The Sun. — London, England, 1847-08-16 00:00:00

rret. o ,o `-o .o 0 o, CONTRACTS FOR JACKET S , e. STOCKINGS, AND CAPS. ;it, DePartment of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport , ete Services, Somerset-place, August 14, 1847. Co mmissioners for executing the °Zee of Lord High Admiral botithe United Inn."' h _ Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland do hereby give g,act irill e i e ' f t o :::: o l : in araday, the 7th October next, - at One o'clock, they Jo ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing te Con g and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling 4 ° , es, at Deptford, the under-mentioned Articles, viz.:- 11LtrE KNITTED WORSTED JACKETS ••.. • • 500 No. WHITE WOVE WORSTED JACKETS ...... 500 No. KNITTED WORSTED STOCKINGS.... • ..... 20,000 Pairs. IC- N. 'TTED SiNQI.THAR 5T0CK1NG5........ 10,000 Palm )1. , WORstED c A p s .... „.. 15,000 No. •••• bY th • p.,, 32th pr 1, 1148. itell-" at ''', a the articles and the conditions of the Contracts may be on t, the saiclofilce. No Tender will be zece ved after One o'clock 4), the day et treaty, nor sny noticed, miles: , the party attends, or i.a_gent for hi m, duly authorised in writing. . sa;•3 Te nder must be addre-sed to the Secretary of the Admiralty ' ,Wear in the left hand corner the words `• Tender for ," and • treim—peei.annyv.o be tw d o el r l e v s e p re m d sit a i t e Somer-et-placc, accompanied by a letter, . The due p.eirfroentindearineneg,olll persons, eneagin.; to bccon.e bound with "-----_____ the th c e o s n u t m a c o t f s .2'51. per Cent. on the value, for ~ p", August 6, 1847. !lotto. nel Pal Officers of h er M a j es ty' s Ordnance do hereby give ltathat they are ready to DISPOSE OF to such persons as may e lbig to tender for the same, a quantity of OLD IRON ORD c'3IIOT and SHELLS, i n Store at the Royal Arsenal at ap o „ :: which have been divided into lots, and may be viewed, C a to the Storekeeper at that place any day (Sundays ir a ) p r evious to the d a y fixed for the delivery of the Tenders. to h e of the several lots may be obtained by persons willing Prt40,,t14 Purchas,rs, at th e St ore k ee per's Office, Woolwich ; the 01/1 0 vit Sto rekeeper's Office, at the Tower ; and the Secretary's tile sk d r l ,72 7ll all, where the Tenders for the whole or any number of BePteroh°' are' to be delivered on or before WEDNDSDAT, the Ist ..‘rproximo. By Order of the Board, B. BYHAM, Secretary LOND ON to BOULOGNE DIRECT, at REDUCED FARES. The Saloon, I2s. ; Fore Cabin, Bs. RO/ Tr -,nsIERCIAL COMPANY'S splendid Steam-ships CITY of t'VerrllE or EMERALD , w i ll leave L on d on- b r i dge Wh ar f Wi daY, Tuesday, and Friday (weather permitting). Tuesday, August 17, 2 Morning. Friday, August 20, 6 Morning. rOr f retat Or Sunday, August 22, S Morning. Zlstu st _ Passage, apply at the Offices of the Company, 17, ` h - hill; or Chaplin's Universal Office, Regent-circus. St Etor o T D ATO FAMILIES A B O UT T O VISIT ITALY. ''ISI,DIIIECT, from SOUTHAMPTON to A. G ;7+ he LC.GHORN CIVITA VECCHIA, and NAPLES . The ls th ittott , ...ter next, -I`lo.,_llP N. L...PISTILAR and ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA TION .It B leam.ship DACHA, Captain JOIIOLIVE. will Yak tp= coontluunpton on WxoNnhAr, September 15, at r.o 're Porto, -oeen tilted -.LI expr;:e; , t - *: for 1 irst•ciass Fassengere a_ .ante, , • Oairtitta" taken on Deck. tv his Can be secured by early application. a o a nd plans of the vessel can be obtained at the '“No. 51, St. Mary Axe, ASTI. • -EARN COUNTIES RAIL AY. a e TENDERS FOR LOANS. pet• ° - than are ready to receive TENDERS for LOINS in sums s ° ol , for fixed periods, at the rate of 51. per Cent. Ilial bo PlBate Station order, C. P. RONEY, Secretary. . August 12, 1847. 11, -- "' AND AVIGNON RAILWAY. 0 1114. t ai —. . - eholders in this Railway are requested to call at tesal„ th e., Droylt ik ,l ia telY, between the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock, to Loki Zens ales necessary to enable the Committee to carry out the 44.„ Tit,„,...lhed at the meeting of the Shareholders held . at the Tttion ° T. L.ll the 13th inst.. fir the purpose 01 effecting the $7 1 ? 0 31t rr io "W e e y eomPany, and obtaining the immediate return of uit ittitt ee :4--111enSbareh o ld ers are expressly informed that the Corn s c e the meeti ng , ascertained that the actual deposit of yen ••••• not new be required. _ Ph._ By order of the Committee, etchE. FILDER, Secretary, 1 4 ' 144 - Yard, 14th A ugust, 184 7 . ANC! A SHIItE & YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. 110k.it - RAILWAY, HARBOUR, AND COsip ik WYRE Vir7 1) lre;' • tig n j` eO34 Aees 1 .,.Z„?f the L ANCASHIRE and YORKSHIRE RAlL having (in pursuance of the Deed of Amalgama goon am resolution,"l' making a CALL on the Proprietors of the th t — iat ir resixt go per :sh erg ß a on il he y H l lfshares i A. ock Company, e Te (121. 10s. each) held by e 1. .; -th e ti pp v elY. such Call to be paid on tha 30th day of August, Sebank,„.. -4 t on of such Shares are hereby requested to pay tt 1%4 i "'`ue day appointed, to one of the undermentioned th e "Zrate uefault thereof, they will be charged with interest Call be per Per Cent, per Aunum, from the above date, unt.l Lacio n hallY paid. Ltyanet • act • • • • ••4,13n, Hallifax, and Co. t ever ...... Th e U n i on Ban k o f M anc h es t er. 1.1)"1. • • • • • • . The Liverpool Borough Stank. By order, JOHN S. HERON, Secretary, • -- ` ll ' pi 4 JOIN is entitl e d t o transfer h i s Shares unt i l the sa id ]l__ .ter, Augusts, 1647. Ph Tr INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. at, Lei tt - ; 6 .4ed b y 0 ;,n EXPOSITION ‘f the SWISS QUESTION ithe b ens O x• 6 7, Paternoster-row ; and at the Offices o - ‘.lleq. an — d n tarden ; where addresses may be obtained, utem- COL LlNQ : ubs criPtions received. ta )3.4 .jr z ated try xi ODE on the PASSIONS will be 1:214144Lec0k:3801 trac r ie . .... J b . ; R: l 7 w E ai LL ii , s, with Illustrations in a Series , of -- wrachi — "vit by "". DY means of the OPAQUE MICROSCOPE, on the Mornings of Tuesday, th e t urdaY, and on the Evenings of Tuesday and Lps,..,..__ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. Dr. ITI CA 46 tbe enbt — "" l ?-8 On NATURAL PHILO,OPHY will L Act of the ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHS, &e. b Y P. n. Holmes, Esq., on the Evenings of "%I by b .'q'esti t and Friday. The beautlf..l OPTICAL EF . -.l•X!t,lyit.7e,taat D ISSOLVING VIEWS, DIVING BELL 4 - 4" 4 • P i t o ßlXErns, &c. &c. n. Is. ; Schools, Half-price. :141113 °tas itesi' w eet able ij p r ,, A .,.. PE R AGENTS, &c., &c.—A Naar mi,juld b e in Glasgow, commencing First-class Rea n d e - Urtile -v V I , Of .1, l o l'aQ to treat with a London News-agent for t ut TRR E tl 4 ew ers E HUNDRED PAPERS per week. %asp be learned by applying by letter, pre-paid, AtigeW.TB'l,46s, J amaica-street, Glasgow. ,s------.......____ , Ist . ......:______________ l-4x-EspEARE,s HOUSE. ..6,--4„4 iii the s enSele s heart that has not felt_ .4 •,• -4.ra:tin ch. house where Shakespeare gyre' 0710 heats movedonnio the melancholy tale 0a... 54e4 a . belrg up for sale ? --.‘a one De taet with who could taely he N o r li nal " knoc k down" o f the auction ee onr ? ar -his all fondest feelins would regard sacred dwelling of the immortal bard. h 1 A nd t r i aa3' the Public still this f, cling cherish._ _ ; ever May the house of Shakespeare pedals it for the facts which it discloses, protect..n-- -- ‘. 3 . 1 3- as you do the house of MOSES. 1`..0r Stutkespeare, as a Poet, was displayed 41Iluokst as great as MOSES in the trade ; Zile h ouse of MOSES stands upheld by all, Nor Will the public Buffer it to fall. TheMOSES and SON a glorious •• part" have ir their " acts" upon the "stage" of trade ; ._ MitibEY Mountain ne'er produced a mouse, -‘o,l4enee they boast an " overflowing house." " played," Long m. Th —7 the trading house of MOSES stand. ~..e Universal wardrobe of the laud 1 ~,pere ca,..- Bpdi --"lents b eautiful in make and style, ~--. ever merit an approving smile. pa rd .. on nae, for through the warmth I' A _, lutte forgot the house where felt, Shakespea ve redwelt ; , - ,10 Let me 8,.., , before this tribute closes, rrotect it as You do the house of MOSES. LIST OP PRICES. a 0 40:maa CTiteaalltiThere LIST OP 1 . 3" • x 16 6 ont s Ei Careb ri • k collar and cuffs :..