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SEPTEMBER

WITII A MEMOIR BY THE N.
SIR T. N. TALFOURD.
Nov ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
ANNETTE;
.A, TALE.
By W. F. DEACON.
With a Memoir of the Author,
BY THE HON. SIR T. N. TALFOLTRD,
Also, just published, in 3 v 015.,.
HELEN TALBOT. By Miss Pennefatlicr.
Miss Pennefather has in this work evinced much literary ability.
The fashionable circle in which the principal• personage of the novel
moves is animated in a high degree, and is drawn with a bold and
graphic pencil. We have no doubt that many of the leading figures
are painted from originals."—Globe.

The BELLE of the VILLAGE. By the Author of the " Old
English Gentleman." 3 vols.
"An admirable story, quite out of the common order in its con-
ception, and highly original in its execution,"—John Bull.

FANNY DENNISON. A Novel. 3 vols.
Colburn and Co., Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

THE DUKE of WELLINGTON, by COUNT
D'ORSAY.—Count D'ORSAY'S PORTRAIT of the DUKE
of ,N ELLINGTON, from sittings given by his Grace at Gore House,
universally admitted to be a most perfect likeness of the Illustrious
Diike, finely engraved by Wagstaff, is published by J. Mitchell, Royal
Library, 33, 0:d Bond-street.
Prices Reduced—Proofs, 215.; Prints, 10s. 6d.

CREMORNE GARDENS.
On the Banks of the Thames, King's-road, Chelsea.
Waterside Entrance close to Battersea-bridge Pier.
Fare by Steam-boat from London-bridge or any of the interme-
diate Bridges or Wharf Piers, 3d. Strangers should request to be
landed at Battersea-bridge for Cremorne. Fare by Omnibus from
Charing-cross, 3d.; from the City and remotest parts of the East-
end, 6d.

Proprietor, Mr. T. B. SIMPAOS.
Re-engagement of M. and Madame Poitevin.
On Thursday, Sept. 23 (instead of his annual dinner) a Grand
Bal Masque, for the Benefit of Mr. T. B. Simpson.
On Saturday, September 25, the Last Parachute Descent from:the
Balloon,'La Zodiaque.
The Pyrotechnic Displays by the Chevalier Mortram.
A new Grand Spanish Comic Ballet, entitled Le Barbier de Cadiz,
every Evening, at llalf-past Seven o'clock.
A.n uninterrupted succession of Entertainments from Three o'clock
until near Midnight.
Open at Three o'clock.
Admission, Is.; Children, half-price.
On Sundays, after Four o'clock, by Refreshment Card, price 6d.
Table d'Hote at Six o'clock, 2s. Gd.
Private Room for Dinners and Coffee.

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 cf 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
read-money principle, have secured great oances, and conse-
quentyly 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.
Fall 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 Cornitstdox WITH ANY OTHER nOUSE IN OR OUT OF LONDON,
except their own Establishments, as follows :
London City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Atinories, 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 Furriers, Boot
an d Shoemakers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen.
The E:stablishments are closed from sunset Friday to tranvia% on
Saturdays, when business is resumed till Twelve o'clock.
A new Book, entitled " The Library of Elegance," containing a
ll list of prices, and directions for self-measurement, can be hthe
ad,
gratis, on application, or forwarded, post-free, to any part of
aingdom.
A handsome Almanac for the year ending 1852 can be had, gratis,
on application.
Ici l'on parle Francais. 1 Qui si parla Italiano.
Hier spricht man Deutsch. 1 Aqua se habla Espanol

