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The Commissioners fur execui Jug the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of E=rea Britain and Ireland, do hereby give no*ce, that on IHURSDAY, the ' 22d instant, ht one o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such l'e rsons as may be willing to Contract for supplying her Majesty's Dock Yards, or any one or more of them, and the Admiralty and Mal Inc Offices with CO-:LS. A distribution of the Coa's, and a form oft he Tender may be seen at the said office. No render will be received after or .e o'clock, on the day of treaty, nor any noticed, unless the i Tarty ?attends, or an agent for him duly authorized in writing. Every Te.ader must be aildre• pee: to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the 1: ft hand con ,er 'the words "'render for and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied by a letter signed by two responsible i les-sons, engaging to become hound with the person tendering, in the sum of 201. 1..(r 10 i tons for the due per formance of the Contract. pHILITARMO NIC SOCIETY, lIA-NOVER soIJ ARE ROOMS. PROGRA MME of the THIRD CONCEItr, MONDAY EVENING / . ; , EXT :—Siaforila in D (M ozar t)—Duetto, Mr. Manvers and Signor F. Lablache—Coneeno, PianotOrte, i i F Moin,r, Mr. IV. S. Ben nett —Terzetto, " Tretnat , 2," Madame Carado ri Allan, Mr. Manvers, and S'ignor F. Lablache, •(lieethoven)—Overvare, Preelosa (Weber)— Sinfonia in C Minor Peße e thovan)—Air, Yiadame Caradoii Allan (Auber)—ConcertaHte, s Messrs.Blagrove ar d Willy (Spolir) —Over ture, Lodoiska (CherulYaii). _ Conductor,Cos-a.Single tickets, One Guinea, and double tickets, H. 10s., to be had of 31e4srs. Addison aid Hodson, 210, iZek.::erd-street. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, 26, CORN - HILL, LONDON - , Capital £300,00 0. Empowered by Act of .a nd rlim su ent. This Tnstitation ebraces important a bstantial advantages With respect t o Lif e ' Assurances and De .'erred Annuities. The assured has, on all occasions, the power to bo'"_ row, without expense or for feiture of the Policy, two-thirds oft ne premiums paid (see Table); also the option of selecting beach's, 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. DIVISION OF PROFITS. The remarkable :success and increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Dir actors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a fourth bonus, var ying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid on each Policy cite cted on the Profit scale. EXAMPLES. '7) 74%1 4 „„, Bonus Bonus In p I Assured 11:1' Premi um ` added. Cron. g.F = t- may Borrow. 1837 .£217 15 I'XICO 011 Sl6 0 4LX445 0 0 £ s. d. 1838 192 3 0 67 14 , 13 10 395 11 1 60 1 1000 3 4 1839 165 11 10, 74 191 11 3 If, 34 2 3 1840 116 7 6 54 0101 713 101 296 13 4 1841 111 6 8, 49 10 01 710 41 247 4 5 The division of profits is annual, and the next ►ill be made in December of the present year. • ; . VICEGIASOIVCAIKROUX. Secretary: T HE EXPERIENCE LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. Edinburgh, 15, George-street. London, 58, King William-street. Established 18 43. Capital 300,00 0/. This Company's Tables are based up on the EXPERIENCE OF THE SEVENTEEN LIFE OFFICES,ro contained in the Report of their Mortality published in 1843. The Company embraces, in its constitution, the adva•ltages of both the mutual and proprietary systems of Assurance. The SHORT PEI' LIO 0 RATES will be found, in comparison with other Companies, to be exceedingly favourable to Insurers, and the rates for the whole period of life as low as is consistent WITH PERFECT SECURI Ty. For prospectuses, &c.. apply at the c Slces as above, or to any of the Agents throughout the kingdom. By order of th a Directors, T. YUI LLE WARDROP, Secretary. mETR OPOLIT AN SOCIETY, No. 3, PRI - ,S Estal=olis - ne DII.tEC . _ LIFE ASSURANCE ICES-STREET, BANK. :d in 1835. John Alicard, Esq. Thomas Henry hall, Esq. Richard Low Beck, Esq. Frazer B. Henshaw, Esq. Edmund Chas. Buxton, RN. John Francis Maubert, Esq. Sir William Clay, Bart., M.P. Joseph Pease, Jun., Esq. James Dawson, Esq. Henry Sturt,Esq. Thomas Fowler, Esq. John Taylor, Esq. Francis Fox, Esq. Joseph Underwood, Esq. Joseph Fry, jun., Esq. George Vaughan, Esq. Robert Grant, Esq. Charles Frederick Weber, Esq. Annual prem'iums upwards of 60,000/. Accumulation from premiums 300,0001. This Society for mutual : assurance, abates the premium, to its members, after the first fig• e years ; the reduction for the current year is at the rate 01 47% p er cent. London, 1846. RICIP HEA.THEIELD, Superintendent. THE CITY OF LONDON LIFE ASS URAN CE SOCIETY. No. 2, ROYAL EXCHANGE-BUILDINGS. This Society is establish .ed on the principle of combining all the known advantages and ec,i.veniences of the oldest Life offices, with the general results of the,r experience. Its Premium Tables a re adjusted on the most economical yet safe Scale, and embrace three. distinct divisions or departments : Thus, Policies may he effected on THE MUTUAL SYSTEM, securing all its advantages without its risks or liabilities, AN IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION TO ASSURERS. THE PROPRIETARY SYS TEll,with the full benefits of its acknow ledged SECURITY, SIMPLICI TY, and ECONOMY; and THE ACCUMULATIVE OR DEPOSIT SYSTEM, INTRODUCED BY THIS SOCIETY, which perf sets the principle of Life Assurame, the full amount of the Deposit,---Premiums being at all times available to the Assured. ALSO HALF-CREDIT PREMIUMS for stipulated periods, a pecu liarly advantageous arrang:einent for YOUNG LIVES and for all per- Sens WITH ADVANCING ME) ;NS OR INCOMES. And, Tables expressly eaten) a'..ed for NAVAL and MILITARY RISKS 111 _ all quarters of the world, cin the most moderate terms . Together with all the usual divisional rates, accommodations, and conveniences. EDWD. F. LEEKS, SECRETARY. VICTORIA LIFE .ASSURANCE COMPANY, No. 18, KING 'W ILLIAM-STREET, CITY. DIVISION OF PROFITS. At the first Septennial M ee ting of this Company, held on the 11th March last, a BONUS, averaging 23 per cent. on the amount of Premiums paid, was declanid on Policies entitled to participate in Profits. Four -fifths, or 80 per cer it. of the entire Profits of the Company, Will at future divisions be appropriated to all Assurers entitled to Share therein. Every advantage is offer ed by this Company to Assurers. On Policies taken out for the whole term of life, one-half of the An nual Premiums thereon n'.ay remain unpaid for five years. Parties Assured with the Company are allowed to reside in many of the Colonies without add itional charge, and the Premium required fer the East or West Ind' es, and other extra risks, Is more than usually moderate. By a plan originating with this Company, great security is offered to parties Assuring the Lives of others. Advances continue to be made to Assurers on Assignable Property or Income, and also on the. guarantee of most undoubted personal sureties. Detailed Prospectuses, ar,d every information may be obtained, by application at the Office, or by letter addressed to the Actuary. WILLIAM RATRAY, Actuary and Secretary. STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. (Constituted by Act of Parliament, 1825.) GOVERNOR. EIS Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH and QUEENSBERRY. • D MUTT-GOVERNOR. The Right Hon. the Earl of ELGIN and KINCARDINE. 011 DINAR!' DIRECTORS. John Robert Tod, Esq. John S. Newbigging, Esq, George Patton, Esq. Alexander Clapperton, Esq. Charles Pearson. Esq. David Smith, Esq. Eagle Henderson, Esq. James Condie, Esq. Sir James Eyre. M.D. Edward Tho. Whitaker, Esq. James Gadesden, Esq. I George Frederick Your.g, Esq. William Haigh, Esq. Jchn Lindsay, Esq. Progress of the Standard Life Assurance Company during the year 1846: — The new Policies - issued from the 15th of November, 1845, to 15th of November, 1846, the Company's business year, amounted to 692, the number of proposals made to the Company during the same period being 769. The amount of New Assurances, covered by the 592 New Policies issued during the year, was 368,6791. 7s. 10d. (an average of 6251. for each Policy) ; the amount of Assurances applied for during the year being 476,1351. 17s. 9d. The claims were moderate, both in number and amount, and considerably less than shown by the mortality tables on which the Company's calculations are founded. The results in other branches of the business were favourable. The business of the Commercird Life Assurance Company of Scot land was transferred to the Standard Company during the year 1846, being 398 Policies, cov , cning about 200,000/. of assurance, and being in addition to the new 'oustness of the year above reported. The business of the York and London Assurance Company, which Was transferred to the Standard Company in 1844, continued to exhi bit satisfactory results in it 3 progressive development. The revenue of the Corn .pony exceeded 120,000/. per annum. The Standard Life Assur.unee Company is so constituted as to afford the benefits of Life Assurance to all who may seek its protection in that form which is best suited to attain their object; while to those Who look to the advantage to be derived by way of bonus to their Policies from the favourable results of the business, there is every inducement to connect themselves with the Company. Bonus additions to Policies have been declared on three owe :lions—in 1835, in 1840, and in 1845. The following are the examples of the additions made : Policy of 1825 for £l,OOO increased to £1,600 0 8 Do. 1830 do. do. 1,412 10 0 Do. 1835 do. do. 1,225 0 0 Do. 1840 do. do. 1,087 10 0 An investigation of the Company's affairs, and a division of pro fits, are made every five years, the next being in 1850. Forms of proposal and every information may be obtained at the Company's Of 3, George-street, Edinburgh ; 82, King Willlam-street, London ; 66, Upper Sackvillu-street, Dublin ; 35, Bt. Vlneent-plane, Glasgow ; or at any of the Agencies whle.; are established in the principal towns of Scotland, England, ar.d Ireland. By order of the Directors, WILL. THOS. THOMSON, Manager. PETER E WART, Resident Secretary, 82, King William-street. George Moir, Esq. J. M. Melville, Esq. Humphrey Graham, Esq. John Sligo, Esq. Alex. James Russell, Esq William Wood, Esq. William Keith, Esq. DR. CULVERWET.,L on HEALTH, HAPPINESS, and LONG LIFE. In pocket volumes, Is. each, by post (in stamps), Is. 6d. each. " TO BE " Jocund° Irivere."