The Sun. — London, England, 1847-04-19 00:00:00

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For N.J SALE!. by OItDER of th e II N: OOITRAiII E the COMM IS SIONERM of her MAJESTY'S cUsTOMS. at TwAye o'clock it !?en precisely, at the Commorclal Sale Booms, 3linciii,lane, 4111 Wedn esday 25th, Thursday 29th, Friday 30th April, Saturday ronday 3d, 'Tu es d ay 4th, Wednesday sth, and Thursday 6th- lst, May, ' l.l , the follo w i ng GOODS for Borne Consumption: Agate Seals • Lace, Reels Brooch Pieces Barhes Buttons, . Shawls Artificial Flowers Buttons' Berthes, kc. Brushes Musical Instruments " ' Bandanas . - Horns Violins • Itarege Guitars Br ooch Paintings - Cornopeans Bronze Cat:ld:esti:lm . Harmonicons Baskets Brandy Pianofortes - M ee rschaum l'ipcs Boxes, Card, Snuff, &c. I pipe Bowls, Ike, Work, &c. Musical Boxes 9,urtaloo Embroidered Mohair Yarn Carpets, Turkey Opera Glasses Crape Shawls Pepper Corals, Negligees Porcelain, French, &c. Chinese Paintings Pencils China Jars, t4c. Perfumery Cameos Bugs, Persian, &c. Cambric Handkerchiefs Rum Clocks, Inlaid Silver Plate Or-molu Shawls. Craps . Marble Cashmere Pillar Fren, it Brass Bat ewe Chamber, &c. Cotton, &c. Catllngs - Spa Ware Carved Wood Silk Cloaks Cologne Water ' Mantles Cordials Scarfs Cheroots Shawls, Stc. C urry Powder, &c Bags Drawing Instruments Purses Embroidery, viz.:— 1 Aprons Caps Mitts Cuffs Garters Shirt Fronts Silk, oiled or gummed Handkerchiefs Silk and Cotton Stuffs Habit Shirts Silk-worm Gut - . Lace, &c. &c. Sugar Earthenware Steel Buckles Extracts, Chemical Purse Snaps Purse -lidos rarnicure . Feathers, dressed Purse Garnitures Flock for Paper Stamen Purse Tassels Geneva Segar Lights Gimp Segars Grass Cloth Snuff Rat linings Tobacco, Manufactured Rat s Unmanufactured Nand Screens Boxes Itery Chessmen Card Cases • Backgammon Men and ßoxes j l Tea Woollen Shawls Walking-sticks Wine Waistcoating Watches, Gold Seger Cases Jewellery Jewel Cases Lace. Pillow Silver • Watch Keys And various other goods. Thread Silk For Rome cousumptjon. on Payment of the Duties :—Silk Mann • _factures. Ctilna Crape Shawls, Chins Saks, Pongee Handkerchiefs. &c. For Exportatipn only :—Spirita, Vfmteurs, Tea, Books, Clocks, Watched. " • 4 , For Exportation, or Home Consumption, on Payment of the m itte . : _w o od i winev Coffee. Suceades, Tamarinds, Sliver Plate, Sugar, Sugar-candy, Provisions. Tea, Books, ,eap, Preserved. Ginger, Spirits, and sundry ether goods. For the Benefit of the Crown :—Silk Manufactures, Sugar, Spirits, &c. To be viewed at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom House, Thames street; at the St. Katherine, the London, the East and West India Docks; and at the Tobacco Ground, Rotherhithe, on Friday 23d, Saturday 24th, Monday 26th, and Tuesday 27th April, 1147, fn,m Tea o'clock in the Morning until Three o'clock in the Afternoon; and on the days of sale, from Ten o'clock in the Morning until Twelve o'clock at none. Take Notice, that the goods sold at this Sale will not be delivered until alter two clear days of the day on which they are sold ; and that no lots can be paid for at the office of the Receiver of Fines after two o'clock in the afternoon ; and on the days of sale money Will not be received by the Receive: of Fines after eleven o'clock in the forenoon. Catalogues may be had at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom Reuss. price One Shilling. A BANK O F A U STRALAS lA. (Incorporated by Royal Charter 1835,) London Office, S, Austin Friars, April 19. 1847. The Court of Directors hereby give notice that a VACANCY in the DIRECTION has occurred by the resignation of Nathan Ather- A,O En.. on his leaving England for t he Colonies, 'and that every PRIETOR, duly QUALIOIED, intending to become a CANDI DATE, or to Propose some other Proprietor as a Candidate to fill "'Leh VACANCY, must give notice therof, in Writing , to be left at re 011 ice of the Corporation as above , within Ten Days from this ate, signifying either his Intention to become a Candidate, or the "rae and place of abode of the Candidate proposad. By order of the Court, WILLIAM MILLIKEN, Secretary. ikb ENJAMIN EDGINGTON, Marqu ee, Tent, 44-1' Flag, and Rick Cloth M anufacturer, 2, Duke-street, South ,. ark, foot of London-bridge. Rick Cloths, with poles, pulleys, and ones complete. _ No farmer should be without a good rick cloth, for it Is certainly one of the most useful things he can have on his premises."—Gar dener's Gazette. li lttek Cloths, both new and secondhand, at a reasonable cost. Bunting, - and Scrims for fruit trees. ir-'4 4 ress. Benjamin Edgington , 2, Duke-street, Southwark. A &rehouse, 208, Piccadilly. ROWLANDS' ODONTO, or, PEARL. DEN TIFRICE, a FRAGRANT WHITS POWDER, prepared ." 0111 oriental herbs of inestimable virt ue for preserving and beauti- Y , ot the TEETH and strengthening the GUM. It eradicates iller from th e t ee th, an d thus lends a saluta r y g rowth and freshness • to the gum - 5. It removes from the surface of the Teeth the spots of Most decay, polishes and preserves the Charnel, imparting the Pore and pearl-like whiteness : while, from its saluhrious and disinfecting qualities, it gives sweetness and perfume to the breath. ant an anti-ecorbutic, the gums also share in its corrective powers; Zr:ry is eradicated t ee t h and healthy action and redness gh ei ` rill uood , so that the (if loose) are thus rendered firm in r sockets. As the most efficient and fragrant aromatic Tooth p owder ever know, ROWLAND'S ODONTO has for a long series of y occupied a distinguished place at the toilets of the Sovereigns add t he Nobility throughout Europe. Price Is. 9d per box. st y UTION.--To protect the public from fraud, the H an. Commis rers of Stamps have directed the proprietors' name an d address to g graved oa the Government stamp, thus "A. ROWLAN D aid ON,. _ 2O . Hatton-garden," which is a ffi xed oa each bo x. Sold b y ..."_:_ r ____ ° Prietors. and by Chemists and Perfumers. 2s. 94 ', as. 6d., and 11s. each Box. Post tree, 31., 55., and ins. COPAIBA AND CUBEBS ENTIRELY SUPERSEDED. wRA.Y'S BALSAMIC PILLS, celebreed all over the world for the Cure of Strictures, Pains in the ‘..l.o.fiins, over of the Kidneys, Gravel, Stone , Impuissance , or Physical Incapacity, Weakness, Irritation of the Bladder or Urethra, Atsi other diseases of the urinary passages. These Pills have for years been employed in most of the Metro- Politan Hospitals and Dispensaries, and were extensively prescribed by the late Samuel Cleverley, M.D., Physician to the father of her present Majesty, his late Royal Highness. the Duke of Kent; John Armstrong, M.D., Member of the Royal College of Physicians of London, Lecturer on the Principles and Practice of Physic at the Webb-street School of Anatomy. and ' onsultlng Physician to the London Fever Hospital; William Milligan, M.D., Member of the London and Edinburgh Royal Colleges of Physicians, Physician to the Middlesex Infirmary, and Royal Universal Infirmary for Chil dren, Lecturer on the Principles and Practice of Physic, Chemistry, and Materla Medics, at the Windmill-street School of Anatomy ; J. G. Thomson, M.D., Member of the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh, and of the Royal College , of Physicians, London, Phy- Slcian-Accoucheur to the Ladies' Benevolent Association, Lecturer on the Principles and Practice of Midwifery, &c.; George Jewel, M.D., Physician-Acconchcur to the Middlesex Infirmary. Lecturer on the Principles and Practice of Midwifery, and the Diseases of Women and Children ; and Mr. Thomas Benin, Surgeon, of Maryle bone ; Mr. W. H. Dewhurst, Resiaent Surgeon to St. John's British Hospital, Cress-street, Hatton-garden; Mr. Greville Jones, Surgeon to the Free Hospital, Gray's Inn-lane ; and were administered by the Proprietor in upwards of 1,800 cases in private practice within three years, prior to being advertised—in many thousand cases since, "„,wl in no one instance known to fail —are strongly recommended as ... far more efficacious remedy than Balsam Copaiba, Cubebs, or any ~.O t her medicine in present use. M an y other medical gentlemen of 1 11 fIguished eminence in London have borne testimony to the efIl ..Y of these Pills, whose prof essional character and rank are a " this guarantee for the advantag es to be derived from the use of ris invaluable medicine. —Prepared only by M. 0. Wray; sold at . 9 . Fetter -lane, late the White Ho rse Booking-o ffi ce, removed from Ale, Holborn -hill, London. P HYSICIAN'S ADVICE from Eleven till One , eve r y Da y . 6„. s''"ICAL ATTENDANCE every Evenin g , from Seven till Nine. ~ ~..- en_ lms residing in the remotest p arts of the country can be treated successfully, on describing minutely their rymptoins, age, asibits of life, !cc., and inclosing a Post-office order for advice and Medicine, which can be forwarded to any part of the world, securely P ac ..ed, and carefully protected from observation. , All letters to be addressed to "M. 0. WRIT, 89, Fetter-lane, ' ' LAstidon.o DR. CULYERWELL on HEALTH, HAPPINESS, and LONG LIFE. I* pocket volumes Is. each, by post (in stamps), is. 6d. each. lOW TO B E HAPPY. " Jnciutde Tivere."—C l c. 9. WHAT to EAT, DRINK, and ATOP). • (With Diet-tables for all Complaints.) 3. MARRIAGE and its MYSTERIES. To;be, or not to be, tkat is tke question."—ShakSpettre. 4. The PASSIONS—Their ADYENT and COXTROL. " Cure ut velem." ' These publications are free from empyrical mysticism, and are adapted to the intelligence of the times. To be had of .4terwood, 23. Paternoster-row ; Mann, 39, Corn- Carvalho, 147, Fleet-street ; and all Booksellers, or direct from ttie Author, whose practice is exclusively devoted to home consult*. Von. Mornings till Three. and in the Evenings Item Sevea till Nine, at 10. Arole-place. Beeent-street. "I AM MONARCH OF ALL I SURVEY.". " I am Monarch of all I survey" (As Selkirk ezclaim'd, when alone), No Mart in its tcading display Can equal my mercantile throne. • In my Coats, made by MOSES and SON, The choicest of styles I display ; And here, through the fame I have won, " I ata Monarch of all I survey." My Trousers and Waistcoats are made To answer both beauty and use; And MOiikES and SON, in their trade, The loveliest patterns produce. As a Hat Mart, I stand at the head, And the best' Boots anti/Mles I display; And hero, I repeat what I've said, That" Monarch of all I survey." Whatever you wish to procure, E. MOSES and SON can supply ; And when you've made purchase, I'm sure My goods will be rank'd very high. • And rememeer, that nothing is dear— The lowest of prices you pay ; My motto's " Small profits"—and here " I am Monarch of all I survey." • A new Work, entitled " FASHIONS FAVOURITE," with a List of Prices, and Directions for Self• Measurement, can be had on application, or forwarded post-free. LIST OF PRIM. MEAD* TO NIZASOZZ. Cashmere Codrlngton, from .. ••.