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I • _ 4 , ' V .. . 4 ) (4) % ~: go wt7 i ii 4l,V/6 5 5, • c:ui ii : 77 1 tr A _ , .4 ft.411,,t4 . ,", 4 • • . 4-111 - I N • I r • + b,-- • _ . 10- •Ix 0„ ;4. • 0," •-• . tt t r , 1" • ) &.) L • D () IT . /N g ck.:„ nYcomm.AND OF ITER MAJESTY'S POSTMASTER GENERAL. TOWN CON TRACT for CONVEYING the I--- , ;[.,-.,:,,,, p0,,, 1 , 1 . i ,-; "r Bk , S. • be ready to receive TENDERS on or bet re th, Ist of Juno lleXl, o,r r v eYing the London District Letter 8.,. , ' y Horse lades and Mail Carts to and from the following places : Charing Cross - - - - 20 ~, sdatches per day. North Row - - .. :. -21 do. Stepney - - - - - 12 do. Southwark - - - - - 12 do. Sidrrionth Street - - - - 12 do. Shoreditclt Southwark to Retherhitl e - - 6 do. Greenwich Railway, London Bridge 5 do. Sloane Street - - 1 do. York Street, Maryleboue - - 1 do. New Kent Road - - 1 do. Ratcliffe Camden Town - - 3 do. Holloway South Lambeth - - . - 3 do. Camberwell Aackney ~,N.B. The ab ove Rid es are emp l oye d ever y day, Sundays excepted. The Particulars and full conditions may be seen on application to the Superintending President of the London District Post-office, Post-office, and of whom Forms of enders may be obtained. p Te nders are to b e sea l e d u p a nd addressed to "Her Majesty's . n tulaster.Gener a l," an d en d orse d " T en d er s for conveying the To «•nLondon District Post Bwrs " and delivered before Twelve o'clock on the Ist of J une next. ° ' 11 . 8 . No Tenders will be received unless made on the proper Printed form. General Yost-office, May 1, 1847. COMMAND By OF HER M AJESTY'S POSTMASTEB-GENEBAL. COUNTRY CONTRACT, for CONVEYING the LONDON DISTRICT POST-LETTER BAGS. Aotico Is hereby given, that her Majesty's Postmaster-General will 1 :: receivej: nyeying TENDERS on or before the lst day of JUNE the London District Post Country Letter B a g s, "se, Rides Mali Carts, Stage Coaches, Omnibuses , or any other age conveying Passengers, or Parcels, to and from tho following :—. Despatches per Day. COUNTRY RIDES. 3 B _ - Barnet - trnfinellideYa- : : - 3 - 3 Enfield - - " - 1 Hampton Harrow 3 Croydon 2 Highgate Stanrnore - OD 4 Hounslow - " • 1 Twickenham 2 Kilburn 1 Putney Edgw Clapham 1 Tottenham Norwood Tooting Leytonstone Wan dsworth - HHampstead2 Hafrunersipith Streatham Kensington. - DILANCH COUNTRY RIDER. PTO Pad ln dingth ßOßl n - eY to Blackhea-th -.Desp"-atche- : r -;pe day. Carshalton to Mit c h am - - " 2 Kingston to Wandsworth - - - 2 Kingston to Putney - - - Romford to Stratford " - 2 ~ Fulham to Brompton - 3 Woolwich to Deptf ord Railwa y Station - 3 Norwood to Dkilwich ~ Waltham Cross to Edmonton - " Barking and Ilford to Stratford - - N.B.—The above Rides are employed every day, S un d a ys excepteC. B RANCH COUNTRY RIDE S. D es p a tch Daily. Pram Hounslow to Brompton - " Hounslow to Kingsgate Station - - Barnet to Highg a t e Waltham Cross to Stoke Newington - 1 ~ Croydon to Brixton - - " 1 New Cross Station t o W oo l w i c h - 1 I— These rides are employed every day throughout the year. th lule Conditions and full Particulars may he een on application to SuPerintending President of the London District Post-Office, "liers4 P ost-Office, and of whom Forms of Tender may be obtained. 4441, unedtaeord;ers are to be sealed up and addressed to her Majesty's Po st- Hteinsterriacit, r an o d st e i n i d a o g r s rd " Tenders for conveying the Country _day of June next the Ist " and delivered before Twelve o'clock on '''"l3--No Tender will be received unless made on the proper Printed form. General Post-Office, May Ist, 1847. FORGED SCRIP. EAST INDIAN RAILWAY COMPANY. or ,_, ue Directors r egre t t o announc e that a considerable quantity th is ' c uP, fraudulently intended to represent the Scrip Receipts of ire °InP TV , hAve been discovered to exist, and the Holders of all (IttirePdße"lpts of the East Indian Railway Company are hereby T:e -c4tion.to send the same to the offices of the Company for identifl 8, Broad_ street Buildings, April 29, —_____ 1847. ____D. I. NOID, Secretary. - . - --, -- - - EAs'r INDIAN RAILWAY COMPANY. . notice is hereby given, that the DEED of SETTLEMENT %hall _ not have afilbe gent into the country on THURSDAY next, the 6th of May; Which that portion of the scrip numbered 1 to 80,900, whi.,ll been registered, will, at the discretion of the Board, ' 0 forfeited without further notice. NO. 8 g y D. I. NO AD, Secretary. B road-street-buildins, I, 1847 . " ( Ties of the report, with Ma printed forms to accompany the or p e t or registratio n , may b e obtained on application at the offices nitehead n Pang ' 8, Broad-street-buildings ; Messrs. Carden and kli tenove Royal Exchange-buildings ; and Messrs. Laurence, _y• and Pearce, Bartholomew-lane. pce registered share certificates will be issued in the order in w ed h the deed is executed, and the priority regulated by the date of eZ ecution. So DA holder s of new scrip scion as arr angeme its will admit a notice will be issued calling to present the same for registration. ROY AL POLYTECHNIC IN STITif rioN. „,. LECTURES in illustration of ANIMAL MECHANISM, by einr,_ltYrner Jones, Esq., F.R.S., Professor of Comparative Anatomy at r g's College, on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at Half-past ire* o'clock. On the alternate Evenings on CHEMISTRY, by F. A • Holm es .• LECTURES on ARTIFICIAL LIGIIT, and the J e n.. employed in its production, by Dr. Bachhoffner. Experiments Wtoll A RMSTRONG'S HYDRO-ELECTRIC MACHINE. The 4LKING MODELS and MACHINERY explained. The varied b,4.1_ Effects include New DISSOLVING VIEWS, the OXY „,...OGEN MICROSCOPE, &c. EXPERIMENTS with the 'lt and DIVING-BELL, ike,, &c._ Admission Schools, half-price. _PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY, P HANOVER-SQUARE ROOMS. ro itratnlne of the FIFTH CONCERT. MONDAY Evening next : .1 4 ', ir 441 e. G Minor, Haydn—Aria. Signor Salvi—Concerto, Violin, Joachim, Beethoven—Aria, Mad. Persiani—Overture, Oberon, w eber—Sinfonia In A, Beethoven—Dnetto, Mad. Persian! and Signor 841,7 1 —Overture, Les Deux Journees, Che rublni. Conductor, M. Costa. Single Tickets, One Guinea, and Double Tickets, 11. 10s., to be had Of Messrs. Addison and Hodson, 2110, Regent-street. SORTICUI•TURAL SOCIETY of LONDON. EXHIBITIONS AT THE GARDEN. The First Meeting will take place on SATURDAY, the Bth of May. Subjects for Exhibition lutist be at this Office on FRIDAY the 7th, or at the Garden before Half-past Eight o clock A.M., on the day of Exhibition. _ The Gates will be open to Visitors at One P.M. Tickets are issued to Fellows' order at this Office, price ss. each ; or at the Garden in the afternoon of the day of the Exhibition, 7s. 6d. each ; but then only to orders from Fellows of the Society. N.B. No Tickets will be issued here on the day of Exhibition. 21, Regent-street. WRITING, BOOK-KEEPING, &c. Persons of any Age, however bad their Writing, may, in EIGHT LESSONS, acquire permanently an elegant and flowing Style of Penmanship, adapted either to professional parsuits or pri. "tate correspondence. Arithmetic on a method requiring only one third the time usually requisite. Book-keeping, as practised in the g overnment, Banking, and Merchants' Offices. Short-hand, Sec. Apply to Mr. SMART, at the Institution, 7, New-street, Covent garden. His mode of teaching is a vast improvement upon any former YYstem , "—Lendon Journal of Commerce. SPENCER'S CHINESE LIQUID HAIR DYE. The thousands of individuals who for upwards of twenty years have used this celebrated liquid, pronounce it to be the only article extant which effectually changes, in a few minutes, red or trey h air. whiskers, moustaches, &c., to a dark brown or black, Irithout trouble (by simply combing it through the hair), and pro duces by one app li ca ti on a pleasing and permanent change ; and it tan 36 incontestibly proved, that while many dyes tend to destroy the hair by their pernicious properties and dangerous process of ap th.eati°7l, that this article promotes the growth of hair, nourishing • r oots till the latest period of life. Price 3s. 6d., 65.. and 102 per bottle. h litr.„, had of the London ; 2 Nottingham-place, Fieldgato h u ir , Whiteehapel-road, London ; also of Mr. Johnstone, 68, Corn atz,,Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Prout, 229, Strand ; Sanger, 150, Oxford atree;; Barclay, Farringdon-street ; Atkinson, 24, Old Bond ?cu."; Hooper, 43, King William-street, London bridge ; Finnigin, r. nil-street, Bath ; Elmore, Bull-street, Birmingham ; and of mos alc„;.l 4 M ra and Medicine Vendors in town and country. Sent to Please of the kingdom by receiving a remittance, pelt-paid. `!itae to ask for " Spencer and Co.'s Chinese Liquid Hair Dye.' tLze Proprietor's address is on the wrapper. TO LADIES. ROWLAND'S KALY DOR „ ea, an ORIENTAL BALSAMIC PREPARATION of singular B loto r In thoroughly purifying the Skin from all Pimples, Spots, ea, Redness, Freckles, Tan, and Discolourations, producing a healthyand freshness and transparency of Complexion, and a softness delicacy of the hands, arms, and neck. It is invaluable as a enovating and Refreshing Wash in Travelling; and. In cases of gtlnbilrn, Stings of Insects, or Incidental Inflammation, its virtues lung anti exten , :vely been acknowledged. Its purifying and the flesh ing properties have obtained the exclusive patronage of the Queen, Court, and the Roy al Family of Great Britain, as well as the r lnklpal Courts of Europe, and the most distinguished Nobility and Qentry of all civilised nations. ,:** Beware of Spurious " KALYDORS." containing mineral as- Kalgents utterly ruinous to the complexion, ...1 which, by their re- Tifillent action, endanger health. Each bottle of the genuine has the Words " ROWLA.NDS' KALYDOR" on the wrapper , and A. ROWLAND and sON, 20, Hatton-garden, is also engraved (by desire of the Hon. Commissioners) on the Government Stamp affixed on Stich. Price 4s. 641. an.l 85. Gd. per bottle. sold by the Proprietors, and by Chemists and Perfumers. CARSON'S ORIGINAL ANTI-CORROSION PAINT, specially patronised by the British and other Go vernments, the Honourable East India Company, the principal Pock Companies. most public bodies, and by the Nobility, Gentry, end Clergy, for out-door work at their coantry seats. The Anti- Ciorrosion is particularly recommended as the most durable out door paint ever invented , for the pre servation of every description uz iron, wood, stone, brick, cumpo, cement, - Sac., work, as has teen Proved by the practical test of upwards of 60 years, and by the nu rous testimonials (between 300 and 400) in its favour, and which, 1251 the rank and station in society of those who have given them, 7.,Y 11 , perhapgs, nave before the yet public no been equalled by anything of the kind Lists mteorto brought tice. of prices, colours, and other particulars, will be forwarded on ,•tiPPlleatlon to Walter Carson, 15, Tokenhouse-yard, back of the ...... _ l4 ank of England. No agents. ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. WITH TWENTY-FIVE COLOURED ENGRAVINGS. ''''n..,_ published, Twentieth Thousand, in a sealed en v e l ope , price 4 '2• Get. or post paid, to any address, for 3 s. 6 d. i n Posta g e t a m ps mired front the Author's residence. , SELF. PRESERVATION: A Medical Treatise n iysto o i n .fir th y e Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturi t y. ~n ,silstrated with Twenty-five Coloured P on the Anatom. and Diseases of the Urinary and lates Reproductive Organs y , 1,4 441a1 , bin . g their various structures, uses, and functions , and showing a., 'Willies that are produced in them, by solitary habits, and other lel i t‘g. With Practical Observations on th e Treatment of Nervous ali''"' L Y , Local and Constitutional Weak ness, and other diseases of g Urethra. BY SAMUEL LVMERT, CONSULTING SURGEON, Ysier t .4,.... 9 , Bedford-street, Bedford-square, London; Ai n , — “ , , gted Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorer., A. 1 14 % - "' r Of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate t heearies' Ilall, London, k e ' 0 ari e d nir n zi. i CONTENTS OF THE TREATISE. _I. On the Philosophy of Marriage, with its Hindrance. Ca A .._ gations, and on Infelicitous and Unproductive Unions.— Or g . . 1 g 2 . On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Generativ, m a s, their ilinctions, structurea, and secretions, proving that grea , ... c att al and Physical Power are dependant upon their healthy action kental •klu li m k „ P jj a 3 . On Solitary Habits; their various e ff ects on th, of t.C" ' c ebeznY ; the concealed cause of Debility of the function. 0 Sto ach, Lungs, and Brain, and general weakness of the dig li gif l'a lulties. CRAFTER 4. On the Secret Disorders of Youtl if "Y, and the Treatment of Nervous and Local Weakness. ent gl bebui the E ng . „-tY, and Premature Decay.—Csapreas 5 and 6. or Cileet..n,lgg a re a from indiscriminate, Excess, Gonnortmea ~ , _ The I : t t h o r t t r and this o s th in e g r Diseases of thciiiara. tt REVIEWS OF THE Wag • . ~,"'"utedt er a tiler and talented work is a legally qul. ' 44 tr,,,,_ 'gam, who has avidently had considerable experienn c l ot riv iie 4Tent of the various disorders arising from the follies an I ( lition, b I early ~, indiscretion. The engravings are an invaluable ad he.t as a 4 1 ,0 reenstrating the consequences of excesses, which ;nus• tw iny tl; i....ltary warning to ~,:, 11::: -- t an n : youth and maturity, and by its perusal . p nbii :V) the most confidential iSbnd."—Era. be satisfactoril&replied to, that admit f no at , - ' POT lien"' by the Author, and may be had at his residence , also m ßde a h y strda 52 Paternoster-row; Hannay and Co., 6.i. v,.. / 61 1. street .... , , '-'eftafaraan.. s ... °tali°, Tichborne-street, Quadrant; flortion, 14 ,, and tn. ;I, ~ "ea, London ; Newton, 16, Church-street, Liverpool at* cisoksellers. FiveHo - na ra , .. Bo ` ' so - ••,. cOnaultation daily, rem Nine till Two, and frog k e foo oi le i lyht ; Vid ttil letters immediately replied to, if containin. 'Ulm " r9 t . Acillg." lit-4 BIWFORD-STREET BEDFORD --'". 4914)0113 , )-• '- • ' No. 17,045, LONDON, T URSDAY II ,„NING WILSON'S SCOTTISH ENTER TAINMENTS. At the MESIC-lIALL, STORE-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE. On MONDAY EVENING, May 10, at EigLt o'clock, Mr. WILSON will give an Entertainment on the SONGS OF SCOTLAND, In which he will sing a variety of Popular Songs andßallads. In the course of the Evening, Mr. Wilson a ill, by request, sing Burns's song of "GO FETCH TO ME A PINT 0' WINE.", PART FIRST.-0 weel may the Boatie row—Of a' the Alrts the Wind can blaw—Wha'll buy Caller Herring—Hame came our gude man at e'en—Over the Water to Charlie—Bonnie Bessie Lee—The Mar. ied Man's Lament— Pibroch o' l )onald Dhu. PART SECOND.—The Flowers o' the Forest—The Auld School— Woo'd an' married an' a'—Auld Joe Nicholson's Bonny Nannle. Get up and Bar the Door. Tickets, 2s. ; Reserved Seats, 2s. Gd. ; Private Boxes for Six Per sons, 15s. ; for Eight, 1/. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSU RANCE SOCIETY. OFFICE, 26, CORNIIILL, LONDON. Capital 500,0001. Empowered by Act of Parliament. The system of Deferred Annuities, originally proposed by the Na tional Loan Fund Life Assurance Society, for the better advance ment of the objects of Benefit and Friendly Societies, - bavincreceived the approbation of a considerable body cf the active members sod officers of those Institutions, and the Directors of the National Loan Fund Society having been urgently solicited by them to establish a Branch Office in connexion with the.. Societies and the Operative Classes generally, in which their services might be successfully en gaged, a Committee has been sanctioned by the Directors to open communication with the different Societies, with the view of more effectually disseminating the valuable benefits amongst the indus trious classes, and a plan has been )roposed with that object. . T " E WELLINGTON SURTOUT. CAUTION.—The great success of the Wellington Surtout having caused several unprincipled persons (against two of whom proce edings have been:commenced) to imitate thin registered coat, 'although in a material derogatory to its reputation, all persons are hereby warned that to make any garment (having sleeves) whether worn by male or female, WITHOUT SHOULDER OR SLEEVE- Top SEAMS, whatever may be its shape in other respects, is a direct infringement of the patentees designs, and will in every case be visited by an action at law. Every genuine coat has a stamp bearing the royal arms, with a number indicative of the size, also the name and address of the patentee, JAMES FOUGEItE, 6, CONDUIT-STREET, REGENT STREET, and 11, POULTRY, near the Mansion-House, LONDON, to imitate which is felony. IT. THOMAS'S CHURCH, BREAMS BUILDINGS, CHANCERY-LANE. On SUNDAY NEXT. the 9th of MAY, TWO SERMONS will be Preached in this Church, arid Collections made towards Defraying the Expenses of Conducting Public Worship ; that in the Morning by the Right Reverend the LORD BISHOP of CHESTER, that in the Evening by the Reverend CHARLES CLAYTON, M.A., a Senior Fellow of Caius college, Cambridge, and Secretary to the Church Pastoral Aid Society. Divine Service will commence in the Morning at Eleven, in the Evening at Half-past Six. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PoaTsmourit, MAY 4.—The Courts. martial on the officers and crew of the Thunderbolt took place to day. • The Alert, 6, Commander Ellis, sailed last night for Plymouth, to be paid off. When she left Sierra Leone, the Freo6 Admiral, Montaigne de la Rome, was at anchor there with his flag in the Narval, an iron steam vessel of 4 guns, which was coaling preparatory to mak ing a tour of the station. The Alert parted company with Commodore Sir Charles Hotham off Neo Jess, on the 3d of March, on which day he sailed in the Penelope, accompanied by the Devastation, for the South. The Rolla, 10, Commander Ellicombe, relieved the Alert at Tobacconee on the 6th of March. The Contest, 12, Commander M'Murdo, was communicated with at Cape Mesardo on the 10th, and the Favourite, is, Commander Murray, on the 13th, off Shebar. The officers and men off all these vessels were in good health. The Athol troop-ship, Master Commander Pearn sailed early this morning for Woolwich. The Kestrel, 4, Lieut.-Commander Baker, sailed this afternoon for South America. The Recruit, 12, Commander Slade, was undocked to day and moored in Blockhouse-hole, where, if she re• main long, sbe will accumulate more rubbish than before, notwithstanding her bottom-polishing. ROYAL MARINES. Her Majesty, b y O rder in Counc il, d a ted the 24th of April, 1847, ha s b een grac i ous l y p l ease d to direct that three Artillery of the Royal Marines, and that each of the ninet y -four divisional compani es s h a ll h ave a further number of privates. Companies shall be added to t hat branch The re-distribution of the corps is therefore to be as follows : A divisional company, to consist of 1 captain, 2 sub alterns, (two-thirds first, and one-third second-lieute nants), 5 sergeants, 5 corporals, 3 drummers, 94 privates —112; and 10 artillery companies—each to consist of 1 captain, 2 first-beute,ants, 2 second, 7 sergeants, 7 cor porals,-3 bumbardlirZ3 drummers, and 125 gunners 150 ; malsing r thii whole establWinienkot Marines, both officersand mew .J.L- Divisional 6brnpantes 10,434 Artillery companies ... ... 1,500 Staff ... ... 67 Total ... ... ... ... 12,001 The appointment of officers consequent on this aug. mentation will be hereafter notified. WooLwicn, MAY 4.—The Blenheim, 72 guns, was taken out of the basin at a very early hour this morning, for the purpose of being docked but the tide did not rise sufficiently, and she will have to remain in the har bour, owing to her great draught of water, until the next spring tide, a fortnight after this date. - The Terrible steam-frigate, Captain Ramsey, is still in the harbour here, and her officers and crew have left the Dragon steam-frigate and resumed their duties on board. Captain Hall, in command of the Terrible, during the absence of Captain Ramsey with the Dragon, con veying provisions to Ireland, is to be berne on the books of the William and Mary yacht for the present. WRECK OF HER MAJESTY'S STEAMER THUNDERBOLT. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 4.