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GITILDEALL, $ T. 24, 1847. THE COMMA. EEtur LET I'IN G the CITY'S LANDS, will meet at Guildhall, ox WEDNESDAY, the 13th day of 4)ctoher next, at One o'clock precisely, to receive teeders LETTING on BUILDING LEASES for Cxty one ye..rs, from Michaelmas, 1847, a Piece of Ground, on the north side of Narrow street, at the corner of Cross-street, at Ratcliffe ; and a Piece of Ground on the east side of Puddle Dock, on the south side of Upper Thames-street, and on the north side of the River Thames. Also to receive Tenders for Letting on Leases for twenty-one years, from Michaelmas, 1847, a House, No. 19, on the north side of Broad-street buildings ; Nos. 30, 29, 28, 27, 26, and 25, on the north side of Bevie Marks, St. Mary Axe ; Nos. 7 and 6, on thewest side of Castle-stre, t, ouudaditch ; and Nos. 6, 5, and 4, ou the north aide of Crescent place, Blackfriars. Also to receive Tenders for Letting on Lease for nineteen and three-quarter years, from Michaelmas, 1847, a House, Ne. 48, on the west side of the Curtain-road, and Nos. 1 and 2, on the south aide of Charles-street adjoining ; a House, No. 50, on the west side of the Curtain-road, and Nos. 26 and 27, en the north side of Mottley.street adjoining; Nos. 1,2, 3,4, 6, and 7, on the west lido of Martha's-buildings, Old-street ; and Nos. 9, 10, 11. 12, 13, and 14, on the west side of the said twildings; also Nos, 9, 10, 11, and 12, on the south side of Featherstone-court, and Nos. 1,2, 3,4, 5, and other premises. in Princes-buildings, Featherstone-street. Further particulars may be obtained, and plans seen, by applying at the Office of Works, Guildhall. THOMAS SAUNDERS, Comptroller. STEAM TO C 11 I N A. Regular Monthly Steam Communication for Passengers and Light Goods to Penang. Singapore, and Hong-Kong via Egypt. The PENINSULAR and ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY book Passengers and forward Goods and Parcels to the above Ports by their Steamers from Southampton the 20th of every month. For particalars, apply at the Company's OftlCO3, 61, St. Mary Axe, London, or 57, High-street, Sorthampton. MR. BUCKINGHAM, the BRITISII and FOREIGN LAST ADVERTISEMENT. 1 £ 2 William Evans, M.F...... 5 5 The Earl Foreseue • 10 10 The Duke of Cleveland 5 5 Lord Ashburton lO 10 John Morison, Esq • Peter Gardner, Esq 3 3 The Baron Von Andlau.. 1 1 Dr. William Beattie ..... 2 2 W. A. Munn, E.g.. • 1 1 William Janson, Jun , Esq. 2 2 'Sir Moses Monteflore, Wirt. 5 5 eived at the !lank of Messrs. Ran- Secretary, No. 13, George-street, 'ON, President and Treasurer. ". liItETT, Honorary Secretary. Amount ex- Amount ex pended up to pended fron• Bth Bth Feb. Feb. to 7th Aug. Total. 1847. 1847. TESTIMONIAL TO from the MEMBERS of INSTITUTE. ADDITIONS SINCE THE X 9. H.R.H. the Prince Albert.. 23 0 H.R.H. tl'e Duke of Catn- . • ........ 10 10 Rey. Cecil Greene ........ 1 I Nicholas Earle, E5q....... 3 3 Capt. Charnherlayne, RN. 1 1 Joseph James Forrester, F. G. West, Esq. 1 1 Dr. W. F. Cumming 33 1 B. Clifford Lloyd, E , q •• • • 1 I Subscriptions continue to be reel Isom and Co.. or by the Honorary Hanover-square. MR. BUCKINGHAM'S POPULAR LEC TURES, descriptive of his TRAVELS in the ORIENTAL WORLD, will now be resumed throughout the Country, and will commence in EDINBURGH, on the 18th of OcroaEa. Full particulars may be hat at the Ilopeton and Waterloo Rooms, and at the principal Booksellers. Mlt BUCKINGHAM'S RECENT TOUR through BELGIUM, the RHINE, SWITZERLAND, and ROLLAND, and through FRANCE, LOMBARDY, the TYROL, and I I ALY, is now in the rre-s t and Subscribers to this Work will be furnished with their copies at wholes.de prices, if had direct from the Author, of whom t'rospectusee and Lists may be procured, through the pest, by a letter addressed to him at No. 13, George-street, Ha nover-square, London, till the Bth of October, and atter that at the rest-elm Edinburgh. fIHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY. SEVENTH CALL of 51. PER SHARE, making the amount called 371. 10s. per Share. In p.,rsuance, of a Resolution of the Board of Directors, Share hol•lers in this company are required to , on or before THURSDAY, the 21st October next, a CA LL of FIVE POLTSDS PER SII tEE to either of the undermentioned Bankers : London— Messrs. ..lyn and Co., Lombard-street. Liverpool—Liverpool Ilorou,h Bank. B tngor—Nli-ssrs. Williams and Co. Interest at the rate of Five per Cent. per Annum will be charged On ail Calls remaining unpaid on the said 21st October. By order. GEORGE KING, Secretary. 61, Moorgate-street, London, Sept. 21, 1847. E ASTERN COUNTIES RAIL WAY TENDERS FOR LOANS. The Directors are ready to receive TENDERS FOR LOANS in Burns of not less than 5001., for eaed periods, at the rate of il. per Cent. per Annum. _ By order, Blshopsgate Station, Au;. 12, 1847. C. P. RONEY, Secretary. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. .1: 4 1 REGISTRATION OF YORK EXTENSION SII,RES. The Holders of Scrip Certificates for t ese Shares are requested to transmit the same to th,s Office on or before the 30th day of October next, with their names, professions, and descriptions distinctly writ ten, in order that the same may he correctly entered in the Register of the Company. Shareholders who have not applied for their Scrip Certificates will be duly registered as they now stand in the Books of the Company; and all Shares not claimed by the actual holders of Scrip Certificates on or before the said 30th day of October, will be registered in the names of the persons to whom they were originally delivered or allotted. By order of the Board, C. P. ItONEY, Secretary. Bishopsgate Station, September 10, 1e47. • OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND By Engineering £ s. d. £ e. d. £ s. d. WOLVERHAMPTON RAILWAY. The Directors are ready to receive TENDERS of MONNY, to be and Surveying, advanced upon Loan, on security of the Company's Debentures, for including Parlia- Three, Five, or Seven Years, at Interest after the rate of Si. per Cent. mentary ........ 12,940 14 9 3,246 13 2 16,187 711 per Annum, payable half-yearly. By Works ....... 19,191 11 8 19,191 11 8 The Tenders may be addressed to the undersigned. By Rails, Chairs, By order of the Board of Directors, Sleepers, &c •• • • 13,450 0 0 13,450 0 0 NOEL THOMAS 'SMITH, Secretary. By Land and Com- Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton pensatien ...... 15,211 18 2 15,211 18 3 Railway Office, By Law Charges.. 9,957 4 6 11,129 18 5 21,087 211 Worcester, Sept. 23, 1847. Balance of Ses sion, 1846. By Parliamentary GREAT WESTERN It A.ILWAY• Charges........ 2,502 9 6 12.701 9 9 5,204 19 3 L 1846 and 1847 TENDERS FOR LOANS. By Traffic Taking 1,438 5 0 1,438 5 • The Directors of this Comeau) , are ready to receive TENDERS By Direction and for LOANS on security of the Company's Debentures, In sums of Audit.......... 500 0 0 1,050 0 0 1,550 0 tit not leas than 1,0001. each, at 51. per Cent. interest, payable half- By Office Charges yearly, and for terms of Three, Five, or Seven years. and Secretary & Applications te be made to the undersigned. Clerks' Salaries.. 4,257 15 7 926 710 5,134 3 5 CHARLES A SAUNDERS, Secretary. By Advertising, London Terminus, Paddington, August 20, 1847. Stationery, au i Printing........ 3,549 7 6 462 15 8 4,012 3 2 By Miscellaneous ANLBERGATE, NOTTINGHAM, and BOS- Charges and Tra- TON, and EASTERN JUNCTION RAILWAY. veiling Expenses 2,333 7 3 480 10 3 2,819 17 6 At the ordinary HALF-YEARLY MEETING of the PROPRIE- By Banker's Com- TORs, held on the 24th day of August, 1847, at 'he Exchange Hall, mission ........ 516 12 2 31 0 4 547 12 6 Nottingham, for the purpose of receiving a stateme.tt of the pro- By Interest, One et,__adings of the Directors and the Accotatts of the Company, W. F. Shilling and Tw o Norton, Esq., in the chair, pence per share, The fallowing REPOR r was read by the Secretary:—Since the due Bth or April, last ordinary meeting of the Proprietors, your Directors have con- 1847, upon/38,311 traced with Mr. NVythes for the formation of that portion of shares ..• •••• . . . 5,153 4 6 5,15; 4 6 the line between Bottesford and Grantham, including the ...--- Gonerby-hlll Tunnel, and the Canal Branch (about eig t mil.), and ByPoetageStamps the works are progressing to the satisfaction of your Directors. on hand .. • ... 10 11 9 They have also been tailed upon by the Midland Company to fulfil rty Cash is Bank the agreement entered into for the Joint constru. tion of the four ers' hands.. • ... 