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i . el , ' ••• ' Vik , ' . ... , .. • 2 1. th -' f , f . 4.. „ • A .. CIONTR A. for: CdALS for her Majesty's 1,,,;-.. ,' VP DOCK 1YAL... ,1° and the ADMIRALTY and MARINE , .-. OFFICES.. •$ -' -,. .:D ~N . ~. t of hg.Storekeeper General of Ur,. Navy ' V• . 8.. erset-place, 3d April , 1847. 'k ' Thb CommiSsf . ! • '- a.• .tin , the office of Lord high Admiral t • -, ...Of the United K .I V — ; "•:tlt:Ltain and Irelmd, do hereby give .. , notice, that on '.:, nitsilalt, •' nstwit, at one o'clock , th e y will lit , ' •-• . he . ready to treaqwith sue ' ' 7 "`" - - - %.1 111 AV be willing to Contract • 111 4.. f or . , skpplying her, M f ,j"(o . .. •c. t__ •r rtrly one or more of them , . .. and the Admiral ety and i.'Nt , ~" -r • COALS. A distribution ';' as, awl a form of,th.• '''.' . - o,rninaye seen at the said office. •ts ' , ... .or iny itotfted, pppepo t r illesT the party attends, oantetent'd'esi,°cokr-' aonnatgheen,tififoyroifiiintredt3l.;., ender ill bo r ~,iv ed . -1- -; - alithoriied in wri' .1 • ' .. ng. ' . , Every Tender ..must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, • '.. and bear in tt . e I..ft hand corner the words "Tender for it. and must al ao be delivered .ASoincrset-place, accompanied by a letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with ; 11v Pet's' At tendering, In the sum of 201. per 10) toils for the due per "riba' Ace of the Contract. .._- • t filIE EAST INDIA SALT MONOPOLY. - ..2.. At a Meeting of Merchants, Manufacturers , and Ship-owners, held at Birmingham, on WEDNESDAY, the 31st March, to consider the Dispatch recently forwarded to India, by the East India Directors, the following Resolutions were passel :- Ist. That the East India Company's monopoly of the manufacture 01 Salt in Bengal and Behar, being not only most injurious to the welfare of Ike Hindoos, but also extremely prejudicial to the immu factutng, shipping, and other commercial interests of Great Britain, this Meeting pledges itself to uze every effort to procure the extinc tion of :hat monopoly. 2d. That the various Chambers of Commerce, commercial and trading associatiwas, in the difilirent commercial and manufacturing towns and cities iat Great Britain, be urged to appeal to the Legisla ture by memorial., previously enlisting the support of their respective representatives in the House of Commons; awl likewise to take such other steps, by the convocation of public meetings, or otherwise its may appear to them advisable, in order to enforce the abol Lion of th'- monopoly M question. al. That the heat thanks of this Meeting arc duo to the Public Press, for the warm sympathy a:id support it has afforded the oppotienta of the monopoly. 4th. That the thanks of this Meeting be tendered to Mr. Aylwin for his indefatigable efforts to diffuse information respecting the, operation of the Salt monopoly, and to advocate its abolition; and that Mr. A 3 twin he entreated to persevere in exertions calculated to be of so muck mrvico to the interests of England and India. (Signed) WILLIAM WORTIiI.ISGTON, Chairman. Birmingham, 31st March, 1817. , Published by order of. the Meeting, J. 11. STOCQUELER, Secretary. STEAM to ABERDEEN, INVERNESS, and the NORTH of SCOTLAND. The Aberdeen Steam Navigation Company's splendid and power -1111 ships will start as under, weather, &c., permitting: — For ABERDEEN, the DUKE of WELLINGTON, on Saturday, April 10, at Four o'clock afternoon. For INVERNESS, the NORTH STAR, on Monday, April 19, at Nine morning, calling off Burgher d, Invergordon, Croat:tatty, and Chanonry Feint. The Comp'any's New Iron Steam Ship DUKE of SUTHERLAND, is appointed, to leave Inverness on the 19th, and London on Monday, the 26th April, at Ten A.M. Offices: Spread Earle, Regent-circus, or 257, Wapping. CHARLES WILLIAM WILLOUGHBY, Agent. 4k. 1 RATESEND STAR and BLACKWALL W PACKETS. Boat and Railway ineindedln one Payment, . avoiding the danger and delay of the Fool. From the Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall, at 9, 10, 11, 12, 1%, 3, 4%. s;i. and 7. Sundays, at 9,9%, 10, 11, 1%, 3,5%. and 7. Ti Trains startlngone quarter of an hour before each of these times. New Terrace Pier, Gravesend, at 7%, 8%, 9%, 11%, 1,2, 3, s, and 6%. Sundays, at 7, 734, 8%, 11%, 1,3, 5,6, and 7. N.B.—lco other packets call at the Grays or Grcenhlthe Piers. Star Office, Grsvesend, April 3, 1847. T HE EXPERIENCE LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. Edinburgh, 15, George-street. London, 58, King William-street. Established 1843. Capital 300,0001. This Company's Tables are based upon the EXPERIENCE OF TILE SEVENTEEN LIFE OFFICES,as contained in the Report of their Mortality published in 1813. The Company embraces, in Its constitution, the adYnntages of both the mutual and proprietary systems of Assurance. The SHORT PE RIOT) RATES will be foUnd, in comparison with other Companies, to be exceedingly tayonrable to Insurers, and the rates for the whole period of life as low as is consistent WITIt PERFECT SECURITY. . For prospectuses, 8,-e., apply at the offices as abore, or to any of the Agents throughout the kingdom. Jiy order of the Directors, '- - T. YUILLD WAItDROP, Secretary. PELICAN LIFE INSURANCE OFFICE, 70, LOMDAMD-STREET, and 57, CLIARING-CROSS, LONDON. Established 1797. DIRECTORS. Matthias Attwood, 7Esq., M.P. Kirkman D. Hodgson, Esq. Robert Gurney Barclay, Esq. Richard H. Lawrence, Esq. W. Cotton, Esq., F.R.S. J. Petty Muspratt, Esq. Wm. DeTit, Esq. Charles Hampden Turner, Esq. Richard Fuller. Esq. Matthew Whiting, Esq. J A. Gordon, E5q.,31.D.,1".8.5. BO \ 1.75. Fonr-fifths of the net Profits realisel by the Company from In snrances effected upon the Participating Scale of premiums allotted, agreeably to the conditions of the policies, every sere years. The first period to commence from the 3d of July, 1840. Annual Premium required for the Assurance of 100/. for the whole term of life. 'Without 1 With I A Without With Age ' Profits. Profits. 1 -- " e * Profits. Profits. ---- -- , - 15 Iliiel 1 15 0 40 21S 10 36 3 2$ 1113 10 119 3 50 I 4 0 9 410 7 012 4 0 210 4 1601 6 1 0 67 4 . __ ROBERT TUCKER, Secretary. CORPORATION (Established by Royal Charter A.D. 1720.) ItOYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE OF HOUSES AND GOODS FROM FIRE. OFFICES—ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. • Branch, 29, Pall - mall. 'Notice.—Tho usual fifteen days allowed for payment of rremlums fallin g due at Lady-day will expire on the 9th day of April next. 4 ASSURANCES ON LIVES. .vVITII LARGE PARTICIPATION IN morns. Two-thirds ..11' the profit on the Company's Life Business sinco De cember, 1A . 41, will be apportioned, periodically, among Policies for Life ; wit:lout involving the Assured in any risk of Partnership. GOVERNOR—Thomas Tooke, Esq. Sus-GOVERNOR—WiIIiam Sampson, Esq. DIPIITT-GOVERNOR—The Hon. J. T. Leslie Melville. DIRECTORS. Sir J. W. Lubbock, Bart. Charles John Manning, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq. Edward H. I'almer, Esq. John Henry Telly, Esq. Abraham G. Robarts, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq. Sir Samuel Scott, Bart. William Soltan, Esq. William Wallace, Esq. Octavius Wigram, Esq. Charles B. Younx, Esq. ALEX. GREEN, Secretary. Henry Bainbridge, Esq. George P. Barclay, Esq. Edmond S. P. Calvert, Esq. John Garratt Cattley, Esq. A lexander Colvin, Esq. William Davidson, Eacl. John Deacon,..K.sq• Blversdale W. Grenfell, Esq. 'William T. Hibbert, Lancelot Holland, Esq. Sir George Larpent, Bart.. John C. LC/diner, BK. N ATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, 26, COIINIIILL, LONDON, Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. This Institation embraces important and substantial advantages 'with respect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. alic assured tia , , on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for feiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium s p aid (see Table); also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversio n 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 suCCOS3 and increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a fourth bonus, Tarying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid On each Policy effected on the Profit scale. EXAMPLES. i 9, :-;/ •'' . 4 Bonus Bonus In ga R Assurei ti B Premium. ?„, jued . Cash. c — E." g may ''' ' Borrow. r 1837 X 217 15 1 .£llO 0 111 16 0 4 ] .£445 0 Z Lid. 1 is„,l li2 3 0 67 I 4' 1310 2 \ MIS 11 _ . . i........, ~.. .. .... _ . . n! 11 A 11 AA I 9 s. d. r 1837 1 .