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I • ,V ez e . (40 • ought not to speak of his trip to the tinent at all I Wih , m-m- t • • • , - 32 r • . CIUL • lik ke , , ing that the first public opportunity , 4•;:?, • ;• , 4 • ;, • ' • ,( #0 ,4 *A 1.4 "t • A .„,. 40. • ;• • fe , :ause it . :".—:?--dtkoN A I CALEDONIAN RAILWAY (PURCHASE OR LEASE OF WISHAW AND-COLTNESS RAILWAY) MA ASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. Notice to the holders of those YORK EXTENSION SHARES ,who have paid 10s., or 2/. per Share only. 'The Directors have determined on allowing parties who have paid 10s. per Share to pay 21 per Share more, on or beforelOth Dec. next ; and.pose who have paid 2/. per Share to pay V. per Share more, on Of before the same date, when their existing York Extension Certi ficates will be camelled, and Scrip Certificates for Eastern Counties Guaranteed Stock, carrying 5 per Cent. Interest on perpetuity from the above date, will he issued for 21. 10q. and for 51. respectively, to gether with an option, to be declared on or before the sth day of July, 1543, of converting the amounts of such Scrip Certificates into Eastern Connties Consolidated Stock at par. All holders not availing themselves by the 10th of December next of this privilege, and negleeting to make the above payments will have their Shares, with the present payments of 10s. and 21. abso lutely forfeited. By order of the Board. C. P. RONEY, Secretary, Bishapsgate Station, November 5, 1847. LIST OF THE COMPANY'S BANKERS. Messrs. Denison, Heywood, Kennard, and Co. 4, Lombard-street Liverpool Borough Bank—Liverpool. Manchester and Liverpool District Bank—Manchester. Wilts anti Dorset Banking Company—Salisbury. Messrs. Lemon and Co.—Brentwood. Messrs. Mills, Bawtree, and Co.—Colchester. Messrs. Sparrow and Co.—Chelmsford. National Provincial Bank—Bath. National Provincial Bank—Birmingham. National Provincial Bank—Boston. National Provincial Bank—Exeter. Messrs. Fi-her and Sons—Cambridge. Messrs. Beckett and Co.—Leeds. Western Bank of Scotland—Edinburgh. Western Bank of Scotland—Glasgow. Royal Bank of Ireland—Dublin. East of England bank—Great Yarmouth. West of England and South Wales District Bank—Bristol. Messrs. Harveys and Hudsons—Norwich. Messrs. Bacon, Conolii, and Co.—lpswich. Messrs. Alexa , iders and Co.—lpswich. Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Bank—Cheltenham. Union Bank—York. Northumberland and Durham District Bank—Newcastle-on. Tyne. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY. London, 345, Strand, September 1, 1847. COMMERCIAL TELEGRAPH. The works of the Lines for commercial communications between tim Places enumerated below, embracing a system of Telegraphs for C ornmercial purposes only, and distinct from that reserved for the special use of Railways, being so tar advanced as to adinit of their Completion by the commencement of the coming year, the Directors think that the time has now a , rived when it becomes their duty to Snake known the arrangements which they contemplate for the ac- Commdation of the public. Stations will be opened in central situations in the principal Towns, Whence Messages and Dispatches will be forwarded to and received roll all the other Stations of the Electrie Telegraph Company. In order to give to Merchants, Rankers, Manufacturers, and all co nnected with trade, the greatest possible amount of information, a m will be reserved in ean of the Company's Stations for Sub scribers, in which will be received, tabulated, and exhibited, all Intel gence of commercial or public interest; for instance — Ship Lists from the varioas Ports. Share Lists from the various Exchanges. Slices Current. Stock Exchange Lists. Corn Markets from the various Towns. Prices of Live Stock, Sze.. Ecc, Stc. Ilt L tr ondon, a Central Station, suited to the importance of the Me ,2,,P°118, is in course of erection in the immediate vicinity of the Bank — 7.' Royal Exchange ; in this Station the whole Telegraphic News ;troths country will be concentrated and for warded in every direc ,criube; rang.d here, as in other Towns, a Room will be reserved fir Sub . r ,_." Subscription to these Rooms will be Two Guineas per annum, Paid bl advance, which will entitle Subscribers to the right of en trance to to all the subscription Rooms of the Company, including the antral Station. at London. he foregoing , r eiT details some of the advantages of the Commercial n e g r4 Ph to Subscribers,—but the requirements of the Public in ge ,:n.e,imaltlimll times se provided for by the Establishment of Offices, which will be open for the reception or transmission c f Messages h ' D iaPatches whi Messengers out will to any part of the Town where Pa , :o g ni Station.ni tlon has been received by Telegraph at the Com a„7,uhacribers' Names are received at the Commercial Telegraph Of `..a where any further information may be obtained. ~...,!she fo llowing are the Towns to which the Commercial Telegraph "" be tourlo first extended t— nargatrt Marg a t e Barnsley Peterborough Chelmsford Its nu ~, _' Wakefield Yarmouth Ipswich I ) cal . ' Leeds Huntingdon York Dover Halifax Hertford Darlington rolkestone Rochdale Manchester Newcastle Canterbor'r Hull. Leicester Berwick . 2ii ---, Maidstone ~°rthampton Tonbridgo Derby Edinburgh ~,r r entr3- Nottingham Glasgow Ti entry Gosport Lincoln Scarbor .ugh Wol" V ai n Southampton Chesterfield Bridlington stairorrdnampton Winchester Sheffield Stamford Chester Dorchester Bradford Norwich Ur erPool Bristol Wisbeach St. Ives Rot herham Gloucester Lowestoft Ware Cheltenham Cambridge Colchester J. LEWIS RICARDO, Chairman. NVELLINGTON SURTOUT—Patronised by tnd Yrince Albert, the Royal Family, the Commander-in-Chief Gui n ";: B elPal Nobility and Officers of the Guards—Two-and-a-Halt ond "OA Street L and S °il l! of FOUSERX, Patentee, 6, Condait-street, Regent , Cheapside. '''frents Ma ct „„ • Eirmnigham: Hollingsworth, New-street—Liverpool : lield-street —Manchester : Brown, Market-street —York: k r - 1; nd An derson—Edinburgh : Marshall and Altken—Crlasgow : , Macleod, and Co.; and principal tailors in all large towns. all OIL LAMP.—NEW LIGHT nary oil lamps— ITAheMlPlaNmeDnd Lamp Is the best light In the werM—is Used in palaces in Europe —is free from all the imperfections of ordi qUired f SO simple it cannot be mismanaged—no cleaning re mr Years The Diamond Lamp Is perfection in Light—the Pu blic will have none other. Designs suited to the cottage, and so 0/1 to th e m _ . . •“ , iott of tne nobleman. the E stablishment ey, and all the New Lights are burning continually, at er of the Metropo'llan Light Company, RICPAR ....4.1t1i:. Resident Manager, 447, Strand, London, and ef the COM- Pally' -. 3 Agents in "very Town In the Kingdom. _PATEN T CANDLE & CAMPHINE LAMPS. I tip „, The literally largest as well as choicest assortment o . f PAL. . '-'" 5 MAGNUM and other CANDLESTICKS ; Camphine, Ar ;7od, and Solar Lat. xl PS, with all the latest improvements, and so` ....ie newest and most recherche patterns, in ormolu, Bohemian, and Tacov4Z or Papier mache, in existence, Is at WILLIAM S. BUR ge ' 09, O xford -street, corner of Newman-street, where all the nable novelties are now selling at from 20 to 20 per cent. under patentuse with whom quality and style are considerations. Palmer's Alline c andie ' (marked articlelnsealed cans, es. per gallon. The money returned for every (Per not approved ef. Detailed catalogues with engravin g s sent )ost) free.— Established in Wells-street, A.D. 1820. I OVELTY in FRENCH CORNICES, from I Is. p i , it , Most varied and beautiful rssertment of those elegant .r British N OVELTIES, which threaten entirely to supersede all ora±snritish Manufacture, from I Is. and upwards, complete for any i arY e ndow (If inlaid with velvet of any colour about 15s, each b el ,, t — ra ): is now en S ILE at WILLIAM S. BURTON'S (late RIP ' ‘-0 added URTON'S) 39, Oxford-street, corner of Newman-street. n,._l3_ etcatalogues, with engravings, as well as of every. iron '"?,,x,, article, sent (I er post) free. _, iron- WILLIAM S. BURTON'S (lath RIPPON and BURTON'S) Stock elit:Fdna eral Famishing Ironmongery is literally the largest in the ...... ; ie a t n y d as no language can be employed to give a correct .idea o f and extent, purchasers are invited to call and inspect it. .tstablished In Well-street. 1820. —........__________ ... • Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel. OX PHYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE IXCAI A CITY, A. ND IMPEDIMENT S TO MARRIAGE. New Edition irect from, enla 6 pages' Just publish e d , pr i ce 2s. 6d., or ta by post, d the I Es blishment, 3s. 6d. in postage s t amps, T HE SILE NT FRIEND, a Medical Work on the infirmities and decay of the generative system, from ex , cessive indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury, a ith remarks en Marriage, and the means of obviating certain dis qualifications. • Illastrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By R. and L. PERRY and CO., 19, Bbrner-stroet, Oxford -street, London. Published by the Authors : sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster -row ; Ilannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford -street ; Start% 23, Titehborne . street, Haymarket and Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street. Pear I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re -productive organs, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings. Parr If. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive indul gence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing mental and b odily weakness, n ervous excitement, and generative incapacity. It is illustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings. PART 111. Treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for their treatment. The consequences of early neglect arid of the abuse Of mercury, are also clearly pointed out. This section is illustrated by S eventeen Coloured Engravings. PART IV. Treat- of Perry's Pr eventative Lotion, by the use of virus 'Which the dangers of Infection are obi/ate& It combines with the c hemically, and destroys its power on the system. .., Paler T. Is devoted to the consideration of marriage, and its u .,, 4t ies. The causes of unproductive union, are also considered, n and the whole subject critically and philosophi l c u a s l i cy c i l n y q o u ro ir p e;i oy i e t „ , in treat- Tnk CORDIAL BALM OF STRIACCM is lls And 335. per ikng nervous and sexual debility, impotence , & c., ate Essence, an anti-syphilitic ~..ft tle • The Concentrated Deters! 1 Is. and 335. per bottle. toms si eruptions. and the abuse of mercur y, :oneey, for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary sYnIP 4s. 6d , and lls. per box, a ' errY's Purifying Specific Pills, 25. Certain remedy in Lotion, an application to tion of the bladder. Ferry's j st d rictures;and chronic inflamma tion Preventattv! bottle. Consultation fee, if gonorrhoea. elect, obviate the danger of infection, 33, . a Attendance daily at 19, !ser by letter, IL 5/. Packets with advice tube had at the Establishment est Y. by which th e f ee, 11 . , i s save d. „ner S - street, fro m E leven till Two, an d Five Pout Itloven t, On e . toEight; on Sundays -......._ ______. A. R R I A G E. Diffidence, er a contented. •rvir One half the world are desolately single, and the other suPl>osing them married, Questionably under the plea :ittet the )atter. 'rho lit y one may shield himself e " lg. right deterna , lie the former, and miscalculated hopes em the un coroprosing of caution and w orldly !") pru a d r ence, and the indissoluble, regre t aacity. p hurry ; but the truth lies deeper. P a " broken health, are the great hindrances to domestic hap p iness se ,. and social content. The dowry should not be the only marriag e ' Physical inc apacity, item Ilelnent. Honour end justice demand that health should form an or li the conspact ; it alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes ~. these surmises concern you, procure Dr. CULVERWELL'S lit le • hi EMOIRS tOn Single stud Married Life, " pub. in 2 vols., Is. e4c h (by Vost, in stamps, Is. 6d. each). Let no imaginatively ~ "efin e „ ~. or prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered 7,Y Misinterpretatior, of their supposed contents, frotn obtaining ..., rerl They are not i n certainly for mere idle curiosity, but ;,',r the closet perusal of those more deeply interested, to whom the the are offered as antagonistic to the empyrical trash put forth on they above sobjects, by unqualified authors, which alone or itether, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other little Publications claim your attention (same price Is. each, "Y Post Is. esti.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and f Ly ntd." and " How to be Happy." They are not merely Pamphlets, but Pqual In quantity a library volume, nor are they the litit.ere ephemeral seribbling of our, but the study of the author's Zvanre, who owes his present e xist e n ce , health, and position to this eb ce of the maxims he would inculcate—tl do unto others as he Would be done unto—tc live after nature's laws —and to keep always 1 ,.. T the "stits*side of the way." The above works may be had of U eri roed, 23. Pate rnoster-rosy ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet-street ; Mann, eCornhill Nalson, 457, West Strand ; or direct (by post or other )." ) from the author (who may be conferred with personally, L nar aings and 4 60411041111, Ye ah:4os lOs Argyll-plate Regent-street ; anti all BILL Notice is hereby given, that application is intended to be made to Parliament, in next session, for leave to bring in a Bill to empower the Caledonian Railway Company to purchase or take on lease the Wishaw and Coltness Railway and the Branch Railways, works, and property connected therewith, or which may belong to, or be ac quired by, the Wishaw and Coltness Railway Company, and to em- Power the Wishaw and Coltness Railway Company to sell or lease the said Railway, Branch Railways, works, and property, to the Caledonian Railway Company ; and to authorise the said last men tioned company to create a separate guaranteed stock on which a fixed dividend shall be payable to the shareholders of the Wishaw and Coltness Railway Company, and to vest in the Caledonian Railway Company the Wishaw and Coltness Railway, and the Branch Railways, works, and property connected therewith, or which may belong to, or be acquired by, the Wishaw and Coltness Railway Company, together with all the powers, rights, and pri vileges which may belong to, or are, or may be vested in the said company ; and to enable the Caledonian Railway Company to fix and levy tol's, rates, and duties, on and for the use of the said Wl:liave and Coltness Railway, and Branch Railway s, and works connected therewith, or which may be acquired as aforesaid ; and it is intended by the said Bill to confer, vary, or extinguish ex emptions from the payment of such tolls, rates, and duties, and to vary or extinguish all existing rights and privileges, which may in any manner interfere with the objects aforesaid, and to confer other rights and privileges ; and it is intended by the said Bill to enable the Caledonian Railway Company, and the Wishaw and Coltness Railway Company, to make agreements with each other, fixing the terms upon which such sale and purchase shall take place, or such lease be entered into, or upon which the said companies shall conduct and be interested in the traffic on their respective undertakings, or to confirm any agreements that may have been, or may be, made between the said companies for the foresaid purposes, or any of them ; and for the above and other pur poses, it is intended by the said Bill to alter and amend the Acts re lating to and concerning the Caledonian Railway Company, passed re spectively in the ninth, tenth, and eleventh years of the reign of her pre sent Majesty, and to alter and amend, and, so far as necessary, to repeal the several Acts relating to and concerning the Wishaw and Coltness Railway, passed respectively in the tenth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, the fourth year of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, and the first, third, fourth, eighth, and tenth years of the reign of her present Nlajesty. HOPE, OLIPHANT, and MACKAY, W.S., Edinburgh. MONCRIEFF, PATERSON, and FORBES, Glasgow. GRAHAME, WEEMS, and GRAHAME, 30, Great George-street, Westminster. Edinburgh, November 1847. 'Ai Ot J No. 17,211.] LONDON, SAT U R DAY EVENING FIrEE EMIGRATION to the CAPE o f GOOD ,j 1: HOPE, under the authority of her Majesty's Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners. The splendid first-class ship SCOTIA, of 778 tons register, THOS. STRICKLAND, Commander, with a Poop, and most superior Cabin and Steerage accommodations, will embark Passengers on the 14th, and at Plymouth on the 24th December, direct for CAI'E TOWN and A LGOA. BAY. Poop Cabin Passengers will be taken at 25/. each to Table Bay. Steerage Passengers who may not be eligible for a free passage will be charged 14/. to Table Bay, and IS/. to Algoa Bay, which will include new bedding and mess utensils. An expe rienced Surgeon, appointed by Government, will be on board. La bour urgently required in the above healthy colony, and every indus trious and well-conducted person is sure to better his condition by emigrating thither. All parPculars as to the classes eligible for free passage, dietary on the voyage, &c., will be furnished on application to John Marshall and Co., 26, Birchin-lame at Southampton ;or at Baltic-wharf, Plymouth. UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSUR ANCE COMPANY. 8, WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL, London ; D 7, George street, Edinburgh ; 12, St. Vincent-place, Glasgow; 4, College Green Dublin. (Established by Act of Parliament in 1834.) In 1841 the Company added a bonus of 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured to all Policies of the Pa ticipating Class from the time they were effected. Parties wishing to secure the benefit of tke next division of profits in 1848, should make immediate When the insurance is for life, only otte-half the annual premium need be paid for the first five years. Every information will be afforded on application to the Resident Director, No. 8, Waterloo•place, fall-mall, London, where prospec tuses, &c., may be had. ATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 28, CORNIIILL, LONDON. Capital .C 500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages w!th respect to life assurances and deferred annuities. The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for ?elture of the policy, two.thirds of the premiums paid (see Table); also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in terests to meet other conveniencies or necessity. Assurances for terms of years on the lowest possible rates. DIVISION OF PROFITS. The increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors at the annual meeting held on the 12th May, 1847, to declare a fifth .)onus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. ou the premiums paid on each policy effected on the profit scale. The Annual Report, with tables of rates, &c., may be kad at the )Rice, or any of Its branches In the country ; or, on application. will be forwarded post free. F. FERGUSON CANIROUX, Secretary. CONTRACTS for RUM, SUGAR, COCOA, SOAP, WHEAT, and OATS. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport Services, Somerset-place, Nov. 18, 1847. The Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland do hereby give notice, that on THURSDAY, the 25th instant, 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 Majesty's Victualling stores at Deptford, the underment'oned Artiees, viz.: When to be delivered The produce of the British Pos- Gallons. RUM sessions and not less than half 100,000 to be the produce of the Briti s h Possessions in the West Indies, SUGAR (the produce of the British Cos sessions) .....• Tons. 100 SOAP (Mottled) ...... • • • • • • • • • • • • • Half of each In 3 Weeks, and the re mainder In 3 Weeks af terwards. Quarters. WHEAT rEed.. .... t White OATS (scotch Potato) . . 500 Within 10 days. The Rum, Sugar, and COCOA to be exempted from the Customs' Duties. Samples of the Cocoa (not less than 2 lbs ), and of the Wheat and Oats (not less than two quarts of each) must be produced by the parties tendering, and samples of the Sugar and Soap, together with the conditions of the Contracts may be seen at the said Office. No render will be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed, unless the party attends, or au agent for him, duly authorised in writing. Eve~y Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left hand corner the words " Tender for ," and must also be delivered at Sonterset•place, and those for Rum, Su gar, and Cocoa be accompanied by a letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering, in the sum of 251. per cent. on the value for the dee performance of the Contracts. GUILDHALL, Nov. 15, 1847. TUE COMM ur FEE for LETTING the CITY'S LANDS, will meet at Guildhall, on WEDNESDAY, the 24th day of November instant, at One o'clock precisely, to receive tenders for LETTING on BUILDING LEASES, for sixty-one years, from Christmas next, a Picse of Ground, en the north side of Narrow street, at the corner of Cross-street, at Ratcliffe ; and a large plot of Ground e❑ the east side of Puddle Dock, on the south side of Upper Thames-street, and on the north side of the }Liver Thames. Also to receive Tenders for Lettleg on Leases, for twenty-one years from Chrl , tmas next, a llonse, No. 19, on the north side of Broad-street, buildings ; Nos. 30, 29, 28, 27, 26, and 25, on the north side of Bevis Marks, St. Mary Axe ; Nos. 7 and 6, on the west side of Castle-street, Iloandsdilch ; and Noe. 6,5, and 4, oa tke north side of Crescent place, Ittlackfriars Further particulars may be obtained, and plans seen, by applying at the Office of Works, Guildhall. THOMAS SAUNDERS, Comptroller. TO LINEN AND COTTON MANUFACTURERS AND CAPITALISTS. WANTED in a FIRST RATE CONCERN, of nearly Fifty Years standing, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, one or mote Partners, to supply the places of deceased Partners. The Capital required will be from 15,000/. to 20,0001. to be advanced at stated periods. The concern has hitherto been car ried on in all its branches from the raw materials down to their manufacture, and therefore the parties coming in should have a practical knowledge of some of the departments, as they will have to take an active part in the business. Applications stating the amount of Capital at command may be addressed, "K. W. Care of Mr. D. Steel, 2, Spring Gardens, Tra falgar-square. London." November 15th, 1817. LVOTTINGHAM.-BLACK BOY HOTEL. R. CHAPMAN having succeeded Mr. Fenton, begs to announce to Commercial Gentlemen, and Families travelling, that his house affords every accommodation and comfort, and he respect.. fully solicits the favour of their patronage. .XAMPLEN. . 1 rerma- Sum the ; ~,, Annual !Policy Bonus in l vent Re- Assured Awe. , 2 Pre- taken addition Bonus in ductio n o f may bor rd a mium. out in Assured. Cash. Annual row .a rd Premiums. Policy. - £ s. 4., £ s d. X s. d. 4 s . d. r 1837 243 9 3,112 8 5 18 4 6 494 8 la X Zs.d. 1838 218 4 81 99 8 10 15 13 5 445 0 11 1839 192 1 10, 86 9 3 13 4 9 395 H 1 60 1000(74 3 4 1840 143 5 10 1 '66 8 4 919 1 346 2 3 I I 1841 138 14 2, 61 17 6 9 9 2 296 13 4 1842 111 6 8, 49 10 0 710 4 247 4 5 NATIONAL MERCANTILE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, POULTRY, MANSION- HOUSE. LONDON. Empowered by Special Act of Parliament. DIRECTORS. ROBERT WILCOION, Esq., Chairman. Edward Baker, Esq. (Gale, Raker, Wards, and Co.) George Cursham, M.D., Saville-row. William Lawson, Esq. (Trower, Lawson, and Trower). George Moore, Esq. (Groucock, Copestake, and Moore). William Nicholson. Esq. (J. and W. Nicholson and Co.) James Peek, Esq. (Peek, Brothers, and Co.) Giles Redrsayns, Esq., New Bond-street. Peter Bolt, Esq. (Brocklebank and Bolt). David Waddington, Esq., M.P. Amopg other advantages offered by this Society, are : Security wltkoat liability. Economy in the management, and low rates of premium. Claims promptly paid. Profits to policy holders. Bonus declared July 1, 1846. w 1.1 0 ii IR 6 -`1 4/0 ILS: ii 0 I VI r-, 0 S•x! o V. a 0 4t s off-1 ao 1 r ''' 3'l .! :. ?I d. £. Pi a. : a . . 1. 3'1 4 71.'6- .-4. } ri 1838 7 60 1,000 62 15 0 24 15 1 244 40 1838 7 48 1,000 39 15 0 14 7 3 244 36 1839 6 89 1,000 60 0 9 20 110 224 33 1839 6 43 2,000 68 0 0 21 0 7 474 31 1840 8 44 1,000 35 0 0 9 6 0 202 27 1841 4 49 2,000 182 10 0 18 10 0 341 23 N.B. Parties sending in proposals for Assurance before January 1. 1848, will be entitled to participate in the profits to be declared In 852. J. JONES, Actuary and Secretary. lb It OVID ENT LIFE OFFICE. 50 , REGENT-STREET, LONDON, Established 1806. INVESTED CAPITAL, 1,200,0001. Annual Income 140,0001. Bonuses declared 529,0001. Claims paid since the Establishment of the Office, 1,520,0001. PRESIDENT. The Right Honourable EARL GREY. DIRECTORS. The Earl of Macclesfield. Rev. James Sherman. The lion. Arthur Kinnaird. Henry B. Churchill, Esq. Sir Richard D. King, Bart. William Judd, ltsq. Alexander Henderson, M.D. James Sedgwick, Esq. Capt. W .John Williams. Alfred Beaumont, Esq. John Deering, Esq., M.P. George Dacre, Esq. William Henry Atone, Esq. Richard Sherwood, Esq. I. The Rates of Premium are those adopted by the principal Life Offices, the rate without bonus is lower than that of most ether offices. 2. The Bonuses are added to the Policies, or applied to the reduc tion of the Premiums, or may be received in cash as soon as de dared, at their then present value. 3. Policies issued by this office are purchased at their fun value; er Loans may be obtained upon them to the same amount. 4. If a party neglect to pay for the renewal of his Policy, ho may repair the omission any time within twelve months, upon proof of ;ood health. Bonuses paid upon Policies which hare become Claims. Life insured. i Sum insured.i Sum pail. John Wharton, Esq.. Skelton Castle Sir John Saunders Sebright, Bart... Sir William Wake, Bart. .. •• • • . • .. Earl 5trathm0re..............•• 3,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 3,000 2,000 1,000 o. d. 7,706 6 0 7,652 13 3 7,500 li 7,128 15 $ 4,509 1 1 3,411 1 3 1,862 4 11 Rev. H. W. Champneys, Canterbury The Marquis of Wellesley • • . • .. • • .