The Sun. — London, England, 1847-01-01 00:00:00

e p , lb t ro l l Vib r ttt 011 SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. LATEST PRICES OF SHARES, IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM PANIES' STOCK. From the Official List, lIBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENIEG. LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1. JOINT-STOCE. BANGS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. £ a. d. X a. d. kustralasia • ••• • • 61. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 - BritshNorth American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 Commercial of London 51. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 .. . .. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Londn and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 284 London Joint-Stock .• • 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 - Metropolitan ......... 25 0 0 710 0 Provincial of Ireland • • Si. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Ditto, New..... .• • • 81. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 - National of Ireland .. 51. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 - Nat. Provincial of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 - Ditto, New... ••• •• • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 Union of Australia.... 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Union of London , 51. per cent. ,50 0 0 10 0 0 - nrsirmazecx COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name if Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. ------- Albion •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 31. 10s. 500 Xa. d. a. d. 0 0 50 0 0 75 Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 18% Ditto Marine.• ••• • • 61. per cent, 100 0 0 50 0 5% Atlas • 136.6 d. pr sh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 154 British Commercial 7s. per share 50 0 0 50 0 73. Clericl,3led.&Gen.Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 210 0 10 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 10s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 - Eagle • Eng.& Scot. Law •• • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 3 European Life .•• • • • 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20 Freemasons' .•••• • • .• 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 Globe 6l. per cent. Stock. - 136 Guardian .•••• • • • • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 48 4 Imperial Fire •••• • • • 61. and bonus 500 0 0 50 0 0 230 Imperial Life 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Indemnity Marine- • • 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 j 513 1 31 ..aw Life- • . 11. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 3 and General Life 50 0 0 20 0 6% London Fire •••• • • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 14% '.ondon Ship 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 15 edarine ••••• • • •• 5/. per cent. 100 0 0, 15 0 0 - Med. Invlid & Gen. Life 4%1. per ct. 50 0 0 2 0 0 ' - National Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 ' 210 0 - National Life.... ••.• • 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0% Palladium Life.• ...... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 21. is Phcenlx - - 195 Protector Life.... ... 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 245. 6d Provident Life........ 11. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23 Rock Life 4s. 50 0 010 0 4% Royal Exchange 5/. per cent. Stock. - Sun Fire . - i - 210 Ditto Life • 11. 6s. 49 Unlversal•Life ..... 10 %1. pr cnt 100 0 j 615 0 - LIST OF SCOTTISE COMPANIES' PRICES. 1 Dividend Amount Name of gompany. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ s. d. X a. d Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 1176 Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 0 1 160 British Linen Company 81. per cent. - 100 00 j 220 Commercial Bank .. • • 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 1167 National Bank 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 14/.los Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr cent. - 50 0 0 91 Western Bank •• • 6/. per cent. - 50 0 0 844 North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 50 0 7% Clydesdale Bank.... • • 61. per cent. - 10 0 0 131. 8s Eastern Bank 5/. per cent. - 10 0 0 11% Caledonian Bank - 210 0 41.11 s Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 61. per cert. - 50 0 71.2 s City of Glasgow Bank . Si. per cent. - 10 0 0 l3/. 7s Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. p er cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 '2ss. 9d Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. , 100 0 0 10 0 0 I 144 Insur. Co. of Scetlnd•• Si. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. t 9% North British Incur 5%1. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 27% Caledonian Fire Insur lOl. p er cent. r loo 0 0 10 0 0 22N Edinburgh Life Insur 6l. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 18 4 Edin. & Glasg. Railway 11.10 s. pert. 50 0 0 50 0 0 77 Ditto, Shares is. 6d. p. s. 12 10 0 All paid. 19 Edln., Leith, & Grantn 1 - 20 0 0 10 0 0 18% Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 694 Glasgw&Greenck Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 16% Glss - wlc Garnklrk Rail. 5/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 39% Dundee& Arbrothßall. 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 37 Standard LifeAssiirnce.l Si. per cent. 50 0 0 210 0 9 CANALS. Names of E.: Dividend Names of Dividendt C ompanies. ,‘„,, Price. Companie s . per Price. 4 Annum. Annum. Ashtn& 014 h 97 51 5s pc - Monmonthsh 100 81. - I Ashby-d-la-Z'll3 41. I- Mntgomrysh 100 51. - I Barnsley.. • • 160 121. - Ivlacclesneld. 100 - Basingstoke.. 100 - - Neath ••• • • • 100 171. - Brknk&Abrg 150 Si. - Nottingham. 150 121. - Cromford.... 100 141. - Peak Forest. 78 31. 75 Dudley lOO 41. - Regent's ...• 33 1/. ss. 2034 Derby ..• • • 100 6/. - Rochdale ...• 85 41. - Ellsmre&Chs!l33 41. 55 Shropshire .• 125 81. - Ezewash -1100 321. - Somrset Coal 150 71. 10s. - Forth & Clyd 100 1 41. - Do.Lk Fd St 12 61. p. c. - • GrandJunctn l loo 71. 83 Stffrd &Wore 140 281. - (rand Union 100, 11. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. 125 151. - Glamorgnsh, 172 13%1. - Stourbridge.. 145 201. 315 441str&Brk13,100 - - Strtfrdon Av 79 1/. 10s. - Grantham , 150 121. - Severn and Huddersfield. 57' - Wye Rail. j 26 11. Bs. - Kent & Avn 39 ] _7s. 6d. 5 Trnt & 51r-1 Lancaster • 47, 11. 10s. - soy, 54 sh. 50 30/. - Leeds&Livrp 100 341. 522% Thema &Med 19 - - Leicester .. • • 140 101. 105 Worcstr &) Leicstr BcNth l 83 41. 52 Birming. _7B 21. 43 Loughborogh,l42, 701. I - Wilts & Brks 67 11. - Name of Company. Commercial .... East and West India East Country London ?t.Katharine ........ Southampton • • ...... Paid. Price. a. d. 80 I - 21 - I - 9914 50 0 0 - WATER-WORZEI. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price, Annum. Share. 1 X East L0nd0n.......... s. d. 81. 100 0 0 205 Grand Junction •••••• 31. 10s. 41 13 4 90 Kent .......... •• • • 21. ims. 100 o 0 Vauxhall ...• •• • • • • • • 51. per ce -- nt. 100 0 0 ~ West 511d4lese .. • 5/.ss.pr cut. 63 12 9 — 130 SALE OF RAILWAY SHARES BY AUCTION.—(THIS DAY.) The sale of Railway Shares to-day, at Messrs. Lomond and Co.'s, was well attended, and a fair business was done at good prices ; French Shares sold wel . Th• following are a few of the principal sales : Warwick and Worcester £o 5 London and Manchester (Remington's) 0 9 Great Luxembourg Madrid and Valentia 1 0 Leicester & Bedford, Exchange Certificate 0 10 Shrewsbury and Birmingham Great Northern of France .. ...... London and South-Western, Tenths 5 7 Vale of Neath 1 7 Waterford, Wexford, and Valentia ...... London and York Extension, of int 2 12 Northern Counties union 1 13 Liverp. Manch. and Newcastle-upon-Tyne 2 9 South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 2 11 Paris and Lyons 5 6 Manchester and Southampton 1 18 COURSE OF EXCHAN 12 4 12 1 12 4% 25 85 13 10% Amsterdam ...... C.F. Ditto, at sight •• Rotterdam .... • • 2 U Antwerp Rambargh .... • .11.8. Altona. Paris, 3 days' sight .. •• 25 55 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Marseilles ....... 80urdeanx......... Praakfort on Maine— l2l Petersburgh, 3Us Berlin - - ...... ...... Vienna, effec.flo Trieste, ditt0......... Madrid ...... ~..... Eilbao.... . Barcelona .. ...... .: :: 10 5 10 5 35% 36% 'GE.-(THIS DAY). Gibraltar „ •••• Leghorn . ....... 30 55 Genoa— ................ 2.5 90 Milan . . Venice Naples .. .••• • • .• 40U Palermo, per oz ..... • 120% Lisbon.... Oporto . Rio Janeiro Buenos Ayres . ........ New York, 21 days' sight Philadelphia .... • • .. • • -- YBICKS Of BULLION, PEE OZ. Foreign Gold is bars .. £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin • • 0 0 0 Now Dollars ...• • • 0 4 10% Spanish Doubloons .• 0 0 0 Silver la bars ...• .. •• 0 0 0% .......—______ MARKET INTELLIGENCE, (From the Lendon,New Price Current of January 1.) REFINED SUGAR.—The home trade have purchased with caution of Refined goods this week, and rather lower rates are taken, brown melting lumps selling at 61s Gd to 628, brawn grocery 62s 6d to 635, and standard lump s a t 64 s per cwt. Bastards met with little attention, and 35s to 464 is the value, but in pieces a good deal has been done at 48s to 595. For Treacle the demand has been active, and prices have advanced, 26s to 30s b e i ng paid. Bonded Crushed Sugar is much wanted, at 33s Gd for first sort, but little is to be had. In Loaves a good deal has been done, at stiffer rates. COFFEE.—There has been a better demand for West India Coffee privately this week, and rather higher rates are paid for all qualities. For Ceylon the demand has much improved, and of Plantation of all qualities large parcels have been sold at is to 2s per cwt. advance. Native has been sold to a fair extent, and prices have risen to 39s 6d to 40s for good ordinary pale. Foreign however met with little attention, but is not offered at any further decline. Iticr.—The demand has been extensive for all descriptions of East India this week, and a rise in the value of 2s per cwt bag taken place, good to fine white Bengal selling at 21s to 225, middling 20s to 20s Gil, low 19s to 19s 6d, yellow 18s 6d to vas, and Madras IJs 6d to 19s per cwt ; indeed the market bas been nearly Cleared. FRUIT. —As there have ruit been several public sales of damaged and inferior f which sold from 47.: to .525, the purchases by private contract have been on a limited scale, arising also in some degree from several of the cargoes lately reported having two b the trade before their arrival. Aboutt een hundred tons of Island Fruit have been tal....tri for Holland at 55s for fine m Quality. Fine P a t ras i s scarce, and still • the general quality o f t h e present stock i mands 5Cs, b ut i nferior t last year. The sto c k i n t h e hands of retailers is c on - o that o f deal sidered to be light er th an usual at this season. COCNINEAL.—There has been a brisk demand for all de scriptions this week by private treaty, and the rates paid • ' show an advance o n th ose o f t h e last public sales of 2d per lb. Honduras low t o fine silvers b r i ng i ng 5s la to Ct, and black 5s 8d to 7s per lb. Tao lowest point of the market for silvers last year has been 4s 3d to 5s Bd, and black 55 2d to 6s Gd per lb. Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLARDS.—liolders of Jamaica Rum manifest firmness, and a fair demand exists • but the ho me trade have been the c hi e f operators ; the value of low and middling is 3s fid to 3s Bd, good 3s 9d to 4s, and fine to very fine 4s 2d to ss. Leeward Island is wanted at 2s Gd to 2a 7(1 proof, but little is to be had. East India has been u good re quest, proof at 2s 2d to 2s 3,1. Demerara met with a fair sale at 3s 6d to 3s 9d for strong. In Brandy a good demand has been done, and at stiffer rates—Cognac best brands of the vintage of 1842, selling at 58 11d to 6s Id,: and ditto, 1844, Se 4d to 5s 6d per gallon. Ons.—The market for Linseed Oil is firm, and purchases to a fair extent has been made by the home trade at 25s 6d per cwt on the spot, but for exportation the demand has been limited. There has been little passing for forward de livery although there are sellers at 26s per cwt. Rape Seed Oil hsa been in excellentr quest. and prices rule firm, pale DOCES. Dividend Amount per of An - num. Share. X s. d. 31. per cent. Stock. 61. pr cent. I Stock. 1/. per sh. 100 0 0 5/. pr cent. Stock. 5 per cent. Stock. It. per cent. 50 0 0 36s to 36s 6d, brown 35s to 35s 6d per cwt. Olive Oil scold to a large extent, prices are improving, the stock still on the decrease, and the consumption on the increase. Gallipoli has been selling at 471 to 484 Spanish and Sicily 45/ to 46/, Barbary, Levant, and Portugal 431 lOs to 44/. lOs per tun. Cocoa Nut has been in good demand, but the supply is un usually small, fine quality has been selling at 42s to 435. BANK OF ENGLAND. (From this Night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, tor the Week ending on Saturday, the 26th day of December, 1846. ISSUE DILYARTMENT. X. Notes issued— • .• .. 28,442,030 Government debt .. 11,015,100 Other securities .... 2,984,900 Gold coin and bullion 11,972,540 Silver builioa ...... 2,469,490 £28,442,030 I £28,442,030 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 31st day of December, 1846. BANKING DSPAITMENT. X. Proprietors' capital.. 14,553,000 Hest ••••••• • • • • • . • 3,447,406 Public deposits (in eluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Say ings-banks, and Di vidend accounts).. 10,341,314 Other deposits .. .. • . 7,696,172 Seven day and other Government securi ties (including Dead Weight Annuity) .. 12,827,179 Other securities •• •• 14,654,905 Notes .. .. •• • • .... .. 8,813,675 Gold and silver coin.• 624,661 bills•. 882,528 4 36,920,420 X 36,920,420 M. MARSIIALL, Chief Cashier. 1846. Dated the 31at day of December, TIIE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) WINDSOR CASTLE, JAN. 1, 1647. The Queen has been pleased to appoint George Edward Anson, Esq., to be the keeper of her Majesty's Privy Purse, in the room of Major-General Sir Henry Wheatley, resigned. WINDSOR CASTLE, JAN. 1. His Royal Highness Prince Albert has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Charles Beaumont Phipps to be Private Secretary to his Royal Highness, in the room of George Edward Anson, Esq., resigned. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JAN. 1. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Colonel the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H. to be her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies, in the room of Sir Robert Chester, Knt., resigned. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JAN. 1. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant Colone, William-Henry Cornwall, to be her Majesty's Assistant Master of the Ceremonies, in the room of Colonel the Hon ourable Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H. promoted. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JAN. 1. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Honourable Spencer Lyttleton to be Her Majesty's Marshal of the Cere monies, in the room of Lieutenant-Colonel William Henry Cornwall, promoted, WAR:OFFICE, JAN. 1. Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—Lieutenant Thomas Brunt to be Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet Major Trent, deceased, Dec. 16, 1846. 7th Dragoon Guarda—Regimental Sergeant Major John Gray to be Adjutant (with the rank of Cornet), vice Knight, promoted, Jan. 1. 2d Regiment of Foot—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Carruthers to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Baurogardt, appointed Inspecting Field Officer of a Recruit ing District ; Brevet Major Mountford Stoughton Ileyliger Lloyd to be Major, vice Carruthers, Jan. 1 ; Captain Digby St. Vincent Hamilten, from 78th Foot, to be Captain, vice Grehan, who exchanges, Dec. 31; Lieut. Gus • tavus Nigel Kingscote Anker Yonge to be Captain, vice Lloyd ; Ensign William Wynn Kirkby to be Lieutenant, vice Yonge; Francis Lionel Octavius Atty, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Kirkby, Jan. 1. 36th Foot, Assistant-Surgeon James Jopp, M.D., from th 2d Foot, to be Surgeon. Francis Smith, Gent., to be As e sitant-surgeon, Jan. 1. 50th Foot, Ensign Richard Cormick Clifford to be Lieute nant, without purchase, vice Du Vernet, appointed to 67th Foot. William Barry, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Clifford. Jan. 1. 78th Foot—Captain Peter Grehan, from 2(1 Foot, to be Captain, vice D. St. Vincent Hamilton, who exchanges, Dec. 31. Ist West India Regiment—Major Edward Rowley Hill to be Lieutenant-Colonel without purchase, vice Bush, ap pointed Inspecting Field Officer of a Recruiting District; Brevet Major Luke Smyth O'Connor to be Major, vice Hill ; Lieutenant Alexander William Mackenzie to be Captain, vice O'Connor; Ensign Henry Johnstone to be Lieutenant, vice Mackenzie; Samuel Head, Gent. to be Ensign, vice John stone, Jan. 1. Bx . EvELLCaptain William Elsey, of the East India Com pany's Depot, at Wa-ley, to have the local rank of Major in the Army, while so employed, Jan. 1. The under-mentioned Cadets, of tho Honourable the East India Company's Service, to have the local and tem porary rank of Ensign, during tlie period of their being placed under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Fre derick Smith, of the Royal Engineers, at Chatham, for field instruction in the art of Sapping and Mining : Duman Charles Home, Gent. ; Benjamin Martin Hutchinson, Gent. ; Frederick Weston Peile, Gent. ; George Edward Watson, Gent. ; Augustus Satchwell Johnstone, Gent. ; Richard Hiffram Sankey, Gent.; John Baptist Granville Clese, Gent. ; John Augustus Fuller, Gent., Jan. 1. UNATTAcHED,—Lieutenant James Montagu Brown, from the 93d Foot, to be Captain, without purchase, Jan. 1. MEMORANDUM.—The date of the commission of Major John Blackburn, of the 85th Regiment of Foot, is 29th Decem ber, 1846, and not 29th December, 1845, as stated in the Gazette of the 29th inst. WHITEHALL, DEc. 29. The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Musgrave, of Whitehaven, in the county of Cumberland. Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. George White, patten maker, Chichester, Sussex, to sur render Jan. 11, at half-past one, and Feb. 8, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry-chambers, London; Staniland and Long, Bouverie street, Fleet -street. George Frederick Howe, merchant, Chester-place, Ken nington, Jan. 20, at half-past onekand Feb. 16, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwa.ds, official assignee, Fre derick's-place, Old Jewry; Lawrer,;:e and Flews, Old Je wry Chambers, Old Jewry, City. f Peter Allan Hannaford, bookseller, Exeter, Jan. 14, at one, and Feb. 10, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hernaman, official assisgnee, Exeter; Stogdon, Exeter; Freeman, Bothamley, and Benthall, Coleman-street. William Gibbs, baker, Welford, Gloucestershire, Jan. 15, and Feb. 16, at one, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol; Wilkes, Gloucester. Robert Kirke, coal-dealer, Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, Jan. 19, and Feb. 12, at half-past eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol ; Yenning and Co., Tokenhouse-yard, London ; Chitty, Shaftesbury. John Wilkinson, ship-owner, Stockton- upon-Tees, Jan. 15 and Feb. 16, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Allison, Darlington ; Philipson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Til son, Squance, Clark, and Morrice, Coleman -street. John Griffiths. stationer, Liverpool, Jan. 12, and Feb. 9, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove. official assignee, Liverpool; Chester and Co., Staple-inn, London; 'Pryer, Liverpool. Thomas Robinson, builder, Wavertree, Liverpool, Jan. 19 and Feb. 9, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool ; Vincent and Co., Temple, London ; Robinson, Liverpool. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending December 29, 1846, is 325. 2 IA d. per cwt. FASHIONS FOR JANUARY. (From the London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion. Dresses of damns, with wreaths satines, moires antiques, broches ; merveilles, and various oth er r i c h materials, are eq ua lly fashionable for soirea, as visiting dresses, according as the colours are light or dark ; small bouquets of feathers are used to ornament the moires broches in gold or silver, each confined by an ornament of precious stones ; for dresses of greater simplicity feuillages of ribbon are intermixed with bouil lonnes of tulle ; black and white lace is universally worn in deep flounces ; for young ladies taffetas dresses are trimmed with crape flounces pinked ; as many as nine are put on in tiers of three and three, and form a pretty light as well as bouffante trimming. In evening dresses the skirts offer more variety than the corsages ; berthes and revers are still so much in favour as to preponderate over the corsages drapes; the sleeves remain short and small, and indeed are mostly covered by the trimming of the corsage. For morning dresses there is much variety in ;the make of sleeves ; some are a l'Amadis, others tight, with pretty jockeys, or white straight sleeves fulled into a deep wristband, almostoferstooorvi o ti r ght, ending at the elbow, or wide and o p en piped at the bottom, &c. Under the name of passementene, a variety of new trimmings are con stantly r introduce d; ff o a those forming velvet moireg fo a li n a t g i e u i e n s, have y rich materials, as also fringe's headed by la erepeanddenotetteer Black velvet is alw a y s use d en neglige, whil s t colours are reserved for dress; these are trimmed with lace : the 'point a l'aiguille is much worn, with the colour oreille d'ours as well as deep blue. Furs are also fashion able for trimming dresses at this moment, of pink and white satin, whilst mantelets and sorties are lined throughout with ermine, which always preserves its pre-eminence for soir42s ; sable is fashionable for pe lisses and muffs ; they are worn a little larger than kat satin capotes are much used for morning wear; many are covered with tulle bouillonnt , e ; coloured blonds matching the bonnets are also fashionable ; plain velvets are lined with a different colour, and feathers to corre spond. Ribbon and figured velours epingle are used to ornament the interior of bonnets. Flowers will be universally worn this season; various new coiffures are introduced; some of the prettiest are the wreaths Luisa, formed of marine flowers and coral; the Norma of feuillage and gold; the Vierge, a wreath of white rose-buds, or a very narrow cordon, on the forehead, and pendant flexible flowers at the sides, spark ling with precious stones. Caps are worn very small, showing th• hair as much as possible, with profusion of flowers; with lappets, on the contrary, the ornaments should be light and simple. Caps are without brides, with double and triple rows of lace trimmed with gauze ribbon, the ends falling low. Blonde is again used, and whether of lappets or deep lace of gold or silver, charming coi !litres are made of it, some times intermixed with velvet. UNroUN DED:CIIARGE OF MURDER.—On Tuesday afternoon an inquest was held befure Mr. William Baker, at the George public-house, Mansell-street, Whitechapel, on the body of Mar nth y Fitzh enry , an i nfant, aged months. nfive s. The parents of th e c hild , T homas and Caroline Thames P itenry, were brought b e f ore Mr. Yardley at the Court, on Monday, on a charge of causing the death of the child , by unfair ineans, but after a long investigation they were discharged, and the magistrate directed a post mortem examination of the body, tor the purpose of ascertaining the precise cause of death. Mr. John Liddle, a surgeon, s t ate d that he was called to see the deceas e d' on Sunday morning last. There was an extensive burn on the left thigh. lle had since made a post mortem examination of the body, and discovered the viscera to be healthy, with the exception of the lungs, which were highly congested, resulting from suffocation, anal quite sufficient to cause death. The Coroner said it was a very peculiar case, and should advise the jury to return a verdict of " Fo un d d ea d , apparently from suffo cation," which was, after a short consultation, agreed to, THE USES OF FROST TO THE FARMER.___ We extract from Bell's Wi'eekly Messenger the follow ing article, written by Cuthbert W. Johnson, Esq., F.R.S.:— " The effect of the low temperature of winter is useful to the farmer in several ways. As, however, the good which the frost produces is not so generally understood, or its power so commonly assisted as is desirable, let us at this period o 1 snow and ice address ourselves to the subject. The farmer of the heavy adhesive clay soils, which are reduced to a sufficient degree of fineness only by the most laborious exertions, is the man to whose soils the frost affords the most valuable assistance. The water contained in these clays, during its conversion into ice in a low temperature of the atmosphere, expands with a force which nothing can resist. As, therefore, the ice pervades every particle of soil, its expansion, as a natural consequence, reduces very completely the clay into a very finely divided state. The farmers of such soils, therefore, are much befriended by a hard winter, like that with which we are now visited, since the frost readily accomplishes that pulverisation of the soil which the plough and the clod-crusher can only very imper fectly and laboriously imitate. The action of frost on many varieties of such soils, it may be here remarked, is most materially aided by the land being deeply ploughed, and laid up in higher ridges than are commonly thought necessary. By this plan, the frost penetrates deeper into the earth, and thus not only is the soil more thoroughly and deeply pulverised, but the de struction of grubs and other insect vermin is rendered much more extensive and effectual. Many of these, it well known to the entomologist, retire deeper into the soil as winter approaches, and remain torpid during the intense cold of the season, in places, beyond the ordi nary depth to which the frost extends. It is, therefore, very desirable, that the usual effect of a very low tem perature should be facilitated as much as possible. The action of frost upon even fish is well known, those in stagnant fish ponds being peculiarly liable to be de stroyed in severe winter. This arises from two causes— first, because, when the pond is completely encrusted with ice, a supply of the atmospheric air, so essential to the existence of fish, is intercepted; and secondly, be cause not only is the absorption of the air by the water prevented, but the escape of the carburetted and sulpha rotted hydrogen gases, always more or less copiously generated in stagnant waters abounding with organic matters, is entirely stopped ; and as these gases are ex ceedingly noxious to fish, this also condaces to their de struction. The gardener, therefore, knowing these things, is careful to have openings in the ice daily re newed, through which the gases of the pond can escape, and those of the atmosphere have access to the water. " There is no soil, perhaps, upon which the frost ope rates more rapidly and completely than upon those com posed of chalk. Chalk, when nearly saturated, we fine by our own experiments, contains about 23 or 24 parts of water •, and we can hence readily see how it is that when such a large proportion of water is converted into ice, it thus by its expansion so rapidly and effectually pulverises the chalk spread over the land. It is to this levelling effect of the frost that we may, perhaps, attri bute the peculiarly rounded smooth surface commonly possessed by the downs of chalk formations. These facts explain, too, why it is that the farmers who have the most successfully practised the excellent system of chalking, marling, or claying light lands, have remarked that this operation never succeeds so well as when the I earth is spread over the land, and allowed to remain on the surface exposed to a winter's frost. The essential condition, in fact, to the successful permanent addition to the soil of such dressings is, that the adhesive earths should be so finely divided as to be intimately combined with the lighter and more sandy and gravely soil. If this object is not effected—if the marl or clay is not thus al lowed to remain exposed to the action of the frost, and is ploughed in in lumps, but little geed is derived from their employment. The farmer then tells you that it dues no good to the land, that it remains uncombined with the staple of the soil, and that " it sinks down" into the land. This, therefore, is another instance of the success of earthly dressings being sometimes entirely prevented by the mere neglect of a due attention to the mode and period of the year at which this most valuable operation is best performed; and it is to this source that many er roneous statements, and much injury to the more general adoption of one of most certain modes of per manently improving light lands, are owing. The owner of such soils will do well to consider with attention these important facts. The expense of marling or claying, if these earths are conveniently situated, is much less than is commonly believed. Mr. F. W. Overman, of Moulden, in Norfolk, (who uses about 40 loads, of 40 bushels each, per acre, on his sands and gravels) remarks:—" Land will not always show the benefit it derives from clay in the first crop, which is the reason it is condemned by some persons; others dread the expense, which after all is but little. A man to carry on his business well, and to be always in season, must have a sufficient force of horses; this will enable him to clay his land. He will always find men ready to fill and spread at 3d. per load, costing the small sum of 108. per acre for the permanent improvement of his land." And he adds—" To sum up the benefits of clay to land in various ways, it is by cor recting the acidity (the clay in Mr. Overman's land is, is fact, a marl—that is, a mixture of clay, chalk, and sand) and giving solidity; by stiffening the straw, and increasing the quantity and quality of the corn; by pre venting mildew, which this farm was always subject to, but which since I have clayed it it has not been; by preventing the turnips from being diseased by groping, and adding that to the soil which theclover likes, more particularly the white or Dutch clover." (Jour. Roy. Agric. Soc., vol. iii., p. 235.) The correctness of the view of the theory of claying and marling which we have taken is also supported by the observations of Mr. Chas. Burness, of Woborn. He tells us (ibid, p. 233)—" My system has been to put the clay on the clover leys as early as the crop is off; and then to get it broken in pieces as muoli as possible before it is ploughed in for wheat. I also lay it on the turnip fellows early in the winter, so that it may have the chance of the winter and spring frosts to get well pulverised before it is ploughed down. This I prefer to cloying on clover leys. In January, 1841, I elayed some land, which was going to be a turnip fallow the following summer, and in the month of April, when I began to harrow and plough the land, the clay broke down, and slacked like lime, and worked in with the soil. I did not see much difference that summer in the turnip crop, as the other part of the field was sown at a diffe rent time, and I was not able to tell the difference ; but this year (1842) the barley looks much stronger and stiffer in the straw, and stands much more upright than on the land which was not clayed. The quantity per acre is generally fifty loads ; if more than this is ap plied, I should reco mmen d i t to b e done at twice, as in my opinion more at o nce wou ld d o harm, Nearly all th e light soil on the farm of the Duke of Bedford at this place has been clayed, and a great deal of it twice, and in every instance we have found its beneficial effects. The clay may be dug from the pit at any time when most convenient to the farmer, and if turned over once or twice will mix much better with the soil, but will be attended with more expense. in gameetoronnal wintero r c srn k e pge . re ' ie'doaafyd( remarked.TitoAi claying h tgne e tnolhhana g eenl osadhooAdlaaerstrye surfacefAtHffhoo e ugofu c nurro t i:nc o oyh.e f ifthooov t aurtn h ohtn, u tiegwit s hh:lo e ee: i x iyn.sln, p eode ap o na art s : ps i oeas n ersfol g al)Ld tgsd r f: M a l knoocp d o y etrrimf u paerl p r ototat i l has been generally to dig and cart the clay on the field it a ii t rmbsn h e t e t b h e e st s ) u , r a f n ac d e t o o f le a av l e ay it e f r o t r h a e y b e e a tt r e . r , better; the method eptehroidodhdeurinfgon hard frost is therefore that in which the opderaftion-oaf e m t o u r re n not th a e cc irtim pl a is te h only, as is with have a most lrea advantagealready seeseen, is its action then more the clay or other adhesive earths by rapidly accelerated, but the labour of the horses in draw ing it on to the land is very materially reduced. The ex tent of ha vtihnigs this vv reduction ork p e o r f fo rm labour ed w t i l o i s en the t surface of the the farmer's teams, made some time since may therefore be useefxurlerilnents frozen ground is level and hard, very generally understood. The results of some careful no intro duced in this paper. The following little tabl y e j , ther, shows the average force, in pounds, required to draw a light four-wheeled cart, weighing, with its load, 1,000 lb. over the surface of different descriptions of ways : Force required to Move Description of Road. the Carriage. Turnpike road, hard and dry 3of lb. The same when dirty 39 Hard compact loam 53 Ordinary bye road lO6 Turnpike road newly gravelled 143 Loose sandy road " These facts may be useful, too, in other ways to the fa he rm m e a r y th h a e n nee tha v t er fv r w eas hi o c n h a t h h ly ey oo ar n e ela n d e e r , e athddatuctehde, wear e c o i a m l 1 p y itshhoesde during brought t b f e r from r much oada better are and tear of conveying heavy manures of all kinds, espe riaoddiwathanence,thise ren dered hard by the frost, than at: any other period of the year. The action of a low temperature upon vegetatiop is very interest' e,. and en ft.:. oar, upon plants I hope to be a e, on another occasion, to direct the far. men attention." ertnnraherdl ggne_rs: _NTERESTING DISCOTERT. In levelling some ground last week at Bec-Helloun (Seine Inferieure), there was found a leaden box containing some bones, and bearing the following inscription engraved on the lead " Ossa illustrissima D. D. Mathildis Imperatricit infra majore altare roperta 2 mart : 1684, in eodem loco collecata Eode mense et anno." Matilda was daughter of Henry 1., King of England and Duke of Normandy. She was the widow of Henry V., Emperor of Germany, and mother of Henry 11., King of England and Duke of Normandy. She died at Rouen, in 1167, and was buried in the church of the priory of Notre Dame, where her tomb bore the following epitaph : CANADA COMPANY. The general half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday, at the offices, in St. Hele n ' s -pl ace , at one o'clock, C. F ran k es , E sq ., the Governor, in the chair. The CHAIRMAN made a statement to the effect that the total quantity of land sold was 14,976 acres, includ ing Crown ref, erves of 7,797 acres, and grants in the Huron tract of 779 acres. In the leases were com prised tracts of Crown reserves of 15,299 acres, and in the Huron district 13,932 acres, making together 29,239 acres. The return for the lands sold amounted to 10,557/. ; the town lots sold were ten, while 63 lots were leased in the country. The receipts in Canada to the 23d November, of the present year, were 31,3441. cur rency, while to the same period last year they only amounted to 26,5071., showing an increase of 4,8371. The amount of bills received over due, including in terest, is about 160,0001., th e necessity for using which was not at present at all apparent. It was, therefore, his duty simply to make a statement of the dividend on which the directors had agreed ; that was 6 per cent. per annum on the paid-up capital of the company of 321. 10s. per share, to be due on the 10th January next. After a few observations, this was agreed to without dissent. Mr. ROBERTSON inquired whether there was any in tention, as held out at the last meeting, of reducing the expenses in Canada. The GOVERNOR replied that tho whole of those ex penses were but 6,5001. a year, and the servants of the company, so far from being overpaid, were underpaid for their services. The directors were anxious to re duce the expense as much as possible. but in common justice they could not reduce it in this particular. A SHAREHOLDER inquired what progress had been made in the railway? The GOVERNOR replied that the railway in Canada, like all other railways, was at present quiescent. The object of the company was to form a railway communi cation between Lake Ontario and Lake Huron, and there was little doubt but that it would be ultimately constituted; but there was a railway at the present time in progress which would connect the city of Quebec with Portland, and which would prove of great advantage to Canada. As an evidence of the prosperity of the colo nists of the company he might observe, that a sum amounting to 7,1301. 18s. 9d. had been remitted by six teen settlers; the number of emigrants during the year was 32,166, showing an increase of 7,142 over the last year. To another inquiry, The GOVERNOR replied that the railway was not abandoned. The meeting was then dissolved. - _ - FLANDERS MAIL. ANTWERP, DEC. 26.—The two English steamers Transit and Gazette, laden with twist, intended for Ger many, have, for the first time, taken their places at the quay Napoleon, between the north musesir of the basin and Fort St. Lawrence. We were well satisfied at seeing these steamers so well placed, they landed their heavy bales with great ease, as well as at the best port in the world. The quay is very extensive, and only wants the pave ment to be completed. Two more landing places would be desirable, then three steamers might easily be placed there—the railway station being but a short distance from the quay—the goods might be immediately placed upon the waggons. Thellamburgh Journal mentioned an instance of com mercial probity which deserves to be recorded. Some years ago, the house of Schlezinger and Co., of Ham burgh, became bankrupt, leaving debt to the amount of 150,000 dollars ; two of the partners went abroad, and no more was heard of them. One set up a manufactory at Bradford in England, the other went to Modena, where he established a commercial house. The third partner re mained at Hamburgh, and became a broker. The affair was forgotten, when a few days ago the creditors were summoned and paid the whole of their claims. The manufacturer at Bradford had returned to Hamburgh, and in concert with the broker, who had likewise been prosperous in his business, he paid two•thirds of the debt, and there is no doubt that the third partner will follow this noble example. BRUSSELS, DEC. 28.—We have just received the me lancholy news that Mr. Constantine Rodenbach, Charge d'Affaires of Belgium in Greece, died at Athens on the sth of Dec., at nine o'clock in the morning, at the age of 53, in consequence of an apoplectic stroke. Their Majesties the King and Queen are to leave Paris on Wednesday morning, and to arrive at Laachen on the evening of the same day. The Moniteur publishes a law, dated December 26, proroguing till the 31st December. 1847, the law of the 18th June, 1842, which authorises the Government to modify the regulations for the importation of goods in transit, either direct or through the entrepot. The Moniteur promulgates the law, dated December 24, by which the contingent of the army for 1847 is fixed for the maximum of 10,000 men, who are placed at the disposal of the Government ; and also the law for grant ing provisionally the credit of five millions to the War Department for 1847. It likewise promulgates the law for fixing the budget of the Minister of Finance for 1847, at 12,892,020. It is believed that the King will be obliged very shortly to set out again for England.—Brussels Papers, Dec. 29. FEMALE CURIOSITY. A naval officer, who lately came to reside in Edin burgh, having engaged a large mansion on a short lease, despatched his butler to receive his furniture, and have the house put in order. The butler engaged a young woman, residing in the neighbourhood, to clean out the rooms and arrange part of the furniture ; and he assisted her himself to carry up a large chest of rather singular appearance. This gigantic box his master had purchased as a curiosity ; but, unlike that described in the song of the Mistletoe Bough," it did not shut, but opened with a spring attached to the lock, which being touched, the lid flew open, and a tall brawny Highlandman, in full costume, stood erect, and struck out his right arm, in which was a wooden sword. The gentleman purchased it as a piece of curious mechanism, and was wont to amuse his children with it. "That's a heavy chest," said the woman, as they placed it on the floor. " Yes," answered the butler, who was a wag of the first water, " There's something heavy in it, certainly ; but there's something mysterio u s about it also, for although the key hangs at the end of it, not one of us is allowed to open it." " Did you ever see the inside of it ? " replied she, walking round it. "Never," said he. "It's as much as any of our place is worth even to speak about it." So saying, the knight of the corkscrew looked first at the woman, then at the chest on the floor, and then retired slowly down stairs, whistling, to work, on the ground flat. The girl proceeded to put things to rights in the room ; but every time she passed the chest she thought it looked the more odd. , 4 Frailty, thy name is woman !" She rapped on the lid with her knuckles—it had a curious, hollow sound—very! And none of the servants had dared to open it! What on earth could it contain? Well, it was none of her business; so she went diligently to work for five minutes, at the end of which time she saw herself standing, with her arms akimbo, gazing on the chest. "It can do no harm to look into it," thought she; so she quietly took the key from the nail an d app li e d i t to the l oc k. Of course she heard footsteps on the stairs —as every one will do when afraid of detection in the commission of some act they wish to keep secret. Again she regained confidence, and returned to the chest ~,sIA, *pooped, —and turned , the key. Up flew Ole lid ; .,.';nnd the wooden Highlandman, kilt? fetched the- petrified g i r l a s h arp h an utat hilabeg aguity ,s ung and - on. -his > legs with-more - than whack across the, shoulders with, the flat of his " Andrea, Ferrara.. A. prolonged shriek, ending in a moan of de . - ss poor 00 0 r f woman o f e m w a n m i h n a u d t es soughtthe w o m relief an wildly round the ro om , till h er in P o a s a e i w o n i n h d o e n i a e t l e h l d o n the w tla lo t o c t o k h u i e n ; g eyes caught the Highlandman bending over her. Seeing nothing but destruction awaiting her, two springs took her to the door ; down stairs she went, nor did she slacken her pace till she: found herself standing in the house of a lady in the neighbourhood. The poor woman did not recover from her fright for several days. A 0- what exitceEnAsillvell'yEl'rnoTw 1113°tshTaAt G i E.—It er is ica m th e e continent, sch emes have been proposed, the object of which i s t o b ring letters f rom any inland town to any town on the sea - coast f or the charge of one penny. Now nAm n a o n w d o s o n supposeb e ,is i t not this an was imperativeearrie d, which duty world 1i s h ,nation to introduce throughout the whole .. . a friend in "Ocean Penny Postage ?" Thus, supposo in the far west of America wishes to write to a friend . it is incumbent issureu o l n tim th ate E ly n to Newcastle-on-Tyne England. pos session of three penny stamped envelopes. On he writes the following address :—James Green, book seller, Newcastle-on-Tyne ; that is enclosed in another, i addressed Jaiiies Green, England :Ft nd the+ ",,- ~ He puts himsell th in e firste sent peltirst mail From T---- CA.,,,u, xdogiand, to 0 from Boston. Now here for three postage stamps the letter will be Now from the centre of America to Newcastle -on -Tyne, England, and will also be prepaid. The first envelope to be taken off at Boston, the second at Liverpool, and the latter enclosed in the third, would reach the owner in Newcastle. No other nation on the face of the earth is capable of doing this ; some por tion of her immense navy might be profitably employed for this purpose, and thus be the means not only of en riching herself, but of scattering the blessings of civili sation throughout the whole world. We pay sixpence for the carriage of 64 lbs, of wheat from America to England, and can we not, when we take into account the immense increase there will be in correspondence con sequent on such a plan, carry letters from nation to nation!, letters weighing Essex Herald. Only half an ounce, f or one p enn y. "COME AND T RY my TAP. " —An anecdote not inappropoi a t e to the season is related to have occurred the other clay within 100 miles or so of the pretty little village of B—. A worthy inhabitant thereof is pos sessed of a better half, who se personal proportions are on a scale of magnitude very superior to those of her spouse. Of this superiority the lady made too great use for the comfort at home of her meek and quiet partner, who was thus driven to seek more peaceful society in the comfortable parlour of the neighbouring tavern here he met many hearty good fellows, and on the event ful evening of our story mine host's excellent cheer so far overcome hi s natural shyness, that in the plenitude of his valour he invited a boon companion to "come home with me and try my tap," an offer, of course, too good to be rejected at the time when " stout October" may be looked far ; and home accordingly they went. Ar rived at the house, " knock," says our hero, and his friend knocked ; the door promptly flew open, and the astonished guest was instantly saluted with a tremendous whack on the head from the doubled fist of the lady of the houso. "There ! how do you like my tap ? that's what I get every nght !" laughed out the succ e ssful practical joker. We regret to hear that the unfortnate v i c ti m has taken so strong a dislike to our friend':. f‘ tap," that he cannot even bear to hear of it.—Laneas• ter Gazette. Lord John Russell ar r i ve d at h i s residence, Chorley. wood, yesterday, from W o b urn Abbey, Bedfordshire. 4 Ortu magna viro major, see maxima Partu Hie jacet Ilenrici filia sponsa Parent." According to the chronicles of the Abbey of Bee- Ilelloun her remains were removed to that abbey, and buried near the altar.—Paris Paper. COMFORT TO SECOND-CLASS PASSENGERS FORBID DEN.—The directors of the Eastern Union Railway have lately placed on their line second-class carriages of a greatly improved construction, and in which the comfort oft he passengers has been studied, in a manner worthy of imitation. They are inclosed with glass, and the seats are of stuff e d l ea th er , an d t h ey a l toget h er approximate much nearer to the English elysium—comfortable—than those in general use. But, unfortunately, the Eastern Union authority extends only 17 miles of the 6s between Ipswich and London ; and, on Tuesday, a peremptory order from the magnates of Shoreditch was received at the Colchester station, that the new Eastern Union second-class carriages should not: be suffered to proceed beyond Colchester. The passengers were accordingly obliged to resign their warm seats in the Ipswich car riages, and locate themselves in the Eastern Counties Railway tumbrils for the remainder of the journey. The comfortable second-class carriages will, therefore, for the resent, be only available for the local traffic between Colchester, Ipswich, and Bury.—lpswich Journal, filE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EIVENING, JANUATRY 1, _1847. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 31.—The Samarang, 26, survey ing vessel, Captain Sir Edward Belcher, arrived at Spit. head late last night, from the East India station, whereon she has been engaged surveying during the last four years. Commander Graham Ogle, late of the Royalist, came home acting as first lieutenant of the Samarang, and will succeed Commander Brown as commander of the St. Vincent shortly. Sir Charles Ogle commences his series of grand eater tainments at the Admiralty House. on the evening of the Eth of January. The Comet steam-vessel, Lieutenant Commander John ston, was at Westport, Ireland, on the 28th instant, cn which day her marines and seamen were ordered to be landed to protect the stores from a reported descent of the population. The 26th being St. Stephen's day, many " parishes " were expected to make a demonstration in the town and on the Government stores at Westport quay. A troop of cavalry from Castlebar were on the qui wive as well as the military in barracks, but happily all passed off quiety. "Paddy is much grieved," says our informant, "because some of the merchants here will not lower the price of the Indian meal." The Rhadamanthus steam transport, Master Comman der Aylen, sailed yesterday with a cargo of Indian meal for Clifden Manninhay, Galway; and Belmullet, Mayo; half her cargo to be discharged at each place, to which she is to proceed direct, and afterwards return to Ply mouth for further orders. The Vengeance, 84, was paid advance yesterday. The Scourge steam bomb-vessel, Commander Caffin, was hauled alongside the dockyard yesterday to reship her mortar, &c. Lieutenant John Denis Do Vitre (1781) died on the 29th inst., at Lancaster, in his 90th year. This gallant veteran's commission, as lieutenant, bears date the 3d of March, 17.1; thus he had been nearly 66 years in that rank when he died. He commanded the Biter gun brig, and was wounded in the expedition to Ostend in 1798. He was the oldest lieutenant upon the list, and was on the pay of 7s. per diem. Lieutenant Robert John Hibbs (1796 !) now becomes the senior lieutenant on the Navy List. PLYMOUTH, DEc.3o.—Admiral Sir Samuel Pym struck his flag as Admiral Superintendent of her Majesty's Dockyard, on Monday evening, on board her Majesty's ship Caledonia, 120, Captain Manby H. Dixon; and Ad miral Sir John Louis, as Admiral P 3 m's successor, yes terday morning hoisted his flag, white, at the mizen, with the accustomed salute. Admiral Pym is gone to the eastward. On taking his departure he was greeted by an assembly of all the of ficers of the dockyard. Her Majesty's frigate Thetis, 36, recently commis sioned at this port by Captain Codrington, was towed yesterday by the Confiance steam. tug from Barn Pool to the Sound, where she saluted the flag of Port-Admiral Sir John West. Her salute was acknowledged by her Majesty's ship Queen, 120, Captain Sir Henry J. Leeke, The Thetis sailed this morning. ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SO CIETY. MONDAY, DECEMBER 28. Lord Colchester, Pretident in the chair. Mr. J. Lysaght was elected a member of the so , ciety. The paper read was the first portion of a very elabo rate "Essay on the Nile," by Dr. Beke. The obscurity which has so long hung over the sources of the Nile, is now in a great measure dissipated by the trouble which Dr. Beke has taken to clear up the am biguities of conflicting statements, and to re-establish facts long misunderstood. A careful sifting of the writings of both ancient and modern travellers, in regard to the sources of the Nile, together with his own intimate acquaintance with the country, watered by n great num ber of the primitive tributaries of the great river, have enabled him to unravel the entanglement which obscured the subject, and to present us with a statement so clear and satisfactory, as to leave little for furtherinvestiga tors but a corroboration of his views. _ It is impossible for us to go into all the details of this interesting paper, and we must therefore content our selves with a brief notice of the main points. The doctor first ascends the Takkazie, the Astaberas of Ptolemy, and minutely describes its various affluents ; after which, coming back to the Nile, he ascerds it to the junction of the Biue and White Rivers. Going up the Bahr el Azrek or Blue River, he comes to a spot where M. Cailliand speaks of the Hessenn as coming from the south-east, which Dr. Beke proves to be the Abii of Abyssinia ; and he at the same time shows that the river described by M. Russegger as the upper course of the Bahr el Azrek is, in tact the Dedhesa, a river which was first made known by Dr. Beke, and which he now identifies with the Takiii described by De Barros as the great western arm of the Nile ; under which name the Portuguese understood the Blue River, since the White River, or Bahr el Abiadh, was entirely unknown to them. After describing all the affluents of the Abil on both sides, Dr. Beke notices a river, which has, of late years, appeared in the maps, under the name of Habahia, and which has been supposed by:some geographers to be either the upper course of the Kilimaney (Quilinfau6) or of the Bahr el Abiadh, but which Dr. Beke shows clearly to have no separate existence; it being, in fact, nothing but the Abai of Abyssinia, called by the Gonges Abbaya. Dr. Beke next discusses the subject of the Maleg, a river which was crossed by Fernandes in 1613, on his way to Enarea, and shows that the route taken by the JeAlit Missionary has been altogether misunderstood by Bruce. Leving the "kW, the doctor next takes up the Dedh63s, and enumerates its tributaries on both sides, as he had done with the other two great rivers, the Takkazie and the Abai. Having thus exhausted the hydrographic basin of the Blue River, the author, before commencing the particular investigation of the course of the White River, enters into a compari son of the two great arms of the Nile, the 'White and Blue Rivers, and after minutely examining the evidence both ancient and modern on the subject, concluded in these words :—" Thus, whether we consider the relative magnitudes of the two rivers, the directions of their re spective beds, or the volume of their waters ; whether we regard the opinions of the ancient geographers, or those of modern travellers, or of natives acquainted with both streams—for the evidence of such as only know one is, of course, inadmissible—the result is th e same. I n all and every of these points of view, the Bahr el Abiadh, or White River, is the principal stream, and the Bahr el Azrek, the subordinate or affluent." This valuable paper will be concluded at the nex evening meeting. AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.— On the night of Thurs day last, the gamekeepers and watchers at Ockeridge Wood, in the parish of Holt, the property of Lord Ward, hearing the report of a gun in the wood, went towards the bottom of it, with a view of meeting the poachers coming out. The gamekeeper's son (Mr. D. Rawlings) moved off in another direction, but, not finding the poachers, he went to the other side of the wood, and heard another shot in a cover-about a quarter of a -mile rOni OCkeridge Wood;- After ~ s ome considerable search, he traced the parties hr., a direction, towards the road:; two men soon afterwards got over a stile, and as they came up opposite to where he was hid, he observed that one of them had a gun and a bludgeon ; this man he immediately collared, and a struggle took place for the pos session of the gun. Rawliegs was forced down on the ground, but he would not loose the gun, and, succeeding in regaining his feet, he renewed the fight, in which he ,i f fitfen4e4 bifflsolf w4h his atiekar,sahe poacherse•at - iength.got iili s town gain,antijumpect on his . stemltch, - batioviee..raora..gaining his. feet e .-ancl .making liberal use 9 ftiAlcri both the 'poachers ran away. Rawlings 'galre.chase to the one whom he supposed carried some game, and when they came to a brook which the poacher could not leap, the latter dropped three pheasants, and pulling off his jacket, managed to outrun the keeper, and got away. Rawlings knew this man to be James Roberts, a labourer, of Grimley, and the other, whom he knew by sight, but not by name, proved to be Thomas Milton, son of a schoolmaster, also residing at Grimley; and on the following day (Christmas-day) Rawlings, in company with apoliceman, went to the house in which Roberts lived, who, in the course of conversation, con fessed all the transactions in which he and Milton had been engaged on the previous night. Information was yesterday laid by Mr. Rawlings, before F. 1). Hastings, F. E. Williams, and J. G. Watkins, Esqs., at the county petty sessions, who granted a warrant to apprehend the parties on the charge of night poaching.— Worcester Journal of yesterday. EXPLOSION OF FIRE DAMP.—THREE MEN KILLED. ' —lt is our painful duty to record another of those fearful accidents which so frequently spread misery and death amongst our mining population. It appears that on the morning of Saturday, the 12th instant, the miners employed at the Shankrey Muir limestone pit (belong ing to Messrs. A. and J. B a i r d. of "Awe vv orke, went clown +- r o, at tne usual time. In consequence, however, of their entertaining a suspicion that fire damp hud accumulated in the workings, they delayed proceed ing to their work until the arrival of the overseer, who came down the shank about eight o'clock. On finding the workmen congregated at the pit bottom, and learn ing the cause, he taunted them with cowardice, and told them to follow him; upon which he and s evera l o f the workmen, with naked lamps, proceeded into the sus. pected workings, the consequence of which was a terrific explosion, which destroyed the lives of the overseer and two of his companions, severely scorched other three, and by its force tore a part of the pit-head frame from its fastenings, and threw it to a considerable dis tance. It is said that the pit bad not previously been much disturbed by fire damp, but, on the day before the accident, part of the workings had blasted, by which a man was burned, which gave rise to the fears of the workmen.—Airdrie Advertiser. FATAL ACCIDENT AT BLACKWALL.—Yesterday, Mr. Baker held an inquest at the Shoulder of Mutton and Pig, Blackwall, on the body of Richard Webber, aged 56 years, a cooper, residing at Blackwall-stairs, who was killed by the falling of a wall on Wednesday morning last. Ali red Green, a watertnan, stated that he was standing near Ashton's wharf, plying for hire, when the deceased passed with his hands in his pockets. On his arriving outside the wall of the wharf, it sud denly gave way and crushed the deceased under the ruins. Witness immediately cleared the rubbish away from the deceased, who was found to be quite dead. A large quantity of sand had been placed by Mr. Lungley, the proprietor of the wharf, against the wall, a few days previously, and there was no doubt that the weight caused the wall to fall in. Verdict, " Accidental death." DuTirs or PfOPERTY.—The Earl of Shannon employs at present 400 labourers upon his estate at Castlemartyr. He has purchased a stock of Indian meal, which is retailed to them at a shilling a stone less than cost price. His Lordship has also caused to be dis tributed among his tenantry, to the number nearly of 500, two stone of flour each, and a piece of beef for a Christmas dinner. At the same time Lacly Shannon devotes her attention to providing clothing for the poor, and otherwise attending to their domestic comfort.— Cork Examiner.