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FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD ESTATES AT BRADFORD AND BOWLING, IN THE COUNTY OF YORE.. TO BE SOLD, pursuant to a Decree of the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, made in a case of " ROUSE v. ROUSE," with the approbation of Sir GIFFIN Witso!,r, one of the Masters of the said Ceart, at the Talbot Inn, Bradford, in the county of York, in Seven Lots, some time in the latter part of Um month of May, or the beginning of June next, of w hich due no tice will be given, certain Freehold and Leasehold Estates, consisting of several pieces of Land, with Mills, Warehouses, Reservoirs, Stearn-engines, Yards, Outbuildings, and other Premises , situate in the town of Bradford, and in Bowling, near Bradford, in the county of York, lately occupied by Me=srs. William Rouse and Sons, as Worsted spinners and worsted manufacturers. Particulars and conditions of sale are in the course of preparation, and may shortly be obtained (gratis) at the said Master's office in Southamptan-buildings, Chancery-lane, London ; of Me ssrs. Hawkins, Bloxam Stocker, and Bloxam, New Boswell - court , Care y -street, London,, solicitors; of Messrs. Walter and Pemberton, Symonds' Inn, Chaneery-lane, solicitors; of Mr. Willlam Wells, Bradford, soli citor ; of Mr. Richard Tolsen, of Bradford, solicitor ; of Mr. Joseph Smith, of Bradford, land-agent and surveyor ; of Mr. George Thomp son Lister, of Bradford, auctioneer • at the place of sale ; and at the Principal Inns at Bradford, Leeds, Wakefield, Halifax, and Hudders field. ROYAL ASYLUM of the ST. ANN'S S A SPECIAL GENERAL OCIETY. COURT of this CORPORATION will b? holden at THIS OFFICE, on FRIDAY, the 16 th in stant, at Two t els ck to the Afternoon, exact time, to consider prop& sed Additional ewarda to Former Pupils, and Alteration of the Half - year l y Elec. tio Ils from Thursday to Friday, and on other Affairs. Order, E. F. LEEKS, Secretary. Charlotte-row, April 7, 1847. STEAM to ABERDEEN, INVERNESS, and the NORTH of SCOTLAND. The Aberdeen Steam Navigation Company's splendid and power nu ships will start as under, weather, &c., permitting For ABERDEEN, the DUKE of WELLINGTON, on Saturday, API*II 10, at Four o'clock afternoon. __For INVERNESS, the NORTH STAR , on Monda y , A p ril IS, at Nine morning, calling off Burghead, Invergordon, Cromarty, an! Chanonry Paint. The Company's New Iron Steam Ship DUKE of SUTHERLAND, appointed to leave Inverness on the 19th, and Loudon on Monday, the 26th April, at Ten eat. Offices: Spread Eagle, Regent-drew, or 257, Wapping. CHARLES WILLIAM WILLOUGHBY, Agent. LONDON to BOULOGNE.—The Commercial Steam Company's favourite Vessels, CITY of BOULOGNE et EXERALD, will leave London -bridge Wharf: — Sunday, April 11, 7 morning. Sunday, April 18, 1 morning. Sunday, April Sunday, ac c ording 7 morning. And every succeeding ording to tide. dices-17,Fish-streeVAM ; 67, Lower Thames-street ; and Chap lln's Universal Office, Regent-circus. EASTER HOLIDAYS. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. LECTURES in illustration of ANIMAL MECHANISM, by T. Rymer Jones, Esq., F.R.S., Professor of Comparative Anatomy at King's College, Mornings and Evenings during the week. The GYMNOTUS ELECTRIcUS, or ELECTRICAL EELS, exhibited in a TRANSPARENT VESSEL. LECTURES on ARMSTRONG'S HYDRO-ELECTRIC MACHINE, by Dr. Bachhoffuer. The WORK ING MODELS and MACHINERY clearly explained. The varied Optical Effects include a New Series of DISSOLVING VIEWS. Experiments with the DIVING-BELL and DIVER, &c., &c. Admission Is. Schools, half-price. I 3HILHARMONIC SOCIETY, HANOVER SQUARE ROOMS. PROGRAMME of the THIRD CONCERT, MONDAY EVENING :—Sinfonia in D (Mozart)—Duetto, Mr. Manvers and Signor F. Lablache—Concerto, Pianoforte, in F Minor, Mr. W. S. Ben nett— Terzetto, " Tremate," Madame Caradori Allan, Mr. Manvers, and Signor F. Lablache (Beethoven)—Overture, Preciosa (Weber)— Sinfonia in C Minor (Beethoven)—Air, Madame Caradori Allan (Auber)—Concertante, Messrs. Blagrove and Willy (Spohr) —Over ture, LOdoiska (Cherubini). Conductor, Mr. Costa. Single tickets, One Guinea, and double tickets, 11. 10s., to be had Of Messrs. Addison and Hodson, 210, Regent-street. THE ST. JAMES'S CHESS CLUB, No. 23 , NEW BOND-STREET (three doors from Conduit-street), $ now OPEN for the reception of Noblemen and Gentlemen. SUN -BLINDS, in Great Variety, RICK CLOTHS, BUNTING, and NETTING for fruit-trees, &c., at THOMAS EDGINGTON and Co.'s, 17, Smithfield-bars, and Old Kent-road, Manufacturers of Marquees and Tents of all dimensions, Rick-cloths, with roles, Flags, flexible water-proof cloths, for railway trucks. waggons, coaches, &c. ; Tarpaulins for packing goods for exportation. Tents and Tarpaulings for colonists and for hire.—Address, 17, Smithfield-bars. D OWN with CHEMISTRY in connexion with MED CIN E. —DOC TOR S and their MEDICINAL POISONS, such as Prussic Acid. Laudanum, Arsenic, Strichnine, Soc. TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—We beg to suggest to yon and the public how easy it mutt be fir any evil-disposed person to po!son another whilst such deadly chemical preparations as the above are held out and given " medi cinally." It is useless to attempt to conceal the facts. Take the following ca , e :—Suppose the doctor orders a patient a dose of lauda num, or a mixture containing laudanum—what is more easy than for an evil-disposed person to add a little of the poison to the mix ture prescrib. d by the doctor, and thus produce death? Would it be Possible to detect such a criminal ? We think not ; for even sup- Posing a post mortem examination of the body took place, so one would be capable of detecting the extra quantity of poison taken by the patient. supposing that strichnine were the poison, it would still be more as a less quantity would be necessary to pro duce death, and so on with other poisons. Dr, Scoffern in the la . Mentable case of Miss Collier, said, in answer to the Coroner, tha B ,trielmine could only be given in fractions of a grain ! The fol owing 18 the description given of this precious medicine, i. e. poison, in " Rboper's Medical Dictionary," page 1,228 : " Half a grain blown into the throat of a rabbit has produced tris- Mus in two' minutes, and death in five ; and the eighth of a grain taken into the stomach has proved fa tal to a strong deg." Why, Sir, look at the case of the girl Foster, now so justly u abortent of death. If it haff_not been for the fowls dying all the house, she would not have been even suspected, for the doctor who made the post mortem examination declared it to be a case of English Cholera ! 1 'Dip lowls were, in fact, the means of bringing the criminal to justice.. In further illustration of the above, we recom mend the reader to. peinse the fourth Ilygelan print, in conjunction with-the 69th Number of the" Hygeist," for April, on this important Point. In conclusion, we cannot but think that a grave responsi bditrattaches to all persona who support such a system of poisons, either directly or indirectly. Issued by t,he•British College of Health. London, for and on • . , behalf of Hygeists, April 5, 1847. As it may be asked how we know that these deadly chemical pre • Parations - iniy bd dispensed 'with in medicine, our answer is simple and positive, viz., from the almost numberless letters of parties who .11toro dosed. 'with them- without benefit. and wha were afterwards - 10ost-easily cured bx a simple but effectual system of safe vegetable purgati9n; THE WELLINGTON SURTOUT. 1 A NEW LIGHT REPELLENT OVER-COAT FOR TBF. RPRlNG.—R eg istered 6 and 7 Viet., cap. O.—PATRONISED by H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT. the ROYAL FAMILY, his Grace the COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, the PRINCIPAL NOBILITY, and OFFICERS of the GUARDS. 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T, Da had of the Proprietors, 29, Nottingham-place, Fieldgate ft,.et, Whiteehapel-road, London ; also of Mr. Johnstone, 68, Corn iiill ; Butler, 4, Cbeapside ; Prout, 229, Strand ; Sanger, 150, Oxford street; Barclay, Farringdon-street ; Atkinson, 24, Old Bond street; Hooper, 43, King William-street, London bridge ; Finnigin, Mllsem-street, Bath ; Elmore, Bull-street, Birmingham; and of mos Perfumers and Medicine Vendors in town and country. Sent to any part of the kingdom by receiving a remittance, pest-paid. please to ask for " Spencer and Co.'s Chinese Liquid Hair Dye.' bilerve. ths Proprietor's address is on the wrapper. DR. CULVERWELL L on ONG HEALT LIFE II, HAPPINESS, said In pocket volumes Is. each, by post (in stamps), Is. 6d. each. II 0 W TO BE HAPPY " Jucunde Tivere."—Cic. WHAT to EAT, DRINK, and AVOID. (With Diet-tables for all Complaints.) 3. MARRIAGE and its MYSTERIES. To:be, or not to be, that is the ocstion."--Shakspeare. 4. TII PASSIONS—TheIr ADVENT and CONTROL. " Cure ut velem." Theis publications are free from empyrical mysticism, and are adapted to the intelligence of the times. To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Mann, 39, Corn hill ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet-street ; and all Booksellers, or direct from the Author, whose practice is exclusively devoted to home consulta tion, Mornings till Three. and in the Evenings from Seven till Nine, 10, Argyle-place. Regent-street. ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. WITH TWENTY-FIVE COLOURED ENGRAVINGS. Just published, Twentieth Thousand, in a sealed envelope, price 2e. 64., or post paid, to any address, for 35.643. in Postage tamps direct from the Author's residence. SELF- PRESERVATION : A Medical Tr eat i se on the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity. Illustrated with Twenty-five Coloured Plates on the Anatomy. Physiology, and Diseases of the Urinary and Reproductive Organs, explaining their various structures, uses, and functions, and showing the Willies that are produced in them , by solitary habits, s.nd othcr excesses. With Practical Observations on the Treatment of Nervous D ebility , Local and Constitutional Weakness, and other diseases of the Urethra. By SAMUEL LieMERT, CONSULTING SURGEON, 9, Bedford-street, Bedford -square, London; Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate Apothecaries' Hall, London, ,t-c., CONTENTS Or VIZ 'TREATISE. CHAPTER 1. On the Philosophy of Marriage, with its Hindrance* and Obligations, and on Infelicitous and Unproductive Unions.