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CONTRACTS FOR WORKS. Notice Is hereby given that TENDERS for the following WORKS will be received at the undermentioned times and places. BRISTOL AND SOUTH WALES JUNCTION RAILWAY. Contract No. I.—From the junction with the Great Western Rail- Way; at Bristol, to a paint in the parish of Stoke Gifford, being a cis ance of about live miles New No. 2.—From the termination of Contract No. 1, to the New Passage, being a distance of about six miles. Plans and specifications may be seen, and printed forms of Tender obtained at the Engineer's-office, at the Railway station, Ternple Meads, Bristol; and the Tenders must be addressed to the Directors of the Bristol and South Wales Junction Railway, and sent to the Company's offices, Exchange buildings, Bristol, on or before Twelve o'clock on Monday, Feb. 8. " F °R O , WORCESTER, AND WOLVERHAMPTON RAILWAY. Moreton Contract and Shipton Contract, being of the respective lengths of 5 miles, 29 chains ; and 11 miles, 46 chains ; and extend fl; tom a point near Chipping Campden, in the county of Gloucester, to a point near Charlbury, in the county of Oxford. Plans and specifications may be seen at the Engineer's-office, Wor cester, anti the Tenders must be addressed to the Directors of the Oxford Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, and delivered at the Ra i lway-office, 449, West Strand, London, on or befere Twelve o'clook OD TUESDAY, Feb. 9. SOUTH WALES RAILWAY. Contracts Nos. 11, 12, and 13, Swansea Division, being of the t e , Pecti ve lengths of 5 miles, 72 chWns ; 6 miles, 16 chains ; and 13 Miles, 32 chains; and cascading from near Kidwelly through Car marthen to Whitland, county of Carmarthen. Plans and specifications may be seen, and printed forms of Tender obtained at the Encineefe-office, Carmarthen ; and the Tenders must be addressed to th e Di rectors o f th e South Wales Railway, and delivered at the Railway-oEllre, 449, West Strand, London, on or before Twelve o'c'ock on WEDNESDAY, Feb. 10 310N11OUTH AND TIER - Er ORD RAILIVA.Y. Contracts Nos. 1, !, 3,4, and 5, of the respective lengths of 2 1 1 1 ,s, 4 chains ; 4 miles 60 chains ; 7 miles, 6 chains ; 1 mile, 51 chains ; and 4 miles, 15 chains ; situated between Ilolme Lacy, near Hereford, arid Westbury on Severn, Gloucestershire. Plans and specifications may be seen, and printed forms of Tender, z naY be obtained at the Engineer's-office, at the Railway-station, T emple Meads, Bristol ; and the Tender must be addressed to the D irectors of the Great Western Railway, and delivered at the I:all way-office at Paddington, ou or before Twelve o'clock, on Thursday, reb. 11. RUID'S NEW GRAND HALL No, 5, FARRINGDON-STREET, CITY. The brothers of the Ancient Order are invited to attend the OPENING, on THURSDAY evening next at Eight o'clock. JROYAL POLYTECIINIC IN STITU LION. , PROFESSOR SCHCENBEIN'S GUN COTTON, and other - ,' l Plosive Compounds, with brilliant Experiments, LECTURED on Y Dr. RYAN, daily at Half past Three o'clock; and on the Evenings of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. _ T he principle of th e var i ous EL,' CTRO.'MAGNETIC TELE itAPHS explained daily by Professor BACHHOFFNER , including the Patent of Messrs. Cook and Wheatstone, in use on the railways, and the more recent Patent of Messrs. Nott and Gamble ; the various Models explained. Magnified Specimens of DISEASED POTATOES, exhibited by the OXYHYDROGEN MICROS:UPE, with the DE ,YRI7CTIVE INSECT, supposed by A. Smee, Esq., F.R.S., to be the., cause of th e d i sease. A beautiful Ser i es o f NEW DISSOLVING OWS. The DIVING-BELL an d DIVER, with Experiments. The P HYSIOSCOPE, new CHROMATROPE, &c.. &c. Admission Is. Schools, half-price. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. - TE The Directors of this Company are ready to RECEIVE fr , NDERS for LO .N 4 of MONEY, in sums 01 not less than 1 , 0 0 01 ., r't a Period of Five or Seven Years, on the security of mortgage de f/entures, bearing interest at the rate of four per cent. per annum, Payable half-yearly.—Application may be made to the undersigned, It the Railway Office, Paddington Station. CHAS. I. SAIT:s.TDERS, Secretary. BORDEAUX, TOULOUSE, and CETTE RAILWAY. EZPELETA'S COMPANY. c ,„ T Th• Directors of this Company request a MEETING of the `,AREIIOLDERS at the LONDON TAVERN, Bishopsgate - street s T°- MORROW, the 13th Instant, at Two o'clock precisely. DAVID SALOMONS, Chairman of the English Board of Directors, By order, 31, Lombard street, Bth January, 1847 C. T. BEKE, Secretary ASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY This OPENING OF THE PETERBOROUGH BRANCH. Line will be opened for General Traffic on the 14th Instant The arrangement of Trains will be as follows : FROM LONDON. 7.15 a.m.; 11.20 a.m.; 2.0 p.m. ; 6.0 p.m.—Week Days. 6.45 a.m. ; 2.0 p.m.—Sundays. 1 6.0 a.m FROM . , PETERBOROII.4II. ; 8.25 a.m • 12.0 n. ; 4.40 p.m. ; 7.0 p.m.—Week Days. . . . *6:O a.m. ; 8.45 a.m. ; 4.0 p.m. - Sundaes. Train also leaves Cambridge at 6.50 a.m. every morning, for P eterborough and Stamford. All the Trains, excepting those marked *, arc in conjunction with Trains at Peterborough to and from Stamford. For particulars as to Fares, Rates, and Coaches in connexion with the Trains see Time Bills, to be had on application at any of the C $ stations, or at the coach. offices in connexion with the wn nann on and after the 10th inst. By order, C. P. RONEY, Secretary. Bishopsgate Station, January 4, 1847. lIROTHERTON'S COMMERCIAL HOUSE, 2, WOOD-STREET, HANOVER-STREET, LIVERPOOL. Miss Brotherton begs leave most respectfully to acquaint her Friends and the public that stie is carrying on the above Establish !nem, so long conducted by her late parents, and in returning her Deere thanks to these gentlemen who so liberally patronised them, hors by unremitting care anti attention to merit a continuance of their sapport. Xis B. has the satisfaction to state that the house has recently been enlarged to the extent of Six Show Rooms and Twelve Bed Rooms, which, with the acquisition of Hot and Cold Baths, &c., will, she trusts, add materially to its convenience and comfort. GRAVESEND STAR and BLACKWALL PACKETS. Boat and Rail included in One Pa and delay of the Pool. yment, avoiding the danger From the Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall, at 93%, ,1,3, 4, and 5. Sundays, at 9%, 11, 1%, 4, and 5. The Trains starting one quar ter of an hour before each of these times. New Terrace Pier, Gravesend, at 73, 8%, 9%, 11%, 1,3, and 5 . Sundays, at 8%, 11%, 1,3, and 5. _ _ . _ N.B.— ;oother packets call at the Grays or Greenhithe rift& Star Office, Gravesend, I)ec. 28, 1846. NOTICE TO HOLDERS OF POLICIES IN THE EQUITABLE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON. " tj NITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, No. 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London. The attention of Holders of Policies in the Equitable Assurance Company of London, is particularly called to the litalf-credit Scales 0 f Premium of this Company, by which table the bonus to be de clared at the next investigation of the Equitable Assurance Cora. Pany's affairs, in January, 1850, may be secured at a present annual Payment of one-half the rates generally charged by other compa 121ea. In the event of death the sum insured will be paid, after dedue uon of the other half of the rates. Should the life insured survive the de claration of the bonus, the policy may he allowed to lapse, and the , Co mpany will recourses all claim for the half premiums which may be due thereon; or in the event of the party being at that time in bad health, the policy can be kept up at the full premium of the age as when first accepted. The above plan, originating with this Com -13, 40 Y, was found peculiarly advantageous at the last division of profits Lit the Equitable Assurance Company, in 1840, when it was largely adopted, and many of the policies then effected are still in force, , a nd large bonuses have been added to them on the scale of the fol lowing table : Sum Assured. Time Assured. Sum added to Policy. 45,000 .... •• • • 6 years 10 months .... £683 6 8 5,000 ...... •. 6 years •••• .. • • ...... 600 0 0 5,000 ......• • 5 years .. •••••• • • • • • • 500 5,000 4 years 400 0 0 5,000 .. •••• • • 2 years .. •• • • ........ 200 0 0 5,000 ........ 1 year ...... • ....... 100 0 0 Prospectuses and every information may be obtained on application to the Resident Director, E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., at the Offices, No. 8, Waterloo-place, London. NATION - AL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, 26 CORNHILL, LONDON. Capital. £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages with respect to Life Assuranees and Deferred Annuities. The assured bas, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for. feiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the eremiums paid (see Table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in crests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances for terms of years are granted OA the lowest possible rates. DIVISION OF PROFITS. The remar) able success and increasing prosperity of the Society enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare fourth bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent, on the premiums paid each Policy effected on the Profit scale. EXAMPLES. " t). um ct 'l Bonus Bonus in g 5. Assured ri t° added. Cash. Eo g may 2 g Borrow. • a •••• X £s.d. lon T 4 18371 1838 t 1839 1 1840, 18411 tZ2I7 15 1 £lOO 0 11 1 It 102 3 0 87 1 4 I , 165 11 10 74 1 9, 116 7 6 54 010 , 111 6 8 , 4918 0 1 .£16 0 4' 13 10 2 11 3 11 7 18 10, 7 10 4; '.