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GLASGOW HARBOUR MINERAL RAILWAY. The Prov'sional Committee of the above undertaking hereby call a MEETING of the Shareholders thereof, to be held within Gibb's Royal Hotel, Princes street, Edinburgh, on MONDAY, the Eighteenth day of April current, at 2 o'clock p.m., for the purpose of determin ing whether the partnership or comps y of the Glasgow Harbour Mineral Railway shall he dissolved, all in terms of the 9th and 10th Victoria, cap. 28, entitled " An Act to Facilitate the Dissolution of Certain Railway Companies." ROBERT BAIRD, Chairman of Committee. Glasgow, April 6, 1353. GLASGOW HARBOUR MINERAL RAILWAY. A MEETING of the Shareholders in the above undertaking is hereby caled, to t Ire place within Gibb's Ro cal Hotel, Princes-street, Edinburgh, on MONDAY, the 18th day of April current, at 3 o'clock Pall, for the purpose of appointing and authorising a committee to "tind up the affairs of said undertaking in the event of its dissolution being resolved upon in terms of the 9th anl 10th Vict , cap. 58. ROBERT BAIRD, Chairman of Provisional Committee. Glasgow, April 1853. LOANS OR UsITED. LONDON EXCHANGE ADVANCE FUND, Old 13 r o 2 a . d A - sdter e l p e h t i:t c e i rr t ; . ce, Strand, facing the river; City Liranch, 3, The Right Ron. Lord ERSKINE, Chairman. Loans m in i advanced, In sums of 101, and upwards, granted on a joint of deeds hius ' :o t 3 ; othern repayable by easy instalments, or on the deposit available securities. ez euanite c h dat moderato rates of interest. inn rrn 2 ;08% a g l e te l a ni ti l in:sybeobtatned at the Offices, or on forward- W It• BROOKS, Secret ry. MRINSAUSTRALIA. . ROB begs to inform the public, um he has rec• ived instructions from the Western Austra an London°omPany to offer fo r SALt' by Public Auction, at the Mart n M , T HURSD tY. ay sth, in Lots, (unless previously 4i..i- P°B ed their of by P rivate Contract, of which due notice will be given) LI MiSIVE AND IMPORTANT FREEHOLD ESTATES IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA, being th e EXCEEDING 130,000 ACRES, r, e residue of the Estates of the Wettern Australian Lan t d o .6,3-2'_l:ny undisposed of, which the Directors are required to . offer , 4 1;an bY Y ?u • b i ic la e r ° g En e 1, Ap . ~,z , ,y , nd 3 , b o n a d p i the ta ti4pt petition, for the winding up of the affairs of that portion of the Estate has been accurately sur reS3 to en ac t q a u ft ir o e rd a s an admirable opportunity to enter 4uE AND VALUABLE TERRITORY IN THIS BRITISH COLONY, for agd ealtaral op erat i ons, with much probability even of inasmuch A URIFEROUS PRODUCE, Mam ar 1 " a charact Portion of the Land forms a continued line or range n er to THE Van ca DARLING RANGE IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA, IIAS B EEN LITERALLY FOUND TO OVERFLOW WITH GOLD. 011. Ro bins feels h e may with every certainty recommend these "'"aa as ouly hare 4 for f ut TevileEto NUCLEUS OF AOR iNTD SCHEME Pment, which, under skilful management, must not ad to a most profitable result, but ultimately become a to gretliucuicka ionyrgadventurelirs.lW4 OF WEALTH informat Ma d Plans are no y an preparing, in the meantime, every 2, lle nr ietta-strect b e obtained of w Mess and Co , Soli or ur. Robins Piazza, C oven t-gardencitors, No.. ------------________ LOWER CANADA. Pour fine Freehold Estates, co atte ntion Of thempLising enterprising Capatalist. 132,652 acres, deserving the R. ROBINS is favoured with instructions to 1 ;91 submit to PUBLIC COMPETITION, at the Auction Mart, i 0 , 4 ° 7 a, on a day to be hereafter announced, in Lots, unless prey - •-r (113 posed of by private contract, T he Four singularly -important Landed Estates of the GASPE Comm FISHERY and COAL MINING C 33/ PANT . , too t , „,n,iiiiT altogether 132,652 acres of land in Lower Canada, ri.h":_ w ateh the finest timber is growing, exempt from all setim9rial i t r ti is, and held in free and common soccage, 'with indisputable titles. to .. est: t 3. greate ese d sof emigration to the West, which seems to offer the raetions to the really industrious, these Estates present (enZr thPeculator an unusual ovortnnity ti employ his with everi, e influence and protection of the British Government) , ' cane of a large return : t)I. The 4, Estate of PABOS consists of 51,840 acres, near the entrance t , Pat,".., he of Chaleur, the boundary commencing at the Great ',. River, and extending three le guts from tha coast into h er t r.ie S everal extensive and substantial buildin;s have been at this station f or carrying on the fisheries, and are all In good odrderthe Estate produces pine, spruce, cedar, and birch. t The 2 ' 4 ,Estate of NEW PORI' adjoins the Patios Estate, and coit al" 10,394 acres. A valuable water-power saw mill has been erected on this Property, which is near the fishing establishment of the on laced -- pally, where capital build.rigs have been erected well calm for this branch of ihe business. Pine, spruce, cedar, and birch, are produced on the Estate. u4 ... 3 . Th Estate of PORT DANIEL is a good hsrbour in the By of nit'etu*,e 18 miles west of Paboa, comprising 4,000 acres, we'd covered With spruce, birch, and juniper. 4. The Estate of BONAVENTUR A comprises 66,418 acres in the _t°Wilship of Co t an d H am i lton, on the Great Bonaventura River, a ,„ 'me tract of land with pine, spruce, birch, cedar, and juniper. Mr. Robins begs to add that plans of these truly important proper ties May be seea at his offices 28 days prior to the sale, and ffill par ticulars will be prepared as soon as possible, and will be given on tip• plication to Messrs. Amory, Travers, and Smith, solicitors, 25, 'I hreg latorton-street, and Messrs. Roy, solicitors, 4, Lothb ry; at the Au c ti on Mart; and at M r . Robins' offices. Covent-garden. NEW FEATURE IN LIFE ASSURA NCE. THE DEPOSIT and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 18, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, Lendon. CAPITAL—ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS. DIRECTORS. C hairman—The Right Hon. the Viscount Drumlanrig, M.P., P.C., Comptroller of her Majesty's Household. R• Yallowley Barnes, Esq., 11, City-road, Finsbury. n _u• Noel Clarke, Esq , late 17th Lancers, Junior United Service Club. sjil'E COode, Esq., Portland-terrace, Wandsworth, and Belvoir, St. v. 1,„ f's, Jersey. ?nen Cracknall, Esq.. 1, St. John's-gardens, Notting hill, and 11, W. ,rj -s quare, Lincoln's-Inn. L eic les, M.D., D av i es s t ree t, B er k e l e y- square, an d L utterworth, Geor g :l7'shire. Leci„'noz, Esq., 15, Connaught-square, Hyde-park, and Tor Alexa::.;, Staffordshire. David'ert:Alaciean, Esq„ Harrow-on-the-Hill. p r ", le. Esq., 32, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square. P l ac.l We st, ' 43el) . Esq., 147, Leadenhall-street, and 8, Hyde-park ..ob,rt A 2,l.,"clode ri, 21 •,iddell, Esq., Tnner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. - " °r SPerlim. ',u,PPer Seymour-street West, Connaught-square. ''" l , St. James square. • J . . 111,.,, • L , AUDITORS. LeSSI -°' ' 8( 1,, 126, St - and, Actuary and Secretary to the Medical, waini.trtnd G eneral Litt Office. Office, 34.3' A. Peck, ' lL ", Accountant, 3, GuilThall-chambers. . Actuary to the Engineers and Mason c Life , Strand. ...Sir Charles prinM narmsas. arryat, and Co., 3, lung William-street, London. Jue ssra. Il opki son and Co., 3,llegent-street. Dr. r .., en-is , „„ b.. „ i nsbury-place. •ma Wan, 21, Upper Seymour-street West, Connaught-square. - - N . c , BURGEONS. kleb un P nl an, Esq. 16, Lower Seymour-street, Portman - square. ael T eevan, Esq ., 44, Gloucester-p!ace, Hyde-park-gardens. CONSULTING ACTUARY. Francis G. P. Nelson, E q•, F.L.S. INSPECTOR OF AGENCIES. F. P. F. Strousheze , William Wellington Cooper. E STANDING COUN S EL.q. Ne w -squa re, wtsq ua SOLICITORS. Messrs. Hill and Mathews St. Mary-axe. RESIDENT StCHETANY. Charles W. Bevan, Esq. The public Is respectfully invited to examine the principles of the Deposit system of Assurance, which is based upon tables calculated by. and is under the immediate supervision 0C Francis G. P. Nelson, F.L S., the Consulting Actuary to the Company. Compsrative Tables to assure 5001 on death, by a person aged twenty next birthday, on the oRDINART and on the DEPOSIT system of Assurances. This day is published, post Bvo., cloth, 9s , 'rHE DIARY of MARTHA BETH UNE BALIOL, from 1753 to 1754. Forming the new Volume of Chapman and Ball's Series of Original Works of Fiction, Biography, and General Literature. London : Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. This day is published, Bvo , cloth, Ss., lIISTORICAL OUTLINES of POLITICAL CATHOLICISM: its Papacy—Prelacy—Priesthood — People. London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. - THE QUARTERLY REV IEW, No. CLX—Y.XIV., is Published this day. CONTENTS: -- I. Apsley Rouse. S( rope's History of Cantle Combe. 