The Sun. — London, England, 1847-04-03 00:00:00

TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOOL LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE 14th of April bei n g fixed for the ELEC TION„r of Six Directors, have the honour to intimate that Proxy Papers, containing the names of the Five Gentlemen to he re elected agreeably to (mtge, togvther with my own, shall in the.conrse of a few days be forwartied.thr the sign-tare of my supporters, and Deg that such of the Proprietor; as may be temporarily absent from their homes wiil kindly favour me with their address, to ensure the early return of their proxy papers. I have the honour to avail my self of the present opportunity to return my cordial thanktclatAhe Services already rendered to me, and to entreat my supporters and friends to add to the obligations I already owe them by a continu ance of their valuable aid, for which favour I shall ever retain a lively and grateful recollection. I have the honour to remain, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your most obedient and faithful servant, J. CAULFIELD. London Tav,:rn, March 31, 1547 E ASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. NEWMARKET RACES. Pa•sentters booked through, t etween London and Newmarket. via Chesterfori. or Cambridge, Sunday, 4th of April, per 2 P.M. Train. April sth, 6tb, 7th, 81h, and 9th, per 7, 15-11, 30 a.m. and 5 P.M. Tra T to Express Train leaving London at 6 P.M., will stop at Cheater fat Xonday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. By order, C. P. RONEY, Secretary. nishoPsgate Station, London, March 30, 1847. SCA lt BORO G 11.—TO DRAPERS, &c. AGOOD HOUSE, SHOP, and BUSINESS to be DI SPOAE i) OF, where an excellent family trade has been done by the present Proprietors for the last thirty years. The pre mises occupy nearly 390 square yards, including a small garden at the beet, and might be adapted to au extensive trade of any kind. The frontage is 34 feet, with plate glass windows, and is in the best situation in the town. Apply to 11. t'llAttiorae and Sons, Scarborough. N.B. A part of the purchase money may remain on mortgage if required. t:AsTi.R HOLIDAYS. 11. 4 LOYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. AA, LECTURES in illustration of ANIMAL MECHANISM, by T. Ityiner Jones, F. sq., F.R.S., Professor of Comparative Anatomy at King's College, Mornings and Evenings during the week. The GYM NOT I'S E L ECT RIC US, or ELECTRICAL EELS, exhibited In aTR ANSPARENT VESSEL. LECTURES on ARMSTRONG'S HYDRO-E i.CTRIC MACHINE, by Dr. Bachhollher. The WORK ING MODELS and MACHINERY clearly explained. • The varied Optical -Effects include a New Series of DISSOLVING VIEWS. Experiments with the DIVING-BELL and DIVER, &c., &o. Admission Is. Schools, half-price. • 8, KING WILLIAM-STREET, CITY, WILL BE OPENED THIS DAY, APRIL 3, for the Sale of TEA, COFFEE. and Colonial Produce, of the best description, at a less cost to the consumer than has ever yet been attempted by any house in the kingdom. The ex traordinary importations of 'Fine Black Tea will enable us to supply the best imported at 4s. 4d. per lb.; the price for good strong Break fast Tea will be 3s. 4d. to 3s. td. per lb. ; the Best Green Tea, and by the best we mean (regardless of its name) that which is best is the tea-pot, will be ss. Bd., the Green we would recommend with the Black at 3s. 4d. or 3s. Bd., will be 4s. to 4s. 6d. Per lb. The best Ceylon Coffee, Is. ld, per lb.; the finest Costa Rica, Is. 4d.; the finest Mocha. ls. 6d. The known Inconvenience to which families, when purchasing their Teas and Coffees, in not being able to obtain Raw and Refined Sugars at the same house. has determined us on supplying it, as also Colonial Produce, at the smallest per eentage en import prices. our system will, therefore, effect a saying not only on a few, but every article ; and we feel confident in establishing a business, la point of magnitude and usefulness, the metropolis has not yet seen. All orders per post will be forwarded, on Saturday, 3d of April, and afterwards, per own carts daily. List of Prices of every description of Tea, Coffee, and Colonial Produce, can be had on application, per post or otherwise. Phillips and Co., 8, King William-street, City, comer of Abchurch l‘nc. THE WELLINGTON SURTOUT. A NEW LIGHT REPELLENT OVER-COAT FOR THE SPRlNG.—Registered 6 and 7 Viet., cap. 65.—PATRONISED by E.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT, the ROYAL FAMILY, his Grace the COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, the PRINCIPAL NOBILITY, and OFFICERS of the GUARDS. This gentlemanly garment, cut without seams on the shoulder, tdo as to improve the figure, and which (owing to its elasticity) AU equally well either alt an over-coat or LIGHT SUMMER FROCK, is made of a peculiar cloth, manufactured in the west of England, expressly for this coat, of double twist warp and welt, and finest Saxony wool. It is guaranteed to endure and maintain its primitive appearance at least twice the time of ordinary cloth, however good the quality, as it does net wear white or rough, and' although re pellent, is perfectly porous. The sleeves are lined with ar ich dura ble silk, so that the coat slips on and off easily, and, owing to its softness, lightness, and elasticity, the wearer experiences perfect ease and freedom when the coat Is buttoned. The WELLINGTON -uitTorr commends itself to all who desire a quiet, elegant, gentlemanly appearance ; it is kept in'avery size and leading colour, ready for immediate wear, price Two Guineas and a net cash on delivery. Every genuine coat has a stamp bearing the royal arms, with a number indicative of the size, and name and address of the patentee, JAMES FOUGERE, 6, CONDUIT STREET, REGENT-STREET, and 11, POULTRY, near the MAN SION-HOUSE, LONDON. SILVER FLAT 110RIZONTAL WATCHES, carefully finished, with engine-turned cases, jewelled in four ?ale , going barrel to continue the action of the Watch while wind ing, are offered, price 3/. IN. each. These elegant little Watches will be found to perrorm very correctly, and a printed an dertakinz is given, with fixed terms on which they will always ?oxeye any attention required. T. COX SAVORY and Co., Watchmakers. &c., 47, Cernhlll, (seven doors from Gracechurch-street), London.—N.B. Second-hand 'Watches purchased in ea change. ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL Ir celebrated throughout the world for its genial and nour ishing qualities for the Human Hair! It produces and restores hair; B toPe it from falling off or turning grey ; restores Gray Hair to its original colour; frees it from scurf and dandruff, and renders it soft, silky, curly, and glossy. For Children, it is es: ecially recommended as forming the basis of a Beautiful Head of Hair, and ren dering the use of the fine comb unnecessary. Its invaluable properties • have obtained .the especial Patronage of her taJesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Whole of the Royal Family, aid of every Court of the civil ised world ; and the high esteem in which it is universally held, to- Setheri with numerous Testimonials coustanUy received of its efficacy, afford the best and surest proofs of its merits. Pr.ce 3a. Gd., 75., or Family Bottles (equal to four small) at 10s. 6d., and double that size, 21s. Caution.—On the Wrapper of each Bot:le of the Genuine Article are their words in TWO lines, _ " ROWLANDS' MACC A SSA R OIL." Sold by the Prcprietors, at 20, Ilatton-garden, London; and by all Chent'ata and Perfumers. T HE ORIGINAL METALLIC STROP ( with ORDER . Four sides), for REEVING RAZORS in PERFECT The METALLIC TABLET STROP was invented in the year 1 81(i, by George Saunders, of New York, and was favourably le celved by the public as far surpa,sing any other Razor Strop. The first cutlers in Europe, after trill, have acknowledged its superiority, and many use it in preferencs to the Hone. the effect being much more powerful, and requires neither oil or water. A keen, smooth Vife to a razor. so necessary To ahita,.l with comfort, Is obtained and Kept without having recourse to any ether means. The American Institute for the Encouragement of Science, in con sideration of its superior valua and qualities. awarded the Inventor A silver medal a nd t! I.ip.otna. To Gentlemen who sh eve themselves the following query is pro- POssd :—Why do all the first cutlers in Europe use and recommend Saunders's Four-sided Tablet RazOr Strop ? The answer is, simply because it is the only one that gives to a razor a keen and smooth edge. DEPOT. 278. STRAND. COMFORT FOR TENDER FEET, AND A CERTAIN CURE --- FOR CORNS AND BUNIONS. PAUL'S EVERY MAN'S FRIEND, which gives RELIEF on the FIRST APPLICATION. PAIJU:4 EVERY MAN'S FRIEND (CORN PLAISTER) Is ge- Z er allY admitted to be the best emollient application for Corns and .unioxs, and is worthy of a trial on the part of those who are afflicted with such unpleasant companions. Testimonials have been received from upwards of one hundred 111 3'sicians and' Surgeons of the greatest eminence, as well as from Th anY Officers of both Army and Navy, and nearly one thousand private letters from the gentry in town and country, speaking in b!ah terms of this valuable remedy. Prepared by John Fox, in boxes at Is. 1 lAd., or three small boxes in one for 2s. 9d.; awl to be had, with full directions for use, of C. Riag, 34, Napier street, Hoxton New-town, London; and all whole- Sale and retail medicine Vepclors, in town and country. The genuine has the name of "John fox" on the stamp. A 2s. 9d. box cures the most obdurate corns. Ask for " Paul's Every Man's Friend." Sold also by Barclay and Sons, Farringdon-ssreet ; Edwards, 67, St. Paul's Church-yard ; Butler, 4, Cheapshle ; Newberg, St. Paul's; Sutton, Bow Church-yard; Johnston, 16, Greek-street, Soho; and G. Cornhill ; Sanger, 150, Oxford-street; Willoughby and Co., 61, tishopsgate-street Without; 52, Marehmout-street, Burton crescent ; Eade, 39 5 Geswell street; Prout, 229, Strand ; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford -street; Hunter and James, Webber-row; and retail by all respectable chemists and medicine vendors in every town in England. pRAAIPTON'S FILL of IIE.A.LTIL Price ls. 13 d. rer box. This excellent Family Pill is a medicine of long-tried efficacy for erecting all disorders of the S.:oinach and Bowels, the common kYolptorn s of which are Costiveness, Flatulency, Spasms, Loss of Petite, Sick Head-ache, Giddiness, Sense of Fulness after meals, B owels of the Eyes, Drowsiness and Pains in the Stomach and 'owels ; Indigestion, producing a Torpid state of the Liver, and a consequent Inactivity of the 110w..315, causing a disorganization of b e rY function of the frame, will, in this most excellent preparation, a little pe rs e ver an c e, b e e ffe ctua lly remo ved. Two or th ree d oses pill eonviitee the afflicted of its malr:tary effects. The stomach will s p e edily regain its strength ; a healthy action of the liver, bowels, and kidneys will rapidly take place; and instead of listlessness, heat, r un, and Jaundiced appearance, strength, activity, and renewed ealth will he the quick result of Baking this medicine, according to the directions accompanying each box. • „These Pills