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The Coromissionera for e'er :citing the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kin 4dom of Gr eat Britain and Ireland, do hereby give notice, that on '..nuasney, tb.e 22d instant, at one o'clock, they will be ready to triat with such .Persons as may be willing to Contract for sappirng her Majesty's Dock Yards, or any one or more of them, and the admiralty and Marine Offices with COALS. A distribution of the (- Jos's, and a form of the Tend,er may be seen at the said office. No T ender will be received after one o'clock, on the day of treaty, nor any noticed, uniesS the part s attends, or an agent for him duly authorized in writing. Every Tender must lee addresstd to the Secretary of the Admiralty, zed bear in the left hand corner the words "Tender for and must also be delis* Bred at .9 omersct-place, accompanied by a letter signed ty two responsible y ersons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering, in the sum of 201. per 100 tons for the due per formance of the Contract. THE EAST INDIA SALT MONOPOLY.- At a Meeting of I lerchants, Manufacturers, and Ship - owners, held at Birmingham, or. WEDNESDAY, the 31st March, to consider the Dispatch recently forwarded to India, by the East India Directors, the following Resolutions were passed :- Ist. That the East In dia Company's monopoly of the manufacture of Salt in Bengal aad Behar, being not only most injurious to the welfare of the Hind oot:, but also extremely prejudicial to the manu facturing, shipping, tnd other commercial interests of Great Britain, this Meeting pledges itself to use every effort to procure the extinc tion of that monopo'ty. 2d. That the var isms Chambers of Commerce, commercial and trading associations, In the different commercial and manufacturing towns and cities in Great Britain, be urged to appeal to the Legisla ture by memorial, w !eviously enlisting the support of their respective representatives in the House of Commons ; and likewise to take such other steps, by the convocation of public meetings, or otherwise as may appear to tl ICM advisable, in order to enforce the abolition of the monopoly in q acelion. 31. That the b , at thanks of this Meeting are due to the Public Press, for the , ivarm sympathy and support it has afforded the opponents of the. monopoly. 4th. That the. thanks of this Meeting be tendered to Mr. Aylwln fur his indefatigable efforts to diffuse information respecting the operation of the Salt mot .opoly, and to advocate its abolition ; and that Mr. A 3 twin be entre. lied to persevere in exertions calculated to be of so muck service to the interests of England and India. (Signed) WILLIAM WORTHINGTON, Chairman. Birmingham, 31st Mar , :./a, 1847. Published by order of the Meeting, J. H. ST' 'UELER, Secretary. STEAM to ABriRDEEN, ERNESS, and the NOILTII of SCOT . . D. The Aberdeen Steam Namigation Company's splendid and power ful ships will start us under. weather, &c., permitting: — For ABERDEEN, the DUKE of WELLINGTON, on Saturday, April 10, at Four o'clock afternoon. For INVERNESS, the NORTH STAR, on Monday, April 19, at Nine morning, calling of Burghead, Invergordon, Cromarty, and Chanonry Point. The Company's New Iron Steam Ship DUKE of SUTHERLAND, is appointed to leave Inverue ss on the 19th, and London on Monday, the 26th April, at Ten A.M.. °dices: Spread Eapja, Regent-drew', or 257, Wapping. CHARLYIS WILLIAM WILLOUGHBY, Agent. fr 1 RAYESENJJ STAR and BLACK\VALL kr PACKETS. Boat and Railway included in one Payment, avoiding the danger and delay of the Pool. From. the Bruns , fiek Wharf, Illackwall, at 9, 10, 11,' 12, 1%, 3, 4%, 5%, and 7. Sundays, at 9,9%, 10, 11, 1%, 3,5%, and 7. The Trains starting o - ae quarter of an hour before each of these times. New Terrace Pier, Gravesend, at 73i, 834, 934, 11X,, 1,2, 3, r), and 634. Sundays, at 7,7%, 8%, 11%, 1,3, 5,6, and 7. N.lj:—No other packets call at the Grays or Greenhithe Piers. Star Office, Gravesend, April 3, 1847. T HE EXPERIENCE LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. Edinburgh, 15, Georre-street. London, 58, King William-street. Established 1843. Capital 300,0001. This Company's Tables are based upon the EXPERIENCE OF TILE SEVEN I' EEN LIFE OFFICES,as contained in the Report of their Mortality pulllished in 1843. The Company embraces, in its constitution, the :xlvaritages of both the mutual and pr3prietary systems ot•Assurane a. The stionT PERIOD RATES will be found, in comparison with other Companies, to be exceedingly faTourable to Insurers, and the rates for the whole period of life as low as is consistent WITH PERFECT SEoURITY. For prospectuses, &c.. ap,,ly at the offices as above, or to any of the Agents throughout the kingdom. By order of the Directors, T. YUILLE WARDROP, Secretary, PELICAN LIFE INSURANCE OFFICE, _7O, LOMBARD-STREET, and 57, CHARING-CROSS, LONDON: Established 1797. DIRECTORS. Matthias Attwood, Esq., M.P. Kirkman D. Hodgson, Esq. Robert Gurney Barclay,, Esq. Richard 11. Lawrence, Esq. W. Cotton, Esq., F.R.S. J. Petty Muspratt, Esq. Wm. Davis, Esq. Cha , les Hampden Turner, Esq. Richard Fuller, Esq. Matthew Whiting, Esq. J. A. Gordon, Esq., M.D., F.R.S. BO N US. Four-flfths of Vac net Profits realised by the Company from In surances effected upon the Participating, Scale of premiums allotted, agreeably to the conditions of the policies, every SCTCR years. The first period to commence from the 3d of July, 1840. Annual Premium required for the Assurance of 1001. for the whole term of life. A ge. Without With Ar,„ Without With Profits. Profits. Profits. Profits. 15 1 11 0 1 15 0 40 2 18 10 3 6 5 20 1 13 10 1 19 3 50 I 4 0 9 410 7 0 2 4 0 210 4 60 I 6 1 0 6 7 4 ROBERT TUCKER, Secretary. CORPORATION (Established by Royal Charter A.D. 1720.) ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE OF HOUSES AND GOODS FROM FIRE. OFFICES—ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. Branch, 29, Pall-mall. ,Totice.—Tho usual fifteen days allowed for payment of Premiums lamn g due at Lady-day will expire on the 9th day of April next. ASSURANCES ON LIVES. WITII LARGE PARTICIPATION IN PROFITS. Two-thirds of the profit on the Company's Life Business since De eember, 1841, will be apportioned, periodically, among Policies for Life ; without involving the Assured in any risk of Partnership. GovEurioa—Thomas Tooke, Esq. Sun-GOVERNOR—WiIIiam Sampson, Esq. DitrIITT-GOVERNOR—The Hon. J. T. Leslie Melville. DIRECTORS. _ _ henry Bainbridge, Esq. ~eorga P. Barclay, Esq. ... ^ •••••,4 a pilerf .v.. John Garratt Alexander Colvin, Esq. William Davidson, Esq. John Deacon, Esq. Itiversdale W. Grenfell, Esq. William T. Fllbbert, Esq. Lancelot Holland, Esq. Sir Georg. Larpent, Bart. John C. Lochner, Esq. Sir J. W. Lubbock, Bart. Charles John Manning, Esq. EdiValtrd:r 42 cle . r , John Henry relly, Esq. Abraham (4. Robarts, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq. Sir Samuel Scott, Bart. William Soltau, Esq. William Wallace, Esq. Gets Tins Wigram, Esq. Charles B. Yorug, Esq. ALEX. GREEN, Secretary. NATIONAL LOAN SOCIE N T FUD LIFE ASSUR MICE Y, 26, CORNIIILL, LONDON, Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages with respect to Life Assurances and Deferred A nnu houtities. The asor sured has, on all occasions, the pow er to borrborrow,wit expen for feiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premiums paid, (see Table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in terests to meet other conveniences or necessity at the lowest pos sible Assurances for terms of years are grauted rates. DIVISION' OF PROFI TS . The remarkable success a nd increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors, at the last annual investig theation, to declare a fourth bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on premiums On each Policy effected on the Profit scale. ------------------ ^:1, ',; 4 I us \ Bonus in 4 7 8 g Assured 4 it l ti Premium. il 4 13 ,: h il ie L - . i Cash. g" t' may __-. ---- ,- p O . , Borrow. .... ----- z x s ---- . a. l i BL .£2 1 1 2 7 2 15 3 1 0 11r 7 0 ? 1 4 ,.,x 1 6 3 1 0 0 t k , ,z 3 44 9 0 1 , 51 0 601000 3 4 1839 i 165 11 10 74 19 , 11 , 3 , 0 11 . 