£445 0 U 395 11 1 346 2 3 296 13 4 247 4 5 The division of profits is annual, and the next will be made 11 liceember of the present year. F. FERGI7SON CAMROUX, Secretary. N ATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY. 26, Cornhill, Dec. 24, 1846. Notice is hereby given that the Half-yearly Interest, at the rate of Five per Cent. per annum on the Capital Stock of this Society, due on the 31st instant, will become payable on the 1 ltk January next, and Proprietors may receive the same on application at this Office on that, or any subsequent day, between the hours of Eleven and Three o'clock. By order of the Directors, F. FERGUSON CAIIROUX, Secretary. NATIONAL MERCANTILE LIFE ASSUR. ASCE SOCIETY, Poultry, Mansion House, London. _ . Notice is hereby given that the Annual Dividend on the Capital Stock of this Company, due on the 31st of December• last, can be received by applying at the Offices of the Society, on and after Tstrupty next, the 12th instant. Jan. 9, 1847. J. JONES, Actuary and Secretary. CITY OF LONDON LIFE ASSURANCE , FOR A CCUMULATIVE SOCIETY AND GENERAL INSURANCES. Omces, 2, Roy Exehang,e-huildings, London. ELM. FRED. LEEKS, Secretary. EYEBROWS, MOUSTACHIOS, and WHIS KERS produced in a few weeks, and Baldness removed and prevented by the use of GR IMSTONE'S AROMATIC REGENE RATOR, an essential spirit, drawn from aromatic herbs and flowers, a few drops of which cure headache in a few minutes ; it is also a most delightful, fragrant toilet perfume. Sold only in triangular bottles, protected by the Government stamp, at 4s. ; double the size, 7s. ; and double this size, I Is. each ; enclosed in a Pamphlet, con taining testimonials of undoubted authority, entitled " Three Minutes' Advice on the Growth and Preservation of the Lipman ;l a i r , ) 3 y post, 4s. 6d., 7s. gd„ and 125., for money orders omy. Sold wholesale only at Grimstone's Ilerbary, Highgate, near London ; and by Messrs. Barclay and Son, Far ringdon-street ; Sanger, Oxford -street; Messrs. Butler and Co., Cheapside ; Fisher and Conduit-street ; Mr. Johnston, medicine warehouse, 68, Cernhill • and by all Chemists, Perfumers, and others For Edinburgh, J. and R. Raimes, Leith-walk ; for Manchester, eresehe and Son, Adver tiser -office. TO THE LADIES, inserted in the "Times" n This lady had the following letterews aper on Aug. 7, 1846. Reader, remember, this letter was put into the paper by the lady herself, as a testimony to me. " Mrs. Weekley, of No. 3. Swan-street, Borough, takes this oppor tunity of publicly thanking Mr. W. Gemstone, of the Ilerbary, High gate, for the effi cacy of his Aromat i c R ege nerator, in ha v i ng com "'tatty restored the hair on her head, after using itabout four months, nd the whole of her hair is much stronger and mere luxuriant than ever was before the baldness appeared. "Mrs. Weekl e y i nserts this testimony t o the virtues of Mr. G.' s fiegenator, feeling assured that many ladies would gladly purchase an I is. bottle if they were as certain of its virtues as she is, from ex- Derienee. not only in the restoration and production of hair in abund ance, but as a cure of nervous headache as a to il e t perfume it is fa r °MIA any to her taste. She will feel a pleasure in answering any lady of respe c t a bili ty to the above facts.-3, Swan-street , B oroug h. , ' In eases of the hair becoming thin, weak, or turning grey, a few drops on the crown of the head occasionally, every week, will pre vent the hair from coming away with the comb, make it strong, and Pre w vent it tur n i ng grey, rendering the hair luxuriant and curly. A fe drops 0 0 your hairbrush before brushing hair brilliancy, causing it to curl. The most delicate the hair, will give the ladies may use this delightful product of the %lost aromatic herbs and flowers with confidence ; its refreshing odour removes headache and makes it a most necessary companion to the toilet. In cases of nevous headache, pour ten or twelve drops !n the erown of the h ea l ; i f very bad, repeat it every quarter of an tioUr• In most cases relief is certain in ten minutes. It produces liar oD ehildren's heads iu a few appplications. It used on infants' ...itete.;B, it has sae ' s a peculiar cooling influence on the brain as to pre convulsion;, as well as promoting the growth of hair.—lee Pamphlet of testimonials. kttars addressed to William Grimstone Horbary, Highgate. idge- 9 ' :ennels; Putnoo arpsdea. Mundell on Bank tburn Scriven ~, Buck. 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BURKE'S DICTIONARY of the EXTINCT, DORMANT, and ABEYANT PEERAGES of ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, and IRE LAND. Cheaper edition in 1 vol. of 800 pages, in double columns 21s. bound. Henry Colburn , Publisher, 13, Great Mariborough•street, 1 4 7 NC YC OP2E'DIA BRITANNICA. Seventh Edition. Edited by Professor NAPIER. In 21 volumes 4to. Illustrated by 506 Engravings on Steel, and many thousands on Wood. An Index of 68,000 References, compiled w;th great industry and judgment, is appended to the work, forming a ready key to its multi farious contents. Adam and Charles Black. Edinburgh; and sold by all Booksellers. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JANUARY 9. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Arnbergate and East ern Junction, 3s. 9d. p.-Blackburn, Clitheroe, and North- Western, nis.-Birmingham and Oxford Junction, 101'4 p. -Bristol and Exeter, New, 4 p -Buckinghamshire, % p.- Chester and Birkenhead, 50-Ditto, 2tl/. Shares, % p.- Ea-tern Countie, York Extension, 1% p.-East Lanca shire, New (scrip), p.-East Lincolnshire, 22 s p.- Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 2014-Great Northern (Nos. 108,001 and upwards), 1 4 p. cum int. -Huddersfield and Manchester, 411 p. -Leeds and Thirsk, 1% dis.-Ditto, Pre ference, I s. Bs. 6d. p.-London and North-Western, 199- Ditto, Quarters, (G. J.), 22 p.-Ditto, New Quarters, 13 p.- London, Manchester, and Birmingham, % Quarters (A), 7 3 / 4 p. -London and York, New, 6s. 3d. p.-Ditto, Direct Northern, 6s. 3d. p.- Manchester and Leeds, Halves (late Huddersfield and Sheffield), 6 p -Ditto, Fifths, 6 1 A Ditto, Extension, 1% p.-Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, Fifths, 6 1 4 p.-Ditto, New (late Liverpool and Bury), 1 p. -Manchester and Southampton, par-Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, Quarters, No. 2, 243,4-Ditto, Eghths, % dis.- Ditto (late Great Grimsby and Sheffield). 2 3 / 4 dis.-Mid• land Stock, 129-Ditto, New, 4% p.-Shrewsbury and Here ford, 1 4 dis.-Shrewsbury and Chester (late North Wales Mineral), 5 p.-Shrewsbury and Birtringham, 151. 7s. 9d. (A), '2 p.- Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, 6s. 3d. dis.-South-Eastern, No. 4, Thirds, % p.-York and Newcastle. New, 7% p.-Ditto, Preference, 5% p.-York and North Midland, Preference 1144 p -Dublin and Belfast Junction, 6% dis. -Ne wry and Warrenpoint, 2% p. MANCHESTER, JANUARY 9. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Birmingham and Oxford Junction, 11% c. p.-Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 1 4 p.-Eastern Counties, York Extension, 1% p.- East Lincolnshire, 2 5-16 p.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarters, 19 - Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junc tion, par-North Staffordshire, par-Northern Counties Union, % dis.-Shropshire Union, IA dis.-South-Eastern and Dover, 40-West Riding Union, 2 15 .16 p.-Great Luxembourg, 3 1 4 dis. LEEDS, JANUARY 9. STOCK EXCHANGE.-There was much buoyancy about the Share trade in the early part of the week, but for a day or two past the disposition to give high prices has not been so apparent, and as sellers have not been anxious to force operations, the extent of business has decreased. The sales are-Buckinghamsbire, 10s. p.- East Lancashire, New Shares, 3 5 / 4 p.-East and West Yorkshire, 4s. dis.-East Lincolnshire, 2i4 c. p.-Great Northern (late London and York), 15s. p.-Huddersfield and Manchester, 4% p.-Ditto Thirds, 31s. p.-Leeds and Bradford, 46 p.-Leeds and Dewsbury, 9% p.-Ditto, Halves, 6 p.-Ditto, Extensions Scrip (green), 253.-Leeds and Thirsk, 245. dis.-Ditto, New, 2s. 6d. c. p.-Ditto, Preference, 28s. p.-Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, par -Mahon and Driffield Junction, 1% p.-Manchester and Leeds, Halves (late Hud. and Sheff.), 5 3 / 4 p.-Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 28s. p.-Midland, Pre ference, p.-North British, Extension (scrip), 18s. 6d. p. -North-Western, 14s. 6d. p.-York and Newcastle, Pre ference, 53a p.-York and North Midland, Preference, 11% -West Riding Union, 4%. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, JANUARY 9. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-East Lancashire, New Scrip 1 3 / 4 p.- Liverpo , l, Manchester, and Newcastle Junctior, 2s. p.-Newcastle and Carlisle, 115-Ditto, New, 13 p.- Newcastle and Berwick, 15 p.-Dltto (North Shields), 13% p. ex in.-North British Extension, 19s. 6d. p. HULL, JANUARY 9. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-North British, Exten sion (scrip ), 19s. p.-Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 2/. 16s. p.-Blackburn, Clitheroe, &c., dis.-Bucking hamshire, li, p.-East Lancashire, New (scrip), 1% p.- Great Northern (London and York), 16s. p.-Newcastle and •Berwick, 35%-Northern Counties Union, 315.-West Riding Union, 4/. 7s. EDINBURGH, JANUARY 8. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 251. 105.- Airdrie and Bathgate, 4/. Bs.-Arbroath and Forfar, 28/.- Ditto, Halves, 151. 55.-Armagh and Portrush, 6s. 6d.- Ayr and Galloway, 2/. Bs.-Caledonian, 301.-Ditto, New, 2/. 17s. 6d.-Caledonian and Dumbartonshire, 2'. 65.-Clydes dale Junction, 391. ss. -Deeside, 3/. 55.-Direct Northern. V. 19s. 6d.-Dunblane, Donne, and Callender, 1/. 155.- Dundee and Arbroath, 41/. ex new-Ditto, New. No. 1.:331. -Ditto, New, No. 2, 291.-Ditto, New, No. 3,5/. 10s.- Dundee and Perth, 28/. 10s.-Ditto, New, 141. 7s. 6d.-East of Fife, 2/. 135.-East Lothian Central, 2/. IN.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 3L-Edinburgh and Glasgow. 80L-Ditto, Halves, 221.-Ditto, Quarters, 19/. 12s. 6d.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 211.