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•••: /NETT-NINTH SILT. CUSTOM ROUSE, LONDON, January, 1847 For SALE, by order of the lifonourable Commissioners of her -tt Tw estrs Customs, at the Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing-lane, w elve o'clock at Noon precisely, MoNDAT ISt, TUESDAY 2d, Ej nbD AY 3d. THURSDAY 4th, FRIDAY sth, and SATURDAY, 6th 41141 7, 1847, the following GOODS for Home Consumption, Agate s e a, trooch Pleeti P enholders -& &c Artifici al pi • e• • liaisons wen O)2U Powder _""iter Paper _-.4voch Paintings .t . eds, Gilt Steel, &c. &c. °aze Candlebras, Candlesticks, Billiard Quells ! askets "'randy 'l oxes, Card &c. Curt a „_ theayona . Embroidered cora]. Bea d , Chl ilegli g e es Chln Paintings Jars Ar, - Cameos--•••• neetnbrlc liandker Amexi hi 13s an Inlaid Pillar C halzber • %Ath a , ,&c• &e • Carted wood Cologne Water Cheroot s Cutlery ,„.......14abw ro in id g e r ry n : viz.:— tmmentB Collars Cuffs Shirt Fronts l iandkerehietb Pelerines Habit Shirts Lutestrings Lucifers Lace,;Berthes Barbee ShawLe, &c. Musical Instruments, ♦iz. Violins Horns Opheclides Flutes Guitars Cornopeans. &c. &c. Meerschaum Pipes, &c. hlusical Boxes Mohair Yarn Matting, E. I. and other Porcelain, French Dresden Pencils Pencil Cases Peribmery Picture Frames Rugs, Persian, &C. Rum Silver, Antique Plate Shawls, Cashmere Crape French Sea Ware Squirrel Linings Soy Silk Mantles Cloaks Scarfs Shawls Aprons Veils Bags and Purses Mitts Handkerchiefs Silk and Cotton Stuffi and Searfa Silk and Woollen Bags Chemlsettes Table Covers Chair Pleoes Lace. & c. Earthenware Ex tract, Chemical Furniture Chairs Tables Escrutoires Sofas Damask Steel Buckles Purse Snaps Purse Slides Purse Garnitures Steel Purse Tassels, &C. Semolina Segar Lights Segars • Snaffs Tobacco, Boxes Manufactured Unmanufactured Cheffoniers Sideboard. &c. &c. reathers, Dressed Flock for Paper Stainer, Glove Boxes fleneva Bat Linings Ivory ch en m en Can Boxes, &c. &c. Jewellery Jewel Cases _ Lee. Antique Point Pillow Thread Silk Lacquered Ware Tea Velvet, Mantles Cloaks Bags Broad Stuffs Utrecht Woollen Handkerchiefls Shawls Watch Springs Maker's Tools Watches, Gold Silver Work Boxes Window Blinds Walking Sticks Walking Stick Pipe Tubes Wine Leather Manufactures lAndVATiOlli other Goods For Exportation only :—Gold and Silver Watches, Antique Lace, Sugar Candy. For the Benefit of the Crown :—Sundry old CUM empty Casks, &c. Also, for Exportation, at Buyers' prices ; or for Home Consump tion, on payment of the proper duties :—Silk goods, Cologne water, Sugar Candy, Coffee, Mats, Books, Brandy, Wine, Molasses, Sugar, Salted Beef, Tamarinds, Flour, Cordials, or Spirits sweetened, Tea, Rum, &c., &c., &c. To be viewed at the Queen's warehouse, Custom-house, Thames street ; at the London, the West and East India docks, and at the Tobacco Ground, Rothorhlthe, on Thursday, 28th, Friday, 29th, and Saturday, 30th January, 1847 , from Ten o ' clock in the morning until Three o'clock in the afternoon, and on the Days of Sale from Ten O'clock in the morning until Twelve o'clock at neon. Take Notice, that the goods sold at this Sale will not be delivered Until after Two clear days of the day on which they are sold, and that aoLots can be paid for at the Office of the Receiver of Fines after Tyro o'clock in the afternoon ; and on the Days of Sale money will loot be received by the Receiver of Fines after Eleven o'clock in the loreoo on . Catalogues may be had at the Queen's warehouse , Custom - hou se, -London, price One Shilling. METROPOLITAN AND SUBURBAN CE• METERIES SOCIETY. Provisionally Registered according to Act of Parliament. First Capital. 100,0001., in ~000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, IL 10s. per Share. TRUSTEES. B. B. Cabbell, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., • Luke James Hansard. Esq. ,PraiDtetnses. with the Estimates, may be had, oil application. .Tra Messrs. Bourdillion and Sons, Solicitors, Great Winchester street. or at the OUlces of the Company, 6, Broad street Buildings. By order of the Committee, EDWARD HOARE, Secretary. iFiROVINCIAL AND GENERAL CEMETE• TERINS CONY. Provisionally Registered according to Act of Parliament. First Capital, 250,0001., in Shares of 201. each. Deposit, Two Shillings per Share. TRUSTS a. B. B. Cabbell, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., Sec. Pro. Lake James Hansard, Esq. Ims Peckttles' moy be had from, and application for Shares May be st — a.L to, Messrs- Bourdillion and Sons, Solicitors, Great Winchester u, or at the OfiNes of the Company. Ay order of the Committee, RDWARD HOARE, Secretary. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR• ANCE SOCIETY, 26 CONNHILL. LONDO27. Capital £500,000. This' / mut . Empowered by Act of rirllatnent. % pg. _ .4011 has . u . r eSPeet te Lif. the . 0 of the Policy, two-thirds important and substantial advantages er 2.1 - anon and Deferred Annuities. The ass tit on all °--- mlspo wer to borrow, without expense or (o - A thirds Of the *realms paid (see Table) e option of selecting benefits, and the conversion ef his in it., ca noes for „t ee : meet other conveniences or itecessity. t possible years are granted on the 'owes terms of The . DIVISION OF PROFITS. h ai e.._..Markable success and increasing prosperity of the Society toZ ° V the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare Gp e ae ,:'„ rcua, varying from o to 85 per cent. on the premiums p aid rolicy effected en the Profit scale. EXAMPLES. ..1 1 II Premi um. ' .l Bonus ; Bonus In g 5,g Assured 1 added. , Cash. Eg• ho may • 1 U. g Borrow. ... . e ..... --.... I ----_____ 0,, 0 4 i. d. I t 1 11 . 3 3 7 8 £217 15 3 0 1 £lO 7 O 01 1 4 1 £l ll 1g ! Z = 1 . 1 0 1 u° 34 / :: 4 1 0 9 1 1 6 1 Z 1 7 1 10 6 74 54 0 1 1 : , 1 7 1 18 3 1( 1 , 1 :, 13 2 3 4 ...:...,___ 1.11541 t 11l 6 s 49 10 0! 710 4, 247 4 e Th e , D e ._ Arision of prellts is manual, and the next will be mauls " w aber of the present yew'. F. FESOUSON C1.31X01.71. Secretary. AL It GUS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 29, TIIROGMORTON-STREET, BANE. 3 ' I POWERRD BY SPECIAL ACT OF PARLIAMENT. THOMAS FARNCOMU, Esq., Alderman. Cbairman. WILLIAM LEAF, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. E. Arden, Esq. John Iltunphery Esq., Alderman, t,want Banbury, Esq. Trfard Bates, Esq. Thomas Kelly , Esq. , Alderman. 3."L'lnas Camplin, Bag. nremielt Pitcher, Esq. k'ees Clift, Esq. Lewis Pocock, Eaq. 41, ertletty, Esq. Pnrsiciate—Dr. Jeaffresov. 2 Finsbury-square. grauzen—W. ceuleon, Esq.. 2, Fresiericies-place, Old Jewry. CONguLTIN• AcTllAßT—Professor 11411, of King's College. LOW RATES OF PREMIUM. • Persocts Assuring in this °Rice have the benefit of the Lowest l ater of Premium which is compati b le with.the safety of the Assured, 14 which is, in effect, equivalent to an Annual Bonus ; they have Atwise the security of a large subscri b e d ca p ital—an Assurance end of nearly a Quarter of a Million—and an Annual Income of t il'wards at 60,00 01 ., arising from the Issue of between 5,010 and MO Policies. ♦NNUAL PIIIIMIUM TO AMIN £lOO. Age. For Ono Year. I For Seven Years, Wholo Term. £0 19 1 £1 11 10 127 2 0 7 1 i 9 2 14 10 1 19 10 4 0 11 3 7 0 ; 0 10 40 17 3 1 1 3 1 5 0 1 14 1 3 2 4 lOhe-half of the Whole ... Term" Premium may rennin en credit ..en years, or one.third of the Premium may remain for life as a * I , Pen the policy at 5 per cent., or may be paid off at any time ...iout otic. ,„ cies ass e igned u a security to others, will not be render ed Told thi"lAvquence of death by suicide. duelling, or by the hands of jus- Ik t In case of death by the above causes, where the PGlicies are e;figried, the gross amount of Prennunis received will be returned. 147 . 1 T! e paid in one month after proofs have been tarnished. , diced Omeers attend daily at a Quarter nstore Two o Clock, `otiChis issued the same day. Ii.DWA3ZD BATES, Resident Director. A liberal Commission to Solicitors fuid /galas. TRE LONDON SEASON A WORD TO THE LORDS AND COMMONS. rhYmes (though addressed tithe good Legislature), nothing of any politieal natu. 18 a matter of bailees, on which we have written— Word to the Lords and the Commons of Britain ; Lor all in the state are concern e d, more or less, MOSES and SON'S noted warehouse for dress. ~+0 season in London once more is begun -3:4Y it be a good season for MOSES and SON ; ay the Lords and the Commons. returning to town Zlsit MOSES and SON at their Mart of renown. r ...• MOSES and SON would molt heartily thank heir numerous patrons of title awl rank, W hose favours, last year, were surprisingly great, And such as did honour to men of the state ; 4-M while the proprietors thank them for thee, hay solicit new favours from Lords and At the Lords and the gentlemen forming the data their lightly discussions are ott detailed late, The elegant wrappers of MOSES and SON I l i Youlo protect and prevent any harm being done. , oble I, t ,ntf, after making long speeches, require A dditional .7artnth in their over attire ; all who w;ottid value their health should take care To avoid any hurt from the chilly night air. „"yldell In plain honeit words may be easily done, IV seeking protection from MOSES and SON. LIST 0? I e itICNS. ALLOY MAIM. tj' 2_ "Or TagHonig, irons .................. • • ........... I' 4s l t4rfields and CoOringtons .... ... • • • • • .. -as, D'Orsays, and Chesterfields. and every des cr i pt i on )1: h : winter coats•• •• •• • • ..... •• • ••• I,;Li.'l i nt er n •, Coa lined ts, In• ... ovary style and make ..