— Cum.-reit 2. On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Generative Organs, their functions, structures, and secretions, proving that great Mental and Physical Power are dependant upon their healthy acti on —Onarrza 3. On Solitary Habits; their various effects on the Animal Economy ; the concealed cause of Debility of the function. of the Stomach, Lungs, and Brain, and general weakness of the Mental Faculties. CHAPTER 4. On the Secret Disorders of Youth find Maturity, and the Treatment of Nervous and Local Weakness, Mental Debility, and Premature Decay.—CrIAPTZES 5 and 6. On the Disorder? arising from indiscriminate' Excess, Gonnorheea (Rest, Strictures, and other Diseases of he Urethra. REVIEWS 07 THE WORE. "The author of this singular and talented work is a legally quail edmedi cal man, who has evidently had considerable experience of the tr.- xtment of the various disorders arising from the follies anti frailties of early indiscretion. The engravings are an invaluable ad dition, by demonstrating the consequences of excesses, which must act as a salutary warning to youth and maturity, and by its perusal many questions may be satisfactorily replied to, that admit f no ap peal. eves to the most confidential friend."—Era. Published by the Author, and may be had at his residence; also from Kent and Richards, 52, Paternoster-row ; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street. Stacie, Tichborne-street, Quadrant; Gordon, 146 Leadenhall-street, London; Newton, 16, Church-street, Liverpool and by all Booksellers. At Home for Consultation daily, from Nine till Two, and from rive till Eight ; and all letters immediately replied to, if containing the fee of H., for advice, Ssc.-9 BEDFORD-STREET BEDFORD lilatrasl4. LONDOS3 cw , _ o. 17,021. LON DON, TEL U ItSDAY EVENING SUN APRIL 8, 1847. wiesatamam WILSON'S SCOTTISH ENTER TAINMENTS, at the MUSIC-HALL, STORE-STREET, BED FORD-SQ UARE. Mr. WILSON begs to announce that, on MONDAY EvErnNo, the 12th of April, at Eight o'clock, he will commence his Series of En tertainments on the SONGS of SCOTLAND, when he will sing several songs for the first time in London, and also bring forward some old favourites.—Pianoforte, Mr. and. PROGRAMME. PART FIRST.—My Heart's in the Highlands—The Bonnie House of Airlie—Bonnie Bessie Lee—The Married Man's Lament—An Thou wert my ain Thing —Auld Gudeman, ye're a Drucken Carle—The Irish Mother's Lament—Won't you lave us a lock of your hair? PART SEcorin.-0 Jeanie, there's naething to fear ye—The Stuarts of Appin—My joe Janet—Go fetch to me a pint o' wine—Green grow the rashes 0. Tickets, 2s. ; Reserved Seats, 2s. 6d. ; Private Boxes for Six Per sons, 15s. ; for Eight, 11. During the season, Mr. Wilson will give his Entertainments its the Music•hall every Monday Evening, at Eight o'clock. twelve months. He also adds, that the spread of oats is far beyond that of 1846 at this pericd. Notwith standing this prospect, there are thousanils of small occupiers who are totally unable to sow their farms.— Trake Chronicle. SOYER'S MODEL KITCHEN. DUBLIN, APRIL 5.--This day M. Soyer exhibited an experimental trial of his cooking apparatus, in the Es planade at the Royal Barracks, and the subject of his model kitchen for the poor having excited a considerable degree of interest iu this country, an immense concourse of persons of the first respectability, to whom tickets of admission had been issued, repaired to the ground, in order to assure themselves that Soyer's plan was, or was not a project only. His Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant having expressed his intention of being present, the at 'motion which the Noble Earl and his interesting family never fails of creating amongst the citizens of Dublin contributed to swell the number and the elegance of the persons who attended. At three o'clock a grand military salute from a guard of honour which had been stationed on the ground announced the arrival of his Excellency and the vice-regal party, amongst whom we perceived the Ladies Emily and Kathleen Ponsonby, Mrs. Captain Williams, the Hon. Gerald Ponsonby, Mr. Corry Con nellan, Captains Henry Ponsonby and Williams. On the ground we perceived the Earls of Charlemont, Roden, and Meath, Lord Brabazon, the Lord Chancellor. Lieu tenant-General Sir Edward Blakeney, the Hon. Frede rick Ponsonby, &c. &c. On alighting from his carriage, his Excellency and the vice-regal party were conducted to the tent where the cooking apparatus had been in operation. They-let—tlio:Nere and were speedily fol lowed by a numerous train of visitors, who accommodated themselves as best they could, standing at the outside of a range of tables which extended along the square of the tent, Soups of various kinds were then served, and the company having discussed the merits of each decoction as- IRELAND. DUBLIN, APRIL s.—Fever still continues to incl.( gull to an alarming extent in Cork, Sligo, Mayo, and varieul other counties, and, indeed, the pestilence exists to it greater or less degree generally throughout the country. In the union workhouses, especially, the malady pre vails, and the mortality in some places is very consi derable. As yet Dublin and the surrounding metropo litan districts have escaped, but there is reason to ap prehend that with the approach of warm weather the capital will also suffer as well as the provinces. In some few counties--for instance, in Cork and Sligo—famine is still at work, but generally there ap pears to be a decrease of destitution. The new relief measures, it is to be hoped, will produce a decided im provement, as well in regard to the sustenance of the poor as the ravages of disease. The provincial journals mention the names of many more landlords who are suaplying seed to the small occupiers on their estates. There are, however, bitter crmplaints of the total indifference of several extensive proprietors, who have as yet taken no steps to promote the cultivation of the land. A landlord and tenant association is in opepttion in the county of Wexford, from which much practical good may be anticipated. Most of the principal landed pro prietors, including the Earl of Courtown, Lord Carew, the Honourable S. Maxwell, Sir W. Cox, Messrs. Gwyan, Morgan, Doyne, Walker, &c., are members of the association, which held a meeting at Ennisworthy on Thursday last, Lord Courtown presiding. Resolutions were adopted with a view of establishing safety harbours for fiahing4soettwand .of _obtaining - information on all matters calculated to employ the labouring poor in a useful and profitable manner, as the best means of lessen ing taxation on the land. An address to the landowners was adopted with the same object, earnestly calling for their co-operation in setting the surplus labourers of the county at work, and urging them " to unite while there is still time to prevent the degradation and final ruin which threaten this country." We extract one important paragraph from the address : " The evil of out-door relief, when grappled with sys tematically, will not be found unmanageable. On the 20th of February, when more than 20,000 persons were employed on public relief works in this county, the pro portion was one person so employed to 25 arable acres in the county." STATE OF THE PROVINCES. The Sligo Champion contains the following reports of the miserable condition of affairs in that county:— SLIGO, APRIL 3.—Notwithstanding the reduction which has taken place in the price of Indian corn, our agricultural labourers are still enduring the moat dread ful sufferings. The deaths from starvation are multiply ing every hour; and notwithstanding all that has been done by the Government, and the generous people of the British nation, thousands upon thousands will be swept away by absolute hunger during the present spring and the ensuing summer. The people have given themselves up to despair. In the remote districts there is nothing whatever doings the only soil turned up by the spade is the rank earth of the graveyards. There is not a burial place in the county that is not at present overstocked with dead; and we do really believe that the mortality is greater now than it was when the cholera raged. At present—it is right the fact should be known—no in quests are held upon the bodies of those who die of star vation. The grand jury, at the last assizes, desired the coroners not to hold inquests in such cases. FEVER IN Seroo.—We deeply regret to say, that lever is rapidly on the increase, and the di sease i s now turning out to be of a very malignant ch aracter. A new fever hospital was established in this tow n w i t hi n the l ast fortnight, capable of holding ninety-six patients. It was filled in throe days. In the country districts typhus ever is raging to a fearful extent. The following is an extract from a letter we received from a correspondent residing in Ballinabill :—"Fever is greatly on the in crease here—average of deaths weekly, twenty." In Gurteen, Ahamlish, and Tireragh thi s awful scourge is equally general and fatal. It has spread to the higher ranks, and those who were secure from death by famine now find that they are exposed to it by pestilence. Mr. Lawlor, the agent of Mr. Cooper, died a few days ago of fever. Mr. William Ormsby and Mr. Luke Hester, both pay clerks, are ill of the same di sease . STATE OF K I LFREE.—Nothing can be more deplor able than the condition of this parish ; the following ex tract from the letter of an esteemed correspondent will serve to show the miserable state to which the wretched people are reduced :—" Since my last we have had awful times here. On last Sunday there were eleven people dead in this parish. Of this number, John Fahy, of Mulroe, Andrew Ferrell, of Drunbushand, and John Grady, of Amaghmore (the father of the boy whom you some time since stated was carried in a basket from the public works, and who died the same night), died of absolute starvation. Were it not for the timely donation of 101. from our venerated Bishop, Dr. M‘Nichnlas, aided by the liberal subscription of a charitable commercial friend in Sligo, many more would have shared a similar Lottoroin Wonxnotiii..