• •• • ....... •• •• •• - 2 3 0 dire Coat ~- - T sreed e --, ...tea ttrOtlghout .......... •••••• '' - 0 Rpom ut oate • ........ ...... . . .. Ol6 Coat . -' "• • Ol3 6 ?rock Coatznallteactured ..... ...• -•••• • • ' . • 15 0 Itith rittlity manufactured ...... ••••••-- '• • • .. - • cloth„3 3 0 80 0 ~ eel Trousers •• . " •• • • • • - . •• 0 8 0 "Lhgle-mmea -0 ..... •• -• •:. •• •• •• ••• • • • ...... • • 1 2 0 0 8 6 her __ oeskln ditte .... •••••-•• '' - •• - - ao3,z, il4larogrditto ........ • ... Tunic ..•••••••••••••••••• 1 6 0 81° is ---- ' e Suits ••• . • .............. .... 1 5 0 e easi nnre ft ; "l •• ..... .. gx""4"1. arnlisidg,j,e,%Larington.... . ... •• • • • " .• : 1: g I.ll:letttesw, ...iestkrneld • Po lk . sis,..a . n . i all .. th • • e * new — est 8 1 10, Zn i C' )at **••••• ..•••• •• •• •• ••• •• •••• • •• .... 018 0 Pr i Er ditto •••• •• • ... • • aew 08 6 4tra V e riii . le .• •• •'' ••• • • • • .. ? 0 6 : soperior coat • Itou ra , B4l3 erane ;•• • • • ••• • • • ... •••... • • • . from 1 4 0 Clo w est ' s . SUPerlOr Coat .••• •••• —••••.• •• •• 2 2 0 1, .Or ..... . 0 0 6 6 N W ', e d Troll s " . e ••• • • • • •• • • ..... •• • ..... •...• .. 0 4 6 and e •• .• ••. •• • ..... ........ •• ••••• • „ 0 4 6 ol , s T tum _ un _el or Does kin .......... „.... ........ 010 6 Lit'et new ~,,' 4 "Q rillSsar 5ait5............ 0 18 ... et 1 ,,,, " and entitled " F.A.SIIIONS FAVOURITE," with a `l9lllcatio"ces• and Directions for Self-Measurement, can be had on % le _ a. or forwarded post-free. trti iflTli;443• article purchased, ready made, or made to men %eh., ,„__ any of, will be exchanged, or if preferred, the __%,-VZ,Hed. CN e • ;3ES . sod, Surot,..TactilliaeWm:ifelnendanrapders,nCelrthgsurstiitZant.tefrao; . 41 11 , ant Gentlemen, 154, 155, and 156, 157 lidLuories. and 85, 0 . and 86 Aldgate. city. London. bk,;:6tlsn.—E. Moses and Son regret being to spi , Iv against 'lmpostors, b u t have learned that tobliged he nn guard the tradeemen 141 sehood of being connected with them, or it's the same concenl• ti;been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons. t 44 have so connexion with any other house in or out of London; tit „nse who desire genuine and cheep clothing, Ste., should call at, . _o. Minories and Aldgate, City, London. Nt -• "•—•X business transacted at this establishment from sun a7+, . o .."sloti;' till sunset Saturday, when business is resumed till twelve ..........7 • te OH —'---- ,,,,,, ...t .. SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AWL) Nit IVI TII Too-. MATURITY. dtkp Z s 'A TWENTY-FIVE COLOURED ENGRAVINGS. or, , sr Published, Twentieth Thousand , in a sealed envelope, S• ° gleir, -. * 64 . Jr forwarded , post paid, , to any ' address, secure frons itterll°ll4,-,,i0r....31_6_c1. n Pos • nme SAm .• 1: on s t t- "ESERV ATION : A Medical Treati-e mr t .4l kn a V .•gii. and on thole likeeret Infirmities and Disorders ot 11 0 „ hie!, ,„ ai ur..y, that are u , nally acquired at an early period of ~r,,RI to destroy phystal and mental energy, ardour pas sa,s;kCohit•r.eidile a t sr Manhood. i ll ustrated with Twenty- V kle °I the En g ra vings en the Anatomy, Physiology, and Dis t._ tla Uri 0 D b ., truct ur 2ary and Reproductive Orgar s, explaining their L' , lt4 '"!leeci i n M . uses, and functions, and showirg the injuries that Z 4o : 6 : 7 Octl,z at n ;fo r ri;s ; by solitary habits, excesses, and infectim. e sts ;ll _ Mims on the Treatment of Nervous Debility, i L tional Weakness, Syphilis, Stricture, and other t faby )‘3441 /E ..en,_ 9 . L LA!MERT, CONSULTING SURGEON. j.,-..tbabtr--Ated 4"' e tif ifb_ s ,,_ rg-street, Bedford-square, London; - -ti0. 44 0f the nit e r of the University of Edinburgh, Honorar • _,. , - , 0 den Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of t '4lul, London, &c., &c. kla k aPl4 ~, oh ,. 1. ,„, CONTENTS OF THE TREATISE. V t N,,,Lti t t iona wn the Philosophy of Marriage, with its Hindrances k. -r g_ab - ` 4 „ 2,, o '., au. 4 on Infelicitous and Unproductive Unions.— '‘otit4) t heir " t he Anatomy and Physiology of the Generative ' '''tst p:flettorl structures, and ttiNfig- , Meal p _ t i a , e. o n c , _„ er are dependant upon their healthy action it. l :t Rt;riera Lu ke t eo itary Habits; their various effects on the tibl ie IV Ner i lgs antet.calß4 cause of Debility of the function. 4 . 4 .e r5 , Ittarilles, t„ !,_ . rai o n, t and , general weakness of th, otittr ili tt i oziii. a nd 5he".4741100t of lie ,-ecret Disorders of Tout} .. t Y• and pNervous and Local Weakness, ble. 4. " a rts re mature Decay.—CHAPTSES 5 and 6. Or 140'''". in g f f°lii indiscriminate Excess, Strictures, and rk -44 1 . k,.. ~,,E0 Dui* advantage; tt a4 15 ,40,, 5 ° :: Sitt r Ar Es : a wil OF Till WORE. hovevet T e i. : ,.. ; _ r ,,.. z , o A t N he D r R . f i c t H h A e R In k 1 n . 71 er ss ' 4 . l e, t ak .r imtice, This author is a medical man of some con ears to the study of his k. sb ill . 4 . Uoi 11484-tit'a'nogtiZa(Zeva:utoecfr hTsany3. pretensions has published his L a 4 Illlttes and diPlomas in th zet, a ,..ost till ph ysician s e work, and several testimonials of and surgeons of great eminence, which of their Dortarit N , sh a tn., con sideration to tho , e wh-, from the peculiar .." . .tia, i , Nen, .„ -rrn ities. are obliged ls to seek medical assistance y __ to discover' the 151. _ „ ssive _ i t a perusal thetreated altogether in as excellent unfortunate victim of vicious habits L k4ttee, a nd ' l aBlPatless will ti e e a of enabled al l e t v o i account for off peculiar erio gs I.- tilmi e r 4 erectu a i o:l7 .lr it etit _ by th e 4. jnartner.—Uulted Service Gazette ilifY 4.%bflid 1 21eh„Z n 4 4 and May be tied at ha. residence • ales etraa7-etre t tar* o tr a ee te t r:row; Hannay and CO., 61, IP' t 11110),1140kea;,et°3endrUcbi:Nearnwtero-sn, 16, Quadrant; gor-lon, 146. '4; 4 till x l e for c on • dR all letters Church -street, Liverpool felt ght ; a s ultation d al y, from Nine till Two, and from e411 41/1 11 .. for . L0.„*.dvica)&0„......, _immediately replied to, if containim• *"WIiT. fiF.D FORD-OTREET BEDFORD. No. 17,132. LON DON, NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASsURANCE SOCIETY. 26, CORNHILL, LONDON. Capital .£500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages , Ith resvet to life as.urances and deferred annuities. The assured c 3, on ail occasions . , the power to borrow, without expense or for ,7lture of the policy; tWo•thirds of the premiums paid (see Table); so the option 01 selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in rests to meet other convenidncies or necessity. Assur.i.nces for terms of years on the lowest possible rates. DIVISION OF PROFITS. The Increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors 4t the annual meeting held on the 12th May, 1847, to declare a fifth bonus, varying from 35 to 95 per cent. on tile premiums paid on each policy effected on the profit scale._ ..' . ~ • . . • , . ~. • \ ' / 4 . , -.: .2 .,. ., , i, • , , .. , . ..:.,..: : t 7 , :?-4. • : A irk!' *• "I . - k1. ,,i... .lif --- 4 . 7 1 :). lik .. ~. _ - 1 ,‘, / „ ,,,,...fi t , , , „ 4 _I, ),,, 4. ,.- .....,. „, __ .).„ ~... , „ lig,. , -,....... , --,e, ---,,,,....,,, ..,-; `-itIV:34:4: (.1 , ,,, , - l - ' „,',,v,r ..,e, . ' 's_. , k ,,, c% ktf., ~, - - , ---,27 -- ......, ' , ,--,4 . 4 , ,,, J, eim, , - -- 4 , -- lON 'V' ' C Ron. •',0 , -' 'f' '\ ------ ' 4 l - 00' . ' 4° Dif.` - t -,, "\t„,0.... , '"il - e,,., -•-- • _ - .--7= , -- .•,, , , 1 ..• • :•.• .--- ...„,.... -, z t-..,,, ~ • • - 4 „ s „ , _, t -x,.,,•-• ":- V ^ , , • ~...0 _ / tz,, , 4.- ".. - j 4.. 1 . THE FIRE AT NIA.NCHEST R. .. .- - The amount of damage in the first pile destroed d in Messrs. Cunliffe's property, is estimated to be _,.. ': ..L- - /- -,-', I ; , ;'4 . 