--Clc. HAPPY 2. W T . - lA.'T to EAT, DRINK, and AVOID. (With Diet-tables for all Complaints.) a. Ii.IARRIAGE and its MYSTERIES. To be, o,• not to be, that is the qacstion."—Shakveare. 4. The TASSIONS—Their ADVENT and CONTROL. " Cura ut vaiens." These , publications are free from empyrical mysticism, and are adapted - to the intelligence of the times. To h e had of , lierwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Mann, 39, Corn and a Booksellers, or direct from hill; 'Carvalho, 147, Fleet-street; the author, whose practice is exclusively devoted to home consulta tion, Mornings till Three, and in the Evenings from Seven till Nine, 10, Argyle-place, Itegent-atreet. A POPULAR TREATISE on the HEALTH, LIFE and VIGOIJ ot the BODILY FUNCTIONS. a ‘INETEENTri EDITION price 2s. 6d. ; Free b 7 Peat (in a Seale Envelope) 3s. 6d., E SILENT FRIEND. A Medical WorkDrH on the loss of the reproductive powers, with means of resters. '''"rt. The baneful effects of Indulgence, neglected Strictures, Se e°nclarY Symptoms, &c., are fully pointed out. Illustrated by En. p ,, °t ugs ; followed by observations on Marriage. By R. and L, • E .,, i tttY and Co., Consulting Surgeons, London. "Wished by the Authors, and may be had at their residence. Bold by Strange, No. 21, Paternoste r-row ; Gordon, 146, Leadenhali street ; Purkis, Compton-street, Sol so • Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford. street, and 37, R o y a l E xc h ange id 111 booksellers. Part I. of this Work is portico larly addressed to those who ar• prevent from forming a Mathis( 'trial alliance, throug„h fear of eel . . n disqualifications, and will be found an available introduction t , the means of perfect and secret restoration to manhood. Part 11, treats perspicuously upon those forms of diseases, either Ii their primary or secondary state, arising from infection, showing h Ow numlters who neglect to obtain competent medical aid, enter' bpon themselves years of misery and suffering. The CORDIAL BALM OF sTRIAC UM is exclusively di r ec t e d to the cure of nervous and sexual debility, Irregularity* weak n e ss, bar r4l4eas, loss of appetite, indigestion, consumptive habits, and del-rill s arising from venereal excesses, &c. Price I Is. and 335. per bob The Five-pound cases may be bad as usual. anti a3' CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE. An anti 'refitic remedy for searching out and purifying the blood from - 10 , i;7real contamination, scurvy, blotches on the tread, face, an , :, b o d y _iceent2 secondaryations, and those painful a ffe c tions arising from imf l r.,per t rea t. sYmptoms, and all eruption:sof the siCn. P r i ce Its 'mod!3S. Per b ottle. a"z:l,lltY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PT price 9s. bd., 4s. 6d. Pn box, are I he !fl - mt effksctun l reelly for strictures, in. C,s „, 19, are in Ann' attendance at their regtden.e le airitreet, Oxford-street. 'in till eight; and on Sundar,. .I, 4 ntlon, from eleven two, awl f;em eleven till twolTO. _ No, 17,020. LONDON, WEDNESDAY MoRNING . _ THE GENERAL STL AM N AVIGATION comr.orrs splendid end powerful flrst-eliSs STEAM - iliP5 are appointed to leave . — • , .. ( ustomlllouse or Tower, for— . . HA:11813'1;0H, carrying' her Majesty's 1 ails, "every Wednesday and Saturday Morning. . . Blackwell Pier, for— ROTTERDAM and the RHINE, carrying her Majesty's Mails — Every Wednesday and Saturday, at Ten, Morning. ANTWERP and the RHINE—The Soho, every Thursday, at Ten, Morning. : OSTEND—Every Wednesday and Saturday Morning. Wednes day, April 7, :It Ten Evening; 14. at Twelve, Noon. From St. Katharine's Steam IN'harf, for— HAVRE—EN-cry Thursda.;anti Sunday. at Eight, Morning. From London -bridge Wharf, for— BOULOGNE—Every Thursday Morning. Apr il 8, at Five, Morn ing ; 15, at Twelve, Noon. CALAIS—Every Thursday and Sunday .7.lornlng. HULL—Every Tuesday and Friday, at Eight, Morning. YARMOUTH—Redueed Fares —Every Wednesday and Saturday, at Six, Evening. From,Brown's Wharf, Poplar, fur EDINBITEGII-Iteduced Fares—The Trident, Saturday, April 10, at Ten, Night;. the Clarence, next Wednesday, April 14, at Ten, Night; the Leith, Saturday, April 17, at Ten, Night. From Store's Steam Wharfs, Wapf:ag, for— NEWCASTLE —Every Saturday, at Eight, Evening. Between BRIGHTON and DIEPPE, next Wednesday, April 14. „ BRIGHTON- and HAVRE—ApriI 15. DOVER and BOULOGNE—ApriI 19. To secure Berths, for Freight, and for Bills, containing hours of (!eparture, fares, &e., dpply at the Offices, 65, Lombard-street; 37, Regent-circus ; and 35, Leadenhall-street. TO THE CREDITORS OF STOCKWELL ASO CO. Notice is heteby given that the CREDITORS who have proved their debts under a Commission of Bankruptcy, which was issued, in the year 1802, against CHARLES STOCKWELL, CHARLES EMINGWA Y, JAME • HAIGH, SAMUEL STOCKWELL, JOHN BAKER, and J@IIN ROGERSOIC, formerly carrying on business together in Copartnership as DYERS, in LEEDS, in the county of York, or the respective legal representatives of such Creditors, may receive a FURTHER DIVIDEND on their several debts, on application to Mr. James Matson, of West-hill, in Halifax, in the said county; or at the office of Mr. George Edwards, solicitor, Lord-street, Halifax. COL OURE D PHOTOGRAPHIC POR TRAITS, by Mr. BEARD, sole patentee. 85, King William-street, Clty; 84, Xarltament•streot. WestminStir; and • ' The'lloyal Polytechnic Institution, Regent-street. " A picture is now speedily produced far, very far superior to any obtained by former experiments."—Art - Union. " The resulting tableau will bear comparison with the best minia ture."—Morning Chronicle. In two volumes, post Bvo., now ready at all the Libraries, THE POACHER'S WIFE; A STORY OF THE TIMES. BY CHARLTON CAREW. " A story of deep interest, highly-wrought situations, and pathos." —New Monthly. "A forcible display of a sad portion of our social position." — Douglas Jerrold. "It ably and eloquently illustrates the miszhievous influence of the Game Laws on high and low."—Sunday Times. "It will be highly prized by all circulating library frequenters." —Asiatic Quarterly. " Every game preserver in the United Kingdom will read,' we do not say will ' like,' it. But read it, they all must."—Mirror. " Mr. Carew is a writer of great power."—Sun. Charles Oilier. 18 and 19, Southampton-street, Strand. rhAVIES'S CANDLES, 6:1-d. per lb. ; Genuine Spertn, Is. 9d. ; Yellow Soap, 485., 545., and 60s. pc i r 112ibs.; Mottled, 60s. and C4s. ; Wax Candles, Is. per lb. ; German Wax, Is. 2d. ; Fine Wax, Is. sd. ; Trans:arent Wax, ls. lid.; C3enuine Wax, 21. Id. ; Waxed-wick Moulds, 71id. ; Sperm Oil, Ps. per gallon ; Solar, 3s. 3d., Pale Seal, 4s. ; Argand, or Vegetabk, 4s. 6d. ; Wind sor and Palm Soap, Is. 4d. per packet ; Brown Windsor, Is. M ; Bose, 2s. ; Almond, 2s. Gd. ; Sealing Wax, 4s. 6d. ; Hale's Paragon Composite, requiring no snuffing, 10d. per lb. For Cash—At DAVIES'S Old Established warehouse, 63, St. Martin's-lane, opposite Slaughter's Coffee-house. COMFORT FOR TENDER FEET, AND A CERTAIN CURE FOR CORNS AND BUNIONS. AUL' S EVERY MAN'S FRIEND, which ,gives RELIEF on the FIRST APPLICATION. PAUL'S EVERY MAN'S FRIEND (CORN PLAISTER) Is ge nerally admitted to be the best emollient application for Corns and Bunions, and is worthy of a trial on the part of those who are afflicted with such unpleasant companions. Testimonials have been received from upwards of one hundred Physicians and Surgeons of the greatest eminence, as well as from many Officers of both Army and Navy, and nearly one thousand private letters from the gentry in town and country, speaking in high tents of this valuable remedy. Prepared by John rex, in boxes at Is. lIZd., or three small boxes in one for 2s. 9d.; and to be had, with full directions f or use, of C. King, 34, Napier -street, Iloxton New-town, London; and all whole sale and retail medicine vendors, in town and country. The genuine has the name of " John Fox" on the stamp. A 28. 9d. box cures the most obdurate corns. Ask for " Paul's Every Man's Friend." Sold also by Barclay and Sons, Farringdon-ssreet ; Edwards, 67, St. Paul's Church-yard ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Newbery, St. Paul's ; Sutton, Bow Church-yard; Johnston, 16, Greek - street , So ho ; and GS, Cornhill ; Sanger, 150, O x ford-street ; Willoughby and Co., Cl, Bishopsgate-street Without; Owen, 52, Marchmont-street, Burton crescent; Eade, 39, Geswell street; Front, 229. Strand ; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street ; Hunter and James, Webber.row ; and retail by all respectable chemists and medicine vendors in every town in England. I'EMARKABLE CASE of RESTORATION. A striking instance of the power of scientific art to remedy the defects of nature has lately occurred in the case of a Mr. F. Balls, a gentleman residing at IVortham, in Norfolk, who, In the year 1842, on returning from tiarlestone Market to Woybred, where he then re sided, sustained so severe a fall from his horse, as to bring on an ill ness of several months' duration, during which period his hair con- Minted to come off, till he became, to use his own terms, " as perfectly bald as if his head had been shaved;" and the Rev. J. E. Daniel, then clergyman of the parish, offered him a wig as a substitute for his lost hair. Under these circumstances, he was induced to try the effect of BOWL A.ND'S MACASSAIt OIL , and it is highly gratifying to add, with the most happy results. As soon as part of a bottle was used the growth recommenced, and he has now to boast of a very thick and luxuriant head of hair, which presents this peculiarity, that, though prior to losing his hair it evinced no tendency to curl, the new growth is curly and strong. This fact speaks too strongly fbr itself to require observation.—Bell's Messenger. Fe.* Beware of " Spurious Imitations !—The genuine article has the words " ROWLAND'S MACASS AR OIL " on the wrapper. Pr i ce 3 0 . 6d.