since under the title of "A word to the Public by the Author of Lucretia"—that his aim in penning Lenoni was "to symbolize (lie beauty of Art." As we may not possibly have a better opportu nity during the present parliamentary session for refer ring to the pamphlet just mentioned, we may observe at once, that it deserves to be circulated through the length and breadth of the land from the fact of its being illustra tire of the bent of Sir Bulwee Lytton's genius —a genius that has been much misunderstood, as (we suspect in many instances) much maligned. The " Word to the Public" is a conclusive argument that the works of Bul wer aro not inculeative of vicious principles, are not cal culated to vitiate the public taste, are not designed to render felons heroes, or sin heroical. As to the advisa bility of abstaining altogether from the presentation of actual crime, Sir Edward exclaims,—" is this prohibition possible ?" " Crime meets us," he continues, "every where ; you cannot open a newspaper ; yon cannot refer to statistics ; you cannot mix in the ordinary world— but crime is forced daily and hourly on your notice. You must close up for purity and youth all history, sacred and profane ; you must shut out from the calen • dar of life the tyrant and the Martyr ; you must seal up the fountains of literature, and silence the long succession of poets-from Sophocles toe Dante, from Dante to Shaks peare, from Shakspeare to the last song that has thrilled -- through the worlc—if you seek to exclude from the mind the dark certainties of guilt." Altogether the pamphlet is a masterly defence from a most unmerited assault, and it is written too in a strain of eloquence and candour very honourable to its distinguished author We would see that pamphlet upon the table of every et lightened citizen of England, and iu the hand of every dispassionate inari—it is due to Bulwer. As a continua tion of the agreeable serial upon " Irish Rivers," we are regaled with a gossip about the Funcheon—Futcheon whit " the deep and emerald-hearted glades" as B. Sim mons has sung. The most attractive contribution in the number, however, is the biographical sketch of "Thomas Davis," the poet of the " Nation." It is accompanied by an execrable caricature, possibly considered to be an ad mirable likeness by the engraver. " The Pearl of the • Bosphorus" is completed, and is above the average merit of similar compositions. We would gladly, did our space permit, cull from the pages of the Dublin University the graceful translation of Moore's " Nora Creina" into Latin. Here is the refrain to the first verse however— a refrain quite as melodious as the original : " Obis—Nora mea cara— Ter dilecta, nimis rara, Lux amoris, fons pudoris, Oculus tuus Nora Creina." "Remarkable Female Criminals," " Anthologia Hiber nia," and a critical article on " Russia," comprise the remaining portion of the Magazine. THE OXFORD and CAMBRIDGE REVIEW There is scarcely a single article of any importance in the present number, and we think this is the first time we have felt ourselves compelled to say so much. Some promise is visible in the serial just commenced up'n the churches of 'l,:indon, beginning, of course, with the chefd'auvre of Sir Christopher Wron,St.Paul's Cathedral. Dr. Hook on the " There Reforthations" is reviewed at some length, and with some degree of impartiality. But the paper least undeserving of notice is the one upon the "Poor Students at the Universities." Those who have read (and who has nOt?) about Oliver Goldsmith's miseries as a poor student at Trinity College, Dublin, will readily comprehend the necessity which exists fur some amelierstion of their condition. Matters are bt arc than they were in Goldsmith's time we will admit, but there is still vast room for improvement. THE KNIGHT OF G 11' YNVE. No. XIV. By Charles Lever. Maurice Darcy gets detpor and deeper into involve ment, but his hilarious and generous disposition sustains him nobly threughout. Ile enters as c9lonel into the expedition under Abercrombie, and, singular enough, Forester is accidentally among the volunteers under his command. We may therefore authipate many plemant contretemps between the colonel and the volunteer, seeing that Forester's condition is " unbeknown" to the Knight 44f Gwynne. Miss Daly's character is - develoiring very charmingly, a natural goodness of heart evinft itself under all her ecc7ntrifAes. The two embel ments by Fhiz are inferior to their predecessors. • TEE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL_ Like good wine the 1 - copte s Journal continues to ripen. The number before us of a very superior Character. There are