are particularly efficacious for Stomach Coughs, Colds, Shortness of Breath, and all Obstructions of the Urinary L'atisages ; aud, if taken after too free an indulgence at table, they Cl u lcklY restore the system to its natural state of repose. Persons of a Full Habit, w:10 are subject to Head-ache, Giddiness, D rowsiness, and Singing in thes Ears, arising from too great a flow of /flood to the Head, should ne,er be without them, as many dan gerous symptoms will be entirAy carried oft by their immediate use. For Females, these Pills are most truly excellent, removing all Obstructions, the distressing ll end-ache so very prevalent with the 112 x; Depression of Spirits. Du, 'loss of Sight, Nervous Affections, siletches, Pimples, and sailowne is of the Skin, and give a healthy and juvenile bloom to the corn pie To Mothers they are confident] y recommended as the best medi cine that can be taken during pregnancy ; and for children of all Ages they are unequalled. As a pleasant, safe, and easy • Aperient, they unite the recom mendation of a mild operation with the most successfid effect, and require no restraint of diet, er confinement during their use. By re gulating the dose, according to the age and strength of the patient, they become suitable for every case in either sex, that can be re quired ;..and for Elderly People they will be found to be the most comfortab:e medicine hitherto prepared. Sold by T. Trout, 229, Strand, 1.0n.10n. Price Is. 114 d. and 2s. 9d. Ilsr box ; add also by the Vendors of Medicine generally throughout tee kingdom:', Ask for FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH, and observe the name and addregs of " Thomas i'rout, 229, Strand, London," on +no uovernment Stantp. ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF TOUTR AND MATURITY. WITH TWENTY-FIVE COLOURED ENGRAVINGS. duet Published, Twentieth Thousand, la a sealed envelope, price , Jr post paid, to any address, for 3s. 6d. in Postage tamps direct front the Author's residence. SELF- PRESERVATION : A Medical Treatise on the Nieret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity, tl b erated with Twenty-dye Coloured Plates on the Anatomy. ll r s iology, and Dlseasee of the Urtnary and Reproductive Organs, ', 'Alining their various structztrus, uses, and functions, and showing 1; injuries that are produced In them, by solitary habits, and other A : I, With Practical Observations on tho Treatment of Nervous L'ltY. Local and Constitutional Weakness, and other diseasea of -me U rethra. 11 3 8A T•VMERT, CONSULTING SURGEON, 9, tledford-street, Bedferd-square, London; s treet lated Member of the U nivers it y o f Edinburgh, Honorary ?nibet, of the London Hospit a l M e dical Society , Licentiate — voibeca les' Hall. London, &e. CONTZNTS Cr T=lt TRIATISII. 4..„HAPTIci the Philosophy of Marriage, with ita Hindrances n 'wi bligai ions, and on Infelicitous and Unproductive Unions.— earrz e .. 2. On the Anatomy and Physiology' .f the Generative t bet r functions structures, and secretions, Proving ..jVial a ad Physical iower are dependant upon their healthy action no 3. On Solitary Habits; their various effects en the tenoiny ; the concealed cause ef Debility of the ninction. k e uie Sto. nach, Lungs, and 'train, and general weakness of the Cmarria 4. On the Secret Disorders of Youth lite &tun ty, and the T rea t men t o f N ervous and Local Weakness, th." 111 Debility, and Premature Decay.—CnarTims 5 and 6. On %no I .. in nikirr arising from indiscriminate Excess, Houltorliala o trictures, and other Diseases of beL Urethra. gal lt ICIFIERI Of Till OIL. L , th or of this IL singular and talen W ted work is a legally quall. t ke t 7,." man, who has e v id en tly h a d co nsiderable experience el nrtnent of the va r i ous di sor d ers ar i s i n g from the Jollies sni 1 14 1 4 ;7 4 of , early indi scret i on. The engravings are a n invaluable ad kt by demonstrating the consequences of excesses, which must ktny 'alirtary warning to youth and maturity, and by Its perusal _i_ibestie them ay be satisfactorily replied to, that admit tne ap ,7,it to 'most confidential friend."—Era. it 'milled r j'al k by the Author, and nay be had at his residence; also ' a nt anti itichartti 52, Paternoster-row; Hannay and Co., 63, Le yt e atraet . Stacie , .11elaborne-street, Quadrant; Gor don, 146 . --"! by X, T're a t. London; Newton, 16, Church street, Liverpool 1, 1 4 t isooksellers. tin Erg for Consultation daily, from ediately Nine till Two, and fron : ht ; and all letters imm replied to, if co , lets kltp h ! 11 ., for advice, &C.-9 BEDFORD-STREET BLDFORD -.1.• LOVDOXJ .......,,,,.;, , ~1,...:A7C.41,.. ~. . jr . ..._-, .. . , .. .. .._-,.... • .?? - . 3.': , ...-...=, ) , ,-) ---.7 - - • -.... 4., s, , _2_, - . _ 1-4 e.. ._... 7 • 7 :,,,, 1 - 6 .„.... 4. ,, ( i ll . . <l. 4 • . - . 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To how recent a date tit , a Stratton. have been brought down may be judged front the fact that he changes cons quent on the demiss of the la e Duke t Northum berland have been introduced as their proper order' n the ParlEmen tary d.vision of the work. MORNING CIIIIINICLE, Nov 20,1846. The powers of expansion exhibited by this most useful annual voluirrs appear real y unlimited. tablishe during a series of f.,rty t4nt years, in a metropolis whose dwell:ins Increase in number by a yearly average of some fourteen tho:'s m.l, and whose commerce expands in at 11 larger measure, the " Post-office Directory" has be come enormously enhanced in bu k, tt also in the complicated variety of its ',dispensable • onteuts The admirable uccess with which the really enormous cl,ftleulties of Ills task have been overcome by-the indefatigable publisher has been proved by the ex,Vence of many years ; - and we need say li tle more titan that the present volume presents the same tokens as its predecessors. of Wei igeat method and ingenuity of arrangement In packing taw reasonable compass, and producing in lucid order its mil tens of facts and reference. Within two thousand levies every man may leant everything he ought to know about every one gka,bitcon;di:; notes s es in the great metropolis, their businesses , a s we I ry nary to facilitate him in his own. The very rapt ex elision of our railway system, and the new postal arranveinents w.th some conti nental states, have rendered neeess,ry some extensive additions t , ) th nn e a s t ec he tio in n f s onn a curate as it was well possible to make them, but more new and re cent than we should have :hougnt attainable in a work of such mag- P a P t rciP ton ri gte Li n under toC weY those i t ' heads nut i l l mag nitude. Prefixed to the volume is about the best Map of London we happen to have met with. -- TIMES, Nov. 18, lt4G. The forty-eighth annual publication of this work—the volume for 1847—is now issued. It is a wonderful y different affair from the old Directory, which used to consist of little or nothing more than the alphabetical list of tradesmen; it comprises now, and has for some year', a " Street Directory," a " Trades' I)ircctory," a " Court Directory," a " Postal Directory," a " Conveyance Directory," with a host of other little digests. The voinme appears to have been very carefully revised, and supplies the latest information. Of course, the postal treaty with Prussia has not been overlooked ; and Its miner points the work seems to bear the test of search into matters in which changes have , been very recent. MORNING POST, Nov. 19, 1846. . . The forty - sight.:annual puldleation of tills admirable work has ust been issuttd. Any dissertation on the usefulness of this volume, atter its well-proven service in almost every etamting-hottse in the metropolislior so many years ~ a st, must be quits unneeessary. Suf fice it to say, the present edition possesses all the merit of its prede cessors, while the alterations and corrections in the various depart ments have been carried down to the latest period. MORNING HER 11,1), Nov. 21, 1546, Balky as the proportions of this indis?ensable work have hitherto been, the volume for 1847 comes forth under circumstances of still urther enlargeme.nt. The experience of 47 years has obviously enabled the proprietor, Mr. Frederick Kelly, to produce a Directory of unrivalled completeness, wherein every species of fact likely to be wanted by the merchant and trader is placed within convenient access. The volume contains upwards of 2,000 closely-printed royal ()dove pages, betokening a singular amount of industry a:.• a matter of dompliation, and awakening astonishment at the comprehensive ness of tke machinery which could bring within a common focus so much varied and scattered intelligence—embracing, as it does,. a multiplicity of heads, and involv ng the services of a vast number of contributors. We believe that the present volume is i.ot to be Matched in the whole world, for such a mammoth aggregate of local and specific: information is no less a typographical wonder than a Drodigious monument of diligence and enterprise. Some dozen or so of separate Directors are included in this huge periodical—the only one, it seems, of the annual tribe destined to a permanent existence a veritable triumph, indeed, of the utilitarian principle over the ornamental. The "Official Directory" is a key to the whole of the Government offices, and a record of official personages. This is fol lowed by a "Street Directory," exhibiting the tradesmen in every thoroughfare, and the points at which the streets are intersected by those at right angles ; while the "Commercial and Professional Directory" is an alphabetical arrangement of the above. Then comes a "Trades' Directory," in which the names are allocated under their respective callings. The "Law Directory" is a list of judger, Queen's counsel, sergeants, banisters, attorneys, &c., with a cata logue of the various Courts of Law, their officers, and their peculiari ties of jurisdiction. The "Court Directory" comprises the addresses of the nobility and gentry; and the "Parliamentary Directory" is a record of the Members of the House of Lords and Commons, with an alphabetical list of the boroughs, cities, and counties returning Members to Parliament, the surnames and eldest sons of peers, &c. The " Postal Directory" contains the hour of receipt and delivery o every Post-office in the kingdom ; the cities and principal places throughout the world to which mails are dispatched from London ; the rates of foreign postage ; the railway mails and the cross-road mails, &c. The City Directory" registers the civic authorities. the public companies, the brokers, the incumbents and ministers of the churches and chapels, the newspapers, &c. ; and the "t onveyance Directory" includes the railway tables, the coach and booking offices, the wharfs, &c. The volume closes with Banking and Assurance 'Directories. These various heads will serve to indicate the multi tudinous nature of the contents, for out of them come a variety of subordinate directories; which meet every conceivable want, pre senting a curious analysis of the public and private institutions of the metropolis and of the commercial world. Every person is to be found under his proper section, from a prime minister down to a