•• • . • •• • ...... 16 6 Taglionts, silk collar and cuffs .. •.•• • • . Cambridge Coat, lined throughout ..................2 5 0 Tweed Coats • •••• • • • • • 0 13 6 Dress C0at....•• • • ••• • • 1 12 0 Best quality manufactured •••••• • • • • • ...... •••• • • • Frock Coat ••••• • • • • • Rest quality manufactured ••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • 3 3 0 Rich pattern Vesta ••••••••••.•••••• • -• •• • • • • • • • • • • 0 8 0 Cashmere, er cloth •••• • • • • •• • • ..... •••••• • • • • • 08 6 Single-milled Doeskin ditto .... •••• • • •• •• •••• •• • • 1 1 Rest, or Dress ditto .. • ..• . • ••••.••• • • • •• • • • ..... 1 6 0 Boys' Hussar or Tunic Suits • • READY MADE. Cash me rette Codrington •• •• • • ••••••••••• • • •• • • • • 0 1 8 Cambridge's, Chesterfield Polka's, and all • the newest patterns Tweed Coat ••••••••••••••• . .• • • • •• •• • • •• :•from 8 6 Sporting ditto .• •• •• •• •••••••••••••••• •• • • •• •• •• 0 6 6 Extra Superfine, a superior coat •• .. • ••••••• • .• • • • • 1 15 from i 4 0 Frock Coat Extra Superfine, a superi 3 r coat • • •• .• I 0 Roll-C altar Vests .. •• • • .• .• •• •• •••••• • • • . •• 02 0 Fancy Satins ...................................0 6 6 Clotk, or Cassimere ••• • • • •. • • ••••••• • • • • •• 0 4 6 ...... 0 4 Fancy Cassimere or Doeskin .• •• •• ••..•• • • • • 0 10 6 Boys Tunic and Hussar su , tg Observe.—Any article purchased, ready made, or made to mea Sure, if not approved of, will be exchanged, or if preferred, the taoneY returned. E. Mt)SES and SON, Tailors, Woollendrapers, Clothiers, Ratters, Rosters, Farriers. Boot aid Shoemakers, and General Outfitters, for Ladies and Gentlemen, 154, 155, and 156, 157 Minorite, and 83, 84 . 85, and 86 Aldgate, :Jay. London. Caution.—E. Moses and Son regret being obliged to guard the public against impostors, but have leareed that the nntradesman ;lke falsehood of being connected with them, or it's the same concern, has been resorted t* in many instances, anti for obvious reasons. They have no connexion with any other hone in or out of London; and those who deli-e Genuine wad cheap clothing, &c.., Should call at. or send te. Minories and Aldgate, City, 1.011,1011. Notice. -No business tran,Acted at this establishment from sun set lrrida7B till KAI% 64tUal.T. NAM bUtl44l l 13 r 11 9 1 11,4 tU4 tWelle i:4:s: 17030. Ao . -../ ,---r---t/6---‘ - . ... , --t-,‘;„ 4 ,, • 1. , --, - - 4 411111161116. ' - • . _ ~ ... .. . .. , -• v . . - • -\, -It .a , ,c. - tli i i • kit -r" A ci e , \ i ! .• • ! ~, '' . - ..* *t 'i . . 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The system of Dufermi Annuities. origlitelly proposed by tho Na tional "L , an Fund Life Assurance Society, for the loetter advance meat of the objects of Benefit and Friendly Societies, having reeeiveit the approbation of a considerabli.- body f the active members and officers of these Institutions, and the Directors of the National Loan Fund So. - lety having' been urgently solicited by them to establish a Branch Office in connexion with those societies and the Operatare Classes generally, in which t::eir services might be successfuly en caged, a Committee has been sanctioned by the Directors to open communication with the different $ .cietios, with the of to of more effectually d . sseminatine the valuable benefits aimiugst the indus trious classes, and a pia lies been .Toposeil wah tlrc object. • ADDREsS 'SF TIIE commirmE. Many praiseworthy but ineffectual :attempts have been made to bring within the scope ant operation of the laws of mo, tallty and money the savings of the industrious classes, as as various cal culations regulating their di 4trlbutioe, having for their tlaject either immediate, contingent, or deferred heueflts. A slight examination, however, will demonstrate that the con etruetion of these ass , ciations of :ocieties is defective; and that in stead affmsting an easy access and a free choice of investment, which should be the privilegd of every one, they confine too oars mly the channel throne!' which a benefit can alone he secured; and, in proportion as their action is circumscribed and embarrassed, their utility is Imited. For example, It is not to every individual or to every class amongst the industrious community, that provision in case of sickness is an object of such importance as to call for a pecuniary sacrifice ; whi e to others- such a provision appears more attractive, and the Imes of employment caused by sickness is a risk against which they desire to be guarded. For this anomalous state of things there is an effective and simple remedy ; that is to say, instead of covering, by one weekly or annual payment, two or more contingent or deterred benelts, so to arrange it that each separate benefit should have its separate contribution. . It is to not having observed this rule, and to the association of two dissimilar funstions, and by confounding a sick allowance and an annuity fund in one and the sell same payment, that much of the evils and mismanagement has arisen amongst Benefit Societies. No mechanises can be so perfect for the management of a sick - ress-fund provision as that afforded by the constant sectional asso ciation and watchfulness of the several members composing it. By this means a thorough and constant check is mutually exercised, and none but the really sick are likely to become chargeable upon it. But the same, perfection, or the same svurity, is seldom attainable where a fund is to be accumulated through a succession of years, and where results arc to bear opt calculations, money investment being in general beyond the experience of the industriont classes. For these reasons it is clear that the fiends destined for a provision in sickness should be kept entlrelydistinct trout the fund intended as a , provision for old age :-- - Ist. Bemuse the laws of sickness and mortality, though apparently connected, do not depend on the same ealenlation: - • 2d. Because there Are a great number who, in order to secure a larger provision in oldwe are willing to take the.risk of, providing with voluntary ßecause for probable sicknegss on themselves. sponsibility. and mere ex h a e ss r oc es i p a o ti l o is , l , l:l . ll.ty of managing a provision for age, continued to a distant period is, in a great measure, incompatible. i p n: r i f voi rm dua e l hee irre o - t failure;posedflucttsuaating such a contract, that when uudertakest on the same principles' that ordinarily govern commercial bodie— and d e 4th. Because the expenses of providing for sickness must, when tteit esdtiilnt morethe satmh this payment prtwi w : har: it provision wis , f o o old age, tend to dimi nish good policy to en danger the one for the sake of the other. Impressed with these conyietions, and with an intimate knowledge of the discussions passing within the boson of many of the existing Friendly and Benefit Societies, the parties whose names are here unto attached, have had several meetings. with it view of proposing or adopting a remedy for those and other evils; and in this manner to give an ad- tional force to the principles of brotherho,d, unity. and mutual aid, on which friendly societies are based , by guarding them from the risks of sudden dissolution. After much diligent search amon mt the combinations ingeniously proposed from time to time for the attainment of one of the principal objects of Friendly and Benefit Societies, they have found none equal in simplicity and comprehensiveness of design, as well as forethought and sympathy tor the wants of the industrious classes, as the plan proposed by the National Loll' and Life Assurance Society. It isainA true that tke author of that plan has furnished an argument ag provision in sickness; but, without concurring in the immediate ex pediency ce abandoning a provision in sickness, no one can read the other part of the plan itself, without being fully sa4sfled that the convenience and safety of Friendly and Ilenefit Societies will be greatly secured and consulted, by separating the payment of a sick allowance from an annuity for old age. A deputation having waited on the directors of the National Loan Fund, who met in the handsomest manner the overtures made to them for the establishment of a separate ollice for the transaction of business connected with Friendly and Benefit Societies, and the in dustrious classes in general, resolutions have been en , ered into, con stituting the undersigned as a Committee, with power to add to its number, for the promulgation of the benefits contained in the an nexed twoapectus, under the guarantee of the Capital of the Society, and which, without interfering with the numerous objects connected with the institution of Benefit and Friewily Societies, will in their opinion greatly enlarge their sphere of utility, and afford a protection to the working classes in old age and adversity, which nothing up to the present day has adequately secured to them. Thomas Buttons, Y.C.R., Ancient Order of Foresters. John Fussell, C. 11„ Ancient Order of Foresters. John 11. Gordon, D.S., Ancient Order of Foresters. James Hale, D.C.R., Ancient Order of Foresters. Henry Hunt, F.G., Manchester Unity of Oell Joseph Nugent, Pro. C.S.. Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows. Joseph Reeks, 11.0. F. Order of Old Friends. Samuel Timbrell, Ancient Order of Foresters. DEFERRED ANNUL LIES. Example.—A persot• aged 94 next birthday, by the annual pay ment of 11. Cs., or quarterly payment of 75., or monthly payments of 2a. 2d., may secure, on attaining the age of 60, the option of re ceiving Annuity, 101. 19s. 9d. ; Cash down, 1071. 