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• . •, . < } / , : .. , . . TO THE ELECTORS OF MARYLEDONE. I BE Ga a p _1.7 iTLEn , ' I .... •., 4 , -11 DIP air of r to offer myself d - s a Canclidate for the i .:.'-', : ,;* keinb er for eprese nti••g you in Parliament I have been your • .. ea-, , I : pled ge a t ten Yessrs , during which period I have never broken any SW. , gig - oug, e a n y t e ro y st on ,or have neglected those great local Interest s; ''ts .-.-• - ' ed to my care, and have invariably maintained the - 's,asS' r- " have k ti e or lo cal self-government against the many attempts which place, eell made to subvert it. Although a contester likely to take a mom ; _ r o. IMO ng served you hone -My and consistently. I cannot fur ....5.,_,„ .. „„., ____ , ss ~ Y. ... . aeon ; 'llt bells a , e that I shall ap to you in vain tor that energetic I . __ . ~ • •,,G s ' Elections returned meat th ead of the poll at each of the pre , hand ; . &lection t s I therefore place myself with confidence in your I , , , mod r • and If a rain elected, will support those great principles of civil ''A . 1 7,1 i 3. L()N DON, S eigi... li.betty which I have ever advocated. . . • I have the honour to be, — Gentlemen, ..........................,_....ismaieneassaea ems:. i _ 2, s t•Jarn , Ns• 's -place, JulyY2o3ur, 1 0 8 b 4 1 .7 1g . ed and faithful Servant, B. HALL. - N CHANCERY.—Bet .veen HENRY JOHN , t - - - JL. NICOLL and DONALQ NICOLL, Plaintiffs, and FREDERICK .• t 08, OUGH of FINSBUR Y. WALTER STE .AART LACP4, Defe dant. In consideraaon of the i The fo 'lowing ADDRESS, signed by upwards of one thou e sandoii Elect, ;I's of Finsbury, has been presented to Messrs. DUN- c n i g , a to rn ew s tti f y l, further tiE rt:G proceedings tsrE RE D i in this LE T suit, o r , ~w lii i i e c h h has been instituted for Os& surpese of restraining me from selling an Plaintiffs eaituen:esestni: . . HE an d WAKLEV :- , ', "TO TII OJ lAS SLINGSBY DUNCOMBE AND THOMAS garment they alone have the right to manufacture and sell, under the provisions of the Cops right of Design Act, WAKLEY, ESQRS. ; . h a We, tV i, e, the I hereby express my unfeigned regret at having infringed the ~ - undersigned Electors of the borough of Finsbury, r enresentss , g n°' C for many Tears had the benefit of your services as our right of the Pia miffs to the use of such name, and incidentaldo hereby agree to pay them the costs of, and to, the ---s sees in Parliament, and being desirous of marking our Unsolicited allow us, w ItlsPreval of your past conduct, hereby request you to proceedings taken by them to establish such right. And I do hereby further agree, on demand, to make any affidavit thout anti interference on your part, to take all necessary ; ; steps to se that may be required as to the purchase by me of the overcoats, so. Messrs. c' 'se your return at the next general election" called the Registered Paletuts, in order Co assist the Plaintiffs in pro- DUNCOY BE and WAKLEY returned the following an swer ;- ceedins against the wholesale dealers of whom I purchased the , , " TO 'pi same ; r and I further agree that the Plaintiffl shall be at liberty to •• , EE ELE CTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF FINSBURY. make such use of this memorandum as they may be advised. f • ... we a . ENTLEM EN, Dated this 16th da, of July, 1847. roust ) , r Are mit% gratified by the receipt of a requisition, so nume honous- FREDERICK WALTER STRWART LACK. • dtd resp• ;el ably sianed as that which we have this day the Witness-J. Haynes, solicitor, Palace-chambers, at. James's. . • a( ackneaoledging. Be assured that it is not only most satis facto' . 0 n ;no us to 'fi n d ' our p as t p o liti ca l c onduct marked by your b o u ,7 lo 4l c l ted app royal,' but, that, so long PS we are sustained by such MANURE.--TO FARMERS AND OTHERS. T ?.rable ands findependent proofs of your confidence, we must feel I ‘. S . MARYLEBONE, JULY 15, 1847.--NOTICE I w . ea, ss ' et. contif axing your representatives in Parliament. is hereby given, that Street Sweepings may be had at the St. i , In obedien to. therefore, to your wishes, we leave the result in 3farylebone Parish, Stone-yard, Richmond-rtreet, Lissen•groye, at , Your h a e 111,.5, . 'ping that the example you have placed before the One Shilling per Single Horse Load, or at Two Shillings for each l ectors of this reoun t ry may exerc i se a power f u l i n fl uence on o th er T wo H orse L oa d . . ' : independent cc astitnencies. By order, "Permit u s to add, that the recollection of your past and present C. FLOOD, Vestry Clerk. . Renerons appr, real of our labours and intentions can never be oblite ratedTHE ALLEGED LUNATIC'S FRIEND from our minus. ' a lVe. have the honour to be, Gentlemen, SOCIETY. " Your obedient and faithful servants. A General Meeting of the Members, to receive the Report of the "THOMAS S. DUNCOMBE. Committee, and on other business, will be held at the British Coffee "Jules lB I' " "THOMAS WAKLEY. House, Cockspur-street, Charing-cross, on MONDAY next, the 26th ____ - , • instant, at Two o'clock, P.M.. A T a numerous and influential MEETING of WILLIAM BAILEY, Secretary. a ls-Ik. the Fri: sod a and Supporters of SAMUEL MORTON PETO, . _ 'an, held at ate Royal Hotel, Norwich, on TUESDAY, the 20th of FURNI CURE, CARPETS, and BEDDING.— y," u l 1847, See our Book of Estimates, whi c h may be had gratisost ED - ARD WILLETT, Esq., in the Chair, Joseph free, showing the pri c e of eac h ar ti c l e, th e cost of furnishing a sepa- It w as AN , p inoved by Thomas Brightwell, Esq., seconded by rate room and a whole hous e , f rom 251 . t o one at 36 41., or a mansion .., - tla Its tart, Esq.. and unanimously resolved, , •of any extent. The whole warranted. Upon inspection this will be s " That in the opinion of this Meeting, Mr. Peto is deserving of found the cheapest house in London for really good Furniture. • t hem tire confute ' Ticeof the Liberal Electors of this City to represent nterests n'e „ _ Notice the advantage to Country l'urchasers-Houses completely its Parliament. and the Electors present at this meet- F . 0 unnshed on the shortest notice, and sent, carriage free to any part 1 .lagledge thei nselves to use every exertion to secure his return as a f the three Kingdoms, and no charge made for travellers giving 14z ---__ J_____n'esen eh Re tat ive. "EDWARD WILLETT, Chairman. estimates. , ' EITMINSTER ELECTION. S. AARONS and Co., Cadogan•house, Sloane-street, Knightsbridge. i ' , p da t ilyi:u ~,,TTh aCOMMITTEE for conducting the ELECTION of Si r LACY EV ANS and CHARLES LUSHINGTON, Esq., sit r 0 BE SOLD BY PRIVATE CONTRACT , , J. 0. 2Z, Regent-street, corner of Jermyn-street, A n d p ossess i on can b e h a d i mmed i ately. ' L E. P. BOUVERIE, Chairman. A DELIGHTFUL DETACHED MODERN BUILT VILLA 1 GEORGE HUGGETT, Secretary. RESIDENCE, in perfect repair, with Stable and Chaise-house, , at Clement LOCAL COMMITTEES. Gardens and small Paddock adioining, situate at ono of the En- la a sm , s. .. .. .. i St. m ar , , trances to the he ilthy and flourishing Market-town of St. Albans, • ?reel "'"" e 'Si a'arsd •• • ... Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand. nct of the, Savo which in addition to an excellent Grammar School, and other im- 1 ,St. ass, Cove portant advantages, will shortly have a direct commuication from j EStannard's Hotel, Upper Wellington- London by railway, bringing it within an hour's ride. --"' lit. garden .. 1 • St. op ,. street, Covent-garden. The HOUSE contains Five Bed-rooms, Water-closet, Man-ser t St. J eo ;::,Sobsn .......... Gelden Lion, Dean-street. vaul.'s Sleeping-room down stairs, a capital Entrance Hall, Dining- I a St, G eor ,•• . - .......... 