-s4l6 , number of deatliOn our workhouse, and the fever hospital attached,' from Ist to the 31st March ;inclusive, were 174 ;'4n February, 176 ; in January, 116—making a total of 466 for the quarter, exclusive of the many deaths throughout the union, and this town and neighbourhood, from fever and dest itution.—Longford Journal. LONDONDERRY UNlON.—During last week, 80 patients are reported to be ill in fever, and 80 convalescent ; in hospital from other diseases, 108 ; making in all 268 patients under medical treatment. The clerk and four of the resident officers have been attacked with fever, and are at present incapacitated from performing their du ty.--Londondet ry Sentinel. TILLAGE OF THE LAND. WEXFORD, APRIL 3.—lt is cheerful to behold several of our r es id ent gentry acting i n ac cordance with the principles of h uman i ty and soun d policy. A few days since the agent of Lord Kilma i ne a pplied to a corn merchant in Enniscorthy for 200 barrels of seed oats, to give his Lordship's tenants in this county, to seed their land; but thi s or d er could only b e partially complied with, iu c onsequence of Mr. F arme r having previously engaged 1,200 b arrels of see d oa t s and barley, for the tenantry of th e R ev . B . H . B r idges, Mr Blacker, and Lord Carew, 800 barrels being for his Lord shi p 's tenants. . His Lordship's agric u lt ura l s t e ward is visiting the tenantry in thi s county, b estow i n g to them quantities of various kind s o f turn i p see d s, a nd giving every en couragement of sow i ng green cr ops as extensively as possible. Mr. Glascott has also contracted for two hundred barrels of seed corn for the same benevolent purpose of seeding the land for his people. Mr.Grogan Morgan is supplyi ng every teua nt on his property that seeks aid in th a t way with seed oats , barle y , and the necessary seeds f or green crop pi n g, so that not an acre of his extensive estates will be permitted to remain un productive this year.— TVexford Independent. CAHIRCIVEEN, MARCH 30.—The Centaur steamer is in harbour with seed oats and some potatoes. The Marquis of Lansdowne has sent some barley seed for his tenantry, and also Mrs. Mahony, of Castlequin.— Tralee Chronicle. THE NEW RELIEF MEASURES. Generally the relief committees are making arrange. ments to commence operations. In Dublin the commit tees will be at work in a few days- As a specimen of what is doing in the provinces, in those places where the gentry have taken the matter earnestly in hand, we select the following:— KILLARNEY.—The Killarney Union contains twelve electoral divisions; but for the Temporary Relief Act it is divided into nine relief districts. Captain Stewart, R.N., a most active and zealous officer, has been appointed Government inspector of re lief committees for the union. The finance committee consists of Henry A. Herbert, D.L., Christopher Gal way, Daniel Cronin, Jas. O'Connell, and the Government officers. The Earl of Kenmare has consented to act as chairman of the Killarney relief committee. Every committee in the union is working with zeal for the general good. The following orders have been issued by Captain Stewart in reference to employment on public works:— " Every overseer is to report to me (Captain Stewart) any labourer on the public works who has any land, who is not taking the proper measures to get it tilled, that an inquiry may be made as to whether or not it be ad visable to discharge such person from the public works. Every check clerk, overseer, and gangsman should slake hi m self thoroughly acquainted with all the particulars respecting labourers under his charge on the public works, so as to be ab le to g ive s uch information to the com mittee or to any author i sed person, as to how many personso will Si conduct in n each lab w o o u r r k e s r ; h s t fa e mily are employed on e i t h er pr i vate or number of cows, and the quantity of land, or other m eans of livin g , as in many cases la- Ilsu such ice as t o a ff or d me an bourers on the pu blic works have been known to have ee money, also other opportunity of recommending the m ost d eserving to the cons id era tion of the Board of Work s . T he overseers are to see that wh en men or wome n of one family are c t o h n ems a l e v property.de' themselves I n in d trust inthisthteha b t a a nk , important sums in service s employed on the public works, they are to be on the same road." PUBLICATIOSS. In two volumes, post Bvo., now ready at all the Libraries, THE POACHER'S WIFE; A STORY OF THE TIMES. BY CHARLTON CAREW% " A story of deep interest, highly-wrought situations, and pathos.' —New Monthly. " A forcible display of a sad portion of our social position." — Douglas Jerrold. "It ably and eloquently Illustrates the mischievous influence of the (lame Laws on high and low."— Sunday Times. " It will be highly prized by all circulating library frequenters.' --Asiatic Quarterly. " Every game preserver in the United Kingdom will read,' we do not say will ' like,' it Bat read it, they all must."—Mirror. " Mr. Carew is a writer of great power."—Sun. Charles Oilier. la and 19. SoutnamPton-street, Strand. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A NEGRO SLAVE. Now ready, in One Volume, post Bvo., price i. 6d., cloth, with Frontispiece, THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ZAMBA, an Af ican Negro King, and his experience of Slavery in South Carolina. Written by HIMSELF. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill. LIAN CE ASSURANCE COMPANY. The LIALF-YEARLY DIVIDEND on the STOCK of the ALLIANCE BRITISH and FOREIGN LIFE and FIRE AS SURANCE COMPANY will be in COURSE of PAYMENT on MoNnev, the 12th Inst., and every following Clay (Saturdays ex cepted), between the hours of Eleven and Three o'clock. A. HA_MILTON, Secretary. Bartholomew-lane, April 8, 1847. - NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSU RANCE SOCIETY. OFFICE, 26, CORNHILL, LONDON. Capital 500,0001. Empowered by Act of Parliament. The system of Deferred Annuities, originally proposed by the Na tional Loan Fund Life Assurance Society, for the better advance ment of the objects of Benefit and Friendly Societies, having received the approbation of a considerable body cf the active members and officers of those Institutions, and the Directors of the National Loan Fund Society having been urgently solicited by them to establish a Branch Office in connexion with those Societies and the Operative Classes generally, in which their services might be sueekimfUlly en gaged, a Committee hag 'been sanctioned by the Directors to open communication with the different Societies, with the view of more effectually disseminating the valuable benefits amongst the indus trious classes, and a plan has been oroposed with that object. ADDRESS OF THE COMMITTEE. Many praiseworthy but ineffectual attempts have been made to bring within the scope and operation of the laws of mortality and money the savings of the industrious classes, as well as various cal culations regulating their distribution, having for their object either immediate, contingent, sr deferred benefits. A slight examination, however, will demonstrate that the con struction of these associations or societies is defective; and that in stead of affording an easy access and a free choice of investment, which should be the privilege of every one, they confine too nar rowly the channel through which a benefit can alone be secured ; and, in proportion as their action is circumscribed and embarrassed, their utility is limited. For example, it is not to every individual, or to every class amongst the industrious community, that provision in case of sickness is an object of such importance as to call for a pecuniary sacrifice ; white to others such a provision appears more attractive, and the loss of employment caused by sickness is a risk against which they desire to be guarded. For this anomalous state of things there is an effective and simple remedy ; that is to say, instead of covering, by one weekly or annual payment, two or more contingent or deferred benefits, so to arrange it that each separate benefit should have its separate contribution. It is to not having observed this rule, and to the association of two dissimilar funetions, and by confounding a sick allowance and an annuity fund in one and the self-same payment, that much of the evils and mismanagement has arisen amongst Benefit Societies. No mechanism can be so perfect for the management of a sick - ress-fund provision as that afforded by the constant sectional asso ciation and watchfulness of the several members composing it. By this means a thorough and constant check is mutually exercised, and none but the really sick are likely to become chargeable upon it. But the same perfection, or the same security, is seldom attainable where a fund is to to cumulated through a succession pf years, and where results arebear oat calculations, money investment being in general beyond the experience of the industrious classes. For these reasons it is clear that the funds destined for a provision in sickness should be kept entirely distinct from the fund intended as a provision for old age :- Ist. Because the laws of sickness and mortality, though apparently connected, do not depend on the same calculation. 2d. Because there are a great number who, in order to secure a larger provision in old age are willing to take the risk of providing for probable sickness on themselves. 3d. Because the responsibility of managing a provision for old age, continued to a distant period is, in a great measure, incompatible with voluntary associations, fluctuating laws, and individual irre sponsibility, and more exposed to a failure in the performance of such a contract, that when undertaken on the same principles that ordinarily govern commercial bedie.. 