The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-06-17 00:00:00

EtteratUrt. SELECTIONS. ANOTHER NEW SPEC.—Among the speculations at present in progress is a great Libyan Desert and West End Junction Arabian Sand Association, for the purpose of supplying England and the continent of Europe with sand-paper. Tables have already been prepared, showing the daily consumption cf this useful article in the me tropolis alone; and it is suggested that by the manufac ture of scouring paper also, the company will be able to take advantage of the present rage for travelling, and pqt it in the power of any person of moderate means to scour the whole of the Continent. A sample of the sand may be seen at the company's temporary (very temporary) offices in Tooley-street.—Punch. SEVENTEEN FORTY-FIVE AND EIGHTEBN FORTY- FivE.—Liverpool was not so important a town in 1745 as to have a newspaper. Manchester had only one. There were but twenty eight in all provincial England, two in Scotland, and four in Ireland (in the two last cases, con fined to the respective capitals.) London was then a town of under half-a million population—about one and a-half of the present Manchester. Edinburgh had forty, and Glasgow twenty thousand ; now the latter is com puted to have :311,000. Lancashire has since then just added about one million to her population! The whole annual revenge of the country from customs in 1745 (a million and a half) was not a third of what is now drawn on that account in Liverpool port alone.—Chambers. FORCING VIOLETS.—By attending to the following simple directions, a bunch of these sweet little flowers may be had daily from November to March. About the middle of May, prepare a piece of ground by digging into it a quantity of leaf-mould ; plant this with strong runners one foot apart each way ; water in dry weather, and keep them clear of weeds throughout the summer ; in October take them up. with balls, pot them, and place them near the glass in a cold frame ; the pots should be plunged in coal-ashes-or old tan ; they will soon begin to bloom, and continue blooming through the winter ; in severe weather, they may be removed to the greenhouse, conservatory, or drawing-room, &c. To meet a great demand, .a few pots of Russian may occasionally be placed in a stove, but neither the Neapo:itan nor double purple like stove-heat. COATS, &c.—Avoid a foolish custom now springing up, of fastening the coat with a couple of supplementary but tons, attached by a metallic link. This is the trick of some scoundrel tailor, who sent home a coat too small for the wearer, and thus persuaded him (he must have been an ass) to tie two buttons together, and so make both ends meet. It will do very well for a commercial gent., but not for a gentleman. We need hardly say, be not fine on a Sunday ; dress plainer then than usual, if you would maintain your dignity ; and be not ashamed of an old coat—only let it be clean, portez-le bien, soyez bien chausse bien gante, bien coiffe, et vows n'aurez jamais r air d'an bourgeois. Above all things, whether you be man, woman, or child, remember, that the more you ap proximate to uniformity of colour for the whole of your dress, the better. Whether you prefer white to black, blue to green, or brown to red, no matter. Stick to the law of esthetic unity—retain natural and undisguised contour, breadth and mellowness of colour, ease and dig nity of movement, and you will approximate to perfec tion.—Blackwood. The cuckoo, it is well known, deposits its eggs in the nests of severalsbirds. They have been found in those of the hedge-sparrow, or rather the hedge warbler, the robin, the redstert, the whitethroat, yellow warbler, pied wag tail, meadow pipit, rock pipi, skylark, yellow bunting, bhaffinch, greenfinch, linnet, and blackbird, and from the circumstance of a pair of red-backed strike having been seen breeding a young cuckoo, it is probable that the cuckoo sometimes deposits its eggs in the nests of those birds. (See Mr. Yarrell's " British Birds.") It may be added that cuckoos have been known to form a nest of themselves, and sit upon and hatch their own eggs. In cases where they select a foster-mother, it is supposed that the cuckoo keeps near the nest, and takes charge of the young cuckoo when it kaves it. The robin certainly has one brood before the arrival of the cuckoo, but it as certainly has one or two afterwards, and it is by no means an uncommon thing to find a young cuckoo in a robin's nest for the purpose of depositing an egg in it. A cuckoo will lay four and five egs. This has been ascertained by dissection. The whole history of the cuckoo is curious. It is the largest of our insectivorous birds, and if she hatched all her own eggs, she probably would not be able to feed them all. I have seen a pair of wagtails em ployed from morning till night in providing food for a ravenous young cuckoo. There is now but little doubt of cuckoos dropping an egg near a nest so placed that they could not get into it, and after removing the eggs which were alresdy in the nest, taking up her own egg in one of her feet, and then depositing it there. In this way they are supposed sometimes to introduce their eggs into a wren's nes t.—L.L.U.— Gardeners' Chronicle. . THE PROPRIETARY Passroer.—By an instinct which derisively mocks at these and such like attempts to kill it, we love with peculiar fondness what is our own. The lone poor widow smells a sweeter perfume, sees a deeper blush, and marks a bonnier stem, in the little rose which stands on her window sill—the beloved plant which she tends, and trains, and waters every day—than in all the thousand beauties which bloom in the public path hard by. The bullfinch, in that wire cage which adorns the pailoar of the village squire, has, for his fair daughter, a gayer plumage, a mellower note, and a thousand-fold more winning ways, than any of the livelier birds which perch, and fly, and sing at pleasure in her father's par terre. We would not give a dolt for the schoolboy who did not think his cony the most wonderful pony in the world, and his father about the most important man uneler the sun. Watches are curious pieces of mechanism, very useful, sometimes very ornamental; but it is a vastly different thing to see hundreds of them in a jeweller's or pawnbroker's window, and to have one of them for one's own. And the feeling which these illustrations are in tended to set off, and place in relief before the mind's eye of the reader, is affected by what we do as well as by what we Lave. The c h ar it a bl e ma t rons 'i n yon d er pro vincial town take deeper interest in the girls' school which they originated, and which they mainly support, than in the cause of female education throughout the kinzdom. Immediate and individual relationship, by a law of nature, brings with it a stronger affection to prompt to the discharge of immediate duty, than that which is more remote. We have a very low notion of that phil antrhopy which is not more ardent at home than abroad. Providence, which has obtained the superior efficiency of our efforts to serve man within our own neighbourhood, over those which are directed to ameliorate the condition of the race at large, has likewise planted in us those in stincts which tend to secure the laying out of our strength where our strength will be most serviceable ; and the local good which, if we are so minded, we may attempt with success, always engages a deeper interest than the larger and more general good which, however anxiously we may desire, we can do little else than sigh for and wish.