£217 15 1 .£llO 0 11' Z X , 18381 It 2 3 0 67 1 .1 1 1000 3 4 11639 155 11 10 . 74 Ift 118401 116 7 6 54 010, !lAtli 111 6 8, 49 10 01 £l6 0 4 1 .£145 0 0 13 10 2 \ 395 11 1 I 11 3 11 34 1 2 3 7 1i 101 296 13 4 710 4 247 4 5 The division of profits is annual, and the next will be made in December of the present year. F. FERGUSON CAMEOUX...Secretzry. B RITISH GUARANTEE ASSOCIATION. (Incorporated by Act of Parliament.) No. 9, Waterloo-place, London ; 126, Princes-street, Edinburgh. The arrangements with the Lords Comraiss'oners of her Majesty's Treasury having been concluded. the Directors will grant Bonds of Guarantee for the fidelity of Officers in every department of the %tlte, who are required to give security to the Crown, and they arc prepared to receive proposals from persons employed in the Treasury, War Office, Home Office, Ordnance, Foreign Office, Customs and Excise, Colonial Oftlee, Stamps and Taxes, Exchequer, Woods and Forests, Admiralty, Post Office, &c. Also irom Treasurers, Actuaries, and other Officers of the New County Courts, 1 Loan Societies, S avings' Banks, Government Annuity Societies, Friendly Societies, , Benefit Building Societies, Poor law Commission, And all Public and Private In- Insurance Companies, stitutions, Banks, Chancery and other Receiver- Railway Companies, ships, Mercantile Houses, And in all other situations where security against fraud, or failure to account, is required. Rates of Premium One H.v.lf per Cent, and upwards. -- Colonial and Foreign Policies arc granted. .. Forms of proposal may be obtained at the offices of the Associa. tlon ; or from any of the Local Agents. A. CIIAMBRE, Secretary to the London Board. FENDERS, STOVES, and FIRE IRONS.— The LARGEST ASSORTMEN r of STOVES, KITCHEN RANGES, and FENDERS, as well as General Iromw-ngery In tke world, is now on Sale at WILLIAM S. BURTON'S (late RIPON and BURTON'S) extensive arehouses. Bright steel fenders, to 4 feet, from 30s. each ; ditto ditto, with or-molu ornaments, from GOs. ; rich bronzed scroll ditto, with steel bar, 10s. 6d.: iron fenders, 3 feet, 4s. 6d. ; 4 feet, Gs. ; ditto bronzed, and fitted with standards, 3 feet, 95.; 4 feet, 118.; wrought iron kitchen fenders, 3 feet, 4s.t , d. ; 4 feet, 6s, ; bri;ht rei,ister stoves, with bronzed ornaments, and two sets of bars, from 955. ; ditto ditto, with or-molu ornaments, from 91.; black dining-room register stoves, 2 feet, 18s.; 3 feet, 275.; bed-room register stoves, 2 feet, 16s. ; 3 feet, 245. The new ecollo !Meal thcrmio stove, with fender and radiating hearth-plate, from 8/, ; fire-Irons for chambers, Is. 9d. per set; kandsome ditto, kith cut heads, Gs. 6d.; newest pattern, with elegant bronzed heads, I Is. A variety of fire-irons, with or-molu and richly cut heads, at propor tionate prices. Any article in the furnishing ironmongery, 30 per cent. naser any other house. The money returned for every article not approved of. Detailed catalogues, with engravings, sent (per pout) free. WILLIAM S. BURTON'S (late RIPPON and BURTON'S) stock 6 f general furnishing ironmongery is literally the largest in the world, and as no language can be employed to give a correct idea of Its variety and extent, purchasers are invited to call and inspect it. 39, Oxford-street (corner of Newman-street). Established in Wells street 182111 OX NERVOUS DEBILITY AND GENERATIVE DISEASES. JUST PUBLISHED, THE THIRTIETH THOUSAND, An Improved Edition, revised and corrected, 120 pages, price 25., in a sealed envelope, or forwarded, pest-paid, to any address, secure from' observation, for 2s. 6d. in postage stamps, illustrated with numerous Anatomical Coloured Engravings, 0 D M. The Causes of its Premature Decline; with Plain Direc tions for;ifs Perfect Restoration. A Sledical Essay on those diseases of the generative organs, emanating from solitary and sedentary habits, indiscriminate ex cesses, the effeAs of climate, and infection. &c., addressed to the sufferer in youth, manhood, aid old age ; with practical remarks on marriage, the treatment an d cure of nervous and mental debility, Impotency, syphilis, and other uritio-genital diseases. by which even the most shattered constitution may be restored, and reach the full period of life allotted to man. The while illustrated With numerous anatomical Engravings on steel, in colour, explain ing the various functions, secretions, and structures of the reprodec "ve organs in health and disease; e ith instructions for private cor respondence , cases, ito• BY J. L. CURTIS and 0., Consulting Surgeon!, 7, Frith-street, Soho-equare, Lond on. REVIEW' OT THE WORK. 14 CURTIS ON MANHOOD. ( Strange). Having for many years been the standard work on these diseases, its origintlity is apparent, and I t" Perusal breathes consolation and hope to the mind of the patient." Naval and Military Gazette. • PubliEhed by the Authors, and may be bad at their residence ; sold ro by Strange, 21, Pe.temoster-row ; liannay, 63, Oxford-street ; _.'"o, 39, Cornhill, London • Sowlet, 4, St. Ann's-square, Man chester; r ; Phili South Castie-stree t, Liver[ ; Campbell, 146, .6.40rg3 le-street, Glasgow; Robinson, 11. Greenside-street, Edinburgh; (1 in a sealed envelope by all booksellers. d „ '"!'M„ 23 `riL CURTIS and .CO. are to ha con sulted daily at their rest e, No. 7, FRITH-STREET Sq',lo-SQUARE, LONDON, and ovents can have this work privately torwanlea thetn, by initial or w 16 2, to any part of the United Kin-Am, direct from the Author's .._ L or a Residence, or from any of the abo ve agents, 511 remitting ". 6d, ba portage Stara PO. . i f 41....--&--A--- • -........,......".1, ~....-_-t,. ) \.,-:= 7 7 , ~ - A : _.,. . .. , ....„.....7... ~, ii.... , 1 4 . ' 1 4 -..,-. -., ~ ,, o , i f I 1' I ;;. , --, ---- .4. ' , ••'• . O. It ',Via A) 7 1%!‘ e - s , ' • ul-- ; --- - -- - 44 . • - , .... , ~ ., ..--. 4y,, ,: 7, : .; 0 .. ...,a , ‘,- c * --44 ..\\ ,", . -----, v ,•,- --, `r 1, ..„..., ~ ~,, _ 4T.--- ----:,..*, . , 1i.......; ..- 1,.... + r ' / 1 ', * • ' ,r , . , • 6-'' ' ‘ J '':A'te' ' . \' ' ' '%, r l- ,r,. _ a ': •. ',, 4 : , -'" _____2- .44. t '', ,i . t • .. ij4 , t - : 1,,,e - -rt -, Z' x 'ter ~, ~ , s. iu, 6 T. A ' L.- • !4_,A ', 7 !;:t. ' '-' •,-= \-4--- ,47-- , 7 cg. -4, ;es"' ---- Dii - ,,—" ~, irkl - Rc - *OA ! '" -. - , , e ... „- , 91 - 1. • ....- ' - ~ - \it - ' --. , . , -,....,_.5..-____•,,,...2,....„.. - - - - - .‘r0.17019. LONDON, TUESDAY SALES BY AUCTION. The 7,fagniticent DOMAIN of HAMPDMS', in BUCKS, comprising about 4,600 Acres, nearly in a Bing Fence, surrounding a fine Baronial Mansion, with a superbly Timbered Park, extensive Wooiltinds, ',iambic Farms, Manors and Advowson, delightfully s!tulted Between the Towns of Wycomb?, Risboraigh, and Aylesbury, a,:d within Twelve Mila of the Tring S.tation on the London and Birmingham Railway. TH and SON have 3i li it b S . S enco S m . in i i?s ,i ml iN . TlE aby L tho S4 N ‘l o i- r to ble Proprieto announce (the late contra,t having been abandoned by mutual consent of him self and the purchaser) that this truly important and highly distill guisl,ed FREEHOLD ESTATE will be SUBMITTED to PUBLIC SALE during the ensuing summer, unless an acceptable offer shall be previously made by Private Contract. It is famed as having been especially visit d by Queen Elizabeth, and as the reaidence of the renowned Hampden, and eomprses a splendid domain of about 4,600 a-res, eaibraeing a romanti portion of the. fine healthy Chiitern Hills and of the rich vale beneath, stretching to within a few miles 01 the several ste*oundin4 towns of Missenden, Wendover, Aylesbury, Princes Risborough, and High Wycombe. The mansion is a grand feature in the county, amidst the wood-crowned height: of Hemp'en, s o t p i I n k ing known a with ts south and east aspects through noble g vale avenues It p(o o n c e Queen E izaheth'' Gap) to the surroundin. sesses capital st abling, god gardens, fk.c., but it la a place of compara tively stitch expense. The park is superbly timbered, ti td the woo Bands are remarkably thriving, and form beautiful bros:en links in the surrounding diversified scenery. The farms arc all let at very low rents to a respectable tenantry. There are keepers' and woodmens' lodges, and numerous superior cottages. The manors are extensive, • and the advowsen of Hampden-cum-Kimble, with its desirable par sonage, and the tithes of some adjoining estates, apdertain to the ProPerty. The picturesque church, in which is the grave and Mo nument of Hampden, is near the house : and it hi the wish of the noble proprietor to transfer with the mansion (with a few unimpor tant exceptions), the