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?PIEGtTLIMIALT„ JANTAIIT 22,_ 1817. COMMITTEE f or LETTING the CITY'S LANDS will MEET at GUILDHALL on WEDNESD , j, t i ti ve e T INDERS day of February next, at One o'Clock pr.cisely, to ce ,;`,.'ABERS for LETTING on LEASE a HOUSE, No. 19, on the 7 1 b Side of Broad-street Buildings, and a HOUSE, No. 3, Windsor alrot, hi e nkweii-etreet, for 21, years, from-Lady-day next; and also 1 d U SE , No.. 2, Beehive-passage, Little-street, lor 13 years, from ~Y- d aY next. pi, l urt her Particulars may be obtalnel, and Plans seen, by ap rg at the Office of Works, Guildhall. THOMAS SAUNDERS, Comptroller. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. PROFESSOR SCIRENBEIN'S GUN COTTON, and other tylVoe Coll2pOtttldi, 'with brilliant Experiments, LECTURED on rdays, Wed nes d ays, Of m i : R siv YAN, daily at Halt past Three o'clock; and on the Evenings and Fridays. t il ll 4 , Principle of the various ELECTRO-MAGNETIC TELE • th e 'RS explained daily by Professor BACHHOFFNEIt, including Patent of Messrs. Cook and Wheatstone, in use on the railways, and 170fiela niore recent Patent of Messrs. Nott and Gamble - the various exPlained. Magnified Specimens of DISEASED ' POTATOES , , __ited by the OXYHYDROGEN MICROSCOPE, with the DE thuteUcTlVE INSECT, supposed by A. Space, F.R.S., to 1 4 E AIe of the disease. A beautiful Series of NEW DISSOLVIIC Th. • The DIVING-BELL and DIVER, with Experiments. ..-lITSIOSCOPE, new CHROMATROPE, &c .. &e. Admission Is. Scheols,half-price. - JONTRACT FOR WASTE PAPER.- Pared . ° tlce . 13 hereby given that the Postmaster-General is pre of „ , receive Tenders for the purchase of the WASTE PAPER this Department. I t rrY Tender must be addressed ato her MAJESTY'S POST °T-Ek GENERAL," and must be superscribed And " TENDER FOR WASTE PAPER," 2 2 , np Tencler will be received after Twelve o'clock noon on the } , L of February next. ,t th ll Partieulars and information on the subject may be obtained elite s' ncad Letter Office of this Department, on application at that ve, between the hours of Ten A. lc, and Four r • P t-otllce, Jan. 22, 1817. 0 THE TEA.-DRINKERS throughout the KINGDOM. 3-g mupr, ell has been said end written advocating a Reduction of the , im ent ; . I, gb rato of the Tea Duties, we will endeavour to show the ,ent rnarket value of TEAS, which the public now well know, on " ue serlptlons duty 2s VA d upon every pound. , pay ao . • EAST INDIA HOUSE, JAN. 27, 1147. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY do hereby give notice, That a QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT of the said COM PANY will Le held at their House. in Leadenhall-street, on WED NEADAY, the 24th March, 1147, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon. JAMES C. MELYILL, Secretary. Selling price --_, - ;Cost in China, with Exponses!British at "Number L IMBIRD'S MAGNUM BONUAI PENS.— -....__________ of Importation, &c. Duty. One." One dozen Pens and Holder for Sixpence, ss. the gross.— ; Stationery, Travelling Writing Desks, Envelope and Dressing Cases, Congo. ex. t ,..... s Portfolios and Blottlag-hooks, Inkstands, Gold and Silver ever s. d. 5. d. S. d, 3, d. s. d. Xix 4 d, pointed Pencil-cases, I'earl and Ivory Tablets, &c.; Bibles and 3, 11 .eafkluds,ll to 13 ladle, or 0 9/ to 0112 2N 3 oto 3 2 Prayers, in plain and elegant bindings. Name plate engraved for B,aekish leaf .. :14 .. 16 taels, .. 0 114 •• • I I I 2 1 4 3 3 •.. 3 5 2,, Gd, ; 100 best cards, 2s. Gd. ; superfine letter-paper from 6s. p 7 1.7 ditto.. —ll B.. 21 taels, .. 1 2.. I 42 2 H 3 6.. 3 3 the ream ;note-paper; from 3s. the ream; with every article of 5,,,' oe flavour —123 —39 taels, 1 5 •. 2 2 2 2 1 4 3 9.. 4 6 stationery, of the best quality and lowest prices.--At LESIBIRD's, tri n util 'ing •• .....1154, 2 2H 143, Strand, facing Catherine-street. Envelopes, 6d., 9d., And Is. Ch. -w "Y Pekoe : '3l .• 84 tads, 1 10 .. 4 612 21i 4 2..6 10 the 100. `tage Pekoe ... 13 .. 54 taels, •• 1 3 •• 3 0' 2 2H 3 6... 5 4 GAEEN. ~ ~. , • ti ank, ay ...... 13 . .,. 0 taste, 0 11 .. 1 3, 2 2 1 4 3 2.. 3 10 PUBLICATIONS. I Ylon.. ...... .. 20 .. 71 taels, .. 1 7.. 3 10' 2 2 1 4 311.. 6 2 i sung liYson .. 20 .. 54 taels, •• I 3 ..3 I:) 2 214 3 7 ...5 4 Es. 'Jun .. •...- -2s .. 54 fuels, —IS.. 3 0 2 214 40.. 5 4 NEW OK BY BOZ. 'Jun 30th inst. will WORK he published, price 1., the Fifth Number of Powder :15 85 taels, .. 20•.4 3; 2 2t4 4 4.. 7 0 On the 4 „„... Svf these teas are all good of their several kinds, some of them o e xceedingly fine, and of a qnality very rarely to be met with. At Penhy per pound profit they will be supplied to the trade and all 44, ge consumers, la lots and quantities to suit the most extensive de - M andy. As will be noticed by the above li s t, sva it Is a well-known 'act, that the original cost of finest Congou ten is over 39 tads, or 2 s. 2,1. per pound, whfch, with duty added, makes 45. 414 d. per Pound. We have, ever since we began selling teas at Number One, sold this description at 4s. 6d. per pound. Ilundreds and thousands of people have tried lt, and can vouch for its strength and richness of flavour. Nobody ever finds fault with it, and it pleases every body, becanse it is both good and cheap. When Government falls the duty, we will fall the price of tea in the same ratio, at Number One, and publish it to the world. All purchasers will be allowed'one Pound on every 30 pounds as overweight. DAKIN and CO., Tea-merchants, Number One, St. Paul's Churchyard. ' On the 30th inst. will he published, price 1., the Fifth Number of DEALINGS WITH THE FIRM OF DOM , BEY AND SON, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation. By CHARLES DICKENS. With Illustrations by HARLOT K. BROWNE. London: Bradbury - and Evans, Whitefriars. NEW WORK BY MICHAEL ANGELO TITMARSII. On the 30th instant will be published, to he continued In Monthly Parts, price Is. each, with numerous Illustrations on Steel and Wood, Part 11. of ANITY F A I R: PEN AND PENCIL SKETCHES OF ENGLISH SOCIETY. By W. M. THACKERAY, Author of " Mrs. Perkins's " The Irish Sketch Book ;" " Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo ;" of " Jearaes's Diary ;" and the " Snob Papers" in Punch ; &c„ &c. Bills and Advertisements will be received at the Office, during the month. .113 OSTON, STAMFORD, and BIRMINGIIADI RAILWAY.—(STAMFORD and WISBEACH LINE). „Notice is hereby given, that the ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of this Company will be held, pu rsuant to the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway Act, „,. 46 (Stamford and W isbeach Line), on' WEDNESDAY, the rith day .7; F ebruary - next, at the Company's offices , 18, Abin g don-street, We stminster, at One o'clock in the afternoon precisely, tor the pur pose otfotrbstenpsearcttotg performed. business as is required by the Act of Parlta v And notice is hereby also given, that immediately on the termina of the said Ordinary ET Half-yearly Meeting, an rs EXTRAORDI -7 4EY and SPECIAL MEING of the Shareholde of this Co rn - 1F 1 .7 will be held at the Company's Offices aforesaid, for the purpose L e fi"rming or otherwise an Agreement entered into by the Diree wilef the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway Company th t he Directors of the Great Northern Railway Company, for the lease a nd sale of the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway, tl,c i ts Extension, to th e Great' Northern Railway Company, upon t ears and conditi ons m en ti one d in such Agreement, and promul tG e a to the Shareholders in the report presented to and adopted by m e i General Meeting of the Shareholders, held at the Company's or su bmitting ° ,l the 22d day of December last. And also fir the purpose to drafts to and obtaining the confirmation of the Shareholders rafts of the several Bills hereinafter mentioned, which aro ,2 1 1, to be int ro d uced into Parl i araent i n t h e presen t S ess ions, viz. wa l y to empower the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Rail °mParlY to make a Railway from the Sy:ton and Reterborough tl of "aY, at or near Peterborough, to tke Stamford and Wisbeach the Boston, Stamford, and Birmlngharn Railway, in the `,`'.!!.ef Thorney and Isle of Ely. a 3 r to empower the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Ra il - Wia " VanY to make a Branch Railway from the Stamford and at i` beach , Line of the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway, at wpe:eh, to Wisbeach Harbour, and to construct certain works 13;-:!.eh Harbour. *ay (20 ",:° empower the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham nail witt, PanY to make a Railway from Wisbeach to Sutton•bridge, s m . ...ranch to Suttoa !St. Mary, and to improve the Harbour at `°4-bridge. London :—Published at the " Punch" Office, 65, Fleet-street J. Menzies, Edinburgh . J. M`Leod, Glasgow ; J. M`Glashan, THOMAS MACULAY, Chairman. GEORGE lICSSEY PACKE, GEORGE SAWARD, Secretary. 3 offices, 18, Ibingdon-street, Westmirater, Jan. 20, 1847. lii (r. . ° N7 ----- STAMFORD. and BIRMINGHAM sizze:::::Y COMPANY,—STANFORD AND WISBEC7I Sa turday, is hereby given, that the Sealed Certificates for the Reduced 1 1; t in hu ga Lt:h::::::: Will be ready for delivery en and after Sa 4bingdort-stro3e°t: °f January, t the Office of the Company, 18, 1847. a GEO. SAWAItD, Secretary. . LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN bee,TIC-. ,--. IS . HEREBY GIVEN, ...Nor ic „. „. , RAILWAY. been Fot jx l,..r T m the CARRIAGES of the Company, or have That all ARTICLES which hare alst D eco ''Pon the RAILWAY, between the Ist of January and the , 41 0.NT Ii n ther, 1845, and which are not CLAIMED within ONE from the date hereof, will be SOLD to defray expenses. M gene ra,sral INf ana:ers ()Mee Euston Station, London,AßK )I.L 27th January, 1817. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR- ANCE SOCIETY. 26 CORNIIILL, LONDON. Capital £500,000. This Empowered by Act of Parliament. Rimlnstitution embraces important and substantial advantages o a sPect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured also t. e of the Po sita r a ll occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for licy two-thirds of mu paid (see Table) ; tr eit ,a, Option of s e eleeting benefitshand the conversion of his in -4;2 meet other conveniences or necessity. 'ltt,o . ' n ulecs for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible N OF . 11 43 The remarkable su D ccess lVlSl and increasing PROFITS prosperity of the Society t a,bled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare 0 1 : - : - "n bonus, varying from 35 to 85 spareer cent, on the premiams paid `ftch Polley effected on the Protlt EXAMPLES. ,7 g, 7 g itesured 4 l' Preralarn* '4 F.: Bonus Bonus In g added. Cash. a - F — g may g 0 es , Borrow. 11337,X217 15 1 £lOO 011 .£l6 0 41X445 0 0 £ £s. d. 1838 192 3 0 87 1 4 13 10 2. 