The Sun. — London, England, 1840-09-18 00:00:00

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On the London and Birmingham, which ras at ene time dragged before the public more than acv orber Company for its management, the travelling, fro -,erp tember 17, 1838, since it was opened throughout, to August 31st last, has been no less than 81 millions of miles, and there have been carried 11 millions of pas sengers, without a single fatal accident to either. It is true that there hare been a few cases of contusions, but only one serious, and one case of a simple fracture. Again, in the London and South Western, which is one of the lines actually adduced and mentioned by the Times, it appears that this line, from its first partial opening, about •_'7 months since, has travelled above 553,700 miles, and carried near millions of persons, and has not had a single fatal accident to passengers, and only about ten contusions. In the Manchester and Leeds, partially opened 14 months, above 6 millions of miles are stated to have been travelled over, and 800,000 persons carried, with out a single accident of any kind, either to persons or goods. ADMIRALTY, SErT. 16, 1840. yHE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUT ING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL ik E 'a r e UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and ,„ .AND, do hereby give NOTICE, that, in order to re ...ore LIV any doubt that may exist as to the periods of the DE , ERY of SALT BEEF and PORK, to be contracted for the 31st 24th instant--That the quantity to be delivered before e 31st of March, 1841, shall not exceed two-thirds of the amity advertised f or , name l y , one - t hi r d on or b e f ore the 28th L Y next, and another third en or before the 31st of Lana next, and that the remaining one-third shall be delivered ''' , Weins the 31st of March and 31st of May, 1841. IL 64 d. FsAilk. ~.......... 45 44 l i 44 2 44 4 Al 0 LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1840. No. 14,933. PRICE 5(1. :Egi, as. , ~‘• 1 ,, c a l. •'• NEW ZEALAND COMPANY. k_ Notice is hereby given, that a DIVIDEND having 10,(leared on the Coany's Stock, the TRANSFER • u KS will be closedT • • the 29th of September until vLSDAI, s ' l 't on a n d a f ter wh i ch day the Di v id en d w ill be in the tieuThlt" of payment to all Shareholders who have executed the ettlement. By order of thn Court, JOHN WARD, Secretary. Il ew 'Zealand House, Broad-street Buildings, lath September, 1840. Tk i TATIONAL LOAN FUND, LIFE AS SURANCE. and DEFERRED ANNUITY SO.: CIETY, 26, CORNHILL. Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. DIRECTORS. T. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman. J. Elliotson, M.D., F.R. S. I John Rawson, Esq. H. Gordon, Esq. Clement Tabor, Esq. George Lung-ley, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq. AU.ITORS-Dr. 0. Gregory, P.R. A.S. ; Professor Wheat stone, F.R.S. ACTUARY—W. S. B. Woodhouse, Esq., F. R. A. S. LIFE ASSURANCE. EAST INDIA HOUSE, SEPTEMBER 16, 1840. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EA ST INDIA COMPANY do hereby give notice, That a PROPRIETOR of EAST INDIA STOCK has given notice, that at the Quarterly General Court of the said Company, appointed to be held at their House in Leadenhall street. on WEDNESDAY the 23d instant, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon, he will call the Courts' attention to " The grievances complained of in Petitions, dated the 3d June and 31st August, 1839, transmitted to the Right Honour able the Governor of Madras, by 122 Heath of Families of Na tive Christians, Natives of the Province of Tinnevelly, and in former Petitions presented to the Madras Government, and to Collectors of the Province of Tinnevelly." The said COURT of DIRECTORS do also give notice, That another Proprietor has intimated his intention to sub mit the following motion at the said Quarterly General Court, viz.— " That adverting to the unusually large disbursements made from the Funds of the East India Company during the last two years, amounting to the sum of 115,7001., and to the proceed ings of a former Court on this important subject, this Court is of opinion that the Legislature could not have intended to in vest the Secret Committee, under the direction of the Presi dent of the Board of Control, with the unconstitutional power of disbursing such Funds to an unlimited extent, and that such disbursements ought to be subject to the approval of the Court of Directors. " This Court therefore recommends the Court of Directors to adopt such measures as may be necessary to ascertain the state of the law on this important question, with the view of petitioning parliament to define such power, and to place it under constitutional control." IMPROVEMENTS IN THE BOROUGH. THE BANK OF ENGLAND. LETTER IV. must regulate their ideas by what they may consider to be the state of the account. The predecessors of these dealers were first-rate men, and acquired large fortunes; but the present race have already dwindled in numbers to a mere shadow, and it requires not the gift of pro phecy to foretel, that unless a great alteration takes place, they will certainly depart this life without any pillar being erected to perpetuate their memory. Before the introduction of the present abominable system, we had three distinct races of men—the merchant or im porter, the dealer, and the manufacturer ; if you in quire for either of these in the present day, there is no distinctive mark by which they may be known from each other ; but there is one that is common and applicable to all—the gambler. What would be said, if every time a member of the Stock Exchange bought and sold 1,000/. Consols or Spanish, he drew a bill for the amount, and sent that bill into the market to be discounted ? and yet the cases ar precisely parallel, Would it not, therefore, be more creditable if these Oil and Tallow gamblers, instead of drawing bills would imitate the gamblers of the Stock Exchange, and pass tickets for these articles in the same manner as the others do for stock, settling the differences between the prices of their respective con tracts in cash ? Their gambling propensities in that case would be innoxious to a great degree, and the channels for discounting Bills of Exchange, founded on legitimate trading, would not be choked up as they often are, with these worthless kites. Such is the present state of these trades, and such the real character of a very large proportion of the Bills of Exchange, purporting to be for " value te. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,-It would now appear by the evidence taken before the Bank Committee during the Session just closed, that a project which my preceding letters had anticipated, for compelling bankers to give security for their issues, is actually in contemplation, and that this is proposed to be effected by making the Bank of Eng land the only bank of issue throughout the kingdom, and all other banks to be supplied by it with paper for circulation at L 5 per cent. under the rate of interest es tablished by the Bank from time to time, be that what it may. It therefore behoves the commercial commu nity to examine well what will be the consequences of this measure if carried into effect, and for that purpose I will now proceed with the inquiry into what are the causes, and who are the parties which give to our circu lating medium its present uncertain and fluctuating cha racter. WEST INDIA IMMIGRATION SOCIETY. Joh n IL. C3MMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. $. $• Bond, Esq. J .J o o h h n n R ili e n s is E to s n q ,. E sq. R . it Chauncv, Esq. Charles P r Orcher Lang, Esq. The r i l v i l 1 : Albert . a t . o rnoteC. h G r : e i e lb l er e a e n d : 6 s : t oE -E o E o n sd ss ci e gq i Es Esq. l. Archibald Paull, jun., Esq. Henry Pearse, Esq. James Ruffel, Esq. Ise Wadham L. Sutton, Esq. at th nankers' Receipts may be exchanged for Scrip Shares 'tree 0 Offices of the Company, No. 8, Great Winchester the h t " 9 1 IFILID AY NEXT, and every succeeding day, between n 22"! of Eleven and Two o'clock. Ba n imts In the appropriated Shares will be received by the ti le s ers, until WEDNESDAY, the 23d instant, after which day s e Hues will be oth er wi s e disposed of. .......reaber l5, 1840. litesides the perfect securii • to the policy holder of a large paid up capital, and accumufating funds, with moderate rates of premium, the following is one amongst many of the advan. tages which belong exclusively to the principles of life assu rance and deferred annuities originated by tr.e Society, viz.— Power to borrow, (without delay, expense, or :orfeiture) two thirds of all premiums paid upon a polity of assurance. The same is the case with the North Union, which has been opened 2. 