SEABORNE MAILS.
Ll 7 signifies that the mails aro sent froma the General Post-Offie
by the night—and Mby the morning—elispch.]
When made up in I From what When
FLAGS. General Post-office port dim. due.
London: patched.
•••••••••••••••••
America, (by Brit. pkt.)N,Sept. 24 .. Liverpool .. Sept. 26
America (by U.S. pkt.) N; Sept. 21 .. ;Liverpool.. Sept. 28
America (by U.S. pkt.) M Sept. 29 ;Sonthampt. Sept. 22
Australia (via South-
ampton) • . . M 20th ofeach month Southampt. Sept. 24
Ditto (via Marseilles) N 24th °reach month Dover .. Oct. 17
Ditto, via C. of G. Hope N 2d & 14th each mo.lPlymouth.. Nov. 30
Africa (West coast).. N,l4th of the month 'Plymouth
Alexandria* •• •••• •• Nll9th & 30th of mo.I Dover .. Sept. 18
Belgium •• N Daily • • .. Dover .. Daily
Brazil .. Ml9th of the month Southampt. Oct. 12
Buenos Ayres • • .. 31,9 th of the month ,Southampt. Oct. 12
C alifornia(via Chagos) Ml2d & 17th of month Southampt. Oct. 16
Cape of Good Hope N 14th of the month Plymouth.. Sept. 26
Cape de Verds N,2d of the month .. Plymouth.. Sept. 26
Constantinople* .... N 7th 17th 27th ef mo Dover .. Sept. 20
Central America M2d & 17th of mon. Southampt. Sept. 16
Channel Isles • • .. N Mon., Wed., &Fri. Sonthampt. Tu. Th.SM
Chili . M 2d & 17th of mnth ISouthampt. Sept. 16
France .. M4s N Twice daily .. !Dover Twicedaily
Greece* .. „. N 7th 17th 27th of mo ;Dover • Sept. 19
ilambargh N Tuesday & FridayiLondon .. Tues. Sat.
14o11and Wednes. & Satur. j London .. Sufi. Thtu
Ilonduras . N 17th of the month Sonthampt. Sept. 16
Ireland .. M& N Twice daily I Holyhead.. Twicedally
India (vla Sonthamp.) M 20th of the month:Southrmapt. :Sept. 24
India (via Marseilles) N Bthac 24th afmonthiDover • . Oct. 3
India, via C. of G. Hope N 14th of month Plymouth,. Sept. 26
Mauritius .. • . N 14th of month Plymouth ..ISept. 26
Mediterranean (via
Southampton) 20th of the month Southampt.iSept. 24
Mediternmean (Via
Marseilles) .. N Bth&24thofmonth Dover • • Oct. 3
Mexico „„ mi2d of the month.. Southampt.lst ea. mo.
Madeiramalta M9th of the month Southampt. Oct. 12 1
7th,17th,19th,27th I.)_ I
& 30th of month j over Sept. 29
Naples* .. •• N sth 15th 25th ofmolDover •• Sept. 22
Papal States* 14 sth 15th 25th of moiD over .. !Sept. 22
Peninsula .. M 7th 17th 27thof mo Southampt. Sept. 26
Peru M 2d & 17th of mnth Southampt. I Sept. 16
Tuscany. .. N sth 15th 25th of mo Dover •• I Sept. 22
West Indies M 17th of the month Southampt. Sept. 16
West Indies (except
ilavanna & Nassau) M 2d of the month .. Sonthampt.
* The mails to those countries thus marked (*) are convoyed b:
French packet via Marseilles.