• • • ........• •.. • • 0 •• • • 8 6 11 T.. ••• • • c oma •••••• 1 5 S huw e . br ••••"••""" .•....„„, ..... •••• 0 2 0 oyk• ... easted Vesta co.. 44 , 1 ”sar Ara Tunic Suits •,.. •• • . tict,..,7inter Trousers •• •• .. A 8. d 8 6 0 10 6 . • - .., , 0 1 6 ... Alee.--'• • • • • • • • • " • . • • • • • • • • ninutee` notice. -.tun& h 0 any extent at Ave i Wlnt, h - ' o ato, warranted waterproof„ any style, 1 s 0 _er ui ._ Manx To AI 'lw lir tim •"',l'9Y trimmed -••"• • " "„ sn d c uffs, lined Clotet C oats, EAs ;;;::; t. trimmed, velvet collar , . 0 18 0 Twr a 7,, , t ercOats. ... ..... .•••••••• ' • ' ' ' " ••, •• .., 0 8 6 Wl+ltee p'e •-".rs. '• '' ' ...... •••••• • • • • • • Iciinch patterns 1 2 6 t e . st - ...roue,. . . In ell the most approved 1 6 0 ~ awedlT/re Trousers . -••••'''••• • • • • • • ll2 0 Coats " " " • .. .. . 2 IS 0 •••••• ...... ~.. .... ;I:l',,alitlUalida .. .. „„,•• . • • • . k...,- .4,84 .. „.„ ' ... . „ ...... .... -•• • • ' .... 3 3 0 Ir---ii; quality rug , •••• ••• :: : ; ; ..., igati: 7 V .te,t4 - ............•• •.•• • • ••• • • • ...... • ....... 0 12 0 pAol or fancy ..... ... A ne%,,LlMt_l: and Tunic.Bults •• •• •• -" ' • ''''' • • i • t • 1 • 1 • l directions ~, \"ork, entitled •• Costume Castle,. w or forwarded '" e asil. - enie t may be had on application, Doet f i .,_ _ n , b st ",,, , ade to mea sure. not Any art;;le purchased, ready made, or r the Iroon), oPProved oi, will be exCha.ngcd, or if preferred, Ottnned. 0 e,,,.',.tii imd SON, Tailorl, Woollendrapers, (...lo.`„l'l."•llattefreo; IL ldiej ',,`.4rrien, Boot mad Shoemakeil, and General Outn.'?"' ... 04, ,s , ••11,1 Genlitmen, 154, 155, and 1.56, 157 Itinories, and se, Ceuti o 4 n n d 60 Mdgate, '.)ity, London. tnhl 4 ic :1" - X. Moses and Son regr e t being obliged to guard the being eouneeteAl with them, or It's the same concern, y-711 so to in many instances, and for obrione reasons. azd ti1,.!',41.`1 eonnexloll with any oilier house in or out of London; Or uni t : 4 hs , desire genuine and ellen? clothing, &c., should call at, ir etie r , h tlnOries and Akigate, City, Loudon. 1111P'114.':4to tagitiesa tranaacted at this establblanseat from sun- INoe t . - •ra tal siagso Saturday, wheu business ie reauxued WI twelve • Cameron, rilcockson 17—A. J. Feb. 16 ). 16—G. 16—S. G. tobothanli Deighton , ge, Berk s, Lanca e Brighton, , Brixton, I—T. Carr EL Morton .street —J , 3ers, New ide factors, ,ristol- 11. W. and T. iv and B. nd E. Tet- V. I3arrie, ,attorneys, 'ark-plec e • rke, linen' rail, cotton ssawyer, 1, curler* 3 manufae d.S TBaenellt, . ' D. Breese, iton and J. [. Simpson Ilers, New" ; Faithful!, A. Fait h ' ling-street. qarch 1, at k, Glasgow• Glasgow, Glasgow• tn. 30 an% ,w. and 23, At 111 bf.2t.t . • 6 * LIFE strafrit--V ie, f Faternitt; felicitoitssn' riages;? * Ezr__ ill feeling $ I. BY v ° i t ; ble, the re rnstY‘ i v ( 1 1 11,0 n heal* t shim, )n id of 10 01 71ivin8 G ` n formatic..,l 'ratedoo" idea tintliS_- eltef, it igritiv, plitV ie wa pon that L i on , the i..ds, Yo re! heili t ' )ur he h e alth ye to rel art Y• ed . ay iniP 4 . 0 0 nd ilaPrnes , t fultiar . ,„ r offsP r ''' t ~e JD, loco. el t h e body ee the laigay. r 13 o" lrt i re i 11 b e 'netts 00 tee thst r; ell 141 a cornia ll“ (lea d loie orl „ a lly to sin e, Vl(s°6 t an i l Seal. 1 Wa lt Wit, .a W uis o f Te s t se. Mi CtUre)h o . weed b3rg resid elle " 63050ra.. of wheatby'o t, fear Ltrodaction to • sc ases L e n t w th ia er !"" en tail cal aiu, U direct cea kne4. " 3 61, Its. and de t. 335. per by An *fl , f3 ; )lood tee, and boet;a, ]Proper trlls 11. Price ;. 4 'do S. stricture- 4 , , to hindrance lof ease 00ae. L air resi dex : o l4 till two, 1. - --- -- -, 71i A. 1.4- VINO ,rit. iveloPei.„,' pi stage t'*-- al Tr e t t r i , s ; yid 3 ; l _ l ' e :i ot a' xu arg A 00, ic trve An d Ed pier (Se r° ierolooe. 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' i \,, - ' * .r ~ 4 , • -,, -,,:: „......„ , ,--- A „. - ~,,,,,,,,,,,t, ~.i,r, - - , • , #.4y:f',. , -_ , ,4 1 : 1 60 4 ,, ._ :pi-- • ....._' op ,• 1* ..,. , , , - .„,,,, ,," ~,.. i v y,. , .. , ~,,c.. ..t., 1 .t ~. ' ~,,,... A. • ....7. ' -- 491" , -ZqE ,:rr ItPip-.;„.,.. ' ..., ' - - -1 'le ',::-"' t iS '' : V.t:r -- " . `-',` Vii, "": .., ' 14,1 , z... " g, ~.' 4 - 24 - -W r ... 14, , , , ''Z '" ---- _ _ - z '.. _,...:V , 7:::„.. D ' SIT. saswtswmmm ma.wwm.omee.a.........e..-mr ..............,.-_ . __ . .......................... N 0.16,960. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING MIDDLESEX ELECTION The Committee for conducting the Election of Loru ROBERT GROSVENOR sit daily at the Central Committee Rooms, British Coffee House, Cockspur-street. S. C. WHITBREAD, Chairman. January 23, 1847. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY AND LIBERTY OF WESTMI2iSTER. GENTLEMEN, MR. LEADER has declared his intention to decline seeking a renewal of your suffrages. In addressing the Electors of Westminster as a Candidate to fill the elpectel vacancy, I ldeem it right to state that I should not venture to offer myself unless I had been previously honoured by the unsought preference of a highly-respectable portion of the consti tuency. I do, however, gladly avail myself of this mark of confi dence, and shall now briefly state to the Electors the grounds on which I solicit their support, namely, the political options which I have hitherto maintained, and to which I shall adhere. One of the most important questions of the present day is whether the principle of Free Trade should be carried out by a series of mea sures, prompt but not precipitate, efficient but not destructive, or whether we are to revert to the old system of monopoly and protec tion. lam the decided friend of Free Trade. On the subject of Education, which now happily commands the attention of a very large part of the community, I enterain a deep anxiety that means should be adopted for the due instruction of the people at large, and that on the most comprehensive basis—on prin dples fair and just to all; to whatever profession of Christianity they may belong. _ _ _ I need scarcely add my voice to the universal opinion that the laws relating to the poor require extensive modification. I have always been an advocate for the Ballot and for the axten• sion of the Suffrage. I think it unnecessary to enter Into further details. When in Par liament I acted, and, it again returned, intend to act on the principle of progress, and to support all well-considered improvements in our laws and institutions, for which there is a just and growing demand. My best appeal, however, to your confidence is my votes. With respec: to foreign policy, I deprecate all interference in the affairs of other nations, unless when such interference becomes indispensably necessary for the safety of our country, or the protec tion of its most important interests—a necessity which, I apprehend very seldom occurs. Constant attendance in Parliament the Electors of Westminster have a right to expect from their Member—in that respect I may safely promise that I shall not be found wanting. I have the honour to ne, gentlemen, Your faithful and obedient servant, CHARLES LUSHINGTON. 1, Palace-gardens, Bayswater, 26th Jan., 1847. BOSTON o STAMFORD, and BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—(STAMFORD and WISBEACH LINE). Notice is hereby given, that the ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of this Company will be held, pursuant to the Roston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway Act, 1846, (Stamford and Wisbeach Line), on WISDNZSDAY, the 17th day of February next, at the Company's offices, 18, Abingdon-street, Westminster, at One o'clock in the afternoon precisely, for the pur pose of transacting such business as is required by the Act of Parlia ment to be performed. And notice is hereby also given, that immediately on the termina tion of the said Ordinary Half-yearly Meeting, an EXTRAORDI NARY and SPECIAL MEETING of the Shareholders of this Com pany will be held at the Company's Offices aforesaid, for the purpose of confirming or otherwise an Agreement entered into by the Direc tors of the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway Company with the Directors of the Great Northern Railway Company, for the lease and sale of the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway, and its Extension, to the Great Northern Railway Company, upon the terms and conditions mentioned in such Agreement, and promul gated to the Shareholders in the report presented to and adopted by the General Meeting of the Shareholders, held at the Company's offices on the 22d day of December last. And also for the purpose of submitting to and obtaining the confirmation of the Shareholders to drafts of the several Bills hereinafter mentioned, which are about to be introduced into Parliament in the present Sessions, viz. A Bill to empower the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Rail way Company to make a Railway from the Syston and Peterborough Railway, at or near Peterborough, to tke Stamford and Wisbeach line of the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway, in the parish of Thorney and Isle of Ely. A Bill to empower the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Rail way Company to make a Branch Railway from the Stamford and Wisbeach Line of the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway, at Wisbeach, to Wisbeach Harbour, and to construct certain works at Wisbeach Harbour. A Bill to empower the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Rail way Company to make a ltall way from Wisbeach to Sutton abridge, with a Branch to Sutton St. Mary, and to improve the Harbour at Sutton- bridge. _ THOMAS MACULAY, Chairman. GEORGE HUSSEY PACKE, Vice-Chairman. GEORGE SAWARD, Secretary. Company's Offices, 18, Abingdon-street, Westminster, Jan. 20, 1847. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY HALF-YEARLY ORDINARY MEETING. The Half-yearly Ordinary Meeting of the Shareholders of this Company will beheld at the Company's Offices, GI, Moorgate•street, London, on WEDNESDAY, the 10th day of February next, at one o'clock precisely. QTEAM via the CAPE to MADRAS, CAL ► CUTTA, PENANG, SINGAPORE, and HONG-KONG, calling at the C APE, MAURITIUS and CEYLON. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company intend Clepateh their Steam Ships. .:I'EKIN," of 1,000 Tons, 400 horse power, 30th January. “POTTINGER." of 1,400 Tons, 500 horse power, sth February. The accommodation for passengers are of a very superior descrip tion. The Cabin fittings, together with bedding, linen, and every , requisite are provided at the Company's expense, The rates of pas sage are, to the Cape, 60/. ; to the Mauritius, 751. ; to Calcutta, 241., including a handsome table, wines, Scc., and every expense. For plans and further particulars, apply at the Company's Offices, 51, St, Mary Axe, London. _ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. PROFESSOR SCHGENBEIN'S GUN COTTON, and other Explosive Compounds, with brilliant Experiments, LECTURED on y Dr. IiVAN, daily at Half past Three o'clock; and on the Evening, of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. The principle of the various ELECTRO-MAGNETIC TELE • GRAPHS explained daily by Prefessor BAciiimFrNEn, including the Patent of M essrs. Cook and Wheatstone, in use on the railways, and the more recent Patent of Messrs. Nott and Gamble ; the various Models explained. Magnified Specimens of DISEASED POTATOES, exhibited by the OXYEIYDROGEN MICROSCOPE, with the DE- B TRUCTIVE INSECT, supposed by A. gmee, Esq., F.R.S., to be the cause of the disease. A beautiful Series of NEW DISSOLVING VIEWS. The DIVING-BELL and DIVER, with Experiments. The PHYSIOSCOPE, new CHROMATROPE, &c, . &c. Admission Is. Schools, half-price. PURSUANT to a DECREE of the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, made in two causes ASHTON against HIGGINBOTTOM, and ASHTON against WOOLLEY, the Creditors of BENJAMIN ASHTON, late of Newton Bank, in the pariah of Mottram in Longdendale, in the county of Chester, Esq. (who died in the month of December, 1835), are, on or before the 6th day of March, 1847, to come in and prove their debts before Sir GIFFIN Wit.sois, one of the Masters of the said Court, at his Chambers, in Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London, or, in default therof, they will peremptorily be excluded the benefit of the said Decree. W. and H. P. SHARP, 2, Verula.m-buildings, Gray's-Inn, London, Agents for • J. W. and H. E. RIDGWAY, Manchester, Plaintiffs' Solicitors. 'WANTED, a ,TRAVELLER in the LACE TRADE. He must be a person of thorough business habits, possess a knowledge of the trade, and have a connexion in the Mid land Counties and the West of England. _ _ Apply, by letter, post paid, addressed to X. P., Hammond's Tow* and Country Advertisement Office, 27, Lombard-street. PARCEL POST COMPANY. Capital 30•00/., in 6,0001. Shares of 5/. eac h , No call beyond 21. 10s. per share to be made until after the first Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders, Central Depot-67, Fleet-street, London. The Directors have the gratification to state that the preliminary arrangements of the undertaking having been perfected, the Com pany will COMMENCE BUSINESS on MONDAY NEXT, the 25th of January instant. The Board having based its arrangements upon a resolution not to snake an allotment of the shares on the capital stock of the Company until after the actual commencement of the business operations of the undertaking, will continue to receive ap plications ter those shares until the 28th instant, after which day the list will be finally closed.—By order of the hoard, E. T. GOLIC)H, Secretary and Resident Manager. 67, Fleet-street, London, Jan. 18. 1847. FOSTER'S MERCANTILE COLLEGE, No. 161, Strand, is designed to qualify young men to dis charge the duties of the Counting-house in an able and. efficient manner, and to afford adults an opportunity of acquiring skill and dexterity in writing, arithmetic, bookkeeping, &c., upon sound and undisputed principles. " Mr. Foster's system abridges the period of study, removes every difficulty, and imparts a power of investigating accounts which neither fraud nor error can escape." 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Cyth—l±:uipleyroent for thirty men has been provide d, but if the he of the work Could get olio hundred more e was instruct e d to ernilo,V them.—ealedonian Mercury. THE WEATH ER IN V ANOLIESTEII,—SIJNDAY, JAN. 24 . Yesterday a t h aw set i n, and continued during the whole of the dq-Y , The rail ways: lea din g from the town have 4 1 „" P bee n , 69 1 -Op relieved from much inconvenience, The trains have bet:: : we ttY 11 Up to their time, and no further &hips 41) t44tleiplitpe, e . i;'.;4 THE SPANISH MARRIAGES. The diplomatic correspondence relating to the Mar riages of the Queen and Infanta of Spain has been pre• sented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of her Majesty. Several of the communications contained in this document have been presented by the French Go vernment to the Chambers, but the following additional extracts from the correspondence are of considerable in terest. Our readers will bear in mind, that as the papers we have already published formed, as it were, the French case, so the se , f rom which we subjoin ample extracts, may be tak en ai t h e justification of the English Govern ment in th e p o li cy it has re ference to th e royal marriages:— THE EARL OF ABERDEEN TO SIR ROBERT pursued towards Spain with GORDON. -- Foreig, March 16, 1842. The great reme d y which the K n-office ing of the French proposes for all the evils of Spain, both present and future, is an agree ment respecting the marriage of the Queen. lie declares that ho entirely renounces all pretensions for any son of his own ; but that France will never submit to see the Queen married to any prince but a member of the family of Bourbon. He is indifferent respecting what individual may be selected, or from what branch of the family; but, according to the expression of M. Pageot, he would place his veto upon the choice of a prince of any other house. Should such a marriage as that which he contemplates be effected, he pre sumes that the northern Powers would at once renew their friendly relations with Spain; and that, by the cordial as sistance and support of France, the tranquillity and happi ness of the country would be secured. To all this, a n d a great deal more urged by M. Pag_e°4 in the same sen se , I rep li ed, that I did not recognise in France, or in all Europe, any right whatever to dispose of the hand of the Queen of Spain; that when the King of the French acknowledged the succession of the Queen, he did so without any stipulation that she should marry a Bourbon Prince, and that he must have known such an event was necessarily un- , certain; that although, for political reasons connected with the preservation of the balance of Europe, England would not look with indifference on the choice of a French Pririce, we by no means pretended tome a veto upon the family of Bourbon, and th a t it the Queeix . of Spain and her Govern ment thought fit to make such a seliction, we should readily accept the Prince as her husband. - t In truth, we regar d t hi s question as entirely and exclu sively Spanish; and that it ought to be regulated by con siderations affecting the happtness of the Queen and the welfare of her people. It is for the Spanish nation and Go• vernment to advise in a matter so important to the interests of Spain. in 8.) No. THE EARL OF (Enclosure ABERDEEN TO THE DUKE OF SOTOMAYOR. Forei gn:offic, June , . M. le Duc,—You have informed me that you n had 22 bean in structed to ascertain whether it would call forth the dis pleasure of the British Government if the Cabinet of Madrid should find it necessary, in the interest of the Spanish monarchy, to select some Prince as the future husband of the Queen other than a member of the family of Bourbon ; and also whether, if France should resent this proceeding, and attempt to coerce the free action of the Spanish Govern ment, it would be regarded with indifference by Great Britain? I can have no difficulty in answering these inquiries. We have always denied, and still deny, the right or pre tension of the French Government to impose a member of any family upon the Spanish nation as the husband of the Queen, or to control in any manner the decision of a ques tion so purely Spanish. But we have felt, and have readily admitted, that there might be various reasons which should induce the Spanish Government preferably to