—The inquiry into the circumstances attending the wreck of her Majesty's steamer Thunderbolt, in Algoa Bay, in February last, commenced yesterday by court-martial, ordered by the Admiralty to try Commander A. Boyle, and the officers and crew, for their conduct on the occasion. The members of the court consisted of Rear-Admiral Parker, C. 8., president; Captain Pasco, Victory; Captain Chads, C. 8., Excellent; Captain Milne, St. Vincent; Cap tain S. C. llacres, Avenger. Mr. G. L. Greetham officiated as judge-advocate. _ _ It appeared by documentary and oral evidence that the Thunderbolt was proceeding to Algoa Bay, in pursuance of orders from Rear-Admiral Dacres, to convey from thence to Simon's Bay part of the 90th Regiment; that on Feb. 3, about noon, while entering the bay, and rounding a reef, she struck on a sunken rock, and received such severe injury that Commander Boyle deemed it advisable to use his utmost endeavours to run her on shore to save the lives of the crew, the leak being so extensive ; that having done so, he tried, with his own crew and the assistance of some troops from the shore, to land the stores and pump the vessel dry, and, if possible, repair the damage, and was subsequently aided in his exertions by seamen from the President and the Eurydice, when those frigates joined, nineteen days after the accident; but finding all their efforts fruitless, and the executive officers giving as their opinion that if afloat she could not be repaired in Algoa Bay, the senior officer determined on abandoning her to the Government authorities on shore, which was done accord ingly, and they were instructed to sell her to the best ad vantage. The officers and men, with great part of her stores, were then embarked in the Eurydice, and she carried them to the Cape. The reading of the narrative of Commander Boyle, the reports of Rear-Admiral Dacres, Captain Stanley, and Captain Anson, and the examination of witnesses as to the track of the Thunderbolt, the precautions taken to navigate her in safety, and other matters relat ing to the transaction, and such as are customary in inquiries of this nature, occupied the Court all the day, when, it being four oclock, the Court signified to Commander Boyle, and Mr. Milne, the master, that they were prepared to thear their defences, and on those officers requesting until this morning to prepare, the Court complied with their wishes and adjourned. The Court assembled at ten o'clock this morning, when Commander Boyle and the Master produced their statements of the occurrence, which were read to the Court, and afterwards placed with the proceedings. The attention of the Court yesterday was most pa, ticularly directed to the circumstance of a com pliance with the Admiralty sailing instructions, which direct that in entering Algoa Bay all ships should give the reef on which the Thunderbolt struck a clear offing of two miles; in this instance the Thunderbolt was steered within one mile, and the officers admitted that if she had been kept acccording to the sailing instructions she pronounced the would not have b een lost. This departure from a mos t important regulatio n evidently influenced the Court in th eir judgment, for, aft er i t had been cleared to deliberate o n the sentence, and th e pu b lic admitted to hear it read, t h e J u d ge - Advocate, after r ec i t i ng the usual form, ronounced opinion of the C ourt to be, that her Majesty ' s late steamer , Thunderbolt, had b een wrecked through inattent i on and neglect, and sentenced Commander Alexander Boyle , and master Mr. J. D. Mil ne , mustd her Majesty's ser vice ; but, in , to be distmas e equenc e o f t h e pro d uc tion of high testi monials of form er character and ability, recommended them to the favou ra bl e consideration of the Lords Commissioners of the Admir a lt y , tial, the sam e mem b ers were sworn to try the carpenter of the Thunderbolt f or drunkenness, subsequent to leaving her, and while on b oar d the Eurydice taking a passage to Simo n ' s fully proved, an Aftet the conclusion of this Court - Ma r- Bay. The ch arge was and he was sentenced to be dismissed the service. ADDRESS OF THE COMMITTEE. Many praiseworthy but ineffectual attempts have been made to bring within the scope and operation of the laws of mortality and money the savings of the industrious classes, as well as various cal culations regulating their distribution, having for their object either immediate, contingent, or deferred benefits. A slight examination, however, will demonstrate that the con struction of these associations or societies is defective; and that in stead of affording an easy access and a free choice of investment, whist should be the privilege of every one, they confine too nar rowly the •14annel through which a benefit can alone be secured ; and, in proportion as their action is circumscribed and embarrassed, their utility is limited. For example, it is not to every individual or to every class amongst the industrious community, that provision in case of sickness is an object of such importance as to call for a pecuniary sacrifice ; while to others such a provision appears more attractive, and the loss of employment caused by stein/Ise -4 z - a Ms.:- against which they desire to be guarded. For this anomalous state of things there is an effective and simple remedy ; that is to say, instead of covering, by one weekly or annual payment, two or more contingent or deferred benefits, so to arrange it that each separate benefit should have its separate contribution. It is to not having observed this rule, and to the association of two dissimilar funstions, and by confounding a sick allowance and an annuity fund in one and the self-same payment, that much of the evils and mismanagement has arisen amongst Benefit Societies. No mechanises can be so perfect for the management of a sick - cess-fund provision as that afforded by the constant sectional asso ciation and watchfulness ef the several members composing it. By this means a thorough and constant check is mutually exercised, and none but the really siek are likely to become chargeable upon it. But the same perfection, or the same security, is seldom attainable where a fund is to be accumulated through a succession of years, and where results arc to bear oat calculations, money investment being in general beyond the experience of the industrious classes. For these reasons it is clear that the fends destined for a provision in sickness should be kept entirely distinct from the fund intended as a provision for old age :- Ist. Because the laws of sickness and mortality, though apparently connected, do not depend on the same calculation. 2d. Because there are a great number who, in order to secure a larger provision in old age are willing to take the risk of providing for probable sickness on themselves. 3d. Because the responsibility of in an tsing a provision for old age, continued to a distant period is, ii is grsat measure, incompatible with voluntary associations, fluctuating I..ws, and individual irre sponsibility, and more exposed te a failure in the performance of such a contract , that when undertaken on the same principles that ordinarily govern commercial bodies. 4th. Because the expenses of providing for sickness must, when united in the same payment with provision for old age, tend to dimi nish still more this provision : nor is it wisdom or good policy to en danger the one for the sake of the other. Impressed with these convictions, and with an intimate knowledge of the discussions passing within the bosons of many of the existing Friendly aid Benefit Societies, the parties whose names are here unto attached, have had several meetings, with a view of proposing or adopting a remedy for those and other evils ; and in this manner to give an additional force to the principles of brotherhood, unity, and mutual aid, on which friendly societies are based, by guarding them from the risks of sudden dissolution. After much diligent search amonsst the combinations ingeniously proposed from time to time for the attainment of one of the principal objects of Friendly and Benefit Societies, they have found none equal in simplicity and comprehensiveness of design, as well as forethought and sympathy for the wants of the industrious classes, as the plan proposed by the National Loan Fun 4 Life Assurance Society. It is true that the author ef that plan has furnished an argument against provision in sickness; but, without concurring in the immediate ex pediency of abandoning a provision in sickness, no one can read the other part of the plan itself, without being fully satisfied that the convenience and safety of Friendly and benefit Societies will be greatly secured and consulted, by separating the payment of a sick allowance from an annuity for old age. A deputation having waited on the directors of the National Loan Fund, who met in the handsomest manner the overtures made to them for the establishment of a separate ofice for the transaction of business connected with Friendly and Benefit Societies, and the in dustrious classes in general, resolutions have been entered into, con stituting the undersigned as a Committee, with power to add to its number, for the promulgation of the benefits contained in the an nexed prospectus, under the guarantee of the Capital or the Society, and which, without interfering with the numerous objects connected with the institution of Benefit and Friendly Societies, will in they opinion greatly enlarge their sphere of utility, and afford a protection to the working classes in old age and adversity, which nothing up to the present day has adequately secured to them. Thomas Burthom, P.C.R., Ancient Order of Foresters. John Fussell, C.R„ Ancient Order of Foresters. John H. Gordon, D.S., Ancient Order of Foresters. James Hale, D.C.R., Ancient Order of Foresters. Henry Hunt, P.G.; Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows. Joseph Nugent, Pro. C.S. Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows. Joseph Reeks, 8.0. F. Order of Old Friends. Samuel Timbrell, D.C.R.. Ancient Order of Foresters. DEFERRED ANNUITIES. ---- Example.—A person aged 24 next birthday, by the annual pay ment of 1/. 65., or quarterly payment of 75., or monthly payments of 2s. 2d. :naay!secure, on attaining the age of 60, the option of re ceiving Annuity, 101. 19a. Id. ; Cash down, 1071. 3s. ; or a Policy on his Life, 1371. 17s. Example.—A person aged 26 next birthday, may secure, on at taining the age of 60, an Annuity of 101., with the other options, by the annual payment of 11.65. 9d., Sr a single payment of 22/.175. 344 or on payment of 61. 14s. 3d. for disparity, he will be entitled to the same benefits by an annual payment of 18s. lid., the same as or age 20. Example.—A. person aged 30 next birthday, by the annual pay meat of 11. 65., or quarterly payment of 75., or monthly payment of 2s. 2d., may secure on attaining the age of 65, the o pti on of re ceiving Annuity, 181. Os. 4d.; cash down, 1481. 