1 months. The travelling has bee■ 243,000 miles, and 343,700 persons carried, without any accident, fatal or otherwise. " On the Grand Junction, one of the long lines, which has been opened thirty•cight months, there have been travelled two million miles, and carried 800,000 persons, and no fatal accident has happened, and only about twenty or thirty slight contusions. On the Liverpool and Manchester—the father of railways—which has been opened ten years, the travel ling on it has been 120 millions of miles, and the passen gers carried front four to six millions, with only two fatal accidents which can be justly charged to the rail ray, and about twenty or thirty slight contusions. The other cases which we have mentioned are clearly the faults of the parties, and not attributable to the system. For if mcn will get drunk and fall under the wheels, will wander upon other lines and be run over, or jump and tumble out of the carriages as they are going, it would hardly be fair to attribute their deaths to the railway system. Just as well might the deaths of the insane persons who jumped off the Monument be chargeable upon that passive pillar. Premium fir assuring 1001. 1 Age. I £ 9. d. Age. I£s. d. I Age. I s. d. 25 118 6 I I 35 210 11 45 3 9 4 1 30 24 4 40 218 8 I 1 50 44 2 re o . 6 , I. LI is 4. t i {4 sip DEFERRED ANNUITIES DEPARTMENT. By the plan exclusively developed by the Society, a single deferred annuity is made, nut only to answer the same object, but to equal in amount the entire sum of all the advantages heretofore only obtained by the middle and industrious classes by separate investments in Savings' Banks, Benefit Societies, aid Loan Banks. 10 :j 11 , The said COURT of DIRECTORS do likewise give notice That another Proprietor has intimated his intention to sub mit the following motion at the said Quarterly General Court, viz.— .. , . 0 - ... 1. A small yearly or weekly contribution will secure the most ample return for after life; thus-21. 12s. per annum (Is. a week) at 20 will at 65 give the policy holder the e!toice of an annuity for life of 47!. 16s. 6d.: 394/. 1 Is. in cash; •r policy without further contributions •f 460/. at death. " 0 0 d I 1 i " That this Court do take into consideration the communica tions of two Missionaries recently arrived from India, which were made at the public meetings of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, held in London on the days of the 4th and 18th of May last, together with two letters which were addressed to the Court, of Directors in consequence by Mr. John Poynder, one of the Proprietors of this Company, dated the 11th and 28th of May last, and also the official answer of the Secretary to such letters, dated the 2d of June last." I " i to i 0 5 0 1 „ 2. Tyro-thirds at any time lent on deposit of policy, being a fund always available during sickness or want of employment. S. Two-thirds of all payments returned to representatives in case of premature death. The report to the Annual General Meeting of Proprietors, prospectuses, tables, &c., may be obtained at the office of the Society, by letter or otherwise, 26, Cornhill, London, or at any of its Branches throughout the country. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Sec. Again, on the Glasgow and Ayr Railway, opened one year to the sth of August, 62,000 miles have been run, and 137,117 passengers carried, without any acci dent. i r i o LONDON and BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. lc 1 4' 0 0 44 44 4 49 111111111N.. 8 THIRD CLASS TRAIN. fi Th e Public ar e i n f orme d th a t on and after Monday, the sth Pa l t° • ber next, a TRAIN for the conveyance of Third Class Rill le (in open c arri dge %), Private Carriages, and H orses, it torti -e ave th e E uston Station, London, for Birmingham, every lo t g (except S un d ays ) at seven o ' clock , and Birmingham, Th" O d°n, every a ft ernoon a t t w o o'clock. a m :Pares and Rates for the entire journey between London • ntingham will be— Passengers • Private Carriages Horse Boxes in.proportion for • Traiii it appointed to Eder !••••••• Le a DO WN TRAIN. L ftuie t z l es •.. ............ at 7 a.m. Watf0rdu‘v............ 20 min. to 8 k, ................... s Langley ....... * past 8 174.,5f0r ............... past 8 mTe na rnPstead *to 9' ina ........................... 91 1 7telidin gton .1 - tlitht on . F . 7 Illetehley ................... 10 Fen ' and l• 25min.past 10 1 Y Stratfo r d Wo lverto n /tom e to 11 R1i...... . . ' past 12, * s warth •.. *to 1 lington to 8 Cei e ed i . 4 .................. * past 1 Tring 5 min. past 8 and Welton, 25 min. to 2 Berkhampstead...2o min. past 8 ..... b ra ,. 0 ............. 2 Box Moor ..23 min to 9 co," ......... 20 min. past 2 King's Langley ...10 min. to 9 1.14 at rY... ......... 20 min. to 3 Watford ...... Arming ton , le Birmingham about Arriving in London about 10 x l•to 4 in the afternoon. o 'clock in the evening. St it r e . -- Carriages and Horses will be required to be at the ' a ns at least a quarter of an hour before the time of depar there of Train. wi ,bea th e S ta ll s of the Horse Boxes are not fi lled, a Groom 11,!' allotted to accompany the Horses in the Box Free of th, - *„ l,3 ple ti me will be allowed to Passengers for refreshment at 'Roads Station, distance 60 miles from London. By order, R. CREED, Secretary. I tst•on Station, September 17, 1840. 0 14 0 3 0 0 4 0 0 intermediate distances. leave the several Stations as UP TRAIN. Leaves Birmingham ........at 2 p. m. Hampton 2O min. to 3 Coventry '2O min. past 3 I Brandon i to 4 Rugby Crick and We1t0n...20 min. to 5 Weedon ...5 Blisworth... 29 inin. past 5 Roade ... i to 6 Wolverton: i past 6 Bletchley and 1 - 5 min. to 7 Fenny Stratford Leighton Cheddi VIE LONDON MARBLE and STONE /4 A .,, WORKING COMPANY, are enabled with their 4 b ,..."" ENT MACHINERY, to execute Chimney Pieces . , Mo sligeLts, Tablets, Slabs for Furniture, and every description of k k r a wark, with an accuracy, rapidity of execution, beauty ebt ai ",.. 4 4bility of polish, and reduction of cost, which cannot be Ti e tollewhere. Itoooblio are invited to inspect their extensive SHOW zaf:, t outaining the largest stock in this country. T er rm a r .- eft, Holywell-street, Millbank, Westminster. or Etlo c i t 7PPlied with every description of Slab from the Pl e Ctt to the e Works cut to order. lettrate in copying the Address. M R ' TA TT E 111TAITLi.spa. uthorised to SELL p REEII , PRIVATE CONTRACT, an ELEGANT 'ous p at ,'',"- , MANSION with accommodation for a nut,pe- Woocl, in the most beautiful and healthy part of Nor pia "iY fire miles from the Bridges. pulmay be seen, and full particulars learned, at No. 42, 4°NS. MALLAN and SONS' ' t o • MINE RAL SUCCEDANEUM, with improved permanent I ,atland est ructible White Enamel, not distingui s h a ble from the Terh.ral Cortex or E name l of the Teeth, for filling decayed t AI ors. MALLAN and SONS, Surgeon-Dentists, 2, Upper it I-street, Bel rave. Pimlico ; 32, Great Russell 4PrLs„7t, Bloomsbury and 1, Iti;e de Castiglioni, Paris, loeg to e their Patients and the Public generally, that they have c creeeded in effecting the above desirable improvement. In pjert:dibie artificial atd natural Teeth fixed, from one to a cor set Net, without wires or ligatures, guaranteed for mastication 2articulation. Loose Teetit securely and effectually fastened. street UPPer Eaton -street, Belgrave-square; 32, Great Russell y; Di womsbury ; and 8, Rue de Castiglioni, Paris. T AINS of RED PORT WINE, Tea ti re , Fruit, Mild ew, and other Vegetable Matter, are en -15 'Y removed from TABLE LINEN, Cottons, Meslins, and other articles of Dress, by HUDSON'S CHEMl stai BLEA CHING LIQUID: it a l so reareves th e a b ove os from Ladies' BUFF Dresses, without injuring the Buff trzl ry and r estores all kind of discoloured Linen to its origi- PWhiteness, with ou t i n j ury to the texture of the cloth. ,r,el),reti and sold by W. B . H udson and Son, Chemists, S old ?market, London, in bottles at 55., es., and 9.5. each. ,A v alsn by Mes srs. 13.irela 's Butler, Edwards, Newberys, • Sutton ad 0., London ; Binns, Bath ; Light . and uter, Giles, Clifton ; Bettison, Cheltenham and Learning "; Sarel, Brighton ; Marsh, York ; Smeeton, Leeds ; and 4thers tkroughout the United Kingdom. THE TURKISH HAIR BALSAM. Ai ._ N Thi s extraordin preparation is the discovery of OTII- Ie MUSTAPHA, a S ry urge p on-Barber to th e Sultan, and pos t, "es singul ar v i rtues. It not only prevents Baldness, and pos t, Certain G row th o f H a i r, b ut renders it at the same :1!(' soft and beautiful, and gives it a natural curl. As a dreg n4 for False flair it is invaluable. Children's Hair, by the of is Balsam, ecomes freed from scurf and shness. , O r the Growth of b Whiskers and Mustachios, it i h s a strongly . ";.."Tnmeuded. tq 11 ,, 5 0 be had at the Depot, 10, Maddox -street, Regent-street, tiottles, at ss. and Os. each, or a large Famili Bottle, 235. Where alio may be had, tITT - `)STAPHA and CO.'S IMPERIAL TURKISH OTTO HAIR DYE, i c t the Hair Whiskers, and Mustachios, c h ang i ng the to n ecl a lou y r . e tii - ' i tter to Brown or Black. It will be found t s r up . er io n g of the kind hitherto known in this_coun y Sold in bottles a t 6 ? . an d 15s. each. eteuntry Order (enclsing reittance) addressed te 111usta- Phi • a rid Co., as s above, o will be m immediately attended to. To be had of all respectable vendors. _ I HE ECCENTRIC SNUFF-TAKER. Should trade be dull and times go rough, Oh, give me then a pinch of snuff; Give me ray box a pinch to take, E'en when Fro pleased for pleasure's sake. When fortune's frowns disturb my mind, And friends appear to grow unkind ; Relief I seek within my box, My system is quite orthodox. When a true friend perchance I meet, I cheerfully hit person greet, A kearty " Ilow do you do?" takes place, When, lo !my snuff-box shows its face 11y pulveriforous box supplies A recipe for weakly oyes ; That man must be a silly goose 'Who thoughtlessly condemns its use. If my proboscis could but speak, 'Twould often say—the dose repeat; Each grateful sneeze an tittilation Excites a frequent iteration. Then hero's my glass in which I toast, Succes s to that which I love most; air' 1 Pray don ' t think me bluff— Mk well Ate hint!