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AY COMMAND OF HER MAJESTY'S POSTMASTER GENERAL. TOWN CONTRACT for CONVEYING the LONDON DISTRICT POST LETTER BAGS. 14 etice is hereby given, that her Majesty's Postmaster General will be ready to receive TENDERS on or before the Ist of June. next, for Cony , eying the London District Letter Bags by Horse Rides and Mail ~a rns to and from the following places : Charing Cross - -- 20 despatches per day. North Row Stepney Southwark Sldmouth Street • - • - _ Shoreditclt Southwark to Rotherhithe - - 6 do. Greenwich Railway, London Bridge 5 do. Sloane Street - 1 York ohdu Seliffnteer Bent to t R , 2 n a l a d r y 1 : e b o u e . .. . .. .- i . 31 1 do. 1 do. do. . do. do. w L a a Y mbeth - - - - 3 3 do. 1 do. • Camberwell do. Hackney X.B. The above Rides are employed every day, Sundays excepted. • The Particulars and full coalitions may be seen on application to the s ..,_ -uPerintending President of the London District Post-office, walkers' Post-office, and of whom Forms of ; enders may be obtained. i Janders are to b e sea l e d u p and addressed to " Her M ajesty's ' , et/nester-G eneral, " and endorsed " Ten d ers f or conve ying the Town Z Inkdon District Post Bags" and delivered before Twelve o'clock on the Ist of J une next. ' Print nn ' t il ed - fNoo Tenders will be received unless made on the proper General Post-office, May 1, 1847. 1...........____ --NIAND OF lIER MAJESTY'S POSTMASTER-GENERAL. COUNTRY CONTRACT, for CONVEYING . the LONDON DISTRICT POST-LETTEtt BAGS. be Notice is her e by g i ven, t h at h er M a j est y' s P o stmaster-General will /eadY to receive TENDERS on or before the Ist day of JUNE 1,,,,,, 1 ) ;7; for Conveying the Loudon District l'ost Country Letter Bags , " o no, Rides, Mall Carts, Stage Coaches, Omnibuses, or any other ugo Conveying Passengers, or Parcels, to and from the following a Despatches per Day. Barnet COUNTRY RIDES Bromley Enfield Enfield Highway - - - Hampton - - Harrow Croydon - - - Highgate - Staninore - Hounslow - - - Twickenham - - - Kilburn - - Putney Edgeware - - - Clap - - - Tottenham - - Norwood - Tooting - Leytonstone - W andsworth - - Hampstead - - H ammersmith - " Streatham Kensington 2 Paddington - .. - 1 r Be ll i c le n y to ack r ß N l Tßt hth ---------- per day. Frou Carshalton to Mitcham Kingston to Wandsworth - - " - 2 Kingston to Putn e y Ro ord to to ß S r t o r m at p fo to rd n FulhamWoolwich to Deptford Railnwy Station - Norwood to Dalwich -* 3 n Waltham C ross to Edmonton I Barking and Ilford to Stratford - .B. —The above Rides are employed every day, Sundays excelate • BRANCH COUNTRY RIDES. Despatch Daily. From Hounslow to Brompton - 1 t . ~ Hounslow to Kings ga t e St a ti on - ~ Barnet to Highgate • ; ~ Waltham Cross to Stoke Newington - 1 Croydon to Brixto n 1 New Cross Stati on t o W oo l w i c h - - 1 N.B.—These rides are employed every day throughout the year. the T he Conditions an d full Particulars may be seen on application to SuPerin tending President of the London District Post.oMce Gen eral Post-Office, and of whom For m s o f Tender may be obtained. Tenders are to be sealed up and addressed to her Majesty's Post -4er -General and endorsed " Tenders for conveying the Country doa day of June next. I‘33 --No Tender will be received unless made on the proper Mated form. General Post-Office, May Ist, 1847. _ : • 4, -- - 2 _- - 1 -- - 1 .- . 1 -.- 1 EASTFORGED SCRIP. INDIAN RAILWAY COMPANY. Of The rectors regret to announce that a considerable q uantit y thi :TP, frauDi dulently intended to represent the Scrip Recei p ts of cation. ° R . M P a nY , have been discovered to exist, and the Ho lders of all quirid —ce 'P ts of the East Indian Railway Company are hereby re to Bend th e same to the o ffi ces o f the Company for i Broad D street Buildings, April 29, 1847.. I. 14T"D' Secretary. EAST INDIAN RAILWAY COMPANY. beehalfeirnf:it : edh o a ti vweee is hereby given, that the DEED of SETTLEMENT •111 be sent into the country on THURSDAY next, the 6th of May; after which that portion of the scrip numbered 1 to 80,1100, which without further notice. at the discretion of the Board, - ' D. I. NOAD, Secretary. 8, Bro ad - street-buildings, May 1, 1847. oiLi 4 •B. Copi es of the report, with printed forms to accompany the P ' f " registration, may be obtained on application at the offices Company, 8, Broad-street-buildings ; Messrs. Carden and Royal Exchange-buildings; and Messrs. Laurence, ve, and Pearce, Bartholomew-lane. __l:ke registered share certificates will be issued in the order in ^ Web the deed is executed, and the priority regulated by the date of eg ecution. ou t soon as arrangerne ats will admit a notice will be Issued calling uoiders of new scrip to present the same for registration. RO.Y AL POLYTECHNIC IN STITII PION. LECTURES in illustration of ANIMAL MECHANISM, by Kin er Jones, Es q ., F.R . S ., P ro f essor of C ompara ti ve A na tomy a t g's College, on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at Half-past eee o'clock. O n the alternate Evenings on CHEMIST RY, by F. ,T .• Holmes, Esq. LECTURES on ARTIFICIAL LIGHT, and the Rts employed in its production, by Dr. Bachheffner. Experiments ;an A RMSTRONG'S HYDRO-ELECTRIC MACHINE. The gY E KING MODELS and MACHINERY explained. The varied ig ea l Effects include New DISSOLVING VIEWS, the OXY DROGEN MICROSCOPE, &c. EXPERIMENTS with the 4 VEn and DIVING -BELL, &c.. &c. Admission Is. Schools, half-price. PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY, HANOVER-SQUARE ROOMS. Si m Prl Vram., me of the FIFTH CONCERT, MONDAY Evening next:— , tb„ -- ,fila, Minor, Haydn—Aria, Signor Salvi—Concerto, Violin, I.". Joachim, Beethoven—Aria, Mad. Persiani—Overture, Oberon, a'. eh er—Sinfonia in A, Beethoven—Duetto, Mad. Persiani and Signor " 401,-- Overtare, Lea Deux Journees, C herubini. Conductor, M. Costa. Single Tickets, One Guinea, and Double Tickets, 11.105., to be had Of Messrs. Addison and Hodson, 210, Regent-street. _ l e, ' . ITOIITI.C r yI-LU TI R oi t s L AT SO T C R I E E O T AR Y O EN. of LONDON. -.- h trirsi Meeting will take place on SATURDAY. the Bth of May. : ,- - - por.iliseihmion-teasthe st this Office es ratbat the 7th. or "'/.( r at .aiau-past ,I.lght o clock A.lt .on the day of • -, 'lllbseates wM be open to Viiitors at One P.N. Tickets are issued • ''t6 Fellows' order at this Office, price ss. each ; or at the Garden in the afternoon of the day of the Exhibition, 7s. 6d. each ; but then t only to orders from Fellows of the Society. N.B. No Tickets will be issued here on the day of Exhibition. 21, Regent-street. _ WRITING, BOOK-KEEPING, &c. Persons of any Age, however bad their Writing, may, in EIGHT LESSONS, acquire permaneatly an elegant and flowing style of Penmanship, adapted either to professional pursuits or pri ♦ate correspondence. Arithmetic en a method requiring only one third the time usually requisite. Book-keeping, as practised in the Government, Banking, and Merchants' Offices. Short-hand, &c. Apply to Mr. SMART, at the Institution, 7, New-street, Covent garden. "His mode of teaching is a vast improvement upon any former antent."—Lendon Journal of ClSmmerce. SPENCER'S CHINESE LIQUID HAIR DYE. The thousands of individuals who for upwards of twenty "tars have used this celebrated liquid, pronounce it to be the only article extant which effectually changes, in a few minutes, red or P;eY hair, whiskers, moustaches, &c., to a dark brown or black, 71thout trouble (by simply combing it through the hair), and pro duces by one application a pleasing and permanen t chan g e ; and it rtbe incontestibly proved, that while many dyes tend to destroy h air by their pernicious propertie s and dangerous process of ap tcation that this article promotes the gro wth of hair, nourishing i i root; till the latest period of life. Price 3s. 6d., 65., and 10s Per bottle. ~,Fa be had of the Proprietors, 29, Nottingham - place , Field g ate We!" Whiteehapel-road, London ; also of Mr. Johnstone , 68, Corn ul Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Prout, 229, Strand ; Sanger , 150, Oxford et Barclay, Farringdon-street ; Atkinson, 24, Old Bond s hem-street, Hooper, 43, King William-street, London bridge ; Finnigin , ,_ -street, Bath ; Elmore, Bull-street, Birmingham; and of mos _rrunrers and Medicine Vendors in town and country. Sent to - 7 ~Dart of the kingdom by receiving a remittance, pest - paid. ,f!ease to ask for " Spencer and Co.'s Chinese Liquid Hair Dye.' __rye. the Proprietor's address is on the wrapper. TO LADIES. OWLAND'S KAL Y DOR 11 an ORIENTAL BALSAMIC PREPARATION of singular iiraoY in thoroughly puritying the Skin from all Pimples, Spots, 1,...,." 4 , 11 e 5 , Redness, Freckles, Tan, and Discolourations, producing a ,11 Y freshness and transparency of Complexion, and a so ft ness it —delicacy of the hands, arms, and neck. It is invaluable as a ~„e n, ug and Refreshing Wash in Travelling; and. in cases of bi"....." 4 ,Tn, Stings of Insects, or incidental Inflammation, its virtues fiZ',..!•ong and extensively been acknowledged. Its purifying and re fhlrLog properties have obtained the exclusive patronage of the Queen, and the Ro3 al Family of Great Britain, as well as the Courts of Europe, and the most distinguished Nobility and gentry of all civilised nations. * ,„ Beware of Spurious " KALYDORS," containing mineral as =gents utterly ruinous to the complexion, and which, by their re indent action, endanger health. Each bottle of the genuine kas the Words ROWLANDS' KALYDOR" on the wrapper, and A. ROWLAND and SON, 20, Hatton-garden, is also engraved (by desire of the Hon. Commissioners) on the Government Stamp affixed en each. Price 4s. 6d. and Bs. 6d. per bottle. Sold by the Proprietors, and by Chemists and Perfumers. CARSON'S ORIGINAL ANTI-CORROSION PAINT, specially patronised by the British and other Go vernments, the Honourable East India Company, the principal Dock Companies. most public bodies, and by the Nobility, Gentry, and Clergy, for ont-door work at their country seats. The Anti- Corrosion is particularly recommended as the most durable out door paint ever invented, for the preservation of every description of iron, wood, stone, brick, compo, cement, &c., work, as has been proved by the practical test of upwards of GO years, and by the nu merous testimonials (between 300 and 400) in its favour, and which, from the rank and station in society of those who have given them, have, perhaps, never yet been equalled by anything of the kind hitherto brought before the public notice. Lists of prices, colours, and other particulars, will be forwarded on application to Walter Carson, 15, Tokenhouse-Yard, back of the sank of England. No agents. ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. WITH T whNTY-FITE COLOURED ENGRAVINGS. Just published, Twentieth Thousand, in a sealed envelope, price 2s. 64. or post paid, to any address, for 3s. 6d. in Postage tamps direct from the Author's residence. SELF- PRESERVATION : A Medical Treatise on the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity. tiustrated with Twenty-five Coloured Plates on the Anatomy. rttYsiology, and Diseases of the Urinary and Reproductive Organs, their various structures, uses, and functions, and showing witiries that are produced in them, by solitary habits, and ether resew. ~,„. With Practical Observat ions on the Treatment of Nervous 4,._ — ` l "'ltY, Local and Constitut i o nal Weakness, and other diseases of we Urethra. By SAMUEL LVMERT, CONSULTING SURGEON, 9, Bodford-street, Bedford- square, London; 344 ‘. trkulated Member of the Universi t y of Edinburgh, Honorary 'is.ember of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate "Vothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &C. CONTENTS Or THE TREATISE. .SBAPTEE I. On the Philosophy of Marriage, with its Hindrance , Fd bligati oni , and on Infelicitous and Unproductive Unions.— &I'Tlx 2. On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Generative le. a .ns, their fUnctions, structures, and secretions, proving that great 4ntal and Physical Power are dependant upon their healthy action .a jibn itAt T, Eft 3. On Solitary Habits; their various effects on the Of tb—a` Economy ; the concealed cause of Debility of the function: -e Stomach, Lungs, and Brain, and general weakness of the aa Me ntal Faculties. CharrEs 4. On the Secre t Disorders of Youth Ids Maturity, and the Treatment of Nervo us and Local Weakness, Debility, and Premature Decay.—Charress 5 and 6. On iTylsorderr arising from indiscriminate Excess, Gonnorhom '"` t, Strictures, and other Diseases of the Urethra. REVIEWS Or THE WORK. "The • in author of this singular and talented work is a legally quail. the tr: . cal man , who has avidently had considerable experience of ition, e4 r nut, xtment of the various disorders arising from the fo ll ies an I early indiscretion. The engravings are an invaluable ad act as a demonstrating the consequences of excesses, which must ,L. alu , t arY warning to youth and maturity, and by its perusal catty soot :„. I ""‘Lens may be satisfactorily replied to, that admit f no ap t "ord•!st 74.4)1 to the most confidential friend."—Eta. b 3;;; ned by the Author, and may be had at his residence; also Richards, 52, Paternoster-row; Hammy and Co., 61, Le adellh reet Stacie, Tichbome-street, Quadrant ; Gordon, I 4r, all-street, London • Newton l 6 Ch u rch-street, Liverpool ▪ " Booksellers. ' ' lee et 11., for advice ,&.,.-9 [till Eight for Consultation daily, rom Nina till Two, and from ight ; and all letters irum ' ediately rep li ed to, if containin2 Wax. BEDFORD-STLiZEr LtINDO ton, I 1010 L ing e (us e, a nd LadY 'puce sa the ,t deal , orui" iy for [ mu st a part young, iinglP •epaid, end of 'tit five he use of the as the e , that L rash ° in th e , is thin' f than I oral' ~ I re pledge tbst it roil. I -e it 0 e per' urt. barged st of all twelve I Wel ised at door over , e sub -18 first ianded CV.) fresh re all for a" idiom ,. .st, it, -7 Tbe ad th e ily, at to Beans/ At- Vitt, ~ ^::. .~ •, `: - .... .. - .... , . .1.....--,,,1',,.., . ammi1 ___ ........... ~.. .._- .0: , 4 ,T i 4 4 , ..,---........) .orul • A r dte , .4. i, i4l 0 •S 1 ,,-, . ' $ ) , :#4,-7 'ce _ --, 4 1 74 1 4g , --14..: 1 1 / 4 ":':1 :131 411:4?. VI I '.V , -- 4"; o`' '' '1.4 .. "11.--- ' 4 k , ' '' '' 1 ge't. * t 1: - 8 6 -col t., Dikt, 9,.-..-- :7-1P .. iw........ .. - - -- 4,10.- „ , - 7, ..,-.,.. .;.-----,,. - ,-/' . ~.... 4.,... ~ 1 ..." ::: : ~.- ....„ No. 17,045. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING_ SU N 7 WILSON'S SCOTTISH ENTER TAINMENTS. At the MUSIC-lIALL, STORE-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE. On MONDAY EVENING, May 10, at Eight o'clock, Mr. WILSON will give an Entertainment on the SONGS OF SCOTLAND, In which he will sing a variety of Popular Songs and . Ballads. In the course of the Evening, Mr. Wilson will, by request, sing Burns's song of "GO FETCH TO ME A PINT 0' WINE." rani' FIRST.-0 weel may the BOatie row—Of a' the Airts the Wind can blaw—Whall buy Caller Herring—Hame came our gudc man at c'eu•—Over the Water to Charlie—Bonnie Bessie Lee—The Mar. icd Man's Lament Pibroch o' Domild Dhu. PART SECOND.—The Flowers o' the Forest—The Auld School — W'oo'd an' married an' a'—Auld Joe Nicholson's Bonny Nannie Get up and Bar the Door. Tickets, 2s. ; Reserved Seats, 2s. Gd. ; Private Boxes for Six Per sons, 15s. ; for Eight, 1/. N ATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSU RANCE SOCIETY. OFFICE, 26, conNruLT„ LONDON. Capital 500,0001. Empowered by Act of Parliament. The system of Deferred Annuities, originally proposed by the Na tional I,,an Fun ,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 urgenly solicited by them to establish a Branch Office in connexion with the.n uocietica and the Operative Classes generally, in which their service. might be successfully en gaged, a Committee has been sanctioned by the Directors to open communication with the different Societies, with the view of more effectually d sseminating the valuable benefits amongst the indus trious classes, and a plait has been eroposed 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, or 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, whici' should be the privilege of every one, they confine too nar rowly the thannel 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; while 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 er 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 functions. 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 ness-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 siek are likely to become chargeable upon it. But the sane perfection, or the same security, is seldom attainable where a fund is to be accumulated through a succession of years, and where results are to bear 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 : arentl Ist. Because the laws of sick ness and mortalit y , 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 te a failure in the performance of such a contract , that when undertaken on the same principles that ordinarily govern commercial bodies. 4th. Because the expenses of providing for sickness must, when united in the same payment with provision for old age, tend to to dimi nish still more this provision : nor is it wisdom or good policy 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 those 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 amon ;st 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 if that plan has furnished 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 filly satisfied that the convenience and safety of Friendly and Venefit Societies will be greatly secured and consulted, by separating 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 opinion greatly enlarge their sphere of utility, and afford a protection to the working classes in old age and adversity, which nothing up to the present day has adequately secured to them. Thomas Burthom, P.C.R., Ancient Order of Foresters. John Fussell, C.R„ Ancient Order of Foresters. John H. Gordon, D.S., 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., M anc h es ter Unity of Odd Fellows. Joseph Reeks, 11.0. F. Order of Old Friends. Samuel Timbrell, D.C.R., Ancient Order of Foresters. DEFERRED ANNUITIES. Example.—A person aged 24 next birthday, by the annual pay ment of H. 65., or quarterly payment of Ts., or monthly payments ...2.,:ip-ftle..:lla3YAmseic7e, on attaining the age of 60, the option of re cooenriEv2h.isin g Annuity, 101. 19s. 2d. ; Cash down, 1971. 38. ; or a Policy person aged 26 next birthday, may secure, on at taining the age of GO, an Annuity of 10/., with the other options, by the annual payment of 1/.65. W., or a single payment of 221. 17s. 3d.; or on payment, of GI. 14s. ad. for disparity, he will be entitled to the same benefits by an annual payment of 183.1 Id., 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 79., or monthly payment of 2s. 2d., may Bemire on attaining the age of 65, the option of re ceiving Annuity, 181. Os. 4cy cash down, 148 k 15la. ; or a policy on his life 1751. 11s. Example.—A person aged 35 next birthday, by the annual pay ment of 11. 65., or quarterly payment of 75., 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. 125.; or a policy oa his life, 1761. 115. The division of profits is annual, and the next will be made in oecember of the present year. F. FERGUSON CAMItOUX. Secretary. THE EXPERIENCE LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. Edinburgh, 15, George-street. London, 58, King William-street. Established 1843. Capital 3Q0,0001. This Company's Tables are based upon the EXPERIENCE OF THE SEVEN TEEN LIFE OFFICES,as contained in the Report of their Mortality published in 1843. The Company embraces, ix its constitution. the advantages of both the mutual and proprietary systems of Assurance. The SIIQRT PERIOD RATES will be found, In comparison with other Companies, to be exceedingly favourablo to Insurers, and the rates for the whole period of life as low as is consistent WITH PERFECT SEC theabove, the Agents throughout Dy the kingdom. order of the Directors, T. TUILLE WARDEN', Secretary. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS for ORPHAN and NECESSITOUS CHILDREN. President—JOHN MASTERMAN, Esq., M.P. Notice is hereby given, that the FIRST lIALF-YEARLY ELEC TION of CHILDREN into this Institution, will take place at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, on ItioNoss, the 28th day of June next (the polling to commence at Twelve o'clock at noon, and close at Three o'clock in the afternoon precisely), when Twenty Children will be admitted. The usual Quarterly Court of the Governors of the Institution will also be held at the same hour and place, for the purpose of receiving reports from the Auditors and Board of Management to appoint Medical Officers and a Collector for the Institution, and to entertain, discuss, and determine such other questions and matters as may be authorised and required by the Bales of the Institution. Guineas at All persons sub,•cribing One Guinea annually, or Ten one time, will be entitled to one vote for each child to be elected, or may give the whole number of votes to any one child. The attention of subscribers is particularly requested to the fol lowing Rules:— That a new subscriber be entitled to vote immediately upon pay ment of subscription. That no Governor shall in any case be admitted to vote, or to be present at any election or meeting whatsoever, until his donation or subscription for the current year Wbe paid. ILLIAM GORDON, Secretary. THE WELLINGTON SURTOUT. CAUTION. —The great success of the Wellington Surtout having caused several unprincipled persons (against two of whom proceedings have been commenced) to imitate this registered coat, although in a material derogatory to Its reputation, all persons are hereby warned that to make any garment (having sleeves) whether worn whatever orfemal P female, WITHOUT SHOULDER OR SLEEVE TOP may be s shape in other respects, is a 1 m : 1- g l e e i nent of the patentees designs, and will in every case be direct si inf ringement 3 b E visited by an action at law. Every genuine coat has a stamp bearing the royal arms, with a number indicative of the size, also the name and address of the patentee, JAMES FOUGERE, 6, CONDUIT-STREET, REGENT STREET, and 11, POULTRY, near the Mansion-House, LONDON, to imitate which is felony, T. THOMAS'S CHURCH, BREAMS. BUILDINGS, CHANCERY-LANE. On SUNDAY NEXT, the 9th of MAY, TWO SERMONS will be Preached in this Church, and Collections made towards Defraying the Expenses of Conducting Public Worship ; that in the Morning by the Right Reverend the LORD. BISHOP of CHESTER, that in the Evening by the Reverend CHARLES CLAYTON, M.A., a Senior Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge, and Secretary to the Church Pastoral Aid Society. Divine Service will commence In the Morning at Eleven, in the Evening at Half past Six. GRATIS! GRATIS! GRATIS! Every person who shall subscribe for T HE DISP A TCH During the Month of JUNE next, Will be presented with a finely Engraved Portrait of ELIZA COOK. The likeness of this poetic genius is most striking, and the En graving is by Adlard, in the first style of the art. Au Edition of the DISPATCH is published at Five O'clock every Saturday morning, for transmission by the First Trains and Morning Mails, so that persons residing in towns 250 miles from London may receive it the same evening. 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JENNY LIND'S PORTRAIT (drawn by Kenny Meadows) embellishes the PIANISTA for MAY (No. 80), now ready, and three songs sung by Jenny Lind. Also Pischek's beautiful swiss, with the German and English words, " The Standard nearer,— •* Tne Milne." and "Home." Price for the whole, 2s. No. 77 Pianists, contains " Mary _mane, — and tt a other Negro songs, sung by the Serenaders, with the Mary Blane Quad rilles, for 2s. Either number, post paid, 36 stamps. Pianists Office, First Floor, 67, Paternoster-row, one door from Cheapside. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. THANKS OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT TO AN ENGLISH SHIPMASTE R. Admiralty, May 4, 1847. Six,—Viscount Palmerston having infOrined my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that a communication has been addressed to his Lordship by the Count de Jarnac, French Charge d'Affairs, stating that he is directed to re quest that the acknowledgments of the French Government may be conveyed to Captain William Brown, commanding the English schooner Harp, of Dublin, for the services which he rendered to the crew of the French vessel La Petite Enn stifle, totally wrecked in the Bay of Biscay, I am commanded by my Lords to request that the Committee for Managing the Affairs at Lloyd's will take measures for conveying to Captain Brown the thanks of the French Government ac cordingly. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, (Signed) J. G. WARD. William Dobson, Esq., Secretary Lloyd's. THE LATE WRECK OF AN EMI GRANT SHIP. From the later particulars that have reached us rela tive to this awful catastrophe, we fear that the loss of life will prove to have been even more extensive than that recorded in our columns yesterday. Ac cording to the statement of the three sailors, the sole survivors of the wreck, and who arrived in Glasgow on Saturday evening, the Exmouth, of 320 tons, Isaac Booth, of Sunderland, master, sailed from London derry for Quebec between three and four o'clock on the morning of Sunday, the 25th ult., with a light south west breeze. She had a crew of eleven men (inclusive of the captain), and about 240 emigrants, consisting principally of small farmers and tradesmen with their families, who had turned their little all into money for the purpose of escaping the famine, and earning for themselves a home in the western world. Many were females and children going out to join their fathers and protectors, who had already settled in Canada.. There were also three cabin passengers, young unmarried ladies of the middle classes, two of them being sisters, on their way to join their relatives at St. John's New Brunswick. The vessel was registered for 1651 passen gers, but as two children count as one adult, and as a very large proportion were under age—there being only about 60 men amongst the passengers—the survivors of the wreck, who are our informists, think that the total number of these ill-fated emigrants must have amounted to the total stated, viz., 240. The ship lost sight of land about four o'clock on Sunday afternoon. The breeze, which had been light in the morning, increased to a gale during the day, and about eleven .at. it came in terrific squalls, accom panied by heavy torrents of rain. They then furled the fore and main sails. The wind, which had been to the westward at first, veered northerly, and the storm increased in violence, which blew the two top-sails from the bolt-ropes. The crew then commenced to bend other topsails, which they furled ; but about three in the morning they were blown from the gaskets. The ship was now driving to the south ward and eastward. The reason of the master not standing to the westward, where he would have ample sea room, was for the purpose of attaining some har bour of refuge, where he might repair damages, and re place the sails. On Monday forenoon the long-boat was unshipped se d d u a rin a g yw . th by the force of the s eas , w hi c h b ro k e over the vesse l , continued cl the s alife-boatmeand in the course of the s a m e. f orenoon t h e b u l war k s were oti n stove e d n the Theew hole gale n violence h wa of Monday night and Tuesday ; and an indication of the force of the hurricane may be learned from the fact, that on the latter day the mainsail, after being furled, was torn from the ga s k e t s by t h e storm blast. While the crew were setting the foresail it was blown from the bolt ropes, and the trysail-mast was unshipped, and the main gaff carried away, which rendered them unable to carry the spanker. During this dreary time, the vessel pitched dreadfully—now on the crest of a mountain wave, and in two seconds afterwards reeling in the trough of the sea ; the passengers were all below under hatches, many of them insensible to ex ternal danger from the pains of sea-sickness, but some of them had a fearful presentment of disaster. Cooking, of course, was out of the question ; but the grown-up people had no heart to be hungry, and moreover, the cooked provisions brought fiom Londonderry were not yet entirely exhausted. About eleven o'clock on Tuesday night land and a light were seen on the starboard quarter, which Captain Booth at first took to be the light on the Island of Tory, off the north-west coast of Ireland, and in the belief that he thus had ample sea-room in the course he was steering he bore along. As he drifted near the land, however, and observed that the light was a flashing, instead of a stationary one, he became con scious of his error and dangerous position, and made every effort to repair it, by bringing the ship farther to the northward and westward ; and with the view of " clawing" her off the land, the maintopsail and the foretopmast stay sail were set, and the jib half hoisted. The effort, however, was an ineffectual one ; the ship soon got amongst the broken water, and at half-past twelve on Wednesday morning was dashed amongst the rocks. e If the a b ove b e a correct vers i on o f the . impression on th e capta i n ' s m i nd as to his position—and it is distinctly spoken to by two of the survivors—the result shows that he mus t have been fully a h un d re d m il es out of his reckon mg ; but perhaps it could not well - be otherwise. The sun was obscured during all the time by black cloud. ; the moon was only seen through a heavy haze at inter vals, and from these causes it was impossible that any observation could be taken. The light seen was in reality that of Oransa or Oversay, on the point of the Rhinos or Runs of Islay, to the north-west of the entrance of Lochindaul ; and the land seen, and on which the brig eventually