111. Human Hair. IV. The Old Countess of Desmon I. V. Hungarian Campegns—Kossuth and Gorgey. VI. Buckingham Papers. VII. Search for Franklin. VIII. The Two Systems at Pentonville. IX. Maurel on the Duke of Wellington. John Murray, Albemarle•street. ON THE ORDINARY SYSTEM. iThe suns the ordinary The strn the iLife Offices would give ordinary Life him if he were unable Offices would 'to pay, or if he omitted At the His give him for to pay his current 1., An nual end of policy I th e surrender annual premium of .1 thirty lat that or s a l e 81 . Cs, 3d. after he has ro Premium yearswhen age, I of his policy, paid into their coffers et to assure the party In case , a ft er th i rty 2491.7 s 6d., and which 5 001, Is fifty of .years'payment s th ey h ave h a d t h e use years old, death amounting to I of at compoun I I I ihewn] have will be 249 L 78. 6d. in'erest, or in E paid into worth w hi ch theyhave the event of his death the office. bad the benefit! on e h our a f ter suc h 1 of at compound omission or inability -- i---.7.—..l________ I Interest. I to pay. l • %. ad.!! 249/.7a 6d little more I • • 50og. than 80/. NOTHING, perhaps 901. ON TUE DEPOSIT SYSTEM. I !fun able to pay, or not desirous of paying or omitting topay,the Po- Hey would still remain of its rm. value, 52 2/.25.7d.ti1l death, if 20 years after, no fur ther qai re p d a . wever the party, from any cause, yim fh e:t beingre wished to cancel the Policy, he could not onlyd raw out all hehas 0' T 1 . 103 00 2257. 5227.257 d 2 87/. 2s. 9d; a pu c t e i r n ta , i v n i z b 0 , 1 2 m 2 5 51 0 ., f 6 itt . 2s. 9d. in the bargain, which Is mbre than one-fourth of the whole of his payments, or he could either draw out a part, 201. or 501., diminishing the Policy only by the a ssured value of the sum s o drawn out at the age whe n withdrawn. See Pagess and7in detailed PaMphlet, by F. G. P. Neison, Esq. On comparison of these two tables it will is itingdadervtahneLoyel system of time-regnPariSon ef these tvro tablet; it will be se ,_ _ e novel system of lateosti at person secureentbat a in 3 advantages, viz., Ist. For al . 'ourance ca nthe follow larger soot ka IMM, paid annually, he can assure kily, in case of death than Under th di ry system. in this ighe event of a of to surrender his Policy enr he can receive Titan tip P a dY. by the abeve example,which s as mu c h , applies to all ages, of inability or o as on the ordinary system. 3rdly. In the event Mission to ..- Of the s am e 'ew i ills policy remains still his property, _ ar a e value as it was *` — ""ough he ase his current payments roe .Mirriber of he gets „, Years ; whereas on the ordinary system, auto hn g t of tinY. Should be require to increase or decrease the by giyin hi s P o licy. he can eo so at pleasure. He can art: any time, Whole g a iortnight's notice, withdraw any part Nom 11 up to the has Withdrawnount of his previous PaYments and with interest. After he ream part one . a single payment, three year he can by a f or any tinle afterwards. raise his policy to a greater or mil it aoarmer amount ; and by this system he can at all times regulate baft a i n n ual f , k l aVints by his aiannal expenditure, with the facility in the in - 17.. - .., ° ' "' ri ng fund to fly to in case of necessity, the same as %..1 ..--•••, With this alpable advantage, however, that he gets bite ror les Moneys and in case of death his family receive more than lab eh of hie .--.-- .vings. In ordinary Life O ffi ces I e can do no _tie thing, but his policy at once lapses or is cancelled the moment tc.eases to Pay his current premiums, and, instead of having any forQ to AY to for aid, all his hard.earned savings become forfeited to ociety, and his m isfortunes to benefit the pockets of his efortunate serve -assurers. Such a s •st e° overlooked and ....._ ern is too equitable and too striking to be _ c can be hilivi!;voser assurance is the only system of assurance l whi h thms,'"allY recognised and adopted when the principles are linar .' canvassed and its 1 bl be fits become widely diffused It confers g re ' pa pa e ben allows a fair rate a ter advantages than a bank because it of interest I I amount n the h__, • n case of withdrawal, and gives twice the hands of the Company to the representatives of the Depositor in ease of death, thus combining the ADVANTAGES OF A BANK WITH THE BENEFITS OF / AN * ASSURANCE COMPANY. _ n Case of endowment assurances the advantages of the DEPOSIT mein are still more striking- ArEVANT4GES OF THIS COMPANY UNDER THE ORDINARY LIFE ASSURANCE RNCH. Te those who Prefer this b P oli c i esanted from 201. ranchare granted to 6 ,000 i , i . •on every known principle thereof. ''''‘'ea in all but th • t eeof disease, and such as have been rejected e n orst s ti es to the Parti cular diacYaseether Officea, are taken at rates equivalent Leans from 501, and upwards granted on every kind of security, real or Perional, on the most equitable terms to the borrower Annuities of every description granted on very favourable te. Non-forfeiture of a Policy.—ln case of inability to pay the cu rrant Pre ' ci orns, the Directors will eitner purchase the Pulley at a fair Market value, or give a new one in lieu thereof, less 5 per cent., inte rest corres ponding in am oun t to the whole of the previous payments Which h ave been m a d e. Detailed wit prospectuses with tables in further illustration of the De system, and any further information may be obtained on appli- Cation to the Agents in the country, or to CHARLES W. BEVAN, Resident Secretary. 11.Be.,Agaits wriuted IA all Darla of tllo World. MEDICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF TOUTII AND MATURITY. DR. SAMITEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Doctor of Medicine, and Matriculated Member of the University 01 Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medic _ . Society Licentiate of Apothecaries' flail, L ondon, &c., &c - - AY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on V A_ the various disorders of the nervous and generative system, resulting from juvenile irregu'arities and excesses, which have pro duced more misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema ture decay at all stages of life, than perhaps any other class of dis eases known to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience in the treatment of these diseases has proved that there are in exist ewe secret causes of self-acquired miseries and disappointed hopes in existence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous Debility, various forms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitful Marri ages, Impotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their endless modifications owe their almost e' tire origin. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are principles of personal management which cannot be violated without incurring krlevotts penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties may be mitigated, bow the sting of their bitterness may be remove and how the evil and its con cqucnccs may be avoided, and above all, that there i scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional derangement to which the timely a'd of science cannot apply a cure. 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II or. o t eyriti l sdri cesu e bi bmien n ytehe o i rawt n a (hn uth - 1 non - p ayment ibc a : stil y ( jete n nsati hotoa e eoi n dln stulo t heeblntend o e t f ael ahabn d ipsel ei apart original rv i dprt d eeiaozg e ilria n dilisn,a d ecroa s dealvnb ; esyft a rs ! tloielfdalookelorci of-these Government, appears ugtli n lo:rve o rveif w eestup(herinrnbeidtno, netinduianstee in defiance of a mandamus from their own High Court o n English creditors : historyofMisAssippi repudiation. Let us promise, fur the information of persons not familiar with the facts, that in 1830 and 1833 the State of Aiississppi issued bond 4 to the amount of $2,000,000, and loaned them to the Planters' Bank of that State, then recently established. Of this amount $1,500,000 were issued with coupons attached, and $500,000 without. Not long after, say in 1835 or 1836, she issued bonds to the amount of 4,000,000 more, for the establishment of the Mississippi U n i on Bank. 