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Age. NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. SPECIAL REPORT OF THE DIRFCTORS OF THE NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY ,TO THE SHARE HOLDERS. Four months having elapsed since the last fienerat Meeting of this Company, and events having in the meantime occurred which have caused great confusion in the commercial world, and occasioned the abandonment of many important undertakings and the unavoidable suspension of others; the Directors, anxious at all times to keep the Shareholders well informed upon all matters which affect their in terests, consider that they are called upon at the present juncture to report to them oftlalally the present position and prospects of the Company. They are happy in the first place in being able to state that, owing to the manner to which the last and all previous calls have been re sponded to, not only have they been enabled to carry on the Com pany's works without suspension up to the present time, but they are In a position to continue to carry on the principal works on the main line between Skipton and Clapham without any a►atement e vigour, and without further demands on the ;Shareholders until the month of March next. In regard to the future conduct of the works, the Directors, with view to render the future calls as little onerous as possible, pro pose to devote the whole o the available resources of the Company is the construction of the works on the main line from Skipton up- wards, In such a meaner as to bring successive portions of the main line, in extension of the Leeds and Bradford Railway, into profit able operation at the garnet possible period ; a course which a pro poiod arrangement with the Midland Company, supe,seding the necs:sity of a large outlay for working plant, renders still more de sirable : —and they are of opinion that, without inconveniently pressing on the Shareholders, portions of the main line may be thus successively opened as far as Ingleton before the summer of 1t49, and as far as Kirby Lonsdale before the following autumn ;—thus bringing the North-Western Line within rine miles of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway at Miluthorp ; and placing the West Riding of Torkshire, and the Eastern and Midland Counties, with the excep tion of that interval, in direct railway communication with the lake district, Carlisle, and Glasgow. The Directors, having personally visited the whole of the works in progress, have satisfied themselves of the forward state of large portions of the line and of the excellent and inexpensive character of the works :—there are no engineering difilculties of any kind ; and, with the exception of the Ingleton and Mincer Viaducts, no works that are not of the most ordinary character. From the contracts which have been already entered Into, the Directors are in a position to state positively that the whole line will be constructed considerably within the Parliamentary esti mates;—the average cost of the works at present under contract and executed amounting to 9,000/. per mile, exclusive of land, rails, Parliamentary and current expenses ; and to 16,000/. per mile, in cluding every possible contiageut expense. The Directors have already, more than once, stated their opinion, founded on particular local inquiry, that the registered shares are in the bands of a most respectable, wealthy, and influential body of Shareholders; they are fully confirmed in this conclusion : and they think it ri.ht to add, to their former expressions of opinion In respect to the Register, the important fact, that the average hold of each Shareholder fu the Company does not exceed 30 shares. The Directors consider it at present premature to fix the number of Calls to be made during the ensuing year, or their amount, but will be prepared to enter into this matter at the Half-yearly Meeting La February. The Directors propose to continue to allow Interest after the rate of 41. per cent. per amnion en paid-up Calls. The account of any Shareholder who may happen to be in arrear will be debited with ii terest at the rate ofd per cent. per annum, from the date at which the payment shall have become due, and credited with 4.per cent. from the time only when the payment shall be made. (Signed) PUDSEY 1)-4.WSON, Chairmen. Lanenster, Deeeuber 16, 1847. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 26. CORNI/ILL. LONDON. Capital .£300,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages with respect to life assurances and deferred annuities. The assured Its, en all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for feiture 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 ceavenieneies or necessity. ♦ssursncee for terms of years on the lowest possible rates. DIVISION OF PROFITS. The increasing prosperity of the ioelety has enabled the Directors at the annual meeting held on the 12th May, 1847, to declare a fifth bonus, ♦arying from 3.5 to 85 per cent. en the premiums pall ei each policy effected en the profit scale. XX.A.MPLIS. I Perms- ISuus tke 4▪ ; Animal ,Pollcy Bonus iY Rent Re- I Assured ▪ Pre- taken additiox Bonus In duction of , may bor ai raitun. ell in Assured. Cask. Annual row ou z Premiarns.! Policy. a. £ s d. £ s. d. 1£ s. d. r 1837 243 3 3'112 $ 5 18 4 6 j 494 8 le A I 1138 1218 4 8 99 8 10 15 13 5 445 0 0 1839 1192 1 10. 86 3 3 13 4 9 '395 11 1 'Policy taken sit In 1837 ! 1838 ! 1839 1848 1841 1842 !AL d. GO" 1000' 4 74 3 4 a. A. £ I d. 1243 3 3.112 $ 5 218 4 8 99 8 10 192 1 10, 86 3 3 143 10 66 8 4 138 14 2 61 17 6 111 6 8 49 10 0 , X s. d. 18 4 6 15 13 5 13 4 9 9 19 1 9 9 2 7 10 4 !346 2 3 j 296 13 4 1247 4 5 The Aunual Report, with tables of rates, &c., may be lad at the office, or any of its branches in the country ; •r, on application, will be forwarded post frac ' F. FERGUSON CAMROIUX. S.cretary. CHRI-+TMAS HOLIDAYS. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. Dr. RYAN has been engaged to deliver a short COURSE of LECTURES on CHEMISTRY, with brilliant Experimeolo, Daily at Half-past Three, and every Evening at Nine o'clock, except Gatur day Evening. A LECTURE by Dr. RACHHOFENER en the Laws of Nature, in reference to the Important subject of SA NITARY MEASURES, and on the various modes of VENTILA TION, In which the PHYSICAL PROPERTIES of a JET of STEAM will be exhibited Daily at Two, and en Tuesday and Thursday Evenings at Eight P.M. The OXY-HYDROGEN MICRO SCOPE, New DISSOLVING VIEWS, the CIIROMATROPE, PHY sioscorE, &c. MODELS of MACHINERY at work, and ex plained. The DIVING BELL aid DIVER, with HYDE'S NEW APPARATUS tor CONVERSING under WATER, &c. _ . Admission, Is.; Schools, Half-price. WHERE SHALL l E GO IN THE HOLIDAY WaRT Go to the Abbey, and go to Saint Paul's, Where many.a sight-seeing visitor calls; Ge to the Tunnel, and go to the Tower. Which yield you a light intellectual hour. Go to whatever is At to be seen, Go where your own disposition may lean ; Go and partake of the pantomime fun, And go to the Warehouse of MOSES and SON', This grand exhibition, which multitudes seek, Should not be passed by in the Holiday week. Go to this warehouse. you're perfectly free, Without any ticket, without any fee. Go, and you'll find it an ocular treat ; Go, anti with many attractions you'll meet ; Go and examine tke splendid attire ; Go, and you'll see what you'll greatly admire ; Go, for the fashions of MOSES' invite ; Go, and you'll benefit much by the sight ; Go, for this trade exhibition is one • Which sheds a bright halo on MOSES and SON. R44 - :_;; - - • --- -- - LIST or PRICES. rt. - - --•-:.„-; 7I.IADT MAPS. Beaver Taglloni .........••••• •.•.••.. —"from X 0 9 0 Chesterfleld and Codrington's, and every description of Over-coat, handsoinely trimmed •• .. ..... •• • ..... •• • • 1 5 0 •'I , The Paths Coat ••..• • •• The Ballrner, especially adapted for snowy and wet wmther• • The Preraier.• •• •... •• •• •• •• • •• •. • Boy's Winter Coats, in every style...• •• Men's De. Trousers, lined .. •• •. • ..• —••• • • • () 4 0 Doeskin .• •• •• ............ • • .... 0 12 6 .. ii -; Dress Coats.... ~................ 1 0 0 Frock de. ..... t.llo,vr Double-breasted Winter Vests... . .. 0 2 0 • - Roll collar• •.. ..... .•• •• • .......... ....... .. 0 1 6 ' '-a .• 0 16 6 ' Boys' Hussar aad Tnnie Salts-- . 5a1t5.......... .. XADZ TO WZIBIII. Winter Coats, in every style and shape, hand somely trimmed. •• • • .... ••. • • • ........ from 1 6 1.111:ed cloth Over-coats, velvet collar and cuffs 2 4 Tweed Wrapp0r........................ 0 18 Doeskin Trousers ••• • . • nest, •r Dre 55.................... 1 6 I Dress Coat ••••• • • • • • ..... ....• •. •• .. 1 12 Beet quality ms.de •• • • 2 14 • Best quality ...... 3 3 Cashisero Testa .. ••• • • • ...... 0 8 Satins, Plain •r Fancy ......... ..... ••• • •• • 12 Boy's Hussar and nails Suits ... •..••••• • • • .. • • I Great Coat. • • • .... • ............ 1 Suit of Clothes complete • • 1 16 Mourning to any extent at Five Minutes notice. The attention of Ladies is especially directed to E. MOSES and BON'S itock •f Furs, which will be found •n inspection t• be the largest, best assorted, and cheapest la the trade. Reserve your pur chases. Observe.—Any article purchased, ready made, •r made t• mea lure, if not approved of, will bo exchanged, •r if preferred, the Money returned. E. MOSES and SON, Tailors, Woollendrapers, Clothiers, Hatters, Rosters, Furriers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters, for Ladies and Gentlemen, 154, 155, and 156, 157 Minories, and 82, 14, 55, and 86 Aldgate, City, London. Cauttos.