4 - ,k 4 , 41. - not less than 30,000/. The stateureptpf losses is' as ,-, J., • ~-. . .:,., + ows :—Mr. George Giimshaw; Goston, the loss is estimated at 5,0001., w hi c h i s covered by Insurance in the Manchester Fire Office to the extent of 4,0001. Mr. Smith's stock is destroyed to the extent of 1,5001., the amount of insurance in the County Office. Messrs. Clark and Co..sustai ne d d amage to the amount - of 350/., to which amount they are in- Silted in the I'Vst of England, Mni James Redfern is insured in the_Ruyal for_lsol., which ..will about cover his loss. Mr. -J. B. Lee is insured in the Alliance for 5001., and inthe North British for 2,0001., and his loss is estimated at nearly 3,0001. MeSsrs. Latrey will suffer to the amount of 5001., to which amount they were insured in the Imperial. . Messrs. J. Farrar and Brother suffer a loss not covered by an insurance to the amount of 300/. Mr. Thomas Haigh, woollen cloth manufacturer, estimates his loss at nearly 5,0001.; he is insured in the Sun for 2,000/., the Guardian for 1,0001., . and the Yorkshire for 1,600/. Mr. Robert H. .Dowson estimates his damages at 5,000/., which -is eoveredby insurance in the West of -England. Mr. James Sharp,- woollen cloth manufacturer, is insured for 1,0001. in the Ith perial Office, , and suffers to about that amount. Mr. Henry Hewitt estimates his loss at 3,500/., which -is covered -by insurances of 1,5001. in the Scottish Union, and - 2 ,000/. in the Birmingham Offi6e. Messrs. Porteus and Co., silk manufacturers, §uffer to the extent of 2,0001., covered by insurance in the West of England to that amount. The loss of Messrs. Cunliffe and Brooks, to whom the building belongs in which Mr. Hewitt's and Messrs. Porteus rnd Co.ls shops were situated, is estimated at. 1,500/. for the - building. There are several parties who suffer to smaller amounts.. The origin of the - fire is unknown. PRICE SD. FOREIGN CORN AND HARVEST. BRUSSELS, Azo.-I.2.—The average price of corn Oaring the week ending August 7 was—Wheat, 28f. 590, and that of rye 15f. 99e., being a diminu tion in wheat of 6f. 74c., and in rye of lf. 9c. Very littis ;e doin g lrt thp wallet, and the prices continue to fall both on wheat and rye. We continue to receive complaints daily of the great want of common lionesty and fair dealing in regard to the fall in bread. Alt'ough in many parts of Germany and Flanders the prices are drnost everywhere on the old level, , yet the price in the fall of bread has not-been in proportion. This is naintained by the bakers under the apparen ly plau sible plea th a t th ey cannot • reduce the price till they shall Wave exhausted the stock of corn which they hid in hand when it became cheaper. It is a matter of surprise that the Government and respectiye local authorities do not interferen,nd put a stop to this abominable fraud—we can call it by no milder term—upon the poor. They are entitled now - to have their bread at moderate prices, and they ought to have it. What can we say to such a declaration as this from the Hamburgh market, for instance ? Notwithstanding the immense importations, the price of rye has again risen, because scarcely anything is brought to market—all is put into the storehouses. Is this as it should be ? Is there not an evident de sign on the part of the.sellers to keep up the prices as, long as they can ? f or .the same account goes on to state, although several, vessels have come fr om Bre men freighted with - corn, they all turned back because they found the prices of corn too low here. If the price of corn is low, why is bread so dear ? and why are the people cheated in two ways—first, for having - to pay high for their bread, and, secondly, by having that bread made up into loaves which certainly are far less than the usual size ? In making these remarks, let us not, however, be supposed t o speak of corn dealers and others engaged in the corn trade in general.. There is nothing more unfair, or unmanly, than to attack men as a body, without giving them the advantage of individual defence; and we know, as a fact, that immence harrn.htii been done `!)3, these general accusations, so much so, that per sons,judging from the observations incautiously made m this head in the public journals, have considered them as infallible, and universally applicable, and have, not only been most abusive to dealers when they brought their produce to market, but we verily believe that many of the riots and incendiarisms have arisen from the same incautious, though well-mean ing, remarks of the newspapers. lie, who in these days writes for the public, shoulsl - bear in mind that be is writing for all classes, and not for any particular class of persons.—Hamburgh Papers, August 10. CLOSING OF THE TRANSFER-BOOKS.—Notice was issued on Friday at the Bank of England that the clos ing of the Transfer-books for the under-mentioned an nuities, due on the 10th of October, will be as follows --Bank Stock, Fiiday, September 10, to Friday, October 15; Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Annuities, Friday, September 10, to Wednesday, October 20 ; Reduced Three per Ceut. Annuities, Thursday, September 9, to Wednesday, October 20 ; Long Annuities, Friday, Sep tember 10, to Wednesday, October 20 ; Annuities for terms of years, Friday, September 10, to Wednesday, October 20. MARYLERONE VESTRY.—THE BOROUGH ELECTION. —On Saturday, at the . meeting of this vestry, Mr. C. Hickman made the following motion, in pursuance of notice :—" That while this vestry disclaim any desire to interfere with the free exercise of the elective franchise, they hereby declare their dett-rminat , on to discharge prom their service any parochial officer who shall be :mind engaging himself on any electio:i committee or otherwise, to the neglect of those duties which, as a servant of the vestry , he has un d ertaken to perform. " After a short discussion the motion was put, and was almost unanimously rejected, there being but two or three hands in its favour. 1 CAUTION TO LICENSED VICTUALLERS.—DANIN. BURGLARY.—A peculiarly daring and coolly executed burglary was perpetrated yesterday (Sunday) morning, rianesaNttleig, ship Inn Richmond, on the premises occupied by Mr. George Walter, Blue Posts, Snoe-lane. About four o'clock, A.M., the police wan found the front door of the house open, and at once alarmed the inmates by ringing the bell. An in spection of the place was immeeiately entered on, and it was discovered that one, or more probably, two persons, it ha . d broken in and robbed the house. Frum appearances is concluded that one of the burglars had secreted him self, on the previous night, on the roof of a long room at the back of Mr. Walter s house. Thence he must have broken through the skylight into the parlour, made his way into the passage, and forced the lock of the passage door with a "jemmy," and then got into the bar par lour, having first, it is supposed, admitted a com panion. There possession was taken of some silver spoons, and various other articles found about the room. In the bar, the parties, with remarkable coolness and deliberation regaled themselves with lemon ade, brandy, and other good things that usually abound therein. They likewise took away with them some 31bs. of cigars and a large number of farthings—fortu nately the only money left in the tills. It is a curious circumstance, however, that they overlooked a consider able sum of money placed the previous night in a wooden bowl, and over which some papers had been carelessly laid. This bowl was close to where the spoons had beea deposited. The value of the things carried off is about 10/. The police are on the alert to discover the culprits; :le:acted :nidltii:dv'l behindrnatch hv‘i' will but no clue has, at present, been obtained. No doubt seems to be entertained that the ofienders must have been well acquainted with the house ; and this robbery should serve as a caution to licensed victuallers in ueneral to examine their premises the last thing, at night. If such a course had been adopted in this ii?- stance, the man corcealed on the roof must have been in 111 probability discovered. Such premes peculiarly so, much exposed, but on Saturday nights A DISGUSTING Amu -N.—At inspector from the increased bustle then usual. Mr. Beard, the i of the Sessions, on Saturday, 18411 Richmond inhabitants o s n i d x i P . bce n eeotnuot thecloyhadf a t I lr Richmond, . thnat attention o locality, a lod :e ib ; t e h:oe ( : )t ehptuihebehli moral de - V division, stationed l j e v tp i h r iac c at to the respectable Richmond. The following is a copy of the notice, which 23 ;nd yeas j h an r a a a l p v te d ri e bse hn n tei t e d o n : n b o e o t xm ub h t ti ce e l sn r il ts o ie e e a vnl e f;: i i. kl e yn ien s t i e . gMoennrd.tlaWesm-neSAnmuhigtaluls'sst:natched a ~v uk e rne r ienp y : , a . c o e n AB Monday, a r 1( —N , bite each rat dead man for 10/. to B. There will be a ld e ll i t s A t .t o' n c t a y t - c o h ne th r e a m " ; n " the ith pit, a nd nn , _l a e n s d , r 5 , ... with his mouth, against plenty of spare rats or th e I . ~ they magfstrates, consulted with s- logs." Sir Thomas oght, having, with the Smith, their clerks, 'he landlord of the New Ship Reev e , i lc. e . a `ure of other gents' directed the inspector to wait upon jeopardise his 1 . am Chapman a p h m t m a n thatand se would celting proceedine.; to take place abjrt' h p ,s er h m o i t t is ti e n . g such re i~ proceeding; P fo o r sT s . - ;e o r r is r ct ic L E ( . : —M al l s will be made up ...ritom:irt. io forwarded will be at the rare o r t ).