struck, was the western part of the iron-bound coast of the island. She went ashore, and after striking once was dashed broadside on alongside the rocks, which rose to the height of the mast head. She struck violently against the rocks three times, and at the fourth stroke the mainmast went by the board, and fell into a chasm of the rock. Captain Booth had previously taken his station in the maintop, that he might personally keep a look out; and as soon as the brig struck, John Cleat, the mate, and all the seamen, eight in number, joined the captain in the maintop, leaving the captain's son, a youth of about fifteen years of age, asleep in his cot below. After remaining in the maintop about three minutes, five of the crew went down for the purpose of ascending the foretop thinking that they would have a better chance of gaining the shore from that part of the ship. At the same time, one of the crew, named John Scott, went out upon the main yard with a life buoy on his person; thus leaving in the maintop the captain and three seamen, whose names are John Stevens, William Coulthard, and Geore Light ford, all belonging to South Shields. When the main top, along with the wreck of the mast, was thrown into a rift of the rock, Coulthard, then Lightford, and finally Stevens, scrambled up the rigging, and obtained a footing on the crags. The captain was about to follow the men, when a wave dashed over their beads as they clung to the rock, but they were enabled to maintain their position; and when they looked round, after the sea had retired, they found that the captain and all were gone. The mainmast had been broken into splinters by the fourth collision with the rocks, and this recoiling wave had not only dragged the ship, but the fragments of the mast, which adhered to her by the rigging, further into the sea, and thus cut off from the dense mass of human beings on board every chance of escape. Had the w reck remained in the chasm where it was originally thrown, and from which the three survivors escaped, it might have been used as a bridge by the others ; but, unhappily, this last possibility of relief was taken aw a y. The same wave which effecte d this fearful havoc must also have prevented the five seamen from reaching the fore top, from which they might have had a chance of escap ing.. A quarter of an hoar elapsed froul the time of the brig first striking, until the three survivors got upon the rock. At the moment she struck, and a little previous to it, about half-a-dozen of the male passengers were standing on the deck, occasionally asking the mate if there was in reality any danger. Of the three young ladies who were cabin passengers, one of the sisters had been confined to bed by sea-sickness from the moment of leaving Derry ; but at ten o'clock the other two took their position on the companion-way, and were seen there when the survivors last looked on the deck. The ship was ground and crunched so frightfully amongst the rocks, that she must have broken up almost instane ously. There was no cry from the multitude co o p ed u p within the hull of the ill-fated brig; or at least it was unheard, for the commotion of the elements was so furious that the men on the top could scarcely hear each other at the top of their voices. The emigrants, there fore,.rasa ptihd yship must thumped e have nt j e p ti perished shed i bottomn t o h u e t i r o f berths,th the vessel. and the rocks e h ' The three men who h a d escape d t o the rock, so soon but none could be f oun d ; an d t h ey fi n ally took shelter Yo d r , l for some outlet by which in a crevice, which h owever did no t s hield them from disappeared, p_e m ar i e g d h , t searched reach th a e ti anxiously the rain, which fell h eav il y a ll n i g ht, and here they re mained until grey daylight. They then discovered an opening, through which they scrambled to the summit, and after day bad fairly broken they observed a farm house about half a mile distant. Thither they proceeded, and were most hospitably nourished and put to bed. They were thoroughly worn out by exhaustion, not one of the crew having been in bed from the moment the ship left Derry. They were at the same time nearly naked, from having divested themselves of their heavy clothing when the Exmouth struck, and lost part of that which remained when scrambling on the rigging 'and amongst the rocks. The hospitable farmer (whose name we have not learned), and others who bad been apprised by him, went to the scene of the catastrophe, but of course too late to help, and only to gaze on the desola tion. Mr. Chiene, Islay's factor, soon heard of the event, and kindly furnished the men with a passage to Glasgow by the Modern Athens steamer, where, as already stated, they arrived on Saturday last. Here they were consigned to the care of Mr. Fildee, of the Naval Rendezvous, and assistant to Lieutenant Forest, agent for the Shipwrecked Manner's Society, and by him they have been clothed and comfortably boarded in the meantime. On Thursday utterutttm, the latest date of our advices from Islay, about twenty of the bodies bad =come ashore, They were principally females, with one little boy amongst them; and as many of them were in their night clothes, the probability is that they were those who had rushed upon deck at the first alarm caused by the striking of the ship. They were fearfully mangled by being dashed amongst the rocks, and being jammed within the crevices along with pieces of the wreck, few of which were above two feet in length. Other bodies were still floating in the surf, but the sea was still too high to per mit any boat venturing out to bring them in. The belief is, however, that the great mass of the poor emigrants went down with the " between decks" of the ship, so that their bodies will not be recovered till this part of the vessel breaks up. The Exmouth had nothing on board but ballast, and the provisions and little stocks of goods of the emi grants. She is the property of Mr. John Eden, of South Shields, and, though old, is stated, by the survivors, to have been well found in every respect. All the crew and passengers were perfectly sober during this fearful time, and the three seamen state that they never saw drink on board at all. The captain was in the prime of life, and has left a widow and family. All the rest of the seamen were unmarried, with the exception of a man named George Russ, who is amongst those that perished. According to the above estimate, the number who have been thus suddenly called to their account amounts to 248; but even leaving room for misieforma donor exaggeration, the loss of life has unquestionably been frightful. EFFECTS OF LIGHTNING IN THE ROYAL NAVY. The Hazard, 16, Commander Egerton, fitted with light ning conductors of Smith's wire rope, after a method re commended by the Surveyor's chief draughtsman, Mr. J. Edye, was twice struck by lightning during her late service in China. On the first occasion, May, 1846, off Diamond Point, on the north end of Sumatra, the elec tric fluid divided between the small wire rope and the mast and chain sheets ; part of it came into the ship with explosion, and split the topsail sheet bots ; the rest of the charge went over the wire rope into the seas and tore some of the copper off the bottom. The wire conductor was cripplied and bulged out by the force of the electric shock. The second time, June 12, 1846, when lying off Cape Po, at anchor, on the coast of Borneo, the electrical discharge again struck the ship. In this case the effects were more destructive ; the dis charge again divided between the rope and mast; the maiatopgallant mast was splintered and carried away, also the main topmast, part of which fell through the quarter deck into the gun-room. The other part of the discharge passed down over the wire conductor into the water. The officers on board the Hazard state that conductors of this kind are totally unfit for carrying off the heavy strokes of lightning ex perienced in this part of the world. These are very im. portant facts. They are the results of experiments on the great scale of nature, deduced by means of the gigantic electrical machinery of the thunderstorm, and which go directly to show that nothing short wf a general and extended system, of conduction throughout the masts and hull of a ship w ill ever a fford 'perfect security from lightning. I t w ill b e reme mbered that about seven years since a n ava l comm i ss ion, appointed by the Admiralty, i nquired and repo r ted to the House of Com mons on the m er i ts of various pran of lightning con ductors, and they ter m i nate d t h e ir report by earnestly and unanimously recommending the system proposed by Mr. (now Sir William) Harris, to be carried out fully in the Royal Navy. Notwithstandi n g , how ever, that this recommendation • stood supported by the of all this, the most profound men in this department of science,. such as the late Dr. Wollaston, Sir H. Davy, Daniell, Wheatstone, and others, yet, in the very _teeth Sy mend's interest with the First Lord of the Admiralty, contrived . to have these wire ropes introduced into the navy, which the Commission had declared not only an inadequate defence, but absolutely dangerous. .Of N avy office " sub," through Sir W. course the Surveyor's draughtsmaa. was better authority than the. best scientific and naval men in the country, he possessing the usual requisite q ualification for the . Somerset House officials—viz , that of being . totally ignorant of the subject he was professing to understand. Th ese small wire ropes were served into the do c k yards in considera bl e q uantities at a very gr ea t cost, and several sh i p s were suppli▪ ed with them, Now behold the consequence. 