4th. Because the expenses of providing for sickness must, when wilted in the same payment with provision for old age, tend to dimi nish still more this provision : nor is it wisdom or good policy to en danger the one for the sake of the other. Impressed with these convictions, and with an intimate knowledge of the discussions passing within the bosom of many of the existing Friendly and Benefit Societies, the parties whose names are here unto attached, have had several meetings, with a view of proposing or adopting a remedy for these and other evils ; and in this manner to give an additional force to the principles of brotherhood, unity, and mutual aid, on which friendly societies are based, by guarding them from the risks of sudden dissolution. After much diligent search amongst the combinations ingeniously proposed from time to time for the attainment of one of the principal objects of Friendly and Benefit Societies, they have found none equal in simplicity and comprehensiveness of design, as well as forethought and sympathy for the wants of the industrious classes, as the plan proposed by the National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society. It is true that the author of that plan has firrnished an argument against provision in sickness; but, without concurring in the immediate ex pediency of abandoning a provision in sickness, no one can read the other part of the plan itself, without being fully satisfied that the convenience and safety of Friendly and Benefit Societies will be greatly secured and consulted, by separ atin g the payment of a sick . allowance from an annuity for old age. A deputation having waited on the directors of the National Loan Fund, who met in the handsomest manner the overtures made to them for the establishment of a separate office for the transaction of business connected with Friendly and Benefit Societies, and the in dustrious classes in general, resolutions have been entered into, con stituting the undersigned as a Committee, with power to add to its number, for the promulgation of the benefits contained in the an nexed prospectus, under the guarantee of the Capital of the Society, and which, without interfering with the numerous objects connected with the institution of Benefit and Friendly Societies, will in their opiniongreatly enlarge their sphere of utility, and afford a protection to the working clematis in old age and adversity. which nothing up to the present day halt adequately secured to them. Thomas Burthom, F. 0.8., Ancient Order of Foresters. Jahn Fussell. C.R„ A.noiont Order of Foresters. John H. Gordon. D. 8., Ancient Order of Foresters. James Hale, D.C.R., Ancient Order of Foresters. Henry Hunt, P.G., Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows. Joseph Nugent, Pro. C.S. Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows. Joseph Reeks, 8.0. F. Order of Old Friends. Samuel Timbre% D.R.. Ancient Order of Foresters. DEF ERRED. Example.-1 person aged 24 next birthday, by the annual pay ment of 11. 65., or quarterly payment of 75., or monthly payments of 2s. 2d., mars on attaining the age of 60, the option of re ceiving Annuity, 10/. 19s. 2d. ; Cash down, 1071. 38. ; or a Policy on his Life, 1371. 175. Example.-A person aged 26 next birthday, may secure, on at taining the age of 60, an Annuity of 101., with the other options, by the annual payment of 11.65 . 9d., or a single payment of 22/. 17s. 3d,; or on payment of 61. 14S. Id. for disparity, he will be entitled to the same benefits by an annual payment of 18s. lid., the same as or age 20. Example.-A. person aged 30 next birthday, by the annual pay ment of 11. 65., or quarterly payment of 74., or monthly payment of 2s. 2d., may secure on attaining the age of 65, the option of re ceiving Annuity, 181. Os. 4d.; cash down, 1481. 12s. or a policy on his life 1751. I is. Example.-A person aged 35 next birthday, by the annual paenyt - ment of 11. 65., or quarterly payment of 75., or monthly paym of 25. 2d., may secure, on attaining the age of 65, the option of re ceiving Annuity, 181. Oe. 4 d. ; cash down, 1481. 125.; or a policy on his life, 1751. 116. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY. — The new steam basin in this dockyard, fast approaching completion, and pre senting such a splendid addition to the great resources of this establishment, will most probably be opened in the early part of the ensuing year. The south wall is nearly complete, being connected with the south-east inlet and east wall; the apron of this inlet is completed. The west wall is nearly ready , to receive the coping. Both -en-- trances to the basin have only one course of stone to set before receiving the coping. The harbour wall running west from the north entrance is more than two-thirds up to its intended height; the circular pier, with its inner and outer north walls, for a considerable extent has only one course to set before receiving the coping; the east wall, between the north and south inlets, is up half its height, and there only remains 150 feet run to complete the whole formation of the walls which form the basin, the excavation being done and part already piled. Tne dam for the extension is nearly complete, which, when finished, will be the largest in the world, its length from east ey off thesttaorwest being 3,000 feet. The new Hard for the u publicsu perior i t so the one, rapidly, d therely , and w beill a quay be found enabling vessels to lie alongside to discharge their car goes; the foundation of this is formed. Part of the plinths are set for the brass foundry building; the foundation is in a forward state for the large factory building on the west side of the basin; this building is to be 635 feet long, and will form the finest workshop in the whole establishment. The quantity of granite stone that has been received on the works amounts to 800,000 cubic feet, in addition to 400,000 of Portland and Pur beck, making a grand total received up to the present time of 700,000 cubic feet of stone; 1,200 men are at present employed exclusively upon these works. The First Lord of the Admiralty, accompanied by his official colleagues, and attended by Captain James, Royal En gineers, paid an official visit to the steam basin last Wednesday, and was pleased to express himself in most complimentary terms towards the constructor, and par ticularly as to its very apparent state of forwardness, which he had not expected; this must have been most gratifying to all concerned in the formation of the work, but more especially to Mr. Peter Rolt, the contractor. When this magnificent basin is finished, the nation will doubtless feel that its gratitude is due to those whose ideas first contemplated such a structure, to the engineer officers designing it, and no less to the contractor for completing it. Halal Pacha, Lieutenant-General in the Ottoman Ar tillery, and Osman Bey, Post-Captain in the Ottoman navy, accompanied by M. Zohrab, Ottoman Consul- General, arrived at this port to-day on a visit of inspec tion. The distinguished visitors were conducted over the dockyard by a member of the master shipwrights' corps, and received every attention in their inquiries, the Lords of the Admiralty having ordered that every respect was to be paid them in their perambulations. They visited the steam saw and wood mills, the black smith's shop, the new steam-basin, and the ships build. ing and in dock, going on board the Royal Frederick, 110, Princess Royal, 90, and A rro g ant, 46, on the stocks, the Retribution steam-frigate, in the basin, &c., and afterwards embarked at the King's stairs and went on board the Victory and Excellent, and inspected all the other objects of interest at the port. Captain Osmilti Bey, it may be remembered, fought the flag-ship of Admiral Walker at Acre. He has brought with him to England nineteen Turkish young gentlemen, many of whom are of high distinction, to be educated in various departments of our Government establishments at the national expense. The Thetis, 36, Captain Codrington, C. 8., arrived at Spithead this morning from the fleet of Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker, off Lisbon. She has brought no news, having left the Tagus nearly ten days ago, in company with the Superb, 80, Captain Corry, and the America, 50; Captain Sir T. Maitland, on a trial of sailing by order of the Admiralty. Several trials have taken place under almost all circumstances of wind and weather, in all of which the Thetis has come off eminently victori ous. In fact, she has beaten one competitor completely out of the field, having driven the America into Vigo with loss of cross jack yard, mainmast, mainyard, and mainboom sprung, and foremast damaged. She parted company with the Superb on Monday morning, about 150 miles from Plymouth, into which port the Thetis put yesterday, and landed some of the supernumeraries she brought home. She came up to Spithead this day about noon through the Needles, under topsails, top gallant sails, royals, foresail, jib, and spanker, and came into harbour this afternoon. She will be docked with out delay, to repair the damages sustained by getting ashore in entering Lisbon. The Maria Somes transport, having on board the second division of the 48th Regiment, arrived at Cork from Jamaica on the 2d inst., and sailed the same day for Belfast to join the depot, and whither the first divi sion preceded her on the Ist in the Blenheim transport. Captain Mountsteven, of the 48th, unfortunately suf fered a fracture of the leg on board the Maria Somes, sustained by a fall while the vessel was struck by a heavy sea. The Kestrel brigantine, Lieutenant-Commander Baker, is in the basin, fitting for sea and entering men. She will only carry two guns. The Avenger steam-frigate, Captain S. C. Dacres, having completed her cargo of seed corn, sailed this afternoon for Ireland. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 6.