select from the house of Bourbon a Prince for this station. Of these rea sons, the desire on the part of Spain, and the interest of Spain to maintain friendly relations with France, 'might naturally be supposed to possess much weight. We a therefore h e u r d g e e ds d ceed n n o ds objection pi c a he g i against id t h be forep c o r a o p nh o fu so s r a t: n l a an o bd f esfeoterok thee n hh g ee Queen, provi m in e c n li t. nations of her Majesty, and the intereats of her Govern- If it should be found that no descendant of Philip V. can safely be chosen, consistently with the happiness of the Queen, or with a due regard to the tranquillity of the country, the Spanish Government, in the exercise of their independent judgment, must act in such a manner as may be dictated by a sense of their own dignity and in terest ; and, in this case, it could be no cause of displea sure to Great Britain if they were to select a prince from some_ other family. Whatever might be the disappointment experienced by France at such a decision, I cannot for a moment admit the possibility of anything so unreasonable and unjust as an at tempt to control the choice of the Queen in a matter of this kind. The French Government must be perfectly aware that no marriage which does not accord with the wishes of the Queen and receive the assent of her people, can be at all likely to promote the happiness of the Sovereign, or the wel fare and prosperity of Spain. France is too deeply interested in the happiness of Spain, and the Court of the Tuileries is too much enlightened and toe just, to entertain the notion of such an interference as that supposed. It may, therefore, be at once rejected as im possible. But if, contrary to all reason and probability, any such project, that is to say, an attempt to control the wishes and feelings of the Queen, and the clearly understood will of her people, should be contemplated, there could be no doubt that Spain would not only receive the warmest sympathy of Great Britain, but of all Europe.—l am, Szc., ABERDEEN. No. 9. LORD COWLEY TO VISCOUNT PALMERSTON. Paris, July 13, 1846. Soon after the declaration of the Queen of Spain's majo rity, the French Government commenced a negotiation at Naples, with a view to a marriage between the Count Tra pani, the King's brother, and the young Queen of Spain ' • and if any credit is to be given to the reports of th e French Am bassador at that court, lie had every prospect of bringing the negotiation to a successful issue, when the whole proceeding was rendered fruitless by the extreme unpopularity through out Spain of a Neapolitan connexion, and by the determina tion which, as it would appear, has lately been taken to re sist it, if necessary-, by force. The question, therefore, of marrying the Q uee n to a Bour , bon Prince of the Spanish line is now one of greater difficulty, and has been rendered still more difficult by a proposal which seems to have come from the Spanish Court, for an alliance with a Prince of the house of Coburg. Supposing a Nea politan alliance to be out of the question, the three remaining princes of the Spanish line are the two sons of Don Francisco, and the Count de Montemolin, the eldest son of the Infante Don Carlos. The two Queens have insuperable objections to the sons of Don Francisco, though tho Queen-Mother, as I lately learned, has expressed a less unfavourable opinion resp ec ting the Duke of Cadiz. It would app ear , from the language of Don En rique, the younger son, that he is no longer a candidate for her Majesty's hand, and that he is rather disposed to push his fortunes as a partisan of the Progresistas, with whom he is strictly united; and an apprehension is entertained that he will proceed from Brussels to England for the purpose of putting himself in communication with Espartero, and con certing measures w ith hi m f or the advancement o f the pro- . jects of that party. There is a party in Spain in favour of the Count de Monte molin, but he must be recalled from banishment by the Cortes, and abandon his pretensions to espouse the Queen upon equal rights to the throne, before be can offer himself as a candidate for her Majesty's - hand. The intelligence of a proposal having been made for an alliance with a Prince of the house of Coburg occasioned f the greatest c ons t ernat i on here. M. G u i u t told me that i the project w as pers i ste d i n, he should recom mend it to the King to put f orwar d t h e D u k e de M ontpens i e r as a candidate fur the Queen's hand. • No. 22. VISCOUNT PALMERSTON TO MR. BULWER. (Extract) Foreign-office, Aug. 25, 1846. With regard to the Queen of S pa i n ' s marriage, I h ave already explained to you Om opinion of her Majesty's Go vernment. But that opinion is not given in the spirit of dictation. The British Government has no right and no power to dictate to the Spanish Government in this matter. The question as to the choice of a husband for the Queen ought to be decided by those persons in Spain who are properly competent and entitled to decide it ; ' aud the only case in which, in the opinion of her Majesty.B Go vernment, any foreign Power could have a right to inter fere in that matter, would be the case specified in my dis patch to you of the 19th of July, namely, the case in which the choice should be expected to fall upon " some pr ince so directly belonging to the reigning family of some powerful foreign State, that he would be likely to connect the policy of the country of his adoption with the policy of the country of his birth, in a manner that would be injurious to the balance o f power, an d dangerous to the interests of other States." Upon these matters, then, her Majesty's Government see no reasons to depart fro m the doctrines laid down in Lord Aberdeen's note to the Duke of Sotomayor, of the 22d of June last, and also in the instructions which I have had oe. casiou to address you since I have held the seals of this department. No. 25. MR. BULWER TO VISCOUNT PALMERSTON. Madrid, August 29, 1946 I have now to announce t o y our Lordship that the Q ueen declared last night, at 12 o'clock, th at she had inade up her mind in favour of his Royal Highness Don Francisco de Assis. little time t o cons i der, The Queen. I am told, took some and then decided in favour of her cousin. I am oorry to inform your Lordship that the marriage o f the Duke of Montpensier, who is to be bere in a fortnight, ;r is to take place at the same time as that of her M a j esty I have at different times, though privately! warned M. Isttitz and the Court, that this event would excite considerable discontent in England, and produce a very u n f avourable impression on the public mind there. I have also t ouc h ed on the subject with Count I3resson, but, as I had no in s t ructions to speak to him o n the question, I did not do m ore than ex pleas my own views respecting it. . . I learn that directly the Queen bad signified her intenti on of marrying h er cous i n , Count Bresson formally a s k e d the hand of the I n f an t a f or the Duke de Mont n r Mon tpensier, st a ti that lie had powers t o en t e r upon and conclude th a t affai g and the term s o f th e marr i ag e were then definitively settled; between M. Istui itz and him. No. 27. THE MARQUIS OF NORMANRI TO VISCOUNT PALMERSTON. P e ns , Sept. 1, My Lord,--I this morning received a note from M. Gui zo t requesting t o see tice after his return from the Chambers, a' little before six. Up.m my keeping the appointment, he bega n by telling me that lie had news from Spain that the marriage of the Queen with the Duke of Cadiz Ives settled. I said that the last intelligence we had received . thence had induced us to think such a result not unlikely. lle said be had no details, as he had received it by telegrapb. He then added, that the Queen was a t the same time to g i ve her s anction f.ur her sister's marriage with the D u k e de Mont ponsier. "At the same?" I inquired. " Not at the s ame time," he answered; " not to take place at the same time." I said I laid no stress upo u that ; that, o f course, I was entirely without iaotruct 4 :from DIY Goveruitto n t 3 to SPECIAL MEETING. 