—'tis GRIMSTONE'S Snuff. W. 11. H. E., Cooper's Arms, Bristol. To Mr. IV. Grimstone, 39, Broad -street, Bloomsbury. April 27, 1.40. ?II" cast s OF SIGIIT RESTORED BY GRINISTONF.'S SNUFF. ..„J a • n. Laehfield, Esq., cured of ophthalmia, Whitehall and (336 nu,tht_reli7i,dElisq7u,se Tavern, (read his letter attested to G. J. S., REe. ). G. W. M. Reynolds, Esq., No. 'llts, Lipper Stainford-greet, London, cured of excruciating in the head, by using the snuff. George Smith, Esq., 6, York 'Plaee, Kentish -town ; weakoess and dimness of sight cured by its use —Feb. 10, 1840. Mrs. Elizabeth Rob !oitta, aged 66, 19, Bell -street, Edgware-road, cured of ophthal ; and deafness -03d March, 1840. Mrs. Ann Cole, aged sight testored, head -ache and deafness cured, No. 7, Skin- Alms-houses, Mile-end—Jan. 9, 1840. This celebrated Eve Snuff is manufactured from highly aromatic herbs. The above is only a part of the many thou_ is effected by the use of this delightful restorative. It Is sold in canisters, at Is 3d.. •Is. 4d.,45. 4d., es.. and 15s. 6d. l e t c None is genuine that , has not the signature of W. Grim ,‘'.e, and the Queen's Arms, with the Patronage of his late ': a j e stY, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and autho rised by the Lords of the Treasury. -‘ l4 Talie Ser&i.dUrant ma vie " PUBLICATIONS. THE QUARTERLY, REVIEW, JL No. CXXXII. Will be published Next Week. John Murray, Albensarle-street. This day is published, price 25., WESTERN AUSTRALIA, comprising a Description of the Vicinity of AUSTRALIND and Port Leschenault, with Two Maps. By THOMAS JOHN BUCKTON, Esq. Author of " China Trade," &c. &c. London : John 011ivier, 59, Pall Mall. This day is published, T HE BRITISH AND FOREIGN RE VIEW, No. XXI. CONTENTS. 1. Chartism and Church Extension. 2. Austria and her Resources—Milan Treaty. 3. Modern French Novelists—Lo Nceud Gordien. 4. Montenegro. b. British Administration of India. E. Medical Reform. 7. History of Fiction—Eastern Story-tellers. 8. Hungary and the Hungarians. London : R, and J. E. Taylor, Red Lion-court, Fleet-street. CUNNINGHANI'S BURNS' WORKS. [II One very large Volume, octavo (uniform with Byron's Works), embellished with Engravings, price 18s. bound in cloth, THE WORKS of ROBERT BURNS ; with Life by ALLAN CUNNINGHAM, and Notes by Gilbert Burns, Lord Byron, Thomas Campbell, Thomas Carlisle, Robert Chambers, Cowper, Cromek, Allan Cunning ham, Dr. Currie, Hazlitt, James Hogg, Lord Jeffrey, T. Land seer, Lockhart, Motherwell, Sir Walter Scott, Professor Wil son, Wordsworth, &c. , London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, Cheapside; and C. Daly, Red Lion-square. Just published, price 2s. 6d. APRACTICAL ESSAY on the DEBILI TIES of the GENERATIVE SYSTEM, their Va rieties, Causes, Treatment, and Curs By aMEMBER. of the RO Y AL COLLEGE of SURGEONS, London, and Surgeon to a ➢letropolitan Infirmary. "I am impotent, an no' fit to live."—Last's Records of a Suicide. Sold by Onnhyn, Catherine-street, Strand; Boss and Nightingale, Liverpool ; Barlow, Birmingham ; and all Book sellers in Town and Cowart.. N.B. Persons in the Country may have this work forwarded by post (free), upon addressing either of the alcove Booksellers, and inclesing a remittance of 3s. VAN BUTCHELL ON FISTULA, &c. Fourth Edition. Just published, in Sc'.cloth boards, price is. 6d. enlarged, FACTS arid OBSERVATIONS relative to a successful MODE of TREATING PILES, FIS TULA, HEMORRHOIDAL EXCRESCENCES, TU MOURS, and STRICTURES, without CUTTING or CONFINEMENT; illustrated with numerous cases. Being a familiar exposition of the practice of S. J. VAN BUT CIIELL, Surgeon Accoucheur. Published by H. Renshaw, No. 356, Strand ; sold also by the Author, at his residence, No. 16, Percy-street, Bedford square. " Few men connected with the complicated departments of surgery are deserving of more grateful mention than Mr. Van Butchell, whose unwearied dedication to the cure of those most painful of all diseases, which this book treats of, has resulted in a continued course of success in cases of the most hopeless and forbidding nature. * * ' We find nearly every page re cording some astonishing cure in patients whose sufferings had been of many years duration, and most excruciating in their nature. The warmth of expression with which the gra titude of some of the restored is couched must be truly gratify ing to the feelings, and highly creditable to the skill and judg ment, of Mr. Van 13utchell.''—Weekly True Sun. Just published, in royal 13m0., cloth, price 3s. ; and sent in Town or Country free, by post, 3s. 6d., MANHOOD ; the CAUSES of its PRE MATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addresses to those suf fering from the destructive effects •f Excessive lodulgence, Solitary Habits, •r Infection ; followed by Observations on the TREATMENT of SYPHILIS, GONORRMEA, GLEET, &c. Illustrated with Cases, &c. By J. L. CURTIS and COMPANY, Consulting Surgeons, London. published by the Authors, and sold by Balliere, Medical Bookseller, 219, Regent-street ; 011ivier, 59, Pall Mall ; Sxange, 21, Paternoster-row ; Pattie, 4, Bridges-street, Strand; Alachen and Co., 8, D'Olier-street, Dublin; Duncaa 114, High -street, Edinburgh; and to be had *fall Booksellers The Work whicb is now presented to the public is the result of very extended experience in a class of diseases and affec tions, which for some unaccountable reason have been either altogether overlooked, or treated with apathy, and almost in difference, by ti►e c dinar) , practitioner. To enter into the details of these affections, to point out their causes, and to mark the terrific consequences, social, moral, and physical, which are sure to follow from indulgence, in certain habits, would be entirely out of place in an advertisement. We have no hesitation, however, i■ saying that'there is no member of society, by whom the book will not be found interesting, whe ther we consider such person to hold the relation of a PA RENT, a PRECEPTOR, or a CLERGYMAN. The PARENT, who beholds his beloved child pining away, and fast approaching to a premature grave, in consequence of some disease, which for want of a careful investigation of its real cause, has been set down to the score of consumption, will, on perusing this work be astonished to find that in nine tenths of the cases of young persons of both sexes, who perish et what is called pulmonary consumption, heart disease, tabes, &c., the sole and exclusive origin has been the indulgence in certain destructive habits, practised by youth much more fre quently than is at all suspected. The PRECEPTOR, also, who holds temporarily, at least the relation and responsibility of a parent, will, by perusing this work, be directed, and very much assisted in investigating and detecting the too often concealed practices so often introduced into schools, whereby the health and ultimately the lives of his pupils are sure to be compromised, unless the evil be checked in proper time. He will here find a clue to guide him through the intricate mazes of this moral labyrinth, and a standard vrhereby to judge, when delicacy of health should appear to attack any of his young charges, what the rea' cause of such attack may be, and thus he will be enabled to check the evil in its incipient state. The CLERGYMAN, in whose sacred character, is at once concentrated the twofold relation of parent and instructor, will here be directed as to the nature •f those habits, to which youth is addicted ; he will also be enabled to point •ut the disastrous consequences which are sure to follow from them, if not relinquished. Messrs. CURTIS and CO. are to be consulted daily at their residence,' Ne. 7, Frith-street, Soho, from Ten till Three, and Five till Eight in the Evening; and Country Patients are re quested to be as minnto as possible in the detail of their cases, —as to the duration of the complaint, ti , symptoms, age, ge neral habits of living, and occupation in life of the party ; the communication must be accompanied by tho " usual Consulta tion Fee of 1/.," without which no notice whatever can be taken of their application ; and in all cases, the most inviolable secrecy may be relied on. N.B. Sever doors from Soho-square. INFIRMARY for the CURE of STRIC- X TURES of the URETHRA, gITHILIS, GONOR RIHEA, GLEETS, and all DISEASES of the GENERA TIVE and URINARY ORGANS. Notwithstanding the above Institutic is closed, Patients may continue to receive film GRATUITOUS ADVICE of the Sur geon (Mr. i Ceurtenay, 42, Great Marlborough-st r e e t,) b y ap plying at his own hease nstead of the Charity. Hours of Attendance , from Eight to Ten in the Mornings and from Seven to Nine in the Evenings. On S un d ays i n the Morning, but not in t ho Evening The said COURT of DIRECTORS do likewise further give notice, That the same Proprietor has intimated his intention to sub mit the following motion at the said Quarterly General Court, viz. " That there be laid before this Court a copy of the Order in Council, or other act of the Indian Government, awarding (on the abolition of the Pilgrim tax) to the Rajah of Khoordah, or other authority connected with the Temple of Juggernaut, the sum of 50,000 rupees, or 5,0001. per annum for the future." JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. grim INFANT SAPPHO, LOUISA JL VINNING, Three and a Half Years of Age, whose won derful Musical Talent so delighted the Queen and Prince Al bert, that her Majesty was pleased to confer a special favour, by presenting this highly gifted Child with a beautiful Diamond Brooch ; she will sing several parts in a MUSICAL ME LANGE; Tins EVENING, FRIDAY, Sept. IS, at:a Quarter before Eight o'clock, and for a few alternate Evenings, pre vious to leaving London. The OXYHYDROGEN MICROSCOPE will be intro duced. Reserved Seats, 3s.