° l Bt s ' Leave, cu be conveyed by her Niajesty's sloop n g t e ho on ha a i l i l .o le o t o te o r e : . tad so on; no postage wil be charged on newspapers. All letters, &c,, intended to be forwarded by this vessel must be specially a dd resse d, .` B y her Majesty's ship , lritoroart." The Britomart is expected to sail on the 17th instant; letters in time nu Monday (this day). The Jupiter will take out the Peninsular mails of the 17th instant. The Trent., for the West India mails of ditto; the Caledonia, for the American ma ils of the 18th inst. The next mails for the Mediterr anean, Ce y lon, India, and China, yid Southampton, will be dispatched ou the morning of the 20th instan t ; and those for the same i not for the tlie h destinations, vid Marseilles , on the evenin g o f the 24 th inst. The Indus will take out the mails of the 20 th on their arrival at Southamp ton . e " .nn nsa rk a Thursday, On b e fo a o t t th rac e q e u t i o e o t k v p i le l a la e ge of Wysall, a somewhat remarkableinstant, FOOT RACE EXTRAORDINAE:r. distance run, nor for the speed of the run n ers, b ut for the fact that each of them has been running a race with 5t old Time for more than ninety ye a rs, ex seeded his great climacteric twenty-eight, one having the other ' thirty-three years. The di • stance was forty yards. The competitors were Wotton Bryans, sen. , aged ninety-six, and Mr. John Hogg, aged ninety-one, winning nettled, y-one, the latter by just a yard; which so or rather f mettled, his rival, that he challenged him to jump or a guinea. When this match is t . o come off, or whether the chal- • lenge was accepted, we have not learnt.--Nottingham Journal. • The capital employed in the coal trade of Nor thumberland and Durham is estimated at,nearly ten mil. lions sterling. EXAMPLES. • 1 Perms- Sum the Annual Policy Bonus In mitt Re- Assured go. ft, Pre- taken addition , Bonus in duction of may bor ❑ mium. out in Assured. Cash. Annual row on Premiums. 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A.Walker, Esq., surgeon, author of "Gatherings from Graveyards," &c., and well known for the zeal and ability with which he has advocated the abolition of interinural sepulture, delivered the fourth of a series of lectures on the actual condition of the metropolitan graveyards, and their injurious effects on public health and public morality. Mr. Walker said, that in the previous lectures he had ex plained the nature and action of morbific poisons • had shown the manner i n w hi c h th ese po i sons may be in troduced into the human body, and brought forward cases which incontestably proved the fact that the re spiration of putrid exhalations from dead bodies be fore burial, or from vaults and open graves, is highly injurious to the health of man and animals. He in tended next to prove that analogous effects are pro duced by the vapours which exhale from over-crowded burying-grounds. In this case the generation of morbific matter was more gradual, the poison less concentrated; and persons were seldom directly exposed to its influence for any considerable length of time, and the relation was there fore less evident or less easy to establish; but he believed, when they weighed the evidence hewould produce, that the audience would leave the theatre with the firm conviction that the saturated grave• yards of this metropolis were centres of infection, producers of lingering disease or sudden death, and that such places should be at once and for ever re moved from amongst us.—(Cheers.) This was no mere assertion, but a matter capable of being proved by the most simple calculation. It required no logic to prove that it was impossible to lodge fifty indivi duals in a room ten feet square; and it was equally impossible to inter in a safe and decent manner 3,000 dead bodies in an acre of ground, which can only hold 136.—(Hear, hear.) To show that this was the fact, it was necessary to give some calculations which, though disgraceful and disgusting, were all important and for the correctness of which he pledged himself. An acre of ground contains 4,840 square yards, and will decently inter about 1,361 adult bodies. Pre suming that the dead body was committed to the grave for the purpose of mingling with its parent earth, ten years must be allowed for this process, and hence the number of adult bodies that an acre of ground will annually receive is 136. From accurate returns of the superficial extent of the parochial and some other burial-grounds of the me tropolis, and the number of bodies annually interred in each, the following facts were deduced :—The annual average of interments in the seven descrip tions of burying places comprised in these returns, was stated to be 2,271. If this was divided by 7, it gave the average for each, which gave 324 burials annually to the acre—(Hear, and shame)—from which might be fairly abstracted the burial places of the Jews and the Society of Friends, which are well conducted. Deducting these two they had five species of grounds, which would give an annual aye ,age of 426, instead of 136 each.—(Hear, hear ) In Germany the average was only 110, but here our graveyards were made to receive every year three times as many as they ought, and four times as many as, were permitted by the laws of well-regulated con tinental states.—(Hear, hear.) The overcrowding )f our grave-yards might be illuatrated in another way. The annual mortality of L ,ndon was at least 50,000. Supposing the burials renewed every ten ears, 444 acres would be required, whereas we have only 209.—(Hear, hear.) But that was not all, There were 182 parochial graveyards in London, of rhese only 48 were confined to the proper limit of 136 to the' are; . the rest exhibited various degrees of saturation, from 200 up to 3,000 annually. In . St. Andrew's Undershaft the average per acre •was ••• ••• ••• 1,278 Portugal- street Burying-ground 1,021 St. Dunstan's, Fleet-street 1.182 St. Dunstan's in-the-East 1,210 St. John's,. Clerken well 3,073 St. .. • • ... 1,159 St. Olave, Tooley-street .. 1,257 St. Swithin's, Tooley-street • • ... 1,760 Turnirig from . pariah , grounds to Dissenting burial places the following ware the results : Wickliffe Chapel, Stepney .. .. 1,210 Enon Chapel, Woolwich .. 1,080 Parker, Dcckhead, Woolvvich 1,613 Aloorfields ... • • ... 1,210 Cannon -street road .. 1,109 And, lastly, New Bunhill-fields was distinguished by an average of 2,323.—(Hear.) It was humiliating to think that a parish ground—St. John's, Clerken well—stood at the head of these unchristian nui sances—pestiferous in every respect, because, when a proportion of 3,073 were annually interred on an acre Of land, it followed that the bodies could only ra'nain in the ground five months instead of ten years.—(Hear.) Hence the stacking of coffins in deep pits, the brutal dismemberment of bodies, the consumption of coffin wood in many localities, the danger to mourners from attending such places, the insidious infection which, especially in the warm season, poison the atmosphere, and, by undermin ing the health, hurried thousands to an un timely end, again to become the subjects of fresh in dignities, the centre of infection to survivors, and the distributors of pestilential emanations.