• Earl Cathcart .. • ........... ••.. .. Prospectuses and full particulars may be obtained upon applica tion to the agents of the office in all the principal towns of the United Kingdom; and.at the head office, No. 50, Regent-street. JOHN A. BEAUMONT, Managing Director. UNDER THE ESPECIAL PATRONAGE OF HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN. THE ROYAL NAVAL, MILITARY, EAST INDIA, and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 13, WATERLOO-PLACE, LONDON. DIRECTORS. Colonel Sir FREDERIC SMITH, K.H., 11. E., Chairman. Major-General Sir WILLIAM GOSSET, C. 8., K.C.H., R.E., Deputy-Chairman. Admiral the Right Hon. Sir G. Cockburn, G.C.8., M.P. Major-General Sir J. Cockburn, Bart., G.C.11. General Sir Thomas Bradford, G.C.8., G.C.H. Major-General Sir P. Ross, G.C.M.G., K.C.11. Lieutenant-General Sir John Gardiner, K.C.B. Major-General iir Hew I). Ross, K.C.8., R.A. Captain Sir George Back - , 11.5 Major-General Taylor, C. 8., E.I.C.S. Major-General Edward Wynyard, C.B. Major-General Arnold. K. 11., K.C. Lieutenant-General CleHand, E.I.C.S. Lieutenant-Colonel 11. Harmer, K. 11., late R.TI.G. Lieutenant-Colonel Matson, ILE. Major Shadwell Clerke, K. 11., F.R.S. Archibald Hair, Esq., M.D., late 11.11. G. Captain William Lancey„R.E. William Chard, Esq., Navy Agent James Nugent Daniell, Esq. Wilbraham Taylor, Esq. Major-General Rolt, C.B. Major F. S. Sotheby, C.B. BANKERS —Messrs. Coutts and Ce., 59, Strand. ACTUARY—John Finlaison, Esq., the Government Calculator. Assurances are granted upon the lives of persons in every station eflife, and for every part of the world, upon particularly favourable terms. Persons assured in this office may change from one country to ano. Ilker without forfeiting their policies. BONUS AMOUNTING TO THIRTY PER CENT. On the actual value of the policies was apportioned is the assured at the First Septennial Meeting, held in the year 1844. JOSEPH C. BRETTELL, Secretary._ DR. LA'MERT ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY.-WITH 40 COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL. 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Miles, Gracecharch• street ; and by all the principal Chemists in London. 1 Treatise is enclosed with the Medicine. STATE or TRADE.—The condition of the hosiery manufacture in all the branches, whether] silk or cotton, is extremely depressed. The silk glove branch seems to be in rather the worst state, many of the hands hav ing had no work since April or May: the only general remedy they conceive is to emigrate, and they seem reckless to what quarter they proceed. The expedition to Turkey has been principally composed of a few Leicester men, but had hundreds been required, there would have been plenty of 'volunteers. Some attempts are making, as a last resource, to apply to Parliament once more. but the great mass of the sufferers expect no relief from that quarter. On all sides we hear of nothing but assertions and complaints that the cotton bobbin-net trade is worse than ever, and a general (but we think rather mistaken) opinion prevails that it never was worse. It is much to be lamented that the machine-owners will not direct their attention to constructing their machinery so as to improve the fabric of the net, and also the principle of the jacquard, to enable them to make large patterns, the present principle being only applicable to making narrow breadths and Tunings ; and not vests, shawls, carfs, and such garments, which require a large quantity of net. This they certainly are aware of ; but they complain that the prices offered by the manufac turers for laces will not remunerate the heavy outlay in making alterations and improvements. The silk bobbin-net trade is still in a fair condition, and there is yet some demand for muslin laces, which will most probably increase with the spring fashions and the spring trade. We aru pained to state that the cotton warp lace trade has again receded, and some frames have been stopped. The warp cotton lace trade in France, upon the English principle, from the English frames, is in a similar situation; but the French prin ciple, worked by Frenchmen upon their own methods, is in a tolerable state; they are now principally supplied by needles made in England, they being very deficient in making them in France. They are sent of all guages, from a four guage two needle to a forty guage two needle, which proves the extent of the manufacture. Many warp frames have latterly been removed from France to Spain and America.—Nottinyham Review. WINDSOR, FRIDAY EYBNING.—It is probable that the Court will leave the Castle for Osborne immediately after the Princess Royal's birthday; but at present no orders have been issued, nor have any arrangements beau made for removal, S N 7 NOVEMBER 20, 1847. of commerce and intellect—to the vicinity of the harbour of Pirasus to the temples of the Acropolis. Rome, herself the mistress of the world, owed her vast and enduring dominion mainly to the energies of commerce ; and we have only to cast our eyes on the map, and behold her provinces clustered round the waters of the Mediterranean, to be convinced that more even than:to the arms of the legions, her power was owing to the strength of the maritime cities which glittered along its shores. It was the cara vans of the desert which raised those wonderful struc tures which still at Tadmor and Palmyra attest the magnificence of the queen of the East, and attract the admiration of the European traveller. It was in com mercial Alexandria that alone a library was formed worthy of the vast stores of ancient knowledge; and when the dominion of the consuls had fallen, and the arm of the Roman could no longer defend Italy from the swords of the barbarians, the incomparable situa tion and commercial greatness of Constantinople per petuated for a thousand years longer on the frontier of barbarian wilds the empire of the East. Nor has commerce in modern times fallen from her high voca tion as the chief spring of social improvement, and most powerful humaniser of man.—(Cheers.) It was in the manufacturing city of Florence that a rival was found in Dante to the genius of ancient poetry; in the mercantile city of Venice that painting rose to its highest lustre on the canvas of Titian. Genoa sent forth that daring spirit which first burst the boundaries of ancient knowledge, and exposed to Eu ropean enterprise the wonders of another hemisphere. It was in Lisbon that there was once found, in Vasco de Gama, the courage to brave the Cape of Storms, and open the ocean path to the regions of the East, and the genius of Camoens to celebrate the glorious enterprise, and for ever enshri ne it i n th e h ear t s o f men.—(4plause.) Great as these achievements are, there are yet greater things than these. It is in the north that the chief triumphs of the alliance between commerce and intellect are to be found. To one C)111.• mercial city in Germany we owe the art of printing —to another the Reformation. The first has rendered certain the diffusion of knowledge, the last impos sible the slavery of thought.—(Loud cheers.) Paint ing has again in the north reached its highest per fection, in a commercial city—in Antwep, where the immortal genius of Vandyke and Rubens was exhi bited. Commerce in Holland achieved a glorious victory alike over the storms of nature and the op • pressions of man. But why should we travel to other times and distant lands for a confirmation of the same eternal truth ? In this age, in this country, in this city, its highest glories have been found. Here it was, and here alone, that a successful stand was at last made against the _aggressions of revolutionary France; it was the discoveries of Watt, of Ark wright, and of Crompton, which arrayed the forces which the arms of Napoleon were unable to subdue. It was a company of British merchants which subjected the vast realms of Hindostan to the sceptre of Queen Victoria, and exhibited the prodigy of a single Delhi Gazette announcing in one day the capture of Caubul in the heart of Asia, and the submission of the Celestial Empire under the walls of Nankin. It is the energy of British commerce which has peopled the western hemisphere with our descend ants, and is spreading through the eastern archipe lago the wonders of European art, and the blessings of Christian civilization. Hitherto the progress of improvement has ever been from east to west ; from the rising to the setting of the sun ; but the merchants of England have, for the first tim e i n th e hi s t ory o f the world, rolled back the tide: of civilization to its source, and returned its blessings to the regions of the sun. It is their efforts which have realised the beauti ful vision of the poet : " Come, bright Improvement in the car of Time, And rule the spacious world from clime to clime: Thy handmaid Art shall every wild explore, • Trace every wave, and culture every shore. On Erie's banks, where tigers steal along, And the dread Indian chants a dismal song: Where human fiends on midnight errands walk, And bathe in brains the murderous tomahawk: There shall the flock on thymy pastures stray, And shepherds dance at summer's opening day; Each wandering genius of the lonely glen Shall start to view the glittering haunts of men, And silence mark on woodland heights around The village curfew, as it tolls profound!" (Cheers.) Why do I recal thus anxiously to your recollection the prodigies effected by the union of commerce and genius in times past ? Not to nourish a senseless, it may be, a hurtful vanity, but to impress you with a serious, even a solemn sense of the re sponsibility under which you are acting. I would have you recollect what has been done by your pre decessors—what will be expected of you by your descendants. Midway between the past and the future, possessed of greater advantages, wielding greater power than ever yet was enjoyed by man, will you fail in your glorious mission ? But how is that mission to be fulfilled but by the elevation of the n.inds of the middle classes of society, who are entrusted with its powers ? It is too late now to inquire on what basis the foundations of government should rest in this country. The foundations are laid ; we have only to raise the superstructure. It is in cities such as this that the moving power which ultimately obtains the direction of affairs resides; it is in assemblies such as this that the spirit which animates them is elicited: but it is in institutions such as this that the wisdom which should guide them is alone to be found. It has been truly said by the poet— " A little knowledge is a dangerous thing;" and it is precisely to guard against that danger that such institutions as this are valuable ; for no one has ever said that " much hnowledge is a dangerous thing." The people everywhere have that dangerous amount of information ; it is in the extension and elevation of that information that the antidote to this peril is to be found. " Knowledge," says Lord Bacon, "is power." He has not, observe, said it is either wisdom or virtue. But though not itself wisdom or virtue, it may be rendered such, and it was to secure that direction that you are associated. Great indeed are the results to public and private welfare which may be expected from the spread and success of insti tutions in which the real treasures of genius are to be found; the fortunes of our descendants are wound up with their success. I know of no security for good government in a popular communitylbut in the wisdom moderation, and public spirit of th e governe d ; an d I know not here these virtues are to be learned but in the great book of experience which is here laid open to your view. When a philosopher was asked," When does your education cease ?" he answered " with my life." And well might he say so, for what is life but the education for eternity ?—(Cheers.) Viewed in this light, this association is, indeed, an educational in stitution ; but it is one where education, in its highest sense, is to be obtained—that education which does not end at seventeen but at seventy which does not merely aim at giving the rudiments of knowledge to youth, but the means of information, the power of elevating the thought s , o f gra tif y i ng t h e taste, to the whole of life. The great question of general instruc tion is viewed in too narrow a light, if it is regarded in relation only to the training of youth, or giving the means of reading to the poor. What is most required in society at this time is a proper training of the minds, and elevation of the feelings, and extension of the information of the middle and upper classes, and that not in youth only, but through the whole of life.—(Applause.) Unless this is done, the expan sive force from beneath will become too strong for their direction, and the vast impulse of knowledge, instead of being the moving power which is to put in regulated and blissful activity the great machine of society, may induce the frightful explosion which is to shiver it to atoms. It is in the spread of real knowledge, aided by institutions such as this, that the fly-wheel is to be found. ",Whatever," says Dr. Johnson, in words which can never become trite, so noble is the sentiment they convey, " whatever makes the past and the future predominate over the present exalts us in the scale of thinking beings." If to the celebrated aphorism of. the sage we add " the distant," we shall form a fitting conception of the ca pacity of that soul which, able to look back through time and forward to eternity, is limited only in its present flight by the bounds of space. " Fully," says Gibbon " to appreciate this important truth, let us attempt in an improved society to calculate the im mense distance between the man of learning and the illiterate peasant. The former, by reading and reflec tion, multiplies his own experience, and lives in distant ages and remote countries ; while the latter, rooted to a single spot, and confined to a few years of existence, surpasses but very little his fellow-labourer the ox in the exercise of his mental faculties." In vain does an utilitarian age ask what is the use of such pursuits ? —what benefit is thence to arise to society ?—in what respect is the sum of human happiness to be increased by this extension ? What, I would ask, in reply, i s the use of the poetry of Milton—the music of Handel —the paintings of Raphael ? Why are the roses more prized than all the harvests of the fields, though they are beautiful alone ? To what does every thi ng great or everlasting in nature tend, if not to the soul itself—to that soul which is eternal and invisible, and a never ceases to yea neo r mtn n car ne a eyx f ei ti betn r eevs ne t acr h blee e sym; e oi t tav e wsn r e n hddu a i ‘fthiri n mi acdathleo, whateverint e v ne i s s t i tit b hnh l ya e at , t, how far soev t e po r r ea i stt t eh yearning, pointsnl ava d ffel e ir s dey t e i t ny is to be attained ?--(Loud cheers.) Regard ing, then, literature in its highest aspect, that of the great fountain, not merely of useful knowledge, but of elevated and generous sentiments, let me earnestly entreat you to apply vigorously to that which can alone give the passport to its whole treasures—the study of foreign languages.—(Cheers.) The Empe ror Charles V. said, that whenever he read a foreign language he felt a new soul within him. It is the command of them which is the great cause of the difference between men of cultivated minds and mere ordinary information. How great soever may be the genius of our own writers, there must ever be a cer tain sameness in their conceptions. Foreign reading is like foreign travelling, you receive new ideas at every step.—(Applause.) No amount of information derived merely from the writers of our own country can supply the deficiency. No mind can become enlarged which is not familiar with the thoughts of remote ages and distant countries, as no com merce can be extensive in which foreign is not largely exchanged for domestic produce. It is by the collision of flint and steel, not by steel alone, that fire is struck. It is by promoting this inter change of ideas that commerce in every age has so powerfully contributed to the advancement of the human mind. Nor is such knowledge of less vital importance to individual and domestic happiness. " All our views (says an author who knew the human heart well) spring from the inability to be alone." Every day's experience must convince you of the truth of La Bruyere's remark. Thence conies the de sertion of domestic life, the neglect of its duties, the careless parent, the disobedient family, and that wretched craving after external excitement which converts the paradise of home itself into an arid wil derness. But can that man ever be alone, can he ever dread solitude, who can converse alternately with Virgil and Cicero, with Tasso and Ariosto, with Racine and Corneille, with Shakspere and Scott ? To such a man is really true, what Cicero said of Scipio Africanus, " Never less alone than when alone; never less at rest than when at rest." This is the real exclusive society—this the magic circle which, indeed, dignifies humanity; for it interests without corrupting, and elevates the feelings without hardening the heart. But no haughty pride guards its approach—no zealous spirit forbids its entrance ; the portals are open to all, but they are to be passed only on the wings of perseverance.—(Cheers.) Be not deterred, then, by the difficulties of the ascent, the toil requisite to reach the summit. Of such study may truly be said what has been so finely spoken of the moral use of affliction :—" It is like the black mountain of Bunder, in India; the higher you ad vance, the steeper is the ascent, the darker and more desolate the objects with which you are surrounded; but when you are at the summit, the heaven is above your head, and at your feet the kingdom of Cash rnere."—(Applause.) I add only one other con sideration. I see with pleasure around me not merely an assembly of men, but a large proportion of the other sex. To the latter I would in an especial manner address myself ere we part, and that not in the spirit of chivalrous gallantry, but of serious moral duty.