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Wright and Co., Henrietta-street, Covent-Garden. No. 14.886. LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1840. PRICE 3d. SOLICITOR, R. B. Gargrave, Esq„ 19, Buckingham-street, Strand. The Company being possessed of a healthy and fertile dis trict in Central America, between the navigable rivers Tints and Plaintain, within fiftydays' sail of the British Channel, and under an indisputable title from the Chief of the'State, who is Protected by the British Government, are enabled to offer to the Public grants of Land therein, represented by the Corn- Patty's Certificates, on a plan possessing all the benefits without lay of the disadvantages of a Lottery ; portions of Land, in addition to the Acres represented by the Certificates, are se aured to every Purchaser, the investment must therefore be ride to all, and will be to many productive of the most pro fitable results. The value of the Land now offered to the Public must be greatly increased by the establishment of the fail Steam-packets on the West India Station, which will like place early next year—the average passage will then be t h oduced to twenty-one days. PLAN. OYAL ACADEMY, TRAFALGAIt- SQUARE. The EXHIBITION of the ROYAL ACADEMY is NOW OPEN. Admission (from Eight o'clock till Seven), One Shilling. Catalogue, One Shilling. HENRY HOWARD, RA., Secretary. L ONDON AND BLACKWALL RAIL WAY. The Directors of this Company arc desirous of engaging a certain Number of Young Men as MONEY TAKERS, who have hitherto been employed in that capacity on a Railway. None but such need apply. • Offices, 62, Moorgate-street, May 25. 1840. CONTRACTS FOR PARCHMENTS AND VELLUMS. STATIONERY-OFFICE,ifAYiI;IB4O. THE COMPTROLLER OF HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE, is ready to receive TENDERS for different descriptions of PARCH MENTS and VELLUMS required for the public service. Particulars of Contract may be obtained, and Samples of the Parchments and Vellums may be seen, at the Stationery Office, between the hours of ten and four. LITERATURE. SMITH'S STANDARD LIBRARY. Smith, London, 1840. Tenders to be addressed to the Comptroller of the Stationery Office, James -street, Buckingham-gate; and to be delivered by Twelve &Clock on Monday, the Ist of June. IS-19, marked en the cover Tender for Parchments and Vellums," after which day and hour no Tender can be received. STEAM to MARGATE and HERNE BAY DIRECT. _ . At Eleven o'clock precisely. On TUESDAY and THURSDAY NEXT, on and after which day, DAILY at Eleven, except Saturdays, then at Twelve, and on Sundays at Half past Eight, from London Bridge Wharf, by the fast and favourite Packets, CITY OF CAN TERBURY or RED ROVER. Alan, by means of Fast. Coaches, from Herne ray, as ahoy*, to :Canterbury, Dover, Sandwich, Deal, and all the Eastern Parts of Kent, on the arrival of the packets. Offices, 113, Fenchurch-street, and at London Bridge Wharf. Country Land. Town Land. Acres. Acres. Acres. 4 Locations of 1,500 and 100 each 6,400 8 ditto 1,000 ... 50 ... 8,400 16 ditto 500 ... 20 ... 8,320 52 ditto 200 ... 10 ... 6,720 64 ditto 100 ... 5 ... 6,720 128 ditto 25 ... 2 ... 3,456 800 ditto 20 ... 16,000 18,948 ditto 5 ... 94,740 20.000 Locations 150,756 20,000 Land Certificates of Ten Acres 20,000 Portions of Towa and Country Land 150,756 Total Acres 35 0 .756 EXPLANATION OF THE ABOVE PLAN. 20,000 Certificates, each securing to the purchaser ten Acr es o f Laud, to be issued to the Public. To every Certifi- I eats will belong one of the above 20,000 portions of reserved ,tead, varying from I,boo to five Acres. To 252 of these— ' %aims of Town Land,, varying from 100 to 2 Acres are at taehed-- in the whole 2,016 Acres. The value of this Town 4 4nd is estimated at £lO per Acre, at which price the Corn- Pliny engage to purchase the whole or any part thereof, of those Irian may obtain it, and payment will be made on demand, the stun of £20,160 being set apart far that purpose. , The order of choice for these advantages to be determined n Lot, on the 29th of September next, this mode having been hitherto .adopted with satisfaction to the Public by other Land entupania s. LAND CERTIFICATES, £6 EACH. The Company may also be treated with for sections of land of not less than 100 acres, independent of the above reserves. The possessors of the Company's land will be conveyed to the Colony at a moderate expense, it being the intention of the Di 'etors to put on first-class vessels for that purpose, at the 'rorts of London, Bristol, Liverpool, Greenock, Dublin, 141 d Cork. Loxisox OFFICE, 32, Great St. Helen's, Bishopsgate-street. N.B.—Persons of respectability wishing to become Agents to the Company, must apply to the Secretary for further peril tVars„" References will be required. The Directors be; to refer the . Public to the following ex 'mats, whie:b prove that the proposed Colony possesses in cli- L t ite, Soil, and locality for trade, all that can insure comfort and e`QaPerity to tho emigrant:— 1 _" Every variety of 'animal and vegetable nature for use or beauty, for food or luxury, has been most liberally bestowed °Li this 6-nintry. It is everywhere plentifully watered; and the epil is alit lost every where fertile in a very uncommon degree, ,7 1,1 capable of producing in the utmost perfection whatever is produced between the tropics. The cotton bush, the cocoa, or '-nocolato _nut, and venelloes flourish spontaneously all over the "'Autry. ,Indigo too, is a native, and appears to be of the tree lo r e with that of the neighbouring province of Gautimal, 'hith is accounted the best of any. The sugar-cane arrives Jere t o as groat perfection as in any of the islands ; and the rautity of mahogany and sarsaparilla annually exported from "as to Great Britain, renders the settlement already an ob ',rm._ of no srna. , l importance in the scale of her commerce and ""ilgation. The rivers andcoasts abound with excellentfish; and sanest turtle, both for food and shell, is found here in greater t 7 uty than in any part of the known world. To which it may added—and it is a circumstance of no small utility in an in tent settlemeyit, that the mouths of many of the principal 'leers produce a prodigious quantity of oysters, both of the 1 4 1 1 ."graee and fl at species ; of the latter sort there are banks r . t appear inexhaustible : so that s' ith respect to food, the i ns of this country seem almost to be exempted from the ;tree entailed upon mit' first parents."—Edward's History of the 'vest Indies. Vol. V. Captain Speer, an oh? West India Trader, after giving a ` I Milar description of the ountry, .• says, " this is a small sketch of on e of the finest and healthiest tracts of country in the ;i1.0:1(1. It bath been in the possession of his Brita nnic sty's subjects upwards of one hundred and thirty years ; itpd is the only retreat for our people cutting Legwcod in the Bay of Honduras. If encouraged it will be a valuable settle ment, and not li a bl e to t h e ill cons equences which change of climates have upon the European constitutions. The reason for Which may, in a great degree be attributed, first, to the Wholesome e ff ec t o f ete turtle and fish, and, secondly, to the Lt7aperature of the air, though so far to the southward, as the tude from 16 to 10 N., but be the cause what it may, ex rttience attests that men usually live to a great er a g e than in rape."—West India Pilot. Captain Wright, senior officer of his Majesty's naval force at olmltu•as, in a dispatch addressed in the year 1808 to Lord 1 41 - ` 4 le i reagh, then Colonial Secretary, uses the following forci- I, s auguage in reference to this a untry :—" Any description %TR give will fall very far short of the actual 'act, either as to ti so kaduce of the country, or the disposition and sincere affec t. of the inhabitants towards the British nation. No coun -4 enjoys mok-et advantages fr st o water carriage ; for, besides fiery rivers, which are navigable for small craft up to the interior, a attain of lagoons line the coast, accessible at the kouths of different river'. The climate is mild for these lati- Indes, and, being comfit ental, not near so hot as the islands of l 'ae same parallel. "I have in the carets of the preceding narrative endea /cured to describe au& of the valuable productions of the 41 %1i:dry as came under my notice; and I now repeat, that in "haustible supplies of cedar, mahogany, santa mane, rosewood, ak i Many other exceedingly v2luable timbers may be obtained gn the coast, and on the banks oS all the rivers in the interior. ,h Z.,Yewoods, gums. drugs, an d medicinal plants of various de 3.riptions, are plentifully dispersed all over the countr y . The rear considerable n•.,mb..qrs of cattle; and if there demand for them, innumerable iaerds could be supported the plains close to the shore, as well as in the interior. optedperie confirms the assertioi , that the soil is well I „,Th to the cultivation of sugar, cogee, cotton, tobacco, and all the other productions of a tropical climate 17 2 1 I have no doubt that a sufficient quantity of rice and bi ,‘"Al corn might be produced, to supply the whole of our ssions in the West Indie.4 with these necessaries. Some careful observei s affirm that a quiet possession in the 1 6 %quito country, w( meld one day be more valuable to Great Zntain than all the islands which that nation now possesses 4 the West Indies."