12s. ; or a policy on his life 1751. 1 Is. Example.—A person aged 35 next birthday, by the annual pay ment of 11. 65., or quarterly payment of 75., or monthly payment of 2s. 2d., may secure, on attaining tke age of 65, the option of re ceiving Annuity, 18/. OS. 4d. ; cash down, 1481. 12s. ; or a policy of his life, 1711. 118. LIFE ASSUR&ICCE, Example. —A person at the age of 30 next birthday may secure the sum et 100/. payable at his death, whenever it may happen, and also participate in the Annual Division of Profits, by the annual pay ment of 2/. 9s. 3d. Example.—A person at the age of 25 next birthday, by the pay ment of 4s. per month, or Is. per week, may secure the sum of 1121.55. payable at nis death, whenever it may happen, and like wise share in the annual F profits of the Society. . FERGUSON CAAIROUX, secretary. N ATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, 26, CORNIIILL, LONDON, Capital 000,000. Empowered by Act if Parliament. This Institation embraces important and substantial advantages with 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) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in terests to meet ether conveniences or necessity. Assurances for terms of years are granted at the lowest possible rates. DIVISION OF PROFITS. The remarkable success and increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a fourth bonus, ♦arying from 35 to 85 per ce t. en the premiums paid ou each Policy effected en the Profit scale. EXAMPLES. 1 0-1 N ~ Bonus Bonus in g 05. Assurel m i rremlum. 0 added.. Cash. E. 5A' may 5.- g Borrow. • 9...' ,-,- - - -- 1837 £217 15 1,£109 011 £l6 0 4-£445 0 0 £ £s. d. r 1838 192 3 0' 87 1 4 13 10 2 395 11 1 60 1900 3 4 1839 165 11 10, 74 1 9 11 3 1 34 .2 3 1840 116 7 6 54 010 718 10 296 13 4 3841 111 6 8, 49 10 01 710 4 247 4 5 The division of profits is annual, and the neat will be made in ecember of the present year. F. P'ELMUSON CAMROUX. Secretary. T HE EXPERIENCE LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. Edinburgh, IS, George-street. London, 58, King William-street. Established 1843. Capital 30,0001. This Company's Tables arc based upon the EXPERIENCE OF THE SEVEN TEEN LIFE OFFICES,as contained in the Report of their Mortality published in 1843. The Company embraces, in its constitution, the advantages of both the mutual and proprietary systems of Assurance. The SHORT PERIOD RATES will be found, in comparison with other Companies, to be exceedingly favourable to Insurers, and, the rates for the whole period of life as low as is consistent WITH PERFECT SWITRITY. For prospectuses, &e., apply at the offices as above, or to any of the Agents throughout the kingdom. By order of the Directors, T. 'MILLE WARDROP, Secretary. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS for ORPHAN and NECESSITOUS CHILDREN. Pres i den t—JOHN MASTERMAN, Esq., M.P. Notice is hereby given, that the FIRST HALF-YEARLY ELEC TION of CHILDREN into this Institution, will take place at the Lodon Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, on MONDAY, the da of June next (the polling to co mmence at Twelve o'clock at 2Bth noon, y and close at Three o'clock in the afternoon precisely), when Twenty Children will be admitted. 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TENNY LIND'S PORTRAIT (drawn by V Kenny Meadows) embellishes the PIANISTA for MAY (No. 80), now ready, and three songs sung by Jenny Lind. Also Plschek's beautiful songs, with the German and English words, " The Standard Bearer," " The Rhine," and " Home." Price for the whole, 2s. No. 77 Pianista, contains " Mary Blane," and ten other Negro songs, sung by the Serenaders, with the Mary Blane Quad rilles, for 2s. Either number, post paid, 36 stamps. Pianists Office, First Floor, 67, Paternoster-row, one door from Cheapside. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, MAY 4. STOCK EXCHANGE.-Our market has again become de pressed, and prices are considerably lower than we quoted yesterday. There was a good amount of dividend-paying stock in the market, yet very little disposition was shown by buyers to transact business, even at lower rates. The sales are-Atnbergate, Nottingham, Boston, and Eastern Junction, 1 1 / 4 dis.-Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 1 1 / 4 dis.- Birmingham and Oxford, 7 1 / 1 p.-East Lancashire, New, 1 / dis.-Ditto, New (scrip), % p.-Fleetwood and West Riding Junction, 1% dis.-Leeds and Thirsk, Preference, 3 p.- London and North-Western, 171 1 4-Ditto, Quarters (G. J.), 16M p.-Ditto, Quarters, New, 9 7 i g p.-Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 4 p.-Ditto, 321. Shares (late Extensions), 5 / 8 p.-Ditto (Manchester, Bolton, and Bury), '2O p.-Ditto, Halves (late Liverpool and Bury),; 2M p.-Ditto Fifths (late West Riding Union), Bs. 9d. p.-Manchester and South ampton, 1% dis.-Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Quarters, 1 3 % dis.-Midland Stock, 115 1 / 2 -Ditto, New, '2 1 4 p.-Newcastle and Berwick, New, l 3 p.-North Stafford shire, 1% p.-North- Western, 1% dis.-Shrewsbury and Hereford, 158 dis.-Shrewsbury and Chester (late N.W.M.), 4', p.-Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 2% dis.- Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), par - South-Eastern and Dover, 36 1 / 2 -Ditto, No. 4, Thirds, par-Newry and War renpoint, 1M dis. MANCHESTER, MAY 4. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Ambergate, Notting ham, and Boston, 1 5-16 dis.-Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 1% dis.-Birmingham and Oxford Junction, 7 1 / 4 p.-Blackburn, Clitheroe, &c., Preferentials, 13-16 p.-East Lancashire (late B. and P.), New (scrip), par-Fleet wood, Preston, and West Riding Junction, 1% dis.-Glas gow and Dumfries, 3 -16 p.-Lancaster and Preston, Quar ters, 5% p.-Leeds and Thirsk, Preferentials, 7-16 p.-Lon don and North-Western (Manchester and Birmingham), Quarters (C), 5 1 / s p.-Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, M c. dis.-Manchester and Leeds, 321. Shares (late Extension), M p.-Ditto, Fifths (late West Riding Union), M p.-Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 85- Manchester and Southampton, 28s. 6d. dis.-North British, Extension, % p.-North Staffordshire, 1% p.-North- Western, 1% dis. LEEDS, MAY 4. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Ambergate, Notting ham, and Boston, 28s. dis.-Eastern Counties, York Exten sion, 245. 6d.-East Lancashire, 20s. dis.-Ditto, New, IIA dis.-Ditto, New :Scrip, ls. 6d. dis.-East and West York shire, 225. dis.-Leeds and Thirsk, 5 c. dis.-Ditto, New, 3 1 4 dis.-Ditto, Preference, 6s. p.-Malton and Driffield Junction, 15s. dis.-Manchester and Leeds (late aud. and Sheff.), 15s. p.-Ditto, 321. Shares (late Extensions), 85. p. -Ditto, West Riding Union, % c. p.-Manchester, uxton, Matlock, and Midland, % dis.-Newcastle and Berwick, New, 335. 6d. p.-North British, Quarters (late Carlisle Branch), 16s. p.-Ditto, Extension (scrip), 7s. p.-North Staffordshire, 30s. 6d. p.- Northern Counties Union, 2 3 / 4 dis. -North-Western, 38s. 6d. dis.-Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 8 3 % dis. HULL, MAY 4. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-London and Brighton, Fifteenths, Is. 6d. p.-North British, Quarters, 605.-Ditto, Extension (scrip), 6s. 6d. p.-Ditto, Thirds, 505.-York and Newcastle, New, 41 /s p.-Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 2% dis.-Blackburn, Clitheroe, &c., Preference, 18s. 6d. p.- Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, 1 1 4 dis.-Newcastle and Berwick, 1% p.-North-Western, 1% dis.-North Staffordshire, 1 3 4 p.-West Riding Union, 4s. 6d. p. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, MAY 4. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Extension, 2 3 / 4 dis.-Newcastle and Ber wick (North Shields), p. _EDINBURGH, MAY 3. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 25/. 17s. - D i A t t y o aNn New, a 2 l l l . o 4 w s a_y, 1. C s d . 0 - n i D a n it 2 0 4. a l l 7 v s e s 6, l e l d 9 o s. u 6 i a d n . U.-Airdrie and Bathgate, 31. 18 s .-A r b roat h an d F orfar, -e 271 a 1 1 5 e and Dumbartonshire, P. 12s. 6d.-Clydesdale Junction, 37/. 10s.-Deeside, 3/. 55.-Dunblane, Doune, and Callender, 11. 7s. 6d.-Dundee and Arbroath, 42/. 105.-Ditto, New, No. 1, 301.-Ditto, New, No. 2, 30/.-Dundee and Perth, 3.5 L - Ditto, New, 161. 15s. -Eastern Counties, 191.-Ditto, York Extension,4l. 155.-East of Fife, 2/. 10s.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 61. 17s. 6d.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 70/. ex div. -Ditto, Halves, 181. ex div.-Ditto, Quarters, 171. 12s. 6d. ex div.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 181.-Ditto, Pre ference, 201.-Edinburgh and Northern, 181.-Ditto, New, 3/. 65.-Ditto, Newport, 7/. 65.-Ditto, ditto, New, 21. 4s. -Edinburgh and Perth (New), 21. 7s.- Glasgow and Ayr shire, 581.-Ditto, New Stock, 35/. 10s.-Ditto, Quarters, 15/. 15s ex new-Ditto, Halves, 6/. 7s. 6d.-Glasgow, Dum fries, and Carlisle, 5/.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 39/.- Glasgow General Terminus, 121. 55.-Glasgow and Greenock, 151. 10s.-Ditto, New, 8/. 155.-Ditto, Preference, 81.-Glas gow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 51.-Great North of Scot land, '2l. 95.-Newcastle and Berwick, 25/. 10s.-North Bri tish, 31/. ex div.-Ditto, Halves, 14/. 12s. 6d.- Ditto, Thirds, 2/. 16s. 6d.-Ditto, Quarters, 4/. 11s. 6d.-Ditto, Quarters, New (scrip), 11. 35.-Ditto, Fifths, 61. 155.-Scottish Central, 24/. 10s.-Scottish Grand Junction, 195.-Scottish Midland, 19/. 10s.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 3/. 55.-Stirling and Midland, 2/. 55.-Wishaw and Coltness, 49/. 10s.-York and Newcastle, 33/. 155.-Ditto, New, 13/. 155.-Ditto, Pre ference, 61. 7s. 6d.-Direct Bombay and Madras, 35.- East Indian, 2s. 9d.-Great North of India, 35.-Great South ern of Madras, 25.-Madras, Nellore, and Arcot, Is. 9d. GLASGOW, MAY 3. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Caledonian, 24 1 /0- Ditto, New, 455.-Direct Bombay and Madras, 35.-Dun - dee and Northern Junction, 315.-Dunblane, Doune, and Callender, 255.-East Indian, 2s. 6d.-East Lothian Central, 445.-Edinburgh and Perth (New Co.), 485.-Ditto, halves, 15s. 6d.-Glasgow Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves, No.. 2, 71.-Gla s gow, D um f r i es , an d C ar li s l e, 5 % -Glasgow and Greenock, 15%-Ditto, Halves, 71. ISs. 9d.-Manches ter 9d M h es ter and Southampton, 165.