no leFs than nine excellent engravings from the pencils of Hsrvey, Kenny Mtalows, Hunt, and Eliza Fox. The one by purvey of " Devil Byron" is horribly clever, an d th e lik eiless o f . . . W. J. Foi is inimitable. Among the vary nual'etous and very talented literary contributions, th. re are a Mme by Harriet Martineau, Dr. Smiles, Elihu Burritt, Wal ter Savage Laudon, Angus B. Reach, Cald , : r Caini.b. 11, Ebenezer Elliott, and others. The programme for the ensuing numbers of the publication is singularly at• tractive, giving us promise of Douglas. Jerrold, Mrs, Loudon, and a multitude of other writers. The People's Journal mu-it euznmand a c-,ntinuanee of the success which it hav already attained, from the combination of so rum - 1y gifted minds upon a periAlical of such remark. able Cheapness. FURTHER DISCOVERIES OF MINERALS. (From the Swan River Nc:rs: - Western Australia.) We have been favoured with communications from Sir James Siding (the first Governor of the colony), Mr. T IL C. Wal:ers, and Mr. A. Shenton, announcing discoveries of mi ierals by their respective corresp ind ents. Sir James Stirling's letters inform him that traces of a mine of copper or lead, or both, have been dire() vered on his Woodbridge estate, as well as indications of coa l ; also, that on Government land, about 18 or 20 miles from Guildford, a mine of tin, with a large propor tion of silver, has been discovered. This letter is from Mr. Abraham Jones, of Woodbridge, and is dated " 15th September, from Guildford. Mr. Shenton writes (under date September 13th), " We are now in a state of great excitement respecting minerals, good specimens of the ores of copper and tin being found ; and great hopes are entertained of the coal mines." Mr. Walters' letters an nounce the discovery of copper on the grant of Mr. Lukin, at the Toodyay, about twelve or fourteen miles west of Mr. Davey's grant ; and on Mr. Dempster's, six or seven miles north of it, are supposed to be of tin or plating. Tux OuvEs.—Mr. Jones, in his letter to Sir James Stirling, quoted above, adds, " The olives are thriving well, as also many other of the fruit trees, this season." PROSPECTS OF THE COLONY.—M r , A. Shenton in his letter dated September 13, says " Our exp or t s t hi s year will amount to ne ar ly 30,0001.; far exceeding our imports. The timber trade is also beginning to flourish, many parties having lately engaged in it. Orders for it have been received from the South Austral'an Government, but to carry it on, in the way its quality deserves, we require a large increase to our labouring population which now is not adequate to the demand. Sawyers, &c., are in good requisition—in fact not to be got." TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sxn,—The Irish distillers, I perceive by their resolu tions published in The Sun, are similar in their feelings to the largo body of Protectionists, namely, very un willing to forego the advantages they at present derive over their brother competitors hero or in our colonies. It would seem, however, that these gentlemen are un reasonable in their views, unwise in their generation, for they ought to have taken the whole of the contemplated measure into their consideration before they committed themselves to the resolutions they !viva done. Surely the terms of the permission upon which they may use sugar in lieu of malt in their distilleries will abundantly compensate these for any loss they may sustain from the reduction of the ruin duty: in that scheme a large amount of bounty is ingeniously conceded, for they will have the opportunity of selecting the best qualities of sugar for their process, a description that will yield doublo the quantity of spirits, the Chancellor of the Exchequer calculates upon, and thereby secure to them selves double the amount of the malt-tax in the shape of the allowance to be granted on their spirit duty. When the Irish distillers come to look at the pounds, shillings, and pence part of the question as a whole, re collecting that it is the last line of figures which decide the profit or loss, they will regret their endeavour to obstruct so beneficial a change to themselves, they will then easily reconcile to their consciencesthelnjury likely to accrue from the measure to t h e landholders , farmers, and every interest connected with Ireland. I am, Sir, your obedient servan t , A JAMAICA COLONIST. THE TRENT STEAMER.