—Abbe Rayal. C LIMATE.—No winter is known. During the dry sea -4u nothing can exceed the softness of the air, the brilliancy ~ heavers, and the splendour of the vegetation. — J. G. —.oforsl's American Atlas. . NATURAL PRODUCTIONS.—GoId, silver, copper, 1, 011 • Jasfer, opals, marble, cattle, mahogany, hides, cocoa, VP's, indigo, sugar, wool, and cotton.—Vide J. and C. New Map of the World. CONSUMPTION CURABLE, by Dr. J. P. HOLAIES, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, itil f author of a Treatise on Consumption. To be had of the t i Z t , ll °r Holdsworth, publisher ; and all Booksellers. His h.rmod of treating this disease in the various stages of bron allis, hemorrhage from the lungs, hooping cough, asthma, . - 7,„ , 'heumatic affections of the chest and heart, is fully de iped in hi s wor k, and reference to individuals cured is there s iii l t Pl• His peculiar treatment impos - s no confinement or ces stkirtl., from ordinary occupations. The author may be eon it ' l '; from 10 to 2 daily, at his own house, 21, Old Fish , Doctors'-comrnons. Application made by letter, de- N; the present state of the patient, and enclosing the fee, ;" meet with immediate attention, and the remedy wi be "trded t,.' any par t of the country. MONS. MALLAN and SONS' improved i kilt! MINE:IAL SUCCEDANEUM, with permanent ndestructible White Enamel, not distinguishable from the Aitural Cortex or Enamel of the Teeth, for fillin g decayed Teeth. Mons. MALLAN and SONS, Surgeon-Dentists, 2, Upper Mon -street, Relgrave -square, Pimlico; 32, Great Russell street, Bloomsbury ; and 8, Rue de Castiglioni, Paris, beg to I Pprise their Patients and the Public generally, that they have succeeded in effecting the' above desirable improvement. In 'Corrodible artificial and nat'ural Teeth fixed, from one to a com- Vete set, without wires or ligatures, guaranteed for mastication qui articulation. Loose Tees h securely and effectually fastened. 2, Upper Eaton-street, BeljtTave-square ; 32, Great Russell street, Bloomsbury; and 1, Rte de Castiglioni, Paris. CONSTITUTIONAL DEBILITY— MANHOOD"—CERTAIN RELIEF. ‘ ,O, all the various disorders which ajEict mankind, there are none which the skill of theniedical man is more strictly tested than in complete ei'adication of those deplorabsle disorders arising from ®restricted ano: indiscriminate indulgences, as well as in those ki ,_,`eadful cases of sexual debility, brought on by an early, solitary, g %baneful indulgence of the passions freqnently acquired without i p ttnowledge of the awful consequences resulting therefi om, and ai' lB k not only entail on its votaries all the enervating imbecilities tut' age. but occasion the necessity of renouncing the felicities or tes.`"age Convinced of these face, and to rescue the unwary suf a-,,:7, thorn the fangs of the numerous empirics with which the metro- VLII abounds Messrs CURTIS and CO., as regularly educated 4.7bers of the Profession , deviate from general princi;sles with less 11q4 t ation, and thus publicly tender their services, which ish h "e i rto have been crowned with undeviating success Their plan is without restraint in diet or business, a!iel, above all, a coin krileradiealion of these maladies, as well as Syphilis, Gonorrhcea, &t are effected without the use of that dangerous mineral rcereur'y, which forms the p rinci p al in g redient of the nostrums 4 1 ,J.oft'ered to the public by a host of unqualified and illiterate 1 0 ,7, k wh0 are the means of hurrying hundreds, in the flower of their .."' "to an untimely grave. 1142. 60 r0 , Curtis are to be cons ulted t.ug daily, at their residence, till 9 at eerl, at, 4ma Sundays from 9 .—Observe, 7, Frith-street, Soho, "I do e ,. (nem Soho.square. SIG H . T RESTORED -NERVOUS READ-ACHE CURED. -- "r,„ th e Patronage . 4 54 late Majesty, Her R o y al Hi g hness the 'Aachen of Kent, a :scl the Lords of her Majesty's Treasury. s.rai durant ma vie. ss Loyal ie . " — ---- • Grimstone, inventor of the ce 6 f a Letter sent to Mr. brated E; e • grrnfil 14 blarehioness de Broglio Solari uresents her hest compliments re to inform him that she lad t r i : W. Grimstone, and has the plea. u qualities of his ". Most convincing proofs of the b.. , •erative power, both Est ut and us Eyearing. Snuff; in many cases of its re- .t her name. lt he u Grintstone--Sir, You are at liberty to make use — "Pt. 22, 11133, 46, Charlotto-street. at Copy of a Letter sent to Mr. Grimstone, Jan. 19 , 1840. fetid .4 u :1—Havin g been afflicted with bad eyes for a lout' time, a fi It 4,1 411 received benefit from using your Eye Snuff ree , nntneno , k u ,..•.e. I have taken the contents of - your 9.5. 4d. canisters, and ani to say my sight has improved; the weakness and dimness is boit st. d ; and, Sir, it is my wish that you make this known for the the public.—Y our's, GEO. SMITH. r•rk-piace, Kentish Town. "I% Orimitene, Inventor of Eye Snuff, 39, Brad-street, Bloomsbury. March 3, 1840. ead illt r7 l have been afflicted for many years with a severe pain in my , t ,..,,ttended with a dimness of sight and darting pains in my eyes, tira: ° ‘ e ll I have had the first medical advice; indeed, I have taken 447 4 93antiti os o f medicine, without receiving any relief; but I am Ay e ..7 4, 10ted to say, with truth, that ever since using your valuable Vfa e kruTr, which I have taken copionsly 7 -that is, a 2s. 4d. canister th % . 7, I am quite free from those excruciating pains, and can re id ~..duallest print, although lam in the 65th year of my age. This to say third testimony, and shall be most happy to give it to von or ia,VY respectable inquirer at my residence, as under•—l remain, "7., gratitude, Sir, your obedient humble Servant, ;•,'',l3_ell-street, Edgware-road, Marylebone. E. ROBSON. I,44IUTION.—This Odoriferous Herbaceous Compound of Herbs, o c?.nisters, Is. 3d., 2s. 4d., 4s. 4d., 8s , and Iss. lid. each, with t original testimonials, gratis, with each canister, by all Foreign and British. It can be obtained its all the 1 4 ,71 , _ l altowns and cities. A liberal allowance in shippers, owners. Si mo n, and all vendors of Grimstone's Eye snuff This celebrated Itisliti2NPPed L. all quarters of the globe, and retains its benign .... in every climate s AU Snuffs and Cigars shipped on the ..beit notice. WANTED A COMMERCIAL. TRA VELLER, by an Old-Established HOUSE in the WINE and SPIRIT TRADE in the City of London. As a liberal salary will be giveu the whole of his services will be re quired. None need apply but those who can give unexception able references and good security. Apply by letter, post-paid, to A.B. at Mr. Thos. Sotheran's, Ssationer, 14, Little Tower-street. PLATE GLASS. T"" MANCHESTER and LIVERPOOL PLATE GLASS COMPANY" beg to inform the Public that they are REMOVING theirBUSINE SS from their present Warehouse in Newman-street, to more commodious premises, 26, SOHO-SQUARE, which will be OPENED on MoNnAY NEXT, the 25th instant, with an excellent stock of PLATE GLASS. J. L. GRUNDY, Company's Agent. London, 21st May, 1840. A NTI - SLAVE TRADE MEETING. EA- "Notice is hereby given, that the PUBLIC MEET ING of the SOCIETY for the EXTINC TION of the SLAVE TRADE, anal for the CIVILIZATION of AFRICA, is POSTPONED from WEDNESDAY, the 27th instant, to MONDAY, the let of June next, in consequence of the Annual Meeting of the " National School Society," and of the Annual Meeting of the " Society of Friends," being fixed for the former day. The PUBLIC MEETING of the SOCIETY for the EX TINCTION of the SLAVE TRADE, &c., will therefore be holden at Exeter Hall, in the Strand, on MONDAY, the Ist day of June next, at Ten o'clock. J. M. TREW, Secretary. N.l3.