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The following description of this stupendous work is given by a correspondent of the Manchester Examiner : The Menai Strait is an arm of the sea, separating the island county of Anglesea from Carnarvonshire on the mainland of Wales. It is fourteen miles long, vary• ing from 200 yards to two miles in width. An impetu ous tide sweeps through it, which, at one time, with the mid water and under water rocks, rendered its na vigation exceedingly dangerous. The worst of the rocky dangers have been removed, and vessels of the largest size may now pass Carnarvon Bay, on the south of Anglesea, to Bangor Bay, on the north, without sail ing round Anglesea, should the stormy weather or con trary winds at Holyhead render the passage of the Menai Strait preferable. The necessity of a passage across the Strait was, ori givally, to connect the island and the mainland; and while that was all, the passage was by ferry boats upon the water. Ultimately the harbour of Holyhead. on the extreme west of Anglesea, th e nearest po i nt to Ireland, was decided upon as the English landing place. Roads were made from England through Wales, and a bridge, unequalled in beauty and magnificence, suspended by ponderous chains, on lofty piers, was thrown across the Strait, at a narrow point about two miles from Bangor. In process of time it was deemed expedient to super sede the turnpike roads leading to Holyhead by a rail way. At first it was proposed to use the suspension bridge for the railway trains, by having stations at each end, at which the locomotive engines would be detached, and between which a stationary engine would draw the trains. The bridge was declared capable of sustaining a weight of 2,600 tons, of which 1,094 tons were its own weight; thus giving a surphis strenth of 150 tons. If the bridge was covered with loaded railway carriages over all its length, and on each of its roadways (it is divided into two, with a spacious pathway between), the weight of the carriages would have been 265 tons. leaving still surplus strength of 621 tons. But other objections to its use for railway trains arose, chief of which was its undulatory motion. - One would suppose that the wind would cause it it to swing to and fro, rather than to heave up and down in undulations. But it has hardly any sideway or swing ing motion. Nor had it now as much of the undulatory motion as it once had. Mr. Fisher, the resident engi neer, told me that be h a d k nown i t heave six feet above and deflect six feet below the level in gales of wind. It has been improved by adding weight to the roadway, and tension rods between the chains, so as to prevent that extreme motion which in gales of wind ran along it like a heaving wave from end to end, tearing up the flooring which formed the paths and waggon tracks. Still, it is undulatory. I stood on it in a gale, and felt it heaving beneath me as a ship he ives when a billow passes underneath. This being a characteristic insepa rable from its construction, it was resolved that a new bridge should be erected for the use of the railway on a new principle. The inventive genius of Robert Stephen son declared•that this new bridge should be two iron tubes, or railway tunnnels made of iron plates, laid parallel to each other, on piers built on the rocks be aeath. If we suppose ourselves stationed in a boat in the middle of the Menai Strait, a few hundred yards distant from the new bridge on the south side, and suppose it finished, we shall see a wonder of the world of this kind; first, there is the middle pier rising out of the water founded on the Britannia rock, from which the bridge takes its name. This rock can be seen at low water. The breadth of this pier is 62 feet by 53 feet and a quar ter of an inch. The blocks of stone are seven and eight feet long by three and four feet in breadth and deepness, and they rise, stone upon stone, until the pier is two hundred and thirty feet high. At the distance of four hundred and sixty feet on each side of this centre pier there rise, near to the water's edge, two other piers of the same gigantic breadth and height; while on each side of these two piers, at this dis tance of two hundred and fifty feet, there rise two walls. Continuing outwards, the wall on our right hand, on the Carnarvon shore, does not extend its ponderous bulk far back, for the land is high and bold, and the railway comes along its elevated brow and at once lays hold of the bridge. But on our left hand, which is the Anglesea shore, the wall is the forehead and end of a mighty em bankment, on which the railway is raised to the level of the bridge. There, then, are the four spaces before us, across which, in the iron tubes the railway is laid, namely, two spaces on each side of the centre pier of 460 feet each— (let the reader measure 460 feet on a street or on a road, and he will wonder at the vastness of this struc ture); aid two more spaces of 250 feet respectively, aft each end. The tubes are eight in number, each of them 30 feet on the exterior side, and 27 feet high in the in terior. Each is 14 feet wide, and they are laid in couples parallel to each other. Taking ourselves in our boat underneath the bridge, and looking up, glancing from the Carnarvon side of the Strait, we see two tubes, ra ther, we should say, masses of iron, for they do not seem to be tubes, lying side by side from the wall al ready named across the space of 250 feet. They have each a hold upon the stone work, several feet at each end, and they rest upon moveable rollers and balls made of gun metal, the hardest known; those rollers and balls resting on beds of metal, and moving outwards or in wards as the massive tubes or iron expand with heat or contract with cold. Next we see two others of the same height and width, viz., thirty feet high and fourteen feet wide, lying side by side across the next space of 460 feet, and resting on the masonry as the others. Thirdly, we see two more lying side by side across a space of 460 feet; and lastly, two crossing the space of 250 feet. In the whole, with the breadth of the piers and the landward buildings, the length of the bridge is one-third of a mile. In height the three piers are as already said, 230 feet. But they are seventy feet higher than the tubes. These are so masssive that their actual elevation above the water seems less than it really is; and so dead and in elegant to the eye that it was necessary to raise the piers seventy feet above them, to give a show of ele gance to the structure. Measuring from low water mark to the bottom of the tubes, the height is 130 feet, the tubes being thirty feet on the side, and the piers seventy feet above their upper surface. As ornaments to the two walls which rise upon each shore, are four lions, two at each end of the bridge. The lions contain about 8,000 cubic feet of stone. They lie couched, and yet the height of each is twelve feet; the greatest breadth across the body is nine feet; the length twenty-five feet; the breadth of each paw two feet four inches. As we are now so high as to see the lions in detail, we may look into the interior of the iron tubes. They are made of plates of iron of various thicknesses, rivetted together. The iron increases in thickness as we proceed towards the centre. We now see that the roofs of the tubes are formed of cells, and also the floors. side bide have been placed hetteath: the stage on which one of the great masses of iron has been built. The stage is removed, and the tube of 1,300.t0ns rests upon the barges. Th e y are towed out upon the water with their monster freight, ar e b roug h t roun d, an d d r awn forward until they and it campy the apace between two of the piers. They are moored andinade fast there. The out side width of th e tu b e being. fourteen f eet , t h ere i s a grocire in each o f th e p i ers w i de r t h an t h at ; an d a t t h e ' bottom of the piers stones have been left out to admit the ends of the tubes into the grooves. Those groves extend upwards as high as the iron is to be elevated, namely, one hundred and thirty feet. At a height con siderably above that, within an archway which is in each pier, an hydraulic press of great power is stationed. A chain of remarkable construction, which we cannot now stop to examine and talk shout, extends downward from the hydraulic press, and is- fastened to the end of the tube. The press is put to work, and it has the power of lifting the mass of iron six feet. This we see, looking only at one pier and at one en d o f t h e tube. But a second press and cha i n are emp l oye d simultaneously with this at the other end. When they hav e ra i se d the large thing s i x f eet, i ron girders of great strength are place d un d erneat h i t, across the groove, the ends ~ o f the girders rest ing on the stone work of the pier which abuts on each side of the groves, These being placed, the press s t o p s and allows its iron burthen to rest on them, and the chains are slackened. While slackened, a line, or section of each chain, measuring six feet, is removed. Each i s aga i n fastened to its load; the presses are again at work, and the tube is-raised six feet higher. Again girders (or bearers) are laid across the grooves; again the gigantic wonder of the world rests in its upwards progress; and again the chains are shortened by six feet each; and again and again the press goes to wot k. And now this ariel tunnel is high enough—its bottom being 130 feet above the water. The iron bearer, which is never to be removed, and which has upon its upper surface the rollers and balls of nuttal already named, is placed underneath sada ertfle, press allows the obedient monster Co sink into its place; and there it is more solidly at rest than any one will be in his bed to night who has been witness to this day's mighty enter prise. Tomorrow and the next to-morrow, and the next again, and so forth, the others will be raised, and laid in their