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THE COMMITTEE for LETTING the CITY'S LANDS, will meet at Guildhall, on WEDNESDAY, the Ath day of December next, at One o'clock precisely, to receive tenders for LETTING on BUILDING LEASES, for sixty-one yeas, from Christmas next, a Piece of Ground, on the north side of Narrow -street, Ratcliffe ; and a large plot of Ground en the east side of 'l4tddle Dock, on the south side of Upper T hames -street, anclkon the north side of the River Thames. Also to receive 'lenders for Letting on Leases, for twenty-one years from Christmas next, a HOUJC, No. 19, un the north side of Broad-street, buildings ; and Nos. 7,6, 5, and 4, on the north side of Cres 'cent-Place, Rlackfriars ; and also for 12 1 4 years, from Christmas alext, a house in Beehive-passage, Ehne-street. Further particulars may be obtained, and plans aeon, by applying at the Othee of Works, Guildhall. THOMAS SAUNDERS, Comptroller. • SMITHF I E L D CLUB PRIZE CATTLE SOON, 1847. The ANNUAL EXHIBITION of Prize Cattle, Seeds, Roots, Im- Plements, ke., Bth, 9th, 10th, and 11th December, at the lIOBSE ,lIAZAAR, King-street, Portman-square. Ladies are enabled to view this National Exhibition with perfect Comfort ; and for the bet•er accommodation of visitors, a large Sa loon for refreshments is this year added. Open from Daylight till Nino in the livening. Admittance—ONE SHILLING. ELIGIBLE INVESTMENT.—To be SOLD, by PRIVATE CONTRACT, a Large and Commodious I'ItEEHOLD HOUSE and SHOP, where a flourishing an/ extensive Drapery Trade has been carried on for many years. Front, 16 feet 6 inches ; length, 50 feet. Recently refitted with plate-glass front, and every convenience for business. Immediate possossion can be given. Apply to George D. Smith, G 5, Newborough-street, Scarborough, Scarborough, November 20, 147. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY TENDERS FOR LOANS. The Directors of this Company are ready to. receive TENDERS ter LOANS on security of the Company's Debentures, la sums of not less than 1,0001. each, at 51. per Cent. interest, payable half- Yearly, and for terms of Three. Five, or Seven years. Applications to be made to the undersigned. • CHARLES A SAUNDERS, Secretary. . London Termhuts, Paddington, August 20, 1847. IDL AND RAILWAY. The 3fIOLAND RAILWAY COMPAIXY are prepared to receive LOANS, en security of their Debentures, for period++ of Three, Five, or Seven Years, in stuns of 1,0001. each and upwards, at Interest atter the rate of LW. per cent. per annum, payable half= yearly. application to be made to the Secretary, at the Company's Office, Derby. By order, J. F. BELL, Secretary. November 11, 1847. SOCIETY for the DISCHARGE and RELIEF of PERSONS IMPRISONED fur SMALL DEBTS through out ENGLAND and WALES. .. Eat:011611W 1772. PRESIDENT. The EARL of RO3fNEY. VICE-PRESIDENTs. Lord" Kenyon I Rt.. lion. Sir R. Peel, Bart., M.P. Taxasum—Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., M.P., F.R.S. At:Duets—John Pepys, Esq., and Capel Cure, Esq. At a MEETING of GOV.ERNORS, held In Craven-street, on Wednesday, the Ist day of December, 1847, the cases of 9 Petitioners were considered, of which 8 were approved, 1. rejected. Since the meeting heldon the 3d of November, EIGHT DEBTORS, of whom 6 had Wives and 10 Children, have been Discharged from the Prisons of England and Wales ; the expense of whose liberation, Including every charge connected with the society, was 1621. 3s. 1d.,; and the following BENEFACTIONS RECEIVED SINCE THE LAST REPORT : A. R., per Messrs. Drummond ..... £2 0 0 • The Rev. Sir John Newport, Bart., per Messrs. Hoare. 1 1 0 The ♦ccountant-General of the Court of Chancery, under the Will of-Mrs. A. 31. Scafferd, per Treasurer ••- • .. 97 1 8 Ditto, under the Will of Robert Sorrell, Esq., per Tres- Benefactions are received by Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., the Treasurer, No. 1, Brick-court, Temple; also by the following Bankers :—Nessrs. Cocks; Curries, Drummends, Berries, Hoares, `tree ; and by the Secretary, No. 7, Craven-street, Strand, where the books may be seen by those who are inclined 'to support the elt aritY..aud where the Society meet on the first Wednesday in every 311101;1th. JOSEPH LUNN, Secretary. . MUSICAL BOXES.--A large stock of the first quality, playing upwards of GOO airs, overtures, Sec., 1 • ncludLng selections from the following favourite operas :—The Ito ; heLiian Girl, 3faritana, Daughter of St. Mark, the Bondman, Sec. A Catalogue of the Music, is now published, and may he had , gra , it,'On application to T. COX SAVORY and Co., Watchmakers, ECC., • 47, Cornhill (seven doors from Gracechurch•street), London. •A. NEW NURSERY RHYME. RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO ALL JUVENILES, I'll sing you a ditty, Beth ps etty alid witty, Of London's great City; For wide is its fame, • "J And mighty its name, , • And all are to blame, • Who say not the same. pa F`t As we walk up and down • - •,-• This wonderful town, , t;;, Of lasting renown, •.. The eye ever rne,ts, With ocular treats, ;4, - )4;,, • As it roves through the streets. We are led, unawares, • • Through crescents and squares, - • And wide thoroughfares Where the stranger repairs, • . And eagerly stares, At the mighty affairs. • There's the noted St. Paul, • With its dome and its ball, And the Abbey and all, And the 3lonument tall, While all seem to bawl, To the great and the small, " Please to give us a call." Whatever we view, Presents something new, •• And astonishing too, For me and for you. The houses of trade Are proudly display'd. But of course there are none, Like the wonderful one Of E. MOSES and SON. The warehouse of MOSES, . . ••. • In Londost discloses, What no one supposes. And all must admire, Their charming attire, Which is all you desire, • ; . And all you require. . Their beautiful styles, For smart Juveniles. Are approved of with smiles. The Tunics with braid, Which MOSES have made, Have ever displayed, Perfection in trade. Then, as Christmas draws nigh, May your guardians buy, From MOSES' supply, Which is never sold high. - • Let them peep, let them pry, • Let them test, let them try, • Not a fault will they spy, • Nor will any.deny • That MOSES' out-vie In the stock they have by For a Christmas supply. LIST OF PRICES. • 11,1• DI MADE. ---- --- Beaver Tatßoni from £0 0 Chesterfield and Codrington's, ant every description of Over-coat, handsomely trimmed.. ... • . • ... .. • . The Pacha Coat ...... • ..• • • .................. 1 8 0 The Bullmer, especially adapted for snowy and . . Wet wsather•• The p 1 .. 1 .•ril Winter Coats, in every 5ty1e.............. 0 6 I 'lea's D.. Trousers, Hied -- Doeskin Dress Csats...• .• .. • • ••••• • • • • • 1 0 9 Frock do. • Noble-breasted Winter Vests •• • 0 2 0 Roll ••••• • • • •• 0 1 6 oYS' Hussar and Tunic Suits. XADI TIP inciewlz. Winter Coats, in every style and shape, hand somely trimmed ••.. • • from 1 6 II 2,111 1 ed cloth Over-coats, velvet collar and cuffs.. 2 4 0 Tweed Wrapper ...... •••••• • • • • • • 0 18 6 Doeskin Trousers ...... •.•• • • .• •• • • 1 2 0 Best, or Dress.• .... •••• • • • • ...... .•• .. 1 6 0 Dress Coat • • • • • • • • • • • • Best quality made.... •• .. 21S 0 ........ 1 15 0 Frock de............ • ....• Best quality made ••.••• .. • • 3 3 Cashmere Vests .. . 0 B 6 , Saties Plain or Fancy .. • • .. 110 7's Hussar and Tunic Suits .. • • •••••" • • • • • I 6 Great Coat ...... .......... •• • 0 16 S A Stilt of Clothes 116 16 9 Mourning to any extent at Five Minutes notice. 8 0 111 2 , v , attention of S Ladles is especially directed to E. 3105 ES and stock of Furs, which will be found on inspection to be the nnest, best assorted, and cheapest le the trade. Reserve your pur "atswi. oe, r ebs e e rls•—lny article purchased, ready made, or made to melt . returned . if ant approved of, will be exchanged, or if preferred, the 410 / M OSES and SOW, Tailors, Woollendrapers, Clothiers, Hatters, L.,„ — ' 4111 , Furriers, Boot and Shoemake and General Outfitters, for IC 4, s tad Gentlemen, 154, 155, and , 158, 157 Minories, and b 3, aS. and 86 Aidgate, City, London. ttil, ut tU.—E. Moses and Son regret being obliged to guard the against impostors, but have learned that the untradeaman • 14: ialsehood of being connected with tkem, or it's the same concern. T he b een resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons. k „ 7 have as connexion with any other hours in or out of London; et those who desire genuine and cheep clothing, &a., ehoeld call at, send to, Mixories and Aidgate, City, London. s et , eti ._ . oo.—Wo business transacted at this establishment from sun ..sic ' nday till sunset Saturday , whoa business is r esume d till twelve • bit ' MT Oti Tll4 SECRET INFIRMITIES OF TOUT MA E T R S! URITY.—WITH 40 COLOURED ENGRAYINGS Jast E n - „T '''lled, and tray be had in French or English, in a Sealed gt „ m - "`uPe, es • gg or pest-free, from the Author, for forty-two • Sin. EL F - PRESERVATION; a Medical Treatise oa the Physiology of Marriage, Infelicitous ant Unproductive t urit °llll . and the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Ma th, 3 .. a aually acquired at au early period if life, wkich enervate ta,r„,Ysical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural , ob.l"as. and exhaust the vital energies if Manhood ; with Practica. *.7,.rvations *tithe Treatment of Nervous Debility and Indigestion, t:ether arising front these causes, close study, or the Influence . of lis r V e , 4l olireates: Local and Constitutional Weakness,. Syphilis, • ee tt :ro. and all Diseases and Derangemeuts resulting from Indis- A.a m ,.. 