—The doors to be opened at Ten o'Clock, and the chair to be taken at Eleven &Clock precisely. _ _ Tickets for Admission may be had at the Oifico of the Society, 15, Parliament-street; of Messrs. J. and G. Seeley, 169, Fleet street; Messrs. NiA)et and Co., 21, Berners-street ; Hatchards, 187, Piccadilly; Messrs. Harvey and Darton, 55, Gracechurch street ; Mr. Samuel gagster, 15, Paternoster-row; and of Mr. J. Barns, 17, Portman-street, Portman-square. WATERLOO, SOUTHWARK, and VAUXHALL BRIDGES-OPENING OF. At a PUBLIC MEETING of the Members of Parliament, Merchants, Aldermen, and Inhabitants of the CITY of LON DON and BOROUGH of SOUTHW ARK, held on Wedetes.. day, the 29th of April, at the London Tavern, most numerously and respectably attended — The LORD MAYOR in the Chair , — It was, inter alia, unanimously resolved, On the motion of THOMAS SAUNDERS, Esq., seconded by D. W. WIRE, Esq., That this Meeting desires to express its approbation of the formation of the Metropolitan Anti-Bridge Toll Association, for securing the means of opening these Bridges on equitable principles, and removing the existing obstructions to traffic ; and will collectively and individually use every exertion to pro mote and carry out such object, and also aid it by an appeal to the Corporation of the City of London to purchase Southwark Bridge, and by an application to Government respecting such Bridges, and to join in the public sul scription commenced for defraying the expenses of tarrying the measure before Parlia ment. Published by order. Offices, No. 29 A, Queen-street, theapside. COPE, jun., Hon. Sec. The Petition to the Corporation will be ready in a few days. OFFICE of the GAS LIGHT and COKE COMPANY, 19, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London, May 2b, 1840. Notice is hereby &so given that a SPECIAL GENERAL COURT of the PROPRIETORS of this COMPANY will be held at this Office on SATURDAY, the 20th day of June next, at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon, pursuant to the Act of the 59th year of his late Majesty King George the Third, for the ELECTION of THREE DIRECTORS of this COMPANY for Four Years, in the room of Three Directors (all of whom are eligible to be re-elected), who will then go out of office by efflux of time ; and should a Ballot be required, it will con tinue open for four hours from its commencement. By order of the Court of Directors, CHARLES BURLS, Secretary. N. 8.-7 he Chair will be taken at Twelve o'clock precisely, and none but Proprietors admitted. METROPOLITAN INFIRMARY for the CURE of STRICTURES of the URETHRA, GONORRHtEA, GLEETS, SYPHILIS, &c. This Insti tution is closed, but as the Surgeon of it feels assured that there are hundreds suffering under the diseases, to the cure of which it was especially devoted, who would gladly avail them selves of his professional assistance, rather than place them selves under the charge of chemists, or, worse still, have re course to any of the dangerous and inefficient nostrums daily advertised, he has made arrangements to see patients at his own residence, at the mere expense to the patient of the neces sary medicine. Thus persons of limited means have now an opportunity of securing for themselves a mode of treatment that, whilst it is based on experience, is regulated by the pecu liarities which their own cases and constitutions may require ; thereby freeing themselves from the absurdities and dangers that wait upon the employment of one kind of medicine for all forms of these diseases, without regard to these essential particulars. Apply at 42. Great Marlborough-street, Regent• street, from Eight to Ten in the morning, and from Seven to Nine in the Evening. On Sundays in th• Morning, but not in tho Evening TO BE WON, 2,875,000 FLORINS.- The NINETY-EIGHTH DISTRIBUTION of MONEY GAINS into FRANKFORT BONDS, guaranteed by the free City of Frankfort-on-the-Maine, will take place irrevocably on the 11th and 12th of June, and contains follow ing Money prizes : 1 of 1,800,000 Florins. Florins. Florins. Florins. 2 of 290,000 5 of 40,000 20 of 10,000 2 of 100,000 10 of 30,000 30 of 15,000 4 of 50,000 15 of 20,000 100 of 1,000 And many smaller ones, the lowest of which is 8/. 6s. 4d. There are no Blanks. All prices are paid without the smallest deduction a fortnight after the drawing, aril an official bulletin of all gain numbers sent to every Bondholder. Price for a whole Bond 101., half a one 51., ten Bonds together 951. The amount can be remitted in Bank of England Notes, or any other way. Apply for 'Bonds, Prospectus, and further particulars, (post paid) at HENRY BEER and CO., Bankers, Paris. SALES BY AUCTION. STRATFORD. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE— THIRTY-THREE DOZEN VERY OLD SHERRY, &c. VJL ESSRS DEBENHAM and STORR are instructed by the Executors of the late Henry Cheape, Esq., to, SELL by AUCTION, at the Cottage, Stratford-green, adjoining Archdeacon Jones's, on Times- DAY, May 28, at Twehe. The neat HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, consisting of capital mahogany four-post and French bedsteads and furni ture, prime horse-hair and wool-mattresses, goose-feather beds and bedding, chests of drawers, dressing tables, wash-stands, swing glasses, bed-steps, &c.,7set of Spanish mahogany dining tables, four feet six by eleven feet, a set of superior Spanish mahogany dining-room chairs, Spanish mahogany 100 and card tables, en suite, drawing-room chairs, whatnot, Persian and Brussels carpets, wiallow curtains, cut glass, china, table and bed linen, garden Siplements. kitchen requisites, eight-day dial, ko. ; also the cellar of choice old wines, consisting of about 33 Sozen of very old pale Sherry, a small quantity of Madeira, Heck, Champagne, an'l Port. May be viewed the day previous, and Catalogues had on the Premises; and of the Auctioneers, King-street, Covent-garden. VALUABLE FREEHOLD RESIDENCE andGROUNDS, TURNHAM-GREEN, Let for a Term to a highly re spectable Lessee; Also a FREEHOLD PLOT of BUILD ING GROUND, HERNE BAY, KENT. MIL ALLEN DAVIS is directed by the As signees of Mr. GEO. WOOLCOTT, to SELL by AUCTION at Garraway's Coffee-house, Change alley, Corn hill, on FRIDAY, 29th May, 1840, at Twelve, A most undeniable Property for FREEHOLD INVEST MENT, consisting of a modern and substantially built Villa Residence, known as Burlington Cottage, on the south side of Turnham-green, overlooking the high road, in perfect repair, handsomely fitted, and studiously arranged for Family comfort, Let to Wm. Grant, Esq., for a term of five years, at 801. per annum. Also, in a Separate Lot, a PLOT of FREEHOLD BUILD ING GROUND, near the Clockhouse, and facing the Sea, at Herne Bay, Kent, possessing a Frontage of 20 feet by a depth of 100 feet, excellently adapted for building purposes. The House at Turnham-green may be viewed by tickets only, to be obtained, with particulars, of Mr. Allan Davis, 8, Chatham-place, Blackfriars. Particulars also had at the Pack horse, Turnham-green : of Messrs. Thomson and Hewett, So licitors, Bucklersbury ; Messrs. Halfords, Bolton-street, Pic cadilly ; P. Johnson, Esq., Official Assignee, Basinghall-street ; and at Garraway's. UPTURED PERSONS are generally un acquainted with the properties of a Truss, or where to procure the best remedy for that distressing Visitation.—Read Cobbett's Legacy to Ruptured People." Rheumatic Subjects are likewise ignorant that their suffer ings can be subdued by External Means. A single-post Let ter, on either subject, may be had of WILLIAM COLES, the Patentee and Truss-Maker to the Forces, 3. Charing-cross. Those who keep Boyle's Court Guide will find much valuable information on these important subjects.--See' Index." See the " Mirror of Parliament" of this day. PUBLIC NOTIFICATION. IMESSRS. SLOAN and CO M b f the Royal College of Surgeons, 4, AR . GY ' LL e - m PL e A rs CE o , , and 28, IRONMONGER-LANE, c RNG E ,I N t ,' Tib it ; ll l4 E s E i T b r Consulted from Eight o'Clock in the and stage of Morning until Tell Ni ht, on every variety Syphilis, with that delicacy acid secresy they have hitherto ob served. The treatment they purme will not subject any patient to confinement or hindrance from ilosin,css. Cases of an ex treme nature they er adicate in eight or ten days, or if slight or recent in twoor three, without the indiscriminate use of oner ixy. and at a moderate expense. Generative debility, Gonorrhoea, and Strictures of the Urethra, unhappily so preva lent, are treated upon those unerring principles which have in sured to Messrs. Sloan and Co. so large a share of public pa tronage for nearly thirty years in /..nr,don, and which it will be their future exertion to maintain. 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BENJAMIN EDGINGTON, Marquee, Tent, Flag, and Rick-cloth Manufacturer, 2, Duke street, Southwark, respectfully informs the Nobility, Gentry. and Agriculturists in general, that he has now ready for immediate delivery a quantity of WATERPROOF RICK CLOTHS, both new and second-hand, at a moderate charge. Orders, per post, duly attended to. Address in full, Benjamin Edgington, Marquee, Tent, and Rick Cloth Manufseturer, 2, Duke-street, Southwark. A Warehouse at 205, Piccadilly. REFORM YOUR TAILORS' BILLS. AGENTLEMANLY SUIT of the Best Quality £3 12 6 Superfine Dress Coats Ditto Frock Ditto, silk facings Taglioni, or Great Coats Fishing or Shooting Coats Morning Dressing Gowns .. 