3s. ; or a Polley en his Lite, 1371. 17a. Example.—A person aged 26 next birthday, may secure, on at taining the age of GO, an Annuity of 10/., with the other options, by the annual payment of It. 6s. 9.1.. or a single payment of 221.171 3d.; or on paymen• of 61. 14s. ad. for disparity, he will be entitled to the same benefits by an annual payment of 18s. I Id., the same as Or age Example.—A person aged 30 next birthday, by the annual pay ment of 11. Gs., or quarterly payment of 75., or monthly payment of 2s. 2d., may secure on attaining the age of 65, the option of re ceiving Annuity. 181. Os. 441.; cash down, 1481. 12s. ; or. a policy on his life 1751. I la. Exam! le.— A person aged 35 next birthday, by the annual ment of if. 6a.. or quarterly payment of 75., or monthly payment of 2s. 91, may secure, on attaining tke age of 65 the option of re ceiving Annuity, 181. Os. 4d. ; cash down, 1481. 125.; or a policy on his life, 1751. lis. LIFE ASSITE kNCE. Example.--A permit' at the age of 30 next birthday May secure the sum et lOW. payable at his death, !whenever it maylappen, and also participate in the Annual Division a Profits, by the annual pay ment of 2!. 3s. 3d. Example.—A person at the age of 25 next birthday, by the pay ment of 46. per month, or Is. per week, may. svcure the sum of 1121 ss. payabse at nis death, whenever it may happen, and like wise share In the annual profits of the Society. F. FERGUSOS C MROLTX, Secretary NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, 26, CORN HILL. LONDON, Capital £M) ,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages with respect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured hai, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for feiture of the Policy, two- 1 birds 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. Assurances for terms of years are granted at the lowest possible rates. DIVISTOI OF PROFITS. The remarkalolo success and increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors, at the last annual investiga. ion, to odeclare a fourth bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid en each Policy effected on the Profit scale. EXA. eZ : 0 Premium. £ s. d. 60 iow 3 4 ;;'. Bonus Bonus in !", Wed.. Cash. -:ac; 15g A.ss :lie .1 may 3 it /sorrow 1837'.£217 15 I . XIOO 0 11 . £16 0 4i.£445 0 0 1838 192 3 0 87 I 4: 13 10 2'. 395 11 1 1839 165 11 10 74 1 9! 11 3 1i 34 2 3 1640 116 7 6 54 010 716 10! 296 13 4 1641 11l A 8. 49 10 0! 710 41 247 4 5 the olvistoo or profits is annual, and the next will I.e inade. in cern 'et ot the preieut year. F. FEUGLISON CAM ROUX. Secretary. IMPERIAL LIFE INSURA.NCE COMPANY, CORNIIILL, LONDON. -/- DULECTOES. HENRT JAMES PitESCOTT, Esq., Chairman. GEORGE FIELD, Esq., Deputy Chairman. James C. C. Bell. Esq. Daniel Mildred, Esq. Michael Bland. Esq. James G. Murdoch, Esq. Charles Francis Cobb, Esq. John Horsley Palmer, Esq. ♦ndrew Colvile, Esq. Henry Pearce, Esq. George Henry Cutler, Esq. George Reid, Esq. George. Ilibbert, Esq. William It. Robinson, Esq. Thos. Newman Hunt, Esq. Newman Smith, Esq. FOUR-FIFTIIS, or 80 per Cent., of the PROFITS will be as signed to policies every filth year, and may be applied to increase the sum insured, to an immediate payment in cash, or to the reduction and ultimate extinction of future premiums, as shown in the follow ing example:— PROFITS to POLICIES of 25 YEARS STANDING, entitled to participate la the Bonus declared in 1846. Age • Cash paid on Or Prem. And an at Sum Annual Bonus surrender reduced nual re- . Entry. Insured. Premium. added. of Bonus. l to. tura X £s. d. s. d. aE s. d. 'X s. d. i X s. d. 15 1 , .00 19 510 451 5 0 174 12 3 86 91 •••••• 20 1000 21 15 10 451 8 0 193 12 2 815 0 ..•••• 30 1000 26 14 2 051 8 0 236 18 7 7 I+l 40 1000' 33 19 1451 5 0 284 . 0 6 49 6 50 1000 '45 6 8 /151 5.0 :,3.5 911 •• •• 419 4 60 1000 63 13 4 451 5 0 384 12 5 • '36 10 6 _ . . Insurances without participation to profits e rates. Prospectuses, and an explanatory gtatement of .other advantages now given by this Company, may be had at the Ch of Oflices as above; at the Branch Office, 16, Pall-mall; or of the Agents. SAMUEL INGALL, Actuary. rectee at reduced PORT OF LONDON SHIPOWNER'S' LOAN AND ASSURANCE COMPANY. • Offices, 20, ST. HELEN'S.PLACE, LONDON. The Deed of Settlement of this Company havina been approved by the Registrar, and the number of ShareS prescribed by the Act having been subscribed for; the Directors will proceed upon the Ist of May next, ensuing, to Issue Sea Policies under their Common Seal. For the effectual protection of both shareholders and the assured, the constitution of this Company is based on the - principle of limit ing the amount entertained in and upo i Individual vessels, or their cargoes, in rateable proportion to the capital subscribed, and remain ing clear in hand according to a graduated scale, constructed with the greatest care, thereby securing a wide and equalised distribution of ' outstanding risks, to the entire exclusion of gambling profits, and ruinous losses, from both sides of the account. Under special clauses inserted in the Deed, no single Insurance: for the space of twelve months, from the date of issuing the first Policy, will exceed 5001. For the space of three years from the same date the limit has been fixed at 1,0001.; and for the space of seven years at 1,5001., - a method of proceeding obviously calculated to ensure a steady and remunerative business, and avoid the disastrous. results incidental to an opposite system. A list of the Board of Directors, of the officers of the Company , and of the Agents appointed for the outports, will be given in the Prospectuses, which will be published after the complete registration of the Company has been legally effected. IMPORTANT AND UNPRECEDENTED SALE AT HOLMES', REGENT-STREET. Messrs. HOLMES have taken several thoullnd, pounds' worth of SHAWLS (at an immense sacrifice), n liquidation of a debt due to their firm by an eminent French manufscturer, the whole having been expressly produced for the present season. The patterns aro of a most elaborate and recherche description ; .und in consecp.ence of the immense quantity, they are compelled to sell them at a sa crifice unprecedented. This vast additional amount of stock have induced Messrs. Holmes to re-mark (at a gre•►t discount from the original cost) the whole of their extensive and valuable assertmmt of MANTILLAS and FURS. with their unrivalled collection. of INDIA, BRITISH, and FRENCH SHAWL:►, to lie included in this Side, and to facilitate which, every article is marked in Plain Figures. The Sale commenced on the 13th instant. FOREIGN and BRITISH SHAWL EMPORIUM. 171, 173, and 175, REGENT-STREET. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. LECTURES in illustration of ANIMAL MECHANISM, by T. Rymer Jones, I'sq., F. Its., Professor of Comparative Anatomy at King's College, daily at Half-past Three. A LECTURE oil CHE MISTRY in its application to the USEFUL ARTS, by Charles F. Darlington, Esq., on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Evenings, at Nine o'clock. LECTURES on ARMSTRO G'S. HYDRO-ELEC TRIC MACHINE, hY Or. Bachbofflier. The WORKING MODELS and MACHINERY clearly explained. The varied Optical Effects include a New Series of DIsSOLVING CLEWS, the OXY HYDROGEN MICROSCOPE. kc. EXPERIMENTS with the DIY 1 InviNGamaretim, ROYAL ORTHOP2EDIC HOSPITAL, for the CURE of CLUB-FOOT,- LATERAL CURVATURE of the SPINE, and all other CONTRACTIONS and DEFORMITIES, No. 6 A, Bloomsbury-square. Supported by Voluntary Contributloo. PATRONISE. • Her Majesty the QUEEN. PATRON. ills Royal Highness Prince ALBERT, K.G., &c. PRESIDENT. Ills Royal Ilighness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, K.G., &c. The Committee of Management have the pleasure to state that the Right D.m. the LORD MAYOR, Vice-President, supported by the Shrills and the following Noblemen stud Gentlemen, has kindly consented to preside at the ensuing ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL, which will be celebrated at the London Tavern, Il.shopsg te-street, on WEDNESDAY, the Sth of May next, to commemorate the aus p'cious event of her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen hang been pleased to honour the Chatty with her Royal Patronage, and In aid Of the funds, when the atiendan the Hospital is pat ticularly reques STEW 'I he Right Hon. Lord DUDLEY The night Hon. the Earl Fitz william. V.P. Ihe Right Hon. Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P. The Right Rev the Lord Bishop of Ripon, V.l'. George Edward Anson, Esq., V.P. The Hon. H. T. Liddell M.P. Sir .William Fending, Bart., M.P, Sir 11 , .G.De 11. Larpent, Bart.,V.P. John 31asterman, Esq., M.P. John Abel Smith, Esq., M.P. John Martin, Esq., M.P. George 31offaEfq., It. B. Cabbell, Esq., M.P., V.P. Mr. Sheriff and Alderman Challis Mr. Sheriff Kennard Mr. Alderman Johnson Win. Tooke, Esq., F 11.5., V.P. Phillip Hanbury, Esq., V.P. Luke James Hansard, Esq. , Thomas Saunders, Esq., F.R.S. Samuel Holbert Ellis, Esq., V.P. Charles Lashmar, Esq.. M.D. Rev. W. Valentine, M.A. Joseph Somes Esq. The contributions of the beneyolent are earrietry solicited in be half of this useful charity. Upwards of 5,000 cripples, admitted to it since It was opened InAB4O, many of them - deplorably afflicted, Itave been cured. Thenpplkations.now average 40 per week, and the funds are greatly in need o(p.ss,istance. . . An annual snbscriptlon of 11_ le, constitt4O4 an Annual Governor, a single subscription of pr. 55. Cariititutea G Governor for ten years, g single subscription' of WI. 'I Os. constitutes a -Life Govern •r, each entitled to recommend (mein-patient and two out-patients annually for every such subscription. Subscriptions and donations of any amount will be thankfully re ceived by the filo, ing bankers:-.Messrs. Martin and Co., 68, Lom card-street, Bankers to the Hospital; Barnard, Dimsdale, And Co., 50, Cornhill; Barnett, Hoare; Bradshaw, and Co., 62, Lombard street ; Coutts.and Co., Strand ; Curries and Co., 29, Cornhill ; Gos lings and Sharpe. 