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THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUT ING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE LAND do hereby give Notice, that on TiturtsnAr, the 30th instant, at One o'clock, thee will be ready to treat %,; ith such Persons as ma p - be willing to for supplying and ieh rer i ng into herl\lajestv's Victuallinz Stores at Deptford, (under separate Contracts) all such quantities of SCRAPS FROM THE STATES. LAST CASE OF ABSENCE OF MIND.—A young lady in B— street, came home from • a ride the othet evening-, and left her horse at the doer of her father'e house, walking herself to the stable, and taking the horse's place in the stall. She did not discover her mistake till the ostler began to rub her down.— Botton . Post: A IlaNnsomt COMPLIMENT.—Arnotg the regular toasts drank at the celebration of the Fouth at Ithlei, New York, we find the following very prey) , com pliment to the ladies : TRHSS HOOPS And WOOD HOOPS as shall from time to time be demanded for One Year certain, and afterwards until the expiration of Three Months' Warning. Samples of th, Truss Hoops must be produced by the par ties tendering, and Samples of the Wood Hoops may be seen at he r M a j esty ' s Victualling Yard at Deptford. The Conditions of the 'Contracts may be seen at the said Office. No. 14.855. LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1840. PRICE sd. NOTICE TO SHIPPERS FOR ADELAIDE. THE Clipper Brig ENTERPRIZE, Captain J. BARBER, for Adelaide, South Australia. All goods for the above Ship must be on board by the 24th of April. Room only for a few tons of fine goods. Has seven feet between decks, and a few vacant berths. For Freight or passage, apply to William Burton and C0., 7 8, Philpot-lane ; or Tinkler and Hancock, 17, St. Dunstan 's hill. LONDON and BRIGHTON RAILWAY COMPANY. TENDERS FOR LOANS. The DIRECTORS of this COMPANY are prepared, under the powers of their Act, to receive TENDERS for the LOAN of MONEY on security of their undertaking, and of the Rates and Tolls arising therefrom, on interest at the rate of 51. per cent. per annum, to be paid half-yearly, in SUMS of not less than 3001., and for the terms of Three, Five, or Seven years. The Tenders are to . express the Sums and Term of Years for which the same aro proposed to be lent, and to be addressed to the Secretary, at the Company's Offices., 10, Angel-court, Thregnaorton-street. By Order of the Board of Directors, THOMAS WOOD, Secretary. London, March 12, 1840. OPIUM WAR WITH CHINA. APUBLIC MEETING will he held in FREEMASONS' HALL on FRIDAY next, April. The Right Hon. Ei•rl STANHOPE will take the Chair at Twelre o'Clock precisely. N.B. Tickets of admission may be obtained by applying to Messrs. Harvey and Darton GracechUrch. street ; Mr. Neigh - boor, 131, High Holborn; ' Messrs. Fry and Son, 4, Bishops gate-street Without; Messrs. Nisbet and Co., Berners-street ; Mr. Jacob Post, Lower -road Islington; Mr. Henry Sterry, 156, High-street, Borough ; and Johnston and Barrett, 13, Mark-lane. MORTALITY OF THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH ARMIES. blem lies among the delicate questions; and that thos;; which are discussed by the physician of the Val-de- Grace do not clear up a tenth part of the difflcultv. Crowded hospitals and scanty rations are evils which 4iminisll the probability of lite ; they are eviib which might and ought to be corrected ; but, after all, the soldier's diet is better than the labourer's, by the origi nal supposition ; nay, add all the other causes ex pounded in our contemporary, and the su:n total will yet be insufficient. • " Woman—There's a purple half to the grape, a mellow half to the peach, a sunny half to the giobc, and a better hay to man." HARD TlMES.—Several young ladies of Georgia complained very much of the hard times in that place. Tu , y say they cannot get half as much money now fc,r b:each of promise as they did formerly. This is " rageous and not to be borne." KISZING.—The Editor of the New York Di4paleh, with a want of gallantry which we did not think be longed to his character, says, .‘ Probably there is Ora moment when a man or woman looks so supremely, utterly, and hopelessly simple and foolish, as when en med in that most poetically foolish of all occupations —the act of kissing. Whenever they happen to he seen, they look as if caught with a stolen sheep—and uo wonder.—Eve Journal. N. Tender will be received after One o'clock on the Day of Treaty, nor any noticed, unless the Party attends, •r an Agent for hi m d u ly au th or ized in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Ad /oiralty, and bear in the left hand corner the words " Tender for ," and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, ac eamipanied liy a Letter signed by a responsible person, en gaging to become bound witk the person tendering, in the sum of 200/., fur the due performance of each of the Contracts. JJAW LIFE. ASSURANCE OFFICE, next St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet-street. Notice is hereby given that the DIVIDENDS for the year ending the 31st of December, 1839, are now in course of PAY MENT. The Dividends are payable from Ten in the Morning until Three in the Afternoon, any day, Wednesday excepted. By order of the Directors, GEORGE KIRKPATRICK, Actuary. April 8, 1840. /EROSTATION. MR. GREEN'S new l y i nven t e d APPA RATUS for STEERING, ELEVATING, and DEPRESSING BALLOONS without discharging Ballast or Gas, illustrated b y a B alloon in the Theatre . Gl ass spin) by Steam Power a n d a f terwards wove by a L oom i n t o magnifi cent articles for C our t D resses and Tapestr i es, of which Messrs. Williams and Sew er b y are the Patentees . Ch ro matic Fire Cloud Fountain, supp li e d b y Mr. E. M. Cl ar k e , an d an exten sive series of models of Steam Engines, Mining - and ether Machinery, will b e ex hibi ted in full operat i on at the POLY TECHNIC INSTITUTION, :309, REGENT-STREET. In addition to M agnet i c and Electrical exper i men t s , th e l argest and most pow er f u l Mi croscope in Europe, showing Pictures magnified 30.000 ti mes ; splendid Specimens o f th e Daguerreo type and Photogenic Drawing; the Diver and Diving Bell; Blowing up the Royal George by Col. Pasley's Method ; Mr. Snow Harris's Lightning Conductors, practically illustrated, &c. Open at Half-past 'fen A.M. Admission, One Shilling each person. The true explanation is, that man is not a machine, but that, military discipline tries to make himr, one. For the - soldier, the delights of domestic life scarcely exist ; and• he finds to his cost, that - four walls and a roof do not make a home. When to this moral depression, we add the forced servitude of years, perhaps without a limit, we_shall understand the despair which makes the soldier mutilate himself ; we shall almost comprehend why " the ratio of cases of self•murdcr among the cavarry branch of the service has been found to amount, for a series of years, to one suicide out of twenty deaths."—(Marshall, p. 141.) Let us, therefore, improve the soldier's condition ; let us enlarge his barracks and increase his rations ; let us mitigate the torture still inflicted under the name of flogging ; and let us enlist recruits only for a term of years. ViTA'FER-PROOF CLOTHING, FREE OF EXTRA CHARGE. —Encouraged by the sw:- cess of the NEW VENTILATING WATER-PROOF, W. 13ERDOC, by whom it was first introduced, now offers first-rate Clothing water-proofed, without extra charge, riz. : Superior Coats, 31. les. ; Frocks, 41. ; Trousers, &c. ; the best Coats. 4/. ; Frocks, 4/. 10s. ; Trousers. 355., &c. Better cannot be had at any price. W. B. also invites attention to his New Light Water-proof Frock, which to all who are ex posed to the weather will prove a great acquisition. It is gen tlemanly, and adapted for all seasons. Eighteen months' trial and a very large sale have fully established its merits ; as also of the process itself, as a Aheroughly efficient and unobjectionable protection from the most drenching rain, entirely free from the objection of confining perspiration. WALTER BERDOE, Tailor, 69, Cornhill (North side). tj . ATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE AS SURANCE AND DEFERRED ANNUITY SO CIETY, 26, CORNHILL, LONDON. EASTERN BILANCH.-5, Castle-street, St. Mary Axe. Capital, 500,000 c. Empowered by Act of Parliament. DIRECTORS. T. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman. BROWBEATING A LAWYER.—At a late trial beforc a Justice of the Peace in Mount Vernon, Ky, a lawyer, who was concerned in the case, had the temerity to c4ll the Justice a meddlesome fellow and a rascal ; upon which the dignitary arose, and taking up the bench upon which he had been sitting, with a single swoop brought it in contact with the lawyer's head, with such judicial force that the Learned Counsel was prostrated, and the trial. CONDITION OP TRANSPORTE D ) • TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. FELLOW COUNTRYMEN, Long ere you receive this Address, the doleful tidings will have reached yen that. FROST, WILLIAMS, and JONES have been transported : that they have been transported con.. trary to the Law of England is manifest and undeniable; but that the Law, backed by the voice of millions, will in the end triumph ever tyranny, persecution, and prejudice, no true Englishman can doubt; anil we ate fully perseaded, by evidences innumerable, that you hive already determined to adopt every constitutional Means to promote and accomplish this object. We fully estimate the immense value of Trial by Jury ; it is One of the most important of our birthrights ; but in proportion to its importance should the purity of its operation be main tained, and fear and prejudice be removed from the sacred box. It was not so in the case of the Welsh Martyrs, nay, it would seem as though every engine had studiously been pat in motion that was calculated to produce a strong bias in the public rn'nd against them. - YOU are acquainted with the early efforts of the public press to misrepresent their conduct, to calumniate their charac ters, and to excite fear and prejudice in the minds of that por tion of the community