395 11 1 0 1000 3 4 1839 1 165 11 10 74 191 11 3 1 346 2 3 1840 116 7 6 54 010 ' 718 10 296 13 4 1 1841 111 6 8 49 10 0 j 710 4 247 4 5 The division of profits is annual, and the next be made in "member of the preieat year. F. FERGUSON CA:IIE - 017X. Secretary. COMMERCIAL and GENERAL LIFE AS SURANCE, ANNUITY, FAMILY ENDOWMENT, AND wAli ASSOC lAT lON', 112, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON. HENRY GEORGE WARD, Esq., M.P., Chairman. Assurances effected on every known system ; immediate and de rvd ann u iti es , endowments, Scc.; 6 per cent. interest 'allowed on t pall - up capi tal; ' loans granted to policy holders upon real and ro Pved solid er*personal security; a liberal:commission allowed to agents. JAMES DANIELL. Secreiarf. MDISEASED AND HEALTHY LIVES ASSURED. EDICAL, INVALID, and GENERAL LIFE OFFICE, 25, PALL-MALL, LONDON, and 22, NASSAU IItEET, DUBLIN. 2'1.• Subscribed Capital, 500,0001. - 15 office was established in 1841, and possesses tables formed on 'Ventific basis for the assurance of diseased lives. th e h e urgent necessity for such an institution may be estimated by helatt .that two-thirds of the population are not assurable as o ,,,' l _uhY lives, and that about one in five of the applicants to other " , ses is declined on examination. lat Aa cl that during the pe r iod o f five years, as shown at the Annual p„ o ne ral Meeting of P ropr i etors i n N ovem b er last. upwards of 2,000 itl4 °6 ° l3 had been made to the Society,- covering Assurances to It e One. only Company possessing tabulated rates of premium for lse deduced from extensive data. Increased annuities ar e gran t e d on U nsoun d Li ves. A A LTHT LIVES, both at Home and in For e i g n Cli m at es , are or ll ' 4r ed with as much facility and at lower rates than at moot other B , fr ,; and a capital of Half-a-Million sterling fully subscribed ti „r - us a complete guarantee for the litifUxnent of the Company's -“genleata, FRANCISNEISON, Actuary. Applications for Agencies to be made to the Actuary. SPENCER'S CHINESE LIQUID HAIR DYE. ;ears halve thousands of individuals who for upwards of twenty i r ,`lrs have used this celebrated liquid, pronounce it to be the only ..,, - ""ele extant which effectually changes, in a few minutes, red or r,7 hair, whiskers, moustaches, &v., to a dark brown or black, ,:bout trouble (by simply combing it through the hair), and pro ,:Cel by one application a pleasing and permanent change ; and it rl , l ?e incontestibly proved, that while many dyes tend to destroy nair by their pernicious properties and dangerous process of ap- Z'eation, that this article promotes the growth of hair, nourishing ..`"e roots till the latest period of life. Price 3s. 6d., 65., and 10s Per otti. it. be had of the Proprietors, 29, Nottingham-place, Fieldgate Whiteehapel-road, London ; also of Mr. Johnstone, 68, Corn ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Front, 229, Strand ; Sanger, 150, Oxford .4Set ; Barclay, Farringdon-street ; Atkinson, 24, Old Bond ;Tet; PlOoper, 43, King William-street, London %ridge ; Finnigin, , Ilsern.at rea t, Bath ; Elmore, Bull-street, Birmingham; and of mos ...?erthmers and . Medicine Vendors in town and country. Sent to "'"Y' part of the kingdom by receiving a remittance, pest-paid. ft . Please to ask for " Sp encer and Co. ' s Chinese Liquid Hair Dye." "Nierve, the Proprietor's address is °tithe wrapper. pRAMPTON'S PILL. OF HE ALI H be resorted to The manifold advantages to the heads of families from the ttesSion of a Medicine of known efdcacy, that may i;;;;!, confidence, and used with success in cases of temporary sick occurring in families more or less every day, are vi to h o l t hat no question can be raised of its importance to ev er house 41' in 'the kingdom. From among numerous testmonials, the W ing is respectfully submitted : TO MN. TUOMAS ?BOUT, 29,_0111ND, LONDON. _ In communicating to you , - ---" 5 - , Co - oper-street, Manchester, l2 114 , 2 r . e. umt ir,—l have much satisfaction T t O h e N 0 S n PILL Op t sf my experience, after repeated trials, of tn. LIEALTII, and I feel it but justice h„., 3 ' Years' trial of various Aperient Medicines, f te Fß th A-li at l i n ' I have never found rt - orn 'ito ret a l t un on d ce an s t osalutary and efil wli el n ent an in ut t t l l i e e in re c l n i n eco e f ile th n e cae syste m ;mean, Ia n therefore, bile , &c., .. that they supply to me Ong w warranted in de c laring the road, a most %on._ ' u nto& of being able to recommend to k fa n m r i o ll i e l s, schoo l s, a nd vsa,4‘ ll , Y mercantile men, whether at the des And I shall take credit to i ',; te resource In an occasional medicine taAir„ l f If, In giving this testimony, appreciated. • 4 4-TON'S PILLS more generally , 1 ara ... andthe means of making reoPectfully yours, I kn a o ln. wn the earnest re tte,,,,,_ Unprecedentd sale of these Pills, arising from . efit tron-"loendations of the many thousands who have derived be " WILLIAM SMITH." ttOt p t u li t lr ttlie, render any i ' liable, but tar u m orth as a cure for all diseases to which man lengthened comurnt nece k s i s n a d ry s they are teau,„"le and Liver Complaints, with their many fflidt;Bilious"and Sick Headache, Pain and Oppression after meals, Drowsiness, 1e es; Dizziness, Singing Noise in Head and Ears, *albu m well-known at- T.._ , Loss of Appetite, Wind, Spasms, /cc %ft, - " c ,: . or three doses wllli convince the afflicted of their salutary kkt, s ., The stomach will speedily regain its strength; a healthy . ek,,,, t h _r the Liver, Bowels, and Kidneys, will rapidly take place , ttrtia.7eacl of t listlessness, heat, pains, and jaundiced appearance, Win 4.1 . '".. , itetlviy, and renewed health, extending to good old age, ge, con 't tae result of taking this medicine, according to the directions aolairting each box. Per b,,,,,, 7 .,_.• Pront, 229, Strand, London. Price Is. I%d. and 2s. 9d. k blgq - 0 3 u 'rP bY the 'Vendors of Medicines generally throughout the ...s.sk t o .. . l iut e ._ „ 411A.DIPTOWS PILL OF HEALTH, nd observe the floyozn Aldftee of " Thomas Front 229 Strand, a London," on the - "Oni k iln* MK. JAMES'S NEW ROMANCE. THE CASTLE OF EHRENSTEIN ; its Lords, Spiritual and Temporal ; its Inhabitants, Earthly and Unearthly, 11,11 be ready at all the Libraries on the sth of February. 3 VoLs. Post tto., price 11. Ils. 6d. London : Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhlll. ...---...........--w Avorage Amount lisbury 72,38 9 Hud- 33,6 55 npany, 7,040 ..... npany, 6,03 ......... _2215 ......... ;, York 93,718 127,48 8 ank Returns. J am. ...VIA' , • ED LIFE al Restraint -3i, .aws of Paternity -On fnlelicitoig u ,0 A .1 Marriage- i edical Eager [ENV tcqufed. ents keen, ed :and sage. n, Cid to Wain.' JOID uts. fe tranquil otr LI wind. BYeling .0. b e feeble, t he ca ' , re tution, 1 11021 0 the each tx c, what shun , d ten.'' wt., Mg upon gu b i r it os• ,e found of .` cr er erery llll t o, le Inch iternn,_,) romulgatod Pi" a7IrAVI SG9' led encelosioo, in Postage rediC a , a 1 Tr e3tll- „, 'oath t ;', fi- Anfito o '' en and Orgs o 'P"dac d shoes! : done, an , at io• r habits, al .„ r ie o , !fitment or id other difesi SURGED $, ondon; 'OW hiburgh, itilt; lety, Lich rith its uctivs of the On gtv" . _, , provino,..t":ol2 ll ",. .heir hesltiv If, ous efleets ec trr ty of the to 00E.; d weakness fols- Asorderse,!,il oo 2 1 Locs.l ee and .00 .s"5 al .cess, G 0 0 ' 1 ' goal' r rol os , id the inf° lo" and r Ol lOO 4 n _, ' loto , t o 0- a e do 0 ' 00°' ot ; owPe OW of t be ilog°' :lesso wife of ° r Yro• oc, he lad y or°. the la" 0f C. * 1100P c • , • or ' e o' Gr con d er d/usf,d, „sr P, lu T l e' nail , 0 ' "net Of 1. t doghter of rife of 3f. 7. , 311) a n'''. e d. atine Sin A Tuomag of Gordon rge Vac'''. CP. ------ No• 117 ' of clol6. k e W Fre O , 11 z , 4 ..,,... , _ .....46-,.,..,-7, ~.. 4.5„... ~• _,_. _,,;:.. ,5;::,,,,.5it.: V1•3 ,..,, %,, . \ ...- b._ . ~ ' .. . • 1 Cli i , A I , ;74 i h ' - ,- . ,-- fr - ._ _ • \ ...., . , I k - - , - --- .4 0 7' { A-7:rs, (,-------.' 4. 1. - 0 l'i - 4341,,.W'',;-, 3 ' ,-, ~ N .)....A ' ..- is, „ _.____. —,,., (*) ..,. hi A I 111 th r .. u -,,.- ~,____.),{0,,,.^"•.------ -, - '` No. 16,961. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING MIDDLESEX ELECTION The Committee for conducting the Election of Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR sit daily at the Central Committee Rooms, British Coffee House, Cockspur-street. S. C. WHITBREAD, Chairman. January 23, 1847. EAST INDIA HOUSE, JAN. 27, 1847. THE COURT of DIRECTORS' of the EAST INDIA COMPANY do hereby give notice, That the TRANSFER-BOOK of the said COMPANY'S STOCK will be SHUT on THURSDAY, the 4th of March next, at Three o'clock, and OPENED AGAIN en THWRSDAY, the 15th of April, following. . _ _ That a GENERAL COURT of the sahl Company will he held at their House, in Leadenhall street, on WEDNESDAY, the 14th April, 1847, from Nine o'clock in the Morning until Six o'clock in the Evening, for the ELECTION of Six DIRECTORS of the said Com pany for four years. That the Form of a Letter of Attorney and of a Declaration for enabling Proprietors of East India Stock to vote by proxy on this occasion, may be obtained on application at the Treasury in this house. That the Lists of the Members of the said Company will be ready to be delivered on TuEsprr. the 30th .111 arch next. JAMES C. MELVILL Secretary. NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF THE "NOVITIATE." On the 2d of February will be published, in I vol. post svo. rICHE JESUIT in the FAMILY. 11 By ANDREW STEINMETZ. Author of " The Novitiate." London : Smith, Elder, and Co., 6!, Cunha Just published, price 2L 6d. CONSIDERATIONS respecting the k_.)MAR RIAGE of the DUKE of MONTPESSIER, with reference to the 51reaty of Utrecht. James Ridgway, Piccadilly, and all Booksellers. THE PATRICIAN.