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London, England, 1852-09-23 00:00:00

SEPTEMBER 23, 1852.
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THE NATIONAL PATENT STEAM FUEL
COMPANY.
(Completely Registered.)
The Directors beg to announce that this COMPANY is now
COMPLETELY REGISTERED, under the powers of the 7th and
Bth Vic., cap. 110, having rece.ved the usual Certificate to that
effect from she Recistrar.
The Directors take this opportunity of assuring the Shareholders
that having every confidence in the prosperity of the undertaking,
they and their friends have subscribed the sync, nary amount of
capital for the purpose of complying with the conditions of the Act
of Parliament.
The Sharehol !ere, therefore, will not be required to sign the deed
of the Company until after a dividend has been declared.
By order,
OSMUND LEWIS, Secretary.
The National Patent Steam Fuel Company,
49 Fenchurch-stree., Sept. 21,18)2.

THE NATIONAL PATENT STEAM FUEL
CO'fl'AXY.
The Shareholders are informed that the necessary proceedings
will be immediately adopted to obtain a Royal Charter of Incorjm-
ration, by which the liability of each Subscriber will be limited to the
amount of his shares in the capital of the Company. The Directors
have much pleasure in announcing that in consequence of the atten-
tion of the public having been lately directed to the subject of
Patent Fuel, the merits of the Steam Fuel of this Company manu-
facture:l with pitch, have been fully established; and, independent
of its being a preservative of health on board ship, it contains supe-
rior capabilities of quickly raising steam, retention of strength in a
tropical climate, impossibility of spontaneous combustion, and eco-
nomy in stowage, by which fully twenty-five per cent. in bulk is
saved. Cargoes of this fuel are now being shipped at Liverpool
from this Company's works at Queen's Ferry, Flintshire, and con-
tracts to a considerable amount, extending over the next three
years, have also been submitted to the Directors, which will be exe-
cuted as soon as the Company's works in South Wales are completed.
By order,
OSMUND LEWIS, Secretary.
The National Patent Steam Fuel Company, 49, Fenchurch-
street, Sept. 21, 1852.

THE NATIONAL PATENT STEAM FUEL
COMPANY.
The Directors have much pleasure in referring the Shareholders of
this Company to the following List of Liverpool Steamers which
have been supplied with the FUEL from the Works at Queen's
Ferry, Flintshire :
Name of Steamer. Where for. When Supplied.
Rattler .... •• ..
~, .... .... 31 March, 1851
Rattler
Pirate , .. ::
....
11 SAeupgtnest, 18,511851
Brigand .........., .. OP
Astrologer ..........
Astrologer .......... ~ lO February, 1852
3 March, 1852
City of Manchester ..America
Arno .Mediterranean ......12 vi arch, 1852
Brigand ............ PO .. .. .. ..12 March, 1852
Arabian ... ..... lf 22 March, 1852
Pirate .. Of • • • . 22 March, 1852
Pirate ........ ••• • . • , 0 •• .. lO April, 1852
Grecian . 91. •• . .27 April, 1852
City of Manchester • . America .. •. • • .... ..30 April, 1852
City of Glasgow .. 2 P .28 May, 1852
Sarah Sands ..

Arno .

Tiber..
City of Manchester ..America ...
Grecian ........ . ..... Mediterranean 2B June, 1852
Tiber lf ........30 June, 1852

.... ..
........14 August, 1852

Orontes .......... •• • • If ... . 2l August, 1852
Livorno

The numerous certificates which have been granted by the en-
gineers of the different steamers prove the favourable opinion they
entertain of the superior qualities of this Company's fuel, and of their
decided preference to its use on board their vessels over the best
steam coal of the kingdom.
OSAIUND LEWIS, Secretary."'
The National Patent Steam Fuel Company, 49, Fencharch-street,
September 21, 1852.

MIDLAND RAILWAY.
Secretary's Office. Derby, 21st Sept., 1852.

To the Holders of Midland Bradford Scrip,

I am instructed to remind you that the second and last instalment
of 801. upon each Midland Bradford Share will be due on the 28th
instant, and that the directors reserve to themselves tne right of re-
allotting those shares upon which the amount is not paid on or
before that day.
By order, J. F. BELL, Secretary.

ALLSOPP'S PALE ALES.
BARON LIEBIG ON CERTAIN LATE ANONYMOUS
ADVERTISEMENTS.

Extract of a Letter dated Munich, 12th September, 1852, from
Baron Liebig to Mr. Henry Allsopp, Brewery, Burton-on-Trent.
"To my great astonishment and concern, my attention has lately
been called to several anonymous articles and advertisements
headed by my name, such as in the --, whose author altogether
misrepl•esents the motives of my remarks, and even goes so far as to
say 'that I had never analysed your beer, nor perhaps ever tasted it
In my life,' and to allege a retractation on my part of the original
statement.
" I emphatically declare that I had not the slightest knowledge of
these anonymous articles, the contents of which I entirely disapprove
of; and that in every respect I adhere to the statement made in my
letter to you, which certainly you were, and are at perfect liberty to
publish."
" Munich, 12th September, 1852. [T. No. 6.]