—(Cheers.) I will do so in the words of a man second to none that ever existed in intellectual power, and least of all liable to be swayed in matters of thought by the attractions of your society. "It is my decided opinion," said Na poleon, " that everything in the future man depends upon his mother." If anything was requisite to sup port so great an aathorityj would add that, as far as my own own observation has gone, I have never either heard or read of a remarkable man who had not a remarkable mother. If, then, study is requi site for men who are to rule the world, what must it be for you, who are to form the men ?—whose blessed province it is to implant those early lessons of virtue, and inculcate those early feelings of religion and habits of perseverance, on which the whale future fate of life depends, and which, by the blessing of God, when once received, will never be forgotten ? (Cheers.) Thus it is that you will duly discharge your inestimable mission ; thus it is that you will contribute your part to the great work of human ad vancement ; and thus it is you will regain in home the lost Paradise of Eden, and be enabled to say of it, in your last hours, " This it is which has softened the trials of time; this has, indeed, been the gate of heaven."—The Learned Gentleman resumed his seat amidst reiterated expressions of applause. Mr. R. COBDEN then advanced to the front of the platform, and on taking up this prominent position was repeatedly and eagerly cheered. It was some time before the vociferousness of this welcome would allow him to speak. He said he would be but ex pressing the sentiment and wish of all there present if he at once for them all commenced the observations he had to make by thanking the distinguished gentle man who had come so far to visit them and to pre side over them that day, for the very eloquent and truly instructing discourse they had just heard.— (Hear, hear.) And having done that, he would be but discharging his own duty if he, in the second place, thanked them for the kind and friendly re ception they had vouchsafed to himself after a long absence from Manchester.—(Cheers.) It gave him great pleasure that, after twelve months' absence, on his first appearance in public, he should have met those of his fellow-citizens who were members of the Athenwum. His gratification undoubtedly would have been the greater if he had found them assembled together at a time when the Athenaeum and similar in stitutions had been in a more flourishing condition. The circumstances marking this soirée were to be regretted; but he believed their society was only sharing in a general depression—the good or bad position of such institutions being always a kind of barometer indicat ing the prosperity or adversity of Manchester; and he did not entertain the least doubt but that, however passing storms might blow, the Atheneum had taken such a solid hold and so deep a root in the commu nity, that it would continue to flourish despite all the ad verse circumstances that might befal it.—(Cheers.) The Hon. Gentleman then adverted to the history of the institution, inferring from the peculiar facts at tending its origin that it had been found to be a necessity in the community, and that, from its commendable characteristics, it would always be entitled to, and would always receive, the support of those inhabitants of Manchester who were engaged in active business, and who in their leisure hours could appreciate and were willing to avail themselves of intellectual advan tages and beneficial relaxation. Ile mentioned that he himself had been one of the four or five gentlemen who, in the year 1835, had met in a small room in Manchester over a stationer's shop to consider and discuss the feasibility of the project; and though, as he declared, it might be that the Athenaeum had obtained in England generally more fame than it well deserved, from the eulogiums passed upon it by the eminent men who on successive occasions had occupied the position of Pro fe sor Alison in the chair, he )i-t considered that the utility of the institution in regard to the opportunities it held out to the young men of Manchester for intel lectual advancement could not be over-rated.— (Hear, hear.) They had never pretended to the character of a learned society; but they did profess to hold out to those having a taste for the severer studies the means of following their inclinations at the Athenaeum ; and it would not be denied that they had succeeded at least so far in promoting and en couraging useful and aimable tastes among the younger citizens of that town.—(Hear, hear.) When he, then a youth, was starting business in London, there had not been such an establishment existing in any quarter of the metropolis ; men, through the day occupied in business, and happening to be of literary tastes, had no chance of finding among people of their own standing participation or sympathy ; they were driven and confined to their firesides and their own limited libraries; and were it only because such a social defect found a remedy in the Athenmum,th institution might f a i r ly and justly claim the assist ance and support of all the mencommercial in in chester. That department of the Athenaeum which it should be conf esse d there resided th e greatest attrac tionltwas was unquestionably thehe case.news-renoein. perhaps well that such was maintained that to read that page o fcontemporary history— the daily newspaper—was a worthy man intimately engaged . in 'or the . butshinisessreosfpetehte in the He concurred entirely in . remarks of their Learned Chairman, that to study the daily events, and thus to direct their minds on t h e a quesons t* • affecting the interests of their race and the destinies of the world, was a necessary duty for the free citizen.—(Hear, hear.) After making some further observations referring to the situation and prospects of the Athenaeum, interesting merely in a local point of view, the lion. Gentleman exhorted the members, in thin period of difficulty, when the funds were low and creditors perhaps clamorous, to set aside all petty jealousies; and even if former comforts and conveniences were denied, to sympathise with, not obstruct, the directors in their embarrassments, and to make those self-sacrifices which were always ne cessary when one common object —in this case the success of their institution —was sought for. These few practical remarks he had made according to his custom, because he believed his advice might, how ever remotely, do good.—(Bear, hear.) He had, on entering the hall, asked a friend what would be the best subject to talk about that evening, and he was advised to dilate, as a great treat, e upon his foreign travels. The difficulty was where .to begin, for the realms through which he d had i r i o e • d had ranged from Cadiz to Nishni Novgorod. been advised to tell them something about r _ o the E . u . r a o_-• H e certainly s p a n and Russia' pearl extremes— •.--„ SOIREE OF THE MANCHESTER ATHEN2E UM. MANCHESTER, FRIDA . T.—The annual soiree of the Manchester Athenaeum was held last night in the Free Trade Hall, under the able presidency of Archibald Alison, Esq., F.R.S., E., &c., the eminent historian. The attendance was not so numerous as upon past occasions, a circumstance attributable solely to commercial depression, and not to any Abatement of public interest in the institution. The large size of the hall had the effect of making the asse Dblage appear a smaller one than it was in reality. The platform was pretty fully occupied. The gal leries were not by any means crowded, and there was ample space on some of the back seats in the body of the hall. Still there were not fewer than 1,700 or 1,800 persons present—a large number, considering the limitation mainly to members of the instution, and the state of the times. The seats in -he body of the hall were so arranged that those in the side compartments converged towards the plat form, and thus the faces of all the assembly were turned toward the speakers. A quadrille band was stationed at the end of the hall, opposite to the plat form. Besides the distinguished President, there were among the invited guests Mr. Cobden, M.P. The moment the Honourable Gentleman was seen upon ail platform, this being his first appearance before a public assembly after more than twelve months' ab sence from England, long and loud cheering, rever berating from all parts of the hall, welcomed him to his fellow-citizens of Manchester. There were also present Mr. Etnerson, the essayist, from Concord, America; Dr. Bowring, M.P., Mr. George Cruik shank, Viscount Brackley; M.P., Mr. W. H. Ains worth, Mr. Blackwood, publisher of the magazine, and other well-known characters. Notes of apology for absence were read from the Rev. G. R. Gleig, Mr. John M'Gregor, M.P., Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P.. Mr. Milner Gibson, M.P. Mr. Brotherton, M.P., th e R ev . th e D ean of Manchester, and the Bishop elect, whose letter is to the following effect : " King Edward's School, Birmingham, November 13. " Sir,—l beg leave to acknowledge, with thanks, the favour of your letter received this morning. For the:expressions of goodwill personally to myself which it contains, I feel obliged, and trust the issue of My future connexion with the