---SOUTHAMPTON, FEn. 2 A meeting of the directors of the Royal West India Mail Packet Company is about to be hold here to investigate the cause of delay of the Trent steamer upon her recent voyage home between llavannah and Jamaica from want of coal. On the third day after leaving Havannah it was discovered the coal would not last out to take them safe to Kingston, when orders were given for the fore-orlop deck, spars, and empty casks to be cut up, but finding this addition would not be sufficient, the captain ordered the ship to put about to a piratical island called Grand Caiman's, where they found a cargo of wrecked'wood, of b rew, 00 tons. The captain then sent on shore fifty of his crew, who, with the natives, cut 300 tons of wood, consisting of ebony, logwood, and fus tick. The captain paid 2/. per ton besides heavy wages for labour. Three days were consumed at this operation, and one day in cutting it afterwards into junks—many men were compelled to take to their berths from over fatigue. In this island the inhabitants live by wrecking. It was once the re sidence of 041: notorious pirate Captain Mitchell. POLICE INTELLIGENCE, soUIRIVA UK. Yesterday William Barfield, night porter at We Catherine Wheel Inn, liarough, surrendered iiitnself; in discharge of his bail, to answer the charge of stealing a pocket-book, con taining 300/. in Dank of England notes, the property cf Mr. Francis Ski!r"r, of Kingston-on-Thames, as detailed in cur police report of Thursday lae. - The complainant. Laving descrihed the circomstan,c.3 at tending the loss of his pocket-book, proceeded to narrate, that when ha gnve the pi isoner into cuitocly they f.rocecded from the inn to the station-house at the rear of this court; that on leaving the inn they turned to the right, up the Borough, and passed the end of Adam's. place, whieb is on the right-hand side of High-street (close to where the pocket-book and its contents awe f,nod tile Caine morning). Toe parties who went to the station-l:wive were the coup - Wain:int, his fiend and relative Mr. VireJ, and two poli ce . men, and the prisoner; Mr. Gunder, the landlord of the Catherine Wheel, did not accompany them. The prisoner, Ando policeman . by his side, walked before complainant and Mr. West ou passing the end of Adam's-place. Mr. Humphries, at this stage of the investigation, com menced a lengthened cross-examination of the cenwlainant as to his condition in life, his place of residence, and to ac- count for his time from the period he left the theatre on the night of Tuesday up to the time, a quarter before five o'clock the next morning, when he misted the SOL from the inside of his left boot. These questions were answered by the com plainant, describing himself as of independent circumstances, that lie resided at Colburn-villa, near Kingiton ; that he. supported his relative, Air. West, who accompanied him to various places of amusement in town, and on the night in question they had called at everal public-houses, at which he had previously purchased "sweep tickets" for the Derby and other racs. The complainant objected at first to give answers to some of the questions put to him by Mr. Humphries, partiCtitarly those relating to his places of abode before he went to live' at Kingston ; but the latter gentleman urged the necessity of his adopting the same line of cross-examination he had taken when so serious a charge was made against the accused, as it was necessary to ascertain whether the complainant. and his friend, Mr. West, were - persons of credibility, and whose tes timony could be relied upon. Mr. COrI'INGIIAM remarked that he could not clearly see Lviece.s . 4tz fur atlittLyuch questions; that an alleged • —•••••••• aa.. uc.sa - c5.....:1141, Tile plt A1N,14.1- .44 ..,414Z Borough; that the money was atterwarda-found not•Pir'ltist taut from the inn, and must hive been dropped by some one or other of the persons on the way to the station-house; that he thought it quite an absurd notion to suppose the complainant had dropped the pocket-book; and that it ap peared his friend Mr. West was at another part of the room when the prisoner pulled off the boot belonging to com plainant, which contained the money, and from which it was taken. HOwever, if Mr. Humphries thought it essential to the defence, he was at liberty to continue the cross• examination. In answer to further questions by Mr. Humphrie.