from which jurors are usually chosen. You are also aware that under sanction of the local authori ties, and before the Trials had taken place, the shops of New- Port were closed, and thanksgivings were offered up in the Churches that certain alleged designs had been frustrated, which Were thus taken for granted, but which were never proved to have been entertained. This step, however well intended, or anobjectionalile in other respects, was inevitably calculated to Produce strong feelings in the locality, and to increase the ge neral prejudice against the prisoners. As if these things were not enough, a minister of God, who Ought to have been the messenger of peace and charity, seems I to have thought it consistent with his sacred duty to make his ' Pulpit the vehicle for alarming the fears of that class from which the Jury was about to be selected, and far confirming the ex isting prejudice already so deeply rooted and injurious, and shame ! oh, shame to say ! the time chosen for this display was immediately before the Trial ; the spot was that where the Trial was about to take place, and the audience were those who were about to try the Prisoners. Had not a Special Commission been harshly appointed to in terfere with the usual course of law, and had the prisoners been permitted to remain until the regular Assizes, there is reason to believe that the alarm would have subsided—that reason would have assumed its power, and that much of the undue prejudice would have passed away ; for already has a Petition been pre sented, signed by a large portion of the inhabitants of Newport, avowing the false impressions under which they at that time laboured, and praying for the pardon of the Prisoners. Add to these circumstances that the Lord Chief Justice, whose mind was above the local prejudice, delivered h is charge (which was in strict conformity with the evidence) decidedly and indisputably in favour of an acquittal. Have we not then ample reason to question the justice of those verdicts which the Juries returned in the case of the Welsh Martyrs, notwith standing our devotedness to that palladium of our rights? But, Fellow-countrymen, we have other and even stronger ground of appeal against the transportation of these men . We are authorised, by the solemn decision of six of the Judges of England, including a majority of the Special Comm scion, Which, in this case, ought to be decisive—we have their irre sistible and positive authority, after mature deliberatioin, for declaring that the trials were contrary to the law of the land — that the convictions were illegal, and that the whole of the proceedin g s were essentially null and void from the beginning. Three other Judges, who, with the six, form a majority of the ,whole Bench, also decided that the Crown had not complied with the law; but the three alleged that the prisoners had not object e d a t th e right time. Now we respectfully ask, is it fair and just that the prisoners should suffer punishment under a conviction essentially bad, for not knowing the precise moment at which their objection should be urged, when the Judges themselves are at issue with each other, and even up to the present time have allowed the question to remain unsettled and in doubt ? If we turn to the records of the trial, we find that when the Counsel for the defence first attempted to urge the objec tion, he was stopped by the Attorney-General, on the ground not that he was too late, but that he was too soon—that the proper time for urging it had not then arrived, which dictum of the Attorney-General was assented to and ruled by the pre siding Judges. These, Fellow-countrymen, we submit are reasons wich im peratively call for the pardon of these men ; it is for you to determine whether, with persevering and effective energy, you will continue your exertions until the authority of the law be established, and the prisoners, as an act of justice, be restored to their families. We are well aware that you have done much—we know that petitions to the Queen, the Lords, and the Commons, signed by at least six hundred thousand persons, have 'greedy been presented, and we had hopes that during the itlful ceremony of the marriage of our Queen, she would Zve been• advised to listen to the prayers of her people ; she t0 °, 414 doubtless have been pleased,had such advice been given, b oav e „tried up the tears of the wives and children of the un- IPPy prisoners —to have established the s overeignty of the laws of the realm, and to have made her wedding-day the day of liberty to those whom the law had not condemned. Alas, it has not been so; our hopes are blighted, the la w ha s not been vindicated, the prayers. of the people have not been re spected, and justice and mercy have not prevailed. What, then, Fellow-countrymen, can we suggest, or what can you do? The cause of these Martyrs demands your atten tion, and we solemnly appeal to you on their behalf. We are assured that Lord John Russell has declared, .‘ they were seut away to get rid of the excitement in their favour." Shall the " excitement" cease whilst they are suffering in defiance of the law ? Shall it cease before the law is vindicated ? We are sure that your ready and decided rnswer will be, No ! Justice must be established ; the law must be vindicated, and Frost, Williams, and Jones must be recalled! If, then, Fellow-countrymen, it be your determination to secure these objects, it is necessary that unanimity should pre vail, and that system and arrangement should mark every future proceeding We, therefore, respectfully suggest the following recommendations for your calm and deliberate consi deration, and if you approve of them, we feel assured that you will instantly and universally adopt them :- 1. Let Associations be formed in every village, town, and hamlet. 2. Appoint regular and periodical meetings of those Asso ciations. 3. Establish Weekly Penny Subscriptions. 4 . Convene public meetings to petition Parliament for the im mediate recal of the Welsh Martyrs. 5 . Let the people of every district send their petitions to their own Member for presentation. 6 . Let each Association keep up a regular communication with their representatives, and urge them to advocate with zeal . the prayers of the petitioners. Let the Association make arrangements successfully to demand of every candidate at the next general election, that he will, if returned to Parliament, unceasingly en deavour to effect the liberation of the Welsh Martyrs. S. Let the people of every city, borough, and county, be uni versally informed that on the next nomination-day, a show of hands will be taken in reference to the Welsh martyrs; and, that no mistake may be made during the hurry of the proceedings, take care to have large boards in readiness with the following words written in legible characters, " Hold up your hands for the release and return of the Welsh martyrs." Thus the Government will understand the wishes of the people upon this question. ". Conclude the business of every public meeting held for what ever purpose with a resolution in favour of the law and the Welsh Martyrs. And now, Fellow-countrymen, to your work. Let no man l a y ho is too insignificant for the labour of mercy and justice ; 6 galls() will sanctify the instruments, and the object to be att ained will speedily produce assistance. Let the tears of the forsaken wives, the sufferines of the defenceless children, be an additional stimulant, ems additional stimulant be Wanting. BE PEACEFUL, BE UNITED, BE ENERGETIC ! And may the God of Justice crown your efforts with success ! ' G. ROGERS, Chairman. A. DYSON, Secretary. Arundel Coffee-house. Strand, March 17, 1840. • P.S.—The Committee will be happy to receive communica tions, addressed to Mr. G. Rogers, 53, High-street, St. Giles's, to Mr. A. Dyson, Arundel Coffee-hous e. WILKINSON'S ANTI-CORROSION PAINT. R EMOVED from 63, Upper Thames-street, to 54, WATUNG-STREET, near Queen-street, Cheapside.—J. 11. W. particularly recommends his Paint to the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public, wbe wish to paint their houses of Roman cement, stucco, or brick walls, as a preven tive to damp or sea spray in exposed situations ; it will not blister or peel off as common paint. On tiling, to represent elating, iron hurdles, roofs, conservatories, hot-houses, fences, farm, or any out-buildings, it will last four times as long as common paint. It is so simple in its use, that any labourer Can lay it on. To ship-owners for their decks, bottoms of yes- Sm., it will be shown, as well as to the public, to be supe rior to any paint in use, by testimonials of its lasting fourteen Years on wood and houses, twenty years on iron (see the South ark-bridge). The public arc particularly guarded in giving their orders for Wilkinson's Anti-Corrosion Paint, that no 'ther „ colour may be imposed upon them for his. A liberal • 41 0wanca to the trade. SIGHT AND HEARING. THE INVISIBLE OPERATIVE VOICE CONDUCTOR, effected by the Messrs. S. and B. tiILOMONS, OPTICIANS and AURISTS to the ROYAL FA. ILY, 39 , A 1.13 E Alt L EET E-STR. PICCADILLY, by which thousands of deaf person s bast: been greatly benefited, is the size of a 'evea.shillin g piece, and when fixed into the cavity of the ear is soft an d easy, and not more perceptib le than havin g a p iece of wool in its place, by which the faintest whisper at a public assembly is heard With distinctness. And defective VISION is brought to nature by the use of u ew ly.i n vented SPECTAC LE LENSES : immedia tely h ey are placedhefore weak and imperfect eyesight, either by day " candle light, every object becomes clear and distinct, and the most t i nulearticl• Is seen with great distinctness, by the use •f which oth the p sight e and hearing become much iniproved. The Messrs. S. and B. SOLOMON S diiclaim all connection with per. sMts of the same name, and the Sale •f Amber Spectacles: the per. 1 ,, — r u ! use of Amber Lzpectacles b eing now well known to the public, the Vendor being aware of it, he has therelere altered their 1 0, e,, by leaving out the word Amber." and cal lin g them " Pa. an t I, Pectaeles " those which he terms " Patent Spoctacle , " are no o ther than those of Amber, the history anti destructive use of that t oa teriat for Spectacles to imperfect vis ion is fully and most satisfac torily explained by the undermentioned sc i en tific authori • s "era the Dictionary of Arts and Science" of Andrew lire, M.D. F. 11.8,, &c. &c. " Amber is an indurated vegetable juice, and not produced by the "" of crystallization, but by the same causes which influence the Teclianical condition of gum. Insects are often found embedded in :.ether is mo s t powerfully electrical by fricti on—ver y hot, to . .e ~ t , ian extent as to explode into fragments ; the workmen, too, are „ ct to ner v o us tremours in their wrists, arms, &c. ; they en ter treat danger by handling such dreadful excited electrics; Airsl., gro ws w i t h lime, and is apt to take fi re, and is of such a soft attire when es:posed to warmth that it swells, bubbles up, and willbuin away with flame." I't's above 1)r. Lire's statements are further confirmed by Sir D. .7,VVS'PEIL and Pliny, as also by Parks and Hera on Chemistry. vision ; i i l e destructive effects of such a material for Spectacles, to imp e r f e ct n e ; may be ascertained at any respectable Optician's in London , /li Mesa, Soimnuns' newly-invented Spectacle Lenses are not ootructed of such a matorial; but which are very superior, and bring back at once dimness of sight and imperfect vision to its original and natural state ; these lipeebieles, and very small Voice C o nductors for Deaf parso ns, arc only to lie had at their Establish. spent, so. Albemarle.strcet. No Travellers arc employed, Col." Sir Borges Camae, K. C. S. Robert Hollond. Esq. , M.P. John Elliotson, M.D., F.R.S. George Lungley, Esq. H. Gordon, Esq. I John Rawson, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq. AUDITORS. Dr. Olinthus Gregory, F. R. A. S. Professor Wheatstone, F.R. S. ACTUARY. W. S. 13. Woo(house, Esq . ., F. R. A. S. By the new principles of Life Assurance and Deferred An nuities, founded by this Society, the moral obligation of all classes of making a provision for a family or for old age is largely enhanced, by the immediate advantages secured to the Assured themselves. The detailsof the principles ef the Society, its improvement in the system of Assurance, its economical arrangements in favour of the Assured, its extensive Tables, &c., will be found in its Prospectus, which may be obtained at the Offices ef the Society, 26, Cornhill, London, or at any •f its Branches throughout the Country. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary. RYDE, ISLE OF WIGHT. TO HOTEL AND BOARDING-HOUSE KEEPERS. TO BE LET and entered on immediately, un furnished, in the above improving town, a most de sirable HOTEL and BOARDING-HOUSE, long known as SHERIDAN'S FAMILY HOTEL, situated in Union-street, in the centre of the town, commanding a fine Sea View, with extensive pleasure grounds. To persons of moderate capital it presents an opportunity sel dom to be met with, combining a genteel business with a cer tain profit, if conducted with attention, being, the only esta blishment of the kind in Ryde. Applications for particulars to Mr. Wallis, house and estate agent, Ryde. DOVER. TO GROCERS, TEA DEALERS, &c.. DESIRABLE OPPORTUNITY FOR TRADE. TO be DISPOSED OF, with immediate pos session. an old-established and extensive business in the above line. The Premises are roomy and capacious, situate in the most commanding part of the Market-place of the flourish ing town of Dover, where the trade has been carried on for upwards of sixty years. Satisfactory reasons will be given for the present proprietor leaving. For particulars apply to Mr. T. Robinson, Phoenix Fire. office, 18, Bench-street, Dover. HORSES, COLTS, BROOD-MARES, a PAIR of Handsome BROWN PONIES, about ,13 Hands High, COWS, SHEEP, and LAMBS, PIGS, &c. _ _ MESSRS. bEBENHAM and STORR are requested by the Executors of the late DAVID CAMERON, Esq., to SELL by AUCTION, on the Pre mises, Northaw-place, near Potters-bar, on WEDNESDAY, April 22, 1840, at One o'Clock, the following valuable pro perty, comprising a superior brown carriage or cabriolet horse, six years old, by Tarrare ; a brown filly, five years old, by ditto, has carried a lady ; a brown gig mare, six years old ; a chesnut colt, three years old, by Young Milo; a filly, do. by do., two years old ; a bay yearling filly ; two mares in foal ; a pair of very handsome brown ponies, five years old, about 13 hands high, have been driven together, and are very fast ; ten hand some cows, eight heifers, forty-seven ewes and lambs, sow and pigs ; a stanhope, built by Hopkinson, harneis, carts, &c. To be viewed two days preceding the Sale, and Catalogues at the neighbouring Inns, on the Premises, and of the Auc ioneers, King-street, Covent-garden. PUBLICATIONS. MR. THEODORE HOOK'S NEW WORK. New ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., with Portrait of the Author, and numerous Illustrations by Phiz, PRECEPTS AND PRACTICE. BY THEODORE HOOK, ESQ., Author of " Sayings and Doings," &c . Henry Colburn, Publisher, '13,. Great Marlborough-street. To be had at all the Libraries. THE NEW NOVEL, In 3 vols. post Bvo., THE MAID'S HUSBAND, IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES.' Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. DOHLER, LISZT, and THALBERG. NEWWORKS by the above distinguished Pianists, including Twelve Grand Studies, with the Capriccio Obligato for the Left hand, by Dopler ; a Divertisse ment and Three Fantasias on Swiss Airs, by 'Liszt ; " Souve nir de Beethoven," a grand Fantasia, and a Romance and Study, by S. Thalberg. 201, Regent-street, Cramer and Co. Just published, lIOWITT'S RURAL LIFE o f ENGLAND, Second Edition, 1 vol. medium vo., uniform with " Visits to Remarkable Places ;" with:Engravings on Wood by Bewick and Williams, price 21s. cloth. BY the same Author, COLONIZATION and CHRISTIANITY, post Bvo., Os. 6d. London : Longman, Orme, and Co. Just published, price 2s. 6d., PRACTICAL ESSAY on the DEBILI TIES of the GENERATIVE SYSTEM, their Va rieties, Causes Treatment, and Cure By a M EMBEII of the ROYAL COLLEGE of SURGEONS, _ _ London, and Surgeon to a Metropolitan Infirmary. " I am impotent, and no• fit, to live."—Last's Records of Suicide. Sold by Onwhyn, Catherine•street, Strand; Templeman, 248, Regent-street; Ross and Nightingale, Liverpool ; Barlow, Binning ;I.:n ; and all Booksellers in own and Country. N.B. Persons in the Country may have this work forwarded by post (free), upon addressing either of the above Booksellers, and inclosing a remittance of 3s. REFORM YOUR TAILORS' BILLS. AGENTLEMANLY Suit of the best quality, 3/. 12s. 6d. Superfine dress great coat, 2/. 7s. 6d. ; ditto frock ditto, silk facings, 2/. 10s. ; Taglioni, or great coats, U. lOs. ; fishing or shooting eoats, 1/. Is. ; morning dressing gowns, 15s. ; buckskin trousers, 1/. Is. ; summer trousers. 10s. 6d. ; summer waistcoats. 7s. ; suit of best liveries, 3/. 35.; arrny cloth blue Spanish cloak, 94 yards round, 2/. lOs. ; the new waterproof cloak. 11. Is. ; ladies' elegant ridir.g habits, 41. 4s. DOUDNEY and SON. 49, Lombard-street. Established 1784. BROOKMAN and LANGDON'S ORIGI NAL DRAWING PENCILS, 6d. each. The Public are rsspectfnlly informed, that these superior ARTICLES, manufactured on the principles which have ac quired for them such extensive patronage, particularly during the last fifty years, may he procured of all respectable stationers in London, and the country, at the above mentioned price. The division into different degrees of hardness adapted to the various purposes to which Pencils are applied, and appropriately distinguished by letters marked at the end, viz.—ll (hard),H H (engineering, very hard), H H II (ditto, extremely hard), H B (hard and black), B (black for shade), B B (very black for ditto), F (fine drawing middling degree), an invention which proceeded, in the first instance, from their house, though now universally adopted, is still continued by them. B. and L. also make drawing Pencils, distributed (like their best Pencils) into seven degrees of hardness, these Pencils, which bear the nerds second quality impressed on each, are sold at half the price of the former ; they are confidently recommended as very superior articles, being entirely free from those silicious, or rather adamantine particles, which, unfortunately for reasons which cannot be explained in the compass of an advertisement, it is now impossible entirely to avoid in the others, though, from the expensive nature of their production, they are neces sarily charged at a higher rate. To avoid spurious imitations, by the frequent occurrence of which Brookman and Langdon, in common with all manfacturers of celebrated articles, have suffered considerably in reputation, purchasers are advised to make choice of the most respectable shops, and to be on their guard against articles offered as best drawing Pencils, at a re duced price. Pencils made to order, at any price. Alanufactory, 28, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, London. N.B.—All communications by post to be pre-paid. ONLY GENUINE PECTORAL BALSAM OF HONEY, for Cough's, Colds, Asthmas, &c. Invented by Sir JOHN HILL, M.D. _ Sir John Hill, - who was a very eminent Physician, recommended his excellent preparation as the most salutary and etibctual remedy for all disorders of the Breast and Lungs : and many years' experience has confirmed the recommendation in the immediate relief and gra dual cure of Coughs, Colds, Astlimas, and Consumptions. It is the greatest preserver of the Lungs ever discovered, and contains all the healing, softening, and soothing qualities of that salubrious extract of FLOWERS, called HONEY. Professional Gentlemen do not hesi tate to recommend it, as it never disagrees with the Stomach, aNd common Colds, in most cases, yield to its beneficial effects in a few hours. Price 3s, 6d. and ss. Pd. per Bottle. _ . Sold by Edwards, 67, St. Paul's Church-yard ; Sanger, 151, Ox ford-street ; White. 24, Cornhill ; and by most dealers in Medicines. CONSTITUTIONAL DEBILITY-- MANHOOD"-CERTAIN RELIEF. 