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Cientry " KALYDORS," containing mineral as *he complexion, and which, by their re ._`'—'4,4l4l are announced under the ftn it,reiiTo,tnitsatecu:totnerer,ley°:,rduaitrlgOuUrs I t l o e `e,ttl e o f th e genu i ne la plied sanction of Royalty, &c., ke. - and A. the words " LOWLANDS' IiALYT)Oir on tab : )ef• Quire ROWLAND and Son, 20, Ilatton-garden, is also allgraVett of the Con the GovernMent $P 4tllged on each. ch.4s o . u e l d ndon .a sa n i ci, e s r . s 411 u ) 64 per bottle. — Sold by the Proprietors at ilattop.:g4rden, Lo 4 don, and by all coptviablt Clawbts su4 Vertwuers, S N7 JANUARY 27, 1847. give their opinion upon a communication so entirely un expected, but that I could not avoid, at the very first moment, expressing strongly my great regret at what he had just communicated to nse, and my conviction that it would excite very unpleasant feelings, both in the British Government and in the country. He said "he trusted nothing that would last." I replied that, on the contrary, I thought it was the step most likely to continue irritation. "But," he interposed, "if the Queen has children ! " (S, elk d des en fans ; noes verons .) I asked whether that meant that the union should not take place unless she had children ? "No, no!" he exclaimed, "I can make no such promise." I asked, whether, in point of fact, when the matter had been mentioned before between him and Lord Aberdeen, he had not come to such an understanding? He replied, " that he had, but that he had told Lord Aberdeen, in Fairuary last, that if he saw any danger of a Coburg marriage, he should consider himself absolved from that engagement. He had considered that danger arrived, and, in consequence, his course was changed when he saw, for the first time, a Coburg Prince placed in the list of candidates; that the late Government had declared such a marr i age ent i rely out of the question." I denied that there remained any trace such an understanding, and that, from what your Lord ship had stated to me, I did not believe that any such had ever been communicated by Lord Aberdeen verbally to you. He said he could assure me such bad been the case, on his word. I said that I could, of course, only speak negatively, and must take his positive assertion, but that any personal understanding of that kind could not bind the British Government. He then pressed me to read a letter from Count Jarnac, detailing what had passed with Lord Aberdeen at Windsor, as a proof that your Lordship, to whom the letter bad been read, was aware of this a month ago. I said that what was known to us officially was, that the Prince of Coburg was not an English candidate ; that, having been otherwise mentioned as a candidate for the hand of the Queen of Spain, we of course considered the choice of him as open to her Majesty; but that the last dispatch 1 had read to him showed that he was not the person recom mended by the British Government. " Yes," he said, " but that was on the 28th of August, the other on the 19th of July. I then made a proposal of joint action with reference to the two Princes. I was left all that time Without an answer.. I could not wait; in the interim - Par r said that,, at any rate, the result has proved this delay on our part to have had no concealed motive; that we should have the consolation of knowing that, throughout, our conduct had been 13erfectl7 straightforward and open, and that we only desired the independence and happiness of Spain. He replied, " And what should in terfere with that? When the Duke de Montpensier marries the Infanta, they will reside in Paris. France will gain another Princess.—Spain will not have an additional Prince. Our line has always been the same;" he added, "I announced it four years ago. A Prince of the House of Bour bon for the Queen, not a Prince of the House of Orleans." I .said in reply that these were limits and distinctions of which we knew nothing; that he could not expect that others should view in the same light anything that tended towards a union with the two crowns. " That," he said, "need not be feared; it is guarded against by the Treaty of Utrecht; our line is always the same, a Bourbon on both thrones, but not the same." I said, "Of course the danger to which I allude was not an actual union between the two kingdoms, but a rapprochement towards such a result," and that we could not recognise the validity of the polic which we had alluded as established ; that I much re to gretted what had occurred; there were few subjects which could excite an anti-French feeling in England, where there was such a friendly disposition; that I feared, however, this was one; that it would certainly completely destroy any credit for the supposed sacrifice the King had made in declining the Queen's hand for his son; that he must not suppose that it was only in England that such a feelin would be excited ; a n d that, valuing as ldid the French alliance, I could not but foresee that a feeling of general un easiness might produce a different state of things from tkat which had hitherto that existed. He interrupted me by in he did not think it would produc e the effect I expected in other quarters. I added, that he must only understand me as unexpectedly called upon to express my own convic tions upon a subject on which, wh en I rece i ved his message. I little thought I should be under the necessity of speaking; but that I could not hold out to him the expectation that the sentiments of my Government would be more favourable. After explaining to me that the Chambers would probably finish on Friday, and that it was his intention to leave Paris for ten days on Sunday, I stated that that would be before I could receive anything from my Government in reply to the communication I should have to make to them. But we settled that I should hereafter arrange with him how and when we should meet, and thus we parted. I have, &c., (Signed) NORMANDY. No. 30. VISCOUNT PALMERSTON TO MR. BULWER. Foreign-office, Sept. 14, 1846. Sir,—l transmit to you herewith the draught of a note on the subject of the projected marriage of the Duke de Montpensier with the Infanta Luisa, sister of the Queen of Spain, which I have to desire that you will transcribe literally, and immediately present to the Spanish Govern ment.—l am, &c., PALMERSTON. DRAUGHT OF NOTE TO BE PRESENTED BY MR. 13ULWER TO THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT. ' S., The undersigned, &c., has been instructed to ept expre lB46 ss . to the Spanish Government the deep regret and the extreme surprise with which the Government of her Britannic Ma jesty has learned the intention which is said to be entertained by the Government of Spain, of sanctioning the marriage of the Infanta Luisa,sister to the Queen of Spain, and heiress-pre sumptive to the Spanish crown, to the Duke de Montpensier, sen of the King of the French. Such a marriage, if it were to take place, which the Bri tish Government sincerely hope may not happen, could not be considered as a merely domestic and family arrangement between the royal houses of France and Spain, with which the Governments of other countries are not entitled to inter fere ; but it would, on the contrary, be looked upon as a political measure of the highest importance, seriously affect- ing the balance of power in Europe, deeply concerning the interests of other states, and against which the Governments of those countries, whose interests would be thus prejudiced, would have an indisputable right of urging the strongest re monstrance. The Spanish monarchy is too great and important not to form an essential element in the balance of power in Europe. The wide extent and the productiveness of the territory of Spain ; the noble qualities of her numerous and increas ing population ; the vast resources of naval and military strength which she possesses within her European and colo nial empire, place her justly in the foremost rank among the leading Powers of Europe. But the more prominent the posi tion which nature has thus qualified Spain to assume, and the more influential the part which that position may en able her to play, the more essential it becomes for the in terests and for the safety of other states that Spain should be politically independent as well as physically and mor a ll y strong; and that other nations, in dealing with Spain, should know that the foreign policy of Spain is guided by Spanish feelings, and directed with a view to Spanish interests, and is not made subservient to the policy of any other Power. For as long as Spain is politically i n d ependent in reality, as well as i n name , ot h er nat i ons may reckon upon main tain.; f ig relations of peace and friendship with Spain, as long as they should show due respect for Spanish honour and due regard for Spanish rights. B u t if S pain should ever submit to the overruling political influence of any foreign Power, then other nations, anxious to remain on the most friendly footing with Spain, and having given her no just cause of o ff, n e e , might find themselves involved in a rupture with Spain on account of differences with another Power, in which no Spanish interests were involved; and the restoration of their friendly relations with Spain might be made to de peed upon their satisfying what might be the unjust and unreasonable pretensions of some other foreign State. The policy of Great Britain towards Spain has invariably been guided by these considerations. It has been the wish of England that Spain should be prosperous and strong, but on the express condition that she should be independent also. So great has been the importance which Great Britain has always attached to the attainment of this end, that to arrive at it she has repeatedly expended freely her treasure, and poured forth the blood of her bravest subjects. It was for this end that, in the beginning of the last century, and in the early years of the present, the soldiers of England have fought side by side with Spanish comrades in many a battle field in Spain; and, however ineffectual the efforts of Great Britain may have proved at the former period, at the latter period, at least, the joint exertions of England and of uni versal Spain were crowned with the success which they de served. It was upon the same principle, and for the attain ment of the same end, that in 1835 Great Britain was induced, at the special request of the Spanish Government, to give to her present Majesty Queen Isabella that effective assistance by virtue and in execution of the treaty of qua druple alliance, without