4 * With Forty coloured Engravings, illustrating the azDi:°l7, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, laki...` iti ug their structures, uses, and functions, and the variou d s kfseti — oll tk at sat produced in them by molltary hbibits, excesses, an 9 RY SAMUEL Li'MERT, M.D., —. DFORD-STRERT. BEDFORD.SQUARB, Seto. LONDON. h Medicine, Matricilated Member of the University of Edin -4.4 he . .f.u. Licentiat e o f Ap o th ecar i es ' Hall, Lanolin, lielierary Member 1, London Hospitl edical Society, Ate. % al :Pare requires th a e fu lfilmen t of several conditions, is order veilthe be really the cause of mutual happiness. Coald aticfp. - Tcss covers the origin of domestic wretchedness, be ra ised, u l d it h e 'rue source in every instance disclosed, in how many d (s i o a Pet * d iced to physical disqualifications and their attend i t . 1 P- Ittm e .,.. Shied s„`.• Excesses are always injurious ; the gift, wh ich when ..7 mo deration is fraught with advasitage, becomes, when holC • „ er . le Prolific so urce o f m i sc hi e f. an d o f g r e at or less injury • Ut t 4 ceoliti tutioual and vital powers. The particular exceages, on are 4lnare and, cense uence of which this Treatise professes to dilate, tau a ctive of greater severity of misery to the Imams frame, • r y other to which it Is subect. 44, t0 work contains al accur j ate and complete acceant of the • thei r R 'Y and Phy s i o l ogy of the Repr oductive Organs, and of Nair ralative conditions in health aid disease. It deservedly ha " the closest attentlea aud study, for what subject can !u5.,4 f r" , r , ° importance than the preservation of tke health, oe i►os the physical capabilities of which every man should victi m ,I ls ed• It unfortunately happens that the unhappy .exceseive indulgence and vicious habits, whether acquired fro m n r o ure or from the follies of advanced age, while suffering Pl Ylag to r invariable coasequences, unwisely entertains a fear of tip ht•-sn.utY. but ll•eq uen ., qttallfleCl physician for relief. Shame and the dread so for erroneously entertained that these complaints are he r each of art, a lik e restr i c t hi m and prevent his seeking 10 4 , - `47an ce where a l one it can be procured. In acting thus, he %Uk ase _ at accurate discrimination in ascertaining the causes of _,:Yulathy - With the sufferer, and, above all, secrecy, inva mecii,„,istracterise the intelligent and practical physician, and t o the qu,,,, eat i:lan 1,1 can show by his posse , sion of the requisite legal ions that he is entitled to esteem and respect his profes tukT;LPurs"it3. the utmost confidence should be extended. Dr. 5,,,,;;RT has obtained the highest medical honours, as his diplomas Solely to th°ertils inary,; tee an f d the great extent of his practice for many years is a Peofeasional experience, which has reference almost pi ureeZ rnoster-row; IlannaV, _ tr eatment of these diseases. t 2, p ' t i e s n by the Anther, and may he had of Kent and Richards, G 3 oxford-street; Starie, Tichborne , 4,4„„,la.Ynsarket ; ' ti 111, Fleet-street ; Gordon, 146, or bY letter tro m ` t r e alkl,u-street, London ; or , free by post for forty-two stamps, thoe. who may be consulted on these disorders personally Ogg en E daily, from Tea till Two, and from Five till Eight at his I '. 9. 1W...1-9rd-street Medford-square Loag°l4 ~~ No. 17,223.] LONDON, MONDAY, EVENING • CLERICAL, MEDICAL, and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Persons of all ages, and in every station, may assure with this ie. ciety on very moderate terms. No extra premium is required for solt.risk, or reslderico in any part of Europe. Persons wishing to visit, or reside in ether parts of the world, may also effect Policies at a small increase of premium. BONUSES. The two first Divisions averaged 221. per cent. on the premiums paid ; the third 28/. per cent. Tne fourth bonus, declared Jan. 1847, averaged rather more than 36/. per cent., and from the large amount of Profit reserved for future appropriation and other causes, the Bonuses hereafter are expected to exceed that amount. Tables of Rates, with a tall Report (recently printed) can be ob tained of the Society's Agents, or by addressing a letter to GEO. 11. PINCKARD, Resident Secretary, No. 59, Great Russell-street, Bloombury, London. IRELAND. STATE OF THE COUNTRY. DUBLIN, DEC. 3.—This day's post brings nothing more striking than the particulars of an ineffectual attempt to assassinate a magistrate in the county of Monaghan, Mr. Johnston, of Ivy-hill. The Fer managh Reporter gives the following version of the affair : " On the night of Thursday last, the 25th of No vember, at about the hour of six o'c'oek, Mr. J. W. Johnston, justice of the peace, was fired at from be hind a ditch, convenient to his own residence, Ivy-hill, while returning from Einyvale Petty Sessions; but it is fortunate, that being enveloped in a strong thick woollen cloak, the shot, which consisted of slugs, only took effect on the gentleman's arm, above the elbow, which, although seriously injured, is not in such a state as to cause any apprehensions to be entertained as to the wound proving fatal. No rea son can be assigned for this diabolical attempt upon the life of a respectable magistrate, and one who is beloved and esteemed by all who know him. And no clue has'hitherto been found that might lead to the discovery of the bloodthirsty perpetrator ; but it is to be hoped, however, that through the vigilant exertions of the police, and the peaceable disposition of the people of the neighbourhood, he may yet be brought to condign punishment." The Erne Packet, however, assigns a reason for the commission of this atrocious attempt on life. It is as follows : "It appears that Mr. Johnston had been lately employed in his magisterial capacity at the petty sessions of Emyvale, hearing several cases of com plaints on the part of the collect3rs for levying the rate for repayment of the loans under the Relief Act. The people had arrayed themselves in opposition to the collector, and offered the strongest resistance to the payment; and it would seem that a preconcerted plan had been formed from the beginning to oppose the levying of the rate, under various pleas, some from inability, and being characters of reckless desperation who have nothing to lose ; others under the plea of the extravagant and careless manner in which the relief was distributed. This led to the litigation and disputes between the parties, and in which Mr. Johnston, as one of the magistrates, was called on to preside, and in which capacity he endeavoured to arrange and amicably settle the matter in dispute ; in which, however, he failed ; and the business of the court over, he was returning home, it being somewhat late he was riding fast, and when but a short distance from his own house he was fired at from behind a thickset hedge." Amongst other reports rife during the week, it was said that an attempt had been made upon the life of Lord Crofton, and it now turns out that there was a solid foundation for this statement, inasmuch as his Lordship has been obliged, by the interposition of his friends, to leave Ireland, and thus escape the otherwise inevitable doom that was, beyond all doubt, known to await him he re . L or d rofton's estates are situated in the county of Roscommon. With respect to the state of the above-named county the following sketch is furnished by a correspondent of the Evening Mail:— " The late Rev. Mr. Lloyd ejected no tenants. lie told an intimate friend, a short time since, he would not, but would rest on his oars for a while, till matters came round. In order to feed the neigh bouring poor, last winter and spring, he killed his own sheep ; and his wife, while assisting in dressing and distributing the food, caught an almost fatal ill- ness ; whilst his sister, who resided with him, has de voted the whole of her time, for many years past, in the most active benevolence; she, last season, distri buted several hundred pounds to the poor of Elphin and its neighbourhood. Such is the family that has had its head murdered within an English mile of his own house. ATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSURANCR SOCIETY. 26, CORNIIILL, LONDON. Capital .£500,000. Empowered by Act of parliament. This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages with respect to life assurances and deferred annuities. The assured ha..;, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for !eiture of the policy, twe.thirds of the premiums paid (see Table); a'so the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in ;crests to meet other conveniencies or necessity. Assurances fur terms of years on the lowest possible rates. DIVISION OF PROFITS. The increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors at the annual meeting held on the 12th May, 1847, to declare a fifth JOIIUS, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid on each policy effected on the profit scale. ::SAMPLES. . 1 1 Permit- Sum the ~1 c i ; Annual Policy Bonus In font Re- Assured Ao. g t ~', ' Pre- Itaken addition Bonus In duction of clay bor . miuna. out in Assured. Cash. Annual row on rn Premiums. Policy. - X a. 4.' 4 a d. X a. d. X a. d. 1 1837 243 3 311 . 