—Body of Theatre, 2s.—Gallery, Is. POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, 309, REGENT-STREET. PUBLIC NOTIFICATION. - -- MESSRS. SLOAN and CO., Members of the Royal College of Surzeons, 4, ARGYLL-PLACE, REGENT-STREET, and 26, IRONMONGER-LANE, CHEAPSIDE, may be consulted from Eight o'Clock in the Morning until Ten at Night, on every variety and stage of Syphilis, with that delicacy and secresy they have hitherto ob served. The treatment they pursue will not subject any patient to confinement or hindrance front business. Cases of an ex treme nature they eradicate in eight er ten days, or if slight or recent in two or three, without the indiscriminate use of mer cury, and at a moderate expense. Generative debility, Gonorrhoea, and Strictures of the Urethra, unhappily so preva ent, are reated upon those unerrin ,, principles which have in sured to Messrs. Sloan and Co. so large a share of nubile pa tronage for nearly thirty years in Loncion, and which it will be their future exertion to maintain. Letter s , conta i n i ng an enc l osure , w ill be answered by return and patients, however dibtant, will be cerresponded with until movers di TN consequence of the intended changes, the PRESENT TIME, and the approaching MICHAEL MAS HOLIDAYS, afford the only opportunity for Visitors to see all the recent Scientific Novelties, which are increasing daily ; the Works exceed 1200 in number. The Engines and various Models are at Work, among them HALL'S PA TENT WATER ELEVATOR and the ROTATION RAIL. WAY MODELS, GREEN'S BALOON and Guide Appa ratus, the MICROSCOPE and CHROMATIC FIRE CLOUD, the CHORDIEOLIAN, at Four o'clock, with Two First-rate Performers, the GLASS WEAVING, the 120 fine DAGUERREOTYPES, and many other Works. EXPERIMENTS and LECTURES. Open from Ten o'Clc,ci—itdmission One Shilling. A New Edition of the Catalogue, with fine Illustrations. POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, 309, REGENT-STREET. The Exhibition will be closed on the 2d of Octeber until the Middle of November, for decoration and addition. BENEVOLENT FIRE and LIFE IN SURANCE, and NATIONAL BENEFIT SO CIETY, 351, Strand. Capital, 250,0001. Under the Management of a Board of Directors. This Society, in addition to the general business of Insur ance Companies, has been formed for the purpose of enabling persons of very moderate means to attain those objects hitherto confined to the more wea.thy, viz.:— let. Insurii,g their lives in sums from 5.. and upwards, se curing Deferred Annuities as a provision for Old Age ; Weekly Allowances during Sickness ; and Endowments for Children, the Premiums being divided into Monthly Instalments for the convenience of the Insured. Also for the protection of such as possess only a small personal property, Insurances are effected against loss by Fire, in sums from 101. to 1001., by Quarterly Payments ; thus Household Goods, Wearing Apparel, Stock in Trade, Workmen's Tools, &c., to the value of 20/. can be Insured, on payment of Sixpence every Three Months, duty included,. The attention of the Public is particularly directed to this very novel feature, for the man to whom this fact is known, will henceforth deserve little sympathy should he become the victim of a calamity, against the evils of which he could so readily have guarded. Prospectuses, detailing at length the various modes and rates of Insurance, can be obtained on application at the office, 351, Strand, or to any of the Society's Agents. HENRY WILSON, Actuary and Secretary. A man named George Springer was brought be fore Mr. Jenkinson, a Magistrate of the County of Surrey, at Kingston, on Tuesday, charged with being drunk and incapable of taking care of himself under the following ex traordinary circumstances : —William Clark, a fisherman at Kingston, deposed that he was in his boat on the river on that morning, about nine o'clock, when he saw the pri soner in the river, and apparently endeavouring to swim across. His head sunk twice under the water, and he was upon the point of drowning, when witness rowed to him and took him out of the water just in time to save his life. He rowed him ashore, and finding be was drunk, he placed him in the hands of a constable, who conveyed him to the station-house. Mr. Jenkinson asked the prisoner who he w as , and how he got his living? He replied that he was a labouring man and got his living by hard work. Mr. Jen. kinson—Well, how did you get in the river in the way dis covered ? The prisoner said he had met a few friends that morning, and they had been drinking together in a public. house, and he got drunk, and he did not know what oc. curred afterwards. The Magistrate told him he had had a very narrow escape from losing his life, and in considera. tion of what he had undergone he should not inflict any further punishment upon him, but he hoped he would be cautious in future. ANNIVERSARY OF THE ROYAL BUCKS AGRICULTURAL. AssociaTioN.—On Wednesday the tenth annual meeting of this Society was held at Aylesbury, for the purpose of distributing prizes to the most excellent labourers and servants in the county. The Duke cf Buck ingham, the President, took the chair. The meeting was numerously attended. The business of the day commenced with a ploughing match, on th e l an d o f Mr. William Rhodes, of Friar Edge Park, a little beyond the town. Seventeen teams entered. The prize was to be awarded to the ploughman who should have best ploughed half an acre in four hours, turning a sod of nine inches in depth and four in width, with the lightest draught. The num ber of horses contending, and the crowd of spectators gave the ground a very animated appearance. While this con test was going on, the Committee sat at the George Inn, and awarded prizes to other candidates. At the conclu sion of the distribution of prizes, the Committee pro ceeded to the County-hall, where about two hundred of the leading agriculturists of the county had assembled. The Duke of Buckingham occupied the chair, and after dinner the interests of the parties were supported by vari ous speakers. The Duke of Buckingham referred ap provingly to the Corn-laws. Mr. Du Pre, one of the county Members, attacked Sir Robert Peel's brother-in- ' law, foe his apostacy on that question. A Row BETWEEN TWO OF THE QUEEN'S UPPER SERVANTS.—For some time past two distinguished personages in her Majesty's Household have been disputing with each other respecting a certain right, which each claims, as exclusively belonging to him in virtue of his of fice. At first the affair was confined to the persons imme diately concerned, but of late the disputants have become so noisy on the subject, that it is now well-known to every one connected with the Castle. The parties to whom we allude are her Majesty's Lord Steward and Lord Cham berlain, and the right which is disputed is that of issuing tickets for the admission of the public to the music gallery. Since the arrival of the Court, Mr. Norton, the Clerk Comptroller of the Kitchen, was employed by the Earl of Er roll to issue the tickets of admission, and Mr. Saunders, the Inspecttor of Palaces, was similarly employed by the Earl of Uxbridge. It consequently happened, and frequently too, that more persons were granted admissions than could be accommodated ; each party, therefore, claimed the exclu sive privilege, and an altercation naturally ensued. The Lord Chamberlain, hasty and irascible at all times, imme diately commanded that no tickets should be issued, except by his authority ; and the Lard Steward, on the other hand, gave an equally imperative order. Neither party would, of course, concede, and as the privilege was con sidered one of importance, it was determined to refer the matter to the decision of the Queen. As soon, therefore, as the E a rl of E rro ll ( w h o i s at present in Ireland) re turns to the Castle, he r M a j esty w ill s i t in judgment on her quarrelsome servants ; and we doubt not, from the pacific disposition of her Majesty, that the dispute will be amicably arranged.— Windsor Paper. CENSUS ANECDOTE.—Mr. Cist, in a letter to the editor of the Cincinnati Chronicle, relates the follow ing dialogue between himself and a married lady : " Madam, what age shall I put you down ?" No direct answer. " How old is your husband ?"—" Sixty-one," " And your eldest son ?"—" Twenty-seven." " And the next ?"--Twenty-one." " And how old do you call your self?" "I do not know my age exactly, but it is about thirty." " Did I understand you, madam, that your eldest eon was twenty-seven ?"