places, never to be shaken by gales of wind or deflected by railway burthen. Their own preponderous weight will keep them immoveable ; the augmentation of burthen will only strengthen them --at least we are told so. MOZART'S « NOZZE DI FIGARO. The following interesting details respecting this work are extracted from Mr. Holmes's " Life of Mozart :" " From a letter of Leopold Mozart to his daughter, , dated Novtmber 11, 1785, we learn that the composer was already engaged in preparation for his opera, Le .Nozze di Figaro, but they were only preparations, as other engagements intervened, and the actual score was not commenced until the April following. The all-en grossing subject of Mozart's thoughts during the spring of the year was Le Nozze di Figaro, an opera likewise undertaken at the suggestion of the Emperor Joseph. This work, which has maintained its place on the stage and in the drawing-room for nearly sixty years in con tinuation, is justly considered, fo r i ts extraordinary sone of the most w on - comedy of Beau the wealth of melody, the variety of its style, an d libretto, adapted tr bdfeyecrtiDiuolna trophies o p f u i o ts to co f n roo c fm themusic;erhteudmanwell-knownskill. a marchais, seems to bare satisfied Mozart, and the subject seems to have possessed unusual charms for him, if we may judge by the rate at whi c h h e wor k e d . The whole opera was written in the cou rse o f A pr i l. The marvellous finale of the second act, consisting of six grand pieces, occupied him for two nights and a day, during which he wrote without intermission. In the course of the second night he was seized with an illness which compelled him to stop; but there remained only a few pages of the last piece to instrument. During the month of May, the composer was occupied in teaching the singers and superintending the rehearsals. It is re markable that the experienced friends of Mozart trembled for the reception of this opera; and the father (Leopold), who well knew the musical politics of Vienna, and the state of parties there, writes to his daughter, April 1786, in these doubtful terms:—The first stage of rehearsal will take place on the 28th. It will be fortunate if the opera succeeds, for I know that there are immensely strong intrigues against it; Salieri and all his tribe will move heaven and earth to put it down. Dussek lately said to me, " that the reason of your brother's having such strong cabals against him, is the high estimation which he has gained by his uncommon talent and skill." Salieri and Righini, being at this time ready with operas, were both competitors with Mozart for pre ference ; and the contest between the composers was so warm, that the Emperor was obliged to interpose; apt, he decided for Figaro. Some eagerness of rivalry rpri to have been pardonable on an occasion which is i•en dered memorable by the unequalled talent of the singers, and the extraordinary congress of composers assemled at Vienna. The *ince 44 1 Re or P art, with tables of rates, &c. roew ara. , l , qf l sost free. it branches In the country ; o] ``. TRUSTEES. The Right Hon Lord Viscount Lake. The Right Hon. Edward Cecil Curzon. Sir Harry Dent Goring, Bart. Luke James Hansard, Esq. NOTICE.—No FTJR PHER APPICATIONS for SHARES can be RECEIVED after the 26th inst. ~ may be had at the or, on application, will F. FERGUSON C. ROITX, Secretary. ritOV-IDENT LIFE OFFICE J 0 , REGENT STREET, LONDON, Established 1806. • . •m • ui INVESTED CAPITAL, 1,200,0001. 1a.., 'Claim. Paid •.• Income 140,000/. Bonuses declared 529,000/. " Paid since the Establishment of the Office, 1,520,000/. , • PRESIDENT. The Right Honourable EARL GREY. The E.. DIRECTORS.. Tb, / Of Macclesfield. Rev. James Sherman. c , . ~, ,chard.a )x at. nd b er o t , rAh n. : di cv r ei i irn i s U oigi a, n ni n sh n , a r i .i r d . D. . M.D. Henry B. Churchill, Esq. William Judd, Esq. James Sedgwick, Esq. Alfred Beaumont, Esq. .Johniv Deering, ESQ. George Dacre, Esq. 1. lli on.. tan ' RenrY Stone, Esq. Richard Sherwood, Esq. Life ' , N icol -me Rates of Premium are those adopted by the principal i ) ofg",: the rate without bonus is lower than that of most other 11. 11_ ' tion ß onuses are added to the Poli c i es , or appl i e d t o th e reduc e. of the P remiums, or may be received In cash as soon as de 7, at their then present value. 1 ' Poi Cana are g ran t e d upon th e P o li c i es Issued by this office, or the • 4, i e : are Purchased at their full value. ' 3 tep i p,.. 4 ""PartY neglect to pay for the renewal of his Policy, he may ~,, .... . t g4.4ll...‘th.oDaisslou any time within twelve months, upon proof of . D .i.tn. , '.. ..'" 4s es paid upon Policies which have become Claims. Life insured ) "'"---•-......„_...._ . iSum insured.i Sum paid. W. T. GRIFFITHS, Esq. Offices, 2, New Broad-street, London. John Wharton, Esq., Skelton Castle Sir John Saunders Sebright, Bart. .. (51r Wllllam Wake, Bart. .. •• • • • .. v rtt Strathnfore•• • • • • —• • it,...."' 11 . W. Champneys , Canterbury `ge Marquis of Wellesley ' • • • ~ itrlo Cathcart • • • • ••• • • • • ****** .. 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 3,000 2,000 1,000 X. s. d. 7,706 6 0 7,652 13 3 7,500 5 9 Rarely, if ever, has it happened to a musician to sub mit his composition to such an ordeal as Mozart did Figaro, and few have been the instances in dramatic annals in which men of such renown as Haydn, Mozart, Gluck, Paisiello, Storace, Salieri, Righini, Anfossi, &c., have been collected together under one roof to witness the first performance of an opera, and it is no impro bable surmise that they were on this occasion. The ere th L e e? Pe ' n theas a lively re hearsals went off favourably. Kelly, who claims to have sung " Crudel P of it had fallen fresh from the first rehearsal. " I remem b er M oz art was on the , g with i v composer, just account a s stage, with his crimson pelisse and gold laced cocked hat, giving the time of the music to the or chestra. Figaro's song, " Xon piu andrai, farfallone amoroso," Benucci gave with the greatest animation and power of voice. I was standing close to Mozart, who, sotto voce, was rep ea ti ng, " Bravo, bravo , Benucci;" and when Benucci came to the fine passage, " Cherubino, ells vittoria, alla glori a m ili tar, " wh i ch h e gave out with stentorian lungs, the effect was electricity itself, for the whole of the performers on the stage and those in the orchestra, as if actuated by one feeling of delight, voci ferated " Bravo, bravo, maestro! Viva, viva, grande Mozart!" Those in the orchestra I thought would never have ceased applauding, by beating the bows of violins against the music desk. The little man acknowledged, by repeated obeisances, his thanks for the distinguished mark of enthusiastic applause bestowed upon him. "But on the first night of the performance there was a cabal among the singers, which obliged Mozart to go, between the first and second acts, -to the box of t he Em p eror, where he pointed o ut , in great agitation, the danger his music was incurring. The refractory performers were brought ba c k to t h e i r duty by . .. Royal inter ference. For an account of the opera during the second and third nights, we must extract a sentence from a let ter of the composer's father, dated May 18,1786: —"At the second representation at Vienna, t h e re were five, and at the third seven pieces encored, and among them a little duet, which was sung three times.' These en cores, which seem indicative of the growing popularity of the opera, were, notwithstanding, of transient effect, and the balance of parties was decidedly adverse to Mozart. It is well ascertained, that the profits of the third representation, which were to reward his labour, proved so inconsiderable as in no degree to ameliorate his circumstances, and so discouraged was he with the reception of Figaro, that he resolved never more to produce an opera at Vienna. This resolution he in deed waived, through change of circumstances and mo tives of private benevolence; but his d i ssatisfaction with the musical taste of Vienna is well knovvn. Among the performers who sustained the original cast of characters in Figaro, Mozart could certainly reckon upon some friends. According to his memorandum on this opera, they consisted of the following female singers :—Sto race, Laschi, Mandini, Bassani, and Nanina ; the men were Benucci, Mandini, Oehely, and Bassani. What the lyric drama gained b y this opera in ele gance of melody, in models of love certed music and varied finales, we are well able to determine. While all the popular melodies of the comic operas coeval with Figaro (tunes the were regularly whichstreet transferred from the theatre to has faded, icians) are lost, not a note of that composition and when reproduced, it still finds as many enthusiastic admirers as a comedy of ShaksPeare. The . . combination of play predominates in it, imparts fulness and grace which Figaro, accordin • g to some critics, a more . decided Mo v other of his zartian character than an, works. Every it one may certainly find it! something to please. The musician, for instance, listens with delight to the bass of admirable the first duet, or to the . instrumentation of the song in which the page z's trying on the cap. What P. wealth of beauty in places comparativelymusicunnoticed.delightful with a laugh, ma y fine both in the du et in which Susanna describes the behaviour of the Count when her .bridegroom is gone on his travels. The , p deprecatory interjecti ons o f poor Figaro, " Susanna , pian, piau,' call u the mostpleasant recollections. It were endless to pursue this opera through all its materials for pleasure. The favourite •of the composer was the sestetto, piece " Riconosci in o ' Le None di Figaro " questo aropless • . itsis the third • • piece which composer dramatic piehad produced by desire of the Emperor Joseph • Throughout the re mainder of the year in which Figaro was, produced, to have been full of a plan of Mozart appears settling in England. 