-Ditto, Preference, 21/. 12s. 6d. - Edinburgh and Northern, 15/. 10s. ex new-Ditto, Nex, 51.-Ditto, Newport, 6/. 9s. ex new-Ditto, ditto, New, 3/. 105.-Edinhurgh and Perth, O. 17s. 6 , 1.-Ditto, 2/. Glasgow and Ayrshire, 701.-Ditto, New Stock, 38/. 155.- Ditto, Quarters, 171. 7s 6d.-Ditto, Halves, 91. 10s.- Glasgow Dumfries; and Carli s l e , 6/. 12 s . 6d.-Glasgow and Dundee: Junction, 1/. 165.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 41/. -Glasgow General Terminus, 121. 10s.-Glasgow and Greenock, 191.-Ditto, Halves, 9L-Ditto, Preference, 8/. ss. -Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 41. 17s. 6d.-Great North of England, 2381-Great North Scotland, 2/. 17s. 6d.-Great Western, 1261.-London, Bristol, and South Wales, 1/. 3s. V.-London and York, 31. 55.-Ditto, Extensions (scrip), 21. 155.-Manchester and Leeds, 1051.-Ditto, Six teenths, 81.-Ditto, Extensions, 31. 75.-Newcastle and Ber wick, 35/.-North British, 361. 7s. 6d.-Ditto, Halves, 151. 10s.-Ditto, Thirds, 31. 17s. 6d.-Ditto, Quarters, 3/. 125.- Ditto, New Quarters (scrip). 11. 12s. 6d.-Ditto Fifths, 71. -Scottish Central, 211. 155.-Scottish Grand 6d.--Ditto, 1/. 55.-Scottish Midland, 141. 155.-Shrewsbury and Hereford, 155.-Shrew:bury, Oswestry, and Chester, 71. ss. -Ditto, New, 1/. 35.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 3/. 175.-Stirling and Midland, 2/. 10s.-Strathern Junction, 41. 35.-Wishaw and Coltness. 491.-York and Newcastle, 381. ex new- Ditto, New, 151. 55.-Ditto, Preference, 71. 12s. 6d.-Direct Bombay and Madras, 4s. 3d.-East Indian, Ils. 6d.-Great North of India, 4s. 3d.-Great Southern of Madras, 55.- Madras, Nellore, and Arcot, 3s. 3d. GLASGOW, JANUARY 9. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Ayr and Galloway 455.-Direct Northern (scrip), 595. 6d.-Dnndee and Ar broath, New, No. 3,5%-East Indian, Ils. 3d.-East Lothian Central, 525.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, Halves, 221-Edin burgh and Perth, 575. 6d.-Glasgow General Terminus, 12 3 / 4 -Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves, 9%-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 61. 125.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 5/.-Great Northern (Direct Northern Reg.), 845.-Great North of India, 3s. 6d.-Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct, 525.-Manchester and Southampton, 395. 6d.-Mid land, Halves, 7L-North British, New Quarters (scrip), 335. -Scottish Grand Junction, `295.-Strathern Junction, 82s. 6d.-York and Newcastle, Preference, 7%. ACCIDENT AT THE CAVALRY BARRACKS, 'WM SOP.—..A very serious accident, which might have been attended with a fatal result, occurred on Friday last to Mr. Tardrew, the assistant-surgeon to the Ist regiment of Life Guards, in garrison at Windsor. It appears that while Mr. Tardrew was trying a young horse over the leaping-bar in the riding-school at the barracks, the animal fell, throwing its rider with great force to the ground. Mr. Tardrew, who fell upon his head, was rendered totally insensible ; however, after the lapse of upwards of two hours, the sufferer was restored to a state of consciousness. At the time of the accident (the other surgeon not being at the barracks), Mr. Tardrew'.3 servant immediately mounted the horse which had thrown his master, and proceeded, at full speed, into Windsor for medical assistance. The horse ran away with the servant in the Spital-road, and being perfectly unmanage able, rushed into the Criterion beer-shop, at the corner of Peascod street (throwing the man), and made part of the way up stairs to the first-floor. The servant (who again set off upon the animal for a doctor) and the horse both escaped uninjured. Only some slight damage was done to the bar of the beer-shop, through which the horse rushed to the staircase. DEATH OF DR. DAVIDSON, M.D.—lt is with ex treme regret that we announce the death of this eminent physician. Dr. Davidson was out in his usual practice last week, but was a few days ago seized, as we unch ',- stand, with inflammation or rather affection of the chest, which carried him off on Tuesday afternoon. His friends, indeed, have for some time noticed rather a falling off in his strength and appearance; but they and the public little expected so sudden a departure of so useful and estimable a character, one of the most distin guished practitioners in this city. In his younger days he visited different parts of the continent, and succeeded the late Dr. Abercromby as Queen's Physician for S;,.ot land. The doctor was, we believe, about sixty years of age.—Edinburgh Advertiser. DEATH OF G. BYNG, ESQ., M.P. Twenty years ago, the subject of this notice was an exceedingly fine specimen of the old English country gentleman; but for some time past, ceasing to be a fine old man, he became a very feeble old man, and the more onerous duties which appertain to the representation of Middlesex devolved upon his colleagues. Still, on all great party divisions, he managed to get down and re cord his vote, generally in favour of what are called liberal principles; but, gleel his attenuated form was only a rernnent of what had once been a magnate amongst English squires--a venerable wreck—the skele ton, it not the shadow, of his former self. At length, however, to the great regret of his numerous and affec tionete friends, he has reached the goal to which all een are inveltint oily hastening. He who so long was father of the House of Commons has, after attaining a ripe old age, descended into toe tomb of his own fathers, forgetting the world, and soon to be by the world for gotten. He was born in London, on the 18th of May, in the year 1764, and had therefore attained the great age of 82. The lineage of Mr. Byng is the same as that of the Viscounts Torrington, a family of great antiquity in the county of Ksnt ; its honours in the peerage, however, are of comparatively recent date. Admiral George Ilyng, crewed a baronet by Queen Anne, was raised, in 1721, by George 1., to the di g nity of a viscount. His third son, Robert, became the father of George Byng, who for some yrars represented the county of Middle sex in Parliament, and who married Anne, daughter of the Right Hon. William Cottony, of Castletown, in Ire land, by whom he had several children. Of these the eldest was the very estimable person whose name stands at the head of this notice. Being the heir-apparent of his father, whose fortune was considerable, having good expectations, which were subsequently realised, from Mr. Conolly, who had no sons, and who possessed great estates in Ireland, Mr. George Byng never once thought of engaging in any profession, but was natu rally regarded as the probable successor of his father in the representation of Middlesex. Down to the period, therefore, of his becoming a member of Parliament, the greater part of his time was spent as that of country gentlemen usually was in those days ; tie participated in the field sports of his neighbourhood, and he shared with his father the cares and the responsibilities which belonged to the possession of those estates to the ownership of which he was des tined to succeed, but which do not now descend to any offspring of his own; for, though he married in early life, Harriet, the eighth daughter of Sir William Mont gomery, Bart., and sister of Anne, Marchioness Towns hend, yet he leaves no issue. Mrs. Byng died about a year ago, and Lord Strafford is, we believe, the nearest surviving relative of the excellent gentleman whose death we have now to record. The father of Mr. Byng died ,n the Sear 1790, and his son (who had previously been a candidate for Maidstone, the principal town of that county in which his family had been originally seated) offered himself for Middlesex ; and was returned as the colleague of Mr. Mainwaring, sen. From that time till he expired at two o'clock yesterday, he never ceased (except during dissolutions of Parliament) to be knight of the shire for the great metropolitan county; he enjoyed the confidence of its constituency always or a rl aw period a e ) s s t r o Parliaments.a wsreturn ß e u d t b h y e th w ei a r s s n u o f t tln6r o n sfendsn6eweyisteshai without , t opposition, nay, sometimes he was obliged to contend agains t considerable difficu lties. At the g' neral election in 1806 he presented himself under some circumstances rather unfavourable to his popularity, in consequence, it was said, of an unfortunate allusion in his advertisement to one of the three candi lates (Sir Francis Burdett). 