—(Hear, hear.) In support of these general propositions, the lecturer proceeded to adduce a vast number of deeply. important and most interesting specific evidence, tracing malignant typhus fever in many instances to the poisonous exhalations from dead bodies in various places ; and also numerous cases of measles and scarlet fever in children, arising from the same cause. From these instances we quote one :—Mr. J. Irwin, residing at No. 32, Clement's-lane, which overlooked the burial-ground in Portugal-street, had enjoyed good health with his family until he came to reside in that neighbourhood. They have never en joyed health since. The wife of one of his lodgers, in comfortable circumstances, was attacked by typhus fever in the house, and removed to the hos pital. The husband, who went to visit her, fell ill of 'he same disease, and died in four days. Two other lodgers also had fever. The husband died, and was removed to the graveyard from which he met his death. Dr. Walker at this period attended Mr. Irwin, who was fast merging into that low form of fever of which this locality has furnished so many -xamples. On looking into the " green ground" through the window of Mr. Irwin 's room, Dr. Walker noticed a grave open within a few feet of the house. The sick man replied to his observations, " Ah, that grave is just made for a poor fellow who died in this house in the room above me, he died from typhus fever, from which his wife has just recovered. they have kept him twelve days, and now they are going to put him under my nose by way of warning to nie."—(llear, hear.) Fortunately Mr. Irwin re covered, and has since laboured earnestly for the abolition of this monster nuisance. But it was not alone in the crowded graveyards of London that the pestiferous and deadly nature of this poison exhaled from the graves of the dead were exhibited. The lecturer showed by reference to two yecent outbreaks of fever at Minchinhampton and Axminster, most remarkable illustrations of the intimate connexion which exists between graveyard emanations and the development of pestilential fever. After detailing the facts connected with these outbreaks, Dr, Walker pro ceeded to adduce copious evidence of the same fact from Sinde, Chusan, Jamaica, and Egypt, all of which nleodutirtcsoee of of the he the irr es i s tibl e conc l us i on th a t i n t ramura l se pulturewa t s u in all cases an unmitigated evil, and ought to b e b an i s h ed at once and for ever. I n the co uses sctto which t ure Dr. ll a 'a t lk n e o r tor a i l o lu u d s nui edt s o an t o ,h e e , Enon Chapel, is now applied, and stated that frequent applications h a d b een made to Sir J. Graham and the present Home Secretary by himself and other inha nuisance, but hitherto how ever, shortly with referencecontemplation subjectrt of this almost unequalled in o without effect. It was, bitants on the — (Cheers t ioo avoid doing justice to t e lon to it, and he hoped they would hold a public meeting Passing, he could not daily papers that had for t Perseveringly, and ably all attend. —(Cheers.) and had been directed many ye ars public consistent]att e n teidcause of sanitary of the greatest service to o re ‘s f . o e r d m a d g e e e n p er d a e l b ly t .0 of g ll r e ati c to on d s o id teor papers for their that the public talentedAe and ingtructive pplause.) Dr. ance to n l\ o r b a l l e ker a and n c u l useful exertions. a most 13a t however might lecture, full of facts of the gravest public health and morality by stating l th m L or injurious a deteriorated atmosphere full grown adult, it was infinitely more so to chil dren,who perished weekly by thousands. Hence he called on them, not only as Englishmen a n d as Christians, but as parents, as they desired to leave behind those who were to continue the race, as th ey . valued health and its inappreciable blessings .them selves, to cast from them that prolific cause o f pre mature destruction, the practice of the interme n t o f the dead in the neighbourhood of the living.— (Loud applause.) A vote of thanks was unanimously given to the lecturer at the conolusion. ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE IN THE CITY. A most deliberate attempt at murder took place on Saturday afternoon, between the hours of three and four, in Mark-lane, City. The following particulars connected with the dreadful affair were obtained from parties who were eye-witnesses of the same, and may be relied upon as being perfectly free from exaggeration : It appears that the person whose life has been placed in danger is Mr. George Crawley, a, highly respectable wine merchant, carrying on business in the lower part of the house numbered 12, Mark-lane, just above the New Corn Exchange, on the opposite side of the way. The intended assassin is named John Ovenstone, and has for some considerable time past carried on the business of an upholsterer in Great. Titchfield-street, Marylebone. From what could be learned from the friends of both persons, it seems that an execution had been sent into Ovenstone's house, which had greatly exasperated him. Mr. Crawley having been the plaintiff in a suit, the ac cused went, at the time above stated, to his place of business for no other purpose than to murder him. Upon arriving at his offices, he saw one of Mr. Crawley's clerks, of whom he inquired whether or not his employer was within. Having been answered in the negative, be expressed his regret that he, was not; and desired the clerk, if he could, to send for him, as he bad business of great import. ante to transact, which could not be delayed. Un fortunately Mr. Crawley was at a friend's house in the City, and the request of Ovenstone having been made known to him, he at once returned to his offices. Upon entering he inquired of• Ovenstone what his business was, when he saved out in a great passion, " What do you mean by doing what you have done ?" The unfortunate gentleman only had time to reply, " Why, Mr. Ovenstone, you know that I have only done—," when Ovenstone cried out, " Take that !' at the same moment discharging the contents of a loaded pistol at Mr. Crawley. A cry of " Murder 1" was immediately raised, and Mr. Crawley ran bleed ing into the street. A great crowd soon congregated round the wounded man, who took him to the sur gery of Messrs. Harris, Duplex, and Co., in Fen. church-street. Upon an examination being made, it was ascertained that a bullet had entered the cheek of Mr. Crawley, and had tern away a portion of the roof of the mouth, but the ball had lodged in the cavity. Seeing the dangerous state he was in, Mr. Harris advised his removal to the hospital, which was forthwith done. When Mr. Crawley's clerk saw his master was wounded, he closed the door and locked the at tempted murderer in. He had hardly done so before a second report of fire-arms was heard to proceed from the place. A party of the City police immediately repaired to the house, and Constables Strickland and Edmonds entered, and found Ovenstone sitting in a chair, with a couple of pistols near him, and blood flowing in copious streams from his head and face. They immediately secured both the pistols and Ovenstone, and, having placed him in a cab, they took him to Gay's Hospital. Mr. Cocks and Mr. Wilkes, two of the house surgeons, were in instant attendance. They found that the injuries he had in flicted on himself were of a most frightful character the ball appeared to have entered at the mouth, passed in an oblique direction, and lodged over the left temple. From the fact of the bullet remaining in the head very little hopes are entertained of his re covery. Mr. Crawley made the following statement respect ing the affair, which, it will be perceived, fully sub stantiates the rep or t :—" Y e sterd a y a f ternoon, a b out half -past th ree o ' c l oc k , w hil s t conversing with a friend i n th e w i ne trade, my clerk cam e t o me an d said that Mr. Ovenstone, of Great Titchfield-street, wanted to speak to me. I immediately went into my room, where I found Mr. Ovenstone, to whom I said, Well, Mr. Ovenst on e, I understand you want to see me.' He repli e d, Yes, Sir, I do: I inquired what his business was with me, when he shouted out, ' What do you mean by doing what you have done ? you are a pretty fellow, I think.' My impression was that he was alluding to a sale that bad taken place at his house. I told him that I had nothing to do with it; that I had left my case in my solicitor's hands. I had no sooner uttered these words, than he put his hands into his pocket, for the purpose, as I imagined, of drawing out his handkerchief, instead of which he pulled out a pistol, presented the mouth at me, and before I had time to get away he dis charged the contents in my face. I immediately ran out into the street, and cried Murder,' and after wards went to Mr. Harris's surgery, and thence I came to this hospital in a cab. When I ran out Oven stone was in the room, and I understand from my clerk that he locked