—Edward Miall. THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF PROTESTANT ENDOWMENT. —The church of Ireland cannot stand fur a single hour,. upon any other basis than that of Truth. She is not the church of the mnjority ; that is admitted upon all hands. She is not the church which held the ecclesiastical reve nues of Ireland in the fifteenth century. She may indeed more nearly resemble the church of Patrick and Colum• ban than a Papal church would ; but sill, she is not, in fact, the church of Patrick and Columban ; —and still less is she the church which existed between the years A.D. 1300 and 1500. Except, therefore, we are allowed to rest her claims on the highest ground, and to assert, that she teaches the truth as set forth in God's Holy Word, and that her antagonist does not, we can carry on no effectual defence. Mr. Sidney Herbert is said to bave recently devoted a considerable sum of money to the endowment of two Romish chapels on his estates in Ireland. Lord Francis Egerton reminds us of his proposition made in 1829, to endow the Romish priests in Ireland out of the public revenues. Lord Sandon tells us, that be voted for that proposition, and would vote for it again. Now we should exceedingly like to know, in what way these gentlemen would defend the Irish church. That they would defend it, we must take for granted; for they steadily resisted every effort made by the whigs, between 1835 and 1841, to deal with the revenue; of that church in the way of reduction. They would defend the church now; but we are quite unable to imagine upon what principles. Only admit that it is right and lawful to give either private or public money to endure such a system as that or the Irish Romanists, and it naturally follows that Romanism ought to be the established church in Ireland. If Romanism be not sinful, it ought to be established. The mere fact of the adherence of 6,400,000 of the people of Ireland to that faith decides the question as to its pri ority of claim, if not idolatrous. O'Connell has a thou sand times reminded us, that Episcopal Protestantism is established in England, because it is the faith of the great body of the people: that Presbyterian Protestantilm is established in Scotland, because it is the faith of the great body of the people : and he always, and very naturally, passes on vittlie conclusion, that lionianism ought to be established in Ireland for the same reason,--namely, be cause it is the faith of the great body of the people. This argument is unanswerable, if we may establish Roman ism. Only show that the Papal apostacy is at all recon cileable with Scriptnre,—that it is nct Antiehristian,— that it is not idolatrous, and our vote shall be given at once for its establishment as the church of Ireland. The only difficulty which stands in our way, is a conviction that Popery is abominable in the sight of God, and ini mical to both the temporal and eternal interests of man. But so long as we retain this conviction, we can neither consent to the establishment of Popery as the church, nor, to any minor aid like that of Ntaynooth. Aid to Rotnanism is, in our view, unlawful,—a positive sin. This is our sole and sufficient difficulty.—Churchman's Review. APPEARANCE AND ORATORY OF LORD JOHN Run- SELL. — Notwithstanding the many points of excellence in his speeches, Lord John Russell's exterior and style of speaking are most disappointing. Remembering the pleasure he has given on on paper and the prominent po sition he holds in the House of Commons, your first sensation on seeing and hearing him is that you must have been misinformed. Can that little, quiet, fragile. modest, almost insignificant-looking man, so neat, plain, and formal in his black coat and snow-white neckcloth, who sits with his legs crossed anyhow and his bat overshadow ing his small sharp features till they are scarcely seen— can that be Lord John Russell? Is he really the leader of that compact and numerous party who crowd the op posite benches, and has he the power or the skill to rule and rein them in, to amalgamate all their di scor d an t varieties, to tame their political violence, of which you have beard and seen so much, to pour the oil of his phi losophical spirit on the troubled waters of their excited passions, to beguile them into suspending or giving up their cherished opinions and settled purposes, and cor dially unite in working out his views, and respecting, if not obeying, his will ? 'When you regard the physique of Sir Robert Peel, his full, commanding figure, his intellec tual face and head, his handsome expressive countenance, his erect and manly bearing, you are half tempted to be lieve or trust all you have heard of his magical influence over the House of Commons; but no persuasion will in duce you to think that the diminutive model of a man who has been pointed out to you as Lord John Russell—whom Lord Palmerston, his next neighbour, might almost dan dle in his arms—can possess those qualities which history tells us are necessary in order to sway popular assemblies. In a few minutes he takes off his hat and rises from his seat, advancing to the table to speak. Now, for the first time, there is something that prepossesses. His head, though small, is finely shaped; it is a highly intellectual head, and the brow is wide and deep. The face, broad and firm set, sphynx-like in shape, is not of faultless out line, but it is strongly marked with character. A thought ful repose, slightly tinged with melancholy, pervades it. The features are sharply defined ; they look more so in the extreme paleness of the complexion, a paleness not of ill health, but of refined breeding. The mouth is wide, but finely shaped, surrounded with a marked line, as though it were often •made the vehicle of expression, while the lips are firmly compressed as from habitual thought. The eye is quick and intelligent, the nose straight and decided, the eyebrows dark and well arched, and the whole face, which seems smaller still than it is from the absence of whiskers, is surmounted by dark and scanty hair, which leaves disclosed the whole depth of an ample and intel lectual forehead. A moment more and you are struck with the proportions, though small. of his frame—his erect attitude, his chest expanded. You begin to perceive that a little man need not of necessity be insignificant. There is a presence upon him, a firm compactness of out line, a self-possessed manner, a consciousness of latent strength, that lead you to abandon your unfavourable view of his physical attributes, and to hope much from his moral and intellectual qualities. He speaks, and for a time your disappointment returns. You have seen him make one step forward to the table, look all round the house, then make a step back again into his old place ; then, with the right arm stretched partly out, and his face half turned to his own supporters, he begins. His voice is feeble in quality and monotonous. It is thin, and there is a twang upon it which smacks of aristocratic affectation ; but it is distinct. He is, perhaps, about to answer some speech, or to attack some measure, of Sir Robert Peel. He goes on in level strain, uttering a few of the most ob vious common-places of apology or of deprecation, till the idea of mediocrity grows irresistibly upon your mind. Yet the house seem to listen anxiously—they would not do so if they did not know their man. Wait a little. A cheer comes from the opposition benches ; it bears in it the effeminate laugh of Mr. W ar d, th e d eep bassoon note of Mr. Warburton. the shrill scream of Mr. Sheil, the loud hearty shout of Mr. Wakley, and the delighted chorus of the anti-corn-law leaguers. Nay, even on the ministerial side, the •• point" has not been without its effect, as many a suppressed titter testifies. All the level commonplace, it seems, was but the stringing of the bow ; at the moment when least expected, the cool, prepared marksman has shot his arrow of keen and polished sarcasm at Sir Robert Peel, whom it has fleshed, if not transfixed. You follow the speaker a little longer, now fairly interested in him, even though opposed to his opinions, and you find that he has more of those arrows in his quiver. And then he proceeds, during a speech of perhaps an hour and a half, developing those ci , aracteristies of his mind which we have described in detail, now earning approval by his en larged and statesmanlike views, now lowering himself to the level of the various prejudices of his party, alternately compelling the admiration of his opponents or provoking something like contempt; now rousing his own side to cheers against their opponents, and now stimulating those opponents to laugh at or suspect their own leaders; but always exhibiting power, self-pnssession, tact, skill, par liamentary and political knowledge, command of lan guage, and felicity of diction, surpassed by but a few of the distinguished men of the day. Meanwhile you have lost sight of the defects of the speaker—defects of voice, manner, and action, which place him as far below Sir Robert Peel, in the merely mechanical part of oratory, as his occasional elevation of thought and happy choice of language place him in these respects above him. If you bad not been thus carried away, you would have been speedily wearied by the drawling monotony of voice, the hesitation in delivery, the constant catching up and repe tition of words, and even of portions of sentences ; and you would have noticed that the only action used was a constant stepping forwards from the bench to the table and back again, an occasional thumping of the latter with the right hand when not rested permanently on it, a fold ing of the arms akimbo, or an action peculiar to this orator when he rests his left elbow on his right hand, whilst the left arm, raised perpendicularly, is held up as if in warning at his opponents.