01 all the various disorders which afflict mankind, there Are none in which the skill of themedical man is more strictly tested than in the complete eradication of those deplorable disorders arising from unrestricted and indiscriminate indulgences, as well as in those dreadful cases of sexual debility, brought on by an early, solitary, and baneful indulgence of the passions freqnently acquired without the knowledge of the awful consequences resulting therefrom, and which not only entail on its votaries all the enervating imbecilities of cld age, but occasion the necessity of renouncing the felicities of marriage. Convinced of these lac s, and to rescue the unwary suf ferer from the fangs of the numerous empiries with which the metro polis abounds, Messrs. CUR'lls; and CO., as regularly educated Members of the Prole , sion, deviate from general principles with less he•itation, and thus publicly tender their services, which hitherto have been crowned with undeviating success Their plan is simple, without re straint in diet or business, and, abov e all , a emir - P i . o a n re o e f trtechets,,de without maladies, use of that danger ous m i neral mercury, , as well as Syphilis, G onorr h oea, w hich forms the principal ingredient of the nostrums daily o ffered to the public by a host of un qu alifi e d and illiterate Stricture,lete eracll sc ea c • . moss, who are the m oans of hurrying hundreds, in the flower of their youth , to an untimely g rave. Messrs. C ur tis are to be consulted daily, at their residence, till 9 at night, and on Sundays from 9 till 4—Observe, 7, Frith-street, S o h e , Well doors from Soho.square. PUMPS. NORWICH AGAINST ALL ENGLAND, TEN POUNDS TO A CROWN. SHALDER'S FOUNTAIN PUMPS. The most powerful in the world, with which a man of ten stone weight can raise an imperial barrel of water forty three feet high in a minute, but with no other Pump yet tried in a minute and a-half. Their practical gain is most extraor dinary, seldom below 70, and mote frequently above 100 per cent., taking the average of the results of every altitude from 1 foot to 100 feet high. This remarkable gain in the art of raising water was effected in the simplest manner possible, being merely by substituting a rolling instead of a sliding prin ciple for Pumps, by which their friction and leakage was abo lished, after the tens of thousands of bootless attempts that had been made by the ablest mechanics in the world for 2,000 years. For a long time after thiti immortal invention was publicly introduced, a host of bullying novices insulted society by pre dicting that it would prove limited and frail, who are now snivellic.g about that their trade would be ruined, because Fountain Pumps prove 300 per cent the most durable, whe ther used by the power of man, horse, or steam, and they are so economical and invariable in their action, that they com monly perform for maltsters, brewers, and dyers for years with out the least expense or the slightest variation. Also, so re markably simple, that smiths, millwrights, wheelwrights, car penters, &c., as well as hydraulic engineers, successfully un dertake their fixing and reparation. neither are Fountain Pumps retarded, choked, nor injured by occasionally delivering a few tons of sand, although a very little of that material soon deranges and seriously damages the best Friction Pumps. Slowly indeed, the art of raising water approached perfection 4,000 years ago. The beautiful Miss Rebecca brought up water from a a ell in a pitcher upon her shoulder for her sweetheart's camels. Since then appeared the four principles, namely, two limited, and two unlimited principles—two of them sliding principles, one a spiral principle, and one a rolling principle. it. The Chain-pump in action is direct arid simple ; but by friction and leakage very defective and dreadfully uncertain, and from its numerous parts highly complicated. The Chain pump is a combination of inefficient expensive lumber—a limited sliding principle. 2d. Archimedes' Screw-pump is founded upon a brilliant idea; but its applicability is very confined—a limited spiral principle. 3d. Tesibies' Pipe and Poker Pump, or the Athenian Squirt. This is the root and principle of all Piston and Cylinder Pumps, under every name and modification. All Pumps upon this plan are of necessity bad beyond remedy, and stupid indeed must they be who expect the contrary, because mostly above two-fifths of the labour employed is entirely wasted by their friction and leakage, and when accurately tested against the new principle, always prove to be but contemptible machines. Nevertheless these imperfect Pumps stood unrivalled for the last 2,000 years—an unlimited sliding principle. 4th, and last, Shalder's Pump appeared and mad* laughing stocks of the other three Pumps, and exalted the art of raising water to a science. The Fountain Pump is neither more nor less than the Pump made ainelute, because without any dis coverable defect or imperfection, it possesses every essential property for the purpose intended in the highest degree. AN UNLIMITED ROLLING PRINCIPLE. Dr. Birkbeck. President of the Mechanics'.lnstitution, Lon don, says the Fountain Pump is free from the liabilities and defeets of the common Friction Pump, and approaches a perfect Hydraulic Machine. The Vice-President, Professor John Millington, Esq., F.L. S., published a work in 1830, and therein makes a rash, false, foul, and silly assertion, that the new principle is limited, and although, from its diminished friction it has its advantages in some cases, it cannot be used for great elevations. Never theless, Fountain Pumps prove equally durable for lifts above as below one hundred feet. Millington might surely have known that flexibility was no proof of frailty, nor rigidity of durability. The rigid teeth of mainrr a mid her four s►sters were mostly gone, but their flexible tongues remained in full activity when their ages, united with their only brother, exceeded five hun dred years. And the Connectors or (flexible Cones) in Foun tain Pumps prove also not only surpassing durable, but almost indestructable. CASES SUFFICIENT. Thirty Fountain Pumps, that cost above LOOM, have net cost 21 per year for all the connectors, though twenty-four of them, from fifteen to one hundred feet long, are used to water the public roads from Wymandham to Aylsham, and at Yarmouth. A Treble-acting Fountain Pump at Diss brewery (horse power), the connectors lasted five years, lift one hundred feet. N.B. It is the packing that scrapes up the water in the old Pump that wears out. And it is the connector that rolls up the water in the New Pump that wears out. Mark the next two eases, both Pumps having done the same work. A Single-acting Fountain Pump at Messrs. Horton's, dyers, Norwich (manuarpower). Here the connectors of the New Pump last four times as long as did the pa.ling of the old Pump it supersede Ll. A Double-acting Fountain Pump at Messrs. Stark's, dyers, Norwich (steam power). Here also the packing of their old Treble-acting Pump (superseded) used to last about three months, now the connectors of their new pump last above six teen months. This noble machine has not cost Ss. a year for connectors, though constantly at work, and delivers eight im perial barrels of water per minute, PRACTICALLY PROV ING THAT IN SKILFUL HANDS THE NEW PRIN CIPLE IS DECIDEDLY THE MOST DURABLE. The Seven Road Fountain. Pumps, fixed early in Ir-31, be tween Norwich and Aylsham, have not cost a shilling, nor varied in effect. The len Friction Pumps (alias Pumplings) mixed with them, have often been repaired, and the other day not one of them would answer the helm—so much for comparative frailty. EFFECT. At the many fair trials made by man, horse, and steam power, the rolling principle beat the sliding principle, Uposs an average, nearly eighty per cent., in raising water, 10, 45, and 70 feet high, and volumes of testimonials, by laud and sea, certify similar results. But, whereas there are still many novices striving Said to perpetuate ignorance and the Athenian spurious Pump in pre ference to the New English genuine Pump and common sense, pretending that they can make miraculous fricti_n Pumps with out friction, Therefore, let In at once come to deeds to try the ques tion, and shame the fool who first cries " Hold, enough.' CONDITIONS OF PROPOSED TRIALS AGAINST CAPITAL WAREHOUSES AND FIRST-RATE .BUSINESS PREMISES, IN BRIDGE-STREET. -L ESSRS. FARGUS and SON respect fully announce that they are instructed to offer for SALE by PRIVATE TREATY, all those VALUABLE and IMPORTANT FREEHOLD WAREHOUSES and PREMISES, situate and being Nos. 33 and 19, in Bridge street, facing each other, having an excellent Arched Commu nication under the Street, and extending on the Ground Floor, about ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY FEET IN LENGTH, the whole in the occupation of the Proprietors, Messrs. James Brown and Company, Wholesale Linen and Manchester Merchants, by whom and their Predecessors the said business has been extensively carried on for many years, and the sole reason of the property being now about to be dis posed of arises from the circumstance of the Concern being about to be removed to Manchester. The Warehouse, No. 33, has six Floors, fitted up in the most superior manner, with every accommodation for carrying on the various branches of the said business on the most extensive scale. No. 19 is also fitted up in the like manner, with do mestic accommodations for a Superintendent or Managing Part ner and Assistants. There are also Fire-proof Repositories, with Iron Doors, under each Warehouse. The whole Property is in li e most perfect state of repair, and from its contiguity to the Floating Harbour, the Exchange, Post•office, Commercial Rooms, and other Public Offices, it will be found to offer a most favourable opportunity to ANY LARGE WHOLESALE CONCERN wishing to purchase extensive Freehold Warehouses, possessing such peculiar advantages. The Property may be viewed and further particulars obtained by application on the Premises ; further particulars may also be had by applying to Messrs. Hare and Little, Solicitors, Small street ; or to Messrs. Fargus and Son, Clare-street, Bristol. TIME. Take four Pumps of the Old Plan, and four Pumps of the New Plan, with mechanical parts alike, and so adjusted that a naan of ordinary strength may exert his full force, and raise with out stopping nine imperial barrels of water fire feet high, three barrels fifteen feet, one barrel fifty feet, and nine imperial gallons of water 200 feet MO, or over the London Monument. The number of seconds required with one pump less than with the other, will be its gain in time and labour. _ _ The competitors should find the pumps and the public fly pipes, in order to prove that engineers of the old school knew as much about raising water as sucking monkeys. Well, after all the stupid, lying, and even destructive oppo sition (Newmarket to wit), the graduated scale of the Foun tain Pump is practically and successfully carried nut from the delivering of a single pint of water per stroke to the delivering of 6,000 imperial gallons of water per minute. And now to congratulate all nations upon the complete suc cess of an invention of boundless and undying utility, which stature bars surpassing, is highly gratifying To the World's Obedient Servant and Instructor, W. SHALDERS. See Mechanics' Magazine, March 19, 1836 ; Sun Paper, Sept. 21, 1835; and Norwich Mercusry, June 28, 1839. Bank Place Norwich, March 26, 1840. P.S.