—A Monthly Journal of History, Gemology, Antiquities, Biography, Heraldry, and General Literature, price 2s. 6d., edited by JOHN BURKE, Ecq., author of " The reerage,'l is now commencing x NEW VOLUME, and this offers a desirable opportunity for New Subscribers to com mence its purchase. Orders should be &en at once to the Booksellers. E. Churton, publisher, Holies-street. JERROLD'S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER. The universal response made in all parts of the Kingdom to the efforts of the Proprietor and Editor, has enabled him to enlarge his Paper to the utmost extent allowed by the stamp law. The addition of one-third more matter will enable the Debates of the present most important Session to be fully reported, and all the news of every kind to be given in the amplest manner, without trenching on the variety of original articles on political and social affairs that secured for the paper so rapid and extensive a circulation on its first appearance. The enlargement commenced on the 23d of January, and being eagerly and cordially received, has already doubly extended the sphere of its influence and circulation. With such encourage ment, every department of the paper will be conducted with unabted zeal and attention. Published in various editions, so that the early may reach every town of the United Kingdon on the Saturday, and the last contain all the news up to the latest moment. To be bad of any newsmen, town or country. Price Sixpence. Price One Shilling, with Illustrations. THE MIRROR, for FEBRUARY, will contain "THE MISER'S WILL," by PERCY B. ST. JOHN, in cluding the following chapters :—" The Japanese Minstrels," " Mrs. Lewis," &c.. With contributions by John Oxenford, Edmund Oilier, J. A. Heraud, Frances Brown, Stuart Farquharson, Fanny E. Lacy, and others; also Notes of the Month, Poetry, Reviews of Books, and Articles on the Advantages of Life Assurance and Building Societies. Charles Oilier, 18 and 19, Southampton-street, Strand. ECRET POISONINGS. —The PEOPLE'S k 7 PETITION to rarliament for putting a step to the unre stricted sale of Prussic Acid, Arsenic, and other deadly chemical preparations, lies for signature at all the agents to the British Col lege of Health, New-road, London. Copies of the Petition may be had on application. PERFECT FREEDOM - 72from CO - b i rn Ten Minutes after use. is ensured by DR. LOCOCK'S PULMONIC WAFERS. From Mr. W. H. Waterhouse, Chemist, George-street, Ashton- under-Lyne. " Jan. A, 1846. " Gentlemen,—One of our most respectable townsmen called upon mo yesterday, and stated that he had derived more benefit from Locock's Waters than from all the cough medicines he has used for the past five-and-twenty years. Several other cases equally remark able have been reported, so that the efficacy of the medicine in this district 13 new beyond dispute. (Signed) W. 11. WATERHOUSE." Dr. LOCOCK'S WAFERS give instant relief, and a rapid cure of asthma, coughs, and all disorders of the breath and lungs. To SINGERS and PUBLIC SPEAKERS they are invaluable for clearing and strengthening the voice ; they have a pleasant taste. Price Is. 1%c1., 2s. 9d.. and lls. per box. Agents:—Da Silva and CO., 1, ISride-lane, Fleet-street, London. Sold by all medicine vendors. COUNTY RATES AND THE MAIN- TENANCE OF PRISONERS. The following letter from the Secretary of State has been received by the Clerks of the Peace in the different counties of England relative to the removal from the county rates the charges for the maintenance of con• victed prisoners and placing it in future upon the Con solidated Fund : " Whitehall, Dec. 1846. " am directed by Secretary Sir G. Grey to call the attention of the magistrates assembled at the general qaarter sessions of the peace to the provisions of an Act of the last session, c. 116, to apply certain moneys nut of the Consolidated Fund, and moneys in the Lxcho quer, to the service of the year 1846, by which it is en acted that a sum of money not exceeding 40,0001. may be applied to defray the expenses of inaintaining pri soners under sentence of felony or misdemeanour, and other similar charges, for the half-year ending March 31st, 1847. " In'preparing the estimate upon which this grant was made by Parliament, it was considered that the sum of 40,0001. would be• sufficient to relieve the several coun ties throughout' the United Kingdom, and also such boroughs as have quarter sessions, and in which the cost of the maintenance of convicted prisoners is paid by a rate raised in the borough in the nature of a county rate, for the charge of maintenance. of . the said halt year of all prisoners convicted at the assizes and quarter sessions of felony or misdemeanour, or other similar charges. " For the purpose of obtaining information necessary for enabling her. Majesty's Government to distribute and appropriate this money to the purpose for which it was granted, I request, on the part of her Majesty's Govern ment, that as soon . as may be practicable a f ter th e 31 s t of March, 1847, you will transmit to the Lords Commis sioners of the Treasury a return of the amount paid during the half-year ending on that day, for the mainte nance of prisoners kept at the expense of the county, who have been sentenced at • the assizes and quarter sessions for felony or misdemeanour,' or any criminal charge tryable at the assizes and quarter sessions, show ing in such return the name of each person, the offence for which he was convicted, the period during which he was maintained, and the amount paid per week for such maintenance, as nearly as the seine can bo ascertained ; such return to be certified by the magistrates assembled in quarter session, or at a special meeting, and signed by the chairman for the time being. " I am further to request that you will half-yearly, after the 31st of March, 1847, cause to be furnished similar returns, so that each return may embrace the amount paid for this purpose during the half-year imme diately preceding the date of the return certified as before mentioned, and that the same may be forwarded to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury as soon after the close of the half-year embraced in the return as may be practicable. I have also to request that the name and address of the county treasurer may be stated at the foot of the returns furnished in pursuance of this letter. " I have the honour to be, - Sir, " Your obedient servant, " S. M. PHILLIPS." A similar letter has been sent by the Poor-law Com missioners to the boards of Guardians, intimating that in the half year ending in March, the charge for au -17 a nd tpartinstead t e h x e p e p n o s o e r s . , w di i to ll r b s e , s p e a h irb l y m" G o te v r e s rn , rates. [ADVERTISEMENT.]— A NOY.EL REMEDY FOR SUBDUING Toom Adm.—The New Stopping Fluid, a little of which is placed in the cavity, when an indissoluble mass is, formed, which instantly stops pain, and remains in for a length of time, preventing, of course, the air irritating the nerve, and a perfect cure is the usual result. It is sent by the proprietor, Mr. Mussell, dentist,Carriberwell; on receiving fifteen postage stamps. Sold by Edwards, St. Paul's; and Barclay, Farringdon-street. UNIVERSITY INFELL/GENcp._ Otp J AN 25 OXF J. The Vice-Chancellor has issued the folloWing notices :—" 11Ir. Browne, the inferior bedel of medicine and arts, having, on account of his impaired state of health, expressed a wish to be relieved from the duties of his office; it will be proposed in a convocation, to be holden on Thursday, the 28th instant, at two o'clock, that in consideration of his long and active service to the university, an annuity of 1001., to commence from the lot day of January,lB47, be granted to him on the resigna tion of his office:"—" In a convocation to be holden on Thurs day next, at two o'clock, it will be proposed to grant from the university chest the sum of SCOL for the relief of the prev distress in Ireland and Scotland." • THE SPANISH MARRIAGES. No. 48.— MR. BULIVER TO VISCOUNT PALMERSTON. (Received January 10.) (Extract.) Madrid, Jan. 2,1847. As N. Guizot mentions my name in his note to Count Jarnac of the 22d of November last, and it might be thought, from the text of his remarks, that 1 had countenanced, at the time to which he alludes, a marriage of the Queen of Spain with Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, I think it as well to inclose to your Lordship the copy of a letter which I re ceived from; Isturitz, to whom I wrote at that period, on learning that some such accusation had been made against me by the French Government to Lord Aberdeen. Inclosure (Translation). " Madrid, June 5, 1846. "My dear Friend,—l have received your letter of yester day, in which you request me to tell you whether you have ever held to me upon the subject of the marriage of my So vereign any other language than this Government regards the marriage of the Queen of Spain as a question purely Spanish ; it acknowledges the independence of Spain in this matter; but it would prefer a descendant of Philip V., if such a husband were agreeable to the Queen of Spain and to her nation. It has no desire for a marriage with a Prince of Saxe-Coburg, no interest in such a marriage, which might even prove an embarrassment to it.' " I am happy to bear Witness to the correctness of these words, and hasten to renew to you the assurance of my most friendly esteem. (Signed) " XKVIER DE ISTURITZ." VISCOUNT PALMERSTON TO THE MARQUIS OF NORMANBY. Foreign-office, Jan. 8, 1847. My Lord,—M. Gnizot, towards the conclusion of his dis patch of the 22d of November, to Count Jarnac, on the ques tion of the Spanish marriages, says that that dispatch was intended to close the discussion between the two Govern ments. As far as regards the balance of argument upon the matters at issue, her Majesty's Government would willingly have consented that this should be, fbr they find in that dispatch no answer to the statements which it professes to combat ; but, nevertheless, there are some passages in it which necessarily call for a few observations in reply. • • M. Guizot, in the beginning of his dispatch, while adverting to the engagements of the Chateau d'Eu, and to the memoran dum of the 27th of February, 1846, accuses her Majesty's Government of inconsistency, in appealing to those engage ments on the one hand, and in disclaiming any knowledge of that memorandum on the other; and with reference to my assertion, that there is in the Foreign-office no trace of the memorandum of the 27th of February, he says that he might ask whether there is in the Foreign.office any trace of the engagements taken at the Chateau d'Eu, and that he might express surprise that so much knowledge is professed of engagements of which n• official proof is produced; while, at the same time, the absence of official record is made the ground for repudiating facts and documents which are found to be inconvenient. Now, in answer to this, it is sufficient to say, that the facts are such as were stated in my former dsipatch ; that her Majesty's government had a knowledge of the engagements at En ; but had not, until after the marriages were declared, any knowledge of the memorandum of the 27th of February and if M. Guizot will only bring to mind the circumstances connected with the engagements of the Chateau d'Lu, he will easily see, that her Majesty's present government might acquire a knowledge of these engagements without the aid of any record in the Foreign-office. But if her Majesty's prevent government repudiate the memorandum of the 27th of February, and do not acknow ledge it to be a document of which they are bound to take any accouat, it is not, as M. Guizot asserts, because that document is found by them to be inconvenient. Her Majesty's Government repudiate that memorandum, as in any degree binding upon them, for two reasons. First, because it assumes rights, and puts forward pretensions, in which her Majesty's