108,222 8 3 103,233 0 0 A MBERG ATE, NOTTINGHAM, and 805eC3... eC3... TON, and EASTERN JUNCTION RAILWAY. At the ordinary HALF-YEARLY MEETING of the ,1111 PROPRIE TORS, a held on the 24th day of August, 1847, at 'he Exchange , Nottingham, for the purpose of receiving a statemeat of the pro etOdings of the Directors and the Accolasts of the Compel)), wF. X. Norton, Esq., in the chair, The following REPOR f was read by the Secretary:—Since W ceth e leat ordinary meeting of the Proprietors, your Directorstat of h con tracted with Mr. ythes for the formation of that the line between Bottesford and Grantham, including the Gonerby-hlli Tunnel, and the Canal Branch (about eig t and the works are progressing to the satisfaction of your Directors. They have also been tailed upon by the Midland construction Company to fulfil the agreement entered into for the joint tion of the four fulfil Miles west of Nett ngham to Bulwell, which will effect a large sav ing to this Company. Your Directors have not deemed it prudent to enter into,es f the a assurance .anyothe e , entracts, ern, incur and other laiab.ltk' mo netary pressure, and also from'in Sense g u i s v e e ue at the last ordi nary meeting that no further call should be la ,de before the pre ent meeting, when your opinions mfg t b e co , suited aed directio ts taken. At the same tune your Directors have no hesitation in de elating that the true interests of the Company w , ll be best promoted by completing the llne eetweeh Nottingham and Grantham at the earliest period; and they regret that by this delay they will be un able to avail themselves of the summer months for the •orrno.tion of their works, which would have been greatly .o the advantage of the Company. On the first application to Parliament for the construction of this Tailway, the Midland Company o ere large shareholders, and being otherwise interested, it was not thought advisable to incur the tx- Pease of makTeg a separate station, wharfs, &c., at Nottingham, end Therefore no powers in he original Act ssore taken for that pu pose; but as that Company subsequently withdrew their connexion, your Directors, under the sanction of the half-yearly meeting in February last, applied to Parliament to deviate the line, and by increasing Meat' powers to secure an independent peoition. As the Company's trains would have to pass over the Lincoln line *boat two miles, the 'Midland Company had the power to charge atter the rate of ox miles. To be relieved from that heavy toll was another important desideratum— and though the Company by the purchase of the Nottingham Canal bad the best depot for the aocornmodation of the town of Nottingham, yet so independent ac cess was secured. tinder these circumstances your Directors deemed lt advisable to apply to Parliament to effect the above objects, and They congratulate the Shareholders in having succeeded upon terms greatly to the advantage of the Company. After the Bill had been introduced into Parliament, the Midland Company met your Direc tors Ia a very liberal and friendly spirit, and atter some negotiations, an agreement was entered into ander tile corporate seals of each Cempaay, by which the Midland Company consented to repeal so Much of the 'lancet' Act as enabled them to charge the six miles rate, and a clause to that effect has been introduced into their amended Act, by which this Company pay a mileage only. They have also agreed to provide the necessary stations and other accom *iodation for the passengers and traffic, both at Nottingham and Arnbergate. the extent and terms to be arranged by a Director ap pointed from each Company, and iu case of difference, to be settled by an umpire. In consequence of this agreement your Directors only proceeded to obtain powers for the construction of the Branch to the Canal Wharf at Nottingham, which they have obtained, and over which the Midland Company have power to run their trains, on payment If tell. The ooneessions and powers thus secured are of the utmost inn- Penance and advantage to the Company. The most convenient Stations and ample accommodation for passengers and merchandise Will be provided, both at Nottingham and Ambergate, and the caving in the outlay of capital, as well as time and the convenience to the public will be greatly effected. As the traffic in coal, corn, cattle, and heavy goods, according to the estimates proved, will be very large, the advantage obtained by the possession of the Canal Wharf Is of the first consideration, as it gives to this Company the best trading position in the town of Nottingham, which could not other wise have been secured, except at an enormous sacrifice of money. The flame prosperity and almost vitality of the line were most Severely attacked during the last session or Parliament, by the Great Northern and Eastern Counties Companies. The former projected a line from Goebert°s on the Boston loop to Boughton milt, north Of Grantham ; and the latter projected a line from Spalding to Newark, tack of which were parallel to the eastern portion of your line, and if either had been obtained, would have diverted a consi derable portion of the eastern traffic. The Itreat Northern and East Lincolnshire also introduced other Bills, the effect of which, if they had not been defeated, would have been to destroy your proposed Station at Boston, and render the branch to the quay, at that place, almost useless. The Great Northern also, by another Bill, to effect a deviation of their line near Grantham, made another attack upon year Line at that place, which would have been most prejudicial had It been successful. In accordance, however, with their duties and the active vigilance your Directors have ever endeavoured to exer cise in protecting the interests of the Company, they offered to the several Bills every legal opposition, and they are happy to say with the *nest complete success, having thrown out all the Bills except the last, which was so modified as to make the junction at Grautham more advantageous, and, at the same time, more independent. Clauses have been inserted in that Act empowering the two Compa nies to make a joint station, and also empowering the Great Nor- thern to use a portion of your line on payment of an equitable toll. These attempted projects are conclusive that In the opinion of those powerful Companies the district is important and capable of deve lopingand by the success attending the exertions of a large traffic, been infringed upon —all Yenr Directors/le part of tbat district has that the Legislature has granted has been peeserved intact. In thus defeating aggression, your Directors have not refused friendly alliances when they would conduce to your interests. They now exists the atbaettiwotleosf e are happy to say that the bast understandirign this Company and the Eastern Count es. In a their Wisbeach and Spalding line at the 1 itter place, they have adopted your site, and an agreement has been entered into for the construction of such station at the joint expense of the two Compa nies, and the alliance has further ben strengthened by arranging fur an interchange of traffic, and runninc of trains, between Grantham and Spald ng, a n d pa l ding and Wisbeach, t h e t e rms and *retails of which aro to be settled by arbitration. This agreementoinllprreositns of promote alike the facility and conven i ence of the publ i c, an d the interests the Company, and may ultimately lead to a more Militate union, and which agreement will be submitted to the Sp , cial General , M_e_et: lag en th e 2l s t of September next, to consider the propriety of u'n Armen the same. In couformity with the Act, four of the Directors, and one of the Auditors retire, who are eligible for re-election. The Directors are happy to state that the differences which have arisen between a portion of the Shareholders and the Board have been amicably arranged, and that the Directors will be increase.' to the flail limper of sixteen ; seven of whom are to be recommended by the Committees of the Shareholders. And for the election of three of that number, a Special Gener it meeting will be necessary, which is axed ter Tuesday, the 21st of September next. Company's Offices, Wheeler gate, Nottingham, August 18, 1847. 219,271 6 1 Audited tke 11th day of August, 1847. FRANCIS SIMER ALLIOTT. CHARLES MIDDLETON. Rev)! Tad —That the report now read ho adopted. Re4olved—That Benj imin Ii dger. of London, Esq.; William Durham, of 3ianches er Esq.; Herbert In.fram, of London. E.g.; and Ricna d Setuimus Wi kin on, Esq., be etre Ed Directors. in ti u of Sir lames Duke, Knight, MX.; Francis Braithwaite, Esq,; Frederick Plant, Esq. ; and Frederick Yowler Robertson, Esq., who r. tire. Resolved—That Mr. Francis Simea Alliott be re-elected an auditor to the Company. Resolved—That the seal of the Company be affixed to the Register of Shareholders. Resolved—That the thanks of this meeting be given to the Chairman, for his excellent, ttraperate, and impartial conduct In the chair. N TION A L LOAN FUND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 26, CORNIIILL, LONDON. Capital £500,000. Etripowered by Act of Parliament. This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages w.th respect to life assurances and deferred annuities. The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for feiture of the policy, two-thirds of the premiums paid (see Table); a so the option et selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in terests to meet other conveniencies or necessity. Assurances for terms 01 years on the lowest possible rates. DIVISION 1F PROFITS. The increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors a' the annual meeting held en the !2th May, 1547, to declare a fifth b mus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. en the premiums paid oa each p.rliey effected on the proilt scale. EXAMPLES. RNGINZ R'S R V-PORT. To TIM CBAIRMAN AND DIRECTEORS OF THE ALIBBROATE, NOTTINS NAY AND BOSTON, AND EASTERN JUNCTION RAILWAY. fientlernen,—l now beg leave to report to you the progress sines the last half yearly meeting. The contract for six and three-quarters miles from Bettesford to Grantham, including tke Gonerby 11111 Tunnel, was commenced on the 15th of March, the contractor being then put In posseissioet of Some portion of the land. The wholo of the land for this contract is now obtained, and the Otnitractor is at work on every part. More than five miles of the c , ntract length is fenced in, anti the remainder of the fencing will he shortly completed About 2 00,000 cubic yards have been got out of the excavations And put foto the embankments, which completes more than one- Baird of the earth-work. Nine bridges are built, with the exception only of the parapets, sad nearly all the necessary culverts are put in. ~Ift the Gionerby 11111 Tunnel 420 yards of the heading are driven tig ths&tki 9f four itatti. and out WA Inas ul+tiog r9rt7 ILEADY MADE. Blouses trom• ...... • •• • • •• • • • • 0 2 6 Cashrnerott.. Codrington •• •• ••• • • 0 18 6 Camlaridges, Chesterfield Polkas, and all the newest 0 18 0 patterns ... Tweed Coat • • ...man 0 S porting ditto ..