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EtUraturr. POETRY. STANZAS. (For the Liverpool Standard.) Is there no spot within this world of care, Where aching hearts may soothe themselves to rest? No hand to lead our wand'ring footsteps there, And point us out the E assage to the blest? Is there no island, on the western main, Where Virtue unmolested finds repose, And every blessing sparkles in her train, To smooth the course through which life's current flows ? Or some sequestered paradise of bliss, Some lovely Edea where no tempests roar ; And joyous songsters warbling happiness, Chase all our sorrows to a distant shore ? Oh ! is there not in Persia's beauteous land, By some cool lake, in spell-bound stillness calm, A spot adorned by Nature's lavish hand, To shed o'er griefworn hearts a healing balm > Alas ! there is not in this world of sin One spot where sinful man may be at rest; Here all must toil ere they can hope to win Eternal happiness among the blest. Then look for comfort upward to the skies, IA here Truth shall flourish with a lasting bloom ; For He whose goodness rules your destinies, Planted your resting place beyond the tomb! Woodside, June 17. W. J. L. NOTICE. Sermons upon the Future State of Happiness. By the Rev. E. Thompson, Minister of Charlotte Chapel, Pimlico. Hatchard and Son, London. The subjects of which this volume treats are—as may be implied from the title—of the most interesting and im portant character. The titles prefixed to the sermons are : the intermediate state—the insurrection—recogni tion and reunion—various degrees of happiness—the hea venly rest—and the practical conclusion. An appendix is attached to the discourses, containing extracts from seve ral old and eminent divines, giving very similar views to those entertained by this reverend author. Mr. Thompson has endeavoured to console the Church by considering the deep subjects of his contemplation in a practical manner, tending to the self-examination of his hearers and readers whether they have " made their calling and election sure." It is no slight recommendation of Mr. Thompson's scrip tural knowledge when we find that the work before us in a very short space of time reached a second edition. SELECTIONS. INCIDENTAL SCRAP OF DOMESTIC HISTORY.—" Isn't true!" cried Mrs. Gamp. " True! Don't I know as that dear woman is expectin' of me at this minnit, Mr. Westlock, and is a lookin' out of a winder down the street, with little Tommy Harris in her arms, as calls me his own gammy, and truly calls—for bless the mottled little legs of that there precious child (like Canterbury brawn his own dear father says, which so they are)—his own. I have been ever since I found him, Mr. IA estlock, with his small red worsted shoe a gurglin' in his throat, where he had put it in his play, a chick, wile they was leavin' of him on the floor a lookin' for it through the 'ouse and him a choakin' sweetly in the parlour !" Martin Chuzzlewit. BRUMME LL IN THE 10TH HUSSARS. —Brummell, though an elegant appendage to the corps, was too much. about the person of the Prince to be a diligent officer. The result was, that he was often too late on parade, and did not always know his own troop. However, he evaded the latter difficulty in general by a contrivance peculiarly his own. One of his men had a large blue-tinged nose. Whenever Brummell arrived late he galloped between the squadrons till he saw the blue nose. There he reined up, and felt secure. Once, however, it happened unfortu nately that during his absence there was some change made in squadrons, and the place of the blue nose was shifted. Brummell, on coming up late, as usual, gal loped in search of his beacon, and having found his old friend he reined up. " Mr. Brummell," cried the Colonel, " you are in the wrong troop." " No, no," said Brummell, confirming himself by the sight of the blue nose, and adding in a lower tone—" I know better than that; a pretty thing, indeed, if I did not know my own troop !" His promotion was rapid ; for he obtained a troop within three years, being captain in 1796. Yet within two years he threw up his commission.—Black wood's Magazine. DEATH SCENES OF REMARKABLE PERSONS. — Mary Scotland's frail beauty, met the "gloomy king" with a degree of resolution not to be expected from her misfor tunes, so numerous were they ; deserted by every friend except her faithful little dog. Sir Thomas More remarked to the executioner, by whose hands he was to perish, that the scaffold was extremely weak. " I pray you see me up safe," said he ; " and for coming down let me shift for myself." Chaucer breathed his last when composing a ballad. His last production is called " A ballad made by Geoffry Chaucer, on his death-bed, lying in great pain." " I could wish this tragic scene was over," said Quin the actor ; " but I hope to go through it with becoming dig nity." Petrarch was found dead in his library, leaning on a book. Rousseau, when dying, ordered his attendants to remove him, and place him before the window, that he might look upon his garden, and gladden his eyes with the sight of nature. How ardent an admirer he was of na ture, is poetically told in Zimmerman's Solitude ! Pope tells us he found Sir Godfrey Kneller (when he visited him a few days prior to his end) sitting up and forming plans for his own monument. His vanity was conspicu ous even in death ! Warren has observed that Chester field's good breeding only left him with death. " Give Drysdale a chair," said be to his valet, when that person was announced. Boyle, when dying, pointed to where his proof-sheet was deposited. Clarendon's pen dropped from his hand when seized with a palsy which put an end to his existence. Bead died in the act of dictating. Ros• common, when expiring, quoted from his own translation of the " Dies Irfe." Haller, feeling his pulse, said, " The artery ceases to beat," and immediately died. When the priest, whom Alfieri had been prevailed on to see, came, he requested him " to call to-morrow ; death, I trust, will tarry four-and•twenty hours." Nelson's last words were, " Tell Collingwood to bring the fleet to au anchor." SINGULAR MODE OF DUELLING.—Among the Don golavi, I found a very singular custom prevalent for set tling their affairs of honour, as they are termed. These are, generally, disputes arising from love or jealousy, at which the young unmarried men have taken mortal of fence. The married, who certainly have better cause for duelling, never proceed to such extremities; they are far more tolerant on the like occasion, and not very particu lar about such trifling affairs. The young men, on the other hand, take these things more to heart ; when, therefore, the friends have not been able to adjust the quarrel, a formal challenge is sent. The duel takes place in an open space, in the presence of all their friends and comrades, who act as seconds, or rather as umpires. An angareb (couch) is placed in the middle of the field of battle : the two combatants strip, and binding their shirts round their loins, each places his foot to the edge of the couch, the breadth of which simply separates them from each other. A whip, made of one solid thong of the hide of the hippopotamus, is handed to each, and attempts to reconcile them are again resumed. If both parties, how ever, prove obstinate, or their sense of honour be too deeply implicated for either to yield, the signal of battle is at length given. He who is entitled to the first blow, now inflicts a severe one on the body of his adversary, who in stantly returns the compliment, and thus the conflict is kept up, blow for blow, with great regularity. The head must not be struck. The manner in which they lacerate each other is perfectly frightful; for the blows are dealt with the utmost severity, and the weapon is sufficiently formidable to form an immense echymosis with the very first stripe, with the third or fourth blow the blood begins to flow most copiously. Not the slightest expression of pain is uttered by either party, and the umpires remain cool spectators of the scene. Thus, the duellists perse vere with their barbarous cruelty, until the one or the other, overcome with pain, or exhausted with fatigue, throws down his whip, whereupon the victor does the same, and both shake hands, in sign of mutual satisfac tion. Their comrades now rend the air with their ex clamations of joy, at their reconciliation ; their lacerated backs are washed with water, and the affair terminates with a copious libation of merissa, sundry jugs of which bad been provided beforehand for the occasion.