=, the complainant gave a very minute account of his time from quitting the theatre on the night in question until his ar rival in a cab at the Catherine Wheel, from which it appeared he and his friend had called at the different houses alluded to, but, although they had partaken of refreshment at some of them. still they were both perfectly sober when they got up into the room of the inn where the robbery was alleged to have been committed. In reply to Mr. COTTINGUA3I, the complainant said he distinctly felt the pocket-book inside his boot when he un buttoned his trousers' straps to let the prisoner pull the boots off. When the prisoner pulled the left boot off he ins mediately left the room, saying, he wanted to lock the yard gates, leaving the other boot on complainant's leg. He had hurried out of the room before complainant missed the pocket-book, and he called out to the prisoner to return, and mentioned to him when he came back that the pocket book and 3001. were gone; that the prisoner declared he knew nothing about it, and threw open his coat and waistcoat, saying he was willing to be searched ; and when he (complainant) approached him said that he would not anew him or his friend to overhaul him in case they should place anything in his pockets, and he said that he sheuld call his master up for his protection. 11,3 com plainant further said that the prisoner did not undergo any search while at the Catherine Wheel, that nc t being carried into effect until afterwards, when they got to the station house ;. that previously to leaving the Catherine Wheel, and when the circumstances attending the loss of the 3001. were mentioned to the landlord, he exclaimed that he was satisfied of the honesty of his servant, and also evinced an objection to hare the police called in, on the plea that his other lodgers I ought not to be disturbed. Mr. Humphries—Was not the prisoner searched in your presence at the Catherine Wheel before yon went to the station-house ? Complainant—l did not observe he was searched by either the landlord or the policeman while in that house. All I saw was the prisoner merely opening his jacket and waistcoat, and pull his pockets inside out. Mr. West, the young man referred to, was next examined, and he confirmed the complainant's account of the transac tion in all its essential points. The witness also un 'erwent a lengthened cross-examination,. in the course of mhich he said that he was 19 years of age; had been formerly a wine merchant's and a linendraper's clerk at Brighton, but chit within the last three months he had been . supported by his cousin, the complainant The witness also proved that the prisoner did not undergo a search before they arrived at the station-house. Cox, foreman at the Plicenix Gas Works, Bankside, steed that in walking from his house in Fox's-buildings, Kent stmt, at about a quarter to six o'clock on the morning in quettion, he picked up a pocket-book, cortaining a 1001. and tour 501— Bank of Eogland notes, in High-sir et, near ANt i rk's-Cturt; tn,at the.ilkcket44A was lying on the centre of e pavenrant; he 'tooltii,Lto the gas company, an gave it to Mr. Munro, the inaue t 7r, in whose poswastien it still ":•• • < p oc k et _b n o r ,vu ,1 produced by Mr. Munro, and identified by Cox as the sane he found, and they were ale° identified by the owner as his property.) Inspector Yates proved that the complainant and Mr. West were perfectly sober; that the prisoner was searched there, but nothing was found in his possesion. Policeman 101 M, who took the prisoner from the Cathe rine Wheel to the station-house, stated, that on going there he walked on the prisoner's left side, and that his right hand was et liberty_; that on the way the pri , toncr talked of being thirsty, and expressed a wish to go into a coffee-shop to have some coffee. Prisoner's right hand was next to Adams place. He added that he was present at the Catherine Wheel when the landlord expressed his confidence in the prisoner's honesty, and said that he was certain that he had not taken the pocket-bwk and its contents. By Mr. Humphries —The last time the prisoner expressed a wish to enter a coffee. shop . was between Lant-street and Norfolk-street, considerably nearer , the station-house than Adam's-place; the priSoner and he were before the corn- plainant and other persons in passing the spot where the pocket-book was afterwards found. By Mr. COTEINGIIAM—The prisoner was not searched at the Catherine Wheel, but the room in which the parties were at the inn, arid also some places in the yard, were examined in quest of the pocket-book. Two other policemen, who were also callid in to the Ca therine Wheel, were next examined, and their evidence merely went to show that the prisoner had not been searched until taken to the station-house. After a question had been asked by Mr. COTTINGITAM as to whether the pocket-book contained any gold or silver, or other hard substance in it, so that by dropping it on the pavement a noise would be produced, and the answer by the complainant being in the negative, he having stated that it only contained the bank notes and some