—" Yes " " You must surely, then, be more than thirty ?"—" Well, Sir (quite snap pishly), I told you about thirty; I can't tell exactly, it may be thirty one or two, but I am possitive it is not over that." —New York Express. Lord Beauvale, the British Ambassado r at Vienna, derives his title from a village or hamlet in Not. ting,han.shirc, the proper nanie of which is Beggarlee ; but such a beggarly name not suiting refined cars, it was softened down into Beaverlee, and still more recently has been eallel Bow-valley, and Frenchified into Beauvale, n , IVewark Gazette. A public meeting of the inhabitants of the borough of Southwark was held yesterday, at one o'clock, at the Town-hall, for the purpose or taking into consideration that part of the Metropolitan Improvement Commit tee's Report which referred to the improvements of the borough of Southwark, and recommended that a sum of 30,0001. should be given for that purpose. In conse quence of the absence of John Holmes, Esq., the High Bailiff, who was prevented from attending through ill ness, Jackson, Esq., presided. Among those present we observed Mr. Alderman Humphery, M.P., Mr. B. Wood, M.P., Mr. Rosher, Mr. Cope, and several other gentlemen. It appears that the Report of the Commit tee recommends the formation of a street from London bridge to Stamford-street, thus opening a direct line of communication between London and Westminster Bridges. Mr. Hiscocks h as, h owever, propose d a plan for making a new street from St. George's Church to Charlotte-street, thus running through the Mint, which besides opening all that close and unhealthy part of the Borough, will be attended with much less expense than the other plan, inasmuch as it does not run th roug h an y va l ua bl e pro perty. Resolutions in favour of Mr. Hiscock's plan were proposed, and, after some discussion agreed to, and pe titions in its favour to the House of Commons were or dered to be prepared and presented by the Members. Both these gentlemen earnestly impressed upon the meeting the necessity of avoiding dissension, as other wise they might after all not.get the 30,0001., and Al derman Humphery recommended that during the next session they should endeavour to get an Act autho rising the formation of both the proposed new streets, and Mr. - Wood added, that as both were so desirable he did not despair of seeing both these improvements car ried into effect. In the course of the discussion it was argued that the Borough was fairly entitled to a much et ralthoughmetropolitan t upwards ao im im provements, the Borough of Southwark had only 0 1 a f r t g w e o r p m a i r i i t i o t n h s a n h a 3 d o, b o e o e o n l., e s x e p e e m n g d e t d h a 'i t n re ceived the paltry sum of 4,0001. A Committee was appointed to superintend the car rying the resolution s i n t o effect, a n d th e meeting sepa rated shortly after four o'clock. OPENING OF THE DERBY ARBO RETUM. These beautiful gardens will be opened to the public to-day. The following are the arrangements as agreed upon by the Committee, to celebrate the occasion : WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16, 1340.—At twelve o'clock the shops will be closed, and business suspended for the afternoon. At the same time, the Town Council will assemble in the Guildhall, where Joseph Strutt, Esq., the munificent donor of the Arboretum, will deliver to the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors, the DEED OF GIFT, conveying those delightful grounds to the use of the public FUR - EVER! At the close of the proceedings, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors, will form in procession, accompanied by the stewards, their fellow-townsmen, :and gentlemen from the country, who may honour them by their attendance, and proceed to the Arboretum. [A long description of the order of procession follows.) These delightful gardens are situate at the southern end of the tor.n, and consist of nearly eleven acres of ground, which have been arranged and planted with great taste and judgment, by J. C. Loudon, Esq., F.L.S., H.S., &c. &c. Upwards of 1,000 trees of the most useful description have been planted, besides several thousand evergreens, which form the belt of the the gardens. The gravel walks are 6,070 feet in ex tent. The principal walks are fifteen feet wide, and the secondary ones, eight feet wide. The grounds on either side of the walks are thrown up into mounds, varying from six to nine feet in height ; the easy and elegant forms of which are admirably adapted for ex hibiting the trees and shrubs planted thereon. Two lodges have been erected, from designs furnished by C. B. Lamb, Esq., Architect, Brunswick-square, London ; that at the principal entrance is situate at the northern extremity of the gardens, and is of the Elizabethan order ; and the one at the southern end of the gardens is of the Tudor architecture. Rooms for the use of the public are appropriated in each lodge, and have been furnished in a very neat and substantial manner by the worthy donor.—Derby Mercury of Wednesday. SUNDAY FUNERALS. We trust some of the West Kirk Session were pre sent at the meeting on Tuesday se'nnight, and wit nessed the unanimity and determination displayed in its proceedings. They may rest assured that a spirit is abroad upon the subject which is not to be trifled with. Men ask themselves with wonder, how a practice which was never challenged by so good a man as Sir Henry Moncrieff, during his long incumbency, has been disco vered in our day to be a desecration of the Sabbath ; and whether a dozen of men, sitting in private conclave, are entitled to set aside at their discretion, a privilege so long enjoyed by the poor, and of so much value to them ? Our standards acknowledge that there are works of ne cessity and mercy, which may lawfully be done on the Sabbath day ; and we may surely ask whether any • work is better entitled to stand in this category than that of burying . the dead? If it led, even remotely, to any thing light, immoral, or indecorous, there would be no excuse for the prohibition ; but how contrary is the fact! It is the most solemn act which it falls to the lot of humanity to perform. It is a religious act ; for in bringing home to man th e i m pressive symbols of hi s mortality, it touches the chord in which religion has its source. We would ask the most sensitive roan as to Sabbath observance, whether the sight of a funeral on the street as he returns from church, excites one idea at variance with the service in which he has been en gaged ; whether, on the contrary, it does not reinforce and necpen every serious and solemn thought? The truth is, the prohibition to bury on Sunday is one of the many acts of aggression committed by the Church on the poor, while professing to be their special friend and guardian. It is an act exclusively against the humblest class of society. The middle and upper ranks never bury on Sunday. With them it is, and al ways will be unfashionable, because it speaks of poverty, and even the better circumstanced of the working classes avoid it when they can. It is the poor only who resort to it, and solely from necessity ; and the West Kirk Session, in stopping the practice, is in reality trampling on the rights, and making war on the neces sities of the poor. Thu Pharisees in some of the city churches made a similar attempt, but were defeated by the Town Council. And this is one of the m any facts which show the arrogant spirit of those petty irresponsible oligarchies the Kirk-Sessions, and th e want of sympathy between the Church and the P eople. Would anybody elected by the p eop l e have dared to meet in an obscure corner, and send forth an edict like this, cutting off a numerous . class f rom a privilege so long enjoyed, and of so much importance to them ? Assuredly not. Our Highflyers talk much of purging the pulpit of the grievance of Intrusion. w e would put more trust in their words, if they showed any desire to act upon the principle where it is w i t hi n their power, by purging the Session of the same evil. An eldership popularly chosen could not have so far mis taken its duty as to make this wanton attack on the rights of the poor ; or, to speak . more correctly, such an eldership Tfould not have lent itself as an instrument to the 'Fartuffes with whom this wretched piece of hypo crisy originated.—Scotsman. ROWLAND'S Ono N TO.—ThiS discovery, --- for the Breath, may he censidereZwithout a riva --Diseases of the Teeth effectually cleaning the Teeth . and purifying and Gums generally arise from.. neglect, or the use of its disinfecting R;roviplearntdie'ss, °wlhitet°i's tfhroeniTeth, pr s o ti d m u u ce la s te a s deleterious acids; the former allows concretions to form ; while the latter corrodes the _e o n n a t mel, an d _ o a g n u d ick sti d m e u e l a a y tiv — e the Gums, and purifies the Breath --thus ef f ecting all that human agency can in continuing the existence of those highly prized organs to the latest periods of human life. ission with The Cavahere Altavilla Villetta Calichiopuli, President of the Legislatiye Assembly of the lonian -: an address to her Islands, and on Majesty, has been gramouslydi.ior.nina.ted by the Queen Knight Commander o f the distinguished orderof S r. Michael and St. George, as a proof of her Royal favour. The communication of this mark of honour was courteously made to the Cavaliers by Lord John Russell. 