him in to prevent his escape. What afterwards took place I do not know of my own knowledge, but .1 have been told that Ovenstone shot himself the moment after I ran into the street." It is understood that the medical gentlemen have been successful in extracting the ball which had lodged in Ovenstone's head, and that it is now in th e care of Edmonds, the officer. There seems to be no doubt about its having been the i n t en ti on o f th e wretched man to kill Mr. Crawley, and then destroy himself, as, in addition to the fact of his going to that gentleman's counting-house with two heavily loaded pistols, a written statement was found in his coat pocket, which was evidently drawn up so as to give a full explanation of the several reasons that had actuated him to attempt the commission of the crime. In it he states that he is after detailing hi s tired of the world, and, many misfortunes, expresses his desire to die. It appears that Ovenstone, in conjunc tion with a Mr. Cremer, was the assignee of a bank rupt, manager of an inn in Holborn, to whom Mr. Crawley had supplied wine and spirits, but Oven- I?, Mr. Cr aw l e y p rocee d e d a t stone's co-assignee failing, law against Ovenstone for the amount due to the estate, about 150/. SUNDAY EVENING. — UP O n making inquiries this evening at St. Thomas' s Hospital as to the state of the unfortunate sufferer, Ur. Crawley, it was ascer tained that a change had taken place for the worse. When Mr. Solly, the senior assistant surgeon, made an examination of his patient, he found that the bullet from the pistol, after passing through the cheek and fracturing the jaw -bone, had then lodged in the skull. ro extract this required considerable care, but with the aid of forceps Mr. Solly succeeded in extracting the ball. Messrs. Barwell and Elborough, two of the assistants, sat up with Mr. Crawley the whole of Sa turday night, but, although no immediate danger is apprehended, from the cha nge t h at ha d t a k en p l ace during the after part of Sunday, it is feared that ery sipelas will supervene, and if so the worst conse quences may be expected. With respect to the intended assassin, it was learned, upon inquiry being made last evening at Guy's Hospital, that he was considerably better. The bullet, which had entered at the mouth, had passed obliquely through the thick flesh of the cheek to the top of the scalp, without injuring the brain. By merely removi n g a s ma ll portion of the skin of the head the ball wa s ex t ra cted without much diffi culty. Mrs. Crawley, the wife of the unfortunate sufferer, called at the hospital yesterday afternoon, for the pur pose of seeing her husband, but from the dangerous state he was in she was not allowed to enter the ward in which he is, the surgeon fearing that sudden excite ment may aggravate his case. Mr. Yates, the managing clerk to Mr. Crawley, stated yesterday to the reporter, that when Ovenstone tt a appears, dread fully iasd a sinentered his employer's house he appeared i time in acted as fully excited state, and on one of the parties on th e premises asking him if he knew the time of the d a y, he merely raised his arms, and with a vacant gaze re plied, " man, Oh, and no; oh, his n o . s " i s t er. Ovenstone,for some housekeeper to him, but she died about si x mont h s since, and he has ever since been unfortunate in business. command of THE ARRIVAL OF THE 63 D FROM INDIA.-011 Wednesday evening the 2d sth, an , ) 61th comp inies of the 63d regiment ( West Suff )1k) arrived at Ch at h am and remain garrison from India. The strength consists of 14 ser taken to geants, 4 drummers, 12 corporals, and 175 privates, Lieutenant-Colonel C w o e n r tea gin,i c k g em barked at Madras on the 7th of April, on board the - o c m o e l n o , n e a l n ( A l .IG6. children , Smedley. under These troops ship London, and arrived at Gravesend after a passage of four months ; the only deaths during the voyage were der of the regiment, let t t E h l e re h e o c s h p i i l t d a r t e n T ,• l it e b oLuatdyfi vFelim,rean, Madras after the above ship had sailed. The strength of the regiment is 682, all ranks. Upwards of 300 volunteered into other regi ments in India. It left Chatham in 1828. The remain der of the regiinent is expected daily. Mehemet Ali, it is said, has refused to allow the European population of Alexandria to erect an eques trian statue in his honour ; suggesting as a better and more welcome monument, the erection of a public edifice, to comprise an exchange, theatre, and club-house. The fac , i d e , are to be ornamented with bas-reliefs represent ing that great work of ti rritorial redemption, the bar rage of the Nile, and the emblems of am culture and com merce intermingled with m ilitar y tro p hies. A marble bust of the Viceroy and a marble tablet recording the founders' names are all that are to minister to the vanity of individu a l s . The number of persons arrested for taking part in the riots at Troyes, on Saturday and Sunday, is about 40. Great part of them will, it is believed, be set at lib erty, as their participation in the disturbances was very.slight indeed.—Galipiani. - AUGUST 16, • 1847. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. MALTA, AUG. 4.—The Volcano was dispatched to Marseilles on the 24th, with the overland mail for England, brought on the same day by the Ariel from Alexandria, and the Erin went to Southampton very early on the following morning ; but the Ardent, with the mails from the lonian Islands and Patras (bringing the Lord Bishop of Gibraltar), did not arrive until late on the 25th, and her mails were con sequently too late for the homeward packets, much to the prejudice, at this season of the year, of the fruit merchants. The Barretto Junior, with a cargo of meal for Ireland, sailed for Cork on the 24th, and will be followed in a few days by the Austrian ship Amalia Guiseppina, chartered by the agent victualler, for a like cargo. The English screw-steamer Water Witch left for Alexandria on the 24th—the first of a new line from Liverpool. The Heels arrived from Constantinople on the 27th. Just before her depar ture thence she rendered important service to the English barque May Qaeen, which had got ashore at Buyukdere, laden with a cargo of grain from Odessa bound to England, and indeed this vessel and cargo were saved entirely through the exertions of Commander Starmer, his officers, and ship's com pany, and under such circumstances they are decidedly entitled to salvage. The Ottoman steamer Vassitelly Tidjar at arrived from Plymouth and Gibraltar on the 30th, after a splendid run of some hours short of ten days. She left again for Constantinople on the day following. DISTRIBUTION Or THE MEDITERRANEAN SQUADRON. At Lisbon, the Hibernia, 104, be ar i ng th e fl ag o f Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker, the Commander-in- Chief; at Madeira, the Thetis, 36, and Amazon, 26; at Oporto, the America, 50; at Gibraltar, the Virago war-steamer. At Malta, the Ceylon, 12, receiving .ship, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis, second in command, and superintendent of Malta dockyard; Hecla war-steatner, and Wee Pet steam-tug. At Corfu, the Mutine, 10; at the Piraeus of Athens, the Fantome. 16 ; Harlequin, 16 ; and Locust steam-sloop. In the Bay of Phalerean, the Albion, 90 ; Rodney, 90 ' • and Vanguard, 84. In the 4ulf of Zeitun, the Volage surveying -vessel, with ner tender, the Research cutter ; at Bey rout, the Spartan, 26 ; and at Constantinople, the Meteor steam- sloop. MAIL STEAM PACKETS. At Malta, the Spitfire and Ardent; at Corfu, the Flamer; and at Marseilles, the Volcano. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL COMPANY'S MEDITER- The following are the promotions and appointments of the past weelz PIIOMOTIONS. Mates—Thomas -B. Hanham (1845) and Norman Bernard Bedinkfield (1845), to the rank of Lieutenant. APPOINTMENTS. Commander —Henry Gage Morris, to the Cambrian. Retired Commanders—J. Roscow (1830), J. B. Howman (1830), and N. Ratsey (1830 Lieutenants—J. P. B ranc h , to the Excellent; F. L. M'Clintock, to study at the Naval College; T. D. Sullivan and W. F. G.. k g ead, to the Cambrian ; G. M. Smith and R. J. St. A u b op , to t h e Penelope; E. E. Morgan, to the Britomart. )Masters-T. C. Pullen, to the Cambrian; J. Penn , to the Imaun, vice Gahan. , Paymaster and Purser—J. Beat, to the Cambrian. Acting Deputy Medical Inspector—A. Allen, to Plymouth Hospital. Surgeons—J. Moody, to the Cambrian; E. H. Cree, to the Fury; IV. R. D a lt on , J. G. Ri s k, an d A. Brown, to the Crocodile; J. Andrews (a), to the Marion, convict-ship. Mates—F. M. Frazer, to the Trincomalee; H. F. M'Sillop, to the Queen • H. Lambert and G. Stratton, to the Roy a l 1 3 Pfiliam; R. G. Craigie, to the Excellent. Second Masters—W. Feddell, to the Victory; E. Richardson, to the Firefly ; J. Wage, to the Ven geance ; H. Hutchings, to the Amphitrite. Clerks—C. Rose, to the Fury ;T. W. Millery and T. Orieve, to the Cambrian ; J. N. Wicker, to the Trincomalee. Assistant-Surgeons —W. G. M‘Lure, and J. Fayrer, to the Victory; C. Cr' Campbell, to tile Avenger; C. S. Hugo, to the Trincomalee; H. C. S. Wilson, to the Fury; J. L. Johnston, to tbeTam brian. Midshipmen—G. Visconti, G. J, B. Bartelot, and . G. Eden, to the Victory; H. H. Morgan, to the Cro codile; A. K. Forde, to the Ocean. Masters' Assistants—E. Haines, and J. Iless, to the Trincomalee; H. W. C. Wise, to the Camorian ; G. A. F. Day, and F. M. Dyer, to the Vengeance ; D. Brown, to the Firefly ; J. T. Hart, to the Croco dile • John Dyer, to the lee. Naval Cadets—George Worsfold, to the Imaum ; F. F. Waddington to the Amphitrite. • Coast Guard—The appointment of Lieutenant R. F. Lewis, R.N., has been cancelled ; Lieutenant H. A. Corneck to be chief officer at Jury's Gap ; Lieu tenant Edward Maxey, to be ditto at Dunang Point. Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieutenant Wil liam H. Marsh to :be Captfin, vice Law, r e tired on full pay. Second Lieutenant Henry T. Fox to be First Lieutenant ; vice March, promoted. The following have been admittdd in the Excellent as Marine Cadets ;—Mr. J. E. Lock, Mr. Tinklar, Mr. G. Gill, Mr. W. T. Savary. HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES. There is at length a slight stir in the cut-up hose branch, after a three months' unprecedented stagna tion. Tne wrought cotton hose branch is yet in a better condition than the cut-up ; but in Leicester lnd Loughborough an opinion prevails in many quarters, that the common stocking frame will be superseded by Brunell's roundabout Flemish frame, and Thorburn's lever Dumfries frame, the latter of which has been adopted, in one instance, by a Notting ham hosier. The speed of production of this machine is more than double that of the stocking frame. The Flemish frame makes a round web without seam ; the Dumfries one an open web that requires seaming, and can, consequently, be narrowed and widened in the usual way. We understand that a considerable number of both the new principles of frames are now at work, but as.yet they have not been fewer than 32-gusge 2-needle. The drawer, pantaloon, and shirt branch, still maintains its condition, and the frames are in general tolerably well employed, though there are some exceptions. We do not hear of any improvement - in the cotton glove trade, Buiwell and its vicinity being in a very distressed condition. The silk glove is .in ' much the same condition. that it has been in for several weeks pa s t. Th e plain silk hose tr ade, we think, keeps slowly im proving. The hosiery and warp trade in London has met with a very great check, though it has been for some years extending. Were silk stockings in fashion, this branch would be extensive in Spitalfields and its vicinity—that district once contained more than 1,600 stocking frames. There is certainly more doing in some quarters in the cotton bobbin net trade, both fancy and plain; but, as usual, the manufac- turers use every endeavour - to keep this as silent as possible. From what we can learn , several machines are making B er ti e ' s ne t, f rom a double warp, and great hopes are entertained that this will prove a sound article, that will bear the wash-tub. In this opinion we coincide, if so, the troubles in the Not tingham lace trade will be ended, at least for some time to come. In addition to the Spanish order for lace machines, there are several German machine owners in the town giving orders for fine circular bolt machines, that is from 16 to 20 point. The latter quality cannot be made so fine upon the Leaver's principle, which makes Bertie's invention the more valuable, as he makes net from an 11-point Leaver machine equal in fineness to a 22-point made in the usual manner; and we believe the article cannot be made upon a double tier machine ; if so, foreigners will be once more distanced, as the greater part of their machines are constructed upon the double tier principle. The warp lace trade is a shade better; but we understand an attempt is made to reduce the wages, and several meetings of both masters and men have been held upon the subject.—Nottingham Journal. '‘ S. tsyron's Statue, by Thorwalsden, about which so much dispute took place, ending in its rejection from Westminster Abbey, and transfer to Trinity College, Cambridge, has been placed in the library there, and been an interesting object to the numerous visitors whom the election has called to the spot. It stands on an elevated and massive pedestal about four feet in height, and near the top of the room looking towards the en trance. Byron is in a contemplative attitude, and gazing upwards as if in thought or brooding over thick coming fancies. The effect of the whole is very fine, and worthy of the great northern sculptor from whose chisel it came. THREATENING LETTERS.—Lord Denman, in the course of the last Parliament, introduced a Bill to extend the law respecting threatening letters, or accusing per sons with certain crimes. The Bill was passed into an Act of Parliament in July, and under it persons can be imprisoned or transported. In addition to imprisonment, they can be " once, twice, or thrice publicly or privately whipped." NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNITED TRADES FOR THE EMPLOYMENT OF LABOUR.—Friday the ad -I.airned annual meeting of this association w: , s held at the offices, Tottenham-court-road. Mr. Shackleton was called to the chair, in consequence of the absence, from severe indisposition, of T. S. Duncombe, Esq., the pre sident. The balance sheet was read by Mr. Webb, the secretary, and received. Mr. Duncombe was unani mously re-elected president, and Mr. Green, vice-pre sident of the association. Messrs. Robson, Williamson, and Winters, were elected directors, in the place ot the three members who retired by rotation. It was re solved to appoint commercial agents to dispose of the goods manufactured by the association. A resolution was also passed, requesting the directors to carry ou the objects of the association to the utmost possible prac tical detail, as to the purchase of land for the creation of small farms, the erection of workshops and manufac tories, &c. After the usual vote of thanks to the chair man the meeting broke up. THE MOST APPROVED METHOD OF PREPARING GIN.t —EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—CRAWELL v. BAE c E t k i : o ir — vi t the Westminster County Court Friday, go the plaiutifn. livered to the defendant, who a dmitted sworn, the de brought by a licensed victualler, for od e s h so a ld and de remuneration to tin claim, but pleaded a set off. Pendant stated that he claimed o n with the plain h 6 amount of 21., the sum agreed po On being method of preparing gin for the um. the most approved for teaching bias, enterin g business as a publican, Learned .Tudge the de p ti c --In answer to the . on his his method ot im of the - lib. following recipe as fendant gave the To 40 gallons of gin add one tea-spoon. proving gin ' . I, one spoonfull of oil of almonds, on, tuft of oil of vitro w it f spirits of wine , oneo ounce of angelica r oot , on,, ounce of wash alum , on e ounce of salts of tartar, t wk ounces each of Chili gin and whole gin ger.—The plain off, although he admitted having received the alleged instruction in this branch of chemistry, declared, on oath, that he had never tested its efficacy in practice. The Learned Judge, in disallowing the set-off, said that although t at although he did not believe the practice of " • improving" or adulterating the gin in the manner stated to be at all general or proved to have been used in the present case, tie could not help noticing the case i gin -drinking porti on o t t h e co , n the hope th a t th e na information to acc ount. —A munity might turn th e n award was then made in favour of the plaintiff. MATRIMONIAL DISAPPOINTMENT.