—E. Hosea and Son regret being obliged t• guard the Dnbli• against impostors, but have learned that the untradesman like falsehood of being connected with them, or it's the same concern, ha• been resorted to in mauy instances, and for •bvions reasons. They have no connexien with any other hours in •r out of London; and those who desire genuine and chime clothing, ks., shield call at, er send to. Minories and Aldgate, City, London. Notice.—lio business transacted at this establishment from sun set Friday, till sunset Saturday, when business is resumed till twelve ...lock. ON THE CONCEALED CAUSE THAT PREYS ON THE • HEALTH AND SHORTENS THE DURATION OF HUMAN - ILLVITZATID WITI COLOCIED ZNGIATINGS, Just Published, in a Sealed Envelope, price 2s. 6d., or free by poet, 31. 6d. CONTROUL OF THE PASSIONS : a Popular Inquiry into the Concealed Cause of its premature Decline, WIUI Instructions for its Complete Restoration. Addressed to those Suffering from the destructive consequences of excessive indulgence, , terminating in Mental and Nervous Debility, Local or Constitutional Weakness, Indigestion, and Consumption. Including a comprehen sive Dissertation en MARRIAGE, Incontinence, and Celibacy. Illustrated with Coloured Engravings, explanatory of the various Cases, dcc. 11l C. J. LUCAS and Co.. Consulting Surgeons, No. 60, Nevrman- • street, Oxford-street, London. Member of the London College of Medicine, &c. kc, CONTENTS fir THE WORE, I„ C .. , h aP• L.—Bodily and Mental Exhaustion induced by inor d inat e gene of the Passions, illustrated with Coloured Engravings. - Chap,. 2 .---Baneful Results of a Secret Vice on the Mind and Body, evidenced is the production of Consumption, Epilepsy, and other Convulsive diseases, Insanity, Idiocy, moping Melancholy, Indiges tion. Stricture. Impotence, and Sterility, with Observations on the Duties of Married Life, and on the unhappiness caused by Unfruitful Unions. Chap. 3.—Debility and Exhaustion of the principal Vital Functions, the nature and treatment of Impotence and Sterility, and the imperfect performance of the Marital act, catisod byt he practice of self-indulgence. Chap. 4.—Gonorrhcea, its symptoms, complica tion* and treatment, Gleet, Stricture, and disease of the Prostate. Chap. s.—Syphilis, and its attendant maladies and treatment. Cases, and concluding observations, elates, ice. 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A R A E. ; 3 1,„ One half the world are desolately single, and the other ',.:DP•ting them married. questionably contented. Diffidence, or a Vule of right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes ern ttor the latter. The solitary one may shield himself ander the plea caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret .. tin ,tleProsing harry ; but the troth lies deeper. Physical incapacity, h 7, ,7l ..lid broken health, are the great hindrances to domestic happiness ,7 11 social content. The dowry should not be the only marriage set .' 'intent. Honour andlasticedernami that health should form au item t : the compact ; it alone di gn ities the alliance. Blighted hopes or „ e cieet woand more sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, It tit% surmises concern yon, procure Dr. CULVEIIWELL'S little "'EMOIRS ' On Single and Married Life, " pub. in 2 vols.. is, ! li cit (by post, in stamps, Is. fid. each). Let no imaginatively n*r prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered ti Misinterpretation of their supposed contents , from obtaining ' e rn. They are not intended certainly for mere Idle cariosity, but the closet perusal of those more deeply interested, to whom „ er are offered as antagonistic to th e em py r i ca l t ras h put forth on ne above subjects, by unqualified authors, which alone or tojirether, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore. to other DJ Publications claim your attention (same rice p i s . each, post Is. 6d.). called " What to Eat, Drink, and e ld." and "- How to - be Happy." They are not merely 2 • 4 1alets, but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are they the e. ii,ere ephemeral scribblings of the hour, but the study of the author's Alto owes his present existence, health, and position to this oh -7▪ f y ince of the maxims h e w ould inculcate—f t d o un t o o th ers as h e wo uld s be done u n t o —t c li ve after na t ure ' s l aws — an d to k eep a l ways g t he "sunny side of the way." The above works may be had of e ! . U ..wocd, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet -street • Mann, ernhlll; NaLson, 457, West Strand ; or direct (by post or other -4a) from the author (who may be conferred with personally, mains), 10, Argyll-pia** Relent-etrait ; and all THE PLATED SEAMLESS TEAPOTS can not be distinguished from !liver, or leak or lose their shape ; while from the peculiarity of the process of making (jest patented), their prices are about one-half of any other sort. 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Artificial Teeth, on a new and infallible principle, sup plied by Mons. de Berri, who also remodels old sets ; and those per sons who already wear artificial teeth, but wish to avail themselves of the most recent improvements, can have a new set constructed, and a liberal allowance will be made for those already In ase. Terms as in Paris, where the charges are considerably lower than in England. 29, Perey-street, Ratiilione-place, Oxford-street. At Horn. from Ten till Six. DR. LA'MERT 01 4 1 THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF 'YOUTH AND MATURITY.-WITII 40 COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL. Just published, and may he hal in Freach or English, i■ a Sealed Envelope, 2s. Cl„ •r post-free, trona the anther, for forty-two Stamps, SELF-PRESERVATION; a M e di ca l T reat i se on the Physiology it Marriage, Innateness and Unproductive Unions, and the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Ma turity, nsually acquire/ at an early period •f life, which enervate the physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural feeling., and exhaust the vita l e n erg i es •f Manhood ; with Practice. ~ Ob ser vations on the Treatment of Norvous Debility aid tudig,,t oß, elauses: clove study, or th e i sf i ne.nce of i t nstitational Weakness, Syphili s whetheroi,ieai climates:ariiingit ova l, otelse and C Stricture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Indis cretion. With Forty coloured Engravings, illustrating tie Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, explaining their structures, uses, and Maddens, and the various Mjurles that are produced In then by solitary habits, excesses, and infection. ET SAMUEL LAWERT, M.D., 9. BEDFORD-STREET,_BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON. octor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin burgh, Liseitiate of Apotkecarles' Hall, London, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Ece. Marriage requires the fulfilment of several conditions, in order that it may be really the cause of =teal happiness. Could the veil, which covers the origin of domestic wretchedness, he raised, and its true source in every instance disclosed, in how many (wild it be traced to physical disqualifications and their attendant disap pointments. Excesses are always injurious; the gift, which when used in moderation is fraught with advantage, becomes, when abused, the prolific source of mischief, and of greater •r less injury to the constitutional and vital powers. The particelar excesses, on .he nature and consequence of which this Treatise professes to dilate, are productive of greater seovforLtye than any other to which it is subject. This work eonteins as accurateoiftn;:odscrYonitittpti.lTeettehoeargchcimmnsn,atlao:fdamttee: Anatomy and Pby.lology their relative conditions ha health and disease. It deservedly requires the closest attention and study, for what subject can be of more importance than the preservation of the health, and of the physical capabilities of which every man should be possessed. It nafortunately happens that the animaP pv victim of excessive indulgence aid vicious habit s , whether acqui red in early life •r front the follies of advanced age, while suffering from their invariable consequences, unwisely entertains a fear of ap plying to a quallied physician for relief. Shame and the dread se frequently, but erroneously entertained that these eoraplaiuts are beyond the reach of art, alike restrict hint and prevent his seeking for assistance where alone it can be procured. In acting thus, he forgets that accurate discrimination in ascertaining the causes of disease, sympathy with the sufferer, and, above all, secrecy, inva riably characterise the inteliront and practical physician, and to the median.' man who can show by his posse-sion of the requisite legal qnalifleations that he is entitled to esteems] and respect in his profcs. sional pursuits, the utmost confidence should he extended. Dr. DAWIERT has obtained the highest medical honours, as his diplomas tee.ffy and the great extent of his practice for many years is a a..m,entee for kis professional experience, which has reference almost solely to the treatment of these diseases. Published by the Author, and may be had of Kent and Richards, 12, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Starie, Tichix,rne street, Haymarket ; Mansell, 115, Fleet-street ; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street, Landon ; or, free by post for torts-two stamps, from The Anther, who may bo consulted on these disorders personally letter, dal" Ina Tea tfll 'lwo, and Pam Five till Bight at bin 11111iinatt. f, Botairl,thitt ittedtrd-ortars Loudon. -.