—Asiatic Journal. DANGEROUS MODE OF HUNTING.—The howdah ge nerally is made something like the body of a phaeton. The sportsman sits in the front seat, and on each side of him are two divisions for the butts of his guns, the barrels of which rest upon a kind of splash-board in front, in which grooves are made to admit them. There is a door on each side of the front seat, which is secured by strong iron hooks. In the seat behind a native is placed, whose business it is to hold an umbrella over his master's head. Some people have their guns loaded by these men ; but I should decline trusting that operation to a native. The howdahs thus described are liable to many objections. The doors weaken the frame very much, and frequent accidents have occurred to sportsmen when leaning over the front piece to get a shot, by its giving way, and pre cipitating them into the jaws of the infuriated animal. An accident of this kind occurred to an officer when lion shooting. The front of his howdah gave way, and he fell close to the lion, which immediately seized and walked off with him. I do not exactly know how he was rescued from this perilous situation ; but he used to tell the story at mess, and amuse every body very much by the quaint way in which he related it. I was worse off than Da niel," he used to say, "for Daniel was in the lions' den, but, by Jove, I was in the lion's mouth." When in Cal cutta I saw another officer who had been carried off by a tiger, and was only saved by his extraordinary presence of mind. I believe he also fell into the jaws of the brute by his howdah giving way • bu nis osrver that was, the tiger seized and carried him off. were r afraid to fire at the beast, lest they should kill the officer . Fortunately he bad a brace of pistols with him; and, while the tiger was taking him away, he drew one and discharged into his body. The only effect which this produced, was to make the savage beast clench his teeth still deeper into the flesh of his victim and growl with rage. But one chance now was left, and our friend resolved to make the best of it. By getting firm hold of the long hair about the neck of the animal, he managed to work himself round in the tiger's mouth, so as to be able to feel with his hand where the heart of the monster beat strongest, and firing his re maining pistol in that place, killed him on the spot. His friends attracted by the shots came up, and found him senseless, and the tiger dead. The gentleman recovered, however, but was always lame, from the dreadful lacera tions he had received.—Greenteood'a Narrative of the Campaign in Arghanietan. A DUTCH SERPENT-FANClER.—Everything of the serpent kind he has a particular fancy for, and has always a number of them, that he has tamed, in his pocket or under his waistcoast. To 101 l back in his rot•king-chair, to talk about geology, and pat the head of a large snake, when twining itself about his neck, is to him supreme felicity. Every year, in the vacation, he makes an excur sion to the hills; and I was told that, upon one of these occasions, being taken up by the sage-coach, which had several members of Congress in it going to Wa,hington, the learned doctor took his seat on the top with a large basket, the lid of which was not over and above well se cured. Near to this basket sat a Baptist preacher on his way to a great public immersion. Ili, reverence, awaken ing from a reverie he had fallen into, beheld, to his unut terable horror, two rattlesnakes raise their fearful heads out of the basket, and immediately precipitated himself upon the diver, who, almost knocked off his seat, no sooner became apprised of the character of his ophidian outside passengers than he jumped upon the ground with the reins in his hands, and was followed instanter by the preacher. The " insides," as soon as they learned what was going on, immediately became outsides, and nobody was left but the doctor and his rattlesnakes on the top. But the doctor, not entering into the general alarm, quietly placed his great coat over the basket, and tied it down with his handkerchief, which, when he had done, he said, " Gendlemen, only don't let dese poor dings pite you, and dey won't hoort you."—Featherstonhaugh's Excursion. Rise OF M. JAQUES LAFFITTE, THE BANKER.— When M. Laffitte came to Paris in 1778, the extent of his ambition was to find a situation in a banking-house, and to attain this object he called on M. Perregaux, the rich Swiss banker, to whom he had a letter of recom mendation. This gentleman had just taken possession of the hotel of Mdlle. Gurmard, which had been put up to lottery hy that lady and won by that fortunate banker. It was to this charming habitation, which has since been demolished, that M. Laffitte paid his first visit in Paris, and, as it were, took his first step in the Parisian world. The young provincial—poor and modest, timid and anx ious, entered by that gateway which had witnessed so many of the gaieties of the last century. He was intro duced into the boudoir of the danseuse, then become the cabinet of the banker. and there modestly stated the object of his visit.—`• It is impossible for me to admit you into my establishment—at least, for the present," replied the banker ; '` all my offices have their full complement. If I require any one at a future time, I will see what can be done ; but in the mean time I advise you to seek else where, for I do not expect to have a vacancy for some time."—With a eisaepointed heart the young aspirant for employment left the office, and while with a down cast look he traversed the court-yard he stooped to pick up a pin which lay in his path and which he carefullf stuck in the lappel of his coat. Little did he think that this trivial action was to decide his future fate, but so it was. —From the window of his cabinet M. Perregaux had observed the action of the young man. The Swiss banker was one of those keen observers of human actions who estimated the value of circumstances apparently trifling in themselves, and which would pass unnoticed by the majority of mankind. He was delighted with the con duct of the young stranger. In this simple action, he saw the revelation of a character ; it was a guarantee of a love of order and economy, a certain pledge of all the quali ties which should be possessed by a good financier. A young man who would pick up a pin could not fail to make a good clerk, merit the confidence of his employer, and attain a high degree of prosperity. — l n the evening of the same day, M. Laffitte received the following note from M. Perregaux :—" A place is made for you in my office, which you may take possession of tomorrow morning."—The anticipations of the banker were not deceived. The young Laffitte possessed every desi-able quality, and even more than was at first expected. From simple clerk, he soon rose to be cashier, then partner, then head of the first banking-house in Paris, and afterwards, in rapid succession, a deputy and president of the Coun cil of Ministers, the highest point to which a citizen can aspire. On what a trifle does the fortune of a man some times depend ! But for the simple incident of the pin, M. Laffitte would, perhaps, never have entered into the house of M. Perregaux; another employer might not have opened to him so wide a field of action, and his talents and intelligence would not have led to such mag nificent results. I AM THE KEAN !