•.• ••• • •• • •• •0 6 6 .... Dress Coat •..... • •• •• •• • ..... •••• •• • •• . 1 0 0 • • • Extra Superfine, a superior coa . t . • •• • • •. • • ....... ••1 15 n mock Coat ... ..... Extra Sunerfine, a •••••'• • • • • Roil -C llar Vests su per ior coat 2 2 0 Fancy Satins . •••"'••••••••••••• •• •• • • •• •• • • 0 2 0 ............ Cloth, or Cassinaere.......... • •••••• •• •• •• 06 6 T we ed Trousers. .. ••••• • • • • • .....• .... 0 4 6 on te i - d Fancy Cassimere or Doeskin •.• '• '• ' • Boys Tunic and liusdar 5aita........ . 3 10 0 s E l t!:, and 6 0 4 6 The attention. of La + iles is eapeciall7 • i ; e • c . •• .. 018 6 SON'S stock of Fars, which will be found largest, best assorted, and cheapest la the trade. i ns p ection to he the haste. Res erve your pur- A new Work, entitled " FASBION'S FAVOURITE," with a List of Prices, and Directions for Self-Measurement, can b e h ad on application. er terwarded post-free. Obeerv‘,.—Any article purchased, ready made, or made to mea sure, if not approved et, will be exchanged, or if preferred, the money returned. E. MUSES and SON, Tailors, Weollendrapers, Clothiers, Hat te rs, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters, for Ladies and Gentlemen, 154, 155, and 156, 157 Minories, and 83, 84, 85, and 86 Aldgate, City. London. Caution.—E. Moses and Son regret being obliged to guard the onblie against impostors, but have learned that the untradesman like falsehood of being connected with them , or it s the same concern, has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons. They have no connexion with any other house in or out of London; and those who desire genuine and cheap clothing, Ice., shoed call at, or send to, Minories and Aldgate, City, London. Notice.—No business transacted at this establishment front sun set Friday, till 'UAW batgige 11k19 WM S 1 raum94 W twelve 0190,, cm, 2. t...., .7 , 6 c-et OC. -*---t.... . _ . . , .. . , . . • , -.:'-' : . --- - o . _ -.... ,,,,Ni r , ...,,- ~ 1 cp -, lc -E....1 __ .., -1 :: ' .„ .ct_._4.-.2'Cir. 1 :.41 .):404. \ , * , . . , '7746.. i. 'i t: - :.' • 'lv:6 ,r," ir„ - ' ie. , \' 4 .; , ` .; .'.414.';'.t*.%_ • . 7-,.., • . -,. , ........1 Th e ft) ter •. i r ,. ~r __:_.. ,„..,,,,,. 4 - ..,,, •,, Zvi , 1 74 :•:•-,. In InCa, th! • ...,,,tt i 1.4 : • • I • ... ~,, ~ . 4, .... , - , .._,D• • , , ;:..1 .., , I , ,':*, ). , • i-. - '4' . . 1 + j . ft , , •-, 7: • . ~, ; : , 1 / 4 , ~. 1 -..lkt , - , • . - ) 1i: ',,,- - 1 ~,,,,i_.;,....„...._ kJ. . eit ' . t,. .. r . , - - 1 , 7 , ,,, 4,.9.-J *----- ~,, • ". "al '..- ' t. tt - - '. ...N-_ : '. \... ,, V • : t : ; t 4: ' ;46,1}, ^ G . ~, , . , ‘,10: , , ~ . , . . t . }l o.„...,a____ • , ... /..e„ ;.t 1, 7_,,..,,,,. ~,,:, _..,.:,, ~.,:,. _.....,,,, -.„ ~,,..,,- . -f" , . "1 - --- ' * c.' -7. 1 e ri. • _,. 1 • :•::,.., , ,r.t..:r ,,- ' • , , A .1., i S s p p a u in ch a s t l i: ---:".'''''''/LH4N,' ISH DEBT AND PI CANOES. . )11ovting memorial from Don Jose Sala- Le - Alini.ter of Finances, to the Queen of id the royal decree tbuncled on that memorial, ied in the Gageta of Madrid of Sept. 26 : "TO THE QUEEN. " Madame,—lt .is an acknowledged axiom that credit constitutes the greatest element of strength and power of modern nations. In order to consoli date it, all the nations of Europe have made enormous and costly sacrifices, considering credit as an inex haustible source of wealth which increases capital in the exorbitant pr o p or ti on o f i n t eres t, th e p a y men t o f which can be easily realised. Unfortunately, the posi tion of credit in Spain does not correspond to the efforts made to consolidate and increase it. The wars of this and preceding centuries have imposed on us burdens that can be borne but in peace and at the cost of enormous sacrifices, but that have become unbear able, since a civil war and a revolution have com pelled us to go to expenses wholly disproportionate to the resources of the budget. Those f a t a l cir cumstances led to the suspension of payment of the interest on the consolidated debt, and that suspension has inflicted on our credit so deep a wound, that six years of religiously effected pad merits of.the portions of that debt to which our offers had amounted (and they were the only ones then within the limits of possibility) have been inadequate to healing it. Happily, Madam, the undersigned Minis ter has the satisfaction to inform your Majesty that the effects of peace have not been fruitless, and that the Treasury is daily discharging its obligations as the collection of the taxes becomes easier. Thanks to the reforms accomplished by my predecessors, to those I have the honour to propose to your Majesty, to other measures I shall hereafter submit to you, and also to the immense profit which must be the result of the amortization, I am quite convinced that I shall be able soon to submit to your royal 'approbation a pro ject for the general regulation of the public debt, which will consolidate established rights, satisfy just hopes, dispel aprehensions calculated to distrust the ex pectation of security, and restore the confidence on which the credit of the State's paper is founded. In the meantime we have to fulfil an,imperious duty, namely, the realisation of a part of the decree of the 11th June last. It was provided, by the 50th Article of that decree, that a contract entered into with the first esta blishment of credit in Spain, should secure, for ten years to come, the payment of the interest on the Three per Cent. Stock. Your Government, Madam, not content with authorising a respectable Junta, consisting of the first functionaries of the State in the finance department, to dispose with entire independence of the money exclusively destined to the siTred object of paving the intere,t on the debt, wished, moreover, that an independent institution, in close connexion with Spanish trade, should also in terfere as security for the payment. Now, to realise this intention recorded in the aforesaid decree of June, last, your Government began by designating certain guarantee proceeds of easy collection, without the interposition of the Treasury, in order to provide tor an obligation which ought to be of the first rate. The article which includes the public debt amounts in the budget to 92,000,000, and the Government has taken care to apply to that object interest exceeding it. The proceeds °fall the national property, already designated by the aforesaid royal decree; the produce of the Almaden and Almadenejos mines, which the direction of the debt received ; and the net proceeds of all the coffers beyond the seas, now conceded to that establishment, form a sum superior to the part of the budget relative to the public debt. By means of such well-secured resources, the Junta will proceed to the regulation of its contract with the Spanish San Fernando Bank, in order that that establishment give, with all possible security, the means of reli giously satisfying such sacred obligations. Thus the State's creditors will have before them a period of ten years, during which the combination of the most respectable guarantees and of the securest means places beyond a doubt the safety of the collection of the revenue. In order to obtain a result so advan tageous to the prospects of the country, I have the honour to submit to your Majesty's approbation the following No. 17 ) 171.] LON DON, MON DAY • . OCTOBER 4 , 1847. ards of the tunnel is bricked, and the remaining portion is proceeding rapidly. Two miles of the line are formed ready to receive the ballast and permanent way, and about 500 yards of single line are laid down. & great quantity of ballast is also provided, and on the ground. A considerable quantity of permanent materials have been de vered. There are now employed upon the works 729 men and 109 horses. have great pleasure in stating that the works now done by the contractor are executed in a good, substantial, and workmanlike manner, and I am well satisfied with the exertion used by the con tractor in pushing on the works. The whole of the plans. sections, aid drawings for Contracts Nos. 2 and 3 are ready. Contractors are preparing their estimates to tender for these works, which may be let any day after the 24th of this month. One of these contracts will crozmence near Nottingham, by a jtmction with tho Lincoln line, at Colwick, and will include the bridge over the river Trent, and extend to Contract No. 1, at Bot tesford ; and the other will commence at Grantham, and extend to the junction of the Sleaford Branch, making a total distance from Colwick, near Nottingham, of twenty-three miles, including the first contract. The whole of the liae to Boston is staked out, as well as the line to Spalding ard the Branch to Sleaford, the pl .ns, sections, and drawings for these different contracts will be next proceeded w th. On that portion of the tine from No' tingham to ilulwell, which is making jointly with the Midland Counties, Nottingham, and Mans field Railway Company, a distance of four miles, several bridges are now building, the fencing and (arthwork of the line are advancing satisfactorily. I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant, JOHN U. HISTRICII. Aug. 11, 1847. STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS, 7TII AITGUST, 1347 RECBIPTB From Feb. 8, To Feb. 8, 1847. 