-7e, —Family Bottles (equal to four small), 10s. Gd.; and double that size, 21s. per Bottle. Sold by the Proprietors, at 20, Batton-garden, London; and by al Chemists and Perfumers. ----- - ON NERVOUS DEBILITY AND GENERATIVE DISEASES. JUST PUBLISHED, THE THIRTIETH THOUSAND, An Improved Edition, revised and 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, A 0 0 D NI The Causes of Its Premature Decline; 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 effects 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 whale illustrated with numerous Anatomical Engravings on steel, in colour, explain ing the various Rinctions, secretions, and structures of the reproduc tive organs in health and disease; ith instructions for private cor respondence, cases, &c. By J. L. CURTIS and 0., Consulting Surgeons, 7. Frith-street, Soho-square, London. REVIEW OF THE WORK. " Courts ON Marinoon 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 01 the patient." —Naval anti Military Gazette. Published by the Authors, and may be had at their residence ; sold also by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row; Delaney, 63, Oxford-street ; Mann, 39, Cornhill, London; :fowler, 4, St. Ann's-square, Man chester; Philip. South Csstlo-stree t, Liverpool ; Campbell, 146, Argyle-street, Glasgow.; Robinson, 11, Greenside-street, Edinburgh; and in a sealed envelope by all booksellers. Messrs. CURTIS and CO. are to be consulted daily at their resi dence, No. 7, FRITH-STREET, 50110-SQUARE, LONDON, and Patients can have this work privately forwarded them, by initial or otherwise, to any part of the United Kingdom, direct from the Author's Residence, or from any of the above agents, on remitting 2s. 6d. in postage stamps. 6 O B B S 0 L D." F r now oft on the newspaper sheet we behold This inviting advertisement-phrase, " To be Sold." E. MOSES and SON beg to copy this jargon In its tidiest extent To be sold a great bargain." Al any " Lots - of attire at this warehouse appear, And the public are coining to kid far and near ; While thousands of " bargains" arc daily " knock'd down" At the Dress Mart of MOSES—that Mart of renown. Ono " Lot" is a very remarkable " Lot," Such as no other House in the kingdom has got. Fifty thousand light Wrappers aro °freed for sale, The fashions of which you will heartily hall ; Ar.d as many choice Dress Coats are here " To be sold," And Frock Coats as well, which you all should behold. Another prime " Lot" is a " Lot" of rich Vests, And Trousers, whoeie elegant fashion arrests. In addition to these there are "Lots" of prime Shoes," And " Lots" of prime Boots, such as none would refuse. E. MOSES and SON would invite your attention To their " Lots" of choice Hats, so deserving of mention. And they also refer, with the greatest of pride, To the Hosiery goods at their Warehouse supplied. The attention of all Messrs, MOSES invite To their sales, which continue from morniag till night ; And they trust you'll remember the Auctioneer's jargon, Which they quote for themselves, " To be sold a great • bargain." This ESTABLISHMENT will be CLOSED on TUESDAY EVENING, Six o'clock, till FRIDAY MORNING, Seven o'clock, when business will be resumed as usual, LIST OF PRICES. MADE TO MEASUZZ. Cashmere Codrington, from .... ••••• • • • • • ... 16 6 Taglionia, silk collar and cuffs .. •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • 1 2 0 Cambridge Coat, lined throughout ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 2 5 0 Tweed Coats . Sporting Coat .• .. •••••• • • .• • 0 13 6 Dress Coat.... • ... • • ......... ....... ........ ••• • • • 1 12 0 Best quality manufactured •••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • 2 15 0 Frock Coat • • ... Best quality manufactured ••••.•••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • 3 3 0 Rich pattern •• • • ••••••• • • • •• 0 8 0 Cashmere, or cloth— .• .. ••..•.•••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • . 0 8 6 Tweed Trousers • . • • .... •• • • ...... • • Single-milled Doeskin ditto .... •••••••••• •• •• • • • • • • 1 2 0 Best, er Dress ditto .. • • .... •.••• • • • • •• •••• • • • • 1 6 0 Boys' Hussar or Tunic Suits . • ........ ...... • 1 5 0 ILEA= MADE. Blouses, fr0m.......... ......... ............. Cashmerette Codrington •............• •• •• • • 0 18 6 Cambridge's, Chesterfield Polka's, and all the newest patterns ...... .•• • •'•• • • 18 0 Tweed Coat •• .. ..... ..... . ...... 0 8 6 Sporting dittto •• •• •• •• •• •• •••••• •• • • •• s• • • .... 0 6 0 Dress Coat •• •• •• •• •••• •• •• •• •• •• •• '••• 1 0 0 Extra •" ............ 1 . 16 0 Frock ........from 1 4 0 Extra Superfine, a superior coat „ „ •„, ..... 2 2 0 ... Roll-Collar Vests .. •••••• •• • „„ „ .......... 0 2 0 Fancy Satins ...... • •• • ... 0 6 6 Cloth, or Casimere .. • " • • • • •••••••—•••••••• 0 4 6 Tweed Trousers. Fancy Cas , ;im , • • '• • • • • • • • • • • • • •• Boys Tun'- -re or Doeskin • . ...... •0 10 6 o bsery . and Hussar suits• •••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • 0 18 6 sure. . .. — Any article purchased, ready made, or made to men , if not approved of, will be exchanged, or if preferred, the "oney returned. E. MOSES and SON, Tailors, Woollendrapers, Clothiers, 'flatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters, for Ladies and Gentlemen, 154, 185, and 156, 157 Minories, and 83, 84; 85, and 86 Aldgate, London. Caution.—E. Moses and Son regret being obliged to guard the public against impostors, but have learned that the untradesman. like falsehood of being connected with them, or it's the same concern, has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons. h 11, , onn ,,, i^n With in 7 o'`ler or out of Loudon ; ;,1 wno zoht , should 0411 a' S .I,:iud.ll(lglt, , , t . ‘143 , , _ . Notice. No business transacted at this ostablkhment from sun set Friday, till kttaset Saturday, when business is resumed till twelve o'clock. ' CORNWALL RAILWAY.—Notice is hereby - . given, that the INTEREST due on the PAID UP CALLS, in this Company, will be payable on FRIDAY the liith April next, for 'which purpose Interest Warrants will be issued to the Shareholders • registered, on the 25th instant, the day to which the half years' in , terest will be computed. WM. 11. BOND, Secretary. , . . , Truro, 233 March,lB47. , . ri 001) PIANOFORTES CHEAP.—The large and valuable STOCK of PIANOFORTES manufactured by ZEITTEII and Co. is how SELLING OFF at 4, New Cavendish street, Portland-place, London, in consequence of a Dissolution of Partnership, The Instruments, consisting of mahogany and rose wood grands, semi -Brands, cabinet, cottage, and piccolos, are made with the patent sounding-board, metallic plate, check action, and all the latest improi , ements. The Pianofortes made by Zeitter and Co. have always enjoyed a preference among the nobility and gentry, having been honoured with the patronage of her Majesty the Queen, the Duchess of Sutherland, &c. The peculiar construction of the scunding-board insures their greater durability, and their firm tone is well known. Parties desirous of possessing one of these superior instruments may now purchase the same on very advantageous terms. Grands, heretotere fro.n 120 to 14i guineas, are now selling at ',O/. to 701., and others in proportion. The premises, No. have been recently closed. EASTER HOLIDAYS. pOYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. LECTURES in illustration of ANIMAL MECHANISM, ky T. Rymer Jones, Esq., F.It.S., Professor of Comparative Anatomy at King's College, Mornings and Evenings during the week. The GYMNOT US ELECT it ICUS, or ELECTRICAL EELS, exhibited in a TRANSPARENT VESSEL. LECTURES on ARMSTRONG'S HYDRO-ELECTRIC MACHINE, by Dr. Bachhoffner. The WORK ING MODELS and MACHINERY clearly explained. The varied Optical Effects Include a New Series of DISSOLVING VIEWS. Experiments with the DIVING-BELL and DIVER, &c., &c. Admission is. Schools, half-price. BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS Copy of a Letter from Mr. Blake, Kingseliffe, Northampton- shire : "Kingsditre, January 21, 1847. " Sir, —Twelve years ago I became afflicted with Rheumatic G,ut. I procured the best advice possible, but without deriving benefit ; and the doctors recommended me to go to the Stamford Infirmary, where I continued twelve weeks, and left it without obtaining any benefit, and all hope of relief had vanished. " This hopeless state of things continued until a friend advised me to try Blair's Pills. I then lost no time in sending to Mr. Mortlock, of Stamford, (or a box, and 1)P the time I had taken that quantity I got rid of one crutch. I then sent for another box, which enabled me to throw away the other, and, thank God, I have never since had such an attack. " I am much exposed to cold ; but, whenever I feel symptoms of attack, I have recourse to the Pills with universal success. " I recommended the Pills to a gentleman who resides in this neighbourhood, and he has derived the most essential relief there from. and is now never without them. " You may publish this for the benefit of those similarly afflicted. "I am, sir, your obedient, humble servant, "SAMUEL BLAKE, " Smith and Farrier." The never-failing effects of BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS in curing every description of Gout and Rheumatism, have secured to them a celebrity unequalled by any medicine of past or present times. They not .;/tily give relief in a few hours, bat restore to perfect health in an inconceivably short space of time. They are equally speedy and certain in Lumbago, Sciatica, Pains in the Head or Face, and indeed of every Rhematic or Gouty affection ; in fact, sucn has been the rapidity, perfect ease, and complete safety of this medicine, that it has astonished all who have taken it, and there is scarcely a city, town, or village in the kingdom, but contains many grateful evidences of its benign influence. Sold by Thomas Trout, 229, Strand, London ; and by his appoint ment by all respectable Medicine Venders throughout the United Kingdom. Price 2s. 9d. per bOX. Ask for BLAIR'S' :GOUT and RHEUM tTIC PILLS, and ob serve the name and ad tress Of " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, Lon don," impressed upon the Government Stamp affixed to each box of the Genuine Medicine. ON THE CONCEALED CAUSE THAT rHEYs ON THE HEALTH AND SHORTENS THE DURATION OF HUMAN LIFE. ILLUSTRATED WITH COLOURED ENGRAVINGS, Just Published, in a Sealei Envelope, price 2s. 6d., or free by post, 3s. 6d. CONTROUL OF y THE PASSIONS: a Popular Inquiry into the Concealed Cause of its premature Decline, with Instructions for its Couplete Restoration. Addressed to those suffering from the destructive consequo4ces of excessive indulgence, terminating, In Mental and Nervous Debility, Local or Constitutional Weakness, Indigest . on, an.l Consumption. Including a comprehen sive Dissertation on MARRIAGE, Incontinence, and Celibacy. Illustrated with Coloured Engravings, explanatory of the various Cases, &c. By C. J. LUCAS and Co., Consulting Surgeons, No. 60, Newman street, Oxford-street, London. Member of the London College of Medicine, &c. do, CONTENTS OF THE WORK, Chap. 1. —Bodily and Mental Exhaustion induced by inordinate indulgence of the Passions, illustrated with Coloured Engravings. Chap. 2.