-Midland, Halves, 84-North British, 31!,4 -Ditto, Thirds, 585.-Ditto, Quarters, 675. 6d. -Ditto, New Quarters (scrip), 265. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. Losnon, MAY s.—Wind E.S.E., light breeze, and cloudy. DEAL, MAT 4.—A.M. Wind E. to E.N.E.—pas. E.S.E. —Arrd. Margaretha Semonetta, Hoffman, Batavia, for Rot terdam. Sid. Stirling, Sydney, New South Wales; Lahore, Cuba; Surprise, South Seas; Eliza, Callao; Patty, Quebec. OFF DOVER, MAY 3.—lsabella, Heaton, Bussorah. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 4.—Wind S. to N.N.E.—SId. her Ma jesty's ship Kestrel, Rio Janeiro. PLYMOUTH, MAY 4.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Charlotte, Drewry, Norfolk. Off port, Argo, Anthony, New York, for Havre. LIVERPOOL, MAY 4.—Wind S.E., moderate.—Arrd. Woodstock, Draper, New York. Off port, Manchester, Per nambuco; Fame and Ethiope. Sid. Seraphina, Pernam buco; Old England, Shanghae ; Chalio, ditto; Athol, Cal cutta; Allegro, Africa; Burgomaster Smidt, Voldman, Rio; Janeiro ; Cuba, Jamaica ; Fanny, St. Domingo ; Oporto, Havannah ; Escalduna, La Guayra ; Powhatton and Man chester, Baltimore • Lord Ashburton, New York; Enterprise, Abby Pratt, and Baltimore; ditto; Hindoo and Ceylon, Slaten Island; Sea King, Acadia, and Maucio, Boston; Brooklyn, Susannah, and Osprey, Halifax ; Britannia at., Halifax and Boston ; Shakespeare, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Wakefield, Quebec; Argo, Coromandel; Pursuit, Mary, Countess of Durham, Yorkshire Lass, Herald, Robert Watt, Elizabeth, and Independence, ditto; Catherine Thompson, Montreal; Hope, Newfoundland. REDCAR, MAY 4.—Some hogsheads of lampblack, marked P.T. & Co. and B.S. & Co., have washed on shore here or picked up at sea this morning. It blew a gale yesterday. CoRK, MAY 2.—Wind N. W., fresh.—Arrd. Abel Tasman, Hafter, Batavia, and sld. for Rotterdam ; Ranger, Page, Per nambuco ; Edward Kenny, Cook, New Orleans. Sid. Seraph, Boston; Dominica, Quebec. LONDONDERRY, APRIL 26.—Arrd. Father Mathew, Gul lechar, New York. 29, E. Churchill, Gilvary, ditto; Nue vetas, Baker, ditto. 30, Sarah Jackson, Hodes, Baltimore. Sld. Hartford, Philadelphia; Sir Charles Napier, St. John's, New Brunswick; Mayflower, Pictou ; Sun and Zelica, Phi ladelphia. THANKS OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT TO AN ENGLISH SHIPMASTER. Admiralty, May 4, 1847. Sin,—Viscount Palmerston having infOrined . my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that a communication has been addressed to his Lordship by the Count de Jarnac, French Charge d'Affairs, stating that he is directed to re quest that the acknowledgments the French Government may be conveyed to Captain William Brown, comma n di ng the English schooner Harp , of Dublin, for the services which he rendered to the crew of the French vessel La Petite Enn stine, totally wrecked in t he Ba y of Biscay, I am commanded by my Lords to request that the Committee for Managing the Affairs at Lloyd's will take measures for conveying to Captain Brown the thanks of the Fry net G'overnment - ac cordingly. I am, Sir, your mos t obedient servant, (Signed) J. G. WARD. William Robson, Esq., Secretary Lloyd's. THE LATE WRECK OF AN EMI eti)B S litiof a arr t ldvn u i ifi r vne d tog a hrw yastttthi bool evening, the in this sr l ep a car t ow e or r vfdeo p eld a gr t r oo t i t a i ct GRANT s u l N a tvr r! p that l a , t we P fear that the loss . have e n reached tive ‘ro to From m ore extensive the statem en t o f the m t h ree sailors, the sole Isaacf the w rec k , and who arrived i n Gl asgow on Exmouth, even 3 3 ' e 2 s o t e r t d o tons, ay. Booth, of Sunderland, master, sailed from London derry for Quebec between three and four o'clock on the morning of Sunday, t h e 25th ult., w i t h a li g h t south west breeze. She had a crew of eleven men (i nc l us i ve of the captain), and about 240 emigrants, consisting principally of small farmers and tradesmen with their families, who had turned their little all into money for the purpose of escaping the famine, and earning for themselves a home in the western wold. Many were females and children going out to join their fathers and protectors, who had already settled in Canada. There were also three cabin passengers, young unmarried ladies of the middle classes, two of them being sisters, on their way to join their relatives at St. John, New Brunswick. The vessel was registered for 1651 passen gers, but as two children count as one adult, and as a very large proportion were under age—there being only about 60 men amongst the passengers—the survivors 01 the wreck, who are our intbrinists, think that the total number of these ill-fated emigrants must have amounted to the total stated, viz., 240. The ship lost sight of land about four o'clock on Sunday afternoon. The breeze, which had been light in the morning,-increased to a gale during the day, and about eleven P.N. it came in terrific squalls, accom panied by heavy torn nts of rain. They then furled .the - fore and' main sails: The wind; which had been to the westward at first, veered northerly, and the storm increased in violence, which blew the two top-sails from the bolt-ropes. The crew then commenced to bend other topsails, which they furled ; but about three in the morning they were blown from the gaskets. The ship was now driving to the south • ward and eastward. The reason of the master not standing to the westward, where he woald have ample sea room, was for the purpose of attaining some har bour . of refuge, where he might repair damages, and re place the sails. On Monday forenoon the long-boat was unshipped by the force of the seas, which broke over the vessel, and in the course of the same forenoon the bulwarks The gale continued with the same violence during th e who , were stove in, and the l ife-bo a t washed away. , and the trysail -mast of Monday night and Tuesday ; and an indication of the force of the hurricane may be learned from the fact, that on the latter day the mainsail, after being furled, was tornfrom the gaskets by the storm blast. While the crew were setting the foresail it and the main gaff carried away, which r p e a se in n s tm of en s t ea of rendered them unable to carry the spanker. During this dreary time, the vessel pitched dreadfully —no w on the crest of a mountain wave, and in two seconds afterwards wwaass unshipped, n pp f o r d o7 the bolt ropes reeling .in the trough of the sea ; the passengers were sickness,d isaste. Cooking, all below under hatches, many of them insensible to ex but some of course, was out of the question ; but the grown-up people had no heart to be hungrL , and moreover, the from o cooked provisions brought_. udonderry were not yet entirely exhausted_ on About eleven o'clock _ Tuesday night land and a ex ternal n th a e l m da h n a g d er a fromfoa fearful i h p e light were seen on the starboard quarter, which Captain Booth at first took to be the light on the Island-of Tory, off the north-west coast of Ireland, and" in the belief that he thus had a mple sea-room in the course he was steering he bore along. As he d r if ted near the land, h owe ver, and observed that the light was a flashing, instead of a stationary one, he became con scious of his error and dangerous position, and made every effort to repair it, by bringing the ship farther to the northward and westward ; and with the vie ,v of " clawing" her off the land, the maintopsail and the foretopmast stay sail were set, and the jib half hoisted. N• MAY 6, 1847. The effort, however, was an ineffectual one ; the ship soon got amongst the broken water, and at half-past twelve on Wednesday morning was dashed amongst the rocks. If the above be a correct version of the impression on the captain's mind as to his position—and it is distiuetly spoken to by two of the survivors—the result shows that he must have been fully a hundred miles out of his reckon ing ; but perhaps it could not well be otherwise. The sun was obscured during all the time by black clouds ; the moon was only seen through a heavy haze at inter vals, and from these causes it was impossible that any observation could be taken. The light seen was in reality that of Oransa or Oversay, on the point of the Rhinos or Runs of Islay, to the north-west of the entrance of Lochindaul ; and the land seen, and on which the brig eventually struck, was the western part of the iron-bound coast of the island. She went ashore, and after striking once was dashed broadside on alongside the rocks, which rose to the height of the mast head. She struck violently against the rocks three times, and at the fourth stroke the mainmast went by the board, and fell into a chasm of the rock. Captain Booth had previously taken his station in the maintop, that he might personally keep a look out; and as soon as the brig struck, John Cleat, the mate, and all the seamen, eight in number, joined the captain in the maintop, leaving the captain's son, a youth of about fifteen years of age, asleep in his cot below. After remaining in the maintop about three minutes, five of the crew went down for the purpose of asscending the foretop thinking that they would have a better chance of gaining the shore from that part of the ship. At the same time, one of the crew, named John Scott, went out upon the main yard with a life buoy on his person; thus leaving in the maintop the captain and three seamen, whose names are John Stevens, William Coulthard, and Geore Light ford, all belonging to South Shields. When the main top, along with the wreck of the mast, veasAhrown into a rift of the rock, Coulthard, then Lightford, and finally Stevens, scrambled up the rigging, and obtained a - footing oh the crags. . The captain was *beat to.4olloir- the men; when a wave - dashed ever 'their btads. as - they clung to the rock, but they were enabled to maintain their position; and when they looked round, after the sea had retired, they found that the captain and all were gone. The mainmast had been broken into splinters by the fourth collision with the rocks, and this recoiling wave had not only dragged the ship, but the fragments of the mast, which adhered to her by the rigging, further into the sea, and thus cut off from the dense mass of human beings on board every chance of escape. Had the wreck remained in the chasm where it was originally thrown, and from which the three survivors escaped, it might have been used as a bridge by the others ; but, unhappily, this last possibility