Sonthampt.
ed (') aro conveyed by

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—THE ROYAL EXIIIBITION.—A
valuable, newly-invented, very small powerful waistcoat
pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be
seen and known 1 miles distant ; they answer every purpose
on the Race-course, at the Opera-houses; country scenery
and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles; they are in-
valuable for shooting, deer stalking, yachting, to Sports-
men, Gentlemen, Gamekeepers, and Tourists.—Te be had
at 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, observe, opposite the
York-hotel. Telescopes—A new and most important in-
vention in Telescopes, possessing such extraordinary powers,
that some, 3i ,inches, with an extra eyeßin piece,
and the
will
show distinctly‘ Jupiter's Moons, Saturn's g,
Double Stars. With the same Telescope, weighing only three
ounces, can be seen a person's countenance 3i miles distant,
and an object from 16 to 20 miles. They supersede every
other kind for the waistcoat pocket, and are of larger and all
sizes, with increasing powers accordingly. Opera and Race-
course glasses, with wonderful powers ; an object can be
clearly seen from 14 to 16 miles distant. Messrs. S. and B.
Solomons, Opticians, have invented invaluable preserving
Spectacle Lenses, immediately they are placed before imper-
fect vision, every object appears clear and distinct, the most
aged defective sight becomes bright and brilliant, is brought to
its youthful, natural, and original state. The Invisible Or-
ganic Vibrator, and all kinds of Acoustic instruments for relief
of extreme deafness.- 90, Albermsrlc-street, Piccadilly, ob-
serve opposite the York Hotel.
MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR ON BOARD A DUTCH STEAMER.
—On Monday afternoon information was forwarded to M
eriour. W.s
Payne, coroner for the City, of the subjoined my
st
occurrence, which took place on board the screw-stea mer
Magnet, trading between New •
Dieppe, Holland, and the
port of London. It appears that the Magnet arrived from
New Dieppe on Friday last, and was anchored off Brewer's-
quay, Lower Thames-street. Among her passengers was a
man named Velticus Schadman, who had charge of several
head of cattle, and shortly after the arrival of the vessel
Schadman and another Hollander left to go ashore, and
nothing more was seen of them until about six o'clock
on the following morning (Saturday), when some of
the crew of the vessel heard loud and pitiful groans
proceeding from the hold. A search was made, and Schad-
man and the other Hollander were found lying in the
hold of the vessel in a state of insensibility. They were both
removed to St. Thomas's Hospital, where they were promptly
attended to by the house surgeon, and every means was
used to restore animation, but with success only in one
case. Schadman, who never showed any signs of life, was
suffering from a very severe fracture of the skull, and ex-
pired a short time after his admission. The other Hollander
recovered, but was much bruised about the head and body,
and has since gone back in the Magnet, to acquaint the
friends of Schadman of his melancholy and untimely fate.
The manner in which the two men got into the hold of the
vessel and received the injuries from which Schadman died
is at present shrouded in mystery, and cannot be unravelled
until the return of his companion. However, directions
have been given to hold the investigation this (Tuesday)
evening, which will no doubt be adjourned until the return of
the Magnet.
Yesterday information
EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES.
received at the different police stations that Ethelstan
TasAlaw, booking clerk at the Paddington Station of the
Great Western Railway, had gone off with 3001., the moneys
I '• in fi ld
n- e s, had gone
of the company ; also thatEsScite,pLbiennentlasms, porter and mes-
senger to J. P. Anderson,
name; also that
•
oviiffeswtmithins6tooerl.l3,
awnhkicbhy
floireginogbtahiniserdaafsrtoemes and
Edward Phillips, a Custom-house waterman,aphtaiad n
aAntrebscondeJe
d
with 109 s in silver money belonging to C
Gros, of the Two Sisters, off the Custom-hse; and
8d
that John Hoskins had absconded. stealing 19 7/o. 15s.
from Messrs. Gibbs, Milton-street, City.
THIMBLING AT FALXIES TRYST.—The
from the north countr
thimblers have, as usu THE
excellent harvest during the
tryst. One gang succeededa is
to recover the moneevi,r not the first time he
had had experience
eptltilthough it was
It was attempted, we be-
lieve,in taking 40/. from a gentleman
want of power on the part
such cases.--Falkirk Hovidef the authorities to in
but without success,.
interfere In

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM.
At the adjourned meeting of this company, held at
Wolverhampton yesterday, for the purpose of receiv-
ing the report of the scrutineers (Messrs. Beale and
Peele) on the proposition made the previous day for
amalgamating the Great Western, Shrewsbury and
Birmingham, and Shrewsbury and Chester Corn-
panics, the following was declared to be the result of
the poll :

PERSONS PRESENT.
For the Motion.
08, holding 46,4111. 7s. stock
Against the Motion.
49, holding 82,8581. Bs. stock ...

... 937 votes.

... 1,142 „

Majority against the motion, persons present 205 votes.
Majority in stock £36,447 Is.