- - 0 17,<4 • LON DON MONDAY . G - R OYAL HOTEL, GRAINGER-STREET, NEWCASTLE-ON -TYNE. CHARLES STATES solicits the patronage of his BROTHER TRAVELLERS to the above Establishment, wYfieh has recently been newly furnished and laid out expressly for a Com mercial Hotel. The COMMERCIAL ROOM, one of the largest and most elegantly Iltted in the NORTH, it Is hoped will be found complete in every respect. The BED-ROOll3 (Sixty In number) have been furnished in a style which must entire the approbation of all visitors. Gentlemen travelling with STOCK can at all times have SHOW ROOMS without any extra charge. The Music Hall, Lecture Room, and Royal Hotel Assembly Loom are all attached, and under the same management. The Royal Hotel is in the most central situation is Newcastle. PURSUANT to a D ecree o f the High Court of Chancery, made in a cause " Her Majesty's Attorney. General v. Wilshere," the NEXT of KIN of the Right Rev. 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" Amongst the books which suggest themselves as the best of gills in a season of gifts, we know none that more gracefully recommends itself than the •Jar of Honey."—Athenaeum. London: smith, Elder, and Ce., 65, Cornblll. MASONIC ANNUAL. T HE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW FOR JANUARY Will complete the MASONIC ANNUAL. It contains, in addition to Original Papers and Intelligence, a Copious Report of the contem plated Relaxation in the Masonic Law, with the Addresses of the Grand Master the Earl of Zetland, and others, in support of this at tack on one of the chiefest defences of the Order, togeth,•r with the speeches of the Brethren who oppose the measure. `• Look on this picture and on that." The case of the Rev. Thomas llrtrveY is also considered. Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 23, Paternoster-row. Price, Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel. ON ?II YSICA.L DISQUA L [CATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAI A CITY, &ND I 11PEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. New Edition, enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 2s. Gd., or by post, direct trom the Establishment, 3s. 6d. in postage stamps, rir HE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on the infirmities and decay of the generative system, from ex cessive indulgence, infection, and the in:.rdinate use of mercury, with remarks on Marriage, and t'Ae means of obviating certain dis qualifications. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By It. and L. PERRY and CO., 19, Berners-stroet, Oxford-street, London. Published by the Authors : sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; Starie, 23, Titeliberno -treet, Haymarket; and Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street. PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive organs, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings. PART 11. treats of the consequences resulting front excessive Mal gence,.and their lamentable eZects on the system, prodnclng mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative Incapacity. It is illustrated 1)3 Three Explanatory Engravings. Paul' 111. Treats of the diseases resulting front infection, either in tke primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for their treatment. The consequences of early neglect and of the abuse of mercury, are also clearly pointed out. This section is illustrated by Seventeen Coloured Engravings. PART IV. Treats of Perry's Preventative Lotion, by tlm Ilse of which the dangers et infection are obviated. It combines with the virus chemically, and destroys its power en the system. PART V. Is devoted to the consideration of marriage, and its duties, The causes of unproductive union, are also considered, and the whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into. Tux 'ORDIAL BALM OP STRIACUIL is exclusively employed in treat ing a., volts and sexual debility, impotence, &c., Ils .and 335. per bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilitic rensdy, for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary symp toms, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, l ls. and 335. per bottle. l'erry's Purifying Specific Pills, 2s. Id., Is. Gd., and I ls. per box, a certain remedy In gouorrhcea,gleet, strictures, and chronic inflamma tion of the bladder. Perry's Preventative Lotion, an application to obviate the danger of infection, 335. a bottle. Consultation fee, if by letter, 11. Si. Packets with advice to be had at the Establishment only, by which the fee, 1/. ,is saved. Attendance daily at 19, Ber ners-street, from Eleven till Two, and Five to Eight; on Stuadays from Eleven to One. DR. HAMPDEN AND THE DEAN OF HEREFORD. Dr. Merewether has addressed the following letter to Lord John Russell:— My Lord,—l have had the honour to receive your Lordship's letter, announcing that you had received my memorial to the Queen, and that you had trans milted it to Sir G. Grey for presentation to her Ma jesty; and by the same post I also receive the infor mation that Sir G. Grey had laid the same before the Queen, and that " he was to inform me that her Ma jesty has not been pleased to issue any commands thereupon." Under these circumstances I feel com pelled once more to trouble your Lordship with a few remarks. Throughout the correspondence in which I have had the honour to be engaged with your Lordship, as well as in the interview which you were pleased to afford me on the subject of the appointment to the see of Hereford, it has been my object frankly and faithfully to declare to you the facts which have come to my knowledge and the honest conviction of my mind. I desire still to act upon the same principle, and to submit to your Lordship finally, and as briefly as possible, the following considerations, upon which I feel constrained to adopt a course which, however I may apprehend it will not be entirely congenial to your Lordship's wishes, will, under the circumstances in which I am placed, obtain from your Lordship's candour the admission that it is the only course which I could pursue. I crave your Lordship's indulgence whilst I enu merate the special obligations to which I am bound, and I state them in the order of their occurrence. When matriculated to the University of Oxford, of which I am still a member, the following oath was administered to me, as well as on taking each of my degrees :—" Tu dabis fidem ad observandum amnia statuta, privilegia, et consuetudines hujus Universi tatis; ita Deus to adjuvet tactic sacrosanctis Christi Eveposliis." • AW—when I was admitted to the sacred orders oPtiiriest in the church of God, a part of my ordina tion vow was expressed in these words—that I would " banish and drive away all erroneous and strange doctrine contrary to God's word." Again—when I was was inducted, on occasion of the installation to the office which I hold in the ca thedral church of Hereford, as I stepped over the threshold of the fabric the restoration of which, for the due honour of Almighty God, it has been my pride and anxious endeavour to promote, I was required to charge my soul with this responsibility : "Ego, Joannes Merewether, Decanus Hereford ens i s , ab bac Nora i n antea, fidelis ero huic sactosanctm Herefordensi ecclesim, necnon jura, libertates, privi legia, et consuitudines ejusdem, proviribus observabo et ea manutenebo et defendam pro posse meo; sic me Deus adjuvet, et haec sancta Evangelia." My Lord, I cannot divest my mind of the awful sense of the stringency,of these engagements at the present exigency. Let me entreat your Lordship's patience whilst I endeavour to explain my apprehen sion of them. In my letter of the Ist of December, in reply to the second which your Lordship was pleased to ad dress to me—and which corresponden ce I trust your Lordship will permit me publicly to refer to in vindi cation of my conduct, should need require it—l ob served, " In regard to Dr. Hampden's tenets, I would abstain from any opinion upon them till I have again fairly and attentively read his writings." That ict of justice I have carefully performed, and I will add, with an earnest desire to discover grounds upon which, in case of Dr. Hampden's ever occupying the high station for which he has been selected by your Lord ship, my mind might be relieved from all distrust, and I might be enabled as cordially as possible to render that service which the relative duties of diocesan and dean and chapter involve. It is painful in the extreme to feel obliged to de clare that I discover in those writings many asser tions—not merely references to theories or impres sions of others—but assertions, which to my calm and deliberate appreciation appear to be heterodoxical, I believe I may say hr retical, and very, very much, which is most dangerous, most objectionable, calcu lated to weaken the hold which the true religion we possess as yet obtains, and ought to obtain always, upon the minds of its professors. I feel certain that the perusal of several of these works by any of that class who, " by reason of use" (in cautious examina tion of such productions) " have not their senses exercised to discern both good and evil," would pro duce a doubt and distrust in the teaching of our Church in her creeds,—her formularies,—her liturgy, would rob them of the .inestimable joy and peace in believing, and be highly detrimental to the spread of true religion. Such being my conviction, I would ask your Lordship how it must affect my conscience in refe recce to those solemn obligations which I have already detailed ? I have sworn that I will observe all the statutes of the university of which I am still a member. The statute of that university touching this matter stands in the following words, at this moment uncancelled, unrepealed ;--" Quin ab univer- F--sitate commisaum fuerit S. Theologise Professori Regio, .ut unus sit ex eorum numero a quibus designantur selecti concionatores, secundum Tit. XIV., 58 (Ad dend., p. 150), necnon ut ejus concilium adhibeatur ' Si quis concionatur coram Vice-Chancellario in questionein