town of Manchester will prove it to be my most sincere and earnest endeavour that I may merit them. " You will oblige me by communicating to the directors of the Manchester Athenaeum my thanks for the great honour they haie done me, by the invita tion to their annual soirée, and my regret that I shall be unable to accept it. The nature of my engage ments here is so uncertain, and the various calls upon my time so pressing at the present moment, that I do not feel at liberty to undertake a duty I may b e un able to fulfil, however much my wishes may incline me to do it. " I trust I shall at no time be found indifferent to the claims of any institution, having for its object the diffusion of sound knowledge and cultivation of taste. You will much oblige me if, when quite convenient, you will forward to me a copy of the rules or bye laws of the Manchester Athenmum, that I may give them, as I am fully desirous to do, the best attention in my power. I have the honour to be, Sir, your faithful servant, " JAMES PRINCE LEE. " F. Robinson, Esq., Honorary Secretary to the Manchester Athenwum." The other absent apologists were Mr. James Prior and Mr. G. L. Craik. The CHAIRMAN then addressed the meeting, and was loudly applauded on rising. Ladies and Gen tlemen--When I look around me on this magnificent assembly—when I recollect that it is, as it were, the heart and soul of Manchester itself, the centre of the commercial greatness of England —when I call to mind the splendid eloquence with which you have been addressed from this place, I know not whether feelings of pride or humility should be uppermost in my bosom ; of pride that your directors have deemed me worthy to succeed the many eminent men who have already filled this chair; of humility that I should be in most respects so unworthy to occupy their place. When I reflect on the graphic powers and touching pathos which have made the works of Dickens known wherever the English language is spoken throughout the earth—when I recollect the brilliant eloquence and caustic energy which have rendered Disraeli the object of admiration alike in the senate and the nation—when I call to mind the flashes of genius which glance like reflected sunbeans from the impetuous stream of Sergeant Talfourd's eloquence, and the graceful oratory and generous sentiments which, more even than his high descent, add lustre to the name of Morpeth, I feel at once what a distinc tion is conferred, and a responsibility is imposed, by the chair, in which the too flattering kindness of the directors of this institution has now placed me. Among the many reasons for admiring the choice which the directors have made of my predecessors, it is not the least that it evinces so marked a supe riority to all the distinctions of opinion and party, demonstrating that you regard literature in its noblest aspect, that of a great republic, the members of which should have only one object—the discovery of truth; who should feel no rival, but the rivalty of doing good; and no enmity but against the enemies of humanity.—(Cheers.) In one respect only I feel that I have some title to occupy this place—in one particular only I may perhaps be of service to some of those who hear me. Though known to y,ou chiefly, if not entirely, by my writings, I am, not in reality a liter ary man. Literature has been the delight, but it has not been the occupation of my life, and the works which have procured me the high honour which I now enjoy have been but the amuse ment of evenings, after days spent in the discharge of laborious duties.—(Cheers.) I can thus speak from my own experience of the possibility of uniting business and literature. I can tell you from personal knowledge of the solace it affords to a life of labour, and how it forms, as it were a link between the active and spec u l a ti ve world. I may perhaps possess one qualification for addressing . an institution which aims at uniting the energy of commercial enterprise with the refinements of literary thought. Tt ere is another circumstance which renders the honour now conferred in a peculiar manner grateful to me, and which I hope I may be forgiven for alluding to. I have lived so long in Scotland that it is gene rally believed that I belong to that country ; but, though my ancestors were Scotch, I was not born to the north of the Tweed, and when your kindness recalled me to this country, it recalled me to the land of my birth.—(Applause.) I was born at no great distance from this city, in the neighbouring county of Shropshire'. My earliest re collection of the paternal home is of the solitude and seclusion of an English parsonage-house, and if any thing I have since done has rendered me worthy of your favour, it is owing to the example I then saw, and the precepts I then received. Nor has the long period which has since intervened weakened the re collections of infancy ; not a long sojourn among the mountains of Scotland, not the grandeur of the Alps, nor the beauty of the Appenines, have been able to dim the vision of its surpassing loveliness. I still see in dear vision the Severn stealing through its grassy meads, the storied summits of the Caerdoc and Law ley, the woods of Acton Burnell Hill sleeping on their placid lakes; the Wrekin, arising in solitary majesty; the sun setting behind the ridge of Cader Idris.—(Cheers.) I see that the names I have men tioned are as household words to many who hear Me; but if they are so to y'ou what must they be to me who am recalled to their, vicinity after an absence of so many years, to fill a place which the descendant of the Howards was proud to occupy ? Interesting as such assemblies as this must be at all times, and in all places, there is something peculiarly appropriate for them in a great commercial city such as Manchester. There is a natural connexion which has made itself manifest in every age between commerce and intellectual eminence ; and the greatest steps in human improvement, the greatest marvels of human exertions, have arisen from their combination. It was to the commercial cit y of Tyre that we owe th e i nven ti on of letters —that won derful and almost superhuman discovery, which'first gave permanence to the creations of thought, and sends forth the "winged words" of ge n i us to make the circuit of the globe, and charm while it endures. It was its fortunate situation on the highway from Asia to Europe, since re-opened by British enterprise, which gave its early celebrity and enduring fame to ancient Egypt; and we owe to the caravans of the desert, more even than to the power of the Pharaohs, those wonderful structures, the Pyramids of Cairo and Temples of Luxor, which, after the lapse of four thou sand years, ,still stand "erect and unshaken above the floods of the Nile." " Turn over to the land, Where on the /Evan shore a city stands, Built nobly—pure the air, and lig - ht the soil; Athens ! the eye of Greece, mother of arts, And eloquence." and we shall find that the genius, the taste, and the fancy which have rendered the city of Minerva hn mortal—which have caused its name, after the lapse of two thousand years, to• be adopted by an institu tion animated by a similar spirit in a distant and then barbarous land—was owing to the combined efforts [NICE SD. ,out tak. of expressing his thanks as an Englishman - for the cor dial welcome he had received in every country it had been his fortune to visit. He said "as an English man," b ee; - was something rare in the annals of fore:gner should travel into almost .he Continent, and should in each publicly to sympathise with prin he happened to be identified in his .se principles being applicable, as ;bought, only to the domestic.con swn peopl e —(Ch eers ) Without entering on a question which even there might be considered to embrace controverted points, he merely submitted the fact of an Englishman being so re ceived abroad as a proof, at all events, that they were enlarging the circle of their sympathies, that the sphere in which political action was working was widening in their day; that instead of separate nations viewing each other with that narrow, jealous spirit which once was mistaken for the particular patrioti sm , they wer e b ecom i ng w illi ng to enter into more gene rous calculations of their own and their neighbours' interests; and the whole world was approachin g the time when it would, as he hoped and believed, be dis coverd that the interests of all were identical.—(Loud cheers) Well, he had observed at the two extremes of his peregrination a curious feature ; at one and the other extreme of Europe he had found the Oriental type predominant. In Andalusia he had perceived the remains of the Moors, as evidenced in the dress and habits of the inhabitants and their architecture ; and at Moscow, the old capital of the Czars, he en countered the remains of the Tartars, the former predominance of the race being testified by the same signs, in the dress, the buildings, and the customs of the people. At these two :imits, and, indeed, without so direct an assimilation at such opposite points, the reflection had perpetually been forced upon him, "We are so similar, there is so little real difference between us, in our moral attributes at all events so directly the same, alike in our sympathies and our antipathies, and having thus so palpable a cause for union, what was it, he had wondered, that had made this one family of man so long enemies ?"