memoranda,—the prisoner, then, in his defence made a long statement to the effect that he was entirely innocent of the alleged charge. He denied that he had taken the boot said to have con tained the pocket-book out of the bedroom ; that his motive in leaving the room was to lock the yard-gates, as much pro perty was exposed ; that he offered to be searched, and called hie master up for his protection in case any advantage might be taken in his absence; and that he was searched minutely before leaving his master's house by a policeman. The three policemen who had entered the Catherine Wheel were here called forward by the magistrate and questioned as to the truth of the prisoner's assertion, and they all denied it, saying it did not take place until his arrival at the sta tion-house. The MAGISTRATE could 'not help animadverting on the neglect of the policeman in omitting so important a circum stance as the minute examination of the person of a man charged with committing such a robbery, on the very spot where it was stated it had occurred. The prisoner, in continuation, spoke of an altercation complainant and his friend had with a cabman about the fare in the inn-yard before they got up stairs, and concluded by a solemn declaration of his innocence, declaring that he had never seen the complainant's pocket-book nor its con tents until he saw them that day in court. Mr. Humphriea considered that the accused had given a complete answer to the charge ; that- he could not have been the person who dropped the pocket-book, as he walked in front of the complainant, his friend Mr. West, and the policeman, on the way to the station-house. lir. CorrittGuaat recapitulated all the circumstances at tending the case, and, in the course of his lengthened ob servations, remarked that, although it appeared that the complainant and his friend had not given a very satisfactory account of their present way of life, still that he could not believe they had concocted the statements they made in order to bring such a charge against the accused. That, under all the circumstances he should send the case before another tribunal for investigation, and, in committing the prisoner for trial, should acccept of bail himself in 2001., and two sureties of 1001. each, to appear at the next sessions. The Magistrate added, that the depositions should be now taken, but the prisoner might be brought up again on Monday. DEATH OF SIR VALENTINE 13LAKE.—A letter was received in town this morning, announcing the death of Sir Valentine Blake, Bart., whose resignation of the representa tion of Galway has led to the contest which is to take place in that borough.—Dublin Paper of Monday. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF GOLD AND SILVER. — Yesterday information was circulated that between ten and eleven o'clock on Monday night there was stolen from the house of Mr. James Clarke, New-street, Lambeth, a rose wood writing-desk, brass bound, containing 1851. in sove reigns and 100'. in Bank of England notes of 101. each, the numbers and dates unknown. The robbery is supposed to have been committed by a tall thin man in dark clGthes, who was seen entering the parlour window, which had been left unfastened, and who must have gone up stairs and taken the writing-desk from the first floor front room, and left the house by the front door. ACCIDENT AT COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.—On , the wallsacc - d — -- Sunday afvteerrnyoosner,iobuestwcheaernacttwero happened andthree w o' i c t l h oc in k o r t xo.cfnat garden Theatre to a labourer named Bushill Mol loy, aged 45. He was at work at the time, and was ascend ing a ladder, when, after having reached 26 feet front the ground, he missed his tooting, arid was precipitated with such force as to fracture his thigh, besides receiving several other extensive injuries. He was immediately removed to the Charing- cross Hospital, where he now lies in a very preca rious condition. PRICE OF GOLD.—The premium on gold at Paris is 10 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10 1 4 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.40; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25.321, it follows that gold is 0.30 per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By a d v i ces from Ilamburgh the price of gold is 431 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 178. 10 1 4 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.8 ; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.41, it follows that gold is 1.53 per cent. dearer in limber& then in London. m-- ~, (. .. 4..... CITY 'or LONDO/Kig._ OT ,: .• ''..':LiOillftl:FD., ~ ....