'Notwithstanding, how ever, a declaration against him on the part of the county club, and notwithstanding a violent struggle on the part of Mr. Mellish, Mr. Byng was returned by a majority of two to one ; but, for the first time since be entered Par liament, he was not placed at the head of the poll, and when he returned to St. James's-square in his triumphal car, he was nut received with those enthusiastic plaudits which usually greeted him upon such occasions. The election of 1806 was an exception to the general rule of Mr. Byng's Parliamentary lite, for he almost always aAleldtWhigs,hto London ng u dh t b ns yn some x h e t e e pn w nd h r o it o e t no ss Surrey ofrue r n rt g eh t yi h s, stood at the heed of the poll, at d was su pp o rt e d not only ) aggregation e r higher Liberal party. e a i s t s i e o s f Kent, and Essex, still those counties being of great ter ritorial dimensions are not yet quite impregnated to their extremities with a town population; Middlesex, however, is not only of more limited extent than any of the other three counties, but it happens to contain three fourths of this monster metropolis; its two representa tives, therefore. may be regarded as the organs not only of a vast trading and commercial race of men, but of the most wealthy, dignified, and enlightened body of electors who can be found amongst those classes. Yet George Byng was not the greatest of legislators. Although he represented a powerful constituency, he was not a power ful man. It is quite true that Pitt, Fox, Peel, and Can ning, occasionally sat for important places, yet throughout a great portion of their respective careers they derived no reflected influence from the dignity of their constituents. Byng's Parliamentary weight, however, was not in himself, but in those who sent him. Tiverton has long been represented by Lord Palmerston; Dungarvon, and such places, by Sheil; Caine, for many a year, by such men as Macaulay and Mackintosh ; Winchilsea, by Brougham ' • Burke was generally returned for a nomi tiers borough, and Sheridan by the potwallopers of Staf ford ; while innumerable instances every day arise of men acquiring the confidence of large constituencies without any higher intellectual attainments than those which Mr. Byng possessed •, but orators and statesmen must often be content with the refuse of the electoral bodies. The man who for more than half a century represented Middlesex was a thoroughbred, true-hearted gentleman —a staunch partisan—and, on the whole, diligent in the discharge of his public duties, yet nei ther learned, eloquent, nor profound. But the influence of unimpeached political character and high personal honour is always practically recognised by the con stituencies of England. If Mr. Byng were to give an account of his own political life, he would pro bably recall, and endeavour to revive, that admira tion of genius to which youth is more prone than age, and say, " I entered the House of Commons when its councils were guided by a race of intellectual giants. My early days were spent amongst such men as Pitt, Burke, Fox, Windham, Dun ning, Wedderburne, Erskine , Du n d a s , Grenville, Sheri dan, and Grattan. Amidst such associates I gave my entire confidence to my illustrious friend, Mr. Fox ; and I have lived to enjoy the satissaction of seeing many of his principles carried out into practice—religion set free, Parliament reformed, the restrictions on the importation of food in course of being abolished, the slave trade, and even slavery itself suppressed, and the Whig part} filing the Cabinet of the Sovereign." Such, no doubt, were the conscientious feelings of the excellent and honourable man just deceased ; but almost every tyro in politics knows that the true principles of the Whig school were not those upon which Mr. Byng acted. In the Regency debates of 1789 Pitt said of Fox, " I'll un whig the gentleman;" but Fox unwhigged himself, and his party followed that example. Mr. Byng put his faith in the great opponent of Pitt, and renounced all ether lenders. Mr. Byng, throughout his long life, proved how fully he believed that the doctrines which the Ministers of George 111. and Georgia IV. held were " datnnable and retical." He loved his country, but, judging from his Parliamentary votes, ~ n e would say he sometimes thought that the interest of the Whi g aristocracy was the same thing as the interest of the British nation. As we have referred to the measures which he supported, let not those which he opposed be forgotten. He uniformly raised his voice against everything proposed by Pitt, Pe-ceval, Liverpool, Wellington, and all other Tories. He was ready to make peace with the French regicides, then with the usurping Emperor, or by any process to arrest that glorious resistance to foreign tyranny which has already given to Europe thirty-two years of repose, and secured to England empire, and freedom, and fame. Unhappily, the influence of party darkened the intel lectual vision of Mr. Byng. But, though he might have been in some respects a mistaken politician, he was always an honest man. He had the moral courage often to vote in small minorities ; often to support measures which of late years ceased to be unpopular —which have been accepted by the nation, and ex posed with advantage to the test of prolonged and practical experience. Having said thus much of Mr. Byng's votes in Parliament, justice to his me mory requires that a willing testimony should be borne to the readiness and cordiality with which out of the House he supported the interests of his party and the maintenance of what he believed to be liberal princi ples. He was always ready to meet and account with those whose " most sweet voices" sent him into the House of Commons, and they, in return, never deserted him. Whether Wood, or Hume, or Pownal, Forbes, Lillie, or Mellish, Whitbread, Burdett, or Mainwaring, started for the county, George Byng's name was almost always at the head of the poll. Old age and declining strength finally induced Mr. Byng to relax his hold upon the representation of Middlesex. On the last day of the year 1846 he issued an address, taking leave of his constituents. It was an affecting farewell from a man who had seen two generations of electors pass away, and who had lived to witness so many changes in the political constitution and social condition, not only of England, but of the whole family of nations. Mr. Byng his residence W rotham-hall, Middlesex.— expired at a qua rter p ast two o'clock yesterday after noon, at Times of yesterday. DEATH OF MR. HAWKINS, THE VOCALIST.—It iS with deep regret that we announce the death of this talented and much respected musician, which took place at his residence on Saturday morning. Mr. Hawkins had for many years past occupied a distinguished po sition in the musical profession. He was looked up to by his compeers as an artist thoroughly proficient iu tha science of music. He was member of the choirs. of Westminster Abbey and the Chapel Royal, and has for many, years been considered the first alto singer in the metropolis. His death, which was quite unexpected, was caused by internal inflammation. He had but a short time previously been in the enjoyment of excel lent. health. THE PENINSULAR MEDALS.—The number of medals likely to be required will not, we are informed, exceed half a million. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 9.—The barque Portley, Captain Francis Reed, put in here yesterday, bound to Loudon ; left the Mauritius on the 9th, and Cape of Good Hope on the 31st of October. Her Majesty's sloop. Snake, 16, Commander Thomas B. Brown, was at the Mauritius. Her Majesty's ship President, 50, Captain P. Stanley, flag-ship of Admiral Dacie, hal left before the Portley sailed. The unpleasant feeling of the French toward• the English, caused by the misunderstanding between the English Admiral and the French Consul at the Mau bas not yet subsided. Her Majesty's frigate Conway, 26, Captain William Kelley, left the Cape for the Mauritius about the 20th of October. The Portley, which is laden with sugars from the Mauritius, and wool and hides from the Cape, reports the ship Pestonjee Bomanjee, lat. 7 50, long. 22 12 W., Nov. 28; the Wasp, lat. 24 28, long. 29, Dee. 11 ; the Dutch ship Pieter Floritz, from Batavia for Amsterdam, lat. 29 50, long. 29 4 W., Dec. 20 ; the Virginia, from London for New Orleans, long. 22 30, lat. 29 16, Dec. 20; and the Amity Hall, London, lat. 47 43, long. 12 50, Jan. 5. The schooner Triton, of Brixham, was off Plymouth yester day, bound up Channel. _ --- The barque Mary, Captain Levens, arrived at Ply mouth on the 9th of January; left Auckland September 20; rounded Cape Horn Oct. 23; touched at Pernam buco-on the 3d, and left on the sth of December. She is laden with copper ore, flax, oil, cowrie gum (from the cowrie tree), and the bark of the hirrau, a new black dye, considered most valuable. Her passengers are Captain Sweeney (late American barque Noble), Mrs. Skivington and two children, Mr. O'Neal, Mr. Little wood, Mr. Reeves, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Potts, Mrs. Hill, Mr. M'Key and :17, nd Mr. Seaman and family. Her Maje*x_ Si, C trlea Graham, her Majeatfir e — 6, , qtr,"Uoialinairffeedeorge J. Hay, and a sloop of war, not the Carysfort, were at Auckland. A native chief, of Ranghieta's tribe, was on board one of these ships. The merchant vessels Stra thalia and Haidee were advertised 'to sail Nov. 1; the Cecilia, in all that month; and the Mary Katherine after her repairs arc completed at Kaipara. The settlement of Auckland is in a most flourishing condition. The government of Captain Grey gives en tire satisfaction. Emigrants from Sydney and Hobart Town are constantly arriving. A mounted police, com posed partly of natives, has been some time established, and its beneficial effects are felt daily. The church and college for the natives is in full operation. Good order and decorum prevails, and the Sabbath-day is respected. The Government are erecting barracks upon a most ex tensive scale. Happily for this settlement the neigh bouring tribe, that of the Walcata, the most populous on the island, is friendly disposed towards the settlers, for whom they willingly labour for hire. Their chief, Te Werrowerro, who is called the King of New Zealand, lately offered Captain Grey help to suppress disturbances created by another chief. This proffered assistance the Governor most prudently declined to accept, being willing to put dow❑ the tumult with his own forces, thereby preventing the two tribes from becoming em broiled through British interests, and at the same time exhibiting undeniable proof of the colonial Government to quell the outbreak themselves. Within a radius of 50 miles round Auckland the country is unequalled for agricultural and arable purposes, and the land is culti vated entirely by settlers, assisted by the natives. Land in the country ranges from 10s. to 101. per acre. Town land in some parts has recently obtained 30/. per foot frontage, with a depth of 50 feet; in other parts 31. Flour, 20s. per cwt.; pork. 2d. per lb.; fresh butter, Is. 6d. to 2s. 6d.; tea, 25.; and sugar, 41d. per lb. Dollars, 4s. Hostilities in the north of the island, said to be first caused by the interference of the Americans, is now en tirely arranged. The war was between the natives and the Government, and not between the natives and the settlers. The two latter are now on good terms, and the native chief, Heki, regrets ever having taken any hostile steps. There was no British man-of-war at Pernambuco. Freights very high, and still rising. Several English vessels laid on. Not so much shipping there as usual. LORD J. RUSSELL and the FAMILY OF THOMAS HOOD. (From the Examiner.) It will be seen in the subjoined copy of Lord John Russell's letter to the friends of Mr. Hood's family, that the continuance of the pension lapsed on the death of Mrs. Hood is impossible, a fact which his Lordship states with a kind expression of regret. It is to the last de gree disgraceful to the country, that the fund available for such purposes is a pitiful 1,2001. a year. Better, far better, to abolish the bounty altogether, than to stint it so miserably, for the niggardly dole measures the national liberality with the most damning exactness. Some one in Parli iment should propose either to aug ment the fund or to sweep it away, with the admission that the State denies the claims of distressed literary merit. The comparison between the prodigality to htohweevreesruqltu)e,satinodnatbhlee m b o e t a h w t r h e e d pa e r r s i ts " Downing - street , J an . 