—(Cheers.) There was a little comedy with a deep moral which had lately been performed with great success at Paris, entitled Faute de s'Etittndre. The plot rested upon a series of mistakes ; the par ties in the scene, because they were ignorant of the .original intention s of each other, consummated a variety of blunders, and were subjected to innu merable hardships; and at the conclusion it was dis covered that each might have been very happy Wane had only known whit the other had been about.-- (Laughter.) Through all Europe he believed the same play had been played by successive Govern ments, a misunderstanding being the best defence for all the mischief they had occasioned.—((dear, hear.) At times the comedy had become a tragedy, and human happiness and human life had then been sacri ficed, simply because general ignorance prevailed of the one common good.—(Cheers.) And, therefore, they could only find out the means—and sometimes in Manchester they had been vain enough to suppose they had discovered the key of the secret—to demon strate to the different nations of Europe that their in terests were identical and universal, they would con fer the greatest blessing on humanity ever devised since the creation of the world.—(Cheers.) In that most interesting country—interesting to them all, and with which so many of their associations of lite rature were connected—he meant Italy—he found a new life springing up; and when he inquired how it was that Italy now began to make itself heard and felt through the rest of Europe, he had come to the conclusion, from all he had witnessed, that the rege neration arose from the quiet progress of thought and intelligence dependent upon the better educa• tion of the people.—(Hear, hear.) He had found that in that country great efforts had been recently made for the education of the masses; to his asto nishment he had discovered that in almost every town of 15,000 or 20,000 inhabitants, there were established several infant schools, supported by vo luntary contributions and superintended by Italian nobles. lie had even at Turin fallen in with a school where a Marquis attended daily as director ; joining the children in their play and riding with them on a rocki ng - horse. —(Laughter.) There were now, in Italy, as there had always been, leading minds, great and striking individualities, in all directions--men who had been engaged in discussing every question of social importance; in every town of Italy men were to be met with who took a deep interest, not only in schools, but in prison discipline, and all other questions affecting the moral condition of the people. He had been especially amazed at the number of practical people who sympathised with their efforts and controversies in England on the subject of political economy. Every lawyer, every counsellor, in Italy, now studied that science as a part of his professional education, and hence arose the deep interest there taken on that subject in which they had so long and so arduously engaged in England. To this quiet, slow, and gradual influence of the few on the many, and not to popular commo tions and angry outbreaks was the existing hopeful condition ofltaly attributable. Violence and revolution retarded progress ; and he traced to institutions which had been everywhere founded in that country, kindred in their characteristics to the Athenaenm, though not exactly the same, all the improvements which had lately arisen there.—(Hear.) lie joined with the werthy Chairman in saying that it was by the pro gress of the human mind alone that Governments could progress, or that good Governments could be maintained at all. He agreed further with the Chair man in saying that in these times public opinion con trolled Governments ; and he would say still more emphatically, speaking from experience, that there was no such thing as despotism now, in the old sense of the word—that public opinion ruled more or less everywhere—ruled better in proportion as the people were wise; and give him the compound ratio of in telligence among the people, and he would describe to them the character of the Government, no matter what might be its form or structure.—(Cheers.) If they inquired from him, after his long tour, what now recurred to his memory with the sincerest plea sure, he was bound to say it was Italy and the Italians —not on account of those monumental re mains which demonstrated the boast of the Italians that they had twice given civilization to the world, but because of the enjoyment he had derived from intercourse there with the minds of some of the most distinguished men of the day.—(Hear, hear.) He liked intercourse best with existing intellect ; he passed by the aqueducts, the tombs, the columns, and the ruins ; and among the Italians were at this moment to he found, not indeed among the mass of the people, but in the middle and upper classes, some of the most amiable and accomplished and interest ing men now living.—(Hear, hear.) He argued that in the present effort that was being made in Italy they would see progress just in proportion as the people became more and more enlightened. They had in Italy now, as always, a first-rate na t ura l it h quality n e race ; and if the people were but left to themselves—if they but obtained th at pr i vilege which we claimed invariably fur ourselves—if the Italians were only permitted, unmolested, to work out their own regeneration, he doubted not that that same race from which civilization had twice before proceeded to the rest of Europe, would again effect their redemption.—(Loud cheers.) He earnestly seconded the ads ice of the Chairman to all young men with respect to the study of the modern languages, and lie (Mr. Cobden) could speak feelingly tin that topic. Oh, if he had his time over again, and were in the beginning placed in the situation oufl dnot many of the youn g men i n t h at h a ll, h e w arrive at the age of t wen ty-fi ve years a ob taining the perfect mastery of French. German, and Italian. Perhaps one hundred years hence Eng lish would be spoken by a without beings than had yet exis ted f i n tercourse for the t ea _ veiling greater bot numberatt this is ot human moment French was the language o Manchester be yelling Englishman cau e se from this part of the world would start i n c h eap ec i l n ethveerystucodryneir of the conti nen t ; ani he recommend n he hoped, ere lung, to see the time when opera ttrivain3s to Paris.—(Loud cheers.) He wished to see the different people of the world married instead of those matches between princes from which spring so much turmoil and confusion.--(Cheers.) Ile would not deduce any more morals from his voyaging. He had returned home, as he had set out, satisfied that it was in institutions like the Athenaeum they could find, not only the great distinctive character of the English people from the whole of Europe, but that there also they must seek, in the improvement of mind among young men and adults, that superiority which in some respects we did possess over the continental nations.—(Cheers) With those nations we get the credit cif having within ourselves the character and spirit of associations ; how could that spirit be better directed than to the maintenance of such institutions as this ? They might take for granted that if they could not co-operate successfully for such an object they would fail in any other movement they might undertake.—(Cheers.) He exhorted them, therefore, to maint a i n thi s an d ki n d re d i nst i tut i ons on grou n dsses of p public an d p r i va t e ; h e h a d seen many ha society an d h a d b een engage d i n n scenes of gratification, and he declared l h he we re to look • honestly and conscientiously, that f derived the greatest satisfaction, he would point ? ir back to that from w hich he had t iay ex citing thine t o them, n pu rsuits which were now fortunately accessible to every member of the Athenaeum.— (Cheers•) Ile assuredly had not found the greatest delig ht in the agitating movements He told his fellow-citizens of of a public meetipg th known were those now in the posse ss i on he had ever lm intercourse with int e ll ec t ua l Manchester candidly , that the intensest en j o y m e n ts f there--the ea o- a mind, communion with the depa r t e d d ea d b y meansof books at his own' fireside.—(Appl ause .) DI R. W. EMERSON next addressed the assembly. His present position reminded him of au anecdote of his :own country, When a deputation of ruined °rid, that a every c try of tl find men pr red ciples lAith win h own country he: they at ho ad t, terns - 1) their of