whole of its highly interesting and valuable effects, the greater part being connected with its historical and other a,Sociations. Such a property, viewed as to its substantial value, numerous beauties, and interesting appendages, is but rarely In the market. Cards for viewing the estate can only be obtained by parties giving their name and address, of Messrs. Jones, Bateman, and Bennett, Solicitors, Lincoln's-inn ; and of Messrs. Daniel Smith and ..on, Land Agents, who are fully authorised to treat for the sale of the property. Particulars may be also had of Mr. Grace, of Ward. robes, near Risborough, the Resident Agent, who will give every in formation to parties having orders to view. THE OLD PALACE, at RICHMOND, a delightfully situate and most comfortable Mansion, with Grounds extending to the River, near the Bridge; lat, the seat of the Hon. Mrs. STEWART MAC KEZCZIE, now wholly residing in Scotland. • MESSRS. DANIEi- SMITH and SON Alin submit to public SALE, at the MART, ',ear the Bank of England, on FRIDAY, the 9th of April, at Twelve o'clock (unless an acceptable offer shall he previously made by private contract). The above spacious and handsome LEASEHOLD MANSION, one of the striking features in the beautiful scene r y of the Thamesnear Richmond-bridge. It is distingu:shcd as the Old Palate. Its river trout (agreeably retired) presents a grand uniform elevation, With a noble portico of very lofty stone columns, supported by a broad flight of stone stet's from the ground floor, which comprises a deli g htful range of six or seven rooms, forming the dining and reception rooms, boudoir, &c., all opening en suite, with the same south-western as pect, and all commanding the uninterrupte d view of the Weasure grip:suds and river.. On theupper floors arc numerous excellent And cheerful bed-rooms, a boud,dr and dressing-rooms, nearly ad with warm aspects, and the domestic offices are very complete, opening to a spacious enclosed coach-yard. with distinct accesS, stallin g for four horses, double coach-house, &c , and adjoining arc very superior walled gardens, with an abundance of the choicest fruit Dees; s• uth ward of which are the pleasure grounds, extending from the mansion to the river hank, with broad gravelled walks, a,:d embellished with some, lofty timber trees, cedars, and clumps of various American and other shrubs, with a capital newly-erected conservatory, and a sum mer-house, adapted for a billiard-room, commanding the beautiful scenery of the river, Richmond -bridge, &e. Immediate possession may be had, and descriptive particulars had at the neighbouring hotels ; of air. Cain, house agent, Richmond ; at the, Auction Mart; of Joseph Parkes, Esq., 11. Great George.strect, Westminster; of thigh James Cameron, Esq., Parliament-street; and of Daniel Smith and Son, surveyors, &c., Waterloo. place, Pall-mall, who are fully authorised to receive offers by private treaty. ADVOWSONS, In the remarkably' belutiful part of Gloucestershire, ncit Stroud, between Glouceste-, Cheltenham, and Bath, i 11ESSRS. DANIEL SMI TH and SON will v: , SELL by AUCTION, at the MART, en FRIDAY, April 9, at Twelve, in separate Lots, TWO most desirable ADVOWSONS, with next and all future Rights of Presentation, with very superior par sonages, delightfully ,ituate, amidst the romantic scenery of Wood • chester Park and the fine Vale ad* the Severn, surrounded by an excellent neighbourhood, and both within two miles of stations on the Great Westgra Railway, viz , the Rectory of Woolchester, the annual income of which, wi.h 24 acres of glebe, is nol., exclusive of the delightful earsoimge-house and Grounds, only two miles from Stroud; the present incumbent is 68 years of age; the population, 900. Also, the Vicarage of Frocester, five miles fiom Stroud, and 11 from Gloucester, with a newly-built parsonage, exclusive of which the income is 2701. per annum ; the incumbent is 47 ; the popu lation 300. Particulars may be had at the chief Hotels at Gloucester, Bath, Cheltenham, and Oxford ; of Messrs. Humphreys and Co., auctioneers, Stroud ; of Mr. Hudson, solicitor, the Close, Lichfl , ll ; the Mart; and of Messrs. Daniel Smith and Son, Laud Agents, Waterloo. place, Pall-mall. CHE.STER-HILL HOUSE, amitst the romantic scenery of Wood chester Park, near Stroud and Gloucester, with a first-class Railway-station only two miles distant. _ILMESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will offer for SALE 17 AUCTION at the Mart, near the Bank of England, on FRIDAY, the 9th of April, at Twelve o'clock (unless an acceptable offer shall be previously made by Private Contract), The above desirable FREF:HOLD RESIDENCE, with gardens, pleasure grounds, ftnd rich paddocks, together about eighteen acres. The House contains six airy bed-rooms, dressing-rooms, water closet, &c. three sitting-rooms, hall, and the usual domestic offices, with stabling and various out -buildings, excellent gardens, lawn, shrubberies, &c.; delightfully situ ate on a healthy picturesque spot, commanding scenery of great extent and surprising beaut , , and in the vicinity of the newly established Mission of the Pessimists, and early possession may be had. Also, a smaller HOUSE and GROUNDS in the immediate vicinity. Particulars may be. had of Mr. Peake, the resident agent at Wood - cheater; at the chief hotels at Stroud, Bristol, and Bath: at the Auction Mart ; of Mr. Hodson, solicitor, the Close, Lichfield ; and of Messrs. Daniel Smith and Son, Land Agents, Waterloo-place, London. NEAR PETERBOROUGH. The Great ESTATE and Extensive MANORS and ADVOWSON of WHITTLESEA, to be divided, offering most valuable and impor tant Investments in Freehold Farms and Tithe Rent Charges of various amounts, but altogether of the Estimated Value of nearly 7,0001. per annum. MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH AND SON ore instructed by the Noble Proprietors to announce (the several offers to this vast property in one lot having been declined) that it will be SUBMITTED TO PUBLIC COMPETITION,th June next, in divers Lots, comprising the several capital FARMS, let at low rents to highly respectable tenants, together with above 2,100 acres of flrst-rate land adjoining and near to the town; and well secured freehold rent charges, in lieu 0. tithes, arising from about 19,000 acres ; the living of Whittlesea ; and the very extensive and important manors, ex tending over above 2.5,090 acres, embracing a great portion of the town. Further particulars will be shortly published, and the estates may be viewed by application to Mr. John Waddelow, at Whitticsea, and particulars known of Messrs. Jones, Bateman, and Bennett, Land- Age,to Liacoln's-inn ; and of Messrs. Daniel Smith and Son, ents, in Waterloo -place, Pall-mall, are fully anthorised to re ceive offers for the whole or any portion of the property. lIERTS. The ALBURY HALL ESTATE, with valuable Manors in a very Healthy and Sporting ['art of the County ; Compridng a sinstan tial Mansion, surrounded by a tine and well wooded Park, and several capital Farms, let at very low rents ; the whole embrAcing about 1,640 Acres, which may be divided so as to leave the Man sion, Park, and Dome Farms in a perfect Ring-fence of either 400 or 900 Acres. MESSIIS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will . SELL by AUCTION - , at the Mart, at the end of May, in one or more lots (unless previously disposed of by Private Contract), by order of the Devisees in Trust under the will of the late John Calvert, Esq., the above very valuably and important FREEHOLD ESTATE, situate about six miles from Bishop Stortford, ten from Ware, and about twelve from Saffron Walden, Royston, and Hert ford. It comprises the capital Mansion, which, with a judicious outlay, and perhaps the removal of a superfluous office-wing, may easily be rendered a very handsome and most comfortable Runny house. It stands in the centre of its park, in a dry sheltered spct (the substratum being chalk), with a fine grove of lofty dins and chestnuts screening it from the north, with walled gardens, ex tensive stabling, and a complete farm ho mestead. The park and home farm, as now in hand, comprise about 500 acres, pleasingly undulated, and studded with ornamental woods and groups of timber. The other farms, which will be offered in separate lots (if no offer is made for the whole property), comprise the High Farm and the lisle and Patmere Hall Farms, in the occu pation of Messrs. Scales, Feast, and Clarke, with sundry cottages, &c. ; also the valuable Manors of Albury Ilall and ['atmore Hall, with their