—No work is worse done than that of raising water. Respecting force and resistance both town and country Putnp-makers seem most gloriously ignorant. I inquired of two men pumping, between London-bridge and the Tunnel, how long it took them to fill their six-barrel water cart, lift thirteen feet ?—Answer : About seven minutes, quick working. With - a No. Six New Plan they could have done the like work in seventy seconds. One Fountain Pump would about equal'all the three Cockney built Friction Pumps at the Queen's Barracks, Norwich. W. S. FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH. Price Is. PAcd. per box. This excellent family PILL is a Medicine of long tried effi cac y f or correcting all Disorders of the Stomach and Bowels, the common o symptoms of which are Costiveuess, Flatulency, Spasms, Loss of A ppee tite, Sick Headache, Giddiness, Sense of Fullness after Meals, Dia zlness of the Eyes, Drowsiness, and Pains in the Stomach and owels. 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Persons of a FULL HABIT, who are subject to Headache, Giddi ness, Drowsiness, and Singling in the Ears, arising from too great a flow of Bleed to the Head, should never be without them, as many dangerous symptoms will be entirely carried off by their immediate use. FOR FEMALES, these Pills are most truly excellent, removing all obstructions : the distressing Headache se very prevalent with the sex ; Depression of Spirits, Dullness of Sight, Nervous Affections Blotches, Pimples, and Sallowness of the Skin, and give a healthy and juvenilebloom to the complexion. To MOTHERS they are confidently recommended as the best me. dicine that can be taken during pregnancy; and for Children of all ages they are unequalled. As a pleasant, 'safe, easy Aperient, they unite the recommentia. tion of a mild operation with the mast successful effect, anti require no restraint of diet or confinement during their use n --Y rtgulating the dose ace . riling to the age and strength , of the patient, they be come suitable for every case, in either sex, that can he iequired , and for ELDERLY PEOPLE they will be found to be th e most comfortable Medieine hitherto prei,ared. Sold by T. l'rout, 29, Strand, London, Price Is. 114,1. and 9s. NI per hoz ; and by th e ven d er s of Medicines generally throughout tne Kingdom. Ask for FRAMPTON'S PILL of HEALTH, and observe the Name and Address of '. 'I homas ('rout, 229 Strand, London,'' on the (5c ecrstment Stamp. Preparing for Publication, in 2 vols. post Bvo. T 4 ETTERS FROM ITALY, In 1839. By FREDERICK VON RAUMER, Author of " England in 1835 ;" " Illustrations of History," &c. &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Grew, Marlborough-street. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. (From the Times.) If, among the alterations which have from time to time been made in the criminal law of this country, the offence of a Minister's drawing his salary when no efficient duty has been diScharged by him in return for it, had been made punishable like its kindred offence, " the obtaining money under false pretences," how few among the pre sent Ministers would escape punishment Let it be asked whether a Ministerial Bill, the almost inevitable result of which will be the removal from office of a large number of persons who will by no fault of theirs have warranted such removal, (=tides provisions for the due compensation of such persons, the answer received from the Prime Mi nister, even after the Bill shall have passed through one ' House of Parliament, will be " he really cannot tell." This was the sort of answer obtained bytheDuke of Wellington toa question with reference to the Irish Corporations Bill of last Session. Again, it► the case of a treaty, for the nego tiation of which much credit shall have been claimed for the Ministers, if it shall eventually turn out, and indeed be admitted, that the treaty is mainly a renewal of a previous one, made by a former Government, with the same power, with the addition only of provisions incapable of being car ried into effect, so far as any benefit to this country is con cerned, without the consent of a third power, which had not even been consulted upon the subject, and the assistance of Parliament shall be necessary to carry such provisions into effect at all, the Premier will be unable, after twelve months of inaction shall have passed, to state why a mea sure had not been submitted to Parliament for the purpise, and will facetiously remark that the late President of the Board of Trade is too far off for him to make tile necessary inquiry. (From the Morning Post.) If Mr. O'Connell were desirous of lowering his corm; trymen in the judgment of all men of common sense and probity, he could hardly take a more sure method of ar riving at that end than by leading the public .to •believe that such absurdities as lie utters about the repeal of the Union are favourably received by I r i s h men . The Union with Great Britain should be dissolved, he says, because the Irish people have to support a Church which is the Church of the minority. Thu Irish people have not to support the Established Church. The Establish ment is supported by its own property. If Mr. O'Connell were to complain of the Union because the Irish people had to support the Irish landlords, his position would be just as rational as that which he ventures upon regarding the Church. The Church owns land, and by that it is supported. The landlords hold land, and by that they arc supported. Where is the difference? But the Act of Union expressly recognised the Established Church, and guaranteed its maintenance as the National Church. Is a deed to be made void because of a distinct provision well understood at the time it was made? Mr. O'Connell would break a deed because that exists which the deed expressly provided should exist 1 How very reasonable ! (From the Morning _Herald.) There is a mingled fear and ferocity about O'Connell's agitation, which makes it at onc e t rucu lant and temporis ing—now growling like a tiger, and now yelping like a cur beneath the impending lash. He is a terrible fellow to face danger when it is at a distance, but he had rather leave to others all martyrdom but that of metaphor. In his speech the other day at the Corn-Exchange, he solemnly announced his intention to " die a ye pealer," and to have the awful name engraven on his tomb. To " die a repealer," however, means, in his vocabulary, a very different thing from "dy ing for repeal." Before the end of his speech he tells the miserable dupes of his threadbare artifices, that the association which is to obtain " repeal " for Ire land, and make her " great, glorious, and free," is wanted to " keep out the Tories." So then he very kindly tells the people of England not to be at all alarmed at his re peal agitation, furious and formidable as it may appear on the surface, for. when he shouts for the dismemberment of the Queen's dominions, he only means to strengthen the hands of the Queen's chaniberwornen, by assisting to keep their favourite M , nisters in power. (From the Morning Chronicle.) During the whole of the last Parliamentary recess the efforts of the Tories, through their press and their inti ncrant speech-makers, were directed to the patriotic task of embroiling their country in foreign war. Day after day, Ministers were taunted with the continuance of peace; every topic likely to disturb it .was -eagerly caught at and employed with the most mischievous dexterity, while the strongest temptations were held out to fo reign powers. who were told that such was the defenceless state of our shores, that we should be absolutely unable to resist the invasion of a small armament. The object of all this eagerness for war has been forcibly illustrated since the opening of Parliament. War was sought not for the purpose of redressing wrong or vindicating na tional honour, but as a likely means of obtaining a party triumph in the House of Commons. See the use to which even the probability of war has been recently con verted. In a case where, if war be engaged in, it will be only as a last resource, no sooner do the 'Tories think that the Ministers are fairly co mmitted to it, th an , forget ful of all their own belligerent exhortations, they seek to visit them with a vote of Parl i amentary censure. THE HEREDITARY GRAND DUKE OF Russia.