1847, to Aug. 7, 1847. Total. X a. (1. £ it. d. £ s. d. To Fl rst Deposit of 11. 7s 6d. per share upon 27.897 shares In the Not tingham & 803. ton Company... 33,358 7 6 Upon 91 120 12 6 36,489 0 0 To First Deposit of 1/. 7s. 6d. per share upon 17,237 shares ln t e .Not tingham. Vat of Belv. dr, & Gran tham Railway... 23,700 17 6 23,700 17 6 To Firs. Depo-it of , 11 7s. 6d. per share upon 18,480 shares in the Not tingham, Ere- wash Valley, Am bar Gate, & Man chester Company 25,410 0 0 25,410 0 0 To Second Deposit of 11 ss. per share upon 63,621 shares in the Axiber Gate. Notting ham & Roston, & Eastern Junction Company 79,326 S 0 Upon 120.... 150 0 0 79,676 5 0 MIMED To Twelve Shil lings per share npon2s,244shares in Grand Union claims fo" Amber Gate shares .... • 16,146 8 0 Upon 915 549 0 0 15,691 8 0 To Second Deposit of 1/. ss. per share upon 92,540 shat es in Grand Union claims for Amber Gate shares .. Upon 2,009 To Int rest re• celved 3,160 2,157 0 3 5,317 2 7 To Transfer Fees received .. 110 6 ; 186 9 6 296 8 0 DISBURSEMENTIP. i?.19,271 6 1 Perma- Sum the • .i Annual , Policy Bonus In i vent Re- Assured •A o Pre- taken additioa Bonus In duction of may bor n raium. out ti Assured. Cask. Annual row on ar. Premiums. Policy. - s. 4. £ a 1. £ a. d. £ a. 4. r 1837 243 9 3.112 5 18 4 6 494 8 10 £ Is. d. 1838 218 4 8' 99 $lO 15 13 5 445 0 0 1839 192 1 10; 86 9 3 13 4 9 395 11 1 GO 1000 74 3 4 1840 143 510 66 8 4 919 1 34G 2 3 1841 138 14 2; 61 17 6 9 9 2 296 13 4 1842 111 8 81 49 10 0 710 4 247 4 5 The Annual Report, with tables of rates, &c., nay be had at the (Mice, or any et Its branches in the country ; or, on application, will bt forwarded post free. F. FERGUSON CAINIRMIX, Secretary. FINE FEATHERS MAKE FINE BIRDS. Such is the title, and I can't help paying A due respect to such a truthful saying ; For certainly in every day's excursion, A thousand proofs establish this assertion. The sentiment which such a phrase discloses, Is singularly suitable to MOSES. 1 . 405 E-• and SON have certainly display'd The "finest feathers" ever known in trade, " Feathers of faultless fashion," such as these (Neat, smart, and stylish) cannot fall to please. They decorate whoever may be wearing. And add a grace where nature's rather sparing. The dress of MOSES hides defects, if any, And where the charms are few, it makes them many. And many a person is pronounced a beauty, Merely because these tailors do their duty. Then imitate the birds in autumn weather, And prudently assume a change of feather. MOSES and SON solicit your inspection Of autumn articles in rare perfection, Which stand unrivalled, and which prove the words Wihch here I quote—" Fine leathers make flue birds. LIST OF PRICES. NADI TO IiZAILSVII. Cashmere Codrington, front ••• • • ..... ••• • • • £0 16 6 Taglionle, silk collar and cuffs .. • 1 2 0 Cambridge Coat, lined throughout ................ • • 2 5 0 0 16 0 Sporting Coat ....... • 0 13 6 Best quality manufactured 2 15 0 Frock Coat ... ........ . Best quality manufactured ...... • ... • • • • •• .. • • • • • • 3 a 0 Rich patters Vests • • .... • • • • .... • • 0 8 0 Cashmere, or c10th........................ • • •• .. • • 0 8 6 Tweed Trousers .......... .................... • I • Mingle-milled Doeskin ditt .... • • • • • • • • ...... •• • • •• 1 2 0 Best. or Dress ditto ................ ..... 1 6 • Boys' Hussar or Tank Suits ................... ...• 1 b 0 GEOLOGICAL MINERALOGY. MR. J. TENNANT, F.G.S., will commence a COURSE OF LECTURES ON MINERALOGY, with a view to fa llitate the study of Geology, and of the application of mineral substance in the Arts. The Lectures will be illustrated by an ex tensive col ection of s;,ecimens, and will begin on WEDNESDAY NI ORN ING NEXT, at Nine o'clock. They will be continued on each SLlC ccedin4 Wednesday. Further particulars may be obtained at the Secretary's office. R. W. JELL', D. 1;., Principal. King's College, London, Octob r 4, 1847. R°Y kl, POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. 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PRESERVATION : A Medical Treatie 7 on Marriage, and on those Secret Infirmities aid Disorders of Youth and )1 ,I,‘ , y, that are n natty acquired at as early period of life, which tend to destroy phys cal and mental energy, ardour, pas sion, and all the attributes o Manhood. illustrated with Twenty dye Coloured Engravings on the Anatomy, Physiology, and Dis ease? o! the Urinary and Reproductive Organs, explaining tkeir various structures, uses, and functions, and showlrg the injuries that are produced In them, by solitary habits, excesses, and infection, ?tacti.al Observations on the Treatment of Nervous Debility, Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis, Stricture, and other diseases. By SAMUEL Lk'MERT, CONSULTING gITRGEON, 9, ►3edford-street, Bedford-square, London; Matriculated Member of the University 01 Edinburgh, Honorary Nfemt-er of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apo! hecaries' Hall. London, &c., &c. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. CITY, SATURDAY EVENING. TIMES Nothwithstanding the apprehensions which prevailed, the day has, on the whole, passed off satisfactorily. In London no failures of any im portance have occurred, the only stoppage actually announced having been that of a small, although very respectable firm, Messrs. Boyd and Thomas, whose trade was with the island of Ceylon, where their capiral is understood to be locked up. From Liver pool, however, we have the failure 01 Mr. William Maury, a commission merchant, chiefly in the Ame rican trade, and whose liabilities, in connexion with shipments to India and China, are stated to amount to 180,0001. A letter from Messrs. Birley, Corrie, and Co., dated yesterday, received insertion because it ar rived too late for its statements to be checked, and it was desirable to give the firm the immediate benefit of their assertions. It is necessary, however, now to put them in a right position. We stated on Friday that it was announced from Manchester that this firm had stopped ; that the cause of their diffi culties was in their having received remittances on Reid, Irving, and. Co., and Perkins, Schlusser, and Co. ; that they had houses of correspondence in Calcutta and China; that Mr. Corrie is no longer a partner; and that it was apprehended the liabilities would be found to range between 200,0001. and 250,0001. To "the whole of these details" Messrs. Birley, Corrie, and Co. have given a flat denial, and they `• feel much aggrieved" that they should have been stated. Of course Messrs. Birley and Co. must have much better means of knowing the details of their own affairs than any other parties, but it may perhaps be useful both for them and for the public to be informed-1. That their failure was, as we asserted, announced " from Manchester" not as a report, but as a positive statement in letters from the best possible authorities to leading joint-stock and private banks as well as mercantile houses, the " temporary inconve nience" to which Messrs. Birley and Co. admit them selves to have been subjected, having probably been construed by the literal writers of these letters into a temporary inability of the firm to meet their engagements ; 2. That no doubt whatever is en tertained of their having received remittances upon Reid, Irving, and Co., and Perkins, Schlusser, and Co., although Messrs. Birley and Co. must be the best judges whether such remittances have had anything to d? with their temporary incon veniences; 3. That it is likewise positively affirmed that they have a duplicate house of correspondence at Calcutta ; and, 4, that the circumstance of Mr. Corrie having retired is also an unquestionable fact. Perhaps the only point on which Messrs. Bir ley's letter was necessary was in relation to the amount of their liabilities. That we were correct in stating the nature of the "apprehensions" enter tained as to the amount cannot be questioned, but it appears that these apprehensions arose from a most undue estimate of the importance of the firm. If it be thought that in thus allu ling to the matter we have devoted more space to it than it deserves, we would remind the public that some remark is neces sary, since the guarded efforts of the Times for the pre-ervation of all sound commercial interests call for a better tone on the part of such correspondents as may deem it necessary to convey information, than that which has been exhibited in the ill-advised letter in which, on the present occasion, our accuracy has been called in question. The dividend declared at the half-yearly meeting of the Ulster Railway Company was 11. 