—Fraser 's Magazine. THE ARMY WAR OFFICE, JUNE 6. AIEMORANDUM.—Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to permit the 34th Ilegitnent to bear upon its re gimental colour the words " Arroyo dos Molinos," in commemoration of the gallant conduct of the second bat talion of the Regiment in the operations at Arroyo dos Molinos, on the 28th of October, 1811. WAR -OFFICE, JUNE 13. 15th Fool—Lieut. G. Towel!, from half-pay of the Bth Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Sewell, appointed Adjutant; Ensign W. D. Hague to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Powell, who retires; A F. Warburton, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hague. 18th rout.—Lient, C. A. Coates, from the 74th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Mayo, who exchanges. 19. h Foot.—Quartermaster R. Barrett to be Adjutant, with the rank of Ensign, vice Deacon, promoted. 24th Foot.—Ensign S. G. Carter, from the Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment, to be Ensign, vice Lipycatt, who retires. 37th Foot.—E. J. N. Burton, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Gordon, promoted to the 98th Foot. 60. h Foot.—Lieut. C. A. B. Gordon, from the 08;h Foot. to be Lieutenant, vice Vavasour, appointed to the 32 Foot. 65th Foot.—Ensign It. El. 111'Gregor to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lambert, who retires; J. Barton, Gent., to be Eu,igu , by purchase, vice M'Gregor. 72d Foot.—Captain EL . T. Bowen, from the 86th Foot, to be Captain, vice O'Brien, who exchanges. 7.lth Foot.—Lieut. J. P. Mayo, from the 18th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Coates, who exchanges. 86th Foot.—Capt. D. O'Brien, from the 72d Foot, to be Captain, vice Bowen, who, exchanges. 981li Foot.—Capt. W. Edict, to be Nlajor, by purchase, vice Brevet Lieutenant-Col. Tripp, who retires; Lieut. J. Montresor to be Captain, by purchase, vice Edie; Ensign C. A. B. Gordon, from the 37th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Montresor. ILlyal Canadian Rifle Regiment.—Gent. Cad e t S. G. Carter, from the R o yal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Macdonnell, appointed Adjutant; S. P. Jarvis. Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Car ter, appointed to the 21:11 Foot; Ensi.:,n R. Macdonnell to be Adjutant, vice Bentley, appointed to the 51st Foot. BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS. The usual fortnightly meeting of this body was held on Tuesday, being the first in another official year. Wm. Jackson, Esq. was unanimously elected chairman. The following committees were appointed : Finance.—Messrs. Bentham, Brownrigg, Wm. Cole, Dale, Dobbs, Greene, John Laird, and Potter. Improvement and Road Committee.—Messrs. Ben tham, Brownrigg, Greene, Hind, Jackson, John Laird, Potter, and Pim. Ferry Coinnultee.—Messrs. Bentham, Fry, Greene, Kerr. and J. S. Jackson. Market Committee.—Messrs. Adamson, Appleton, Cole, Dale, Gilbertson, Hind, Horner, William Laird, Pike, Watson, and J. S. Jackson. The Watch Committee reported that Inspector Royls had made a charge against Inspector Hall of having been intoxicated at Knutsford sessions, and also of having in sulted a female. The committee were of opinion that Royls had not substantiated the charge, and they had, accordingly, reduced him from being an inspector to the situation of a constable in the market, and lowered his salary from 255. to 18s. a-week. Mr. Appleton objected to the decision of the committee, and said that Royls had been for nine years in the police force; that there never had been a word of complaint against him ; and that he had b-en strongly recommended by all the magistrates to the office of inspector. After a brief discussion, the subject was referred back to the com mittee for further inquiry and report. The proceedings of the Health, Fire, and Finance Com mittees, were read and confirmed. Mr. Pim suggested the propriety of selecting a site for the fire-engine, the more particularly as the late fire at the Messrs. Walkers was evidently the work of an incendiary, and as there was too much reason to fear that the hose of the engine had been maliciously cut. The Chairman suggested to the Watch Committee the propriety of recommending a site. The Hon. Miss Clementiva Hamilton, being about to marry the Bishop of Salisbury, has resigned her situation as maid of honour at Court. THE NEW STEAM LINE TO LIVERPOOL—We have frequently given notice of the new steam line of vessels, four in number, now building at Boston, and intended to sail between this port and Liverpool. The first is to be ready to start from this city on the first of September. All the arrangements are now made, and we understand that Hamden and Co., of this city, have been ap pointed agents. It will be recollected that these vessels are constructed so as to combine the power of steam and sails, with a submerged screw in the stern, on the Erices son plan, which can be used as circumstances require.— New York Herald. New GUANO ISLAND.—Th e b arque C o l ooney, Cap taid M'Conoehy, arrived in the Clyde, from Colooney Island, on Saturday morning week, in sixty-five days, with a cargo of guano, the first from that island, which the cap tain named after his vessel ; lat. and i on . no t ment i one d . Mr. M'Conchy reports that the island contains a large quantity of guano, and that it appears of equal quality with that from Ichaboe. The Gloucester, of Liverpool, had loaded at this island previous, but foundered a t sea : th e crew were picked up and landed at Rio de - Janeiro, from whence the Colooney took the master and part of the crew, and proceeded to the island and loaded. RAILWAY STRIKE.—On Friday the porters employed at the goods station of the railway, at Wapping, turned out for an advance of wages. They number about one hundred. It appears that their wages hitherto have been been 19s per week, for which they have to work from six o'clock in the morning to late at night some times with out anv allowance for over hours. Their object is to ob tain 19s. for twelve hours' work, from six to six. On Saturday they were informed that 235. would be allowed for the past week, and that a statement of their complaint and demand would be laid before the board on Monday (yesterday), with a view to a speedy arrangement. They have accordingly returned to work. LAST NIGHT'S MAIL. MARK LANE CORN MARKET-YESTERDAY. The weather continues sultry and hot, and most favourable fcr bringing forward the growing crops. Although the reported arrival of English wheat is abundant, the most part goes direct to oar millers from Lincolnshire. The show was small this morning, but the trade ru'ed very dull, and the currency of this day week was hardly supported. Holders of free foreign or bonded did not press sales under late rates; but little busine=s resulted. Ginding barley and beans rather dearer. Malt and peas unaltered in value. _ . The arrivals of .oats during the past week are almost exclu sively from the Scotch and foreign ports, but the wind is now favourable fur Irish vesselt. Necessitous buyers are compelled to pay the extreme currency of last Monday; but merely a retail business was transacted, as buyers