courts, quit rents, and arbitrary fines ; als o a valuable de tached Estate, known as St. John's Farm, in the parishes of Fur neaux and Brent Pelham, comprising, in a perfect ring fence, about 247 acres, let to Mr. William Clarke ; and the valuable Manor of Futneaux Pelham hail, with its courts, quit rents, and arbitrary fines. The kennel 01 the Hertford hounds is in the parish, and the estate is relmirably adapted for game, from its healthy soil, and its excellent preserves judiciously interspersed. The ten.ints arc highly respectable, and the rents considerably under those of the neigh bourhood. The Estates may be viewed by application to Mr. Scales, of High Farm ; and descriptive particulars, with plans, may he had, when the day of sale is fixed, on the premises; at the chief inns at Bishops Stortford, Hertford, Stanstead, &c. ; at the Auction Mart ; of Mcsrs. Western,' solicitors, Great James-street, Bedford-row ; and of Daniel Smith and Son, land agents, in Waterloo-place, who are authorised to treat - for the disposal of the properly altogether or divided. ISLE OF WIGHT. FREEHOLD RESIDENCE, WITH LAND. MESSRS. DANIEL smirk' and SON wi l l SELL by AUCTION, at the Mart, near the Bank of Eng land, in MAY next (unless an acceptable offer shall be previously made by Private Contract), in Two Lots, the very desirable and com fortable RESIDENCE, known as Ningwood House, most substan tially built of stone, with modern slated r-ofs. It stands in a hand some and extensive lawn, dressed with luxnrlant shrubs and orna mental fir and other trees, with excellent Stabling for three and two horses, double coach-house, &c.—all stone buildings, and in excellent repair ; productive Gardens, and Four Paddocks of very valuable Pasture Land adjoining, with the tithes thereof. Also, in a Second Lot, a neat and large substantial COTTAGE, with Garden and rich Paddock, a short distance from the house, to which it is a great acquisition, but its situation would justify a moderate outlay to render it of a higher and more ornamental character. Ningwood is in the parish of Shaltleet, about three miles from Yarmouth, four from Freshwater, seven from Newport, eleven from Cowes, and four teen from Hyde. The Estate may be viewed, and descriptive particulars had when the day of sale is fixed, at the Inns at Yarmouth, Newport, Cowes, lee. ; of Messrs. 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KEATINQ'S COUGH LOZENGES. A Certain Remedy for disorders of the Pulmonary Organs— hi Difficulty of ltreathing—in Redundancy of Phlegm—in Incipient Consumption (of which Cough is the most positi - te indication) they arc of unerrinz efficacy. In; Asthma, and in Winter Cough, they have never been known to fail. Prepared and soli in Boxes, Is. 134 d., and Tine, 2s. 9d., and 10s. 6d. each, by THOMAS KEATING, Chemist, &c., XL 79, St. Paul's Churchyard, London. Sold retail by all Druggists and .. • Patent Medicine Venders is NI Kingdom. Blykonhead, near Liverpool, Jan 8, 1847. Sir, I have ► een afflicted with a severe cough and shortness of breath for nearly eight years, and alter trying numerous remedies, did not find myself any better. I purchased a small box of Keating's Lozenges of you, from which I found great benefit. The second box, 2s. 9d. size, completely cured me, and I can now breathe more freely, and am as free from cough as ever I was in my life. Hoping that others, similarly afflicted, will avail themselves of so certain and safe a remedy, I remain, Sir, yours, faithfully, WILLIAM ANDERSON. To Mr. Geo. 11. Howell, Chemist, 72, Dale-street, Liverpool. THE QUARTER'S REVENUE. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—The revenue table which we publish this morning presents many features upon which the public, as well as the Chancellor of the Exthequer, may reasonably congratulate •themselves. After a year, the former half of which witnessed an immense change in our commercial policy, and the latter the operation of one of the greatest calamities of modern times—an Irish famine and an English scarcity—the year's accounts of ordinary revenue present an aggre gate increase of receipts above those of 1846 of not less than 2,387,806/. In every department except the Stamps and Crown Lands—in the Customs, the Excise, the Taxes, the Property-tax, and the Pcst office—there is an increased return. In short, were it not for Ireland and her Calamity—were it not for that awful drain which English neglect and Irish misgovernment have brought upon us—we might boast that never within human memory, at least, was re commerce e e i ttni huoanaetgt either betteroic t n iefha. a , ebmv l rui sii e tnsiop x beu ch l: eroat s eq rpdaa he m u nooos j er tn:emvrieoe: asfevn i itd n a cei strange however—of removing e moreindustry f presence re ha eev e oseerr l nytrhcoaeyuv burdenar state, goefs o foreign huoyrrf m in ixt a ore root of on rap w a h o i i c t3 h , and improvidence could have suffered a nation to sub sist—our surplus, so far from furnishing means of relief to the tax-payer, will only by a happy chance avoid the necessity of new taxation by meeting the charge for interest on the sum we have just been compelled to borrow. Cold as the comfort may be, it is well it will do this, and that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has not, in a time of much pressure, and almost general stagnation, to seek out the means of imposing a new tax as well as contracting a new loan. On the Customs the increase is most signal. That after a series of years, each remarkable for some large reduction in our import duties, each reduction de clared to be alike fatal to the home producer and the revenue, we should be able to show an increase of 1,132,0001. upon the year, is a proof of the soundness of our new commercial policy, which even its most ardent advocates could scarcely have anticipated. Nor has this branch of our income suffered in any measure during the quarter which has just come to a close, and during which it has received scarcely any augmentation from the duties on corn. On the contrary, the increase has been in a more rapid proportion, and amounts to nearly half a million. In the Excise also the increase, quarter by quarter, has been uninterrupted, until in the aggre gate it gives a surplus of 661,5721. above last year's return. This item has been generally regarded as a kind of barometer by which to measure the national prosperity, for as it affects what are principally luxuries, at least in degree, it is imagined that an indulgence in excisable commodities betokens a suffi ciency of the necessaries of life. As a general rule this may be a true one, but it is difficult to reconcile its universal application with the fact that while the mass of our agricultural population has been debarred by the high price of food from the purchase even of their ordinary scanty modicum of luxuries, while Scotland has suffered severely from actual want, and Ireland depends for its daily bread on English bounty, the Excise has gone on increasing, and even in this last quarter, when the pressure has been most severe, exhibits a surplus of 26,4071. Under the head of Property-tax the increase upon the year is 379,8401.—a most satisfactory a mount. The Post office revenue shows an advance of 1,000/. a week during the last year ; and that compr ehensive term, " Miscell aneous , ' shows an increase of 129,2731. On Stamps the deficiency, probably owing to the partial cessation of railway enterprise, amounts to 32,693/. ; and on Crown Lands, for some reason, which Lords Lincoln and Morpeth will doubtless be able to explain, to 18,0001. Upon the total ordinary revenue, however, we have an increase of 2,387,8061., against a falling off in the two branches we have named, amounting in the whole to only 50,693 1 . Would that there were no drawback on this favourable statement of our financial condition ! Flourishing as the re turn appears, however, one item is there to remind us of our liabilities, and of the heavy charge to which the great calamity of the year has exposed us. In the account of Income the receipt of 960,0001. is acknowledged as the first instalment of the loan of 8,000,0001., which it will require many years of for bearance, ear a , n ce andn ando tan retrenchmentunmeri unmerited tod one, redeem. a I systemto l It is which has punish ment oh iin' permitted a third of our population o utter dependence upon a crop with which famines are periodical, and without that claim for subsistence upon the soil which could alone secure from the rich an interest in the prosperity of the poor. We have had a severe warning, let us not require a second. C I-IR ON IC LE.