—On Saturday Richard Warren, aged 16 last birthday, and Christiana Noy, aged 21, p resented themselves at the parish church of St. Ju s t, i n P enwith, for marriage by license. The vicar, however, was too prudent to be imposed upon ; producing from the vestry the lad's mother, a highly respectable widow, who denied that her consent had been given, and a family Bible, which contradicted, in his father's writing, the age of IS as stated in the license, the reverend gentleman declined to act. The fearful guilt and consequences of an affidavit before the Surro gate, so opposed to the facts, having been pointed cut to the misg u id e d B ene di ct , t h e disappointed pair were dis . alissed, and had to tread their steps through a crowd of speetators.—Plymouth Journal. 13. —Scarcely , BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, AUG. i ..-.—S y any business has been done in our sugar market this week, And quotations remain nominally the same as our last., RANEAN STEAM -PACKETS. At Malta, the Ariel. On her way to Malta from :-:outhAmpton, the Sultan; on her way from South ampton, to Gibraltar, Genoa, and Leghorn, the Mon trose; on her way from Malta to Southampton, the Erin ; between Constantinople and Trebizond, the Tagus ; and between Trebizond and Smyrna, the Tiger. At Southampton, Indus, Pottinger, Achilles, Oriental, and Iberia; and at Alexandria, the Ripon. The Ripon arrived from Southampton and Gibral tar on the 31st of July, a few hours before the Flamer, from Marseilles, with the overland London mails for India, with which the Ripon left for Alex andria on the Ist of August. The Egyptian corvette Genah Bahri sailed fcr England on the 30th of July, having on board a number of naval cadets. The Locust was despatched to the Piraeus of Athens on the Ist of August, and the Flamer to the lonian Islands and Patras on the 2d. The cutter yacht Sapphire, Mr. C. B. Blades, owner, touching the safety of which some fears were entertained, there having been no tidings of her arri val at Algiers for some length of time after her sailing from Tunis, arrived from this latter port, having her owner on board, on the 3d; on which day the French steam -frigate Pluton, Viscount De Kerourartz, ar rived from Naples, announcing that the Prince de Joinville with a part of bis squadron of line of battle ships was at Castellamare, whilst the Jupiter and another liner were at Tunis, dispatched thither from Palermo, under the usual summer rumour of the fear of an expedition against that Regency , from Constan tinople, though it is notorious that the Ottoman fleet is not destined further westward than the shores of Albania, the blockade of which is offitially announced. Within the past few days a rumour has circulated in Valletta, that a report had been made to the au thorities that three ships of war had been seen dodg ing about the back of Malta,' and that a launch had been sent in by one of them to take soundings in Marsa Scirocco Bay. We have been at some pains to get at the truth of the story, and find that beyond doubt two or three large vessels had been observed cruising on and off the S.E. end of Malta (though not seen from the Palace Observatory), and that a large boat had entered and taken soundings of the bay of Mersa Scirocco ; but the report of the native officer on duty at the fort there does not appear to have reached the Palace through the roundabout channel in which it was sent, until too late for measures to be taken to ascertain further particulars, though the Wee Pet steam-tug (the only available vessel in port—a mere line of battle ship's launch, with a small engine) went out with Rear-Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis and the Governor's Aide-de-Camp on the 2d inst. to re connoitre. PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—Captain John Bowker, R.N. (1811), one of the retired captains of Green wich Hospital, died on Wednesday. The gallant deceased, we find, on reference to Allen's New Navy List, was midshipman at Toulon; second lieutenant of the Mars, 74, in Cornwallis's retreat, in which ship he greatly distinguished himself in her action with, and capture of, the French 74 Hercule, on which occasion he led the boarders (Captain Hood having been killed and the first lieutenant wounded), and by his gallantry and promptitude defeated a counter manoeuvre of the enemy. For this capture the first lieutenant (the late Rear-Admiral Butterfield) was made a commander ' but the gallant deceased did not obtain the step until 1807. The value of the vacant appointment at Greenwich, consequent upon this death, is 4001. per annum, with apartments, an allow ance of coals, candles, &c. Another gallant veteran died a few days since at Cromarty—Captain Alexander M'lCenzie of the Royal Marines, a captain of forty-nine years' standing ! He served in the American war, and in Howe's action of " the glorious lst of June," 1794, and commanded the battalion of Royal Marines landed from the squadron in the river Plate in General Whitelock's expedition, on which occasion he was severely wounded ; he subsequently served in the second ex pedition against Copenhagen. This brave man died only a captain, a rank which he attained years before mint' of the present superior officers were born. We stated last week, in our detailed report of the movements of the Lords of the Admiralty during their annual official visit to this port, that their Lordships received the report of a committee appointed to determine the best plans and situations on which to establish coal depots for the greater facility and better expedition of coaling steamers at this port. We have been since informed that one plan was submitted by Commander Sherringham, which was to throw out a pier from Rat Island in this harbour, at the end of which a store was to be built to contain a large quantity of coals, delivered by coal vessels. Another plan was proposed by Captain James, R.E., of this dockyard, and compre hended a junction with the South• Western Railway between Cold-harbour, Gosport, and Clarence-yard. It was presumed this latter plan would greatly ex pedite the transit of coals, one person having stated (we are informed) that he would undertake to load coals in seven hours from the time they left New port, in South Wales ! Now, with regard to this important subject, we take leave to say that no other coal depot than a floating one will ever be worth one moment's consideration. Look at the present miserable and dilatory system as here pursued. If a steamer wants a few tons of coal on arrival at Spit head from a foreign or home port, all her powder must be removed before she comes into harbour to ship them, and then the same delay must take place before she can leave the anchorage. This has cau , ed more delay and hindrance, to say nothing of the ex pense to the public service, than any other item, ex cept the breaking down of the machinery. Spithead is the place for coal depots, and while we have so many old three-deckers and two-deckers rotting away in harbour for want of use, we are quite at a lo*s to understand the motive which prompts the erect ex penditure of money in the futile endeavour t coal depots for the navy ashore. Captain Berkeley, one of the Lords of the Admiralty, we have reason to believe takes our view of the case, and we de tr o us ts t will be the means of having all future coal adapted from the present super abundance of materials, without expending the public money in a manner which cannot possibly yield any adequate amount of benefit or accommodation. As Major-General Sir Harry Smith, the newly-ap pointed Governor of the Colony and Commander of the Forces of the Cape of G ood Hope, will embark at this port for his destination ; it is in contemplation to invite him to a suitable entertainment on the eve of his departure, to be got up by . the military, naval, and civil inhabitants of th i s district. The 60th Rifles, to which corps the General has been gazetted as colonel, is at present quartered within the garrison. The Waterwich, 8, Commander T. Francis Birch, was at St. Helena on the 16th of June. She had a few days previously made prize of a fine slave schooner, with 510 slaves on board, an American built vessel, with neither papers nor colours when taken. i o, 8 AP' ' :::y 0 6;6' •1. ..) 44 Ke r°l nd