sheriff's officer--every establishment, from a palace to a lodging house. The editor, in his preface, takes occasion to congratulate himself on the many improvements he has this year introduced, principally flowing from the employment of' - selected agents," instead of the ordinary carriers of the Post-office. Among the specific alterations, the new postage treaty with PM! sia, which came into operation ou the Ist et January, 1847, and disturbs to a conside: able extent the rates of postage over a great part of the Continent, seems the most important. MORNING ADVERTISER, Nov. 18, 1846. _ _ The " Post-office London Directory, 1847," is just delivered. Thougk it is apparently limited to London, it is in reality a national work. Nose of the leading towns caa well ha without it ; it must be an essential to every counting-how e in the kingdom, as well as to every Place of business is and about the rnetr(polls.. It is an 'twain able work of its kind ; and the extent and minuteness of its useful de tails are truly wondetful. Being prepared " under the immediate and sp cial patronage of her Majesty's Postmaster-General," the amplest and completest means were, of course, at the command of the pro prietor, Mr. Kelly, to secure the entire accuracy or the voluminous and crowded contents of the bulky work. The present is the forty eighth annual publication. Few commercial and trading men can now require particular description of the reall important and useful information, to almost every party in any sort of business, occupying the two thousand closely but clearly prat:ftd octavo pages of this Di rectory. Preceded by an admirable and persdicuous Map of London, prepared expressly, it is declared, fur the work, by Mr. IL It. Davies, there are divisions comprising, among other information, " Official," "Street," " Commercial ," " Trades,' "Law," "Court," "Parlia mentary," " Postal,' " City," " Conveyance," "Bankin„" and many other Directories. The hope is expressed in the preface that this forty-eighth annual edition of the " Post-office London Directory" may be found "in all respects to equal the best of its prod •cessors." From very consider able examination of the marvellously full and varied contents and lutormation en matters which it must be so difficult, lahori us, and expensive to collect, we hesitate not to say, that this unitssua.ing wieh is liberally realised. It net only equals the best of its prede• censors, but in several particulars It surpas es all its predecessors. The information is not only fuller in many respects, but there are several important alterations and addition., largely adding to the usefulness of the bo ,k. It Is Intimated, and truly, that although all competition has disappeared, the present volume is conspicuous proof that there has been no r,laxation in the mult.farious labours to per fect the extraordinary work. In speaking of past success, it is observed that it has been, "even In a pecuniary point of view, bene ficial to the public, is proved by the fact that important improve melds and additions are annually made without any Increase of price "—a result that, it is declared, " could not have been the case, had the public patronage been divided." With reference to the price, we certainly must acknowledge that it is wonderful how i t ca n be profitable to provide such varied materials —and materials constantly changing and requiring so much and such ceaseless labour and cost to procure, and then to classify. Nothing but a tremendee:s sale could make the speculation answer. Among the important alterations will be found those introduced into. the " Postal" Directory. It is, indeed, singularly full, useffil, and complete ; and must much increase the daily, it might be more truly pronounced its hourly value, particularly to the merchant, the trader, or the professional man. As the 'new treaty with Prussia caused very considerable changes in the rates of postage as effecting the Austrian dominions, Baden, Bavaria, Bremen, Denmark, the German States, Hamburg, Hanover; Lubeck, Mecklenburgh, Older.- burgh, Poland, Prussia, Saxony, Sweden and Norway, Wurtemburg, &c. &c. &c., those changes are detailed " precisely as they arranged to come into operation on the Ist of January, 1847." The other changes are not only numerous, but all the intelligence is announced to be brought down to a period as late as was compatible with the appearance of such a volume in sufficient time for general circilatlon, prior to the commencement of the year for which it is designed. The business merits of the work are of the highest order, and render it, of its kind, we imagine, a publication unexampled In the world for its completeness, fulness, and usefulness. SUX, Nov. 18,1846. The present is the forty-eighth annual edition of the "Post-office London Directory," and a truly marvellous effort of compilation it is. The " Post-office Directory" has been for some years under the management of Mr. Kelly. Until he became ;he manager of this work, there were divers other Directories in the field. TI ey have, however, all disappeared, and the " Post-office Directory" now rules alone. This astonishing success, however, has not had the effect of matting the proprietor of this gigantic work careless. He is too thorough a man of business not to be perfectly aware that the fruits of his success can only be reaped by a continuance of the same untiring energy by which the success was In the first instance achieved, and accordingly we find that the " Post-office Directory" for 1847, is even more highly finished in all its elaborate arrangements than any former edition of the book. The extent and minuteness of the details furnished, render the work indispensable to every commercial and mercantile establishment. So admirably, however, is this multifarious information digested and arranged, that there 13 not the slightest difficulty experienced in referring to the articular page required to furnish the intnrmation—a marvellous *stance of elearness of arrangement in a sk ork consisting of upwards of two thousand closely but clearly printed octavo pages. This Directory is certainly the most complete work of the sort ever offered to the public. Of not only the usefulness, but the indispen sable necessity of such a work, no man of business can for a moment entertain a doubt ; and consVering the completeness and fulness of the ialormatien furnished, and the enormous outlay of time and o capital that must have been made in order to acquire and digest the information, the very reasonable price at which the work is published is really wonderful. can be said in its liaise. The inachinely by which such volu minous information is obtained, arranged; 'and superintended, so as to avoldierrors, must 01 itself be among the " curiosities" of modern literature. LCONO,IIIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 6, NEW BRIDGE-STREET, BLACKFBIARS, LONDON. Established 1823. .Empowered by Act of Parliainent, 3 William IV. DIRECTORS. _ _ _ . CHAULMAM—The Right Hon.iirT.FIANKLAND LEWIS, Bart. DEPUTY CIEskIRMAN HENRY FREDERICK STEPHENSON, En Stephen Nicholson Barber, Esq. Thomas Edgar, Esq. Arthur Kett'itarehty, Esq. Sir Alex. Duff Gordon, Bart. Henry Brrnett, Esq. Archibald Hastie, Esq„ M.P. Robert Biddulph, Esq. John I'dendham, Esq. Robert Davies, Esq. William Routh, Esq. Francis Dumiergue, Esq. Capt. Robert Gordon, R.N. AUDITORS. Charles Morris, Esq. John Gilliam Stilwell, Esq. . - Pursterszt—John Ayrton Paris, M D., F.R.S'.. No. 27, Dover-street. President of the Royal College of Physicians. Suacsost —Benjamin Travers, Esq , F.lt.S., No. 12, Bruton-street, Vice-President of the Royal College of Surgeons. SOLICITOIV—Henry Young, Esq., NO. 12, Essex-street, Strand. BANKERS—Messrs llankey, Fenchurch-street. ACTUARY —James John Downes, Esq., F.R.A.S. SECRETARY — CampbeII James Downer. Esq. The following arc among the advantages offered by this society : Lower Rates of Premium than those of any other office, which en title Vie assured to participate in the profits, and considerably lower than those of any other Mutual Assurance Society. No Proprietary participate in the profits, the whole being divisible among the Assured. . A Romig is added, after the payment of the Fifth Annual Pre mium, to every Policy effected on the participating Scale, if a claim accrue thereon prior to the next division of profits. The iirstßonus, in 1834, averaged 161. per cent on the Premiums paid. The second ditto 1839, ditto 311. ditto since the Ist division. The third • ditto 1844, ditto 361. ditto since the 2d division. Prospectuses and full particulars may be obtained on application to • CAMPBELL JAMES DOWNER, Secretary. FIRE INSURANCES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION ARE UNDERTAKEN BY TUE SCOTTISH UNION INSURANCE COM PANT, 37, Cornhill, London, on the most liberal terms and conditions. . Special risks reasonably ruted. Renewal receipts for insurances falling due at Lady-day are now ready. Printed particulars of the large bonus just declared in the L fe Department may be had on application. F. G. SMITH, Secretary. 37, Cornbill,'London. UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.— 8, Waterloo-place, Pall•mall, London : 97, George-street, Edinburgh; 12, St Vincent-place, Glasgow ; 4, Col lege-green, Dublin. Established by Act of Parliament In 1834. In 1841, the Company added a bonus of 2 per - .:ent. per annum on lie sum assured to all policies of the participating class, from the 1 4 1 2 . , ,illeY,Were effected. Parties wishing to secure the benefit of tho next division of profits In 1848 should make immediate application. When the Insurance is for life, only one italf the Annual Premium need be paid for the first 5 years. Every information will be afforded on application to the Resident Direeter, E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., No. S Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London, where Prospectuses, &c., may be had. 1 111,0VIDENT LIFE OFFICE, 50, REGENT STREET, LONDON, Established 1806. INVESTED CAPI CAL, 1,200,000/. Annual Income 140,000/. Bonuses declared 529,0001. Claims paid since the Establishment of the Office, 1,520,0001, PRESIDENT. The Right Honourable EARL GRET. DIRECTORS. The Earl of Macclesfield. Rev. James Sherman. The Hon. Arthur Rinnaird. Henry B. Churchill, Esq. Sir Richard D. King, Bart. William Judd, Esq. Alexander Henderson, M.D. James Sedgwiek, Esq. Capt. W .John Williams.. Alfred Beaumont, Esq. John Deering, Esq. George Deere, Esq. William Henry Stone, Esq. Richard Sherwood, E s q. 1.1 the rate The Hates of without Premi umbonus are those is lower thoseado than dby the principal Life Offices, that of most other offices. 2. The Bonuses are added to the Policies, or applied to the reduc tion of the Premiums, or may be received in cash as soon as de ,:iared, at their then present value. 3. Loans are granted upon the Policies issued by this office, or the Policies are purchased at their full value. 4. If a party neglect to pay for the repair the omission any time within 1 good health. Bonuses paid upon Policies whin Life 'insured. renewal of his Policy, he may twelve months, upon proof of I have become Claims. John Wharton, Esq.. Skelton Castle Sir John Saunders Sebright, Hart... Sir William Wake, Bart. ..... ..... Earl Strathmore ..... ...... ..... IS= insured.' Sum paid. 5,000 5,000 8,000 5,080 3,000 2,000 1,000 Z s. (1. 