—The revenue accounts for the year and the quarter just ended, present at first sight a much more favourable aspect than they do when each item is minutely examined, and the peculiar circumstances which have influenced the various sources of income are duly considered. On the sur face, looking only at the columns under the heads " increase" and "decrease," the tables present a satis factory and encouraging result; and especially in reference to those items to which we are most accus tomed to look as an index of the state of the country, of its enjoyment of commercial prosperity, and of social comforts. The Customs receipts for the year exhibit an increase of no less than 1,132,0021., which at first sight is more satisfactory, when we remember that the present return completes the first entire year under the ultimate reductiots in the tariff effected by Sir Robert Peel: . On the oth er h an d, h owever, than one half of it to rc ement of sug ar d u ti es b y t h e it is impossible to overlook the fact th e th l a a t st a rg s l i a xm e o p n o tion of this increa se is due, first to t he extensive im portationthr- a o h rn ly d m ur o i r n e g present Governmen t, at the close of last session. At a moment like the p resent, when financial difficulties and is important to n 4 l6i ha o tn f edn f ec o do r ensisgei settlement l e m ap o p re ar p e a n r; t ieularly se when it and deficiencies up on the g ener al balance of the of h f e Be great and c sr o aof a sound that p u r p inc t i t p , le th o e f taxation. It will be remembere d , which those diffi mosource from d e month of August l ast y ear the deli veries of sugar for consumption on which duty was pe mark in uu d lbt i c i e a c sa t e nu s 3"r e t Pr the accountsirs particular v c c euc become ea ; paid showed a con siderable deficiency on those of th e prece di ng year. But after the reduction of the differential duty charged on foreign sugars by the Bill of last August, by which, for the first time, such sugars were really and practically broultht within the consumers' reach, the consumption increased so rapidly, that at the end of the year the deficit which appeared in the deliveries converted at the end of up to August .vasDecember into a hanisonie surplus. We find, that out of the increase which is apparent on the Customs' receipts for the year just ended, amounting in all to 1,132,0021., we are indebted to the liberal and wise settlement of the sugar duties for no less than 739,8841., and in like manner, of the increase shown upon the last ; to 485,755/., we • quarter, amounting are indebted to that measure for no less than 3 17,466/. It would be difficult to point to a greater triumph in the result of any financial principle than has followed the adoption of a course so long urged by political economists and free-traders, to rely upon a reduction of differential and protective duties as the surest APRIL 6, 1847. means of increasing the revenue of the country. If, however, to this single item of increase we add the corn duties received during the last six months of 1846, we shall find that we considerably more than exhaust the whole apparent increase. So that the Customs receipts for the year, as far as regards the general trade of the country, and irrespective of there two items, would exhibit a considerable reduction. That the quarter just ended should show a slight in crease, irrespective of sugar, over the corresponding quarter of last year, is not a matter of surprise, nor of much congratulation, when we consider how much business in all departments was held in suspense during the first three months of 1846, pending the passing of the last changes in the tariff. Such was the state of business during that quarter, that, com pared with the corresponding quarter of 1845, the Customs showed a deficiency of no less than 440,0001. "The general result of the Customs receipts, when considered in reference to the whole trade of the country, and looked to as an index of its prosperity, cannot, therefore, be considered so satisfactory as they looked at first sight. The other great index of national wel fare, and of the command of social comforts, the Ex cise duties, we fear, affords in the present return no more satisfactory evidence. It is true that the in crease shown upon the year is large, and that that increase is fairly divided over all the various items which contribute to the Excise, and which may be taken as evidence of increased activity in industry, or of increasel comforts enjoyed by the people. But while the increase upon the year is 661,5721., that upon the quarter is only 26,407/. We have here a palpable proof of a declining state. The high price of food, and the scantiness and dearness of some of the chief raw materials of our manufacturing indus try, have already begun their work of deterioration. The complaints from the busy seats of industry during the last three months, the mills working short time, the increasing difficulty in obtaining railway " calls," and the consequent " slackness" of some of those works, and the difficulty which the labour ing population find in obtaining anything beyond the barest necessaries of life at their present prices; these facts are all loudly proclaimed in the comparative de cline of the Excise receipts during the quarter just finished. A consequence, moreover, which we fear will only be further developed as the year advances. The other general items of the revenue are not of a character which speak much to the immediate state of the country, still it is satisfactory to observe that they show, generally, a considerable increase both on the year and the quarter. But notwithstanding the in crease apparent under all these heads, unfortunately, when we look to the side of expenditure, we find it all inadequate to meet the extraordinary demands upon the Governmedt. Notwithstanding the increase on the ordinary sources of the Exchequer, and not withstanding the addition of 960,0001., as the first in stalment of the " loan of eight millions," the result of the accounts now published is, that in place of a surplus to meet the various Parliamentary grants for the public service, amounting last year to 1,783,3081., that surplus at the present time is only 628,7811., a sum altogether inadequate for the purpose. ADVERTISER.—We publish, in another part of our paper, a tabular view of the revenue returns for the years and quarters ending sth April, 1846, and sth April, 1847 ; and we heartily congratulate the country on the extremely gratifying results which they exhibit. Under the head of Customs— the source of revenue which of all others affords the best criterion of the real condition of the people, and the healthy state, or otherwise, of the national finances — we have an increase, on the year, of 1,132,0021., while the increase on the quarter is relatively still greater, being no less than 485,7551., or close on half a mil lion. We will undertake to say, that this is an in crease far exceeding anything of which the most san guine ever dreamt. It is all the more surprising, when it is remembered, that it only includes, so far as relates to the quarter, a mere trifle in the shape of corn duties, the corn-laws having been suspended early in the quarter. In the Excise there i also an augmentation on the year to the extent of 661,5721., and on the quarter of '26,407/. The Stamps have likewise proved unusually productive on the quarter, giving an increase of 131,4141., as compared with the corresponding quar ter of 1846. The Property-tax has also proved unprecedentedly productive, the amount for the year being 5,464,5811., which gives an increase over the year ending April 5, 1846, of 379,8401., and of 69,1901. over the quarter ending at the same date. The Post-office still continues, though gradually, to augment the national resources, yielding, as it does, 52,000/. more than last year, and 4,0001. more on the quarter than on the corresponding quarter of 1846. Under the head of Miscellaneous, we have an addition, on the year, of 129,2731., though, on the quarter, the increase is only 1,0711. The only departments in which there is a falling off are those of the Taxes and Crown Lands. The deficit is trifling in either case. Under the first head it is only 15,250/.; and under the second, 8,000/. The total increase on the year is, 1,538,1681., and on the quarter 403,6321. This, we repeat, is a most gratifying state of things. So far from expecting so large an augmentation, there were general appre hensions of a defalcation. Nothing could more con clusively prove the solid foundation on which our commercial and monetary edifice is based. The im e provemt'nt in the revenue which it is thus our pleasing duty to record, as having taken place in a period of unexampled destitution in Ireland and part of Scot land, will, there is every reason to hope, go on pro. gressing for months and years to come. If, indeed, Providence should bless the land with an abundant harvest, we may confidently calculate, considering the extensive trade with America which is now opening up to us, on a period of commercial and financial prosperity wholly unparalleled in the history of the country. HERALD.