—Baneful Results of a Secret Vice on the Mind and Body, evidenced in the production of Consumption, Epilepsy, and other convulsive diseases, Insanity, Idiocy, moping Melancholy, Indiges tion, Stricture, Impotence, and Sterility, with Observations on the Duties of Married Life, and on the unhappiness caused by Unfruitful Unions. Chap. 3. —Debility and Exhaustion of the principal Vital Functions, the nature and treatment of Impotence and Sterility, and the imperfect performance of the Marital act, caused by the practice of self-indulgence. Chap. 4.—Gonondacea, its symptoms, complica tions and treatment, Gleet, Stricture, and disease of the I'rastate. Chap. s.—Syphilis, and its attendant maladies and treatment. Cases, and concluding observations, Plates, &c. Sold by Brittain, 11, Patertioster-row ; Gord m, 146, Leadenhall street , Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; Noble, 114, Chancery lane • Mansell, 115, Fleet-street; Wi nhal, 78, lligh-street, Bir mingham; Whitmore, 119, Market-street, Manchester ; Howell, 54, Church-street, Liverpool; Robinson, 11, Greenside street, Edinburgh ; Powell, 10, Westmoreland-street, Dublin ; and all Booksellers. Persons desirous of obtaining the above work, and not wishing to apply to a bookseller for the same, may, to insure secrecy, have it direct from the Authors, by enclosing 3s. 6d., or Postage Stamps. Messrs. Lucas and Co. are to be consulted from Tenti 11 rwo, and from Five till Eight in the evening, at 'their residence, No. 60, Newman-street, Oxforl -street, London, and country patients may bo successfully treated, on minutely describing their case, and enclos ing the usual fee of 11. tor advice. - - EXTRAORDINARY AND DETER MINED ATTEMPT' AT SUICIDE. In the course of Wednesday morning it became known, in Newcastle-undeieLyne that a young man named William Keen, booking clerk at the railway station in that town, had attempted suicide, and that he was then lying in a dangerous state. Keen is about 23 years of age. He had been for some time in the office of Mr. Appleby, the extensive carrier at Longport, and was about six months ago appointed to the management of the railway busine s s at the Newcastle station. He was particularly steady and attentive, his obliging manners and general courtesy of demeanour making a favourable impression upon the numerous parties having occasion to travel from that testablish ment. He is a single man, and had lodgings at the house of Mr. Thursfield, in Red Lion-square. About eight o'clock on Wednesday morning, one of the men from the station made application for the key of an outhouse to get some hay for the horses. Mrs. Thursfield called to Keen, and some time having elapsed without his making his appearance, Mrs. Thursfield went up to his room. There, to her surprise and horror, she saw a chamber vessel half filled with blood. Keen was in bed with his throat cut, and in a state of insensibility. An alarm was immediately given, and medical assistance sent for. Mr. Crewe and Mr. Hallam promptly attended. On exami nation it was found that the upper part of the windpipe was cut completely through ' • the razor with which the injury was inflicted seemed to have been drawn twice across the throat, producing an excised wound of consi derable size. Extensive heaniorrhage had taken place, and the act must have been committed two or three hours before the young man was discovered. On further exa mination the root of his mouth was found to be seriously injured, and his clothes were much soiled with dirt of a reddish colour. It was, at first, thought that he had been engaged in a death struggle with some person du rin g the night, and the affair seemed enveloped in 'mystery. It was some hours before he spoke, and then he informed his attendants that the injuries had been inflicted by his own hand. He also said that he had discharged the contents of a pistol into his mouth, but the ball not taking effect, he spat it out. In the course of the morn ing there were found in St. George's Churchyard, close to the grave of a young lady lately deceased, a pistol ; not far distant, a leaden ball immersed in a pool of blood. This was the scene of his first attempt at self-destruc tion, by shooting himself. From information afterwards collected it appeared that on Tuesday evening Keen left the office sbortly after nine o'clock, and proceeded, as was his usual custom, to the Globe Inn, to read the newspaper. He was exceed ingly temperate in his habits, never taking more than one glass of brandy and water, nor did he exceed that quantity on Tuesday evening. He called at Mr. Browne's, next door, for a few minutes, leaving there at a quarter to ten o'clock. He must then have proceeded direct to St. George's Churchyard, and attempted the appalling act of self-destruction, for the report of a pistol was heard in that direction by police constable Bloor and other parties immediately atter the ten o'clock gun was fired at Messrs. Brocklehurst's silk factory. The ball, it appears, was imperfectly formed, and rather too smill for the barrel, and it is coojectured that the strength of the gunpowder must have been partially wasted, and that the ball did not pass with sufficient force to effect a lodgment in the root of the mouth. The probability is that the young man, stunned by the shot, fell down amidst the graves, where he must have remained for a considerable period, and afterwards in his wounded state, found his way back to his lodgings. He let himself in, and went up to his bed.tooni, and the pre sumption is, from the circumstance of his garters being found flattened to the bed-posts, that he then meditated death by strangulation. His last attempt, howeeer, at suicide was by cutting his throat, which he did as before described. A note, found in the bed-room drawer, shows that the dead was premeditated. Ili that note he clearly states his intention to destroy himself---.le says that the money in the office-desk, with the exception of a small balance due to himself, belonged to Air. Appleby, adding that his accounts would be found to be perfectly correct. No motive for the lamentable act can be ascribed. Keen was esteemed by his employers, and iruich respected by the public. The circumstance of the pistol and ball being found by the grave of the young lady before mentioned, would convey the idea of an attachment, and impart a tinov. of romance to the melancholy event; but we :.re assured that no intimacy beyond that of a common acquaintance existed between the parties. Keen had for some time carried about with him a pocket pistol—the one with which he attempted to destroy him self—and he had been observed casting the ball atter , wards found in the churchyard from a piece of lead while at the office on Tuesday. No alteration in his usual manner had been observed previously to the dread ful occurrence. &Ws medical attendants state that there is a fair prospect of hia ultimate recovery. The injuries in the mouth are not so serious as was at fires anticipated. lie has been calm and collected, and ex presses himself free from pain; but he has not at present assigned any reason for his unhappy and in every way extraordinary attempt.—Stuffordshire Mercury. THE SPEAKER'S CuAIR.—Mr. Howell, auctioneer, of St. George-street, Liverpool, has now in his sale-room an arm-ohair which was for many years the Speaker's chair in the old House of Commons, before it was burnt down, in 1834. The chair belonved to the late Hon tTharles Manlll'l'SSllVOil d ,„: vv), SPeal;';',_" l the 11...u5e (A CoutL.wlis, am; was vt_ce $l , the A ) Ulit of Sussex, on the occasion of his giving: ctu audience to the Corporation of Sunderland. , THE QUARTER'S REVENUE. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. TIMES.—The revenue table which we publish this morning presents many features upon which the public, as well as the Chancellor of the Exthequer, may reasonably congratulate themselves. After a year, the former half of which witnessed an immense change in our commercial policy, and the latter the operation of one of the greatest calamities of modern times—an [rich famine and an English scarcity—the year's accounts of ordinary revenue present an aggre gate increase of receipts above those of 1846 of not less than 2,387,806/. In every department except the Stamps and Crown Lands—in the Customs, the Excise, the Taxes, the Property-tax, and the Pest office—there is an increased return. In short, were it not for Ireland and her calamity—were it not for that awful drain which English neglect and Irish misgovernment have brought upon us—we might boast that never within human memory, at least, was the national exchequer in a more healthy state, or there a better prospect of removing every burden by which either our domeitic industry or our foreign commerce is tramellid. In presence of our potato famine, ,however —of the ravages of all but invisible animalculm in a root on which nothing but a strange mixture of rapacity and improvidence could have suffered a nation to sub sist—our surplus, so far from furnishing means of relief to the tax-payer, W4ll only by a happy chance avoid the necessity of new taxation by meeting the charge for interest on the sum we have just been compelled to borrow. Cold as the comfort may be, it is well it will do this, and that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has not, in a time of much pressure, and almost general stagnation, to.seek out the means of impesing a new tax as era= contracting a new loan. On the Customs the increase is most signal. That after a series of years, each remarkable for some large reduction in our import duties, each 'reduction de clared to be alike fatal to the home producer and the revenue, we should be able to show an increase of 1,132,0001. upon the year, is a proof of the soundness of our new commercial policy, which even its most ardent advocates could scarcely have anticipated. Nor has this branch of our income suffered in any measure during the quarter which has just come to a ' close, and during which it has received scarcely any augmentation from the duties on corn. On the contrary, the increase has been in a more rapid proportion, and amounts to nearly half a million. In the Excise also the increase, quarter by quarter, has been uninterrupted, until in the aggre gate it gives a surplus of 661,5721. above last year's return. This item has been generally regarded as a kind of barometer by which to measure the national prosperity, for as it affects what are principally luxuries, • at least in degree, it is imagined that an indulgence in excisable commodities betokens a suffi ciency of the necessaries of life. As a general rule this may be a true one, but it is difficult to reconcile its universal application with the fact that while the mass of our agricultural population has been debarred by the high price of food from the purchase even of their ordinary scanty modicum of luxuries, while Scotland has suffered severely from actual want, and Ireland depends for its daily bread on English bounty, the Excise has gone on increasing, and even in this last quarter, when the pressure has been most severe, exhibits a surplus of 26,4071. Under the head of Property-tax the increase upon the year is 379,8401.