7,706 6 0 7,652 13 3 7,500 5 9 7,128 15 8 4,509 1 1 3,411 1 3 1,862 4 11 Rev. H. W. Champneys, Canterbury The Marquis of Wellesley • • •.. • . Earl Cathcart .......... Prospectuses and full particulars may be obtained upon applica tion to the agents of the office in all the principal towns of the United Kingdom; and at the head office, No. 50, Regent-street. JOINT A. BEAUMONT, Managing Director. THE CITY OF LONDON LIFE ASSURANCE SGCIETY. No. 2, ROYAL EXCHANGE-BUILDINGS. This Society is established on the principle of combining all the known advantages and conveniences of the oldest Life offices, with the general results of their experience. Its Premium Tables are adjusted on the most economical yet safe scale, and embrace three distinct divisions or departments : Thus, Policies may be effected on THE MUTUAL SYSTEM, securing all its advantages without its risks or liabilities, AN IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION TO ASSURERS. THE PROPRIETARY SYSTEM, with the full benefits of its acknow ledged SECURITY, SIMPLICITY, and ECONOMY; and TIIE ACCUMULATIVE Olt DEPOSIT SYSTEM, INTRODUCED BY THIS SOCIETY, which perfects the principle of Life Assuranx, the full amount of the Deposit—Premiums being at all times available to the Assure 4. ALSO HALF-CREDIT PREMIUMS for stipulated periods, a pecu liarly advantageous arrangement for YOUNG LIVES and for all per sons WITH ADVANCING MEANS OR INCOMES. And, Tables expressly calculated for NAVAL and MILITARY RISKS in all quarters of the world, on the most moderate terms. Together wilt all the usual divisional rates, accommodations, and conveniences. EDWD. F. LEEKS, SECRETAIT. PUBLICATIONS. On Saturday next,' Bvo.. 2s. 6d. THE SCHOOL, in its relations to the STATE, the CHURCH, and the CONGREGATION; being an expla nation of the minutes of the Committee of Council on Education, in August and December, lit 46. John Murray, Albemarle•street ; and to be had of all Booksellers in Town snd Country. GLOBE, Nor. 21, 1846. Kelly's invaluable work, the " Post-office Directory," has just made its appearance for the ensuing Sear. The vast mass of infor mation which this hook contains, makes It not only desirable but absolutely necessary as a part of the office furniture of every man of business ; and scarcely less necessary, Indeed, for every one else, who requires to know anything concerning the trades, professions, and localities of the great metropolis. In its present extended form, the book is an absolute curiosity ; the labour and expense which it has cost to bring it to its present state of perfection must have bees immense. In turning over its two thousand pages, one hardly knows which most to be streck with and admire—the excellent arrangement and utility of such A compilation, or the magnitude of the city which requires such a directory. The volume; moreover, contaiv an excellent map of London and the suburbs, corrected down to the latest strides of " brieks and mortar." WEEKLY DISPATCH, Nov. 15, 1846, The forty-eighth annual publication of this highly•important and nsetbl work has just been issued ; and we must confess that its bulky appearance has sarprised us not a little; and when we reflect that the price remains -anal , ered, although the expense of collecting the maferials must have increased, we are pleased at the liberality of Mr, Kelly, the proprietor. In a commercial point of view, per haps, io book ever contained so much useful matter. Among o; her Information, there is an " Official Directory," a " Street Directory," a" Commercial Directory," a " Trades' Directory," a " Law Direc tory," a" Court Directory," a" Parliamentary Directory," a "City Directory," a " Conveyance Directory," and a " Banking Direc tory; —in fact, the volume contains much that is interesting and valuable to the tradesman, the merchant, the lawyer, and pers ne in ordinary life, as well as to the gentleman who occasionally dabbles In trade. Every description of Information has been corrected to the latest possible period, and that information is arranged with a dearness and simplicity wh:ch must have involved great activity of mind and exertion of body. Sewed with the book Is an excellently engraved Map of London, more extended and acc:irate as to the suburbs than any map we have seen • and to make it as complete a reference as possible, an almanac is introduced. In the " Postal Directory" there are the new rates with various parts of the Con tinent which will come into operation on the Ist of January. Altogether this new issue surpasses any of its predecessors ; and we are nct surprised that other Directories should have gone to the tomb of all the Capulets. BRITANNIA, Nov. 21, 1846. The French people have done themselves some credit by their In dustrial expositions. But it must be acknowledged that, though in genious and pretty, they appear quite insignificant compared with the industrial exposit on presented to the mind by this mighty volume. Keeping pace with the advancing trade and population of London, It still increases in balk, and keeping paoe with the move ment of society in a more important particular, it vigilantly seizes every opportunity of Improvement to insure more perfect accuraly and more complete classification. We find in this volume many in stances of superiority to former issues, which, though comparatively trifling, show the intelligence and care exercised over every depart ment. It may be mentioned, that by the employment of private agents, the changes of residence are now brought down to a later period than formerly. and the value of the " Directory" is conse quently enhanced. We have before spoken of It as indispensable to the proper management of business. Its authority is now so univer sally established, both at the Post-office and throughout the matt*. polls, that any further recommendation of it is superfluous. J01V.7 BULL, Nov. 28, 1846. This annual leviathan is alrewly completed and published ; but as a proof that the rapidity with which it must have passed through the press has not operated against its careMi accuracy, we may mention that the changes rendered necessary by the very recent demise of Mr. Stewart, M.P. for Renfrewshire, are duly attended to (See pages 1669 and 1676). We have so frequently expressed our approbation of this moat valuable work, that we hardly know how to vary our commendation. It contains every thing that can pos sibly be required in a directory —so full, so complete, so compre hensive are all its details. And when to this we add the extreme accuracy which pervades every department, we know not what else NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSU RANCE SOCIETY. OFFICE, 26, CORNIIILL, LONDON. Capital 500,0001. Empowered by Act of Parliament. • The system of Deferred Annuities, originally proposed by the Na tional Loan Fund Life Assurance Society, for the better advance meat of the objects of Benefit and Friendly Societies, having received he approbation of a considerable body cf the active members and officers of those Institutions, and the Directors of the National Loan Fund Society having been urgently solicited by them to establish a Branch Office in connexion with those Societies and the Operative Classes generally, in which their services might be successfully ea gaged, a Committee has been sanctioned by the Directors to open communication with the different Societies, with the view of more ffectually dsseminating the valuable benefits amongst the Indus rious classes, and a plan has been proposed with that object. ADDRESS OF TIIE COMMITTEE. Many praiseworthy hut ineffectual attempts have been made to bring within the scope and operation of the laws of mortality and money the savings of the industrious classes, as well as various cal culations remilating their distribution, having for their object either immediate, contingent, or deferred benefits. A slight examination, however, will demonstrate that the con struction of these asseciations.or societies is defective; and that In stead of affording an easy access and a free choice of investment, which should be the. privilege of every one, they confine too nar rowly the channel through which a benefit can alone be secured; and, in proportion as their action is circumscribed and embarrassed, their utility is limited. For example, it is not to every individual, or to every class amongst the industrious community, that provision in case of sickness is an object of such importance as to call for a pecnniary sacrifice ; whi'e to others such a provision appears more attractive, and the loss of employment caused by sickness is a risk against which they desire to be guarded. For this anomalous state of things there is an effectiveind simple remedy ; that is to say, instead of covering, by one weekly or Annual payment, two or more contingent or deferred benefits; "so to arrange It that each separate benefit should have Its separate contribution: ' two It dissimilari s to o h f o o v n ig se rule, and g t o s e t k h inacto and t l o rof an annuity fund in one and the sell • same payment , t h at m uc h of the c n ti o n o s b ,a r n y cl e d b f r o u u l t n evils and mismanagement has arisen amongst Benefit Societies. No mechanism can be so perfect for the management of a sick - and watchfulness of the several members compos in g it . B y ess-fund provision as that afforded by the constant sectional asso ciationthis means a thorough and constant check is mutually exercised, and none hut the really sick are likely to become chargeable upon it. But the same perfection, or the same semrity, is seldom attainable where a fund is to be accumulated through a succession of years, and where results are to bear oat calculations, money investment being lit general beyond the experience .of the industrious classes. For these reasons it is clear that the fends destined for a provision in teckness should be kept entirely distinct from the Lind intendfd as a provision for old age:- . let Because the laws of sickness and mortality, though apparently connected, do not depend on the same calculation. 2d. Because there are a great number who, in order to secure a larger provision in old age are willing to take the risk of providing for probable sickness on themselves. 3d. Because the responsibility of managing a provision for old age, continued to a distant period is, in a great measure, incompatible with voluntary associations, fluctuating laws, and individual irre sponsibility, and more exposed to a failure in the performance of such a contract, that when undertaken on the same principles that ordinarily govern commercial kodie ,. 