—Her Majesty's frigate Thetis, 36, Captain Henry J. Codrington, came in last night at twelve. She left Lisbon Feb. 28, and Vigo on the 24th ult. The Thetis on her departure from the Tagus was accompanied by her Majesty's ship Superb, 80, Captain Armar L. Corry, and her Majesty's frigate America, 50, Captain Sir Thomas Maitland. These three ships made an experimental cruise to test their sailing qualities, and by the diagrams on board the Thetis it is evident that under a variety of circumstances in every trial she has proved her speed greatly superior to the others. On one occasion in a gale of wind she split and carried away her maintopsail, and without the aid of this sail held way with the Superb. In a heavy breeze the America carried away her mainyard, and returned to Lisbon to refit. On Monday, the sth inst., at noon, the Thetis parted company with the Superb 79 miles south-west of the Lizard, bound to Corunna and Lisbon. Wind S.W. The Thetis, besides her excellent sailing qualities, possesses good capabilities for stowage, and altogether reflects great credit on her constructors. About two months since she scraped her bottom on a shingle bank which has been for a long time forming on the north side of the Tagus, and will in consequence require docking. For that purpose she is ordered to sail at two o'clock this afternoon for Portsmouth. hail been presented, the signal bell to retire was tolled, and the great people gave way to an equal number of paupers, in order that they might regale themselves upon M. Soyer's soup. The contrast was sudden and bold. A moment before and a great number of lovely faces smiled their approval of everything they saw, and a moment after decrepid age, upon whose faces it would be hard to say whether time or hunger had made the most havoc, were ranged at the same table. Ladies Emily and Kathleen Ponsonby, Mrs. Williams, the Misses Brady, Mr. Gerald Ponsonby, Mr. C. Connellan, the Lord Chaneellor, the Dean of the Chapel Royal, and several others, remained inside the square formed b y the range of tables whilst the poor people were enjoying their meal, and the pleasure which those benevolent per sonages derived from seeing the poor people give e very token of their approval of the " steam-engine-soup,' was visible upon every countenance, the ladies seeming W take the deepest interest in the subject. REPEAL; ASSOCIATION. The weekly meeting of the association was held this day. Mr. M. Murphy in the chair. Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL, in reference to aletter from the Rev. Mr. Campbell, Clogher Head, Drogheda, inclosing rent, adverted to the attempt which had been recently made by the landlords to impose the entire payment o f poor rates on the tenants solely, and observed that if any thing were wanted to fill to overflowing the cup of landlord oppression, it was that attempt. He expressed his apprehension that the felon attempt would again be made in the House of'Lords, and would in all probability be successful. It would be advisable that some plan should be adopted to make their Lordships aware of the ruin that would inevitably fall on the tenant-farmers of Ireland if the clause sought to be introduced by Lord George Bentinck were suffered to become law. That base attempt of the Irish landlords entirely removed from his (Mr. O'Connell's) mind—and he thought it ought to remove from the mind of every man of common sense — any those lingering l ands feelinghieh wereof threatenedsympathy with co nfiscation. would, therefore, welcome the accession of English proprietors He of capi talists to the possession of those estates, if they wou l d f only take care of the people—if they would only be humane to the people—if they would only preserve the lives of the people ; and if they acted so they would be heartily received.—(Cheers.) The letter of the reverend gentleman, to which Mr. O'Connell alluded, contained the following passages : "Here we have not joined in the foolish yell that has been raised against Roebuck and some other English Members, for their attacks upon the Irish landlords. A harsh and disgusting picture of them he has given, but I fear there was little creative power engaged in perfecting it. Take a glance at the original, and judge. The relief committee of Clogheran, Walahestown, applied to the landlords of the district for contributions to the relief fund established in the parish. The letter of application stated that great distress existed in the neighbourhood, and that grea t e xerti o n s would be re quired to meet it. Th e l an dl or d s o f th e p ar i s h are Sir Patrick Bellew, having acres, 1,135; Smith Barry, ditto, 1,864; E. H. Byrne, ditto, 869; A. Newcomen, ditto, 852; J. Godley, ditto, 366; Major Bonner, ditto, 217; George Ball, ditto, 213; Braluvwys.fiitto, .1 t 4 6. - Amount "Of subscriptions received from the abiii4e,- 20/.—being 101. from Sir P. Bellew, and 10/. from E. H. Byrne. The other honourable gentlemen (for they are all—all, honourable gentlemen) did not even condescend to reply. Thus the entire burden of the support of the poor has been thrown upon the unfortunate occupiers, and well and nobly have they borne it. It would be uninteresting to detail their exertions, though perhaps their contributions might excite shame, if such a quality be an attribute of an Irish landlord. And is it to the tender charge of this merciless class the Premier of England would consign the Irish poor? A Poor Relief Bill in the hands of the Irish aristocracy! Out upon the hideous mockery—the ugly delusion. What effect, think you, will the proverbial hard heartedness of the class, excited by fear of confiscation, give to the law? Well informed persons believe, and I think prove, that out door relief amongst us must work confiscation. And what of that? Place the London banker, the Yorkshire manufacturer, or the Liverpool trader in the position of landlord—would he be deaf to the cries of hunger and destitution and death? Would he, when the wail of famine and pestilence is borno on every breeze, clutch closer his money-bags, and pull tighter their strings? No; he has sympathy with his kind; he has not been schooled in inhumanity; he has not exacted his pound of flesh; the widow's tear and orphan's blood have not swelled his cup of revel. But perhaps the Premier in tended this grim-faced grace to execute vengeance on the landlords, by making them the instruments of their own annihilation—complacency in the thought would be cruel. I would rather punishment less circuitous, though not so bitter—direct deprivation of property where the owners leave its duties unfulfilled. Ah I spoliation, robbery. Not more so than disarming an insane man, or the depriving a child of a dangerous plaything. And a dangerous and destructive plaything Irish property has been in the hands of its owners." The reverend writer suggests, by way of postcript l that LIFE ASSUR ANCE. Example.—A person at the age of 30 next birthday may secure the sum of 1401. payable at his death, whenever it may happen, and also participate in the An n u al Division of Profits, by the annual pay ment or 21. 3d. Example.—A person at the age of 25 next birthday, by the pay m.,nt of 4s. per month, or is. per week, may secure the sum of 1121.55. payable at his death. whenever it may happen, and like wise share in the annual F profits of the Society. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary. N ATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE 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 feiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premiums paid (see Table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in terests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances for terms of years are granted at the lowest possible rates "If some Member of Parliament were to move for a return of the relief committees in Ireland, and of the applications made by them for relief to the landlords, of the number of acres held by these landlords in such districts, and of the sums received from them, this would unmask the hypocritical exertions of several of the Irish party!" Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL subsequently addressed the meeting at considerable length. In compliance with his recommendation, the committee of the association had determined to request of the Catholic clergy to furnish. as far as they could possibly do it, an abstract of the number of deaths which had occurred since the com mencement of the famine. Having spoken at consider able length on a variety of topics, the honourable gentle man concluded by reading the address of the association to the people of England, thanking them for their pri vate subscriptions in aid of their fellow - countrymen in Ireland. The rent for the week was announced to be 251. Is. sd. The meeting then adjourned. THE IRISH CORN MARKETS. CORK, APRIL 3.—Supplies of grain to our market continue to be very limited. The same dulness and de pression which we had occasion to report so frequently of late, continue to characterise the trade in every de partment. For Indian corn we have had a heavy draging trade, at gradually declining rates, say 20s. to to 30s. per ton on the week; cargoes on the spot have been sold as low as 121.. to 121. 55., and in small parcels at 121. 10s. to 13/. per ton; a better feeling, however, has been manifested in this article for the last couple of days, owing to the improved tone of the English markets. BALLINASLOE, APRIL 3.—The corn market was very plentifully supplied; the prices were lower than last mar ket. There was a large quantity of potatoes offered for sale. Wheat, 455. to 495.; oats, 16s. to 19s. per barrel. Potatoes, 2d. to 10d. per stone. TRALEE, APRIL 3.—lndian meal, which not long since sold so high as 2s. Bd. per stone, fell on Thursday last down to 2s. 3d., and is now selling at 2s. 2d. Other bread-stuffs exhibit a tendency downwards. In the several markets of our county, too, the potatoes, which so long lay perdu, are rolling in in unexpected abun dance. To-day the supply has been enormous, and prices averaged from 14s. to 15s. per half quarter of 10 stone for minions; white, 7s. to 9s. per ditto: black bulls, for seed, Bs. to 10s. GALWAY, APRIL 3.