—a most satisfactory amount. The Post office revenue shows an advance of 1,0001. a week during the last year ; and that comprehensive term, " Miscellaneous," shows an increase of 129,2731. On Stamps the deficiency, probably owing to the partial cessation of railway enterprise, amounts to 32,693/. ; and on Crown Lands, for some reason, which Lords Lincoln and Morpeth will doubtless be able to explain, to 18,0001. Upon the total ordinary revenue, however, we have an increase of 2,387,8061., against a falling off in the two branches we have named, amounting in the whole to only 50,693/. Would that there were no drawback on this favourable statement of our financial condition ! Flourishing as the re turn appears, however, one item is there to remind us of our liabilities, and of the heavy charge to which the great calamity of the year has exposed us. In the account of Income the receipt of 960,0001. is acknowledged as the first instalment of the loan of 8,000,0001., which it will require many years of for bearance and retrenchment to redeem. It is a punish ment, and not an unmerited one, of a system which has permitted a third of our population to live in utter dependence upon a crop with which famines are periodical, and without that claim for subsistence upon the soil which could alone secure from the rich an interest in the prosperity of the poor. We have had a severe warning, let us not require a second. CHRONICLE.---The revenue accounts for the year and the quarter just ended, present at first sight a much more favourable aspect than they do when only at the columns under the heads each item is mi nu t e l y examine d, and the peculiar circumstances w hi c h h ave i n fl uen ced the various sources of incom e are d u l y cons id e red. On the sur f " increase" an d " d ecrease, " t h e ta bl e s present a satis factory and e ncourag i ng resu lt ; a nd especially in referenc e t o th ose i tems to wh i c h we are most accus taocrnee,d looking to look a s an index of the state of th e countr y , of its enjoyment of commercial prosperity , and of social comf or t s . Th e C ustoms rec eipts for the year exhibit an increase of no less than 1,132,0021., which at first sight is more satisfactory, when we remember that the present return completes the first entire year under the ultimate reductions in the tariff effected by Sir Robert Peel. On the other hand, however, it is impossible to overlook the fact that a large por tion of this increase is due, first to the extensive im portation of foreign corn during the last six months of 1846, and considerably more than one half of it to the enlightened settlement of sugar duties by the present Government, at the close of last session. At a moment like the present, when financial difficulties and deficiencies upon the general balance of the public accounts become apparent, it is important to mark any particular source from which those diffi— culties are relieved, and more particularly so when it indicates the success of a great and sound principle of teaexnaetnimtionp.elnt on nill whichbe dutyremembered,was paid that up to the month of August last y ear the deliveries of sugar for paid showed a con siderable deficiency on those of the preceding year. a end But after the reducti on o f the differential duty charged which, argedon fu fo r re tb ig e n fi s r u st ga ti r m s Billstuhuebsu grs were really and of last August, consumption practicall increased ybrought so within the at the consumers' reach, the of the year the deficit which appeared in the deliveries up to August was converted at the end of December into a handsome surplus. We find, that out of the increase which is apparent on the Customs receipts for the year just ended, amounting in all to 1,132,0021., we are indebted to the liberal and wise settlement of the sugar duties for no less than 739,8841., and in like manner, of the increase shown upon the last quarter, amounting to 485 t 755/., we are indebted to that measure for no less than 317,4661. It would be difficult to point to a greater triumph in the result of any fi nancial principle than flee followed the adoption of a course so long urged by political economists and free-traders, to rely upon a reduction of differential and protective duties as the surest means of increasing the revenue of the country. If, however, to this single item of increase we add the corn duties received during the last six months of 1846, we shall find that we considerably more than exhaust the whole apparent increase. So that the Customs receipts for the year, as far as regards the general trade of the country, and irrespective of these two items, would exhibit a cons iderable reduction. That the quarter ju st ended should s how a slight in crease,guurte rof la s t year, irrespectiveus o fsnot a sugar, oivnoeftr ma tter h e htoBbaforiorresponding. Such was surprise, nor of much congratulation , when we consider pe ho n w din m g u t c h h e business in all dep artments was held i n sus p ense during .businessth tee first pared with the corresponding quarter o f 1845, the s Customs showed a de ficienc y of no less than 440 , 000 /. the state a g t e o the of futlhrusedbnaruignge months t h a t quarter, that, com- The general result of the Customs receipts, when considered in reference to the whole trade of the country, and looked to as an index of its prosperity, cannot, therefore, be considered so satisfactory as they, looked at first sight. The other great index of national wel. fare, and of the command of social comforts, the Ex cise duties, we fear, affords in the present return no more satisfactory evidence. It is true that the in crease shown upon the year is large, and that that increase is fairly divided over all the various items which contribute to the Excise, and which may be taken as evidence of increased activity in industry, or of increased comforts enjoyed by the people. But while the increase upon the year is 661,5721., that upon the quarter is only 26,4071. We have here a palpable proof of a declining state. The high price of food, and the scantiness and dearness of some of the chief raw materials of our manufacturing indus try, have already begun their work of deterioration. The complaints f ro m the busy seats of industry during the last three months, the mills working short time, the increasing difficulty in obtaining railway " calls," and the c onsequent " slackness" of some of arid the difficulty which the labour. rag population find in obtaining; anything beyond th( barest necessaries of life at their present prices; these facts are all loudly proclaimed in the comparative de- S Ny APRIL 7, 1847. cline of the Excise receipts during the quarter just finished. A consequence, moreover, which we fear will only b e f ur th er developed as the year advances. The other general items of the revenue are not of a character which speak much to the immediate state of the country, still it is satisfactory to observe that they show, generally, a considerable increase both on the year and the quarter. But notwithstanding the in crease apparent under all these heads, unfortunately, when we look to the side of expenditure, we find it all inadequate to meet the extraordinary demands upon the G - overnmedt. Notwithstanding the increase on the ordinary sources of the Exchequer, and not withstanding the addition of 960,0001., as the first in stalment of the " loan of eight millions," the result of the accounts now published is, that in place of a surplus to meet the various Parliamentary grants for the public service, amounting last year to 1,783,3081., that surplus at the present time is only 628,7811., a sum altogether inadequate for the purpose. ADVERTISER.