—On a certain evening, shortly after his memorable debilt at Drury Lane, Kean, accompanied by his old and faithful ally, Jack Hughes, dropped in, or rather dropped up (by way of catachresis) at Offley's premier etage, the cider-room. in Henrietta-street, Co vent Garden. Ensconced in a snug corner of the apart ment. the two friends were enjoying their " nip," and as the conversation of the room was a right of common, they felt themselves no trespassers in nipping up the pastur age also. As it generally happens, in places of this kind, there is one certain personage who usurps the lead on all topics—one, who would teach Hannibal the art of war; so was the case at this period, at Offley's. This indivi dual was a Mr. Watson. or Wason, a red-headed whole sale tobacconist, and a charlatan " warranted town made." But Watson was a man who might have called Junius Brutus himself a pretender, for Watson was really a fool. At the court of Offiev, however, he had obtained the Cordon bleu, and had a considerable tail, though there was not a wag in it. Watson, who knew the movements of the town far better than the Morning Post, had al ready enlightened his auditory on the intrigues of Lady Douglas, in the case of the Princess. when he led the con versation, not unnaturally, to the subject of the new actor at Drury Lane. "It is true enough," said he, stirring up the flaming forest which grew upon his pole, " Dr. Drury brought him to town. He talked with me on the subject—in fact, we went together into Dorsetshire to see him act. I shall never forget Kean's gratitude when we proposed his appearance at Drury Lane." Here Kean thrust himself forward like a ferret, gazing at the head of the speaker in perfect wonderment; and the " blood-red knight" proceeded—" I saw him to-day in Cecil-street — he is in the very ecstasy of triumph—and well he may. A nice child, his son ; but I am afraid my friend has some, thing yet to learn." " How?—what is that?" demanded the whole tail at once. " Why, he thrashes his wife," replied the oracle, with the aspect of a red Indian ; " ' and he who raises his hand on a woman, except in an act of kindness, it were base flattery to call a coward.' " A. mur mur of applause followed this dramatic scrap, when Kean having quickly passed from a ferret into a tiger, was only withheld by the gripe of Hughes from springing on the carrotty tobacconist. The dealer in Virginia still went on :—" This was his," said he, carelessly, as he pulled from his pocket a little chased snuff-box,—" this was Kean's—a slight token of his obligation for me, as he was pleased to say. I carry it for his sake." "Da you, by the gods !" exclaimed Kean, and darting from his cor ner, he grasped the slight token from the table, and hurled it through the window-glass into the street. Con sternation seized the tobacconist, as though Cuba itself had heen suddenly swallowed by the sea; but up rose his tail, like a waterspout, threatening annihilation to the un daunted little actor, who stood with his arms folded, like a stone terminus on a parapet. "I am Edmund Kean l" exclaimed he, grinding his teeth. " Slanderer! for the first time behold him ! lam the Kean !" The whole West Indies seemed now in a state of insurrection. The company rushed in a body towards the sturdy tragedian, and verily believing him to be an impostor, notwithstand ing the humiliation of the wholesale dealer, assailed him with violence, and finally expelled him the house. Little Hughes came in for his share of the bounty, and with a shoe less than he entered the apartment, accompanied his friend, to finish the evening, and consult future proceed ings, at No. 21, Cecil-street.—Ainsworth'a Magazine. NECESSITY OF PAROCHIAL SUBDIVISION.—Again, it is distressing to behold, in another case, all the affairs of so large a district controlled by a mob. If , anything to be done, a public meeting is called, which, from the great number of persons entitled to attend it, must be held in the body of the church. Here all kinds of ribaldry pass current, all manner of uproar goes on ; and the decisions obtained are , for the most part, as might reasonably be expected, at the very antipodes of common sense. Meanwhile, other districts are left, under some depopulating causes, till perhaps only a remnant of the inhabitants remain. And here, for want of a " public voice," all is tyranny, or peculation, or private jobbing. And what necessity is there for all this ? Is the remedy so difficult to discover, or so hard to apply? Would not a Board, properly empowered, (whether a new one, or one of those already in existence,) easily subdivide large parishes, or unite small ones, without any serious hin drance from minor difficulties. Until this is done, we must expect to have masses of the people untouched by ' their pastors, and sinking daily lower in discontent and vice. Nor will the mere permission or power to subdi vide parishes in certain cases, be sufficient. The necessity is greater. We want the evil removed at once, and that effectually. At this instant we behold the control of the two most wealthy and populous parishes in the whole metropolis,—Marylebone and Pancras,—left absolutely in the hands of radicals and enemies of the church. And this arises solely from their immense size. Divide each of them into thirty parishes, as they ought to be divided, and in the greater portion sound and wholesome princi ples would prevail. But, at the present moment, we find the managers of both these parishes constantly at war with their pastors ! While in one of . them it has recently been shown, that the poor women in the workhouse are forced to make shirts for the alopsellers, receiving as their payment, (whatever th e parish authorities may receive,) nothing more than one farthing per shirt ! Parochial subdivision, then, or rath er, a reorganization of the peo ple, we place first in order, because only through that do we arrive at efficient means of Church Extension and Na tional Education. The mi nister of a parish of 2,000 or 3,000 souls may know som ething of his people, individu ally; but what pastor can profess, or even hope for, the least personal knowledge of th e p o p ula t ion of such parishes as Shoreditch or Spitalfields ? All this, however, relates only to the means, and the end remains to be considered. We must make and keep clear i the necessary chan nels first, when our object is toirrigate the meadow. The water may be the main essential in a canal; but before we can make use of water, the bed of the canal must be excavated and prepared, and the necessary locks established in their places. We may, indeed, establish a school for a thousand children in Sp italfie l ds or in South wark ; but if it be not a parish school, —if it be merely a great place open to all corners, no one knowing hencewhee the children come, or whither they go,---vve have vast spelling-factory after all, and little more than the name of " education" can belong to such a plac. Divide the whole kingdom into parishes of proper size—none exceeding 2000 or 3000 in population, and the first step is really and rightly taken. CHURCH EXTENSION then comes in, in its just and proper place, and with its lawful and unanswerable demand. " Here are so many hundred or thousand new parishes, in each of which there is no church, and no school." We should know at a glance the real state of the case, and the whole cost of supplying the deficiency. The minister who would thus grapple with the question, even if he went no further than to ascertain and exhibit the want, would deserve the grati tude of his country.—Remedies for the Perils of the Nation. THE AFRICAN GUANO ISLAND, ICHABOE.—The island whence the guano is taken is about three miles from the shore, on the south-west coast of Africa. It is a barren rock, about a mile in circumference ; has no soil, or the least sign of vegetation. The guano lies to the depth of about twenty feet, and without any variation in quality. The continent is very sandy, and in high winds (hurri canes for instance) will cover a shin's deck nearly 100 miles from the land. The birds o❑ the island are a kind of penguin, and cannot fly to any distance, if at all, their wings being a kind of fin. It is believed that the captain of the vessel (said to Mr. Parr, of the Anne, of Bristol), who brought the guano, was the first human being who set foot on the island, which is very difficult to approach, there being no harbour and a heavy surf. On walking on it, he could scarcely set his foot without treading on the birds, and they took no notice whatever of him, except pecking at his feet, he being barefoot ; and on a gun being fired, they merely fluttered a good deal, and made much noise. There is no fresh water, it is believed, for some hundreds of miles along the coast, and no rain.—Edin burgh New Philosophical Journal. EFFECT OF SECULAR EDUCATION IN SCOTLAND. — Scotland is the great example to which the advocates of secular education constantly point, as illustrating the effect of intellectual cultivation upon the character of mankind ; and boundless have been the eulogiums pronounced upon the moral virtues, steady character, and provident habits of that once held the most intellectual portion of the Euro pean population. Doubtless, as long as Scotland was an agricultural or pastoral country, and education was based upon religion—when the school-house stood beside the church, and both trained up the same population, who afterwards were to repose in the neighbouring church yard, Scotland was a virtuous country, and its population deservedly stood high in the scale of European morality. But since manufactures have overspread its great towns, and a population has grown up in certain places—educated, indeed, but without the means of religious in•truetion, and almost totally destitute of religious principle—the character of the nation, in this respect, has entirely changed ; and it is a melancholy fact, that the progress of crime has been more rapid in that part of the British dominions, during the last thirty years, than in any other stale in Europe. It appears from the evidence laid before the Combination Committee, last session of parliament, that the progress of felonies and serious crimes in Glasgow, during the last sixteen years, has been, beyond all precedent, alarming, the population having, during that period, advanced about seventy per cent., while serious crime has increased five hundred per cent. Crime over the whole country is ad vancing at a very rapid rate, and far beyond the increase of the population. In England, the committals, which in 1813 were 7164, had risen in 1837 to 23,612—that is to say, they had tripled in twenty-four years. This advance will probably be considered by most persons as sufficiently alarming in the neighbouring kingdom, but it is small, compared to the progress made by Scotland during the same period, where serious crimes have advanced from 89 in 1805, to 3418 in 1838 ; being an increase in four and-thirty years, of more than thirly-fold.—Alison on Population. WORKING OF THE NATIONAL SCHOOLS.—Tbena- tional schools have taught their scholars immorality ; hence the demoralization of the rising generation. The very calling together so many low-born children daily, without some plan being first laid down for a moral guar dianship over them, justifies the assertion, that they are taught immorality, and I will add (for I know it) crime, at these establishments. There is nothing of a mental nature performed in them : a hundred boys at one time are taught to bawl out L-o-n—lon—d-o-n—don, London, with a few more words, which leads them in the end to learn just enough of reading to enable them to peruse a twopenny Life of Turpin, or Jonathan Wild; proceed ing to the lives of the bandits in regular course : when, with this, and they have taught each other such matter as they all gather from their honest and virtuous parents, their education is completed, they being fully qualified to figure on the pave as pickpockets. It needed not inspira tion, nor prophetic powers, to see that the Lancasterian schools must necessarily become participes criminis in disorganizing the relations of society : the very locale of the plan does it. * * * From the national schools, I never yet met with a lad who had the least notion of any self-exercise of the mind. A good and rigid system of moral education is the more needed for the children of the poor, as the habits of their rarents are generally opposed to good example. At an early age they are carried to a public-house, filled with low company ; swearing and drunkenness is always before them ; no habits of frugality are taught them ; and when money is obtained, luxuries and drink swallow up all in one day, reckless of to-morrow. Often without any home but the tap-room, or, if a home, no fire or parent to share it with them till the middle of the night, who, returning in a state of intoxication, only increases their misery, and further vitiates their morals. Such is the condition of nine-tenths of the national-school boys. Poverty com pels the labourer to perform that duty which is essential to the well-being of the whole nation. Poverty, there fore, is not the evil, but indigence and debasement which leads to crime. In the Lancasterian schools, not the slightest effort is made to excite or exercise the mind; not one moral axiom is inculcated ; no precepts of prin ciple are instilled into the mind ; all is mere rote and mechanism ; their scholars offer to the world the most extraordinary collection of tyros in crime ever seen or heard of in the history of it.—Old Bailey Experience. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. GENERAL MISCELLANY. The foundation stone of the new buildings at Eton Col lege was laid on Thursday by Prince Albert. A most important post-office arrangement is said to be in progress, by which it is an , icipated that by steamers letters will be sent to China in fifty days. Sir Henry Hardinge, Governor-General of India, ac companied by his son and his aide-de-camp, arrived at Marseilles on Friday week. All the grain that has been imported into the port of Sunderland this year has been in foreign vessels, with one exception. In the Exeter Court of Bankruptcy, the other day, a case occurred which has lasted 29 years, and in which a great estate is, to this day, wholly unaccounted for. At the instance of the American minister in Great Bri tain, the British Government has pardoned ten of the American citizens sent to Van Dieman's Land for sharing in the Canadian rebellion in 1838. The new iron steam-ship, Gipsey Queen, the largest built of that material upon the banks of the Thames, was launched, on Monday, from the docks of Messrs. Samuda Brothers, at Blackwall. The trial of Wm. Burton Newenbam, for the abduction of Miss Wortham, took place at the Central Criminal Court, on Monday, before Mr. Baron Gurney- The pri soner was found guilty, and the Court ordered him to be imprisoned for two years. THE CHINESE RANSOM.—On Wednesday morning her Majesty's ship Wanderer, Commander G. Seymour, arrived at Portsmouth from the East Indies. She has brought home another instalment of the Chinese ransom, which is said to amount to 1,000,000 dollars. COVENT-GARDEN M ARRET.—SOITIE idea of the extent of the flower-market may be formed, when it is stated by salesmen that the avera2e supply of geraniums at this time of the year is from 500 to 600 dozen daily, some of the growers sending each from 50 to 60 dozen daily. The Polytechnic Review states, that " in portraits of Queen Victoria not less than two hundred thousand pounds have been already expended ; and that it is impos sible to foresee at what ratio this may increase as art grows in public appreciation." At the meeting of the Council of the Royal Agricultu ral Society of England, on Wednesday se'nnight, Mr, Pusey, M.P. reported the decision of the judges in award ing the society's prize of £5O, for the best essay on the agriculture of Cheshire, to Mr. W. Pal, of Stapleford Hall, Chester. STRIKE OF THE LANARKSHIRE COLLIERS.—A strike, as sudden as it is extensive. has just taken place in the collieries in this county. Regarding the immediate cause of this sudden movement we hive not been able to ascer tain the particulars. The strike has not extended to the iron stone miners.—Glasgow Chronicle. COSTLY BED.