Government could not have acquiesced, whatever might have been the time at which that memo randum might have been communicated to them ; and se condly, because, even if it had contained nothing to which in principle her Majesty's Government could have objected, it was neither produced nor mentioned to them until after the event had happened, with respect to which it professed to be a warning; and I must observe that no justification is even attempted in M. Guizot's dispatch, for the endea vour which has been made to fasten retrospectively upon her Majesty's present Government an obligation arising out of a memorandum, of which no knowledge was given to them at the proper time by those who had it in their possession. If the French Government meant to plead that memo randum as a justification for any steps which theyin tended to take, they ought surely to have made it known to the British Giaernment before their steps were taken. But that memourandum could not have been produced without raising a discussion about the intended marriage of the Duke of Montpensier, and it suited better the views of the French Government to keep that marriage entirely in the background till they could announce it as a settled arrangement. But her Majesty's Government do not repudiate the memorandum of the 27th of February, 1846, because they find it inconvenient. For on the contrary, as I have already shown, the contingency which was specified in that memorandum, as the case which would release the French Government from their previous engage. ments, and which would, in their opinion, justify them in asking the hand of the Infanta for the Duke of Mont pensier (that is to say, an imminent danger that the Queen might marry a prince not descended from Philip the Fifth), never happened ; and, moreover, as I stated in my former dispatch, such a contingency had actually become impossible at the time when Count Bresson asked the hand of the Infanta for the Duke; because at that time the marriage of the Queen with a descendant of Philip the Fifth had already been settled. M. Guizot admits the fact of the engagement at the Chateau d'Eu, but ho does not state its sub stance correctly. It was not that the marriage of the Dlike of Montpensier to the Infanta should be delayed until the Queen of Spain should have been married, and should have had a child; it was that that marriage should not take place until the Queen of Spain should have been married, and until the birth of children by her marriage should have so far secured a direct succession to the throne of Spain, as to divest the marriage of the Duke of Montpensier to the Infanta of a political character; and if her Majesty's Government are not much misinformed, even this as surance was not accepted as entirely satisfactory, but as calculated to render the projected marriage less objec tionable than it would otherwise have been. M. Guizot says, however, that the engagements of the Chateau d'Eu were conditional and mutual; but the con dition on which the marriage of the Duke of Mont pensier was t( be delayed as above-mentioned, was, that the Queen of Spain should marry a descendant of Philip V. ;and that a reciprocal engagement was taken by the British Government, that it would cooperate as far as it was at liberty to do so, in bringing about the marriage of the Queen to such a prince. But M. Guizot acknow ledges that the British Government refused to admit the principle, that the Queen of Spain ought to be confined in her choice of a consort to a descendant of Philip V., and he acknowledges that the British -Government re fused either to take the same ground upon that question, or to hold the same language, or to act upon the same line as the Government of France. The, co-operation, therefore, between the two Governments was at any rate to e founded upon an entire difference of opinion between the co-operating parties as to the subject matter in question. But, nevertheless, the British . Government according to M. Guizot, protnised_to act in the same di rection as the French Government, and to aim at the same object; the meaning of which may be presumed to be, that the British Government was ' to recommend to the Queen of Spain, to choose a-htisband from among the descendants - of Philip ir._; though fully a n d di rect l y as serting the right of the Queen to ,choose a prince not so descended, if she chose to do so. ller Majesty's present Government are unable either to admit or to deny that any such engagement was taken by their predecessors; but I will assume, for the sake of argument, that it was; and, then, I would ask why, sinco the condition required by the French Government has been fulfilled, 'and sine* the promise of the British Go vernment has been kept, why has the eugagement of the Chateau d'En been brOken?. M. Guizot endeavours to establish a contrast between the conduct of her Majesty's late and that of her Ma-. jesty's present Government, in regard to this matter; but there is no just ground , for such a distinction. Fur both Governments have pursued in this matter the same course; both Governments have - held- exactly the same language, as to the pretensiOn put forward by the French Government to compel' the Queen of Spain to marry none but a descendant of Philip IT.; both Go vernments have been of opinion that it - Ivouldbe most prudent for the Queen to marry a Spanish prince, and both agreed in their selection of the prince whom the y :ventured to rec ommeud, while neither . her Majesty 's late nor her Majesty's present Government have at any time given any encouragement or support whatever to the choice which the Spanish Court wished to make of Prince Leo hiftecsotmm commu nicated in proper u the 27th of Februar ys Leo pold of Sax e- Coburg i T in h e e r o e f d o e r g e re t e h i e ne memorandu mh e o r f ; h a a n v d e a e ff ou er ld de n d o t t h , e ev a e li n g time , justi fication for the departure from the engagements of th e Chateau d'Eu. Majesty's Governinent and states that,whatever have . begin may July to Mr. Bulwer, order in which the name of been my intention, the mere mentioned in that despatch, M. Guizot again reverts to my dispatch of the 19th the Prince of Coburg was in his favour. that that dispatch was a But M. Guizot forgets that it was not per sonaldes- instruction to Mr. Bulwer ; Spanish government, must have had the effect of an indirect recommendation tined to be communicated to the governmentel' teh I of that dispatch, by him ; and that, in the very outset he had ' referred Mr. Bulwer to a communication which prince received from my predecessor, in which a Spanish and that it never was communicated to that d the most likely government to be the most eligible, an sod the fact to prove acceptable to the people of Spain I was named as the candidate who appeared to the ir.itigh is, that the effect supposed by M. quizot w as pro duced at Madrid, k.:, M. Guizot points out, that, in a passage in my de spatch of the 31st of October, in which there is a quota tion from his previous despatch of the sth of October, some words, which were not in his dispatch have been placed betwe en i nverted commas. This remark i s per fectly correct. Th e passage in question, in any dispatch of the 3l s t o f O ctober, begins with a verbal quotation, but contai ns i n t h e middle a sentence, which is not a verbal quotati on, h ut i s the substance of a preced i ng pas sage in M. Guizot's dispatch from which I was quoting; and the inverted commas, were inadvertently carried on, so as to i nc l u d e the middle sentence. The inverted commas ought to s t op at the words " state o f t hi ngs ," and should no t b eg i n again till the words "consequently the French g overnment resorted at Madrid. " I have to i nstruct your Excellency to correct th i s error of punct uat i on i n the original dispatch in the ar chives of y our embassy •, and perhaps M. Guizot will have the goodness t o d o t h e same by the copy w hi ch was delivered to him. But this correction in the punctuation of the passage makes no difference whatever in the argument, and does not in the slightest degree affect the contradiction which it was the object of that passage in my despatch to point out. The contradiction consists in this—that M. Guizot's despatch of the sth of October states in one passage that the Spanish court was so bent upon one arrange ment that, if not opposed by the British Government, that arrangement was likely by a single act of lai6ser alley, to have inevitably taken place ; and then in an other passage, it says that the manner in which a different arrangement was effected was by simply offering that different arrangement to the free choice and inde pendent will of that very same court. M. Guizot acknowledges that it was from Lord Aber deen that he received the first information of the over ture made in May last by the court of Madrid to the Duke of Saxe Coburg. But he states that, as the communication from Lord Aberdeen was confidential, he did not think himself at liberty, without Lord Aberdeen's permission, to say from whom it came. This might be a reason for not mentioning the circumstance at all, but surely it was no reason for mentioning it in such a way, as to give to those who might be unacquainted with the fact an erro neous impression as to the course of the transaction. M. Guizot denies that the Marquis of Miraflores was sent to Paris in July last on a mission, on the subject of the marriage of the Queen of Spain. He says, " According to Lord Palmerston, the Marquis of. Miraflores was sent, last summer, on a mission to Paris by the Court of Spain, to obtain from the King and his Government that they should make no opposition to the marriage of the Queen Isabella with Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg. This assertion is devoid of all foundation. During the two months that M. de Miraflores passed at Paris, he made no communication and no overture to the King's Government, and he did not address to me a single word to the effect mentioned by Lord Palmerston." Notwithstanding this apparently positive contradic tion, her Majesty's Government must still persist in the assertion, in regard to this matter, which was contained in my former dispatch. Her Majesty's Government consider themselves to have good grounds for asserting, that the Marquis of Miraflores was sent to Paris in July for the above-mentioned purpose; and though her Ma jesty's Government do not pretend to have a knowledge of all the communications which, during the two months which he spent in Paris, may have passed between him and those to him he was sent, yet her Majesty's Govern ment do happen to know that on the evening of the 19th of July, a day or two after his arrival at Paris, he had an audience at Neuilly, and that at that audi ence h e did , though ineffectually, endeavour to accomplish th e pur pose of his mission. If