—The Hereditary Grand Duke of Rus s i a arr i ve d at Darmstadt on the I Ali inst. He was met at Langen by the hereditary Prince of Hesse, and the Princes entered the capi tal together. His Imperial Highness is lodged in the Palace. On the same day there was a grand dinner at Court. Syria, in which Malta letters bring acc ounts from some curious particulars are given of Sir Moses Montefiore's proceedings during his lat e visit to the Hol y Land. We re member rumours whic h had currency, some years ago, o f t h e great Jewish capitalist's ( Mr. Rothschild) design to employ hi s wealth in the purchase of Jerusalem, as the seat of a kingdom, and bring back the tribes under his own guidance and so vereignty. If the scheme, amid its sublimity, savoured suf ficiently of the romantic to make the rumour suspicious, the positive acts of Sir Moses, at least, exhibit an anxiety to gather together the wanderers in the neighbourhood of their ancient home, and future hopes, that they may await events on the ground where they can best be made available to the fulfilment of the promise. During his pilgrimage he sought his w a y to the hearts of his country men by giving a talaris ( we b e l ieve about fifteen piastres) to every Israelite; and having instituld strict inquiries respecting the various biblical anti quities on his way, and ascertained th e amount of duty which th e sacred places and villages paid to the Egyptian Government to be about 64,000 purses (a purse being equal to fift een talaris), he propos e d to the Viceroy of Egypt, that he (Si r M oses) should pay this revenue out of his own p ocket, as the price of th a t Prince's permission to him to colonize all those places with the Children 6f Israel. The offer has been, it is said, accepted, subject to the condition that the c olon y sh all be considered . na tional, and not under European protection.—Atheneetun. E.—On Tu es d a y DRUNKENNESS AND SUICID afternoon an inquisition was taken . V, on t h e body ofbefore Mr. Higg s , at. th e Man in th M e oon, Vine-street , Sarah Davis, aged 43, who committed suicide by banning her self to the ar ea railings of the house in which she resided. She was addicted to drinking, and would continue so for three weeks together. Verdict—Temporary derangement brought on by excessive drinking. (From the Medical Gazette of April 17.) Although the French have served a pretty long an prenticeship to constitutional liberty, there is one of advantages which they have scarcely y e t l earne d to ap preciate ; we mean publicity, or the diffusion, through out the people, of that official information which, under a despotism, is confined to the favoured few. Thus a late writer in the Gazette Medicalc, after mentionieg that General Paixhans had endeavoured, in the Clem ber of Deputies, to obtain official documents relating to the health of the French troops, thinks that the te fusel of the Government to furnish them was quite justifiable. Indeed, he is of opinion that such painful facts had better be kept quiet ; " ce n'est clone pas nous qui aurions fondles thins ks donnees de l'arithirretique funeraire et declare aux jennes generations les chances de destruction qui les attendent sous les dropeaux." The commentator, (he speaks of himself as one of the medical staff at the Val-de-Grace, and sign with the initials M. L. Can this be Meriadee Laennee?)--the commentator, however, thinks that, as the figures have been openly published by the General, it is lawful to discuss them ; and he believes that every cause which contributes to augment the mortality of soldiers is capa ble of being obviated. Surely, then, General Paixhaus deserves no blame for having " rummaged the data of funeral arithmetic ;" and if the censure must rest some where, it should be on the heads of the Ministry, who, by refusing to set forth the extent of the evil, have re fused the first step towards correcting it. It appears, from this demi-official account, that the annual mortality of the French army is 75 in 1,000, in the colonies ; 70 in 1,000, in Africa ; 20 in 1,000 ie France ; and 22 in 1,000 in the whole - army. This is a greater mortality than occurs in the Eng lish service. Thus we find, in Mr. Marshall's excellent work (on the Enlisting, Discharging, and Pensioning of Soldiers, &e., second edit. p. 58), that in fourteen foreign stations out of fifteen, the annual deaths per thousand are less than 70. At Gibraltar, fbr instance, they are 22.3 ; at Malta, 22.3 ; at Bermuda, 28.9 ; at Bombay, 83.1 ; in Bengal, 41.5 ; and at Madras, 52.2. But, then, on the other hand, in the lVind w,:rd and Leeward Islands, they are 67.0 ; and at Jamaica, 91.0 so, at the stations whose climate most nearly resembles that of the French West India Colo nies, there is but little, if any, superiority to boast of. But, while the annual mortality among the troops stationed in France is 20 per thousand, the deaths among our troops, at home, are only 15 in the same number.—( Marshall, p. 59.) Here the difference is clearly on our silo ; n differ ence which may be attributed in part, we suppose, to British soldiers being better fed and lodged ; but in part, also, to the more fastidious selection of men for the army. In France, where the conscription reigns, the question always is, whether the infirmities of a given man are sufficiently urgent to exempt him from service ; in England, we rather ask whether some slight ailment, which the recruit would fain conceal, will allow of his admission into the army. Moreover, it has always been made out that the general mortality in this country is less than in France ; and it is natural that this greater tenacity of life should extend to the soldier as well as the civilian. The commentator in the Gazelle Illedicale, first points out the advantages of the soldier over the ordi nary civilian, and wonders that the average mortality in the army is 22 per 1,000, while in civil life it is only from 12 to 14. There is an error here, in both his statements. First, in comparing the military and civil mortality, we must leave out of the question the deaths caused by the burning sun of Martinique, Algiers, &c. ; a deduction which will make the annual deaths 20 in stead of 22. Secondly (which is a more important mistake), M. L. has understated the deaths of civilians in France. by one-half. In a paper read • before the Academie Royale des Sciences at Paris, by M. Moreau de-Jonnes, in 1833, he stated that the annual mortality in France was lin 39. This will make 0 5i in 1,000, instead of 12 or 14.; and will most materially affect M. L's statement. But even when corrected, it is startling enough. How is it, one mi g ht as k, t h at t h e army in France should lose 20 in 1,000, though it con sists of picked men, chiefly between the ages of eighteen and thirty, while the community loses but `253 in 1,000, with its crowds of old men and infants, and the host of the sickly to whom life has been but a long disease ? To make the paradox more striking still, we may give some advantages of the soldier over the civilian, as enumerated by our French fellow-lahourer,, Each soldier, he says, costs the state 500 francs (201.) alear, being far more than falls to the lot of a great part of the civil population. Hence the soldier is better fed, clothed, and lodged, than half the workmen in manufactories ;. he does not vegetate in an atmosphere saturated with miasmata, or filled with noxious vapours Or foreign particles ; but military duty is performed in the open air. The uniform, too, is a moral stimulus, giving new life to the weak and timid. Each eapthin is the father of a ,family, and his lieutenants assist him in watching over his children ; one looks to the sol dier's arms, linen, and bedding ; another to his diet, and I the Management of the expenses relating to it. The soldier is admitted into an infirmary on the very first symptoms of disease ; unlike the workmen, we may add, who too often toils on until all hope of recovery is gone. Haw comes it to pass, then, that with picked men and with so many aids to life, the mortality among soldiers should approach so nearly to the mortality of the mass of the people ? In the first place, according to M. L., the French army does not consist of such very select men, although not only the gels du monde but even the majority de nos confreres imagine that it does. They think of a soldier as of a combination of agility and muscular force ; while, in the military hospitals, and in the ranks, too, you will find a multitude of young men, thin, pale, and blanched, with a narrow chest, and short breath ; some exhausted before their time by laborious occupations or the irregular life of great towns ; others surprised by the conscription be fore their frame was completely developed, nature having been behind the law, and not furnishing the quantum of military strength at the legal age. The second reason assigned by the writer in the Gazelle illedicale is the frequent transference of troops from one part of France to another. The men arc fatigued by the march ; some fall ill by the way, and more are sent to hospital on their arrival. Moreover, the climate varies extremely in different parts of France, and even in the same kind of climate it is necessary to take into account a variety of circumstances ; as, for instance, to determine what regiment will best be able to support a marshy encampment. We certainly do not agree with the practitioner of the Val-de-Grace, that the frequent change of quarters is pernicious ; on the contrary, in spite of some of the weaklings dropping by the way, we are sure that variety of atmosphere and scenery is as enlivening for soldiers as civilians. On the other hand, when a regiment serves an unusual length of time in one place, and that spot an unpopular one, it produces absolute despair. The 9th Regiment served from 1719 to 1746 at Minor ca, and maiming became so prevalent among the troops stationed in the island as to lead to a Parliamentary in vestigation (Marshall, p. 146-7). If, however, it so constantly happens that men are unable to continue their march, or arc entirely knocked up at the end of it, the remedy is simple enough. The third cause assigned is nostalgia. We doubt the frequency of this affection, at least among British troops, though it might sometimes be put forwards by the soldier as the pretext to conceal the discontent which devoured him ; and even in his own heart he might mis take his dissatisfaction with the barrack for a desire to revisit his home. Fourthly, says M. L , the diet of the French soldier is not quite sufficient, for his pay 30 or 32 centimes (three pence) will not buy enough food. We should say the English soldier's rations were very