—We publish, in another part of our paper, a tabular view of the revenue returns for the years and quarters ending sth April, 1846, and sth April, 1847; and we heartily congratulate the country on the extremely gratifying results which they exhibit. Under the head of Customs— the source of revenue which of all others affords the best criterion of the real condition of the people, and the healthy state, or otherwise, of the national finances— we have an increase, on the year, of 1,132,0021., while the increase on the quarter is relatively still greater, being no less than 485,7551., or close on half a mil lion. We will undertake to say, that this is an in crease far exceeding anything of which the most san guine ever dreamt. It is. all the more surprising, when it is remembered, that it only includes, so far as relates to the quarter, a mere trifle in the shape of corn duties, the corn-laws having been suspended early in the quarter. In the Excise there is also an augmentation on the year to the extent of 661,5721., and on the quarter of 26,407/. The Stamps have likewise proved unusually productive on the quarter, giving an increase of 131,4141., as comparei with the corresponding quar ter of 1846. The Property-tax has also proved unprecedentedly productive, the amount for the year being 5,464,5811., which gives an increase over the year ending April 5, 1846, of 379,8401., and of 69,1901. over the quarter ending at the same date. The Post-office still continues, though gradually, to augment the national resources, yielding, as it does, 52,0001. more than last year, and 4,0001. more on the quarter than on the corresponding quarter of 1846. Under the head of Miscellaneous, we have an addition, on the year, of 129,273/., though, on the quarter, the increase is only 1,071/. The only departments in which there is a falling off are those of the Taxes and Crown Lands. The deficit is trifling in either case. Under the first head it is only 15,2501.; and under the second, 8,0001. The total increase on the year is 1,538,168/., and on the quarter 403,02/. This, we repeat, is a most gratifying state of things. So far from expecting so large an augmentation, there were general appre hensions of a defalcation. Nothing could more con clusively prove the solid foundation on which our commercial and monetary edifice is based. The im provement in the revenue which it is thus our pleasing duty to record, as having taken place in a period of unexampled destitution in Ireland and part of Scot land, will, there is every reason to hope, go on pro gressing for months and years to come. If, indeed, Providence should bless the land with an abundant harvest, we may confidently calculate, considering the extensive trade with America which is now opening up to us, on a period of commercial and financial prosperity wholly unparalleled in the history of the country. HERALD.—We have before us the official state ment of the national revenue for the year and the quarter which ended yesterday evening. If any evi dence were necessary to prove the vitality of British vigour in resisting the results of a new-fangled system of legislation, which must have proved destructive to the interests of any country whose innate strength had been less positively confirmed by the considerate policy that was formerly the principle of action by which British statesmen were guided—if any testi mony were requisite to show the elasticitt'of British resources in 'repelli,ng the heavy load o depression which recent Acts of Parliament have heaped upon them, and which projected measures promise to aug ment—we have the proof before us in the abstract of the net produce of the revenue of the country, to which it is our duty to refer.—( ! ) In every department whence we derive our ordinary revenues, save two, there is an increase for the year ended yesterday, compared with the year which ended on the sth of April, 1846. The two items which exhibit a decrement on a comparison of years are Stamps and Crown Lands. Let us now ex hibit the condition of the whole revenue of the country for the year and the quarter, as compared with that of the previous year, and that of the cor responding quarter of 1846. In the present year there is from the Customs an increase of 1,132,002/. ; from the Excise an increase of 661,5721. The de crease on Stamps,: as we have already mentioned, is 32,693/. The increase from Taxes for the year is 33,119/. ; from the Property-tax an augmentation has been derived amounting to 379,840/. ; from the Post office it is 52,0001. The Crown Lands, as we have stated, exhibit a decrease of 18,000/., whilst, from Miscellaneous resources, we have procured an increase of revenue which has placed in the national coffers 129,2731. In the quarter's receipts, as compared with those of the April quarter of last year, ss e find an increase from Customs of 485,755/. ; from the Excise of 26,4071. ; from Stamps of 131,414/. ! ! the decrease on Taxes is 15,2501. ; the increase from the Property-tax is 69,1901.; from the Post-office it is 4,000/. ; with reference to Crown Lands, the de crease is 8,0001. ; from Miscellaneous resources there is an increase of 1,0711. Now, in dealing with these various items of our income, to-day, our observations must necessarily be brief—our comments upon these items few. We deal only with those sums which form the ordinary revenue of the nation. The other portions of the account, embracing " advances," " im prest and other monies," &c., we leave intact for re mark on a future day. In reference, then, to the year's ordinary revenue, there is a net increase over that received up to the sth of April, 1846, which amounts to 2,387,8061. The net ordinary revenue for the quarter ended yesterday, shows an increase over the receipts for the same quarter of the previous year, amounting to 717,8371. Let us at once ask these questions—Has the value of manufactured stock become augmented during the past year, or during the past quarter ? Has the condition of the manufacturing operative been improved, or the position of the agricul tural labourer been made better during the same period? Has the character of our monetary exchanges, com pared with that of other countries whence our largely-increased imports have been derived, exhibited a corresponding amount of exports, or has it even manifested the exportation of an amount of home made merchandise equal to that sent abroad . during several past years ? These questions are easily re solved by facts. Look to the prices current for the returns paid for our manufactured produce! Look to the mills out of work, for the condition of the manufacturing operative I Seek for the position of the agricultural labourer (notwithstanding the efforts of his employers to promote his comparative prospe rity, despite the sacrifices made by landlords and land• holders, and the advances made in agricultural science)—seek for this in the daily tale told by the provincial press ! seek for it in the hopes of the Irish landlord from the new Poor Relief Bill ! Notwith- standing these facts there is an increase upon the rear and the quarter from the Customs revenue! the consumption of imported produce, used in lieu of grain, of course has something to do with this ; but the energy and untired, not worn-out activity and resources of Great Britain have dealt much more largely with it. Taking our course through the other items of receipt, we are compelled to stop at " Stamps." What a tale is told by the official development of the condition of this department of the revenue. The increase for the year is only 32,6931. The in crease for the quarter is 131,414/. ! What has caused this increase ? Has it been an augmentation of the legitimate trade of the country ? Did our legitimate imports, or has an augmentation of our internal—our home traffic in the manufactures of Great Britain, rendered such an accession to our national income the probable result of such a salutary process ? No ! whilst there has been a great decrease in the Excise receipts of the quarter, as compared with those of the year, the Stamp Duties' receipts exhibit an increase of 400 per cent. more upon the quarter than they do upon the whole year. Here is the result of Sir Robert Peel's Corn Bill ! here is the effect of the gambling and speculation which were to have ,been destroyed and deter mined by the damage done to the cultivators of the soil of Great Britain and the sister kingdom ! here are assets derived in a great degree from corn accommodation bills neate have neither time nor space to dwell at gr length to-day upon the official document before us. It is to us matter for hearty rejoicing, that, under so man y circumst ances , which in any other na tion must have caused a decrease of revenue, we have an increased income as the subject for our remarks. ke Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from tLe Colonial-office for the Governor of Gibraltar. PRICE SD. OPENING OF THE BIRKENHEAD DOCKS. This event is looked forward to with considerable interest, and every arrangement is in progress for conducting its celebration with becoming splendour. The extensive warehouses, the opening of which will be a striking feature in the day's prcceedings, twelve in number, and will each hold 4,000 bales of cotton. The extension line of railway runs in a diagonal line, by means of an open excavation, across the town, from the Grange-lane station, through Oliver-street, Cc:gamy-street, Price-street, and Cleve land-street, to the dock warehouses ; having branch lines communicating with the docks, so that goods may be at once hoisted from the vessel's side on the railway trucks, and dispatched into the interior, or from the ship into the warehouses, without the least hazard or delay from exposure on the quays. After the cere mony of opening the dock, the company will proceed to the dejefiner, and this part of the proceedings being completed, the next object of interest will be the opening of the new park, which has been com pleted at a cost of 127,7781. The celebrated proprietor of the magnificent marquee, which is fitted up on pub lic festivals in Greenwich-park, will there pitch his refreshment tent,- 170 feet long; and various other booths, camps, &c., will be erected. Cricket, foot ball, and other athletic games, rural sports, and divers amusements, will occupy the holiday throng in that vast and picturesque arena. The beau tiful new market, on which a sum of '26,000/. has been expended, will likewise present its attractions. On the east quay of the new docks, facing the river, six pieces of ordnance will be placed, for the purpose of firing salutes ; the guns being under the manage ment of a detachment of the Royal Artillery from Chester Castle, kindly granted by their commanding officer, Major Robe. As we intimated last week there will be no procession, but the quays of the docks will be lined with pensioners, clubs, and socie ties of various kinds, with flags, music, &c., and after the docks have been opened, they will repair to the park to be in waiting to receive Lord Morpeth. Four of the warehouse rooms, each 140 feet long and 50 wide, are beautifully and most tastefully fitted up for the festival with pink and white drapery, by Mr. Shaw, upholsterer, of Birkenhead, under the direction of Mr. Hornblower and Mr. Brine, archi tects, who kindly give their services on the occasion, and are most indefatigable in promoting the arrange ments. The suite will include reception, withdraw ing, ball, and banquet rooms ; in the former of which a magnificent cascade will throw forth its silvery streams, amidst a profusion of choice conservatory plants, flowers, and other decorations. The d t leziner and supper will be provided by Mr. Hillier, of the Monk's Ferry Hotel ; all the orders have been given, as it is proper they should be, to Birkenhead trades men. After the ball there will be a special train to Chester, and the Woodside boats will continue run ning during the whole of the night. All the work men employed at the docks (2,000 in number) are to have the gift of a day's wages, and the various con tractors have come forward most liberally as regards this part of the proceedings. Mr. J. Laird has given his men leave to take part in the festivities, and they will be paid their wages for the day. We understand OW all the principal builders will give their men a holiday, and the day is expected to be one of general rejoicing.