0 15 0 Buckskin Trousers Summer Trousers 4. 0 10 6 Summer Waistcoats 0 7 0 Suit of Best Liveries Army Cloth Blue Spanish Cloak, 9i yards round 2 10 0 The New Waterproof Cloak Ladies' Elegant Riding Habits DOUDNEY and SON. 49, Lombard-street. Established 1784. 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The Blocks are cut across the grain, at an angle of 63 degrees 26 minutes 5 seconds and B.loths of a second, hich causes the diagonal joining of the obtuse angles of the two parallelopides to fall in a perpendicular straight line, which laid down obliquely gives to a surface, perpetually even, all the strength of an arch. The streets of London alone comprise b,000,000 square yards, and are kept in repair at. an annual expense of 300,0001. The profits cf the Company will be derived from the original laying down of the Pavement; each million of square yards yielding 150,000/. profit—and also from keeping their pave ment in repair, which on a moden.te calculation will amount to 60,030/. per annum—at the same time effecting a saving of one-half of the Paving-rates to the several parishes. Application for Shares to be addressed to the Secretary, 20, John-street, Adelphi, where prospectuses may bs obtained. NEW LABEL. IN consequence of the great variety of Counter feit Wrappers of" ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL," now in circulation, and which so nearly resemble the original as frequently to deceive the unwary, the Proprietors, acting under a sense of duty, and regardless of expense in the attain ment of their object, the protection of the Public from fraud and imposition, have employed those celebrated Artists, Messrs. Perkins and Bacon, who have succeeded in producing " A NEW LABEL" from steel, of so complicated and intri cate a nature, and of such excessive difficulty of execution, as to amount an impossibility of imitation, and to be considered by connossieurs a masterpiece in the art of engraving. The label forms a combination of beautiful designs, a portion encircling a BUST of her Majesty, the " Queen," which surmounts the words, in two lines ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL. (the ground work is composed of the most elaborate and chaste patterns of lace-work ). Under which are the Signature and Address of the Proprietors, in Red, A. ROWLAND and SON, 20, Hatton-garden, London. Counter-signed, ALEX. ROWLAND. to defy The L a b e l i s b ac k e d b y a d es i g n so exquisite and mi nu t e as competition ; it comprises the words << Rowland's Macas,a r Oil , " written near l y 1,500 times, and co n t a i n i ng 29,028 letters. _ _ Hatton••garden, London, January 1, 1840. The Lowe s t p r i go i s 3s. 6d. ; the next 7s. ; or Family Bottles (containing four small) at la?. (id„ . ang Double that size, D. Is. Some Impostors call their trash the " Genuine Macassar Oil," and sign it A. Rowland Son," omitting the "&" offer ing it for sale under the lure of " cheapness." *. Be sure to ask for " Rowland's Macassar Oil." Sold by all respectable Chemists and Perfumers." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALITS-YESTERDAY. The room was crowded until near seven o'clock, but business was not by any means brisk. The Melody colt was again backed at 3 to 1 to six or seven hundred pounds ; his friends, however, lagged tow rds the close, and suffered several offers on the same terms to pass unhe ded. Launcelot's position as second favourite was undoubted, and for the greater part of the afternoon the highest price against him was 4 to 1. An advance of half a point, about half-past five o'clock, led to engagements to the amount of three or four hundreds; but the layers against him were numerous, and 9to 2 was the offering- price at the finish. Theon and Assassin were backed at the odds men tioned below, and left off steady. Bokhara, Scutari, and Confederate were at 23 to 1 each ; 28 to I was offered against the first of the three in three or four quarters, and 20 and 22 to 1 taken in another, but the average was as We have stated ; his party was select. Muley Ishmael advanced to 33 t o I, w hi c h was taken two or three times. The same odds We re accep t e d aboCt Cormorant, and 40 to 1 about Drayt on , a ll to small amounts. Warclan was declared not to start, in consequence of being amiss. Closing prices:— THE DERBY. 4 to 1 agst Scott's lot—taken 3 to 1 agst Mr. Etwall's Melody colt 9 to 2 agst Launcelot to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Theon—taken 8 to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Assa , sin 17 to 1 agst Lord Kelburne's Pathfinder 25 :0 1 agst Confederate 25 to 1 agst Bokhara 25 to 1 agst Scutari (the Velvet colt) 30 to 1 agst Prince Albert 33 to 1 agst Cormorant—taken 33 to 1 agst Muley Ishmael—taken 40 to 1 agst Drayton—taken 50 to 1 agst colt by Fairy Queen's dam—taken 1000 to 10 agst G ft colt—taken 1000 to 500 on Scutari ag,t Muley Ishmael—taken GOO to 500 on Prince Albert agst Muley Ishmael—taken 1000 to 5t,0 on Pathfinder agst Cormorant—taken 1000 to 30 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's lot and Scutari colt—taken THE OAKS. No betting. The Queen has given Dr. IVlaclaughlin permis sion to wear the insignia of the Legion of Honour, which the King of the French has conferred upon him, in testimony of his approbation of his conduct towards the wounded of the French army after the battle of Salamanca, in 1812. ALTRINCHANT.—Mr Archibald Prentice de livered a lecture in the Independent School-room, Altrincham, on Monday evening last. After the lecture the Chairinan, Mr. Webb, invited the opponents of the repeal of the Corn-laws to come forward and discuss the question with Mr. Prentice, but no one dared to ccme forward. Resolutions in favour of total and immediate repeal, and expressing the thanks of the meeting to Mr. Prentice, to the Chairman, and to the owners of the room, were carried with loud cheers.—Mapchester Times. A MATERIAL DIFFERENCE.—A clergyman of a country village desired his clerk to give notice that there would be no service in the afternoon, as he was " going to officiate for another clergyman." The clerk, as soon as the service was ended, called out," I am desired to give notice that there will be no service this afternoon, as Mr. L. is going a fishing with another clergyman." Mr. L., of course, corrected the awkward yet amusing blunder. LARGE IMPORT OF COTTON.—WC stated last week, that not less than 60,000 bales of cotton had arrived at this port in the course of three days. Since then, particu larly on Saturday and yesterday, little short of that quantity has been received ; making in the space of ten days, a total im port of considerably above 190,000 bales. The northern docks are so crowded with vessels, that the arrivals of Saturday and yesterday still remain at anchor in the river. —Liverpool Albion. Mr. C. Woon's VOTE. —But for the desertion of two Hon. Members from the Liberal party, there would have been a majority of one the other way ; and we are grieved to say that the two Members are Lord Howick and Mr. Charles Wood. We have seldom, if ever, been more pained by any political event. The adhesion, should such prove to be the case, of these gentlemen —sons of the venerable Earl Grey, and of the much respected Sir Francis Lindley Wood—their ad hesion to the Stanley faction, and their opposition to the men and the principles with whom their names and characters have been so strongly identified, are deeply to be regretted. We would be angry ; but sorrow has more the mastery over us, and our painful feelings are aggravated by the reflection that the blow has been struck by those in whom we reposed confidence as friends. Cwsar struggled manfully against his assassins, un til his eye caught the form of Brutus in the midst of them ; and then he was paralysed. The pain of the wounds was no thing to the mental agony of the thought that his friend Brutus was amongst his direst foes. " Keen were his pangs; but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion that impelled the steel." —.Halifax Express. SINGULAR FACT.--It is well known that the Republic of the Bees is proverbially remarkable for wisdom and foresight, especially in matters connected with the seasons. The forward smiles of the present spring howe‘er, have led even sage wisdom astray : for on the 28th of last month, the tenants of a hive, belonging to Mr. Peter Brovvnridge, of Emseete, near this town, invited by the sunny warmth, burst forth pre maturely into a swarm, and were securely housed by their asto nished and delighted owner. We understand the usual period is the month of June, the end of May being considered very early.— Warwick Advertiser. UNPRECEDENTED QUICK PASSAGE TO AND FROM DUBLIN.