„ ~, . auol.N REFORM. .. e _._ ee.. tV". .A., . Yesterday a very numerous meeting of the members as . .' 3 1 ^e - \. l i - - -'•eee - 4 2 + e ---- :e - . sembled in cornmit we of the whole court, for :be purpose of l'*'' 7 ''' adopting resolutiong, :,he tendency of which was to refs, 4 --- -: i f , 7, 4 • .as, C.,:.71474fr Z I N .? ' 4 ''' 4 ‘*- + in an essential manner,: the Corporation of London:, Before the committee proceeded to business Mr. R. L. 'Theme asked whether the Lord Maynr bad any communication to make to the Court ? The Loan MAYOR replied in the negative. - Mr. Acuuasr (chairman of the sub-comniittee) brought up the report, containing sundry recommendations. Alderman WlLsoer objected to the reading of the rep et, which he contended was quite at variamx with the reference to the committee. Upon this subject a very angry disc:lv-Con took place, tes tifying that there was bat little chance of mini:fifty in the committee. It was at length determined that Mr. Amur:,` should proceed. Mr. AorzfusT then proposed the first reeolefloe. of which he had given notice, and which formed ono essential po:tion of the report. It was a recommendation that the: Court of Common Council request tte Lord Mayor to restore the Qualification Bill to the paper of business to be bieught on at the noxt Court. It was very properly ol!zerved by Alder luau Wilson that the Court of Aldermen hall become the laughiog,-stock of the .pablic. The conduct of that body upon the late attempts of the Common Councli to cif:At a silutary reform was a strong iilustration o; the true :' , r t hat observation. Seeing, however. that 1:) , _, C - .: - .1 :1 ,' . • cil. was re - olved to adopt a sysreur of r. : - :::: :; ; ~,,;,, . -1 ad :Me:nth:ed to apply to Parillment for ~, ..L.:',:ial ch 0...,,. in ifs conetitutioa: Nothing, he c , mttilded, ceuk be i. -re monstrou s than th.e idea that the Lord td.avor lia4t elte poe er to rensove from the paper of husiness grrs - Mot i:m. nc - Nhich a member of the Court had given notice. Alcr several re marks upon the nlsamptieu of such A power, M.. Aelfurat moved the reselefien. Sir P. LAuma felt great pleasure in seconding the motion.' A great misconception existed, he said, as to the power of the two Court?. His notion was that the pocket-book reti lations constituted the only guide to the Lord Mayor, who did not represent the Court of. Aldermen in the ecnnuritt3e. but was merely the chairman, - and it would be intolerable that a Lord Mayor should attempt. to dictatate do the Court of Common Council as the representative ofthe other Court. tie was proud to say that he had been in a minority in :he Court of Aldermen since the journey to Oxford, and he ad mired the spirit with which the Common Council was show.. lug, itself to be master of its own proceedings. If his Lord. ship did not think proper to do his duty, the'Court would, as a matter of course, apply to the next officer, for it was not to be supposed that the great machin - ery of the corpora tion was to be stopped by the caprice of one man.—(gear. ) Mr. W. LAWRENCE said that if' the Lord Mayor had a right to remove a notice of motion from the paper of business he might claim the right of saying there should be no paper of business at all.—( Hear, hear.) It was en outrage upon common sense to suppose the possibility of the existence of such a power. The Court of Common Council would crease their own, paper of business. They were willing to do it ...^ t mrd,,i)tiyor, if behappeued to he so dislosel, P CR. SD. - • eeeee- t• . . —(Cheers.) It iviedd ho pi - acing -7 , :flitted, in a diagreeable position, to require of him to do what the Lord Mayor refused to ace:A - oohs!. ;•- but - in a ca,e of such extreme importance there could be lie oltigetion to such an alternative.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. PEwTILESS declared that an end would be pat to all corporation business if the Lord Mayor pssessed so ex traordinary a power as Lis Lordship had attempted to exercise. Alderman SIDNEY wished to see unanimity exieting!..be tween the Courts. He believed there was scarcely an Eng lishman to be found who wished ill to the aldermen of Lon don.—( A laugh.) A little might be stid in Punch deroge tory to there, but they had no hostile feeling directed against them.