'The bonds for the Planters' Bank sold at a considerable pre mium, out of which a sinking fund was established, which was eventually to redeem them. These Planters' Bank bonds were never in form repudiated, but the in terest on them ceased to be paid in 1838, and not a farthing has since been received from them by the un fortunate holders, most of whom reside in England. " The bonds for the Union Bank were thrown upon the market at too late a date to bring the highest prices. Money was not so plenty, and a portion of them at least, if not the whole, were sold for a trifle under par. The act of the Legislature authorising their issue contained a proviso that-they should not be sold under par; and as a preteit_was not w-40d tßoco},the odium of repudia _ tion, it was found in the neglect of this proviso, although at the date of the repudiation most or all of the bonds had passed into the hands of third parties, who knew nothing of the restriction, and had no agency in disregarding it. At best it was little more than a technicality, on which no stress was laid when the issue of the bonds was authorised ; and the Governor's recommendation to re pudiate on that ground, or on any ground, was at first resisted by the Legislature, who, on the other hand, passed a resolution declaring that Mississippi would ' preserve her faith inviolate,' and that any insinuation to the contrary would be a calumny upon her justice, honour, and dignity.' She, however, made no attempt to pay either principal or interest, and in 1842 the in famy of a formal repudiation was consummated. "We now go back to the Planters' Bank bonds. In 1848 there remained of the sinking fund set apart for their redemption, 94,000 dollars. The Legislature of that year passed an act requiring this money to be applied to the payment of the first of the overdue coupons of these bonds. As 500,000 dols. of the bonds had no coupons, they were excluded by the wording of the law from the benefits of the appropriation ; al though no such discrimination was probably intended. As yet, however, nothing has been gained or lost by' either class of bondholders in consequence of the dis crimination, the State auditor having evaded the law which required the payment to be made.. Under these circumstances Mr. Weiss, an agent of the English bond holders, being then in Mississippi, obtained a mandamus against the auditor, commanding hiss to pay over the mo ney acccording t o law. The latter thereupon appealed to the 'High Court of Errors,' the highest tribunal in the State, which, towards the close of last year, confirmed the mandamus of the lower Court. The sinking fund was by this time reduced to $45,000, the Legislature of that year having appropriated it to defray the ordinary expenses of Government ; and we infer from the recent article in the Natchez Courier, that this $45,000 h.s since been expended in the same way, the auditor pro bably regarding the authority of the Legislature as superior to that of the Court of Errors. However this may be, it is plain that there is a collision between the Courts and the Le g islature, and that th e l a tt er b o d y h as trampled under foo t the authority of the former. "Nor, is this the only point of collision between the Government of Mississippi and her Courts. For her Court of Chancery has recently decided that she is legally and constitutionally bound for the redemp tion and payment of the Union Bank bonds. This case will go up to the highest Court, which, there is reason to believe, will sustain the Chancellor's deci sion. The New Orleans Bulletin, anticipating this result, says This will place the people of Mississippi in a very awkward predicament—they voting that they will not pay certain obligations, and the high tribunals of their own creation, specially authorised to pronounce upon such subjects, declaring that they are legally and constitutionally bound for their redemption and payment. "All honour to the Mississippi Courts. They have done what they could to vindicate outraged justide ' and blot out the infamy which mu s t ever a tt en d an d follow the repudiation of just debts. That those under consi deration are just debts nobody doubts but the debtors. The country and the civilised world have pronounced upon the case a unanimous verdict. Mississippi stands before mankind a fraudulent debtor--able, but refusing to 'pay. Being an independent State she has the power either to pay-or not to pay ; but this fact makes her re fusal still more discreditable to her, if possible, than it otherwise would be i"ln thinking a nd s p ea ki ng on thi s su bj ect, we must be careful to di scr i m i na t e b e t ween t h e numerical majority which has hitherto refused to make any effort to pay the bonds in question, and that large and respectable mi nority who for years have bean struggling to redeem the credit of the State. We said years ago, and we say now, that Mississippi will yet regard it as a privilege to pay her repudiated bonds, and all her bonds. Recent demonstrations encourage us to hope that her regenera tion is near. Not only the decisions of her Courts, and the increasing zeal of the party in favour of bond paying, encourage us, but also the fruits o f h er dishonesty, which she is beginning to reap. These are bitter, like the apples of Sodom, and will become more so the longer they are kept." crews deserting on . _al, and the difficulties and Tenses attending lighterage and ballasting. It is to ,e feared that much of the splendid shipping in the bay 11 continue to be delayed by the same adverse causes. aving rapidly touched some points of interest, let us hasten to glance at the prospects of the new year opening upon us, which is likely to prove interesting not only to this community itself, but to the world at large. We shall soon find a list of vessels making their way here in numbers beyond anything hitherto experienced ; it will include a gathering from all nations and languages, and altogether form a spectacle engaging alike to the Chris tian philanthropist, the statesman, and the philosopher. First, as to the Government. It is the fashion to abuse the " powers that be," but it should be rather a matter of surprise that so much has been effected by so young a legislature ; it is, however, found expedient to increase the number of m em b ers o f the Council to 64, and when important measures come before them it will be time enough to make comments. The estimates have liberally granted additions to the stipends of the officials in some accordance with the altered circum stances of the colony. The simple tariff on imported commodities affecting only five, viz., spirits, wine, to bacco, tea, and coffee, is worthy of remark, and leads one to expect that by some future means a revenue will be raised without the expense of a custom-house or a temptation held out to the smuggler. The riv..mue for the year has augmented to 1,700,0001. The prospect of the yield of gold must be a pure mat ter of opinion, but from the most careful inquiries as to the auriferous regions, it is likely that with the increase of diggers and the intelligence and experience now at work a much larger aggregate yield of gold will be forth coming. Continual fresh localities are being discovered, and there is no assignable reason why deposits equally as rich as have already been found should not exist in a vast number of spots equally favourably situated. It is not thought that labour will recede in value for some time to come, as the yearning for the diggings among all the working classes is too general, and while the chances of success at the golden lottery are held out, there will be a restlessness among the brawny armed population which will deter them from the old routine of steady labour. As the inflated prosperity and high prices of every* thing depends on the golden harvest as its main spring, we will leave this part of the subject, and turn to the shadow s of the scene, whence arise some gloomy thoughts for consideration. One evil is unavoidable, viz., the overcrowded state of the greater part of our city, and this is coupled with very bad drainage. A case of cholera of an Asiatic complexion occurred yesterday, and any spreading of such a calamity is too dreadful to contemplate. Another evil is chargeable to those who have furnished England with such glowing descriptions of the climate of this colony ; and it is a gross deception practised on the poor emigrant to tell him that this is so delect able ' a climate. We have people from all regions arrived at this time, uninterested in colouring any report, and who readily pronounce these glowing de scriptions unfounded, and should never have been pro mulgated. For instance, yesterday morning the ther mometer stood at 102 deg. indoors, and 128 deg. in the sun, with a violent gale of blinding, burning dust, as bad as on a Nubian desert, and ere sunset the tempera ture fell 40 deg. ; this is a frequent occurrence during the summer months, and should suffice to prevent such glowing reports of the excellence of the climate. Dysen tery has been a prevailing complaint among all classes, of all ages, and in many instances rapidly fatal. Money-making is chArm enough to bring multitudes here, but they should not be deceived regarding the climate, which is more adapted to vigorous constitutions than to those labouring under infirmity, who should pause ere they venture to come to this distant land, where the usual