insufficient if they were limited to the quantity which the utilitarians as sert. But if, as we quoted from Dr. liennen on a former occasion the soldier has one pound of meat and two pounds of bread a day, there is not much cause of complaint, though a supply of vegetables would be a desirable addition. At any rate the 48 oz. given to the British man-at-arms, are far more than can be bought in France for 32 centimes. In moist and marshy situ ations, says M. L., wine should be distributed ; it might be distributed here, also, if our trade with France could be put on a more sensible footing. - The fifth reason is the badness of the barracks. In most French towns the buildings in which the troops lodge were not originally intended for them ; and when churches and convents arc turned into barracks, it cannot be expected that they should be very healthy or commodious. As metamorphoses of this kind have seldom taken place in England, we may hope our bar racks are more wholesome ; but we fear that they are neither sufficiently spacious nor well ventilated. The sixth cause of the excess of mortality in the French army is the management of the hospitals. First of all, the surgeons have the ri g ht of tr. atin g a certain number of cases i n the regimental infirmaries, instead of sending them to the general hospital ; and this, it seems, is disadvantageous to the patients, who in their chambices, or roomfuls, sometimes escape notice. In the hospitals again, as in the barracks, the beds are crowded, and infectious diseases are placed indiscrimi nately among the others. Convalescent establish ments, too, are wanting. • • • Such, says our philanthropic colleague, are some or the causes which concur to produce the mortality o f t h e arm y ; there are many others, the exami nat i on of which wo uld perhaps lead him to delicate questions. Now it strikes us that the real solution of the pro- CONVICTS. The following letter is from a convict in New South Wales to Mr. Baker, the „benevolent gentleman whose exertions and services to.peisoners confined in Newgate are, no doubt, known to most of our readers : " New South Wales, June, 1839. " About four years previous to this I was com mitted to Newgate prison to stand tile] for embezzle ment, and during my sojourn in the above prison, I once remember hearing you make mention of a letter which you had received from a prisoner residing then in New South Wales, which gave a minute detail of the usages received by prisoners stationed there ; and in conformity with the schedule of that individual's observations, I have taken the unwarrantable li berty of affirming the same, in order to show that his remarks were of a true nature. I shall now proceed to explain some of the most important of these passages. In the first instance, any prisoner who is sentenced to trans,portation is supposed to receive the punishment with a view of causing a reformation of morals ; but in lieu of this, it is the very means of corrupting them, through the tyranni cal mode adopted by their masters, or rather assignees, the true reasons of which I will evidently produce. Memento : when an individual is sent to this colony, and arrives on shore, he is by lot assigned to a person possessed of property, more or less ; when arriving at the residence of his assignee, he is directed what to do, either by his master, mistress, or overseer, and in con sequence of its being as it were new to him, and as it is in frequent cases that new faces are well approved of, so it generally occurs in this matter, therefore the em ployer of length manifests the utmost desire for the good welfare of his new servant, and, perhaps, continues so for one or two years; but now the scene comences to differ. Probably, the man or boy, whichever he may be, proves a useful person to his employer ; then the sole maxim he has to effect is, how, or in what way lie can accomplish a method of keeping the individual in his employ ; then the best means he has recourse to are of the following description :—lf it should so hap pen that the employer will commence to upbraid and find fault with him repeatedly, until his spirits and feelings become aroused with oppres sion ; therefore the man at length is compelled to speak in his own defence, then the moment the man opens his mouth to defend himself, he is directly told that he is insolent, and accordingly ordered to proceed to the nearest police-office ; then his master, or over seer, follows him and gives a deposition to the effect that the individual has offered insolence when being spoken to by his employer ; consequently the magistrate orders the corporal punishment of twenty-five or fifty lashes to be inflicted upon the prisoner, and then re turned to his master, the master at the same time con gratulating himself upon the good deed he has caused to be done, by preventing his assigned convict from ob taining the indulgence of a ticket of leave at the appro priated time, whereby the assignee appreciates the be nefit and value of the man's labour for an additional time of twelve months, and in consequence of this harsh usage, the culprit becomes careless of his morals and life, knowing that before the additional probation has expired there will be another scheme for the same pur pose as the former one ; and I could with safety venture to assert that two-thirds of the prisoners in this colony could certify the same. " The following statement was disclosed to me by a fellow-prisoner, just at the period of writing this brief account : " This man has been in the colony fourteen years. and in consequence of additional punishments, has only now made application for a ticket of leave, and in reply to his application, he received intimation from the Go vernment-office to this effect, that he must serve a pro bation of five years more before he applies again, which time, added to the other, will make a period of nineteen years for the specified indulgence, in lieu of eight years. Now I will ask of any reasonable person what mo tive any prisoner can feel, or what desire he can mani fest to reform, when he is thus harshly dealt with ? No On the contrary, the culprit becomes still more har dened and wicked, for when be sees that all his efforts to become good and honest are annihilated, he then says to himselt, I may just as well be bad as good. The last and sole truth of the matter is, that if it was not for the prolongation of the servitude attached to the corporal punishment, there would not be one-fourth part of it. inflicted that there is at present, for it jewel' known to every prisoner, that three out of five are punished ex• pressly for the purpose of dispensing their services with out payment ; in short, this is the best and only means that the assignees have of keeping them. I have merely communicated these observations to you in hopes that you will rehearse them in an intimidating manner to pri soners in your department, with a view of preventing them from subjecting themselves to such tyranny in their tour through life." THE TORY PARSONS OF ETON AND THE QUEEN. (From the Sunday Times.) In the second edition of last week, we gave, under this head, some account of the proceedings of the Fel lows of Eton, with reference to the election of Mr. Lonsdale as Provost, in the room of the late Dr. Good all. The truth of some portion of that statement has since been denied by a letter which appeared in the Times of Tuesday last, under the signature of " A Member of the College." We stated that, ou the preceding Tuesday, " the Fellows, in opposition to the recommendation of the Queen, elected, as Provost, the Rev. Mr. Lonsdale, the Principal of King's College, London, thus setting her Majesty at defiance." This is not denied. We further stated, that on Friday, the 10th instant, "the Vice-Provost and two of the Fellows went to town for the purpose of officially announcing to the Home Secretary that they bad elected Mr. Lonsdale, the Con servative, and given the go-by to Mr. Hodgson, the Li beral." This is denied ; but the Vi,te-Provost and two of the 'Fellows did go to town on the Friday, and if they had no interview with any member of her Majesty's Go vernment, a communication was made, eithar by or through them, to the Government, and they were cer tainly " sent home again with a flea in thcir ear," after certain " very significant hints" had been given to them as to their future course of proceeding. We further stated that, on their return to Eton, on "the same afternoon, and within an hour afterwards, they called what is termed 'a college,' and elected the Queen's nominee, the Rev. Mr. Hodgson (whom they had turned their backs upon only three days befo re ) to the Provostship of Eton." That any " college " was held on that day has been denied ; but we have only to observe tha t if it was not a "college" which was h e ld, the ic Provost and the whole of the Fellows met in conclave e at the hour we stated, when they reso lved thxt the Rev. Mr. Hodgson should be t henewProvost, if they (the Fellows) could extricate themselves difficulties which beset them, occasioned by tlfieroirmobtshtie nate opposition to the wishes of the Sovereign. The " hint" the worthy trio received, when they went to London on Friday, was to the effect, that if they re solved to stick so close to their sta tutes in one particular (with refer ence t o t h e election) they would most pro bably have a commission sent dow n to Eton f or the pur pose of m a ki ng some little inquir ies into the application of the vast funds annually divided by the Provost and fellows, and to ascertain that all the statutes had been strictly abided by by those who were now such sticklers for what they term their " privile ges." readers may rest as sure d t h at t h e Rev. 11r. Hodgson will be the new Provost of Eton. But the best of the joke is, the Fellows had been groping about completely in the dark as to the political principles entertained hy the Queen's nominee, until they saw the Morning Chronicle of Thursday last. They fancied that because Mr. Hodgson happened to marry the daughter of a •Whig (Lord Denman), that Mr. Hodgson must be a Whig himself ! However, it has since Curned out that at the last election for North Derbyshire, the man whom they so unceremoniously rejected, ." voted for an uncompromising Tory?' 