4s. per share, leaving 1,3291. 16s. 2d. to be added to the reserve fund, while the report read to the meeting showed a progressive increase in the traffic of the undertaking. The position of the Midland Great Western (Ireland) Railway, so far as the works have yet proceeded, is described as highly favourable, and the receipts on the portion in operation seem to have exceeded gene ral anticipation. In accordance with the proposals made by the directors the shareholders have em powered them to borrow and take up at interest any sum of money not exceeding 333,0001. on mortgage debentures. The Waterford and Limerick Railway works, taking into consideration the state of monetary affairs, are to be first "confined to the comple- tion and opening of the line from Limerick to Tipperary," so that an early productive return may be secured upon expended capital. To facili• tate the progress of the line, the directors, under the sanction of the shareholders, will shortly endeancur to borrow 250000/. The Irish South- Eastern Company have reported on the condition of their affairs, which, notwithstanding confessed difficul ties, is said to be satisfactory when regarded in con nexion with " a period of unprecedented distress." At the Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford meet ing, the balance between receipt and expenditure ex hibited 7.5401. 18s. 7d. in favour of the company. The first call was, it appears, in amount, 22,2001., of which no more than 11,2001. was paid. On the second call the directors barely received 7,500/. The agreement for the sale of the Rhymney line was confirmed on this occasion, the purchase-money being stated at 120,0001, the deposit 10,000/., and the contract void if not completed within seven years. The Havre journals publish some particulars con nected with the new Haytian tariff, which was to come into operation on the Ist of the current month. The reductions made in the duties payable on the leading articles of import are stated to amount to from 25 to 30 per cent. These include wines, spirits, silks, cambrics ' ribands, lace, white cottons, and mahogany porcelain, &c. Among the articles of export , coffee will hereafter be rated at 19 gourdes, instead of 2 2 ; Cam peachy wood at 1 gourd e , i ns tead of 6 ; at 20 gourdes, instead of 29 ; coco a at 9 gourdes, in stead of p of le0r; ton. It insteadcoltttonisatmle4etgieort:erdies,asaguide tde to of 16. Tonnage duties w ill b e re d uce d from 2 piastres to 1 parties interested in French commerce, that the true value of the Haytian gourde on or about the 2d of August last, at Port-au-Prince, was from If. 16c. to If. 20c. It is steed, on the authority of the Continental papers, that the Government of Russia are about to exempt for 10 years the fishermen of the northern coast of that country from the payment of all duties on the salt employed in the preparation of the produce of their fisheries. On the 23(1 ult. the rate of exchange at Gibraltar upon London was 50. Spanish pillared dollars were selling at 21 per cent. premium. CHOLERA MORBUS. Letters from Malta of the 18th of September mention that the cholera had manifested itself at Trebizond on the Black Sea, and that a case had occurred and ended fatally on board the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-packet Sultan, Captain Brookes, on her voyage from Trebizond to Constan tinople; by reason of which, after landing her pas sengers at the small lazzaret of Cavak, this vessel had been ordered to ride out a quarantine of ten days at the Princes' Islands in the sea of Marmora, and in order not to delay the India mails, the 'tiger, belong ing to the same company, would be dispatched to Malta in her stead. By the Overland Mailjust arrived we have re ceived further interestin g advices to the 25th of September, containing intelligence from Trebizond to the 11th idem. Of the cholera, of which in this city a Mussultnan was the first to be attacked on the night of the Bth, two new eases h a d occurre d o n the 9tb, all of which proved fatal. On th e 10th five more cases, but not of a very virulent character; on the 11th there were some thirty new cases, but it was hoped, that as soon as the unusually hot weather which prevailed, broke up, the disease would cease spreading. This scourge of mankind had, according to letters from Tabriz of the '2oth of August, re-entered the Persian territory, by Carabagh, and on the 24th of August was raging very violently for thirty leagues around Tiflis, which city, what with the fugitives from fear of the disease, and the going out of the people to the military encam pment outside, had be come almost abandoned. At Erzeroutn from twenty to twenty-five new cases daily presented themselves, of which full one third proved fatal. Throughout Georgia, at Redoubt Kale, and at Batoum on the Blael , Sea, it also pre vailed, as well as at T a ganrog, Kertch, Roston, on the Don, and at Lougane, in which Russian towns the mortality amounted to full two-thirds of the attacks. Up to the 17th of September no case had occurred at Constantinople, but great fears were en tertained that the disease would not only find its way there from the Black Sea, but also penetrate into Europe. A quarantine of observation had been enacted at Constantinople for all arrivals from places affected. On the 31st of August the health magis tracy of Genoa had laid on a quarantine of fifteen days on arrivals from T a g anro g , an d ten days on arrivals from all other Russian ports ; and the Supreme Board of Health at Palermo, under date of the 18th of September, has determined on refusing admittance to all arrivals from the Russi an ports of the Black Sea, under any circumstances. The Board of Health at Malta has not yet come to a n y determi nation on the point, but will, no doubt, be governed by the proceeding 3 of that of Marseille.,, though ex perience has proved the utter inutility of resorting to quarantine restrictions as a means of keeping out cholera morbus. Dispatches were sent off on Saturday evening from the Colonial-office, for the Governor of Ceylon. COUNTY COURTS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,-If the grievance of which I am about to complain could be redressed wi:hout the aid of public opinion I would not seek to obtrude myself on the notice of your readers, but 1 have to impugn the de cree of a County Court judge, a magistrate despotic by law, and, unless the press intervene, irresponsible in fact. Some time back a nobleman, after putting a letter into the post-office letter-box at my house, entered my shop, and asked for certain goods. They dis pleased him ; he disparaged them in terms and in a manner that to me appeared contumelious, and I ordered him repeatedly, and, no doubt, in an angry tone, to leave the shop. He refused, and sent for a policeman to remove him. Whilst this noble intruder was remaining in my shop not for the purpose of purchasing or inquiring after goods, nor for any purpose connected with my duties as the keeper of a post-office, but in defiance of my order to quit it, a policeman passed; the intruder went out to him, returns with him, and recommences the altercation. I, then, after requesting him to withdraw (but, as he maintains, without any such request,) came from behind my counter and pushed him into the street, with that degree of force which I judged necessary to overcome the resistance I had reason to anticipate from a man more powerful than myself; but without any wanton act, and also ,vithout the least injury, in fact, to the person or dress of this personage. He brought an action against me in the Westminster County Court. I felt too strong in the justice of my cause to seek the aid of a lawyer, or to invoke the interposi tion of a jury; and the result was that the judge of that court gave a verdict against me, with 201. damages, besides costs. I was advised that the ver dict was wrong in point of law, I felt that it was so in point of justice ; and I applied by counsel for a new trial. The application was refused, with costs, upon three grounds :-Ist, that I used " gross vio lence;" 2d, that as a tradesman I cannot revoke the permission, or, as the lawyers call it, " licence," which by keeping a shop he gives to each one of the public to enter it, I had no right to turn this noble in truder, or any one else, out of my shop: 31, that as a keeper of a post-office I had no right to clear the post-office. As to the first ground, I am advised that a man is not entitled to recover damages even for "gross violence" if he has provoked violence, unless he can prove material injury to his person or pro perty, or acts of vindictiveness. As to the second, I I am told that the permission to enter and remain in his shop, which a tradesman gives to the public, is limited to the purpose for which the shop is kept, and like any other licence, may be revoked at pleasure, without reason assigned. As to the third, lam in d that the keeper of a post-office is not deprived of his right of owner against persons who enter or are in his shop for purposes not relating to the post-office. If the judge of the Westminster County Court is right in his law, there is no outrage short of personal vii lence which a shopkeeper—especially if he keeps a post-office—must not endure in his shop without re dress ; for if he may not himself turn out those who insult him, so neither may a policeman, and clearly no action can he, as the injury would be of a moral, and not a material character. . . Take the case of a shop in which a young girl is compelled to serve, are the importunities of an avowed seducer to be endured by her and her parents or friends without resistance ? Yet there is no right of resistance, says the judge of the Westminster County Court, and as, if there is no right of resistance, no evidence of the cause of resistance could be admttted at a trial, the person contemplating seduction might bring his action if turned out, and punish the pro tector of innocence, perhaps by a fine of 201. I will not trouble you with further illustration. If now the judge of the Westminster County Court is wrong in his law,what redress, Sir, have I ? What redress has any tradesman in Westminster who before that judge justifies an assault committed in defence of his possession ? If such redress there is none, it is only through you, Sir, it can be obtained. I um, Sir, your most obedient servant, A. CLARK. 