4th. Because the expenses of providing for sickness must, when milted In the same payment with provision for old age, tend to dimi nish still more this provision : nor a it wisiom or good policy to en danger the one for the sake of the other. Impressed with these convictions, and with an intimate knowledge of the discussions passing within the bosom of many of Ike existing Friendly and Benefit Societies, the parties whose names are here unto attached, have had several meetings, with a view of proposing or adopting a remedy for these and other evils ; and in this manner to give an ad litional force to the principles of brotherhood, unity, and mutual aid, on which friendly societies are based, by guarding them from the risks of sudden dissolution. After much diligent search atnomst the combinations ingeniously proposed front time to time for the attainment of one of the principal objects of Friendly and Benefit Societies„ they have found none equal in simplicity and comprehensiveness of design, as well as forethought and sympathy for the wants of the industrious classes, as the plan proposed by the National Loon. Fund Life Assurance Society. It is true that the author of that plan las furnished an argument against prdvision in sickness; but, without concurring intim immediate ex pediency of abandoning a provision in sickness, no one. can read the other part of the plan itself, without being fully salsfied that the convetfence and safety of Friendly and Venefit Societies will be greatly secured and consulted, by. separating ,the payment of a sick allowance from an annuity for old age, A deputation having waited on the directors of the National Loan Fund, who met in the handsomest manner the overtures made to them for the establishment of a separate Mice for the transaction of business connected with Frieudly,and Benefit. Societies, and the in dustrious classes in general, resolutions have been entered into, con stituting the undersigned as a Committee, with power to add to its number, for the promulgation of the benefits contained in the an nexed prospectus, uuder the guarantee of the ,Capital of the Society, and which, without interfering with the numerous objects connected with the institution of Benefit and Friendly Societies, will in their opinion greatly enlarge their sphere of utility, and afford a protection to the working classes in old age And adyprsity, which nothing up to the present day has adequately secured to.theM. Thomas Burthom, P.C.R., Ancient Order of Foresters. John Fussell, C.R„ Ancient Order of Foresters. John H. Gordon, DS., Ancient Order.of Foresters. James Hale, D.C.R., Ancient Order of Foresters. Henry Hunt, P. 0., Manchester Unity of, Odd Feliovrs. Jo.eph Nugent, Pro. CS., Mancheiter Unity of Odd Fellows. Joseph Reeks, 8.0. F., Order of Old Friends. Samuel Timbre% D.C.R.. Ancient Order of Foresters. DEFERRED ANNUITIES. Example.-A person aged 24 next birthday, ley the annual pay ment of 11. Cs., or quarterly payment of ,75., or monthly payments of 2s. 2d., may secure, on attaining the age of 60, the option of re ceiving Annuity, 101. 19s. 2d. ; Cash down, 1071. 35.; or a Policy on his Life, 1371. 17s. Example.-A person aged 26 next birthday, may secure, on at taining the age of GO, an Annuity of 101.,,with the other options, by the annual payment of 11.65. Sid,. or a single payment of 221. 17s. 3d.; or on payment of 61. 14s. 3d. for. disparity, he will be entitled to the same benefits by an annual payment of 18s. 11d., the same as or age 20. Example.-A person aged 30 next bittlitlay, by the annual pay ment of It Gs:, or quarterly paYfnent of Is.; *oratuintbly - payment of 2s. '2d., may secure en attaining tile age of '65; the 'option of re ceiving Annuity, 181. Os. 4d.; cash'down, - 141111: 12s: ; or a policy on his life 1751. 118: Exam he.-A - neMon aged 3.5 West hiffhdaY, by the annual pay ment of 11. 65.: bY pitythent of 78.; or •monthly payment of Os. 2,1., may secure. on attaining the ago of 65, the option of re ceiving Annuity. 151. ; cash d0wn..148/.. 125.; or a policy cm his life, 1751. lls. ATLAS, Nov. 28, 1346. A book of this kind. brought out even without much pretension, would be indispensable to every gentlemim's library, every merchant's ^ounting-house, and every trader'sshop.... But edited as this is, with .re utmost care -its materials being collected through the most au thentic channels, and embracing 'its range every head of personal and comtercial intelligence essential lothe•completenu is of such a work, we cannot suppose .that any house, public or private, which can afford a biok of reference, will be without this compendious 'volume. The arrangement is admirable. You can find any name you want in a moment. All the heads are clear and complete—the Court—trades -streets—ottlees-:-hotkds, forming, upon the whole, a mass ofjocal information such as could not be brought together with out extraordinary hiducry, assisted by an entire command of all equisite official facilties. As a mere compilation, it is probably the most wonderful on record ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEW Nov. 23, 1846. This huge volume, the :forty-eighth edition of the work, well sat tains the reputation enjoyed by the " Directory" of late years. In the preface the proprietor maintains that the high character of the work is n.}t re:erable to its mere connexion with the Post-officz ; for an important change has I.een gradually introduced into the man ner of collecting the information ; and larger portion of the work than heretofore hat been confde•t to selected agents entirely uncon nected with the Post-office, this•being, In great part, the plan of compiling the editions for 1345 and 1846. Nor has the proprietor tes•cd content with his past success, but has introduced many impor tant alterations in this volume for'lB47. and added to its bulk with out a y increase of price. The • Postal Directory' is especially im proved, and there are numerous changes,throur,out the volume, to insure its completeness. The compilation must be a vast labour, to be accomplished only by systematic subdivision and the most pains taking m;nateness. The appearance of the volume has suggested a very lively effusion, to be seen in another column; and we trust the enterprising proprietor of the " Directory" will find that his labours are duly appreciated and remunerated. To a great commercial country this is an indispensable volume. • • RAILWAY HER LLD, Nov. 21, 1846. Tho new volume of the Post-01114 Directory for 1847 is already in our hands, and we can only express our wonder that a work so laborious, extensive, and minute, could be in any degree improved. It would have been a sittricient merit to have maintained its former reputation : it is a great merit to have surpassed itself. Tae pro duction et a work unequalled lbr accuracy and for clearness hat; placed in the hands of the commercial public a most valuable and indispensable aid in carrying an the business of this vast metropolis, which would indeed toe subjmtted to the greatest inconvenience and expense if It were not for.a work. of this kind. In a short time our readers will have a❑ opportunity of judging for themselves en pur chasing the new volume, whether our anticipatory notice is in any degree exaggerated. lIERAPAT WS RAILWAY JOURNAL, Nov. 21, .1546. • The Post-office Directory for 1847 appears with additions and improvements u'on its Tait:able pi edeces , or, but with ne enlarge• meat in the price. , The continued enterprbdng spirit, with which thi • important, and it is not a misapplication of terms' - to sayr , national work is cAnitt•ted, merits the highest commendation We know net whether the same illiberal and unjustifiable attempt will be made in the ensuing session as was done in the last, to wrest it from the It ands of the present proprietary,. and to place it by the force of might over right in the possession of Government. But should it be attempted, surely the following statement of its con ductors will go home to the consciences, if they have any, of the parties seeking to draw down the grasping interference of Govern ment. "It can only be necessary to t efer to a copy of the work pub lished before the purchase of the copyright by its present proprietor, to be convinced that the mere connexion of the Directory' with the Post •office has little, if at all, contributed to its present high cha• racier. That the improvements (the result of many years of un wearied toil and application on the part of those engaged in the coin pilation of the work) are - duly appreciated, is now happily beyond all question ; prior to tho ' Directory' passing to its present proprietor, rival books contended successfully with this. They have di , appeared." Kelly and Co., 19 and 20, Old Boswell-ceurt, Temple Bar, and all booksellers. LIFE ASSURANCE. Example.—A person at the age of 30 next birthday may secure the sum 01 1001'.'pa5 - able at his death, whenever It may happen, and also participate in the Annual Division ,f Prollt‘, by the annual pay ment of 2/. 9s. 3(1. Example.---A person at the age of 25 next birthday, by the pay ment of 4s. per month, or Is. per week, may secure the sum of 112!. ss. payab'e at his death, whenever it may happen, and like wise share in the annual profits of the Society. F. FERGUSON C IMROUX, Secretary. NATIONAL LOAN. FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, / 26, CORNIIILL, LONDON, '• • Capital 2500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. This Institxtion embraces important and substantial advantages with respect to Life Assurances and Deterred Annuities. The assured hai., on all ocofiAtons, the power to borrow, without expense for for feiture of the Polley, two-thirds of the premiums paid (see Table); also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in terests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances for terms of years are granted at the lowest possible rates. DIVISION OF PROFITS. The remarkable success and increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a fourth bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid on each Policy effected on the Profit scale. Price Eightpence-halfpenny. HARPE'S LONDON MAGAZINE consisting of the four Ictimbers, and Title and Index to Third Volume, contains, i n addition to Five elegant Illustrations, and many other original an d selected articles— for April, Frank Fairlegh—Maiden Aunt. Roadside Sketches of Germany—Cinque Ports. Life and Character of John Forster. Talk about Buckingham Palace. 