curtail their opera. tions as much as possible for their present wants. THE ERPOOL STMiDAiIO. SMITHFIELD MARKET-YESTERDAY. In the port of London the imports of live stock from abroad during the past week, have been again extensive, viz., 180 oxen and cows. 3 calves, 3 sheep, and 4 lambs from the Giraffe, Batavier, and Ocean steamers, from Rotterdam; together with 26 steep per the Caledonia from Hamburgh. At Hull upwards of 20a beasts have been received from Holland in excellent con dition. We had on sale this morning 97 Dutch oxen and cows, the quality of which, though good, was not quite equal to that of some previous importations. Hence they commanded much less attention than those exhibited on Monday last, yet nearly the whole found buyers, at prices varying from .416 to £2l per head. The high prices obtained for beef on this day se'nnight, to gether with the prevailing warm weather, canned the butchers, notwithstanding the bullock supply was c imparatively small, to be very cautious in their operati no to day. Hence we have to report a dull inquiry fur beef, at a decline. on last Monday's quotations of from 4d to Gd. per sib—the very highest figure not exceeding 4s- 4d, per sib, at which great difficulty was experi. ence lin effecting a clearance. The large arrivals of Scotch meat up to Newgate and Leadenhall markets operated to some extent upqp our trade to-day. We regret to observe that the arrivals fe.:Th the north have mostly sold at a ruinous sacrifice. The droves from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, comprised 1200 shorthorns, Scots, and homebreds. From the western, midland, and northern counties, we received 400 He refords, Devour, runts, shorthorns, &c. ; from other parts of England 300 of various breeds; and from Scotland 430 horned and polled Scots. For the time of year the numbers of sheep on offer were small, they falling short of an average by upwards of 9000. The primest old Downs commanded a steady, though not to say brisk, inquiry, at last week's currencies; but the demand for all other kinds was somewhat inactive, at barely stationary prices. The supply of lambs was small, while the lamb trade may be considered steady, at previous quotations. Ftom the Isle of Wight the numbers did not exceed 3'). Calves, the supp'y of which was good, moved off heavily at a reduction it value of from 2d to 4d per Sib. In pigs I,ttle was doing at late rates. PRICES OF STOCKS, &c.—YESTERDAY. Public securities have undergone no change since Saturday. The Three per Cent. Reduced stock has been done at 99C the Three-and-a-Quaver New 1023; Exchequer-bills, tg ; and India Bonds, 71 pm. Bank Stock has been sold at 212, and Consols for the Opening ex. div. at ggi. Spanish Five per Cents. have been last sold at 2S, and the Three per Cents. at The latter had been done at 4-3, and the advance is the result of the report that the dividend will be advertised to-morrow. The Passive Bonds have been done at 7. Mexican 37k, Columbian 173, and Portuguese Three per Cents. at 663. LONDON SHARE MARKET-YESTERDAY. This being the pay-day in the share account, the other busi ness has been secondary. It is pretty obvious that the specu lators for the decline are on the wrong side in most of the shares where much business has been done, the prices being generally better this morning. Cambridge and Lincoln were last done at 5# ; Caledonian, 12k; Direct Northern, 31; London and York 3f, Eastern Counties 211, Great Norrh of England 2451, Great Western 2v6, Midland 189, Brighton 76, South Western 821, South Eastern 48k, Rugby 21, Oxford and Wor cester sk. There has been little done in the foreign lines, North Of France being sk, and Sambre and Meuse 9f. Loral aitb tarobizirfal grim The screw principle will shortly be adopted for a new line of steamers between this port and the city of Dublin. The new market at Birkenhead is to be opened on the 12th July with great rejoicing. The Commissioner in the Insolvent Court will hold his autumnal sitting at Lancaster on November 6 ; at Liver pool on November 13, and at Chester December Ist. On Saturday, a young man was committed for three months. for having attempted to pick pockets, at Egre mont Slip. The statement that " the Liverpool bankers have given notice of an intention to cease allowing interest on de posits" is incorrect. Mr. N. P. Willis, the celebrated American author. ar rived here by the Britannia on Friday, and proceeded the same evening to London. The Diane, of Hull, hence for St. Petersburgb, was totally destroyed by fire, on the 23d nit., off Kulien. The crew, after every effort to extinguish the fire, took to the` boat and were saved. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday, a man, named Sul. livan, fell into the hold of the ship Reginald Heber, in the Prince's Dock. He fractured his skull, and died instantly.• On Thursday afternoon, the roof of Ingram and Man ger's coach manufactory, Richmond-row, fell in, fortu nately without injuring any one seriously, although the workmen were in the building at the time. A—match was played, on Wednesday, between the "Everton" and " Young England" cricket clubs, on the ground of the latter, next to the Zoulogical Gardens, when the Everton beat the Young England by one run. FLEETWOOD.—ARRIVAL OF A WESTINDIAMAN.—On Monday last, the fine barque Sarah Trotman, arrived at Fleetwood, direct from Barbadoes, with a carg, of sugar. This is the filst arrival at Fleetwood from the West Indies. On Sunday morning week, after a sermon by the Rev. Dr. Tatter hall, incumbent of St. Augustine's church, be tween £7O and £BO were collected in behalf of the schools connected with the above-named cfiureh. On Tuesday, James Burn, an old servant in the em ploy of the Liverpool and Manche,ter Railway Company, met with an accident at Winston, about sii miles from the Liverpool terminus, which t , •rakinated in his death the following day. He was knocked down by an eng 4 ne, which unexpectedly started. FATAL ACCIDENT AT GREEN-LANE WELL.—On Mon day morning last, as Benjamin Thomas. foreman to Jones and Housely, contractors, was examining the roof of the tunnel, on a ladder about 12 feet long, at the bot tom of the well, a stone fell from the roof of the tunnel on his head. He lived only a few hours. He has left a wife and four young children. SMUGGLING.—On Saturday, a man named Furlong, was tined in the penalty of £lOO, for having smuggled 2081bs. of tobacco. Ile was endeavouring to remove it from a warehouse in Manesty-lane, in crates having the appearance of containing only empty bo•tles. On the same day, two Italians named Soward and Saliba, were remanded mai to-morrow, on a charge of being in possession of 1071bs. of tobacco, at the King's Dock. GRAND CONCERT.-It will be seen from the advertise ment, that a grand concert will take place, at the Concert hall, on the 27th instant. The talent engaged is sure to attract an immense audience. Miss Barrett, who has so distinguished herself at the Ancient Concerts, London, will make her first appearance here, with the favourite Miss Whitnall, and Herr Staudigi, who in himself will be a great treat to the lovers of music. HERRINGS.—A supply of very fine fresh herrings reached this port o❑ Monday lest. They were retailed at four and five for a shilling. Fresh herrings, the first of the season, were offered for sale, six for a shilling in Doug las, on Wednesday last. They were caught off Peel, and were of fine quality. A shoal entered Lochfine, on Tues day last, and large quantities were taken. They were sold alongside at six shillings, and eight shillings per hundred. DEATH FROM LOCK-JAW.--An :inquest was held yes.erday, upon the body of Thomas Morrison, a young man. 27 years of age, residing in Kitchen-street, whose death was caused by an injury received on the Friday fortnight previous. He was engaged, with two other men, in hoisting on board the barque Rose, lying in No. 2 Queen's graving dock, an iron knee, of considerable weight; while so engaged, the knee gave a sudden cant, and fell upon the right hand of the deceased, severely crushing the middle fingers. Surgical aid was procured, but retanus set in on Wednesday last, from which he died on Saturday. A verdict of " accidental death " was returned. CHARGE OP CHILD DESERTIOII.