vocatur, secundum Tit. XVI., s. 11 (Addend., p. 111), quum vero qui nunc Professor est scriptis suis publici juris fact's, its res theologie s; tractaverit, ut in hac parte nullam ejus fiducians habeat Universitas ; statutum est, quod munerurr, prmdictorum expers sit S. Theologize Professor Re - gius, donee aliter Universitati placuerit, me vero qu!.d detrimenti capiat interea Universitas, Professor is ejusdem vicibus fungantur alii, scilicet, in conciona tJres selectos designando senioranter Vice-Cancellarii deputatos, vel eo absente. aut ipsius Vice-Cancellarii locum tenente, proximus ex ordine deputatos (proviso semper quod sacros ordines susceperit) et in consilio de concionibus habendo, Przelector Domince Marga rettw Comitissw Richmondiw." Should I not be guilty of deliberate perjury, if, in direct defiance of such a decree, I did any act which should place the object of it in such a position as to be not only the judge of the soundness of the theological opinions and preaching of a whole diocese, but of those whom, from time to time, he must admit to cure of souls, and even to the sacred orders of the ministry ? I have sworn, at the most awful moment of my li.e, that I will " banish and drive away all erroneous and strange doctrines contrary to God's word." It may be replied, that this engagement applies to the ministrations in the cure of souls, inherent only in parochial functions; but the statutes of our Cathedral Church constitute me one of the guardians of the soundness of the doctrioe which may be preached in that sacred edifice:—" Si quid a quopiam pro conciono properatur, quod cum verbo Dei, articulis Religionis, aut Liturgic; Anglicanw; consentire non videtur, ea de re, Decanus atque Residentiarii, quotquot audi erunt, Dominum Episcopum sine moil per literas suas monebunt." With what confidence, or what hope of the desired end, should I communicate such a case to a bishop whose own soundness of theologi cal teaching was more than suspected ? Should I not be guilty of a breach of my ordination vows if I did not protest against the admission of such a person to such a responsible post, and endeavour to " banish and drive away," by all lass ful means, that person of th e e i g h teen thousand clergy of this land on whom the censure and deprivation of one of the most learned and renowned seminaries of religious teaching in the world is yet in its full operation and effect, one who is already designated thereby as a setter forth of erroneous and strange doctrines? Again, I have sworn to be FAITHFUL to the cathedral church of Hereford. Faithful I could not be, either as to the maintenance of the doctrine, or the discipline of the church in those respects already alluded to, or the welfare and unity of that church, either in the cathedral body itself or in the diocese at large, under existing circumstances, if by any act of mine I promoted Dr. Hampden's elevation to the episcopal throne of that church and diocese. Faithful I have laboured to be in the restoration and the saving of its material and venerable fabric. Faithful, by God's help, I will strive to be, in obtaining for it that oblation of sound and holy doctrine which should ascend, together with the incense of prayer and praise, " in the beauty of holiness," untainted and unalloyed by any tincture of " philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world and not after Christ." , But your Lordship may reply, there is another oath by which I have bound myself, which I have as vet overlooked ; not so, my Lord. Of my senti ments on the royal prerogative I have already put your Lordship in possession. When I warned you of the consequences ef your appointment, of the tendency which it would produce to weaken the existing rela tions between Church and State, I fully recognised the just prerogative of the Crown; and when I thought I had not sufficiently dwelt upon it I wrote a second time to make myself distinctly understood. Nor is it only the sense of legal obligation which would constrain me to a dutiful regard to such ob servance. Few men hare a greater cause to feel their duty in this respect, warmed by the sense of kindness and condescension from those of royal station, than myself. The memory of one who anxiously contem plated the future happiness and true glory of his suc cessor, fixed indelibly those sentiments upon my heart. And, if for his sake only, who cool I to a long course of almost parental kindness add, in an affecting in junction, the expression of his wishes for my good upon his death- bed, I should never be found forgetful —even although I may never have taken in the pre sect reign the oath of allegiance—of that loyalty and devotion to my Sovereign which is not less a duty of religion than the grateful and constitutional homage of an English heart. Forgive me, my Lord, for the re flection on that death-bed injunction, if I say, that had it been observed—as but for political and party influence it would have been —your Lordship, the Church, and the nation would have been spared this most unhappy trial, the results of which, as I have already again and again forboded to your Lordship, it is impossible to foresee. Nor, under any circum stances, is it likely that the obligation of the oath of allegiance in my person will be in fringed upon; its terms are, that "I will be faithful and bear true allegiance ;" and, accordingly, the conge d'eliri has these expressions, " requiring and commanding you, by the faith and allegiance by which you stand bound to us, to elect such a person for your Bishop and pastor as may be devoted to God and useful and faithful to us and our kingdom." Would it be any proof of fidelity or true allegiance, my Lord, to elect a person as "meet to be elected" who was the contrary to those requirements ? And can it be possible that in the course of Divine ser vice in the Chief Sanctuary of Almighty God in the diocese, however named and recommended, a person should be " unanimously chosen and elected" in the awful falsification of these wards, in the presence of God, against the consciences of the unhappy elec tors simply becau se th e a d v i ser o f t h e C rown (for " the Crown can do no wrong") has in his short sightedness and ignorance of facts (to say the least) thought fit to name an objectionable person, the one of all the clergy of the land so disqualified ; and, when warned of the consequences by the voices of the Primate, of thirteen Bishops, and hosts of priests and deacons, clergy and laity by hundreds, of all •shades — of ansintons in the Church, poesisted in the reckless dete - rmination ? In the words of an eminent writer of our Church, "All power is given unto edification, none to the overthrow and destruction of the Church," Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, book viii., chap. 7 ; and the matter is perhaps placed in the true light and position by the learned author of Vindicice Ecclesice Anglicans —Francis Mas on ; t h e whole of which is well worthy of your Lordship's notice. I venture to supply a brief extract, book iv., chap. 13, 1625 : " Philodoxus—You pretended to treat of Kings electing bishops and conferring of bishoprics, and now you ascribe not the election to Kings, but to the clergy, and claim only nomination for Kings? " Orthodoxus —The King's nomination is, with us, a fair beginning to the election. Therefore, when he nominates any person he elects him, and gives, as I may say, the first vote for him. " Philodoxus— What kind of elections are those of your deans and chapters 'Tis certain they can't be called free elections, since nothing is to be done with out the King's previous authority. " Orthodoxus—The freedom of election doth not exclude the King's sacred authority, but force and tyranny only. If any unworthy person should be forced upon them against their will, or the clergy should be constrained to give their voices by force and threatening, such an election cannot be said to be free. But if the King do nominate a worthy person, according to the laws, as our Kings have used to do, and give them authority to choose him, there is no reason why this may not be called a free election ; for here is no force or violence used. " Philodoxus—B u t if the King, deceived by unde served recommendations, should happen to propose to the clergy a person unlearned, or of ill morals, or otherwise manifestly unworthy of that function, what's to be done then ? " Orthodoxus—Our Kings are wont to proceed in these cases maturely and cautiously, I mean with the utmost care and prudence ; and hence it comes to pass that the Church of England is at this time in such a flourishing condition. " Philodoxus—Since they are but men they are liable to human weakness ; and therefore what's to be done if such a case should happen ? " Orthodoxus—lf the electors could make suffi cient proof of such crime s or incapacities, I think it were becoming them to represent the same to the King, with all due humility, modesty, and duty, his M ajesty, out of his known humbly beseechi ng clemency, to take care of the interest of the widowed church ; and our Princes are so famous for their piety and condescension, that I doubt not that his Majesty would graciously answer their pious petition —and nominate another unexceptionoble person, agreeable to all their wishes. Thus a mutual affec tion would be kept up between the bishop and his church." Nor is this a mere supposition, but there are in stances in the history of this kingdomgof such judi cious reconsideration of an undesirable appointment. I will cite but one from "Burnett's History of his 1733: p. 209. London, own Times," A.D. 1693, vol. iv., " The state of Ireland leads m e to i nsert here a very particula b r lshop instance s. of the Queen's pious care in disposing Lord Sydney was so f ar engaged in the interest of a g reat family in Ireland, that he was too easily wrought Oil to recommend a branch of it to a vacant see. The representation was made with an undue char ac t er of the person ; so the Queen granted it. But when she understood that he lay under a very bad character, she wrote a letter in her own hand to Lord Sidney, letting him know what she had heard, and ord ere d hi m to call for six Irish bishops, whom she named to him, and to require them to certify to her th e i r opinion of that pe fame, rson and . 