3 2.3 1 6 1 2 3 1i1 1 8 8 4 4 0 1 116 111 7 6 6 8 5 . ! , 0 „, 10 ,., 7 , 1 10 1 4 i 247 13 4 : 4u 112_:---1------:_ - - _ The division of profits is annual, stud the neat will he made in December of the present y F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary. -------- EtRITISH GUARANTEE ASSOCIATION. (lacorporated by Act of Parliament.) No. 9, Waterloo-place, London ; 126, Princes-street, Edinburgh. The arrangements with the Lords Comnliss;oners of her Majesty's Treasury having been concluded, the Directors will grant Bondsthe of Guarantee for the fidelity of Officers in every depat of state, who are required to give security to the Crown, and they are prepared to receive proposals from persons employed in the Treasury, War Office, Office, Ordnance, Home Foreign Office, Customs and Excise, Stamps and Taxes, Colonial Office, Exchequer, Woods and Forests, Admiralty, Post Office, &c. Also from Treasurers, Actuaries, and other Officers of the :New County Courts, Loan Societies, Savings' Banks, Government Annuity Societies, Friendly Societies, Benefit Building Societies, Poor-law Commission, And all Public and Private In- Insurance Companies, stitutions, Banks, Chancery and other Receiver- Railway Companies, ships, Mercantile Houses, And in all other situations where security against fraud, or failure to account, is required. Rates of Premium One Half per Cent. and upwards. Colonial and Foreign Policies are granted. Forms of proposal may be obtained at the offices of the Associa tion ; or from any of the Local Agents. A. CIIAMBRE, Secretary to the London Board. FENDERS, STOVES, and FIRE IRONS. — The LARGEST ASSORTMEN T of STOVES, KITCHEN RANGES, and FENDERS, as well as General Ironmongery In the world, is now on Sale at WILLIAM S. BURTON'S (late RIPON and BURTON'S) extensive arehouses. Bright steel fenders, to 4 feet, from 30s. each ; ditto ditto, with or-mole ornaments, from 60s. rich bronzed scroll ditto, with steel bar, 10s. Gd. iron fenders, 3 feet, 4s. Gd. ; 4 feet, Gs. ; ditto bronzed, and fitted with standards, 3 feet, 95.; 4 feet, lie. ; wrought iron kitchen fenders, 3 feet, 45.6 d. ; 4 feet, 6s, ; bright register stoves, with bronzed ornaments, and two sets of bars, from 955. ; ditto ditto, with or-molu ornaments, from 91. ; black dining-room register stoves, 2 feet, 18s.; 3 feet, 275. ; bed-room register stoves, 2 feet, 16s. ; 3 feet, 245. The new econo mical thermio stove, with fender and radiating hearth plate, from 8/, ; tire-irons for chambers, Is. 9d. per set ; handsome ditto, with cut heads, Gs. 6d.; newest pattern, with elegant bronzed heads, lie. A variety of fire-irons, with or-mole and richly cut heads, at propor tionate prices. Any article in the furnishing ironmongery, 30 per cent. under any other house. The money returned for every article not approved of. Detailed catalogues, with engravings, sent (per post) free. WILLIAM S. BURTON'S (late BETON and BURTON'S) stock of general furnishing ironmongery is literally . the largest in the World, and as no language can be employed to give a correct idea of its variety and extent, purchasers are invited to c Established Wells otreet 1520. ON NERVOUS DEBILITY AND GENERATIVE DISEASES. JUST PUBLISHED, THE THIRTIETH THOUSAND, .fin Improved Edition, revised and corrected. 120 pages, price 25., in a sealed envelope, or forwarded, Pin postage to any address, secure from observation, for 2s. 6d. in postage stamps, illustrated with numerous Anatomical C oloured Engravings, A N li 0 0 D MThe Causes of its Premature Decline; with Plain Direc tions for its Perfect Restoration. indiscriminate ex- A Medical Essay on those diseases habits generative organs, emanating from solitary and sedentary remarks on h practical ceases, the effects of climate, and infection,wit &C., addresed to the sufferer in youth, manhood, wa d old age ; marriage, the treatment an d cure of nervous and mental debility, impotency, syphilis, and other urino-genital diseases. by which even the most shattered constitution may be restored, and reach the full period of life allotte d to man. The whole colour, illustrated With numerous Anatomical Engravings on eteel, in explain ing the various thnctions, secretions, and structures of the reproduc tive organs in health and disease; ka ith instructions for private cor respondence , cases, &c. IV J. L. CURTIS and 0. , Consulting Surgeous, 7. Frith - street , Soho - squ are, London. REVIEW of TTIE NOBS. Having for many years been ' I emus ON MANOD. ( Strange). the standard work o n these diseases, its originality is apparent, and its p erusa l br e athes consolation and hope to the mind of the patient." —Naval and Military Gazette. ' Published by the Authors, and may be had at their residence ;sold also by Strange, 21, le Haphay, 63, Oxford-street Mann , 39, Cornhill, London ; Sowlet, 4, St. Ann's-square, Man chester; Philip , South Castle-stree t, Liverpool ; Campbell, 146, Argyle-street, Glasgow ; Robinson, 11, Greenside-street, Edinburgh; and in a sealed eurelepe by all booksellers. 11-9 a " CITRTIS anti CO. are t. - , he coninlted daily at tiv r renti ' ,,,, t, Nu. 'i, Farrii-sLm:z 'E, ;:1 iO-o,2UAltif-,• I,O D c*, otherwise, can hays this work privately forwarded them, by initial or tberwise, to any part of the United Eangdom, direct from the Author's Residence, or from any of the abQY9 agents, on remitting 8, 6d' 14 postage stamr. No. 17,019. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING SALES BY AUCTION. The Magnificent DOMAIN of HAMPDEN, in BUCKS, comprising about 4,600 Acres, nearly in a Ring Fence, surrounding a fine Baronial Mansion, with a superbly Timbered Park, extensive Woodlands, valuable Farms, Manors and Advowson, delightfully situated between the Towns of Wycombe, Risborough, Missenden, and Aylesbury, and within Twelve Miles of the Tring Station on the London and Birmingham Railway. MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON have been commissioned by the Noble Proprietor to announce (the late contract having been abandoned by mutual consent of him self and the pnrchaser) that this truly important and highly distin guished FREEHOLD ESTATE will be SUBMITTED to PUBLIC SALE during the ensuing summer, unless an acceptable offer shall be previously made by Private Contract. It is famed as having been especially visited by Queen Elizabeth, and as the residence of the renowned llampden, and comprises a splendid domain of about 4,600 acres, embracing a romantic portion of the fine healthy Chiltern Hills and of the rich vale beneath, stretching to within a few miles of the several surrounding towns of Missenden, Wendover, Aylesbury, Princes Risborough, and High Wycombe. The mansion is a grand feature in the county, amidst the wood-crowned heights of Hampden, opening with south and east aspects through noble avenues (one still known as Queen Elizabeth's Gap) to the surrounding vale. It pos sesses capital stabling, good gardens, &c., but it is a place of compara tively small expense. The park is superbly timbered, tv'd the woodlands are remarkably thriving. and form beautiful broken links in the surrounding diversified scenery. The farms arc all let at very low rents to a respectable tenantry. There are keepers' and woodmens' lodges, and numerous superior cottages. The manors are extensive, and the advowsen of Hampden-cum-Kimble, with its desirable par sonage, and the tithes of some adjoining estates, appertain to the property. Tamp icturesque church, in which is the grave and mo nument of Hampden, is neaLthe house : and it is the wish of the t the whole pirt b e o i n f its g e ft n g e l c i l t y e • d interesting ep,dyeintashd a gti oetss, historical uir { sc a l taral u an a rmte ble noble proprietor to transfer the mansion (with a few unimpor its is e ta ff n e t cu exceptions), the gre value, otheral associations. num ero us beauties, Su cli a a nd property, Interesting l appendages, in the market. _ . Cards for viewing the estate can only be obtained by parties giving their name and adlress, of Messrs. Jones, Bateman, and Bennett, Solicitors, Lincoln's-inn ; and of Messrs. Daniel Smith and Son, Land Agents, who are fully authorised to treat for the sale of the property. Particulars may he also had of Mr. Grace, of Ward robes, near Rishorough, the Resident Agent, who will give every in formation to parties having orders to view. THE OLD PALACE, at RICHMOND, a delightfully situate and most comfortable Mansion, with Grounds extending to the River, near the Bridge; late the seat of the lion. Mrs. STEWART MAC KENZIE, now wholly residing in Scotland. MESSRS. DANIEL, SMITH and SON will submit to public SALE, at the MART, near the Bank of England, on FRIDAY, the 9th of April, at Twelve o'clock (unless an acceptable offer shall be previously made by private contract). The above spacious and handsome LEASEHOLD MANSION, one of the striking features in the beautiful scenery of the Thames near Richmond-bridge. It is distinguished as the Old Palace. Its river front (agreeably retired) presents a grand uniform elevation, with a noble portico of very lofty stone columns, supported by a broad flight of stone sters fro m the ground floor, which comprises a de li g htful range of six or seven rooms, forming the dining and recept ion rooms, boudoir, &C., all opening en suite, with the same south-western as pect, and all commanding the uninterrupted view of the pleasure grounds and river. On the upper floors are numerous excellent and cheerful bed-rooms, a bouct , ir and dressing-rooms, nearly ail with warm aspects, and the