10, Fleet-street; Hanburys, Taylor and Lloyd, 60, Lombard-street; Messrs. liankey and Co., 7; Fenchurch-street sir J, W. Lubbock, Bart.. and Co., Mansion House-street Messrs. masterman, Peters, Mildred, Masterman, and Co., 35, Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street ; Ransoms and Co. ' 4, Pall-mall East ; Robarts, Curtis, and Co., 16, Lombard - street; Willis, ercival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street ; and by the Secretary, at ie Hospital. By order of the Committee of Management. H. GILLRTT GRIDLe.Y, Hon. See. E. 3tASKELL, Secretary. e of the Governors and Friends of ited. ARDS. COUTTS STUART, Chairman. W Conorne Towers, Esq. Mr. Deputy Evans Robert Montgomi- - ry Martin, Esq. James Harmer, Esq. William Mitcalfe. . sq. John Flower Jackson, Esq. John Gurney Fry, Esq. Joseph Fry, jun. Esq. Charles Joyce Esq. . H. F Richardson, Esq. W. B.James, Esq. James Field, Esq. Quarles Harris, Esq., V.P. Tnomas Hayward, Esq. John Carter, Esq.,Cornhill John Carter, Esq., South Molton street John Leslie, Esq. W. It. Harris, Esq. Robert Dever, Esq. Alexander Robertson. Esq. Tho Mas Pollock, Esq. R; W. Tamplin. Esq, E. F. Lonedale, Esq, E. J. Chance, Esq. 11. Gillett Gridley, E: ;sq. Hon. Sec. EAST INDIAN RAILWAY COMPANY. The HOLDERS of SCRIP RECEIPTS, numbered from 1 to 80,000, are requested to transmit the same for Registration, to the Secretary, at the OM'.es of the Company, No, 8, Broad-street buildings, City, according to the subjoined form. Parties sending Scrip by Post are advised to write across the face of the Receipt " Sent for registration," and their names and addresses. An acknowledgment will be given for the Scrip, which will be exchanged for Share Certificates, under the Company's Seal, after full registration. D. I. ROAD, Secretary. East Indian Railway Company. April 12. 1847. Form to accompany Scrip Receipts, which may be obtained at the Offices of the Company : TO THE SECRLTARY.OF THE EAST INDIAN RAILWAY COMPANY. hereby transmit Scrip Receipts of Shares in the East In dian Railway Company, numbered as below, and I hereby request you to register me as the Proprietor, under the provisions of the Deed of Settlement, of Shares in the East Indian Railway Company. Christian and Surname in ........ Occupation .. • Date...... ....... ....... ...... ••• • • • Fives I Total Number or of Shares I Tens. represented. Nos. of Scrip Receipts. Fromm --- to From --- to From - to - - N.B. The registered Share Certificates will be issued in the order in which the Peed is executed, and the priority regulated by the date of executi , , n. So soon as tke arrangements will admit, a notice will be issued, calling on Holders of New Scrip to present the same for regis tration. Copies of the Report may be obtained on application at the Offices of the :.!ompany, No. ti; ItrOad-street-buildings ; Messrs. Carden and Whitehead; Royal Etchange•buildings ; and Messrs. Lawrence, Cazenove and Pearce, Bartholomew-lane. FAST INDIANRAILWAY COMPANY. Notice Is hereby given that the DEED of SETTLEMENT of the EAST INDIAN RAILWAY COMPANY lies for signature at the Offices of the Company, and the Proprietors are e,rnestly re vested to attend with their Scrip on an early day in the present week as the Deed has to be sent to several places in the country. D. 1. NO .0, Secretary. Exat Indian Railway Company, 8, Broad-street-buildings, April 12, 1547. • 1 - . - 4 1 ASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. YORK EXTENSION SHARES. Tne TIIIRD CALL of li. per Share upon the A Qnarters of these Shares will be due on MONDAY, the 19th instant. Interest, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, will be charged to all persons in arrear. By order. C. r[RONEY, Secretary. . . Bishopsgate Station, April 8, 1847. PLATE SUITED for PRESENTATION. — Committees or private individuals requiring splendid or simple articles of PLATE for presentation, may, by addressing a paid letter, have drawings sent for their approval. A number of large articles, as Epergnes, Cups, Waiters, &c., are always in stock, second-hand ; a List of them, with price, can be furnished. — T. COX SAVORY and Co., Silversmiths, &c., 47, Cornhill (sever doots frorn ~:. racechurch-street; London. ON NERVOUS DEBILITY AND GENERATIVE DISEASES. JUST rußtAsiiED, TILE THIRTIETH THOUSAND, An Improved Edition, revised'ind corrected, 120 pages, price 25., in a sealed envelope, or forwarded. post-paid, to any address, secure from observation, for 2s. 6d. in postage stamps, illustrated with numerous Anatomical Coloured Engravings, 1 The A mes of L ite Prema l t i ure Decline;o 0 II : with Plain Direc tions for its Perfect Restoration. - A Medical Essay on those diseases of the generative organs, emanating from solitary and sedentary habits. indiscriminate ex cesses, the effe is of climate,. and infection, &c., addressed to the sufferer in youth, manhood, and old age ; with practical remarks on marriage, the treatment and 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 allotted to man. The whole illustrated with numerous Anatomical Engravings on steel, in colour, explain ing.the various functions, secretions, and structures of the reproduc tive organs is health and disease; A ith instructions for private cor respondence, case.% Sze. By J. L. CURTIS and 0., Consulting Surgeons, 7, Frith-street, Soho-square, London. ILIVIEW 01 THE WORE. CuaTts on MANHOOD. (Strange). Having for many years been the standard work on these diseases, its originality is apparent, and its perusal breathes consolation and hope to the mind of the patient." —Naval and Military Gazette. PubliNhed by the Authors, and may be had at their residence ; sold also by Strange, 21, raternoster-row ; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Mann, 39, Cornhill, London ; Solder, 4, ! , t. 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Addressed to those suffering Irons the destructive consequences of excessive indulgence, terminating in Mental and Nervous Debility, LOcal or Constitutional Weakness, Indigestion, and Consumption. Including a comprehen sive Dissertation on MARRIAGE. Incontinence, and Celibacy. Illustrated with Coloured Engravings, explanatory of the various Cases. .Br.c. . C. By C. J. LUCAS and Co.. Consuitinir Surgeons, No. 60, Newman street, Oiford-street. London. d by , Inordinate Member Of the LondortCollege of Medicine, &c. &c, the illustrated with n indulgence Chap, . — o p° di I y a a g n c i d lit . E e N il o ;n i u7t O i induced l Chop. 2.—Baneful 'tomtits of a Secret Vice on o tgo ur ;iii k ligr d aYl :l3 B. , evidenced in the production of Consumption, Epilepsy, ' a a l i ' id i o ' thc convulsive diseases, Insanity. Idiocy, moping Melanchoy, Indiges tion,e Stricture, impotence; and Sterility, with Observations on the 'Duties of Married Life,lnd on the unhappiness caused by Unfruitful Unions: Chap. 3.—Debility aod.•exhauslino of the principal Titai Functions, the nature and treatment Of Impotence and Sterility, and the Imperfect perfortnifice of the Marital act, 'Caused by the practice of self-Indulgence. Chap: 4.—Gonorrhoea, its symptoms, complica tions and treatment, .Gleet, Stricture, and disease of the Prostate. Chap. B.—;lphilis, and its attendant maladies and treatment. Cases, and concluding observations, Plates, Sec.. 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NINETEENTH EDITION price 25. 6d..1 Free by Post On a Seale Envelope) 3s. M., THE SILENT FRIEND. A Medical Work on the loss &the reproductive powers, with means of restora tion. The baneflil effects of Indulgence, neglected Strictures, Se. condary Symptoms, are.. are fully pointed out. Illustrated by En gravings; followed by observations on Marriage. By It. and L. PERRY and Co., Consulting Surgeons, London. Pabliahed by the Authors, and may be had at their residence. Sold by Strange, No. 21, Paternester -row ; Gorden, 146, Leadeuld street ; Furth, Compton-street, Soho ; Ilsimay and Co., 63, Oxford street, and 37, Bo) al Exchange ; and all booksellers. Part I. of this Work is particularly addressed to those who are prevented from forming a Matrimonial Alliance, through fear of cer tain disqualifications, and will bef ound an available hitrodectiou to the means of perfect and secret restoration to manhood. Part 11. treats perspicuously upon those forms of diseases, elite/ in their primary or secondary state, arising from infection, showing how numbers who neglect to obtain competent medical aid, entail upon themselves years of misery and suffering. The CORDIAL ?ULM OF STRIACUM is exclusively directed_ti tbe cure of nervous and sexual debility. trregularity, weakness, bar renness, loss of appetite, indigestion, consumptive habits. and deldli ties arising from venereal excesses, &c. Price lls. and 335, per bet. tie. The Five-pound cases may be had as usual. The CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE. An anti. syphilitic remedy Mr searching out and,purifying the blood from vO. 'broil contamination, scurvy, blotches on the head, face, and body ulcerations, and those painthl affections arising from improper treat ment, secondary symptoms, and all eruptions of the skin. Price lb and 335. per bottle. - - PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS, price 95. 9d, 4e. and 11 e. per box. are the most effectual remedy for strictures, flatarnation, irritation of the bladder, esc., without hindrance to Consititation fee, if by Letter, IT. A minute detail of ease is ne cessary. • Messrs. Perry are in daily attendance ,at their residence 19, Beruers-street, Oxford-street, Londell, from eleven till two, and les tai tiouti co - %Am ou fame MON. WILSON'S SCOTTISH ENTER . TAIMENTS At the MUSIC-HALL, STOR N E•STREET, BEDFORD-SQUAIIE. THIS EVENING, at Eight o'clock. Mr. WILSON will give his Entertainment, entitled, AN HOUR Wl' BURNS , In which he will sing a selection of the favourite Songs of the Poet, and recite the humourous poem of "TAN 0' SIIANTER." The Second Part of the PrograMMe will consist of a Miscellaneous Selection of the SONGS of SCOTLAND. Pianoforte—Mr. AND. Gray Mary—My AN HOUR Wl' BURNS. PART , T.—Happy Friendship-0 whistle and I'll come to y e, m y Lad—John Anderson my jw—D uncan Spouse Nancy—A Man's a Man f or a ' t h a t.—At the end of the Firs t Part, Mr. Wilson will recite B urns ' s h um ourous poem of Taut o' Shauter. —Highlaud MISCELLANEOUS SONGS. Pharr IL—Whall buy Caller Herring —Como under my Plaidle— The First Blast of th e Trumpet—h'e're a' noddin.