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EAST INDTA TIOUSE, OCTOBER 27, 1847. T HE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY do hereby give Notice, That_a QUARTERLY GENERAL CO URT of the said DNESDAY, ComPanY "ill 1 . - held at their Douse, in Leacienhall-street, on WE the 22d December next, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon. JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. EAST INDIA HOUSE, OCTOBER 27, 1847. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY do hereby give notice, ~,T h ,at the Transfer Books of the said Company's Stock will be on THURSDAY the 2d December next, at Three o'clock, and OPENED again on TnuasnAY, the 13th January, 1848. That the Warrants for the Dividen ds of the said Stock, payable on Thursday, the 6th January, 1848, under the 11th Section of the Act 6 tad 4 Wm. IV., cap. 85, will be ready to be delivered on that day. JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. G REAT WESTERN RAILWAY_ TENDERS FOR LOANS. The Directors of this Company ar e ready to receive TENDERS f l or LOANS on security of the Company' s Debentures, in sums of !t less th a n 1,0001. each, at 51. per Ce nt. interest, paya7ele half 'Yly, and for terms of Three, Five , or Seven years. Applications to be made to the undersigned. CIIARLES A SAUNDERS, Secretary. London Terminus, Paddington, August 20, 1847. GREAT WESTERIL WAY. OPENING TO CHELTENHAM. Zan(' after S.VTURDIY, October 23, 1847, the London Trains of t IL"aPany will run over the Line between Gloucester and Chel -Irrvi. The Trains will ler.xe Cheltenham for London at 645 A.m., t a ", 441 . (Express), 8 20 A.7b1., 10 40 A.m., 11 15 A.M. (Parliamen -4), 12 45 P.M., 1 20 P.M. (Express), 3 55 P.M., 5 50 P.M., and 11 30 10 J IC , 'g i lt Mall).—Trains from London will arrive at Cheltenham at lii .,etvek A.m., 12 5 P.M., 12 45 P.M. (Express), 2 30 P.M. (Parlia 93‘pary),2 50 .m. P ,4 24 p.m., 625 r.a., 830 r.st (Evening Express), ,i l , ‘ p•M. and 1 30 A.M. (Night Mail). 1/....._"`e xPress Trains arriving at Paddington at 11 o'clock A.m., and c;mg Paddington at 5 30 P.M. will, on and after the 23d instant, i 4 re "Y Passengers to and from Cheltenham, Gloucester, Stroud, and o,2L ee ster. Nand Bills, giving full particulars of the above, may be `'ed at the Railway Stations. . By order of the Directors, C. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary. ft UCKII•IGIIAMSHIRE RAILWAY COMPANY, 1847. F O U RTH INSTALMNT. • Per Share of 171. 10s., due Ist of November, 1847, making 101 . 4 s . 2 / per Share called up. er.,, lfotice is hereby given, that the D irectors of the above-named iirP a nY have this day made a Call of 21. per Share, payable on the m ?f e to pay November; 1847. ~.,4 ' , Shareholders are according l y requested tbe same at - ' l 3' of the under-mentioned bank ers,* producing at the same time the call letter, without which pay ment of the call c annot be ac cepted. HARRY VERNEY, Chairman. WYNDHAM HARDING, Secretary. ao, Great George-street, Westminster, let October, 1847. Interest at 5 per cent. will be charged by the Bankers on all Calls *hich remain unpaid after the appointed day. X° interest accrues on any Share during the period when any Call due by the Proprietor remains unpaid. No transfer of shares will b e received on and after the 30th of Oc eltber, 1847, until the call is paid. *BANKERS. ralttdon ..... Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co., Lombard. street. Itirraingham.. The Birmingham Banking Company. 1 .• ..The Borough Bank. ter .. Sir B. Heywood. and Co. "Weebtry....ldessrs: Rielford -, and:ffunt, ate'-the . London . and County Bank. tackingham.. Messrs. Bartlett, Parrott, and Hearn, and the London and County Bank. Banbury .... Messrs. Cobb and Co., and Messrs. Gillett and Tawney. Oxford„ —Messrs. Wootten and Co., and the London and County Bank. fleecier.. • • .. Messrs. Tubb. N.B.—THE OXFORD AND BLETCIILEY JUNCTION, and ItUCKINGIIAM AND BRACKLEY JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANIES are amalgamated under the above title of the "BUCK INGHAMSHIRE RAILWAY COMPANY." WELLINGTON SURTOUT—Patronised by Prince Albert, the Royal Family, the Commander-in-Chief and principal Nobility and Officers of the Guards—Two-and -a - Halt Guineas. In London only of FOUGERE, Patentee, 6, Conduit-Street, Regent. Street, and 80A, Cheapeide. A gents.—Birmingham : Hollingsworth, New - str eet—Liver p ool u ac taggart, Bold-street—Manchester : Brown , Market -street—York: Evers and Anderson—Edinburgh : Marshall and Aitken—Glasgow' Brodie, Macleod, and Co.; and principal tailors in all large towns. REQUISITES FOR AUTUMN, Choice garments MOSES' Mart supplies, And multitudes have bought 'em ; For all who ♦iew are sure to prize Such requisites for Autumn. MOSES and SON, whose fame stands, Have to perfection brought 'em, And hence increasing numbers buy Their requisites for Autumn. The over-coats do credit to Tito skilful hands that wrought 'em ; Nor will you doubt when you view. The requisites for Autumn. The coats for shooting famed afar, Wherever you may sport 'em, Will prove what Messrs. MOSES are In requisites for Autumn. MOSES and SON excel in style, For fashion's school has taught 'em, And now behold with grateful smile Their requisites for Autumn. • MOSES and SON, in prices too, Whenever frieut4s have sought 'eln, Have kept economy in view In requisites for Autumn. Ane w oont a ,„,_ Work, entitled" THE DRESSINGOOM COMPANION,' e g% '" L ng a detailed List of Prices, with full Directions for Self- U reirtent, may be had on application, or forwarded post-free. LIST Oh' PRICES. • mamtmlra. b eaver Taglioni ••••.••••• • • • • • • . . • . from £0 9 6 Chesterfield and Codrington's, and every description of Over-coat, handsomely The trimmed ...... .......... 1 8 0 The Ballmer, especially adapted for snowy and w etwzather •• • • .... ••••••• • • • • • • •• • • 1 0 0 The Premi er .... VI Winter Coats, in • every style .. en'a Do. Trousers, lined .. •••••• • • " • • " 04 2 0 6 Doeskin ••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • 0 1 Dress Coats .......... 0 4 1:1 ) Double-bre tWinter Vests Frock do .... 0 2 0 R ollColla as ed 0 1 6 Be 0 16 6 4 4 Hussar and Tunic Suits ••• • • •• • • MADE TO MICASIIRI. Winter Coats, in every style and shape, band -B"nelY trimmed . ...... ••••••• ' • • • • • from 1 6 0 11 illed Cloth Over-coats, velvet collar and cuffs 2 4 0 Tweed Wrapper ••..•••••••• • • • • • • " " • • 0 18 6 Doeskin Trousers •• • ....... •. .. 12 0 Rest, or Dress • . ...... .•••• • • • .. 1 6 0 Dress Coat .................. .. Best quality made.. .. 2 15 0 1 15 0 Frock do.. • • • • Cashmere V es t s ..13..e!! . . ....•• qnalltYni ade............ 3 3 0 •• • matins, Plain or Fancy ••• • • ..... ""•••• • • • • • • 0 12 0 'lora Hussar and Tunic Suits ..... .•••••• • • .• • • 1 6 0 Great Coat. ••••••••• ' • • • • • • • . It• Suit of Clothes complete...... ••••••• • • • • • • • 1 16 0 Mourning to any extent at Five Minutes notice. e li •Flje attention of Ladies is especially directed to E. MOSES and 1 - 14 • S stock of Furs, which will be found on inspection to be the 4 44 %1 : best assorted, and cheapest in the trade. Reserve your par ,?iaseree.—Any article purchased, ready made, or made to mea if not approved of, will be exchanged, or if preferred, the l i e, returned. 1%,.: . . )1 05ES and SON, Tailors, Woollendrapers, Clothiers, Ratters , Furriers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Ontfltters, for acT d Gentlemen, 154, 1 55, and 156, 157 Minoriea, and 83, ( ~a. ao and 86 Aldgate, City, London. Vttibr Moses and Son regret being obliged to guard the /A t Impostors, but have learned that the untradcsman hay :need of being connected with them, or it's the same co ncern, They en resorted to in many instances , and for o bvious reasons. sad th.L a no connexion with any other Image in or out of London; or *w iz who desire genuine and chege clothing, &c., shoald call at, Noti e Z' 'Wineries and Aldgate, City, London. set suet 1 1. 0 business transacted at this establishment from san "ntk- Mallet Saturday, when business is resumed till twelve J R . ON TYE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTII STE-, TITRITY.