—Our corn market to-day was but moderately supplied. Farmers were demanding prices. irrespective of the recent considerable decline, and few sales were made until an advanced hour of the day. There is more than the usual show of potatoes. CORK.—MOST IMPORTANT.—At the advanced hour at which the subjoined reached us, it would be impossible to do mora than place it before the public. We may add that a finance committee has been, we are told, appointed, viz.:—the Mayor, the High Sheriff, Mr. Sarsfield, and Captain Broughton:— DIVISION OF PROFITS. The remarkable success and Increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a fourth bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid on each Policy effected on the Profit scale. EXAMPLES. rf 1 7) ' 4 Bonus Bonus In 15 o 5 Assured 1a g Premium. .42 added. Cash. Ei g may ge , ts.. 0 Borrow. . --- A 1837 £217 15 1 £lOO 011 £ l6 0 4 £ 445 0 0 Z £ 6. 1838 192 3 0, 87 1 4 13 10 2 39 5 11 I 8 GO 1000 3 4 183940 116 165 1 7 1 101 74 1 9 17 18 101 3 11 296 34 4 13 4 1841 111 6 8 2 3 1 1 81 54 010 1 4910 0 710 4 247 4 5 The division of profits is annual, and the next will be made In member of the present year. F. FERGUSON CLIKROUX. Secretary. M U N I FICENT Girr.—A gentleman called last week at Messrs. Berries and Co., in St. James's-street, and left, under the initials Z. Z. Z., five hundred pounds in aid of the Royal Free Hospital in Gray's Inn-road. We are glad to find, that, while enormous sums are being given by the benevolent for the alleviation of Irish dis tress, the charities of our own country are not forgotten. THE GOVERNMENT AT THE CAPE.—Sir Peregrine Maitland, the late Governor and Commander-in-Chief at the Cape, is expected to arrive in England shortly. The Gallant Officer, who has lately been promoted to the rank of General, has been warmly congratulated on the fact of his administration having witnessed the submis sion of nearly the whole of the malcontent chiefs. Lady Pottinger still continues in London, and it is not likely that her Ladyship and family will join Sir Henry for some time, if, indeed, as the Gallant Major-General, having undertaken the responsible and onerous office solely with the view of rendering service to his Sove reign and country, is likely to retire as soon as peace is firmly re-established in the colon x. SEED POTATOES FOR THE HIGHLANDS.---A Con siderable quantity of very healthy seed potatoes and oats, with other necessaries, for farming were shipped at Beauly last week for the Highlands. Inverness Journal T HE EXPERIENCE LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. Edinburgh, 15, George-street. Lonon, 58, King William-street. Established d 1843. Capital 300,0001. This Company's Tables are based upon the EXPERIENCE OF THE SEVEN I'EEN LIFE OFFICES,as contained in the Report of their Mortality published in 1843. The Company embraces, in its constitution, the advantages of both the mutual and proprietary systems of Assurance. The SHORT PERIOD RATES will be found, in comparison with other Companies, to be exceedingly favourable to Insurers, and the rates for the whole period of life as low as is consistent WITH PERFECT SEat CURITY. For prospectuses, &c.. apply the offices as above, or to any of the Agents throughout the kingdom. By order of the Directors, T. YUILLE WARDROP, Secretary. ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. No. 29, LOMBARD-STREET, corner of Clements-lane. Capital 2,000,000/., in 100,000 Shares of 201. each. TRUSTEES. John Shaw Leigh, Esq. I R. ?I. B. H. Blundell, Esq, JOSIAS BOOKER, Esq., Chairman. HUGH J. SANDERSON, Esq., and CHARLES TURNER, Esq., Deputy Chairmen of the Board of Directors in Liverpool. DIRECTORS IN LONDON. Samuel Baker, Esq. I William Wainwright, Esq. Robert Dudgeon, Esq. I George Young, Esq. Summons—E. A. Lloyd, Esq., F.R.C.S., Surgeon to St. Bartholo mew's Hospital ; and Hugh J. Sanderson, jun., Esq. ACTUARY —Percy M. Dove, Esq. BANKERS—MOWS. Robarts, Curtis, and Co. SOLICITOR—C. T. Jenkinson , Esq., 29, Lombard-street. S URVEYOR —John Newman, Esq., F.S.A. SECRETARY TO THE LONDON BOARD — G. H. Whyting. The Directors of the Royal Insurance Company. consisting of a large body of responsible proprietors, beg to announce that they are ready to afford to the • public m an y important advantages in effecting either Fire or Life Insurances. Tables of Rates, and any particulars that may be required on the subject of Assurance, will be given on application at either of the Company's offices, or any of its appointed agents. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager. The Directors are willing to receive applications from per sons of influence, intelligence, and activity, to undertake agencies in the vicinity of the metropolis, it being their determination only to appoint agents possessing those qualifications. N.B. All Fire Insurances becoming due at Lady Day should be paid on that day, or within fifteen days after. —.___ HERTFORDSHIRE ELECTIONEERING.—Two out of the three Members who represent the county are re ported to be desirous of retiring; and all the gentlemen who have been thought worthiest to succeed them have coyly withdrawn from the flattering proposal. Colonel Calvert, Mr. Hale, Mr. Spencer Cowper, Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Mr. Bosanquet are reported to have turned a deaf ear to all such suggestions. Mr. Brand has been retiring for fifteen years, or, more properly speaking, refusing to come forward, for ho never actually an nounced himself a candidate. But now, at last, when the general voice points to him as the fittest person, and the most certain to unite the suffrages of one party at least, he has consented to do violence to his inclina tions, and to sacrifice his preference for a country life in order to perform the duty which will be thrust upon him of serving the public as a Knight of the Shire.—Hert ford Mercury. ACTIONS FOR SMALL DEBTS IN SUPERIOR COURTS . —There was only one cause set down for hearing in the Secondaries' Court yesterday. A. jury was sworn, and in a very short time concluded their labours. The action was for 11/. 3s. 6d. for goods supplied ; and the defendant, in one of his letters which was read, admitted the debt, and expressed his opinion that the costs had exceeded the original claim. The jury gave a verdict for the sum claimed. It is very probable that very few cases will now be tried in this court, on account of the new county courts. HARVEST PROSPECTS. y l übt n b ra ti a t ny eve p r l y ac th es in g would re mising aspect.—Th e P o t a t o —. CORK, APRIL 3.—Considerable progress ha s b een made in out-door w ork ; vegetation is said to bu b t e a wi g t o b od deal retarded, and th e young a office this morning a samp l e o wheat s are reported as o irep u dkr n ool dness of which r a th er surpr i se d looking lsTpiutohtuatleaeur teorueawsip, rain t ba a t hus r a c ei h stee e bi frz d tfeue a iaai n stna d udno duso s us, and tend to encourage the hope that the root may yet, with care and a ttention, bo cult ivate d w i th success. The potatoes, which , we believe, are of the description called White Quarries, were planted i n March, 1845, and Battersea cabbage was sown in the same ground in 1846. On digging the ground this morning a considerable quantity of fine sound potatoes was fo un d t h ere, w i t h out any symptom of the disease heretofore so destructive to that esculent. They w ere found o n the land of Mr. John to us to be abl e to announce that, Sadleir, Gaol-road. —Cork Reporter. T R ALEE, APRIL 3.—While we wo u ld b e f ar f rom en yeearurisA, itgln en couraging th ra in various parts of this county, wh ere an ear l y crop of this esculent has been tried, every p rom i se of a healthy growth is exhibited. W e have c o nversed with a public officer, who has been th rou g h t he entire of the county, gratifying sowing of potatoes to th e extent of former and he assures us that not only are the early potato crops giving token of all absence of disease, but that a greater quantity has been sown than was apparent this time " Cork, Ist April, 1847 F REEMASONS' AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. " Gentlemen—l am instructed to make known to your committee, that the reduction of 20 per cent., which has been made upon the public works will be shortly followed by a further reduction, and that great distress and con fusion will necessarily arise unless prompt and energetic measures are taken by the relief committees for giving effectual relief to destitute persons in their districts. The relief commissioners are prepared to advance money where it is necessary to the finance committees, when the required preliminary steps shall have been taken by the relief committee. the finance committees, and the board of guardians, but the commissioners are wholly unable to act until these steps have been taken. I there fore earnestly request you will lose no time in calling 11, WATERLOOPLACE, P ALL-M ALL, LONDON. Business transacted in all the branches and for all objects of Life Assurance, Endowments, and Annuities, and to secure contingent Reversions, &c. 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" As a committee, instituted for the relief of Ireland, we have, within the last month, remitted to a committee of the Society of Friends in Dublin, viz:—Joseph Bewley, James Perry, and Thomas Pim, jun., the sum of 1,3001., in two remittances, one of 1,0001., and another of 3001. " We now beg to hand you the first of a bill for 5001. drawn in your favour by the Bank of Charleston, upon the Bank of Liverpool, which we desire you to distribute at your discretion among st the su ff ering poor of Ireland. The only condition we dsire to impose upon you is, that you distribute the money where it is most needed, and where it can do most good— all else we leave to yourself. " In imposing this duty upon you, we are quite aware that we are calling upon you to take upon yourself no small degree of labour and trouble ' • but from the known benevolence of your chara c t er , we doubt not the trouble will be considered a pleasure, and- that you will derive as much heartfelt satisfaction from administering to the wants of the needy and afflicted, as we can possibly do in being made the instruments of forwarding so pure and holy a purpose. We have the honour to be, with.,great • , ... respect, yours, " JAMES ADGER, Committee of H. W. CONNER, the Hiber- ALEX. ROBINSON, nian Society. " To William Ogilby, Esq., Kilcatten, Claudy, County of Londonderry." E MIG RATION. If the tide of emigration continues to flow with the same rapidity which it has for the last month, the country will soon become desolate indeed. Every sea port in Ireland is full to overflowing. We have been in formed that one noble Lord in the province of Connaught is about to ship not less than thirteen hundred families(!) off his estate, paying half their expenses. If things pro gress in this way, there will be very little use for the bailiff, and " Gerrardism" will vanish from the land.