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FASHIONS FOR MAY• (From the London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.) Taffetas noires, pekins foutanges, popelines, India muslins, t glaces silks checked or strip e d, intermixed with bouquets b 6 ro le c s he d s, e N lot a il n a k rd in s de of lame,s, taffetas chines with wide stripes, pekins de roil, are all fashionable materials at this moment ; many plain and glace silks are em broidered au passe, commencing at the bottom of the skirt, and diminishing gradually to the corsage. Slighter mate rials are trimmed with several rows of flounces, the corsages full and demi-large sleeves. For redingotes, fancy buttons, or nceuds of ribbon, or of the same material, are the only trimmings used. They are sometimes embroidered with narrow gimp. Foulards are much used for peign o i rs ornament with dentille de sole, the colour of the dress. Velvet will continue in favour to ornament dresses, as well as fringes and gimps of every varie t y; Bounces are indispensable for full dress: lively bright colours are fashionable. Tight bodies have the backs forming rounded point at the waist, but not in front for redingotes, - which finish with ceinture and buckle; the ceinture cannot take the form of the point behind, and therefore only commences at the sides, not being seen at all behind. Muslin dresses of the rseadgiesnghoitgehfoarnmd full,are o r a n s a w m e e l n l teasedtish t heAr v el i ea t h larger sleeves,gdteiulf Tr e l e different n th d i se l th a y c lh e e as ; v oe t f h c e ou lis es from cor sages lante without ma r• guise, bottom, a nte t placed Andalousea little will aap a r bent.dTh fuller, e n the pardesuus most in favour this season. The mante marquise partake s s and top th to e m trim ming. For demi - to ilette the fri l l s are the same mat er i a l, that is of taffetas plain or glace of dark colour, with or with out gimp. When requ ire d han dsomer, they are emb ro id ere d beinga little so of heavy the visits, but ar all over, as well as on the frills. Still handsomer are those trimmed with two frills of lace, the lower one very deep headed by one about a third the width of the first. The mantelets for demi-toilette are of plain dark taffetas, trimmed with the same material ; the form will vary but little from those of preceding years, but they are shorter in front. Black is le ss worn for all par deasus this season ; Pale colour glaces are preferred. The spring bonnets and capotes are little more open in form ; the crowns round, and the fronts not very deep ; lilac, pink, and light green are the favourite colours. Flowers are the usual ornaments, or foliage. The materials as usual at this season, paille de riz, crape, tulle lace, fancy straws, &c. DOCK.—The directors of the Sun have agreed with the owners for the purchase of all the property that will be required for the dock and its approaches, and without the necessity of having the value of any portion thereof assessed by a jury. The contract for excavating the clay and other soil from part of the town moor and the battery adjoining, required for the der S la U n N d D i t c lt k LA co teD mpany and in order to guard against any site of the new dock, will be let by terlikr in the course of I ,,, a :r n k r nl Y en are now employed in strengthening few days. The breach made in two of the groynes by the sea, during the tremendous gale a month ago, has been tilled the three groynes by reconstructing parts thereof with solid masonr y. The old fort,:which commands the entrance to the river Wear, is to be immediately pulled down, the site being required for the dock. It has long ceased to be fortified, but u si p m w ila it r has been occupied by the Coast Guard. h acc so id li e d nt m , Mr, Rice had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his officialresidence in Down ing-street. A deputation consisting of Messrs. Horseley, Davies, and Fearon, had atl interview yesterday, with the Right Hon. E. Struts, MAY 6, 1847. MAGAZINES—(CONTINUED.) BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. The present number of Bentley opens with a Biogra phical Sketch of the Career (illustrated by a portrait) of William Hickling Prescott, the most learned and most trustworthy of American historians. The career of Mr. Prescott is one of the most curious and most interesting illustrations of the pursuit of knowledge under difficulties that to ordinary men would have appeared insuperable that_has ever neon published. Mr. Prescott had not to overcome the difficulties which beset the poor scholar. His position in life has always been that of a man of independence. his father was a judge, and William Hickling Prescott was educated at Harvard university, and afterwards travelled all Europe. his aspirations had always been to become a great historian, and the subject which he selected for his first performance was the reign of Ferdinand and Isa bella, the sovereigns under whose auspices the existence of the continent of America was first revealed to Europe; the age of Columbus, and Ferdinand and Isabella, of Cardinal Ximenes, the prototype of Talley rand, and of a gran Capitan Gonzalvo de Cordova, the prototype of Wellington. the soldier-statesman— " Mr. Alexander 11. Everett was the American Minister at the Court of Spain when Mr. Prescott decided upon the choice of his subject, and through his aid and that of two other American gentlemen residing at the time in the Pe • ninsula, he succeeded in obtaining whatever was known to exist, that could not be supplied by the public and private libraries of Boston. Among the works thus pro cured were some brought to light by the researches of recent Spanish scholars, in the peculiar freedom of inquiry they have enjoyed, which gave him great advantage over previous historians. In his preface he refers particularly to Llorente's History of the Inquisition, the analysis of the political institutions of the kingdom by such writers as Marina, Sempere, and Campmany ; the version of the Spanish- Arab Chronicles by Conde, the collections of Navarrette, and the illustrations of the reign of Isabella, by Clemencin, the secretary of the Royal Academy of History ; besides which he succeeded in obtaining various contemporary manuscripts, covering the whole ground of the narrative, none of which bad been printed, and some of which were but little known to Spanish scholars. When these literary treasures reached him, Mr. Prescott was not able to read even the title-pages of the volumes." He had lost one eye by accident in his early youth, and had by study soxtrained the nerve of the other, that he was all but completely blind. He at first despaired, but " He determined to try whether he could make the ears do the work of the eyes. He taught his reader, unacquainted - tanguagii- but hie owo, to pronounce - the Spanirsh, though not exactly in the accent of the Court of Madrid. He read at a slow and stumbling pace, while the historian listened with painful attention. Practice at length made the work easier for both, though the reader never understood a word of his author. In this way they ploughed along pa tiently through seven Spanish quartos. He found at last that he could go over about two-thirds as much in an hour as he could when read to in English. The experiment iwas made, and he became convinced of the practicability of sub stituting the ear for the eye. He was overjoyed, for his library was no longer to consist of sealed.volumes. He now obtained the services of a secretary acquainted with the dif ferent ancient and modern languages. Still there were many impediments to overcome. His eye, however, gradually im proved, and he could use it by daylight (never again in the evening) a few hours; though this was not till after some years, and then with repeated intervals of weeks and some times months of debility. Many a chapter, and some of the severest in Ferdinand and Isabella were written almost wholly with the aid of the eyes of his secretary. His modus operandi was necessarily [peculiar. He selected first, all the authorities in the different languages that could bear on the topic to be discussed. He then listened to the reading of these one after another, dictating very copious notes on each. When the survey was completed, a large pile of notes was amassed, which were read to him over and over again, until the whole had been embraced by his mind, when they were fused down into the consecutive contents of a chapter. When the subject was complex, and not pure narrative, requiring a great variety of reference, and sifting of contradictory autho rities, the work must have been very difficult ; but it strength ened memory, kept his faculties wide awake, and taught him to generalize; for the little details slipped through the holes in the memory. His labour did not end with this process: he found it as difficult to write as to read, and procured in London a large writing case for the blind. This he could use in the dark as well as in the light. The charac ters, indeed, might pass for hieroglyphics, but they were de cyphered by his secretary, and transferred by him to a le gible form in a fair copy. Yet I have heard him say his hair sometimes stood on end at the woful blunders and miscon ceptions of the original, which every now and then escaping detection, found their way into the first proof of the printer. Amid such difficulties was the composition of the history of Ferdinand and Isabella heroically completed at the end of something less than ten years from its commencement. He remembered that Johnson says that Milton gave up his His tory of England because it was scarcely possible to write history with the eyes of others ; and was stimulated in the midst of his embarrassments to overcome them. Well might he feel a proud satisfaction in conquering the obstacles of nature. Mr. Prestcott had four copies of the History first printed for himself, and had so little confidence in its mime diate success, that he had thought of postponing the publi cation till after his death, but his father told him, " the man who writes a book which he is afraid to publish is a coward." This decided him. The work was published in the begin . ring of 1833. Its reception in his own country, and in al parts of Europe, was such as to repay him, if anything could, for the long nights of toil by which