which (it is not presuming too much to say) it may well be doubted whether her Majesty would at this moment have been sitting upon her throne. But, if Great Britain has during so long a period of time been willing, when occasion required it, to make such great exertions, and to submit to such great sacrifices, to establish or to secure the political independence of the Spanish mo narchy, can it be supposed that she can regard with indiffer ence the prospect of au arrangement which, by a diplomatic transaction, vainly endeavoured to be represented as of a merely family character, tends to place the political inde pendence of Spain in a danger perhaps as great as any with which in former periods it has been threatened by the open force of arms? The British Government would not be true to its duty if it were to remain silent and passive on this occasion. Indif ference on such a subject would ill accord with its obliga tion towards the British nation, and would be a sorry proof of the interest which it fees in the welfare of the Spanish people. '1 he undersigned is therefore instructed to remonstrate in the strongest manner against the proposed marriage of the Duke de Montpensier with the Infanta Luisa, as a measure necessarily tending to aflect the political independence of Spain ; and to protest formally, as he now does, against anch an alliance, as calculated to exercise the most injurious' influence upon thel future relations between the British and the Spanish Crowns. The British Government, however, still entertains a hope that its apprehensions on this matter may be premature; and that a wi se cons i derat i on o f a ll th e var ious bea rings o f the proposed measure may induce the Spanish Government to take a different course. The undersigned, &c. No. 32. TIIE MARQUIS OF NORMANDY TO VISCOUNT PALMERSTO.N. Paris, Sept. 25, 184 G. Upon the receipt yesterday of your Lordship's dispatch of the '22d inst. I immediately wrote to M. Guizot, asking him to appoint a time for an interview. In the evening I received a note from him, appointing to see me between 10 and 11 this morning. I commenced by telling him that I had a communication to make to him from her blajesty's Government on the ques tion of the Spanish marriages. • • When I had concluded, he stated that perhaps it would be better, as the paper was long and comprised a variety of topics, l he should first read the copy which I had promised to send him ; that he should also like to communicate with the King. * * I acquiesced in his decision fo.: post ponement, which, under the circumstances, I eLusidered very natural; but this request for postponeMent naturally led me to ask whether there was any truth In the report in the newspapers of the immediate departure of the Duke do Mont- Vensicri Ha Itateci that thisVgl4c de AbAtuoiveticievikr. lure was fixed for Monday. Upon my appearing surprised and about to remark upon this, he added, " and of course cannot now be changed." I said it was not for me at that moment to suggest the effect of the departure of the Duke de Montpensier from Paris; but that, in connexion with this question, this haste appeared to me the more extraordinary, as he would recollect that the last time I saw hire, in answer to my first question, he had stated the two marriages should not take place at the same time. He denied at first having used any such words. I reminded him that I had the next day read to him what I had written to your Lordship as hay ing passed between us. and received his assent to its accuracy, and added, I was certain be would recal the assurance to his memory, when I reminded him that it was in consequence of his original statement that the Queen would announce, at the same time (en mime temps), the marriage of her sister with the Duke le Montpensier, that I had at once exclaimed, " At the same time?" and lie had replied, "Not that the marriage is to take place at the same time." He then admitted that he had said something to that effect, but only that the Queen's marriage should take place first ; " and so," lie added, " it will; she will be married first." I remarked, that I had re minded him of the words he had used, bat that I had put upon them their natural construction, that the two transac tions would be kept separate; that I could not have imagined he only meant that the Queen should be the first to go through the ceremony. He only answered that when he had seen me, which was some time since, nothing whatever was settled, nor in fact os yet, he added, has anything been settled as to the time of the marriages. The Duke de Montpensier's departure is fixed for Monday, but he said he would see me before then, as soon as he bad received the copy of the dispatch, and communicated with the King. VISCOUNT PALMERSTON TO MR. BULWER. Foreign-office, Sept. 28, )84f. Sir,—l transmit to you herewith the draught of a further protest on the subject of the intended marriage of the In fanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain with the Duke of Montpen sier ; and I have to desire that, as in the former instance, you will cause it to be transcribed, and that you will present it without delay, signed by yourself, to the Spanish Govern ment.—l am, &c., PALMERSTON. (Enclosure in No. 33.) DRAUGHT OF NOTE TO BE PRESENTED BY MR. BULWER TO THE SPANISH GOVERNMEN I'. October I 18 , 1 G. The undersigned, &c., h as b een Instrncted by his , Govern ment to refer the Government of her Majesty the Queen of Spain to the protest which, on the of September of this year, he presented, by the special orders o f hi s G overnment, against the projected - marriage of the Infanta Luisa Fernanda to the Duke of Montpensier. On that occasion the undersigned protested, in the name of the British Government, against the conclusion of that marriage, upon the ground that it would be injurious to the political independence of Spahr., and detrimental to the balance of power in Europe, and that it would, therefore, most seriously affect the future relations between Spain and Grea Britain. The undersigned is now instructed to declare, on behalf of the British Government, that the issue of such marriage would be held by Great Britain to be disabled, by the stipulations of treaties and by the public law of Europe, from succeeding in any case to the Spanish throne. For, in the first place, on the 19th of November, 1712, the Duke of Orleans, in the act of renunciation then made by him of all eventual right and title to the crown of Spain, de clared that his descendants were from that time forward and for ever excluded and disabled from, and incapable of; succeed ing to the crown of Spain, whatever might be the way in which the suc c e ss i on m i ght devolve upon his line; and-this renunciation and declaration on his part having been incon. porated in the treaties signed in 1713 at Utrecht, became thereby part and parcel of the public law of Europe. Moreover, the third article of the treaty, concluded in 1725 between Spain and Austria, stipulates that the Crowns of France and Spain shall never be united, either in the same person or in the same line. And secondly, Philip V. of Spain declared on the Bth of July, 1712, that no descendant of any family which might at any time reign in France should be capable of succeeding to the thrcne of Spain ; and in 1713, the same Sovereign issued a cedula, in which he declared that all the Princes of the Blood of France, and all their lines, either then in existence, or which might thenceforward exist, should re main excluded from the succession to the Spanish monarchy. It is indisputably demonstrable, that, in consequence of these public acts, no person being the offspring or the de scendant of the Duke of Montpensier, could under any cir cumstances succeed to the throne of Spain ; and, therefore, the offspring or descendants of the marriage of the Duke of Montpensier with the Infanta Luisa Fernanda, if that marriage should take place, would be for ever excluded froni the succession to the Spanish Crown, in the event of a failure of succession in the line of her present Majesty the Queen Isabella; nor could any right or capacity which such off spring or descendants of the marriage of the Duke of Mont pensier with the Infanta might inherit from the Infanta prevail against the positive disqualification and exclusion which would attach to them as descendants of the Duke of Orleans of 1712. The British Government deems it to be its duty to make this public and solemn declaration of the incapacity, dis ability, and exclusion in regard to the succession to the throne of Spain which would attach to any issue or descendants of the marriage of the Infanta with the Duke of Mont pensier, if in utter disregard of the remonstrance and pro test of Great Britain that marriage should be persisted in ; and thus, if at any future time any dispute should in con sequence thereof arise at to the succession to the tlirc,r_ of Spain, and if Great Britain should in such case deem it proper to take part in such dispute, iu support of the princi ples which have been set forth in this note, it will not be in the power of any of the parties concerned to allege that the British Government did not give timely warning of its sen timents and views. The undersigned, &c. 1 M. ISTURITZ TO MR. BULIVER. d Madri, Sept. 20, 1846. The Spanish Gov ernment d ep l ores that the Government of her