PROXIES.
For the motion ... 876 votes
Add as above ... 937

guarantee for the fall and efficient carrying
out of
whatever resolutions they might determine upon.
Here he might pause for a moment' to'Cast a retrospec-
tive glance at the striking cocontrast`betereen their pre-
tent position and what it formerly.exhibited in Liver-
pool.—(Hear, hear.) On the former occasion there
was nothing which could conduce =to their confidence
but now he was happy to say there were all the ele-
ments of success presented to them.—
(Hear, hear.)
They now started with public opinion both in Eng-
land and Holland in their: favonr._(Hear, hear.)
They now started with treaties made in Holland and
with the Netherlands Government • for carrying out
the completion of: the line; .and With a credit that
would enable them to complete their financial ar-
rangements without appealing-I ta the pockets of the
shareholders.—(Cheers.) All. thew features were
such as fairly to lead to the conclusion that they
should at least obtain a successful result with respect
to the Dutch Rhenish Railway. „They would ob-
serve that, as to the financial, measure* the directors
in Holland had obtained a bill with powers to raise
200,000/. to complete the extension of the junction of
the present line. As regarded the completion of the
line from Utrecht to Rotterdam, which would cost
about 400,0001., an arrangement was made with the
Netherlands Government, by whichs during the two
years that it was expected to require in construction,
the Government bound itself to pay a;-very Dirge sum
gAo
of money as interest upon the capital.. that would be
employed, amountingt ut which would
be paid to them if they chose to rail
'e e funds them-
selves wherewith to cotaßVe that , 4 Govern-
ment, however, reserved' tlib option 0 itself advancing
that money-400,0001., without charging interest,
and that you should repay them in three years after
the commencement of the works-1855 and 1856.
They had the advantage of .the able and friendly
assistance of Mr. Locke, who, at their urgent request,
had sent over a responsible person to Holland to in-
spect the line minutely, and to form surveys and plans
of the whole works. He wished particularly to point
Out the fact that they would have as their termini, on
the side of the ocean, the two great ports of Rotter-
dam and Amsterdam, the latter the best port of
Western Europe. In connexion with their future
prospects he might allude to the fact that, even on the
miserable fraction of the 57 miles of line be-
tween Amsterdam and Arnheim, there was
at present no absence of traffic. Under all its disad-
vantageous circumstances, this 57 miles of line pro-
duced about 35,0001. of annual revenue ; and when
they considered that the expenditure upon it had not
exceeded 1,000,0001., they would be satisfied that
their funds were not expended on unproductive works
—(Cheers.) In conclusion he called upon Mr.
Beloe, of Liverpool, secretary to the English depart-
ment, to read the resolutions which were to be sub-
mitted for their adoption.
Mr. BELOE read the following :--
" That the parties holding the English proxies at the
ensuing meeting of the shareholders, to be held in Am-
sterdam the Ist of October, be hereby instructed and
empowered to pass the following resolutions:—
" 1. To receive and adopt the report of the direction
to the meeting, and to consent to and support the three
resolutions therein proposed.
"2. To express the cordial approbation and concur-
rence of this meeting to the confirmation of the contract
proposed to be made by the direction with Mr. Brassey
for the completion of the works, and to request the
meeting of commissaries to that effect.
"3. To authorise and request the meeting of com-
missaries to accord to Mr. Hesleden, the English resi-
dent director, an increase of salary of 2001. per annum,
to commence with the present financial year, in con-
sideration of his increased duties and responsibilities.
" 4. That the thanks of the meeting be given to the
Dutch commissioners for their co-operation in bringing
the agreement with Government to a successful issue.
"5. That the thanks of the meeting be given to Mr.
B. Donker Curtius, for his able vindication of the rights
of the share holders to a due control over the affairs of
the company, and generally for his advice and exertions
as president of the direction; and likewise to Mr. C.
W. Hesleden, for his zeal and energy
in promoting the
interests of the company, and for the prominent part
taken by him in the various negotiations with the Prus-
sian Government relative to the junction.
" That the following gentlemen be named as trustees
for the purpose mentioned in article 1 of the resolutions
proposed by the direction:—His Excellency Gerrit Count
Schimmelpenninick, Jacob Ran van Gameren, Mr.
Thomas Edwards Moss, Mr. William Allcard, Mr. B.
Donker Curtius, Mr. C. W. Hesleden."
Mr. HESLEDIM submitted a statement of traffic
which he had compiled, bOth present and prospective.
From the comparisons and calculations which he had
made, he had some to the conclusion that the de-
velopment of traffic on the Dutch Rhenish would be
such as to realise about 203. to 255. per share. This
would not be realised in the beginning, because traffic
was a thing of slow growth.
Mr. LEWIN MOXEY moved as follows :—That the
cordial thanks of meeting be presented to the
English commissaries, and to their secretary,
Mr. Henry C. Behe ; and that a committee consist-
ing of the following gentlemen, namely, Mr. Joseph
Langton, Mr. Lewis Motley, and Mr. C. H. Jones,
be appointed to conk- with the shareholders as to the
best method of testif!ing their high sense of the
services rendered to tie proprietors by the gentlemen
referred to, who have so long and so ably protected
the interests of the: shareholders, and to whose
labours the present improved aspect of the af-
fairs of the company may,
in a great measure, be
attributed."
Mr. CuutsTorrrea ZossEs seconded the resolution.
The resolution was then passed, and the pro-
ceedings closed with tle usual compliment to the
chair.

PROPOSED RAILWAY rnolll PLYSIOUTIC
TO CRE-
DITON.-0a Saturday hut the Mayor of Okehamp-
ton, Mr. J. Carpenter, ca led a public meeting of the
inhabitants of that borough and its neighbourhood
for the purpose of taking into consideration the best
means of securing a railwty for the central and north-
west parts of Devon. Tiere was a full attendance
of the leading inhabitants of the district,
and consi-
derable interest was manifeed in the proP°sed under-
taking. The Mayor took ;he chair. The great
co-operatio
ob-
ject of the meeting was to obtain thee
proposed Plymouth and ravistock Co of
m-
th Railway
pany, in order that a junctim might be formed with
the north of Devon; thereby affording
drie a
The eßeevand. J.
direct transit through central Devon.
the Tavistock
Downall attended as a deputation from
Railway Company, and mored the first resolution,
which embodied the object of the meeting, and after
being seconded by Mr. H. C. Millett, it wa
unanimously. A committee was then
s car
spdy
the roceedpromote the success of the scheme, and
P-
ings terminated. appointe to

stud
well,
road groom, and
STOCK WELL---
AND -lIIS-A- NTE—CEDENTS.
arboJrneod,hantboynLotwhrey,ialwe 111‘10
Just at this moment a brief sketch of the history of
thei winnerw of the St. Leger this pear will be interesting.
colt was was
ofno thesasofisf
care whence he takes his name, under the
Theobald 's
thewho is well known now on
from Clapham to the City. Before the
r.viTashe;:l.d at Stock.
weaned John Lowry wrote to all the 1110;,-,Er
tho turf offering him tor sale, but without
sneer Honest John was fervent in his praises
, but, although many came to see,
S.
t.e remained to purchase. Mr. J. Arnold and Mr.
.1-) ay offered 100/, for him, but the offer was rejected.
Just previous, however, to the Brighton races, John
Lowry said to Mr. Theobald, " Now, sir, you are going
to Brighton; why not ask Lord Exeter to buy the
colt, and then ai have the satisfaction of seeing
him you wm ...aye
run, even if he don't win?,, Mr. Theobald took
the advice, and the result was that Lord Exeter came
to Stockwell to look at the colt. The noble Marquis ad-
mired him much, and asked John Lowry what be thought
of him. " He's a splendid colt, my lord," said John,
" but whether he'llpturn out a good racer or not, I
can't
- say; I should, however, advise your Lordship to
have him." The Marquis returned to Mowner of r. Theobald
Stock-
,
and the bargain was struck; and the new
well gave John Lowry orders to send him to Burleigh as
soon as he was weaned. When Lord Exeter was gone,
John, of course, asked Mr. Theobald what sort of bargain
he had made, and the old gentlema inn repl
lied,would" Wh
not have
y, John,
I have sold him for 1801,, but, md,
sold him to any one else at that price, so you must say
it was 2501.,, and you stand 501. to nothing if he wins
the Derby.. Y
Such is the history of Stockwell, and we
believe that the Marquis of Exeter has never regretted
his visit thereto, or acting upon the advice ot John
Lowry thereof.—Racing Times.