7,128 15 8 4,509 1 1 3,411 1 3 1,862 4 11 ; . 14 r t0 " P t h e efu se a and f a ll particulars may b e o bt a i ne d u p on applica -4414/0,7 ' , tents of the office in all the principal towns of the United . , and at the head office, No. 50, Regent-street. JOHN A. 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Zar — l , -ts ; --- Eirst Class (two s tow els)—Cold Bath, Threepence. SisP. the second Class—(one towel)—Cold Bath, Th cs • ° (, ; warm B -n tl Twopence. Every Bath is in a private room. Met e ' `'"ntnlttee earnestly a' solicit donations to enable them to com ) the the Baths and Washhouse. Ihnirations received at the Baths, the Committee Room, and the °f England, and by most all the London Bankers. By order, Co JOHN SMITH, Clerk. m , 3. Crosby -square. A R R , I A the other One half the world are desolately single, se,Z:kng them married, questionably contented. D a iffi nd dence or a of right determ ne the former, and miscalculated hope ' s ;er the latter. The solitary one may shield himself under the piea atitioa and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un- Tprosin h ona -urry ; but the trutlies deeper. hysical incapacity, rokeng health, are the great hindrances to domestic happiness leocial content. The dowry should not be the only marriage set -1;1 nt. 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They are not merely fttra bat equal quantity a library volume, nor are they the ~474,rneral scribblins of the hour, but the study of the author h 's gold the present existence, health, and position to this o h ; "oUlcl b e d e „ - 2 niattims he would ineuleate—t3 do unto others as . s on the unte—te live after nature's laws—and to keep . al , ,erwo o ,i - „ n Y B ide of th way." The above works ma be had of • C Pate e w • Carvalho, 147, Fleet street; Mann, 4m u ; xaise r ti novr - I r v o est , Strand ; or direct (by post os othe l r- Tu ornin fr ,. °M t he author (who may be conferred ( with pe . rsonal a y li o. and ev en i ng . ), 10, A rgy ii.. / Aaee, Regent - street and Those cells are formed of iron plates set on edge, the cell.; of the roof bein g within a fraction of one foot nine inches square, an d those of the floor being one foot nine inches wide, and two feet three inches deep. The rails on which the trains run are laid on those cells of the floor. The flat bottom, the two upright sides, and the flat roof of each tube are formed of plates, the thinnest of which is a quarter of an inch, and the thickest twelve sixteenths of an inch, but the number of them laid to gether and the internal joining cannot be yet explained. The weight of each of the four long tubes will be about 1,300 tons ; the weight of each of the four short ones about 600 tons. In the whole there will be at least 7,600 to ns o f i ron use d . No contract i ng estimate of the expense of th e i ron part of the work has been made, as the work may cost more or less, according to circum stances. The masonry was contracted for by B. J. Nowell and Co. at 130,0001 ; but, from alterations in the plans, it will cost (suppose no farther alterations be made) 200,0001. They expect to finish the masonry by August, 1848. It will contain one million and a half of cubic feet of stone. When I was there in May fifty vessels, of sixty or seventy tons each, were employed in conveying the stones to the works; the red sandstone, of which the in side courses are built, from Runcorn—the blue limestone, of which the outside courses are built, from the sea shores of Anglesea. The quarries en the Anglesea shores opened for this work extended over twenty miles. In the whole there were 1,300 men employed, 600 of them at the bridge, the fortnightly wages of the latter amounted to 1,3001. 3,000 cubic feet of timber had been used at that time for stages and scaffolding. Two steam engines were at work on each shore, and a third was being erected on the Britannia Rock, in the centre of the Strait, to hoist the stones, grind mortar, saw timber, and perform other heavy work. On each shore there was a limekiln, the chips of the limestone falling from the irons of the hewers being burned into lime; and the chips of the red sandstone being ground to powder to make mortar with the lime. There were seventeen gauntries with travelling crabs on each for moving the blocks of stone. Railways diverged and converged, on which trucks run along; and every heavy weight in the building of this wonderful structure was moved as if men were gods, who only willed that huge blocks should take motion, and they took it. The building of the iron tubes had not then begun ; but the stages upon which they are to be built are erected, extending along the Carnarvon shore about a quarter of a mile. The plates of iron aro in prepara tion at different places in England and Scotland, and they will be conveyed separately to Wales, and put to gether on these stages. The tubes will then be con veyed from the shore and elevated to their places in this way. We shall imagine ourselve s p resent w hil e the mighty thing is in process of b e i ng done ; each of them requiring only about six or eight hours to be removed e fr e vatiom t.he on stage upon th e s h ore, and raised to its lofty l. ON "'``... 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Or forwarded, post paid, to any address , for 38. 6d. in Postage Stam,,,i t; P RESERVATION: A Medical Treatise Y outli clu Marria those Secret Intimates and Disorders of life, wh in' matur ,, y, that are u ually acquired at an early pert d a • si oo, ch tend to destroy phys eel and mental energy, ardour, tr ' 44 all the attributes o Manhood. illustrated with Twenty tase,...enleUred Engravings on the Anatomy, Physiology, and Dis . - -• of th e , 'anon. __ , erinary and Itepredective Orgar.s, explaining . their k. e Dr,,,i —ruc tures, uses, and functions and showirg the injuries that i'fit4 - .,_alced in them, ' by solitary habits, excesses, and infecilm. 14,c,,,`Lactical Observations on the Treatment of Nervous Debility, dl;:: and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis, Stric,ure, and other By SAMUEL LVMERT, CONSULTING SURGEON, Sfat r i, 9, Bedford -street, Bedford-square, London; bf,4o„'.l_•eated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorer , Rothe of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of " a ies' Hall, London, &c., &c. CIS OONTSNTEI 07 THE THIATIBE. 441,,,,,.!11 1. On the Philosophy of Marriage, with its Hindrance* cn""24ations, and on Infelicitous and Unproductive Unions.- 0,. -- ,'.'! s alt 2. On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Generative • lan, their fluictions, structures, and secretions, proving that great ..,:!_tal and Pbysical Power are dependant upon their healthy action A r ranza 3. On Solitary Habits; their various effects on the th 4l e a L E " n enly ; the concealed cause of Debility of the function* ti ent ~.?mach, Lungs, and Brain, and general weakness of the and IV ac uities* Cnairrsa 4. On the Secret Disorders of Youtt Ntent..?iturity, and the Treatment of Nervous and Local Weakness, , iaorderc D ety, and Premature Decay.—CISAYTIREI 5 and 6. Or arising from indiscriminate Excess, Strictures, and her tot,emes. THE WEATuEE.