—We have before us the official state ment of the national revenue for the year and the quarter which ended yesterday evening. If any evi dence were necessary to prove the vitality of British vigour in resisting the results of a new-fangled system of legislation, which must have proved destructive to the interests of any country whose innate strength had been less positively confirmed by the considerate policy that was formerly the principle of action by which British statesmen were guided—if any testi mony were requisite to show the elasticity of British resources in repelling the heavy load of depression which recent Acts of Parliament have heaped upon them, and which projected measures promise to aug ment—we have the proof before us in the abstract of the net produce of the revenue of the country, to which it is our duty to refer.—(!) In every department whence we derive our ordinary revenues, save two, there is an increase for the year ended yesterday, compared with the year which ended on the sth of April, 1846. The two items which exhibit a decrement on a comparison of years are Stamps and Crown Lands. Let us now ex hibit the condition of the whole revenue of the country for the year and the quarter, as compared with that of the previous year, and that of the cor respondingthereis from m the quartercusotfo Customs n e l r n ess t e he ef p l r , s 3 e 2 n , t oo yr 2 e l a . from the Excise an increase of 661,5721. The de crease on Stamps,:as we have already mentioned, is 32,6931. The increase from Taxes for the year is 33,1191.; from the Property-tax an augmentation has been derived amounting to 379,840/. ; from the Post office it is 52,0001. The Crown Lands, as we have stated, exhibit a decrease of 18,0001., whilst, from Miscellaneous resources, we have procured an increase of revenue which has placed in the national coffers 129.273/. In the quarter's receipts, as compared with those of the April quarter of last 3 ear, we find an increase from Customs of 485,755/. ; from the Excise of 26,407/. ; from Stamps of 131,4141.! ! the decrease on Taxes is 15,250/. • the increase from the Property-taxis 69,190/4 irom the Post-office it is 4,000/. ; with reference to Crown Lands, the de crease is 8,000/. ; from Miscellaneous resources there is an increase of 1,071/. Now, in dealing with these various items of oar income, to-day, our observations must necessarily be brief—our comments upon these items few. We deal only with those sums which form the ordinary revenue of the nation. The other portions of the account, embracing " advances," " im prest and other monies," &c., we leave intact for re mark on a future day. In reference, then, to the year's ordinary revenue, there is a net increase over that received up to the sth of April, 1846, which amounts to 2,387,8061. The net ordinary revenue for the quarter ended yesterday, shows an increase over the receipts for the same quarter of the previous year, amounting to 717,837/. Let us at once ask these questions—Has the value of menufactured stock become augmented during the past year, or during the past quarter ? Has the condition of the manufacturing operative been improved, or the position of the agricul tural labourer been made better during the same period . Has the character of our monetary exchanges, com ipmmaaraargdne t ofha that an e n a amount o a u b n r t o ace: duringhom e- a corresponding amount of ex p orts, or has it ev en t c h r e a t h a e a d t im o of r o t t s h e h r a v e c b o e u e n n t rie s derived,wwhence b i o t u e d r s ev e ral past years? These q uest ions are easily re solved by facts. op L er o a ol t t iv t e o l the se :r k ic f e o s r c t u h r e ren p t osi f t o i r on th o e f re t urns paid for our manufactured prod uce ! L oo k to the mills out o f work, for ed i e l f Y e m s t e e r d c h t h a n e d i e s x e p e o g r u t e a t , i o t o n the conditi on o f th e manufacturing PRICE SD. the agricultural labourer (notwithstanding the efforts of his employers to promote his comparative prospe rity, despite the sacrifices made by landlords and land• holders, and the advances made in agricultural science) —seek for this in the daily tale told by the provincial press ! seek for it in the hopes of the Ir ish landlord from the new Poor Relief Bill ! Notwith standing these facts there is an increes3 upon the year and the quarter from the Customs revenue! The consumption of imported produce, used in lieu of grain, of course has something to do with this ; but the energy and untired, not worn-out activity and resources of Great Britain have dealt much more largely with it. Taking our course through the other items of receipt, we are compelled to stop at " Stamps." What a tale is told by the official development of the condition of this department of the revenue. The increase for the year is only 32,6931. The in crease for the quarter is 131,414/. ! What has caused this increase ? Has it been an augmentation of the legitimate trade of the country ? Did our legitimate imports, or has an augmentation of our internal—our home traffic in the manufactures of Great Britain, rendered such an accession to our national income the probable result of such a salutary process ? No ! whilst there has been a great decrease in the Excise receipts of the quarter, as compared with those of the year, the Stamp Duties' receipts exhibit an increase of 400 per cent. more upon the quarter than they do upon the whole year. Here is the result of Sir Robert Peel's Corn Bill ! here is the effect of the gambling and speculation which were to have been destroyed and deter mined by the damage done to the cultivators of the soil of Great Britain and the sister kingdom ! here are assets derived in a great degree from ccrn accommodation bills ! We have neither time nor space to dwell at greater length to-day upon the official document before us. It is to us matter for hearty rejoicing, that, under so many circumstances, which in any other nation must havecauseal a decrease of revenue, we have an increased income as the subject for our remarks. OPENING OF THE BIRKENHEAD DOCKS. This event is looked forward to with considerable interest, and every arrangement is in progress for conducting its celebration with becoming splendour. The extensive warehouses, the opening of which will be a striking feature in the day's prcceedings, are twelve in number, and will each hold 4,000 bales of cotton. The extension line of railway runs in a diagonal line, by means of an open excavation, across the town, from the Grange-lane station, through Oliver-street, Conway-street, Price-street, and Cleve land-street, to the dock warehouses ; having branch lines communicating with the docks, so that goods may be at once hoisted from the vessel's side on the railway trucks, and dispatched into the interior, or from the ship into the warehouses, without the least hazard or delay from exposure on the quays. After the cere mony of opening the dock, the company will proceed to the d6efiner, and this part of the proceedings being completed, the next object of interest will be the opening of the new park, which has been com pleted at a cost of 127,7781. The celebrated proprietor of the magnificent marquee, which is fitted up on pub lic festivals in Greenwich - park, will there pitch his refreshment tent, 170 feet long ; and various other booths, camps, &c., will be erected. Cricket, foot ball, and other athletic games, rural sports, and divers amusements, will occupy the holiday throng in that vast and picturesque arena. The beau tiful new market, on which a sum of 26,0001. has been expended, will likewise present its attractions. On the east quay of the new docks, facing the river, six pieces of ordnance will be placed, for the purpose of firing salutes; the guns being under the manage ment of a detachment of the Royal Artillery from Chester Castle, kindly granted by their commanding