132, Jermyn-street, St. James's, Sept. 30, 1847. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. EAST OF FIFE. The adjourned meeting of this company was held on Thursday at Edinburgh, for the purpose of receiving the scrutineers' report on the state of the votes taken the day before at the half-yearly meeting, on the motion for adopting the report of the directors, Mr. C. Halkea in the chair. It appeared from the report of one of the scru tineers, that a difference of opinion arose between them respecting the validity of three proxies, repre senting 43 votes. The result of the scrutiny, how ever, confirmed the state of the poll then given, namely, 205 votes in favour of adopting the directors report, and 104 votes for the amendment. The CHAIRMAN accordingly declared that the motion had been carried by a majority of 101 votes. Thanks were voted to the chairman, and the meeting separated. MIDDLESBOROUGH AND REDCAR. A special meeting of this company was held on Wednesday, at Darlington, Mr. J. C. Hopkins in the chair, for the purpose of considering a pr. position ' for leasing the line. After some discussion, it was resolved that a lease of the line, with its appurte nances, should be granted to the Stockton and Dar lington Railway Company for the term of 999 years from the Ist of October next, at the yearly rent of 2,880/., which is equal to 6 per cent. on the share capital, and an additional yearly rent of a sum equi valent to pay the interest on the present and future borrowed capital of the company. The meeting then adjourned until after the meeting of the Stockton and _Darlington Company, which occupied about half an hour, when The CHAIRMAN stated that the Stockton and Dar lington Company had agreed to accept the lease of the Middlesborough and Redcar on the terms men tioned, but subject to the repayment of 3741. ad vanced by that company towards paying the past dividends under the guarantee, including some other conditions. Resolutions were unanimously passed acceding to the terms, and releasing the York and Newcastle, the Great North of England, and the Stockton and Dar lington Railway Companies respectively from every guarantee given by them for insuring the payment of any per tentage or dividend to the shareholders of this company. Thanks were voted to the chairman, and the meeting adjourned to the 23d of October. WEAR VALLEY. The special meeting of this company was held im mediately after that of the Middlesborough and Red car, and in the same office; Ir. H. Stobart in the chair ; for the purpose of considering the propriety of leasing the line to the Stockton and Darlington Com pany. After some discussion resolutions were passed for granting a lease of the line, with its appurte nances, which include the Bishop Auckland and Weardale, the Weardale Extension and Wear and Derwent Railways, and the Sheldon Tunnel to the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company, for the term of 999 years, to commence on the Ist of October next, at the yearly rent of 47,0371., less income tax, which is equal to six per cent. on both the old and new share capital, provided the Stockton and Dar lington Company agree to expend 60,0001. in improv ing the railways during the first seven years. After a short adjournment, the chairman was ena bled to inform the meeting that the Stockton and Darlington Committee had agreed to the terms for leasing the line. Thanks were voted to the Chairman and the meet ing separated. STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON. At a special meeting of this company, held on Wednesday, at Darlington, agreements were approved for leasing the Middlesborough and Redcar and the Wear Valley Railways (the latter including the Bishop Auckland and Weardale, the Wear and Der went, the Weardale Extension Railways, and the Sheldon tunnel), for a term of 999 years, at a rent equal to six per cent. on the capital. LOSS Or Two LIVES ON THE RlVEN.—Yesterday afternoon, between two and three o'clock, an accident, resulting in the loss of two lives, occurred on the Thames, a short distance below Woolwich halfway reach. A party of five youths had engaged a boat for a pleasure excur sion down the river, and they had proceeded in safety to the above mentioned spot, when, owing to the rough state of the water, and the boat being somewhat over loaded, their passage became exceedingly difficult and dangerous, and the water was repeatedly dashed into the boat, to the alarm and consternation of its occupants. Two of the party were rowing, while a third (who per rished by the accident) was endeavouring to bale out the water, when, by a sudden swell of the stream, the boat was overturned, and the whole were immersed in the river. By great exertions, three young men were rescued, but the remaining two, notwithstanding every effort made in their behalf, were drowned, and the bodies floated away with the tide. One of the unfortunate per sons who perished was wholly unknown to his com panions, but the other sufferer was stated to be the son of a respectable tradesman of the name of Tomlinson, residing at Shoreditch. The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town L ou Saturday night from Ilickleton Hall, Yorkshire. retticE SD. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, SEPT. 30.—The gloomy and unfa vourable condition of business matters, as indicated in our last circular, become comparatively unimportant when viewed in reference to the actual position of affairs during this month—a period which, for its intense severity, svill be long remembered. We may endeavour, but it is utterly impossible, to make par ties at a distance intelligibly acquainted with the in fluence which arising from a series of disastrous tidings has had upon this lscality. Failures, we be lieve, exceeding five millions sterling, and many of them bearing either directly or indirectly upon the cotton trade, could not be expected to happen without engendering general and wide-spread distrust, nor without aggravating very materially the state of the money market, and consequently rendering discount facilities more difficult of attainment. But fix a perceptible improvement in our home trade, and the existence of a very good demand consequent upon that improvement, during the last three weeks, we should have had to report something approaching very near to a suspension of operations in cloth. As it is, the business done is of a limited extent. Stocks of both cloth and yarns are generally heavier than they were a month ago, though to no material extent. Prices of both must, in many cases, be considered perfectly nominal, and determinable only by the situation of the producer, and the character and extent of the operation submitted to him. Though cotton has declined about lid. per pound, from the highest point, the position of spinners and manufacturers is not essentially improved by it : yarns and goods hav ing also given way, with a certainty of a further downward tendency. The accounts by the overland mail, though far from favourable, are considered to be as good as might have been expected. We believe that we were amongst the first to predict that bad conse quences would result from the immense and indis criminate shipments which were being made to India and China. No regard appears to have been paid to the legitimate wants of these important markets ; on the contrary, supplies have been sent forward as if the consumption were boundless, and the sources of payment in return inexhaustibly valuable. The last intelligence is painfully confirmatory of our views. We may notice in conclusion, that the last American steamer, which arrived in Liverpool yesterday, has brought a fair amount of orders, and with them the agreeable intelligence that the matters in dispute between the United States and Mexico may now reasonably be expected to be soon adjusted. Such, we hope, will be the case; if so, a valuable market will again be open to us.—From Messrs. APNair, Greenhow, and Irving's Circular. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE.—LEEDS, OCT. I.—There is a continued depression in the foreign wool trade, mid as the business done is so extremely limited, prices are merely nominal. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET.—LEEDS, OCT. I.—The demand for wool is limited to the immediate wants of the manufacturers, who hold light stocks of it. In prices there is no alteration. LEEDS.—There has been a much better feeling as regards business this week than for many weeks past. at both our cloth halls. There was more business .lone both on Saturday and Tuesday than recently, and the sales have been in goods of finer qualities for the home market; but there was not so much done in low priced goods for export. Prices are without any alteration, and from the great caution exercised by the manufacturers, the stocks are lower than usual. There has been some little improvement in business in the warehouses, but principally with the country drapers. BRADFORD, THURSDAY.—There is DO improvement in the wool market either in demand or prices. The stocks in the hands of the staplers are small, and they are not anxious to replace them at present prices asked by the producers. Noils and brokes being scarce, fetch higher prices. The spinners are in general working to order, but the prices are quite unremu nerating, and the spinners are curtailing their pro ductions as much as possible. There was less doing in the piece market. Checked fancy goods continue in fair request, but the piece market is on the whole very languid. This is in part attributable to the failure of several houses, not in Bradford or the neigh- t bourhood, but connected with the Bradford trade. LEICESTER.—There is a better demand for useful goods for the home trade, and the London and Man chester houses are doing a good business. Yarns still remain flat, and the spinners are curtailing their pro duction as much as possible. Wools continue firm, 1 and in good request.—Leicester Journal. THE LATE BOUNTIFUL HARVEST (From the Obserrer.) The public thanksgiving for the late bountiful har vest has been ordered by her Majesty in Council to be generally observed on the 17th inst. Her Majesty has also been graciously pleased to add that collections should be made in aid of the destitution in Ireland and Scotland, which has unhappily not yet ceased. The selection of Sunday for the public prayers on the present occasion will, it is hoped, add materially to the amount of the public contributions, and it will also have the effect of not depriving the industrious classes of a working diy. Ph kTE. rill COX SAVORY and Co., Silversmiths, 1 • & c., 47, Cornhill (seven doors from Graceehurch-street), London. The best wrought Fiddle-pattern Spoons and Forks, from 7s. 2d. per ounce. Fiddle Pattern. Classic do. oz. s. d. s. d. £B. d. 12 Table Spoons .. .. 30 at 7 2—lo 15 0 11 7 0 12 Dessert Spoons .. 20 .. 7 2 7 3 4 7 15 4 12 Table Forks .. •. 30 .. 7 2 10 15 0 11 7 0 12 Dessert Forks .. •• 20 7 2 7 3 4 7 15 4 2 ravy Spoons .. .• 10 .. 7 2 3 11 8 3 16 8 1 Soup Ladle 9 .. 7 2 - 3 4 6 3 7 0 4 Sauce Ladles .. .. 10 .. 7 8 3 16 8 4 0 8 4 Salt Spoons (gilt bowls) 1 0 0 1 4 0 1 Fish Slice 12 Tea Spoons THE THANKSGIVING. The following is a copy of the Queen's Letter to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, for a Collec tion for the Relief of a large portion of the Popu lation in Ireland and in some Districts of Scotland on the approaching Day of Thanksgiving : " VICTORIA it. " Most Reverend Father in God, our right trusty and right entirely beloved Councillor, we greet you well. Whereas a large portion of the population in Ireland and in some districts in Scotland is still suffering severe distress, owing to the failure of the ordinary supplies of food in the year 1846 and in the beginning of the present year; and whereas it has been represented to us that many of our subjects are desirous, on the occasion of the approaching day of thanksgiving for the late abundant harvest, to con tribute to the aid of their distressed brethren, and have at the same time humbly prayed us to issue our Royal Letters directed to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Archbishop of York, autho rising them to promote contributions within their re spective provinces for the same benevolent purpose, " We, taking the premises into our royal conside ration, and being always ready to give the best en couragement and countenance to such humane and charitable undertakings, are graciously pleased to condescend to their request; and we do hereby direct that these our letters be communicated by you to the several Suffragan Bishops within your province ex pressly requiring them to take care that publication be made hereof on Sunday, the 17th day of October next, and in such places within their respective dioceses as the said Bishops shall appoint ; and that upon this occa sion the ministers in each parish do effectually excite their parishioners to a liberal contribution, which shall be collected in the several churches and chapels immediately after divine service on that day ; and the ministers of the several parishes are to cause the sums so collected to be paid immediately into the hands of the Bank of England, to be accounted for by them, and applied to the carrying on and promoting the above mentioned good designs. And so we bid you heartily farewell. " Given at our Court of St. James's the 29th day of September, 1847, in the 11th year of our reign. " By her Majesty's command, " G. GREY. " To the Most Reverend Father in God, our right trusty and right entirely beloved Councillor, William Arch bishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and Metropolitan." The form of prayer alluded to was last night decided upon by the Archbishop. It is almost simi lar, except in regard to the collects and psalms, to that used on the occasion of the General Fast. -------- B On Saturday M YSTE RIOUS FIER IN ROADWALL. — evening, shortly before eight o' clock, broke out in the upper pa rt of th e pre mises 'n a belonging ng fir to e Ba a ld m w b i e n t , h b . eer vi to n p k t e h e e pe fi r r , s s t itu d a is t c e o a v t er N y o. a s s , r O M B r a r o d . ti e E d , two E. W vali' L distinct fires were found burning in the two rooms of the top floor. The necessary intelligen ce having been furnished to the fire-station., with all pos sible expedition the West of England arrived, closely followed by several others of the brigade. Plenty of water having been immediately obtained trom the Lam beth mains, the firemen set to work, and soon got the flames subdued, but not until the furniture and other effects in the apartments were de stroyed, and the building considerably burned. The furniture and premises were insured in the Sun fire office. How the fire originated is not precisely known; but from the fact of the outbreaks occurring at the same moment, strong suspicion is entertained that some party must, unperceived to Mr. Baldwin, have entered the rooms and wilfully set both on fire. Mr. Braidweod, in his report to the fire insurance offices, after detailing the damage done, returns the cause of fire as "doubtful." CROYDON CATTLE FAIR.—On Saturday the second annual fair of this town comment, d for the sale of beasts, and notwithstanding the weather was very dull, the attendance of all classes of persons was very name rous. The show of cattle, as is generally the case at this fair, was very extensive and in the best condition ; purchasers were also inclined to do business, and the prices were on a moderate scale. Lord Cochrane, 18th Foot, late Assistant Quarter master-General at Hong-Kong, arrived at the Earl of Dundunald's on Saturday, from Chins. His Lordship has been absent from England wore than five pars. " ROYAL DECREE. " Taking into consideration the motives submitted to be by my Minister of Finances, and conformably 'to the advice of my council of Ministers, I have de creed that which follows : " Art. 1. Are applied to the general direction of the public debt, in order to devote them to the pay ment of the intest oh the Three per Cent. internal and external debt, conformably to the provisions of the fifty-first article of the royal organic decree of the 11th of June last, firstly, the produce of all the na tional property ; secondly, the produce of the Al maden, Almadenejos, and other quicksilver mines of the kingdom, conformably to the present contract, such as may be hereafter entered into; thirdly, the excess of all the coffers beyond the seas. " Art. 2. The directing Junta of the Public Debt shall draw up a projected contract with the Sari Fernando Bank, whereby that establishment shall engage for the period of ten years, to keep at the dis posal of the direction of the public debt, on the 30th ofJune and the 31st of December of each of those years, the amount of the half-year's interest, con formably to the budget approved of by the Cortes. " Att. 3. The excess, if there be any, shall be applied by the direction of the debt, by decision of the directing Junta, and conformably to the sail 51st article of the organic decree of the 11 th of June, to the redemption of the debt ; the deficit that may in any year exist shall be punctually reimbursed by the public Treasury. Art. 4. The projected . contract with the San Fernando Bank, which the directing Junta may draw up, shall be submitted to my approbation ; the moment that approbation shall have been obtained, a solemn contract shall be published for the due infor mation of the creditors. " Art. 5. The provisions of the present "decree shall he submitted to the Cortes when next assembled. " Given at the