—WITH 40 COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON aust En i t„„.." 3 " ,, d, and may be had in French or En g lish, in a Sealed Stamp' 2 s. 61„ or post-free, from the Author , for fort y -two I , IE T t, PRESERVATION; - a Medical Treatise triTio-- a the Physiology of Marriage, Infelicitous and Unpr , odu a cliiv a e . t„." s ± ,and the Secret Infirmities and Disorders . of Youth an th e 4Las i llall enervate Y acquired at an early period of which fe e ii i i 7s cal and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the , natura . obse4Z,lttnd exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with I ract!ca. W hether ' "is on the Treatment of Nervous Debility and Indigestion, tropi c , arising from these causes, close study, or the influence of triet ur . eli mates: Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis, erette,' and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Dulls- Ailatorn 'With Forty coloured Engravings, illustrating the aXpl a i n j , Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, i n j oies tlaeir structures, uses, and functions, and the various infectioutit. t are Produced in them by solitary habits, excesses, and B ED , 13 .3 SAMUEL LAWERT, M.D., b oetor Of Med-i F O RD -STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, bur g h , tie C•oe, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin• of the entiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Member L un dell liespital Medical Society, &e. • nt e regnires the fulfilment of several conditions, in order ma y be really the Cause of mutual happiness. Could the an d its true ewers the origin of domestic wretchedness, be raised, i t be tree e source in every instance disclosed, in how many could Polutme,,et'Sl to Physical disqualifications and their attendant disap uged jo u_ • Excesses are always injurious ; the gift, which when tomoderation is fraught with advantage, becomes, when to th _., the prolific source of mischief, and of greater or less injury nature constitutional and vital powers. The particular excesses, on the and consequence of which this Treatise professes to dilate, 1 7 productive of greater severity of misery to the human frame , than any other to which it is subject. This work contains an accurate and complete account of the Anatomy and Physiology of the Reproductive Organs, and of their relative conditions in health and disease. It deservedly requires the closest attention and study, for what subject can be of mere importance than the preservation of the health, and of the physical capabilities of which every man should be possessed. It unfortunately happens that the unhappy victim of excessive indulgence and vicious habits, whether acquired in early life or from the follies of advanced age, while suffering from their invariable consequences, unwisely entertains a fear of ap te a qualified physician for relief. Shame and the dread so • I' le ntlY, but erroneously entertained that these complaints are beyond the reach of art, alike restrict him and prevent his se ekin g for assistance where alone it can be procured. In acting thus, he forgets that accurate discrimination in ascertaining the causes of disease, sympathy with the sufferer, and, above all, secrecy, inva riably characterise the intelligent and practical physician, and to the Medical man who can show by his posse , sion of the requisite legal qualifications that he is entitled to esteem and respect in his profes sional pursuits, the utmost confidence should be extended. Dr. LAWERT has obtained the highest medical honours, as his diplomas testify, and the great extent of his practice for many years is a guarantee for his professional experience, which has reference almost Solely to the treatment of these diseases. Published by the Author, and may be had of Kent and Richards, 42 , Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Starle, Tichborne street, Haymarket ; Mansell, 115, Fleet-street ; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street, London ; or, free by post for forty-two stamps, from the Anther, who may be consulted on these disorders personally • letter dail, from Ten till Two, and from Five till Eight, at his Odense, 9, Bedford-streat, B e dford -square, Loudon. - A R R I A Cr E. ..M One half the world are desolately single, aid the ether ' 4 lPPosing them married, questionably contented. Diffidence, or a rase of right determine the forme r, and m i sca l c ulated hopes em itter the latter. The solitary one may shield himself under the plea of caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un 'Ph 'cal incapacity, e ohiprosing hurry ; but the truth lies deeper. = —ye- . mess and broken health, are the great hindrances to domestic napp and social content. The dowry should not bo the only item marriage set tlement. Honour and justice demand that health should form ay or n the hop es compact ; it alone di g nifies the alliance. Blighted neglect wound snore sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, if these surmises concern yea, procure Dr. CULYERWELL'S little r-StOIRS .On Single and Married Life," pub. in 2 vole., is. a ' el l (by Dost, in stamps, Is. 6d. each). Let no imaginatively r b efl aed, or prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered v _3' inielnterpretatior of their supposed contents, from obtaining I , lan t , They are not intended certainly for mere idle curiosity, but rthe closet perusal of those more deeply interested, to whom ley are offered as antagonistic to the empyrical trash put forth on e above subjects, by unqualified authors, which alone or to gether, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other lit publications claim your attention (same price le. each, :" ‘ 3 : Post Is. 6d.) called "What to Eat, Drink, and v eld," and " How to be Happy." They are not merely p amphlets, but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are they the mer eil r'' ,.. ephemeral scribblings of the hour, but the study of the author's „ , who owes his present existence, health, and position to this ob servance of the maxims he would inouleate — to do uato others as he "Mid be done unto—te live titter nature's laws—and to keep always (t= the " sunliv ,•‘... , : ti , ' T', a' , works may I,e '1 of herer;>o,l 23 ' * 119, Conduit .. .. il ai11 ,, , ; Vi, Vied, ~treet ; :_ , ,0111, Nvi„..‘ --; -',.., k•i,,, +., i, 0 ~, ,lii1.11(1 ; , ir disc . (b 3, pu,t or uti,,;l'• ra _7) from the author (who may be conferred with personally, 11:;_ J _ l ings and tvenings ), 10, Argyll-plate Regent - street ; and all vY44Cllari, • , /r „ ,,O P ratO ( 1 1 7- . I • A t , qtat lo .. yr , 74 • e (s, '‘ V4 . • .tV .• , 0,4 Oe • _ 4, -t. ;01101k1, 1 i s e.. ,ir ti Sir .0 , • "-,•1; [PRICE SD. loans of money has greatly clisil ing noticed as having been appli different markets. HERALD.—The aspect o business in the City throughout the day has been to cry far from satisfac , aner in satisfac tory. The very guar d e d ma whlich the directors of the Bank of Eng lane zre proceeding very clearly shows that the rely ixatiosf ..of the Bank ' 1 I Charter Act is in practi ce ram ely nomirad. It has been now ascertained that ;lie directors do .not con template making any advance, by way of loan. or otherwise, to the commercial *classes on d . rants, bills o f lading, or by an of the usual na ' Tsert-Trroadrs r of hypothecating produce,whils.lt the rates of int,r, -est charged where discounts can In obtained upon la. ills of exchange are far beyond ti'ie rates of profit ,on regular busi ness , and are th ore only tak en f a r desperate emergencies. Wit h: to the rata. i charged for loans upon Stock, :Exchequer-bills, &c,,, the directors do not appear to govern their conduct, by any specific per centag,e, but, reserve to themselves= the power of varying it accordiug to circumstances, but in no case is it charged w ithi n 1 per cent. of the minimum.We mentioned yesterday that a report had been ,airculated that as much as th e rate of 12 per cent. had been charged, taut we have not been able to find it stated on such authority as would justify us .5.11 confirming' it. On farther in quiry to-day, however, we have learned on autho rity