--The Led of Tullochgorum. During the season : Mr. Wils on w ill g i ve his Entertainments in the Music .hall every Monday Eve n i ng , a t Ei g ht o'clock. Tickets, 2s. ; IteserVel S ea t s , 2 s. l id . ; P r ivate Bores for Six Per sons, 155. ; for Eight, U. . AAIATEUR DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE, TUESDAY, APaIL 27. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. For the Benefit of the DISTRE:=SED IRISH AND SCOTCH. The Tickets for this Performance are now ready for delivery at Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond street, this day, Monday, April 19, to-morrow, Tuesday, April 2i, and Wedn esda y , April 21, wtere ap;)lication and payment are requested to' be made. I 7 Capital, Nll)ltRTIIE SANCTION OF FOREIG-N POWERS. THE GENERAL CONTINENTAL TRAN SI COMPANY, including the different ther'and Routes to per share. Ind i a. 300,0001., is 30,000 Shares of 101 . each. Deposit Is. (Provisionally Registered.) Detailed prospectuses, with F orm s o f Application for Shares, may be had at the offices of;.Y. Bell, Esq., solicitor to the Company, a, Craven - street, Strand ; at the Company's hotels, Hotel ale Provence, Leicester square, and Bridge-house Hotel, Lon don -bridge; and at the Com pany's offices, New City Chamb e r s , 121, Bisbopsgaie.street Within. B. it. GREEN, Secretary. THE MEANS OF NATIONAL EDU- My Lord R usse ll,—Of A t T he lO r N es . ults, moral, scientifical, TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL. and useful, which must necessarily emanate from insti tutions of an educational character, we need only appeal to the experience of the past to discover some of the good fruits which have arisen ; of the greater amount of good which they have produced we can form no esti mate. To accelerate - the progress of society in its best phases is indeed a work worthy of the highest ambition (if the wise and the good ; posterity will do justice to those exertions in a manner suited to the appreciation which they will then have of their value. I cannot, hoe ever, consent that the advantages so manifestly de sirable should be obtainable upon terms of injustice to the country at large, when it is clearly discoverable that by a proper insight into the resources provided by the bequests of charitable individuals, an immense sum remains unappropriated to the purposes fur which, by benevolent donors, it was originally intended. I place myself thus prominently before your Lordship from the knowledge I have of din facts, however re markable may be the sources of information to which I have access, that if the information contained in the report of the Select Committee upon the subject, made thirty years since, were allowed to become public there is a sum of one million of pounds sterling per annum, to which we have a national claim for the purposes of national education, and which only wants to be well looked after to be got hold of, and which the serious consequences of an untimely inter ference with certain vested interests is perhaps the prin cipal reason for concealment. Perhaps the First Minister of the Crown will conde scend to inform the country why the evidence which would comprise the contents of fifty volumes was not allowed to be printed. You are not a young statesman, ray Lord ; but my Lord B —m, who is an old stager, and is indebted to his present elevation partly in consequence of_ his sub serviency to the selfish principles of the Whigs, eau in- Orin the world (if he chooses) of all the particulars of this infamous transaction, which stamps the authors of it with a character of the most scandalous political dis honesty, and is a virtual robbery of one million per annum for thirty years of the people of these realms. Now that the pretended necessity has been put forward by the Whigs for the appropriation of the money out of the public purse, it is, I conceive, the opportunity which gives us a right to demand the restitution of these stolen properties. If the industry of man, in its past state of physical and scientific development, hath given to the world so large an earnest of its capabilities to promote the highest hap siness of the species, by the surpris'ng surplus of means which it has placed at the disposal of the rich for the general interests of humanity, how consistent with the strictest justice is the circumstance, that the reflux of this high tide of wealth and pros perity should return to fertilise and rejoice, by a thousand tributary streams, the fountains of universal knowledge, peace, love, and happiness. Without perhaps intending so palpable a demonstration of the political power of the middle classes, the League thus became the pioneers of the expression of .popular opinion, and the unconscious promoters of the democratic principle. That the progress of poli tical freedom should have been so remarkably accelerated by the opulent portion of the community, is only one of those strange anomalies that have so often been found preg nant with the most important consequences, thus carry ing on the process of restitution on a liberal and ex tended scale. The British nation is the only one, in the great political drama, that can confidently appeal to history in support of those claims to the best uses of freedom, which by other European powers have been so desecrated. She hath in herself eminently and essentially the ele ments of true nobility and moral greatness. But as the highest qualities are of the slowest growth, so has there never vet been given to the people of this great country, a Government in every respect honest enough to forward her highest interests, and fully to develope its magnificent resources. She has been, is, and will continue to be, the harbinger of peace to the world, in the equal distribution of the balance of power —why should she not be happy in herself ? And what may not be anticipated of the improved destinies of man kind, when, at perfect harmony within herself, her ener • gies are directed externally to the conservation of all that is worth living for in the constitution of society, and internally to the establishment of those high and holy principles which must one day make truth their , only empire, and universal fappiness their sole aim. My Lord, a truly high and noble destiny is mapped out for you, the history of nations affords but ignoble comparisons with the power which you can sway, for good or evil, in this remarkable era of the world's his tory; may you live to accomplish all that is desirable in the difficult task which Providence has designed for ou, and, treading with the security of a nation's friendship in the path only of dignity and true honour, realise our best and happiest aspirations. Your Lordship's obedient servant, DURIIAM. MARYLEBONE VESTRY. HEALTH OF TOWN 9 BILL. • On Saturday the Rev. Dr. Spry took the chair, and the gent ral parochial business having been disposel of, Mr_ GAnnETT, at the head of a numerous depu tation, entered the vestry-room with an address from the parochial committee, which, after complimenting the vestry upon their opposition to the Health of Towns' Bill, called upon them to persevere in that opposition, as the bill contemplated the subversion of local sell govern ment, and the introduction of the baneful principles of centralisation. The addressed recommended a deputa tion to government, a conference of the Metropolitan parochial Bards, and interviews with the Members of Parliament in order to secure the defeat of the most ob jectionable and unjustifiable measure that had ever been proposed. Mr. G. DANIEL moved the adoption of the address, and having statistically proved that those portions of the parish under the government of the vestry were better regulated in a sanatory point of view, and at a cheaper rate, than those under the control of the Woods and Forests, denounced the exemption of the City from the effects of the Bill as a cowardly act, and denounced the Bill itself as the substitution of nomina tion, patronage, and plural voting, for the representa tive and elective principles.—(Hear, hear.) , Sir PETER LAURIE seconded the motion, and said that the Government would make the Bill a medium for ob taining appointments and pensions for their relatives and friends.—(Hear, bear.) Mr. WlLsoti analysed and severely criticised the Bill. Mr. LAURIE, the City Pleader, recommended the vestry not to let the erroneous opinion of their being opposed to the objects of th e measure go abroad, for they only found fault with its machinery. Sir B. HALL, Bart., M.P., promised to give the Bill his most determined opposition, and although not authorised to say so, he might, with confidence, state that the Bill would not be persevered in during the present session. —(Hear, hoar.) And he was fully satis fied that in its present shape it never would pass into law.—(Hear, hear) He assured the vestry that since the introduction of the measure so numerous were the applications to him for his interest to obtain situations under it, that he had to employ a person to open and read his letters.—(A laugh.) Sir CHARLES NAPIER, M.P., also promised to join his honourable colleague in opposing the Bill. He was con vinced that the City of London was exempted from its provisions lest offence might be given to the electors, and Lord John Russell should thereby be turned out of the representation.