of relief was taken away. The same wave which effected this fearful havoc must also have prevented the five seamen from reaching the fore top, from which they might have had a chance of escap ing. A quarter of an hoar elapsed from the time of the br ig first Atthe striking, moment until she the struck, thre and a littleprevious to upon the rock. to it, about half-a-dozen of the male passengers were standing on the deck, occasionally asking the mate if there was in reality any danger. Of the three young ladies who were cabin passengers, one of the sisters had been confined to bed by sea-sickness from the moment of leaving Derry ; but at ten o'clock the other two took their position on the companion-way, and were seen there when the survivors last looked on the deck. The ship was ground and crunched so frightfully amongst the rocks, that she must have broken up almost instane ously. There was no cry from the multitude cooped up within the hull of the ill-fated brig; or at least it was unheard, for the commotion of the elements was so furious that the men on the top could scarcely hear each other at the top of their voices. The emigrants, there fore, must have perished in their berths, and the rocks rapidly thumped the bottom out of the vessel. The three men who had escaped. to the rock, so soon as the ship entirely disappeared, searched anxiously for some outlet by which they might reach the mainland, but none could be found; and they finally took shelter in a crevice, which however did not shield them from the rain, which fell heavily all night, and here they re mained until grey daylight. They then discovered an opening, through which they scrambled to the summit, and after day had fairly broken they observed a farm house about half a mile distant. Thither they proceeded, and were most hospitably nourished and put to bed. They were thoroughly worn out by exhaustion, not one of the crew having been in bed from the moment the ship left Derry. They were at the same time nearly naked, from having divested themselves of their heavy clothing when the Exmouth struck, and lost part of that which remained when scrambling on the rigging and amongst the rocks. The hospitable farmer (whose name we have not learned), and others who had been apprised by him, went to the scene of the catastrophe, but of course too late to help, and only to gaze on the desola tion. Mr. Chiene, Islay's factor, soon heard of the event, and kindly furnished the men with a passage to Glasgow by the Modern Athens steamer, where, as already stated, they arrived on Saturday last. Here they were consigned to the care of Mr. Fildee, of the Naval Rendezvous, and assistant to Lieutenant Forest, agent for the Shipwrecked Mariner'e Society, and by him they have been clothed and comfortably boarded in the meantime. On Thursday afternoon, the latest date of our advices from Islay, about twenty of the bodies had come ashore, They were principally females, with one little boy amongst them i and as many of them were in their eight clothes, the probability is that they were those who had rushed upon deck at the first alarm caused by the striking of the ship. They were fearfially mangled by being dashed amongst the rocks, and being jammed within the crevices along with pieces of the wreck, few of which were above two feet in length. Other bodies were still floating in the surf, but the sea was still too high to per mit any boat venturing out to bring them in. The belief is, however, that the great mass of the poor emigrants went down with the " between decks" of the ship, so that their bodies will not be recovered till this part of the vessel breaks up. The Exmouth had nothing on board but ballast, and the provisions and little stocks of goods of the emi grants. She is the property of Mr. John Eden, of South Shields, and, though old, is stated, by the survivors, to have been well found in every respect. All the crew and passengers were perfectly sober during this fearful time, and the three seamen state that they never saw drink on board at all. The captain was in the prime of life, and has left a widow and family. All the rest of the seamen were unmarried, with the exception of a man named George Russ, who is amongst those that perished. According to the above estimate, the number who have been thus suddenly called to their account amounts to 248; but even leaving room for misinforma tion or exaggeration, the loss of life has unquestionably been frightful. EFFECTS OF LIGHTNING IN THE ROYAL NAVY. The Hazard, 16, Commander Egerton, fitted with light ning conductors of Smith's wire rope, after a method re commended by the Surveyor's chief draughtsman, Mr. J. Edye, was twice struck by lightning during her late service in China. On the first occasion, May, 1846, off Diamond Point, on the north end of Sumatra, the elec tric fluid divided between the small wire rope and the mast and chain sheets ; part of it came into the ship with explosion, and split the topsail sheet hots ; the rest of the charge went over the wire rope into the seas and tore some of the copper off the bottom. The wire conductor was cripplied and bulged out by the force of the electric shock. The second time, June 12, 1846, when lying off Cape Po, at anchor, on the coast of Borneo, the electrical discharge again struck the ship. In this case the effects were more destructive ; the dis charge again divided between the rope and mast; the maintopgallant mast was splintered and carried away, also the main topmast, part of which fell through the quarter deck into the gun-room. The other part of the discharge passed down over the wire conductor into the water. The officers on board the Hazard state that conductors of this kind are totally unfit for carrying off the heavy strokes of liAtningex- ex perienced in this part of the world. These are very itn portant facts. They are the results of experiments on the great scale of na t ure , d e d uce d by means of the gigantic electrical machinery of the thunderstorm, and which go directly t o s h ow t h at not hi ng short of a general and extended system of conduction throughout the masts and hull of a ship will ever afford 'perfect security from' lightning. It will be remembered that about seven years since a naval commission, appointed by the Admiralty, inquired and reported to the House of Com mons on the merits of various plans of lightning con ductors, and they terminated their report by earnestly and unanimously recommending the system proposed by Mr. (now Sir William) Harris, to be carried out fully in the Royal Navy. Notwithstanding, how ever, that this recommendation stood supported by the most profound men in this department of science, su ch as the late Dr. Wollaston, Sir H. Davy, Daniell, Wheatstone, and others, yet, in the very teeth of all this, the Navy office " sub," through Sir W. Sy mond's interest with the First Lord of the Admiralty, contrived to have these wire ropes introduced into the navy, which the Commission had declared not onl y an inadequate defence, but absolutely dangerous. Of course the Surveyor's draughtsman was better authority than fhe best scientific and naval men in the country, he possessing the usual requisite qualification for the Somerset House officials—viz., that of being totally ignorant of the subject he was professing to understand. These small wire ropes were served into the dockyards in considerable quantities at a very great cost, and several ships were s upplied with them. Now behold the consequence. Here is a ship struck by lightning, and the predicted inefficiency of these small wires is completely Verified. It must be admitted that the result is at least favourable to the view Mr. Harris took of this most interesting question, and we do not hesitat e to avow that had an y of the ship's company lost their lives from the inefficiency of this thcomplete pl a n of lightning conductors, in direct opposition to the opinions, of the best talent of the country, the par ty who ordered, and the authorities who sanctioned, its application, would be guilty of nothing less than the crime of manslaughter. WANDSWORTH POLICE-COURT.--Mr. Alfred Taylor, late second clerk at Southwark Police-court, was on Tuesday appointed chief clerk to this and Hammersmith Police -courts, in the room of ➢ir. G. Fletcher, who has accepted the chief clerkship of the Southwark County -court. PRICE SD. IRELAND. SPREAD OF FEVER. DUBLIN, MAY 3.—The accounts, particularly from the western and southern counties, exhibit an alarming increase of pestilence in several districts ; but it is worthy of remark, that in all cases where efficient sanatory arrangements are adopted, a decided decrease in the virulence of the malady has been the consequence. In some parts of the northern province too, for instance. in Enniskillen, Lurgan, and Belfast, fever is making fearful ravages. In the last-named town, on Saturday, a public meeting was held, to make arrangements for providing additional hospital accommodation, and to raise a general subscription. Subjoined are some of the accounts received this day:— `` SLIGO, MAY I.—Typhus fever still continues to rage with unabated fury. Sligo is a plague spot; the whole town is now in the state the poor-house was in formerly. Fever is in every street, and fever of the worst kind. If the Almighty God do not mitigate this dreadful dis temper, we have, particularly now as the warm weather approaches, a horrible prospect before us. COUNTY OF GALWAY.—BALLINASLOE, MAY L—We regret that fever rages in the workhouse of this town to a very violent degree. On Thursday the schoolma.s ter fell a victim to this virulent disease. EYRECOURT, APRIL 30.—Fever is spreading furiously in this town and neighbourhood ; cases of dysentery are also not uncommon. A great many persons con tinue to emigrate to the United States of America. Our relief committee is contributing greatly to dimin ish the dreadfulness of famine. Meal and soup are distributed every day to the famishing applicants for out-door-relief. KING'S COUNTY.—BANAGHER, APRIL 30. This neighbourhood is truly in a most melancholy condition. The poor famine-worn inhabitants are falling fast from fever and dysentery. The clergymen are absolutely exhausted, between attending relief committees and the death-beds of the 'afflicted. COUNTY OF KERRY.—TRALEE, MAY I.