domestic offices are very complete, opening to a spacious enclosed coach-yard, with distinct ac cess, stabling for four horses, double coach-house, &c., and adjoining are very superior walled gardens, with an abundance of the choicest fruit trees; south ward of which are the pleasure grounds, extending from the mansion to the river bank, with broad gravelled walks, and embellished with same lofty timber trees, cedars, and clumps of various American and other shrubs, with a capital newly-erected conservatory, and a sum mer-house, adapted for a billiard-room, commanding the beautiful scenery of the river, Richmond-bridge, &C. Immediate possession may be had, and descriptive particulars had at the neighbouring hotels ; of Mr. Cain, house agent, Richmond ; at the Auction Mart ; of Joseph Parkes, Esq., 21. Great George-street, Westminster; of llughJames Cameron, Esq., Parliament-street; and of Daniel Smith and Son, surveyors, fsDc., Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, who are fully authorised to receive otters by private treaty. ADVOWSONS, in the remarkably beautiful part of Gloucestershire, near Stroud, between Gloucester, Cheltenham, and Bath, ESS RS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will I' SELL by AUCTION, at the MART, on FRIDAY, April 9, at Twelve, in separate Lots, TWO most desirable ADVOWSONS, with next and all future alights of Presentation, with very superior par sonages, delightfully situate, amidst the romantic scenery of Wood • chester Park and the fine Vale of the Severn, surrounded by an excellent neighbourhood, and both within two miles of stations on the Great Western Railway, viz , the Rectory of Woodchester, the annual income of which, with 24 acres of glebe, is 3501., exclusive of the delightful Parsonage-house and Grounds, only two miles from Stroud; the present incumbent is 68 years of age; the population, 900. Also, the Vicarage of Frocester, five miles fl om Stroud, and 11 from Gloucester, with a newly-built parsonage, exclusive of which the income is 2701. per annum ; the incumbent is 47 ; the popu lation 300. Particulars may be had at the chief Hotels at Gloucester, Bath, Cheltenham, and Oxford ; of Messrs. Humphreys and Co., auctioneers, Stroud ; of Mr. Hudson, solicitor, the Close, Lichfield ; the Mart ; and of Messrs. Daniel Smith and Son, Laud Agents, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall. CHETER-HILL HOUSE, amidst the romantic scenery of Weed chester Park, near Stroud and Gloucester, with a first-class Railway-station only two miles distant. MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will offer for SALE by AUCTION at the Mart, near the Bank of England, on FRIDAY, the 9th of April, et Twelve o'clock (unless an acceptable offer shall be previously made by Private Contract), Tho above desirable FREEHOLD RESIDENCE, with gardens, pleasure grounds, and rich paddocks, together about eighteen acres. The House contains six airy bed-rooms, dressing-rooms, water closet, &c. three sitting-rooms, hall, and the usual domestic offices, with stabling and various out -buildings, excellent gardens, lawn, shrubberies, &c.; delightfully sitnate on a healthy picturesque spot, commanding scenery of great extent and surprising beaut , and in the 'Vicinity of the newly established Mission of the PaSSiOlliStS, and early possession may be had. Also, a smaller HOUSE and GROUNDS in the immediate vicinity. Particulars may be had of Mr. Peaks, the resident agent at Wood- Chester; at the chief hotels at Stroud, Bristol, and Bath; at the Auction Mart ; of Mr. Hodson, solicitor, the Close, Lichfield ; and of 71facarc llt,ninl gmith anti .n•-___sT• -...-- --.-------__ NE AR PETERBOROUGH. The Great ESTA and Extensive MANORS and ADVOWSON of HITTLESEA,TE to be divided, offering m ost valuable and impor tant Investents in Freehold Farms and Tithe Rent Charges of va rious amounts, tog but alt of the Estimated Value of nearly 7,0001. per annum. MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH AND SON are Instructed by the Noble Proprietors to announce (the several offers to this vast property in one lot having been declined) that it will be SUBMITTED TO PUBLIC COMPETITION,in June next, in divers Lots, comprising the several capital FARMS, let at low rents to highly respectable tenants, together with above 2,100 acres of first-rate land adjoining and near to the town ; and well secured freehold rent charges, in lieu o, tithes, arising from about 19,000 acres ; the living of Whittlesea ; and the very extensive and important manors, ex tending over above 25,000 acres, embracing a great portion of the town. Further particulars will be shortly published, and the estates may be viewed by application to Mr. John S Waddelow, at Whittlesea, and particu l ar s known of M essrs. Jones, Bateman, and Bennett, olici tors, Lincoln's-inn ; and of Messrs. Daniel Smith and Son, Land- Agents, in Waterloo-pltee, Pall-mall,t who are full pro y authorised p to re ceive offers for th e whole or any P"i. _ —... —...:::------------- , BERT:, The ALBURY HALL ESTATE, with valuable Manors in a very Healthy and Sporting Fart of the County ; comprising a substan tial Mansion, surrounded by a fine and well-wooded Park, and several capital Farms, let at very low rents ; the whole embracing about 1,640 Acres, which may be divided so as to leave the Min sion, Park, and Home Farms In a perfect Ring-fence of either 400 or 900 Acres. MESSRS. DANIEL SMITII acid SON will SELL by AUCTION, at the Mart, at the end of May, in one or more lots (unless previously disposed of by Private Contract), by order of the Devisees in Trust under the will of the late John Calvert, Esq., the above very valuable and importan t FREEHOLD ESTATE, situate about six milts from Bishop Stortford, ten from Ware, mid about twelve from Saffron Walden, Roys ton with a judicious outlay, and perhaps the removal of a superfluous office-wing, may easily be rendered a very handsome and most comfortable family house. It stands in the centre of s park, in a dry sheltelered spot and (the substratum being chalk), with a fine grove of jofty ms chestnuts screening it from the north, with walled gardens, ex tensive stabling, and a complete farm homestead. The park and home farm, as now in hand, comprise about 500 acres, pleasingly undulated, and studded with ornamental woods and groups of timber. The other farms, which will be offered comprise in separate lots (if no offe r is made for the whole property), the high Farm and the Hole and Patmere Hall Farms, in thettages, occu pation of Messrs. Sca les, Feast, and Clarke, with sundry co &c. ; also the valuable Manors of Albury Hall and ratmore Ball, with their courts, quit rents, and arbitrary fines ; also a Valuable de tached Estate, known as St. John's Farm, in the parishes of Fur neaux and Brent Pelham, comprising, in a perfect ring fence, about 247 acres, let to Mr. William Clarke ; and ereth aluable Manor of Furneaux Pelham Hall, with its courts, quit ts, and arbitrary fines. The kennel of the Hertford hounds is in the parish, and the estate is admirably adapted tor game,,from its healthy soil, and its excellent preserves judiciously interspersed. The tenants are highly respectable, and the rents considerably under those of the neigh bourhood. The E s t a tes may be viewed by application to Mr. Scales, of High Farm ; and descriptive p articulars, with plans, may be ha d, w hen the day of sale is fixed, on the premises; at the chief inns at Bishops Stortford, Hertford, Staustead, &c. ; at the Auction Mart ; of Mess. Western, solicitors, Great James-street, Bedford-row ; and of Daniel S Smith and on land agents, in Waterloo-place, who are authorised , treat for the , disposal of the properly altogether or divided. ___----------- ------------- ISLE OF wßarr. FREEHOLD RESIDENCE, WITH LAND. MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will SELL by AUCTION, at the Mart, near the Bank of Eng land, in Max next (unless an acceptable the offer very sha des ll b able and e previously com made by Private Cont ract), in Two Lots, ir fortable RESIDENCE, known as Ningwood Rouse, most substan tially built of stone, with modern slated r4ofs. It stands in a hand some and extensive lawn, dressed with luxuriant shrubs and orna mental fir and other trees, with excellent Stabling for three and two horses, double coach-house, &c.—all stone buildings, and in excellent repair ; productive Gardens, and Your Paddocks of very valuable Pasture Land adjoining, with the tithes thereof. Also, in a Second Lot, a neat and large substantial COTTAGE, with Garden and rich Paddok, sot distance fom the house, to which it is a great acquis c itio a n, but its situation would justify a moderate outlay to render it of ahi and more ornamental character. Ningwood is in the parish of gher Shalfleet, about three miles from Yarmouth, four from Freshwater, seven from Newport, eleven from Cowes, and four teen from Ryde. The Estate may he viewed, and descriptive particulars had when the day of sale is fixed, at the Inns at Yarmouth, Ne at ; wport, Auc Cowes, n ti &c. ;of Messrs. Bu tt and Worsley, solicitors, Ryde the o Mart; and of Daniel Smith and Son, land agents, in Waterloo -place, Pall-mall. ____—.................