it had been pro duced. On its publication in London, it was praised in the Quarterly and Edinburgh Reviews, and in the leading jour nals, and has since gone through four editions and twelve in the United States ! It was translated into Spanish, Ger man, and Italian; it was everywhere recognised at once as a great history. The voice of posterity was anticipated; by the unanimous judgment of the learned it was admitted without probation into the circle of immortal works." This history of the composition of this immortal work is to the full as marvellous as the deeds which are therein recorded. Columbus and his patrons overcame what were to all appearance superhuman obstacles — their historian has done the same. His " History of the Conquest of Mexico" followed, and was equally well re ceived, and he is now engaged in the composition of the History of Philip li. "In Private Life" concludes his biography, Mr. Griswold— " I may be permitted to add to this account, that no man is more admired and beloved than Mr. Prescott. He is not more remarkable for his abilities and acquirements than for his amiability, simplicity, and high-bred courtesy. Ile is one of those men who are a blessing as well as an honour to the community in which they live." We have, in this number, an additional chapter of "Captain Spike," the scene of which opens in the Island of the Dry Tortugas, where Jack Tier and Rose, and Mrs. Budd and Biddy have been left by Swash, when she escaped from Uncle Sam's cruiser. Our reader's will recollect the mysterious disappearance of Mulford from on board the Swash during the chace. The handsome mate had taken advantage of the explo sion of a shell to escape, under cover of the smoke, from the Swash into the Mexican schooner's boat, while towing astern, to cut the painter, and to paddle her to the island. There, with the assist ance of Jack Tier, he gets the Mexican schooner fit for sea, and with Jack Tier, Mrs. Budd, Rose, and Biddy, embarks for King \Vest. On their voyage thither they encounter a gale which nearly throws the schooner on her beam-ends, and its that position we leave her and her crew. Albert Smith contributes a facetious account of a go-a-head day with Barnum " the Governor" of General is T asnt o . m ußn T as ruhtchucomelsobsmf; unsuccessful td. massacre, attemptp\earVrrosß. smht B aooeuem . atarlgl gist tyn of apology p r ho m i lso a pg k ya epfseoarrteopiaringenious,osseancr Massacre e b e a u on t i acquittal fur Charles IX., on the ground of insanity, t and then to inuendo, that Catherine de Medicis was a retail instead of a wholesale murderess, seeing that her object was only to assassinate Ct. ligni, and that the tiger spirit of the Parisian mob is alone answerable for the wholesale massacre which followed. But the learned Doctor forgets to mention that orders were given to perpetuate a similar massacre on the same day in every town in France—he forgets that glorious answer of the Mayor of Bordeaux, " Your Majesty has in this city many a loyal subject, but no assassin," and while forced to confess that the Pope expressed his approval of the massacre, and ordered rejoicing; therefore he says, that the massacre Could not be considered as the act of the Roman Catholics, because the Pope was a fool. That ap l e n gr imr s e t' e. t a i m r il a b v cr Taylor,ta encouragement" arbpoyapproval rhttoh this lasltmassacres,heal:lP:al e l ,nab w l s t yee t c h ef a do o a n drbt d f l e y : n 10 1 utlwaiti Catholic demand religion ec( i r i n iaail e e sgne e d i oi productionoi treanodgtre:esreinlntoswtwhgaiisperpetrate antoha si . le f a oos h distinct Pope.and positivesnre ly there e p r u e d repudiation ti byon nothing a unfairwise o o r p e h i o g f o t t t h e e d in this. The other articles of Bentley are excellent. PRICE SD. 'others seem of trivial importance—who is in horrors at the prayers being said, and not sung ; and who cannot conceive that the Deity can be worshipped in a church unless the altar was at the east end—as if there was a portion of the building where the Almighty was not. " Thoughts on the Pleasures and Amusements of the Agricultural Poor" follows, in some degree the prevail ing bias, although it laments—and in so doing we cor dially agree with it—the want of pleasing recreations for the humbler classes, it more deeply bewails the non observance of holidays and festivals. We would gladly see greater attention paid to the happine:s and comforts of the agricultural and manufacturing poor, to their nnocent amusements, and social enjoyments, although little solicitous as to whether they observed fastsand " Civil and Religious Liberty," written in the same spirit, is a sneer against those who are independent enough to think for themselves, to desire that every man may be at liberty to worship his Creator in the manner he deems most fitting, and who refuse to submit to the ipse dixit of any man or body of men. Thank God, religious liberty has progressed, is progressing, and will progress, despite such puny attacks. The nation in ge neral has discovered that it means something more than the sagacious writer understands, when he states that it is " the liberty to be of no religion at all, and to abuse as bigots and illiberal those who do not think like our selves." The remainder of the number consists of short reviews and the usual university intelligence, which con tains, inter alia, the second report of proceedings in the Observatory relating to the new planet Neptune. THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE REVIEW The present number opens with strong article in but deeply-injured her o . F e w have e t a favour of Lord Dundonald, the n ve d r d h is a ti d ng a uished more brilliant career, or evinced greater bravery during the period of his service; and few have suffered more severely from what, we believe, is now universally ad mitted to be an unwarranted condemnation, and the most vindictive persecution. Lord Dundonald, it is true, has been reinstated in the navy. The Royal pardon has been extended, but that very pardon implies the forgiveness of guilt. and that is still painful to the high-minded veteran. He pines that the stain should be removed from his name, that he should receive not a pardon but an acquittal, or at least that the restoration of all his honours should show that the Go vernment feel, in accordance with the nation at large, that he was innocent of the crime laid to his charge. " Luther, his Life and Principles," is a slight sketch of the Great Reformer's history, taken from Michelet's w orks, and what professes to be an abstract of his principles. The former part will be perused with much attention, all the events eccurring during the time of so great a moral revolution to its chief, must necessarily possess a thrilling interest. The latter part we are not so well satisfied with. It is written in the spirit of modern tractarianism. and speaks of the " imperfections of his system," and " the erroneousness of his principles," and " of the radical defect of the Lutheran Reforma tion, being the contempt in which it held antiquity." " The Churches of London;" the fourth under that title, contains a comparison between St, George's, Han over-square, and St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, very much to tho prejudice of the former, which is railed at, " as pursuing a cold, hearless, defective system, rigidly formal, in some respects, stiffly puritanical, in others, highly u l tra-Protestant in almost all." We suspect it is to th e latter p art of the sentence, that the indignation of the g entleman who styles himself " Rid ley" is to be ascribed. The rigid formalit y would not, we suspect, be s o very objectionable t o one w h o u t ters such to ping jeremiads respecting matters that to DOUGLAS JERROLD'S. The " History of St. Giles and St. James" is con cluded in this number. St. James is, of course, ac quitted of the murder of Snipeton ; Tom Blast dies of the wound he has received from Snipeton, but before his death confesses that he it was who stole the horse, for the theft of which St. Giles was originally sentenced. His confession, however, goes for nothing, and St. Giles is sentenced to death for returning from transportation. " Briefly, St. Giles was not hanged. No. St. James re peated the good work of his boyhood, and—aided by Cap stick, who made his maiden speech in Parliament on the question, calling the attention of the minister to the confes sion of Blast—St. Giles was pardoned. He married Becky, and lived and died a decent shopkeeper. Indeed, he had so far beaten the prejudices of the world, that era he parted from it, he had been intrusted with the duties of church warden. "St. James, a few weeks after the trial, went abroad, made the grand tour, returned, married a duke's daughter, and to the end of his days, supported to the utmost the dignity of " his order. " Mr. Crossbone, defeated in his hopes of cone; preferment, again retired to the country, to cultivate the weeds of life. He, however, had the subsequent:satisfaction of transporting Mr. Robert Willis, for highway robbery ; an operation per formed at the cheapest cost to Mr. Crossbone, as the robber pillaged him ofonly f our - an d-t wopence an d a to b acco -stopper. "A metropolitan tombstone still attests the pleasing fact. that Mr. Tangle died at the age of eighty-two, " a faithful husband, an affectionate father, and an unswerving friend. His charity was as boundless as it was unostentatious." Thus speaks Tangle's tomb-stone ; and who—save it snag a be the recording angel—shall contrrdict a tomb-stone ? " And Clarissa—What of Clarissa? She shrank from the world, and living, was not of life, but died the daily death of a wasting heart—one other victim to the thousands gone and—to come. "And Capstick, at the end of the first session, took office— became the steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. He and Bright Jem went back to the Tub, and many a time would talk of the events that, all imperfectly, we have chronicled in these