2 8 5 18 4 6 494 S 10 X Xa. d. 1838 218 4 899 810 15 13 5 445 0 0 60 1000 74 3 4 1839 192 110 SG 9 3 13 4 9 395 11 1 1840 143 5 10 66 8 4 9 19 1 346 2 3 1841 'l3B 14 2 61 17 6 9 9 2 296 13 4 1842 111 6 8 49 10 0, 7 10 4 1247 4 5 The Annual Report, with tables of rates, &c., may be kad at the )ffice, or any of its branches in the country ; or, on application, will be forwarded post free. F. FERGUSON CAN/ROUX, Secretary. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. LECTURES on AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY, by F. 11, Holmes, Esq., Daily at Half-past Three, and every Evening at Nine o'clock, except Saturday Evening. TWO LECTURES by Dr. BACHHOFFNER —one on the Laws of Nature, in reference to the important subject of SANITARY MEASURES; the other on the various modes of VENTILATION, in which the PHYSI CAL PROPERTIES of a JET of STEAM will be exhibited, with Novel and highly Interesting Experiments, Daily at Two and at Eight o'clock in the Evening. The ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHS worked. The WORKING MODELi, explained. DISSOLVING VIEWS. The CHROMATROPE. DIVING BELL and DIVER, with HYDE'S NEW APPARATUS for CONVERSING under WATER, &c. &c. • " A secret conclave sits in the town of Elphin, and a few days previous to the murder of Mr. Lloyd had held its Satanic council. Several clergymen in the neighbourhood of Elphin and Strokestown are soon to fall victims ; their names were distinctly men tioned in these towns, with the sentence added, that they must be shot.' They have had no immediate, or, in fact, anyconnexion with land, and their only fault is, that they were the friends of the late Major Mahon and the Rev. John Lloyd, and that, as has been said, they fed the poor last year to bring them to church ; they shan't do it again.' One of these clergymen narrowly escaped assassination last Sunday, by his having returned to his house an hour earlier than usual—two men were in wait fur him. It is no longer an agrarian conspiracy, but a religious and political one. Every Protestant who would support order is marked. Parties of strange men, armed, are con stantly seen in the neighbourhood of. Boyle, Elphin, and Strokestown, and it has been ascertained that several are inhabitants of Munster. " The Coercion Bill will be a nullity. The Go vernment will be unable to disarm the people. The disturbances in the county of Cork in 182 9 , long before the fatal Bill o f 1829 , s h owed the almost inn possibility of any vigilance of the Executive sufficing to take up the arms; and what will it be now? The Protestant spirit of the north, the Protestant spirit of England—ay, and of Scotlacd, must be awakened." COMMAND NIGHT AT THE THEATRE. The performances last night at Hawkins's-street were honoured by the presence of the Earl and Countess of Clarendon. The theatre was crowded to suffocation ; not a seat was unoccupied in box, pit, or gallery, and numbers left who were unable to procure even standing room. Their Excellencies on their entrance were greeted with unanimous plaudits ; • but as the performances proceeded there was considerable interruption, caused by cries of " No coercion," from a knot of " sympathisers" in the upper regions, intermingled with a few faint hisses for the Viceroy, which were speedily drowned by counter-cheers from all parts of the house. The Premier was not so fortunate, his name having evoked a storm of disapprobation, which was followed by a lonely cheer for Mr. John O'Connell, and a somewhat warmer one for Mr. Smith O'Brien. But the uproar was not at its height until the national anthem was commenced, when the manifestations of displeasure were most unequivocal. For nearly fire minutes not a note could be heard ; eventually, how- ever, the storm wore itself out, and the rest of the evening passed over without any further serious attempts to mar the evening's amusement. The play selected was Much Ado about Nothing. Mr. and Mrs. Kean sustained respectively the parts of Benedict and Beatrice. SIGNS OF THE TIMES. The solicitor for the Provincial Bank of Ireland has put upon the files this term no !ess than 800 " declarations," the subsequent proceedings upon which, while holding out promise of an abundant harvest to be reaped by the " profession," afford but an indifferent prospect of an improved state of mone tary transactions. larity which it was his fortune to attain among all creeds and classes of his fellow-countrymen. STOCK AND SHARE MARKET. SATURDAY.—Three per Cent. Consols, 85 / 1 85; Three. and-a-Quarter per Cent. Stock, 86 : 1 Bank Stock, 194 ; Wicklow Copper Mine shares, 11 ; Great Southern and Western Railway, 23; Midland Great Western, UNFINISHED PUBLIC WORKS IN IRELAND. A deputation of Irish Members of Parliament had an interview with Sir William Somerville on Satur day in reference to the unfinished presentments under the Labour-rate Act. The following gentlemen at tended :—Sir Lucius O'Brien, W. N. M‘Namara,'Wil liam Monsell, Henry A 'Herbert, Maurice O'Connell, John O'Connell, Edmund Burke Roche, Timothy O'Brien, Francis Scully, John Somers, and John O'Brien. The appointment of the interview was made at a late hour the night preceding, which pre vented a yet more numerous attendance of Irish Members. It was stated that the object of .the deputation was to procure from the Government the necessary ad vances to complete the unfinished presentments under the Labour-rate Act, not by grant, but by loan, which the country was willing and would be fully able to repay. These presentments, in their present condition, were a waste of property, perilous to life, and an utter forfeiture of past heavy expenditure. It was estimated that an inconsiderable sum, as compared with the outlay already made, would complete them, and that it was a false and miscalculating economy for the Government now to withhold the necessary aid. The deputation had been instructed that the Government were about introducing a Bill to enable the counties of Ireland to present for their unfinished roads, but such, in the now prostrate, condition of the country, would be unavailing, unless accompanied by the ne cessary advances for their execution, which should be punctually *repaid by yearly instalments, as had been done in all former advances under the Board of Works. The deputation suggested that such a course would be but a prudent security for the re payment to the Government of its past heavy ad vances, which they apprehended an insuperable diffi culty in collecting, should the landed proprietors and rate-payers of the country feel that they have derived no advantage ;from the outlay, and that it has been expended in the creation of public nuisances, for un finished presentments could not be otherwise consi dered, and in the obstruction of the public highways. They added, that the question was one of great urgency. The'unfinislied works were rapidly dete riorating, and it was no exaggeration to say that each month's delay added some 20 ,000/. or 30,0001. of future add►tional outlay to the already overbur dened resources of the country. Sir William Somerville expressed much regret at the statement which had been submitted to him ; re- ferred in some detail to former deputations which had waited on the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland ; feared that the financial distress of the country would pre vent a compliance with their application ; gave a brief outline of the Bill in contemplation; promised to communicate with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and that he should feel most happy in advancing, should it be in his power, the important objects of the deputation. We are instructed that the Irish Members have since communicated with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, and solicited an interview early in the ensuing week. 'We should add that it was suggested by members of the deputation that should Govern ment be unwilling to make the necessary advances, the counties of Ireland should be enabled to borrow from private parties on the security, of the county ' rates. THE IRISH. BAR. o f (Con tinuedf Commonr from the rl e t wßevie The Co urt presented a grand spectacle on what was then called one of its " field-days" at Nisi Prius. Every avenue was crowded long before it opened, and when it did awful was the uproar! Aloft sat Norbury, with the glow of Bacchus and the cheeks of Aolus, immediately below him his fidus Achates, Jackson:; and right opposite the two regular gladiators of the place, Tom Goold and Harry Grady. Ah, these were days, indeed, as Madame Junot calls those of the empire. Tom Gould and Harry Grady were racy originals ; and, like Fletcher and Norbury, human un:ipodes! Goold was a little man, all airs and graces, exquisitely fastidious, a master of everything, judice Tula; and, taking his finish and his attainments together, rated himself somewhere between a Crichton and a Chesterfield! He sang, he danced, he argued, he rode, he declaimed, he even brushed his hat better than any- body in the world! Harmless vanity, counterpoised by a thousand sterling qualities. An excellent Nisi Prius fencer, he rose at times to a high order of eloquence. A pamphlet, published by bins in early life, in answer to Burke 's celebrated " Reflections," attracted the notice of that great man, and prccured him the distinction of an invitation to Beaconsfield. Had Goold been contented with the world's estimate of him as he really was, all would have admitted him to be, an eminent man. But he sharpened censure, and at times excited ridicule, by aspiring to be, what no man