4 om in fo i Itnittlyea rtsuccess i a c t ea u sn r d e and science, is too odious. " Gentlemen,—l have had the hono — ur to receive your letter of the 30th of December. "After stating the circumstances of the grant of a pension to Mrs. Hood by her Majesty, you request me to advise the Queen • to renew the grant, in the name of the public, for the benefit of the very objects for whom it was originally intended.' It is necessary that I should explain to you why this cannot be done. 4. upon the accession of the present Q ue en, it was de. termined by Parliament, on the recommendation of a Committee of the House of Commons, that, instead of a fixed sum to be granted in pensions, an annual sum of 1,2001. should be at the disposal of the Crown." Under the former plan, when a pe nsion fell vacant it could be renewed to any mem b e r or memb ers of the family; under the present arrangemen t, the pension and cannot be re newed. lapses to the public, It is true a pension can be granted if any portio n of the 1,2001. re mains undisposed of; but that is not a t p resent the case. The whole sum has be en already bes towed, and any grant I should recommend for the children would be illegal and void. " I much regret this circumstance. I should have been happy to have recommended the continuance of this pener - sion, but until June next the Crown has not the po to grant any pension on the civil list. J. " I have the honour to be, your o bedient serUSvantSEL,L. "Messrs. D. Salomons, W. Elliot, and Thos. Pringle.' - —'------------- FIRE AT TILE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY On Sunday afternoon, between four and five o'clock, a fire, which created very considerable alarm, broke out in a small wooden building, termed the Cokemen's Lodge, situate in No 3 arch of the Eastern Counties Railway, Bell-court, Wheeler -street, Spitalfields. The building was used by the men employed on the line to dry their clothes in , and it i s supposed that soma wear ing apparel had been left t:pa near the stove, and, b cou rsecom ing ignited, had set the pla ce in ablaze a rrived, and also six. In the e of a few minutes the paris h euglnes belonging to the London establishmentnd, and theame W s est of Englaud. Plenty of water being at ha the fl were soon extinguished, but aot bewre the lodge was burned down and a tool-shed damaged. ELY AND PETERDORoUGLI RAILWAY. — This line will be opened for passenger traffic on Thursday next. The Government inspector will, we understand, proceed down the line this day, and should his report be favour able, as in all pro bability it 11, there will b e e no no further obstacle to the o p ening ; thus wi giving ridge and Norwich a direct railway communication with Pete borough, Northainpton, Birmingham, Livemool, es.-e. _r- Since the line has been opened for p age r lugg and stock ock we understand a g reat deal of business has been done, , which will, no d oubt, gradually iucrease.—c ambridge Independent Press. 12 " 0 Rt. a " RESERVE DIY ...,ED. --_,n Saturday mo • impudent robbery was effected on the premises s ning an J. Shipman, Sun Coffee-house, 136, St. John-street,of Air ' the previous night a gentlemanly man called On Shipman, and after partaking e °- supper, engaged en Mr, and retired to rest. Ile waited on the following a bed until the other inmates of the house had ng morning stairs, and then he broke into Mr. Shipp , gone down room, from which he stole a dark suit of lin s sleeping room, of a dress coat. a double-breasted clothes, con black trousers; also a mourning ring, a breastwaistcoat, and other property, the whole of which he co Pin, and him. When he came down-stairs he ter ncealed about ants in the house completely off their guard,ew the attend the accommodation he had received, and by praising would reserve the bed for him, a t the same they over the price cf the same. He then wan e time handing is about twenty-two years of age, 5 feet 6 away. He and was dressed in a Taglioni coat. et 6 inches high, MILITARY COURT-MARTIA_Ls. Th regimental Court-Martial were read 0 e minutes of a Mg, at the head-quarters of the 2(1 h n Saturday morn dier Guards, stationed at St. John,' attalion of Grena- Private James Towers, of No. 2 car: -Woo barracks, on brought to Court-Marlial by order of ianY, who had been P. S. Stanhope, commanding the ,)(Ihl:ieutenant-Colonel dier Guards. The prisoner was arraigned ttallion of Grope himself without leave on the 25th o for absentine• remaining absent until the 30th. The December last, and clearly proved the charge, and that evidence produced tried by Court-Martial several times the prisoner had been of military discipline. The Court, for various breaches the prisoner to forty days' i , ~ therefore, sentenced labour, at the Military Prevost, Ch with hard day morning the 2d battalion or eel hatham. On h a rd day at Portman-street herr dstreatr. Guards, now mend of Lieutenant-Colonel H. ae l3 ks, under the com sembled to hear the proceedings c entinek. were as on Private J. Bromley, of No ' o' a Court Martial read tried b ' 4 cerapan y a battalion Court-Martiel -y, who had been conduct at drill, and disubeyina' , for very improper was clearly proved, and the Courbt orders. The charge to twenty-eight days' imprisonmentsentenced the prisoner Prevost. at the Military The Conway, 26, Captain Kelly, sailed on the follow- 1 ing day for the Mauritius; and, on the same day, the Thunderbolt steam-sloop, Commander Boyle, left for Algoa Bay. The President, 50, Captain Stanley, flag of Rear- Admiral Dacres, was in Simon's Bay, and the squadron on the station generally was healthy. Letters from St. Helena to the 22d of November, and Ascension to the 27th, inform us that those islands were healthy. The Thomas Arbuthnot convict ship, Captain Thompson, sailed from Spithead this morning for Port Philip, with a superior class of delinquents, officially ailed " exiles." These are the first " exiles" sent to l - e above settlement, which the inhabitants of that re spectable place are very wroth at, and have memorialised the Government on the subject. The meat ingenious trades and professions are carried on on board this ship; in fact, we believe all trades in vogue have their repre sentatives on board. The most ingenious affair, however, is a newspaper in manuscript, published every Saturday, having its foreign and domestic corres pondence, advertisements, and indeed all the necessary accessories to an apparently well-conducted journal. The articles are 011 written and the arrangements well made. The name of this paper is the Citadel, and the conductors dub the captain of the ship " the governor." The Citudc/ having no opponents enjoys a large circula tion. The editor is a man who has been of considerable note in the legitimate literary world ; but all names and circumstances in connexion with their present position is strictly preserved secret vs th regard to these " exiles," the great majority of whom are juvenile offenders from Millbank, Pentonville, and Parkhurst (Isle of Wight) prisons. The Kestrel is to be fitted for immediate commission, it is reported, by Sir Godfrey Webster, Bart., Second Lieutenant of the St. Vincent, for service on the North American and West India stations, to relieve the Pickle schooner. _ _ _ The Resistance troop-phip, Commander Lowe, sailed yesterday morning at nine o'olock,' - with the head-quar ters division of the 36th Regiment, for Corfu. The Dauntless screw steam-frigate, for 24 guns, was masted in the basin yesterday, and afterwards docked, to be coppered and fitted for commission. The Albatross, 16, Commander Farquhar, is ordered to Plymouth to be paid advance, and receive final orders. The Lieutenant-Governor of this garrison, having re ceived a splendid mark of the estimation in which he is held, from his friends and some of the inhabitants of this district, on Tuesday last, in consequence of his re moval from this command by promotion, the friends and admirers of Rear. Admiral Hyde Parker, C. 8., superin intendent of this dockyard, intend to get up a subscrip tion to present that gallant officer with a similar testi monial on his vacating his present onerous appointment, at the *aspiration of his term ( ,rapidly approaching), as a mark of their appreciation o f his universal kindness to all under his control ; his proverbial politeness to all who have had occasion to seek an audience of him ; and his condescending urbanity during the period he has presided over the interests of this important dockyard. The Thetis, 36, Captain Codrington, a beautiful new frigate, built on the design and under the superintend ence of some members of the late Committee of the Suppressed School of Naval Architecture, will sail for