—(Hear, hear.) Several other gentlemen having expressed their dis approval of the Bill, the motion was carried. The meeting adjourned' at a late hourzst,n -BRITISH MUSEUM—NEW HALL - This splendid addition to the national establishment, it is stated. will be opened for the first time to the public to-day. The facade is now nearly completed; the inte. rior, however, is entirely finished, and embellished in the Etruscan order. The colouring throughout is rich ; chaste, and in perfect keeping with the ancient examples , of that order handed down to us from antiquity. The hall is spacious, nearly square; on the right hand as the visitors enter is the commodious room in which is placed the Granville Library, which was bequeathed to the country a short time ago. On the left is another spa cious room, containing a psrtion of the celebrated Townley Collection; this part of the new edifice is in future to be distinguished as the Townley Gallery, and when entirely finished will form the means of com munication with the whole building. The hall is lofty, with a pannelled roof, in the centre of which is a large gold star on a blue ground, which has a remarkably pleasing appearance. On the right of the entrance door is Roubilliac's well known and exquisite statue of Shaltspere ; on the left of the entrance is another statue by Chantrey; both are placed on white marble pedestals. The floor of the hall is laid out in very large squares of Portland stone, with small grey marble diamonds. At the back of the hall is a magnificent flight of steps, with a ballustrade of polished atone, so highly worked up that it resembles porcelain. The ballustrade rests on a wall of red granite; at the lower termination of the ballustrade on either side is a white alabaster Etruscan vase. At the top of the flight is a landing-place the width of the hall, to the right and left of which are corresponding staircases leading to two natural history rooms, which open into the old mineral gallery. The entrance to these is by three doors finely painted after the Etruscan. The lout ensemble, as viewed from below, is imposing. The room in which the Lycian marbles are to be deposited is built, and the specimens are now being placed in their positions. This part of the building, however will not be properly arranged for a year or two, as it is calcu lated it will occupy as long a period in putting the frag ments of the sculpture together—a delicate process, re quiring the utmost taste, care, and skill. In connexion with ancient art, it is not generally known that in the museum have been placed some marbles brought over by Sir Charles Fellowes from a temple dedicated to Harpagus, general of Cyrus, 546 years before Christ— the earliest of examples of Greek art in our possession, showing that the same principle of building and working the marble was used then as now. The O'Conor Dnn and Mr. Fren c h, M . P ., h ad an in terview with Sir George Cire7 on SeAnrday, at the 14110440' FOREIGN WOOL, LEEDS, APRIL 1 6.--We have no va riation to report in the foreign wool trade from our last. The accounts from Austria and Prussia continue to ad vise of large contracts bring made for English and con tinental houses, at an advance of 2d. to 3d. per lb. on last fair's prices. The Netherland manufacturers, and French and Saxon cambers have almost entirely cleared the German markets of useful wools. _ _ ENGLISR WOOL, LEEDS, APRIL 16.—The demand for ,:ornbing and clothing wool this week has not varied; it continues languid, and prices without any material al teration. Down combing wools are not plentiful, and go off more freely than the deeper grown kinds. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, APRIL 15.—We are still without alteration in our trade; no doubt the late strin gent measures of the Bank of England have caused us to have less doing than otherwise we might have had. Wethers are flat, and the stocks of them at market be ing large, prices are barely maintained. In hogs, though we have not a large demand, it is quite equal to the supply, and stocks are decreasing. so that it our supply does not increase, which is not likely before clip, the price of them must improve a little, or the consumption be driven on wethers; the latter is more likely, as we believe the spinners aro carrying on an unremunerative business. LEEDS.—We have had very quiet markets at the Cloth Halls on Saturday and Tuesday. There was rather more done in fine goods, but in low qualities there was considerably less sold than for some weeks past. The advance of the rate of discount by the Bank of Eng land has the effect of stopping speculation, and induces great caution on the part of the merchants. The cold ness of the season causes the spring trade to be dull, arid few buyers having made their appearance in the town, the business in the warehouses has been less than an average as compared with the sales of the last few weeks. BRADFORD, APRIL 15.—The demand for wool is slug gish. The spinners buy with great Caution and for pre sent use, as they expect that, when the new clip comes into the market, the article -will be at an easier price. There is a steady improvement in the yarn market, so far as demand is concerned, but prices are still on an un profitable scale. The Russian houses are busy, and are exporting large quantities of yarns. In the piece market there was an average business done in dress goods. Moreens and other heavy goods are dull of sale. - MANCHESTER, THURSDAY.—We have had as gloomy a week in our cloth and yarn markets as can well be conceived. In the face of a continued advance on the Maple, no higher rates are submitted to. The impossi • bility of discounting India bills added greatly to the dull ness, otherwise a large business would be done to the East. The orders from America are considerable. IMPROVEMENT in LOCOMOTION. An invention has just been projected by Mr. E. Gallo way, which promises to supply a most serious deside ratum in the present construction of locomotive engines, and to exercise a very important influence on the pro gress or locomotion generally. It has long been ac knowledged that one of the greatest difficulties with which the railway steam-engine had to contend was that of acquiring a bite upon the rails superior to that supplied by gravitation. The amount of nipping or biting power derived from that principle by the vertical driving-% heel now in use has been found quite insuffi cient in foggy weather, when the rails are in a greasy state from the moisture upon them, and upon inclin es with severe gradients. Under such circumstances the driving-wheel slips and the engine makes little or no progress. Mr. Galloway's invention is principally in tended to overcome this difficulty in working the present locomotive engine, and from the experiments made the other day, first with a working model at the western gallery of Hungerford-market, and afterwards on the Great Western Railway, at Maidenhead, there appears to be very little doubt as to its . complete success. The invention consists in adding two driving-wheels, hori zontal or inclined, to the present locomotive; these wheels acting on each side of a middle rail laid between the ordinary rails, and being pressed simultaneously against the opposite sides of the rail by means of ad justing screws acting upon springs with any required degree of force. By such an arrangement it is manifest that a bite or adhesion may be obtained far beyond what is due to the weight of the engine, and that ther,by the difficulties may be obviated which at pre sent arise from greasy rails and heavy gradients. Mr. Galloway contemplates the application of his invention to engines as at present constructed with vertical driving-wheels, and expresses his conviction that such a combination will not he found inconsistent with high velocity. In the meantime, however, he has, we think, prudently confined himself to demonstrating the effi ciency of the horizontal driving-wheels, unaided by vertical driving-wheels, in overcoming weep inclines. At llungerford-market, the working model with liori aoutal driving-wheels went with great ease up an in cline of 1 in G, and the following statement. drawn tip by Mr. Gooch, locomotive superintendent of the Great Western Railway, with reference to experiments made on a previous diy, apply t gutsily to the.results of those made at Maidenhead:— " The following is the result of the experiment I made with Mr. Galloway's locomotive ergine, in which the driving• wheels are placed horizontally, and act against the sides of a centre rail:— Weight of engines DiLtu of load 33i " This weight was taken at a slow speed up an in cline of 1 in 19, with a pressure on the boiler of 601 b. on the inch, and calculating the power of the engine and actual duty performed, we have as follows : With steam at 601 h. in the boiler, the average eth.ctive pres sure in the pistons, after deducting back prssure, will be about 501 b. on the inch, then the area of the two cylinders 3081 ,,4 , 50 - - - -15,4001b5., and double stroke of piston equal 32 inches, and circumference of driving wheel 116 inches. Therefore, as 116 inches : 15,400: : 32 : 4,248 tractive power on the rim of the wheel. And gravity per ton 1 in 19=1181b. Friction ditto 71b. 125 ;,-..133.5 tons=-4,1871b. Resistance overcome. " Therefore, 4,248--4,187 =611b., the total loss from the friction of the working parts of the engine, which I think is as small a loss as can be hoped for in any class of engines. And from the facility of applying screws to increase the weight on the driving-wheels to any re quired amount, there is no difficulty from slipping. " DANIEL GOOCH. "In explanation of the preceding, it is necessary to state that the former diameter of the driving-wheels of the experimental engine was eight feet, and the horizontal ones are three feet. The tractive power of the engine before alteration was about 1,6001 b. The increase of tractive force, therefore, is as 4,1871 b. : 1,6001 b." It is also only fair to explain that the experiment was made with " Bacchus," the oldet engine in the com pany's possession, and long ago worn out and disused. The leadidg advantages claimed by Mr. Galloway for his invention are, that the adhesive power being inde pendent of gravity can be adjusted according to the gra dient or load, while the train is in motion ; that by ap plying a brake at once to the middle rail, the train in descending any gradient may be retarded independently of the wheels, and also the risk of collisions be avoided ; that sharp curves may be traversed almost as easily and quite as safely as straight lines ; that punctuality on railways will thereby be better secured, and the neces sity for tunnelling, heavy cuttings, and embankments to a great degree obviated. Whether all or any of these advantages will be se cured by Mr. Galloway's invention, it must remain for a course of detailed practical experiments to decide; but in the meantime the credit of a very ingenious, a very simple, and, to all appearances, a very practicable contrivance, cannot be denied to him. The difficulties which he claims to have overcome have for many years occupied the attention and eluded the ingenuity of en gineers. Some time ago the notion of a centre rail and a horizontal driving-wheel was projected by Mr. Vig nolles and Mr. Errixon, but as they only proposed ap plying it on the one side of the rail, they were unsuc cessful. Mechanical contrivances of a similar character have since been attempted both' in this country and abroad, but they have always turned out to be failures, and if Mr. Galloway's invention can be combined with the present construction of the locomotive, so as to fulfil his expectations in regard to it, the only wonder will be how for upwards of 16 years so really simple an expe dient for obviating admitted difficulties could have es- caped undiscovered. Mr. Galloway states, that he can secure on the narrow gauge, horizontal or inclined, driving wheels of six feet diameter, and on the broad gauge eight feet, so as to act in conjunction with the ver tide driving-wheels. He states, too, that this is practi cable at a very moderate expense. --- ---- -- ----- ARRIVAL OF - MADLLE• JEIIINT LIND.