pages. Capstick retained his old humour to the last. He would often talk of St. James and St. Giles, and would always end his discourse in something like these words : "‘ Well, St. James sneaked away upon a tour, and St. Giles was pardoned; all right that it should be so. Never theless, Jem, as it's turned out, it's more like the happy wind-up of a story on paper make it out how it has so happened; for I expected nothing less than that St. Giles would be hanged, and the Lord St. James sent to some foreign court as English Ambassador.' " The " Dreamer and Worker" is continued, and we are introduced to a variety of schemers who, in conjunction with Mr. Walter, are about to start a scheme for the regeneration of the world, and the filling of their own purses at the same time. Archer joins the Walters at Portsmouth, and consents to the postponement of the marriage between himself and Mary for a short time. Paul Bell gives us a pleasant plea for pictures in his paper, "My Lame Boy's Tastes," in which he adminis ters a richly-deserved castigation to the Lakers, and vehemently protests against the blasphemy of Cowper " that man and not God made the town"—a blasphemy which has been repeated parrot-like by every dreamy, half idiotic, idle humbug from the days of the nervous and night-capped fatalist to those of our own, as an excuse f)r neglecting the Divine command "to live by the sweat of his brow." " A Word or Two on Music" is a word in season, and we recommend the paper to the attentive perusal of all the unco guid. " Fables for Foolish Fellows" are continued, and we have severcl other excellent articles in this number of L'ouglas Jerrold. THE HAN IN THE ,1100 N. Edited by Albert Smith and Angus B. Reach. Mr. Crindle's rapid cqreer is continued most amusingly. It is evident that he will soon be in a condition to render it advisable for him to quit his native land. Let him not go to Australia or Canada, or any slow place of that sort. The "States" alone will suit such a go-ahead gentleman as Mr. Crindle, in which case we recommend to his study the article in this month's " Man in the Moon," entitled "Brother Jonathan and the Duel." The tenth rule of this American manual of duelling is thoroughly Yankee. X. The Sixth Commandment was well enough for a Theocracy, but is useless in a free and enlightened Republic.' , The following is an admirable hit:— " FINK ARTS.—Motto for Mr. Turner's picture of 'Getting Tired of the Ball,' in the Exhibition— " The azure moon that through the verdant clouds Bathes the vermillion waves with floods of blue, Sees nought but yon gondola of pink haze, And red-hot dots of men." It is too bad to plunder this " Man in the Moon" any further, but he is so rich in fun that he will never miss • it, so here goes:— " A GOOD STORY, &c. &c. &c.—There is hardly a space of half •a-dozen square inches in the new House of Lords which •is not occupied by countless repetitions, carved in Gothic characters, of the novel and original legend of God save the Queen.' The notion is facetious—but somehow the motto begins to pall upon one at about the hundred and ninety-ninth reading. Does Mr. Barry expect that his prayers will be heard for his much' carving? However, we suppose it is all Gothic and right. By the way—the House is lighted in the modern fashion. This is wrong—we should have had medixval gas. THE SPORTING REVIEW. " The Racing in April," by " Craven," contains a good account of the events of the past month, probably the most interesting, though not the most exciting period of the year to the turfite, New horses make their ap• pearance, the pretension of many nominal fliers receive the coup de grace, while others come out in a style and figure that render them truly formidable to those who have opposed them lustily, and excite the hopes of their friends to the highest pitch; who confidently predict unheard of wonders as to their future performances. Even the obd . favourites appear in a new light. Some of the victors of the past year, yield easy triumphs to others of whom they made no account in bye-gone times ; places are reversed, the last, frequently becomes first, and the first last. Meanwhile every race is watched with the closest scrutiny—every indication that, by a possibility can throw any light on the great evenkof the year, is diligently observed and duly calculated on. Craven is a keen sportsman, and his comments will be found worthy of the closest attention of " the betting fraternity." The continuation of " The Handbook or the Chase," by the Editor, gives a good account of some of " the holiday hunts;" amongst which, the packs of Lord Fitahardinge and Redesdale, and of the Duke of Beaufort, occupy conspicuous places. The present chap ter on Metropolitan Horses, by Harry Hicover, is de voted to the hack, or road-ster. Harry, as usual, is eloquent on the several qualifications and defects of this humble description of nag. We shall allow him to state for himself one of the essentials:— " Showy action is now so indispensable in the metropolitan horse for every purpose, that dealers are aware it is useless to purchase anything for the London market that does not possess it: in fact, all the horses that have it are collected in London. If one f our ancestors was to look at us now, he would very naturally be struck by the altered action of London horses, and would probably think we had im proved, or at least altered, our breed. lie would be right as to the different action of the horses he would see in the streets; but it must be remembered that if among the thousands bred, all those with lofty action are brought here, and those that have it not are left in the coun try, it does not follow that our general breed is altered to the extent he might be led to imagine by what he might see in London, though I doubt not but that breeders do, as far as they can, new endeavour to get into a strain of high-goers, and probably will even do so with still greate r attention ef()w a colt, however good he may be in other res p ects, Is valueless without this fashionable style of going." Ladies horses, too, and even the pony. come un ,, d . er his observation. " Highland Sports and Quarters c - tinned, by Linton, who is tantalised by t he sight of for bidden deer during a journey tc , ) , a v illage with the euphonious name of Ballah ulish. London," by Lord William Lennox, Sporting Life from touches on steeple chasing, fishing, boating, and cricket, in all of which varied amusements accounts of extraordinary perform antes are given. The transactions noticed_ are not of very recent date , but the y will ever be interesting to the amateur. Another amusement which ma y be en joyed at a cheap rate from London, is Jack. son's Hunting - grounds , where "a man may h ave a gallop of an hour over a grass country, in which every species of fence may be found, for 7s. 6d. " Intercepted Correspondence from Northamptonshire" is continued, while the followers of old Izaac will be propitiated by " A Week's Fishing in South Devon." " The Resoureef, of a Country Gentleman" urges the national advantages derivable from the taste for field sports. Among our landed gentry, the number of persons engaged are roughly estimated as follows : In the various papers published during the winter months, it will be found th ere are f our pac k s o f hounds which hunt five and six days in the week—Earl Fitzhardinge's, Lord 11. Bentinck's, Sir Richard Sutton's, and Mr. Assheten Smith's • and I am convinced I am not exceeding the num ber of horses kept in each establishment by rating them at fifty thus there are two hundred horses; and allowipgs man to two horses, one hundred men are engaged. There are upwards of twenty packs which hunt four, and . occasion _ ed AS ally 111 4 3 days in the week, to wig be DAV tow average twenty-five horses to each, contuaquently five hundred horses will give employment to two hundred and fifty men. About forty packs hunt three days in the week, using fifteen horses each, which, amounting to six hundred, employ three hundred men. Thirty packs two days a week,. with ten horses to each, will be three hundred horses, and consequently one hundred and fifty men. In the numerous fox-hunting establishments, therefore, eight hundred men are engaged. " It may be computed that at the very least one hundred sportsmen are regular attendants upon the four first-named packs, who on the average keep three horses a-piece--of course many keep considerably more; they will at that low rate have an aggregate of twelve hundred horses and six hundred men. 