comforts of life are not obtainable, except at an exorbitant cost. The immigration includes all classes of a civilized people, and as society becomes cemented thereby, the present year bids fair to present to the world such a rapidly-formed community as the world has never wit nessed. The population of the province is now estimated at 200,000 souls, and it is to its rapid augmentation that Great Britain is indebted for its supply of wool, which is now shipping to the usual extent. SELF-CONFESSION OF THE MURDER OF A WOMAN BY HER HUSBAND IN SCOTLAND. Yesterday much excitement prevailed in the neighbour hood of the Marylebone Policec-ourt, arising from a know ledge of the fact that a man was in custody and about to be examined upon the serious charge of murder. At 12 o'clock, by which period a number of cases of minor im portance had been disposed of, the prisoner was placed at the bar before the sitting magistrate, Mr. Broughton, charged on his own confession with having caused the death of his wife, Mary. at a house in Edinburgh, by throwing her down stairs and breaking her neck, and afterwards concealing her body under some flag stones in the cellar. The prisoner, who had the appearance of a labourer, and seemed to be about 35 years of age, had at the sta tion-house refused to give any other name than that of " Robert ;" he was very much dejected, and, resting upon the . bar, covered his face with his hands during the greater part of the investigation. Mr. Broughton (to the prisoner)—What is your sur name ? Prisoner—l have given my name as' far as I mean to tell it. Ido not want my friends to know of this affair. Sergeant Battersby, 4 D, on being sworn, said—At a quarter past three this morning I saw the prisoner out side of the Marylebone station-house, and he said to md, "I ,want to speak to you about my having killed my wife." Mr. Broughton—Was he the worse for drink ? Wit ness—No, sir •he was quite sober. A constable who was outside 'brought -him into the room where I was doing duty as acting inspector, and after I had cautione hinv with regard to what he might say he made this voluntary statement :—" I and my wife went into a lodging-house in Blair's-doss, Old Town. Edinburgh, at half-past twelve on the morning of the Ist of last January. I gave her 55., and told her to get mo some supper. I then went out and re turned in the course of half-an-hour, when I found that my wife had not provided supper, as I ex pected she would have done. I asked her what she had done with the money, but I received from her nothing more than abuse. I sat down and smoked my pipe for an hour or so, and let her go on as long as she liked. She got so enraged at my not saying anything to her that she cried out, " Speak to me, speak, or I shall burst !" She then flew at me, and scratched my face. I seizecl her by the wr i s t s an d h e l d her down on the seat, and said to her, "Now, Mary, this is the last row you and I will have," and I told her that I would go and leave her. She still went on, thinking that I was not in earnest about going. I reasoned with her a long while, and on my at last leaving the room she followed me. By the time I had got to the bottom of the stairs she reached mo, and laying hold of my arm, said, " Where thou goest there will Igo too." She clung to me, and I shook her off, and she fell down the stairs --in fact I threw her down. I did not know that the stairs were there ; it was quite dark. She gave a scream. I rus'ied down stairs, and spoke to her, but she gave me no answer. I then went up and got a light, and on my re turn I found her senseless. I dare say there was life in her, and that's all. I carried her up stairs, and laid her on the bed. She was then quite dead. I was afraid of being taken up for the murder, so I took the light down stairs and f oun d i n the t cellar, a help of up some of the flag stone, and having dug a hole about three feet deep, I fetched my wife down and put her in the hole aftet which I covered her up, and put the stones down again in their proper places, I then mixed the earth with the ashes and rubbish, which I threw over the stones: - I left the house at six in the morning and went to a publi c -h ouse , w h ere I rema i ned till daylight: I pawned my watch, and went to Leith, from which place I came back by steam-boat to ,Hull, and from thence to London. lam satisfied that I could point out the precise spot where the body now lies." Mr. Broughton (to the prisoner, who seemed lost in thought, and scarcely raised hie head from the bar in the course of the inquiry)—Have you heard all that the ser geant has said 1--Prisoner (carelessly)—Yes ; I have heard it all. weisaehlilnalontinsillediatel ge Mr. Broughton (to Battersby)—Have you been able to get any information about the prisoner as to who he is or where be has been living since ho has been in Lon don ?—Battersby—l have not, sir. He told me that thB maiden name of his wife was Miaren ; further than that I could get nothing from him, with the exception of his telling me that when he did the deed all the other lodgers in the lower part of the house were out for a holiday. Mr. Broughton—The idea of the hole dug under the flagstones, seems to have been borrowed from the Man nings' case. Inspector Jackson, D, said that h i e n h t e h a e rd us tl u le al p m ri a so n n u e e r r say that he had not been long in London. He (the aW i la d e n e es " da ll y ia n i e r x 's t, by iu T t The prisoner, Bmraoguigs magistrate, Broughton remanded statementeh re' ° l et oamdvraanns jodocatii:duki tntshhigooeininntmoetduosradye. . gh m . -as sue t h ill cause a copy of the close, inspector) Can o k n n g e a w te, th E at d i t z i l e u re i to the madesuperintendentrof the Edinburghby th e a strict i d nuiry into all the op c a f i o n r lc d c i ouc r d ue m strsoebt direct ed murder of the female would, circum stancesTheprreislaotnivere w to as th y and strictly instituted. alleged nieremoved from the bar by Addey, the gaoler, and lockteehdae up. IVITSTERIoUSAFFAIR.—Five Weeks a° ' a g navvie named Ba rra t t arrived at Kentchurch, and met with former companio n (J o h n L etts), who had worked on the London and York li ne at N ewark, and who treated him kindly. The same evening, Saturday, Feb. 26, they went together to the Bridge Inn, Kentchurch, where "forfeit money" had to be spent, and there the stranger fought for a short time with another navvie. Late at night. the parties left, Barratt (who had arranged to go to Lett's lodgings) having been observed to go out pre viously. From that time nothing was seen of him until Thursday last, when the landlord of the Bridge Inn found his body (the face having come to the surface) in a cesspool or privy on his premises. H. Underwood, Esq., held an inquest on Monday last., when Mr. Ltne, surgeon, thus described its appearance :—" I 1 ..0 ind the man quite dead, and covered with filth. I examined the face. I then gave orders for the body to be cleaned iu order to its examination, and on the following morn ing I proceeded to make a more careful examination. I found a mark en the eye and nose, as though some Wong had been given to the 1 ,eased when alive. The bru.i e sr and blows were of a trifling kind, certainly nqt sffi u to produce death. There was no mark whatever I b body. I am of opinion that the d:.-easedeea must have on o the fallen headlong into the cesspool, an d _ e b instantly in the wire of the cesspool,rdict,""ffYoc:UtUe4d LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1853. _ K. AGENTS.—Life Assurance Agents in any part of England may with advantage become Agents for Fire Insurance, and thereby greatly extend their Life business. The Directors of the UNITY FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION—an institution established on new and important principles, and possess ing upwards of Two THOUSAND SHAREHOLDERS, whose names and addresses are published with Vie Prospectus —are ready to receive applications for Agencies, accompanied by references. By looking over the List of Shareholders, applicants will probably find several to whom they are known. For terms, prospectuses, &c apply to THOMAS 11. B tYLIS, General Manager and secretary. Ch'ef °frees, 4n, Pall Mall, London. THE FIELD.—THE LARGEST PAPER in EUROPE. TII E FIELD, or COUNTRY GENTLEMANS NEW:;- PA l'Elt, consists of 24 paves, with ILLUSTRATIONS by the first Ar, lets The increased space will enable the conductors to make each department more perfect ; and they hope, by the careful exelu• siert of every subject of objectionable character, to render 'TIE FIELD all that a Gentleman's Sporting and Family Paper should be. Published every Saturday morning in time for tote early morn ing trains, a..d may be bad of all newsmen. Office, 4, Brydges-street, Covent garden. Price 61. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. CONSOLIDATED FUND AND NATIONAL DEBT REDEMPTION ACTS. (From the Times.) The Chancellor of the Exchequer's announce ment of a motion to-morrow for a committee of the whole house to consider the Consolidated Fund and National Redemption Acts will revive many an old reminiscence, and many a dormant train of thought, in the elder portion of our readers. Forty years will carry us back to the day when the National Debt had not yet attained its present monstrous proportion, when it was still young and intolerable, and when every table was covered with pamphlets on its illegal or its ruinous character, and on the best way of getting rid of it. Most of the schemes for its redemption were little more than repudia tion, in one flimsy guise or another. But the iniquity and presumption of visiting the sins of one generation on another, z,nd leaving to the unborn the inheritance of a debt larger than the world had yet seen or Conceived, was the prevailing idea of serious pamphleteers. The utmost that the nation could do, it was urged by a large class of financial malcontents, was to burden the future for ten years, or, at the utmost, twenty, that being the period during which nature makes us guardians and trus tees for the rising generation. But theories and plans fo'r paying the costs of the war and discharging our increasing liabilities were as rife in those clays as plans of drainage, extramural interment, life assurance, and communieation on railways are in ours. The debt having attained a certain colossal roundness and perfection, and the war having happily ended, the question of gold versus paper served for some years to fill,up the void in financial Min dal - and from that clay to this we have seldom been reminded of the old controversy, except when Chancellors of the Exchequer came forward from time to time with the terrible announcement—terrible to many a widow and orphan—that stockholders were to be immediately offered their money or a lower rate of interest. By degrees we have come down to 3 per cent., and for many years Consols have not been sufficiently-above par to allow any further reduc tion. Now, however, for many months, they have been so much above par, or so little below it, that it has become a question whether a bargain may not be made with the fundholder, and whether something may not be thrown in to make up foi the want of a more decided premium in the market. According to rumour, that is the interpretation of Mr. Gladstone's announcement ; and, on the sup position that it is so, the judgment of the money world has already been pronounced in its, favour in the infallible voice of the Stock-Exchange. Under the many contingencies that are looming in the fundholder's future, and with the days at hand when money may be a drug, Consols may be considered as always trembling on the eve of con version. The Chancellor of the Exchequer can al ready borrow as much money as he likes for a twelvemonth at 1. per cent., and what is more m may unquestionable y by and by libeketly than he that 2 security ? It is true that, under many circum stances, regularprice for rr loans ent. on a great abundance of money has a ten dency to raise the rate of interest. It is so in a e new country, with new resources continually , opening, and with many ways presenting them selves by which a man trading with borrowed capital can turn it over often enough to pay a high interest, and accumulate a fortune besides. But in an old country like England a great disturbance of capital is more likely to reduce the rate of in terest than to raise it, and, we repeat, nothing is less improbable than that before long-Government may have as much money as it wants by paying 21. per cent. a-year for it. But the real hardship will be, that when Government has almost com pelled the creditor to take 21. instead of 31., it will still be unable to prevent the depreciation of the iw r n e e l dr u ue c e t we a d n o s ha say,ci s q u p i r svlcaoet2de inn nn necessitiest theh e bargain est sell capital in the m ar k e t, and the cre dit or who has u h m e wa n hy C e sn o t i n s tl lh o eb l ye s are at 90, or less. Indeed, it may be naturally supposed that a stock which pays 21. is more likely to fall much below par than one which pays 31. For those who buy and sell money, for those who speculate in the funds, or who hold a few thousands of stock on the reserve fund of commercial enter prise, and, still more, for those who have to live on the interest of their money, it will always be a very great hardship that their stock may be further depreciated. With such a prospect as this before us, there appears to be little doubt that a stock 1 certain to - pay 2i- per cent. for 20 years will We valuable property than one paying 3 per cent., but liable to be reduced to 2 per cent., or even lower. If rumour says true, that is the proposal which will be made to the fundholder, and a large proportion of fundholders will be glad to accept it. The two conditions offered by the Government, supposing the rumour to be correct, are th e cer tainty of 211 per cent. for 20 years, and the certainty of repayment at par at the end of that period, as opposed to the chance of reduction to 2 per cent., and a depreciation in 1873 or 1883 to 801., or even 601. When stock paying 5 per cent. has been with in the memory of living men at less than 50, what may not be the market value of stock paying 31., or so low as 21.? Certainly the present seems the time for bringing the immense security of Govern ment to bear on the general insecurity of commer cial affairs. There is no class of debtor, not in cluding the Irish landowner, who has not been re cently enabled to pay off old debts with new ones paying less interest, or to make some other advan tagemis bargain with his creditors. Even France has done this in the very midst of revolutions, con vulsed •by factions, occupied by armies, and go verned by a deSpot. We have the best security in the world, for England, so liberal and so changeable in many respects, will fight to the last drop of its blood to maintain its financial integrity, the real palladium of its commercial prosperity. Mr. Glad stone appears so far to understand our position, and to seize the opportunity it offers. We take the mea -91 9we find it, and Nye have describe_ thetproposal Ir a s; a (i agiv4nl - 4 aeoti§ one tothe'' fiiiidlic del lid the. city it appears to be thought even too advantageous,. that is, accompanied with too much risk to the State. It is asked, what if a large proportion of the stock holders should immediately accept the offer, and Government should find itself obliged to pay them all their debts at par in 1873, when possibly com mercial or political events may make repayment difficult and costly ? It is even suggested that this part of the bargain might be modified, with the option on the part of the Government of paying its debt at the end - of 20 years in 3 per cent. stock. This may perhaps be necessary, and even with this modification we are inclined to think the offer a good one for the ftindholder ; but it should be re marked that the bargain cannot be a very good one for both parties at once ; and that if the State gains present ease by a reduction of the rate of interest, it must expect to purchase that ease by under taking some of the creditor's risk. The present state of affairs is, that the State is burdened with the payment of an immense annual interest, and the fundholder has much uncertainty in his future prospects, as he knows neither the rate of interest he will receive nor the market value of his stock twenty years hence. The proposal is and must be a matter of " give and take." To be relieved somewhat of its present annual payment the State must relieve its creditor somewhat of his future is that lie Govern ment, some uncertainty ; but it cannot dimin ish hi s risks with out increasing its own, as the risks—that is the shoulders por rsoforchotahnegreTePhse must proposal t ' and we the fundholders will do well, thinkshould ,to accepters, and for a present considerati on, shall take a tion of these risks on its own br oad the offer. FOREIGN AND BRITISH SHIPPING. ' (From the Morning Post.) It will scarcely be forgotten that, in the frequent discussions with regard to the future of the national policy which took place on the accession of Lord Derby's Government to power, Mr. Gladstone assumed to himself as a mission, not only the office of convoying free trade safe and intact into har bour, but also the duty of developing in complete ness the initiated system. As Chancellor of the Exchequer it has since become his peculiar province to do this so far as concerns tke adaptation of the financial arrangements of the country to the new policy ; and on the 18th of the current month we shall learn how the chiefest representative of the traditions of Peel proposes to