ever was, in every art, trade,, science, profession, and accomplishment under the sen--a ne plus ultra. This foible was carried to a pitch almost incredible. Expatiating one day on the risk he ran fl•om a sudden rise of the tide, when riding on the north strand, near Dublin, he assured his hearer, " had he nut been the very hest horseman in existence, he must inevitably have been drowned—in short, never was human being in such danger." ' My dear Tom," his friend answered, " there unquestionably was one in great Fr, fo r the p oor man was drowned there that very morn tug. ' "By heavens, sir," thundered out Goold, I m , 42;ht have been drowned, if I choose!" Such. was the man upon whose harmless eccentricities Harry Grady delighted to practise ; and in Munden's prime. broader farce was never witnessed. Grady was like Ge )old in stature, but of clumsier formation. To a rich fund of Irish fun and constitutional vivacity he adde cI at times a vulgarity not his own, for the sole pur pose of shocking his antagonist. It was a most amusing thing • to see Goold recoiling fr o m what he manifestly consi &red the h um ili ation of such a contact. His face looked horror—his fastidiousness was in convulsions, and Isis agitated dignity truly ludicrous, as he affected alters to tely to despise and disdain what he could not avoid enduring. All would not do. The ground anti lofty tiimbliag was irresistible, Grady actually seemed to rove lin drollery. The broad jest and eternal chuckle now disgusted, an d now distracted Goold. But, poor man , 'what was he to do? If he politely remonstrated, Grady blandly told him "his relief was in equity." It he to rued to the Bar, the titter was but suppressed—it to tb e gallery, they were all in a roar—and, if in his despa it he looked up to the Bench, there he saw Norbury rolling to and fro, his face radiant with undisguised delight. It was on such occasions that the late excellent Dr. Shi !pherd, of Gateacr e , used to excuse himself for frequ.sn ting the Irish Common Pleas, on the humorous ground that " his professio n withheld him from thi. theatre , and he was very fond offarce." Goold possessed powers of eloquence to which Grady knew he could not as. ire, and his sound common sense forbade the am bition.. But he was not wanting in a counterpoise. Upon 'features capable of the most comic expression, he perfo trued a running accompaniment to the other's sublii ni ties. When Goold was in the clouds, Grady cut capers , on the earth, to which gravity was a stranger. O fte.n enough when Tom soared highest was he horror r4 at the roar with w hi ch the pantomime of which he st' was asure lonscious, checked his flight. One of Grady's most efficient weapons was his right eye ! By the mere dint n e, Andof nldg it seemed m uc h smaller than tho left wsiomunch did he rely o n i t that he thus one day ntd for a fit of l ruineddespondency, 2;ne r y i y unusual with accounted emydear fellow, ury eye is out of order. ,, H e could say bitter thi ngs too, pleasantly enoug h ; but the honey did not alway s .extract the sting. Allusion has been alreadyreluctantly made to Norbury's taste for a capital during conviction. Chaf e d durin a trial he thus alluding • " • took his revenge b y • to it• •—•., The incident reminds me, my Lord , of a jud ge I h ave heard of, who was never known to weep but once, and that was in a theatre." ~ Deep tragedy, I suppos e , M r. Grady. " "Far from it, m y Lord. it was at the Bear's Opera, when—Macheath was re reprieve d ." ,f, gg -dliS fitted but too voted fact by acclamation, and became of Nor well, was least apocryphal tradition. bury's life the Everybody that •must be • natural it said it was so able Nisi Prius advocates. men were very became a Master in Chancery, and died about a year ago. the lucrative office of counsel to the Com- Grady held din a green old . • • missioners of Customs, an . a,e still enjoys, well deserved prosperity. Long may he do unenvied, a Common Pleas, ten ' 80. * So much for the , ipore, No r b ury. regretto state Ir. Brady died when taw con tribution was in the press. [TO BE CONTINUED.] The following affecting incident is mentioned in a letter from Wesel , p ublished b y the Col ogne G azette oft be 2 I st. :—" Captain Dl having received a letter ann 7uncing that his son, who was at th e sc h ool for ca dets,gerously ill, immediately sent off the mo ther ~ , o atten , I to him. On her arrival she w as i n f orme d that her son w. - is dead and in his coffin.. Sh e v i s i te d t h e bad and the Nu' of the . coffin being removed, u tt ere d piercing , shrieks at tvhoicl:pg its content s; b ut her gr i e f . was soon turned to ily, fo: suddenly th e young man, who had only been in a state of lethargy, opened his eyes, and with proper care has be , n. restored to health." S UPERSTITION —A respectable married woman, living in Gloucester-street Winchcoin6,, having a daugh ter subject to fits, consulted a travel king woman who pretended that she was able to cure her. -A saucer con taining some fine salt was placed on the t tsthe, and in the middle of the salt the mother deposited two si.2llings. The saucer having been covered with a h at, the old wo man knelt down: near it, and pretended ' to pray, she then left the house, giving strict orders age if iy.tt the remo val of the hat for one hour. When the hat; • was removed, wonderful to relate, the shillings bad vat $4ll ed. STOCK AND SHARE MARKET.-FumAr. There was a considerable advance to-day in the prices of all kinds of Government securities, and the market generally presented a healthier appearance than usual of late. The Three per Cents. rose to 85 ; Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Stock, 85i 86 861 ; Bank Stock, 193} 194; Wicklow Copper Mine Shares, 11 ; Dublin and Drogheda Railway, 42; Great Southern and Western, 23 ; Midland Great Western, 14k. RAILWAY TRAFFIC FOR TILE PAST WEEK. Great Southern and Western .. £1,563 211 Midland Great Western .. 378 18 8 Ulster .. • ••• 670 14 7 Corresponding period last year ... 760 4 1 Dublin and Kingstown 714 18 0 Last year .. ••• 957 15 •4 Dublin and Drogheda ... ... 709 7 31 Last year 629 13 10 . •• ••• THE GRAIN TRADE. We have atilt a small supply at our corn mart et. To day everything met a very slow demand. 1 he best qualities of wheat nearly supported the currenci 'es of Tuesday. Secondary qualities were Gd. cheap .r. Oats of all descriptions and barley, except a few chci ce samples for malting, were,also 6d. lower. Indian cot -n is held at our last quota`ion, but only a small retail t rak le could be done. White wheat, 28s. to 325. ; Re d ditto, 225. to 295.; Barley, 14s. to 17s 6d. ; Bere, 12s, to 14s. ; Oats, 10s. to 13s. ; Oatmeal, 13s. to 14s. ed, ; Seconds flour, 16s. Gd. to 18s.; Indian corn, '2'3s. to 38s. (per 4801 b.) MURDER IN TIPPERARY. SATURDAY.—Another murder has been fully per fected by the death of James Devane, ploughman to the late Mr. Waller, one of the victims of tb.e Finnoe tragedy. Devane was attacked on his retu.:n to Bor. risokane, and his head literally beaten in viith stones. He lingered in dreadful agony until Wed, iesday,when he expired. A coroner's inquest was held on the body of the ill-fated man, and a verdict returned to the effect, that the deceased died in eon sequence of a wound inflicted on the side of his head by some per son or persons unknown. DEATH OF THE REV. THOS. IIAGUIRE. The parish priest of Ballinamore the celebrated Father Maguire, of almost European. fame as a con troversialist, is no more, intelligence having reached town announcin g his death by typhus fever. Not withstanding his extreme opinions upon all points connected with the religion of which he was so dis tinguished an ornament, few divines of the Roman Catholic church ever enjoyed the same share of popu- Admission, Is.; Sehools, Half-price. THE PLATED SEAMLESS TEAPOTS can not be distinguishei from ,liver, or leak or lose their shape; while from the peculiarity of the process •f making (just patented), their prices are about one-half of any other sort. Portland, 235. Oval plain, 235. ; Round plain, 255. ; Round engraved, 30s. ; Antique (superior even to silver itself in delicacy of finish), 40s. Detailed Catalogues, with engravings, as well as of every iron mongery article, sent (per post) free. FENDERS, STOVES, AND FIRE - IR ONS. The LARGEST ASSORTMENT of STOVES, KITCHEN RANGES, and FENDERS, as well as General Iromuougery in the world, is now on Sale at WILLIAM S. BURTON'S (late RIPPON and BURTON'S) extensive warehouses. Bright steel fenders, to 4 feet, from 308. each ; ditto, ditto, with or-molu ornaments, from 60s ; rich bronzed scroll ditto, with steel bar, 10s. Gd. ; iron fenders, 3 feet, 4s. Gd.; 4 feet, 65.; ditto bronzed, and fitted with standards, 3 feet, 9e. ; 4 feet, 1 Is.; wrought iron kitchen fenders, 3 feet, 4s. Gd.; 4 feet, Gs. ; bright register stoves, with bronzed ornaments, and two Sets of bars, from 80s.; ditto, ditto, with or-molu ornaments, from 6/. 