Britannic M a j es ty s h ou l d look upon the marriage of her Royal Highness the Infanta Dona Maria Luisa Fernanda de Bourbon with the Duke do Montpensier as a political measure of high importance, which, affecting the balance of power in ' Europe, and the interests of the Governments of other states, can give to Great Britain the right of interfering in it, by re monstrating and protesting against it. The British Govern ment, which shows itself so jealous for the independence of Spain, will not take ill Spain's acting within the limit allotted to her by international law, that is to say, without injuring the interests of other Governments, as is the case with the matter in question, respecting which England cannot bring forth a single injury or contravention of treaties; she will not take it ill, I repeat, Spain's energetically rejecting a pro test, the tendency of which is to restrict her independence, and in her turn protesting against this supposed right. SMELTING THE SOUTH AUS TRALIAN ORES OF COPPER. The question is again agitated as to the advantages to be gained by sending the rich copper ores of South Australia to Newcastle (New South Wales), where coal is plentiful; in which it is attempted to show the smelters of England how much it would be to their ad vantage to establish smelting -works there, instead of having the ores brought 17,000 miles to Swansea, and the metal re -conveyed to South Australia and India— the largest market for copper in the world, consuming one-third of the brass and copper manufacture of Great Britain—placed half-way between South Australia and New Zealand, it is stated to hold out advantages superior to any in the mother country as a smelting depot. The present freight of ores from Adelaide to Swansea is 41. los. per ton; and it, therefore, does not pay to ex port ores worth less than 151. per ton, and the inferior ores are thus rendered valueless, and will remain dead stock until smelting-houses aro erected. Were such erected at Newcastle, a remunerative mar ket would at once be opened for all the ores pro duced in both colonies. 1,300 miles from Adelaide, and 1,000 from New Zealand: the voyage could be performed to and fro in about two months, or six in a year —and 155., or at most 20s. per ton, freight, would cover all expenses : and not only effect a saving of four fifths the present charge, but create a value for the inferior ores—besides effecting a large saving in the export of the metal to India. It further states, that the present price charged for coal of excellent quality by the Australian Agricultural Company is 75., but for smelting purposes on a large scale they might be obtained 2s. per ton less. In opposition to these views, it ie argued that the South Australian ores may be far more profitably smelted in South Australia itself, the question being not one of coals only ; it being shown that the ores in general are the oxides and carbonates, the Kapunda Mine alone the sulphurets— and the former producinggso much easier to reduce, can he smelted by charcoal, which can, for years to comc, be produced from the almost exhaustless forests of the colony. Charcoal may be considered to do the work of three times its weight of ordinary coal; and it is said that it could be supplied from the neighbouring woods for sd. per bushel, or 21. per ton, and one ton would operate on three tons of the ores in question. On a comparison of the two proposed methods, assuming that the Newcastle smelters could make their coal avail able to the fullest extent, that the ores, rich and poor, average 20 per cent., and cost of labour the same in both places, the result is in favour of smelting at home by 3/. 73. per ton, as follows : NEWCASTLE (NEW SOUTH WALES). Freight of five tons of ore from Adelaide to New castle £5 0 Coals, at 7s. p er ton Total ...fa 15 ADELAIDE (SOUTU AUSTRALIA). Freight ‘,.., o 0 3 8 Charcoal Balance in favour of Adelaide Total The writer then proceeds to show, that sending to Swan sea adds a charge of 20/. per ton on the copper produced, four•fifths of which might be saved, or rather add 164 to the profits, and describes the advantages which would further result from sending the mineral wealth of the colony to distant markets in the most portable and least costly form. Notwithstanding the views which are here very properly taken of the subject, it does not by an-- means appear that the colonists take so favourable - . 1 of the matter ; a subscription list has been .- - 4 view opened in Adelaide, for the constr:,,,: :'me months works, but which proce e d s so 7..,1 0 , - • - " (34-1 of smelting ....ny can be formed by such appear probable that a comn- -41 y, that it does not means. The most feo - ...inlo plan which appears to us, would be for thn , several mining companie.s to errect joint smeltine , - - works, where all could send their produce—the e , _.,ac of the establishment to be paid by each, in propor tion to the amount of ores melted. -- Mining Journal. 14( ,ord H - owden is appointed Minister from England to the Court of Rio Janeiro, to succeed Mr. Hamilton, who retires from ill-health, after many years of diplomatic 4e,i% yiqe4 Cti4Uflitt t)4t4 of tlko NYC1,14.-W6cri:fr% PUBLICA TIONS. 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Servals, who has , btained the title of the Paganini of the violoncello, has had the honour to play at the Court conc• rts in Paris, where his magnificent p:ltying obtained the repewed compliments of his Majesty and the brilliant auditory. I , :isset, Who sung at the Italian Opera, Paris, some three years ago, is now the prima donna at Leg horn, where she is a prodigious favourite. A new. opera has been produced at Venice, the first work of a young composer named Malipiero, called " Alberigt, 41a -gotnano." Without much originality, the music is described as graceful and replete with elegant melody. Terretti was the tenor, and is favourably men tioned; but Mdlle. Hayez is described as the real support in the opera. Ella e veramente (says the Gazette of Venice) la regina dello spatacolo 1 At Parma, La Barbieri has obtained great success in the operas of " Ernani" and " Atila," both of which have• been received with enthusiasm. Verdi has completed his " Macbeth," and is now solely occupied with his work for her Majesty's Theatre in London, the production of which he is to superintend in person during the ensuing season. It is stated that the Italian Opera in St. Petersburg has this year sensibly declined in public favour, and that it is no longer followed as formerly —in a word, it is no longer the fashion 1 TREODORE Pixis.—A number of artistes and con noisseurs assembled a few evenings since, at the saloons of M. Pape, to hear a young violinist, nephew to Pixis, the celebrated pianist and composer, make what may be called his first dchut in public. His efforts were received with well-merited favour, for the young essayist pro mises to add another first•rato name to a family already largely distinguished_ in the musical world. lie per formed a fantasia on " Ernani," a duet with Mr. Osborne, and a burlesque on the well-known "Carnaval de Venise," in a style which elicited the most flattering applause, the various caebrites in the room crowding round him at the close of each morceau, and congratulating him on his brilliant execution. The characteristics of his playing are a full round tone, staccato rapid and firm, intona tion pure, difficulties disposed of with effortless ease, his harmonics clear as bells, and, above all, an entire ab sence of whining quarter tones and all other trickeries of the art, but now, too much the fashion on this monarch of instruments. Among the warmest appleaders was M. Berloiz, who seamed greatly pleased with the young virtuoso, whom we unhesitatingly recommend to those of our readers whose concerts and soirees enable them ttl patronise rising talent in a manner the most effectual. NORTH POLAR EXPEDITION.—The following letter has been addressed by Sir John Ross to the President oo: the Astronomical Society :—" Sir,--I beg leave to subSinit the following plan and proposal to the President an'A Council of the Royal Astronomical Society for their consideration : The measurement of an arc of the meridiees has long been a great desideratum ; and the failure of every attempt that hat been made at Spitzbergen for this desirable object, as well as the attempt made to reach the North Pole, has been, be cause the summer has been selected for that purpose ; whereas, the spring should have been the season chosen, namely, the months of April and May, for both services, but which could not be put in execution by the means hi therto adopted. I have now to inform the president and council of the Royal Astronomical Society, that I hays submitted a plan to the Admiralty for carrying into exe cution these double and desirable objects, by winterinc at Spitzbergen, and employing my officers and crew under the direction of the talented son- of the celebrated Profe r Schumacher, whom I have engaged for this purpose; while, at the proper season, it is my intention to attempt to reach the North Pole on sledges drawn by Swedish horses, bi'ai g a modification of the plan proposed first by Dr. Seore' s ) jy an d . of which th at hi ghly. talented and well-inforine:l indiv,iduea has given his most unqualified approbatioa. And, frog s the year's experi ence I h ave had in Sweden in that mode of tra veiling, I can safely assert that there is no other ofP.cer )comeh navy that possesses these advantages so nooes'Ary to plete success, of which neither Dr. Scoresby ..or myself have the smallest doubt. 