that cannot be questioned, that the rate of 12 per cent. had actually been pai d yesterday, and our readers will, consequently, be able to form their own opinion of the actual condi'tion of affairs in the City. Among the private bankers it rea,\Y be said there has been a little, and but a little relax - ation, as respects the extent of their accommodation to their customers, and the rule followed is to charge the minimum rate of the Bank of England for first-class paper. Here* and there there may be a difference of 4- per cent. below this rate in very particular cases, but there art a great many more where it runs 1 per cent. Above it . Beyond the range of the customers of the private an I joint-stock banks there has been literally no discoun t market in the metropolis for now nearly six weeks past, except it be by a lower grade of usurers, whose rate of 'charge we neither are nor wish to be ac+ quairited with. An instance has come within our knowledge to-day-- which very forcibly illustrates the relaxed state of commercial morality, the genuine offspring of the present pressure. A bill of exchange, drawn from India, and accepted by a mercantile house in the City, hitherto considered a respectable firm, which had been discounted some time ago by a respectable bill-broker, and rediscounted, with his endorsement, by the Bank of England, reached maturity to-day. On the bill being presented for payment the answer was, that the acceptor had not received a remittance from the drawer in India to meet it, and on his part it was coolly stated it was not intended to pay it, on that ground. On a remonstrance being made against this strange and cavalier mode of proceeding the re joinder was, "We have nothing more to say upon the subject, and if you are not satisfied, we beg leave to hand you the card of our solicitor." we have only to add, by way of finishing this portrait, that this house has no idea that they should be considered as having stopped payment. irbed the bet feel. rent yeste ay in the A. VERY STRANGE STORY. The Paris Presse publishes the two following state ments, which, it says, have been communicated to it by an officer of the navy, whose shots, we suspect, are only puffs for promotion : " On the night of the 20th of June last, an English brig fired, without any previous notice, two guns loaded with ball on the French brig the Abeille, one of the squadron of the western coast of Africa. The commandant of the Abeille, a M. Legras, immedi ately returned shot for shot. The English vessel was so astonished that it made signals to entreat that the fire should cease, whereupon the French brig ap proached it, and the commandant exacted from the English captain that he should instantly make an apology. The Englishman accordingly went on board the Abeille, and made an apology in presence of the officers and crew, and afterwards entered the cabin and repeated his excuses. Notwithstanding this adventure, the English and French on the Afri can station are the best friends in the world." The other story of the Presse is as follows : "The Abeille was anchored off Quits, a Danish pos session in the Gulf of Benin, on the western coast o • Africa, when the Danish Governor demanded assist ance, he being besieged in his fort by 6,000 blacks, and having only a stock of two days' provisions. The Abeille immediately sent out its men, who, by firing grape shot and musketry, succeeded in conveying pro vision to the besieged; and this- so frightened the blacks that within 48 hours aftf.r they had all de camped. The Governor of the Danish possessions then went on board the Abeille, and thanked the commandant. He next requested that he might be conveyed to Affrie, another Danish possession, and his customary place of residence ; and with this re quest the commandant of the Abeille immediately complied." IMPORTANT POST-OFFICE NOTICE. The following notice was issued yesterday from the General Post-office : " General Post-office, October, 1847. " The Postmaster-General of the United States having given a notice for determining the agreement under which the correspondence between Great Britain and Canada has been conveyed, in closed mails, through the territories of the United States, as well as all other agreements subsisting between the Post-offices of the two countries, the mails to and from Canada will henceforth be landed and em barked at llalifax, Nova Scotia, instead of Boston, as heretofore. " All letters and newspapers, therefore, addressed to Canada, will in future be forwarded by the way of Halifax, Nova Scotia, unless specially directed to be sent by some other route ; and as the arrangement under which the United States postage has hitherto been collected in Canada is also suspended by the notice alluded to, all letters for Canada, which the writers desire to have forwarded by the way of the United States, should be addressed to the care of par ties in the United States, or they will otherwise be detained for the postage due for their transit through the American territory. " The postage on letters to and from Canada, for warded via Halifax, Nova Scotia, will be ls. 2d. the half ounce, as at present, but no charge will be made on newspapers either in the United Kingdom or in Canada. "By command of the Postmaster-General." These regulations will take effect on and after the 3d of November next. POST-OFFICE.—NEW REGULATIONS: 011 and after the 10th of November, letters exceeding four ounces in weight, must be pre-paid in money, or in stamps. With this restriction, any weight may b e sent by post, but the packet mu st not exceed' two f w eet not in length, and nothing s hould be posted which ill bear the crush in the letter bags. , a , MEMORIAL NIGHTS.— IV e are THE Ss ree use c of their . respec. a uthorised he nts o t f o state oven t t h - g a a t r b d o e th a t n he lessees n the f happy in being Jones, Esq., as Chairman Committee, ve for the purpose of 'a an of the ti of the t theatres a o royal Central nn e t g s :or ; ao r b 11 George si generously m gi p la eov n e e pl h e a ,s ve Shakspere Memorial Night." The lessee of the theatres at York, Leeds, and Hull, has also granted to the chairman the free use of his several theatres, upon which occasion Lord Morpeth, M.P. for Yorkshire, bas given his patronage. The members of the histrionic profession will now have an opportunity of evincing their sympathy in the good cause by their instant volunteering, and thus support the enthusiastic efforts of the chairman of the committee, who, upon this occa sion, re-enters the profession, and has given his gra tuitous servic, s to every principal theatre In the king dom.—Observer. ALARMING INCIDENT. —Yesterday afternoon a carriage and pair, belonging . to Mr. Connal, broker, while standing at a shop door in Sauchtehall-road, sud denly started off at a fearful pace, the horses, it seems, having been alarmed by the carriage :dcor being slammed to by the coachman. Fortunately there was no one within the carriage, or the consequences might have been serious, the animals rushing along with fright ful velocity; nor was it till they had reached Partick, a distance of nearly two miles from where they started, that they came to a stand - still. Such NM the momen tum which they had acquired that a horse and cart, which the driver drew across the road in the hope of c h e cking their speed, were overturne d is an instant, though without sustaining any material damage. No accident, we are glad to say, occurred during their headlong career with the above exception.—North Bri tish Mail of Tuesday. [ADVERTISEMENT.] AN AFFECTION OF THE SPINE AND LIMBS CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.—Mrs. Iteynolds, landlady of th e William the Fourth Inn, St. Ives Hunts, had been ill for fourteen months with an affection of the spine, her feet and legs were Several dreadfully s eminent wool l en, s and urg e osnhse and b ecamephysicians perfectlya t. helpless.' tended her, under whose care she derived no benefit, but by the recommendation of Mr. Prior, druggist, Bed ford, she tried llolloway's Pills and Ointment. These fine medicines, in about nine weeks, so completely re stored her to health and strength, that she is now able to resume the duties of her household with ease and comfort.—Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Hol loway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. THE WINDOW DUTY A TAX ON COMELINESS AND GROWTH AS WELL AS ON HEALTH AND LIFE.—We PAW here remind our readers, that it has been actually proved that individuals born and bred on the dark sides of streets, or otherwise to the exclusion of light, are liable to . naa d n e y . evils and defects, and even to p ermanent decrepitude. What a tax then on the health of towns is the window tax! The powerful and p e culiA animal life, we may add, hes eve if screened from will not grow up into frog s at ally as n infi b u e e en nee no o t t ed lig i h n t t o h n e curious fact, a s usual, but will merely continue to grow into t he lower organization of enormous tadpoles.-4 3 ailde r • th a t tadpoles, o. 17,191.] LONDON, Tll RSDAY '-,; E N , "_t T N y OCOBER 28, 1847. rcATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSURANCE S OCIETY. 26, CORNITILL, LONDON. Capital £500,000. Ernpolven3d by Act of Parliament. This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages with respect to life assurances end defer red annuities. The assured has, on all occa9ions, the power to b0r , ..0w, without expense or for feiture of the policy, two•thirda of thy, premiums paid (see Table); a'so the option of selecting benefits o and the conversion of his in terests to meet other conveniencies or necessity. Assurances for terms et years on 'the lowest possible rates. DIVISION - OF PROFITS. The increasing prosperity of th. , Society has enabled the Directors at the annual meeting held en tit a 12th May, 1847, to declare a filth bmus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. ou the premiums paid on each policy e.acted on the profit cc £AMPLES. ---7----7-- ------- Inent Re- Assured Penns- Sum the DI .4 A nn ual ;Policy 'norms in } St Agel f. ) , i Pre- i taker, f addition ] Bonus in duetion •1 may 1 bor ,7 ~, 1 rnium. ,out In'Assurcd. i Cash. Annual row en _ i Premiums. Policy. —.— ----- --- X s. ikl.j X s d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 1 r 1837 243 9 3112 8 5 18 4 6 494 S 10 i x xs. d. 1838 218 4 8' 99 810 15 13 5 415 0 0 sr. 1839 192 1 l 0 86 9 3 13 4 9 395 H 1 0 60 1040,74 3 4 1840 143 510 66 8 4 919 1 346 2 3 H t I 1 1 1841 133 14 2, 61 17 6 99 2 296 13 4 1842 111 6 8; 49 10 0 710 4 247 4 5, r , a The Apnital Ite:aort, W.th tables of rates, &c., may be had at the offi. cc, or any of its bra'Aches in the country ; or, ou application, will forwarded post froq, F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary. 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Many other medical gentlemen of distinguished eminence in London have borne testimony to the effi cacy of these Pills, whose professional character and rank are a sufficient guarantee for the advantages to be derived from the use of this invaluable medicine. —Prepared only by M. 0. Wray; sold at 453, New Oxford-street, removed from 118, Holborn-hill, London. PHYSICIAN'S ADVICE from Eleven till One, every Day. SURGICAL ATTENDANCE every Evening, from Seven till Nine. Persons residing in the remotest parts of the country can be treated successfully, on describing minutely their symptoms, age, :titbits of life, &c., and inclosing a Post-office order for advice and medicine, which can be forwarded to any part of the world, securely packed, and carefully protected from observation. All letters to be addressed to M. 0. WRAY, 453, New Oxford street, London. BRITISH COLLEGE of' HEALTH, New road, London.—The principles of the Hygeian theory are con tained in the following propositions :-1. 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These terms have not been adopted through an affecta tion of singularity, but merely for the sake of `drawing a sufficiently broad line of demarcation between the old and new schools. Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel. 027 rnYsicAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPA CITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. New Edition, enlarged to 196 pages. Just publis hed, p rice 25. 6d., or by post, direct from the Establishment, 3 s. 6 d. in p osta g e stamps, THE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on the infirmities and decay of the generative system, from ex cessive indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury, with remarks on Marriage, and the means of obviating certain dis qualifications. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By R. and L. PERRY and CO., 19, Berners-stroet, Oxford-street, London. 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To be had of the Proprietors, 29, Nottingham-place, Fieldgate street, Whiteehapel-road, London ; also of Mr. Johnstone, 68, Corn bill ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Prout, 229, Strand ; Sanger, 150, Oxford street; Barclay, Farringdon-street ; Atkinson, 24, Old Bond street; Hooper, 43, King William-street, London bridge ; Finnigin, Miloom-street, Bath ; Elmore, Bull-street, Birmingham ; and of mos Perfumers and Medicine Vendors in town and country. Sent to any part of the kingdom by receiving a remittance, pest-paid. Please to ask for " Spencer and Co.'s Chinese Liquid Hair Dye.' Observe, the Proprietor's address is on the wrapper. SERIOUS ACClDENT.—Yesterday forenoon a serious accident occurred at Cambuslang, on the works of the Clydesdale Junction Railway. It appears that the miners were engaged in blasting some hard rock in an open cut, and, for this purpose, had 'oeside them a barrel of gunpowder, which was at the time almost full. With most reckless indifference as to consequences, as the event showed, the loose gunpowder was left uncovered during the operations of the workmen ; and it is conjectured that a spark, struck from the rock by a piek-axe, had fallen into the barrel, for the con tents suddenly exploded, with tremendous violence, among the labourers, of whom about fifty were em ployed near the spot. Four of the men were injured, two of them very severely, who had to be conveyed to the Royal Infirmary in the course of the day. One of the two, an Englishman, named William Gormley, was blown, by the violence of the explosion, against some large stones, and has thus, in addition to his body being dreadfully scorched, received severe injuries about the head. The unfortunate men lie in a very precarious condition. We understand that the miners have been repeatedly warned of the danger to which they exposed themselves by leaving their gunpowder uncovered.— North Bt dish Mail of Tuesday. THE BUTCHERS' CHARITABE INSTITUTION.—The nineteenth anniversary of this charity was held yester day, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street. Mr. D. Salomans presided, and among the company were Mr. Alderman Challis, Mr. J. Sharp, President of the Insti tution, Mr. F. Ely, Treasurer, Mr. Hall, Mr. J. Knight, and other friends of the charity. About 150 of the leading members of the trade sat down to an excellent dinner, after which the gratifying announcement was made that, notwithstanding the recent depressed state of the trade, the funds of the institution had never been in a more satisfactory condition. It was stated that the Building Fund Committee bad purchased three acres and a half of freehold land, at Walham-green, Fulham, whereon they had erected fourteen almshouses, to be occupied by aged members of the trade who had known better days. The amount thus expended was 4,0001., of which the ladies, by their contributions, had raised 1,0001. The total sum invested in the Three per Cents. is 10,438/., and the number of pensioners now on the funds ot the institution is forty-six. The society gives pensions of twenty guineas to the men and fifteen guineas to the female recipients of the charity, besides a free residence in the almshouses, which are exceedingly com fortable. The payments to pensioners during the pre sent year will exceed 950/., and a further election of five men and three women to the benefits of the charity will take place this day ( Thursday). It appears that every master-butcher may be elected a pensioner, although be may not have been a member of the society. The donations and subscriptions of the evening amounted to about 2501., among which were the Chairman, 10/. 