'They all agreed that he l a b oured under an ill till that was examined into th ey did not think it proper to promote him ; so that matter was let fall. Ido not name the pers on , f or I intend not to leave a blemish on him, but set this down as an example fit to be imitated by Christian Princes." But, alas ! remonstrance seems unheeded, and if our venerable Primate and 13 bish o p s h ave ra i se d their united voice of warning and intreaty to no purpose, it is no marvel that my humble supplication should have pleaded in vain, for time—fo r investiga tion—for some regard to our consciences --some con sideration for our painful and delicate position. The time draws near—on Tue s d ay next t h e semblance of an election is to be e x hibi te d . I yen to red to assure your Lordship that I could not under • tie to say that it would be an unanimous election ; I was bold enough,. to affirm that it would not be unanimmtv; and I, in my turn, rk...eeiv e d the intimation and the caution, I will not say, the threat that the law must be vindicated. Already have I assured your Lordship that the pd iciple on which this painful affair i s regarded, AT SEA numerous ships it has already saved, the captains gratefully ac knowledge the glorious results. Two testimonial extracts shall suflieo " Captain Greig, from Quebec to London, states that the Fountain Pump being fitted in the Caroline, its great power was the means of saving the ship and 230 soule on board, two seams in the bottom being partly lett without calking." . ".Che Argus brig, from Cadiz, sprung a leak when three days out at sea, and soon after her common pump choaked and became use less. Captain Rutherford states all then depended upon her Foun tain Pump, which for nineteen days and eighteen nights was in ac tion without a minute's respite, when all arrived safely In London, with a thank God for the Fountain Pump." ON LAND the New Portable Fire-engines are of infinitely better service than a fire brigade. They act instantaneously at the outbreak of a fire. "We are delighted with the invention—it is a great boon to so ciety."—Editors Liverpool Mail. The New Portable Fire-engines have preser►ed a large portion of Norwich from destruction, for out of eighteen different properties on Are in and near the city, they saved eleven solely and seven mainly, including in the seven the Queen's Cavalry Barracks ; and In the eleven, Messrs. Horton's dyery, and 12,0001. worth of consigned pro perty ; Stoke mustard, starch, and flour mills, and Messrs. Butcher's grocery warehouses, just in time to prevent a large quantity of gun powder therein front exploding, which must have spread around de struction and death. " North Walsham.—At this fire the Portable Engine was of great service, and by having one of them ready, there is no doubt but half the property now destroyed might have been saved."—Norfulk Chro nide, August 22, 1846. At a Norwich fire June 2, 1647, the two Portable Engines were the pets of the public. The cry was, feel the little engines and they will do the work, which proved true. The four large engines present proved useless. Portable Engines speedily prove steam-boilers to a dozen atmo spheres. Now the feet is this, all former Force Pumps, Lift-force Pumps, Lift Pumps, and Chain Pumps are bad machines: they rub, grub, and scrape the water upwards by friction, which wastes two-fifths of the power used, and progressively falter by leakage, which Drs. Young and Hutton, with many other eminent experimenters, lamented thus :—The quantit► ot water actually raised hy any machine seldom exceeCs half the power consumed, after overcoming friction and leakage ; and notwithstandieg the best engineers in the world had tried in rain for two thousand years to abate these palpable defects in hydraulic machines, nevertheless, at last the victory is won, and won for ever ; for friction and leakage are now both annihilated by the new rolling principle in pumps, and their effect augmented from twelve to twenty (or about seventy per cent.), and frequently with out mere outlay. Most Ines can sustain heavy rapid pump trials for 40 seconds, but some men drop at minute time. With a best new heavy working Fric tion Pump an active sound-winded young man of 140 lbs weight can raise 10,600 lbs. of water one foot high in a minute, and with a Foun tain Pump 9,000 lbs. in half a minute. Thus a continual and most extraordinary lucrative advantage is gained over perpetual and uni versal ignorance, clearly proving that Knowledge is Power. John Clenton Roberts, Ese., in his popular work, No. 1,110, did well in placing Gosset's French Pump Abortion (that slaps the water upward) side by side with the Fountain Pump, which upset a good deal of Folly. Because Mr. Mallett, Dublin, a thorough-bred pump maker, Mr. Itaddley, London, an everlasting pump-writer, and Mr. Ewbank, America, an ignorant pump book-maker, asserted that the two pumps were identical. But the Tankee out-fooled John Bull and Paddy in No. 1,183, arid in No. 496, Rook-maker Millington's remarks aro preposterous. however, on the other hand, Dr. Birk beck, Aberdour, hay, Parkington, with many other discerning men, after witnessing the perfect effect and the beautiful simplicity of the rolling principle, gave the invention the following true and sustain. able character:—The Fountain Pump is the most important improve ment in the art of raising water that has appeared within the last two thousand years —the greatest advancement in the useful arts in modern times, The Consummation Fountain Pumps are successfull4 , carried out for private and public uses, at lifts below and above 100 feet altitude, for man, horse, and steam power; deny. ring from half a pint per stroke to 100 barrels of water per minute, and rendering every fair trial at competition ridiculous, whilst their durability is guaranteed at less cost than common pumps. IV. SHALDERS. Foantsin Pump Works, Norwich, Nov. 30, 1847. See Mechanic's Magazine, Nos. 231*, 364, 353, 429, 430, 433, 482, 486, 487, 40, 492, 495, 496, 508, 509, 510, 525, 533, GSS., 727, 804, 1,040, I,llo*, 1,183. Nos. illustrated are market thus* . . L LAMiI'.-NEB LIGHT. _iv T 11,5 niamormLLamp is the beit light in the virTrld—is geed in all the polac. in Europe—is free from all the imperfectlons-oCordi nary oil lamps—so simple It cannot he ittismastgii . cleaning r* quired for years— costs less in burning than al column oil lamp— gives double the light of candle lamps, at one-hal the expense—this 15 beyond doubt. Designs suited to every taste—the Diamond Lamp Is perfection In Light—Use public will have none other—it can be fitted to any person's lamp pillar. ND To be hit' only at the Establishment of tke Metropolitan Light Company, RICHARD CLARK, Resident Manager, 447, West Strand. *4*- - 40' • -a' • ; ,01 , 4fr .IA3 '1'...C4714' reta4' t, i t fr re o ' , \:: l # ,* ).*4l;‘')44 Wl+ "`. 4 ‘ r." . A ) - ; . i pt 44 ' 1' • t i I s`;' +. 6 -- I ta,' 4 " - A , ,:;, • t? 4 . ) • rit f.R ; 7 4 - it , eV* )3, w [PRICE 3D. S Nil DECEMBER 27, 1847. is that of the most solemn religious responsibility ; thousands regard it in this light. I have already told you, my Lord, that the watchword of such is this—" Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye." I have anxiously implored your Lordship to pause—to avert the blow. I have long since told you the truth. I have endeavoured to prevent, by every means in my power, the commotion which has arisen, and the ne cessity of the performance of a painful duty. I hoped the conge d dire would not be issued until a fair in• quirt' and investigation had been instituted. A suit has been commenced in the Ecclesiastical Courts— why not have awaited its issue ? When the cove daire did appear, I at once presumed, humbly but faithfully, though I stood alone, to petition the Crown ; and now, when I am officially informed that "her Majesty has not been pleased to issue any coin- I mands thereupon," I feel it to be my bounden duty, after a full and calm deliberation on the whole subject, having counted the cost, but remembering the words of Him whose most unworthy sc.rvant 1 am—" He that loveth house or lands more than me is not worthy of me"—lovinr, my children dearly, and ardently desiring to compluto. the noble work which I have for seven years laboured to pro mote, yet not forgetting that there i , an "hour of death and a day of judgment," when I trust, through the merits of my Redeemer, to be allowed to look up with hope, that I may be considered by the interces sions of mercy and pity to have been faithful in the hour of trial, to have "fought the good fight, to have kept the faith, to have finished my course,"—believing that I risk much, and shall incur your Lordship's heavy displeasure, who may, if you will, direct the sword of power against me and mine—being certain that I preclude myself from that which might other wise have been ink lot, and expecting that I shall bring down upon myself the abuse and blame of sonie—l say, my Lord, having fully counted the cost, having weighed the sense of bounden duty in the one scale against the consequences in the other, I have come to the deliberate resolve, that on Tuesday next no earthly consideration shall induce me to give my vote in the chapter of Hereford Cathedral for Dr. Hampden's elevation to the see of Hereford. I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship's faithful humble servant, JOHN MEREWETHER, Hereford, Dec. 22. Dean of Hereford DR. HAMPDEN AND THE DIOCESE OF HEREFORD. lIEREFORD, SATURDAY.