—The state bed in which the King of Saxony slept at Knole Park, the seat of Lord Amherst, cost £B,OOO, and the fittings of his sleeping-room £20,000. It was made on the occasion of King James Vl's visit to Knole, and is of silver, as are all the fittings of the room, even the dogs for the fire-place. THE SUGAR DUTIES' BILL.—The four following mem bers—namely, Sir Howard Douglas, Mr. Wm. Bagge, Mr. Charles Goring, and Mr. Christopher Turner,—who had voted with Mr. Miles on Friday, assisted Sir R. Peel, on Monday, in reversing the previous decision of the house in committee. " WH 0 Is THE DUPE? " —The prize comedy, for which Mr. Webster paid £5OO, was damned on Tuesday night, at the Haymarket Theatre. "Who is the Dupe?" was written by Mrs. Gore. Some of the papers say that the hostility originated with the friends of the authors of the rejected comedies. EAST INDIA HOUSE.—On Wednesday, the usual Quar- __ .. terly General Court of the proprietors 'of stock in this corporation was held at the India House. Mr. Poynder brought forward his motion on the money payment of £6,000 to the idolatrous temple of Juggernaut. After some discussion the motion was withdrawn. SALE OF A WIFE.—On Friday last a man named Mansfield, having returned to Chelmsford from his tra vels, offered his wife for sale in the market-place. No sale was effected on Friday, but on the next day she was knocked down at 155., and everybody said very dear at the money.—Essex Standard. Since the new docks at Leith were emptied for the pur pose of repairs, immense quantities of eels have been found in the bed of the basin. These have been taken, by means of harpoons, from the side of the quay, or the more approved method is boldly leistering them in the mud. Thousands have been sold at Id. and 2d.per pound. Tom THUMB'S Boors.—A pair of Napoleon boots have been manufactured this week in Northampton, by Mr.H. Hull, for General Tom Thumb, the miniature American, who has recently made a stir extremely disproportionate to his dimensions. The length of the boot from heel to toe is 44 inches ; the breadth 1 inch ; the height, with the knee cap, 9 inches, and the height under the knee 5 inches. MOSS ON FlRE.—Much damage has been done on the Malvern Hills by fire. It is said that the fire originated with a picnic party on Whit Monday, since which time it has gradually increased, and now extends over above an acre of ground, occasionally bursting forth in flames as it meets with furze bushes in its progress. The long drought has rendered the thick soft turf of the hills nearly as ig nitable as tinder, and the high situation of the fire (nearly the top of, and on the western side, the Worcestershire beacon) is favourable to its progress. IRON TRADE.—The demand for iron continues good, and the following are the present prices in the Clyde : Pig-iron, No. 1, £3 10s. per ton ; bar iron, £6 10s. per ton ; nail rods, £7 10s. per tnn ; tallier plates and sheets, £lO per ton; railway bars, £7 10s. per ton.—Glasgow Chronicle. EXPEDITION.—H ULT. AND LIVERPOOL—One ' hun dred puncheons of gin were on Saturday last shipped at Rotterdam, on board the Emerald Isle steamer, which arrived here on the following day ; they were on Monday landed, and despatched in the evening by a luggage train for Liverpool, where they arrived on Tuesday morning, and were immediately re-shipped on board a vess-I which was under engagement to clear that day.—Hull Herald. The Birmingham Advertiser states, that in one dissent ing meeting-house in Leeds, arrangements are made for chanting psalms, which are to be pointed for chanting according to the Bible version, and that in another dis senting meeting-house in Leeds, the congregation proposed having the Te Dentin regularly chanted, when the minister informed them that when, twenty years ago, he made a proposition to that effect, they threatened to dismiss him. ACCIDENTS FROM LIGHTNING.—On Sunday, the 9th, the lightning fell on a farm-house at Nevelle, in East Flanders, killed t:e farmer's wife, paralyzed three of his children, and injured him, but much less severely. At Bruges, on the same day, the church called the Ingel munster was entered by the electric fluid, which did some damage to the building, and injured, more or less, ten or twelve persons. BALLOON EXPBRTMENT.—The aeronaut, M. Kirsch, who ascended, on Friday evening week, at Paris, in a balloon of a new construction, wits the intention of pass ing two days of experiments, descended near Eperney, alter only four hours' voyage, and after having g ne into so rare an atmosphere that the thermometer of Reaumur was at eight degrees below zero, and the wine he had taken up frozen i❑ the bottles. PITIFUL.—On Saturday morning a young girl was found hanging from the rail of Westminster-bridee by a strap which she bad buckled round her neck. She was insensible, but prompt means being used she was restored. The unfortunate girl, it appears, is a flower-maker, but, being out of employment, had wandered houseless and destitute for five nights, and had not tasted food for two days. Hopeless of relief she determined to end Ler exis tence. ErrENsivn DESTRUCTION.—An extensive fire took place on Tuesday week, at a farm at Little Dawn, near Christchurch. The damage sustained consists of the destruction of the dwelling-houses, two barns, containing thrashed corn, two stables, with other outbuildings, a large enclosed yard, for the reception of sheep, in which were folded 87 down ewes, placed there for shelter from the night air, having just been sheared of their fleeces, all of which miserably perished by the fire, in addition to two horses confined in the stable. The bullet which killed Lord Nelson at Trafalgar has been offered for the acceptance of the Queen by the bro ther of the late Sir Wm. Beatty. M.D., who attended our great naval hero on board the Victory, after he had re ceived his mortal wound. The Queen having shown great anxiety to possess the fatal ball, it will be forwarded to Windsor Castle. The ball, with the particles of the coat and epaulette that were forced into the body by the stroke, is neatly and elegantly set within a crystal case, which is appropriately mounted with a double cable of gold around its circumference, arid opens like a watch. FORTUNATE RECOVERY.—On Saturday, a gentleman from Liverpool put up at the Railway Hotel, Nine Elms, London, preparatory to leaving town for Southampton. Having some business in Mark-lane, he ordered a cab, and proceeded towards the city. On his way he found himsef minus his pocket-book, which contained £2,000 in bank notes. He drove back, greatly agitated, and, to his joy, the book was produced to him by the waiter, who had found it near the tabl . of the room, in which several parties had been sitting. The waiter was handsomely re warded. THE DUKE OF BRTDGEWATER.—A paragraph is going the rounds of the papers, stating that Lord Francis Eger ton is to be elevated to the peerage by the title of the Duke of Bridgewater; but this is not likely to be the case, for the Egertons of Tatton claim the title, they be ing the lineal heirs. Lord Francis is descended only from the female side, and inherits not as heir-at-law. The story goes, that the property was diverted from the direct line by an accident. The old duke's heir riding with him one day on the banks of the canal, his horse slipt and fell in. " D—n the canal," said the young man. " Don't d—n it," said the duke ; it shall never be yours." - - - - MURDER AT GRAVESEND. — On Monday afternoon, the coroner for Kent, concluded an inquiry at the Town hall, Gravesend, on the body of Elizabeth Hartnell, aged 35, who died from the effects of violence used towards her by a man named Thomas Jury, with whom she cohabited. For a considerable time past the deceased and Jury, who possesses much property in the above town, have led a most dissolute life, and resided in Ilfeild-street. The prisoner had been heard threatening deceased the night before her death, which was caused by a wound on the forehead. The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Mur der against Thomas Jury." MAN V. HORSE.