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Had he sunk under his sufli!rings, the due tribute would doubtless have been paid to one of England's greatest sailors • bat obscurity and degrad a ti on were • not powerful enough to turn the tide of popularfeeling, or to attract the consideration of the world, and the very self approval which has sup ported his strength and protracted his days has, at the same time, damaged his fortune, and impeded his return to fame. lie haq been forgotten, without being righted; the generation which talked of his deeds and witnessed his sufferings has passed away, and to the majority of our readers it is probable that the following illu trations of past times will tell a story elnaost as strange as it necessarily must be striking. We will not . presume that many people require to be reminded that in 1801 Lord Cochrane, being then a com mander in the navy, and in charge of a little brig of 14 four-pounder guns with 54 men, encountered a Spanish frigate of 319 men and 32 heavy guns, captured her, and carried her off; but perhaps it may not be so well known that an act of pure generosity on his part neutralised the merits of the exploit, and laid the foundation of that ob loquy which he afterwards experienced. In correspond ence with the then First Lord of the Admiralty, be earnestly pressed that his brave lieutenant might share in the promotion which had been accorded to himself, and when it was replied that two ofllccrs could not be advanced for so trifling an affair, he pointed out the fact that in this trifling affair more men had fallen than fell in the flag-ship at a late famous action, of which, notwith standing, every officer had received a step. This odious comparison placed him on the black list of the Admiralty for life, and the consequences of the remark extended even to the luckless subordinate whose cause he was pleading. People in the present day will hardly be able to credit the fate of this honest lieutenant His com mander's rank was delayed five years, and when it was at l..ngth bestowed, he was appointed at once to the Rainbow sloop, without, however, being exactly in formed atere his ahi was to be found. H e was recom mended to lob "the West Indies, whither he forthwith proceeded; but, after spending his time and his money in a fruitless search, be turned to the Admi ral ty, who expressed their " surprise and regret" at the little mistake, asd left him uncompensated for the past and unemployed for the future to the end of his days! At length after a change of Ministry, but even then only by the influence of a powerful friend, were Lord Cochrane's notorious abilities once more admitted to an opportunity of exertion. In a small frigate he was sent to the east coast of Spain, where with his crew of 350 men he gave employment to 10,000 of the enemy. Uniting to the enterprise of a Peterborough the skill of a Nelson, he alarmed the whole coast from Carthagena to Barcelona ; landed boats' crew to de fend castles and storm forts ; ;attacked divisions of the French army on their march ; blew up their roads and intercepted their convoys ; and on one occasion actually compelled Duhesme to abandon the whole of his artil lery and field ammunition. The capture of the Scheldt fleet by the French cavalry was hardly a more extra ordinary exploit. Yet, with all these proofs of power, add with the undoubted reputation of being the most daring officer now remaining to the nation, he never had a *pennant, save his own, placed under his command. He had not only affronted the Admiralty, but he had alarmed the Government. He was a reformer, which, in those days, meant a desperado. He dared to speak in the House upon naval abuses, to denounce practices which hare since been indignantly exploded, to demand for the poor seaman -comforts which have since been freely granted, and to express general truths which, though they are now considered as axioms of nature, were then held to be suggestions of the Devil. Fcenum habuit in cornu. He was more feared by the English Government than even by the French, and the Admi ralty gladly rejected his talents to discourage his princi ples. A time, however, came when they had no choice. Things looked bad for England is 1809. The con vention of Cintra had demolished the credit of Vimiero; Lefebre had crushed Castanos and obliterated the me mory of Baylen; Sir John Moore had fallen at Corunna; Joseph was again in Madrid, Lannes in Saragossa, and Soult in Oporto. A blow was necessary to revive the hopes of the country, and it was resolved to strike a bold one. In the Basque roads lay a French squadron of ten sail-of-the-line and seven frigates, intended for the West Indies, to relieve their own co l on i es an d threaten ours. These were to be destroyed; but as they were protected by land fortifications of tremendous strength, and by i.hoals and shallows of the utmost dan ger, it was not a service for every political favourite. " I am sure," says this veteran hero, in a memorial of his ser vices just published, which has suggested these remarks, " that hail any other officer been found who did not despair of the success of the enterprise, I should not have been appointed." He received, however, this compul. sory ci mplitnent, betook himself to Rochefort, and in the dead of a dark and tempestuous night, led the des perate attack, steering with his own hand the leading fireship, charged to the brim with 1,500 barrels of pow der and 400 shells, through the coacentracted fire of a thousand guns. Had he been duly supported, not a ship of the enemy's could have escaped. As it was, five were destroyed by his own almost unaided frigate, and the projected expedition wholly demolished. His rewards tor winning a victory and Complaining of hia Admiral were the Order of the Bath and five years' exclusion from employment; till at last, in 1814, he was nominated flag captain by his uncle, and was proceeding to change the character of the American w ar , w h en t h e event too k place which gave his enemies a final and effectual triumph. On the 21st of February, 1814, at the very moment when Napoleon, after routing the allies at Montereau, was foaming and fretting at Surville over his unproduc tive victory, a stranger dressed like a French officer ap peared at Dover, announcing that he bore news of the death of the Emperor and the downfall of Paris, and from Dover he proceeded to London in a post-chaise and four. The Stock-Exchange was in a fever ; Om nium rose from 27 to 33, and half-a-million of money changed hands. In the afternoon the hoax was dis covered, and amongst its alleged contrivers was after wards prosecuted the hero of the Basque roads. Tne prisoners were all found guilty, and Lord Cochrane was condemned to pay a fine of I,OOOL, to be stripped of his commission, deprived of his rank, and imprisoned for twelve months in a common gaol. This, of course, finally concluded his career in his own country's service, and after amusing fur a while his active spirit in the New World, where be founded one empire and two re publics, he has devoted his energies to procure the revi sion of his sentence and the restoration of his cha rac!er. That a convicted person should accuse the judge and impugn the verdict is so common an oc currence as hardly of itself to excite attention. But it is undeniably true that the whole tenor of Lord Dun donald's previous arid subsequent life has spoken for his innocence. He has been incessant in his applications for further inquiry. lie has constantly kept the case before Government. And though some twenty years after the sentence he received a free pardon, with the restoration of his rank, yet he never acquiesced in this instalment of justice, but demanded rather a fresh in vestigation than a silent condonation. He asked for a revision, not a remission of his sentence, and is still more anxious to reclaim his good name than to recover his fair debts. It is clear, too, that at the moment of the inquiry he was in the highest degree obnoxious to the Government, and the authorities of 1814 were less scrupulous than the authorities of 1847. Nor will our readers be unlikely to remember that the deed which was visited with this felon's doom, even if actually com mitted, might well seem less than capital in the eyes of the present generation. how many hundred transac tions of last October twelvemonth, in Capel court, in volved twice the turpitude and entailed twentyfold the raid that characterised the cheat in question? And what has been the fate of these heroes ? "The crucem sceleris pretium - tulit, hic diadems." At this moment, after the lapse of three-and-thirty years of disgrace, is Lord Dundonald still entreating an opportunity of vindicating his honour. The chief wit nesses against him have since been convicted of crimes utterly destructive of their testimony. Even at the time, Mr. Ponsouby, Mr. Whitbread, Lord Wharnclitle, and others, acknowledged their disbelief of his guilt ; and their sentiments have been echoed and adopted by the latest and most popular historian of these eventful days. But Lord Dundonald's recompense need not yet be left to the historian., Ile is still alive to hear the reversal of his own sentence, aid the convictions of a repentant na tion. King William IV. began the work in restoring to the navy its greatest ornament—a step which all ap pioved, but which was either clear injustice or most im perfect justice. No lapse of years can destroy the expediency of the inquiry prayed for, since, as his Lord ship most truly asserted in the memorial he vainly ad dressed to the late Ministry—" Time cannot, indeed, add . to the justice of the verdict, if just it was ; but it must aggravate its injustice, if just it was not." The railroad from Leipsic to Oderburg (Austria) ; the point of junction railroad of Prussian Silesia, was to be opened on the Ist of this month. The great bridge over, the Danube, which was damag e d b y t h e b rea ki ng up a the ice, has been completely repaired, and the trains can again go over it. LITERARY MEN.—Sir Walter Scott, in a htter written in 1821, against the formation of the Literary Society founded by George IV., for pensioning and con ferring other rewards on authors, thus describes the dif ferences and resemblances of the genus irritabile " Leave us at a distance from each other, and we may ob serve decorum; but force into one body a sot of literary men, differing so widely in politics, in taste, in temper, and in manners, having no earthly thing in common ex cept their general irritability of temper and a black speck on their middle finger—what can be expected but all sorts of quarrels, tracasseries, lampoons, libel,and duels?' NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.