6s. ; black dining-room register stoves, 2 feet, 18s., 8 feet, 275. ; bed-room register stoves, 2 feet, I Gs. ; 3 feet, 245. The new econo mical thermio stove, with fender and radiating hearth-plate ; lire- Irons for chambers, is. 9d. per set; handsome ditto, with cut heads, 6s. Gd.: newest pattern, with elegant bronzed heads, I Is. A variety of fire-irons, with or-mole and richly out heads, at proportionate prices. Any article in the furnishing ironmongery 30 per cent. under any other house. The money returned fur every article not approved of. Detailed catalogues with engravings, sent (per post) free. WILLIAM S. BURTON'S (late RIPPON and BURTON'S) Stock of general Furnishing Ironmongery is literally the largest in tka world, and as no language can be employed to give a correct idea of its variety and extent, purchasers are invited to call and inspect it. 39, Oxford-street (corner of Newman-street), London. Established n Wells-street, 1820. • Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel. ON PHYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAI. A CITY, 4,ND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. New Edition, enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 2s. 6d., or by post, direct front the Establishment, 3s. 6d. In postage stamps, THE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on the infirmities and decay of the generative system, front ex cessive 10.tilgence, infection, and the inordinate use at mercury, with remarks on Marriage, and the means of obviating certain dis qualifications. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By it. and L. PERRY and CO., 19, Beruers-stroet, Oxford-street, London. Published by the Authors : sold by strange, 21, Paternoster-row Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street; Starle, 23, Titehberne vtreet, Haymarket ; and *Orden, 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 from excessive indul gence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative incapacity. It is illustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings. I'AaT 111. Treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for their treatment. The consequences of early neglect 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 the use of which the dangers of infection are obviated. It combines with the virus chemically, and destroys its power on the system. PART Y. 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. Tar "OEDIAL BALM OF STRIACUM is exclusively employed in treat ing vous and sexual debility, impotence, 115 .and 335. per bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilitic rant e Jy, for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary symp toms, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, I Is. and 335. per bottle. Perry's Purifying Specific Pills, 2s. 3d., 4s. 6d., and I Is. per box, a certain remedy in gonorrhoea, 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. 51. Packets with advice tube had at the. Establishment only, by which the fee, 11. ,is saved. Attendance daily at 19,. Ber ners•etreet, from Eleven till Two, and Five to Eight; on Sunday, -bin Eleven to WO. MR R 4 G E. One half the world are desolately single, and the other supposing them married, questionably contented. Diffidence, or a sense et right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes em 'sitter the latter. The solitary one may shield himself ender the plea of caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un comprosing hurry ; but the truth lies deeper. Physical incapacity, and broken health, are the great hindrances to domestic happiness and social contest. The dowry should not be the only marriage set tlement. Honour and justice demand that health should form as item in the compact; it alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes or neglect wound more sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, if these surmises concern you, procure Dr. CULVERWELL'S little MEMOIRS On Single and Married Life, " pub. in 2 vols., Is. each (by post, in stamps, Is. 6d. each). Let no imaginatively ar prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hiadered oy mialuterpretatiors of their supposed contents, from obtaining them. They are not intended certainly for mere idle curiosity, but for the closet perusal of those more deeply interested, to whom they are offered as antagbaistic to the empyrical trash put forth on the above subjects, by anqaalified authors, which alone or together, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other little publications claim your attention (same price Is, each, by post Is. 6d.) called ", What to Eat, Drink, and Avoid," and " How to be Happy." They are not merely pamphlets, but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are they the mere ephemeral scribbllngs of the hour, but the study of the author's Ilfe,wlio owes his present existence, health, and position to this ob servance of the maxims he would inculcate—to do unto others as he would be done unto—to live atter nature's laws—and to keep always on the "sunny side of the way." The above works may be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet •street ; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Nalson, 457, West Strand ; or direct (by post or other wise) from the author (who may be conferred with personally, mornings and evenings), 10, Argyll-place Regent-street; and all Booksellers. DN THE CONCEALED CAUSE THAT PREYS ON THE HEALTH ♦ND SHORTENS THE DURATION OF MUMAN LIFE. ILLMITRATILD WIT, COLOI7II. INGRATINGS, Just Published, In a Sealed Envelope, price 2s. 6d., or free by post, 3s. 6d. CONTROUL OF THE PASSIONS : a Popular Inquiry into the Concealed Cause of its premature Decline, with instructions for its Complete Restoration. Addressed to those suffering from the destructive consequences of excessive indulgence, terminating in Mental and Nervous Debility, Local or Constitutional Weakness, Indigestion, and Consumption. Including a comprehen sive Dissertation on MARRIAGE, lucoutinence, and Celibacy. Illustrated with Coloured Engravings, explanatory of the various CMOs, &c. By C. J. LUCAS and Co., Consulting Surgeons, No. 60, Normal street, Oxford-street, London. Member of the London College of Medicine, Ezc. &c, CONTENTS or THE WORK, Chap. 1.--Bodily and Mental Exhaustion induced by inordinate indulgence of the Passions, illustrated with Coloured Engravirgs. 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, caused byt he practice ofself-indulgence. Chap. 4.—Gonorrhoea, its symptoms, complica tions and treatment, Gleet, Stricture, and disease of the !restate. Chap. s.—Syphilis, and its attendant maladies and treatment. C•ises, and concluding observations, Plates, Etc. Sold .by Brittain , 54, Paternoster-row ; Gerd us, 146, Leadenhall street ; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; Sanger, 150, Oxford street; Mansell, 115, Fleet-stroet,:London ; Withal, 78, High-street, Birmingham; Whitmore, 119, Market-street, Manchester ; Howell, .54, Church-street, Liverpool; Robinson, 11, Groenside-street, Edinburgh ; Powell, 10, Westmoreland-street, Dublin ; tad all Booksellers. Persons desirous of obtaining the above work, and not wishing to apply to a bookseller for the same, may, to insure secrecy, have it direct from the Authors, by enclosing 3s. 6d., or Postage Stamps. Messrs. Lucas and Co. are to be consulted from Teat( 11 rwo, and from Five till Eight in the evening, at their residence, No. 60, Newman-street, Oxford-street, London, and couxtry patients may successffilly treated, on "Mutely describing their case, and enclos ing the usual fee of 11. for advice. TUE SMITHFIELD CATTL E SHOW.—The arrange ments for the approaching annual cattle show of the Smithfield Club, at the Horse Bazaar, in King•street, Portman-square, are rapidly approaching towards com pletion, and aro upon a more extensive scale than usual. The arrivals of cattle and sheep up to the present time are more numerous than usual. They are in many in stances in very splendid condition, and mostly arrived during Friday night from the northern and western counties by railway. The contributions of his Royal Highness Prince Albert from the Flemish farm at Windsor are expected this day. Amongst the other contributors of stock, most of which has arrived, are stated to be several fine specimens of sheep of the Southdown and Leicester breeds, from the President of the Smithfield Club, the Duke of Richmond, from the Duke of Rutland, the Duke of Bedford, Lord Portman, the Earl of Leicester, Earl Spencer, &c. There will also this year bo a great augmentation of stands for the exhibition of agricultural produce, the most prominent of which is that of the Messrs. Gibbs, of Piccadilly, the seedsmen to the Royal Agricultural Society of England. Eight o'clock this evening, by the rules of the club, is appointed as the latest hour for the reception of stock, and to-morrow the judges will make their awards, after which the Bazaar will be lighted for a private view. The exhibition will be opened to the public on Wednesday morning, at eight o'clock, and continue open until ►Sa turday night, closing at nine each evening. SIT N 7 _DECEMBER 6, 1847. THE CURRENCY QUESTION. BIRMINaIIA If, DEC. 4.