39, ALBEMA R I,E-S T R EDT, PICCADILLY, AND 76, Kiso WILLIA M.-STREET, BANK ~.._ ‘ , 1 7 ENGLAND.—. Deafness, and those who aro slightly dull of hear difficulty to catch ing, and find a a specia.l m the sound of a distant low speaker at a public assembly, will find a most astonishing advantage from the use of the Messrs. S. and B. Solomons' Newly-invented Invisible Operative Voice Cor.ducter, which, when fixed into the cavity of the car is so small, not the le ast perceptible, nor more u ncomfortable th an having a piece of wool in its place. By this extraordinary and valuabl e i nvention, not only does the hearing become acute, but the Ears arc so i from their use, thatndivid ua l s, i n a much improved great number of instances, can hear most distinctly without them. It will, therefore, be seen that persons do not incur any constant habit of being compelled at all times to make use of them, and in consequence of the numerous individuals having been altogether relieved from deafness, they have become in general use. The Messrs. Solomons' Newly invented Spectacle Lenses, immediately they are placed before imperfect eyesight, either by day or candlelight, every ohj, c t becomes clear and distinct, and the most mi nute particle is seen with exact distinctness. Their valuable improvements in the material are secrets to them selves, and are solely confined to their Establishments, 39, Albemarle-street, and 76, King William -street, Bank. No connexieri with persons of tio Same name. A demand for bank notes to represent the transac tions of society may arise or be evaded in a great variety of ways. Formerly the number of persons who kept accounts with a banker were few in comparison with the number at the present time, chiefly arising from the fact that no banker would open an account without an understanding that the balance on such an account should be sufficient to pay him the trouble and expense of keeping it, and consequently bankers' accounts in those days were strictly deposit accounts, and a large pro portion of the transactions of tradesmen were of neces sity represented by bank notes. So far from this being now the case, in all our large cities and towns the use of them is superseded to an im mense extent by bills of exchange and the use of checks, and in London many millions in amount arc daily taken to the clearing frouse, and not a single bank note is required to represent them. Banker A has checks and bills on banker B for 100,0001., and B has checks and bills on A for 101,0001., and the balance between these two parties is paid by a check on the Bank of England, and in this manner nineteen-twentieths of the superior transactions of society are now settled without the intervention of bank notes. A similar sys tem is also gradually extending itself to all other places, and even the farmer, who formerly had his breeches pockets crammed on going to or returning from market with the local notes of some provincial bank, now finds It much more safe and convenient to let his cheek-book represent all his transactions. Another most important feature in transacting the business of the present day is to be found in the prac tice which very generally prevails of drawing bills for the amount of an order on the first of the month after its execution, this bill is then sent for acceptance through some bank, and, when accepted, is discounted by this bank, so that instead of our manufacturers and dealers having, as formerly, large capitals absorbed in book debts, this item is now a nonentity, and the tra vellers of many such, when they go their journeys, have not one shilling to receive, and thus the uses of which money is capable is taxed as far as the ingenuity of man can carry it. This often produces a great pressure for money on particular days, and a great laxity on others, giving a very uncertain and irregular character to the money market, and our manufacturers would do well to obviate the inconvenience which this is continually producing by varying their days of drawing. To show still more conclusively that the amount of bank-notes in circulation has little or no effect on the amount of business done, look at the history of the panic in 182.5. The circulation of the Bank of England in 1817 was about 30 millions, in 1825 20 millions, and yet in 1825 the actual amount of commercial transac stoiocniestyw w er a e s m te a n d -fo w l i d th w s h p a e t cu t la h t e i y on w . ere Th i e n n l u B m l b 7 e , r a a n f d o a a l r l mills has most fearfully increased, and the quantity of goods manufactured has also increased to an almost incredible extent since 1817, and yet, in consequence of the additional facilities of checks and bills in is repre senting our transactions with each other , there a less amount of bank paper of all kinds in circulation at present than at any period for the last thirty years, and it is with great difficulty the Bank of England can keep afloat its present reduced circulation of seventeen millions. Having now shown that there is no relative or neces sary connexion between the state of trade and the amount of bank paper in circulation, I will proceed to point out a fallacy indulged in by many of our political economists, that the value of articles is governed by the relative circumstances of supply and demand, and if I succeed in proving a negative to this I, of course, dis pose of another of their conclusions, that the state of our currency is mainly influential in inducing high or low prices. _ I could with great facility travel through many trades and point out the various principles which have crept into the mode of conducting them, but for our present argument I will select two. Ist. The Baltic Tallow Trade. The importation of Tallow, I believ e , amounts to about 40,00t0n per annum, and commen ces w i t h t h e opening of the Baltic about the month s o f M ay or June. The dealers in this article, s , ithout, however, the slightest reference to the period of its arrival, the amount of the supply, or the demand for consumption, have introduced a system of Bulling and Bearing ; and it not unfre quently happens, that they commence operations six, nine, and even twelve months in advance of the actual importation ; and that a quantity amounting to three and four times the amount of the whole supply, has been actually bought and sold long before a single cask has reached our shores. And I believe that I am not over-rating it when I say, that the speculative trans actions of this character do amount ;n the course of the twelve months to ten times the amount of the whole importation. Well, the supply arrives, and is landed ; the order for the delivery of one hundred casks is made out by the importer A, in favour of the buyer B, who endorses it over to C, who endorses it again to D, and so on through every letter of the alphabet. I remember once seeing an order of this kind with 32 endorsements on the back of it—to one firm it had been endorsed four different times, who had as often passed it on again to others, thus repre senting in fact 3,200 casks instead of 100. Now, let us see how this operates in the end ; the value of 100 casks of tallow is about 1,600/., A draws his bill on B for 1,600/., B draws on C for 1,603/., and so on through the entire list until bills are thus created mounting, to more than 50,000/., to represent property of the value of only 1,600/. As long as all the parties to such transactions remain sound these bills are of course duly honored ; but let any one of this string of names drop, and sec what jeopardy it places the whole in. I have known twenty in this trade, who never were worth 1,60 W., that have been either drawers or acceptors of such bills to the extent of 50 or 60,000/. ; and to show that this system of dealing infects all alike, the highest as well as the lowest, I will add that I have known one large importing house to be Bears of this article to the extent of seven or eighty thousand casks, and ac ceptors or drawers of bills to the extent of a quarter of a million of money, and, to make the climax more complete, one of the partners in this firm was a leading oracle in his clay and gene ration on all financial or currency questions, and wrote more nonense respecting bank issues and their effect on high and low prices than almost any other man living. Understanding to the greatest nicety the effect of an increase or decrease in the issues of the Bink, he could account for everything but the want of success for his own operations, and after hav ing been the ruin of many, failing in these, he sought, I believe, :or the means of subsistence among the hono rary distinctions of our public companies. It is hardly necessary to add that one after another of all who em bark in such a pursuit, do, like him, withdraw from the stage, and disappear from the list of our merchants ; others, however, take their places, and at the present instant of time are pursuing the same reckless, gambling, and desperate game. As closely allied in circumstances as in the nature and properties of the articles is The Whale Fishery Trade.