-Our readers will recollect that last year, the steam ship Fire King, 250 horses' power, the property of Mr. Robert Napier, the celebrated engineer, of Glasgow, arrived at this pot t, under fifteen hours from the Clyde. The same boat, which had been laid up during the winter, ar rived here on Wednesday, from Glasgow, under the com mand of Captain Chaplain, with Mr. Napier himself on board. It was resolved to try the speed of the Fire King with the mail-boat to and from Dublin. Accordingly, on Thursday morning the started shortly after her Majesty's steam-ship Medusa. The Fire King passed the Medusa before reach ing the new floating-light, in Formby Channel, and rapidly shot ahead. The Fire King arrived at Kingstown shortly after four o'clock, one hour and twenty minutes before the Medusa, having made the passage in little more than ten hours. She started in the evening, with the mail-boat Queen Victoria, and performed the distance between Kingstown and Liverpool in nine hours twenty-five minutes, the quick_e_st pa!sage b e t w i xt the two ports on record. Th e Queen Nctotia was a b ove eleven hours on the passage. The Fire King has thus proved herself the fastest steamer afloat. She returned to the Clyde on Friday afternoon. —Liverpool Albion. CAI"FURE —Aaron Hibbert, commonly called • Wig Wobert," was apprehended in a vood_ near Eckingto n , on Monday last, and committed under the Coroner's warrant to the next Assizes, charged with being accessory to the mur der of William Coggat', under-keeper to Sir G. Sit we ll. Hibbert was in a very ra gged state, and stated that he had been to Manchester in search of employment ; but not meeting with any, he returned to the neigbourhood of Eckington, where he was loitering when taken. SUDDEN DEATH.--Last week an awful in stance of sudden dissolution took place at Pontypool. A fine young girl, aged sixteen, daughter to a carpenter, was seen to totter and fall ; she was immediately taken up, and carried for medical aid, but the vital spark had fled. TRADE OF SOUTIIAMPTON.—The effects of the opening of the railway . from London may already b e seen in the crowded state of the river and harbour. During the past week, the number of splendid steam-vessels lying around the pier have presented a very striking and enlivening appearance. Monday the Archimedes steam vessel paid us a visit, and ex cited much attention by the peculiarity of her construction. Her hull, divested of the unsightly a ppendages of paddle boxes, is precisely similar to that of a beautiful yacht, her propelling power being a newly invented application of the Archimedian screw. Thursday, at noon, no less than five packets left the pier together, each with a large cargo of livin g f re i g h t, for 0, 0 ), Torquay, and Dart mout h . Many Havre, Weymouth distinguished arrivals have taken place, amongst which were Lord Exmouth and Lord Adolphus Fitzelarence.— Hampshire Independent. THE 45TH.—On Monday morning last the 451 Regiment, now stationed here, marched about three mites out of town, to a field near Tredegar Park, where they were practising target firing. They had been firing for some tirtp, ~ ahen Lieut. Edar. Tickell, in proaaeding rapidly faosa his company to the target, for the purpose of ascertain i ng the effect of a volley, was tripped up by the scabbard of his sword, and thrown forward with (Treat violence, by which he sustained a fracture of the collar tone, and a severe contusion of the shoulder. We have just received several cheap republications of the works of our standard authors, which Mr. Smith from thne to time brings out in an elegant and commo dious form. Among them, we may mention Dr. John son's " Rasselas," a fiction which inculcates, though i❑ a more decent and respectful form, the same doctrine promulgated by Voltaire in his " Candide"—Walton's Lives of Donne, Wotton. - hooker, &e., a much over rated production—Milton's " Paradiie Lost," of which we need say nothing—Ritson's " Robin Hood Le gemrs," which will be more acceptable reading to anti quaries than pocts—Goldstnith's " Citizen of the World," a delightful work, in which, however, traces may be discerned of the sonorous Johnsonian manner, which do net appear in the author's later compositions —and the " Life of Petrach," by a Lady rejoicing in the Aldermanic name of Dobson. This memoir is one of the amplest and most authentic that we possess of the great Italian poet and friend of Rienzi ; and has not yet received the full praise to which it is entitled. THE LAST DAYS OF A CONDEMNED. Smith and Elder, London, 1840. " The Last Days of a Condemned," which has long been . popular i n F rance , i s d ec id e d! y Vi ctor H ugo ' s clad d'teuvre. The picture which it draws of a crimi nal's last moments—of the mingled feeling-s: of shame;.. remorse, rage, and horror, which beset him almost to madness, in the gloomy solitude of his cell—is painted with terrible fiielity to nature, but at the same time with a pains-taking minuteness, that at length becomes somewhat wearisome. There is no relief to the picture —not even a stray gleam of sunshine ; it is all in dark shadow—one long agony from the first to the last page ; and the mind soon tires of such continuous sombre co louring. In his preface to this striking work of fiction, M. Hugo, in reply to a remark of one of his critics that it was taken from an English production, in sists on its perfect originality—a claim which we are by no means willing to concede to him, inasmuch as we entertain a confident impression that the idea of the story was suggested by a little pamphlet published in Paris about the year 1792, by a Swiss gentleman named Meard, and entitled "My Thirty-six Hours' Agony." In this pamphlet, which was re-published in London by the well-known French journalist, Peltier, the author described in the most impressive language possible the tortures which he en dured while waiting for two days and a night his sum mons to execution at the time of the September massa cres ; and entered into a minute analysis of the state of his mind, noting down his sufferings from hour to hour, just precisely in the same manner that the " con demned" here does in Hugo's romance. As v. , e have read M 'gourd's pamphlet, we feel justified in declaring it as our firm belief that the idea of the " Last Days of the Condemned" was derived from i:s impressive pages. Sir Hesketh Fleetwood, to whom we are in debted for the present translation of M. Hugo's story, bag executed his task faithfully and elegantly ; and in. traduced, by way of preface, some pertinent and forci ble remarks on the subject of capital punishments, for the abolition of' which he is a zealous advocate. THE CO UIV TESS OF SALISBURY. 3 VoLs. Bentley, London, 1840. The period to which this tale refers is the chivalrous reign of Edward the Third, when that warlike Monarch was just about setting out on his expedition against France, at the head of one of the best appointed armies that England ever sent forth into the field. The talc opens with a description —in which we recognise some thing of Walter Scott's manner —of' a regal banquet in Westrsinster Hall, where the King, excited by the taunts of Count Robert of Artois, a French nobleman who is an exile from his country, makes a solemn vow, i❑ which he is joined by his nobles and courtiers, that be will in stantly invade France, and assert his right to the throne of that kingdom. He does so accordingly ; and with him goes the lover of the beautiful Alice, who is soon afterwards elevated to the Earldom of Salisbury, and marries the object of his affections. Unfortunately, on his return to England, the King falls in love with the fair Countess, and effects her dishonour at Nottingham Castle, by means of an opiate which has been infused into her wine ; and the tale concludes with an acknow ledgment made by the wretched victim herself to her husband, of the outrage that has been perpetrated on her by Edward. There are several stirring scenes in this story ; and among them, we may instance, as de. serving of high praise, the details of the murder of the King's father, as related to the son by one of the parties concerned in-that horrid act of cruelty ; the episodical references to Van Artcvclde, the well-known brewer of Ghent, and who forms the subject of a fine dramatic poem by Mr. Taylor ; and the cursory sketch of the wars in Scotland that grew out of the ambition of Ed ward the First, which, though by no means essential to the story, is given with much skill and energy. We should not omit to add that the tale is a translation from the French of M. Dumas, and that it is penned in a flowing, animated, and graceful style. A LETTER TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD VISCOUNT MELBOURNE, UPON THE STATE OF BANKING IN ENGLAND,-c. By A MERCHANT. Our table is crowded with pamphlets or. the Currency and on the state of Banking