—The Committee of the Birmingham Currency Reform Association have this day forwarded to the Premier the following letter on the subject of the proposed committee with respect to the causes of the present commercial distress : "TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD JOHN RUSSELL. " My Lo:d,—l am instructed by the committee, a deputation from which had the honour of an inter view with your Lordship on the 4th of November, to express to your Lordship their grateful sense of the benefit which the country cannot fail to derive from your Lordship's compliance with their request, in making the appointment of a committee to inquire into the causes of the recent cotninercial distress, and how far it has been affected by the laws for regulat ing the issues of bank notes payable on demand,' a Government measure ; at the same time it is their duty again, and more strongly, to impress upon your Lordship's mind the absolute necessity of your Lordship's adoption of their other suggestion, of giving temporary measures of relief sufficiently powerful to stay the progress of ruin, and to restore the value of property and the employment of labour. " They represent to your Lordship that the pos session by the Bank of England of 10,000,0001. of gold and 5,000,000/. of reserved notes is a condition very barely sufficient to meet the ordinary exigen cies of trade, and in no respect equal to the repara tion of the vast ruin and destruction of credit and credit money which have made the present year me morable. " They remind your Lordship that it required the extraordinary issue of 10,000,000 of Bank of Eng land notes between the 12th and 27th of December, 1825, merely to stay the panic of that period; and that even this large issue, though it stayed the ruin, was insufficient to restore and maintain the value of property and the employment of labour. " That the lengthened duration of the panic of 1847 has inflicted injuries on our commercial system of a far graver and more extensive character than those of the panic of 1825, and that a far larger measure of relief is required for their reparation. "It is estimated by Competent authorities that the credit bills in circulation average from four hundred millions to five hundred millions, and that not less than one half of these means of exchange have been destroyed or withdrawn ; aliowing a large abatement from this estimate, the resources of the Bank of Eng land are still obviously utterly inadequate to fill up the great void caused by the destruction of these bills. "The committee would earnestly pray your Lord ship carefully to calculate the amount of injury that has accrued to the nation since they urged on your Lordship the necessity of relief to stop the progress of ruin ; and. they emphatically warn your Lordship that unless that advice be now followed, new calami ties will occur, which the rent and shattered fabric of our commercial system is utterly incapable of sup porting. _ _ _ " They are bound to declare to your Lordship that hesitation to afford the relief they demand is of itself a warrant of ruin and death against the property and the lives of her Majesty's subjects, and may endanger the security of her Majesty's throne. In confirmation of this assertion, they point to the breaking down of the revenue and of the value of property, and to the cessation of the employment of labour now in pro gress. This destruction, though silent is not less cer tain and fatal than if it were effected by wars and rapine, and they call upon your Lordship, as the Queen's Minister, to protect the lives and the property of the Queen's subjects. " The committee enter their solemn protest against the doctrine now attempted to be practically carried out, that the value of property must be broken down, and the employment of labour reduced to the level of artificially limited monetary means; and they require of the Government that the moneyed means of the country shall be made equal to support the value of property, and secure the employment and existence of the labourer. " The money value of property in Great Britain has been reduced in consequence of an insufficient currency to the extent of at least 20 per cent., or in other terms, to the amount of a thonsand millions ; the creation of wealth has been suspended by the value of money being lifted up above the profits of trade ; and masses of the labouring classes have been thrown out of employment, and deprived of their means of existence. "The nation requires instant and efficient measures of relief, and the committee earnestly urge upon your Lordship the necessity of the Government requiring such powers from Parliament as shall enable it to act with vigour and certainty in upholding the credit of the nation and the welfare of her Majesty's subjects of all classes. • "The committee feel it to be their duty respectfully to represent that your Lordship and your Lordship's colleagues have committed and are committing a fatal error in discussing the question of the mone tary system of the country, as though that system involved simply the privileges and regulations of the Bank of England I and of the other banking institutions, and the maintenance of an abstract principle which the Legislature was induced to carry out by the unfounded representa tions of interested parties. The committee observe with extreme regret that no sympathy is expressed for the unfortunate members of mercantile firms who have been totally ruined, nor for the unemployed and destitute thousands who are thrown out of em. ployment in consequences of the means of their em• ployers having been destroyed under the operation of a vicious currency system. " On behalf and by order of the committee, "JOHN HARLOW, " Secretary to the Birmingham Currency Reform Association." 111ARYLEBONE .VESTRY. On Saturday, at a very fully attended meeting of the vestry of St. Marylebone, John Williams, Esq., M.P., in the chair, A deputation from the pauper stone-breakers waited upon the vestry, for the purpose of presenting some resolutions agreed to at a meeting on Wednes. day evening last, and a memorial from the stone breakers on the subject of their emolument and mode of employment at the parochial stone-yard. The stone•breakers addressed the vestry. One, a man named Smith, who was dressed most respectably, declared that he had been a stone-breaker for twenty one years, and that he formerly earned as much as 225. 3d. per week. He came into the yard with his father, and at that time the vestry paid 4s. per yard, and now they only paid 2s. per yard. Out of 120 men as many as 20 were enabled to earn as much as 225. per week ; but lately several men had got so indignant that they had left the Marylebone stone yard and gone to other stone-yards. The CHAIRMAN said, before the deputation retired, he begged to read to them a resolution which had been forwarded to the vestry, and which had been agreed to at a very large meeting of the parochial committee, held on Thursday evening, which com mittee comprised from 1,400 to 1,500 rate-payers. It was as follows :—" That this meetinglapproves of the system of discipline in practice at the parochial stone yard, as tending to check imposition and give relief to such of the able-bodied poor as are willing to give an equivalent in labour for the money they receive, until they can provide themselves with free labour." TLIE REPEAL OF THE WINDOW-TAX AND THE GOVERN- MSNT SANITARY MEASURE. A deputation from the parochial committee of rate-payers waited upon the vestry to present the following resolution, in reference to the repeal of the window-tax, agreed to at a large meeting held on the subject : " That a deputatien be appointed to wait upon the vestry on Saturday next, respectfully to request them to adopt such means as the board may deem expe dient to obtain a repeal of the window-tax, as this committee is of opinion no measure of sanitary reform can be effective which does not provide for the Adj- tion of this most obnoxious impost, and further to assure the board of the earnest and zealous co-opera tion and support of this committee in all their at tempts to promote such measures as are for the benefit of the rate-payers at large, and tend to secure the first principles of local self-government." Mr. GARNETT said that the parochial committee, as the representatives of the vast body of the rate payers, had no fault whatever to find with the exer tions the vestry had made to obtain a repeal of the window-tax, but they were anxious now that the Sanitary Bill was ,before the country to have this question pressed upon the attention of the Govern ment. With regard to the sanitary . measure, he begged to say that he spoke the sentiments of the parochial committee in expressing a hope that the vestry and the Hon. Members for the borough would oppose Government in any sanitary measure which ' took money out of the pockets of the rate-payers without giving them control over the expenditure of the money they were called upon to pay. The deputation having retired, Mr. G. DANIELL moved—" That the vestry clerk be empowered to communicate with Lord John Russell, for the purpose of requesting an appoint ment to receive the metropolitan delegates for the rep =al of the window-tax, as heretofore ; and also to request the attendance of the Members of Parliament belonging to the vestry, the Members for the borough, and others to support the same." [PRICE SD. Mr. MICHIE seconded the resolution. Lord DUDLEY STUART begged to state that the greatest possible exertions should be used on his part to induce the Government to repeal the window tax.—(Cheers.) Sir B. HALL said his opinions on the window-tax were too well known for the vestry to doubt for a moment that its repeal would not hive his z2alous support.—(Hear.) \lr. JOSEPH hoped it would not go abroad that that vestry were opposed to sanitary improvement. They were prepared to aid the Government to the fullest extent, but they claimed the powers to be given to themselves to do it. Sir B. HALL said there appeared in the Sanitary Commissioners' report a desire to exclude the City of London, but he would keep a good look out, and if the City were excluded he would insist on Marylebone being excluded also.