—Liverpool Mercury. OPENING OF THE DOCKS. Monday was a memorable day on the' banks of the Mersey, having been chosen for the triple purpose of opening the new docks at Birkenhead, the splendid new park, and the extension line of the Chester and Birken head Railway to the docks. The docks to be opened on this occasion were the Woodside and Bridge-end, the joint accommodation of which is equal to the Prince's Dock at Liverpool. Immediately adjoining these docks are the extensive warehouses of the Birkenhead Dock Company ; twelve of which, each capable of storing 4,000 bales of cotton, aro already completed. These warehouses are two stories in height, and when finished will form three long tiers, running rectangularly from the shore. The extension line of railway to the docks affords facilities and advantges which few railways or docks enjoy. From the main line branches run along each side of the warehouses: one side will be made available for fie storing of goods by vessels just arrived—the other for coinveying goods to vessels loading for sea. The rails run so clpse, that the goods can be hoisted direct from, or lowcrea ' into, the trucks, and thus all confusion and necessity for carting will be avoided ; neither will there be delay nor hazard from exposure on the quays. The docks were opened in person by Lord Morpeth, Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests. His Lord ship arrived in Liverpool about ten o'clock in the fore noon. A special train, with Lord Lincoln, Lord Mont eagle, and other visitors, left London about six o'clock in the morning, and arrived in Birkenhead at twelve o'clock. Shortly after that hour the Lords Commis • sinners, with other distingushed guests, the Birkenhead Dock Commissioners, the Birkenhead Improvement Commissioners, the Directors of the Birkenhead Dock (Warehouses) Company, the Directors of the Birken head, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway, and the Directors of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, embarked at Monk's Ferry, on board the Lord Warden, a handsome new iron steamer. Six pieces of artillery were posted along the quays ; and the steamer, which was beautifully decorated, started amid music, the roar of cannon, and the cheers of the spectators. After steaming about a mile up the river, the boat returned, and, similarly saluted in its progress, slowly entered the new docks, and moored alongside the south wall of the Bridge-end Dock ; after which the party repaired to the new warehouses to partake of a dejeuner, at which 800 ladies and gentlemen sat down. The weather was serene ; flags and streamers floated from every available spot ; the ferry steamers were crowded : Liverpool poured its throng to the opposite bank. A more animating spectacle than the river pre sented it would be impossible to conceive. Four of the warehouse rooms, each 140 feet long and 50 feet wide, were beautifully and tastefully fitted up fur the festival with pink and white drapery. The walls and roofs were lined with fluted drapery. The recep tion-room was adorned with a magnificent cascade, which poured out a crystal jet amidst a profusion of choice conservatory plants and flowers. Joseph Bailey, jun , Esq., M.l'., occupied the chair ; John Land and William Potter, Esqs., the vice-chairs. After the toasts—the Queen, the Queen Dowager, Prince Albert, and the rest of the Royal Family, the Army and Navy, the Bishop and Clergy of the Diocese, and the Lord• Lieutenant of the County, had been given, with the usual honours, The CIIAIRMAN proposed the health of Lord Viscount Morpeth. He thanked the Noble Lord, not only in the name of the two boards of directors and the dock corn missioners, and those who had taken a direct interest in the prosecution of these works, but also in the name of the public, for having given his sanction to the pro ceedings of that day by his presence. The Noble Lord's public career had now been of some considerable duration, and his public character was so well known that it would be needless for him to enlarge, upon it. His private worth was also as conspicuous as his public virtues, and he fel t great pleasure in doing honour to them.—(Hear.) It might not be inap propriate to remark, as they were on the shores of the Mersey, that the Noble Lord had recently visited a country which was the most intimately connected with us by commerce, and from which we were now drawing largely nor noooeoary supplies of food. in that country the Noble Lord had had the opportunity of witnessing the energies of that great people the Americans—(Hear) —of seeing the fertility of their soil, and of judging to what extent our commercial relations with them might be carried. He honoured the Noble Lord for having devoted his leisure in that most useful field, instead of in visiting countries, no doubt interesting in themselves, but not so important to be known to a man who was a servant of the Crown and a British Statesman.—(Hear, hear.) The presence of the Noble Lord, who had more than once enjoyed the:confidence of his Sovereign, and was now a Cabinet Minister, stamped the works on the shore of Wallasey Pool, on the west banks, with that degree of nationality which their warmest friends claimed for them, but which the public at large mght not be willing to concede.—(Hear, hear.) Those works were not undertaken for the benefit of a few individuals merely, but partook of a national cha racter. When they adjourned from that f room it a would be to open the Birkenhead Park ; duty no more appropriate person could .betesreelecsotrtehsde thanhad always taken in the:sanatory condition, the Noble Lord. Knowing the war m the comfort of the people, and the improvement ueafltthon e t d he toseea park devoted to people ehannsd, he was sure the Noble hu h the health recreation reel r gratified theto n ending in every direction arou nd it.— ( Hear, h ear.) On midst of those piles of buildin g s which were ex an occasion like the present, when no political feeling interfered, but where men of all parties were met toge ther to celebrate the opening of a great national work, he was sure they would all unite in doing honour to the toast.—(Hear, hear.) It was his misfortune to sit on the o e cu o p p i e p d o s i h t y e si dof the e No b l the rd House ; b o t f t t Commons hefri(i'mor that other gentleman who sat there could fail to pay to the Noble Lord's character that respect to which it was en titled.—(Hear, h ear .) Ie gave them " Th e Right Hon. Lord Viscount Morp e th." The toast was drank with three times three. The cheering having subsided, Lord MORPETIt said—Mr. Chairman, ladies, and gen• tlemen, I assure you that I feel most sensibly the more than kind and cordial manner in which this toast has been received.—(Hear.) Ever since I have been called to the office I have now the honour to hold, and which connects me with the property of the Crown, I have felt the strongest interest in the rising fortunes of Birk enhead; nor it is unnatural that I should do so, for you e probably aware, that besides the general parental interest which the Crown may be assumed to take in the welfare of all that aro represented by the ab- I stract idea of its subjects, it has also motives not so PUBLICATIOP I S. SCHILTX.R'S DRAMAS. ly published, L QCHILLER'S Late JOAN OF ARC ; or, The 1.3 Maid of Orleans. A new Translation. Is. 6d. 11. SCHILLER'S WILLIAM TELL. Is. 6d. Or in one Volume, cloth, 4s. London James Burns. t 7, Portman-street. Of whom may be had, for two stamps, a new Descriptive Catalogue. peculiarly abstract or alga , 'rested for wi s hi ng well to the port and town of Birkent ead. I avo w t hi s the more readily, because it is quite hvious that th e proportion in which the undertakings h, re set on fo o t can become profitable to the Crown must b e according t o t h e d egree in which they aro made valuabCe for the acc ommo d at i on of commerce and for the pubh egood.—(Hear, hea r .) As a well w i s h er , th en , to the p, 'ilalic, and as a servant of the Crown, a s an admirer: of courageous enterprise and successful peiseverance—(Hear, hear)—l find a combilition of claims upon, me for doing, in combi natioinvith my colleagues by whom I am most will ingly and zealously secotkled, and in pursuance of that example which has be en set to me by my pre decessors in th e same office- —(Cheers)—all that in us lies to promote, on all legitimate grounds, the perma• nent prosperity of Birkenhead.—(Cheers.) With these feelings, then, you may judge with how keen a relish, with what lively emotion, I partake in all the pro ceedings of this day.—(Loud exiieers.) We hear same times of the old gala d ays o f Veniw, when the Do ge we nt forth in his golden gall e y to plight bis faith t o th e wart which bathed his palaces, but we have seen some thing this day beyond even the dreams of Venice. For gondola,ewed by may itself, instance, such an array of steamer s as h as to-day graced the Mersey, never could have been wit nesse d i n Venice; a a l s m a days of her iest and though perhaps a steamer, when vi yp m o ea m tyr p en s mo a ti n nb dd e a ys r oo g u o i t h ate p i cturesque s,V e e v n e i n c e never nthe a niobjectP could have sent forth a message which in ten days might reach those harbours and roadsteads of the New World where her flag hewer waved. A pleasing omen I shall think it , if amongst the first uses of that ample basin into which our vessel to day bas been the first to glide, surrounded by all those striking specimens of engineering skill and admirabl e masonry, we should apply those works to the a dmission of the surplus harvests of more favoured regi ons, and make provision for the bread which keepeth alive.