BRITISH COLLEGE of HEALTH,
NEW-ROAD, LONDON.
THE lIYGEIAN OR MORISONIAN SYSTEM OF MEDICINE.
I. All animal bodies consist of fluids and solids.
2. While in a state of embryo, all animals consist entirely of
fluids.
3. It is from and by the fluids that the solids are formed.
4. The fluids contained in the human body are four times the
weight of the solids.
5. The chief of the fluids is the blood, from which all others are
derived.
6. The blood not only repairs every part of the human machine,
but also carries with it all the rubbish or decayed parts, to be depo-
sited in the intestines, previous to being expelled along with the ex-
crement.
7. The blood is the life—the primum mobile—the first agent—from
which all others derive their origin.
a. Health depends upon the purity of the blood.
9. The purity of the blood depends upon its having free eutlets for
its decayed particles.
10. Disease is induced by the choking np of these outlets in the
bowels by reason of an accumulation of glary mucus on the inner
surface of the intestines, &c.
11. This accumulation is occasioned by anything that weakens the
circulation or hurts digestion, but chiefly by the poisonous drugs and
bad treatment of the Faculty.
12. The impurities thus detained in the blood occasion every spe-
cies of disease, according to the quality of the humour, or the parti-
cular locality in which it is lodged.

13. AU diseases arise from one source, therefore they may all be
cured by one medicine.

14. This medicine must be a vegetable purgative, innoxious in it-
self, yet sufficiently powerful to pervade the whole system, clear
away the abovementioned mucus, and purify the blood.
15. The discovery of a vegetable compound, capable of being di-
gested, and mixing with the blood, so as to impart to it that energy
requisite for ridding the body of all superfluous humours, was a de-
sideratum.

16. This discovery has been made by JAMES MORISON, the
Hygeist, in the composition of the Vegetable Universal Medicine,
commonly known as Morison's Pills, of the British College of Health,
Hamilton-place, King's-cross, New-road, London.

AUTUMN.—For the last three months samples
of new materials have been daily pouring in from all the
celebrated manufactories in the world, The amplitude of pattern
and magnificent finish displayed in these new styles for Autumn
have afforded full scope for the matured judgment of E. MOSES
and SON'S buyers, and the novelty, quality, and price of the goods
offered to them in preference to any other Establishment, induced
them to give the earliest orders on their usual magnificent scale.
These new materials, for every description of Dress, are now sub-
mitted to the incomparable skill of distinct classes of artists, British
and Foreign. in the employ of E. MOSES and SON, and will shortly
be presented in novel styles, surpassing every other invention.
E. MOSES and SON, by immense purchases on their invariable
ready-money principle, have secured great allowances, and conse-
quently their new styles for Autumn will be charged lower than on
any previous season.
FROM ALL NATIONS TO THE "DIGGINGS."
Ships are sailing from almost every port in the world, but the gold
mines are not exhausted, nor the labour market overstocked. The
superior equipment of many of the English is everywhere acknow-
ledged ; their means of comfort facilitates their success. That every
emigrant may be outfitted in the best possible manner, E. MOSES
and SON have employed all the advantages of their magnificent and
universal trade, and that practical experience with Outfitting, which
is the result of undeviating attention to the largest business in the
world, conducted for the benefit of every class of emigrants to all
countries on the globe. Outfits may be selected to any amount the
emigrant desires, or the most profitable investments may be made in
Clothing, Hosiery, Boots, Shoes, Hats, &c., &c., all expressly pre-
pared for Australia; a separate section for Emigrants' Outfits, con-
veniently connected with the other departments of their magnificent
business, where every article may be obtained at the lowest price,
and superior in quality to the productions of any house in the uni-
verse.
Full Lists of Outfits, and all information relative to sailing of
vessels and cost of passage may be had on application, or post free
to any part of the kingdom.
SPECIAL NOTICE.—E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments will
be closed on THURSDAY next, September 23, and will re-open on
FRIDAY morning, September 24, at Seven o'clock.
CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the
public against imposition, having learned that the untradesmanlike
falsehood of " Being connected with their Establishment," or " it's
the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for
obvious reasons. They beg to state that they have
No CONNEXION WITH ANY OTHER HOUSE IN Oft OUT OF LONDON,
except their own Establishments, as follows:Ldn City Sstablishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Minories, 83,
84, 85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating.
London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,2,
and 3, Hart-street, all communicating.
Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19, Bridge-street.
Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate.
Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers Farriers, Boot
and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen.
The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sanest on
Saturdays, ehen business is resumed till Twelve o'clook.
A new Book, entitled " The Library of Elegance," containing a
full list of prices, and directions for self-measurement, can be had,
gratis, on application, or forwarded, post-free, to any part of the
singdom.
A handsome Almanac for the year ending 1852 can be had, gratis,
on application.
Ici l'on pule Francais. I Qui si parla Itallano.
Hier spricht man Deutsch. Aqua se habla Espanol.