•••••___. "5""•"7". ____.-- --------- H E WELLINGTON S URTOUT. T A NEW LIGHT REPELLENT OVER-COAT FOR THE NI SPRING. —Registered 6 and 7 Vict., cap. 65.—r.A.ROSED by 11.11.11. PR ENcE ALBERT, the ROYAL FAMILY, his Grace the COMMANDER -IN-CHIEF, the PRINCIPAL NOBILITY, and OFFICERS of the GUARDS. This gentlemanly garment, cut without scams on the shoulder, so as to improve the figure, and winch (owing to its elasticity) fits equally well either as an over-coat or LIGHT SUMMER FROCK, is made of a peculiar cloth, manufactured in , the w weselt, t of Engl finestand, expre ssly for this coat , of double twist warp and and Saxony wool. It is guaranteed to endure and maintain its primitive appear ance at least twice the time of ordinary cloth, however good the quality, as it doe s net wear white or rough, and although re pellent, is perfectly porous. 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A Certain Remedy f or di sor ders °Oho Pulmonary Organs— in Difficulty of Br ea thi ng —l n R e d ant i anc: of Phlegm—in Incipient Consumption (of which Co ug h i s th e Mies positive indication) they are of unerrin t effi cacy. I n A st h mi ,. su i in Winter Cough, they have never been known to fail. Prepared and sold in Box e s, Is.4irsL otnd Tins, 2s. 9d., 45. 61, and 10s. 6d. each, by THOMAS LIG, Chemist, &c., No. 79, St. Pawl's Churchyard, Lo : 1011 by all Druggists and Patent Medicine Venders Bir Liverpool. Jun 8, 1847. Sir, I have teen afflicted with a 'severe cough and shortness of breath for nearly eight years, and after trying numerous remedies, did not find myself any better. I purchaset a small box of Keating's Lozenges of you, from which I found greatbeneflt. The second box, 2s. 9d. size, completely cured me, and I catnow breathe more freely, and am as free from cough as ever I was in my life. Hoping that others, similarly afflicted, will avail themt•exes of so certain and safe a remedy, I remain, Sir, yours, faithfully, WILLIAM ANDERSON. To Mr. Geo. 11. Howell, Chemist, 72, Dale-streA, Liverpool. THE QUARTER'S REVENUE. S N7 APRIL 6, 1847. ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIE ITY.S OF YOUTH AID MATUR WITH TWENTY-FIVE COLOURED ENGRAVINGS. Just published, Twentieth Thousand, in a sealed envelope, price 2a. fgt. or post paid, to any address, for as. 6d. in Postage tamps direct 'front the Author's residence. QELF-PRESERVATION:A Medical Treatise 1-.7 on the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity. Illustrated with Twenty-five Coloured Alai on the oductive Organs, Anatomy. Physiology, and Diseases of the Urfniry Repr explaining their various structures, uses, and functions, and sdhowother ing the injuries that are p roduced in them, by solltary habits, an excesses. With Practical Observations on the Treatment of Nervous Debility, Local and Constitutional Weakness , and the Urethra. By SAMUEL LVMERT, CONSULTING SURGEON, 9, Bedford-street, Bedford -square, London; Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate Apothecaries' Hall, London, Ike, 2r- 4 . CONTENTS Or TRE TREATISE. CIIArTER 1. On the Philosophy of Marriage, with its Hindrances and Obligations, and on Infelicitous and Unproductive Generative that great Organs, their functions , struc tures, and secretions, proving Mental and Physical Power are dependant upon their healthy action. —Calor-Ea 3. On Solitary Habits; their various effects on the Animal Economy ; the concealed cause of Debility of the functiont of the Stomach, Lungs, and Brain, and general weakness of the Mental Faculties. CUArTER 4. On the Secret Disorders of Youth and Maturity, and the Treatment of Nervous and Local Wea 6 kness, 0 M en tal Debility, and Premature Decay.—Cnarrafts 5 and onnor. 11 G the Disorders arising from indiscriminate Exaess, hoort (fleet, Strictures, and other Diseases Urethra. REVIEWS Or T HE WORK. "The author of this singular and talented work is a legally quali fied mall cal man, who has 3vidently had considerable experience of the trr ttment of the various disorders arising from the follies and trailtie.4 of early indiscretion. The engravings are an invaluable ad dition, by demonstrating the consequences of excesses, whic em ust act as a salutary warning to youth and maturity, and by its rsal many questions may be satisfactorily replied to, that admit f no ap peal, eves to the most confidential friend."—Era. Published by the Author, and may be had at his residence; also from Kent and Richards, 52, Paternoster-row; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street. Strafe, Ticnnorne-street, Quadrant; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street, London ; Newton, i 6, Church-street, Liverpool and by ail At Home tor Consultation daily, Isom Xine till Two, and irem Five till Eight ; and all letters immediately replled to, if containing the fee ot 11., for advice, toc.-9 BEDFORD-STUN= BEDVORB SQUABS) IANDOB! TlMES.— ve The as re th ve e n c u h e an t c a e la l l l e or no,hfitc:e Exthequer,we publish FROM Tile MORNING. PAPERS OF DAT. T this morning presents many features upm which the public, l a may reasonably congratulate thernselvs. After rs year, the former half of which witnesses an immense change in our commercial policy, and the latter the operation of one of the greatest calamities of modern times—an Irish famine and an English scarcity —the present an year's accounts of ordinary revenue aggre gate increase of receipts above those of 1846 of not less than - 2,387,8061. In every department except the Stamps and Crown Lands—in the Customs, the were cst Excise, the Taxes, the Property-tax, and the P - office—there is an increased return. In short, it not for Ireland and her calamity---were it not for that awful drain which English neglect and Irish misgovernment have brought upon us—we might boast that never within human memory, at least, was the national exchequer in a more lealthy state, or there a better prospect of removing • very burden by which either our domestic e industry or our foreign In commerce is tramelled. presence of our potato famine, however— of the ravages of all but invisible animalcule in a root on which nothing but a strange mixture of rapacity and improvidence could have suffered anation to sub sist—our surplus, so far from furnishing relief to the tax-payer, will only by happy means of a avoid the necessity of Hero taxation by chance meeting the charge for interest on the sum we have just been compelled to borrow. Cold as the comfort is well it will do this, and that the Chancellor of the may be, it Exchequer has not, in a time of much almost general stagnation, to seek out pressure, and the means of imposing a new tax as well as contracting a new loan. On the Customs the increase is most signal. That after a series of years, each remarkable for some large ' reduction in our import duties, each reduction de clared to be alike fatal to the home producer and the ' revenue, we should be able to show an increase of 1,132,0001. upon the year, is a proof of the soundness of our new commercial policy, which even its most ardent advocates could scarcely have anticipated. Nor has this branch of our income suffered in any measure during the quarter which has just proportion, and amounts to nearly half a million. In the Excise also the increase, quarter by quarter, has been uninterrupted, until in the aggre gate it gives a surplus of 661,5721. above last year's return. This item has been generally regarded as a kind of barometer by which to measure the national prosperity, for as it affects what are principally luxuries,, at least in degree, it is imagined that an indulgence in excisable commodities betokens a suffi ciency of the necessaries of life. As a general rule this may be a true one, but it is difficult to reconcile its universal application with the faet that while the mass of our agricultural population has been debarred by the high price of food from the purchase even of their ordinary scanty modicum of luxuries, while Scotland has suffered severely from actual want, and Ireland depends for its daily_ bread on English bounty, the Excise has gone on increasing, and even in this last quarter, when the pressure has been most severe, exhibits a surplus of 26,4071. Under the head of Property-tax the increase upon the year is 379,8401.