Lisbon, it is expected, to-morrow, with officers and mi• pernumerary seamen, and stores for Sir William Par ker's squadron. On her passage from Devonport to Spithead, we are informed she had to beat up all the dis tance, but proved herself a dry and most excellent sea boat. On leaving the Sound the whole weight of her provisions and stores was nearly 850 tons, when her draught of water forward was 18 feet 10 inches ; aft., 20 feet 4 inches ; mean, 19 feet 7 inches; heights of ports from the water, forward, 9 feet 8i inches ; amid ships, 8 feet 1 inches; and aft., 9 feet. It is affirmed that she is to compete in sailing and other qualities vith the Inconstant, another crack frigate of 36 *guns, tuilt oa the design of the late Rear-Admiral Hayes. The Terrible and Retribution steam-ships are ordered to proceed immediately with naval and other stores to Ireland. The former is to be at Deptford to-morrow to be fitted and stored ; the latter is beiug rapidly pre pared for the food service at this port by the officers and crew of the Sidon. Lieutenant Murray is left in com mend of the Terrible at Sheerness. The Penelope steam-frigate, Captain Gifford, left Spithead yesterday morning for the coast of Africa sta tion, taking out officers, supernumerary seamen, and marines for distribution among the squadron. On ar riving on the station, she will take the broad pendant of Commodore Sir Charles Hotham, K.C.8., Commander in -Chief, from the Devastation, at present carrying it. The Naiad coal and store-ship, for Callao, Master- Commander Browne, sailed yesterday from Spithead for Rio, where she vi ill discharge 50 boys for service in the squadron under Sir Thomas Herbert : whence she pro ceeds to Valparaiso, where she discharges 150 boys for the Pacific squadron. She has also 700 tons of coal on board. In consequence of the death of Commodore Daniel Pring, late second in command on the North American and West Indian station, the Commander-in-Chief, Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Austen, K.C.8., has promoted the following officers :—Commander O'Callagan (1841), of the Vesuvius steam-sloop, to the rank of Captain, and appointed him to the Imaum (Commodore's ship); Flag- Lieutenant H. G. Austen (1841, son of the Admiral), to the rAnk of Commander, and appointed to the Vesuvius, vice O'Callagan ; Mr. E. W. Bridge, mate of the Vin dictive flag -ship,-to the rank of Lieutenant ; and Lieut. Fletcher (1845), of the Electra, to be Flag-Lieutenant. The same advices which contained the above, also contained -the report of Captain O'Callagan's being so ill from attacks of yellow fever as to be compelled to invalid home. By the Hyacinth, which arrived here on Friday afternoon from the above station, we learn that the day prior to her sailing from Barbadoes (the 9th ult.), the Hermes steam-sloop, Commander Carr, arrived at that island with Governor Reid, from Bermuda, who was installed - with all due ceremony as Governor of Barbadoes. The Hermes was to sail on the 10th, with Sir Charles Grey for Jamaica, to which island ho bad been appointed governor. The Viper brigantine, Lieutenant-Commander Hore, and the Persian, 16, Commander Coryton, were the only men-of war at Barbadoes when the Hyacinth left. The Princess Royal transport was also there, and the Vindictive flag ship, with the Admiral, was expected early in January. Lord Howard de Wa'den and Sir William Codrington had arrived out in the Severn mail packet, to see to the better management of their estates. The Hyacinth proceeds to Sheerness where she was commissioned) to be paid off. The Raleigh, 50, Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert, and the Constance, 50, Captain Sir B. Walker, we learn, by private letters, parted company on the 29th of Sep tember, in latitude 23 d eg. 44 m R o ii In ne g r e Plate, qualities, era vt where here The sh e Constance shaped S., and lon g it u d e 32 deg. 40 min. W., a ft er b e i ng together 100 days, and sea-going good q u ality, shaped her cour se t owar d s the Falkland Islands, and competing Raleigh f in lo c r t o St L eh e ae r - g . we are informed, the Raleigh beat her competitor, outsailing her many miles, and on two occasions the Constance was left " half courses and hull down." The squadron in the River Plate was distributed as follows, on the 29th of October :—the Vernon, 50, Cap tain Fitzgerald, flag of Reim-Admiral Inglefield ; the Raleigh, 50, Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert ; the agle, 50, Captain G. B. Martin ; the Melampus, 42, Captain Campbell ; and the Comus, 16, Commander D'Eyncourt, were at Monte Video. The Curacoa, 24, Captain Broughton, and the Dol phin 3, Lieutenant-Commander Miller, were at Rio on the 18th of November, the latter having arrived from Monte Video five days prior. The Grecian, 16, Commander Tindal, was at Buses. The Racer, 18, Commander Reed, was at Colonia. The Satellite, 18, Commander Rowley, was at Maldenado. The Firebrand, steam frigate, Captain Hope, and the Harpy, steam-vessel, Lieutenant Tomlinson, was at Buenos Ayres. The Acorn,lB, Commander Bingham,was at Paraguay, The Alecto steam -sloop, Commander Massingherd, had proceeded up the Urugay to relieve the iron steam vessel Lizard, Lieutenant Commander Tylden. The Dido, 20, Captain Maxwell, sailed from Monte ♦ideo for the East Indies on the 29th of October. The Carysfort, 26, Captain G. H. Seymour, arrived at Valparaiso on the 19th of October, from Sydney and New Zealand (where she had landed the new Governor and specie), and remained there on the 24th refitting. The Salamander steam-sloop, Captaim Hamond, left Valparaiso for Rio and England on the Ist of October. The Sampson steam frigate, Captain T. Henderson, lest Valparaiso on the 25th of October for Talcahuano, and on an experimental sailing cruize. The Nereus store-ship, Master Commander Bateman, was under orders, at the above date, to proceed from Valparaiso to Callao SUPPOSED SUICIDE.—On Saturday afternoon a man named Bilby discovered in the water, near Waterloo bridge, the body of Mr. W. Isaac Jarvis, formerly a furniture dealer, of 16 and 17, Melina-place, West minster-road. On getting the body ashore the skull was found to be mutilated, and the side of the head and face disfigured. In the head was a large aperture. From inquiries there seems no doubt that the unfortunate man committed suicide by jumping from Waterloo-bridge, and that the injuries were the result of his striking against the piers in his descent. The deceased, on Friday night, retired to his bed in good spirits, but on one of the inmates of the house in which he lodged going into his bed room on Saturday morning, it was ascertained that during the night he had gone out, and nothing was seen or heard of him till his body was found in the river. STATE OF THE DUTCH NAVY.—TWO ships-of-the line of 84 guns, five of 74 (of which three are building), two of 60, one of 54, eleven of 44, two of 38 (building), three of 32, nine of 28, four of 20 (of which two are building), two of 22, two of 20, eleven of 18 (of which one is building), one of 16, eleven of 14, seven of 12 (of which four are building), two of 8, five of 6, five of 5, four of 4, and three of 3 guns ; in all 92 vessels, with 2,356 guns of different calibre. Besides, there are tet: steam-boats, carrying 64 guns, two iron steam •boats (and one building), five tran3ports, ten gun-boats, and one bomb-vessel. MENT of the PEOPLE. (From the Kilkenny Journal.) We are not at liberty at present to publish the name of the gentleman who has furnished us with the annexed suggestions, but his position in society is one which renders him peculiarly interested in the well-being of the country. We commend his plan to attentive consi deration, and purpose on a future day to return to the subject, and offor some observations of our own in con nexion with it : _ _ SUGGESTIONS for the IMMEDIATE and GENE RAL EMPLOYMENT of the LABOURING CLASSES on USEFUL and REPRODUCTIVE WORKS. It is proposed that special sessions shall continue to present in each electoral clistrict such gross sums as may be necessary for the employment of the people ; that when so presented, same shall be assessed and charged on each ratepayer, according to the Poor-law valuation, thus : Name—A. B. District—Goa ran. Valuation —4Ol. • - Increase Total of Total of on the 1845. 1846. whole year. `,..e •£ Dublin And Drogheda • • • • 38,272 39,221 949 Eastern Counties .. • • • • ;268,205 438,794 170,789 Edinburgh and Glasgow -. • • 139,785 180,018 ,40,231 Great Western • • • • • • 892,895 963,478 69,583 Landon and North •Western • • • 1,860,488 1,979,583 119,094 London, Brighton, and South Coast 319,084 368,582 , 49,498 London and South-Western.. • • 353,104 354,388 1,284 Manchester and Leeds • • • • 334,853 387;416 52,563 Midland • • • • • • • • 717,934 801,303 83,369 Newcastle and Carlisle .. • • 86,586 101,616 15,030 Norfolk.. .. • • • • 31,533 74,009 42,476 glebield and Manchester • • • • 51,226 • 96,229 45,073 South-Eastern.. • • • . 