—On Monday afternoon, in Warren der's-park, a race took place between a man named Will cox, a tailor by trade, and a horse brought from Glasgow. Distance 60 yards out and 60 yards home. On starting, both went off together, the man taking the lead by a few yards, which he kept until the end, when he came in about 15 yards a-head. Second heat, a similar result, thus de ciding the match in favour of the man. Another race of the same kind took place the same evening.at five o'clock, in the same place, between Mr. Cruickshank, riding his chestnut mare, and Mr. James Laing, of the Royal Horse Bazaar, on foot, and after a short contest Mr. Laing won easily.—Edinburgh Journal. THE WATERLOO BANQUET. — Tqesday being the anni versary of the battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington gave his customary banquet at Apsley House, to a nume rous circle of the surviving officers who participated in the glories of that ever-memorable engagement. The banquet was served in a service of gold ; an the dessert service used was the magnificent set of Potsdam china, a gift from the late King of Prussia to his Grace. It was after ten when the duke and Prince Albert adjourned to another room to partake of coffee, and in the meantime many of the gallant company departed.—On the same day, a noble equestrian bronze statue of the Duke of Wellington, made from some of the guns which the duke had himself taken from the enemy, was erected, in the presence of the King of Saxony, by the citizens of London, in front of the Royal Exchange. SINGULAR AFFECTION IN A HEN.—The strong mater nal feelings of the hen in watching over a brood different from her own species, has often been a subject for remark, but the following occurrence is the most singular of the kind we have heard.. A hen at Haugh Mill laid her eggs in a sty where a brood sow was confined previous to her littering. Although deprived of her eggs by the sow, who devoured them as soon as laid, still the hen continued to frequent the sty, and, when the sow littered, claimed kin dred with the young pigs, and manifested the same ma ternal feeling towards them as if they hid been her own chickens, by watching over them in the sty and following them clicking whenever they went abroad. The hen, however, is likely to fall a victim to her maternal affec tions, as the pigs,. like many unruly children to their pa rents, use their foster-mother rather roughly, and return but a poor requital for all her solicitude.—Fife Herald. FALL OF A HOUSE.—On Friday afternoon a house in Garden-street, Withy Grove, Manchester, fell to the ground, covering the street with rubbish, and carrying down with it portions of the gable end of the two ad joining houses. The house was part of a line of pre mises occupied by Mr. W. S. Sutton, bacon and pork dealer. It was. of two stories, the top used as sleeping rooms, and the lower for hams, &c. Two men were working in the bottom room at the time, but were fortu nately alarmed and made their escape. They first ob served the chimneys inside giving way, the roof followed, and presently the whole building was in ruins. Fortu nately no one was passing at the time. It was afterwards found necessary to support the other buildings by beams. The occurrence is attributed to the delapidation of the building. Mr. Sutton's loss in hams, &c., will exceed £l5O. - - - Considerable anxiety was last week displayed in the me tropolis, caused by the movements in the neighbourhood, and various rumours were in circulation on Saturday and Sunday as to the course to be pursued by ministers. On Sunday week a numerous meeting of conservative members was held at the Carlton Club, which was adjourned until yesterday, when a resolution of entire confidence in Sir R. Peel's government was proposed and carried unanimously. A Cabinet Council was held on Sunday, after which Sir Robert Peel proceeded to Buckingham Palace, and stayed to dine with her Majesty ; and another Cabinet Council, summoned by Sir James Graham, was held on Monday, the result of the deliberations of which was, no doubt, the ministerial determination above. The London Standard of Monday urged the Conservative members to retrace their steps, and intimated the retirement of Sir Robert Peel as the result of their remaining intractable. TUE GROUSE SEASON. — We learn that the grouse are in the same critical state with the crops, being, like them, dependent upon the weather of the next week or two. The birds are just now chipping the shell, and are found in hatches of from eight to twelve, which, allowing for casualties in early youth, would likely give an average number of coveys in autumn. Everything, however, de pends, so far as regards the lower range of moors, upon an early fall of rain, for with the continuance of the pre sent drought for another fortnight, few birds, in such situations, would survive it. Again, on the high range of shooting grounds—viz., at the head of Atholl. Badenoch, and Lochaber, where the snow is only yet melting, abun dance of springs are found all the year over for the young birds, and the supply of birds on such places will, to all appearance, be as good as usual. The principal moors in the Perthshire highlands are held on leases, so that there are comparatively few changes on such; but on the lower grounds there are some excellent shootings in the market. —Perthshi;.Courier. PUBLIC PETITIONS.—The twenty-ninth report of the committee on public petitions has just made its appear ance. We find the gross total number of petitions to the House of Commons on various important public mea sures to be as follow, viz. : — Against the Dissenters' Cha pels Bill, 2,403 petition , signed by no less than 299,498 persons; in favour of the same bill, 601 petitions, signed by 136,644 persons ; for an alteration of the measuyterian re, f 6-1 petitions ; legalizing marriages in Ireland by Presb . ministers, 412 petitions, signed by ersons 159,245 p , signed by 15,613 persons., against a repeal of the corn-laws, 1,878 petitions, signed by al3ofpentie agsta.iAnsstapthhe, 274iopnetoitfiotnhes,Episcopal dioceses of Ban . gor and 128 ,093 persons • for a repeal of the differential duties on fillgar, 4 petition's, signed by 66,434.per50n5.; for the en ; couragement of art-unions, 13 petitions, signed by 704 persons tions, si ; g n in e d favour 04 0 9 f t p h e e rson County; for Courts e Poor-law Amendment Bill, 30 petitions, signed by 10,392 persons. 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THOMAS BRANCH Respectfully announces, that he has om SALE, A very extensive and valuable Stock of FASHIONABLE FURNITURE, Of every description, manufactured in the first style of excellence, from the best Materials, INCLUDING ROSEWOOD AND MAHOGANY ARTICLES, In Sliding-frame and other forms of Dining Tables, Pe destal and Cellaret Sideboards, Single and Winged Book cases, Secretaires, Cheval and other Screens, Single and Double Wardrobes, Ladies' Wardrobes, with brass rods and arms, for Dresses, Trafalgar and Balloon-formed Chairs, Card, Library, Loo, Invalid, Sofa, Snap, Pem broke, Ladies' Work and Screen Tables, Running Side tables, Couches, Sofas, Children's Chairs, Cots, and Cribs,• Chests of Drawers, Night Commodes, Bedsteps, Bidets, Hat Stands, Boot Racks,Music Stands and Stools, Canterburies, Hall Chairs, Butler's Trays, with Stands, Foot Stools, Cheffoniers, Quartetto-tables, Dressing- Tables and Basin-stands, Rising Sideboard Tables, Gen ltemen's Library or Office Tables, Double and Single Knife Boxes, What Nots, Tea Poys, Devonports, &c. RECUMBENT & INVALID CHAIRS. Elegant Lounging, Library, and Devotional CHAIRS, FOLDING SOFA AND CHAIR BEDS, JAPANNED. STAINED. AND FANCY CHAIRS, In the greatest variety ; Four-post, Cottage, Canopy, French, Dome, Camp, Nursery, and Press BEDSTEADS, of every form, In Mahogany, Birch. and Painted Woods ; Feather BEDS, Hair, Flock, and Straw MATTRESSES, PAINTED CHAMBER REQUISITES, Of all descriptions, In Wardrobes, Chests of Drawers, Toilet Tables, Basin- stands, Towel Airers, &c. Elegant CHIMNEY and DRESSING GLASSES, A VARIETY OF BEAUTIFUL ITALIAN SCULPTURED ORNAMENTAL FIGURES VASES, URNS, & EWERS ; Figured FLOOR and LOBBY CLOTHS, Of all dimensions, for cutting to fit Rooms, Halls, Shops, and Ships' Cabins, INDIA MATTING, Black Hair Seating, of all Widths; INVALID, GARDEN, AND BATH CHAIRS; CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES ; Glazed and Fancy PAPER HANGINGS; &c. NOTICE TO INVENTORS. Office for Patents of Inventions and Registrations of Designs. 