10s. ; Mr. Byng, 101. 10s. (annual) ; Mr. T. D. Sharp, 101. 10s. ; Mr. John Collins, 101. 10s. ; Messrs. H. and R. Arnold, each 10/. 10s. ; Mr. P. Emans, 10/. lOs ; Mr. Alderman Challis, 51. 55., &e. FATAL FlGHT.—Yesterday Mr. Wakley, M.P., held a very lengthened inquiry at the Pitt's Head, Henry-street, Portland- town, concerning the death 01 Thomas Henry Birmingham, aged 26, a greengrocer's servant. On Sunday evening last, deceased and a man named Good, also a greengrocer, began to dispute and quarrel about the amount of business done at their re spective shops. The result was a reciprocal challenge to fight. The parties, accompanied by four others, pro ceeded to settle their difference in a field near Primrose hill, it being then eleven o'clock at night. They fought one scrambling round, at the end of which both were down. Good rose immediately, but while deceased was striving to do so he fell again, as it was supposed, from a blow struck by Good. None of the witnesses, how ever, actually saw the blow take effect, but Good acknowledged that he had knocked deceased down with his left hand. Deceased was picked up in an insensible state, and conveyed to his residence by his two friends who had accompanied him, Good and his friends declin ing to assist in so doing. Mr. Britton, surgeon, called in by the police, found deceased quite dead, and having subsequently made a post mortem examination, by order of the coroner, stated yesterday that the right lateral sinus of the brain was ruptured, causing extensive effu sion of blood in the brain. There was no corresponding external injury. The rupture of the sinus was the cause of death, but he would not swear positively . that it had been caused by a blow, though it was his impres sion such was the case. After a long discussion, twelve out of fourteen jurymen returned a verdict of " Manslaughter" against Good. TUE PENINSULAR MAIL.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Iberia, which arrived at Southampton yesterday, at two r.iu., brings advices to the following dates :—Gibraltar 19th October, Cadiz 20th, Lisbon 22d, Vigo 24th. She brings a cargo of fruit and sundries, and the following passengers:—Mr. Cockburn, Mr. Thompson, Dr. Phillips, Dr. Dombeck and lady, Rev. W. Tottenham and lady, Mr. Walker, Mr. Dickison, Mr. Vanzeller, Mr. Dyson, Mr. Goetz, Mr. Ormerod and family, Miss Cousins, Mrs. Murat and son, Mr. Roope, and Mr. Sandeman. Stations of her Majesty's Ships—Gibraltar, her Majesty's steamer Virago; Lisbon, her Majesty's ships St. Vincent, Cale donia, Queen, Canopus, and Vengeance, steamers Ter rible, Odin, Dragon, Avenger, Vixen, and Jackall; Oporto, her Majesty's ship Polyphemus. ST. PANCRAS VESTRY MEETING. —Yesterday, pur suant to special notice, a very numerous meeting of the vestry of St. Pancras took place in the new vestry-rooms, King's-road, Camden-town, for the purpose of con firming the minutes of the previous meeting rejecting the proposition to enlarge the workhouse at a cost of 10,0001., and to consider other important matters con nected with the parish. Mr. B. .1. E. Wrght was at two o'clock called to the *chuir, and the minutes of the pre vious vestry were warmed. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM TILE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. CHRONICLE.—The momentous step taken by the Government on Monday last n ill obviously have one very important incidental consequence, which has, no doubts ; 'already begun to occupy the attention o f Ministers. An immediate meeting of Parliament is, we take for granted, regarded as a necessary co rollary to the result of the recent Ministerial delibe rations. Lord John Russell's known disinclination, on constitutional grounds, to anticipate the presumed jui• l.gment of the Legislature on such a matter as the suspension of an Act of Parliament, will naturally render him solicitous to obtain immediate legislative sanction for a proceeding that in the meanwhile rests only on public opinion, and the necessity of the case. The circumstance that this most important step has been taken shortly after a general election, and while Ministers are (officially) unacquainted with the temper and opinions of the House of Commons on any subject whatever, is evidently a strong additional reason for losing no time in submitting the whole matter to Parliamentary approval. We sup pose, therefore, that we cannot be mistaken in inferring that the Legislature will meet on an early day in November, for dispatch of business. We count this a very fortunate neces sity. On every ground it appears to us essential that the legislative year should commence forthwith. It is not possible to exaggerate the practical import ance, to the commercial an d t r ading community, of i▪ mmediately learning the p rec i se v iews of our leading public men on those vitally i n teresting questions which at present agitate it. We shall all see our way the clearer for knowing at once , w ith the distinctness and publicity which only Parliamentary debate can afford, what Ministers think, and what Sir Robert Peel and his late colleagues think, of the causes, proximate or remote, that have produced the crisis, and of the extent to which these, or any of them, are to be regarded as within the range of legislative action. There never was a time when the British public needed more than now the guiding and re-as suring influence of that frank announcement of Ministerial and ex-Ministerial thought and pur pose which is only to be had through the me dium of Parliamentary discussion. At this mo ment the whole order of things, in the comm e r c ial and monetary world, is provisional. We must wait till Parliament meets, to learn how far we are to consider the first and chief of our commercial and monetary institutions as in a state of r evo l u ti on . Even apart from the immediate necessities of the present commercial juncture, it is in the highest degree desirable that the first session of the new Par liament should at once begi n. There is a vast quantity of work to be done , which would infallibly ne legis lative fallibly b e slurred r or were deferredneglected i f totheh t eu opening sua of l Par liament and Ministers have an extraordinary amount of heavy business before them, of the utmost urgency and moment ; and it is but too easy to see that if we waited till after Christmas the next session would present a more lamentable record of lapsed measures and lost opportunities than its predecessor. Much time will necessarily be occupied in discussin g , no t merely the present commercial emergency and the pro tempore expedient which it has dictated, b u t the general principles and policy of that once admired legislative Act which has received so severe a blow. Considering to how large an extent th e new House of Commons is composed of new men— one may almost say of new parties—who will pay but little respect to the traditions of 1844, and will require to come to a clear understanding of the case on its actual merits ; and considering, too, that events must have more or less modified the opinions of our oldest and most experienced statesmen--it is plain that the crisis and the " currency theory " will make very serious inroads on the available time of Parlia ment. We cannot begin too soon economizing a commodity which is at least as scarce, in relation to the demands certain to be made on it, as our national capital itself. We welcome this necessity of an immediate session as a saving of much precious time, and a guarantee for the early passing of many useful and indispensable i legislative mea sures. Why, the Irish question s enough of itself to demand and reward the labours of a November session. We hope we are correct in presuming that Ministers will avail themselves of this opportunity, by passing through Parliament, without the smallest avoidable delay, one or two of those measures which the state of Ireland most imperiously requires—which rank, in fact, in the same order of instant necessity with the Executive act of Monday. Most reluctantly