—a most satisfactory amount. The Post office revenue shows an advance of 1,000/. a week during the last year ; and that comp rehensive term " Miscellaneous," shows an incre ase of 129,2731. On Stamps the deficiency, probably owing to the partial cessation of railway enterprise, amounts to 32,693/. ; and on Crown Lands, for some reason, which Lords Lincoln and Morpeth will doubtless be able to explain, to 18,0001. Upon the total ordinary revenue, however, we have an increase of 2,387,806/., against a falling off in the two branches we have named, amounting in the whole to only 50,6931. Would that there were no drawback on this favourable statement of our financial condition ! Flourishing as the re turn appears, however, one item is there to remind us of our liabilities, and of the heavy charge to which the great calamity of the year has exposed us. In the account of Income the receipt of 960,0001. is acknowledged as the first instalment of the loan of 8,000,000/., which it will requir e many years of for bearance and retrenchment to re deem. It is a punish ment, and not an unmerited one, of a system which has permitted a third of our population to live in u tter dependence upon a crop with which i famines are periodical, and with that claim for subsistence upon the soil which could alone secure from the rich an interest in the prosperity of the poor. We have had a severe warning, let us not require a second. CHRONICLE. The revenue‘ accounts for the year and the quarter just ended, present at first sight a much more favourable aspect than they do when each item is minutely examined, and the peculiar circumstances which have influenced the various sources of income are duly considered. On the sur face, looking only at the columns under the heads " increase" and decrease," the tables present a satis factory and encouraging result; and especially in reference to those items to which we are most accus tomed to look as an index of the state of the country, of its enjoyment of commercial prosperity, and of social comforts. The Customs receipts for the year exhibit an increase of no less than 1,132;002/., which at first sight is more satisfactory, when we remember that the present return completes the first entire year under the ultimate reductions in the tariff effected by Sir Robert Peel. On the other hand, however, it is impossible to overlook the fact that a large por tion of this increase is due, first to the extensive im portation of foreign corn during the last six months of 1846, and considerably more than one half of it to the enlightened settlement of sugar duties by the at the closeof last present Governments session. At a moment like the present, when financial difficulties and deficiencies upon the general balance of the public accounts become apparent, it is • important to mark any particular source from which those diffi culties are relieved, and more particularly so when it indicates the success of a great and sound principle of taxation. It will be remembered, that up to the month of August last year the deliveries of sugar for cons umption on which d u ty Was _ paid showed a con siderable defici enc y on those of the preceding year. But after the reduction of the differential duty charged on foreign sugars by the Bill of last August, by which, for the first time, such sugars were really and practically brought within the consumers' reach, the consumption increased so rapidly, that at the end of the year the deficit which appeared in the deliveries up to August Ns , as converted at the end of December into a handsome surplus. We find, that out of the increase which is. apparent on th e C u stoms' receipts p for the year just ended, amounting in all to 1,132,00 N., we are indebted to the liberal and wise settlement of the sugar duties for no less than 739,8841., and in like manner, of the increase shown upon the last quarter, amounting to 485,755/., we are indebted to' that measure for no less than 317,466/. It would be difficult to point to a greater triumph in the result of any financial principle than has followed the adoption of a course so long urged by political economists and free-traders, to rely upon a reduction of differential and protective duties as the surest means of increasing the revenue of the country. If, however, to this single item of increase we add the corn duties recei ve d d ur i ng th e l as t s i x months of 1846, we shall find that we considerably more than exhaust the whole apparent increase. So that the Customs receipts for the year, as far as regards the general trade of the country, and irrespective of these two items, would exhibit a cons id era bl e re d u ction. That the quarter just ended should show a slight in crease, irrespective of sugar, over the corresponding quarter of last year, i s no t a ma tt er o f surprise, nor of much congratulation, w h en we consider how much d bu or si i n h e g ss the in firs a t ll thr d e e o p m ar o tm ht e h n s ts was held . n suspense passing of the last changes i n the l t B a 4 pending nn Customs h u e s t s n t n t ea showed a b w u e s d i n a e s d s e d fi u e i r e i n n busing that y nf. n n qu a lessr ttehra, than h 4 a 4 t o , : c o o o rn ole. :The general g w e i n th er t a h l e c r o e r au re lt spo o n f din t g he quar ci t n er atein of a 18 r 4 e 5 eeip t t h a - , when considered in reference to the whole trade of the country, and looked to as art index of its prosperity, cannot, therefore, `he considered so satisfactory', as they looked M first sight. The other great index of national wel fare, and of the command of social comforts, the Ex cise duties, we fear, affords in the present return no more satisfactory evidence. It is true that the in crease shown 'upon the year is large, and that that increase is fairly divided over all the various items which contribute to the Excise, and which may be taken as evidence of increased activity in industry, or of increasel comforts enjoyed by the people. But while the increase upon the year is 661,572/., that upon the quarter is only 26,4071. We have here a palpable proof of a declining state. The high price of food, and the scantiness and dearness of some of the chief raw materials of our manufacturing indus try, have already begun their work of deterioration. The complaints from the busy seats of industry during the last three months, the mills working short time, the increasing difficulty in obtaining railway " calls," and the consequent " slackness" of some of those works, and the difficulty which the labour ing population find in obtaining anything beyond the barest necessaries of life at their present prices ; these facts are all loudly proclaimed in the comparative de cline of the Excise receipts during the quarter just finished. A consequence, moreover, which we fear will only be further developed as the year advances. The other general items of the revenue are not of a character which speak much to the immediate state of the country, still it is satisfactory to observe that they show, generally, a considerable increase both on the year and the quarter. But notwithstanding the in crease apparent under all these heads, unfortunately, when we look to the side of expenditure, we find it all inadequate to meet the extraordinary demands upon the Governmedt. Notwithstanding the increase on the ordinary sources of the Exchequer, and not withstanding the addition of 960,000/., as the first in stalment of the " loan of eight millions," the result of the accounts now published is, that in place of a surplus to meet the various Parliamentary grants for the public service, amounting last year to 1,783,3081., that surplus at the present time is only 628,7811., a sum altogether inadequate for the purpose. ADVERTISER.