in England, which seem to have been awakened into life by the Committee which the Chancellor of the Exchequer has induced the House of Commons to appoint. The writers of them are willing to contribute each his mite to the general infor mation, and all deserve the praise of patriotism. The writer of the present production is by no means friendly to the Bank of England. He undertakes to shew " that all the disastrous fluctuations which have occurred in our Money Market, and in trade, during the last fortyfive years, have been caused by the pro ceedings of the Bank of England." That he fully sub stantiates this charge we cannot admit ; at the same time by tracing the history of the Bank during those years, and at different periods of convulsion, he brings distinctly home to that body a great number of faults and errors. The conduct of the Bank, however, as to its issues, has been so frequently condemned and so fre quently defended, and that point is so directly under the investigation of the Committee, that we shall not further advert to this part of the pamphlet. We re commend the author, however, to throw off his mask and volunteer his evidence to the Committee, which will no doubt receive it and sift it as it deserves. A greater novelty in the pamphlet than the attack on the Bank is, we think, the author's account of the prices of commodities, which, he says, " are more fre quently regulated by the quantity of capital employed in holding them than by their actual cost." As to spe culative prices, with which, we are afraid, our merchants are now much too familiar, the Merchant's observation is probably true ; but to affirm as a general proposition, that prices of commodities are regulated by the quantity of capital employed in holding them, seems to us nb surd. There are but few commodities which can be subjected to such an operation. Sugar, tallow, and cotton probably may ; but the price of wheat and beef and flour and cloth is much more regulated by the ac tual cost of production of those articles than by the money capitalists may have to dispose of in buying or holding them. Be the general truth of the axiom what it may, we can but see, that many of the Merchant's objections to the conduct of the Bank of England have been dictated by its having contributed to the fall of spe culative prices by withholding or curtailing the supply of notes, by means of which those prices were to be kept up. We are opposed to th e B in k o f E ng l an d , b ut not . ex actly on such grounds ; and though we condemn the manner in which its issues have been regulated, it is not because they h a v e p reven t e d cap i ta li sts from ke (pin up prices against the consumer. Another novelty in thi s p amp hl et i s t h e aut h or ' s com plaint thati n England trust property can by law only be placed on mortgage or in the public funds, while in Scotland tru s t ees are empowered b y law to lend trust funds to the Scotch banks. " It is not only as regards England," says the author, "inconvenient, but absurd, that the surplus capital of the country should be so locked up, instead of being employed for the improve ment of the agriculture and the commerce of the coun try." But this objection applies to the whole of the public fu n d s , w hi c h " l oc k up " a gr eat many millions besides trust funds ; and for every pound of trust money brought into the funds a pound of capital is liberated to be empl o y e d f or th e i m provement of the agriculture and commerce of the country. In truth , this complaint' is visionary, so far as the public is concerned, though trustees may have a right to complain that they arc prevented by law from employing the money entrusted to them in the most advantageous manner. Again, our author has a scheme for improving our banking system, of which one principal featura is the establishment of " a Chartered Bank, with a large capital, in each county of Eng l a nd, and in each Riding of Yorkshire, to be called the Bank of that county,'' These banks are to be chiefly formed and directed by the landed gentry , with a f e w professional men, and supported by the aristocracy of each county. c ounty banks under the management and control of t h e squires is for us something astoundingly novel. 'We should have rather looked for a proposal to place the agriculture of England under the spirited merchants ori the metropolis. On . the whole, we cen,e o z praise the au thor's plan for the leopeevernetit of banking, th oug h we agree with hire, that at present the system is not a good one. We object to chartered banks—we object to mono polies of any kind. Banking is a business, like making hats or shoes, only it is rather of modern origin, though not of so late a date as the business of making steam engines. On no pri nc i p l e can we comprehend why the Stale should meddle with the business of the banker, any more than with the business of the steam-engine maker, the shoemaker, or the hatter. In no business have greater improvements been made ; within a few years is none may mor e improvements be hoped for. W:th that business the Legislature has•no particular acquaintance, and can no more hope to direct it to advantage than it can the business of the farmer. Unfortunately the monopoly granted to the Bank of England has compelled the State to interfere with banking, and 'the same me nopoi y compels every man in the empire to know, or pretend to knew, something of the business of the hanker. Our Merchant may be a clear-headed man of business—we should be sorry to take his advice as the basis: of legislation. The following passage we quote for its moral. The Bank of England bought the annuity in question by issuing its promises to pay—that is, it borrowed of the public, by issues upon the credit of the Bank, the sum of .10,897,000/., with which money so borrowed of the public the Bank contrived to make the public pay it an annuity of 5J35,7•10/. till 'April, 1867. If this ,be not juggling., and, by juggling, getting money, where shall we find an example • fia'f, it ? The Directors liveigiven the whole capital of the Bank, 14 , 5 53,000/. to the Government, holding for it 14,686,800/, of three per cent. Stock, upon which they get the dividends. With this proceeding I find no fault, bat they gave further to the Government, between April 1823 and April 1828, t h e sum of 10,897,8801. out o f the eighteen millions, which latterly, upon an average, they have raised by issues upon the credit of the Bank, in ex change for an annuity of 585,7401. payable yearly until April 1867—just that Act, the placing upon fixed securi ties what they had raised upon their credit, and therefore not available in csae of need, which has caused the ruin of many wealthy Banks." THE FIRST MARRIAGE OF THE DUKE OF SUSSEX. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) The folloWing observations are respectfully sub• mitted by one who warmly participates, and would be proud to be identified with the editor of The Sun, with reference to the truth and justice of the claims of the issue of the marriage of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex with the accomplished and truly unfor tunate Lady Augusta Murray. The validity of the Royal Marriage Act must be ad mitted by every constitutional lawyer, to this extent, namely, that it excludes the children of Lady Augusta Murray from every honour and inheritence, which legal right would have belonged, but for the Ttcya. Marriage Act, to the issue of a marriage which was a violation of that prohibtary law within the kingdom of Great Britain. But it is important to hem- in mind, in consider;ng this case, that his Royal Highness, when the first mar riage was celebrated in Rome, was a Prince of the Blood Royal, and Baron of Arklow, in the Peerage, of what then was the kingdom of Ireland. Under those very peculiar circumstances it will be impossible to assume that the Royal Marriage Act, which was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, ( sithout any corresponding enactment by the Parlia ment of Ireland) can operate to annul an otherwise le gal Peerage of the Parliament of Ireland, or that any unsupported Act of the Parliament of Great Bri- tam can in nny way take away the legal s u cces • sion of Sir A ugustus d'Este (in the event of his sur vi% ing his Royal father) to the leAislative functions, which will then devolve upon him, of the Peerage of Ireland. His claim to - elect the Representative Peerage of Ireland, or his capacity to be elected a Representative Peer in the Imperial Parliament, will beirresisiible in point, of law, and for the same reasons the Royal Marriage Act will be a dead letter, and cannot affect the succession to any other Crown to which the issue of that marriage would be unquestionably entitled, but for the Royal Marriage Act, save