—The forthcoming election of a bishop for this diocese creates the most lively interest here, which has been materially increased during the last few days, in consequence of the deter mination expressed by the Very Rev. the Dean to summon to the election proceedings, not only the canons residentiary (in whom the election is generally vested), but also the prebendaries non-resident. The following is the citatory letter, calling upon the prebendaries to attend:— " TO THE REV. " You are required to attend in the quire of our Cathedral Church of Hereford, on Tuesday, December the 28th, for the purpose of then and there proceeding to the election of a Bishop of the said see of Hereford, the same having become vacant by the translation of the Right Rev. Thomas Musgrave, D.D., to the Archbishopric of York, and, at the same time and place, to proceed in the whole business of the said election, with all its incidents, emergencies, and de pendencies whatsoever, until the final dispatch of the said election, in such manner as, God willing, we ought to proceed. " Chapter House, Hereford, Dec. 23." For several days past meetings of the canons resi den tiary, and of such of the prebendaries as reside in the immediate neighbourhood, have been held for the purpose of determining the course it will be advisable to adopt at the forthcoming election, under the pecu liarly delicate circumstances in which they are placed. The consultations have, for obvious reasons, been held with closed doors, and the conclusion at which that venerable body has arrived cannot, therefore, be stated with any degree of authority. THE JEWS AND THE CLERGY. (From the 'Weekly Dispatch.) Mr. Editor,--The removal of the civil disabilities of the Jewish people has encountered a stou'er and hotter opposition in Parliament than was anticipated. The opposition cannot succeed. But it may retard the good work; and the friends of religious liberty throughout the country will do well not to despise it, nor to neglect such aid as they can render towards strengthening the hands of th,i Government. Hi therto the' activity hal : been chiefly "on 'the other side. The tide of petitioning actually set in against the measure. Up to the 11th inst. there were 57 peti tions against the removal of Jewish disabilities, and only 10 in favour of removal; there were 3,181 sig natures to the former, and only 438 to the latter. The last week only raised the number to 84 petitions against, with 5,589 signature; and 19 in favour, with 2,511 signatures. The friends of religious freedom are slumbering at their posts, while the enemy is wide awake and sowing tares. This should not be. The Whigs should be made to feel that whenever they do propose really.liberal measures they are sure of having the people at their backs. Without that, we lose our right to blame them for their defalcations. They may fairly ask, " Why were we not better supported in our endeavours ?" A good volley of petitions would be material for pelting down more promptly this remaining bulwark of legislative intolerance. The Opposition is a headless one. All the party leaders are combined in favour of admitting Jews to Parliament. Lord John Russell, Sir R. Peel, and Lord G. Bentinck, went out into the same lobby in the division on the 17th inst. Mr. Gladstone fur nished a second memorable instance of the support of Liberalism by a Member for the University of Ox ford. He played a similar part to that of Sir R. Peel, who then represented the University in 1829, on the question of Catholic Emancipation. But still the hos tility was fierce and formidable. It may, probably, make a hard fight yet. The fact is puzzling at first, for this is a question which many people had regarded as already settled. The obvious reasonableness of the claim, the recent admission of the Jews to corporate honours, and, above all, the triumphant return of Baron de Rothschild for the city of London, seemed to indicate that the controversy was at an end, and the victory certain. How, then, is the hostile explosion to be accounted for? - It was fixed by a train laid out out of the House. The clergy are its authors. By them has the opposition been stimulated. Petitions and speeches come from the clerical factory. They are the gun-makers of intolerance, and have largely distributed weapons from its armoury. And for the strange fact that any difficulty exists to a Member for the city of London, returned by near:y 7,000 votes, taking his place in the House of Representa tives, we have to thank the interference of the clergy. The Universities led the way in petitioning against the Jews, but otherwise the petitions are chiefly parochial. The vicar signs first, then the curate ; next the squire, if it be a country parish, or, if in a town, the churchwardens. Then follow some three dozen of frightened old women, some in their proper dress, and some in breeches. The clergy understand the tactics of petitioning : they make the most of what numbers they can muster. London petitions by its Corporation. The city of Worcester and the borough of Portsmouth hold large meetings, and the Mayor signs as chairman, and counts for one only in the returns. Such things seldom happen on the other side. The clergy are much more likely to get them selves counted twice or more, first petitioning by themselves in their deanery or archdeaconry, and then again in their parish churches. It is a good plan, Mr. Editor, to look at the average of signa tures to petitions on any subject. A low average o f signatures, with a large number of petitions, is a sure sign that some manufactory has been at work. In the present • case, though the intolerants have presented so many more petitions than the Liberals, yet, on the average, each petition against the Jews is only signed by just one-half the number of those who have subscribed petitions in their favour. Here is a mark of clerical getting-up. This is evidence of management. And more of the same sort of fabrica tion will be going on, all through the Christmas holidays. Sir Robert Inglis begged for the longest day that Lord John Russell would give (Monday, the 7th of February was fixed) for the second reading, that the country might have time to protest against this " outrage" on its religion. So we may guess how the clergy will spend Christmas. The sacred time will be divided, by many of them, between worrying Dr. Hampden and petitioning against the Jews. There is double game to hunt down. Two courses will be served before the mince pies ; the roasted heretic and disfranchised Jew. The bishop and the baron will grace the top and bottom of the table. Prayers will be offered against the desecration of the House of Commons and of Hereford Cathedral. Perse secution will be puzzled to know at what to bite first, like the donkey between two bundles of hay. What an exhibition of the great Christian festival ! We shall be told of the angels singing peace on earth and good will to men, by those who are showing the that would keep the Jew a slave, and prolong the reign of discord and persecution. Why, whose birth is it that the Church commemorates ? Is it not a birth in Jewry, the birth of a Jew ? What- ever else, or more it might be, still it was that. Not all the declamations of all the pulpits in Christendom can make it otherwise. It was the birth of one who came to proclaim universal love; and it will be kept by petitioning for exclusive pri vilege. It was the birth of one who came to unite Jew and Gentile ; and it will be kept by separating them at the door of the house of Commons, the one to be turned back as a serf, and the other to enter as a legislator. It was the birth of one destined to die by persecution, and it will be kept by fanning into a flame the expiring embers of persecution. Faith will carry priests anti bigots through much; but certainly reason and humanity stand agha , t at these mon strous incongruities. It is not merely the political rights of the Jew that the clergy are opposing, but those of the people generally ; amongst whom, the Jess s are but 40,000 out of 28,000,000. The theory of Government by representation implies a free choice of representa tives. A candidate is injured when he is declared ineligible for a seat in Parliament on account of his religi ais opinions. He is s'opped in a career of honourable ambition, and, it may be, of public use t'ulness. This is a wrong But it is a greater wrong to limit the freedom of the electors, and deny them the man of their choice for the advocacy Of their rights and the prot( ci ,n of their interests. The exclusion of the Jew Member is the exclusion also of the Christian constituency. The bigoted clergy and their backers are waging war on the poli • tical privileges of the city of London. They are striving to obliterate one name out of the four re turned by the metropolitan constituency. Thus pushing of their creed amongst the wheels of the electoral machinery, so as to obstruct its working, would be very impertinent, even if only tried upon the smallest and remotest constituency in the country. What business has any creed between the elector and the elected? But the offence rises to a climax when attempted upon what may be called, on many accounts, the first constituency in the empire. There are more numerous than that of London ; those of the great northern counties, for instance, Yorkshire and Lan cashire. There are constituencies with a higher ave rage of intellectual attainment; those, for