--This cele- I 1 brated songstress arrived in London on Saturday afternoon, I accompanied by Mr. Lumley. She came by the General Steam Navigation Company's steam -ship Sir Edward Banks, that left Ostend in the morning. In the evening she was present at the performance of the opera at her Majesty's Theatre, and occupied a box on the first tier. The Swedish nightingale is a lady of kindly countenance, fair hair, and fresh complexion ; her eyes are soft and mild, and the ex pression of her face is intelligent and ingenuous. The Italians have a phrase, "oho scio/to, to indicate the combination of in tellect and truthfulness which is manifested in her features; and the Germans generally . term it .1 reundlich. Neither words hsve a literal meaning in English, as applied to human expression ; but ability and candour are their synonyms in our tongue. 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" It is for independence of judgment and honesty in expressing it that we value and recommend this Florentine Ilistory."—Athe- Edward Maxon, 44, Dover-street. STRANGE CASE OF MURDER IN SPAIN. The Court of Assizes of Saragossa was occupied a Phort time since with the trial of Pedro Ceidessa, the proprietor of a small inn near Sos, in Navarre, Paula Auralo, his wife, and Carmen Cardessa, their daughter, for the murder of a man named Gregorio Orensauz, re• siding in the valley of Anso, two leagues distant from the residence of the prisoners. It appeared from the evi dence that the deceased had left home on the 22d of September to collect money due to him by various per sons. Some days having passed over without his re. turning, his family became uneasy, and inquiries were inatitutedi - Nothing further was discovered than tha: he had been seen to enter the hOuse of the prisoners on the day he left home. The male prisoner and his daughter asserted that they knew nothing ab,ut the proceedings of the deceaged, but the mother allowed that lie hail called at the house, b u t a ft e r a short stay had taken his departure. N ot hi ng coi ning to light to crimi nate them, they were mere ly su bjected to several examinations wi t h out b e i ng tu..k en into custody. Two mouths after a human leg was discovered in the little , a river Oneella, clo se t o t h e prisoner ' s re sidence, and search being instituted, th e remaining parts of the body were found except th e head which had been off with some pparently cut heavy i nstr um en t like a cleaver. The limbs were all dreadfully hacked and mutilated ; some of the articles of clothing were recognised as having be longed to th e deceased. Still nothing bad been disco vered to fix the crime on any party in particular, when Paula Murillo being taken ill, amd considering herself on the point of death, sent fur the authoriti es and made a confessio n t o the following eff-ct :—" The deceased had called at he r h ouse on September 22, and bad demanded some money due to him for wheat. Not having it, she desired him to wait until her husband returned. She prepared breakfast fur him, at which he drank copiously, and at last wanted to take liberties with her. On his laying hands on her, she pushed him so violently away that he staggered back and fell with his head against the corner of a chest of drawers. She, being dread fully alarm e d, went to raise h i m u p a nd help him, when she f oun d that he was dea d, w ithout having shed a drop o f blood. Being afraid of the conse quences of such an acc id ent, s he determined to con ceal the body, an d wrapping it up i n a coarse cloth, she carried it down to the cellar, and hid it under a quantity of fag go t s . S he left it there f or several weeks, when the heap of faggot s b eg i nn i n g to run low, she got afraid of her hu s b an d di scovering the w h o le matter, and taking a cleaver s h e cut the body i nto pi e ces, and placing the limbs in tw o b as k ets carefully covere d over, she her self took one, and her daughter the other, to the bank of the river. She then sent the young woman on an errand to the n e i g hb ouring v i l l age , an d during her ab sence emptied th e b as k ets into the ' wa t e r. The daughter was suite ignorant of what the baskets contained; in the harry of filling the baskets she had forgotten the head in the cellar; she mutilated the features to prevent recog nition, and then buried it in a piece of waste ground. ' This confession, becoming known, excited the greatest commotion, and the woman soon after getting better, she, her husband and the daughter were arrested. The au thorities having caused a very minute search to be made in the house where the prisouers had lived, found a num ber of French sf. pieces concealed, and those the daughter admitted she had seen with her mother. It was proved that precisely the same number of sf. pieces had been paid on the morning of the murder to the deceased by another party. The mother, on the other 'hand, denied that she knew anything ab out the naoney in-question. After a trial Of-great length. the Court aequatted . the father and daughter, but nut believing that the deceseed 'hod liset*lth tilbs death accidentally, found 'the -mother guilty 9tOittider.' 'The Court at once sentenced , her to death; acalbrdeiled the execution to take` place in front of the Town-hall of Sos. This sentence was carried into;etecatiot on the 21st ult. MYSTERIOUS CASE. . . s c u ite rr w ou e n n d t in h g as thstrict s , by the following WARMINSTER, S ATURD AT. — i p ie u v r a i i n ie g d tt r izt t we th ek e very, which gave rise to a report that one, if not two persons, had been savagely murdered in considerablemt o y w s n t e r a a meadow neat the Old Church , inodus t discovery, ih e e s c z 0 It appeared that on Monday last some persons, as they were passing along the bank of a millpond, which runs through the meadow near the church, perceived some thing in the water. Curiosity prompted them to see what it was, when, on turning it over, to their no small amazement they found that it was the body of an aged man, with a razor clenched in his hand, his throat most frightfully cut, and his clothes red with bl oo d . They immediately got the body out of the water, but whilst they were so doing, they were amazed at finding another party under the man. The latter was a youth about twenty years of age. Both bodies were removed, and'an inquiry set on foot to ascertain, if pos• Bible, who they were aed how they met their deaths. After some trouble it was learned that the elder de ceased was a man named Matthew Icing, a pensioner, about firty.years of age, who used to work in the mea dow as an agricultural labourer, and the younger party was his OWE AO. The Coroner having been apprised of the circumstance, an inquest was held on the two bodies, The witnesses stated that the father, for some time past. had been slightly deranged ; that on the day the dis covery was made he and his son were both at work in the field: The witnesses were of opinion that, during a fit of insanity, the father had cut his throat with the razor, and the son, seeing him in the act of so doing, had attempted to prevent him, and that during the scuffle he had fallen into the pond, and the other, on accom plishing his object, had fallen into the water upon him. The jury, in the absence of further evidence, returned a verdict " That the son was found drowned, but that the father destroyed his own life during a fit of temporary insanity." " It is stated that Mr. Frederick Howard, son of Ma jor Howardiof the 10th Hussars, who was killed at Waterloo, will be private secretary to the Chief Commissioner ot Woods and Forests, in the loons of Mr. Mackintosh, lately appointed tO the GovitzonhiPofOt' CAlliat*Pliael• e-e1_.,,4,--2%.- ~, AMERICAN AFFAIRS. New YORK, MARCH 31.