and except the Crown of the King dol? (I Great Britain. Those politicians who laugh at the idea of a Re peal of the Union with Ireland, little imagine that the Act of Union has no snore effectually provided that 012 Crown of Ireland and the Crown of Great Britain shall be for ever inseparable, without any necessary al teration of the existing law, than that it was not penal under the same Act. of Union for Members of Parlia ment, on taking their seats, to omit to take those un charitable and unchristian oaths and declarations which it was intended to re-enact—for, in a certain re mote, and thank God, highly improbable con tingency, the separation of the two Crowns would, in effect be the dissolution of the Legislative Union, and this dissolution in that possible event would be the inevitable consequence of the legal incapacity created by the Royal Marriage Ant. To cure this curious additional defect in the Act of Union with Ireland, and to enact the prudent precau tion of rendering the two Crowns inseparable, (as far as Acts of Parliament can accomplish that object), it is absolutely incumbent and necessary for the Imperial Legislature to repeal the Royal Marriage Act, or to extend its operation to Ireland—but from the adoption of this last alternative every upright man will shrink with disgust—and then, and not till then, national purity, and individual innocence, and truth, and justice, will prosper, in the deserving persoas of the nobly de scended and deeply injured offspring of most noble and high-minded parents—for such, it appears, that the parents were, and it is to be hoped that the survivor still is, as will be demonstrated by his parental conduct on this subject. REFORM OF CHANCERY. THE FIRST BATTERY WILL BE OPENED against this hideous Bastile, and the Equity and Ecclesiastical Courts in general, on SATURDAY next, May 30, from the point, 21, Catherine -street, Strand. . - , No. 1. of " THE WOOLSACK," a New Weekly Newspaper, having for its leading object the reform of abuses in Equity and Law, more especially those con sequent on the infainous delays of Chancery. As a General newspaper " The Woolsack " will be equal to any publication yet issued. Particulars of cases and their effects in private life are solicited in confidence, and will re ceive every attention. Address to " tho Editor of The Woolsack," Office 21, Ca therine-street, Strand. The First imber on Saturday next, price Sixpence. Order ImmediPtely of any newsman. CORN -LA WS. COPY OF A LETTER FROM J. RYAN, ESQ., M.D., TO THE [ION. C. P. VILLIERS, M.P. " take the liberty of addressing you on a subject of vital importance—the necessity of cheap bread for our artizans and their families ; and although I may offer no new suggestions, still, as a medical man, I feel that the results of my experience may be with propriety added to your valuable stock of information on the subject. " My practice is much among the poorer classes in this populous town and neighbourhood, for, in addition to my private engagements as a professional man, I am the medical officer to the Stockport Board of Health,' consisting of upwards of 3,000 members.. I find, Sir, " 1. That a large amount of the labouring population in this neighbourhood is insufficiently fed and clothed; that the scarcity of clothing arises from the high prices of provisions, which thus absorbs, for the support of life, nearly all the hard-earned wages of each family, and that the cause of the insufficient diet is—the high price of flour. "2. I find that the scarcity of good substantial food is productive of many very fatal diseases, and much misery among our people, and especially among children, whose sustenance ought to be prigeirr.;,i y - f ar i. naccous. "3. That among many, very many, families, portions only of whom can at present find employment, the small amount of wages accruing weekly is consumed in the purchase of oatmeal and potatoes ; that whole families subsist week after week on meal gruel, and that the payment of rent, and the purchase of fuel and clothing, are out of the question, and that the result too frequently is, the confiscation of their household goods, and removal to the workhouse. "4. That to avoid the disgrace of seeking parochial relief, the most extreme misery and starvation are con stantly endured by families in this town, and although the standard of wage s i s continually falling, the necessa ries of life are advancing in price, and therefore the ratio of misery is perpetually increasing. " 5. That from authentic sources it is evident, that the mortality of our fellow-subjects throughout the United Kingdom, is influenced by the price of Corn— ' that in 1801, when wheat was 118 s. 3d. per quarter, the number of deaths was 279,825 ; and in 1804, when wheat was only GOs. Id , the deaths amounted to 223,970, leasing a surplus of 55,855 to be attributed, I fear, to the high price of Corn in the year 1801, Again in 1807, when wheat was 735. 3d. per quarter the deaths only numbered 240,540, while in 1810, when wheat had risen to 106 s. 2d., the amount was 074,320, leaving a surplus of 50,350, as the increased rate of mortality above 1804. "Such, Sir, arc the impressions I have received in going from house to house, among our labouring poor. Day after day am compelled to witness the most heart-rending scenes of misery, and privation, such, in fact, as nona but medical men are allowed to behold, — for the decent pride of an Englishman ever prompts him to conceal the full extent of his poverty from the public view. " I have given you, Sir, no laboured de.tails,—no speculative theories, no proposed methods of ameliora tion. I leave, Sir, the remedy with confidence in the hands of men like yourself; who, prompted I trust, by the principles of sound and unflinching philanthropy, will never rest until laws so unjust—so impious—and unnatural, as the Corn-laws are—be fOr ever erased from the Statute-book. I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, JOHN RYAN, M D., Member, Royal College of Surge- 4 n s , Stockport, May 13, 1840." SHOCKING ACCIDENT ON TUS STOCKTON ANn DARLINGTON RA IrAvAY.—Last T Ilee.a a train of coal waggons arr i ve d at the weighing mAetin y e, near Darlingt on , and the engine-man was oiling t'ne wheels of the waggons, which were going at a slow rate for that p ur p ose . W hile thus engaged, his foot caught wood sleeper, and he fell down be tween the engine and the tender, the latter passing in a slanting direction over his brmst, and cutting off one of his ears. He now lies in a very askagerous state. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Strt—ln the Globe of Tuesday last a lengthened ar ticle appeared, attempting to negative my letter to the Press on Egyptian affairs. The Globe says there is a great difference between the emancipation of Greece and the regeneration of Egypt. It says -that everybody felt for the Greeks because they were fighting for their freedom, but Egypt., it argues, is very wretched, governed by a tyrant and a traitor. Allowing this assertion to be true (which it is not) would the Globe wish to infer that Egypt should still continue wretched because she once belonged to Turkey ? So did Greece, and it will trouble . common-sense kind of people to find out any difference between the emancipation of the one and the regeneration of the other . ; because if the principle of freedom is admitted with respect to Greece, that principle cannot be denied to Egypt. The Globe's article , would almost -appear . to have - been written at a desk at the Foreign. Department, it smacks. to inueb of office ; the words tyrant,, rebel, traitor, are' merely sounds known occasionally ema nate from there towards Mehemet Ali. The fact is, Egypt, the rebellious country, is greater than Turkey, the once governing country. Such is the fact. Who can deny it, and say on conscience he denies it except by words ? I would have you inform lour Contemporary, the Globe, that two countries arc now in the market, and these two countries are now at the refusal of England. * Suck being the actual state of things, it behoves me to speak out boldly. These countries arc Turkey. and Egypt. Turkey is nearly knoCked down to Russia, - Egypt is bid high for by France, and England appears at the auction as a looker-on and afraid to bid. This is the RC: Ral state of the case, and it is not the sneers of the Globe that can keep me from the expression of these most weighty truths for the benefit of England. The " eel tab] Mr. Wagliorn: of whom the Globe speaks as, " having his brain fired with the ambitious project of disposing of empires," and that all his re marks arc " absurdities" and " trash," would tell you that he does not in himself bow to such allusions. No, Sir, on the contrary, in speaking for myself I fear no personal sarcasm from the