'l'h ey have since been terribly chagrined at their " m i s t a ke __:J and naturally so. An advertiser in a western paper, who rejoices in the various occupations of doctor, lawyer, justice 'of the peace, and dry goods merchant, adds the following to his list of pursuits and qualities :—" N.B. Auctioneer ing of the loudest kind, interwoven with ventriloquism." —Phil. Gaz. ANOTHER EDITOR REWARDED..—TIIC editor of the Kent Bugle, a Maryland paper, has bad left him three qf dollars. What a lucky fellow 1 . With such a windfall, he will never have occasion to complain of being out of " sorts," or compelled longer to answer the summons of the "devil" when called on for " copy." TAKING IT EASY.—The following; quiet at:mount:a ment appears in an American paper : " Shot—Richard Gousauls, a river pilot., near St. Missoury, on the Ist inst." One would think, from this, that shooting a man ras one of the regular cceurrences of the day—like a drive in Hyde-park, or a vote against conscience. Tile following is the latest mode of describing a duel in America:—Bloods.—Washington Moody and John Cantley, residents of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, recently dis agreed, IN hich led to the death of the latter. WAGES OF LABOUR IN NE YORK. We have collected, from the best authority, the fol lowing statistics, indicating the wages of labour and prices of flour in this city, for the several years named : MOBS OF LABOUR. 1830. 1E36. 1840. Dollars per Day. House Carpenters 1.25 a 1,50 ... 1,c2 a 2,00 ... 1,25 a 1,50 Ship Carpenters Riggers Wharf Labourers l,lO a ... 1,50 a ... 1,23 a , fasoni 1,25 a 1,50.. 2,00 a 2,25 ... 1,25 a 1,50 Hod Carriers Per Week. Printers Per Month. Stone Labourers Per Bartel. Flour It will be observed in this table that the rise in the wages of labour began subsequent to the year 1830. For many years before that period there was little or no fluctuation in the wages of labour. This was the natural result of a sound and an unfluctuating currency . In 1830 the great movement began among the banks, started first by the Manhattan and other banks of this city, the object of which was to induce General Jack son, otherwise an honest man and a patriot, to begin his experiments in the currency, under the pretence of giv ing the country a " better currency" than we then had. General Jackson was seduced by the misrepresentations of the Manhattan and other banks. This movement led naturally to the multiplication of banks—the ex pansion of the paper currency—the creation of ficti tious values—the rise in flour, wheat, provisions— and the consequent demand for higher wages. Things went on from bad to worse, till General Jackson found that the banks had deceived him. He then began the retrograde movement, since followed out by Mr. Van• Buren and his sub-treasury policy. This, as a matter of cours.!, has produced the explosions and suspensions in the bank currency, which are bringing about their natural effects in the wages of labour and the vitae of all products. In the re-action from high and bloated prices to low prices, all classes suffer alike— the capitalist and the labourer—the merchant and the Mechanic.— Wages and provisions do not decline on one anti the same day. This creates great distress among la bourers, until the adjustment of values takes place ; but is it to be avoided? It cannot be avoided. If the community, under a bad Government, gets iaboxi cated with high prices, produced by bank inflations, it must suffer the headache of low prices, as a drunkard does of low spirits, till it reach the point from which it started. This is now the condition of the worki:.g men of New 'York. We are gradually getting right— the headache is yet severe, but time will relieve them. Above all things, let the working people take care to support such a Government as will be stable and per manent, and not one that starts all sorts of experiments in the currency. The country is ripe for a chance rulers, and an adjustment of values and wages ; and the probability is that there will be a decided change, and a decided equalization of all prices and values in Mend), 1841, when Harrison enters the White House and Van Buren enters his cottage at Kinderhook.— New York Paper. JUSTICE IN FRANCE.- An action was tried two days ago before the Tribunal of Commerce, in which Messrs. Rowland and Son, of Macassar Oil celebrity, were plaintiffs, and Messrs. Gueland, Messier, and Amerel, in Paris, were de fendants. Messrs. Rowland complained that the defendants had, to order to insure a sale for a composition which they also called Macassar Oil, imitated his bottles and labels, and thus injured the reputation of the genuine article, and diminished its sale. The Tribunal, deciding that foreigner's trading with France were entitled to protection against a fraud of this de scription, sentenced the defendants, who sold the Macassar Oil bearing false labels, to pay 600 f. each, and 60Gf, for every new contravention of which they may be guilty ; and ordered other defendants, wh:i were the manufacturers of the bottles and printers of the labels, to deliver none of the same descripti , n without the authority of Messrs. Rowland. The Tribunal, in giving its judgment in this case, mentioned, among the motives of its decision, that a foreigner, bringing into France either a manufacture or manufactured bjects, ought to receive the same protection as a French subject; that, in the present instance, it was necessary to secure to the plaintiffs, not only their property, but also their commercial name, which no one else had the right to make use of; that goad faith and equity were of all countries, and that the Tribunal could not suffer the public to be deceived by speculations, which good faith and equity alike condemned; and, in fine, that it was of importance for foreign traders in France. to receive that protection from the French laws which it was to be hoped French traders would, in return, meet with in other countries. ANECDOTE.—An old gentleman of eighty-four. having taken to the altar a young damsel of about sixteen, the clergyman said to him " The font is at the other end of the church." " What do I want with the font ?" said the old gentleman. " I beg your pardon," said the clerical wit, " I thought you had brought this child to be christened." ENGLISH YACHT.—A beautiful English yacht made her appearance yesterday in our harbour. We understand she is the property of certain English gentlemen—is last from the Island of Cuba, bound to New York, and has been cruising, in the West India Seas, her company being on an excursion of pleasure. Among the marvels of the day is a cruise for recrea tion across the Atlantic in a pleasure boat. It is significant of the dispositions of the travelling portion of the British public, who, having exhausted the continent of Europe and the re motest cast in their explorations, cross an ocean of 3,000 miles wide and penetrate to the prairies of the west, in teach of niers objects of curiosity.— Charleston Patriot. KINDNESS OF THE POOR TO THE Poon, Whoever has studied, with a mind free from prejudice, the manners of the working classes, cannot fail to have observed that these classes very generally present numerous examples of virtue. The working man is, for the most part, freehearted, kind, and anxious to assist his; comrades, :and capable of the ' truest devotion towards his employer. In those quarters, the population of which is chiefly engaged in the industrious arts, it is notorious that aitizans, whose cireumstances are tolerably easy, succour, with a ready and active charity, not only those of their comrades who are prevented from labouring by sick ness, but all who occupy the same house with themselves, or with whom they maintain habits of neighbourhood. Out of their vages they keep back a or ti on for thew and even perform the sick man i c task, in addition purposes tor their own, own, to preserve his salary to him theduring onthe day of his removal his his illness. If he is compelled to seek the hospital, i i s no v n is e i y ted an bi w a o d rd el s iu o ta f tio eca no s! hedsid ofe his companions, with offers solation. When his strength returns, they make it their busmess fen s t e h e e k fiwork fortnight. for him, and sh ou ld subscr ibe ' s o.m t o o Lis a w n a .f r o d r s e,ee u main tenancea.dv a r o n e t e b o av f e m r o ed n e u y c , e ad meal, , t o b distress , tia an t d he th y es r e el s .e u r c e co h u i r m s, by freely a a 0 51 f .... a which N t'h a e y, r t e h r e i iirienteo solicitudel could n f o o t il o n w i l, th h i i m m t e dfe v i • s e he n 'oln a ' m'mi,rli fails constitute follies, a l ie d discharge . s e , b a t nddo es not abandon him in his Crimea. , In the former ease they. the latter, th e y s till elhim back to respectabi- I in : litv w ith friendly and visit him i apire i sroeles an , d s, h c. old out to him a helping hand.--Des" Classes pa,g PAYING FOR NEWS .-- On returning to his f am ily, after an absence of some weeks, Captain Johnson had been driven from Kingstown to Dublin by a carman, who, looking discontentedly at the fare paid him, " Shure, your Honour will give a thrifle more than this ?" " Not a rap," said the Captain. " Bad luck to me but you would," persi s t e d Paudge, "if you knew all, then." " What do you mean?" asked Johnson, anxiously. " Faix, dat's tellins, say way ; and is it only for my fare I'm to tell any news ?" " Well, well," said the Captain, here's another shilling; now what has hap. pened ?" " Sorra the harm at all, only I thought you'd not be grudge a little exrra som'at to know that I driv ye the last three miles widout a linch-pin."—Playing About, by Benson Hilt ' Scott, the American diver, has been " astonish. ing the natives" of Portsmouth by jumping off the mail) kli gallant yard of a collier brig in the harbour, and by vulva feats Of ag ility i n th e t ops; whilst a brother " skip " has been actively employed on shore divissg iato•ths peckers of mu good- i natured townsmen.—Hampshire IneleP`maene • 1 N