—In the early part of the week a considerable quanateitqyueoefur,apininfgeall:ka, n i d ias lai s t e l at th u e s grain to some extent. Very warm weather has now succeeded ; y r. a M s large as an orange and perfectly souna, and will, doubtless, repair the little injury done by the rain. From all quarters the moat favourable reports aro SUICIDE IN JERSEY. — On Friday morning, about potato, received. n ten o'clock, Captain Thomas Calder, of the Royal Navy, who resided in the parish of St. Lawrence, blew out his brains with a pistol. An inquest was held on his body in the evening, and a verdict returned, " Died by his nearly own hand, whilst in a state of temporary derangement." FRENCH FLOUR. —The following arrivals of flour have taken place in one day from France, viz. :—The Lord Glenelg, from Havre , 2,102 barrels ; the Laurel, from Havre, 1,301 barrels ; and the Lively, from Bor deaux, 2,000 barrels of the article, the produce of France. The latest arrivals have also included some supplies of grain from Nantes and other parts of France. LA,'S t „, 7LJEVIEWiI 07 TILE WORK. w ork --T SELF-PRESEILVATION.—RENT AND RICHARDS.—This es o s esses advantages over e• cry other other of the kind sub- Ittitted ela, rmie Public notice. The author is a medical man of some con ; profession talent, who has devoted many years to the study of hie Is abaft qii a i ii r e ' - a u t n i , and as a guarantee of his pretensions has published his ons and diplomas in the work, and several testimonials of Is in ies floor physicians and surgeons of great eminence, which Ilatu r „" t important consideration to those wh. , from the peculiar Of their infirmities, are obliged to seek medical assistance Itut n 4 4r allgers. The subject is treated altogether in . as excellent er and by its perusal the unfortunate victim of vicious habits d IId dissipation will be enabled to account for peculiar ' , "es, and to discove ' r the means of alleviating their sufferings r w !atY and effectual manner.—United Service Gazette. fr om ";,." 34 ed by the Author, and may be lied at my residence; also lien and Richard.i, S 2, Paternoster-row; Hannay and Co., 63, Le.,.'''..-street Starts, Tichbonae-street, Quadrant; Gortion, 146. strbr ' )2 11 C-street, London; Newton. 16, Church-street, Liverpool ; 7 _ 10, 1 Booksellers. ph,-;..totne for Consultation daily, from Nine till Two, f an . tur the tau Eight; and all letters immediately replied to, con,. liiqq" ° I le, for advicedkc.-9BEDFORD-3TREET BEDFORW lat 1001:4D02.1. Imagine, then, the day. Is it not a scene worth liv ing for ? We are on the shore of Carnarvon, looking tier° , s the rapid tide now flowing, to the high shores of Anglesea. A mile below, on the wooded slope, is the beautiful residence of the Marquis of Anglesea ; and on the hill nearly opposite to us, overlooking the great woik of this great day, is ,the column erected to com memorate the Marquis and Waterloo, the column hav ing the familiar name of " Lord Anglesea's Leg," h e having got this column on the Anglesea bills because he lost a leg on the plains of Belgium. May Stephenson achieve a triumph in art this day, as undovbred as was the triumph of war of Wellington and Anglesea on th a t day ! How glorious for him and for Engl an d if h e does ! But why say if He will triumph. H e r i s k s nothing here ; he has reduced everything t o certa i nty. The tide is now favourable. A line of barges lying LON DON, SAT t 6AY DI 0 .N , Ny PRICE SD. oollV _ : . • ,04 ,0',.. -. - ---: ; 1 4,\ c ,,, • • p,, A • ) // '1 - • arl • 3.1. -- ..- - . 4 . r 1--- :' , ~ ..--' -, - ,, ' - .1-.47, - ..;,.. .. -•ts.. ; - '71 , , . . . .., t t li I . ' 'z \-- ''' 4' 'i''. 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Sir,—Your well known readiness at all times to ad , vacate the cause of the industrious poor induces me draw your attention to a practice, so fraught with mot evil to the employed, as well as certain risk to em' ployers, that, should you incline to notice it in you/ journal, and comment upon it in your usual able manner, I think much good might accrue from it. I allude to the case of laundresses, and the system t; raising money on the li nen entrusted to them, induced " it is alleged, from the want of certainty with which they receive payment from persons employing them. This fact was brought under my knowledge in al following manner:— Having for some time been dissatisfied with the irre. gularity with which our linen was returned from ths, person who undertakes my family's washing, and an noyed by the detention of various articles (not unfree quently for several weeks together), the cause was mom thoroughly investigated, and on application being made at a pawnbroker's in the vicinity of the washerwoman the lost linen was found there amongst numerous other articles of table linen, sheets, gentlemen's fine shirts silk handkerchiefs, &c., many of which were recognise4 as belonging to other parties known to the personmakin the inquiry, and marked with the owner's names in full. A remark of the pawnbroker's, on some surprise being expressed was, " This is no single case, for not one washerwoman only, but hundreds adopt the same plan;" and from what has since come to my knowledge it ap pears that it really is a frequent practice with laun dresses though I believe more particularly in the neighbourhood of London. In the case in question I fully believe nothing dishonest was intended, the washer woman did not attempt to deny the fact, though ex pressing regret at being obliged to have recourse to the plan ; still she appeared surprised at any impropriety being attached to it, having learnedfrom her the system her former mistress ; other laundr es ses ih in the neigh bourhood did the same, and she was the er turn teach, ing it to her own assistants. But when the an assured me th a t many of the ladies for whom p s o h n e r w as hed often only paid th e i r bill s monthly or quarterly (very few wetkly or regulariy)„,and put the question, how was it possible for her, witlioi)t capital, to provide herself even with the necesary articles for carrying on her business, and support a little family entirely dependent upon her earnings, without some such loan? I could but feel she had been placed in difficulty, and that such cases should be made public, as well as brought before individuals who may also be thus inconsiderately placing in diffi culty and temptation those whose dependence for sub sistence is on the labour of their hands. I am respectfully yours, THE MISTRESS OF A FAMILY. • sTAVIce-vr TILEKVOTZO-1111:LLS. The larger portion of the works of the Hull Flax and Cotton Company are stopped, and have been so since Monday week, owing to a strike of the hands. The fol lowing is a copy of the placard distributed by the fac tory people on Wednesday :—" Strike of the Strippers, Grinders, and Scutching men of the Hull Cotton Mills. Apppeal to the Public.—The above strike took place on Monday last, July sth, 1847, on account of our wages being reduced from I ls. a week to 10s. id. which, from the great price of provisions, &c., it is impossible to exist upon, we are therefore compelled to appeal to a ge nerous public to assist us in endeavouring to reptes s op pression and maintain our rights.—Hull, July 6th, 1847."—This strike is the first which has taken place since the opening of these works, and is attributable to the following circumstances:—On Thursday, the Ist instant, the inspector of factories in this district caused to be delivered to the manager of the company's mills a copy of the new Act of Parliament for regulating the hours of labour in factories, prohibiting the employment of the operatives more than eleven hours per day. 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I'crry are in daily attendance at their residenc' 9, Berners-street, Oxford,trect, London, from eleren ttn two. an Ova till nigh d on gnm!avx from olovoo tw,o.m PAUCITY OF BUSINESS IN THE biII:RIFF S t.OUILT. —There were only three cases for trial yesterday in the Sheriff's Court, in consequence of the operation of the County Courts Ai t and in the Secondaries' Court on the previous day there was only one cause. Actions in the supreme courts for sums under 201. have been discon tinued. JULY 21, 1847. FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. At the Court of Buckingham Palace, the 22d day of July, 1847, present, the Queen's most excellent Majesty in Council, this day the Right Hon. William Sebright Lascelles and the Right Hon. Sir William Meredyth Somerville, Bart., were by her Majesty's command, sworn of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took their respective places at the Board accord. ingly. Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased to ap point the Right Honourable Henry Labouchere, Presi dent of the Committee of Council appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to trade and foreign plantations. Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. George William Frederick Howard (com monly called Viscount Morpeth) to be Lord Lieu• tenant and Custos Rotulorum of the East Riding of the county of York, his Lordship this day took the oaths appointed to be taken thereupon, instead of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy. FOREIGN OFFICE, JULY 21, 1847. It is hereby notified, that her Majesty's Principal Se cretary of State for Foreign Affairs has received a dis patch, dated the 3d instant, from Sir Hamilton Seymour, her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni potentiary at Lisbon, containing a Decree of the Queen of Portugal, of which the following is a translation: DECREE. The motives having ceased for which the Bar of the river Douro was declared in a state of blockade, under decree of the 20th of October last, I am pleased to cause it to be published, that the town of Oporto is open to navigation, as it was previously to that decree, as also all other ports in the river Douro. The Ministers, &c., of the several departments shall so cause it to be executed, &c. Palace of Necessidades, July 1, 1847. (Manu Regia) RAINHA. Countersigned by all the Ministers. FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY 23. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint 041 Hon. Frederick Bruce to,..be her _lliajesty's Consul General in the republic of Bolivia. James s e Qu ßro e o e k n e l:a E s s a ci l . r to bee b n e g h r e a r ciou Majesty's sY pl and Consul General to the S u lt an an d i n d epen d ent c hi efs ea C s e o d m t m o i a s p s i p o o n i e n r t in the island of Borneo. CAMBRIDGE-HOUSE, JULY 22. The Duke of Cambridge has been pleased to appoint the Reverend William Henry Dickinson to be one of his Royal Highness's Chaplains. WAR-OFFICE, JULY 23. 6th Dragoon Guards—Cornet Edward M`Evoy to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Vavasour Carter, who re tires; John Jestyn Williams Fredericks, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice M'Evoy, July 23. sth Regiment of Foot—Quartermaster Sergeant Ro bert Webster to be Quartermaster, vice William Tiller, who retires upon half-pay, July 23. 24th Foot—Ensign Henry John Hinde, from the 50th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Hibbert, who exchanges, July 23. 28th Foot—Lieutenant Archibald Edward Cochrane Forster, from the sth Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Bur rell, appointed to the 45th Foot, July 23. 50th Foot—Ensign Edward George Hibbert, from the 24th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Hinde, 'who exchanges, July 23. 72d Foot—Sergeant Major John Lindsay to be Quartermaster, vice William Hume, who retires upon half pay, July 23. 90th Foot—Paymaster Henry Yielding Eagar has been superseded, for being absent without leave, Mar. 6. Rifle Brigade—Second Lieutenant Arthur de Vere Viscount Malden to be First Lieutenant, :by purchase, vice Sir Henry l a yrwhitt, Bart., who retires ; Arthur Warren, Gent.,l to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Viscount Malden, July 23. Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Second Lieutenant Geddes Sansoni Twynam to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Brereton, who retires; Ensign William Charles Bruce, from the Cape Mounted Riflemen, to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Twynam, July 23. Cape Mounted Riflemen—Bedford Davies, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bruce, appointed to the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, July 23. GARRlSON B .—Quartermast er William Hume, from the 72d Foot, to be Town Adjutant of Gibraltar, vice Campbell, deceased, July 23. MEZOORANDUM.—Captain John Smith (2d), upon half pay unattached, has been permitted to assume the name of "Dodsworth," in addition to and after that of Smith. The commission of Lieutenant Rutherford, as Adju tant to the 70th Foot, has been antedated to 27th April, 1837. The Christian name of Cornet Garland, of the 11th Light Dragoons, is " Lester," not Lister, as pre viously stated. .Commission by thqLord-Lieutenant of the West Riding- of Yorkshire. Henry Thynne Lascelles, commonlfrcalled Viscount tiseellvs, to be Deputy Lieutenant, July 16. BANKRUPTS. William and John Hammer, coach-makers, White chapel-road, to surrender July 30, at half-past eleven, and Sept. 3, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy ; Carman, official assignee, Birchin-lane ; Paraell and Co., New Broad-street. Edwin Charles Powell, baker, Bermondsey, July 30, and September 3, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Bir c hi n -l ane ; B uchanan, Basinghall-street. George Brown, builder, Southampton, July 30, at half-past twelve, and Sept. 3, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Braikenridge, Bartlett's-buildings ; Newman, Southampton. Thomas Yates, joiner, Liverpool, Aug. 6 and 27, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool; Johnson and Co., Temple, London; Snowball, Liverpool. John Corker Whittaker, licensed victualler, Man chester, Aug. 6 and 27, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, George-street, Manchester; Wathen, Basinghall-street, London; Fogg, Tib-lane, Manchester. Stephen Keen, brick-maker, Hillingdon, Middlesex, July 30, at half-past twelve, and Sept. 3, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Birchin-lane, Cornhill ; Newbou and Evans, Doctors'-commons. John Smith, plumber, Croydon, Aug. 3, at three, and Sept. 4, at eleven, at the Court o f B ankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Haniland, Bouverie street. Frederick Cornell, ironmonger, Halsted, Essex, Aug. 6, at half-past two, and Sept, 7, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee-, Abchurch-lane, Lombard -street ; Hindmarsh and Son, Crescent, Jewin street, Cripplegate. Henry Tamlyn, coal-merchant, Totton, Hampshire, Aug. 4, at eleven, and Sept. 7, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's place, Old Jewry ; Tilson and Co., Coleman-street ; Randall, Southampton: Charles Houghton, ironmonger, Dudley -grove, Pad dington, Aug. 6, at three, and Sept. 7, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry ; Messrs. Brady and Son. Staple Inn. Thomas Hutchins Finder, tailor, Southampton, Aug. 7 and Sept. 8, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abehurch-lane, Lombard street ; Sole and Turner, Aldermanbury ; Hardwick and Davidson, Basinghall-etreet. Thomas Perry, builder, Westminster. road, Aug. 7, at one, and Sept. 8, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard street ; Collins and Rigley, Crescent-place, Bridge street, Blackfriars. Thomas Marriott, victualler, Moor-street, Seven-dials, Aug. 4, at three, and Sept. 8, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street buildings, City ; Cattlin, Ely-place. John Donaldson, brewer, Wigton, Cumberland, Aug. 5, at half-past ten, and Sept. 16, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Lazenby, Wigton ; Willis, Staple Inn, London ; Ingledew, Newcastle-upon- Tyne. Christopher Martin, plumber, Darlington, Durham, Aug. 5, at half-past twelve, and Sept. 16, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Newham, Darlington; Harle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Henry Wanstall, grocer, Durham, Aug. 5 and Sept.l6, at half -past one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee, Newcastle-upon- Tyne ; Crosby and Compton, Old Jewry, London I Hodge, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Moor, Durnam. Richard Rich, currier, Bodmin, Cornwall, Aug. 5 and Sept. 2, at ono, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter ; Wallis, Bodmin ; Turner, Exeter ; Stogdon, Exeter. George Winnal, coach-builder, Worcester, Aug. 4 and 31, at t we l ve , at the Birmingham Distr i ct C our t. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ; Finch, Wor cester ; Mottram and Knowles, Birmingham. Richard Watki ns an d S amue l Watkins, the Manchestertiulors,Man chester, Aug. 3 an d 26, at t we l ve , a District C o urt. H o b son , o ffi c i a l assignee, t Manchester; Wood and Fraser, D ean - s t ree t, Soho, London ; Claye and Welco, Manchester. George Wilson, ironfounder, Salford, Aug. 5 and 27, at twelve, atthe Manchester Lancashire, Aug. e, r Court. Hobson, Charlotte -street, e ß ffi ed ei f a o l rd-sqar assignee, ue Manchester; Abbott, London ; Atkinson, Saunders, and Atkinson, Manchester. Robert Kippax, cotton spinner, Aug. 3 and 26, at twelve, at the Colne, Lancashire, Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester ; c ragg and Jeyes, Bedford-row, London , Burnky. William Francis West all, wine merchant, Manchester, Aug. 3 and 27, at twelve, at the Manchester Di str i ct Court. Hobs2n, official assignee, Manchester; Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, temple,er eet. London; Bagshaw, St e . venson, and Lycett, Manchester. John Jewry,jun., boot and shoemaker, Cardiff, Aug. 5, and Sept. 3, a t eleven, at the Bristol Distri c t C ourt. Miller, official assignee, Bristol; Trehern and Co., Barge yard-chambers, London; Sabine, Bristol. George Coombs, builder, Bedminster, Aug. 6, and Sept. 3, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acra• man , official assignee, Bristol; Trehern and Co., Barge yard-chambers, London; Sabine, Bristol. Joseph Smith, worsted spinner, Kendal, Aug. 5, at twelve, and Aug. 31, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Taylor, Nicholis- Jane, London; Hodgson, Bradford; Bond and Barwick, Leeds. DIVIDENDSthe pound, n It DE CLARED,Saturday, div, of 4d. in 4. R. Stafford, share agent, Warnford-court, City--final at the office of Mr. Green, Aldermanbury. C. Edmondstone, paper manufacturer, Over Darwen Lancashire-first div. of 2s. in the pound, on Tuesday' Aug. 3, or any subsequent Tuesday, at the office of Mr: Fraser, Manchester. W. Smith, printer, Uttoxeter-first div. of 3s. 6d. in the pound, on any day, excepting Tuesday and Saturday, until Aug. 12, at th e office of Mr. V a l py, Birmingham. H. C. Howells, jun., share broker, Bristol-first thy. of 10d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the offic e 1 of Mr. Miller, Bristol. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. C. Paddon, clothes salesman, Milner-place, Lower marsh, Lambeth, Aug. 13, at eleven-J. Barwise, walch maker, St. Martin's-lane, Aug. 13, at two -A. Quarter man, glover, Oxford, Aug. 14, at eleven-11. S. Brazier, tailor, Oxford, Aug. 14, at twelve. In the Country. T. Bourne, corn factor, Liverpool, Aug. 13, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court-T. Bointon, money scrivener, Pickering, Aug. 19, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein mentioned. J. Shea, woollen warehouseman, Aldermanbury, Aug. 14-W. S. Brown, the elder, and W. S. Brown, the younger, ship chandlers, Broad-street, Ratcliff, August 13-G. Burbidge, auctioneer, Moorgate street, City, August 14-H. Morant, fishmonger, Connaught-terrace, Eigeware-road, Aug. 13-C. Vyse, draper, Ludgate-street, Aug. 13-J. and J. Collins, jewellers, Bath, Aug. 17-T. Herbert, grocer, Llanelly Breconshire, Au . 13-J. Burrell, surgeon, Wakefield Aug..- 1 ,Z7 - sr- , -- Me hankers. =1,.„. ,TDOtshihi, Aug. 17-0:. - }": noire; •mereinta iusee, Keit. nington, Aug. 16-J. Parker, corn chandler, Clapham, Aug. 13-W. H. Noyes, registrar of births and deaths, Longparish, Southampton, Aug. 13-E. Jones, jun., paper manufacturer, Watling street, Aug. 13-P. Black more, saddler, Little James-street, Bedford-row, Aug. 14 -W. Bainbridge, gr ocer , C orr i e - p l ace, Old Kent-road, Aug. 18-A. Norval!, painter, Liverpool, Aug. 13-R. Wilkin, quarryman, Beddgelert, Merionethshire, Aug. 13 -C. H. Perry, baker, Liverpool, Aug. 13-J. Spray, framesmith, Gelding, Nottinghamshire, Aug. 13-T. Shipman, jun, W. Birks, and B. Shipman, lace manu facturers, Nottingham, Aug. 13-J. Lee, cabinet case maker, Four Oaks, Warwickshire, Aug. 14-J. H. Mackay, merchant, St. Helen's-place, Bishopsgate- street, Aug 13-J. L. Wilks, tailor, Worcester, Aug. 13-11. H. Facey, builder, Exeter, Aug. 13-W. Shuker, licensed victualler, Salisbury, Aug. 13-W. Thomas, grocer, Treforest, Glamorganshire, Aug. 13-J. Green, lodginghouse keeper, Greenwich, Aug. 13-J. Tyler, hop merchant, Worcester, Aug, 13-T. Barraclough, woollen cloth manufacturer, Halifax, Aug. 13. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Thorp, J. Thorp, J. Terry, and J. Scholefield, sawyers, Bradford (so far as regards James Thorp)- -J. Farrington, G. Greaves, and J. Greaves, yarn doublers, Manchester-R. Bradley, H. Ford, and W. E. Parker, sharebrokers, Manchester-R. Walker and L. Pluright, spinners, Huddersfield-A. Hale and A. E. Brown, confectioners, High-street, Clapham-J. Gillett and W. Colbourne, agricultural implement makers, Brailes, Warwickshire-J. Atkins and T. Blake, grocers, Commerce-place, Lansdowne-road, South Lambeth-- F. Binns, Z. Drake, and B. Woodcock, chemists, Hud dersfield (so far as regards F. Binna)-H. Tootal, J. B. Tootal, and J. W. Garnett, Wakefield-E. Leaf, J. W. Barnett, F. Scotson, and S. T. Carnegie, warehousemen, Cheapside (so far as regards S. T. Carnegie)-J. Cliff and J. Husler, stone merchants, Isle of Dogs-T. Cook and H. Payne, beersellers, Kennington-lane-T. Win tinborne and J. Sabin, booksellers, Oxford-P. Oliver, J. Griffiths, and R. Griffiths, miners, Pew y Cefn Mirfes, Cardiganshire-J. Burley and J. Thompson, finishers of fancy woollens, Halifax-J. Barber and W. North, jewellers, York-W. 11. Dobson and R. Dewsbury, woollen drapers, Leeds -C. M. Collett, G. Laurie, and T. A. Attree, attorneys, Chancery-lane (so far as regards C. M. Collett)-J. Aitchison and T. Eathering ton, carpenters, Pitt- s t ree t, Old Kent-road-H. Fisher and N. Fearon, commission merchants, Liverpool-S. Sergeant and C. Lazarus, coal merchpnts, New Crane wharf, Wapping-wall -T. Brock W. W. Briddon, drysalters, Liverpool-W. Brown, G. Bhiith, W. Smith, and T. Haddock, Lanchester, Durham (se'far as regards W. Brown.) SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. John Boyd, dealer in shares, Glasgow, Jtly 30, nd Auglg..o )0, allone,.telthaNis ihbmers ad :Mr: RitAthie, 4 G ia 14 1 , : • Gierg Taylor, porter dealer, Aberde en , J u ly 29, Ad' Aug. 23, at two, at th e c h am b ers of Mr. Henderson, .. i s. Aberdeen. G. and J. Ireland, merchants, Dundee, July 28, and Aug. 18, at one, at the British Hotel, Dundee. Vance and Co., muslin manufacturers, Glasgow, July 27, and Aug. 24, at two, at the chambers of Mr. Fleming, Glasgow. - PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending July 20, 1847, is 255. 10d. per cwt. HEARTRENDING CATASTROPHE.—THRE E CHIL DREN DROWNED.—A most mournful occurrence, result ii.g in the death of three children, took place near Carsethorn, on Friday last. From what we have been able to learn, the dreadful catastrophe occurred under the following circumstances :—Peter Hair, an Irishman, who gains his living by travelling: the country and vending broom besoms, after lodging all night with his children, two boys and a girl, at Lochise, near New Abbey, took the road with them in the morning in the direction of Carsethorn. The party took a near cut across the sands, the father allowing his children to amuse themselves at the water's edge, while he, it is supposed, was busy with his occupation. While the heedless trio were engrossed gathering shells on the sand-banks, the tide was creeping up stealthily and cutting them off from the main-land. At last the children were roused by the noise of the rushing waters, and quite bewildered and ignorant of the locality, they ran from the still uncovered ground which they occupied into the tide. The distracted father soon joined them, and did his best to save his precious household, now in deadly peril. He caught hold of the two youngest, and made a desperate attempt to bring them on shore, but, from sheer exhaustion, he had to let go. The eldest boy, who could swim a little, managed to keep his bead above water for a while, but his strength was insufficient to strive against the tide. A' boat, manned by Captain Blair, reached the place too late to save the children, but in time to take in the old man, who but for it must also have shortly perished. He was conveyed to the Cars,-; and, on beieg brought to consciousness, his agony must have been extreme. After the tide had ebbed the bodies were discovered ; the two youngest lay locked in each other's arms, at a little distance from the scene of their death ; while the body of the eldest child was found at a distance of about half a mile belpw. The funeral of the children, thus cut off by a stroke in the morning of life, was to take place on the evening after the mournful tragedy occurred.—Dumfries Standard. - -- SUSPICIOUS DEATII ., OF Two CIIILDREN.—On Thursday Mr. William Payne, the City Curoner, held an inquest at the White Swan, Temple-street, White friars, on the body of a male child unknown. From the evidence it appeared that the deceased was found at an early hour that morning, carefully tied up in a parcel, and floating down the Thames, nearly opposite the Grand Junction Wharf, Whitefriars. It was imme diately taken ashore, and Mr. Hutchinson, surgeon, of Farringdon•street, was ca ll e d to examine the same. The result of that gentleman's examination left no doubt that the child had been born alive, but whether its death had been caused by violence the evidence failed to prove. The same afternoon Mr. Joseph Payne, the deputy coroner, held an adjourned inquest at the school-room, Black Raven -court, Seething-lane, on the body of the a newly-born f ema l e c hild , f oun d on th e evening of lndia 16th instant, on one o f th e w i n dows of the East thisW a r c e a h s o e u w s e a , s ins similaret h i n t o g - T evi den ce he . surgeonadduced who in born alive, but'how its death had been p Coroner in summing l t a h n e e . had examined the body proved that the r e o li d il u d ee h d a i d t bees impossible to tell. The Learned the usual course adoptedl t three days as many inquests up said, it appeared to hi mo th f at di t s h p e os p to r g ese o n f t m ne o w d . e h w or a o s children, for within the as . i n the City. The Jury re similar circumstances each "lIATIIAm.