—(Hear, hear.) After a few further observations the resolution was carried nem. dis., and the vestry separated. WORSLEY TESTIMONIAL. The presentation of this testimonial from the free holders and inhabitants of the northern division of the county of Lincoln to the Earl of Yarborough, who, as Lord Worsley, represented the division in Parlia ment for 15 years, and which had been delayed by the lamented death of the late Earl, took place at Brocklesby, on Thursday, the 25th ult. The testimonial was of silver, and consisted of a plateau in three parts—namely, a centre ornament, with basket and figures, representing agriculture, commerce, science, and liberty, and two candelabra with branches for six lights each, and so arranged as to be used together or in separate pieces. About twelve o'clock the members of the central committee, and a number of subscribers who had as sembled previously at Great Lumber, proceeded to Brocklesby, and were ushered into the large dining-room, at the upper end of which was placed the magnificent piece of plate, the object of universal admiration. Shortly afterwards Lady Yarborough, accompanied by the Duchess of St. Alban's, Mrs. Barnard, Miss Elwes, and Lord Worsley, entered the room, followed by Lord Yarborough, when W. B. WINGATE, Esq., of Hereby, who had been requested by the committee to present the testi monial, addressed his Lordship as follows : My Lord, - .I could have wished that the task which now devolves upon me had been committed to abler hands, but as I have had the post of honour confided to me I have great pleasure in discharging its duties to the best of my ability. lam only express ing the feelings of all present when I say we sincerely regret the painful circumstances which delayed the presentation of this mark of our esteem. Though you have now ceased to be our representative, your strictly upright conduct in that position will never be effaced from our memory, and we feel assured that in the Upper House, as it has been in the Lower, the interest of your country will ever be dear to your heart. Accompanying this testimonial I have, my Lord, the pleasing duty of handing to you an address signed by about 2,200 of your late constituents, ex pressive of their respect and esteem for your character public and private. After reading the address, Mr. WINGATE remarked that some freeholders of the division, residing at Hull, who had contributed to the testimonial fend out of respect for the general character of the Noble Lord, though differing with him on the question of free trade, had prepared an address which he begged also to read. Mr. ‘Vingate then said—My Lord, it would not become me to add any observations of my own, further than to express my most cordial wish that your Lordship, your amiable Countess, and your family, may enjoy h e alth, l ong lif e , a n d happiness. May this, our testimony of sincere regard, be handed down to future generations as a memorial of your Lordship's urbane, consistent, able, and energetic conduct throughout your Parliamentary career, and also as a tribute to your private worth, which has ever been manifested, as we feel assured it will continue to be, in promoting the happiness and welfare of all about you. Lord YARBOROUGH on coming forward was deeply affected. He said he had often before addressed most of those to whom he was speaking, but had never felt so much difficulty in giving expression to his feelings as on that occasion. He could assure them that he prized exceedingly the esteem and affec tion which was shown by the attendance of gentle men of various shades of political opinion, many of whom had come from a great distance to present so valuable a testimonial of their regard for h'in as their representative. It was not possible for a Member of Parliament to give satisfaction to all his constituents, in the views which he might take upon politics, but he had always considered that a Member of the House of Commons should resolve to do his duty, even at the risk of a temporary unpopularity, not doubt ing that full justice would be done eventually to his motives by all who felt that he had acted conscien tiously. This handsome present of plate proved how highly they appreciated his services, yet, valuable as it was, he could not prize it equally with the address to which the signatures of 2,200 of his old constituents, entertaining various political opi nions, were attached. It was very gratifying to him to feel that although he had never attempted by his votes to please all parties, he had deceived none. He had always considered it his duty to make known as generally as possible his opinions, and to act as he thought best for the general interest of his country. The address from freeholders of North Lincolnshire residing at Hull (some of whom had kindly attended res Member enti n o g f a rep P that day), am en t s h h a o d w t e o d p e h r o fo w r mdifficulte adequately the various interests of his constituents. At the time it was determined to present a testimonial he had been their representative fifteen years, and he trusted that the recollection of the manner in which he had been rewarded would serve as an encouragement to his son, should he ever be in Parliament, t o t a k e a straightforward course, and thus gain the esteem and regard of his constituents and neighbours. Whilst he was their Member he felt deeply the responsibili ties of his position, and he could assure them that, although he was no longer in the House of Commons, he was fully sensible of the equal responsibility de volving upon him as a Member of the Upper house, and as a landed proprietor. He trusted that his future conduct would entitle him to a continuance of their esteem, and he would assure them it was his anxious wish to render him self useful in the county. He would not at any length allude to the delay in the presentation of the testimonial, occasioned as it had been by the loss of them sincerely for their kind expressions of regard , one so dearly esteemed by all around him. lie thanked and for their wishes for the health and happiness of Lady Yarborough and his family. Lord Yarborough then invited the company to adjourn to the refreshment room. During the re past, J. W. DUDDING, Esq., rose and said—He tr us t e d that the testimonial and address which had been pre sented to the Noble Lord would be long looked upon by the existing members of his Lordship's family, and by future generations, not merely as a deserved compliment from a large body of the freeholders and inhabitants of the county, who had thus given ex pression to their feelings of attachment and esteem, but as an act of strict justice, an evidence of their ap preciation of most meritorious public services per formed by their representative in Parliame4. Mr. budding concluded by proposing " The health of the Countess of Yarborough and her Family," with every. wish for their happiness. His Loßbsinifhanked Mr. Dudding and the com pany for their expression of kind interest 'in the health and happiness o f L a d y Y ar b o rough and her family, which was highly gratifying to him, as he felt assured it was sincere. He regretted that the health of Lady Yarbcrough was not so good as he uld wish, and said that by the advice of her phy sicians they would be obliged to spend the ensuing winter in a warmer climate. His Lordship then pro. posed the health of the committ ee, cou p ling with it the name of the Duke of St. Albans, the chairman The Duke of St. ALBANS said he felt he should be wanting in correct feeling if he did not, in his own name, and in that of the committee, thank the Noble Lord for the very handsome manner in which he had proposed the health of the committee. He and they felt much pleasure in the presentation of the testi monial of their esteem and regard. The Pelham family, whose influence throughout the wold 4 of this county was so extensive, had by their kind fostering f of agricultural industry been the cause ad o raising . vastly increased amounts of produce , had . gained deserved popularity with the agricultural interest. The Noble Lord and his family ever been for ward in promoting works of producingutlity a , d . happy results to the community at la Itzleivciodmupallliym,ehnet begged to thank his Noble Prie r n g cl e for he had paid him, and also to return thanks on behalf of the committee. The proceedings then terminated. Among those present we noticed—the Duke of St. Albans, Sir Montague Cholmeley, Bart., M.P., Sir Henry Dymok e , Bart., G. F. Heneage, Esq., Robert Vyner, Esq., J. AV. Yorke, Esq., Henry Vyner, Esq., John Golden, Esq., C. B. Luard, Esq., J. G. Sta: pylton Smith, Esq., George Slcipworth, Esq., T Dixon, Esq., W. I. Welfit, Esq., F. W. Oates, Esq., B. N. Jallttnd, Esq., W. Juliana, Esq., Alder1"11 j- if' I.Carrick,- Dr. Barton, Rev. :4. Barnard, Rev. V. B. Wright, Rev. R. G. M oore , Rev. Samuel Turne , Rev. Bi r k e tt, R ev. C. Nmnarch, Rev. J. G4lower, Rev. Thom as W a t son ,' R ev. J . V an Heinert, Rev:. George Robinson, Mr. W. B. Wingate, Mr. satin Richardson (Northlands), fir. J. W. Dudding, Jodes, Mr. Joseph Rinder, Mr. Henry Turner, Ir. J. J. Young, Mr. George Nelson, Ms.