318,593 394,998 76,400 York and North Midland '• • • • 158,721 296,065 137,344 The only company whose revenue has been materially affected in a different direction has been the Dublin and Kingstown; and here we regret to remark a decrease on the year of upwards of 3,9001. The greatest per centage of increase has been on the Norfolk, a line whose traffic is almost wholly agricultural. Ls fares are very mode rate, and its traffic principally what may be called " short.' On this railway, though there has been only an addition of 11 miles to a line already 59 miles in length, there has been the enormous increase of upwards of 135 per cent. So m uc h f or encouraging agricultural traffic in a thinly populated district ! L?t us hint to the Great Western, and to the South •Western likewise, to ponder on this fact. On th e Y ork and North Midland the increase has been 86 per cent., the mileage extended from 53 to 162 miles. On the Sheffield and Manchester, with a mileage increased from 19 to 49 miles, the in crease has been upwards of 82 per cent. The next greatest increase, and great it is, considering the pro portionate amount of mileage, 124 miles in 1545 and 161 miles in 1846, is on the Eastern Counties; here we find the increase to be as much as 62 per cent. On the South•Elstern the mileage has increased from 88 to 140. and the increase in the traffic has been 23 per cent. The London, Brighton, and South Coast traffic has increased 15 per cent., with mileage from 60 to 112 during the latter part of the year. That of the Manchester and Leeds has increased 16 per cent., with mileage extended from S 4 to 117. Oa the Midland the increase has been 11 per cent. On the London and North-Western and Great Western each 7 per cent., with increased mileage on each of some 20 miles. On the South-Western the traffic has been nearly stationary as to receipts, with a slight advance however ; as to numbers of passengers, the increase has been considerable, occasioned by the liberal redaction of fares, to which the company adhered, even with decreasing receipts, for a long period. If we make the required deduction for working expenses and for extensions opened, we shall find the increased value of the old railways over last year amounting to about fifteen millions sterling ; a fact which sufficiently shows the absurdity of the present depressed value of such property in the market. First instalment—lL Proportion of gross assessment—lOL That upon an account with the above form being made out and placed in the hands of the proper officer, every landlord shall, within a limited number of days, be at liberty to pay the proportion,thereof charged to him or his tenants (viz., the first instalment or one-tenth), and upon payment thereof, shall receive from the officer cer tain dockets or cheques, each of which shall be estimated ' at the value of a man's daily hire, and which shall in amount be equivalent to the gross assessment charged to him and his tenant:-,"as in the case above supposed (which is an extreme case, the gross assessments being one-fourth of the valuation)—the payment of 11. entitles the party to 200 tickets or cheques. In like manner, the tenant, in case the landlord shall omit to mil himself of the advantage thus afforded him, shall, at the expiration of the time limited, be at liberty to pay the amount so appearing charged to him, and receive the amount of dockets to which the landlord would be entitled, that is, on payment of the tenth he shall become entitled to the amount of labour, equal to the gross assessment. That such landlord and ratepayer, on presenting such cheques or dockets to the secretaries of relief committees, shall be furnished with men sufficient to execute his or their immediate work, or having procured sufficient hands in his own neighbourhood, whose names appear on the relief registry, he shall be at liberty to pay them with these cheques or dockets, which, on being presented to the proper officer, will entitle the party holding them to a cash payment for the same. It is proposed that the relief committees shall continue as at present. That the rate of wages should be regu lated by the magistrates in each locality. That public works on roads, and unproductive employ ment, shall be continued only so far as to afford employ ment to those to whom the above plan will not extend. The entire assessment being a charge on the estate of the landlord, it is but reasonable that he should have the alternative of availing himself of the entire labour created thereby, for which an ample field will be afforded him. And as an inducement to the tenant to assist the landlord with payment of the gross assessment, by the payment of the instalment, he shall receive a sufficient equivalent in increased labour placed at his disposal. Both landlord and tenant will be interested in endea vouring to engross and employ all the hands on the labour register of the relief district, and by taking them from the public works, render the continuance of such, and the expensive machinery attendant thereon, wholly unnecessary. By this means the public tax will be put in progress of easy collection, Lands will be improved by draining and subsoiling, increased production will follow by the better cultivation of the land, and instead of a necessity continuing for employment on unproductive works, roads, &c., they will be carried on only to a limited extent, and at reduced expense to the public. As, however, all Public Works to be henceforth exe cuted are intended to be of a useful and reproductive character, ample provision will be made for all unem ployed labour on the labour registry beyond that re quired for private individual purposes in the manner proposed. And where, of necessity, unproductive works must be resorted to, for the employment of the people, where AO others of a beneficial or remunerative charac ter can be found, landlord and tenant will be stimulated to afford employment, and by withdrawing the men from the labour registry, diminish the means of executing such works and the taxation consequent thereon. And thus, by creating a spirit of competition in the labour market, between the three distinct classes, Landlord, Tenant, and the Board of Works, affording a tenfold remuneration to the two first classes, a prospect of rea sonable remuneration to all, a demand for labour, will, it is hoped, be created sufficient to engage all the unem ployed labourers of the country, in works of a useful and productive character. RAILWAY ALTERATIONS IN BIRMINGHAM FOR 1847. (From the Birnzingham Advertiser, Jan. 7.) Few persons in Birmingham have considered the altera tions, much less calculated the results, which will be effected by the several projected railways that are in tended to pass through the borough. Treating on the very important matters connected with the gigantic schemes about to commence, either in a commercial, financial, or social point of view, would he a work that would perplex and bewilder our most gifted pbiloscphers and political economists. We will give a cursory notice from memory, not pretending to official correctness, of the several lines of railway affecting Birmingham, with their connecting branches, which were authorised to be constructed last session—the lines on whose stage the memorable and yet to be renewed " battle of the gauges" was so determinedly contested :—the Lon don and Birmingham Extension, the Birmigham, Wol verhampton, and Stour Valley, the Oxford Junction, and the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railways. These great undertakings, which will during the present month be simultaneously commenced, when completed, will connect this vast district of coal, iron, and hardware with all parts of England. Birmingham will then form, in a still more complete sense, the " mid land metropolis" of railways—the centre to which all lines, east, west, north, and south, directly or indirectly tend. For the completion of the two principal lines which pass through the heart of the town—the Birming ham Extension and the Oxford Junction—our enter prising and eminent townsmen, Messr?. Branson and Gwyther, are the contractors. They commence with the Oxford Junction at Adderley-street, up to which point, we believe, Messrs. Grissell and Peto have entered into a contract with the directors.. From Adderley street to Milk-street, across Oxford-street, Meriden street, &c., there will he half a mile of viaduct. The elevation of the arches will be from 55 feet to 35 feet in the clear, the highest of them being over Oxford street. The tunnelling of this line commences at Park street, running under Shut-lane (at which point it actually crosses the tunnel of the London and Birming ham Extension), and under Carr's-lane Chapel, crossing High-street, and proceeding in its course to Monmouth street, which is the limit of Messrs. Branson and Gwy ther's contract. The London and Birmingham Exten sion commences at the present North-Western terminus, crosses the canal by the proof-house, through part of the burial-ground, Park street, passes under Shut lane, below the Oxford Junction tunnel, and goes under Moor-street, High-street, Worcester-street, until it reaches Colmore-street. In the route from Shut lane, the house of Mr. Perry, High•street, the premises oc cupied by Mr. Hall, Aris's Gazette office, and by Mr. Fisher, part of the King's Head Inn, and the houses and shops on the right hand side of Worcester-street, opposite the King's Head, to the end of Colmore-street, will have to be taken down. Here the work of demolition will be very extensive. The whole of the erections from Worcester-street to Hill-street, includiug the entire of Colmore-strcet, Queen street, Little Colmore-street, a great part of Peck-lane, King-street, Pinfold-etreet, Well-street, Vale-street, &c., will be included. The New-street end of King-street will be widened 26 yards, to form the principal entrance to the grand central station, which will occupy nearly the whole of the space above referred to from Worcester-street, bound by the back of New-street, Lower Temple -street, and Pinfold - street. The Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley branches off from this last-mentioned point under ' Hlll-street, the Old Wharf, Broad-street, &c., to Nineveh. The Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway will join the Oxford Junction in Snow-hill, where there will be an extensive and commodious station. The ex tent of the great and important changes which will be effected by this concentration, in two central points of the borough, of the several railways which pass through the counties of Warwick, Stafford, Worcester, and Salop and the mercantile advantages of public convenience' arising from this source, it is impossibl to calculate. It is no exaggeration to say that thousands of houses of the lowest class will be cleared away, and there will be a gratifying destruction of social wills and moral pesti lences, which have long been particularly offensi ve to the neighbourhood in which they have been permitted to exist. It affords us great satisfaction to state there are no grounds to fear that the construction of the tunnels through the centre of the town will endanger the build ings under which they are to pass. In the centre of the town a shaft has been sunk to the depth of about 50 feet, the level being about six feet lower. Another shaft has also been sunk near the canal wharf, Easy-row, by the contractor for the tunnel portion of the works of the Stour Valley. WARE.