—The whole supply of Sperm Oil amounting to three, four, and five thousand tuns per annum, is bought up and under contract one, two, and three years in advance of its arrival, and is resold over and over again long before even the whales are caught in the South Seas. One individual can thus control and regulate the prices at his pleasure with out the slightest reference to the amount of the supply or the demand for consumption, and the very natural effect of such a state of things is to enhance the price to the public, who have been consequently paying for the last three or four years from 30 to 50 per cent. ad vance on the average of prices of the preceding twenty years. Not the least remarkable feature in the m Ater is that, notwithstanding this apparent advance in prices, the fishery is neglected and rapidly going to decay, the reason being obvious, that under such a system the shipowner, who must fit out his ship for a three years voyage, can no longer calculate on the p rice he is likely to obtain for his cargo, for if an extensive outfit was to take place in expectation of rea lizin g the presenthigh prices, prices, it is more than probable tha t the p rices wouldbe s as e xtravagantly reduced as they are n ow advanc y (i ,and the shipowner would incur the chance of certain ruin, because, forsooth, our trade must be conducted by a race o f gamblers, in the place of merchants. As the certain consequences resulting from trades so conducted, a class of men called Dealers, who formerly stood between the importer and the manufacturer, and carried on a legitimate and prosperous trade, has nearly ceased to exist. They can no longer calculate on a profit derivable from any comparison of the supply and demand, but are entirely at the mercy of the Bulls and Bears, and, like the gentlemen of the Stock Exchange, . „ c•eired in Oil or Tallow." It may be justly charac terized as a foul and leprous spot on our commercial system, which the Bank of England and all other banks would do well to exercise their utmost vigilance in eradicating. I have selected these two branches of our trade be cause in them the evil appears to have taken root, and to have struck deeper than in others ; but the operation of the same pernicious principles have been felt in almost all. Inquire for the once numerous body of Blackwell Hall factors, and you will find their propensities for gambling in wool have left them scarcely " a local habitation or a name;" nay, even the manufactures of the country are subject to the same influence. I re member en instance of fifty ends of cloth consigned for sale by a manufacturer in the country, which made six teen evolutions from one house to another in the short space of ten days. Bills to the amount of 2.0,000/. were manufactured to represent the sales from one to another, and the article itself had not advanced one yard towards the consumer until the last of these job bers sold it to a leviathan establishment, for cash, the next hour, at about two-thirds of its real value. Nearly the whole of these dropped one after another into the G azette,l and the manufacturer, who had drawn at six months, on account of the sales, found himself minus the value of his cloth. Cotton, indigo, and even corn, are almost all of them periodically visited with similar operations, and so long as a large proportion of the transactions of men are of this speculative and gambling character, it is impossible to prevent money being at one time plenty, and at another extremely scarce. Neither the state of the money market, nor the prices of articles, will be regulated by natural causes. but must be altogether dependent on the extent to which this artificial spirit of speculation may be carried. To talk, then, of protecting the merchants, traders, and the higher classes of society, from losses arising from the nonpayment of bankers' promissory notes. is extremely fallacious and unnecessary. Their present mode of conducting money matters has nearly super seded the use of bank notes, and they may be fairly left to protect themselves ; but, inasmuch as bank notes are still necessary to represent the payment of wages, and, in fact, all the transactions of the lower classes of so ciety, who cannot, after the fashion of their betters, keep a banker, with whom to adjust their balances with each other, there can be no reason why the protection to this class should not be of the most positive and ab solute character. The profits of bankers are, of course, derived from their issues, and as the more notes they can keep in cir culation the greater is their 'profits, they have a direct interest in keeping the circulation full, and in their com petition with each other to do this, they have abrogated all the old principles of banking. Instead of accounts with bankers being deposit accounts, from the use of which deposits the banker f ormerly made his profits, they are now become anything but deposit accounts, and we have joint-stock banks competing with each other as to who shall be most liberal in doing business for no thing ; some will keep your account on a very small ba- lance, others withoutany balance but for a . small sum per annum, some will allow interest on your deposits, while nearly all will lend you their own notes, and charge you a month's interest on the balance at the end of every month ; and throughout the entire of Scotland this is particularly the case, for the entire community there may be said to be carrying on trade with a very small proportion of their own capital, but with the paper borrowed in this manner of these banks, having them entirely at their mercy, may ur.duly excite them to speculation, or lay the whole, as they have occasionally done in the town of Dundee, prostrate in the dust. To protect the public from a recurrence of such con- tingencies, to give permanent value to our circulating medium, and to restrain this false and vicious principle of trading as much as is practicable, there is no alter native left but to compel every establishment licensed to manufacture promissory notes, to give security for their payment. Whether the public ought to submit to the mode proposed by the Bank of England for effecting this, is a question I shall endeavour to answer In my next. A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER. Sheffield, Aug. 29, 1840. DRAINAGE OF THE FENS. HALL'S PATENT HYDRAULIC BELT, OR WATER ELEVATOR. On Wednesday last the first public trial of the Patent Hydraulic Belt for the purposes of Fen Drainage was made at Salter's Lodge, near Downham Market, The Belt is composed of a wooden material, passing over two cylinders of wood at a cer tain distance from each other. Any number of belts may be employed, according to the body of water to be raised. By the mere velocity of the belt, a sufficient power of attraction is produced to raise the water and throw it over the tap cylinder. For the purpose of the experiment, the engine was made to employ about three-horse power, and with this extent of force more than 800 gallons of water raised per minute, at a lift of about twelve feet. The superiority of the belt over the ordinary mill was sufficiently attest ed by the comparison the spectators were enabled to make by the keeper of a wind-engine near setting it in motion. This mill was of twenty-five horse power, and at the time of the commencement of its operations had the advantage of the water running off, by the belt raising the water to its level, yet the greatest lift did not exceed two feet, nevertheless it raised no more water than the belt worked, as before mentioned, by the engine, at throe-horse power. In the opinion of the engineer, the additional outlay of but 75/. would serve to raise 2,500 gallous of water per minute, instead of 800 gallons. The triumphant success which attended this experi ment of the Hydraulic Belt, most gratifying as it must have been to the ingenious and enterprising inventor, proved scarcely less so to those among the numerous persons assembled to witness it, who were capable of estimating the extent of utility to which it might be made serviceable, and of appreciating the advantageous improvements it is capable of effecting in the great work of Fen Drainage.--Cambridge Advertiser. DONCASTER RACES. Agrippa's Prophecy fulfilled, as prognosticated in Bell's Life in London of Sunday last, September the 13th, in which Sporting Journal Launcelot was pronounced the winner of the St. Leger. The best, most authentic, and fullest account of ' the Races, will be given in Belts Life, accompanied by a Portrait of Launectot, pourtraycd by Mr. Herring, who will, in addition, add his Symmetry. The price of B e lt s Life in London is Fivepence. Belts Life is published in time for the Euston-square Station Railway, at one o'clock on Saturday afternoon. THE GLASGOW DIVINITY CHAIR.