the Marquis had succeeded in overcoming at Paris the objections there felt to the se lection of the Prince of Coburg, he was to have gone on . to London, to solicit the co operation of his Majesty's Government. M. Guizot adverts to the treaty of Utrecht, and con tends that, although that treaty prevents the union of the crowns of France and Spain upon one head, it does not interdict marriages between the royal houses of France and Spain. And he again quotes certain cases of such marriages in the eighteenth century, in proof of his assertion. But M. Guizot does not deal at all with the position laid down by her Majesty's Government ; he asserts that which her Majesty's Government have never denied, but he does not deny that which her Ma jesty's Government have asserted. He says that the treaty of Utrecht does not interdict certain marriages, bnt he does not deny that the descendants of the Duke of Orleans are excluded from the throne of Spain. The position laid down by her Majesty's Government is plain, simple, and incontrovertible. It is this :—The Duke of Orleans, of 1712, renounced for himself and all his descendants all claim or right to succeed to the throne of Spain, and declared himself and his descend ants incapable of aid excluded from such succession, whatever might be the way (and this includes the way of marriage), in which the succession might devolve upon their line. That renunciation was embodied in the treaty of Utrecht, and thereby was made binding on France, and became part of the public law of Europe, and it was, moreover, incorporated in the law both of France and of Spain. The Duke of Montpensier is, and his children will be, descendants of the Duke of Orleans of 1712 ; and the Duke of Montpensier and his children are therefore in capable of succeeding to the throne of Spain, wh a t. ever may be the way in which that succession may de volve upon them." This is the position of her Majesty's Government. It is founded upon the plain and positive letter of treaties and of laws: and it cannot be shaken by quoting mar riages which took place a century ago; none of these cases were similar to that which is the subject of the present discussion, for in none of them did a French prince marry the heir presumptive to the crown of Spain. In all these cases the Salic law was in existence, both :in France and in Spain. and when the Infanta Maria Theresa married the Dauphin, in 1745, there were seve ral male heirs to the crown of Spain. But M. Guizot, between the doctrines which he has laid down, and the examples which ho has quoted, seems to have involved himself in difficulties, from which it is not easy for him to escape. He admits that the treaty of Utrecht absolutely prevents the union of the crowns of France and Spain upon one and the same head; but he asserts, that in all the cases which he had quoted, the Spanish Infantas, when they married French princes brought with them an eventual, but a positive right to the crown of Spain: and he further says, that the Infanta Maria Theresa Antoinette, who, in 1745, married the. Dauphin, son of Louis XV. was one of the heirs, to the Spanish crown. Now, supposing that to have happened which m i g ht have come to p ass , n stood before that Infaantntae,lyin that reg a r a d ii t t o h e t h persons right s h who stood before that Infants, in regard to their right of succession to the cr own o f Spain, had died during her lifetime ; and supposing that her husband, the Dauphin, had succeeded to the crown of France, could she have been at one and th e same t i me Q ueen of both countr ies? And if, under both those circumstances, she had one only child, and that child a son, could that son have become Ring both of France and Spain It is obvious that in such a case, one or other of M. Guizot s either con flicting doctrines must have given way ; the prohibition which the treaty of containsUtarnedchtt"t against the union of the two crowns on one and the lse the same head must have been broken through, positive though eventual right of succeFsion too. Infantatr.hewn of Spain, which M. Guizot asserts that aspanisl.' brings with her in a marriage with a French prince, must have been given up. But it is obvious that in such a case the treaty of p esent pro hibition must have prevailed, and so, case, her Majesty's Government contend tiheat_thtehe present ipu lations and renunciations of the treaty of Utrecht are stronger and more powerful than any personal claims. But, as I have said, none of the cases quo ted by M. Guizot were similar to that wh ich is they been have v Under dis cussion, and, even if it had beenso,_ been unavailing for the purpose o serve for the in terpretation which they are quoted; because though precedents may . lations the of doubtful and ambiguous stipulations, y never can set aside stipulationsr which, like those of positive, anti incapable the treaty of Utrecht,arecleat clear, h ° omissions of Govern or being misunderstood; and Govern ments in the last century cannot bar the treaty rights of Spain, Governments in the p resent day. But if there did o f pre vail between the Governments of France and during the last ce ntur y , a union more close and intim a t e than was consistent with the spirit and t intentionso of the treaties of Utrecht, as recorded ascribed tili a i y n n a o r t ic t l l e ia - t e o i f re t u li m e strtaenaet)e quotld quoted by England and Sp be, in a great degree, a ;ibed to the marriages ex by M. Guizot; and may no t those historical useful illustr a t io ns of the soundnessames serve, therefore, a of the principle up s us onw e hich, in my dispatch of th e 22d that the uke of Goy of September, I stated Government protested against the marriage tending to affect injuriously the Mont pensierto the Infanta, as injuriously in Europe, by cstablishi se • the balance of power n, too in the timate a connexion between most Governments of France and Spain? And M. Guizot yearsassuredly does not forget that, in the hundreictil A it which preceded the treaty of Utrecht, twice did it that a Spanish Princess was married to a • Prince, and that on each of these occasions that principle of European balance was acknowledged by formal and publicly re corded acts. M. Guizot says, that by the treaty of Utrecht all par ties abated somewhat of the pretensions which they had insisted upon at the commencement of the ar, to which that treaty put an end. This statement is no doubt true, but it has no bear. ing on the pres e nt discussion. Ile r Majesty's G overn ment are now renewing the p ret ensions whi c h were abandoned by Great Britain by the treaties of Utrecht they are only cl a i m ing the benefit of the secu r i t i es which were given in those treaties by France and by Spain. M. Guizot s a y s th a t England and her allies acknow ledged by those treaties the establishment of a branch of the house of Bourbon upon the throne of Spain. Her Majesty' s G overn ment du not seek to revoke that e that acknowledgment. But M. Guizot admits that by treaties Louis XIV. consented to the those complete separa tion of the rights of the royal houses of France and Spain ; and it is on the maintenance of that separation that her Majesty's Government insist. s It is on " the definite conditions of that t. peace that her Majesty's Government, in this discussion, taken their stand, and it is " the letter anti ti)e spirit " have of that treaty of which they deem themselves entitled to claim the faithful observance. Guizot, in the concluding part of dispatch,. S 1 17 Ny JANUARY '2 8 , says that he desires to bring back the controversy within its legitimate and constitutional limits ; that in my dis patch of the 31st of October I introduced a name which ought never to have appeared in this discussion ; that his surprise at this was deep ; that his sense of duty commanded him to express it strongly ; and to remind me that the responsibility of the policy of the King's Government in this matter belongs entirely to himself alone. It is impossible for me to allow this passage to pass without a reply. I must beg, therefore, to remind M. Guizot that the same name was introduced into my former despatch of the 221 of September, with reference to the engage ment originally taken, that no son of the King of the French should marry the Queen of Spain; and that the introducion of that name, on that occasion, was not only not objected to by M. Guizot, in his despatch of the sth of October, but was even quoted by him in that despatch with a distinct expression of his acquiescence in the correctness of my statement. If, then, it was allowable to introduce that name with reference to the engagement taken in regard to the mar riage of a French prince to the Queen of Spain, why should it not be allowable to introduce the same name, with reference to the engagement taken in regard to the marriage of a French prince to the Infanta? But it was M. Guizot, and not I, who first introduced into this correspondence a discussion as to the engage ments entered into at the Chateau d'Eu. In my despatch of the 22d of September, there is not one word which relates to those engagements. Motives of delicacy,- which might, I think, have been better appreciated, led me to abstain from even adverting to those transactions in that despatch. But M. Guizot, in his reply of the sth of October, founded his argument upon the memo randum of the 27th of February, 1846, which, he said, annulled previous engagements; and this course of ar gument compelled me to discuss what those engagements were, and when, and by whom, they had been con tracted. Bat when M. Guizot asserts that the name to which he alludes ought never to have appeared in this corres• pondence, I think that I might be justified in feeling a surprise as deep as that which, he says, his sense of duty has commanded him to express: for he himself freely introduced that name into the discussion, in his dispatch of the sth of October, whenever it suited the course of his argument to do so. The following passages taken from that dispatch will show this; but I must mention, to prevent mistakes, that the words which I underline in the quotations are not underlined in the original. First passage:— " The Infante Don Enrique had not taken so proper a course to arrive at his object. " The King himself, when this Prince passed through Paris, had warned him paternally of this, reminding him where lay his proper place, his duty, his chances of success; and offering to exert himself at Madrid, in order to enable him to recover them. Th e I n f ante did not follow th e coun sels of the King." Second passage:— "From the beginning of this question, the King, as Lord Palmerston states in his dispatch, spontaneously made known that he did not pretend to the hand of the Queen of Spain for any of his sons. lie at the some time ex pressed his firm hope that the crown of Spain would not pass out of the house of Bourbon, and that the Queen would choose her husband from among the descendants of Philip V." Third passage : "No where, in no Court, in no family, are the rights of liberty in contracting marriage, and in domestic life, better known and more scrupulously respected than in the Court of the Tuileries, and in the bosom of our Royal Family. The sentiments which animate and direct the King at Paris in the midst of his children, animate and direct him equally in his relations with the Court at Madrid and his royal nieces." I think that, with reference to these quotations, I may again adopt a phrase of M. Guizot's, and say, that in the reproof which he administirs to me at the conclu sion of his dispatch," there is some want of memory or of justice." - Having thus set right some "errors" in M. Guizot's last communication, I have only further to instruct your Excellency to read this dispatch to M. Guizot, and to send him officially a copy of it.