- William Walker, jun., Mr. John Booth, Mr. Philip Skipworth (Aylesby), Mr. Robert Crrt %Tight, Mr. Henry Moore, Mr. John Hettj Mr. Thomas Bell (Grimsby), Mr. David Martin, Mr. Thomas Armstrong, Mr. W. C. Wells Clarke, Mr. Richard Nainby, Mr. F. Iles, Mr. W. Cropper, Mr. John Danber, Mr. Thomas Skipworth, Mr. William Clark, Mr. G. M. Porter, Mr. George Frankish, Mr. Robert Martin, Mr. George Max stead, Mr. J. U. S. Smith, Mr. Thomas Brooks, Mr: .inhn Morley, Mr. G. M. Williams, Mr. John Waldgrace, Mr. Robert Waldgrave, Mr. J. R. Kirkham, Mr. Wrangham, Mr. William Martin, Mr. W. Brookes, Mr. Thomas Wingate, Mr. F. J. Rh o d es , M r. E. Tickler, Mr. Raithby, Mr. Kirkham, Mr. E. Fowler, Mr. Pickering, Mr. Adams, Mr: J. J. Rhodes, Mr. Henry Bird. Sir Edward Brackenbary was prevented attending by the severe illness of his brother, Sir John Mac. phersnn Brackenbury. The testimonial, weighing about 1,400 ounces, was designed by Cotterill, and manufactured by Messrs. Garrard and Co., of Penton-street. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. s.—The Government steam sloop, Commander Seymour, came into harbour yes terday to discharge her freight (1,649,317 dollars). In addition to the particulars given elsewhere (which appeared in the greater portion of our impression on Saturday), we may state, the Cormorant encountered very heavy gales and snow storms between the Gulf of Trinidad and Port Famine, which she weathered admirably. The Ohio (American), 90, and a French frigate, were at Rio on the 16th of October. The Cormorant arrived at Bahia on the 22d; and shipped a small packet of diamonds; sailed on the 26th for Madeira. She found the Apollo troop ship had sailed from Bahia the day before she arrived, having the second battalion of the sth Fusiliers on board for the Cape. The Crane packet had also been at Bahia and sailed for Rio on the 18th of October. The Somme, French frigate, with troops from Otaheite for France, was also at Bahia when the Cormorant left for Bona Vista; Cape de Verd Islands, which she found quite healthy ; here she heard of a fine Austrian bark har ing foundered on the Ist of October on the Heart well reef; crew saved ; she had been bound to Rio. Arrived at Madeira on the 22d of November, when Commander Seymour was honoured with an invita tion to dine with the Queen Dowager. She left on the 25th for England. When about 600 miles off Plymouth she sighted the Asia, 84, flag of Rear- Admiral Phipps Hornby, going out to the Pacific. When off Plymouth on Thursday, one of the sway beams gave way, which, although not materially hindering her progress, compelled her to proceed to Spithead under canvas and one engine at work only She had been upwards of four years and eight months in commission, and will now be paid off at this port. She was commissioned at Sheerness on the 11th of April, 1843, by Commander Gordon (promoted in the late brevet.) The only officers who have served the full term of her commission, who have been out and home, are,—" First Lieutenant R. L. Wharton ; Master, Mr. J. P. Warren ; Surgeon, Mr. R. C. Nutt; and clerk, Mr. J. W. M. Hashby. She is the first steamer that ever brought a freight to England from the Pacific. She is in most admirable condition. The Birkenhead, iron steam troop ship, was at Cork on the Ist instant. She embarked at Devon port 954 bags of rye. meal for Haulbowline (which she delivered_on the Ist), Mr. Mills, Assistant Master Attendant of Devonport Dockyard, and Mr. Davy, Master of the Caledonia, and 70 riggers, with a quantity of masts, spars, and other gear, for Pem broke, for the purpose of fitting two brigs at that port., and navigating them to Devonport for commis sion ; these were disembarked on the 24th of Novem ber. The Admiralty have just issued an order that no seaman above the age of 50 is in future to be entered in the ordinary. This order is a most injudicious one. The Fury steam sloop, Commander Willcox, arrived at Madeira, from Plymouth, on the 11th of October, all well. She replenished fuel, and then proceeded for Singapore. This vessel is spoken well of. She proved herself a remarkably fast steamer and swift sailer in her passage to Madeira (rather more than five days), and is a dry and weatherly sea boat. The following official notice relative to the obse quies of the late Rear Admiral Shirreff, was pub lished by the Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Bart.:— _ " Admiralty-office, Dockyard, Portsmouth, Dec. 4. " The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having approved of a public funeral for the late Rear- Admiral Shirreff, to take place on Wednesday next, the Bth instant, at the Garrison Chapel, Portsmouth, Admiral. Sir Charles Ogle begs to notify the same, and to request the attendance of such officers in full dress, wearing crape above the left elbow, in the neighbourhood, as may be disposed to show their 'respect for the deceased. The procession will be formed in the dockyard at half-past twelve o'clock on that day. A programme will be distributed." The Myrtle steam tender, latterly doing the duty of the Comet, is ordered to be paid off at Woolwich, as her services, it is alleged, can be done by the Undine. The Fanny (Admiral's) tender sailed on Friday evening for the Thames. The Netley tender arrived yesterday from Ply mouth with supernumeraries, and returned this morning. A considerable portion of the baggage of the 76th Regiment was put on board the Bellerophon, 78, Captain Baynes, at Spithead, yesterday. The re mainder will be shipped, also the troops, to-morr ow . A very strong gale with hea v y rain from the S.W. blew on i this coast last night. Strong winds are blowing to-day, but a change has taken place to W.N.W, at which point it is steady; weather, clear and dry.—Sunday 5 P.m. THE LONDON WEATHER. TO THE EDITOR OF TAE TIMES. SlR,—The atmospheric, pressure yesterday pre sented such an extraordinary feature that I am in duced to trespass again upon your journal. At a quarter to eleven o'clock P.M., the mercury stood at 29.94 inches ; and at twelve o'clock, or midnight, I found it at 29.42, showing a fall of 52 hundredths of an inch, being rather more than half an inch within one hour and a quarter. The attached thermometer indexed at the latter period 63i degrees, and out of doors 51 degrees. This was succeeded by a most terrific storm of hail and wind between three and four o'clock this morning, which must have been produc tive of serious mischief. The barometer stood this morning at nine o'clock 29.26 inches, rising, and now (four o'clock) stands 29.40. There was very squally wind and ponderous clouds rising in the west and traversing round the south and north parts of the hemisphere during the morning. The elements are still in a very turbulent state. The highest tempe rature to-day has not exceeded 46 deg. I am, Sir, your subscriber, Bermondsey-square, Dec. 5. 11. P. SPORTING AT DUNHAM.—On Monday and Tues day last the Earl of Stamford, with two guests, Mr. William Russell, nephew to the Primo Minister, and Mr. Walsh, eldest son of Sir John Walsh, turned out in the preserves at Dunham, and bagged the first day upwards of 380 head of game, and on TuesdAy, although the day was unfavourable, they killed upwards of 477.—Man. Chester Guardian. lIELENSBURGII.—FIRE. —On the morning of Wed nesday last, the residence of Walter Buchanan, Esq., Shandon, was discovered to be in flames. By the time that any exertions could be successfully applied in ex tinguishing it, the flames had made such progress as to render all efforts useless. Nothing has transpired from which its origin can be detected. We understand that neither Mr. Buchanan nor his family were resident there at the time. The amount of damage can hardly be yet w i s h e s t t h a e t r e d t h e at p r f e r m o n üb bu tf t ul it ses 4, w oo e o re L in to . 5 f L: 0 1 l o y a, as a c n e d rt i a t i ni is d d o ; sured.—North British Mail. REFORMATION OF JUVENILE OTrENDERs.—The Societv on Friday St. in h George's Fields, held its quarterly Philanthropic; general meeting last, t ate chair,the Tavern; Mr. Gladstone, treasurer, sup ported by Major Woodroffe and other gentlemen. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, elected Vice-Preiident of M.P.,. was unanimously the corporation, and W. 13 be e r a s ci °one tEhsel"coamtidmUitt.elet; Lewis,._ Esq., were elected men me eting that Lord MorpethThhaed consented informed the public dinner in celebration of the society's t o sixtieth preside at an niversary early in the spring; and that strenuous efforts were required to increase the resources of the society, so as to meet the heavy demands on its assistance Nearly 200 applications have been made for the society's aid in the last twelve months, of which only 'half could be received. There are now 114 boys in tEe instituti• I 1 Dire y have been placed out in various situation@ sine e the Ist January. SUDDEN DEATH OF ONE OF HER MAJESTY S PAGES OF THE PRESENCE.—R. C. Wood , Esq., who was ap pointed one of the pages of the presence to her Majesty in 1840, died suddenly, having been previously in good health, at Broad-stairs, on Thursday last. A curious circumstance is connected with the first introduction of Mr. Wood to the notice of royalty. It is stated that when the Duchess of Kent and the young Princess, her daughter, now Queen Victoria, were sojourning at Ramsgate, they one afternoon found Mr. Wood, then quite a youth, sleeping on the sands. The Duchess awakened him, and upon asking him if he should like to enter her service, the lad readily assented. Withi n a few days afterwards he was appointed to a situation in the Duchess of Kent's establishment, where he re , mained until he was promoted to a inertia!?o appoi ' nt. went in the household of her Majesty. o of s• de