—We publish, in another part of our paper, a tabular view of the revenue returns for the years and quarters ending sth April, 1846, and sth April, 1847 ; and we heartily congratulate the country on the extremely gratifying results which they exhibit. Under the head of Customs— the source of revenue which of all others affords the best criterion of the real condition of the people, and the healthy state, or otherwise, of the national finances — we have an increase, on the year, of 1,132,0021., while the increase on the quarter is relatively still greater, being no less than 485,755/., or close on half a mil lion. We will undertake to say, that this is an in crease far exceeding anything of which the most san guine ever dreamt. It is all the more surprising, when it is remembered, that it only includes, so far as relates to the quarter, a mere trifle in the shape of corn duties, the corn-laws having been suspended early in the quarter. In the Excise there is also an augmentation on the year to the extent productiveTi 3 h i e ,4 I S 4 tmh h e a pT v a h e rgeeular likewi sewith t a proved a l so p unusually rov ed of 661,5721., and on the quarter of 26,4 0 7 1 . t g h i e v e in o g rre a s t p l on in d' e m re g asenf quar ter of 1846 5 n, unprecedentedly productive, the amount for the year The Post-office still continues, though gradually, to augment the national resources, yielding, as it does, 52,0001. more than last year, and 4,0001. more on the quarter than on the corresponding quarter of 1846. Under the head of Miscellaneous, we have an addition, on the year, of 129,2731., though, on the quarter, the increase is only 1,071/. The only departments in which there is a falling off are those of the Taxes and Crown Lands. The deficit is trifling in either case. Under the first head it is only 15,2501.; and under the second, 8,0001. The total increase on the y ear is 1,538,168/., and on the quarter 403,6321. This, we repeat, is a most gratifying state of things. So far from expecting so large an augmentation, there were general appre hensions of a defalcation. Nothing could more con clusively prove the solid foundation on which our commercial and monetary edifice is based. The im provement in the revenue which it is thus our pleasing duty to record, as having taken place in a period of unexampled destitution in Ireland and part of Scot land, will, there is every reason to hope, go on pro gressing for months and years to come. If, indeed, Providence should bless the land with an abundant harvest, we may confidently calculate, considering the extensive trade with America which is now opening up to us, on a period of commercial and financial prosperity wholly unparalleled in the history of the country. HERALD.—We have before us the official state ment of the national revenue for the year and the quarter which ended yesterday evening. If any evi dence were necessary to prove the vitality of British vigour in resisting the results of a new-fangled system of legislation, which must have proved destructive to the interests of any country whose innate strength had been less positively confirmed by the considerate policy that was formerly the principle of action by which British statesmen were guided—if any testi mony were requisite to show the elasticity of British resources in repelling the heavy load of depression which recent Acts of Parliament have heaped upon them, and which projected measures promise to aug ment—we have the proof before us in the abstract of the net produce of the revenue of the country, to which it is our duty to refer.—(l) In every department whence we derive our ordinary revenues, save two, there is an increase for the year ended yesterday, compared with the year which ended on the sth of April, 1846. The two items which exhibit a decrement on a comparison of years are Stamps and Crown Lands. Let us now ex hibit the condition of the whole revenue of the country for the year and the quarter, as compared with that of the previous year, and that of the cor responding quarter of 1846. In the present year there is from the Customs an increase of 1,132,002/. ; from the Excise an increase of 661,5721. The de crease on Stamps,: as we have already mentioned, is 32,693/. The increase from Taxes for the year is 33,119/. ; from the Property-tax an augmentation has been derived amounting to 379,840/. ; from the Post office it is 52,0001. The Crown Lands, as we have stated, exhibit a decrease of 18,0001., whilst, from Miscellaneous resources, we have procured an increase of revenue which has placed in the national coffers 129,2731. In the quarter's receipts, as compared with those of the April quarter of last year, w e find an increase from Customs of 485,755/ ; from the Excise of 26,407/. ; from Stamps of 131,414/.11 the decrease on Taxes is 15,250/. • the increase from the Property-taxis 69,190/4 from the Post-office it is 4,000/. ; with reference to Crown Lands, the de crease is 8,000/. ; from Miscellaneous resources there is an increase of 1,071/. Now, in dealing with these various items of our income, to-day, our observations must necessarily be brief—our comments upon these items few. We deal only with those sums which form the ordinary revenue of the nation. The other portions of the account, embracing "advances," " im prest and other monies," &c., we leave intact for re mark on a future day. In reference, then, to the year's ordinary revenue, there is a net increase over that received up to the sth of April, 1846, which amounts to 2,387,806/. The net ordinary revenue for the quarter ended yesterday, shows an increase over the receipts for the same quarter of the previous year, amounting to 717,837/. Let us at once ask these questions—Has the value of manufactured stock become augmented during the past year, or during the past quarter ? Ilas the condition of the manufacturing operative been improved, or the position of the agricudl; t u ral labourer been made better during the same perio . Has the character Of ou r i monetar y exchanges, pared with that of other countries largely-increased imp orts imp orts have been derived, exhibited h deri a corresponding am o u nt of exports, or as even man ifested the exportat ion of an amount of home madewhence our merchandise equal to that sent abroad during t; seve ral past years ? These questions are easily re of ati work, for ve ! Seek the for on of t solved by fac ts. Look to the prices current forLoo the manu f ac turing oper con the diti position he of the o returns for our manufactured produce! to out the agricultural labourer (notwithstanding the efforts of his employers to promote his comparative prospe rity, despite the sacrifices made by landlords and land• holders, and the advances made in agricultural science) —seek for this in the daily tale told by the provincial press ! seek for it in the hopes of the Irish landlord from the new Poor Relief Bill! Notwith standing these facts there is an increase upon the year and the quarter from the Customs revenue! The consumption of imported produce, used in lieu of grain, of course has something to do with this ; but the energy and untired, not worn-out activity and resources of Great Britain have dealt much more largely with it. Taking our course through the other items of receipt, we are compelled to stop at " Stamps." What a tale is told by the official development of the condition of this department of the revenue. The increase for the year is only 32,693/. The in crease for the quarter is 131,414/. ! What has caused this increase ? Has it been an augmentation of the legitimate trade of the country ? Did our legitimate imports, or has an augmentation of our internal—our home traffic in the manufactures of Great Britain, rendered such an accession to our national income the probable result of such a salutary process? No ! whilst there has been a great decrease in the Excise receipts of the quarter, as compared with those of the year, the Stamp Duties' receipts exhibit an increase of 400 per cent. more upon the quarter than they do upon the whole year. Here is the result of Sir Robert Peel's Corn Bill ! here is the effect of the gambling and speculation which were to have ,been destroyed and deter mined by the damage done to the • cultivators of the soil of Great Britain and the sister kingdom ! here are assets derived in a great degree from corn accommodation bills ! We have neither time nor space to dwell at greater length to-day upon the official document before us. It is to us matter for hearty rejoicing, that, under so many circumstances, which in any other nation must have causei a decrease of revenue, we have an increased income as the subject for our remarks. OPENING OF THE BIRKENHEAD DOCKS. This event is looked forward to with considerable interest, and every arrangement is in progress for conducting its celebration with becoming splendour. The extensive warehouses, the opening of which will be a striking feature in the day's proceedings, are twelve in number, and will each hold 4,000 bales of cotton. The extension line of railway runs in a diagonal line, by means of an open excavation, across the town, from the Grange-lane station, through Oliver-street, Conway-street, Price-street, and Cleve land-street, to the dock warehouses ; having branch lines communicating with the docks, so that goods may be at once hoisted from the vessel's side on the railway trucks, and dispatched into the interior, or from the ship into the ware h ou ses, without the least hazard or delay from exposure on the quays. After the cere mony of opening the dock, the company will proceed to the deliner, and this part of the proceedings being completed, the next object of interest will be the opening of the new park, which has been com pleted at a cost of 127,7781. The celebrated proprietor of the magnificent marquee, which is fitted up on pub lic festivals in Greenwich-park, will there pitch his refreshment tent, 170 feet long; and various other booths, camps, &c., will be erected. Cricket, foot ball, and other athletic games, rural sports, and divers amusements, will occupy the holiday throng in that vast and picturesque arena. The beau tiful new market, on