—His fate furnishes a re markable instance of the instability of human greatness, and there is no doubt that his dislike to medicine remotely caused his early dissolution ; for rather than take some simple remedy, he allowed disease to gain the ascendancy over his constitution, and death was the result. Thus it is that per sons cannot be too watchful of their state of health, ar.d being always provided with a safe and efficient medicine, such as Frainpton's Pill of Health, enjoy the two greatest blessings of this world, health and long life. PRICE SD. VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. Copies of Correspondence between the Secretary of State and Sir Eardley Wilmot, Bart, relative to the Recall of the latter from the Government of Van Diemen's Land. COPY OF A DISPATCH FROM MR. SECRETARY GLADSTONE TO LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR SIR E. EARDLEY WILMUT, DART. Downing-street, 30th April, 1846. Sir—it has beJome my p tinful duty to apprise you that her Maje.ty is please,l to dispense with your futur, ssrviaes in the administration of affairs in Van Diemen's Land, and that you may expect the early arrival of a successor to you in that charge. In stating to you the reasons by which her Msj« sty's Government have been induced to tender this advice to her Majesty, I shall have occasion to point out that you are not recalled from the office which you hold on account of incompetency, either real or alleged, for the ordinary duties attaching to the chief executive oflk.er, of the dependencies of the Crown, but from a regard to the special exigencies of that particular colony over which you have been appointed, and have undertaken to preside, and to the very defective manner in which, according to the judgment of her Majesty's Govern ment, those exigencies have been met by you. You assumed the government of Van Diemen's Land at a period when a new system of convict discipline had been adopted, and was in course of establishment. It was a system brought into use for the purpose of affording a solution to one of the most difficult of social problems ; it was also to be tried under circumstances of the utmost severity, not such as choice would have dictated, with a nice adaptation to its immature and experimental state, but such as were determined, by the exigencies of the mother country and the previous and concurrent course of events, so fur, at least, as to render inevitable the influx of a very large number of convicts into Van Diemen's Land during the period of your government, and so far, likewise, as to render that necessity pefectly clear and evident beforehand. This new system had been adopted with a view not to economical, but to 'moral. purposes. Dissatisfaction with the moral working of transportation as it stood when assign ment was in practice had led to a determination to try an experiment founded on an opposite principl,• ; that is to say, on a method of management in which the«, transported•;_priione*ljnctead of being separated one front another, and intersideiied — iiiiViirtfre , - free pa:, pulation, should be separated from the - frde population. at least during the earlier portion of their terms, and associated together in probation parties. You had be fore you, without doubt, a very arduous task. It was requisite to maintain in these probation parties that severity of character which it was thought could not be insured without a somewhat broad separation between them and the general community, and yet to neutralise, by discipline and by religious and humanising influences, all those dangers which arise from the close juxtaposi tion and constant intercourse of criminals among them selves. That you should not, in a short period, have attained a complete success in the trial of such a system could Not justly have been made matter of complaint against you. Where other men and other methods have par tially or entirely failed, it would have been to deal out a hard inequitable measure towards you to have alleged such a state of facts as being necessarily a cause of blame, or to have withheld support and sympathy from your efforts. But the case, as it has presented itself to her Majesty's Government, has borne a very different aspect. The question with them has been whether you have, upon the whole, during the period of nearly three years through which you have held your office, applied your mind with due diligence and with earnest concern to the Government and improvement of that portion of the population tinder your charge which is perhaps, now, the most numerous undoubtedly, and by far the most dependent—l know not, also, whether the one exercis- ing the most decisive influence upon the condition and destinies of the colony. Of all the objects that could challenge the attention even of a superficial observer. and much more of the person honoured with the confi dence of her Majesty and the management of her affairs in Van Diemen's Land, by far the most prominent as well as the most momentous was the care of the un happy perpetrators and victims of crime ; and the very first among the tasks belonging to your position was that of impressing deeply a moral and reformatory character upon the whole scheme of their management, or if this could not be effected, then of demonstrating, by the assi duity and anxiety as well as the prudence of your efforts to accomplish it, that the absence of successful results must be ascribable to the inherent defects of the system, and not to the apathy and neglect of those to whose charge it had been committed. To the inquiry whether you have duly, according to the measure which may and must in justice be exacted from public servants, given your time and mind to the presiti.) exigencies of convict discipline, her Majesty's Government are compelled, after a careful and anxious consideration, to reply, without doubt, hi the negative; and, further, they have concluded, that it would be vain and futile to anticipate that during the term which, ac cording to ordinary usage, would still run before the ex piration of your government, this defect would be repaired. I conceive that if the facts of the case, as they have lain beneath your immediate and daily view, could not of themselves attract your attention, aid I would even say compel your interest, no written instructions from hence could posFibly produce a result involving so great and fundamental a change. To such instructions recourse may justly be had for repairing omissions or for correct ing faults of detail. They might elicit mere information if there were no other lack to be supplied, as indeed they have already been employed for that purpose; but the Go vernment consider that you have altogether failed in u principal portion of your public duty—namely, the active care of the moral interests involved in the system of con vict discipline, and that verbal suggestions, however ela borate, can never be adequate to supply so great a defi ciency. They have no hope remaining of being enabled, through your instrumentality, to bring the character and results of transportation to a fair issue, of being enabled either to achieve success or even to ascertain failure. The imrnense interests involved in that method of punish ment for this country, for the colony, and for the indi viduals, absolutely forbid her Majesty's Government to allow them to be gratuitously compromised. I do not now advert particularly to the occasions on which it has been the duty of my predecessor or my own to express dissatisfaction with the mode in which, as to this or that particular, you have transacted the public business, although those occasions have been numerous, to such a degree as even, when taken apart from greater matters, materially to impair the confidence and satisfac tion with which I should otherwise have hoped tocarry on our official intercourse. With these it might have been pos sible to deal in a manner less decisive. Nor do I now declare it as the conviction of her Majesty's Government that you have tailed in the discharge of duty under ordinary or easy circumstances. You have been placed, I freely avow, in circumstances of difficulty. So far as that dif ficulty has been economical and financial, you have given it your attention, and have endeavoured to meet it, if not always in such a manner as to command the concur. rence of her Majesty's Government, yet by no means so as, upon these grounds alone, to have necessitated the cessation of your tenure of office. But so far as the dif ficulty which you had to meet was a moral one, and this I must add was its chief characteristic, it has not only not been overcome, but it does not appear from the in formation with which yoa have supplied me, that any adequate or sustained effort has been made to contend against it. Indeed I might even proceed one step fur ther, and observe that your statements, taken strictly as they stand, do not show so much as a consciousness of its existence, far less of its grave and formidable character. You have under your charge and responsibility many thousand convicts formed into probation parties, or liv ing together at government depots. It is only with ex treme rarity that you advert in your despatches to the morel condition of these men. You have discussed the economical questions connected with their maintenance or their coercion, and you have even entered into argu ment, though in a manner too little penetrating, upon their offences against the laws. But into the inner world of their mental, mural, and spiritual state, either you have not made it a part of your duty to examine, or else, which for the present issue is, I apprehend, conclusive, you have not placed her Majesty's Government in pos session of the results; and I need scarcely point out to you that this is the region in which reformatory efforts are to operate, and that it is a region very distinct from that of offences actually brought under the cognizance of the law. Indeed, it would appear from almost every account of the colony which reaches me, except your own, that there is supposed to prevail in these probation parties a state of things the most formidable, perhaps, of all ; in which the very absence of the external notes of crime is but the sign of the extensive and undisputed reign of some of its very worst and most revolting ex cesses, and of the all-powerful combination by which it is sheltered from the light. This is not, it is true, systematically stated to me in official reports, because those by whom it ought either to be stated or denied, are altogether silent on the matter. I am not able to judge to what precise extent the horrible impres sions which prevail u p on th ese su bjects correspond to with the fact, or ho w f a r they may be referable apprehension, magnifi e d through obscurity. But from indirect, though, evidence before me, fragmentary and though, I regret to add, too concordant as it is, I can entertain no doubt of so much a s this, that the ideas to which I refer have a foundation, and that of no inconsiderable breadth, in the real state of things ; and here I must broadly and once for all dis tinguish as between the rumours and the extent of actual f acts corresponding with them ; so between the inac tivity which I have to impute to you, and any supposi tion that you are indifferent to the horrors of which I now speak. In th e fi rst p l ace I cannot doubt that you disbelieve much o f w h at is alleged with respect to them, perhaps the whole of it. In the second place, without attempting to account for your silence and inaction by jany reference to inward motives, of which I am not the udge, I can have no hesitation in declaring the strongest persuasion, that they are not owing to apathy or to any approach to apathy on your part, with respect to the atrocities themselves that are stated to prevail. I might, perhaps, say that the rumours themselves which exist, even if they can be proved to be wholly at variance with fact, yet from their effect both here and in the colony, had such a claim on your attention, that your entire disregard, in practice, of that claim, has amounted to an error of judgment so serious as to render it altogether inexpedient that you should • II N eonti e in it (e/ 2' cst're7 ur present felti: lonit. - TThea t ai. But I hook exclusively to acts and omissions without any reference to their mental caunterprarts. Thus a - contemplating the ca se , I conce ive it to b e beyond nouot that you have around you a state of things Very critics:; and serious, and very urgently calling for ecitieideration in its moral as p ect ; and yet that aspect rematpeeyn e im e _--- ,' proved by your efforts, wholly unexplained fasei communications, nay, ev en d en i e d an d ignored b iey'ilaossseree- smam rare sentences, in which, using the most general terms, and attracting suspicion by their very lareentes and I vagueness and total want ef li char ac its: ciiip tion, you refer from time to time to the mental and religious improvement of the convicts. 