1 have made this ste:iement in the hope that, when duly considered by the P r P ssident and Council of the Royal Astronomical Society, they will be pleased t in igf to me their opinion on the importance of the objects clues. tion, and such a recomsnendatir-es for its being put into exe cution as they may think fit:' ST. MARYLEBONI AND THE Ac s r.—On Monda NEV POOR REMOVAL and gua y, it the meetin g o f the board of directors Smith, rdguardians.of ✓ the poor of St. M arylebone (George Spencer Esq., in the chair), Mr. Thorne, the secretary, read. the following communication from the Poor -law Comm._i sioners :—" Poor-law Commission -office, Somerset -her se Jan. 18.—Sir, I ant directed by the Poor-law Commiw-Jners to advert to the observations contained in their circis'ee, of the 20th of October and the 4th of Decembssr 'last, with letters reference to the distinction of relief to poor perk,- letter's settled in the parishes where they are relieved, and to ',tiler poor per sons, who have been rendered irremovable f rom the parishes in which they reside by the operation of the late statute on the subject of the removal of tlse poisr. I am to inquire whether the guardians have issade r.. 1 1 ), such distinction in "since the passing of the statute; their administration of relief awl if so, in what manner ' , hat distinction has been made. I am 24.2 q to request that, if the hoard of guardians have passed any resoluzjen on tee entsect of the statute, or of the relief of the poor affected thereby, you will transmit a copy of every such resolution. The Commissioners request that this information may be supplied to them with as little delay as circumstances will permit.—l alli, Sir, Tour obedient servant-, W. G. LUMLEY, Assistant -Secretary.' Some slight discus sion ensued, and the Secretary was ordered to furnil t the information required. AMERICAN ONIONS AND GOURDS. —A large. parcel of onions, consisting of 500 barrels, has been recived by Messrs. Keeling and Ifunt, and are intended for the use ot: the poorer classes as a substitute for potatoes, which harm, now attained a most extravagant price. the onions are r • , . c'f' fectly free from the disease which has been so exi.enss te e h, The onions, although ' - prevalent in this country. are equal in quality to many of the common 50r....,s 'lsmail, the London markets whilst by cultivatien here said in there is no doubt the difference of soil and climate will e r e a sort in many ways desirable for home consumptie a - T i gourds are merely sent as samples to test their us,e In thisiceountry.. They are extensively consumed abroad. for soups and pud dings, and if their use is appreciate,:, here, will become an economical and nutritious substitute for the potato and other common vegetables. VERDICT OF MANSL :,TIGIITER AGAINST AN EN GINE-DaivEn—LEEDS, JAN. 23. Yesterday a coroner's in quest Was held at the Courtouse, touching the death of David Anderson, a farmer's labourer, who was killed on tint Leeds and Bradford Railway, under the following circuses stances :—On the morning of the I6th inst., between five and. six o'clock, five carts, each drawn by one horse, were patched from Itawdon to Gilderstone, for coals. They had dit to pass over the Leeds and Bradford Railway at CaveKly, which at that part crosses the public road on a level. The gates on each side of the line were Open, and. n 0 parties .enals were not ' were in attendance to watch them. The morn: was ex ceedingly dark and foggy, and the usual Si f ;ne line in safety, exhibited. Four of the carts passed over grain of the deceased. and on the last one, which was in cha .ael train was seen ap getting on the crossing, an engines proaching, and ere the vehicle couP be got over the engine struck the horse, killed it on th':: spot, drove the cart some distance, and frie,tifully injuS-ed the deceased, who was on the ton of it. f r ig curl the occurrence but a few"hours. After heari:dg evidences the jury found a verdict of "hours. slaughtsar against the engine -driver James Gee," Man accom- panssing it with an expression of opinion that the compan had show n great carelessness in the management of they crossing at the Calverly.bridge station. On the previous day an inq ues t was held on a labourer who was killed on the same line, in the Thackley tunnel. ANECDOTE OF THE Duxn — During the regime of the Peel Administration an important situation in Ireland became vacant, to which an Irish relative of the Duke' ft . wished to be appointed. Ile, therefore, wrote to his (Ur ace these after having stated his wish, concluded his letter • id; these words—" One word from your Grace will be me The Duke sent the following laconic and eh- 'li t • tl 'Cll." srac ens c reply : " Dear ---, Not one word.-efrom ysa, lay., Wellington,'lTQW MANY WARNING S ~,As z Fr::Lay last the son of widow Taseve'ell, of Walton, near I ;VANTED ?—On Glastonbury, having been allt , ptin7 4 . home his gun loaded, and, Isun; it up in its usual place, small birds, brought first taking off the cap, He then went out, and another son, a boy about lA years of age, in the absence of his mother, having taken down the gun, and placed another cap upon it, on his mother's return, said, " Mother, I ant going to pop the candle out," and immediatel fired The whole of th e c h arge lodged in the body of his unfortu nate parent, just below the breast ; she uttered one moan a n d died, leaving eight orphan children to deplore the loss of an affisotionate and beloved mother.—Somerset County Gazette. HUMAN SACRIFICES AT CALARA.R.—The Patriot publishes the following extract from a communication . " e o. ceived last week from the Rev. J. Clark, Baptist mis , eio saat y ; Western Africa, and dated Clarence, Fernando Po, J'ectrte 27th, 1846 :—" At Calabar there has been a o _filtri", all the da y, and The poor creature had bee:a dancing Tha ~ . of more than one hundred persons for a son f L.' late sa king. night. it . is supposed he was , drinking men/e, or palm wine:! ? i l l when he died the same ' .4rge quantities, , Do, :sot tell. The - aged mother . x;:ect .t in African frenzy ied. Thie, may be the case, C. , r 7 ... may not; . we cannot that she had lost her last child, and now had none leave heft property; and therefore plenty of to whom to into the bush, and will rernrato Qin, until the sacrifices ceasF., whiich sieves mast be 3acritir;ed. Those at market, and al c u e ll l o ed h , ea o r r d o in ut ti o ns f e, 4 4e vi d ay, is sometimea more than a whole year. The aged ' then r spoke Alai, ill Vain 1 many were tho willing slaves to anixvocutea 1-,h,e, Wes were dug in a house. The corpse , as as her will. The sacrifice took place' no r was it i s eo a p n l d e. int l o l t e the first, with a number of young women I n .c.O the second, put into Boiravteoswwno-rbeorpnutp; ptrhoiproarttet oaf - 8 au Pntered Creole stated as follow s W as . nay female slaves i. orty male sl aves, and twenty-nine Creoles. l was il ' al waddell and Mr. Edgerly, of t, Much,_ , .one by r. t . lin Sno t" ni. Asion, and by . Cap ilia Slilbourne, of the Ts * Jove, in the ser- vice of the Baptist mis. SiOn tO try to - Ace ; but ;, persuade, King Ey amba to prevent the seed- T- o could not be efrecte st :e - -EMPTATION AND AToNEMENT. BY MRS. GORE. 3 vols.—The above wos'ir is published this day by Mr. Colburn, and may now be had at all the libraries. 'The following new works of fiction are also now ready :-2. Father Eustace, a tale of the Jess,-' le Jesuits, by Mrs. Troll Ope, 3 vols.- ~, 3. Strawberry Hill, an historical novel, by the author o f "Shakspeare and his Friends," 3 vols.-4. The Romer ~ o e o r War; or, The _Highlanders in Spai n , b y J ames Grant Esq., late 32d Regiment, 3 vols.-5. Coasar Borgia, romance, by the author of Whitefriars," 3 vols.— ' ' aiatorical r J. Maraton, by the author of" Salathiel," sec end edition, 3 vole.-7. Ad ventures of Captain O'Sulli‘; no b y lv, H. author of " Stories of WO!, erloo" &v., 3 vole : 'laxwell, Esq., 'We understano„ ell formerly su perintending that Mr. M'Corr , ) . - ocomotive engineer, en the Bristol and Birs mingliani . 'fi ne, locomotive engineer of has been an: - . ( 44 - ed the Indou anti North-wWkx;44,,nrlay, 14 the place 4;)‘ trl re 4 I 4 li e r ry. IN MUSICAL GOSS/Pc7,--,—' t) a • It is positively stat e d t h at M . I 6 haett -- officially informed that he will be relievea-of the super intendeuce of the Grand Opera at the expiration of his present term, which, however, does not terminate before sixteen months from the present date. Some of the musical journals report that Mdllc.Jegny,-__ Lind is likely shortly to appear, for a certain nunaliiit , l t nights, at the Italian Opera in Paris. Dupnz leaves Paris for Germany early in Marchi where be is to appear in the chefs-d'auvre of the French opera in the German language, being the only artist who can sing in all the leading languages of Europe. M. Berlioz is about to visit St. Petersburg and Mos cow, upon, it is said, an invitation of the Emperor, for the purpose of producing his principal compositions be fore the Imperial Court, and the public of the northern capitals. s% ,'--, / f )eri, sage. ran." ?s