instance, of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. But in both these cases the electors chiefly belong to two or three classes of the population; to the agricultural, the manufacturing, and the professional. London, like the one, has a numerous constituency ; and like the other, a comparatively high degree of electoral attain ment ; but it far surpasses both in the variety of classes to which its voters belong. They have amongst them persons connected with land and with manufactures; with literature and the professions; and they have, besides, almost every form of industrial occupation, of consmercsal enterprise, of monetary speculation ; all ways of individual life, and all modes of working for society, are to be found there, rendering the City electors peculiarly a representative constituency. They are an epitome of the nation. They are the heart of the empire, to which flows, and from which is propelled, every drop of the social life-bloOd that circulates at the extremities. Such is the constitu ency with whose rights a portion of the clergy i 3 try ing to tamper. In disregarding difference, of creed, for political objects, London speaks for Great Britain, and virtually is Great Britain. And, in endeavouring to keep the return for London imperfect, or force its electors to another choice, the clerical bigots have assailed the liberties of the country. They have struck at the most important right of the most important body of citizens in the community. Now this is really a bold enterprise. It is taking the bull (John Bull) by the horns. 'Well may it be asked, who are the men that venture on such an un dertaking? And when we remember that they are only the State's hired servants, to read the Church prayers, and teach the people religion and morals, one cannot but conclude that their conduct evinces no _..... little presumption. They are out of their sphere of duty. They are in a perilous position when they thus thrust themselves between the city of London and the House of Commons. Let them leave such a question as that now pending to the great parties whom it mainly concerns ; those, on the one hand, who make Members of Parliament—who are the makers of law-makers ; and those, on the other hand, who hare been, directly or indirectly, the makers of their Church, of their Bishops, and of their religion. A - hint has been thrown out that perhaps the clergy may be better reconciled to the removal of Jewish disabilities, if the revival of the powers of convocation be allowed. They would doubtless secure one gratification thereby, although they lost another. Baron Rothschild would take his seat, but Dr. Hampden would not put on hi..mitre. The sug gestion which was thrown out by Mr. Gladstone in the late debate is a shrewd one; but it will not do. The country is not reduced to such a compromise with a section of the clergy. The Jew will be sworn according to his conscience, and the heretic will re ceive Episcopal Consecration. Judaism will be in stalled in the Senate, and Liberalism in the cathe dral. Of the first, the Church has no right to com plain ; and to the other, the Church must submit, as part of the price of its alliance with the State. From that unholy alliance it derives obstructive power against the admission, for a time, of the Jewish Mem ber for London into the Legislature; but the advan tage bitterly recoils, in the humiliation to which it is subjected by the nomination of a bishop whom it is anxious to disavow. The State rides roughshod over its wishes, trampling on the reluctance of Dean and Chapter, and the protests of half the bench of bishops. If there be any power in experience to teach wisdom, it may be hoped that the time will come when the Church shall learn to consult its own character, dignity, and best interests, by falling back :nto the ranks of religious equality, and relin quishing a political connexion that, under the form of ascendancy, subjects it to degradation. PUBLICOLA. Mn. LISTON.—We regret to learn, says the Edinburgh Courant, that a son of the late Mr. Liston, whose recent death has caused such general regret, died on Friday, of an affection of the brain, at an educational seminary in the neighbourhood of the city, where he was pursuing his studies. The deceased was about six teen years of age. IMPORTATION OF POULTRY.—The steam-ship, Sir Edward Banks, arrived from Ostend, has brought ninety one cases and one basket of poultry, the produce of Belgium. HOW TO LIVE ON NOTHING A YEAR.—I wonder how many families are driven to roguery and to ruin by great practitioners in Crawley's way—how many great noblemen rob their petty tradesmen, condescend to swindle their poor retainers out of wretched little sums, and cheat for a few shillings? When we read that a nobleman has left for the continent, or that another " noble" nobleman has an execution in his house—and that one or other owe 6,1900,0002 or 7,000,000 L— the defeat seems glorious even, and we respect the victim in the vastness of his ruin. But who pities a poor barber who can't get his money for powdering the footmen's heads; or a poor carpenter who has ruined himself by fixiug up ornaments and pavillions for my lady's dejeiiner; or the poor devil of a tailor whom the steward patronises, and who has pledged all be is worth, and more, to get the liveries ready, which my lord has done him the honour to bespeak ? When the great house tumbles down the miserable wretches fall under it unnoticed ; as they say in the old legends, before a man goes to the devil himself he sends plenty of other souls thither. Rawdon and his wife generously gave their patronage to all such as chose to serve him. Some were willing enough, especially the poor ones. It was wonderful to see the pertinacity with which the washer woman from Tooting brought the cart every Saturday. and her bills every week. Every servant was owed the greater part of his wages, and thus kept up per force an interest in the house. Nobody in fact was paid. Not the blacksmith who opened the lock, nor the glazier who mended the panes, nor the jobber who let the carriage, nor the groom who drove it, nor the butcher who provided the leg of mutton, nor the coals which roasted it. nor the cook who basted it, nor the servants who eat it, and this, I am given to understand, is not untrequently the way in which people live elegantly ou " nothing a-year." In a little town such things cannot be done without remark. So, probably 200 and 202 in Curzon-street might know what was going on in the house between them, the servants communicating through the area railings; but Crawley and his wife and his friends do not know 200 and 202. When you came to 201 there was a hearty welcome, a kind smile, a good dinner, and a jolly shake of the hand from the host and the hostess there, just for all the world as if they bad been undisputed masters of 3,0001. or 4,0001. a-year--and so they were, not in money, but in produce and labour; if they did not pay for the mutton, they had it; if they did not give bullion in exchange for their wine, how should we know? —Vanity Fair. [ADVERTISBMENT.]—CARRIAGE FREE.—Families residing in the country are supplied with Teas and Coffees at the lowest wholesale price, in quantities not less than six pounds, delivered carriage free to any part of England. Orders must be accomp an i e d by amit tance, or if a reference be mad e in London, od pa r e men t will suffice on receipt and app rova l o f the o of prices and samples free, on application G s. T A m list to sell and Co., wholesaleG . tea-dealers, 2, Bucklersbury, Cheapshie. IADVERTISEMERT.I—THR EARL 07 A LDBOROUCiII AND HOLLOWAY'S I'ILLS.—AYI astou • medicine, after every other means h astounding cure by this miraculous " Villa Lordship's letter, dated Messina, failed. See extract from his Leghorn, Feb. 21, 1845. Professor Holloway—Sfr be, t o acquaint have effected a cure of a disorder 0 acquaint you that your i pas eminent of the faculty, at home my liver liver and stomach al all over the continent, bad not been able is effect; nay, not eve n the waters of Carlsbad . or Ma rienbad. (Signed) " AI,6OROUQ " PI." These wonderrul pills will cure any disease of the liver or stomach.--told (also Holloway's Ointment) at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, and by all =oa t maws MINH:OE4 the elTillied world. ye 1(47 Commercial Ratcliffe 6,843 3,421 Independent Poplar • •• • 6,215 From this it appears that the duty thus yiolded by the metropolitan companies would 1, nearly 123,000/., and still leave the companies in possession of a surplus profit of 457,5001. It may be interesting to show, from one of the companies (take the Imperial, for instance), how these large profi's are produced. The yearly consumption of coals by the Imperial Company is 51,100 tons, which produce 63,875 chaldrons of coke, less 31,938 chaldrons, which produce 14s. per chaldron, or 22,356/. 12 , .; 51,100 tons of coal t;roduce 485,450,000 cubic feet of gas, from which must be deducted one-fourth as entire loss, there not being more than three- fourths sold to consumers, making the residue 364,088,500 cubic feet of gas, at 64. per 1,000 feet, making 109,226/. 10s. The same quantity of coal also produces 613,200 gallons of tar. at lid. per gallon, 3,8321. 10s.; and 562,100 gallons of ammonia, at ld. per gallon, 2,342/. Is. 8 , 1., making the total produce of 51,100 tons of coal amount to 137,7571. 14s. Bd., from which must be deducted 40,880/. for the coals, at 16s. per ton, and 6,887/. 18s. 63. for a dividend, at i per cent., from the profits, which is about 15 per cent. on the oaid-up capital, after which there is a surplus profit of 76,213/. 9s 2d. The proposed duty of Is. per 1,000 cubic feet would product. from this company alone 18,204/., after pay ing which, they would still have a surplus of 58,099/. 