—SHOCKING RAILWAY ACCIDENT ON PRI'. DAY.— On Friday evening an accident occurred at the place where the railroad crosses the highway on a level near the station. A train had just lett the station at Ware, and gone to Hertford, and another, the 4.50 p.m. train, was just coming up from liertL.rd, when a man who had arrived from the direction of the post= office attempted to cross the line. The gatekeeper tried to stop him, and received a blow in the face fur his pains. Just at this moment the train came up to the spot, and the buffer threw the unfortunate stranger on the line, with his legs across the rail. The consequences mry easily be imagined. Both of his legs vi ere cut off below the knee. Ile was conveyed to the Cherry Tree, under the care of Mr. John Reilly, surgeon, who happened to be at the station at the tine of the accident. We could not ascertain hi a pl ace o f res id ence, b ut he states• his name to be Roe.—.Herts County Press. We regret to have to announce that an accident of a very frightful character, and attended with fatal con sequences, occurred at the Weybridge station on the South• Western line, on Saturday evening. The following are the particulars of this melancholy affair:Amongst the passengers by the half-past five p.m. train from Nino Elms, was an elderly person of respectable appearance, and whom we understand has been since identified as the schoolmaster at the Chertsey Union. This person had paid his fare to Weybridge, which is the nearest station to Chertsey, but it seems that on the train arriving there at twenty minutes past six o'clock, although the name of the station was called out repeatedly, and several pas sengers had alighted, the deceased, who was seated at the extreme end of a second-class carriage, and most probably dozing, did not become aware of the fact until after the train was in motion, when he instantly opened the door and jumped out, and as the, other passengers thought, had alighted in safety, as the train had not then cleared the platform. The result, however, was not so. Whether the deceased had failed to Jose his hold of the carriage, or had got any portion of his dress en tangled with it, is not known, but it is quite certain that he must have been speedily thrown down between the platform and the metals, and dragged several yards, as at the spot where he had attempted to get out was found the iron heel tip of one of his boots, firmly dviven into the edge of the platform, and from thence, for nearly twenty yards, the brickwork was grazed and besmeared with blood. The servants in attendance at the station had no intimation of an accident having occurred, until one of the passengers, crossing the rails after the train had left, heard a groan, and, when the porters proceeded to the spot, they found the deceased lying upon his face, and as they approached him, he turned over and expired. The sight that presented itself was of the most horrible and sickening kind. The left leg and thigh had been torn away from the hip, the right leg was broken in three places, and the foot was all but separated. The deceased was conveyed to the station, and the attendance of a surgeon procured as speedily as possible; but, of course, his services were of no avail. The body was afterwards taken to the Hand and Spear Tavern, adjoining the station; but the landlord refused to receive it. Mr Keene, the governor of llorsemonger-lane gaol, was in the same carriage with deceased, and he, with other gentlemen, concur in stating that the servants of the company were not in any way blameable. SURGICAL UPERATIONS BY THE INHALATION OF ETHER. The following particulars, connected with the intro duction of the recently-discovered ethereal influence:to patients in the course of undergoing surgical operations at several of the metropolitan hospitals on Saturday, and which was generally adopted at those institutions on that day, will doubtless be read with considerable in terest. Mr. Ferguson, the eminent surgeon of King's College Hospital, having signified his intention of operating on three patients by the inhalation of ether in that institu tion, the theatre was crowded by members of the medical profession, amongst whom were Drs. Forbes, Todd, Rudd, Farrar, Pehridge, Avery, Bowman, Drewett, Hall, Thompson, Robinson, Cartwright, Stevens, and others. The first patient operated upon was a young woman, a sempstress. She had been admitted on the 31st ult., suffering severely from an abscess formed by constantly sitting at needlework. It was the second time it had so formed. It appears that she had it opened on Thursday, and the operation rendered necessary on Sa turday was the removal of what was described to be a blind external fistula. The young woman when brought in bad a handkerchief tied over her eyes, and seemed exceedingly weak. Having been placed on a kind of couch, the inhalation of the vapour was proceeded with, and in a few seconds she fell asleep. Dr. Forbes, perceiving Mr. Ferguson was about commencing the operation, observed that the patient was not effectually etherised, adding, as a proof of his assertion, that she still clenched his hand. In the next moment, however, the knife had completed its work, without a murmur from the patient, or the least muscular action. The apparatus was only kept to her mouth till insensibility was apparent, not more than two roinUilii. She reCOli vered to a state of consciousness immediately after the operation. On Mr. Ferguson asking her if she was aware the operation was performed, and whether she felt any pain, she replied that she was confident sho felt the use of the knife, but experienced not the slightest pain. Two other patients (males), who evidently were suffer ing severely, were next operated upon with equal suc cess. One of them, on recovering from his insensibility, remarked that he had had a dream. On Saturday the inhalation was tried by Mr. Mac murdo, at St. Thomas's Hospital, in the presence of Mr Green, Dr. Barker, Dr. Leeson, Mr. Clark, Mr. Whitfield, and other gentlemen connected with the in stitution. The effects of the ether were first tried on a patient who is to be operated on hereafter. The inhalation, although continued for upwards of three minutes, did not produce insensibility un the patient first tried, and the amount of cerebral congestion, contracted iris, and other symptoms, were so unsatisfactory as to induce the medical gentlemen to desist. The next patient was a child, six years old, who had a scrofulous disease of the index finger. Insensibility was speedily produced, and Mr. Macmurdo immediately removed the finger. The child did not attempt to withdraw the hand during the operation, and on recovering asked if his finger was off. He did not seem cognisant of the fact, and when asked if the finger should then be removed, answered " No." The child seemed to suffer no subsequent inconvenience, neither did the patient to whom the ether was first ad ministered. On the whole the result was considered very satisfactory. At Charing-cross Hospital an operation was under the influence of ether. It was the removal of a large fatty tumour over the shoulder of a th y attempted _ fo r oue from writer to ngv, an, twenty-two years of age. state whether the non-success Itis of d t t h ffi e trial arosethe defective construction o f the apparatus, or the vapour not acting upon the con stitution of thefemale. No doubt in cou rse of time this valuable disco ver y , will be brought into general use in the numerous hos pitals throughout the kingdom. EXPERIMENTS RITZ QUARTER-MA.IMM FRU BURN'S CONCUSSION SHELLS.—The select committee v p iocret,e redbut u i t n t f h a e v o L u o r r d o s f c t, I - l o e r r ). ni d o i s p s t i i o o n n e r o s f these e shells i h n a li t he illg s er Ad miralty having a predileetin in favour of metal fuses over those made as in the present case with wood, a trial was ordered a t P ortsmout h , w hi c h too k p l ace on Chads, 8. t.. N., tn.l Friday l as t i n th e p r esence of Captain Major Lethbridge, R.A., Major Stevens, R.M.A., and other officers. One hundred and twenty shells were fired on both days. On the first day fifty ' five shells were fired—thirty from an 8-inch gun of ninety-six cwt., with a full charge of 151bs. of powder, and twenty-five from a 32-pounder of fifty cwt. The i shells were fired at a range of 2,450 yards. and at an do- I nation of 20i degrees. Ten of the shells struck the target, of which nine burst on striking, and one did not i burst; one burst in flight, and of the remainder no ac i count was taker , -Is the height of the angle at which the 1 shells were, fired, and the great length of range, rendered the task of hitting the target a very critical one. ,These fuses have hitherto proved highly satisfactory, whilst their small cost must recommend them for general use, the expense of preparing them being only three half pence, whilst the brass fuses cost 6s. 6d. each. ISLE OFWIGIIT MACKEREL.-011 Sunday and Satur day, nearly 10,000 fine mackerel were caught off the Isle of Wight. The last boat which went into Portsmouth yesterday afternoon took in upwards of 4,800, all fine fat fish, which were packed and brought up to London 1 by the Bh. 30m. train on the South-Western Railway last evening. HORRIBLE ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.