—(Cries of " 01 , , oh.") If the Curt, did one - - thing calculated to destroy so ancient and honourable a cor poration, upon their heads would fall the blame of frittering away the privileges which they bad sworn to defend. Tire Lord Mayor had acted open the advice of the Recorder, the, Common Sergeant, and two eminent counsel. Mr. U. TATLOR—Who are the eminent counsel? Alderman SIDNEY could nut at that moment say. .To put the question which the Lord Mayor had refused •to put might be erroneous in law, and would not the Court be de serving of blame if they asserted a privilege without know ing whether they had it or not? He thought . there was a way of getting out of the dilemma with honour, and he should propose that way as an amendment. Ha then.moved that the opinions of the Attorney and Solicitor-General, to gether with the opinions- of the Recorder and Comnuee Sergeant, be taken, whether the Lord Mayor had a right to put the question. Alderman WD.soN seconded the amendment, because lao thought it the only mode of carrying out the reform of the Court of Common Council. No one could read the whole of the resolutions on the paper without feeling that, so far from healing the differences which existed, they must tend to widen them, and lead to the great detriment of the in terests, rights, and privileges of the corporation. The Court assumed to itself more exclusive power than belonged to the House of Commons ; an d b e was i nclined to think that, so far as the city of London was concerned, then bad those extraordinary powers when acting as a vested body of Load Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council ; but in pawing for levying taxes on their fellow-Citizens, extending the elective franchise, and altering the qualifications of the mem bers of the Court itself, surely it became them to carry such. measures in a manner worthy of a deliberative assembly, claim ing and exercising such extensive powers as those now con tendeq. for. Of what value would a Bill he if not passed legally according to the customs and charters of the City? How could they expect that the Court of Aldermen, as a judicial body; would or could take notice et Bills or laws passed ie. the - way proposed? hid they suppose that if the Lord Mayor declined to comply with their request, and. they attempted to place the Town Clerk above his Lordship, the latter would remain in the Court, and if the Lord Alay or left the Court, what would any Act passed in his absence be worth ? He implored I hem to take the advice of counsel upne a matter involving the great privileges of their felio w citizens. lie concluded by informing the Court that the couneel upon whose ophdon the Lord etayor had acted, were Mr. Peacock and Mr. Wilde, as well as the Recorder and Cononon-Sergeant. Mr. We JONES saidlthe speeches of the mover aid seconder! of .e,atnefidtereet were conelusi.ye in favour (-1 the original 'Mott He thought -it wersC , lllyee - ehry to 'gay. ei e g 'dermet3lmosed to the Common Colincil rope erough , aled hec .Vierrenetairdeelearier_thelyes It 4 ,1:4' , C . tr‘ , k_ut - ai case in siten a manner as to insure tne irenvery or -- rata op ,nAL favourable to the views of the party interested. lie con sidered it would be the extreme of impolicy to adept the amendment. Alderman CHALLIS, at the same time that he :zdvocated. the original motion, defended the Court of Aldermen front the charge of wi.,h ng to interfere with the inirependence of the Court of Common Council. Mr. Lowe said be had mentioned to the Lord Mayor that if his Lordship assured the committee that he would restore the Bill on the paper of business, and allow the questiun, that the Bill be read a third time, to be put, he would move, as an amendment, that the Bill be re-eommitted.— Hear, hear.) If such a vourse should be adopted, the opinion of counact could be taken as 'o the leality of the 'Bit!, at.d thfignurt ceuld act upon tte advice. The L.Seue nAYOR, having been called upon be several members of the committee, said he always ‘vislied to see unrinimity established between the two Courts, and a kindly feeling perpetuated. He l►ad been advises! that be could not legally put the question, and he had acted upon that advice, for he was not so presumptuous as to haz ird an opinion upon such a subject, when men of high legal educatien and experience suggested the course fur bins to pursue. lie lamented the disagreement which existed as reach as any one, and he would suggest a motion to the extent to whim he could conscientiously go. It wae, that the Lord Mayor be requested to iueert the Bill to declare the qualification of freemen of London to be elected members of the Court of Common Council in the paper of business for the next Common Council, in order that the said Bill should be re committed, aed its provisions reconsidered in committee of the Common Council.