get over the pons asinorwm that Mr. Disraeli was submerged in at- tempting. Nobody questions the difficulty of the passage. Everybody admits that, will he nill he, be he Peelite, Derbyite, or Whig, the Chancellor of the Exchequer must compass it with free trade on his back—and encumbered, too, with all the crotchets that have been of late elicited by Parliamentaay in vestigations, and lie sleeping? in blue books till they shalf be waked by the Minister moving that the House resolve itself into a Committee of Ways and Means. The experiment will be an interest ing and, possibly, a slippery one ; and the atten tiQn of the public has been so engrossed in watching its coming off, that they appear almost to have lost sight of the condition of one of our most important branches of industry, which is daily suffering progressive deterioration because free trade in its completeness continues to be withheld from it. It is not from the stirring within us of any of the old leaven of Protection—not from any jealousy of those who overthrew what we defended, nor even from any anxiety to uphold, as a class merely, the British shipowners, that we again earnestly call attention to the rapid decrease of the share, which, relatively to other nations, Great Britain has possessed of the carrying trade of the world, but because we consider that branch of in dustry of vital importance to the prosperity and consequence to the United Kingdom, and deem its conservation and protection one of the most im perative duties of an English Minister. We do not propose to go over all the old ground again ; nor is it necessary for our purpose to quote figures and statements which we have put in evi dence before, and which remain unanswered, to show that from 1848 to 1852, the relative position of British shipping was not maintained either at home or abroad. lc cannot be denied that, with regard to the United States especially, and with regard also to the most important of the European carriers, such was the fact. That proposition, at any rate, was not refuted ; but then we were told that there was a new trade about to open, and to expand into great importance, both with California and with Australia, and that of both of these the British shipowner would undoubtedly get the lion's share. We expressed doubts as to such a result being attainable ; and the reasons which we gave for those doubts have since, we regret to ob serve, been entirely justified by_facts as regards California, and the trade from the American shores there, and from thence to the eastern seas. Look ing to the last published returns from the Board of Trade, it is to be feared that, even with respect to the trade newly created with our own colony, we are little better off. It appears from a comparison of the total tonnage cleared outwards in the month of February of 1851 and 1853, and we take this month of the present year because it was then that the Australian traffic had attained peculiarly high development, that the total clearances outwards in tonnage were— British. Foreign. In Feb., 1851 359,199, composed of 229,208 128,991 In Feb., 1853 505,438, If 297,600 207,838 Now, we ask, is that a relative ratio of progress as between ourselves and foreign nations on which a British public can look with satisfaction or a Bri tish Minister without inquietude ? Will Mr. Glad stone and Mr. Cardwell sit complacent or listless in the face of such circumstances as . these ; and will they make no attempt to persuade or to drive the foreigner to grant us the reciprocity of unrestricted competition, and render trade as free in their ports as it is in ours ? They have a screw in the recipro city clause, though somewhat a rusty one, perhaps. If negotiation and gentle requirements fail, why not try if it will work or no ? We have given above the gross increase of the clearances of foreign tonnage outwards. It may be worth while to see how that was apportioned; In the case of Denmark, the increase has been from 6,000 to 11,000 tons ; in Prussia and the German States, from 18,000 to 23,000 tons ; in Holland, from 4,000 to 11,000 tons ; in Belgium, from 2,000 to 4,000 • and is the instance of the United States, from 50,000 to 100,000 tons. . The entries inwards present a still more remark able and a still more disagreeable result. They are : Total Tonnage. British. Foreign. In Feb. 1851... 366,107 composed of 243,471 ... 122,631 In Feb. 1853... 457,154 „ 241,338 215,816 This increase, in nearly a duplicate ratio, appears to have been thus distributed among foreign carry ing nations Feb. 1851. Feb. 1853. Russia 5,000 Sweden 2,000 Norway 3,000 Denmark 12,000 Prussia 6,000 Other German States 10,000 Holland 5,000 United States 46,000 Add with all this transference of traffic from the British to the foreign carrier, the consumer gets, we will not say no benefit, but no equivalent or proportionate benefit, for freights are no lower than before the repeal of the navigation laws. Now, we take it that the questions of the relative merits of protective and free trade systems being buried and done with, and a very active motive for fudge in these matters removed, no man will say that this is a desirable state of things, or one out of which our commercial marine is to be left to flounder as best it may. We are quite aware that shipowners, ship-dealers, and ship-builders aro not at this mo ment complaining. The shipowners ' like old Ge neral Costigan, love t o b as k i n a bit of sunshine but we shall hear enough of the voice of their com plaining when the Australian ships find crews to bring them home, and they are thrown suddenly in a lump for sale or freight on the market here. But we are not looking solely or peculiarly to them or interests—we are looking, and we confess with great anxiety and doubt, to what must be the fu ture influence of these circumstances on the posi tion of this country, if they are left without check or amendment. It is idle to hope to stop their progress by a Pilotage or a Passing Tolls Bill. LONDON THIEVES LV SOUTHAMPTON. For some months past robberies have been committed at the Southampton Railway terminus, and the South-Wes tern Railway Company have had 3 pay a considerable sum of money, for parcels • which have • been lost there. Strong suspicious have been entertained that a pipe of wine was tampered with at the terminus, that a portion of the wine was taken from it and water substituted.' In con sequence of those robberies, a London detective has for some time back boon stationed at the terminus. A night or two since, three of the night porters belonging to the goods department were detected . engaged in abstracting the contents of a barrel of beer, and were apprehended and lolled in gaol. One of..khe n men has Ilk) fail etici‘panfs service twelvel, yeah. Fotime Unto 'past; also, a gang of thieves hltie been noticed passing be tween Southampton, Portsmouth, and SalisbUry. A short time since two of them came to the parcel-office at the Southampton terminus for a parcel, and it was noticed by an official there that each seemed adverse to sign his name to a book as an acknowledgment of the receipt of the parcel. The latter was directed to a disreputable public-house, in an obscure neighbourhood in the town. On Monday one of these men came again to the terminus with a parcel for Lon don. A railway policeman, who was standing by, remarked that he was one of the gang of prigs about. Mr. Colebrook, theofficial alluded to,recollected that he was onewho had been averse to sign his name. The London detective was called in, and he pronounced th e p arce l t o b e d i rected to a London Fence, or a place for the receipt of stolen goods. The cover of the parcel was of washed leather, such as jewellers use. It was very soon ascertained by the police, who set to work directly, that it contained about 101. worth of new silk handkerchiefs, and that most of the contents had been recently stolen from different shops in Southampton. Lee, an active town police officer, was then made a cqua i n t e d w ith th ese facts. Mr. olebrook went in disguise to the above-mentioned public-house, and there he saw a number of fellows, some playing cards, and others eating and drinking. None of them were, however, the parties he wanted. Lee soon afterwards entered the public-house, and in a room by himself he saw a man wh o , h e k new from the description, was one of those who received the parcel from London, and very shortly afterwards he apprehended his confederate, the man who brought the stolen handkerchiefs to the ter minus. This fellow appeared to be thunderstruck by his apprehension, pretended he was a commercial man, and that he hardly knew where the railway terminus was. On being confronted with Colebrook, however, he soon altered his tone, and betrayed his guilt. Both the rail way and town police have acted very dexterously in