'The twenty packs hunting four clays in the week, supposing them to have an equal number of attendants, each keeping two horses, will be two thousand horses, and one thousand men. Forty packs hunting three days a week, and reducing th e estima te of the number of attendants to sixty, and allowing them the average of a horse and a half each, will be three thousand six hundred horses, and one thousand eight hundred men. There will then be about twenty-six packs to account fur, which hunt two days in the week : supposing they have only forty regular attendants, keeping the same average number of liorses as above, they will possess one thousand live hundred and sixty horses, and seven hundred and eighty men. Summing them up, we find nearly four thousand men engaged in the care of hunters alone." A considerable quantity of sporting intelligence, " the State of the Odds," and the Courting Calendar, close an excellent number. There are two good engravings also,—" All on the Downs," and portraits of the grey hounds, Moses and Albemarle. THE KNIGHT OF GWYNNE. No. XVII. By Codes Lever. The brilliant, sketchy pen of Mr. Lever revels in these chapters over the expedition of Abercrombie to Egypt. That expedition was undoubtedly conducted with a valour and alacrity most creditable to the British army, and it was particularly creditable at a moment when the various powers of the known world were being con quered by the indomitable prowess of the French soldiers and the wonderful military genius of the French commanders. With Kleber in Africa, and Desaix as his assistant, and Moreau in Germany, and Hoche in La Venee?, and Bernadotte in the interior, and Bonaparte now in Italy, now upon the eastern shores of the British Channel, and now again in the deserts of Syria, France offered defiance to all the hosts of Europe and Africa, and marched through a succession of victories and through leagues of vanquished territories. The tri umphant expedition undertaken by the veteran Aber crombie, and opened by his heroic dissolution, was the first discomfiture of the French battalions since the Revolution had merged into the Republic One and In divisible. Harry Lorrequer is so elated by the recollec tion of these successes that he degenerates into the flatterer of our insular vanity and the traducer of the valorous children of liberated France. To him the English military service is of course the very beeiu ideal of chivalric perfection: its leaders are to him, of course, sans peur et sans ra,nproche: the regiments are to him, of course, congregations of heroes. To him, moreover, the French military service is, of course, the most damnable of modern institutions: its generals are to him, of course, ignorant parvenus and rascally marauders : its privates are to him, of course, mere assemblies of convicted felons and profligate ruffians—ragged, insubordinate, sometimes even mean and pusillanimous. We protest against these egregious John-Bullisms, they are tar becoming a generous and fine-spirited race. Apart from these little contemptible nationalities,we are gratified with. the progress made in the fiction, although we are sorely distressed at the protracted absence of our old favourite Bagenal Daly. In this seventeenth number, Dr. Hick man is discomfited in his treacherous designs upon Lady Eleanor, the Knight himself is cap tured by the French troops on their flight from Aboukir to Alexandria, and Forester, who had enlisted in " Darcy's Volunteers," and been seriously wounded in endeavouring to rescue the gallant old Colonel, is exchanged among the ordinary pri soners, and discovered to have succeeded to an earldom, in consequence of the death of his elder brother. We may consequently anticipate the speedy celebration of his marriage with Helen Darcy, and the close of the narrative. The incidental portraiture of Menou—the most incompetent of all the French Generals—is clever and faithful. FERGUSON AND TAYLOR'S MONTHLY TRADE CIRCULAR. Messrs. Ferguson and Taylor, of Manchester. have issued the following Monthly Trade Circular, of Prices Current, which deserves careful attention:— " When it had been ascertained that the failure in the potato crop, and the deficiency of yield of certain cereals last harvest, amounted in money value to a loss by the nation of more than twenty m illi ons s t er li ng i n one year, it became evident to all who reasoned on the matter, that such a calamity must inevitably derange our monetary affairs, and lead t o a t em p orary pros tration, at least, of our manufacturing industry, and some embarrassment to our ordinary commercial enter prise. It was clear that this deficiency in the native supply of the food of the people, would have, to a large extent, to be met by importations from foreign sources, and whether such supplies were paid for by commodities or money, the nation would be impover ished in its resources to the extent of the deficiency in the returns of her own fields ; since those importations would not be, as in the case of an abundant harvest, an increment to previously existent wealth, but, on the con trary, would have to be balanced by a draft on past savings. and the future proflucts of our industry. With this fact helot., us. we anticipated a depression in the home demand fur manufae.tires, as a cons,quet,ce of the advanced cost of food, and f?tesaw that a stringency could be experienced in monetary affairs as soon as the exchanges turned in favour of those countries whence supplies of bread-stuffs were being imported. '1 he crisis foretold by some of the ablest I , ad, rs of public opini ,n has at length arrived, and, we api•rehend, too suddenly to many parties who are largely engaged in the regulation of banking facilities, to be calmly con si 'ered. The evils against which provision is to be made we conceive has been too much magnified, and ward of confidence has grown out of excitment, and added to the embarrassments of the time. The extent of demand fur specie for foreign remittance and the duration of unfavourat.le exchanges have, we think, been over-estimated ; whilst, on the other band, the re sources of the country, and the healthful and legitimate basis on which its trade has been conducted for some time past, have not been allowed their due weight. Although a high rate of interest appears to be inevitable, as well as desirable, in order to correct the adverse balance of trade, still we believe there exists no reason, in the present condition of affairs, or in the probabilities of the future, for that extraordinary stringency in dis counts, and almost (as we have heard) capricious rejec tion of first class securities, which have taken place during the past week in London. The effect of the ightness in the Money-market has completely paralyzed .he trade of this district during the_ past week. ..... _ Buyers are unwilling to extend their liabilities, and, therefore contract their operations within the most limited compass, confining their investments principally to mere parcels for assorting stocks. Spin ners and manufacturers, on the other hand, viewing no probability of an immediate revival of demand, are re ducing production as much as possible, by working short time, or closing their mills. It is a benevolent feeling which induces many to continue their work people in employment, during three or four days per week, at a loss, rather than add to the privations these poor people already unavoidably endure, by closing their factories altogether. In the meantime stocks are kept from accumulating, and so far a wiser policy prevails now than obtained during the depression of the years of 1838 and 1841. No heavy stocks hang o‘er the market to depress prices much below their natural level, nor are foreign markets being glutted by shipments made by needy manufacturers under advances. We hear of no manufacturers endeavouring to force sales in an overdone market by cheapening production at the cost of the operative;—the rate of wages for labour is maintained, hut the market is not over supplied by its products. We believe no former period of depression has found the business transactions of both markets and manufacturers placed on a sounder foundation; there is no undue specu :ation,lor:extension of trading to be corrected ; and as stocks are comparatively moderate both abroad and at home, the inference is fairly deducible, that as soon as the present straitness in money matters is withdrawn, a lucrative trade will follow. With respect to the future rule of prices, we are inclined to believe they must be considerably higher than at present as soon as the pre sent monetary pressure shall have passed away. At the present rates of cotton, it is an undoubted fact, spinners and manufacturers cannot continue production, and it does not appear likely that the prices of that staple will speedily decline. Although we doubt the accuracy of the conclusion drawn from the falling off in the arrivals of cotton at the ports of the United States, (which may he occasioned by the accumulation of stock at the sea board, scarcity of storage, high rents and rates of insur ance, advanced freights, scarcity of shipping, &c.,—_-sil w i e n and favour of retaining supplies m cannot doubt that so long as suppliest al e el opt. lasth the in ter e io t rd a s e r year's uncertainty exists as to the ultimate a improve ment eariaelyheld here will be of demand. crop, that pthoretevdaloune theof the lleast as m t To correct the a e d m va a r d' edwreatehsesoef c in otto m n a , e a e n h d est e e q r u , al o i u se t demand, of to . of 177 mills , employing 41,000 hands, 52 mills, employ ing 12,500 hands, working short time, and 24 mills, eniploying 7,500 hands, entirely stopped ; in Ashton-under-Lyne, Stalybridge, Dukinfield, Mossley, Fairfield, &c., out of 211 mills, of 6,479 horse power, employing 27,500 hands, there are 4,301 horse power, with 18,032 hands, only working four days per week ; in Stockport, out of 55 pains of 3,648 horse power, and employing 14,592 hands, there are 40 mills, of 3,165 horse power, employing 12,660 hands, that are only working three days a week, and 15 mills of 423 horse power, and 1,692 hands, are entirely stopped ; in Bol ton, out of 53 mills, of 1,425 horse power, employing 7,070 hands, there are 33 mills, of 842 horse power, and employing 4,250 hands, working, on an average, 4i days per week ; in Oldham, Crompton, R , ,yton, Chaddertun, Lees, and neighbourhood, out of 182 mills, above 100 employing about 17,000 hands, arc working only six and eight hours per day, and about 12 mills, employing about 2,000 hands, are stopped altogether; in Rochdale, Royton, Todmorden , Whit worth, and neighbourhoo d . out of 205 m ills, 13,0 mills, with ll hand, employing w t o o r , k o i 6 n 4 g h a n shortd s , there time, mills, with 3,141 hands, entirely stopped. In Blackburn, Preston, and Wigan, "short time" and stoppages are ex tending. It is contemplated by many who are now run ning full time to stop entirely, for a short term at Whit suntide. This course cannot fail to influence prices eventually, as production must now be greatly below con sumption; and as stocks arebeing cleared off, both abroad and at home, as soon as ever a revival of demand sets in, the value of manufactures must advance. Good harvest prospects, as the season progresses, would speedily give allinaatioll t 9 business, and au impulse to prices. loon► idol. iuris• r dal )r, 011 your lively , rt• anied n wa s a few a lly I 0 you t pro- I t the lour. 70 skil here, 3s 2d Veal, xcase. ids 7 Tea* Were the and [ay- 01-