1 wish were allowed me to give to your silence in respect to details, and to your broad, slight, and undistinguishing allege,- tions, such weight and force as would enable them to overbear all the evidence which reaches me incomplete, but yet full of meaning as it is from ether quarters. That I should have been in possession of ek tailed state ments and de liberate cone/usi ins from you, centradictory to the public impressions, would have been tene ter missing; but that, while such impressions subsist hi such a manner that they cannot be wholly false, alai in a subject matter of such deep and ass ful interest, they should emain unnoticed, and that for a length of tim e , i s a circumstance which, established r it is by the whole r. nor of your officiel corre -poi:deuce, has convinced her, Majesty's Government that you cannot long, r exercise, e our present functions with advantage or with justice to the public. From the negative character of that correspondence it is difficult for me to afford praefieal and lively illustra lone of my meaning. But I carrot avoid expressiug the surprise with which I observe that you have trans., witted to my predecessor, at a date now somewhat e v e 'note. the most horrible and revolting accounts O t h e state of morale amorig a portion of the f, male eonvicts, and yet have never followed up that statement, either by e detail of remedial measures which you had put into operation, or by tendering suggestions of that character • for the consideration of her Majesty's Government. And again, upon a very recent occasion, when you, sent home the very interesting report of Dr. and Mrs. Bowden, on the subject of the female peni tentiary on board the Anson, although you must have been aware that that establishment had been founded at great expense, that it was regarded with peculiar interest by her Majesty's Government, and that the experiment involved results of vital moment to the interests of that portion of the convict population; and further, although those results as actually detailed in the report were of a character the most important and cheering, yet you neither affirm, contradict, nor qualify the statements, but pass them by as if' they were matter of trivial account ; you do not show that you have given any attention or care to the establishment, nor am I possessed of any positive evidence of your having pare, lead that it had any cl aim upon your time or your 'noughts, although you haie entered upon the discus slot' of a pecuniary question connected with it. But before I conclude, I must advert briefly to the • -subject of the -late :lioanciarwl444:4l Ars7l}4; in: epee 'Colony. Her Majesty's Government are not able` to concur with you in the full censure which you have pronounced upon the conduct of the seceding Members of the Legislative Council ; because, though her 318.-• jesty's Government may deem such language as that which you report to have been employed by Mr. Gregson, at an early stage in the proceedings, to be worthy of blame, yet they are compelled to admit that much is to be alleged, if not in justification, yet in excuse, of the conduct of these gentlemen, as to its substance, from the extreme circumstances in which they were placed ; and they ere also compelled to dissent from your doctrine, that a broad distinction ig to be drawn between their duties and thus, of elected re presentatives of the people. All int-tubers of a Legisla ture, including those who are chosen by constituencies, must be regarded as belonging to that great council of the Crown, arid as therefore bolted to advise and assist it. But I cannot Reny that eta h advice and assistance :nay be sometimes conscientiously, and , onneitnes also wisely rendered, whether in the ease of elected or of nominated persons, by a strenuous opposition to the measures of the Queen's executive government, either here or in the colonies. I find it difficult to define, in eeneral words, the limits of such opposition, in cases where the two conditions are combined ; first, of a purely official preponileeance, and, secondly, of a laim of which the substantial justice is in 'rent part acknowledged; and though 1 might concur with you in taking exception to the course which was actually pursued, I could not, on the part of the Govarn merit, support you in your formal eat the .arm " disloyalty" to the conduct of these gentlemen, even •within the restricted limits whoili you have, and I have no doubt justly, assigned to its sigui4ication. But, on the other hand, in justice to yourself, I must admit the embarrassment in which you were placed: end I am not prepared to pronounce blame upon the -ebstance of your proceeding, under the very peculiar circumstances of your position, to press forward, by the exercise of the entire privilege which the constitu tion conferred upon you, the Bill by which alone regular provision could be made for the primary exigencies of the colony during the year. Your collision, therefore, with these gentlemen, has no part in the motives which have led her Majesty's Government to advise that your administration of affairs should be brought to a close. At the Caine time, lam disposed to irmht whether you had adequately estimated the amount if your difficulties in connexion with that crisis, or the mount of public sentiment, which if not approving the nenner of their proceedings, would nevertheless excuse Its form from sympathy with its meaning and purpose. is, however, my intention shortly to enter, n s separate dispatch upon a stateeneet of the measures which I. propose to adopt respecting the resignations, and the new appointments to the Council which you have made and referred for approval —I am, &c. (Signed) W. E. GLADSTONE. (Secret). COPY OF A LETTER FROM MR. SECRETARY GLADSTONE, TO LIEUTENANT -GOVERNOR SIR E. EARDLEY WIL3IOT, BART. Downing-street, April 30, 1846. Sir—l have now to discharge a duty still more painful and delicate than that of addressing you in a public dis patch to communicate to you your recal from the ad ministration of affairs in Van Diemen's Land. Adverting to the fact that this recal rests upon the allegation of a failure on your part with respect to apecial and peculiar duties only, which attach to the care of a penal colony, but not to that of colonies in general, you may feel some surprise at the circumstance that I have made no allusion to the possibility of your employ ment during the ordinary term of six years. I should have felt authorised to express a willingness t') consider of any favourable opportunity which might offer itself for such employment, had it not been for the circumstance that certain rumours have reached me from a variety of quarters relating to your private life, to the nature of which it is perhaps unnecessary that I should at present particularly allude. had these rumours been slight, and without presump tions of credibility, I might warrantably and gladly have passed them by. Had they, on the other hand, taken he fnun of charges or of information supported by the 'lames of the parties tendering it, it would have been my tbsolute duty, independently of any other reason for interference with your tenure of office, to refer the mat ter to you, and at once call upon you tor your exculpa tion. But they occupy an intermediate position. Pre suming that I have been justified in retraining from bringing them under your notice up to the present time, I feel that it would be impossible to recommend your resumption of active duties under the Crown in any other colony until they are satisfactorily disposed of. To found proceedings upon them against a person holding office appeared to me a very questionable matter, but I think it quite unquestionable that they must be taken into view when re-appointment is the matter at issue. I know not what your views and wishes on that subjec may be. I should not have entered wantonly and need lessly on such a topic as that to which I now refer. My reason for doing so, without waiting for any request from you for re-employment is, that I think that some favour able intimation on that head would have been your due had no obstacle intervened, and I have, therefore, found myself bound to account for the omission from my despatch of this day of any such intimation. I have, W. E. GLADSTONE. (Signed) GERMAN ADVERTISEMENTS. Something of the character of a people may be guessed from the advertisements in their papers. The Germans appear to have leisure to be sentimental or complimen tary in their newspaper advertisements, which contain elegies for the departed, congratulations for birthdays, and various other private matters, with which one would think the public have no concern whatever. The Cologne Gazette contained some curious advertisements lately, from which we cull a few specimens :—" We beg Herr Berner for a repetition of Linda,' or, To Herr Gerstel —We should like to see you again- in the character of lielchoi." Signed, " Two Gentlemen from Wiesbaden ." actressesi e s balir n similar style. Congratulations n Compliments end criticisms are offered to com mon ; the following are two samples on ._,,Tom y ar d e earfa b i rth d ays t tfhrieenbdirathndot their hisgo°dfir Many good wi s h es to Mdlle.Francisca, on this her birthday, fr om h er good friends i n Cologne." Inuendos, appar ent l y directed :tifed in u g M h teeur7l wish much j oy on against personal enemies, frequently appear. Of such advertisements the following are mild specimens M a ria ! Why so pale ? D o you tremble at the word?" Another is in rhyme : " The owl avoids the light of day, And hides herself in night; Like -----, who never dare display His actions in the light." The following is aimed at some parsimonious gentle men :—" Is it not the duty of gentlemen, when they re ceive a barrel of ale from the brewer, to treat the porters to a quart ? Signed by several brewers' porters." The advertisements for maid -servants are generally brief, only laying stress on " good sewing and ironing;" but sometimes religion is included, as in the following : " Wanted, a solid, young, evangelical maiden of all work." The next two refer to some delicate affairs :—" Sir Rubert,—l beg you will let me know the contents of the billet you have received by the postillion d'amour." "To T. N. Must I 'not see you until Sunday ? Ah, that you could know . how tediously the hours will pass till the time arrives which will be the most important (may I hope the most happiest also?) in my whole life." (No. 49)).—For the following we can find no description : " Wanted, a young, educated, and handsome maiden, as housekeeper to a single gentleman. All applications must be sent (sealed) to 0. D. D."—Cologne Gazette, Feb. 22d, 1847. UNNEL UNDER LEWES.—The railway tunnel under the town was finished on Wednesday last. Mr. W. Ver rall was to have inserted the last brick; but in his ab sence Mr. G. Norman officiated, and the men were after wards regaled with strong ale. Mr. Wythes, the con tractor, gave a dinner in honour of the occasion at the Lamb Inn, to the whole of the men employed is the tunnel. --Brighton Guardian. I) of be ,b 0 ed al 0 to Eg• /: