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N!ar 18, 18i5. .—FRANCE. , S TRASBOURG NOTICE AND PARIS RAILWAY, v APIT <IL, 60,000,000 francs, or £2.400.000, in 120,000 Shares of 500 Francs, or £2O each. DEPOSIT, £2 per Share. NO Applications for Shares, in the English Subscep .4 tion List, will b e rece i ve d after FRIDAY next. the J . . di d ay of March in s tant. Up to that time applications l Or Shares may be addressed to the Provisional Committee, llt the office of their Solicitor, George Ogle, Esq., 4, Great Winchester-street, Broad-street, London; and to A .thert THOMAS CHEIV - DSON, Stock and Share Broker, on-buildings, Dale-street Liverpool MARSEILLES AND TOULON RAILWAY DOCK COMPANY. IN consequencs of the Letters of Allotment in the above Undertaking not reaching Liverpool in due course, the tim e for paying the Duosit for this district (into the orth and S ou th Wales Bank) is extended to Tuts DAY, (Tees lay,) the )Bth instant. ,__ T, PARIS AND ST. QUENTIN RAILWAY. DIRECTORS of the PARIS & ST. QUENTIN RAILWAY COMPANY regret, from the number i.f_ A PPlications for Shares exceeding to a very considera -7 extent the amount placed at their disposal, that they Were unable to appropriate any Shares to very numerous Vitt respectable Applicants ; and trust that this notice will 1 ?! considered by all parties to whom no Shares have been !llotted, as an explmation of the course which the D:ree tors were obliged to pursue. CFIAS. GRAHAM and Co., Agents. 20, King's Arms Yard, March 11th, 1845. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. that a SPECIAL of GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS this Company will be held at the London Tavern, d: 4o l)* , eate.-street, London, on THURSDAY, the 10th °Y of April next, at One o'clock precisely, for the pur ire of considering and determining upon a Plan, to be n submitted to them by the Board . gf—Directors, for ratsinß £710,400 (the amount authorited to be borrowed the Company's Acts of Parliament) by the issue of ? 8 ,000 new Shares of £l-1 16s. each, to be appropriated In the proportion of one new Share for each three exist -1:,18 Shares, or sums of Xl4 16s. each, in the Consolidated iltoek of the Company; the Instalments or Calls upon inch new Shares to be payable at such times as shall pro he monies for paying off the existing Debentures, and Loan Nctes of the Company, as the same I' e ctively fall dice. ENRY BOSANQUET, Chairman. ROBERT CROSBIE, Deputy Chairman .__Crees, London Terminus, 15th March, 1815 1 TALIAN and AUSTRIAN RAILWAY COMPANY. ---yrkt. 30,000,000 Florins, Convention equal to ;900,000 sterling, in 60,000 Shares of 500 Florins, k, nriventiun equal to £5O each. ENGLISH DIRECTORS : CHAIRMAN, W JACKSON, Esq., Birkenhead T homas\ l , Alexander. Esq., York-place, P. rtman Bardgett, Esq., Old Broad-street. t i ll i4ni Betts, Esq., Bevis Mount, Southampton. Fechney Black, EA., Bread-street. Boufil, Esq., Suffolk-street. toseph Esq , Liverpool. F rancs William Kennaird Esq., Mary Age 'rincis I. Vanzeller Esq ., St. Mary Axe. $ -square . NKERS : Long o BA —Me De ison Heywood, Kelinards and Co z iv . "Mil—Messrs. Arthur Heywood, Sons and Co. ENGINEER : J. IC. Brunel, Esq,, EN,LISH SOLICITOR: William Bevan, Esq., 6, Old Jewry I,NOTICE IS ERY GIVEN, that he fu losit of Fifteen Shillings per Share, reser t ved by rther the tet'ets of Allotment, must be paid to the respective PankfTs of the Company, on or before the 28th March In stnnt. Payment of this Call is necessary, as the Chairman, ith depatation of the Directors, will proceed to Italy t r i' few days, w i t h f u ll p ower t o c onclude th e negocia °ns with Foreign Governments 131 RMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION RAILWAY, "" A .BRANCH TO STRATFORD-ON-AVON. 'CAPITAL £600,000, in SHARES of X2O each. p ro DEPOSIT £2 PER SHARE. vidionally Registered, pursuant to Act 7 and-S Vie., can. 110 PROVISION AL COMMITTER: L. T. Alston, Esq., Liverpool. W. C• Alston, Esq., Elmdom Hall, near Birmingham. P. Barlow, Esq., London. ""• E. Boyes, Esq., Alkerson, near Banbury. ;Iohll Cr. , ssthwsite, Esq., Liverpool. Rl) bert-on Gladstone, Ksq., Live pool. J• Gardiner, Esq., Southam. Thomas Gulliver,- - Essi.,•Bloxham, near Banbury. J• Haddon, Esq., Leamington. Charles Lawrence, E-q., Liverpool. JWilliam Matthews, E sq., Edgbaston, Birmingham. harl e . M ann, Esq., Leamington. •W. Miles, Esq Bristol. ,lohn Moss, Esq., verpool. Charles Russell, Esq , M.P., London. ;Jtraneis R a if or d, Esq., Bellhmughton, Bzomsgrove. ajor-General Smith, Rugby. H. "Thorne, Esq., Leamington. With power to add to their number. la BANKERS. trr.ningharn—Messrs. Attwood, Spooner, and Co. tibi"ol—Messrs. Miles, Hartord, and Co. -ver "ol—Messrs. Moss and Co. — "'ington and Warwick—The Leamington Priors and arwickshire Banking Company ; the Warwicl, earaington Banking Company. SOLICITOR! -dgto n and Warwick—Messrs. Patterson, Haynes, '3ltid anbury. 41'1°,1—Messrs. W. 0. and W. Hunt, 10, Whitehall. t'bi_ r , l3 ,° ol —Messrs Clay and Swift. "e , Object of ibis undertaking is to establish the ett, b tu ost direct a n d effi c ient r ailw,,y communication th a t lu R h e found b e t ween Bi rm i ng h am an d O x f or d, connect ea-sh' f;,Y the shortest possible route, the whole of the Lan tot,,ke manufacturing districts and seaports with the ( , ) f Engla n d an d it s l ong li ne o f coas t i n th e B r iti s h tu lt i The existing lines afford but a very imperfect ir cuitous communication through London; and it is th e g t tlar that the competing lines of railway now before 0 1:, J ' Pub lic not supply the deficiency, or provide for the e ct Sr e now c6ntemplated. Under these circumstances, teal be be no doubt that this railway will confer essen `l N . : I MB on th e di s t r i c t s th roug h w hi c h it i s i n t en d e d c las s - ( .7 4 ' us well as on the commercial and industrious tait -B .Pr the North ; and a very cursory inspection of the I . l ,ibi at w e !, ll satisfy th e i nqu i rer th a t th e li ne i s so p ecu l iar ly Lar o „' as to c omman d an unusua lly l arge amoun t of I lre " In traffic, i n d e p en dent of its local resources, which Itvery great. Claf t , e r" ,nont fail to be obseved that the NA; Junction will save r s considerable dist.— !rid t.:°wards the coast, besides:-furnishing to We.. tse mit, e traffic between those places and Oxford, ic elle g' &c., while the cheapness of construction and loveguc? of the g r a di ents w ill ena ble th e co m pany to wuld P d sseogers and at very low rates sanh ;414,4ct remunerate an n expensive line, but which ar "titti r - "'d to afford an ample return for the small capit •{1 1 :d for this undertaking,. ltP r4 nd ' r ail way w commence by a connection with ae,,7tinciirn Railway at Birmingham, and procee - t ill' a straight line by Warwick and Leaingt %orriut'e intended -Oxford and Rugby line n near Ferry —zford": w'll thuhse T entire distance from Birmingham to beitbont 62 miles. :t .17 Strat ford-on-Avon branch will join the main line t 0 4 ;: t i CI( or Leamington. From Stratford-on-Avon tc'slinDl`°ll4ll-the-Marsh, by the impravement of the v ;, °ll fr,7„ n illway a distance of 14 miles, the communica 01Ple,e t 'uvent ' r • Warwick, and Leaminton, will be to the (LO N, Worcester, and Wo g lverhampton It e t4. l lir ie ( Pdently believed that this extension of the Lea°,,,t!le Grand Junction Railway at Birmingham, Birmingham and g St --Loington and Warwick in its course, will furnish I, ll tl tie:43:lk c orroborative proof of the public importance I: the e d s itY of the Oxford and Rugby line, now i promoted Ith. l :arl',,, re at Western Company, as to ensure its success Co - "-te l lb —e nt• If the broad guage should be adopted, Vltea l ,• e nts have been made with the Great Western tf t itni tl 4' to run dispatch trains between London and tin e, at f ar n in less than three hours—und also to pc:o eLa of ,t'vir rates means for conveyance of every descrip -rut Ir a % Ik e, or c• whether of passengers, carriages, horses, 1 „ . oke rnerehandize and minerals. qeure-rrovisional Committee, however, promote this N I it a t S "e of great national importance, thesend do not i ttve u‘ibe contingent in any degree on uccess or of 'aid ed : - "e Oxford and Rugby Railway, but they will tVi,j / . 4 ltr 4 l4 „ e ltha final selection of the line, in the principle tvte -t lee - `,_ 1(111 . and in the mode of working it, by the l'arli °ll ,ll ti v e k teh shall be adduced clueing the present N e l l : aie ftt by the result of the applications now before 'he -t 'ene e ' as far as they may appear consistent with the ItlYaftol_Bllll to be obtained on the relative merits of , 4 14179 u. agli` e ,`! 012 15 , add, in conclusion, that if the Oxford 0 10,14 e, l 'toe is successful, the capital of .£600,000 will het illetill ee ti r l ! th e couutry has been carefully examined. l'frourh d ifficukties exist, and there will be no tun ,ve tl th 7 qt, l d e , e fere ver u Interests affected by the proposed Rail „A," ete xt 1, favourable and the bill will be applied for qtoilieati S ession of l'lrliament. ilasti4na for Shares may be made, on or before the t l k ! rOtri f ,„: to the Secretary at the temporary offices of -14 e No 449 W t ' Strand London, or to any p r i"ision c Re ferences 4,, MI ...Ver k a Committee . to Bankers a3 ou otv4 t vhere the parties applying for Shares are 1511? VY of the Committee of Management.— ' l arch. 1845. To 1 4e PO f , eon,„..„RM OP APPLICATION. st,"N,,Qhc/ nee of Management of the Birmingham igtt 'ter. ''''ford Junction Railway Company. 7o m es ~ -scri,,_, yepl 4 - ' •t2O ' re.quest that you will allot to me tt r , eti o4 :Te . ll in the proposed Birmingham and 01- t T tit Of th nadway Company, on the terms and con it,(slt2e Proprietors and undertake to pay the "PY d ee( Z . n eaeh share alloted to me, and to sign the 11, 4, When required. -1,1 ''' the place of abode . day of , 1845, PROSPECTUS OF THE INVERNESS AND ELGIN RAILWAY, Passing through the Towns of Nai , n and Forres, with Branches to Findhorn, and Lossiemouth or Burghead. i AL, £300,000, IN SHARES OF £2O EACH DEPOSIT, £1 PER SHARE. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE CAPP' The Provost of Inverness The Provost of Elgin The Provost of Nairn The Provost of Crornarty Andrew Belford, Esq., of Glenfintaig Donald Cameron, Esq., of Lochiel Sir Duncan Cameron, of Fassfern, Bart. Arihur Cant, Esq., of Millfield Alexander Cumming, Esq., Merchant, Inverness Duncan Davidson, Esq., of Tulloch Patrick Dewar, E- B ' -sq., ,anker, Nairn A nson, Esq., Wine Merchant, Inverness le, Esq., Wester Lovat Esq., Brackla. Simon Fraser, Esq., Merchant, Inverness E. S. Gordon, ESQ., Advocate, Edinburgh General W. A. Gordon, of Lochdu, C.B. Donald Grant, Esq., Dean of Guild, Inverness Patrick Grant, Esq., County and Sheriff-Clerk of Inver ness-shire John Fe George Fra Robert Fra Thomas Houstoun. Esq., Kintradwell Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, of Grange and fountainhall, Bart John M`Ewen, Esq.. Merchant, Inverness Neil M`Lean, Esq., Factor on the Estates of Kilravocb, Cantray, &c. Cluny Macpherson, of Cluny Macpherson Major M' Pherson, of Glentruim Major D. M'Pberson, Inverness James Macgregor, Esq., Factor for Lord Abinger and others Dr. John M'Kenzie, Kinellan, Commissioner br Sir Kfrineth Mackenzie, of Gairloch, Bart., and for Colonel Hugh Baillie, of Itedcastle, M.P. William .Macket , zie, Esq., of Aluirtown Mackintosh, of Mackintosh William Mackintosh, Esq., of Geddes, Convener of the County of Nairn George Mackintosh, Esq., yr., of Geddes John Mackintosh, Esq., Wood Merchant, Nairn Colonel D. Macpherson, Burgle House John Malcolm, Esq., Senior Bailie, Nairn David Monro, Esq . of Allan Archibald Hill Rennie, Esq., of Ballilisk Arthur J. Robertson, Esq., of Inches Bailie D. Rose, invern,A Hugh Ross, Esq., of Cromarry John Bethune Ross. Esq., Advocate, Edinburgh Colonel John Gray Ross, of Strathgarve John Ross, Esq., Berbice Cottage, Inverness William Simpson, Esq., Merchant, Inverness Andrew Smith, Esq.. Senior Bailie, Inverness Captain J. Stewart, of Lesmurdic Charles Waterston, Esq., Manager Caledonian Bata Inverness With power to add to their number.) ACTING ENGINEER. Joseph Mitchell, Esq., F.R.S.E. BANKERS. The Caledonian Bank, Inverness, and its Branches The Union Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh Ditto Ditto, Glasgow Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, Tritton, and Co., London Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, Liverpool SOLICITORS. Messrs. Martin and Ross, Edinburgh Messrs. G. and P. Anderson, and Charles Stewart, Esq., Inverness. TN submitting toThe Public a scheme for the 'construe '. construc tion of a Railway along the south shore of the Moray Firth, and connecting the towns of Inverness, Nairn, Forres, and Elgin, the Committee consider that there is no situation in Scotland which affords a more certain prospect of profi'atke investment. Toe country through which it passes is nearly a perfect level. The length of the line, with the branches to the ports, is 444 miles. The main line passes from Inverness to Elgin, thr,ingh the towns of Nairn and Forres. The whole adjacent district is rich and fertile, and contains a large and thriving populati ,, n. It includes ten of the most important market towns of the north of Scotland, in which at least 50 considerable markets are annually held. Within this district also, and branching off to the south of the main line, lie the fertile valleys of the Spey,Find horn, and Nairn, and the Great Glen of Scotland, be tween which and the different towns along the line, and the sea-ports, there is an extensive and daily-increasing intereacrse. This district is so situated, that all the main highways from the north and west, including' those by the ferries of Kessoek and Fort George, centre upon it. Besides the ports ofiriverness, Nairn,.Findhorn, Burghead and Los siemouth, it comprises the ba-ins and quays of the Cale doniateCanal, and the military station of Fort George. Along the main line from Inverness to Elgin, besides a large passenger traffic by posting and private conveyances, there are eight daily coaches (tour each way.) The traffic must be greatly increased when a more rapid communica tion is opened up between the termiui and the intermedi ate towns and villages. Another and large additional traffic will he brought upon the line by the London, Leith and Aberdeen steamers, which call at Lessiemonth and Burghead, landing their passengers for Inverness, Nait n, and the country beyond, at either of these ports, instead of taking them, as at pre sent, by the circuitous route to Invergordon, where the are detained for several , hours 1 he line will also afford great additional facilities to the trade which has hitherto been carried on by a steamer and sailing vessels plying between the Moray and Nairnshire coast and the Little Ferry in Sutherlandshire, as, on the opening of the railway, regular and efficient steam com munication between these points and others on the Suther land and Caithness coasts, will necessarily be established. By these arrangements, in addition to the existing traffic by land, and that carried on by steamers to Inverness, the greater part of the traffic, both in goods and passengers, from Inverness to Sutherland and Caithness, will be brought along the line _ _ _ _ The inquiries into the traffic, which have been careful made, shew the following results : The annual number of Passengers of all sorts, and doubling those by Coacb and other con veyances, between Inverness and Elgin, and the towns along the line, according to the Parliamentary Rules, amount to fii,,640, which, at the average of 4s. for each pas seiner, yields . For Mails and small Parcels, &c. . The probable Revenue arising from the trans- £17,528 0 0 2,024 0 0 port-of Carriages, Gigs, Horses, Dogs, .&( taken at an average of only three per cent on the Passenger Traffic, the per centage usually taken in similar lines being five, yields.... Cattle and Sheep General Merchandise, Heavy Goods, includ ing Stone from the Quarries in Morayshire and Nairnshire to the west, Timber, Farm Produce, Coals, Manures, Fish, Spirits, &c. 7,500 0 0 Goods Traffic on the Branches...... Passenger Traffic on Ditto ..... 525 0 0 600 0 0 31,145 0 0 The engi ering war 'rem the unusual) level nature of the country, and its passing aver a light gravelly soil, are of a very simple character. There are els or viaducts, and the country abounds in all the s, with the exception of iron, necessary for the construction of a railway. no tunne ance for working expenses, and assuming one third of the capital to be borrowed, according to the ordinary practice of railway companies, at the usual rate of interest,.abews a clear return of upwards of eight per cent. _ It is proposed, line orrails, with t in the first place, to lay down a single he usual passing places, until the traffic developed. The bridges are, however, shall be n purchasrid Besides the advantages above enumerated, arising from the local traffic, there are other and-important sources of of the line will connect with t originally cost £1,000,000, and on the improvement of which £200,000 are now in the course of being expended by Government. These improvements, which will he completed before the Railway comes into operation, will greatly increase the navigation, both of steamers and two steamers ply to ice a-weelc, while a large and powerful steamer is to be placed, on the opening of the Canal, in the direct Liverpool trade. The whole of this extensive traffic from Glasgow, Liverpool, &c., towards the couties of Banff, Nairn and Moray, west necessarily pass along the proposed Railway. On the other hanii, towards the east, the line will be continued by the contemplated railway from Elgin to Aberdeen,—thus connecting all the towns and manufac turing districts on the west of England and Scotland, through the Caledonian Canal, with the rich agricultural country to the east of Elgin, and onwards to the city of Aberdeen, and other towns on the east coast of Scotland. Besides conctituting an important link in the direct east and west communication of this part of the kingdom, the present railway must of necessity form the northern out let of the contemplated great direct Central liailway from Perth to Inverness, in continuation of the Scottish Cen tral and Caledonian Railways, thus completing the short est possible line between England and the southern coun ties of Scotland and the north ; and, iron, its position in this respect, the Inverness and Elgin Railway will become the channel through which will flow the whole traffic be tween the north and south. The Capital will be divided into 15,000 shares of £2O each. The parliamentary deposit of five per cent to he paid upon the shares being allotted, and the Subscribers to sign the Parliamentary Contract and S u b scr ib er ' ag reement, when required. Power will be taken to pay interest at four per cent. on the amount of the subscription paid up till the line is opened, and no Subscriber shall be answerable for more than the amount of his subscription. Applications for Shares to he made, in the form an nexed, to Messrs. G. and P. A NDERSON , S o li c it ors , an d Mr. CHARLES STEWART, Solicitor, Inverness, the Inte rim Joint Secietare , ; to Messrs. MARTIN and Ross, 37, Castle-street. Edioburgli ; Messrs. EDWARD WCALLUM and COMPANY, StockbrAers, and Mr. WILLIAM CLEL LAND, Stockbroker, Edin , mgh; Mr. JAMES GRANT, Writer, and Mr. GEORGE GATHERER, Writer, Agents at Elgin; Mr. WILLIAM SCI ANDERS, Writer, A gen t a t Forres ; Mr. ADAM DAVIDSON, T own-Clerk, Agent at Nairn ; Nlessis. SETON 3tld REID, Sharebrokers, Glas. gow : Mr. J. OLIPIIANT, Shan-broker, Perth ; Messrs. s nnfi enur ANY, Sharebrokers, Aber- • deen ; Me srs. SCOTT, CAnTnottN, tu , d Throgniort9n-street, LondoP ; Mr. J. B. ti COTT, No. 16, MAY, Share. THE LIVERPOOL STAN DAR!) broker, and Messrs. FRASER and TAYLEUR, Sharebro kers, Liverpool; Mr. HENRY WODEHOHRE, Sharebro ker, Manchester; Messrs. GRAYSTON and EARLE, Sharebrokers, York ; and Mr. JONATHAN DREWRY, Sharebroker, Newcastle. (FORM OF APPLICATION.) TO TILE PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE INVERNESS AND ELGIN RAILWAY. G ENTLEMEN,-I request you will allot me Shares, of £2O each, in this undertdking, and I agree to accept the same, or any smaller number that may be al lotted to me, to pay the deposit thereon, and sign the Par liamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement, when required._ I am, Gentlemen, ,ur obedient servant, Profession Address N.B.—Early application is necessary, as the amount of applications received in Edinburgh alone, on Satur day the 15th, being the first day on which the above Prospectus was before the Public, exceeded the capital required. THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Registered provisionally pursuant to 7 and 8 Vict. c. 110 CAPITAL £2,000,000, in 100,000 SHARES of £2O each PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. JAMES LAWRENCE, Esq., Mayor. Josias Booker, Esq. Henry Killick, Esq. H. J. Sanderson, Esq. R. Broadhurst Hill, Esq. Charles Turner, Esq. Francis Maxwell, Esq. Edmund I'lolyneux, Esq. .A. Sinclair, Esq. T. B. Horsfall, Esq. " Thos. Lee, Esq. James Pownall, Esq. ' William Blain, Esq. William Jones, Esq. Richard Harbord, Esq. Geo. J. Wainwright, Esq. David Cannon, Esq. Thomas Bauch, Esq. Robert M'Andrew, Esq. Henry Moore, Esq. Thomas Dover, Esq. R. S. Henderson, Esq. Samuel Holme, Esq. THE advantages derivable to a commercial and popu lous Town like Liverpool, from the establishment of an Insurance Company composed of an extensive local Proprietary mutually interested iu its welfare and suc cess, will be readily understood and appreciated by the Public without comment, especially at the present time. For this object, and to meet the increasing demands and the wishes of a large and influential body of Merchants, Brokers, and Owners of Property in the Town of Liver pool and Neighbourhnod, it is proposed to found a JOINT-STOCK FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION, under the provisions of the recent Act of Parliament for the regulation of Joint-Stock Companies. A Deed of Settlement of the Company will be prepared, embracing all needful and necvssary clauses in connection with that Act, to secure as well the permanent interests of the Proprietors as of the Public. The Act of Parliament for the registration of Insurance Companies does not allow more than Ten Shillings for One Hundred Pounds of Capital to be called until the full registration of the Company. A Deposit, therefore, of Two Shillings per Share can only be received on the allotment ; a Call of Eighteen Shillings p' r Share will be made on the complete registration of the Company, and a further Call of One Pound at the expiration of two months. Persons desirous of becoming Subscribers will please apply, by letter, to Mr. Booxrß, Solicitor, 46, Castle street, Liverpool. A preference will be given to parties effecting insu rances w ith the Company. FORM OF APPLICATION To THE PROVISIONAL MANAGING DIRECTORS GE THE ROYAL INSIJRANCE'COMPANY I request -you wi'l allot me Shares in the Royal Insurance Company, and I undertake to accept that or any less number, pay the Deposit thereon, and execute the Deed of Settlement when required. Dated this day of March, '1..845. Profession or Business Residence 11010ANK OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA, -EP Incorporated by Royal Charter, (paid-up Capital £1,000;000,) 7, St. Helen's- place, Bishopsgate-street, London. March 7, 1845. This B,nk GRANTS 'CREDITS on its Branches at HAMILTON, TORONTO. KINGSTON. MONT REAL. and QUEBEC, in CAN %DA ; at ST. JOHN and FREDERICTON, in NEW BRUNSWICK; at HA LIFAX, in NOVA SCOTIA; and at ST. JOHN'S. in NEWFOUNDLAND; also upon its Agents in NEW YORIC, Messrs. RICHARD BELL. WM. MC. LACHLAN. and HENRY EDWARD RA:Nsors.--:on receipt of the amount at the London Office; and the credits are psid on presenta tion, together with the current premium of exchange on bills at the customary usance without any charge. Similar Credits on the Branches and Agents of 'this Bank are granted at all the branches of the Provincial Bank of Ireland, of the National Bank of Scotland, and of the Manchester and Liverpool DiArict Bank. Bills on the Colonies and United States are negotiated. Dividends on Stock, payable in th e Colonies 01-United States, are received, and other descriptions of Banking Agency are transacted, on terms which may be'known on application, addressed to the Secretary. G. DE BOSCO ATTWOOD, Sec. IRISH DISAFFECTION VERSUS ORANGE LOYALTY AND OBEDIENCE. For the last two years it has been the anxious and very proper wish of the authorities of this town that those ab• surd processions, which had been customary for the cele bration of days held as festivals or anniversaries of differ ent parties, shoull be laid aside as useless and, in some cases, provocative of the disturbance of the pubic peace. Last year, and previously for ten years past, the Orange Society celebrated their anniversary of the 12th of July without any such public display, as did the shiprights, the Welsh societies and most of the benefit societies. In consideration of so general an obedience to the wishes of the authorities, it was hoped the Irish Soci tes would imitate the goA example set them. Such a course was fully anticipated and hoped for by the authorities, who took every p sins to communicate with the leaders of the societies in cinesicn, and to prevail upon them to acqui esce in their wishes. It was in vain, however. On Saturday morning the walls of the town were covered with staring green pla cards, announcing the order and route of the intended procession, which was to start from Williamson-square, and perambulate the town ; and notwithstanding the pub lication of a notice by the mayor and bench that such procession was calculated to endanger the peace of the town, a ragged procession, with the usual inflammatory awl exciting banners was fo , med yesterday, and peram bulated the principal streets. Not content with this dis play, parties of drunken ruffians were to be seen driving about in carts and cars or staggering on foot, waving green ribbons and fl igs, singing party songs, and evidently courting a fray. Up to the hour of going to press, however, we are glad to find t hat in such object they have not succeed ed. To the credit of our Protestant population, these Efforts have been despised, and those by whom they have bee n male h we only earned public contempt:for their pains. We may mention, as a disgrace to the sex, that the most turbulent of the Irish party during the day have been the women! Whilst upon this subject we may notice a more than usually brazen remark of the Mercury on Friday. He, good candid man, called upon the Irish papists to obey the authorities, and thus "set an example to the Orange na n." When did toe Orangemen need an example ? When did they walk in procession, against the expressed wishes of the authorities of the town? Do tell us, most truthful scribe! THE CHASE. The CHESHIRE HOUNDS will meet on Tuesday, March 18, Waigherton-lodge, Doddington Wednesday, 19, at Cholmondeley Thursday, 20, at Wrenbury Village Saturday, 22, at At a Quarter to Eieren o'clock. Sir W. W. WYNN'S HOUNDS will meet on Tuesday, March 18, at 'I hursday, 20. at . Nesscliffe Saturday, 22, at. At Hitlf-past Ten o'clock. CORRESPONDENCE. ST. PATRICK'S DAY , TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SIR,--1 have just seen the procession, and a most mi serable failure it certainly was. Instead of walking the public streets, in defiance of the magistrates, as they pla carded, they were skulking along Great Homer-street as fast as they could walk, apparently afraid of exhibiting their weakness. There was no Father Wilcox with the ivy bush over his head—no children with painted sticks— and no Langan in top boots. I counted the rows, and they amounted to 86 two abreast, or 172 in all. They had five bands and seven banners. I was amused to see how the Liverpool repealers had served out Dan fitr rubbing their names off the rebel list at the Corn Exchange. They paraded the flag with O'Connell's effigy, and not a man walked behind it! Another flag. with the rebel S,rsfield, followed after the space behind the Liberator's. Serve him right. Had one'hundred Orangemen been walking into town, I verily believe the procession (!) would have been non est, and I think they would not have waited to carry their flags I am, sir, yours. &c., J. Liverpool, 10 o'clock, lith March, 1845. THE MERCURY AND Tiri. IRISH PROCESSION TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD SIR,—I should scarcely be surprised at anything that appears in the columns of the Mercury, but as that paper, lam sorry - to say, has so large a circulation, on account of its advertisements, among Protestants in the country, I am afraid that many are liable to allow themselves to he misled by the shameless falsehoods that so often disgrace that paper. In a paragraph, yesterday, alluding to the meeting of magistr •tes, who, I have been informed, are determined to take active measures to prevent the procession intended to take place on Monday, he says, "that if they, the Irish sqcieties (who, by the bye, Father Hearne, of Manches ter, tells us are all ribbon associations) were determined to walk in procession, it would give an excuse to other so cieties to do the same, and that the peace of the town would then be endangered." de should have gone a little further, and explained how, and by whom, the peace of the town would be broken. There is no mistaking what societies the writer of that paragraph bad in view, and I need not go further back than the 12th July last, when the members of the Orange societies were assailed in St. John's Church yard, as they were returning from the house of God, to show who are the invariable disturbers of the peace of this town. If the scribe had been guilty of common honesty he would have written thus :—" Let us hope that Irish Catholics will follow the excellent example set them for years by the Irish and English Orangemen, and abstain from any de monstration on St. Patrick's Day:" There would be something like truth in such a statement. His way of stating it may suit the tastes of some of his-readers, and may mislead proper-thinking ; people at a distance, but among respectable people, the high eulogiums of the ma gistrates on the perfect obedience of the Orangemen of this town to their wishes is of itself sufficient to show that they are not the body of men to disturb the peace of the town. We gave up our procession as soon as the magis trates expressed a wish that we should do so ; and al though in Protestant Liverpool it may be galling to many of us that strangers shall be allowed to c irry•their sediti• ous and disloyal banners before us, we will again cheer fully yield to the wishes of the authorities, and abstain from any procession in Liverpool on our next anniversary. I trust, as has been much spoken of, we shall have a cen tral meeting on that day at Newton. where we shall be joined by many thousands of our brethren from all parts of the kingdom, ard have a demonstration worthy of us and our holy c Trusting you will find a corner for this in your valuable paper, I remain, yours, truly, AN ORANGEMAN, Liverpool, Saturday Evening, STOCK EXCHANGE SETTLING DAYS TO THE .EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—No one can be more alive than myself to the defects and inconveniences of the old system of stock settlements in the Share Market. No one has experi enced those inconveniences more than I have. No one has more need than I to wish for renovation and remedy. But though I earnestly wished a remedy, yet it behoves men to see that the remedy be not worse than the disease. That the system of settling days is such a remedy, I am not going to say: nay, it is such a remedy that I looked and hoped for. But, sir, the mode of administering that remedy is what I complain of. Theincidental rules mixed with the salutary semedy are what I would have altered or expunged. And first, sir, the mode in which the rules are drawn up is calculated to excite notice in animadverting upon the system, and they cannot fail but tickle our risible powers, and arouse some ridicule. The evident aiming at law phraseology evinced in the drawing of them up, and the bungling failure, is fully calculated to make a reader laugh. The straining of the sentences—the elon gating of the phrases to attain this (seemingly to the compilers) important end—is truly laughable : but, as will ever be the case with the attempt at what is beyond the capabilities of the compilers, they have fallen short of mediocrity, and the rules are shrouded in the utmost ob scurity. I have been at them often till midnight, but such is their confusion of terms and mystery of language, that they are such a confused medley of heterogeneous incon - iprehensibles, that I could make neither " top nor tail of them." What sage reasons the Liverpool Stock Exchange had for the selection of these learned compilers, I know not ; but in charity I am led to suppose that out of so many they could have chosen clearer heads than they have been pleased to appoint. Whether the compilers still look on the result of their laborious lucubrations (for, to do them justice, they bear evident marks of distressed labour), I cannot tell, but should hope not, for the credit of their own modesty. I can conceive that if we had another Pope to write another " Dunciad," these "dull" results of their heads and pens would be or are fully calculated to secure them the envious immortality of a place in its satirical and exquisite pages ; at all events they shall have the honour of the application of the ancient Dunciad if Pope does not rise from his grave to write a no th er , f o r I cannot conceive the following more happily applied than to the said dull compilers that Pope wrote for the dunces of his day : _ _ _ "Sinking from thought to thought —a vast profound-- Plunged for their sense, but found no bottom there; Yet wrote, and floundered on in mere despair." But I'll have done with the skill displayed in compiling, and only say that I will no longer trouble myself with these dull and obscure offsprings of misty brains, nor any more Dim the eyes and stuff the head With all such reading as was never read." Now to the obnoxious principle of th e s y s t em — w hi c h, as a whole, I greatly admire ; and first as to the payment of differences. The . law on this point I consider exces sively harsh and unjust, and your readers, when they hear the law expounded, will scarcely believe me.. This law enacts—(for I suppose we must speak legally and in law phraseology when dealing with laws emanating from so p , ofoundly legal a body, as these rates prove them if not to be in reality, to wish to be thought s•, at least) — that if stock sold to a broker should rise in value, and that broker should take the turn of the market, the original seller would have to pay the difference between the price he sold and the price at which the said stock was ulti iw,tely sold! For instance, suppose A were to sell to B 100 shares in the Eastern Counties Railway at £l7, B were to sell to C the said 100 at £2l. A though having to receive •he money ultimately for his stock would have to pay before he could receive hie payment from the ultimate Luker Op difference between £l7 and £2l, viz. £4OOl Now, sir, the system was established to facilitate specula tion, and to obviate the inconvenience that used to pre vail, viz., of a dozen or two parties going all at once to settle in the same transaction. It is perfectly right that the differences should be settled in this way, but ',hat I complain of is, that the broker or principal, though having to receive money, should be compelled to advance these four hundreds and thousands of pounds. What! when I have to receive £l7OO for my sioek, the broker to come to me and say—" Sir, I must have the difference between the price these shares were sold at, and the £2l too," I should stare ! It would be most natural to say— " ir, you ought rather to make me some compensation for selling my shares at so low a price than call upon me , o advance £lOO out of my own pocket, and risk the chance of getting it back." This course will not do, and if some alteration is not made, settling days will be done away with altogether, which I for one, should exceedingly reeret. But sir, it is fitting I should propose a remedy having discovered the disease, and I earnestly conjure the Liverpool Stock Exchange to sincerely digest and discuss. There are nine days in . which stock has to be delivered ; and, sir, instead of the day for payment of differences, called the "settling day," being the day after the account, I should propose that it be the real settling day, namely, this ninth. Then, instead of a broker lying out of his differences (which often amount to £4.000 with some brokers) till the payment for his stock, for which he is allowed nine days, he should pay the difference when he has got, or has had the opportunity to get, the payment for his stock. This is roost reasonable : the present plan is most absurd, unreasonable, and unjust. I pay my difference without any security for its repayment. I ac tually advance it for nine days. I lend it for other per sons' convenience: and whilst I might be making some thing with it, it is out—gone ' • thus risking its repayment, losing bank commission, and any chance cf devoting it in the meantime to another purpose, for which I may have previously intended it. But, sir, if this remedy suits not, I will offer another—which is, that the ultimate buyer of stock pay this difference, and pay so much less after for the stock. This, as regards the chance of losing the difference, is as odious as the other perhaps; and therefore I should propose the first and reasonable re medy. The plan at present in operation is most unjust and ab surd. There are weak individuals in every business, who are more worthy than even the stronger; and how unjust that their very existence in the Stock Exchange is jeopar dised ! For, sir, if that difference be not paid the very day after the broker knows he is liable, which knowledge is communicated to him by means of difference tickets on the " account day," and the money must he lodged in the inspector's hands before welve o'clock next morning, that functionary is compelled to declare him a defaulter, and he is posted as no Inneer a member of that room. The porter of the Stock Exchange would be ordered to give him a tap, more fatal even than the tipstaff's, and to inform him that he is NO LONGER A MEMBER OF THE LIVERPOOL STOCK EXCHANGE' I The honourable, ho nest, but unfortunate broker goes sadly to his home, Ind tells his family that he is a ruin , d man! I cannot hut b-ok on this system of the payment of differences before the broker can procure payment for his stock, as a dis creditable, unjust, and paltry attempt: of the strong bro kers to get rid of the weak. I call upon the Liverpool Stock Exchange, in justice to itself, to remove themselves from under the suspicion, and, in justice to the weak but honourable members (who have despised extortion and double commissions) of the respectable body, to repeal the present unjust law, and if not to adopt, to pay serious attention to, the remedy I humbly propose. I also earnestly hope that you. sir, with the same ends in view, and convinced of this evident injustice, will give a place in your valuable columns (which I have chosen for their respectability and circulation) to this short and hasty attempt to suggest a remedy. of. Sir, your constant reader, NON-FACTOR. have more remarks to make on these rules, but shall defer them. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. 14 'o. Prince's-street, Grange-lane. Birkenhead, March 5, 1845. Sits,—Will you favonr me by publishing the following statement in your paper : I opened ar, establishment for the education of young ladies, in Birkenhead, at the close of the last vacation with a fair prospect of success. Judge, then, my dismay on finding that a report was in circulation, and generally (mining credence, that my hus band (who has been reduced to a state of extreme debility, both of mind and body, from the effects of an apoplectic troke) was insane, and therefore dangerous as an inmate where children, particularly boarders, were received. As I at once perceived how injurious to my school such a report must prove if uncontradicted, I felt it to be a duty I owed to my family (however painful to my own feelings) to give proofs of the utter groundlessness of such an as sertion. For this purpose I applied to Mr. Jobn Cooper (who had visited our family in his medical capacity for years, and attended Mr. Richards at the time he had the stroke) for his candid opinion. I subjoin a c py of his answer. All I have further to add is, that I trust no Christian parents will deem me less worthy of being en trusted with the care and instruction of their children, for humbly endeavouring to fulfil that whicil I believe to be my bounden duty as a Christian by attending to the com forts of a being whose helpless state only gives him an ad ditional claim on my care and attention. 1 remain, Sir, your obedient servants LETITIA RICHARDS. A copy of Mr. John Cooper's statement, as addressed to me. L. RICHARDS. " DEAR MADAM,—Scarcely any thing could surprise n.e more than that such a report as you speak of regard ing Mr. Richards state of mind should have prevailed. Mr. Richards' friends know that he has had an apoplectic stroke, and they must be aware that at present he is ex tremely weak in body, and Liat consequently his mental powers are feeble too. So far from his being a dangerous inmate of any house, I can most unhesitatingly certify that a human being more harmless does not exist.• With most sincere wishes for every success in your present un dertaking, " I am, Madam, yours, respectfully, "JOHN COOPER, Surgeon " Bedford street North, Liverpool, February 20, 1845." LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. The following is an abstract of a paper entitled " An Analysis of Dr. Pritchard's researches into the Physical History of the Indo-European Group of Nations," which was read by Dr. Turnbull, before the Literary and Philo sophical Society, at their meeting on Monday night. The learned and profound work by Dr. Pritchard, en titled " Researches into the Physical History of Man kind," has added much to the extent and accuracy of our knowledge of the department of natural history of which it treats; and it has shown by induction from closely ex amined facts, that the operation of physical agents, such as depend upon diversity of climate, has much more effect in inducing varieties in the physical characters of men than has been generally admitted. The great object kept in view by Dr. Pritchard has been the determining as to whether there be one or more species of men, for which purpose he has adopted two modes of investigation —one, the analogical, involves every consideration founded on physiology, or the laws of the animal economy ; the other, the historical or ethnographical, comprises a survey of the different tribes of men, and an investigation of their phy sical history. His observations upon the tribes which collectively form the population of Europe and Asia, have led him to dis tribute them into the three following groups and families : Firer group—the Syro-Arahian race. This has also been designated by other writers the Semeitic or Shemitic race. Second group—the Indo-European or Iranian nations. In the examination of the nations of this group, it has been found that an affinity may be traced between their lan guages, which may all be referred to two closely-allied branches : to the one, the Median or northern branch, belong more especially the Persian and Germanic lan guages; to the other, the southern, the Sanskrit and the classic languages of Greece and Italy. The third division constitutes the - Allophyl;an races, the different groups of which, including the Turanian nations of Asia and some tribes in Spain and the north of Europe, are all aliens to the stock and lineage of the Indo-Euro pean races. In the examination of the Celtic race, it was shown that the languages of the various tribes differed from each other but slightly, and that the names of places resembled each other in Gaul, Belgic, as well as Celtic. in Spain, Nori cum, Pannonia, and in the parts of Britain inhabited by the aborigines, as well as those occupied by Belgic tribes. In regard to the origin of the Irish Celts, or Gaelic, one of two suppositions must be adopted : that the Gael were an earlier wave of population, which passed over Britain before it was occupied by the proper British race ; or that the Gaelic and Welsh, being descendants of the same stock, the diversity in the languages originated subse quent to the colonization of Britain and Ireland. In re ference to the physical characters of the Gauls, it was ob served that, whilst they are universally described by the ancients as tall, fair, yellow-haired people, their descen dants ate by no means generally so, and a similar obser vation was made in regard to the Germans. The other tribes, which were described as belonging to the Indo-European group, were the ancient inhabitants of Italy, the Slavonian nations of the east of Europe, includ ing the Russians, Poles, &c., the old Prussian or Lithu • anian people, the Greeks, the Persians, the Affghans, the llindoos, and the Armenians. Of the Hindoos, whose languages are derived from the Sanskrit, it was observed that they had come at a very early period into Hindustan from some part west of the Indus, and that they bad afterwards spread themselves over the southern peninsula, though the languages of the primitive inhabitants still maintain their ground in the south-eastern part of the Dekkan. In conclusion it was stated that traces of two series of events can be recognized : one being the dispersion over an immense space of the nations which belong to the Judo- European stock from some common centre ; the other a succession of migrations which must have preceded the former by many ages. The era of the dispersion of the Indo-European nations must have preceded by many ages the commencement of European history and perhaps of all contemporary records. The period, for instance, must have been very remote when the idioms of the Hindoos, the Medes and Persians, the Greeks and Latins, the Letts and Slaves, the Goths and Germans, the Britons and the Gael, began assume their pecul'ar characters, or were first developed from common elements. The original seat of the whole race may be conjectured with a probability of near approximation t o th e trut h . T oe pr i m itive position of the Indo-European tribes must have been some coun try batvrevn the extreme points of their dispersion. It is generally imagikied to have been within the ancient Ira nian empire. THE MAYNOOTH GRANT. The Rev. Hugh M`Neile has published the following letter to Lord Bandon, which the reverend gentleman has addressed to his lordship in consequence of bis lordship's reply to the resolutions of the Orange body, deprecating an increased grant to the College of Maynooth. Liverpool, 14th March, 1845 " MY LORII3,—I have just seen in the public papers a letter from your lordship. addressed to some of your con stituents in this town, on the-subject of the proposed ad ditional grant of public motiey for the support and en largement of the Roman Catholic College of Maynooth. After expressing your regret to find yourself at variance on such a subject with a most respectable body of your constituents, you say, in justification of that•variance, that you feel " the institution is ore the support of which can not, under all the circumstances, be abandoned by the state." Comparing this with the report of your lordship's speech on the subject in the I'ouse of Commons, at the commencement of the present session, I am led to the conclusion that, in . your lordship's deliberate judgment, the state is pledged by some contract to the continued maintenance of that seminary. These circumstances— their importance, and their direct bearing on the religious character of the country will, I trust, render further apo logy unnecessary for this public address from one of your lordship's clerical constituents. In the present state of my information on the subject,-I fed that opposition to the proposed measure (however practically insignificant that opposition may be) is a duty of so sacred a character as to outweigh both my earnest desire to be quiet in my own sphere of action, and my sin cere repugnance to do or say anything against an admi nistration to which the country is in temporal things (so far as I am capable of forming an opinion) so• singularly indebted. But when I reflect upon the vastly superior opportuni- ties for accurate information in detail, possessed by your )rdship, feel that what I now consider a sacred duty may possibly be a mistake ; and therefore 1 take the liberty (which I trust you %sill kindly excuse) to request, with all respectful earnestness, that you will have the goodness to inform me when the public faith this matter was pledged, and where an authentic record of it may be found. vocfttes and opponents in Sir Arthur Wellesley on J presen it is easy one side, and Mr. Grattan on the other; to quote Sir j. Newport arid Sir H. Parnell against Mr. Wilberforce and Mr Secretary Ryder; And much in the way of impression 'ercival's admission—which, how ever, his son limits, and with seeming fairness, to the sti pulated term of twenty years after the Union. may be made of fairly pleaded as the basis of a contract binding the na tion : for that purpose nothing can be effectual but the let ter of the statute. my contrac nave been able to find bearing at ail on the question—and that, it must be admitted, rather vaguely—is the following poriion of the resolutions of Parliament preliminary to the Union in 1800:—" That a sum not Ic.,s than th , -urn which has been granted by the --t of Ireland on the average of the last six years, --- -ntencouragement of agriculture • - institutions for pious and charitable purposes, shall be applied for the period of twenty years after the Union to such local purposes, in such manner as the Parliament of the United Kingdom shall direct." Is this what your lordship referred to ? If not, then with all sincerity of courtesy and most unfeigned respect, I entreat your lordship to refer us to the letter of the con tract, that we may not act or speak in ignorance Gf so im portant a document.—l have the honour to be, my lord, your faithful and obedient servant, HUGH M'NEILE. Lord Viscount Sandon, M.P., &c. THE WEATHER.—Since our last publication the wea ther has been unusually cold for the advanced season of the year,—prolonging, in fact, the winter into a great part of the " natural" spring. Stilt, no harm has yet been done, and as an early advent of warmish weather is always dangerous in this .country, which, in such case, is subject to frosts, even into April, we see nothing to apprehend from this check to premature vegetation. When a mild temperature comes, and that cannot be far distant, the lat.d will be in so pliable and proper a state for the recep tion of seed, that the difference of a week or two will pro bably be more than made up by that advantage, and the less chance of a " killing frost" hereafter. The present frost trizy be said to have cor:►menced so far back as the 19th of October, inasmuch as it has been unremitting, with more or less intensity, ever since, with the exception of a few occasional showers of rain. The night of the 14th of this month was the coldest of the month, the thermometer standing at night at 19 degrees, or, in other %voids, 13 degrees below the freezing point ; at nine next morning it stood at 24 degrees; showing an unprece dented low t-rnperature for the month of March, and such, indeed, as has not occurred here for ten years. It froze all day yesterday, and last night at eight o'clock the glass stood et 30 degrees. It has never ceased freezing .:,mo-t intensely since the 3d instant. A little snow fell lfist night between seven and eight o'clock. The wind during this long severity of weather has been almost exclusively from the east—always cutting in this part of - he world. It is somitwhat remarkable that in Manehes er tie froit has been still more intense, the thermometer t one time at 14 degrees ; hut this is ac( , ounted town being inland, and the neighbourhood of being always less subject, from the saline to severe visitatiuns of this kind. the Oce:lti exhalo.tion LIVERPOOL CYMREIGYDDION SOCIETY. At a special meeting of this society, held on Wednesday evening last, at the Bible Institution, Slater-street, the following memoir of the Rev. J vies, D.D., who ssisted Dr. Nlor, an in translating the I- 1) , Scriptures into the Welsh tongue, was read by Mr !onion Gibson, brother to the c !brated sculptor of Ron- The memoir n of the R s the prok Rowland Williams, rector ken a very act n pro,- of Ysgeifiog, whc moting the erection of a monumental tablet to the me- mory of his In add' society, we observed pres he membe Rev. J. James, curate of St. I rs of the .gan g the s, Dr. Hughes, anti John Richards, Esq., of the Customs 0 Rev. D, James, of Kirkdal occupied the c MEMOIR The era of the Refor cipality, as well as in i remarkable men, eminent for ta!ents, leant _ In Wales, as in other parts of Great Britai mind then awoke from the torpor of r.c:s. as illustrated in the Pri, igland. rarice of Ti .he human d rejoice() like a giant to rGn a new course of intel went. Of th ual improve highly-gifted men, whose memory will ever be ec-1 ed in tti ratcfol recollection of Wclsli- men, no one was more distinguished for profound erudi tion, and the devotion of great attainments to the best interests of his country, than Dr. Jan Davies, of Mali wyd. He was born in the parish of Lianferres, in the county of Denbigh. Common tradition represents him as the son of a weaver, while contemporary poets, to whom he was probably a liberal patron, describe him as descended from the native princes of Wales, and connected by blood, as he was afterwards by marriage, with some of the best families of the country. With every allowance for the proverbial adulation of poets, we cannot suppose that this description was altog,ther fictitious, since the origin and circumstances of his family must in those days have been generally known, and any gross deviation from the truth would have conveyed an insult rather than a compliment. The two accounts are, however, by no means incompati ble with each Ler. His family may have fallen by the usual custom of Gavel kind from its termer respectability, while the trade of a weaver, before the fabrics of Man chester and Yorkshire were imported into the Princii lily, would occupy a higher rank than is usually - to it by the fastidiousness of modern notions ,ssigned His birth must have taken place before the year 1570, but the precise date is unknown. According to corotocn report he was educated at Ruthin school, under Parry, afterwards Bishop Parry. To this statement there are insuperable objections. Davies had entered the Univer sity of Oxford six years before the grammar-school of Ruthin was founded (in 1595); and Parry, who then en joyed a high dignity in the church, was never Ina,ter of that seminary, to which so many erdnent persons were afterwards indebted for their early classical attainments. Davies was originally a member of Jesus College, but afterwards removed to Lincoln College, and eventually proceeded to the degree of D.D. He was brought into public notice, before he entered the University, by his connexion with Bishop Morgan's translation of the Scriptures into the Welsh language. This translation was published in 1588. Previous to this event the Old Testament was a sealed book to the natives of the