—The num ber of paupers in the workhouse is 1 064. The deaths during the past week amounted to 26 ; and the dis charges to 29. Four weeks ago the commissioners ordered that there should be no more admissions until the paupers in the house were reduced to 1,000 in number. The inmates were then 1,350. The deaths since then amounted to 139, and the discharges to 149, reducing the number in excess to 64. The Fever Hospital gates have been closed against the reception of any more pa. tients for want of room. AWFUL CONSEQUENCES OF IMPERFECT SEPULTURE. —MAD Docs.—ln the neighbourhood of CastleiAand and Ballylongfod, from the imperfect covering thrown on the dead victims of famine, troops of dogs prey from day to day on the bodies. This is not all : violent mad ness is the result, which has already led these rabid ani mals not only to attack one another, but the cattle in the fields. The authorities and the gentlemen of the county should at once look to them. MILLTOWN, APRIL 30.—Fever is on the increase in this much-neglected and miserable place. There are at least thirty cases at present, and it is to be feared that the disease will not be confined to this number, owing to the want of some sort of hospital to send those poor wretched creatures to. The several labourers employed on the public works in this locality rushed into the town yesterday, and were disposed to act with great violence. Even some of them had the audacity to lay hands on the parish priest, and used threatening language.—Tra fee Ch, onicle. THE PUBLIC WORKS.—The Sligo Chronicle says:— " We have just ascertained that an order has come down to continue the able bodied labourers upon the public works." EMIGRATION—SLIGO, MAT I.—From the sth of Jan. to the present date, 3,239 persons left this port direct for America. Of this number 176 went in the Carricks, which was chartered by Lord Palmerston. CLONMEL, MAY I.—ATTACK BY A LARGE ARMED MOB, AND ROBBERY OF FLOUR.—OR yesterday a most daring attack was made on a boat laden with flour, on her way from this town to Waterford. She started at eleven o clock, accompanied by the usual military escort, but was delayed on her passage at Two-mile-Bridge, where a delay occurred in consequence of the boat hav ing grounded; however, after some time she was got off She had on board one hundred and fifty sacks of flour. seventy sacks of which were the property of Messrs. Thomas Hughes and Son, and the re mainder the property of Messrs. Thomas and James Hughes. When the boat reached Poulakerry, the military escort returned to town, and she proceeded on her way without au escort, there being, we should imagine, some misunderstanding, as the Carrick escort usually met the boats at this point. When the boat arrived at or near Ballydine, a large mob of persons had assembled on the banks of the river, about one hundred in number, several of whom were armed with guns and blunderbusses. The boat was ordered to stop by one man, who had his gun presented, several of the party also presenting at the same time. The persons managing the boat being placed in terror of their lives through the threats of the attacking party, brought the boat to the bank, when the mob compelled the boatmen to go into the cabin, and commenced the plunder. They had a "yawl" in their possession at this time, which was also laden with flour, and they took from the two boats no less than 50 sacks of flour, saying at the same time, ' "The devil's cure to those who would eat yellow meal when they could get good flour." One of the women in the mob had her apron full of fire-arms, which she laid on , a fence for the purpose of terrifying the boatmen. O n this morning 26 additional constables arrived here from the depot, Phoenix Park, under the command of Adjutant Manby, for the purpose of strengthening the several sta tions in this district. — Tipperary Constitution. THE CROPS—TILLAGE OF THE LAND. &Tao, MAY I.—The crops are looking exceedingly well, and, up to this, the prospect of a good harvest is most cheerful. It is true that a large portion of the ground remains untilled.—Sligo Champion. TRALEE, MAY I.—Our reports of the early crop are favourable. A gentleman in the vicinity of Tralee, who sowed rye last August in potato land, immediately after digging the early crop, informs us that it has come in for spring feeding on the Ist of Aptil, in ear, and the ground is vacant again for another crop. Much injury has been effected by the storm of Tuesday. In many places, the early potatoes, which were exhibiting every promise of health and abundance, have been nipped and checked.—Tralee Chronicle. MURDER.—On Thursday last, the body of an unknown man, aged about forty, was found buried in the callows of Clonkeen, in the parish of Killian, near Bentstown. From the deposition of the medical gentleman who examined the body, it is probable that he had been strangled ; and, from the state of the body, it could not have been interred more than four or five days. No money was found on his person. An inquest was held on the body of the unfortunate stranger, and a verdict of wilful murder returned against some person or per sons unknown.—Ballinasloe Star. REPEAL ASSOCIATION. _ _ The weekly meeting of the association was held this day, Mr. E. W. O'Mahony (barrister) in the chair. Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL wished, before the business of the day commenced, to express in a few but sincere words the deep regret which be as an Irishman felt, and he was quite sure the Association participated in the feeling, at the announcement of the illness—he feared he should say the fatal illness—ot their Lord-Lieutenant. It was true they had nothing to thank the Government for—it was very true they had much to blame them for ; but it was his (Mr. O'Connell's) sincere conviction that Earl Bessborough was in no way blameable for the short-comings of the Government ; and he felt satisfied that if his dispositions and his representations had had their duo weight with the English Cabinet, Ireland would at that moment be in a condition far different from her present miserable situation. [During the ad dress of the Honourable Gentleman Captain Clarke of the Victor, the ship which brought the cargo of provi sions from the citisens of New York, for the relief of the distressed people of thi s country, entere d t h e meet ing, and on being introduced was warmly received ] Mr. O'Connell congratulated the Association on the ap pearance of an American citizen in Conciliation Hall, and then gave notice that a special meeting of the Asso ciation and of repealers generally be held on Thursday, for the purpose of expressing their unbounded and over flowing gratitude to America for the assistance afforded by her to the starving people of Ireland.—(Cheers.) Captain CLARKE expressed his acknowledgments for the kind reception he had experienced, and observed that his sympathy was , an d ever hadbeen, with old Ireland.—(Cheers.) Mr. W. J. KELLY, solicitor (the gentleman who has exhibited to public view the landlordism of Mayo), ex pressed his regret he was not able to fulfil his promise of bringing under the consideration of the association and of the world the conduct of certain landlords in Mayo. The reason of his not being able to do so was that a criminal information had that day been moved for against him in the Court of Queen's Bench , at the suit of Mr. Gilden, clerk of the peace for the county of Mayo. The ground of the proceeding was that he had charged Mr. Gilden with being a "corrupt scoundrel ; " buthe believedland lords, in it returnw asa prosecutiontor the disclosures gt u pby he the had M m a aydou with regard to their enormities towards their tenantry. H is answer to the prosecution was that he was ready to prove his allegation. The Rev. Mr. MONAGHAN corroborated the statements made by Mr. Kelly on former occcsions, and mentioned the names of some landlords who had particularly dis tinguished themselves by acts of omission and commis. stated that the accounts recently o m n rt.o r J. o d , s e t o h N e N i r E t L e L n ants. received with regard to his father's health were not of a cheering character. He had suffered severely from the combined journey ror e be a would not his efthe th er, and effec ts w once to Rome, b u t wou ld b e under thnaed the i nclement w bl n e ec to es p si r t oc y eoedf atre maining a month, or perhaps two, in the south of France. After some furth er b us i ness had been disposed of, Mr. John t o a dd ress the meetin g , and . John O'Con ne ll on concluding announced the rent for the week to be 271. 17s. The meeting then adjourned. ROYAL AUTILLERY.—One hundred non-commis sioned officers and men of the Royal Regiment of Artillery were medically inspected, Tuesday, at the Ordnance Hospital, to hold themselves in readiness to embark for Canada, to augment and fill up the companies in that quarter of the world to the requisite strength. A :MODERN HENRY the EIGHTH. BRESLAU, APRIL 22.—The Prince Archbishcp of Breslau has launched the thunders of the church against one of the German princes. Ile has excommunicated the Prince of Hatzfeld de Trachambour4 and de Jasch kovvitz, member of the order of nobles in the General Diet of Prussia, at present assembled in Berlin, and one of the richest and most influential princes in Prussia. The following are the circar- - :• , -nces which have led to an act of rigour on the part of the church so uncom mon in the present century:— About five years ago Prince Germain de Hatzfeld, who is a Roman Catholic, fell in love with the Duchess de Reichembach, a married lady, and a Protestant. For some reason, of which we do not know the particulars, the Duchess de Reichembach got herself divorced. Soon afterwards, in virtue of a royal decree, abridging the delay which, according to our laws, must take place be tween the divorce and the re-marriage of any of the divorced parties, the Prince of Hatzfeld got the Lutheran pastor of Breslau to give him the marriage blessing. Thereafter the Prince of Hatzfeld was anxious to have his marriage made valid according to the rites of the Catholic Church, and for that purpose he applied to several ecclesiastics to perform the marriage ceremony, but they all refused, on the ground that they were for bidden to do so by the decisions of the Council of Trent, and more especially by a brief addressed, in 1843, by the late Pope Gregory XVI. to the bishops of B avar i a, and in which the Sovereign Pontiff designates a marriage between a Catholic and a divorced Protestant as con nubium adulterinum. The Prince of Hatzfeld did not lose his courage. He went to Rome, threw himself at the Pope's feet, and supplicated his Holiness to confirm his marriage with the Duchess de Reichembach. Gre gory XVI. was moved; and after having received from the Prince of Hatzfeld a solemn promise that he would support the interests of the Catholic Church, his Holi ness validated the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Hatzfeld, and gave orders to the Prince-Archhishop of Breslau to give them the nuptial benediction, accord ing to the rites of the Catholic Church, which was ac cordingly done. For some time the Prince of Hatzfeld kept his word to the Pope. He placed himself at the head of the Catholic aristocracy of the province, and he constituted himself the protector of the clergy, who, in consequence of his intercession, obtained in a short time great privileges and considerable immunities. In consequence of this zeal, Pope Gregory XVI. conferred upon the Prince of Hatzfeld numerous decorations and other marks of distinction. A fter two years of marriage, the love of the Prince of Hatzfeld for his wife began 7radnally to cool, and this cooln ess i ncrease d to salsa a • legroe that at la 4 he Arcve herr out of his honkie, And obtained a divorce. At the same time he formed an in= timate connexion with another Protestant lady, Madame de Bach, who had also the mishap to be divorced, and on the 6th of the present month of April he married her publicly in the Lutheran Cathedral of Breslau. On the following day the Prince Archbishop of Breslau pronounced a sentence of the greater excommunication against the Prince of Hatzfeld, in which, after reciting the above facts, he says—" Considering that his Serene Highness the Prince Germain of Hatzfeld de Trachem bourg and de Jaschkowitz has rendered himself guilty of polygamy, since, during the life of his wife, he has married another woman; that such an act should be punished the more severely from its being committed by a person so highly placed as the said Prince of Hatzfeld by birth, rank, and fortune, and whose example must necessarily have a great effect upon the people; that the Prince of Hatzfeld has shown a supreme degree of in gratitude to the late Pope Gregory XVI., who loaded him with favours and honours; that the Prince of Hatz feld, who was at the head of the Catholics of Silesia, has by his conduct covered his co-religionists with shame; that it is notorious that he has stated everywhere that he had no uneasiness about what he had done, and that by means of money he would obtain from the clergy the validation of his second marriage as he had the first: that it is necessary to prove to the public in a striking manner that it is an erroneous impression which is current in our country, that the clergy are always indulgent to the powerful of the earth:—We, Me'choir, by the grace of God, &c., Prince Archbishop of Breslau, in virtue of our archiepiscopal functions, and in conformity with the holy canons, but to our regret and with a profound grief, excommunicate the said Most Serene Prince Germain of Hatzfeld, as a public and obsti nate contemner and transgressor of the laws and doctrines of the church; and we strikehim with the anathema of the church, and with all the legal consequences of that measure, and that in the name of the Father. of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen." The Breslau papers state that the Prince of Hatzfeld, on learn ing that sentence of excommunication had been pro nounced against him, intimated his intention of joining the Lutheran Church, but that by the advice of his friends he abstained from doing so, because the consequence would be that he would lose two of his richest and most valuable lordships. The Prince of Hatzfeld above spoken of is brother of the Prince of Uatz.eld Schoenberg, whose liaison with the Countess of Myyendorft gave rise to a celebrated trial at Cologne in December last. POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS WITH CHINA. (From the China Mail.) The ignorance and inattention of the good folks at home regarding the postal arrangements with China, is a never-failing source of annoyance to residents here. We have repeatedly essayed our possible to enlighten the select portion of the British public who enjoy the oppor tunity of perusing the China Mail, but hitherto, we regret to find, to very little purpose, it' the annoyingly amusing instances which have just come to our knowledge afford a fair criterion. We select two of them : A friend in London, wishing to give the latest infor mation on private affairs, frets and bustles to have a letter on the 4th of the month, because, some ten years ago, in the infancy of steam communication with the east, he had learnt that a mail was made up via Mar seilles on that day, and being evidently a disciple of the Finality School, had no faith in subsequent improve ment; and so this effusion becomes a dead letter, and is mercilessly entombed in a pigeon hole of the London Post office for thr ee wee k s . A not h er i ntell i gent correspon d ent living within a stone's threw of the Edinburgh Post-office, to make sure work, writes a letter on the 18th, in ample time for the Southampton dispatches, but having by over study of Directories and Almanacs, acquired some confused notions about the greater expedition used with Marseilles letters, marks his via that route, and posts it on the 21st, but neglects to pay the postage, no doubt because he had discovered that such a preli minary step was not necessary in the case of letters sent by the English packets. The consequence was that his letter was detained in London a month, less a couple of days, when, after all, it was sent via* Southampton, the only route for unpaid letters. The accident which befel the Ripon steamer deprived us of the October mail in due course, and so this letter, written on the 18th Sep tember, and inclosing a bill of lading, which ought to have been here in the middle of November, did not ar rive till the end of January, a few days after the vessel containing the goods. Such are the consequences of neglecting a five minutes' study of a very simple ar rangement. The mails for India of the 4th and 7th of the month are, however, the most fruitful source of the blunders we Celestial sojourners have to complain of ; and, strange to say, they are encouraged by the Post-office itself, which from time to time issues notices that " Mails for China, India, &c., are to be made up is _ _ London on the 4th and 7th," while, according to its own regulations, all letters for China direct are dispatched only on the 20th and 24th. None are more readily caught in this trap than news-agents, and nothing is more common than to see bundles of papers addressed and paid for " vile Marseilles and Bombay l" We, therefore, with the most profound respect, beg to assure the ingenuous, but, we are compelled to add, remarkably stupid home public, that letters for China direct never visit India at all, unless addressed to the care of some one there, in which case the chances are they are never more heard of, except as lumber to the Bombay or Calcutta Post-office. The mails of the 4th and 7th, therefore, carry letters for India, and not for China ; those of the 20th and 24th bring letters for both India and China. But as our readers at home are proof against all that has appeared in our journal upon the subject, we have printed the followinr , notice at the head of a r eam o f letter paper, in order that at least our own correspon dents may not plead ignorance:— " There is only one mail for China made up in Lon don, via Southampton on the 20th, and via Marseilles on the 24th of each month. It is not necessary to pre-pay letters sent by to former route; by the latter pre-payment is imperative, otherwise letters though marked via Marseilles by the sender will be detained in London for the next Southampton dispatch. CHINA, though the contrary is erroneously ooo !__ The mails of the 4th and 7th are for INDIA and t n a o te t d fc t i n r Lid Mar seillescia Southampton charged by; the oun ce. Letters by tither route the Notices issued by the London Pos o t by the i ounce.. Al i t. Postages er " • system of Mrs. Trimmer, spongy pap • drawable Adopting the a h rs who have devoted them- - Mrs. Barbauld, and theothers should be invariably written on good, and never on young idea, we here selves to teaching principles learned de first lessons easily understood ; proceed gradually to u n f o ld to t h em the begin when our tyros have their and w lecture will ounces the latter by quarters, e o s f h M al a i rseilles letters bearing d ou bl e rates, the n o A b n l e d our e c r r o o s w it n y in o g f our own country contrasted with the nip -cheese mean ness of our Gallic neighbours, who double their charge on letters when they come up to the specified weight, while we only do so when it is exceeded. But these abstruser disquisitions are kept in reserve, to instigate our neophytes in postal science to a diligent study of the present rudimental Gradus. Genuine Eau de Cologne, imported direct, and kept two years in the docks before sold. Ross and Sons beg to say that in consequence of the spurious trash offered, they are induced to make known the system adopted by them for the last thirty years, of selling only the genuine, and that two years old. In consequence of their enormous consumption, they are enabled to sell the best at little more than is charges/ for the spurious, the latter being as inferior as British brandy is to foreign. Prices—A single bottle, 3.3 ; a case of six, 165.. six cases at once, 15s. per case, for cash only. Address Ross and Sons, 119 and 120, Bishopsgate-street, London. p. They have still a few dozens left of some that has been seven yearsin bond. MONEY Ilisaxsir.—The premium on gold at Paris by the last advices was 14 per milk, which, at the Eng lish Mint price of 31. 17s. lop. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.50 ' • and the exchange at P a ris on London at short b e ing 25.60, it follows that gold is 0.39 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 4324 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 34 178. lop . per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.81; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.9+, it follows that gold is 0 . 23 per cent,. dearer in London than in Hamburh, rid the ode- ides Li ght the r le" the been ctail plies yo a day, fling )tiara per grey cnef I, SS , per nOt pre'