- 7'uam Herald. From every part of Ulster the middling and small class of farmers are leaving in hundreds for the purpose of seeking a future home on the other side of the At lantic. The English and Scotch steamers carry out with them, weekly, immense numbers for Liverpool and Glasgow, the impatience to quit Ireland being so great, that should a vessel not be ready to sail immediately from Derry for America, they set oat with all possible speed for the above p or t s . W e h ave b een i n f orme d th a t within the last three weeks fully fifteen hundred persons have embarked at Portrush, the steamers on arriving there being scarcely able to take all the passengers offering.--Londonderry Sentinel. ROBBERY OF THE BALLINASLOE COACH.—The day coach, running between Ballinasloe and Dublin, was robbed on Tuesday evening last of 300/, money sent by the Board of Works for the payment of labourers, &c. It seems that the perpetrator was an acting guard em ployed during the sickness of the permanent guard. He broke open the box and took three bags of silver to the above amount. There was a large sum in notes which he did not touch. He has absconded.—Galway Vindicator. The Board of Works have considerately appointed Mr. Abraham Prim, pay-clerk, county Kilkenny, i n room of his murdered cousin. There were forty appli cations.— Waterford Freeman. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. CORK, APRIL 2.—James Buchanun, a corporal in the 73d Regiment, was indicted for the murder of Corporal Thomas Frisby, of the same regiment, at Cork barracks, on the night of the 2d September, 1845. It appeared that the prisoner, in a fit of intoxication, fired the shot which deprived the deceased of life. The jury, after a long delay, returned a verdict of guilty. GALWAY, APRIL I.—Several persons have been tried and convicted of stealing cattle and sheep. %~~ with such nourishment, bedding, clothing, medicines, and medical appliances, and other necessaries, as may be necessary for the due care and treatment of the poor persons admitted into every such hospital, " and_ also such a number of competent nurses and attend ants as the Commissioners of Health may think ne cessary for each hospital, and also to rent, hire, or' procure a house, building, or room, to be used as a dispensary, or office, for the medical officer of such , union, and to provide such other medicines and medical appliances, including nutriment, if necessary, as medical officer b offi e c a er ffee m te ay d w re i g th ui d r i e se t a o se o . ut-destitute, personsthe md who e may The fourth clause declares that three members of any relief committee can constitute a quorum; and the fifth clause vests the management of hospitals and dispensaries, procured as before directed, in the relief committees, subject to the superintendence of the Commissioners of Health. Persons affected with fever, or other epidemic disease, to be admitted under the authority of the committee, or by their officers, duly authorised; and the medical officers appointed under the provisions of the existing Act shall be continued for the purposes of the new Act. The sixth clause, which, with the two succeeding clauses, has been taken from the 58th Geo. 111., esp . 47, empowers the relief committees to give such diree. tions as they consider necessary and expedient for preventing the communication of fever or other epidemic diseases within their respective electoral districts or divisions; and for that purpose to order that all streets, lanes, courts, gardens, &c., shall be cleansed and purified; and that all manures prejudi cial to health shall be removed therefrom; and that all houses in which any sick persons were residing shall be ventilated, fumigated, white-washed — the building and furniture to be exposed to the air, washed, cleansed, and, if absolutely necessary, burned and destroyed. The seventh clause vests the relief committees of those districts where fever hospitals have been esta blished with power to remove infected persons (not under proper medical _care, and not placed in such circumstances and under such precautions as may most probably tend to prevent the communication of disease) to hospital, upon the certificate of the medical officer, after due inquiry into the circumstances of the case. This power is, however, accompanied with the following proviso :—" That the said relief committee shall in all cases of such compulsory removal of any person into such fever hospital, make a special report thereof to the said commissioners within two days after such removal shall take place." The eighth clause imposes a maximum penalty of 51., or one month's imprisonment, upon conviction before two magistrates, on any person who shall resist or oppose the execution of the powers of the relief committees under this Act, such conviction not to be quashed for informality, nor to be subject to any certiorari proceeding or appeal whatever. The ninth clause declares that the general issue be pleaded in any action brought against relief com mittees, collectively or individually, or their officers, and that, in the event of the plaintiff in the suit fail ing to establish his case, the tribunal before whom the case underwent adjudication shall award costs to the defendant. The tenth clause enacts that the necessary ex penses incurred by any relief committee, in carrying any order of the relief commissioners into effect, and in the execution of the other purposes of this Act, shall be defrayed out of the funds from time to time placed at the disposal of such relief committee, under the provisions of the Destitute Poor Act of the present ' session. The eleventh clause enacts that, notwithstanding the 10th Victoria, cap. 7, sec. 3, which declares that no relief committee shall be continued after the first day of November in this year, unless for the purpose of settling or closing their accounts, " in any case in which previously to the first day of November any relief committee shall have received instructions from the relief commissioners, for executing the provi sions of the Act of last session, in any electoral dis trict or division, such relief committee, and also, - the finance committee for the union, shall continue: for the purposes of the Act of last session, and of this Act, during the continuance of this Act, or until the Lord- Lieutenant, or other chief governor or governors of Ireland, shall, by any order to be published in the Dublin Gazette, dissolve such relief or finance com mittee. POOR-LA W FOR IRELAND. The following is a copy of the petition adopted on Friday last, at a meeting of the Parochial Board of the city parish of Glasgow, in favour of the Ministerial Poor-law for Ireland:— The twelfth clause declares that in the case of certificates issued by the Board of Health, after the Ist of November in this year, the provisions of the 10th Victoria, cap. 7 (under which the relief com mittees are appointed) shall be extended and applied to such cases ; and the costs and expenses of carrying the same into execution, after the disbursement of the funds in the hands of the finance committee and relief committee on the Ist day of October in this year, shall be paid and pro v id e d b y th e b oar d o f guardians of the union, in like manner as in the .Axt of last session. The thirteenth clause provides for the decent in terment o f destitute persons dying of ,fever, by em powering relief committees to defraribk-exrpees 9f . 'the same out of the itinds placed at theii. ditposidir , :t : o 4 l4 The fourteenth clause fixes the duration of tai@ 1 — 7 - fifteenth she Ac t , nameel clause, e u , n w ti b l ie t h he i s e n the d of l l a as s t t , decsessio n`; t a l i rt the Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this session of Parliament. " UNTO THE HON. THE COMMONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED. " The petition of the Parochial Board of the city parish of Glasgow, " Showeth,—That your petitioners, as the represen tatives of the ratepayers of this populous city parish, have, in the discharge of the arduous and responsible duties imposed upon them as managers of the poor's fund, experienced much difficulty and annoyance, A.R well ap-araeoz its an unprecedented, increase-o f expe4atur utmost entirely from the extraordinary influx of im r tent', i.r....4,nie, and diseased Irish paupers into 's parish. " That your petitioners, while deeply sympathising with their distressed Irish fellow-subjects an the calamity that has overtaken them upon the failure of the potato crop, cannot but express their surprise that so little should have been done by the wealthy classes in that country to ameliorate this distress—a distress as yet that has had to rely for its relief upon British chatity and the taxation raised from British industry. " That, in the opinion of your petitioners, an absolute necessity exists for the introduction of a sufficient Poor law into Ireland, whereby an adequate provision shall be made for the relief and support of the impotent, infan tine, diseased and aged poor of that country, and that the fund for this purpose should be raised by an assess ment upon all incomes, whether arising from real