officer, Major Robe. As we intimated last week there will be no procession, but the quays of the docks will be lined with pensioners, clubs, and socie ties of various kinds, with flags, music, &c., and after the docks have been opened, they will repair to the park to be in waiting to receive Lord Morpeth. Four of the warehouse rooms, each 140 feet long and 50 wide, are beautifully and most tastefully fitted up for the festival with pink and white drapery, by Mr. Shaw, upholsterer, of Birkenhead, under the direction of Mr. Hornblower and Mr. Brine, archi tects, who kindly give their services on the occasion, and are most indefatigable in promoting the arrange ments. The suite will include reception, withdraw ing, ball, and banquet rooms; in the former of which a magnificent cascade will throw forth its silvery streams, amidst a profusion of choice conservatory plants, flowers, and other decorations. The defamer and supper will be provided by Mr. Hillier, of the Monk's Ferry Hotel ; all the orders have been given, as it is proper they should b e , t o Bi r k en h ea d trades men. After the ball there will be a special train to Chester, and the Woodside boats will continue run ning during the whole of the night. All the work men employed at the docks (2,000 in number) are to have the gift of a day's wages, and the various con tractors have come forward most liberally as regards this part of the proceedings. Mr. J. Laird has given his men leave to take part in the festivities, and they will be paid their wages for the day. We understand that all the principal builders will give their men a holiday, and the day is expected to be one of general rejoicing.—Liverpool Mercury. OPENING OF THE DOCKS. Yesterday was a memorable day on the banks of the Mersey, having been chosen for the triple purpose of opening the new docks at Birkenhead, the splendid new park, and the extension line of the Chester and Birken head Railway to the docks. The docks to be opened on this occasion were the Woodside and Bridge-end, the joint accommodation of which is equal to the Prince's Dock at Liverpool. Immediately adjoining these docks are the extensive warehouses of the Birkenhead Dock Company ; twelve of which, each capable of storing 4,000 bales of cotton, are already completed. These warehouses are two stories in height, and when finished will form three long tiers, running rectangularly from the shore. The extension line of railway to the docks affords facilities and advantges which few railways or docks enjoy. From the main line branches run along each side of the warehouses: one side will be made available for the storing of goods by vessels just arrived—the other for conveying goods to vessels loading for sea. The rails run so close, that the goods can be hoisted direct from, or lowered into, the trucks, and thus all confusion and necessity for carting will be avoided ; neither will there be delay nor hazard from exposure on the quays. The docks were opened in person by Lord Morpeth, Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests. His Lord ship arrived in Liverpool about ten o'clock in the fore noon. A special train, with Lord Lincoln, Lord Mont eagle, and other visitors, left London about six o'clock in the morning, and arrived in Birkenhead at twelve o'clock. Shortly after that hour the Lords Commis sioners, with other distingushed guests, the Birkenhead Dock Commissioners, the Birkenhead Improvement Commissioners, the Directors of the Birkenhead Dock (Warehouses) Company, the Directors of the Birken head, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway, and the Directors of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, embarked at Monk's Ferry, on board the Lord Warden, a handsome new iron steamer. Six pieces of artillery were posted along the quays ; and the steamer, which was beautifully decorated, started amid music, the roar of cannon, and the cheers of the spectators. After steaming about a mile up the river, the boat returned, and, similarly saluted in its progress, slowly entered the new docks, and moored alongside the south wall of the Bridge-end Dock ; after which the party repaired to the new warehouses to partake of a dejeuner, at which 800 ladies and gentlemen sat down. The weather was serene ; flags and streamers floated from every available spot ; the ferry steamers were crowded : Liverpool poured its throng to the opposite bank. A more animating spectacle than the river pre sented it would be impossible to conceive. Four of the warehouse rooms, each 140 feet long and 50 feet wide, were beautifully and tastefully fitted up for the festival with pink and white drapery. The walls and roofs were lined with fluted drapery. The recep tion-room was adorned with a magnificent cascade, which poured out a crystal jet amidst a profusion of choice conservatory plants and flowers. Joseph Bailey, jun , Esq., M.P., occupied the chair ; John Land and William Potter , Esqs., the vice-chairs. After the toasts—the Queen, the Queen Dowager, Prince Albert, and the rest of the Royal Family, the Army and Navy, the Bishop and Clergy of the Diocese, and the Lord• Lieutenant of the County, had been given, with the usual :immure, The CHAIRMAN proposed the health of Lord 'Viscount Morpeth. Ile thanked the Noble Lord, not only in the name of the two boards of directors and the dock com• missioners, and those who had taken a direct interest in the prosecution of these works, but also in the name of the public, for having given his sanction to the pro ceedings of that day by his presence. The Noble Lord's public career had now been of some consid:rable duration, and his public character was so well known that it would be needless for him to enlarge upon it. His private worth was also as conspicuous as his public virtues, and he felt great pleasure in doing honour to them.—(Hear.) It might not be inap propriate to remark, as they were on the shores of the Mersey, that the Noble Lord had recently visited a country which was the most intimately connected with es by commerce, and from which we were now drawing largely our necessary surplies of food. In that country the Noble Lord had had the opportunity . of witnessing the energies of that great people the Americans—(Hear) —of seeing the fertility of their soil, and of judging to what extent our commercial relations with them might be carried. He honoured the Noble Lord for having devoted his leisure in that most useful field, instead of in visiting countries, no doubt interesting in'thenaselves, but not so important to be known to a man who was a servant of the Crown and a British Statesman.-- I (Hear, hear.) The presence of the Noble Lord, who had more than once enjoyed the:confidence of his Sovereign, and was now a Cabinet Minister, stamped the works on the shore of Wallasey Pool, on the west banks, with that . degree of nationality which their warmest friends claimed for them, but which the public at large might not be willing to concede.— (Hear, hear.) Those works were not undertaken for the benefit of a few individuals merely, but partook of a national cha racter. When they adjourned from that room it would be to open the Birkenhead Park ; for such a duty no more appropriate person could be selected than the Noble Lord. Knowing the warm interest he had t o a f ke t n he in peo th p e l 'irnatory condition, the health and c a o ln tn a lc . > s rt and the improvement of towns, he was sure the Noble Lord would feel gratified to see a park devoted to the health and recreation of the people in the midst of those piles of buildings which were ex tending in every direction around it.—(Hear, hear.) On an occasion like the present, when no political feeling interfered, but where men of all parties were met toge ther to celebrate the opening or a great natio n al w ork, he was sure they would all unite to doing honour to the toast.—(Hear, hear.) It was his misfortune to sit on the opposite side of the House of Commons from that • occupied by the Noble Lord; but neither be nor any other gentleman who sat there could fail to pay to the Noble Lord's character that respect to which it was en titled.—(llear, hear.) He gave them " The Right Hon. Lord Visct.unt Morpeth." The toast was drank with three times three. The cheering having subsided, Lord 1113EPETII said—Mr. Chairman, ladies, and gen tlemen, I assure you that I feel most sensibly the more than kind and cordial manner in which this toast has been received.