— (Hear, hear.) Next in the progress of time—l hope in the course of this very autumn--you will be able to bear your part in accommodating the , timber trade. I will not proceed further in those long vistas of usefulness, of enterprise, and of success, which, I trust, will stretch out before the future prospects of Birkenhead, and to which I hope the proceedings of this day will have given au auspicious commencement, and a powerful impulse. 7 -(Hear, hear.) I would just express a hope in pass ing, that the best feeling and the bast understand ing will always prevail between you and the great city immediately opposite you.—(Great cheering.) Liverpool divides with London the supreme' y of the commerce of the modern world, and as London could only feel benefited by the expansion of Southwark, Liverpool can never have cause to repine at the growth of Bilkenhead. Believe me, gentlemen, and I hope all on the other side of the water will believe me too, that if ever your own wide Mersey was thoroughly walled by a double wall of docks and warehouses, there will not be more than room-for the corn, the cotton, and the forests of the western hemisphere.—(Hear, hear.) And I trust you have this day forged a new and an abiding link to that chain of amity which ought ever to connect Eng land with America. I feel this is not the time to dilate further on these points. It is well known the attrac tions of Birkenhead are not limited to its water frontage, and that if the genius of a Bendel' has completed its docks, the skill of a Paxton has laid out its plea..nre grounds.—(Hear, hear.) Nor will my most reenit occupation permit me to forget that this is one of the first places which has begun a systematic attention to the physical comf arts of the vast numbers of workmen it calls together, and the important subject of public health. With this assurance about us and around us, I feel that the pageant of to-day, even when its gaieties shall have passed away and its shouts are silent, will still give us grounds for remembrance that it has not been a triumph which gathers its trophies from the strife of na tions and the arts of destruction—that it has not been a mere unmeaning sacrifice to frivolity and dissipation, but that it has struck its roots deep in public usefulness, and will bear rich fruits of peace and progress through coming ages.—(Cheers.) The next toast given was, " The County Members'," Sir I'. EGERTON, M.P. returned thanks. T wo years ago only he had aitendad the preliminary proceeding on the commencement of the works which they had now assembled to open to their uses. He had not expected so soon to witness the fulfilment of their hopes, though he had never been influenced by those who said that they might as well propose to build docks in the air as at Birkenhead. Ho congratulated the Commissioners upon having, while providing for the commercial im provement of the town, been equally attentive to the re ligious instruction, the health, and comfort of the poor. Formerly there was a couplet— From Birkenhead to Kilbree Asqm ho from to tree Ero long he hoped uirrel they m igh t read it tree thus:— . From Birkenhead to Kilbreo A ship may sail from Mersey to Dee. The Earl of LINCOLN proposed the next toast—" The commerce of the Mersey," a duty which devolved upon him in consequence of the absence of Sir T. :Fremantle, the Chairman of the Customs. His Noble Friend had said that Liverpool and London divided the commerce of the United Kingdom. Ile believed the commerce of the Mersey, as represented by Liverpool, not only equalled, but by the most recent accounts exceeded that of Lon don itself.—(Hear, hear.) And from this auspicious date that that increase would go on until, in a few years, the port of Liverpool would be equal to any two' or three in the kingdom, London included. He had been informed that coals had &sex that day sent from Wales by the new railway to be shipped on board a steamer already ling in those docks. An American vessel, too, he understood, was now in the port, principally laden with guano, the cargo of which would be sent back by the same railway, and probably, ere nightfall, be spread over the fields.- - -(11enr:) lle could not but express a fervent hope that the introduction of this fertilizing agent on this occasion might be taken as an auspicious omen of an abundant harvest. The Noble Earl, sifter some mere eloquent obs( rvations, formally proposed the toast, which was drunk with enthusiasm. The other toasts were—" The Mayor of Manchester;" " The Chairman," proposed by Lord Morpeth ; " The Birkenhead Docks;" " The Dock Warehouse Company ;" " The Guests of the Day ;" " Mr. Rendall, the engineer, and Mr. Paxton, the designer of the New Park;" " The Railway Interest connected with Birkenhead ;" " The Cheshire Witches," &c. After the dejeuner, Lord Morpeth, accompanied by several distinguished guests, proceeded to open the New Park, which has been formed with a wise foresight to the future wants and sanitary condition of the popula tion of Birkenhead, at a cost of 127,775/. The park was during the day the scene of great re loicing and festivity, and in the evening there was _ gorgeous display of fireworks. The day at Birkenhead, and indeed partly at Liverpool, was observed as a holi day; and the workmen at the Birkenhead Docks, 2,000 mlumber, each received a day's wage. Later in the evening a ball and supper took place i❑ the Dock ware- house:Which had been appropriately fitted up for the occasion, at which were present the majority of the principal persons who had attended the previous pro ceedings. The Lords of the Admiralty will have to extend their tour, on their next viol of inspection, to the various dock yards. The Royal Surrey Dock Yard now assumes such a formidable attitude that Prince Joinviile will, in all probability, feel compelled to write another pamphlet. Wet and dry docks are excavating, first-rates and frigates building, and all the bustle and activity of a dock yard of the first magnitude on the eve of a war. Seriously, the preparations making at the Royal Surrey Zoological Gardens, for the siege of Gibraltar, ere un such a gigantic scale few persons have any conception of, and we are warranted in asserting that the forthcoming representa tion will exceed anything yet attempted. THE LAMPLIGHTERS ON THE FAST DAY.—The lamplighters of Manchester, resolving, at the suggestion of their superintendent, to turn to some account the late general fast, made a small subscription through amounting to 1/. 7s. 6d., with which they proportions amongst the destitute pour in their beytherce purchased fo s 1 ddifferent localities. Thus were they enabled, at a tri fling twenty-twodozen soup tickets, and distributed their sacrifice to themselves, to afford temporary . relief to at least 100 of their less fortunate and suffering brethren. This is a gratifying illustration of the good that may be effected, even on a small scale, where there is a disposi tion, and an example worthy of imitation.—Guardian. CITY OF LONDON GENERAL PENSION SOCIETY.— On Monday a general meeting of the subscribers to the above society, founded in 1818, for providing a per manent relief to decayed artisans, mechanics, manufac turers, tradesmen, and the widows of such persons, above sixty years of age, was held at the London Tavern, for the election of four additional pensioners from a list of twenty-two candidates; Luke James Hansard, Esq., in the chair. The report stated that there are now, in dependent of Monday's election, thirty-two men and females 18s. p fal e e r m tno e n s ;th. the Th m e en dir r e e c e t e o i r v s e l a f. 75., tate a d nd that the females 18s. per month. The directors slated that his at Royalanniversary festivale. Duke in nf May, when w th o e u y ld_ ho p p r e e d sid to e increase the pensioners' p a y ments to the original amount, s hillings more than the present monthly payments.being four EXTENSIVE ROBBERY AT THE CAMDEN RA ILWAY STATION.—On Mcnday morning the crnp/oyes of Met , srs. Crowley and Co., the railway carriers, discovered that no fewer than twenty-six bales of goods, which had been transmitted to the firm for conveyance by the Camden town rail, had been stolen. The robbery is supposed to have been effect d between three and four o'clock on Monday morning, by some of the most expert of their cl ta a k s e s n , n o m t htehe conveying great bulk a y an o d f w w h e i i g c h h , t i o t f s t p h p e e a property taken, i n the conveying away of which, it appears, they borrowed a horse and cart from some adjacent stables, belonging to Messrs. Sutton and Co. MILITARY INSPECTION.—Major-General Lord F. Fitzelarence, G.C.8., Lieutenant-Governor of Ports mouth, and Commander-in-Chief of the south-western district, made his first official inspection en Monday on Southsea-common. The 43d Light Infantry, Lieutenant- Colonel J. Furlong, K.H., of which celebrated regiment the late Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth (Lieutenant- General the Hon. Sir H. Pakenham, K.C.8.) is Colonel, were the troops inspected, and were put through all the evolutions of field service, which they executed in a roannir most highly creditable to themselves, and eminently gratifytng to their distinguished General and Colonel-in. Chief. Sir H. Pakenham relinquished the command of the above garrison and district on Thursday last, and is at present sojourning with his family under the hospitality of Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, C. 8., Superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard, until the ter mination of the sale of their effects in the Government House. Lord Fitzeiarence remains at tho George Hotel, where all the business of his command is at present transacted, and will continue to be until the Government House has been surveyed and repaired,. if found worth the expense ; if not, a new official "mansion will be erected, it is supposed on its original site, the Grand Parade. A Preston cotton-spinner, wh o has no _ whatever with Ireland, has contributed _ 101, relief fund ; Lord Motintcaabell subscribed connexion 1004 towards the ill 16 a. [n• l~ Intl ulker' jIIO.AI Ar i l( 1)10-' f" LW' els6s' 1 11135' IdY of oa th' Dee d. Q, the Ve*'' ,-, lliti lJl ' s hire' iealr -----' le 13" e deri e ~ oa (C~ ~~~t. 4 , 3 lrtf o&1 rton' ofa" of 09, 0.,,t