would we contemplate the possibility of Ministers consenting to let the wants and woes of Ireland stand over for three months without attempting any legis- lative solution of that most tremendous of difficulties. From the dismal materials which daily crowd our columns, one can imagine the frightful problem which Ireland would present to statesmanship and legisla tion in the month of February next, if absolutely nothing were done in the interval to arrest the pro gress of social disorganization. With the law of landlord and tenant what it is, and the poor-law what it is, and the utter hopeless misery of the people what it is—with the whole collective relations of Irish poverty to Irish property still unaltered —without a thing done, or attempted or be gun to be done of restorative efficacy or promise — the Ireland of February, 1848, would be a legislative perplexity, and an imperial peril, of per fectly appalling magnitude. As Ministers were ready at an early period of last session with measures on the most important of the great Irish questions, and all the mere preliminaries to legislation have been long ago adjusted, there seems no real reason why some of the chief difficulties of Ireland should not be disposed of between now and Christmas. Con sidering the variety and magnitude of the questions which must occupy the attention of the new Parlia ment during its first session, we do rejoice that events have in a manner decided that there shall be no avoidable loss of time. We trust that Ministers will not be wanting in that methodical industry and vigo rous management which are just now among the most indispensable qualities of British statesmanship. The prospect would be really alarming, if one did not know what can be accomplished by re solute diligence and an energetic love of order. With the whole question of taxation and finance thrown open by the expiration of the i n come-tax ; with the rumoured approach of the dreadful visitor of 1832, wa rn i ng us to hasten and com plete, at this particular time, those sanitary precautions which are right and necessary at all times, and to finish at a blow the legislative " war against filth, fever, stench, and death -dealing pesti lence ;" with the remnants of old commercial restric tions, and older theological int o l era nce, waiting for the final extinction of their miserable existence ; and with European politics in a state of agitation and unsettlement which may impose we know not what demands on the time and thoughts of a British Par liament ;—with all these inexorable claimants on their attention over and above the " crisis " and Ireland, Ministers are prepared, we hope, for a most deter mined exertion of all the cardinal official virtues. We cannot but think that it must be a source of satis faction to a Premier thus beset with hard work and weighty responsibility, that events have done their part towards accelerating the fulfilment of his multi farious obligaticns. The necessity of a November session may have its inconveniences ; and we should hope that Lord John Russell regards it as, on the whole, a fine opportunity, worthy of being vigorously i mproved. POST.—Although tradesmen, merchants, and men of business in all departments of commerce, demanded the adoption of some temporary measure for' the alle viation important to remember that the a g n r gd e y a bs t tye s is. of the particular exigencies of the moment, it system i h n ii g ct she o l f ft t the evil is a permanent one, and can only be li go - trid of by a thorough alteration of the system, which trial of twenty-eight years has proved a failure. W a re are anxious to impress men with the necessity Of protest ing which againstthe e the mischief continuance originates, e the a, maintained. We may, or may not, be near the period of reaction from the present gloom. Property may be near a partial recovery from the extraordinary depres sion of the late season. But, while the evil itself lasts, every such revival can be but precarious. If Consols were now selling at par—if share property were fetch ing prices proportioned to its i absolute v a l ue — we should not feel justified in advi▪ sing men t o p u t confi dence in the permanence of the improvement. There is no depending on the workings of a curren c y sys t em which, at the moment when its action should be most free and elastic, shuts up, paralyses, and renders use less for the time the vast amounts of paper (or credit) representatives of value by whose exchange and current acceptance the bulk of the na ti on ' s business is transacted. Within ▪ the last fortnight we have seen the judges in a court of law refuse to make an order for the sale of an estate, on the score that, " in the present state of the money' market," not half the actual value could be realisedolnYes ahavego, rot r were l n y possess s h a i o o u n s e o s f r t h u e i n e h d i g , which, six cash. six m th substantial wealth, but case s have occurred wherein merchants voluntarily suspended payment rather than submit to the excessive ra tes of interestat which alone moot , : can ha rottenne ,, at ti , e ~ r y to :e )f • ."'"'",1 1 `;" duces the anomaly, and this rott enne thousands ss can oniy De Here are of cured by extirpation• hest character and great thi operative classes thrown out of employ ment by the stoppage of factories, the sus pension of railway works, and similar hindrances of the ordinary course of business. We are at the beginning of the cold wintry months, and the pros pects of the poor are deteriorating. Employment is their great want, and there are public improvements and great national works projected on which their labour might be most usefully engaged. All might go on well, but that the money—the mere counter of value—is short. A huge reality is set on one side by a paltry fiction. For gold, in its character of the money of a country like England, can never be anything but a fiction—all the gold in Europe not equalling the amount of money our trading opera tions require, and which is continually floating about in the shape of bills of exchange, acceptances, &c., while business and credit are in what are called a healthy condition. The credit is now locked up, because the law assumes the existence of a particular material in quantities which were never known in the world, and legislation is based on the false as sumption. A species of money which, from its na ture, con never be but expensive, is made to govern, or rather to thwart, the course of transactions reach ing to a hundred times the amount of its intrinsic value. This pressure is not over. Experienced observers of currency matters think that what has already taken place is as nothing to what is coming; and that not withstanding any temporary postponement of the difficulties they will still survive in the fulness of their pernicious vigour. Mr. Muntz emphatically declares himself of this opinion ; Messrs. Spooner, Taylor, and numbers of men whose opinions are very various on ordinary political subjects, are unanimous in attri buting the great pressure on all kinds of industry to the system which the late Sir Robert Peel prophesied would double his son's fortune, but ruin England. Still Sir Charles Wood talks of " the worst" having gone by, and the Times rages against railways, be cause they furnish large masses of the people with a species of employment that enables them to purchase and pay for substantial food. It is, no doubt, perfectly true that the progress and extent of railway works hare stimulated the consumption of food. It is exceedingly probable that the drain upon gold was thus aggravated. But what could he more insane, at a season when the manu facturing districts present the universal spectacle of mills closed or closing, and when industry is lan guishing for a field on which to exercise itself, than to avert the progress of almost the only description of out-door work by which the comparatively unskilled labourer earns a comfortable livelihood. We have not hesitated to do justice to the prudence and good in tentions of railway directions in determining on some extensive postponements of their " calls" and pro ceedings ; but we confess it is not without despon dency we hear of crowds of workmen being dis missed at a period when it is impossible that they can find occupation in any other way. Manufactures cannot absorb them, and we are already pained at re newed and increasing complaints about the burden of poor-rates in districts which were prosperous and flourishing a year ago. It is no wonder that Minis ters should have thought such frequent Cabinet meet ings necessary of late. Fearful is the responsibility which these gentlemen have to divide between them. HERALD.