—SHICe we last offered a Jew observations upon the subject, a good m any candidates have appeared, some of La g et r ee e r a so t o e fn r , o , someof lesser pretensi ons, for the vacant ch air. We have heard f Glas gow,tho names of Dr. Hill, l o ,d f oiln D ibe a ng i re l g l , y ht , ,he D m r ir . a.t r .flya Edinburgh. It Dr. . ,were Dr. Gray, a d delicate, 1 i c o C a t i t a e G s :l aants: of might appear an invidious, task to at tempt to adjust the respective merits Glasgow w C: fessor of Hebrew, and Mr. B uc h anan, oe and cl d a i i n m b s ur o g f h t . hese is various individuals. This, however, rendered altogether name, before b w y he th h e it a e p a p n e b ar e a e n o c i e ls. a d mon g them of another give i w e a r y ecl nci t di i s s e t r i e le di n t a f in or e th o e f to a th n e a m me at e o o n:: toosi ' y c in its veryC h e l bestm er s of — reputation with the or excuse the selection of anyy o w n i e ll e n ls o e t , o w a i s ie il n y s u u n c d h e a rst m an a d n civilized world. The c ountry may be obtained. But Dr. Chalmers is already a Profes sor of Divinity, and i n the metropolitan University —why think, tor Edinburgh,bring him to Gl as gow? T andf l o la r t D is r.a Chalmers, hoitmiesesihf.obuuldt in which Glasgow need have nothing to do. It Glasgow can acquire suc h a man, it is not for the elect ors to com plain that Edi n b u r g h is, not preferred.—Scottish Guar dian.---[ Still the weatilercock ! lie veered first from Ca vcrs, in Roxburghshire, to a place in Fife—then to Glas gow, then to St. Andrews, then to two churches, and the Divinity chair, successively in Edinburgh, and now he is about to veer back to Glasgow.) On the Birmingham and Gloucester, opened about two months and a half, 18,414 miles have been travelled, and 33,155 passengers carried with the like freedom from accident. The Newcastle and Carlisle, which, from its first partial opening, is now five years and five months, has been travelled on to the extent of 15,641,859 miles, and carried 1,038,946 persons, has had no fatal accident to either. But there have been three slight accidents, and a sailor broke his thigh jumping off the train. The total sum of the miles run on these nine rail ways is about 2:26 millions, the number of persons car ried from ten to eleven millions, and we have no doubt, by the time we have received accounts from the other lines, the two numbers will be considerably swelled. Out of all these numbers of miles and persons there have been only two fatal accidents to passengers, and a few contusions, the number of which on one or two of the lines are not given to us. Probably they are under sixty altogether. Now if this be not a demonstration clear and irre fragable as the existence of the sun at noon day, of the superior safety of railway travelling over that of all other modes yet invented, we should like to know what is. We fearlessly challenge any one to produce such evidence of security in favour of any other system. Multiply the fatal accidents a hundred fold, and we doubt whether combined with the numbers carried and miles travelled, any other mode of transport could even then be found to compete with it. Are the unfortunate cases therefore which have happened on the Hull and Selby and Eastern Counties, both of which have been clearly traceable to the want of due care on the parts of the servants, to be szit against facts like those we have ad duced ? Is it fair, we would ask, to endeavour to cry down the greatest improvement of modern times in the face of such evidence as we have given, running over a period of ten years and upon nine different lines, on ac count of the accidents which have happened on two lines, one of which has been opened only about twelve months, and the other partially, not fifteen ? Just as fair would it be to cry down stage-coach travelling because a coach had been overturned through negligent or vvillul driving, or steam navigation, because of the dreadful ac cident that happened at Hull some time since by the bursting of improper boilers. We are quite sure the Times must feel that its attack upon the safety of rail way travelling has not been made in the spirit which usually characterizes the tone of that powerful journal towards new inventions, and that it must perceive from the facts we have brought forward, that it has been car ried away by the warmth of its indignation against two solitary cases of negligence and wilfulness, to make ob servations which are not merited by the railway com munity. WOOLWICH DOCKYARD. The extensive improvements taking place in this great naval depot are such as will in a short time ren der it superior to any in the kingdom, or it may be safely affirmed in any other country in the world. The dry-dock opposite the blacksmith's shop, at the cast end of the yard, designed by Mr. bolt, is in a very forward state under the able superintendence of Mr. Smith, who has placed a number of extra hands at work, in order that it may be ready by the end of February next, for the reception of the Trafalgar, 120 gun ship, now building in the same dockyard. This dock is, without exception, the finest and most com modious that has ever been built, and is constructed of the most durable materials, being first laid in the bottom, with one foot of brickwork, and over it large granite stones about three feet six inches in thickness, and each many tons in weight. It is constructed on a principle that has never been before adopted. At the part of the dock where the breast of the vessels brought into it will rest, the tiers of stone recede about double the size of the tiers on the sides, as by this means it is made to accommodate itself to the shape of the vessels, and will contain those of much larger dimensions than it would have done by the old plan. The base of the dock is •_'3o feet in length, and of a proportionate breadth ; but it will contain a vessel of upwards of 300 feet in length on the upper deck, owing to the manner in which it is constructed. At the west-end of the Dock-yard excavations have been going on during the whole sum mer, for the purpose of making a dock of still greater dimensions, designed by Mr. Walker, engineer, and it is intended to lay the foundation stone in the course of a few days. The contractors for this dock, Messrs. Grissell and Peto, of Lambeth, have had great diffi culties to contend with in making the excavations. At a few feet from the surface they came on a rich alluvial deposit, evidently the remains of a forest, as the hazel and other nuts and clumps of trees were found in a per fect state of preservation, and the leaves were in many instances in layers of six feet thick. Under these was a considerable bed of concrete like blue clay, all of which had to be gone through before a safe gravelly bottom could be found. This has now been obtained ; but not without great interruption from powerful springs rising in all directions, and it has required the constant and unceasing exertion of a forty-horse power steam engine pumping night and day to enable the men to proceed with their labours. The dimensions of this dock will be Joo feet at the base, and as it will be con structed on the improved principle, it will admit of vessels of 400 feet in length on the upper deck. This is considerably larger than any ever made ; yet it is anti cipated steam-vessels of this gigantic size will be laid down when docks capable of containing them for fitting and repairing are ready for their reception. 'Pile TRAFAIGAIL.— ' Phis splendid and magnificent vessel, building in the Woolwich dockyard, and to be mounted with 120 guns, is now in a very forward state, being so far finished in the wood work as to ad mit of receiving the priming and first coat of paint on the upper deck. Tne first duck is also nearly finished, almost all that is required to complete it being the large iron joints for connecting the main beams and sides to each other. The supports of the upper deck have a very chaste appearance, and consist of thirty-three hand somely turned pillars, of the best African oak, equally rich in effect as if they were constructed of the best Spanish mahogany. The second deck is also progress ing fast, and the supports of the first deck arranged of similar pillars as those on it, and .of the same valuable material, present;a beautiful perspective, being placed in one line along the whole length of the ship. The Tra falgar is altogether in such a forward state that she might be launched directly, but if this were the case, she would have to be sent to Chatham, to be fitted, as there is no dock in the Woolwich yard capablheeoref arree ceiving her. It is on this account alone thdatt upon her, and she will he launched in the end of the month . I only thirty shipwrights at present employe n , for her of Fe bruary, IS4I, the moment the dock preparing for to reception, by Mr. bolt, the engineer, , for this dock specified re ceive her. The original con o t t ra h c the month of :mane, that it would be completed by part of the Admi ralty, that it should be fi des i re, on at an earlier period, Mr. extra hands upon it, for the having it compiete y 1 d b the end of Fb 4 ruary. 1 purpose of 1 1 1 8 o 1 1t 1 p ; I abcuetd owing number ing to a odrensiels• haven to has expressed nto retire from the bench. Mr. Solicitor be elevated to the Lord Chancellor- Stuck will be the new Solicitor -General, and L L AI L C C l i i ia A n il ce G ll E or s.— Plu W ok e et I: : G" i ei l lt i Pii'eci.erftvrnr r era e ispi t n' i ti : \hri e ti:ai:tn f r r o e n w i Parliament. A vacancy will thus be created in the representation of Cashel. Either Mr. Monahan, Q. C., or Mr. Hatchell, Q. C., will receive the coif vacant by D. Stock's prom)tion. Our information does not warrant us to state definitely which of these two gentlemen will be selected. These changes will not affect Mr. Pigot, who remains Attorney-General. 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