the matter. Some interest is excited by the announcement of the sale of 130 , 000 acres of land in South-Western Austra .. lia, north-west of King George's Sound, by Mr. Robins, to take place in the month of May next. It is the por tion left unsold by the Western Australian Land Com pany purchased from the Crown some years since. The intention is to dispose of this property in large lots for agricultural and mining purposes. The land is reported to bear, in every respect, an appearance similar to that in South Australia, and should its products be the same, the tide of emigration will be diverted to that direction, as the climate of this portion of Australia is said to be equal if not superior to that of Sydney and Port Philip. Specimens of copper ore are in England which have been brought from near one of the rivers intersecting this land. The public sale of the extensive , property in question will take place, under Mr. Robins 's direction, on the sth May, if not disposed of in one lot by private arrangement. Several fine estates in Canada East, or Lower Canada, in the district of Gasps, are announced in our columns for public sale by Mr. Robins in June next. They com prise 132,652 acres of freehold land, upon which luxu riant timber is growing, and buildings erected in con nection with the Gasps Fishery in the Bay of Chaleur, and seem to offer a strong temptation to the enterprising capitalist to invest his money in land, which in these days of emigration to the West, under the protection and influence of the British Government, must eventu ally become of great importance and value. "STOP MY PAPER."-When a man gets mad and stops his paper, he always borrows the next number of his neighbour, to see if the withdrawal of his patronag e has'nt killed the editor and d resse d t h e columns in mourning. This grows out of the fact that none try to show their spite i n thi s way b ut the kind of peopl e w h o imagine that the world rests on their shoulders.—Gates kaci (Mena. "PATRON PRINCE ALBERT, ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. —Mrs. Beecher Stowe's Popular Work on Slavery Llus trate,l in an Optical Exhibition, with Vocal and Instrumental Music and New Dissolving Scenery, Morning and Evening. Lectures:— By J. 11. Pepper, Esq.—Bali-hours with the Ancient and Modern Chemists ; by Dr. Bachhoffner, on some of the Mechanical Proper ties of Aeriform Bodies; by Mr. Crispe, on . Ericcson's Caloric Engine. Admission, Is.; Schools, and Children under Ten years of age, 11 - a.lf-price. YORKSHIRE SOCIETY, for Boarding, Cloth:- ing, and Educating the Children of respectable Yorkshire Parents, or Parents reduced by Misfortune or Death, who shall re side or have resided within 10 miles of the General Post-office, - St. Martin's-le-Grand. The FORTY-SECOND ANNIV EItgARY DINNER is appointed to take place at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, on Thursday, May 5, 1853 The Lord Viscount GODERICH in the chair. STEWARDS. The Rt Hon. Lord londeSborough The 11t. lion. Sir Charles Wood, Bart , M.P. The Rt. Hon. M. T. Baines, M.P. The Hon. Francis Lawley, M.P. Win. Beckett, Esq., 31. P. Fronk Crossley, Esq , M.P. George Hadfield, Esq., M.P. Benjamin Oliviera, Esq., M.P. Robert Stephenson, Esq., M.P. Wm. Wells, Esq , M.P. Henry W. Wiet ham, Esq., M.P. James Alderson, M.l). Anthony Bannister, Esq. Charles Bischoff, Esq. Henry Blanshard, Esq. Francis Blake, Esq. John Bolton, Esq. Isaac Carr, Esq. John Cattley, Esq. John Day, Esq. Peter Dickson, Esq. William Fryer, Esq. Robert Gibson, Esq. Samurai Hallam, Esq. John Hodgson, Esq. Francis Hutchinson, Esq. John Hutchinson, Esq. Thomas Hutchinson, Esq. Mark Hutchinson, Esq. Richard Hutchinson, Esq. George Kindlay, Esq. George Leache, Esq. Robert Malburn, Esq. Henry Powell, Esq., M.D. James Saner, Esq., M.D. Jame; S liter, jun., Esq. Peter Stainsby. Esq. Wm. R. Vickers, Esq. Robert B. Woodd, Esq. Tickets, one Guinea each, to be had of the Stewards; of the mem. bers of the Committee; of the Secretaries; and at the Tavern. By order, &c., HENRY TRTSTRI3f, FRA.NCIS W. BLAKE, Hon. Secs. Schools, March 28, 1853. THE ESTABLISHMENTS ARE KNOWN EVERYWHERE, and their BUSINESS is PROFITABLE to EVERYBODY.—It is now unnecessary for E. MOSES and SON to publish the fact of their commodious, complete, and magnificent arrangements for the first and most distinguished business In the world ; but it is right that their patrons and the public should be acquainted with the vast preparations they arc perpetually making, tc supply the most fashionable and comfortable attire at the lowest prices, and to provide ladies and gentlemen with every kind of cloth ing in the newest fashions, and the most superior qualities. The order department provides elegant styles of MILITARY or NATAL COSTUME in the most accomplished cut and workmanship, or LIVERIES to any devise which may be desired—superior quality— excellent workmanship—dispatch and economy may be depended upon. The ready made department is replete with new styles of dress for daily wear or special occasions, and attire for juveniles not to be equalled elsewhere for novelty, supt Igor quality, and economical charges. The hat and cap section is replenished with every new style, and the best goods are charged very low prices. The hosiery branch displays articles of incomparable elegance suitable for ladies, gentlemen, and children, the quality and price of each article showing how far the establishments of E. MOSES and SON excel all others. Emigrants are provided with their outfits, or any part of them, al wholesale prices, by E. MOSES and SON. , . Persons about to . embark for Australia may gain a large per cent. ago on small investments made in clothing manufactured by E, MOSES and SON. All classes of .passengers are furnished with the requisite goods and clothing for any voyage or climate, and the price of superior articles is much lower at E. MOSES and SON, than at any other itoase. Complete suits of outfits for ladies and gentlemen, and shipsailing information may be had on applicat on, or post free to any part of the kingdom. CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard:the public against imposition, having learned that the untradesman-like falsehood of " Being connected with filer Establishment," or " It's the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons, they beg to state that they have No CONNEXION WITH ANT OTHER HOUSE IN OR OUT OF LONDON, except their own Establishments, as foll o ws _ London City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Minories, 83, 84, 85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. London West-end Branch, 505, 507, 508, New Oxfo! d-strect, 1, 2 3, Bart-street, all communicating. Bradford (York,hire) Branch, 19 nd 20, Bridge-street. Sheffield Bratch, 36, Far4ate. Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, !Snot and Shoe Makers, arid General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. IMPORTANT —Should any article not give satisfaction, It will be exchanged if desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest price, from which no abatement. can be made. The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on Saturdays, when business Is resumed till 12 o'clock. A new Book, entitled " The World's Pharos," containing the Emigrant's Assistant, full list of prices, and directions tor self mea surement, may be had on application, or post-free, to any part of the kingdom. A handk•ome Almanac for t. e year ending 1853 can be had gratis, on application. Ici Pon panle Franca's. lller el richt man Dour,ch, Qui si purls Italian°. Aqua an habla Espanol THE GREAT NUGGET VEIN COMPANY. Some communications have been received from Syd ney regarding the Great Nugget Vein Company, whose shares two days back experienced a sudden fall, from which its actual position would appear to be as follows :—The number of shares is 100,000, of which 33,000 were issued in London, 33,000 to subscribers in the colony, 33,000 to the original proprietors of the vein. The English shares are of 21. each, fully paid up, and were allotted at a premium of 1/. ss.