-011 Thursday, Mary Murphy, was brought before Mr. ltushton, charged with deserting her chill. It appeared from the evidence of a police-officer, of Poulton-cum-Seacombe, that the body of a dead child having been found in a ditch on Mondaylast, the officer, in consequence of his knowledge, that both the prisoner and her mistress had been in the family way, sus pected that this might be the child of one of them ; and accordingly he went to the house where the prisoner was. He found there one child, which prisoner said was her mistress's, and on being charged with the fact of the dead body being her own, she stated that her mistress and her. self had taken hers to Liverpool, and left it in a public house. This story was proved to be true, the child having been found as the place stated, and conveyed to the work house. Mr. Rushton dealt with the case summarily by sentencing the prisoner to one month's imprisonment. Her mistress is now in the lunatic asylum, the fact of her having a child when her husband (master of a vessel,) has been at sea three years, having induced mental derange ment. HOUSE 11 013BERY.—Five men, named John Davies, Frederick Kendal, James Hewson, William Hill, and Henry Falkner, were brought up at the Police Court on Saturday and :.gain yesterday, upon a charge of haying robbed a house in Grafton-street of property to the value of £2O. The house beongs to a mariner named Robert fleetley, whose wife on Tuesd.ry night left it for the pur pose of going into Shropshire for a few days. The key was deposited with Mrs. Price, a neighbour. On Tues day night. an entrance was effected at the back, by break ing a pane of glass and then opening the window, and the thieves took way five coats, two jackets, three vests, three pair of trowsers, a pinchnack watch, a gold ring, a gold ring, a gold watch key, and a number of foreign coins. The same evening, the prisoner Davies, with four other men, who appeared very bulky, engaged a coach to take them to take them to a house, in a street leading from Richmond Row, and as they had no money, Davies left a coat with the driver as security for the fare. This cir cumstance led to detection, for the same night they were apprehended. None of the prisoners, however, except Davies, were identified by the cabman, and they were consequently discharged. Davies, against whom the evi dence was conclusive, was committed for trial. A deputation from this town, consisting of Lord Sandon Mr. Henry Cleaver Chantnan, and Mr. Bold, had an in• terview with Sir George Clerk on Monday, at the office o' the Board of Trade, on the subject of the Merchant Sea. men's Fund Bill. CAUTION TO DOGOWNERS.—OnSaturday, John Woods was summoned before Mr. Rushton, to answer a com plaint of having, on the sixth ultimo, permitted a ferocious, unmuzzled dog to be at large in Harper-street, Toxteth park, whereby a boy, of the name of Thomas Pickering, was mortally injured. The circumstances under which the melancholy death of the boy took place will be fresh in the recollection of our readers. He had been sitting on some steps in Harper-street, when the dog made a spring at his head and mangled him so horribly about the face that the unfortunate child died in a few days after.—The defendant was fined £3 and costs. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—Though art has done much to render these gardens beautiful and attractive, bountiful nature has recently been working what her much lauded and indefatig ible handmaiden has no power to effect. The trees have put on their richest foliage, the hawthorns display a " full flush of fragrant blossoming", the labur nums are tasselled and festooned with golden flowers, the tulips show all their bravery like bevies of fair damsels decked for a holyday, and the close-shaven lawns and sloping banks are gay with summer verdure. The fetes on Mondays and Fridays are well attended. Visitors of all classes and tastes are delighted with the aspect of the mountain amphitheatre which stretches around the margin of the lake. The winter scenery, the snow-clad hills, glaziers and icebergs offer a strange contrast to the rich and luxuriant foliage and prevailing green of the gardens, the savage features and rugged sterility of the former appearing wild and more magnificent by the opposing effects of the adjacent scenery. The fireworks exhibited on each of the tete nights are of the most brilliant des cription, and the eruption of Heels, of which we recently gave a brief description, is a scene of singular magnifi cence. CHARGE OF STEALING A FIFTY POUND NOTE.— John Williams, a boy in the employ of Messrs. Henry Smith and Co., shipbrokers, South Castle-street, was brought up on Thursday, at the Police -court, charted with stealing a £5O Bank of England note, sent by Mr. Thomas Ingram, builder, of Chester, on the 12th of May last, to Messrs. Henry Steele and Company, timber merchants of this town. It appeared that the note was sent on the day above mentioned, but that it never came to hand. Nothing was known of it till the 2d instant, when prisoner came to the Standard office for the pur pose of advertising, he having found a £5O note on the sth of May, in the neighbourhood of Castle-street. Pri soner paid for the 'advertisement, amounting to 4s. 6d., which, he said, he had borrowed. His not having the money to pay for the advertisement was the reason he assigned for not publishing it before. On Tuesday last, the prisoner went to the Branch Bank of England in this town, and saw Mr. Lewis, the cashier, with whom he was on good terms, and said to Mr. Lewis that r ,he had found the note on the day advertised. He was asked if he were certain it was the sth of 11 , Iay, but said he could not swear it was that day, but it was on a Monday. Mr. Rushton dismissed the case. OPENING A DEAD BODY.—On Tuesday and Wednes day, an inquiry of a novel description took place before Mr. Rushton, at the Police -court, the object of which was, to ascertain whether the body of John Fisher, a nigbtman, (who, as was stated in our last, was suffocated in a privy) had been opened at the Northern Hospital, contrary to the express wishes of his brother ; and, if so, who had opened it ? That the body had since been opened, there appeared to be no doubt, and that it was opened contrary to the wishes of the brother of the deceased, that person distinctly stated. On Wednesday Mr. Rushton addres sed the brother of the deceased as follows :—I have or dered an investigation into the circumstances of your case, and have no doubt that they are truly what you represent them to be—that this body was opened contrary to your directions. Mr. Dowling has instituted an inquiry, and we are unable to prove by whuse identical hand the body was opened ; and for the want of that proof I cannot pro ceed, as it would be my duty to proceed against the party who did the deed. And I would have done so ; for, by the enactments of the legislature, the feelings of the rela tives of the deceased party are to be respected, and a deed of this kin.' is not to be committed against the sancti on o f the relatives. B o th the surgeons who attended before me (Messrs. Parker and Deane,) seem to me to be actuated by a proper sense of duty in the matter; they have given every facility to the inquiry. The brother of the deceased here said that Mr. Parker seemed very sorry for what had occurred, and ho (the brother) would not press the case further, as it would be investigated before the com mittee of the Northern Hospital. RAILWAY INTL' LLIGE CE. On Thursday the Great Western Railway took down to Slough upwards of 8,000 passengers. The Cambridge and Lincoln Company, notwithstanding the late decision of the committee, intend, if possible, to prosecute their measure this session. The Government of the Duchy of Nassau has granted to a banker at Wiesbaden the privilege for a railroad be tween Biberich and Rudesheim, the expenses of which are estimated at 2,000,000 florins, upwards of 5,000,000 francs. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. —From a parliamentary return of the railway accidents during the quarter ending ht April, we learn that all the fatal accidents (which amount to 22), except 4. happened to persons connected with the railway lines. Only two passengers, one trespasser, and a girl of eleven years of age, were killed. The other ac cidents, not fatal, bear about the same proportion. LIVERPOOL AND BURY AND LIVERPOOL AND MAN CHESTkR RAILWAYS.—At the close of the evidence on Tuesday, the committee decided that they would reject that part of the Liverpool and Manchester line which re lates to the Rainford and Rufford branch, leaving the ge neral project still open ; and that they would pass the preambll of the Liverpool and Bury line, reserving the Haigh branch, the station at Liverpool, and a minor point. BOLTON, WIGAN, AND LIVERPOOL RAILWAY.—The preamble of this much-wanted line has, spite of a despe rate opposition, been at length declared to be proved. The inhabitants of the towns through which the line will run, have much cause for congratulation, and the opening of a new and independent terminus into Liverpool will have the effect, not only of greatly reducing the charges on every description of goods, but will secure to Liverpool a very large export trade in coals.—Railway Record. SOUTII-EASTERN RAILWAY.—A special meeting of this company was held on Thursday last, t o approve, or otherwise, of the drafts of the bills before parliament, for enabling the company to extend the Maidstone branch to Rochester, to widen the London and Greenwich line at certain places, and extend it to Croom's Hill; to extend the Canterbury and Margate branch, make a branch to Deal, purchase the Whitstable and Canterbury railway, make a line to Tonbridge Wells, and one from Ashford to Hastings; and resolutions approving of the bills were passed unanimously. The war of the guages continues, and the advocates of the broad or 7 feet guage, and those of the narrow or 4 feet 9 are engaged in assiduously canvassing the house on their respective cases. On Tuesday it is to be determined whether the House of Commons will support the decisions of its select committees, or set at nought the laborious, painstaking, conscientious investigations. It appears that, in extent and connection with the population, the narrow guage bas a great advantage over its rival, having lines of 1530 miles already firmed, and of 1263 miles proposed. passing through districts containing 12,000,000 persons; while the broad guage has only 333 miles of lines already formed, and GOO miles proposed, and a population of only 3,000,000. How long this may be the case it is not easy to determine. It was stated by Mr. Stephenson that no excess of speed was attainable on the broad over the nar row guage—which was not denied, so that we play assume it to be correct. SHEFFIELD AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.--At a special meeting of proprietors, held at Sheffield on the 6th instant, the adoption of the Barnsley brancb, as part of the undertaking, was adopted by a majority, re presenting about 3000 share. The capital is £300,000, in addition to which, it is proposed t..) form a new stock of £400,000, by the issue of £25 shares pro rata among the shareholders, for constructing branches and tram ways to several collieries. The chairman observed that other branches were under contemplation, viz , the Ash ton and Staleybridge, and the South Junction and Man chester. The amount required for these works would he £287,503, to be met by a creation of quarter shares, in the proportion of one for each £lOO original share. An agreement had been made with the Leeds and Manches ter Company, that if this company would not oppose their Ardwick Junction, that company would not oppose the South Junction project. This would remove the only serious opposition which they bad at all to fear. DUNDEE AND ARBDOATIT RAILWAY.—The sharehol ders in this railway held their annual meeting, at Dundee, on the sth instant. The sum expended during the past year, on work., &c., was £158,598 15s. 5 d. ; the total revenue was £15,804 16s. 7Ad. ; while the expenditure amounted to £8715 10s. 10d. ; leaving a balance of .C 7089 ss. 91ti , which, together with the profit (not taken up as allotted) on 94 new shares, &c., made a total of £7587 Os. 3id., out of which the directors recommended a divi dend of 6 per cent. for the past year, and which, in addi tion to the dividend of 2i per cent. already paid, would leave a sum of £1195 6s. Hid, to be carried to the reser ved fund. It further appeared that, in order to give the company the full advantages of the Dundee and Perth, Aberdeen and Edinburgh, and Northern Railways, it was agreed last year to grant £lO,OOO, to make an alteration in their gunge. which sum was more than sufficient for that purpose, and that it would be necessary to make a junction with the lines leading outside the town of Ar broath. The report was approved unanimously. The preambles of the following bills were proved last week. 'ln the Lords, Chester arid Holyhead ; Leeds and Bradford (Shipley to Colne); Blackburn, Burnley, Accrington, and Coine; Huddersfield and Manchester; Edinburgh and Northern ; S,,uth-Western (Metropolitan Extension); Richmond; Lynn and East Dereham ; Newry and Enniskillen • Irish Great-Western (Dublin, Mullinga r , and Athlone); Liveool and Manchester (Extensions a n d P a t r i cro tt B ranc h ; West London Ex tension; Middlesborough and Redcar ; Manchester and Birmingham (Ashtcn Branch); Ashton, Stalybridge, and Liverpool Junction (Guidebridge); Chester aud i3irken head Extension ; Manchester South Junction and Al trincharn ; Preston Brook and Runcorn; Manchester and Leeds (further capital); Manchester, Bury and Rossen dale (alteration of name. to East Lancashire); Eastern Union Amendment. The following have been postponed —South Devon Extensions, until farther satisfactory evidence is given of the practicability of the atmospheric system ; and Doncaster and Goole, until the Londou and York decision is known. CALEDONIAN RAILWAY. r rHE PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS congra t u l a t e 1 the Shareholders on the decision pronounced by the Select Committee. to whom the Caledonian Railway Bill was referred by the House of Commons ; and beg to ex press their confidence, that the success of the measure in the present session of Parliament is now secured. The result of a long and patient inquiry by the Committee is, that the Bill and complicated schemes of the Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle C ompany h ave b een ent i rely re jected; ile the CaledOnian system of railway commu nication between England and Scotland has been adopted in its integrity by the passing of bills for the Caledonian, Clydesdale Junction, and Scottish Central and Midland lines. The omission for the present session of the Dum fries Branch of the Caledonian Company, was desirable when coupled with the rejection of the rival line, and was only intended by the Committee to afford to the Caledo nian Company an opportunity of reconsidering the best connexion with the town of Dumfries irrespectively of the projects of other parties, an opportunity of which the Directors will avail themselves without loss of time. By order, D. RANKINE, Secretary. London, June 5, 1845. CALEDONIAN EXTENSION RAILWAY. THE PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE o f t hi s under taking think it right to call the attention of the Shareholders to the important and gratifying decision which has been given by the Select Committee on Group D D of Railways, in favour of the Caledonian and 4:lydes dale Junction Railway Bills, and against the Bill and projects of the Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Company. The success of these measures, which is now beyond all doubt, will have very important and favourable effects on the prosperity of the Caledonian Extension Company. The Directors take this oppostunity of assuring the Shareholders, that every day adds to their confidence in the success of the Caledonian Extensjon Railway ; and that while it is their intention to prosecute the undertak ing with vigour and determination, they anticipate no difficulty in obtaining the sanction of the Legislature to their Bills when the proper time arrives. By order. JOHN MARR, Secretary. Jane 5, 1845. THE GREAT EASTERN AND WESTERN RAT LWAY, FROM YARMOUTH TO SWANSEA. Provisionally registered pursuant to 7 and 8 Vic., c. 110. OFFICES—No. 5, GRESHAM-STREET, BANK. Capital, £3,500,000, in 70,000 Shares of £5O each. Deposit, £2 ICs. per Share. The preliminary expenses not to exceed 108. per Share without the sanction of a General Meeting of the Shareholders. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Penry Williams. Esq., Pebpont, Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Brecon Sir John E. de Beauvoir, Bart., Director of the Man chester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction Railway Henry George Ward; Esq., M.P., Director of the East ern Counties Railway David Robert Ross, Esq., M.P., Belfast Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, and a Director of the Namur and Liege Railway William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of London, and a Director of the London and Greenwich Railway Richard Ashton, Esq., White Li on - cour t, C orn hill Robert Bastow. Esq., Surrey.place, London William G. Beare, Esq., Porchester-place, London, Di rector of the Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union Railway Joseph Beaumont, Esq., the Tump, Abergavenny, and Cwm Celyn Ironworks J. W. Bevington, Esq., Neckinger Mills, London and Worcester Thomas Henry Bluck, Esq., Limehouse John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the London Docks Tom LI. Brewer, Esq., Conlbrook Vale Iron Company Thomas Brown, Esq., Ebbw Vale and Syrhowy Iron Company William Henry Buckland, Esq., Caduxton House, Vale of Neath Andrew Caldecott, Esq., Russell-square Messrs. Chamberlain and Co., Royal Porcelain Worcester Works, Worcester • J. Clay, Esq., Brompton, Director of the Wolver hampton, Shrewsbury, and Birmingham Railway, and Whitehaven and Furness Railway George Beauchamp Cole, Esq., Chester-street, Gros venor-place Edward Henry Cole, Esq., Moore Abbey, Monasterevin, Kildare Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Copthall-court, and Old-palace, Richmond Frederick Levick, Esq., for Messrs. Crutwell, Allies, and Co., Cwm Celyn and Blaina Iron Works J. Parker Deane, Esq., D.C.L., Porchester-terrace, Bayswater Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's Wood David Evans, Esq., banker, Merthyr Tydvil John Evans, Esq., banker, Brecon William Findon, Esq., Hanover-terrace. Regent's-park Rowland Fothergill; Esq., Aberdare Iron Works, Gla morgan Algernon W. B. Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park George Hall, Esq., Ely John Harvey, Eq., Rush-hill, Surrey Richard Heaviside, Esq., Brighton, Director of the Cork and Waterford Railway ., J. C. Hill, Esq., Pwlldd w Blaenavon Samuel Hocnfray, Esq., Tredegar Iron Works, Mon mouthshire Jonathan Hopkinson, Esq., Fenchurch-street. Dire c t or of the Great Northern of France Railway James James, Esq., Swansea Thomas Jevons, Esq., Liverpool and Venallt Iron Works, and Blaengwracb, Venallt, and Forchgoch Collieries John Knill, Esq., London-bridge Wharf, Director of the Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union Railway Lucy, Esq., Albany Steam Flour Mills, Worcester W. J. Macguire, Esq., Hampton-court Arthur Mann, Esq., Woburn-square, and Denver-hall, Norfolk John Maund, Esq., Tymawr, near Abergavenny, and Blain Dir Coal Works Henry Brooks Marriott, Esq., Vale of Neath Brewery Company William Morgan, Esq., Tay Dee Park, Abergavenny F. H. Needham, Esq., Merchant, Worcester George Parbury, Esq., Russell.square, Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Continuationand Welsh Junction Railway John Bradley Read, Esq., Merchant. Worcester Joseph Russher, Esq. ' Glyn y Rose, Vale of Neath Edward Smith, Es q ., Old Broad-street B. J. Spedding, Esq., Mines Royal Copper Company, London and Neath William Steele, Esq., Abergavenny, Blaenavon Iron Co. S. H. Steele, Esq., Abergavenny Henry Stock, Esq., Beddgelert, Carnarvon Edward Tewart, Esq., Coupland Castle, Northumber land, and York-elate, Portman-square Jos. Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton Railway George S. Trower, Esq., St. Mary at Hill, and St. James's-place, St. James's Joseph Underwood, Esq., Eastcheap and Blackheath-park Thomas Wayne, Esq., Gadley's Iron Company, and Aberdare Coal Company H. Webb, Esq., Merchant, Worcester J. Webb, Esq., Merchant, Worcester William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq., the Pryors Bank, Fulham, Director of the Irish Great Vs'estern Railway (With power to add to their number.) ACTING COMMITTEE. Henry Geo. Ward, Esq., Rowland Fothergill, Esq. M. P. Algernon W. B. Greville, David Robert Ross, Esq., Esq. M.P. Richard Heaviside, Esq. Thos. Henry Buck, Esq. I Samuel Homfray, Esq. Henry Cornfoot, Esq. Arthur Mann, Esq. Thomas Dowglasse, Esq. ENGINEER IN CHIEF—Wm. GraVtitt, ESQ. F.R.S. ASSISTANT ENGINEERS—Sand;forth F. Griffin, Esq., C.E., and Charles Brumell, Esq., C.E. SOLICITORS—Messrs. Elnaslie and Preston, 47, Moor gate-street, London. LOCAL AGENTS—Charles Basil Mansfield, Esq., Swan sea ; George Leeds, Esq., Neath ; Messrs. Perkins and James, Merthyr Tydvil; Messrs. Mayberry, Williams, and Cobb, Brecon ; Messrs. Morgan and Batt, Aber , gavenny : Henry Foley, Esq., Worcester ; Messrs. Lee, Pinson, and Best, Birmingham ; William Talbot, Esq., Kidderminster; Joseph Cohnan, Esq., Norwich; John Gwillim , Esq., Hereford. BANKERS—The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury and Henrietta-street ; and the London and Westminster Bank. Lothbury, London ; the Glamorganshire Bank ing Company, Swansea; Messrs. Wilkins and Co. Mer thyr Tydvil and Brecon ; Messrs. Berwick, Lechmere, and Co., Leicester. SECRETARY, pro. tem.—Robert de Neufville Lucas, Esq rytHE object of this Railway is to open a direct line be tween Birmingham, Swansea, and Yarmouth •, taking Birmingham as the centre of the manufacturing districts, and bringing it into communication with the Bristol Chan nel and the German Ocean. The distance between Swansea and Worcester will be seventeen miles shorter than by any other proposed line, while the most ample accommodation is provided for the Iron and Coal districts, south of Merthyr Tydvil, by a loop line through Aberdare and Pontypool, joining the direct Passenger Line at Abergavenny. The Line commencing at Oakham, or Peterborough, to the East, will embrace, directly or indirectly, the towns of Norwich, Thetford, Brandon, Ely, Downham, Lynn, Wisbeach, Peterborough, Stamford, Oakham, Leicester, Nuneaton, Birmingham, Dudley, Stourbridge, Kidderminster, Stouepnet, Worcester, Hereford, Aber gavennY, Pontypool, Merthyr Tydvil, Aberdare, Neath, and Swansea; securing the advantages of railway com munication to a population of nearly 3,000,000. Power will be asked in the Bill to be presented to Par liament to allow interest at the rate of £4 per cent. per annum on all deposits and calls from time of payment until the opening of the line. Applications for Shares to be made to the Provisional Committee, at the Offices of the Company, No. 5, Gres ham-street, Bank ; to Messrs. Elmshe and Preston, So licitors, 47, Moorgate-street, London, or Messrs. John Shewell and Sons, Sharebrokers, Tokenhouse-yard ; Mr. John Smith, Sharebroker, 3, Shorter's-court, London ; Mr. John Duncuft, Sharebroker, Manchester ; Mr. John O'Neil, Sharebroker, Manchester ; Messrs. W. REY NOLDS and SON, Sharebrokers, Liverpool ; Messrs. H. and C. Beardshaw, Sharebrokers, Leeds ; Messrs. Tate and Nash, Shareholders, Bristol; Mr. James Pearson June 17, Sharebroker, Birmingham ; Messrs. Samuel flut e cl i me and Co., Sbarebrokers, Bradford ; Mr. W. Miles,._„te, broker, Wo rces t er •, Mr. Robert Allan, S bare ne e Edinburgh ; Mr. William Gordon, Sharebroker, 5 511 deer: ; Mr. Andrew Brand, Shareiseeker, Glasg°,.%; Messrs, Bruce and Symes, Sharebrokers, Du L '" whom Prospectuses may be GREAT EASTERN AND WESTERN RA - / 0 0 - VOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that o°. ll ol o applications for Shares will be received af ter ,! 