—No one can deny, that it is a morti fying position for a journal, which has been accus tomed for 20 years past to think and speak of itself as " leading" everybody and everything, to find itself suddenly left aground, alike by the Government, the public, and the press. Yet how could this be helped ? It may be very well to praise "Cocker ;" but in truth it is solely to Cocker that we owe the late death wound given to the Peel currency of 1844. No one can doubt that the London bankers, in their late con fabulations with Sir Charles Wood, appealed, at every step, to " addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division." The " sum" presented to the Chan cellor to be worked out was doubtless of this kind : " The reserve or notes in the banking department are now reduced to 2,630,115/. But this is less than the Bank itself requires for its own business and the business of its branches. 4,000,0001., it has been often stated, is the requisite stock of paper which the Bank requires for its own use. Hence, when Messrs. Roths childs, or Smiths, or Glyns, come to the Bank, and want 200,0001. or 300,0001. on a deposit of stock or Ex chequer-bills, the Bank is compelled to answer, 'We have no money to spare.' Then these houses return home, and tell their customers, in their turn, We have no money to spare.' And thus the word is given, throughout the commercial world, No money ! No money !".rhe inevitable results must be these : mer chants and bankers, possessing 30s. or 40s. for every pound they owe, in goods or bills, must stop payment, because they can get no money ! Each successive crash increases the alarm,—the stoppage of one bank causes a run upon five others,—the panic hourly spreads,—and, should the determination of Govern ment be, that no relief can be giver, there is tho greatest probability of the rapid growth of the public alarm, and the fall of more ,local banks, until at last the people throw themselves simultaneously on the Bank of England, and in two days empty her coffers, and put an entire stop to the whole trade and com merce of England!" These, we repeat, were the elements of the arithmetical question presented to the Government by the bankers, on Saturday and Mon day last. The precise figures set down it is not for us to know, nor do they at all affect the general ques tion. We repeat the assertion, that the discussion of Monday, the reasoning employed, and the resolution finally adopted, were all strictly "according to Cocker." And had Ministers adopted any other resolution, they would inevitably have been arraigned in Parlia ment for not understanding the ordinary rules of arithmetic. The one malcontent journal, which ad mits that it is, " like a naughty boy, kept in and tasked, while a holiday is given to the rest,"—and which bitterly resolves "to be malignant and pro phetic,"—ought to show, to save itself from the "de rision" of which it sadly speaks, a very clear and strong case. For, the unanimous consent of all the rest of the daily press is not one whit more evident, than the expression of the public mind, as audible in every place of commercial resort. Go upon the Ex change this afternoon, and ask, among the merchants of London, " Which of you agrees with the Times on this currency question ?" and the answer would be given. amid shouts of laughter, " Why, no one, assuredly !" Put the matter to the vote, among commercial men in the City, and Mr. Payne s chance against Lord John, on the hustings at Guildhall, would be seen to be brilliant indeed, compared with the poll in favour of the Times, opi nions. For, upon what is the advocate of Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Jones Loyd prepared to take his stand? Not upon the mere convertibility of the bank-note; for that point was settled long before 1844. Not upon the capability of the Bank to pay every one of its notes in coin ; for that capability never has ex isted, and certainly never will exist. 'Where, then lay the wondrous merits of the measure of 1844 over the destruction of which the Times now mourns, while all the rest of mankind exult ? What were its peculiarities, and what were its effects ? Its chief novelty consisted in the profound con trivance, that whenever, by a bad harvest, or other cause, the course of trade should carry 5,000,000/. or 10,000,0001. of our metallic c urrency ov er to the Continent or to Ame rica, it should the amount of paper from circulation. has been performed, and British commerce has The nearly sunk under the suicidal experiment. calamity, by immediately withdra T w h i i n .s g drain of ooin went on, and side by , side the reduction operation has more days there would be less untry. The choice carry on the commerce of the "' the surrender of the was, either a general stoppage,or te take the fearful of paper, until at last it became e t v h i a d n en w t o that sufficea t in i fe t w o measure. Government feared first, and therefore we responsibility involved in the Bill is knocked on the head,. its last two numbers. Times mourns and grieves in one so valuable that any But was the defunct measure t over its loss ? In reasonable man should lamen ie P h ee th r e s value consist? Did it what, then, did its hear, with delight, the generahl j r u r b a i h la l equable state of im portantcur- rency of all benefits —an 't'ioonverofwh" prevent money from being too cheap rency ? Did it dear at another? Nothing of at one time, and too devised and enacted in the kind. The scheme was year was signalised by that 1844, and the very next g do anything to preserve to us the most bad ones. Was the good railway plans, and 500 Did Sir R. Peel's Bank furor of 1845 wholesome ? to abate Agai— n do anything whatever the circulat lut of fictitious money or credit which produced 100 ful device operate? ing medium —how did this wonderful As we have already shown—by increasing, instead of' danger of a scarcity of . are we to dis covera the merits of the plan, over the failure of which all sorts of people, except the Times newspaper, now rejoice ? Let that journal, if it can, exhibit and w l h le e v n ia t t h in e43 g, w t a h a e a evil ! Where, then, enumerate them. Or else, let it betake itself to the sulks ; eat its leek in sullen silence, and not emulate the fame of the poor man, who declared that he was shut up in Bedlam, because all the world had gone mad, and had formed a conspiracy against him, out of revenge for his sanity ! A illiani Suall, the Mormon patriarch, has been some time since suspended, pending a trial on a charge of ',gross immorality,—Burritt's Christian Citizen. t.T and CITY NEWS. .1% MONEY 1% CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. Fu:Das opened this morning at the closing prig es of yesterday, but the tendency of the day's bu;.