—The had been beld on the bodies of children found under ease of " Found Dead without turned a verdict in T it: account I f A o L r d A e death." t h c . 31general court-martial holden at this st of December, 1846, for the trial of , been the n l a reserve o r h e a batta lion sufficient Gs nEBAz evidence t ßo garrisonprocedinogna t h o e f i o e o l Field s M t u a r r d s l a t 3 a , l , t t h h e e l C 7t o h m i n na s a t. n , d i ne Commander-in -Chief, n e -e h presencei ef u' R o s t. private Abraham Goods, N 0.2,475 lion of the 56th Regiment, having t pg h eu e oem p e r un i l s gb o ay n t e eF r d and the troops. The prisonerwlasektried up on the o the following charg e: ---" For having inlock-up room at Brompton Barr ac k s , Ch atham, on or about the . 18th of December, 1846, offered violence to Sergeant-Major Samuel Grix, his superior officer, when i n th e execu tion of his d u t y, by striking the said the butt of a tirelock. Upon. s. Samuel Grix w ith found the prisoner guilty, whllch.being the Court luch charge i n breach his of the articles of war, and taking into l consideration former convictions and general bad character, does in virtue thereof sentence him the said prisoner to be (from the expiration of his former sentence by District Court martial) transported as a felon for the term of fourteen years. Her Majesty was pleased to approve and con firm the finding and sentence of the Court, and to com mand that the prisoner be transported accordingly be yond the seas to such places her Majesty, by the ad vice of the Privy Council shall think fit to direct and appoint. The sentence of this court-martial, together with her Majesty's pleasure thereupon, will be duly notified to the Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench or Common Pleas, as directed by the lath clause of the Mutiny Act. (Signed) John M an . donald, Adjutant - General." The prisoner wasxemoved to the prison of the main guard to await an order for his removal. The 56th Regiment is at Gibraltar. PRECURSORS or OUR MODERN " GIGANTIC ENGI NEERS "—ln 1802, says Mr. Samuel Angell, in The Builder, Mr. GgVe Dance submitted to a Select Com mittee of the Muse of Comm ons a dein of great mag-: , e niticence and praftical utility ; it consists of a double bridge, in the plae `,4 old London-bridge, to admit of the passage of ships by the alternate ele vation of a drawbridge To tither alf the two brides,utialtpted way ov er th e after would be aced a s Tl times for carriages an d f oo t passengers, without imp eding the navigation, and with out the necessity of such elevated arches as the height of ships' masts require. The plan embraced the embank ment of the river both above and below bridge, the erec tion of quays and a line of warehouses extending from the Tower to the bridges,with dock entrancea,and terraces on arches, the Custom House being placed in the centre. Besides these manifestly advantageous alterations, he proposed to throw open to the river the noble monument erected by the genius of Wren, making it the focus of an extensive amphitheatrical area on the north side of the Thames, and to erect a naval trophy in the centre of a similar space on the Southwark side. The bridges were to be perfectly level, consisting each of six arches of great span, independent of the centre or drawbridge. Its very magnificence and the necessary sacrifice of valuable ground were the principal reasons of its non-adoption. A failure in this account, however, was not confined to the city architect, for among many bold and ingenious designs submitted to the House of Commons at that period, I find one by Messrs. 'Telford and Douglas, to replace old London-bridge by one of cast-iron of a single arch, 600 feet span, and 65 feet in height ! Mr. Dance appears to have been consulted on the subject of the approaches to this pons triumphalis. THE CONDEMNED YOUTH AVILLSMORE, FOR THE MURDER NEAR ROCHFORD.—CHELMSFORD, THURSDAY. —The wretched youth, James Willsmore, who was kit for execution by Baron Parke for the murder of John Terry, near Rochford, will, in all probability, have his life snared. It will be remembered that the convict struck the unfortunate man on the head with a hoe, which, fracturing his skull, terminated in death, and, although that violence was used in order that he might more successfully carry out his intention of robbery, yet there is every reason to suppose that he did not meditate the awful consequences that ensued. That inference it appears has been borne out bv many circumstances, and the inhabitants for miles round of all grades of society, entertaining that presumpti in, are exerting themselves to their utmost to save him from the scaffold. Yesterday a very large meeting was held at the Shire hall, for the purpose of memorialising her Majesty to spare his life, urging his youth, the absence of malice prepense, and the sparing of the feelings of the townspeople, which would naturally be considerably shocked by a public execution. The memorial has been signed by several of the county magistrates, and even, it is said, by the very justices who committed him. The jury strongly recommended him to the clemency of the Crown, and it is believed that after all the extenuating circumstances have been laid before the Secretary of State, the Learned Baron who presided at the trial will not stand in the way of mercy, and that Sir G. Grey will be induced to advise the Crows a to reprieve hi m . Th e unhappy youth, who i s confin e d n the convict's gaol a t Sp r i ng fi e ld, i s sa id to him self in a mann e r b e fitti ng t h e aw ful pcsitiorinn which he is placed. li e d oes no t d e ny strik in g his unfortunate victim over the head with the hoe, but positively slife. declares The is that he had no intention of taking a w h convict, as before stated, q uit e sixteenth year. He is da ily visited a boy, being .only in hi s e listened to with by the chaplain o f the prison, whose exhortations a re much attention by FisheriesA the Hiberni an ...sso tbe doomed youth . A Deputation from y sterday with eiation, had anin ter' , iew at the Home.office Sir William S omerville, Secretary of State for Ireland. expressed his cordial approbation of the Sir William object and his determination to assist in advancing the views of the association to its fullest extent. AMERICAN PRODUCE. —A vessel of small tonnage has arrived in the Commercial Docks from New Orleans, named the Baring Brothers, having on board 16,000 bushels of wheat, 34 tierces of pork, and 500 bites and 500 barrels of flour, the produce of the United States of America. This extensive importation in a vessel of small tonnage into the establishmen t mentioned is an instance of th e extent to which all kinds of craft are made available at this time for the introduction of grain and articles of food. DEATH OF A CHEAP NEwSPAPER.—Another " cheap" newspaper has become defunct during the last week, i.e., The Bristol Weekly News, and Great Western Advertiser, the last publication of which was on the 14th instant. We are sorry to hear that the proprietors have sunk a large sum of money in the concern.—Felix Farley's Bristol Journal. SALMON FISHINGS.—The fishings in the Ness are now improvin g ra pidl y . G r il se h ave entered the rv t e s. r freely, and cons id era bl e num b ers are taken t he nets . The water is rather low for the angler, bu t l still fine . n *. sport is obtained. Sea-trout, great weto Salmon l sells et from 61b 1 181 b., are also in p l e nty. grilse Sd., and trout 6d.p erlb nty. lnvrness Courie r . 2 " THE PATENT LAWS.—Attention at the ensuing general election is sought to be called to the present op pressive nature on the poorer classes of the law of letters patent. It is certainly high time some rnAitication of the law took place, as they act with great discourage ment to the inventive genius of the poor artizan from whom very frequently emanates many a useful and import. ant invention, which has only served to enrich his more affluent employer, and frequently placing him in a worse position than previously. The present exorbitant charges for letters patent for the United King dom is 4001., whereas al5 y ears patent in France may be had for 151., and 41. 3s. 4d. annually, in addition ; in Belgium and Holland a much lower charge is made. DEATH OF DANIEL WEBB WEBBER, ESQ., Q.C. —We regret to announce the demise of this respected gentleman, which took place on the 18th instant, at his residence in Dublin. Mr. Webber was in the ninetieth year of his age. He was for many years a distinguished member of the bar, and represented the borough of Armagh in Parliament. Mr. Webber formerly held the situation of chairman of the Board of Inquiry.