—l am, &c., (Signed) PALMERSTON. MR. BULB ER TO M. ISTURITZ. Madrid, October 3, 1846. Sir,—Your Excellency begins your note of the 29th ultimo by assuring me that the opinion of her Catholic .Majesty's Government was not influenced, and that the decision of the Cortes was not prejudiced by the idea that the notes I had addressed to you only contained my own personal sentiments. I certainly had reason to think that your Excellency must have been convinced from the first that I had due authority for what I stated ; and while I was surprised to hear it asserted in the Congress by her Catholic Ma jesty's Ministers, that I bad merely expressed notions of my own upon the important subject to which I am re ferring, I am still more surprised now at learning that this declaration was made without any object, and that it was neither expected nor intended that it should pro duce any effect upon the vote of that assembly. Your Excellency, at the same time that you reject the right of h e r M a j es ty' s G overnment to make any objec tions to th e marr i age o f h er Royal highness Donna Luisa with the Duke de Montpensier, states in friendly language that this marriage is not intended to grant any political influence to any foreign state, nor to further any political purpo se ; an d your E xce ll ency also (while pointing out to me the gre a t r esources o f t h e Steinisp monarchy, in terms already use d b y h er M . ajesty s Secretary for Foreign Affair s ) as k s me w h et h er can be supposed that such a monarchy is likely to fall into de pendence upon any other s t a t e , h ow grea t soever it might be ? Now the history of the past generally furnishes an example for the future, and I am not, I confess, aware that f o Spain is a greater state now than s h e was in the time Charle s 111. or Charles IV., when her vast pos sessions in the New World still remained to her, and when a proud and valiant navy kept those splendid arse nals in busy occupation, which I have but lately seen mouldering in solitary decay. Yet Spain, at the p e r io d s of which I have been speaking, was in dependence upon a foreign State, dragged unprofitably into its wars, and charged with the penalty of its defeats. Indeed, your Excellency furnishes me with a more eloquent and ample reply to your question, than any words of mine could present. Great, indeed, was my surprise, on reading in a sentence almost immediately subsequent to that in which you ,proclaim th e i mpossibility of this country being fatally attached to the fortunes of another somo remarkable words to this effect The past and present centuries teach us lessons not easily to bo forgotten. The loss of our mighty colonial empire, the loss of Gibraltar, that almost im pregnable fortress, the more retent destruction of our nav y during war, and the secession of Mexico and Peru from the mother state d ur i ng peace, aro all recollections " associated with what ? Why with that very foreign influence, that very preponderance of France in Spanish councils, which the wisest statesman of that time de plored, prophesying its consequences with the same assurance, and unhappily with the same ill success that I have intruded upon y our Excellency my own eq ua lly earnest if less eloquent warnings. The alliance of families, the personal feelings of courts, then unfor tuzately governed and misguided the destinies of your great nation ; and with what security can the hope be now cherished, that this will not again occur ? At this moment I see the hand of a y oung pr i ncess of fourteen years of age, disposed of in a manner contrary to the earnest representations of at least one great European power, whos e f r i en d ship towards Spain is well known in history : and whose amity might yet be worth cultivating. I see this marriage secretly prepared, abruptly announced, hurried with incon ceivable rapidi ty to i ts conclusion ; it revives the con flicting pretensions of dormant treaties ; it threatens Spain with the removal of her civil wars; it agitates and dissolves the present happy and peaceful relations of Europe. These considerations are disregarded. The delay of 12 months in the marriage of a princess of this tender age is deemed too great a concession for compos ing these important interests. I ask, why is this mea sure persevered in? Why are all weighty and opposing reasons pushed indignantly aside? What is the motive which decides, what is the cause which precipitates this apparently unpropitious union? I can see no other in view, I have heard no other alleged, than that the two courts of France and Spain have determined that it should take place on a particular day, at a particular hour, in a parti cu l ar manner; and that, therefore, as the Spanish and French courts have thus decided, so it must be. How then can I, in reporting these facts to my Go vernment, tell it to be tranquil; that the influence of courts in thi s country i s gone by; and that the alliances which bind and cement them together are of no national importance, and will never have a preponderating influ ence on grave questions of national interest ? I am aware that facts will now soon put an end to argument; but in closing this discussion I cannot help expressing the conviction that in spite of the great ability with which it has been conducted by your Excellency, and the little t a l ent I h ave b roug h t to i t , impartial . judges will co ns id er t h at i t h as b een t h e l o t o f th e British Minister to d e f en d t h e true i n t e rests and theindepen dence of Spain against your Excellency, to whom as her Catholic M a j es t y ' s Mi n i s t er , their defence would, as you cc justly obs erve , b e more suitably entrust ii L e . d. I BUL ‘ WEB. " On Thursday afternoon, the 21st instant, the children of the parish of Coniscliffe, 'near Darlington, were plentifully regaled with tea and spice cake, at the expense of R. H. Howard, Esq., M.P., of Corby Castle, Cumberland, the benevolent'and respectful Lord of the Manor, in celebra tion of the jo'yful event of the christening of his first-born daughter. 'lea was provided in a large granary belonging to Mr. D. Hetherington, beautifully decorated with ever greens, byMrs. Eletheritigton and Rickaby, of High Coniscliffe, whose excellent arrangements and inspiring presence, con tributed in no small dlgree to the enjoyment of-their juvenile guests. Several young ladies presided at the tea tables, and among the visitors on the joyful occasion, were observed the worthy vicar of the parish, the Rev. J. Cundill, Miss Cundill, the Rev. Mr. Hogarth, of Darlington, the churchwardens, the schoolmaster, Mr. Tohling, and principal inhabitants of the parish, tke. The village bells rung many a merry peal during the evening. After partaking of the cup which cheers, but inebriates not, the young company sepk, rated, highly delighted with their entertainment, and many a young bosom breathed its sincerest wishes for health and prosperity to the house of Howard. The farmers also plea tifully regaled their labourers with ale ou the occasion. -•- -•-• 1847. PRICB SD. THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. Soirma r.t., Jaw. 27.—At half-past four o'clock to-dayl an inquest was hold by Mr. Wakley, M.P., coroner for the dis trict, assisted by the deputy-coroner, Mr. Mills, on th e b od i es of Henry Halt and Henry Bishop, the unfortunate sufferers by the accident of Monday l as t a t S out h all. The investiga tion took place at - the lied Lion Inn, Southall, and th e pro ceedings attracted a good deal of interest in the neighbour hood. Mr. Seymour Clarke, superintendent at Paddington; Mr. Gooch, head of the locomotive department; and several other officials of the company, were present at the proceed ings. Mr. Brunel and Mr. Saunders visited the spot where the accident took place, but did not appear in the room where the inquest was held. The CORONER, in charging the jury, hoped that they would dismiss from their minds any rumours which they might have heard, and for which there might be no foundation. Some of the jury had expressed a desire to see the tire, and the wheel to which it was attached, by daylight, and there fore he thought it advisable that the inquiry should not be closed that evening. A good deal of clamour had been raised against railways, but it should be remembered that accidents had happened to coaches, carriages, gigs, and every kind of vehicles used on the roads, in which no blame could be at tached to any person. As, however, the inquest was one to inquire into a very frightful occurrence, and as they were bound to protect human life, they would have to examine the cause of this accident to show the public and the direc tors of the railway themselves what the cause WAS. They would have to do to, not for the purpose of punishing any party, unless gross negligence was proved, but to prevent any similar calamity in future. It was necessary, therefore, that they should have, on a future day . , some witnesses called be fore them who caul(' give dispassionate testimony on the sub ject. He did not mean to say that the witnesses to be called before them on the part of - the company were not disinte rested, but it was better in 11l cases of the kind to have the testimony of persons without the suspicion of bias as to a matter in which the conduct of individuals might be incul pated. The jury then proceeded to view the bodies, and on their return the following evidence was adduced:— Joseph Bishop, poultry-dealer at Cowley, and father of one of the deceased, and Thomas Weadon, butcher, of Tooting, brother-in-law of the other deceased, were called, and hav ing beensyfOrn identified- the bodies, Bishop w as 20, _ an d Halt 27 years of age. • • John Maydon, the next 'witness catted,stated that he lived et ;Uxbridge, and was a dealer in cattle. He was in the train at the time the accident happened, and eat beside Henry Bishop, one of the deceased; his father