19s. 2d. for a dividend among the shareholders. FRESHET IN JAMES RIVER. IMMENSE DESTRUCTION OF PROPEtiTY. We have to record the greatest fresh e t i n J ames Ri ver that has o c curre d since 1795. On Thursday morning the water in the river near the city was discovered to be rising quite rapidly. The water continued to rise during the whole of Thursday night and Friday morning reached to an alarming height, overflowing the numerous islands, and threatening destruction to property bordering on the banks of the river for miles. At an early hour yesterday morning the bridge which connected Vauxhall's Island with Mayo's long bridge was carried off, leaving several inhabitants of the island entirely without the means of getting from their perilous situation. Nor did the main bridge itself escape, for we have also to record the fact that Mayo's bridge has been entirely carried away. A portion of the bridge on the south side of the toll house was swept off about twelve o'clock, and in an hour afterwards the entire span, reaching from the Richmond side to the island, on which the toll-house stands, was also taken down the rushing tide, carry ing on it seven persons, none of whom, however, were harmed. No one can possibly form an idea of the vast amount of damage done to property by this unex pected overflowing, and we have the strongest appre hensions that the freshet has not occurred without the loss of life. Up to this time, however, we have heard of n• one who has perished. We understand that during the night of Thursday, or early yesterday morning, the steamer Alice, undergoing repairs at Rocketts, was torn from her moorings, and carried down the river with several hands on board. The boilers, we learn too, had been taken out, and therefore those on the steamer were unable to get up steam or to guide the vessel. The other James River boat, the Curtis Peck, went in pursuit of the Alice, aad ere this, we hope, has over hauled her. At the time of writing, we learn the river is still on the rise, and the water has backed up so as to sub merge a portion of Cary and Franklin states, and fill to overflowing a large nun.ber of cellars in the vicinity (f the Old-market.—Richmond (U. S.) Republican, Nov. 27. FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE IN DRURY-LANE.—Last evening, about seven o'clock, a fire broke out at No. 2, Drury -lane, in the occupation of Mr. smith, by which one child Was burned to ch ath, and another had a very narrow escape. It appears that the first floor was let to a carpenter named Chalcroft, who was engaged at the Mary lehone Theatr• in getting the pant.anitne com plete i. Mrs. Chalcroft, having occasion to go out lot a few minutes, left her two children, one three years old and the other four or five months, in the room. The latter was in bed asleep, but the latter was running about the apartment. Shortly after the mother had gone out, the inmates of the house were alarmed by violent screams, proceeding from the first floor front. They attempted to open the dual., but it being locked they were unable ; an alarm of fire was therefore given, and almost immediately Sergeant Corr and several constables of the F division came up and broke open the door, when a most distressing scene presented itself : the furniture in the room was burning fiercely, and in one corner was the eldest child, completely enveloped in flames, life being quite extinct. Whilst the parties were attempting to extinguish the fire about the bed, not being aware that another child was therein, the mother entered and rushed through the smoke and pulled the infant out ; it was found to be uninjured. " MURDERING" A MONKEY.—(From the Wor cester Herald.)—A large monkey, which for eight years had lived in the possession of Mr. Badgery, skinner, St. John's, about a fortnight ago took it into his head to view the world on a larger scale than that within the narrow circle of the skin-yard. Since then, up to last Wednes day, he led a free and roving life among the gardens and back yards of St. John's, where he contrived almost hourly to frighten some male or female liege subject of our Sovereign lady nearly into fits, by his intense like ness, in their excited imaginations, to a certain person who shall be nameless. Only a night or two before poor Jocko's death, be was disporting as monkeys only can sport, among the branches of an old ivy bush that covered the rear of a house, belonging to a respectable parish ioner. He swung himself about in many an eccentric gyration, holding on the while by the tendrils of the plant, his body swinging to and fro in the darkness like some uncouth demon in Hades, exercising a new pair of bat-winged contrivances previous to es-sying a murky flight to upper air. While engaged in this pastime an old lady appeared on the scene, and no sooner had she come within his reach than Jocko dropped on her shoulder, saluting her with many an uncouth grin and mow. The affrighted matron escaped with the infliction of a fit of intense terror, and Jocko betook himself, by way of variety, to a scamper over the tiles and chimney-pots of the adjacent buildings. It appears that it having been found impossible to take the creature alive, it was determined to rid the neighbourhood of a pest by destroying it. In the first place a largo and howling.mo ey s p o o o w n er h f a u d l tbhuoll bestt e r r o i f e r t h w e as d Another terrier, weighing 241b5., was let at him, and it o s g e , t w o h n ich hi r m eirea T te h d e is probable would have shared the same fate had the men engaged in the combat given the monkey a chance. As it happened, however, they shot it with a gun, and while the dog was worrying it, dispatched it by repeated blows of a cudgel. The poor animal was thus rather bar barously done to death, in place of being slaughtered in a merciful and sportsmanlike manner. PROPOSED SUB-MARINE EXPLOSION ON T HE THAMES.—A petition from the Treasurer of the Temple has been under the consideration of the Navigation Committee of the City of London, as to the injury that is likely to befal this locality by the great explosion about to be made in removing a large shoal in the middle of the river, immediately opposite the Temple .gardens, It is understood that one or two of the City surveyors have inspected the buildings, and the result of their ex amination may be gleaned from the circumstance that the corporation have decided that the " blowing-up i 01 hast 3wf Captain p i tara b r nno t e w ml e ,oei e sx n yhpeel ß ari l s a ito c hi nm l e t s t p, r he i a daa rrler already harbour master, must take its course, and it is expected that it will come Off in the early :part of the week. The shoal extends some ni aavlitge navigation 2: Waterloo iooohn has, by dt 3 bhc O ee o s mr, f i e ves e ean t rnd. m s succeeded in removing several shoals below bridge, and he fully anticipates effecting his object in this present instance without injuring the buildings on the banks. OPENIN G OF THE CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.—The opening of this important railway, as a through line ): communication between London and Edinburgh, may now be announced •as an event on the very eve of con summation: and as the best evidence of our authority for this intimation, we have only to state the fact, that engineer of the company at Carlisle, accompaniaon Friday, th e 17 t h cur t., M r . Addi son , the resident their friends, performed the contractors, and a party o Mr. Mold, chief agent of Messrs. Stephenson and Co., the journey between Carlisle and Edinburgh in one of carriages, w hich had arrived from Euston square, the only interruption experienced having proceeded from the the Lordon and North - Western Compa n y' s first-class workmen on the line, who had assembled at some points h • " which they accordingly did in good style. The line to Glasgow has been _to "cheer them on their way, • com pleted for some time, so that n-.thing now remains but min or arrangements to enable the directors to open to the public this great line, so long and so anxiously looked for.—Scotch Reformers' Gazette. WHAT NEXT!—The Exeter Gazette states that on Thursday a " soirée de Feargus O'Connor" was given at the Barnstaple Theatre. - .. ( .„<"") ~ --p ,prts7 PR to OSED DUTY ON G . -, unications have taken place the last feiv'weeks between the (3overnmen . persons en -1 gaged in the nonufacture cf , relative to a pro- I posed duty of ls. per 1,000 cubic feet of, that article, which would roduce mort,than two milli o ns s t er li ng ann-ually to Rt. Majesty's Governm en t. It appears from th e correspondence which has taken place that while all o th er companies are taxed, gas companies are entirely f ree f rom taxation, and that they have a most enormous surplus profit, o w i ng t o th e excess i ve price of their commodity, at present charged, in many parts of the metropolis and its suburbs, at Bs. per 1,000 cubic feet, whilst in large provincial towns it iS charged at 3s. or 3s. 3d. per 1,000 feet. The follow ing is a sketch of fourteen metropolitan companies, shoe ing their surplus profits and the amount of duty it is proposed to levy : Name of Company. Surplus Pri.fits Prop( sed Duty. Imperial Gas Nonipany £58,009 .. .. £18,204 Chartered London City 60,985 .1 4 ;303 15,603 Brick-lane • 36,741 ....••• 9,102 Pt cenix Equitable British - 6,843 South Metropo!itan . 23,619 .. 5,851 Curtain-road ...... ... 23,619 _ 5,851 .......' ELECTRO SILVER PLATED SPOONS — "'and FORKS of the best quality. Table Spoons or Forks, 40s. per lozen ; Dessert Spoons or Forks, 295. per dozen ; Tea Spoons, Ids. per dozen ; 4;ravy Spoons, Bs. each ; Soup Ladles, I4s. each. — T. COX SAVORY and Co., Silversmiths, &c., 47, Cornhill (seven boors from Gracechurch••street), London.