Palace, and signed by the Queen's hand on the 24th of September, 1847." Another decree is published in the Gazette, fixing the prices at which tobacco is to be sold from the 15th of the present month of October _ The - Gaceta of the 27th publishes the following memorial and decree, respecting the sale of Church. property : "10 THE QUEEN. "Madam,—When the decree of the 26th July, 1844, ordered the suspension of the sales of the pro perty belonging to the secular clergy, property be longing to hermitages, chapels, brotherhoods, &c., was included in the decree. Such was not the case when a law of 1845 determined the devolution' of the pro perty of the secular clergy not hitherto sold. Con siderable wealth, therefore, exists under the ad ministration of the Government offices, although it is of a small and continually decreasing produce, for reasons which those who are least acquainted will easily, and your Majesty's exalted sagacity will easier understand. There exists, in my department, a long and elaborate report of the Public-debt Junta general entrusted with the aforesaid property, in which they set forth that it is unproductive, and that it is impossible to prevent its deterioration, owing to its being either at a distance from in habited places, or to its being profaned by malefactors who make it their refuge. Morcover, the said property has to pay dues which overwhelm the Administration with litigious affairs, of which it has often the worst part, because it wants the means of proving the indentity of mortgages. Basing themselves on such plain considerations, and wishing to fulfil one of their principal obligations, the ig b n ei n a g PP ex. b M a t i o i n s t r t y h e s u d b e c m l a i t ra t t o i o y n o t u h r a I t s a j u e c s h t yp'sr property eluded from the devolution ordered by law, it is not proper that the State should continue to administer it any longer, and that they m: e itt u l oet g (fil. h f,ne t stayuht t iLr o .ohel vote rnropi etihrtst within which redemption of the public debt, the object to whiCh y e the law had destined it. As for therndauye,s, besides,your A h l o a l; and it i their Governmentf6reeu i sar , ht i ; c aoe h nnicst t fa h otdo e ry adp sa nur i agois.snitnfo duesga thinkvt In hto eu a yrp phe rofit oteofi berfil redeemed, before they be put up for sale. Such are the m A t i o ve s s i t 3n n i a i t t h utave Majesty'sin ced the approbation f the Ministers fi,llos " Convinced by"adecreeing u :—u your the o reaso DECREE. ns sub submitted to me by my Minister of Finances, and conformably to the advice of my Councilof Ministers, I decree that which follows : " Art. 1. The suspension of the selling of property belonging to the brotherhoods, hermitages, and chapels, ordered by the royal decree of the 26th July, 1844, is repealed. " Art. 2. In consequence, the selling of it shall be proceeded to accordtng to the terms prescribed by , the law of the 2d September, 1841, and by the sub sequent instructions. Art. 3. The selling of the dues shall take place but after the Ist January, 1848, and, in the interval, the owners of the property charged with the said dues shall be permitted to redeem them, by paying a sum equal to the capital in Three per Cent. titles. . " Art. 4. The Government shall issue instructions and adopt measures for the execution of the present decree, and report the same the Cortes when they next meet. ‘ Given at the Palace on the 23J September, 1847 . " Signed by the QUEEN'S hand. " Countersigned, JOSE DE SALAMANCA." Another decree, of the 2.5:h, authorises the selling of the property, called proprios, with the exception of some portions of it, and states the part of the pro ceeds that is to be allotted to the redetnption of the public debt. TUE CONVICT ESTABLISHMENT AT WOOLWICH.— ppointed manager of the convict tn establishment,Voules has n Mr. ' John Henry Capper, late aurerinteadant l Wing retired 9a a pension, 2 10 0 2 12 0 •• •• 10 .. 7 8- 3 16 8 4 8 8 I pair Sugar Tongs 0 15 0 0 17 0 The Classic is a new Pattern, much admired for its elegance. CONTSNT3 OF TIM TILEAMOIE. CIIAPIED i. On the Philosophy of Marriage,with its Hindrances and Obligations, and on Infelicitous and Unproductive Unions.— CHAPTER 2. On the Anatomy and Physiology of tke Generative Organs, their functions, structures. and secretions, proving that great Mental and Physical Power are dependant upon their healthy action. --CHAPTER Z. On Solitary Habits; their various effects OE the Animal Economy ; the concealed cause of Debility of the functions of the Stomach, Lungs, and Brain, and general weakness of th.: Mental Faculties. CUAPTtIi 4. On the Secret Disorders of YouU; and Maturity, and the Treatment of Nervous and Lora' Weakness. Mental Debility, and Premature Decay.—Clurreas f, and fi. Or the Disorder' arising from indiscriminate Excess, Strictares, and other Diseases. REVIRWS OF THY WORK. LANEICI ON SELF-PRESERVATION.—KENT AND nullAnns.—This work possesses advantages over e ery other other of the Mini sub mitted to public notice. The author is a medical man of some con siderable talent, who has devoted many years to the study of his profession, and as a guarantee of his pretensions has published his qualifications and diplomas in the work, and several testimonials of his abilities from physicians and surgeons of great eminence, whicb Is a most important consideration to those wh , from the peculiar nature of their infirmities, are obliged to seek medical assistance from straners. The subject is treated altogether in at. excellent manner, and by its perusal the unfortunate victim of vicious habits and excessive dissipation, will be enabled to account for peculiar dissbilities, and to discover the means of alleviatin their sufferings in an easy and effectual manner.—United Service Gazette. rUbl , shed by the Author, and may be pad at ba. residence; /Us(' from Kent and Michard, 52, Patenioster-row; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street Starie, Tichborne-street, Quadrant; %Mon, 14 ,, . 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Attendance daily at 19, Iter ners.street, from Eleven till Two, and Five to Eight; on Sundays rom Eleven to Otte. ALEXANDRIA, SEPT. _l9 if H ighness the Vice roy embarked on Tuesday last on board the Admiral's snip Beni Suaif in order to make the tour of the island of Cyprus and eastern coast of the Mediterranean. His Highness is accompanied by Clot Bey, the Belgian Consul-General, and Bsron Tossizza, and his absence is not expected to exceed 10 days or a fortnight. Every thing continues calm in Egypt, and there is nothing of the slightest interest passing in politics or trade. In the latter there is literally nothing doing. Freights are rapidly declining, but prices of all produce remain sta tionary. The Arid, with London papers, and the mail of the 7th of September, arrived this m and the telegraph has since announccd the arrival at Sui-z of the steamer with theßombay mail. which will consequently leave this for EnJund in a couple of days. DEATH FROM THE EFFECTS OF A THUNDER STORM.—On Friday Mr. Wakley, M.P., Coroner, held an inquest at the Britannia, Church-lane, Hammer smith, on the body of George Earle, aged 53 years, whose death took plice under the following circum stances :—lt appeared from the evidence gone into, that about three o'clock in the morning, of Monday, the 19th of July last, during the thunder storm which then took place, the deceased, who was a carter in the em ploy of Mr. Yeldon, market-gardener, Fulham-road, Hammersmith, while returning home with his horse and cart, when near Hyde-park corner, the horse became alarmed by the brilliancy of the lightning and made a sudden start, the jerk of which threw the deceased off the fore ladder on which he was sitting into the road ; some persons who were passing at the moment went to his assistance, and stopped the horse, and as he said he was quite able to go home, assisted him on the cart again. After his arrival at his master's yard, he, however, fell down in a state of insensibility in which state he was carried home, near the above house, where he continued insensible fir upw at ds of a week, after which his senses returned, and he explained the cause of Ws illness. Every proper medical assistance was rendered him, but he never recovered, and gradually sunk, and. died on Monday last. The Coroner remarked that that was the first case of the kind that had come under his notice during the present summer, although there had been many severe storms. Verdict—Acciden tal .I),.atit. FIRE ,AT BLACKWALL—Saturday evening, between seven and eight o'clock, much alarm was created at Blackwell, :near 13,1 w Creek, by the outbreak of a fire on the eszterokive manufacturing premises of the Thames Plato Glass Company. The flames were first perceived raging an a spacious building termed the carpenters' manulactory. The private engine of the company was instantly brought into operation, and the Poplar engine, acid those of the brigade and West of England Company followed as soon as the information reached them, when by t!m, c>ombined exertions of all parties the flames were confined to th© building in which they commenced, which wms completely gutted. The loss is, fortunately, covered kv insurances in four of the London fire-offices. The caw) of the &re has not been ascertained. u k), h- id id B' at ■d .► ts. ra id is.