-Iness has been tovar4s reaction. The first quotation of Consols for money was 83, from Liuctuations took place u n til they .lative sales being the chi e f cause of which various reached 821, spec 4 the decline. From: this point, however, they reco covered to 821 to at which they closed. For the account Consols begai. l at 83k, declined to 82,i, and closed at 82i to 83. Attt2r regular hours some trans actions took place, and the price was about a quarter per cent. better. In the Stock Exchange money was easy this after noon for short loans, at 6 per cent. The applications at the Bank of England were not numerous. The rate of discount out of doors for three months' paper is from 9 to 10 per cent. A further arrival of gold took place at the Bank to-day, to the extent of upwards of 100,0001. The chief proportion came from Russia. The failure of Messrs. J. P. Howard and Co., colonial brokers, was announced this morning. The liabilities of the firm are stated at 75,0001., of which 56,0001. is upon acceptances. It is said that the as sets consist chiefly of produce, and that they amount at Eleast to 100,0001. Commitments in connexion with Lyall, Brothers, and Co. are represented to have been the cause of the present suspension, an un covered balance being due from that firm to Howard, and Co. to the amount of 15,0001. or 20,0001. The Liverpool letters state the satisfaction experi enced at the suspension of the Bank Charter Act, but there is already a cry for "more" in the way of relief, as the present rate of discount is very unpopu lar. That enough has been done already, however, to give confidence to holders of raw material and produce generally is quite perceptible. " After all," says one writer, " what does an additional 1 per cent. or so for a few months signify to those who want to escape the necessity of forced sales ? They will soon get more than that by the rise in their goods." At the same time, even some of those who rejoice at the immediate improvement in their position have dis agreeable misgivings regarding the future. "We expect things," it is said, "to go on improving now for a few weeks, at all events ; but we can hardly help questioning whether this relaxation will not work more harm than good in the end." "If pro- duce rises moderately," it is judiciously added, " we think prudent people will sell off." Several failures are announced from Leghorn and Genoa. At Leghorn four houses have stopped, the parties being Morpurgo and Tedeschi, J. L.Valentine, D. Guttiers Pegra, and L. Arbib and Co., the liabili ties of the two former being rather considerable. At Genoa, G. Calcagno, a moneychanger, is said to have absconded, and several parties are sufferers by him. The house of E. Alessio and Co., in the grain trade, has stopped. Its concerns are extensive, and a com position has been made of 35 per cent. Fratelli Barabino have resolved to wind up. At Trieste it is said some loss will be sustained by the failure of Ven tura of Venice, but that it will fall upon parties who are able to bear it. Ventura, it is believed, will pay in full, or very near it. The Bankers' Magazine furnishes the returns of Circulation of the Private and Joint-Stock Banks in England and Wales for the four weeks ending the 18th and 25th of September and the 2d and 9th inst., and gives the following as the weekly average circulation of those banks during the past month, viz.:— Private banks Joint-stock banks ... ... X 4,341,530 . 3,107,294 Average weekly circulation £7,448,824 On a comparison of the above with the returns for the month ending the 11th of September, it shows : An increase in the notes of the pri vate banks of An increase in the notes of the joint stock-banks of 153,010 Total increase on the month £318,766 And as compared with the corresponding period of ast year, viz., the 10th of October, 1846, it shows : A decrease in the notes of the pri vate banks of A decrease in the notes of the joint stock banks of ... Total decrease on the year ... £507,092 The following appears to be the state of the circu ation with reference to the fixed issues : The private banks are below their fixed issue The joint-stock banks are below their fixed issue .. . . 310,983 Total under the fixed issue .. £968,897 The return of the'Abingdon bank of Messrs. Knapp and Co. being omitted in the Gazette of the 19th inst., the return for the preceding week has been taken as the amount of their notes in circulation in making up the above summary. CHRONICLE.—The fluctuations which almos inevitably succeed a sudden advance in prices have not failed to be experienced on this occasion in the City The rise in Consols, which was at one time nearly 5 per cent., offered a great temptation to those whose principle is to make a small but certain profit in their speculations. The consequence has been a decline in the value of Public Securities, followed by a corre sponding depression in the rates of Railway Shares. But so far as these changes are concerned, they have little or no importance, compared with the effect which the wise and comprehensive measure of Lord John Russell has produced. It is all very well to talk of the country as an improvident gentleman, whose means have been pledged beyond the proper extent, and whose castles, dogs, and privy purse make de mands on him beyond his power of meeting. If at the bottom the estate be sound, and if at the moment of difficulty the want of confidence in his creditors be the great cause of embarrassment, surely the wise course would be to maintain the credit and prevent the worst consequences, which all would allow his folly had called down upon his head. The country, no doubt, has spent, and is spending, a vast deal too much money upon its railroads. But either by the loss of its own vital power, or by legis lative enactments anticipating that loss, this drain must subside. Already we see the amount of calls for the ensuing month reduced upwards of fifty per cent. upon those of the preceding account, and the partial abandonment of works, in all parts of the country, proves beyond a question that the evil will, to a certain extent, be cured by its own severity. Granting, however —as, indeed, is most true—that we have squandered a vast deal too much money on this one item of our disbursements, and add to it the forced expenditure last spring for food, still we cannot conceive why on these accounts the "eaanr or general trade should be aggravated on principle,ypr mercantile firms of undoubted solvency graiatron of posed as a sacrifice to be offered up i "P f the late viewtakeno our disasters or distress. position of commercial affTaihres and by premiere r c a h n a - s bean appreciated by the whole b anking tile community as both statesmanlike and sound. It professed no end to w hich the most ardent admirer of the late Bank Act could object. The doubts and fears of the monied interest had grown into a panic, and with the fear of the capitalis tit is utterly vain to reason. Each small proprietor throughout the kingdom hugged his notes to his heart, and felt the safer in their possession. Every man in trade drew in his resources, and forti fied his position to the best of hisall, both hi g h and low, great and small, removing the notes from circulation, and thus creating the very cause of their distrust. The position of the Bank became serious—rumours of a decreasing reserve were whis pered about—the whole pressure of commercial wants was thrown upon it, and at last it was clear to the most steadfast of the Bank Act supporters, that no l eg islative measure can control the fears of people, and that the credit of the nation must be the means used for its assistance. The credit of the nation has been employed, and what is the result ? That the Bank has been overpowered by the demands made upon it for accommodation. The Bank has been sub ject to no pressure, and the general opinion is that not one note will be required from its coffers beyond the amount authorised by the Act of Sir Robert Peel. The effect has been, as yet, to remove the pressure for advances, to unlock capital w hich had b een for the 1 time locked up, not figuratively but positively, in tin boxes and iron safes, and with the return of those large sums into the usual channels of trade will come, in all probability, a reduction, before many wee k s are over, in the rate of discounts, in other wor d s t h e value of money. POST.—It appears that the present rate of interest for advances on stock, at the Bank of England, is 8 per cent. for a period of not less than fourteen days, and not exceeding six weeks. We hear of one of the leading joint-sto c k establishments in the City allow ing as much as 7 per cent' on deposits, a n d requ i r i ng for the disco un t o f bil ls of exchange from 8 to 12 per cent. per annum. The stringency of the money market has, th ere f ore, it will be perceived, not yet been greatly mitigated. In the Foreign Stock Market there was no improve ment as regards demand, and prices are by no means better, but rather the contrary. The competition which the Bank have entered into with the public for ~,-`'