Principality. In this work, which required a rare union of learning and skill in the original ' , menages of the Scriptures, as well as in the ancient British tongue, Dr. Morgan had very few associates. Among those whom he selected to assist hint in this arduous undertaking, was Mr. John Davies, th-n a very young man; and the se lection was honourable to hob parties. Though the publication of Dr. Morgan's translation constituted a most important era both in the literature and religion of Wales, his version was not free from the imperfections which attend a first, and often a hurried, attempt of this nature. The successive improvements in the earlier editions of the English Bible 'ire general', known ; and it is in no wise derogatory to the great met tits of Bishop Morgan and his fellow-labourers, that several corrections were deemed necessary in a subsequent edition of the Welsh Bible. The lapse of thirty years had enabled the clergy to become more familiar with the learned languages, and to acquire greater proficiency in sacred criticism. Another translation, or at least a very extensive revision of the former one, was undertaken under the auspices of Bishop Parry; but the principal responsibility is commonly supposed to have been en trusted to Davies, on account of his Greek and Hebrew learning, and his established reputation as a most exact critic in his native language. The revised version was published in 1620, and in this as well as the preceding edition the translators availed themselves, with consum mate skill, of that similarity of idiom which is so remark able in the Hebrew and Welsh languages, and produced a work which, for general fidelity, and the idiomatic pu rity and nervous simplicity of its language, has never been surpassed, and which reflects immortal honour upon themselves and their country. In the following year (1621) Davies published a gram mar, under the title of " Antiguae Lineure Britannic nunc communiter dictee Cambro-Britannicre, a suis Cvni rrecre vel Cambricre. sib aliis Wallicre Rudimenta." This grammar, composed in Latin after the fashion of those days, exhibits his classical attainments to great advan tage, and is particularly distinguished for the elegance of its style, and the skilfulness with which it expresses the peculiarities of the Welsh tongue in a language of very different structure. It has formed the groundwork of all succeeding grammars of the Welsh language, and conti nues to this day a standard authority to which our gram marians generally appeal. Foreigners were thus wade acquainted with the genius and copiousness of a language which they had previously deemed barbarous and unwor thy of regard, and led to honour the Carnbro-British as a respectable descendant, and probably the purest specimen of that venerable tongue which was spoken by the earliest inhabitants of Europe. The author takes frequent oppor tunities to point out the great affinity between the Hebrew and the Welsh, not only in single words. but also in their n. pp s iawn y cleoht n a:e,inta t crr a nieyit x stoatt , ntig t nsgee h gus e cc,e i l their prosody, on lan p irdl r bloa t y r rtbs s oi o s,ieebh d ßree y kvery ecd i Edo d i i t:(ivi o , tn. A strikiii g, rese in blance between several of our Welsh metres and those of Hebrew n e itish phi lological researches have teen e tru u ieii r gi n sc,it, ( i kn i i ' e: b.. r :si t : t y,i l f a i e k E s e e a n s d w t a Lt s n i: a f v i l r h d e g n E re u p a r i t t o e i :_e penetrated tk r it.e o adt v e e d d s a , tgl i a t rco m ut gyuisiwt theibthe darkness of antiquity, and, with eery 131st tad opportuni- I ties, , anticipated to a certain extent the discoveri es and conclusions of the present age. These remarks apply also to the Welsh and La tin die tionary, folio, (" Dictionarium Britannico-Lattnutn,") which he published in 1632, accompanied with another part entitled " Latino-Britannicum." The chavettr of this learned work is too well known, and too firmly esta blished with every Welsh scholar, to render it necessity to add a single word in its favour. The preface, in Latin, is replete with very interestii.g. information, and may be confidently recommended to those who are unacquainted with the Welsh language, arid yet are desirous of learning the author's opinions concerning the origin of the Cam bro-British tongue, and tl of other languages. WI ye change. ;15h lexico- graphers and grammarians has been erected upon the f obtained , in after times, author; and they hai'e generally sun tempts, as they have adhen principles which he promulg Other works, though of which have been mentioned d or failed in their at: , or departed from, the le than these ed by him at different periods of his 1;1 that he contributed liberall J doubt .king which tended to the advancemen he temporal and spiritual welfare of hi: the value of his exertions, i n estimating rgotten that . kness, when they were made itTlina; there were few reed 1 conse- guently little enco rint books. for their us, 11 is subseq he Quiver may be comp.r . own declaration that he We know from his . no period in South Wales, and it is expr( bard, in a poem add preaCher; and we Office in the cathedral -cliutcli-T1 it he held soma ldaff. This is in ithorities, and is ;inal patron, Dr., se. In 1604 he some degree countenanced 19. rendered more probable 1), Morgan, was then bishop was presented to the rector 1, in the cour of Merioneth, which -1: Asaph and other . r :luring the remainder of his life at Maqwyd, wtu, inseparably connected, and where his tnemor lapse of two centuries, continues to be descry with the highest veneration, on account of his privat. charities and his liberality towards objects of publicA to lity. The rectory-house was erected by him, and t 4 initials of his name may still he seen in the parlour. The Poor of the parish are annually reminded of " the good Dr. Davies " by the produce of a benefaction which is distributed on St. Thomas's day. A neighbouring bridge, and the chancel and tower of the church, were built at his expense. His independence of spirit was manifested by removing, in defiance of Laud, the communion table from the east end to the middle of the church. where it remains to this day. He died on the 15th of May, 1644, and w as buried on the 19th in the chancel of Mallwyd church, where the following inscription was engraven upon his grave -stone : [,is name is after the ly regartl Johannes Davies, S.T.D., Rector Ecclesim Parochialis de Maliwyd, obiit 15 die Maii. ct sepultus Wit Iy, A.D. 1144, in virtutis potius quam nominis memoria." The preceding inscription has been lost for many years, and his remains lie undistinguished by any memorial,. True it is that he has erected for himself imperishable monuments in these immortal works, which his country men peruse, and will alwnys continue to peruse, with unabated ileasure and instruction. It was, however, deemed but little creditable to their patriotism, that no public tribute cf gratitude should have commemorated a person so distinguished for his virtues and high attain ments. On this account, and with the view of holding him forth as an example to future generations, a subserip tion has been raised to erect a tab'et to his memory, and thus tardily to pay a tic bt of two centuries. Mr. Gibson, of Liverpool, is cot the tablet, according To a plan desig Tudor gothic style, and selected at by the Camden Society of Cam'rid tied to execute y himself in the host appropriate a which will be engraven the followinz ii "H.S.E. John nes Day n ngro Di- XXX. Vir novicemsi flatus. U multarum literarum:rel caritate in datriam speetatissfir Episcepis, mr rum integritas c Cambrice vertendis. Grmea. Lat uuP. propugnator, temporis HO. t, et in SS Licae. magnus et incorruptos investi;, patefeci , art antiqui Serniouis usurn ct s Arian) posteris muniv it. Annum agens M.DC.XLIV.* Cives xre Coll to, pCst memorise. viri egrecie de patria tneritl inentum, honoris pietatie que cansa, tit uno opera A . D . N, neribus et .et Leona-