or personal property. " That your petitioners feel persuaded, had such a law as this existed in Ireland, they would not have had to complain of the present influx .ef Irish paupers, who, from their wretchedness, destitution, and disease have not only absorbed and are absorbing a large proportion of the rate levied for the poor properly belonging to this parish, and spreading contagion among them, but are also setting a most pernicious example to the lower classes of this city, by accustoming and instructing them to look to parochial aid for support, instead of depend ing, as Scotchmen were wont to do, upon their own in dustrious exertions. FUNERAL OF THE LATE BARON c_wohn Y nns e es s x t e llo r an d m a w y e DE BODE. thh m as o h r ia n sk i l ng eeasdayl t c h eln e aliim r s e t ni d a w i n n en s rieve o dr f esap t lo h s i i s nobleman, sympathy final rest ing-a ult place, Church, ricsh, necessary St. J ohn lac t o ' se: w s taoaot Joh n' s-wood. that subja c ent fam ily t O arrangements t h e vented his numerous friends fro m p ay i ng until now the final tribute of respect to his memory and his virtues. The present Baron enjoined on his brother to waive the rites of sepulture till his return from Russia, and, con sequently, the name of deceased, who has been dead since Oct. 2d, 1846, is again introduced to a sympa thising public. Just as some prospect of success began to cheer his gloom of disquiet and disappointment, he passed away, leaving to his successor the pending doubts and dangers of the law. On Tuesday, 8 P.m., the corpse was privately removed from the family residence, 18, Grove-end-road, to the church, and at 12 o'clock yesterday, after a solemn high mass, the crimson-velvet cushion, ornamented with the insignia of six orders, the baronial coronet, the dark plumes, and the gloomy pall, were removed. The heaving hearts and tender tears of the mourners, among whom we observed Mr. Sergeant Manning and Matthew Davenport Hill, Esq., were in perfect keeping with the gloomy drapery of the edifice. The slow and plaintive notes of the organ during divine service, accompanied by the solemn hymn of the choristers in the Dies tra dies like thrilled the hearts of all present. The coffin was then borne on the shoulders of six bearers, pre ceded by the officiating clergyman, the acolytes, and sacristans. The m9urners, seventeen in numbvr, fol lowed, and the De Profundis having been chaunted . the vault, they returned from the " narrow house," where the late Baron de Bode rests free from pangs and pains. The universal sympathy for this victim to legal tech nicalities induces us to hope that his successor will reap the harvest for which the departed so lon g and justly laboured, and that English justice and English inde pendence will be ever prompt to repudiate any de cision 1 which may interfere with the honour and integrity of our national glory. " That your petitioners fear, unless your Hon. House interfere and prevent this fearful ingress of Irish pau perism and disease, all the efforts that may be made, whether by private or public benevolence, to ameliorate the condition Pf our native poor, or to raise the condi tion of the lower orders in this city, either temporally or spiritually, will be rendered abortive. " That your petitioners have seen with alarm that her Majesty's Ministers, in the Irish Poor-law Bill which they have introduced to your Hon. House, have ad mitted the principle of granting out-door relief to the able-bodied poor—a principle your petitioners hold to be opposed to sound political economy, as well as inde pendent feeling and sound morals among the lower orders ; and, should your Hon. House sanction such a principle, your petitioners do not hesitate to aver that it will lead many to trust entirely to the poor fund fur their support who but for this enactment, would assur edly trust to their own exertions ; while it will alsocht stray all feeling of gratitude on the part of the receiver of that aid—a feeling which ought ever to exist, and which your petitioners earnestly desire to foster and encourage, rather than destroy, and which they pray your Hon. House to carefully watch over and protect, and not supersede. " That your petitioners, as the representatives of this populous parish, feel themselves especially called upon to give utterance to their opinions on this question, as they have to provide not only for the maintenance of their own destitute poor, but also, under Ihe recent Poor law Act for Scotland, they are compelled to provide temporary aid For an overwhelming number of their im potent, infantine, and diseased fellow-subjects, having no settlement in this parish, and for the relief granted to whom they have no resource whatever. " May it therefore please your Hon. House to pass a measure for establishing an efficient Poor-law, by which adequate relief shall be provided for the impotent, in fantine, diseased, and aged poor in Ireland, and other wise adopt such measures as shall relieve your peti tioners from the intolerable and oppressive burden to which, from the causes set forth above, they are at pre sent subjected. "And your petitioners shall ever pray. " Signed and sealed in the name and by appointment of the Parochial Board of the city parish of Glasgow, at Glasgow, this 27th day of March, 1i47." EASTER TERM. — Yesterday, on the opening of the offices of the Common Law Courts after the holidays, the lists of the arrears for Easter Term, commencing on Thursday next, were exhibited. As the first of the three Courts, the Court of Queen's Bench requires par ticular notice on the present occasion. Hitherto the new trial paper of that Court contained many causes ; and, on reference to the time the rules were obtained, it was ascertained that 18 mouths or two years had elapsed; and it was found that, to obtain a rule nisi, was in effect to d lay justice for no inconsiderable pesiod. The Learned Judges, by their exertions, have made great progress in diminishing the arrears, and thejiwf aortrhe n o w only en suing term clearly reveals their laboturas, th.o earliest of aslabours. There I only 62 rules tp be argued for newT t a w nd. o. .o o f th s e r r e s m . remain- s p ec ial cases and ing for judgmen t, demu one errcse Easterwill decide ; one un for et judgment. In the Court of Common Pleas, the re p its 5 enlarged rules and 46 rules for new trials, a ll of which, with the excepti on of two„ we re move d in, l and s, since Michaelmas Term ; there are' s rules for m _ju d gme nt. In the demurrer paper there are 23 rules ap pointed atopebr exhib its (3 n the 21st nst. The peremptory paper of the Court of Exchequer has 5 rules for argu ment. Of cases in the special paper there are 22 for argument and 1 for judgment; whilst of demurrers there are three for judgment and 26 for argument. In the new trial paper there are 6 rules for judgment and 36 for argument, all of which, with the exception of 6, were moved in Hilary Term. It is not too much to say, that the lists.of the three Courts present, on the w bole, a very healthy appearance; and that, by renewed e) rtions, the Court of Queen's Bench will shortly reach th.e two other I Courts in the number of rules for new trials.. MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The - deaths re gistered in the London districts during the: past week (the first of the spring quarter in the Registr ttx-General's returns) were 1,004, being a decrease of 25 on the mor tality of the previous week. The weekly average de rived from the deaths of the last five :springs, and corrected for increase of population, is 914,, but as many of the deaths occurred before the expire tion of the winter quarter, the mortality of the week in ay be com pared with the winter average, which is 1,018. Deaths from diseases of the epidemic class continued -.to decrease, being only 107, of which 33 were from /ice:Ting-cough. Diseases of the lungs ranged between the spring and winter averages, and bronchitis was still more than usually fatal, especially to persons advert( led in years. The week was remarkable for the lowness o, f temperature which prevailed throughout; the thermometer on three days registered below the freezing point, and on Saturda7 last was 8i degrees below the temperature of_ thf . , day on an average of 25 years. As comp! !red. wi th the previous week, the atmosphere was _co v ld oi et _D.Y e Ze v i.x'2 10 degree—a circumstances which will any increase observable - tered in the present week. in the num ber 0 g aeß 4 `3 l 4 FEVER BILL (IRELAND). _ The following is an analysis of the Bill p m re r pa L re a d . and recently introduced into Parliament by Act foorf thethe b p o u u rp ch ose ere of an am d en th d e ing lri a s i h ld Solicitor tn -Genera poor per last session providing for the tree declares that the Poor Act son T s h a e ffl p ic re te a d m wd e th b f r e i v e e fl r y inl reland. of last session can be more effectually carried out by relief committees appointed under " The Act for the Temporary Relief of Destitute Persons in Ireland," which received the Royal assent about four weeks since, than by the board of gua r di ans o f any union for the relief of the destitute poor. The first clause enacts that the present Fever Bill, which was to have expired on the Ist of next Sep tember, shall, subject to the amendments hereinafter contained, be continued until the Ist day of Novem ber next, and thence until the end of the next ses sion of Parliament. The second clause authorises the Commissioners of the Board of Health in Ireland, from time to time, as they shall think fit, to transmit, under 10 Victoria, cap. 10, to the relief commissioners, a written certifi cate of the necessity of medical relief being afforded to the destitute poor affected with fever, or other epidemic disease in any electoral division, for which a relief committee shall have been constituted. The third clause directs that the relief commis sioners, on the receipt of the previously mentioned certificate, shall issue their written orders to .the relief . committees to provide fever hospitals and dispensaries,