sitting beside Halt: Bishop sat with his back to the engine. Something came with a crush right through the top of the carriage, but he was so frightened, that he did not know anything that happened until he got out. There were five of them inside altogether, and he saw blood, and that Henry Halt was struck. He did not know whether they were killed dead on the spot. He was not hurt, but greatly frightened ; so much so, indeed, that he hardly knew what occurred until he got out. His father was much hurt about the thigh, and kept his bed in consequence. Mr. F. W. Austen, station-clerk at Southall, was then called, and said, that being in the station at the time, he ran down at once and opened the carriage in which the accident happened. halt was sitting, and Bishop had fallen forward into his lap. The carriage which was cut in the roof and much injured, was brought into the goods shed ; but both the men had been killed instantaneously, and their brains were scattered about. A juryman —The train was in motion at the time, and just about to atop. I was in it. Witness—A large fragment of the tire lay in the carriage, but the express train went on to London with the damaged wheel, after appearing to stop a short time before it came to the bridge, He had never before known the tire of a wheel to break, though he had been on the line for seven years. John Gauntlett, policeman on the Great Western line at the Southall station, said, that while on duty there about twenty-five minutes past four o'clock, he saw the express train, due at thirteen minutes past four o'clock, go past the station driven by the Queen engine. When past the station about 60 or 70 yards, he saw the tire, in tw o or t h ree p i eces, fly off the driving heel, and one piece fell on one of the second-class carriages of the four o'clock down train. He at once went to the carriage. The door had been opened, and a lady who was hurt handed out. The two deceased men were in the carriage, dead; and several of the passengers were slightly hurt. He saw nothing loose or wrong about the express train before the accident happened, and it was going at its usual speed, which was about 50 miles an hour. The engine had been in use for nearly twelve months. The express train was stopped as soon as possible. A jury man—l was in the next carriage to that in which the accident happened, but was aware of nothing till I got out. Wittness—The piece of tire which fell on the carriage was projected into the air to the height of 20 or 30 feet. Its weight had since been ascertained to be 2751 b. James Loxton, inspector of metropolitan police at Hanwell, stated that the bodies of the deceased were removed from the carriage by him. James Almond, engine -driver of the Queen, which drew the express, said that he had been engine-driver on the Great Western Railway for nine years, and about 24 or 25 years engineman for locomotive or stationary engines. On Monday he left Swindon at 56 minutes past two o'clock, three minutes late, with a train of six carriages. The time for arriving at Southall was four hours sixteen minutes, and they were behind some six minutes, which he attributed to the heaviness of the road, and the high wind blowing at the time. Coaceesu—Did yon see the tire break ? Witness—l saw the fire Ay from the tire and the splasher, which is the brass cap to the wheel, and I put my back to the dome and saw the other carriage broken on the down train. I did not see the pieces of the tire fly from the wheel. T did not know exactly what it was that had happened, and could perceive no difference in the running; but in about two minutes, seeing that the tire was gone, I stopped. After wards we went up to London at a diminished speed of 15 or 20 miles an hour. I have seen the pieces of the tire, which are made partly of steel and partly of iron. I have observed the fractures, and though the outside appeared good, the in side does not look sound. The tire is about 1% inches thick, increasing to two inches next the crease : it seems unsound for 1% inches, the rest sound. The had parts look dull and dirty, and the sound quite bright. I should judge three inches broad, by 1 inches in depth, bad, out of five inches of breadth. There is no means that I know of besides that of sight for ascertaining how much of the tire is bad. No accident of the kind has ever happened before to that engine ; but about seven months ago the whole tire of th e B e ll ona, an engine which came from Nasmyth and , Gaskell's works at Manchester, broke off in five pieces. This occurred about two miles and a half below Slough. That case was similar to the present, mad I reported it to the foreman at Swindon. We were asked if we ran against anything, and we answered not. We always examine the engine ourselves in every part of it before starting, and on arriving at the end of our trip, and if there is anything wrong, we report it. I did so in the pre sent case examine the wheels and the springs, as is my invariable custom. After a tire is once placed on the wheel, we have no means of ascertaining whether it is sound or not. The CORONER—Did you ever see a tire unsound before it was put on? Witness—Yes, I have; and it was condemned. The " weld " appeared unsound outside, and showed itself. Such accidents are not of frequent occurrence, and it never happened to more than one before. The tires of the other wheels are fixed on in the same way as that on the driving wheel. The CORONER—Are the driving-wheels subject to more use' than others? Witness—Yee, and by their size the tire is more apt to come off them. A juryman —Are they riveted on? Witness—No; they are kept on by contraction. A juryman asked whether the tire of a wheel did not fly off last Friday week between Hanwell and the bridge?—The fact was admitted by the officials of the company present. Mr. George Withe Daniel, surgeon, residing at Southall, and passenger in the four o'clock down train, proved that the deaths of the deceased were instantaneous, and had been caused by the injuries they had received from the immense piece of iron which fell on them. . Mr. Daniel Gooch was then called, a nd sa id, I am supenn tendent of the locomotive department of the Great Western Railway Company, and have held that position for nine yeah. The Queen was built under my inspection at Swindon. l'h; company bay all their tires at the. Haigh Foundry, Wi an, Lancashire. I see all tires bought by the company. Wet have a smith, named John Faucett, living at Swindon, whose duty it is to " block" all tires, and to inspect theni. lie is an excellent tradesman, and is expressly used for the purpose. If we buy the tires in bars, we give an order for the length required; if in hoops, for the diameter. About four-fifths of the tire are of wrought iron, and one fifth' of steel. I have examined that of the Queen which has given way, and found it unsoundly welded. The welding is a difficult task, requiring great care, and the best workmen will! sometimes fail in effecting a good weld. About two thirds of one of the ends in the carriage is bad, but the other fractures appear to be quite bright. We "block" the tires— viz., make them a little less than the size required, and then subject them to a great strain by means of a screw. All tires are subjected to this process in order to test their sound ness, I cannot say how many miles the Queen may have travelled without consulting the books, but probably about 25,0Q0 miles, Tires suffer most in frosty weather, and some times they break from that cause, though not in motion. Two instances of the kind occurred last year. The CORONER —Is there any step which you can take, in consequence of this accident, to prevent a recurrence of it'? Witness—l can suggest none, except increased vigi lance on the part of our servants. This tire was bought in the hoop. , The ConorrErt—Do the manufacturers from whom you buy submit to any penalty for selling badly welded tires? Wit ness —None, except the loss of credit, and the obligation to replace the tire. The ringing of .a tire is no test of its un soundness, and I have heard them, when cracked, sound as clear as a bell under the 'stroke of the hammer. We have had a good many cases of tires coming . off the driving wheel. It is not a common accident, but it is one which we are always prepared for in frosty weather. The CORONER—It is not one which lam prepared for.— (Laughter.) Witness—lron crystallizes very much from motion, but the fracture here is a good one, and not crystal lized. Age has no bad effect upon our tires, and some of them have been in constant use since the opening of i t the rate for he line. The weld is the place most liable to give way, a n of speed has little to do with such accident,there is a re cent instance of the wheel of a lugga ge though it only travelled at 15 or 20 miles an n anthaol breaking, hour. The Coiroxeri.-You have given your evidence, Mr. Gooch, very frankly and fairly, and we are very much obliged to you for it. Some conversation here ensued as to the scientific gentle, man to be selected as an unbiassed witness on the causes of this singular accident. In the course of it Mr. Gooch ex pressed his readiness to afford any one the coroner might select the fullest possible facilities for forming a fair and just opinion on the subject. No decision was come to on this point what the proceed ings of the 'evening closed, the Coroner adjourning the in quest to half-past ten o'elock on Monday next. •, PRESENT STATE OF PORTUGA.L.—A new work n Portugal, entitled "An Overland Journey to Lisbon with a Picture of the Present State of Spain and Portuga .is an nounced for immediate p u bli cation by the author "Re velations of Spain." At a tim e w h en the attention and, indeed, the whole ci v ili ze d world is turned to o the Il in r s o u p r e - , rectionary movements now going on in Portugal, and to the transactions connected with the marriage of the Queen of Spain, these volumes, from the pen of a sident amid the scenes he d gentleman, now now re sident for correct observatie.souct describes and enjoy n ecaliar welcomed by doubtless l be g co p rdially the public. ~/, ~~ ~~~.