which a sum of 26,0001. has been expended, will likewise present its attractions. On the east quay of the new docks, facing the river, six pieces of ordnance will be placed, for the purpose of firing salutes; the guns being under the manage ment of a detachment of the Royal Artillery from Chester Castle, kindly granted by their commanding officer, Major Robe. As we intimated last week there will be no procession, but the quays of the docks will be lined with pensioners, clubs, and socie ties of various kinds, with flags, music, &c., and after the docks have been opened, they will repair to the park to be in waiting to receive Lord Morpeth. Four of the warehouse rooms, each 140 feet long and 50 wide, are beautifully and most tastefully fitted _ and are most indefatigable in promoting the arrange ments. The suite will include reception, withdraw ing, ball, and banquet rooms ; in the former of which a magnificent cascade will throw forth its silvery streams, amidst a profusion of choice conservatory plants, flowers, and other decorations. The dejeitner and supper will be provided by Mr. Hillier, of the Monk's Ferry Hotel ; all the orders have been given, as it is proper they should be, to Birkenhead trades men. After the ball there will be a special train to Chester, and the Woodside boats will continue run ning during the whole of the night. All the work men employed at the docks (2,000 in number) are to have the gift of a day's wages, and the various con tractors have come forward most liberally as regards this part of the proceedings. Mr. J. Laird tfas given his men leave to take part in the festivities, and they will be paid their wages for the day. We understand that all the principal builders will give their men a holiday, and the day is expected to be one of general rejoicing.—Liverpool Mercury. . a OPENING OF THE DOCKS. Yesterday was a memorable day on the banks of the Mersey, having been chosen for the triple purpose of opening the new docks at Birkenhead, the splendid new park, and the extension line of the Chester and Birken head Railway to the docks. The docks to be opened on this occasion were the Woodside and Bridge-end, the joint accommodation of which is equal to the Prince's Dock at Liverpool. Immediately adjoining these docks are tho extensive warehouses of the Birkenhead Dock Company ; twelve of which, each capable of storing 4,000 bales of cotton, are already completed. These warehouses are two stories in height, and when finished will form three long tiers, running rectangularly from the shore. The extension line of railway to the docks affords facilities and advantges which few railways or docks enjoy. Frorn'the main line branches run along each side of the warehouses: one side will be made available for the storing of goods by vessels just arrived—the other for conveying goods to vessels loading for sea. The rails run so close, that the goods can be hoisted direct from, or lowered into, the trucks, and thus all confusion and necessity for carting will be avoided ; neither will there be delay nor hazard from exposure on the quays. The docks were opened in person by Lord Morpeth, Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests. His Lord ship arrived in Liverpool about ten o'clock in the fore noon. A special train, with Lord Lincoln, Lord Mont eagle, and other visitors, left London about six o'clock in the morning, and arrived in Birkenhead at twelve o'clock. Shortly after that hour the Lords Commis. sioners, with other distingushed gu ests, the Birkenhead Dock 'C o mmissioners, the Birkenhead Improvement Commissioners, the Directors of the Birkenhead Dock (Warehouses) Company. the Directors of the Birken head, Lancashire. an d Cheshire Junction Railway., . an d t h e Directors of the Chest er and Birkenhead Railway, embarked at Monk's Ferry, on board the Lord Warden, a handsome new iron steamer. Six pieces of artillery were posted along the quays ; and the steamer, which was beautifully decorated, started amid music, the roar of cannon, and the cheers of the spectators. After steaming about a mile up the river, the boat returned, and, similarly saluted in its progress, slowly entered the new docks, and moored alongside the south wall of the Bridge-end Dock ; after which the party repaired to the new warehouses to partake of a dejeuner, at which 800 ladies and gentlemen sat down. The weather was serene ; flags and streamers floated from every available spot - the ferry steamers were crowded : Liverpool poured its throng to the opposite bank. A more animating spectacle than the river pre sented it would be impossible to conceive. Four of the warehouse rooms, each 140 feet long and 50 feet wide, were beautifully and tastefully fitted up for the festival with pink and white drapery. The walls The Lo will have to extend and roofs were lined with fluted dra p er y . The rece p- rds of the Admiralty r ckY e n v o i w u e a will, su m in choice tion-room was adorned with a magnificentcasca de, L heir tour, on their next visit of inspection, to the various i ' a r b h l e e E a t o t y i t a u l d S e ur t r h e a y t D p o ih e airodi a which poured out a crystal jet am idst a profusion of such ti yaafrodrsm.d choice conservatory plants and flowers. Joseph Bailey, jun., Esq., M.P., occupied . . the chair ; all probability, feel compelled to write another pamphlet. John Land and William Potter, Esqs., chairs. Wetand dry the vice- After the toasts—the Queen, the Queen Dowager, building, and all the bustle and activity of a dock yard of Royal Family, the the first Prince Albert, and the rest of themagnitude on the eve of . n. war. Seriously, the f the Diocese " Army and Navy, the Bishop and Clergy -.) . 9 preparations making at the Royal Surrey Zoological and the Lord-Lieutenant of the County, had been given, Gardens, for the siege of Gibraltar, are on such a gigantic with the usual honours, scale few persons have any conception of, and we are The CIIAIRMAN proposed the health of _ Lord Viscount warranted in asserting that the forthcoming represents.- Morpeth. He thanked the Noble Lord, not only in the lion will exceed anything yet attempted. na me of the two boa rds of directors and the dock com- THE LAINIPLIGIITERS ON TILE FAST DAT.—The missioners, and those who had taken a direct interest in lamplighters of Manchester, resolving, at the suggestion the prosecution of these works, but also in the name of of th eir superinenses, o urn the public, for having given his sanction to the pro t d, t t t to some account the late c eedings of that day by his presence. The Noble Lord's " general fast, made a small subscription thr ou g h the force, amountinet to 1/. 7s. ed , with which they purchased public career had now been of some considerable twenty-two . 6 dozen soup 'tickets, and distributed their duration, and his public character was so well known that it would be needless for him several proportions amongst the destitute pour in their to enlarge upon different localities. Thus were they enabled, at a trifling it. Ilis private worth was also as conspicuous sacrifice to themselves, to afford temporary relief to at as his public virtues, and he felt great pleasure in least 100 of their less fortunate and suffering brethren. 4, doing honour to them.—(inn' It might not be inn' This is a gratifyi n g illustration of the good that may be p pro-Late to remark, as they were on the shores of the effected, even on a small scale, where there is a disposie Mersey, that the Noble Lord had recently visited a lion, and an example worthy of imitation.—Guardiam country which was the most intimately connected with The cost of a passage in the forecastle from Cork us by commerce, and from which we were now drawing to America is raised to 4/. 10a and 5/., that is 20s. to 30s. largely our necessary supplies of food. In that country over the usual charge. the Noble Lord had had the opportunity of witnessing ; The Northern Whig states that Antrim is the only the energies of that great people the Americans—(Hear) county in Ireland which has not touched a farthing of —of seeing the fertility of their soil, and of judging to Government money. PRICE SD. what extent our eommei`eial relations with theta might be carried. He honoured. the Noble Lord for having devoted his leisure in that. most useful field, instead of in visiting countries, no doubt interesting in themselves, but not so important to be known to a man who was a servant of the Crown and a British Statesman.—(llear, hear.) The presence of Ole Noble Lord, who had more than once enjoyed the:colafidence of his Sovereign, and was now a Cabiaet Minister, stamped the works on the shore of Wallasey Fool, son the west banks, with that. degree of nationality wi'lich their warmest friends claimed for them, but Nwhii:...h the public at large might not be willing to concti'de.