—(Hear.) Ever since I have been called to the office I have now the honour to hold, and which connects me with the property of the Crown, I have felt the strongest interest in the rising fortunes of Birk enhead; nor it is unnatural that I should do so, for you are probably aware, that besides the general parental interest which the Crown may be assumed to tape in the welfare of all that are represented by the ab stract idea of its subjects, it has &so . motives not so peculiarly abstract or disinterested for wishing well to the port and town of Birkenhead. I avow this the more readily, because it is quite obvious that the proportion in which the undertakings here Set on foot can become p-ofi!able to the Coen MU' t be according to the degree in which they are made valuable fur the accommodation of commerce and for the public gcod.—(Hear, hear.) As a well wisher, then, to tfe public, and as a servant of tl'e Crown, rs an admirer of courageous enterprise and tucce-sful perseverance—(Hear, hear)—l find a combination of claims upon me for doing, in combi nation with my colleagues by whom I am most will ingly and zealously seconded, aid in pur.uance of that toclmple which has been set to me by my pre decessors in the same office—(Cheers)—all that in us lies to promote, on all legitimate ;;rounds, the perma nent prosperity of Birkenhead.—(Cheers.) With there feelings, then, you may judge with how keen a relish, with what lively emotion, I partake in all the pro ceedin;:s of this day.—(Loud cheers.) We hear some times of the old gala days of Venice, when the Doge went forth in his golden galley to plight his faith to the wave which bathed his pslaces, but we have seen some thing this clay beyoial even the dreams of Venice. For instance, such an array of steamers as has to-day graced the Mersey, never could have been witnessed in Venice - and though perhaps a steamer, when viewed by itself, may not be so picturesque an object as a gondola, I may yet remind you that even in the palmiest days of her pomps and argosies, Venice never could have sent forth a message which in ten days might reach those harbours and roadsteads of the New World where her flag never waved. A pleasing omen I shall think it, if amongst the first uses of that ample basin into which our vessel to day has been the first to glide, surrounded by all those striking specimens of engineering skill and admirable masonry, we should apply those works to the admission of the surplus harvests of more favoured regions, and make provision for the bread which keepeth alive.— (Hear, hear.) Next in the progress of time—l hope in the course of this very autumn—you will be able to bear your part in accommodating the timber trade. I will not proceed further in those long vistas of usefulness, of enterprise, and of success, which, I trust, will stretch out before the future prospects of Birkenhead, and to which I hope the proceedings of this day will have given an auspicious commencement, and a powerful impulse. —(Hear, hear.) I would just express a hope in pass ing, that the best feeling and the best understand ing will always prevail between you and the great city immediately opposite you.—(Great cheering.) Liverpool divides with London the supremacy of the commerce of the modern world, and as London could only feel benefited by the expansion of Southwark, Liverpool can never have cause to repine at the growth of Birkenhead. Believe me, gentlemen, and I hope all on the other side of the water will believe me too, that if ever your own wide Mersey was thoroughly walled by a double wall of docks and warehouses, there will not be more than room for the corn, the cotton, and the forests of the western hemisphere.—(Hear, hear.) And I trust you have this day forged a new and an abiding link to that chain of amity which ought ever to connect Eng land with America. I feel this is not the time to dilate further on these points. It is well known the attrac tions of Birkenhead are nut limited to its water frontage, and that if the genius of a Randall has complettditt docks, the skill of a Paxton has laid out its-pleieure grounds.—(liCar,-' hear.) Nor will my Teat - recent occupation permit me to forget that this is one of the first places which has begun a systematic .attention to the physical comforts of the vast numbers of workmen it. calls together, and the important subject of public health. With this assurance about us and around U 3, I feel that the pageant of to-day, even when its gaieties shall have passed away and its shouts are silent, will still give us grounds for remembrance that it has not been a triumph which gathet s its trophies from the strife of na tions and the arts of destruction—that it has not been a mere unmeaning sacrifice to frivolity and dissipation, but that it has struck its roots deep in public usefulness, and will bear rich fruits of peace and progress through coming ages.—(Cheers.) The next toast given was, " The County Members." Sir P. EGERTON, M.P., returned thanks. Two years ago only he had at t en d e d the preliminary proceeding on the commencement of the works which th e y had now assembled to open to their uses. He had not expected so soon to asitness the fulfiiment of their hopes, though he had never been influenced by those who said that they might as well propose to build docks in the air as at Birkenhead. He congratulated the Commissioners upon having, while providing for the commercial im provement of the town, been equally attentive to the re. ligious instruction, the health, and comfort of the poor. Formerly there was a couplet— From Birkenhead to Kilbreo A squirrel may hop from tree to tree. Ere long he hoped they might read it thus:— From Birkenhead to Kilbree A ship may sail from Mersey to Dee. The Earl of LINCOLN proposed the next toast—" The commerce of the Mersey," a duty which devolved upon him in consequence of the absence of Sir T. Fremantle, the Chairman of the Customs. his Noble Friend had said that Liverpool and London divided the commerce of the United Kingdom. Ile believed the commerce of the Mersey, as represented by Liverpool, not only equalled, but by the most recent accounts exceeded that of Lon don itself.—(Hear, hear.) And from this auspicious date that that increase would go on until, in a few years, the port of Liverpool would be equal to any two or three in the kingdom, London included. He had been informed that coals had been that day sent from Wales by the new railway to be shipped on board a steamer already lying in these docks. An American vessel, too, he understood, was now in the port, principally laden with guano, the cargo of which would b e sent back by a the same railway, and probably , ere n i g htfall, be s p read over the fields.—(Hear.) He cou ld not but e xpress fervent hope that the introduct ion of this fert i l i z ing agent on this occasion might be taken as an auspicious omen of an abundant harvest. The Noble Earl, after some more eloquent observations, formally proposed the toast, which was drunk with enthusiasm. The other toasts were—" The Mayor of Manchester;" " The Chairman," proposed by Lord Morpeth ; " The Birkenhead Docks ;" " The Dock Warehouse Company ;" "The Guests of the Day ;" "Mr. Rendall, the engineer, and Mr. Paxton, the designer of the New Park;" " The Railway Interest connected with Birkenhead ;" "The Cheshire Witches," Sec. After the &joiner, Lord Morpeth, accompanied by several distinguished guests, proceeded to open the New Park, which has been formed with a wise foresight to the future wants and sanitary condition of the popula tion of Birkenhead, at a cost of 127,7751. The park was during the day the scene of great re joicing and festivity, and in the evening he a as a holi day;e and indeed partly at Liverpool, was observed gorgeous display of fireworks. T h e day t t ßir r kenh .as ead a u ber. each recei ved a days wage. Later in th e and the workmen at the Birkenhead Docks, 2,000 appropriately fitt e d u p f or th e I resent the i e t i s -e n nit r ig ' a ball and supper took place in the D o ck ware house, majority of the oc o c u a s s e i , o n , which t w h h ad ich bee w n ,,r e e principal persons who hi,d attended the previous pro ceedings. The Lords of the Admiralty will have to extend their tour, on their next visit of in-pection i to the various dock yards The R o y a l S urrey Dock Yard now assumes suchlipr a formidabletat b attitude that P r in ce Joinville will, in u feel compelled to write another pamphlet. Wct and dry docks ar e exemating, first-rates and frigates building, and all the bustle and activi!y of a dock yard of the first magnitude on the eve of a war. 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