14, Lincoln's Inn Fields. THE Printed INSTRUCTIONS gratis, and every in formation upon the subject of PROTECTION for INVENTIONS, either by Letters Patent or the Designs Act, may be had by applying personally, or by letter (prepaid) to Mr. ALEXANDER PRINCE, at the Office, 14, Lincoln's Inn Fields. AS SUPPLIED TO THE ROYAL TABLE. IAPTAIN PI DDING'S HOWQUA.'S MIXTURE %,-) TEA is an admixture of 40 rare Black Teas, produced on as many different plantations. each Tea differing from the rest, and possessing a flavour, ft fragrance, or strength, peculiar to itself. Blended together in the proper pro portions, they comprise all that is desirable in Tea. This discovery was not the effect of chance, but of many great advantages united in one individual, and the result of numerous experiments and the most minute analysis. For another to produce the same result, he must possess equal skill, the same discriminating taste, equal power of procuring the forty various Teas required, and know the exact proportions of each kind used—and though he may never once have visited China, he must have had equal opportunities of securing to himself, its productions : with one who, like Captain Pidding, has spent years there in acquiring these advantages, and to whom alone How qua—years before his death—imparted at Canton, the secret of compounding his Mixture. Yet there are upwards of 500 retailers pretending to sell tea, they call " Howqua's Mixture"—each mixture dif fering from all the others. Now as there can be but ONE REAL " Howqua's Mixture," it follows that, as 500 dif ferent medleys are offered-499 must be spurious. The 499 counterfeits are so many evidences of the superiority of the ONE GENUINE. And it would be absurd to suppose that Captain Pidding, with advantages, the result of Eight Voyages made to China, and five years spent in that country, would be so silly—even were it possible —as to yield them up to 500 others, or impart to them so valuable a secret. The very great celebrity this Tea has acquired, having tempted many unprincipled persons to give similar, or nearly similar titles to their own spurious mixtures, to guard against such imposition, purchasers should observe that "THE SIGNATURE THUS," Captain JOHN RHODES PIDDING, Honourable Company's Service, is on every genuine Package. To those who drink Green Tea, " Captain Pidding's Howqua's Small Leaf Gunpowder," grown only on one estate, is recommended for it. strength and economy, and as being the purest and most wholesome Green Tea im ported from China. Captain Pidding has appointed the under Agents for this District GEORGE CARLYLE, Repository, 38, BOLD-STREET, Agent for Liverpool. Accrington.... W. Hutchinson, Stationer. Blackburn.... J. Parkinson, Chemist, Church-street. Bolton Burnley T. Sutliffe, Bookseller, St. James-street. Everton J. H. Pyer, Great Homer-street. Knutsford J. Williams, Draper, &c. Lancaster George Carruthers, Chemist, New-street. Manchester J. Ford & Co., Drapers, St. Ann's-square. Prescot W. Turner Kydd, Tea Dealer and Grocer. Preston H. Armstrong, Chemist. Ditto J. Highamy Draper. Ditto J. Knight, Waterloo House. Ditto T. Wren, Auctioneer. Rochdale .... J. Booth, Chemist. Southport .... S. Whitely, Wine Merchant. For Agencies, Address, Captain Pidding, 22, College hill, London. NO CHIROPODISTS ! !! NO CUTTING!! ! CORNS AND BUNIONS. PAUL'S EVERY MAN'S FRIEND - is a sure and speedy cure for those severe annoyances, without causing the least pain or inconvenience. Unlike all other remedies for Corns, its operation is such as to render the cutting of Corns altogether unnecessary : indeed, we may say, the practice of cutting corns is at all times highly dangerous, and has been frequently attended with lamen table consequences, besides its liability to increase their growth. It adheres with the most gentle pressure, pro ducing an instant and delightful relief from torture, and, with perseverance in its application, entirely eradicates the most inveterate Corns and Bunions. EXTRAORDINARY TESTIMONIALS. From Dr. Cummins, Lecturer on, Medical Jurisprudence at the Aldersgate School of Medicine. Dr. Cummins presents his compliments to Mr. Paul, and begs to inform him that his Every Man's Friend has entirely taken away his Corns, and he has recommended it to several of his friends and patients, and in no one instance has it failed in eradicating both Corns and Bunions. From Dr. Ley, Midwifery Lecturer at St. Bartholomew's Hospital.. Dr. Ley presents his compliments to Mr. Paul, and , begs to inform him that his Corn Plaster has taken away his Corns. Similar testimonials have been received from upwards of one hundred Physicians and Surgeons of the greatest eminence. Prepared by JOHN FOX, in boxes, at ls. lid., or three small boxes in one for 2s. 9d., and to be bad of Mr. King, 7, Napier -street East, near the Shaftesbury Arms, Hoxton, London, and all Wholesale and Retail Medicine Vendors in town and country. The genuine has the name of JOHN Fox on the Stamp. A 2s. 9d. box cures the most obdurate Corns. ASK FOR " PAUL'S EVERY MAN'S FRIEND." Agents.—Howell, Aspinall, Lathbury, Phillips, Ro berts, Wagstaff, Smith, Britten, Jardine, Rowlands, Carter, Ross and Co., Scholefield, Bird, Johnson, Gerard, King, Watson, and Dickinson, Liverpool ; and by all respectable Chemists and Medicine Vendors in every market town in England. PUBLIC NOTICE. HER Majesty's Commissioners of Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, having taken Mr. GRIMSTONE'S extensive premises in Broad-street, Mr. G. has, at a very considerable expense, prepared very commodious pre mises, 434, Oxford-street, London, at which place he earnestly solicits a continuance of' the kind support with which he has been favoured by the Nobility and Public generally. Mr. Grimstone's commercial intercourse enables him to vend his foreign goods in the most genuine condition, and he pledges himself to continue the manu facture of every article in its pure and pristine state. Testimonials of undoubted authority, from the highest characters, proving the efficacy of his EYE SNUFF. may be seen at his Warehouse as above, and in tke EYE edition of his Almanac, 1844.—GRIMSTONE'S. 0 SNUFF.—A few of the many thousand Testimonials Sight Restored and Deafness Cured : Copy of a Letter. rd 39, Kirby-street, Batton g_ • teciwiTh dimness of sight, Sir,—l was from my childhood attic almost blind. My husband and as I advanced in years became oculist of any eminence was n , Dec. 26, 1842. being a medical practitioner, everyaat any zeal relief. I was re consulted, but unfortunately i ge the great cure your Eye friends, although a member of the months with the profession, who said he relieved from inflammation after long happiest result : he being to g ive it a trial. I have taken four 2s 4d suffering, induced me continue to use it to the end of in days, for commended by one of or canisters, and shall en h benefit from using it, that l l' ys, I have derived so nissistance of any kind of eye glass had taken it for a few can now glasses. I shall read without the a at any i feel happy ade in my cße. Make wh t Snuff has m a use you may please of and remember, I am in my sevini acknowled entieth year, and this testimonY• much can read an d do n eedleworkbetter than I could for the las t forty years, without any glasses. I am, S i r, yours gratefully, O. FoTHERGILL, Widow of the late Dr. Fothergill. C o py of a Letter sent to M r . W. Grimstone, Inventor of the celebrated Eye Snuff. To W. Grimstone, Esq., Inventor of Eye Snuff, 39, Broad-st ree t, L ondon. The Marchioness de Broglio Solari presents her best compli ments to Mr. W. Grimstone, and has the pleasure to inform him she has had the most convincing proofs of the beneficial qualities of his Herbaceous Eye Snuff in many cases of its restorative power, both of sight and hearing. Mr. Grimstone—Sir, you are at liberty to make use of her name.