Globe Newspaper, because I have the gratification to feel and know that my aim is to see our country keep on maintaining that pre-eminent position in the eycs of all the world which has made her great. Tie British Ministry and the Press arc ignorant (or if not ignorant, pretend to be so,) of the immense power and resources of Mehemet Ali in Egypt, Arabia, Syria, Asia Minor, Turkey, Persia, Circassia—l might go further, but the foregoing is enough for my purpose— and from my heart, although but one man, do protest against the present policy of the British Ministry towards that great and extraordinary man. Such policy is almost bordering on insanity, the Mania of', which is obtained from and kept up by our AmliassaLar at Constantinople. That Nobleman's late carter in diplomacy has brought about nearly all the mishaps which have happened to Turkey of late years. TOlirn is to be attributed the faster going down of that power since he filled the post of Ambassador to England at Constant;nople ; he counselled wars upon Egypt, and thereby diminished the Sultan's resources, and placed hi m in the position of being twice defeated by his own, vassal. H;s policy (forgive me for calling it poP.cv) 4rought about the note from the five Powers, th - ,i the. Sultan was not to treat with 111Aemet Ali, 'out that the Powers would do the needful. How has that pledge been ful filled ? France recalled her Ambassador, Roussin, far conceding to it ; Russia commended hers ; the names of the other two Powers were merely words to that note ; and England has now to thank Lord Poesonby for the non•settietnent of the differences between Egypt and the Porte ; and this is the dilemma in which your Contem porarary the Globe is hereby informed the Foreign office now finds itself. Within the last two years the following Noblemen and Members of Parliament have visited and seen Egypt, &c., under Meh.:met Ali, and all t est if y to bls improved system of government there, when compared to the corrupting and decaying one of Turkey :—Lords Prudhoe, Exmouth, Southampton, Rokeby, Polling ton, Walpole, and Claude Hamilton; Col. Dawson Darner, Messrs. Fector, Necld, and many others: all their opinions arc put on one side, as being erroneous ; while those of Lord Pcnscnby prevail in their stead ; this last, too, having no means of information but what, is communicated to him by those whose interest it is to deceive him with respect to Egypt. So bad is the go verning system of Turkey at this moment, in con tempt of the Hatti Sliceriff, that the last iota ligence from Constantinople tells us that no less than four Pachas of the important districts of Widdin, Aidin, Broussa, sled Adrianople had been summoned to the capital, to render an account of their extortions and malvelfations--r - yet this is the corrupt system of administration which Laill Ponsonby's Policy wishes to substitute in Syria and Egypt, for the good order and protection to person and property introduced by Mehemet All, who, in s t ea d o f b e i ng a tyrant, as the GLbe says, has done m.:'re for Egypt in his time, than any other living man has done in any other part of the world. He found Egypt the seat of war between France and England ; he found it desperately wretched, without medicine, education, sanatory laws, &c. ; he found m..n opposed to man in it, even its inhabitants, caused by the Marnelukes ; there was no safety to life or propel ty in any part of it. How is all this now ? The above Noblemen and Gentlemen will best tell you, and that Egypt is rising and improving in all things, and will go on rapidly improving, it the chilling and blasting policy of Lord Ponsonby towards it be not car ried into effect. The removal of this Nobleman as our Ambassador at Constantinople is requisite, because his hostile feelings towards Mehemet Ali, added to his fit- . mous note of the Fire Powers, has placed the whole of Turkey in jeopardy, Empt in a renewed state of war fare at all points, besides risking the loss of that mast valuable communication through Egypt to our Eastern empire, now more precious than ever to us, become so by our war with China. And let me warn the Foreign-office, through your medium, not to procrastinate the pacification of the East by any mad attempts to crush Mehemet Ali, whi c h no party in this country will ever vote money for. A delay of a few more weeks may bring about an explosion at Constantinople and its remaining provinces, which the meddling and irritating policy of Lord Ponsonby has been fomenting at all points. When that explosion takes place it will swallow up all the abettors in Turkey of European interference, and may deliver that country into the hands of Russia beyond redemption. The policy of Lord Ponsonby at Constantinopl has been approved of by no one except the enemies o 1 Great Britain, and so long as he is allowed to e:icereise his baneful influence there, and at the Foreign -office here, it is in vain to hope for anything but disasters and confu sion. Public opinion cut of doors is, that Lord Pal merston feels his hands so tied bythe tamily influence,:&e. of that Nobleman that he calm of this fatal poli c y by 'ot shake off the source Ycir:aving him from his present post. Nothing but that happy removal can keep off the storm that is If it be the t `.ireatening to burst on Turkey. Let that Lord Palmerston does not pos sess the - power to rid himself of Lord Ponsonby's ruinous po l icy, it is high time Parliament interfered to pre ! vent the cer t a i n e vil s w hi c h can on ly b e th e resu l t of still keeping that Nobleman Ambassador for England at Constantinople. I am not the man to write upon any subject I do not thoroughly understand. Circumstances placed me in a position to arrive at a true knowledge of the whole, and the aforesaid is exactly the present state of things= indeed, an acknowledged matte of thin gs by near l y a l l except Lord Ponsonby. Your Contemporary the Globe is known to be the " omnibus" of Downing-strect, and is said to have at tacked mo by permission of the Foreign Department. Some say that the article itself came from there—how ever, 'a dozen of such will n o t alter the facts of th e case, or induc e silence on my part, t h ough I Lie taunted again. While on this subject, having stated the disease, I beg to hand the cure, viz.:--Let the Foreign Office, through a new Ambassador, induce the withdrawing the Note of . the Fiv e P owers, wr i te another, begging Mehemet All and the Sultan will settle their differences at once ; and in one month Egypt and Turkey will be reunited. Mehemet Ali, once more the vassal of the Porte, n o t on l y pay i ng tribute to Turkey, but helping and aiding the Sultan in the future preservation of Turkey from Russia. This is the policy ! Who says it is not a proper one for Great Britain to pursue under the existin g state of'things with reference to the Eastern . Question ? And now we will hear what the Globe will next say in answer hereto , a i sm h , y object the public in possession ofuca co l s n tr t ve o t ; z u y t facts will bring to light. I have the plensure to be, Sir, Your's very faithfully, THOS. WAGUORN London, May 25, 1840. COWES, MAY 14.—Arrived '..Ylr. Achers and family, in his ship yacht the Brilliant , from a cruise. Tile patent spectacles, %nanufactured by Mr. E. Solomons, No. 36, Old Bor 7:f -street, and 18, Old Jewry, City,, rank in importance amo 7 g , the greate s t o f modern inventions , which is of the .14TW.est importance t o th e p u bli c, i n conse quence of their Jr .uproving and p reserv i ng t h e s i ght, and their being of lees ' specific gravity than any others, will be found highly adv• ..iitag,eous to all persons having a determination of blood fr ..l the head or eyes. Their great efficacy is most satisfaa tor:l authenticated by th e concurren t te , t i mony o f t h ousands of living witnesses of the first respectability in this and the sister kingdom ; added to which, the documentary pro oli sub mitted through the medium of the daily journals;decidealy es tablish Mr. E. Solomon? reputation as an optician and scientific man. His voice conductors, recently invented, are the most poweifEl instruments hitherto discovered for defective hearing. Deaf persons are enabled, from their minute construction (being only * of an inch in diameter), to wear them entirely unseen; they are in s e r ted an d remove d w ith the greatest i r faci lity. By their u se , mu:cal sounds, and the lowes twh spe breathed at,a publi c a ss e m bly, vibrate on the organsrea relief to test of hearing in such a pleasant manner as to afford ile those afflicted with the distressing ailment of _d h eafness. Owing fraudulently advertising specta cles as "newly invented," the public a tt ution is particul ar l y directed to the address of the above establishments.