—(Hear, hear.) Those works were not undertakk 'n for the benefit of a few individuals merely, but pa. rtook of a national cha racter. When they adjour. led from that room it would be to open the Birkea head Park ; for such a duty no more appropriate perso. n could be selected than the Noble Lord. Knowing the warm interest he had always taken in the:sanatory cond;,tion, the health and comfort of the people, and the imps ovement of towns, he was sure the Noble Lord would feel „gratified to see a park devoted to the health and reereation of the people in the midst of those piles of buildings which were ex tending in every direction around it.—(Hoar. hear.) On an occasion like the present, when no poi'itical feeling interfered, but where men of all parties were met toge ther to celebrate the opening of a great national work, , he was sure they would all unite in doing honour to the toast.—(Hear, hear.) It was his misfortune to sit on the opposite side of the House of Commons from that occupied by the Noble Lord; but neither he nor any other gentleman who sat there could fail to pay to the Noble Lord's character that respect to which it was en titled.—(Hear, hear.) He gave them " The Right lion. Lord Viscount Morpeth." The toast was drank with three times three. The cheering having subsided, Lord MORPETII said—Mr. Chairman, ladies, and gen tlemen, I assure you that I feel most sensibly the more than kind and cordial manner in which this toast has been received.—(Hear.) Ever since I have been called to the office I have now the honour to hold, and which connects me with the property of the Crown, I have felt the strongest interest in the rising fortunes of Birk enhead; nor it is unnatural that I should do so, for you are probably aware, that besides the general parental interest which .the Crown may be assumed to take in the welfare of all that are represented by the ab stract idea of its subjects, it has also motives not so peculiarly abstract or disinterested for wishing well to the port and town of Birkenhead. I avow this the more readily, because it is quite obvious that the proportion in which the undertakings here set on foot can become "profitable to the Crown must be according to the degree in which they are made valuable for the accommodation of commerce and for the public good.—(Hear, hear.) As a well wisher, then, to the public, and as a servant of the Crown, es an admirer of courageous enterprise and successful perseverance—(Hear, hear)—l find a combination of claims upon me for doing, in combi nation with my colleagues by whom I am most will ingly and- zealously seconded, and in pursuance of that example which has been set to me by my pre decessors in the same office—(Cheers)—all that in us lies to promote, on all legitimate grounds, the perma nent prosperity of Birkenhead.—(Cheers.) With these feelings, then. you may judge with how keen a relish, with what lively emotion, I partake in all the pro ceedings of this day.—(Loud cheers.) 'We hear some times of the old gala days of Venice, when the Doge went forth in his golden galley to plight his faith to the wave which bathed his palaces, but we have seen some thing this day beyond even the dreams of Venice. For instance, such an array of steamers as has to-day graced the Mersey, never could have been witnessed in Venice - and though perhaps a steamer, when viewed by itself, may not be so picturesque an object as a gondola, I may yet remind you that even in the palmiest days of her pomps and argosies, Venice never could have sent forth a message which in ten days might reach those harbours and roadsteads of the New World where her flag never waved. A pleasing omen I shall think it, if amongst the first uses of that ample basin into which our vessel to day has been the first to glide, surrounded by all those striking specimens of engineering skill and admirable masonry, we should apply those works to the admission of the surplus harvests of more favoured regions, and make provision for the bread which keepeth alive.— (Hear, hear.) Next in the progress of time—l hope in the course of this very autumn—you will be able to bear your part in accommodating the timber trade. I will not proceed further in those long vistas of usefulness, of enterprise, and of success, which, I trust, will stretch out before the future prospects of Birkenhead, and to which I hope the proceedings of this day will have given an auspicious commencement, and a powerful impulse. —(Hear, hear.) I would just express a hope in pass ing, that the best feeling and the best understand ing will always prevail between you and the great city immediately opposite you. —(Great cheering.) Liverpool divides with London the supremacy of the commerce of the modem world, and as London could only feel benefited by the expansion of Southwark, Liverpool can never have cause to repine at the growth of Birkenhead. Believe me, gentlemen, and I hope all on the other side of the water will believe me too, that if ever your own wide Mersey was thoroughly walled by a double wall of docks and warehouses, there will not be more than room for the corn, the cotton, and the forests of the western hemisphere.—(Hear, hear.) And I trust you have this day forged a new and an abiding link to that chain of amity which ought ev.er te connect - Eng grounds.—(Hear, hear.) Nor will my most recent occupation permit me to forget that this is one of the first places which has begun a systematic attention to the physical comforts of the vast numbers of workmen it calls together, and the important subject of' public health. With this assurance about us and around us, I feel that the pageant of to-day, even when e its gaieties shall stdl g have ve and its shouts h e a r t it has 'not been a the strife of ohdui vsch a for gathersre m i e t m s b trophies ranc e t from triumph upsasgs % re • na tions and the arts of destruction—that it has not been a mere unmeaning sacrifice to frivolity and dissipation, but that it has struck its roots deep in public usefulness, and will bear rich fruits of peace and progress through coming ages.—(Cheers.) The next toast given was, " The County Members." Sir P. EGERTON, M.P., returned thanks. Two years ago only he had attended the preliminary proceeding on the commencement of the works which they had now assembled to open to their uses. He had not expected so soon to witness the fulfilment of their hopes, though he had never been influenced by those who said that they might as well propose to build docks in the air as at Birkenhead. He congratulated the Commissioners upon having, while providing for the commercial im provement of the town, been equally attentive to the re ligious instruction, the health, and comfort of the poor. Formerly there was a couplet — From Birkenhead to Kilbree A squirrel may hop from tree to tree. Ere long he hoped they might read it thus: A Fr s o h m ip ß m ir s la y en s h ai e l a f d ro t m o l i\ i i i e lb rs r e e y o to Dee. The Earl of LINCOLN proposed the next toast—" The commerce of the Mersey," a duty which devolved upon him iu consequence of the absence of Sir T. Fremantle, the Chairman of the Customs. His Noble Friend had said that Liverpool and London divided the commerce of the United Kingdom. He believed the commerce of the Mersey, as represented by Liverpool , not onl y equalled, but by the most recent accounts exce eded that of Lon don itsclf.—(Hear, hear.) And from this auspicious date that that increase would go on until, in a few years , the port of Liverpool would be e q ual to an y two or three in the kingdom, London incl uded. He had be en informed that coals had beers that day sent from Wa l ea by the new railway to be shipp ed on board a steamer already lying in these docks. A n America!! ves i se 1 too, he understood, was now in t he p ort, princip all y l laden b a ck by the same railway , and pr obabl y , ere nightfall, be spread n over the fields.—(Hear.) He could not but express a f e rvent hope that the introduc tion of this f i omen of on this occasion might b e taken as an auspicious the toast me which u s sp te r r so more e•rctlous lizing agent an abundant harvest. The Noble Earl, w as drunk with enthu siasm , M The aor of Manchester;" ro osed e loquent observations , formall y p p The other toasts were — y The Chairman," prop osed b y Lord Morpeth ; " The ." " The Dock Warehouse Company ;" Bi r kenhead Docks, ‘. The Guests of the Day ;" " Mr. Rendall, the engineer, and Mr. Paxton, the designer of the New Park;" " The Railway Interest connected with Birkenhead ;" "The Cheshire Witelies," &c. After the dejettner, Lord Niorpeth, accompanied by several distinguished guests, proceeded to open the New Park, which has been formed with a wise foresight to the future wants and sanitary condition of the popula tion of Birkenhead, at a cost of 127,775/. 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