—September 22, 1812, 46, Charlotte-street. Any quantity can be forwarded through the General Post, by sending money orders. A 2s. 4d. canister, with postage, will cost 35., and so on in like proportion. Agents for Liverpool:—PlEßCE and CROSSFIELD, Castle-street ; Ross and NIGHTINGALE, Lord-street; C. SHARP, Church-street; W. PROCTER, London-road. June 2.5, 184 THE PATENT BRANDY, Protected by the PATENT METALLIC CAPSULES. THE perfectly pure and healthful quality of BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY has been certified, after care ful analysis, by EDWARD TURNER, Esq., Professor of Chemistry to the University of London ; JOHN THOMAS COOPER, Esq., Lecturer on Chemistry; JOSEPH HUME, Esq., Chemist to his late Majesty as well as by others of the most eminent practical Che mists of the day. And It is prescribed, in preference to Foreign Brandy, by the Highest Medical Authorities, et Guy's, St. George's, and the Westminster Hospitals; el the Bristol, Manchester, and Brighton Infirmaries ; arid, indeed, at all the principal Hospitals, Infirmaries, agcl Public Institutions, throughout the Kingdom. A SINGLE BOTTLE OF BETT'S PATENT BRANDY, or any greater quantity, may now be obtained in as undoubtedly genuine state. This convenient arrangement for both vendor and purchaser, and their mutual security against any deception, is effected by the use of firrr'S PATENT METALLIC CAPSULES, made of pure and SOLID METAL, (not Tin Foil.) which completely encloses the cork and mouth of the bottle, and is embossed with the words " BETT'S PATENT BRANDY, 7, SMITHFIELD BARS," the facsimile of which is engraved on a label attached to each bottle; and to all of a hich means for the prevention of fraud attention is very earnestly solicited. BETT'S PATENT BRANDY, thus preferred by the Me dical Profession, and protected from spurious substitu tion, may be obtained from the undermentioned WIN% AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, at 3s. 6d. per BOTTLE, bot tles included ; a charge for testing its superiority within the expenditure of every consumer. Blackburn.. W. SAMES. Bolton .... J. B. HOLDEN, Oxford-street. KIRKDALE. B. and J. BLEZARD, Kirkdale-road. Lancaster ..J. ALDREEN. Ditto Ditto Liverpool .. M. ATKINSON, Tithebarn-street. 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Price 3s. 6d.; 7s. ; Family Bottles, (equal to four small.) 10s. 6d., and double that size, 21s. per bottle. ROWLAND'S KALYDOR. An odoriferous creamy liquid of Balsamic Exotics. It pleasingly dissipates all Pimples, Spots, Blotches, Red ness, Tan, Freckles, and other Defects of the Skin, heals Sunburns, Stings of Insects, and rer!uces inflammation. It imparts a youthful roseate hue to the most bilious Complexion, and renders the Arms, Hands, and Neck, transparently fair and delightfully soft and sthooth. It is invaluable as a renovating and refreshing Wash, during travelling, or exposure to the sun, dust,. or dry piercing winds, and after the heated atmosphere of crowded assemblies.—GENTLEMEN will find it peculiarly grateful after shaving in allaying the irritation of the Skin- Price 4s. 6d. and Ss. 6d. per bottle, duty included. ROWLAND'S ODONTO ; OR, PEARL DENTIFRICE. A. Fragrant White Powder, prepared from Oriental Herbs. It eradicates Tartar and decayed Spots from the Teeth, polishes and preserves the Enamel, to which it imparts a Pearl-like Whiteness, and fixes the Teeth firmly in the Gums. Being an Anti-Scorbutic, it eradicates the Scurvy from the Gums, strengthens, braces, and renders them of a healthy red ; it removes unpleasant tastes from the mouth, which often remain after fevers, taking medicine, &c., and imparts sweetness and perfume to the breath. Price 2s. 9d. per box. duty included. OBSERVE!—To protect the Public from fraud, the Hon. Commissioners of Her Majesty's Stamps have authorised the Proprietors' Signature to be engraved on the Govern ment Stamp, thus-- A. ROWLAND and SON, 20, Hatton Garden, which is affixed to the Kalydor and Odonto. None are Genuine without the Stamp. N.B.—The principle on which each article is prepared is confined solely to the knowledge arid practice of A: ROWLAND and SoN, 20, HATTON GARDEN, LONDON"'. the amalgamation of their costly exotic materials neu tralizes all attempts to separate their component parts, and thus proves the imposition of another articles bearing the same names. Be sure to ask for " ROWLAND'S Articles." Sold by them and by Perfumers and Chemists. THE BRITISH HONG-KONG TEA COMPANY, faithful to their professed principle of supplying the public with none but genuine Teas, of superior character, have to con ratulate themselves on the liberal patronage they have hitherto received. It would be easy to pretend, as some advertisers do, to sell Teas at lower prices than charged a mboyutnhtes to 2 Comp s. i an 2 v; d .p butetr lb., heve ry m f u a s c t t t c h o a n t v t i h n eju a t u r alone thinking persons that much. which is offered to the public under the name of Tea, can be no other than a spurious article; and it would be easy to prove that such trash io as injurious to health asihe genuine leaf is wholesome and exhilarating. The Coinpany would particularly recom mend their BLACK STRONG. and RICH FLAVOURED WIRY-LEA.F CONGOLT. at ss. per lb., being at a l b t ,e h da a ne t sd t d. i r s o p r e d c i o n l a ia r r y ly d oc a ca a si p o t ris ed, Their IMPERIAL PEKIN MIXTURE, at 6s. per lb. is a combination of the rarest and most exquisite Black Teas exported from C ca h n in to the taste of Connoisseurs. The following can be confidently recommended ; s. d. Genuine Breakfast Congou 4 0 Strong full-flavoured ditto .. GREEN. Bright-leaf, Hyson kind, fresh and strong 5 0 Fine Hyson, with choice flavour . 6 0 Pearl-leaf Gunpowder 7 6 MIXED. Kong-Kong Mixture By those who prefer Mixed Teas the Company feel confident minced unequalled, for strength and flavour, that this will be p any Pron o unced of' Black and Green Teas that have by been offered to the Public al the Price. .Teas are sold in Catty Packages, in tha The Company's pure state in o which they are imported, in Quarters, Halves , and -- ne Pounds Each Package is sealed wi s tli g th_rs . s Seal, and bears ' the Signature of J. CAs .L 1; Company their London Manager, without which none are gent= • Teas at ss. per lb. and above may be bad in Two Ounce Packets. COFFEES.---In consequence of the numerous applica tions which the Company have received from their Agente• requesting to be supplied with Coffee of a superior clualitY• they have made arrangements to supply the following.de scriptions, which will be found of singularly exquisite, flavour, and will be packed in Lead, in Quarter, Ha lt Pound, and Pound Packets, and sealed, to prevent the possibility of the Aroma escaping. CHOICE MOUNTAIN JAMAICA is. Bd. RICH TURKEY FLAVOUR ...... The following Agents have been duly appointed: Liverpool—J. Brown, 168,1 Dale-street ;J. Banks, 371 Copperas-hill ; Mrs. S. Phillips, 60, Park-street, Toxteth* park ; J. Mason, Bootle. Manchester—Ellerby and Sons, Booksellers, 52, Ma' ket-street ; Champness and Co., 26, Chester-street. Medlock-street, Hulme. Blackpool—J. Bamber, Grocer, &c. Southport—S. Whiteley, Coronation-walk. Burnley—Lord and Whitehead, Grocers, 22, S' James's-street. Bolton—A. S. Hyde, 12, Hulme-street. Bolton-le-Moors—W. Barrow, Tea-dealer, 3, Oxford' Et reet. Rochdale—Holt and Co., Grocers, Toad-lane. Preston—Dixon and Co., 154, Friargate. Leyland—R. Gilchrist, Grocer. Knutsford—J. Williams, Grocer, King-btreet. The Company continue to appoint Agents in thoso Towns where one has not been already appointed, an ail, AGENCY can be carried on with a very small Capital, with but little trouble and no risk, it is worthy the atten tion of respectable Tradesmen, or private Individuals. N.B.—All letters must be addressed " British Hogt• Kong Tea Company, "Little Tower.street. London.