- NEW ZEALAND The following is an extract from a private letter:— " NELSON, AYR= 46 , 1146. " I have not written to you very lately because the subjects of mo s t i n t eres t t o us h ere h ave b een principally I furnished by your Parliamentary debates, which showed a much better acquaintance with our circumstances and a warmer interest in our affairs than we had ever looked ' for. Neither did I think it worth while to send you any account of the doings in the north, at Auckland, or the Bay of Islands, for our acquaintance with them was gained through the newspapers only, and very often more than two months after the event, when, from the frequent communications with Sydney, it was probable the news was already half way home. But within the last few weeks we hays had a visit from our new Governor Captain Grey, and a communication from the directors of the New Zealand Company; and we have been as much pleased with the Governor as dissatisfied with the manner in which the company seems disposed to treat us and our claims upon it. Beginning, as in duty bound, with the higher powers, I, for one, and I believe the feel ing is pretty general, am heartily glad that Government did not entertain the idea of making up a little kingdom for the New Zealand Company. When the British empire becomes too great for its rulers to manage, let them acknowledge it, and, as Cromwell said," give place to better men;" and such an arrangement would have looked very much like a confession of incapacity. I must own too that I do not see why, because I am a few thousand miles off, I should give up my privileges as an Englishman, or be turned over to any such delegated authorities. Not, however, that lam at all enamoured of our Colonial-office ; but then I see that they can be and are called to account when they go wrong, and how ever strongly they'may be defended in public, we reap the benefit of the discussion in various ways, oven up to a complete change of men, measures, and general policy. In this case, not before it was wanted, though I believe nothing short of the thorough-going way in which Capt. Fitzroy attempted to carry out the theory .cf ruling the New Zealanders by moral influence, without physical force, would have convinced the good people at home of its impracticability. According to the old routine, we ought now to have a trial of the opposite method, viz., physical force without moral influence; but I hope better things from our present Governor. We have no in dications as yet of the policy he intends pursuing ; but I think he will have to modify his Australian plans very considerably before they will be adapted to New Zea land. He has for the present put an end to the war in the north by granting the insurgent chiefs easy condi tions, which they will very likely not observe. He has also, by bringing an imposing force down to Wellington, expelled the intruders from the Hutt Valley ; but between these or any suck acts, by which he puts a stop' to or punishes positive aggressions, and a Systematic determination to subject the Maoris to British law, there is a very wide and sbrious difference. I expect they Hill require one or two much severer lessonsethan any they have yet had before they will be impressed with such :a respect for our power as will be sufficient to keep them quiet, even supposing no interference to be attempted with them generally ; but if it is determined to treat them at once as British subjects, under British laws, to do this with any success would, in the opinion of•many of the Auckland people required the force now Isere to be trebled at least ; and then the question would naturally arise whether the object in view were worth attaining at such an expense, or even whether the employment of such means for such an end were advisable or justifiable at all ; especially, when, as it seems to me, you might attain the same end by a very different conduct. The fact is, the Government of this country was begun under false impressions. From looking at a New Zealander, as another term for an irreclaimable cannibal, we went at once to the opposite extreme ; and from the accounts which came home of them, thought, as our subjects were ready made, all that we had to do was to find a gover • nor. We have now learnt that truth, as usual, lies some where between these two opinions. The natives are, no doubt an improving end improvable race, with much to like and even admire in their character ; teachable and intelligent.; but then I must be allowed to doubt, or even to deny, that Christianity has done more for them in twenty years than it has for ourselves in many centu ries ; without, on that account, being set down as an enemy either to the natives or their missionary teachers. We have been in too great a hurry for results, andlor gotten that men were not things, to be moulded and fashioned at our will into the form we might think best for them'; and that not by degrees, by little and little, but all at once. However, our Governor came out, and leaving the colonists to find out how little governing was really necessary to their welfare, placed himself 400 miles off, in the midst of the native population, who, he soon found out, had no ideas of being governed by hiin, and who have since proved it by actions more and more une quivocal. Their idea of what you have talked se much about, and we hear so little now, the treaty of Waitangi, was, that they gave us permission to nettle among them, which, .to do thern. justice, they are as anxious for as ever, and that the Queen's sovereignty was a shadow, whilst they kept the reality, a definition which, at the time, was thought a good one. Are we then now to Con vince them that our's is the correct interpretation by bullets and bayonets ? I suppose it would be done if there were anything to be gained by it ; but here I see no other result than an expenditure of some 200,0001. or 300,000/. per annum ; and 'that would be rather an odd conclusion after deciding a few years ago that New Zea land was not worth colonising at all. If not, and the old policy is given up, there remains but one plan, viz.:—To govern the settlers well first, leaving the subjection and civilisation of the natives to follow as a natural and ine vitable consequence. With a compact and inexpensive government in Cook's Straits, the natives might be safely left to the care of the missionaries, with a threat of put ting a stop . to - all intercourse with them if they misbe haved themselves. This, with the offer of support and protection to those tribes that were peaceably disposed, and willing to conform. to such regulations as the Gover nor might dictate, would ; I believe, offer the fairest_ chance of bringing them all under cur authority in the only way they are worth having at all, that is with their own free consent, given from a conviction of the advan tages they_ woulel themselves derive from it. There would be a clamour among the Auckland people, and some few cases requiring. compensation ; but the mer chants there are branches of Sydney houses, attracted by the expenditure of Government and the troops, as well as the native trade, which is considerable. They have all along considered themselves dependent on the good will of the Maoris, and the old settlers declared they were much better off before the Governor came among them. The good land in the north is also fully occupied already by. the ntetives s wbilstehere we have an extensive and va luable field for colonisation without . an inhabitant. Many other teasons fee such te'change oeour to nib ; but what I have said will be sufficient to show' you hosir'oorn pletely I look on the value of your investment here, or those of any New Zealand land proprietors, as de pendant-on the lino of policy adopted by Government ; or whether our rule is to lee forced upon tie natives, or be gradually intre\duced among , thenr, Inee c tie one ease, with our e leeeiteiraT eslimette„ fert,rie,sq),l *lftgietmttatkail • advAnth , (4o.i.Xspeilab to ,pi ven p very ilourishbeg tetkels;Onas intnents Must he dorseeantete+4heneset. genettet ; t6timay, perhaps, think. my's•=awn•position here litagiVen me aphis on this question ; but, if so, it is a bias without a cause ; since all the effect I can discern from such a change on my own interests would be to raise the price of my tea and sugar ; and as to personal security, we N e l son i ans consider the doings in the Northern Island much as the residents at Boulogne would an outbreak at Edinburgh or Glasgow. Our settlement is going on quietly, stea dily, and well, although terribly out of humour with the Company for attempting to evade its obligations towards us ; a line of conduct, which, if persevered in, will pro dnce an appeal from the colonists to Parliament or the Court of Chancery. Ido not go into the particulars, as I send you two or three numbers of our last local news paper, which will give you the whole quarrel, and per haps amuse you besides. A RESIDENT AT NELSON. CURIOUS DISCOVERY AT MELTON.—It had always been remarked that the crops upon a particular spot in a fitld situate in Melton, upon the confines of Ufford, part of the estate of Mrs. Barker, of Ipswich, were more luxuriant than elsewhere ; and Mr. Mechi, the champion of deep draining, having been lecturing lately at Wickham market, upon the great result, double crops, &c., to be derived from the use of his f avour it e reme d y for unfruitful soils, attention was more particularly directed to this little oasis, and a few weeks back the labourers, after pulling some fiae carrots, commenced digging, with a view of examining the subsoil. They had not dug far before they found a considerable quantity of broken tiles, of an un usual size and thickness. One of them was submitted to the inspection of Mr. D. E. Davy. an d afterwards Whincopp, who immediately pronounced it to be of Roman manufacture ; and it was therefore re solved that the spot should be more fully examined, which was done on Friday week. A cutting was made about twenty feet wide and ten broad, and at the depth of about six feet a largo quantity of plain tiles, twelve inches by nine inches in size, and three-quarters of an inch in thickness, regularly laid over each other, were discovered, and some fragments with the edges inverted. At one corner of the cutting was found a large quantity of brick earth, moulded into the form of tiles, ready for burning, with layers of sand between each, sufficiently indicating the character of the place —a tegularium, or place for making tiles. A strong pavement of carburetted earth formed a bottom, on which it is probable, as ashes were lying near, the tiles were burned. • Some' . of them are in the possession of Mr. Whincopp, Woodbridge, and it is, we believe, intend e d t o en l arge th e cutting, when, possibly, something more valuable may be discovered.