—(Marks of disapprobation Mr. ANDERTON said 'the Court could not think of. such a cornpromie of its dignity. The question of the legality of the Bill was to be deckled elsewhere. The Court would take upon itself the responsibility of passing it. Sir JAMES DUKE complained that the advice of counsel should be taken by a portion of the aldermen unknown to thu rest of that body. The objection to the Bill ought to have been taken on the second, and not on the third reading. Mr. It. TAYLOR said he rose to address the Lord Mayor personally. His Lordship's car had been abused. Ire was led by a small clique of the Court of Aldermen, and two or three other officers. That was a degradation to the mayor alty, and it was the duty of his Lordship to retrace his steps, and put the Bill upon the paper of business to undergo the necessary discussion. Mr. It. L. Jogs, and other members, also implored the Lord Mayor to act independently of the clique by whom it was evident he was influenced in opposing the wishes of the great majority of the members of the Corporation. The question was then put, and there were a few hands held up for Alderman Sidney's amendment, which was ne gatived, amidst acclamation, by an immense majority. Amongst those who voted for the original question were Al dermen Sir Peter Laurie, Liumphery, Wood, Sir James Duke, and Challis. There were four aldermen in the minority. The following resolutions were afterwards carried by great majorities "That in the event of the Qualification Bill not being placed on the paper, this committee be recommended to assert and adhere to their right to bring on the same for discus sion, and to have the question ' that the Bill be read a third time' put to the Court. "That the Remembrancer be requested to lay before the grand committee a copy of any Bill intended to be presented to the House of Commons to repeal or alter the Act of the 11th George 1., as soon as it shall be proposed." Alderman HUMPHERY said if the Court agreed to go to Parliament to alter the Act alluded to, he should so arrange the support of the Bill that there would be no interference whatever with the privileges of the Common Councilmen. Sir PETER LAURIE quoted the opinion of Sir Francis Pal grave against going to Parliament. Mr. R. TAYLOR said Sir F. Palgrave had not only given the opinion just quoted, but an opinion diametrically to it. carried Mr. Ashurst's last resolution, which was unani mously, was that a report founded upon these resolutions , be opposed mon Council, and that the same should haNt, precedence of es al i d n et: lc en c , or d p i o n r i a it t li io sh a i . ng prepared, signed, and presented at the next (hurt Coin- , all other business. Mr. AstrunsT then gave notice o a f nd se e v o e n r l a p l re m h o e t n io; ig , a a s g se rea rt- t ing the rights and privileges of the Common Council, snur tleiaelticolatanogf the number and equalising the wards, variety of P o e t r h i : d r i e e :s i en e The committee broke up at a late hour. (IRELAND).---A return of the iggre esni tl o a s N otf s t p la r i uzis y i e o a n r s s, importedending j a f t r i o u m a ry i rcil s a i n 7 l. o t ( o v - e E d . n t f ; r l g a a n tP d e Rah amount by Mr. P. Scrope, .shuws that the quantity' of corn (of Irish growth) so impo r t e d amounted, in 1814, to 2,801,206 quar ters; in 1845, to 3,251 901 qulrters • and, in 1846, to 1,825,394 quarters. The quantity of wheat flour, and oat meal amounted respectively, in 1844, to 839,567 cwt., and 1,150,976 cwt. ; in 1845, to 1,424379 cwt., and 1,059,185 cwt.; and in 1846, to 723,562 cwt., and 553,147 cwt. The number of cattle exported from Ireland to Great Bri tain, in the year 1846, was as follows :-186,483 oxen, &c. ; 6,363 calves; 259,257 sheep and lambs; and 480,827 swine. NEW ZEALAND.—TWO blue books were issued yesterday, one of 87 pages in length, containing papers rela tive to the affairs of New Zealand, in continuation of those presented last August; the other, a document of 511 plges, contains the voluminous correspondence (from July, 1846, to Jan., 1847,) relating to the measures for the relief of the distress in Ireland (commissariat series). Thomas Smith Badger, Esq., 8.A., of Trinity hall, Cambridge, and of 3, Essex-court, Temple (eld.‘,st son of Mr. Badger, attorney, Rotherham, and ona ot • her Majesty's coroners for the county of York), was on Friday called to the degree of Barrister-at-law by the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple. Mr. llildyard, M.P., arrived at Farrar.ce's Hotel. Upper Belgrave-street, yesterday, from his seat near Newark, Feb' 6 :s 1 ) Ek e . rice lairi9g eats t s • istoa 01. , orP7, bet; r d‘vol 0 ' 0 orr ess° 0 0° : %it: 4 rio Ar 5. 8 3 ' i : 5 'IP co. tO .19, o f 4.0 1 1 7, :;1 1 '; r°'