—Although it is nearly, ittwo years before the Presidential election takes plaxe,y, s t 4,h e campaign has fairly opened. The Charleston (h:eeth--- Carolina) Courier has commenced a defence of Mr. Cal houn, and assails in no measured terms the grashfaillon Union and its editor. The South Carolina ps:per charges Mr. Ritchie with abandoning the true interests of the south, and with succumbing te., , northern men with northern notions and feelings on the question o slavery. Mr. Calhoun is calling (in a speech recently made) upon, southern statesmen to organise and unite .on the existing topic of slavery, which he conceives vita/ to the slave-holding population. On this ground he thinks the Presidential question should be fought. In the speech referred to he denounce 3 a "caucus, 'or convention, held for the purpose of nominating a candidate for the deco of President. Whatever may be said of Mr. Calhoun's views on other subjects, his remarks in relation to party conventions merit calm and serious deliberation.. They never fail to exhibit a scene of low intrigue, and some times the most profligate and audacious corruption. I regret to add, these charges are n o t exclusively confined to ,ne political party. The Union, Mr. Polk's mouthpiece, replies to this assault with great bittcrnesl. lie insists upon a con vention to designate the candidate of the party, and is prepared to expel as an unbeliever an-1 a heretic'the ve c j. i e g te e i n m er i a n l ed ly understood and believed loan who does not sustain a nd s uppixt the us ages o f t h e that party, and this usage in part t icu i l r a . r . Itis Calhoun is r to be a candidate for the Presidency at the next ekctioe. If he consents to go into the convention, he will bee bound by its proceeding*, and no m atter wha t pledges he and his friends will or assurances are given to him, by voted down. This fact Mr. Calhoun understands. He knows he will be cheated. Mr. Benton entertains strong hopes and expectations the Palate. that he may be selected as the candidate of All such hopes are worse than visionary. It was with id of the the view of promoting that darling object that he struggled so stoutly to obtain the command army. There are, however, so many obstac les I inthe way of Mr. Benton' s asc e ndi ng th e th r one, that ; con sider the attempt as v i s i onur y, and unworthy no tic e. The aspirants in hi s own p arty are numerous , w hile t he feud between Beaton and Calhoun is violent and uncom promising. The Whig party have made no movement as yet indi eatidg whose they would prefer as their candidate for the office of President; but there is no doubt a very large majority of the Whigs would prefer Henry Clay, if he could be induced to permit his friends to use his name for that office, which is very doubtful. Mr. Clay seeks retirement, and while he enjoys the society of his family and his friends, he delights-in rural pur suits, and the cultivation of a superb farm of which he is the proprietor and the occupant, having settled off it some thirty years or more, when the surrounding country was a wilderness. In a few days (the 12th of April) Mr. Clay will be seventy years old. Ile possesses a robust consti tution, and is in most excellent health. His friends in this city are making the necessary arrangements..for a large and splendid festival in honour of his birthday. There is no doubt it will be well attended, and probably by some of our most distinguished statesmen from adja cent states. As he advances in the number of his years, the respect and esteem of his countrymen appear to grow stronger, while the asperity of party is daily be coming more subdued, losing its bitterness, so far as it applies to him. We have recently experienced a tremendous gale of wind along our seaboard. As far as we have heard, the disasters have been numerous, and we have reason to apprehend that the loss of both life and property wilt prove great. The exciting topics in this city are the Irish suffer ings and the Mexican war, but especially the latter. On Friday last the Government ship the Jamestown. Captain Forbes, cleared at the Boston Custom-house for Cork, and sailed on Saturday. She is loaded with sup- , plies for the relief of the Irish sufferers by famine. About the 20th of the present month we had rumours of a great battle having been fought between Santa Anna and General Taylor, but no details. Rumours, however, were rif e th a t the Mexicans had been repulsed with the loss of 4,000 or 5,000 men, and that General Taylor had sustained a loss of from 1,100 to 1,700 men. On the 23d the National Intelligencer published a call from Colonel Curtis, of Ohio, on the Governor of Loui siana for 10,000 volunteers, to be dispatched to the seat of war with as little delay as possible. This requisition bears date, " Camargo, March 2, 1847." and statea " that all communication has for several days been cut off between Camargo and the army above" (General Taylor's army). From the 25d of March to the present day we have had nothing but the most contradictory reports and ru mours, without one lino that can be considered official, or that can be relied on. On the 2Gth of March the Intelligencer received, via New Orleans, advicus from Mexico to the 27th of Fe bruary; they announce a revolution in the city of Mexico. Gomez Farias has been denounced, and Saks chosen in his stead. Santa Anna, according to the ac u.unts, retains his power end influence. The gencer publishes a letter frow New Orleans, from which the follo%ing is extracted:— " We hav - e two days later from Brazw, but nothing liter from the army —nothing further, from the enemy being near to Matamora,=, which is considered safe." We have to report, via Tampico, of a battle, alai that Santa Anna was repulsed. The report, ih wi;hout any jus: f Ev‘.ry one is on-tiptoe for further re;viecs. loci s(ii:! they may be favourable." It you ilould rec:il': a hr. tt letters, you will pro r%eiv.• a do-a n )is urn urs and opinions. I wi!! give you mine in a hi wqrds ce-; possible. I he' lieve 111;:re has In up. 11,.rd lighting, with great slaughttr on both The Mexicans, however, are muelt tho greatest sufferer?. In my opinion, their force wsis at least perhaps three times the number of Gene- T.ty;Or, who has probably retreatcd to Monterey, which he is perfectly able to hull until he receives rein foremen t 6. General Scott, before the date of this letter, has pro• bab!y . attacked and captured the city of Vera Cruz and the Casti e of St. J uan d'Ull oa . Thi s o pi nion i s univer artily entertained by the best-informed men in this place. Between the friends of General Scott and General Tay lor there is some unkind feeling, in consequence of Scott withdrawing from T a yl or his most ef f icient troop's. All parties unite in condemning the President and his Ca binet for leaving Ta A ylo G r EinNaEdveLesncEelesa TRAVELLER.state. Times. EXECUTION OF CATHERINE FOSTER FOR POISONING HER HUSBAND THREE WEEKS AFTER MARRIAGE.—HER CONFESSION. BURT ST. EDMUNDS, SATURDAY.—The wretched con vict, Catherine Foster, condemned to death by the Chief Baron Pollock at the late Suffolk Assizes, for the murder of her husband three weeks after marriage, by poisoning a dumpling with arsenic, expiated her dreadful offence this morning on the scaffold adjacent to the county gaol in this town. ThoSe persons who have perused the evidence adduced at the trial have doubtless been at a loss to conceive the motive that could have induced her to destroy her hus band, whom she had apparently loved from a child, and now that her life has been justly forfeited to the law, and her confession is published to the world, it will be found that it contains nothing that can be construed into a motive, and the reasons, therefore, which tempted her to commit the murder must remain enveloped in mystery. Earnest were the solicitations ot those whose duty it was to attend her after her condemnation that she should divulge the whole of the facts connected with the crime for which she was about to suffer; but although she made a frank avow i al of her guilt, she studiously avoided allud ing to any circumstance which might lead to the motive fur which she perpetrated the horrid deed. The following is a copy of her comfession:— " Bury Gaol, April 12, 1847. "To the Governor,—First of all I must confess th :t I am guilty, and very guilty ot this awful crime, and well deserve the death that I am condemned to die; and as I am soon to stand before my Heavenly , Judge, I wish to speak the truth. I am sorry to say I e b h o e u m gh is t t, s tl u ie dbu p r o y i , so t n hre n e t d s t y h s e before ab()P l o m f i x M e d r. it I:1 111 E 1 y ; dumpling which I gave to my husband. It was served to me by a young man in the shop. Mr. Ely was not present ; had he been present he would have known me, as I had been frequently at his shop on errands for my mistress when I was at service. The act was . 'entirely my own. No person persuaded me to it, and my mother had no knowledge or suspicion of it. I had no cause for complaint against my husband. Ile was always good and kind to me, but I never had any affection for him, and wished to go back to service. Ido not wish to live, for I never could be happy in this world, and,l hope, through the merits and blood of my Saviour, and a sin cere repentance of this and all my sins, to obtain for giveness of God, and to be received into Heaven. • I die at peace with all, having no 'complaint to make of any witness that appeared against me on my trial, and full of remorse for the crime which brings me to this premature death. I wish to express my grateful thanks to the Rev. SWmy.p\larveastii, the ministerchaplain o and f the e g i a t o e l v. ; the tr. R E e y v. re l r f 0 . r 0 t t t h l eir great attention to my eternal interest, and for the spiri tual hope and consolation I have received from their in structions and admonitions, I should wish Mr. Eyre to a tt e nd me in my last moments, and earnest l y request that he will do so. (Signed)CATHERINE FOSTER. ` IV t n eusrssda y by—J. mother ; and on Friday the Et) IQ m , g `On h Thoas \Vestovernor. ." her she took final leave of her aged the condemned sermon was preached by th e R ev. re, from the 32d chapter of Numbers, and 23d verse N. This morning the crowd assembled to witness the exe cution was very great ; at nine o'clock the number of persons could not have been less than 10,000. A few ininutes before nine o'clock, the nigh Sheriff and Under Sheriff having arrived, proceeded with the other autho rities to the cell in which she was confined, when she walked with a firm step and unsupported to the drop, where she stood unmoved. The preliminary arrange ments having bean completed, the signal was given, and the drop fell. The body, after hanging the usual period, was cut down arid interred within the walls of the prison. The last execution of a female in this town was 47 years ago, for setting fire to her master's house. CHILD DROPPING.—On Saturday information was circulated that on Thursday evening a fine female infant, apparently about a month old, was picked up near the cellar door of No. 6, Raymond's-buildings, Gray's Inn. There had, however, evidently been no intention to destroy it, for it was well wrapped up in a calico gown, folded in several shawls, flannel, &c., and there was some sugar in its month. It had on a nightcap marked" H." The poor little thing has been ever since in the care of the gardener's wife, and the authorities of Gray's Inn have offered U. reward for ther Q 4 AVY of tiro persons :who deposited it w4e.e # .Bl fmR3 .