—the proceeds of such premium being for the general benefit of the company ; the Australian shares are also for 21., but with only 10s. paid, their title to a participation in profits being proportionably limited ; and lastly, the shares allotted for the purchase of the mine are to rank the same as the English ones, that is to say, for 21. each paid in full. The ground held by the company, and through which the vein extends, runs parallel with the Louisa Creek for two miles (comprising also the bed of the creek for that distance), and is about half a mile in width, the terms of possession being the payment of a royalty of 10 per cei.t. to the Government. It is about 23 miles from Mudgee, and 170 from Sydney. When Mr. Spence, the manager of the Colonial Gold Company, arrived in Sydney with his mining captain, he proposed a mutual arrangement with the Great Nugget Vein Company for , working, the prepqty, and after,-he aclb been allowed six weeks for a full investigation of it, a contract was entered into that the Colonial Company should conduct the whole of the operations free of ex pense to the Great Nugget Company, and allow them one-half the profits whenever the yield should be equal to 4 ounces of gold per ton of quartz or earth, one-third when the yield is 3 ounces, and one one-fourth when it is 2 ounces or under. He was also to take a steam engine of six-horse power, which the Great , Nugget Company had erected, at a valuation, but was to have the buildings and other works free of charge. Under these circumstances the capital of the Great Nugget Company is no longer required, and it will be a question whether it should not, at an early period, be returned to the shareholders. The amount remitted from England had not arrived at the last dates, but the sum raised by the Australian subscription was being employed in the purchase of gold. As far as the ope rations at the mine, previously to the junction with the Colonial Company, are concerned, the amount raised is believed to have been about 3,0001., and when the _Great-Britain - left the more efficient machinery of the' Colonial Company had arrived. The cause of the fall during the present week was an announcement that some of the Austrailian shares had been sent for sale here. It seems that is correct, about 8,000 or 12,000 of those allotted to the original proprietors of the vein having been transmitted. They are, however, said to be totally distinct from the English issue, and the reason alleged for the intention to offer them here is that the first out• lay in connection with the mine incurred by the parties to whom they belong was nearly 20,0001., and that with the present demand for business capital at Sydney they desire to reimburse themselves to that extent. AFFILIATION.—At the Kensington petty sessions, yes terday, Mr. John Stevens, a master baker, of Brentford was summoned before the magistrates, to show cause why he should not be charg ed with ie support of an illegetimate child, of which it was alleged he was the father. The case was rendered remarkable in conse quence of the great disparity in the ages of the parties, the supposed father being a man far advanced in years, with a large family, and the mother a*child, now not 15 years of age. Mr. Sleap, of the Inner Temple, appeared for the defendant. Mary Ann Joyes, a pretty-looking girl, stated that she was now between 14 and 15 years of age. About the beginning of last May, she was pass ing through Brentford, on her way home to her mother's house, when she was accosted by Mr. Stevens, who was standing at his shop door, and of whom she had a slight previous knowledge. He spoke to her as she passed, shortly afterwards followed her, telling her that he had something very important to say to her. They walked for some distance together, and when they got opposite to a barn that belonged to him, he pulled her in, and there took advantage of her ; but such had never took place before or since. In February last, she gave birth to a female child. Mrs. Joyes, the mother of the girl, said as soon as she found out her daughter's misfortune, she waited upon Mr. Stevens, who was the father of 12 children, and he gave her a sovereign to provide neces saries, and subsequently to the birth of the child, had tgiven addressed sm h s e eod r r ea thent o o another de ssho, thevdeer n e s y i u g i p n n pg ; ar b lt but . n te o ht w he e c r r h e t f i hl u de s . ed to do any the part of Mr. Stevens, an d called two paternitywiMtnre.witnesses s e on the impugn the character of the girl. The bench considered the case fully made mit, and made an order for the highest legal allowance, dating from the birth of the child, and to be continued until terminated by the statute. Mr. Sleap said he should advise Mr, Stevens to appeal against the decision. THE STATE OF VICTORIA. MELBOURNE, JAN. 1, 1853.—The last monients of an eventful year have fled, and it will be interesting to ponder for a while on the marvellous position and pros pects of this favoured province of the great continent of the south. In little more than twelve months this small commu nity has had a greater amount of riches thrown into its lap than has ever fallen to the lot of any people in any period of history ; and in attempting a brief portraiture of its position ono is almost as much puzzled where to begin as it is difficult to make credible the vast changes that have come over this hitherto agzicultural country. Fortunately for this city and province, the existence of golden treasures in the soil, was not discovpred,,eArlier - :-=llsf altlin come ghlt has coesoon enough upon so young a colony, the evils that attend the rapid acquisition of gold (as witnessed in California) have been averted by the existence of a Government whose arms have been generally sufficiently strong to protect its people from a villain's attack or the adoption of a frightful Lynch law for themselves. Of crime there is a great amount to deplore, and which usually has its cause in the same source—viz., intemperance, both in the assassin who chooses stolen lucre rather than industry, and the poor digger who shows the glittering wealth and then drinks until he becomes a listless prey to the spoiler ; yet one wonders that in such a strange mixed community there should not be more causes of violence and robbery, and probably in no city in the world was there ever con tained a larger amount of property unmolested in such slender security as in Melbourne at this moment. It is by the blessing of a Government that society is held together, and the churches and courts of law are often attended as crowdedly as at home. The streams of wealth are flowing to this city by many different channels, but which are chiefly dependent on the suc cessful results to the labour of the digging community. It is quite impossible to form a correct estimate of the quantity of gold derived from the soil of this province during the year 1853 ; for although the number of ounces brought down by the armed escorts is published, there is no clue to the quantity brought down privately, nor can we arrive at any data as to the quantity held by parties here, nor do our ships' manifests pretend to tell us of all that leaves the port in the pockets of their passengers. As the production can only be proble matically ascertained, it is well state the two extreme estimates —viz., eleven and fifteen millions sterling value. When it is considered what large sums are kept back by the diggers themselves, the vast increase in the circu lating medium, the enormous known export, and the great aggregate amount of bullion in deposit at the banks, the latter estimate of fifteen millions is probably not far from the fact. _... and warehouse property have Land, houses, shops, ses at a magic pace, it ...e. building progresses multitudes daily arriving , cons advanced many hundredfold in value is ; to find roof for the . still a n d impossible a lu gh species of tenement are most extrava gant.of land and every to let c s o r n e t a a d in ily o a o t quently many thousands are necessarily tented. Rents two-roomedper si,eewaonodd warehouse,ean house-shed 40s. to tons of merchandise, 1,2001. per annum. i ik s s io ° n s. s are also much enhanced in value by the high price of labour and house rent ; these high prices, unfortunately, fall most heavily upon those commodities particularly prized by an English population, such as the following, viz. :—Milk, is. per quart ; eggs, Gd. each ; fresh butter, 3s. 6d. per lb. ; bread, 2s. Gd . per 41b. loaf ; cabbages, 2s. each ; onions, ls. 6d. per lb. ; potatoes, 4d. ; other vegetables equally dear Water, 3s. per hhd. ; and wood for fuel, 31. per cart load. Fresh meat is com paratively reasonable—beef and mutton 4d., veal 6d. er lb. ; but the l u X ury of chicken can only be indulged in at 16s. per couple, or a goose at 20s. ! Cattle feed is very expensive. Green oat grass, Cl. 10s. ; new hay, 201. ; old hay, 25/. per ton ; oats, 14s. per bushel. Labour commands 10s. per diem for the unskilled. Good artisans are much wanted, and as high as 30s. for clever carpenters is given. Servants and laundresses find ready employment. Occupation for all strong ma nual labourers is readily found ; the only suffering class is that which is dependent on the pen, and a great num ber of clerks are by necessity working at the gold fields, finding suitable engagements unattainable in the port. The shipping from distant parts has been in a worse dilemma than any other interest, from the oeveral ()wee rd 0 , 0 , 0' 0, a s , 6 6 im' . t 9 89 AD' , ?,rot rte LO 6 6 6 30 30. :aO l 301