DR. CIILVERWELL'S NEW WORKS.
To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row; Carvalho,
147, Fleet-street; Mann, 39, Cernhlll ; or direct from the author.;
price One Shilling each ; by post, Is. 6d.
ENJOYMENT OF LIFE.
"Health, F.ecreation, and Rational Use of Time.*

CotrrEsre :—Early Rising—Spring and Summer Sfornings—Ex-
carsions about the Environs of London—The Narita, Lanes, Hills,
Forests, Fields, High-roads, and other pleasant places—Country
Trips and Rambles—The Sea—London at Night—Evenings at Home
—llifusic—The Drama—On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping, Bathing,
Air, Rest, Ease, Occupation, &c.,

FRAGMENTS FROM THE MOUNTAINS. Two Vols.
Vol. I.

VISIT TO THE LAKES iSEETCH OF EDINBURGH, 3c,0,

Vol. 11.
VIE LAKES OF KILL ARNEY ; REMINISCENCES 01?
DUBLIN, &c.
111.
WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID,
"That three score years and ten our course may run."
A popular review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner-
vously-debilitated health and eatcebled constitution, that harasses
the young, beseti the man of pleasure, business, or study, and em-
bitters old age ; with tables and raleS for the diet and physical regn-
.atlon of every-day life.
IV.
THE PASSIONS.
• -

!'What passions hurt the body—what Improve,
Truths as refined as Athens ever heard."
guLTEcT s--Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The ad
vent of the passions. Chastity and its infringements. The casual-
ties oflicentthuanesa and dissipation, with illustrations graphic, nar-
rative, and rordodiative. Advocacy of early marriages

THE MARRIAGE STATE.
To be or not to be, that iB the question*"
society, and reli-
1110GRANita :----Laws and obligations of nature, Time and gion regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. ..
choice, on both aides, as to
age, temperament,
figure,t° secure
healthy °flePring, With the art of rearing them..
Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion.
Cases, &c.
By It. J. CIILVERWELL, Max (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A.
1824). Twenty-fire years Medical complexion,. and
and Forensic Referee in these
matters. Reception hours daily till rive. Zygningli, Seven till
Nu. 101 Argyll-Pl4lO, Bvieut-i;aut.
_____

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.
On SATURDAY, SEPT. 18th last. was published a
DOUBLE NUMBER of the ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS,
price One Shilling, containing the LIFE of the NOBLE DUKE,
Illustrated with,the following splendid Engravings :-His Birth-place
and Residence of his Family in Ireland-Battle of Talavera-The
Storming of Badajoz-Passage of the Douro-Waterloo : The
Farm-house-" Up Guards and at them "-" The Old Guard never
Surrenders "-Charge of French Cuira.,siers-Three Splendid Por-
traits His Grace as Field-Marshal, as Premier, as Chancellor of
the University of Oxford-The Congress of Vienna-View of Apsley
House-Walmer Castle-With other interesting Engravings, illus-
trating a complete Life of the Duke, occupying forty-eight columns
of the ILLUS FR \ TED LONDON NEWS. Besides Twenty other
Engravings of the News of the Week.
On SATURDAY, SEPT. 25th, 1852, will be published, in a
SPLENDID DOUBLE NUMBER, a Continuation of Illustrations
of the Life end Death of the Duke of Wellington : namely, Cas-
tlecarbury, the seat of the Cowley family-Church of Laracor,
adjoining Dangan Castle-The Wellington Column, at Trim-
Walmer Castle, Exterior; Entrance to the Castle, and plan of the
Duke's Bed-rolm-Walmer Church, Exterior ; Interior-the Duke
attending service-Bust or the Duke, by Noble-Wellington Chair,
Bust, and Waterloo Flag in Windsor Castle-A Street Reminiscence
of the Duke-The Duke's Horses-The Duke on Horseback-Also
" A Dirge for Wellington ;" Poetry by Charles Mackay; Music by
Sir H. It. Bishop -A Portrait of the Countess of Mornington, the
Mother of the Duke - Plan of the Funeral of Lord Nelson, in St.
Paul's Cathedral.
The accompanying Number of the ILLUSTRATED LONDON
NEWS contains the French President's Departure for the South-
Inundation of the Rhone-Algerian Antiquities in the Louvre (Two
Views)-" Stockwell," the Winner of the St. Leger, 1852- West-
wood House, the Seat of the Right Hon. :Fir J. Pakington, M.P.-
Burning of the ship " Thomas Thompson"-Sword and Centre-piece
presented to Sir C. J. Napier-The Opening of the Grand Neapolitan
Dock by the King of Naples-The Philanthropic Society's Harvest-
home, at Red•hill-Prize Poultry exhibited at Great Yarmouth (Two
Illustrations)-Teignmouth made a Free Port-Opening of the
South Wales Railway (Two Views), with other Engragings.
PRICE OF THE TWO NUMBERS, ONE SHILLING,
Regular Subscribers will receive GRATIS splendid LARGE EN-
GRAVINGS of the PROCESSION and PUBLIC FUNERAL of the
DUKE OF WELLING [ON; a lasting memorial of the national
mourning.
Office, 198, Strand..

IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS,
Just published, by H. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street, London.
No I.
Second Edition, with Additions,
Bvo., in cloth, price 55., by post free, ss. 6d.,

ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA ;
with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors
n relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the
Generative System, or Sexual Hypochondriasis.
Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD.
"Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practi-
cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first
time, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi-
cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall
detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his
rower to correct."—London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851.
—" The editor has conferred a great boon on the sufferers from this
distressing malady by translating this little hook, and by laying bare
the scandalous practices of unqualified adventurers, who profess to
cure a disease of which they know nothing, with no other object
than to fill their own purses. The difference between true Sperma-
torrhcea and the various forms of disease which resemble it are
accurately described, and thus a safe guide is offered for the
treatment of the malady "—Medical Circular, May 5, 1852.
—" We have delayed so long upon the contents of the preliminary
chapter, that we have scarcely left ourselves space for any notice of
the subject specially treated of by Dr. Pickford ; but the moderate
price at which the ' brochure' is sold, places it within the reach of
every one interested in the matter."—Dublin Medical Press, April
18,1852.

No. 11.

Bvo., in cloth, price 3s. 6d., by post free, 4s.

THE CURE OF STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA, on Princi-
ples at once Simple, Safe, and Efficient, in even its most Inveterate
and apparently Intractable Forms. To which is added, PRACTICAL
OBSERVATIONS ON THE TREATMENT OF SPERMATORR-
IICEA BY CAUTERIZATION; its Inefficiency and Danger.

BY F. B. COURTENAY,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

"Those who complain most loudly are those only who know not
how to use the common instruments
geons has been maeted with all kinds of violence, an indifference
about the simple cure of diseases, and a passion for operations and
all the excesses and horrors of surgery."—John Bell's Surgical
Observations.—" In proof of his views he (Mr. Courtenay) has
given the history of a great many cases successfully treated, as bad
as any which Mr. Syme adduced, and on which he had operated.
Such are cases ix., xi., ail., and xvili. No. ix. had resisted, for a
period of twelve years, the treatment by dilatation, and was finally
removed in as many weeks. But cases xviii. and xis. appear, both
in duration, severity, and complication of symptoms, of a more ag-
gravated character than any detailed by Mr. Syme, and yet the
treatment adopted by Mr. Courtenay proved eminently successful..
--Protessar Lizars on the Treatment of Stricture.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, Sum 22.
STOCK EXCHAN9E.—The share market continues flat.
The only transaction reported to-day was—Bristol and
Exeter, 101.

LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 22.

STOCK EXCHANGE. —The share market was dull to-day,
and prices bad a downward tendency. The transactions
were as follow : —Caledonian, 213/B—Lancashire and York-
shire, 161. F Shares, par—London and North-Western, 120—
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 303A-111id1and,
77 va —South-Eastern and Dover, 213/4—Great Southern and
Western (Ireland), 46.
MANCHESTER, SErr. 22.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market opened briskly
this morning at yesterdays prices, but they were a shade
p.—Manchester,
lower when the buuness closed. The transactions were as
follow:—Caledonian, 21 Va —Lapca s h i r e and Yorkshire, 85y4
Ditto, 161. F Shares, % p.—Ditto, Preference, 6 per cent.,
153/B—London and North-Western, 121—Ditto, Manchester
transacted. The only
sale to-day, and but a very
sanhdeffießlidr,mainndghLamineeyns)bir2u3aortirl,zl.l.sdianc.d,
77
yr.._
Dundalk
and Enniskillen, IVA-
BIRMINGHAR, SEPT. 22.
mhaarskbeeten
STOCK EXCHANGE.—There has been no material altera-
ltiimoniteind
athmenuranitlweaf
sale reported was—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (London
and North-Western Guaranteed Stock), 75 15-16 per cent.
ybusshianreess

•
RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.
THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—(MiIes in work, 285 k)
—Return of Traffic for the Week ending Sept. 12, 1852;
Passengers, parcels, carriages,
horses, dogs, and mails ... £7,383 11 6
Merchandise and minerals ... 5,395 18 6
Cattle ... • ... ••• ... 378 12 5

Total .. ... £13,158 2 5
Corresponding week, 1851 (2411 miles) :
Passengers, parcels, &c. £8,034 15 3
Merchandise, Cattle, &c. ... 4,433 3 8

Total ... ....£12,467 18 11
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. (260 miles
open.)—Traffic for week ending Sept. 19, £18,932 8 11
Corresponding week in last year (260
miles open) .. ....£18,329 14 8
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—Traffio for the
week ending Sept. 19:—

RAILWAY.
Passengers, parcels, &c. ... £3,619 6 11
Goods ... ... ... ... 792 9 9

Total .. ... ... £4,411 16 8
STEAM-BOATS.
Passengers ... ... ... £435 4 2
TOTAL.
Passengers, parcels, &c. ....£4,054 11 1
Goods ... ... ... ... 792 9 9

Total ... £4,847 0 10
Corresponding week last year ... 4,445 9 5
CORK AND BANDON RAILWAY.—(2O miles open)—Return
of Traffic for the week ending Sept. 18, 1852:
Passengers, parcels, &c. £133 8 10
Merchandise, cattle, &c.... ... 31 18 4

Total ... £165 7 2
Corresponding week in 1851 (10 miles open) :
Passengers, parcels, &c. ... 37 9 6
Merchandise, cattle, &c.... 0 5 7

Total .. ... ... £37 15 1

ALLEGED MURDER IN LAMBETH.

Yesterday Mr. Carter held an inquest at the Ball,
Lambeth-butts, on the body of Jane Perry, whose death
was alleged to have been causd by her husband's
violence on Sunday morning last. The husband was
taken into custody at the time, and brought before Mr.
Elliott, at the Lambeth Police-court, on Monday, when
ho was remanded to await the result of the present in-
quiry.
George Mitchell, who lodged in the same house as
deceased and the prisoner, stated that the ;former was
very much intoxicated on Saturday night; that she and
her husband quarrelled; that he heard a scuffle on the
floor above and a fall; and that afterwards the husband
came down stairs and said his wife was lying at the bot-
tom of the stairs. Witness assisted him up with the
deceased, who was quite dead; but he could not tell how
she got at the bottom of the stairs.
Mr. Thompson, a surgeon, said he had examined the
deceased, and he was of opinion that death was caused
by concussion of the brain by deceased falling on her
left temple while in a state of intoxication. There was
a wound over the left eye the result of the fall, and not
of a blow. That caused instantaneous death.
Thejury returned as their verdict—" That deceased's
death was caused by concussion of the brain, the result
of a fall.",

THE REGISTRATIONS.
CITY OF LONDON.
The revision of the lists of voters was resumed yes-
terday morning, commencing with Queenhithe and
Vintry ward.

In the list of St. James the Evangelist, Garlick bill,
the name of James Wise, 193, Upper Thames-street,
was objected to by the Conservatives, on the ground that
he had left his residence and gone abroad.
Mrs. Wise
was
in attendance to support the vote, and
she stated that her husband was the occupier of the pro-
mises No. 193, Thames street, where be had carried on
the business of an oil and cohnirman for the last. three
years; but, on the 27th of July last, be sailed in the
Dinapore vessel for Australia. He, however, did not
intend to remain there, and would shortly return.
Mr. Brown, on the part of the Conservatives. put it
to the Revising Barrister, whether a person a name
could be retained on the list who had gone to Australia?
The REVISING BARRISTER said that he might have
gono there to obtain a nugget"
England.—(A laugh.) He should retain the name on
the list. " t," and then to return to

Mrs. Wise said that she had been put to some incon-
venience in leaving her business, i
, and wished to know if
she could not have some remuneration for her attendance?
The REVISING BARRISTER (addressing Mr. Brown)
said he did not think that 7e. would hurt him.
Mr. Brown said this was a most egregious sum to
award in such a case as costs. Surely an cbjection taken
to a person gone to Australia could not he considered a
frivolous ground of objection.

The REVISING BARRISTER said that it
might be a
good groucd of objection next year, but was not so now,
and adhered to his former order for 78. costs.
The other lists presented no feature of public interest.

MIDDLESEX.
DISFRANCHISEMENT OF FREEROL—
Yesterday Mr. Lawrence Shanwell, the revising bar-
rister, held a court at the Belvedere, Penton•street, Pen -
tonville, to revise
the list of voters for the King'3*"."3
district. The court was crowded during the day.
Mr. T. Alley Jones appeared for the Conservatives,
and Mr. James for the Liberals. The freehold land
societies were represented by Mr. J. Wells,solicitor,
and Mr. Sidney Smith and Mr. Robert Russell.
Philip Samuel Bardons, of No. 1, Stanhope-street,
Hampstead-road, claimed to be on the register as the
holder of a freehold, No. 1, Freehold-street, Long Sands,
Holloway. He gave 28/. 6s. for the
plot, and produced
his deed. The land was worth 4/, a yew.
Mr. Jones expressed a doubt as to the value of the
land, and called upon Mr. Prickett and Mr. J. M. Ma-
clure,its valu surveyors, who had inspected the land, to speak
as to e.
Mr. Prickett said that as
grass land it was worth
thirty years' purchase, but when covered with small
years'
buildings it would not be worth more than twenty
purchase.
Mr. Mortimer Timpson, a builder, purchased the land
from the original vendor for 1,040/. Since the purchase
was made 2,900/. had been laid out upon it in sewers,
drains, and roads. The plot consisted of 12 acres,which
was divided into 238 allotments.
pro
Mr. Jones— a
yßy this statement you
are then making a
fit of 900/. ear.
Tho BARRISTER—Each plot is sold for 28/, 65., is
it not?
Mr. Timpson—That is the case.
The BARRISTER could not allow the claim. Had the
land been worth 50/., and yielded 40s. clear of all
charge, then it would be a case for conferring the fran-
chise.
Further evidence having been gone into,
The BARRISTER decided that the claim could not be
admitted.
This decision disfranchises no less than seventy-three
shareholders in one society.
Joseph Bolton claimed for a plot of freehold land on
the Stoke Newington Estate, which he had purchased
from the National Freehold Land Society, and which he
declared to be of the annual value of 6/. a year and up-
wards.
Mr. Sidney Smith demanded proof of the notices on
the overseers.
The BARISTER held copies of the notices, which be
deemed sufficient. The evidence he required was as to
the value of the property.
Mr. Smith persevered in his demand of proof of ser-
vice; and refusing to give evidence as to qualification.
The BARRISTER disallowed the claim.
The next claim was that of J. Coxford, which was
similar to the preceding, and disposed of on the same
ground.
Mr. Sidney Smith then claimed on behalf of William
Harvey.
The BARRISTER asked for evidence as to the value of
the property.
Mr. Smith again asked for proof of the serviee of no-
tice on the overseers, which
The BARRISTER deemed sufficiently proved, and struck
out the name.
Mr. Smith asked for a case for appeal to the Court of
Common Pleas, referred to a decision of that Court, and
The BARRISTER emphatically refused.
Upon which Mr. Smith said he would take the case
before Parliament.
Sir Joshua Walmsley, through
of the Conservative agent, narrowly escaped being dis-
franchised, as a member of a similar society.
The Court sat till a late hour, and the greatest excite-
ment prevailed. the strenuous exertions

WESTMINSTER,
IMPORTANT DECISION
Mr. Mo.equeen resumed his sittings Lords Justices' Court, Westminster, for the revision
of the lists of voters for the city and liberty of
came
West-
minster. The only question of importance
whichl
and 12
before the Court was one arising undo the Actl
's Act,
Vict., C. 90, commonly known
as Gereral Evana in
which provides that "no person shill be required,
in any
order to entitle him to have his narar insertedl, England,
list of voters for any city, town, or boson- in s except
yesterday at. the.n
tshallh
day
January becomepianyatlohlee from e
:--y-el=-0.-,i, ln the
to have paid any poor rates or asse:sed
him previously
stoucthheass
0 St. Cle-
ments, of W. S. Ford, a claimant in the rev' to the as-
merits, who had been returned as a deaulter
due t Michael-
sessed taxes, it appeared that the taxes,,,„at that those
miss had been paid on the 6th of Aplut,""4 been paid
for the half-year ending sth of April lad not till the 30th of July—ten days befo'e
the prescribed
time.
His HONOUR now gave judgment.
"- pvt, said: The
• 1849 by
question revived by this claim was dec!ded
e ins con-
Mr. Bayley, and was decided in 1851
bVl32"y:lf
Bailey's de-
formity with, though in ignorance of
lir° cision. I have now, however, been asked to allow this
d to the question to be re-argued, and have assisted verlooked
re-
quest, on the assurance that important ta'
....ios, o .. . .
d. I think it
in the former discussion, would be advascebas
not been
my duty to state at once that my opinion
t,
one of the
altered in any degree. By the Reform
'techise was de-
tests of qualification for the elective fisaxes were due.
clared to be the payment of taxes when 4
The statute required that the claimant
Bhiald have paid,
assessed taxes
Pia in
on or before the 20th day of July, all a
which should have become payable from Pcia, of respect
April.
of his premises previously to the 6th
~d of July he
Therefore, he was to show that by the w 0
t the 6th of
had cleared off his assessed taxes down upon the re-
April; otherwise he was not to be placegilance, from
Oster of voters. From the: want of A,ed that many
accident, and from other causes, it haPP7s. leaving un-
persons allowed the 2Uth of July to Pa: '
ais previously to
paid taxes which ought to have been P from the lists,
the 6th of April; and they were excludesis other respects
although their qualifications in all to be the
were free from objection, Such ee,ll3„tc of the Reform
law, and such its operation, from the "Thture was pre-
Act to the year 1548, when the g
Le-,,lssal Act, the 11th
vailed upon, with some difficulty, to Pa-t-he period of per-
and :12th Vict., cap. 90, enlarging purpose of ac-
ole
inissible arrears, apparently for the 6
rms. This statute
cornmodating tardy and recusant
, taxP,, °Orson to have his
provided that, in order to entitle a-4ha shall not be re-
name inserted in the list of voters,
except such as
taxes
quire to have paid any assessed . .
him previously to the
shall have become payable from
year. So that no per-
-sth day of January in the same Ye-ah Bit unless the as-
son shall be entitled to be on
anYneueviott3ly to the sth of
sensed taxes payable from him .ri. befOre the 20th day
January shall have been
aid°llor
taxes are imposed of July next following. The assessede /aid quarterly, on
to
by statutes which declare them
ptemper, and the 20th
the 20th of June, the 20th
of
Seiever do not centem-
•
of March. Those statutes,
however
is expense, and
plate a quarterly collection.
the
collection is to
to promote convenience,
at Michaelmas and
be by half-yearly moieties,
general rule ; but
Lady-day. This is the
airirg greater under special circumstances'
rerctierly. Keeping in view
strict-
ness, the collection may b© quarterly.
the 20th of July, to
that the claimant is, on or
before
payable from him
pay all taxes which shall have
it stems clear that the
previously to the sth of Januar:,
due on the2Oth of ecember
quarterly payment falling oue .
t Bui then it lassie that
is included in this requirement.
rho quarterly tax due on the 20th of December is not ,4 sth of January, and
usually demanded previous to i"
not to be regarded as
law, is therefore, in the eye of the
h of January. In other
payable previously to the sth it has been demanded.
words, a debt is not payable until in this case, be-
But lam bound to hold the contraryes and the instruc-
tions tax
cause the statutes imposing .
i declare that, although
to the collectors exPresseayoy,
" they are payable
the taxes are collected
halflthat de quarterly tax of the
quarterly." My opinion is,
due and became payable pre-
20th December last was "'le
yto the sth day Januarynuary =
paying it or before the 20th of
- ° n
July forfeits his vote. it appears by the evidence
William Simpson Ford, has,
during the last ear, been
that the present claimant,
niformly behind in the pay.
meat of taxes. Thus, taxesdemanded in the beginning
till Lady-day, and taxes
demanded on the 10th ofth of July thereafter. April
of December, he does not pay ,till
he does not pay till the
I have, therefore, no difficulty
30 .
in rejecting the pin; and I reject it on the
resent claim;
of the 20th of December
ground that the quarterly
claimant till the 20th of July
last was not paid by the in the present year. Even
if this decision were wrong,
it has the merit of conformity--a
point in the consider-
ation of arbitrary rules standing next to justice itself.
Claim rejected.

Mr. Huggett asked for a case, on which to obtair! the
opinion of the Court of Common Pleas. Thedecisionwas one of the greatest importance, as, if upheld, .
t
would disfranchise 2 904 persons in Westminster; and
the number would have been still greater, had not the
officers of three parishes, acting on their own view of
the law, refrained from returning as defaulters those
who had not paid up to the sth of January.
His HONOUR granted a ease.
In a subsequent cause, that of J. Burman, a claimant,
it appeared that no demand at alt had been made of the
year's taxes. His Hotiouß held that it came within the decision in
oFronrdo'ts. case. The taxes were due, whether demanded
THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE_
Amongst the claimants in St. Margaret's parish was
Mr. Henley, in respect of his house, 22, Great George-
street. He was in the list as James Warner Henley; and
the claim had been made fur the purpose of having it
corrected to " Joseph Warner Henley," which was done.

LORD JOHN RUSSELL AT STIRLING.
STIRLING, TUESDAY EVENING.—Lord John Rus-
sell being resident this season at the Garth, near Stir-
ling, the magistrates and council of that burgh re-
solved to present hi 3 Lordship with the freedom (f
the corporation. Arrangements were made for
receiving his Lordship in the Court-house to-day,
that the honour might be publicly conferred on him;
and at half-past one o'clock, when he arrived, he was
loudly cheered by a large concourse of people in the
square, and a crowded attendance of the principal
inhabitants of the burgh within the building. The
Noble Lord was accompanied to the platform by the
Lord Provost and magistrates, the Dean of Guild, the
Treasurer of the burgh, Sir James Anderson, the
Member for the Stirling burghs, and several members
of the town-council. Lady Russell and several mem-
bers of the family were also present.
Provost SAWERS, then addressing Lord John Rus-

sell, said—l now address you in the name of the ma-

ex-
pressed
burgh, i
gisfrates, town council, and inhabitants of Stirling, on
the
freedom of this ancient royal burgh. Your Lord-
occasion of presenting your Lordship with the
Lord-
ship
havingg, taken up your residence for a time in
by the citizens of Stirling that you
should t the freedom of
neighbourhood, a general feeling was ex-
be asked
country.—(Ch to accept
the virtues
especially of the adorn your high rank, but more
which have is testimony of the sense we entertain of
raised
distinguished talents and patriotism
country.--(Cheers.)
rsse d
we have in our power
It is the highest compliment
r to confer, and I have much
pleasure in stating that the r
P oposal was unanimously
agreed to by the town c
men holding different political composed of gentle-
opinions. Though we
have on some points differences
o
com-
munity we are ardently attached to opinion as a
civil and religious liberty, and cannot
the principles of
of how much we owe to the illustrious be unmindful
Bed-
ford for the sacrifices they have made ihouse of
this nation those privileges it now enjoy:... securing to
enjoys,_
(Cheers.) ancestor of your Lordship, who lived in rheers.)
times, I mean Lord William Russell, suffered death
leath
for holding those principles. Another distinguished
member of the same family, the fourth Duke of
Bed-
ford, 100 years ago, gave utterance to this noble
sentiment, then held by few, that it was his settled
maxim " that persecution for religious principles only
added strength to the sect it was intended to destroy,"
and we cannot forget the efforts which have been
made by your Lordship in recent times to secure for
the nation freedom and toleration.—(Cheers.) Your
great public services, and the virtue displayed in your
life, have secured for you the respect of your country,
and it is our earnest wish that your Lordship may
long be spared to the country, of which you have
been such a distinguished and valuable servant, and
to adorn the list of burgesses of this royal burgh.—
(Cheers.) Allow me, therefore, to place in your
hands this diploma. The Provost then banded to
Lord John Russell the burgess-ticket, which was
thus inscribed :

" At Stirling, the 21st day of September, in the year

1852, which day the Magistrates and Town-Council of
the burgh of Stirling being convened, they receive and
admit the Right Hon. Lord John Russell to the liberty
and freedom of a burgess, qua guild brother of tho said
burgh, with power to him to use and exercise the whole
liberties, privileges, and immunities thereto belonging,
as full and freely in all respects as any other burgess has
used and exercised, or may use and exercise, the same
at any time, bygone or to come."
The diploma was Snely lithographed and had the cor-
porate seal of the burgh attached to it, the whole
being placed in a silver box ornamented by the burgh
arms. In conclusion the Provost said, " Allow me
just to say, that rarely indeed do the burgesses of
Stirling confer this honour on any of their fellow-
countrymen." _ _ _

Lora Jonsr RUSSELL, who was much cheered, said
—Mr. Provost, ladies, and gentlemen, I beg leave to
return my heartfelt thanks for the honour that has
been done me by the Provost and Town• Council of
Stirling. I deem it a very great distinction to have
been chosen a burgess of a burgh so renowned in
ancient history, so favoured by its natural position,
and so well known for its patriotism in modern
times. I feel it a still greater compliment that, as
your provost has said, gentlemen of different political
opinions from mine have concurred in conferring upon
me this honour.—(Cheers.) I cannot expect—no
man can expect, in this free country, that the opinions
he may hold, as those which seem to him best calcu-
lated for the benefit of the country, should meet with
the concurrence of all the various parties into which
this country is divided ; but it is a proud thing, and
I feel it to be a proud thing, that the intention has
been recognised of endeavouring, to the best of my
power, to serve that country to which I belong.—
(Loud cheers.) You have alluded, Sir, to some st.r •
vices which it was my good fortune to perform in the
cause of religious liberty. I entirely concur in that
sentiment to which you have referred—that religious
persecution only strengthens the sect which it is in-
tended to suppress; but beyond the great motive of
policy, I think it is our duty not, on account of reli-
gious difference of opinion, to subject cur fellow-sub-
jects, in possession of as great a right to serve the country
as we have, to any penalty or disability on account of
that difference of religious opinion. The great ruling
maxim on this subject was given by a monarch who
reigned over this country, William 111., when he
said, " Conscience is God's province."—(Cheers.)
That maxim, I conceive, contains the whole of what
is justice and policy on this matter.—(Cheers.)
There is another subject to which I may likewise be
permitted to refer ; it is that question in which for
many years—l may say for more than ten years—l
was engaged, and which about 20 years ago I was so
fortunate, under the direction of Lord Grey, to
bring to a successful termination—l mean the ques-
tion of an improved representation of the people in
Parliament.—(Cheers.) Whatever might be the de-
fects of that representationin England and in Ireland, I
think no one can deny that in Scotland some change was
needed to adapt that representation to the intelligence,
to the power, to the wealth of the people of this part
of the United Kingdom.—(Cheers.) And I think
the extent of the change that was then made may
be somewhat appreciated when .1 say that, according
to my belief, the numbers who at the last election
for Edinburgh polled for Mr. Macaulay and Mr.
Cowan, and made them the successful candi-
dates, was a sufficient number to have elected
the whole of the representatives for Scotland
before the Reform Bill was introduced I—(Cheers.)
Not more than 3,000 persons had then the right of
electing the representatives for every county and
every burgh in Scotland; and I am sure it that
state of things had lasted to the present day, it would
not have been a matter of contest or party dispute,
but all parties would have agreed that such a state
things could no longer continue.—(Cheers.)Yoout
will permit me, perhaps, to allude to another subject,
difference of
upon which, though there has been great
owphienniotnh,elmthininokritwyewairlel approachinginndoewedbe the time
subject on which the late Sir sEoall—l mean tbs.!
Robert Peel introduced
measures of the greatest importance,
believe, have been
of theand wtiticon.. le
country. I believe, as I have highest benefit
OW tn
ap-
proaching the time when the said,
we
areLneasures
will be acknowledged, and benefit of those be
the
difference of opinion with that whatevlierture
measures
to be advocated, it will respect tocottic
arred in that
at least be is a benefit
cheapness of food to the people at large .
which this country
long as -
the people must ' as
enjoy
exists. These certainly the principal subjects
have been
Parliamentry
upon which, d 'the course of my
.
uring and leading part.
Career, I have taken a prominent
the part which I
Far be it from me to expect that
all. Ido not even
say that I should
have taken should be approved by
y motives not to be mis-
construed ; but it •
expect m-
great satisfaction to find that
is's:l a the inhabitants of this burgh, ,
have not
this town-council,
Araued these motives, and that they
believe I did rn
iniscoyn best for the benefit of my country.
—(Loud cheers.) Now, gentlemen, having appeared
here to-day in this assemblage, I own I feel—although
is
not an occasion immediately to introduce the sub-
it --
ject--Ye t 9 as it is an occasion on which I have to
cannot refrain from noticing that
in pu 10, .
apes
event which occupies all men's minds—to which the
attention of all is now directed—l mean the loss
which this country has sustained by the death of the
Duke of Wellington. I must say that, while I am
one of those who most admired that great man, I am
not one of those who think that we ought to be so
dazzled by the fame of his exploits that we should not
endeavour to gather objects of imitation even from the
conduct of a man so great and so illustrious. While
many of the actions of his life—while many of the
qualities which he possessed are unattainable by
others, there are lessons which we may all derive
from the life and the actions of that illustrious man.
It may never be given to another subject of the British
Crown to perform services so brilliant as he performed;
•
it may never be given to another man to hold the
sword which was to gain independence for Europe,
to rally the nations around it, and
saved herself by her constancy
example; it may never begiven
to save
after having attained such eminence,
ampled series of victories, to show e while England
Europe by her
to another man,
after an unex-
qual moderation
in peace as he had shown greatness in war,
and to
devote the remainder of his life to
inter-
nal and external peace for that country which
then cause of
e • h he had
1 so served; it may never be given to another man to
have equal authority, both with the Sovereign be