0 , 8 sp instant, except from parties locally interested , plications must be made on or before the 27th ' l 2! - > ROWLAND'S UNIQUE PREPA.RATI -() ' NS FOR THE HAIR ! THE SKIN I AND THE T gE rg - 00 1. ' THE August Patronage conceded by our gr3re4e Queen, the Royal Family, and the several Selertil vie and Courts of E uro p e , an d t h e f act o f their getosisis in all countries, together with the numerous t estl :o constantly received of their efficacy, characterii with perfection, and sufficiently prove their value. 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It is therefore highly necessary 'o" 00' . the word " Rowland's" is on the Wrapper o f each s which std *** All others are Fraudulent Imitations. 1 tort The genuine Articles are sold by the Prop above, and by Chemists and Perfumers. De r Removed from Birmingham to 19, Berners• gr- Oxford-street, London. '‘,„ rig Just published, the Thirtee n th Edi t ion, price "' free by post, 3s. 6d., fis al a THE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work 0 ? pi e ' Frailty, Nervous Debility, Constitutional `Tea excessive Indulgence, &c. With Observations enrgeosi; riage, &c. By R. an d L. PERRY an d Co., S e t th,, London. Published by the Auth ors , and sol d a r iobj; residence; also by Strange, 21, Paternoster- o ' 4 ; stria', ' 109, Chancery.lane ; Crocker, 4, Milford-Itn e 'a n e Ward, 103, Strand, (opposite Efeter-hall) ; Leadenhall-street ; Perkin, Campton-street, D°tstre', eon, 338, Oxford -street, (t‘o doors from ArgY" London ; and Newton, 16 and 29, Church-streektioid'o pool_; and by all Medicine Vendors in Town an d ug l 5 THE CORDIAL BALM OF SYRIACV,;ebeiI gentle Stimulant and Renovator in all cases of whether Constitutional or acquired, nervous tribe irritation and Consumption—by the use of whleßrestrt`, paired System becomes gradually and effectually to pristine health and vigour. Sold in bottles. P at tb and 335. The £5 cases may be had, as usual, 8 • Establishment. / PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC Pl" ci . rh s ; ,; long been used as the mo s t cer t a i n remedy fo r Complaints of every d es c r ipti on , E r uptions or `, 4 -' 1 -tier ( Pimples on the F ac e, an d o th er disagreeable aloes'? the result of an impure state of the blood. Thes e delt i c , perfectly free from mercury, capavia, and other t rious drugs, and may be taken with safety wit"; ca s • • e re r l e i n ed ee and lls., by all Medici ne V en d ers . u w p i o t n h, i o n r sta lo n s c s e o . f s ti o m m e finromboxbeussainte 2s• 9 d'' 9 d'' 4o. , be ,. os Messrs. Perry and Co. m a y b e c onsulted at,',,st dance daily, from Ele ven t o T wo an d Five till se Sundays from Ten till Twelve. cn ee, Sold, WHOLESALE, by M essrs . Evates , ir? Co.,Druggists, Lord-street; RETAIL by Mr. Chemist, Church -street, and Mr. Pareseeelf, Liverpool. Observe that the Signature of the Proprietor,lo, Serjeant," is written on the Government S l a ftere e ;l SERJEANT'S LOTION, the only effectual ties against Rheumatism, Rheumatic Gout, S" )9 o,wj, Lumbago. Sold by the P ro p r i e t or , G. C. SEgnell'lle" No. 1, Lovell's- cour t Paternoster-row, and 2, Temple-bar, London; and by all Vendors of Price 2s. 9d. per Bottle. th e aP•la s o The astonishing puccess which has crowned I , v ele°,,ird tion of this external Medicine in the most -,, e -d e sP- t he deplorable cases, when tire unhappy sufferer had aft er d, of ever gaining even the least relief, and ill's far' ablest advice and every other means had con l P let te tetl' o e mos h t i j a u e s a t e ly el e le n n t t itl m es e i d t ie t i o ne ti :a e o a u tte ni ly n v t e i rs on al of the o" ai •,, - d, t ol T e steso - e e attended with the least danger or inconceni64 exec hundreds have experienced its happy and sallitn" that since it was first introduced. eiO e . 0 01 Such arc the properties of this invaluable SPeOOOO, persons labouring under the most distressing Rb e ,,, r ebt o Rheumatic Gout, and Lumbago, and rendered t,'; ef ed I capable of assisting themselves, have been r t he few hours. . sr e Amongst many which are being daily rece iv e ,to following Testimonials:- 4, Pater 4°s ee ter°f d Sia,—Having been informed of the surpg Barnes, of St. Paul's Churchyard, who was so severea , he 0 1 ",,,te Rheumatism, the intense pain causing delirium, lila! ' pelled to be confined by a strait waistcoat to prever!"„w ing any violence, and whose case was considered enti r " . :sti s ;ifo t ; twas induced to ascertain the particulars, and being ;is! O.; he truth of my information, encouraged me to make o a su cee` l ' most invaluable Medicine, entertaining little hopes f ing been many years so severe a sufferer, and tried 0 1 1ie io, i very valuable remedies. lam very happy in being l• , my testimony of the benefit I derived : after a few d a Y' poi p 1 ,i the use of my limbs are perfectly restored, and I allpi a ge / p• attend my business, and, making an allowance for A dli t yo,/ was better in my life. To those, however scverelY 0 ,05,„ hopeless their case may have been pronounced, 1,, b ,, e ,[ 6 1 0 , 1 ,0 7 „pt make a trial, feeling quite satisfied they will be res,,,`',4 to of their limbs, from the severe cases that have Yie`"„' dicine. Health is a great blessing to those who ea , - h e trttir▪ 'to to those who are deprived, none feels it so severe as `-„ 3 ' or mechanic, as it generally causes loss of business, v families. I shall at all times feel it my duty to niall .o rst o . :o. those afflicted, to evince how grateful I am for my r e „: - roP l ' am, Sir, yours truly, GEono- October 20, 1844. s CriPloo l ; 4 Well-stree t , a by A o, stß,—l have been severa l wee k s con fi ne d to mY b e „, 0 0 P a lo , it ~ Rheumatism, not a part from my head to feet free o ve• as helpless as an infant: not even a linger could Ir a 0 0 A to lj unpleasant situation I was informed by my medw, - ,.. e ual P had applied all the usual remedies, and that I adgb` in my deplorable situation, e' to m or •c,to Fortunately your remedy was made known Joe 011 have been to this day confined to my bed. After a c A i y orl , ` of four days, my troublesome companion began t ° ,7d a Ole week I was capable of walki n g about my room, en t o week's perseverance in the use o f y our Medicine. leas leave London. Fearful of anoth er atta c k, you Will P s l° ' six bottles.—l am, Sir, your ob e di en t serva nt, D. 1. • 6,4 4: , 14, Delmant-place, Wandsworth-roa '„, aftel n , feel in duty bound to acknowledge, 'on acute pains from Sciatica, or severe Rheumatic aticeti tr y ),. ( 0 joint, and being deprived of rest, I was persuaded ,pe r , ,; brocation, and have the pleasure to say that after tb, I wo Y, e ' ' r sts.. 4 I was restored to my usual health ; and, altheng_' sir; passed, I have no return of the disorder.- - I on *.or , Eo fh er' yours, with , Sold by Pendlebury, Russell-street ; Oxford-street; Hogarth, Great George-s tr d:v Bold-street; Coupland, Parker-street; street; Parkinson. New Scotland-road; ?'easc. rla road ; Simpson, Scotland-road, •opposite Market ; M ck ow, Vauxhall-road Dale-street and Haymarket; Smith, Great Cox, Fox-street; Gillard, Richmond-rov‘: i i 4 tioirlf ton; Walker, London-road ; Parry . , R' r ' t i s ide; Nl ' ,• Wagstaff, Great George-place; Smith, 0° Wavertree. , s e. 0 • ,0 GLE AVE'S HOTEL, WOODSIDE.--l t " 41 t the tr . advertisement, in our paper of to -day. ? I LO o te ri , a o' patronage this hotel has received is callin , i" s itos er , thanks of the proprietor. It is beautifully. of f tne .10 0 , 1, gardens commanding a splendid view °' es the accommodation is excellent. ,-i us c ag li The decay of the teeth arises from va-- ° f ret,l, t l t principally, it may be attributed to early neg, eo ,l tperAi, or the use of tooth powders containing inw w hit` es tr t '', deleterious acids, which give a roomen trl Th e .„ to 1 16: the teeth, while they corrode the enamel toe prevalence of this last cause is too we!' comment. To this fact, indeed, is prinot ho ppw o to,t1)! buted the long botanical research, whi c _ li er he r o,' nated by the most felicitous discovery c / o , 0 1 00 world for the preservation of the teeth, gn / por e O tto t , viz., ROWLAND'S ODONTO, or PEAl u t,i I t at ld: toilets of w t i h li e le sovereigns thegenera a l this powder now occupies a distingnis- bilrt . 0 ,• 4 s;' ounces the favour in which it is aril /er a dot, ndderethaendl I ' n, ti hi, :Vd 'N "54