— Ipswich Journal. THE NEW OFFICIAL RESIDENCE OF THE HON COLONEL PHIPPS, PRIVATE SECRETARY TO PRINCE ALBERT. —The Store Tower, or Wardrobe Tower (and sometimes called the " Bible Tower"), but, in reality, Henry the Third's Tower, which is in the lower ward of Windsor Castle, and nearly opposite the Deanery, the residence for many years, until lately, of Lady Barring ton, will be the new official residence of the lion. -Col. Phipps, the recently-appointed Private Secretary to`-his Royal Highness the Prince Consort. This Tower will continue to be occupied by Mr. Turnbull, Clerk of the Works at Windsor Castle (in the department of :the Woods and Forests), until the Architect's Tower, which is now undergoin g cons id era bl e a l terat i ons, by the ' addi tion of an extra story, is put into a habitable state for the occupancy of that official, when he will remove from his present residence, which will then be taken posses sion of by Colonel Phipps. Lady Barrington, whb left Windsor Castle last summer, is now residing at Haup. ton Court Palace, where apartments were assigned to her ladyship by command of her Majesty. Mr. Anson, who will retain his appointm en t i n P r i nce Albert's house hold, as Treasurer to his Royal Highness, will reside in the Norman Tower, formerly the official residence of Lady Mary Fox, the late Housekeeper of the State apart ments at the Castle. 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Perry are in daily atten ,clant e at their resideen 19, Berners-street, Oxford-street, London, from i eleven till two, s' five till eight; and on Sundays from eleven US twelve. .... ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. WITII TWENTY-FIVE COLOURED ENGRAVINGS. Just published, Twentieth Thous:uid, in a ,setiled envelope, F t 2s. 6,1. or post paid, to any address, for 38.....6d. in Postage Stator direct front the Author's residence. ELF. PRESERVATIONS A Medical Tree ° kJ on the Secret Infirmities and Disordera of Youth and Metall Illustrated with Twenty-five Coloured Plates en the Anato!, l d , Physiology, and Diseases of the Urinary suid he % , veductive Org y explaining their various structures, uses, arid flinctOns, the injuries that are produced in them, by ;topiary ha bite, and o_t i excesses. With Practical Observations or: the Treatment of Nem" - , and sho es Debility, Local and Constitutional Weakneos„ and otht'r disease s the Urethra. •Eye SAMUEL LAWERT, -Li Lj LAVIN a SITRGECN, 9, Bedford-street, Bedford-eque re, London; Matriculated Member or the University •. f Vdinburgh, 11011 0 "'" Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, LiceZtilt. Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &e. CONTENTS OF THE TaaAT CHAPTER 1. On the Philosophy of Married re, with its Hindriri and bligations, and on Infelicitous and Inproductive Unloor„ d CHAPTER 2. On the A na t omy an d Ph ys i o l og y o f th e G en era n Organs, their functions, structures, and secret 'Max, proving that ST;; , , Mental and Physi ca l P ower are dependant n; port their healthy Act"o4 —CHAPTER 3. On Solitary Habits; their various effects 00 ,„0 Animal Economy; th e concea l ed cause of D eb i l i ty of the fallev , '4 of the Stomach, Lungs, and Brain, and gi mend weakness of Mental Faculties. CHAPTER 4. On the Seer it Disorders of and Maturity, and the Treatment of Nervous and Local Weal Mental Debility, and Premature Decay.—Ca 'APULIA 5 and i. the Disorders arising from indiscnminate Excess, CloasOrDw - Gleet, Strictures, and other Diseases of the U rettra. REVIEWI 07 THE WOIIC. • "The author of this singular and talented w or k is a legally 41111 1, fled medical man, who has e v id en tly h a d cons tolerable experieal'A the trr Atment of the various disorders arising :from the follies frailties of early indiscretion. The engravings are an invaluable 74 dition, by demonstrating the consequences of excesses, which l 2) act as a salutary warning to youth and matur. it r, and by its Pc'Tr many questions may be sa ti s f actorily replied to,. ' that admit f 110 peal, even to the most confidential friend."—Era.. 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In addition to this, blatili:ets were gil r . ., e ", to all who wanted them, and coals to the more indigen; the latter from the bounty of Dr. Croly, who placed r . orders on the City kit c h en a t th e di s p osa I o f th e churor, wardens. The poor people departed .litxtded with tlIfT. unexpected treasur e , no suc h distributionhaving take place in the parish for upwards of twenty years. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —COUGH F, COLDe z, A STHMAS, Afir s WIIEEZINGS ON THE CHEST CUBED BY HOLLOW AT'S PILLS.--013..- no other medicine will afford the least relief in coughs and cold., Holloway's Pills will almost immediately effect a cure in any 0 ,„ ° 4 however desperate ; and what is more ex t raor di nary, astbma s whsezings, even of several y ears ' standing, may- be completely g: id rid of by following the di rec ti ons w hi c h accomparr each box of 10 ; $ celebrated medicine. Many mina' are nearly at death's door, ri being able to layKlown 'efieir4bcds, fearing to be choked phlegm, hate had, tijr their means, asthmatic compLlints so efr, Itual s y eradlpated, that, pot the least symptoms remained.—Sold ail druggiSts, and at Professor Holloway's, 244, Strand, London. 1311:771S. On the 27th Oct., the lady of Captain Ar.chibaldPark,29t ll Regiment Bengal, Native Infantry, of a son. On the 20th ult., at Sherborne, Dorset, the lady of Jan llls Edward Bradshaw, Esq., of a son. On the 20th ult., at Hurdcott, Wilts, the .lady of the BO' Charles R. Davy, of a daughter. On the 28th ult., at Crescent-place, Mornington• crescent/ the wife of Frederick L. Slous, Esq., of a son, still-born. On the 29th ult., in Clarges-street, Mrs. Robert Phill l4 more, of a daughter. On the 29th ult., Mrs. William Parry, York-grove, Peek' ham, of a son. On the 29th ult., in Leadenhall-sizeet, Mrs. Willis Hawes, of a son. On the 30th ult., at the Grove, Highgate, the wife of F. Smith, Esq., of a son. On the 30th ult., at Streatham, the wife- ,of Robert Field, Esq., of a son. On the 24th ult., in Grosvenor-square, Mu. Brougham, of a daughter. On the 25th ult, at Calchully House; Inverness-shire, tho lady of William James Snodgrass, Esq., of a san. • On the 25th u l t. , at Miserden Rectory, Woucestersbnit Mrs. Yarnton Mills, of a daughter. At the Rectory, Compton-Martin, Somerset, the lady . of the Rev. W. H. Cartwright, of a son. • MARRIED. On the 28th ult., at St. James's, Holloway, John Baines, Esq of Park-road, H o ll oway, to Jane Ann. eldest daughter of the late H. Hayward, Esq., of Chobham, Surrey. DIED. On the 16th ult., at Chatham, Captain jcisiah Eyles Deere, 94th Regiment. --- • On the 24th ult., Elizabeth, the wife of Mr. 'John Harnett, of Coppice. row, Clerkenwell. • On the 26th ult., at Lower Garthinyl, Montgomeryshire, Edkvard Johnes, Esq., M.D., aged 74.••••. On the 28th ult., at Shirley, Hants, William Frederick Jekyll, Esq., late Lieutenant in her Majesty's 6th Foot. On the 28th ult., John Withers Clark, Esq., of Preahute, near Marlborough, Wilts, aged 54. On the 29th ult., at Lancaster, John Denis De Vitt+, Esq., Lieutenant RN., aged 90.. On the 29th ult., at St. Peter's, Bedford, J. Rawlins, Et* On the 29th ult., in Bedford-lane, Clapham, Thomas Stephenson, Esq., aged 72. MONTHLY MILITARY OBITUARY. Generals.—Sir Martin Hunter, G.C.8., and G.C.H., Gover nor of Stirling; Michell; J. Granby Clay. Lieut.-Dickenson,—Dickenson, Royal Artillery; Shortall, late Royal Irish Artillery.• • Major-Generals.—Wahab, East India Company's 'service; Trewman, ditto. Colonels.—Grogan, half-pay, Corsican Rangers ;J. F. Wade, C. 8., late of Grenadier Guards; T. H. Hastings Davies, late of 6th Dragoon Guards; Craig, half-pay,' 100th Foot. • Lieut,-Colonels.—Elwin, late of 44th Foot; Brooke Fir imeraia: josSrlBtv•.a_niyer,i hetit half -pay, 58th Foot; Hornsby, Royal RoyalArtil y; Minis. Royal Horse Guards; Troupe, East India Company's service; Minto, ditto. Captains.--Deere, 94th Foot; Pipon, Royal Engineers, drowned in Restigouehe River, New Brunswick; Andrew Fraser, late 7th Veteran Battalion (Fort Maj.) Inverness; Bowyer, half -pay, 20th Dragoons ; _ Gregory, half-p a y, 56th Foot; D. 0. S tewart, h a lf- pay , 2d' Garrison Battalion ; Mas sev, late Royal Artillery Drivers; Blagrave, ditto; John h M :o ir r .. g p a a n y y l a ci te st o h f Royal Marines ; Si r Ed*. D o d sworth, Bart ., • Lieutenants.— Firebrace 21st Foot; Sparr ow , 31 t t F oo t, on passag e to Europe ; Biaher, 61st Foot ; Robertson, 80th Foot; Lewin, Royal Marines ; Davis, hall-pay 16th •Foot; Brooke, half-pay 51st Foot; Liardet, Unattached; Reeves,. late 2d Veteran Battalion ; Bremner, ditto ; il , Arthur, ditto; Spinks, late 3d ditto; Appuhn, half.pay, 3d Line German Legion ; James Willis, late Royal Artillery Drivers. Ensign.—Thorne 4th Foot, K am pt ee. Quartermaster. - 1 1 1acdonal0, Ceylon Regiment. Miscellaneous.—Assistant Commander General Davidson, half-pay; Surgeon Hamilton, half-pay 46th Foot; Dr. Thompson, half-pay Staff Surgeon ; Assistant-Surgeon Macready, 31st Foot; Assistant-Surgeon Turnbull, 94th Foot, at sea; Veterinary Surgeon Robertson, 7th Hussars. - Lonkttm Printed and Published by 1111.11tDO YOUNG, of No. 1 12 . Strand, Printer, at The Sun Otliee, N 0.112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex, Friday, . 13 ' nuary 1, 1847. 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