~ IRELAND. DUBLIN, JAN. 25 —Many more deaths from starva tion are reported in the accounts received to-day, and what is termed the •' starvation fever." is spreading is k , the western as well as the southern counties. The Sligo Champion contains the following alarming statement : •' Fever is still on the increase ; the deaths in the poor-house are most numerous, and almost all the per sons who have died have been carried off either by ty. phus lever or dysentery. There are at present four hundred on the sick list in the poor-house, or one-third of all the inmates. This is really alarming, and from the great increase of fever in the town wo fear a plague will ensue. " The coroners of Sligo are unable to attend to all the calls made upon them, and although indefatigable in the discharge of their duties, numbers of persons have been buried (who died of starvation) without inquest* having been held upon them." After giving details of inquests on five persons who died from starvation, the Slims Champion proceeds : " While the coroner was engaged yesterday with the in quests at Drumcliff, he received an?' official communi cation from Head Constgp - k!Pay, of Riverstown, re questing his attendance toflo.ld inquests on the bodies of a girl named Hodge, and rt man named Brian Mat tenis, both of whom died of starvation, and he was informed by the messenger who brought the letter, that three or four - orderlies were at his house, requiring his presence in different parts•of the county." From such a distriec it:l4:rjot surprising that emigra tion is still in progress, even in mid-winter. Two hutidred persons left• the port of Sligo on Thursday, for Liverpool, with a view of making their way to America; but most of them were very poorly provided with sea stores, and some were almost destitute of clothing or provisions. Many of those creatures, no doubt, will still further augment the pauperism in Liverpool. From all parts of the county of Galway the most harrowing accounts have been received, and deaths from starvation are increasing. The Tuam Herald states that five inquests were held from the 16th to the 21st instant, and , in each case the verdict•was " died by starvation." • GALWAY, JAN. 23.—MORE DEATHS BY STARYATXON. —Our private letters from Connemara mention details of woe almost unparalleled. In Clifden, we are in formed that the population are fast dying away for want of food —many are hurried to their early graves rims utter destitution, without the ceremony of a funetal, and frequently without the covering of a coffin, and the clergy are incessantly employed in administering the consolations of religion to those who are falling victims to the ravages of famine. In the village of Glenn, westward of Oughterard by about two miles, in one wretched cabin, ten human beings, constituting an en tiie family, lie dead ire one heap 6f .'rottenness and putrefaction. In the extensive county of Cork the most appalling scenes are to be witnessed on all sides. In the city of Cork, on Saturday last, a crowd of labourers paraded through the streets, but some of the ringleaders having been arrested while endeavouring to force an entrance into a shop, the remainder dispersed without committing any outrage. The Cork Reporter of Saturday contains a statement from its correspondent of the dreadful destitution in the district of Bantry. I have extracted the following pas sage :—" Mothers bearing dead children in their arms are everywhere to be seen, and those who follow them aro often compelled t• eat grass to satisfy the cravings of the hunger that gnaws their vitals. As an example of the rapidity with which death stalks through the land, it may be stated that during the last ten days the Rev. Messrs. Freeman Begley visited and prepared for death no less than forty-two, thirty-five of whom were in the utmost state of destitution, and of that number twenty eight died, twenty-five of absolute starvation. That number did not include the deaths in the workhouse, which had been unprecedented in extent, notwithstand ing the exertions of the hoard of guardians. Scarcely an hour elapses without some of the population dropping and sinking into the grave, and children, after suffering the pangs of hunger for four or five days. Many die on the mountains, uncared for and deserted. In the midst of all these horrors, it is gratifying to find that those who have been blessed with a reasonable share of this world's goods have nobly done their duty. Amongst the most prominent in endeavouring to allay and mitigate the misery which exists amongst the tenantry is Lord Kenmare. Some instances have occurred in the barony where the landlord has demanded and distrained for rent, but those instances, it is happy to observe, ace very few. The fact is, the tenantry have nothing to give; for although I have seen more fields prepared for the coming crop in this neighbourhood than in most others I have visited, in general all their corn is gone, and but few have any seed." From the southern counties the reports are equally afflicting. From some of the counties of Ulster the accounts are quite as bad as from the south or west. The Lord Bishop of Derry and Raphoe having recommended a grant of 2401. from the National Club in London, con vened a meeting of his clergy at the deanery house last week, to assist him in allocating the money and obtain ing local subscriptions. The reports submitted by the clergy exhibit a mass of utter destitution in their parishes. The Rev. Mr. Maturin desoribed the parish of Gorton as containing " one thousand individuals who have no mere than a week's provisions, and who are without means to obtain them." RE-APPEARANCE OF THE POTATO DISEASE. The Cork Reporter of Saturday says:—" A gentleman residing in the neighbourhood of Kinsale planted in a hotbed, about three months since, a quantity of ,suund potatoes of the quarry kind, and on examining the pro duce yesterday, which, by the forced growth, had far advanced to maturity, he found them black and dis eased." THE IRISH DISTILLERS.—REDUCTION OF DUTY ON RUM. The project of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, re specting the use of sugar in breweries and distilleries, has been received with general approval'here ; but the proposed arrangement for reducing the duty on rum in Ireland to about one-third of the present amount, hits produced absolute consternation amongst the Irish dis tillers. A meeting of the Dublin distillers was held this day, at the Commercial-buildings, Sir John Power, Bart., presiding, when the following resolutions were adopted; " That the meeting have seen, wi:h the greatest alarm, the proposition of the Chancellor of the Exche quer, made in the House of Commons on Friday last, to reduce the duties on 'West India rum imported into Ireland to 3s. 2d. per gallon —a measure which, if car ried into effect, will prove utterly ruinous to the Irish distillery trade, and most prejudicial to the landholders, farmers, and traders of this country, and to every inte rest connected therewith. " That any measure of a temporary nature, calculated to meet the exi genc i es o f the present time, however in convenient it might prove to the trade, would be cheer fully received and submitted to by the Irish distillers ; but that the measure now proposed sloes not contemplate any such effect, but is solely calculated permanently to injure, if not totally extinguish, the manufacture of spirits in this country. " That a general meeting of the trade be called by public advertisement, to assemble in Dublin, on Tues day, the 2d of February next, in the Corn Exchange, at one o'clock in the afternoor, to take the proposition of the Chancellor of the Exchequer into their consideration, and that these resolutions be published in the meantime in some of the morning and evening Dublin and London newspapers. By order of the me.ting, " WILLIAM W. JAMESON, Secretary." Mr. O'Connell attended the meeting of the distillers. The honourable and learned gentleman has delayed his departure for London in consequence of the unfavourable state of the weather ; but has to leave town by the mail packet to-morrow evening. REPRESENTATION OF GALWAY TOWN. The Galway Vindicator contains an address from Sir Valentine Blake, Bart., to the electors of the town of Galway, intimating his retirement from the representa tion of the town, " it having pleased Providence to de prive me of the power to attend to your important inte rests in Parliament in future." The same journal con tains a letter from I'. S. Comyn, Esq., dated " Upper Fitzwilliam-street, Dublin, Jan. 21," iu which the writer says—" Either my brother (Francis Comyn, of Wood• stock), or myself, will offer ourselves as candidates, and we will not support any Government not pledged to the repeal of the union." 'lt is generally believed that the Solicitor General, Mr. Monahan, who is a native of the county of Galway, will start for the representation of the vacant borough, with a fair prospect of success. Mr. O'Hara, the late recorder of the borough, is also spoken of as a candidate. On Wednesdsy a meeting of the trades and other re peal electors, presided over by the Rev. Mr. Martyn, was held in the repeal reading-room, Galway, when a resolu tion was adopted, pled ging - _the 'meeting to use every exertion in the event of a vacancy for the return of a repeal representative. REPEAL ASSOMATION. At the weekly meeting of the- Association held this day, AldernaftD I,3utler in the chair, Mr. W. T. Kelly, solicitor, detaile at2donsiderable length certain proceed ings instituted by a large number of landlords (whom he named) in the county Of-,Wiyo, against their cottier tenantry. From the staterneht• of the Learned Gentle man, it appeared that,. ats' - ehe recent sessions held at Castlebar and Ballinrobe, an incredible number of civil bill actions had been brought for non-payment of rent, the greatest portion of which fell duo in November last. Mr. O'Connell moved that a special meeting of the com mittee should be summoned for next day, to consider the statement, and that a petition to Parliament, detailing the 1 0 1 :C . o on , nell) facts (if substantiated by the gentleman who announced them), should be prepared ; and How,lie a(stltrd. s have the asked h 1 demand assistance assistance from the British Government if it appeared that the landlords oflr Ireland were actin g i n th e manner s th ta a t t ed a ? Mr ri Anthony Hon, Gentleman O'Flah subsequ ent ly announced his con vers i on to repttertayt,, of Knockbanp, ~ having ~ of was ceternained to seek the repres en t at i on of Galway (tow n ), vacan t by the Sirrt- Valenti ne Bl a k e . kignation At the conclusion of the proceedings (which were totally devoid of inter es t), th e ren t for the week Wll5 au nounced to b e 151.40 i 9d. The meeting .tlict.t' adjourned.. " EXPERIENCES or A GAOL CIIAPLAIN."—A great deal of interest has of late been, and continues to be taken in the very important subject of prison discipline, and the re- • clamation of criminals, and several works have been written, which, to say the trail, have communicated much general information touching this matter. But general treatises, however elaborate, have not half the effect, and consequently are not nearly so useful, as particular facts. It is for this eason that we hail " The Experiences of 'a- Gaol Chap lain," just bublished by ➢lr. Bentley. It is indeed a dark pagefrom life's volume, but which, whilst it is one of the most valuable. di , closures ever made as to the economy of our prisons apd the moral conditiort of their inmates, is one of tha WO interesting collection of nwativis - ever published ! , ..0 r