Rotherhithe-wall, for the assembled at the Angel Tavercirn,
purpose of inquiring into the -
THE LATE FATAL FIRE AT B4OTRERRITHE.—Yes-
terday afternoon Mr. Win. Carter, the Surrey coroner, and a
highly respectable jury,
cumstances concerning the respective deaths of Rosina
the jury viewed the bodies, so
Ritchie, aged 23, and Jane BrOWD, aged 27, the two unfortunate
persons who perished in the fire which occurred on Sunday
morning last, at Rotherhthe, particulars of which appeared
in this Journal of Monday and Tuesday last. Gardener, the
officer, having stated that neither Mr. Hogg nor the female
eiixijaumreidnewdefroerpnreeasrelnyt,aamndontthh,at they would not be fit ta be
as ad-
that their remains might be interred. The inquiry w
journed for a fortnight.
CONCISENESS IN THE COURT OF CHANCERY.
—it is
directed by the new Chancery Act (15 and 1G Victoria, cap,
86), that the bills of complaint are to be " concise" after the
commencement of the Act, and to be divided into numbered
Paragraphs, but not to contain interrogatories.
PROCEEDINGS IN THE COURT OF CHANCERY,
Among the proceedings about to be abolished in the Court
of Chancery are the writs of subpoena and summons upon a
claim.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNIFIG PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—We said the other day, and we said it
to the credit of this country, that it as impossible to
enumerate or comprehend the various acts and kinds
of homage rendered to the Duke of Wellington
Perhaps throughout Lis long career. we might now
say the same of the honours that have been already
offered to his memory. All parties, all schosls of
opinion, men the most different, add journals the most
antagonistic, have agreed to touch with the gentlest
possible hand their old grudges with the Duke and
to swell one groat acclamation to his patriotic a
virtues
w
and colossal powers. The Dukei thorough
aristocrat, and though he gave his advice, vote,
and his influence for the people, yet he evidently s
re-
garded them as a human mass to be respected for
their power and feared for their violence, to bespar
spared
domestic ille, and saved from a foreign foe. Ho un-
derstood them as he understood an army or a general
that he had to deal with ; but he had little more sym-
pathy with them than a careful shepherd might have
for his silly flock. He was not one of them. The
natural result is that ho has always been more re-
spected than loved by the extreme Liberal party.
In truth, though it was shighly convenient to have
a man in the country who could mediate so ex-
peditiously and so effectually between the people
and the privileged classes, it was not compliment-
ary to the former to be described to the latter as an
animal that must be appeased and tamed. Yet, as
our reade± would see by a very able article inserted
in our columns yesterday from a weekly cotempo-
?ern- the extrema aectisset., 9f. the Liberals, shows s
noble anxiety to do every possible justice to t a
his great
champion of monarchies and aristocracies. These
writers generally brush away from the question a heap
of little prejudices and sore recollections, and confess
to an honourable pride in the Duke's genuine English
qualities, in his entire loyalty and submission to the
laws, in his continual sense of duty, in his calm cou-
rage and unwearied perseverance, in his uniform good
sense, in his unwearied industry, in his readiness to
make any sacrifice, to dare any danger, or brave any
obloquy; in a word, for that rare union of qualities
which rendered him for half a century the mainstay
and glory of this realm. After a searching analysis
of the Duke's character, and a careful comparison
with the more dazzling qualities of his great antago-
nist, our Radical contemporary awards the preference
to his own countryman, and that in a splendid, though
discriminating, eulogy. Nay, the very anticipations
of extreme Liberalism are made to contribute a new
grandeur to the Duke's memory. He is described as
the last of a procession of great old names, as the
Northraens ideal roueeat enveloping in the dark
folds of his the whole pageant of
of which we have now seen the last.
antiquity,
An equally honourable example of candour and
good sense has been shown in another unexpected
and it appeared side by side with the English
quarter.
our yesterday's columns. The Assernblee
essay in
Nationale, the only member of the French press that
now professes to be free, has ventured to tell the plain
truth about Wellington and Napoleon, and told it so
as to incur the formal reproof of the Govern-
plainly
meat.
The facts of the Duke's life are so patent, so
consecutive, and crowned with such a practical con-
clusion, that it requires great ingenuity to explain
them away.
But that ingenuity has long been verna-
cular in France. It is by this time bred into the
race, and is now, as it appears, a matter of political
necessity. The theory that Wellington stumbled
into triumph by a long succession of blunders,
that from one unmerited victory he boggled
into another, that next to a fortune always
above his deserts his chief means of success
was the excessive stupidity of the British soldier,
who never knew when he was beaten, and that after
Wellington had committed the egregious error of
straying into France, he received a final thrashing at
Waterloo, and was only rescued from annihilation by
the accidental arrival of another army in the field—
all this is believed as much, perhaps, as anything else
is believed, by our philosophical and credulous
neighbours. The journal we have mentioned takes
the safest estimate of the Duke of Wellington's cha-
racter, and ventures to point out what really cannot
be denied---his practical qualities—" a solid judg-
ment, a cool reason, a wonderful justness of percep-
tion, both on the field of battle and in the Cabinet, the
most penetrating good sense, amounting to a power
which became genius, a perseverance which nothing
could tire or turn aside, and the most unshakeable firm-
ness in great dangers." Our Parisian contemporary
points out the perfect harmony between the qualities of
the man and their actual results both in the field and
the Cabinet. If his military success was the result of
a miraculous succession of lucky accidents, how are
we to account for the splendid position attained by
the Duke in this country, and enjoyed, with continued
augmentation, to the very end of his career, so that
one of the latest public acts of his life was to render
personal assistance to the Queen in weighing the
balance of parties ? In the case of Napoleon Bona-
parte the writer is so bold as to admit that in spite of
his prodigious powers he overreached himself and
failed; so that if the commencement of his career looks
very brilliant by the side of Wellington's, the conclu-
sion is all the other way. Lastly, our contemporary,
after alluding to the splendid destiny which re-
warded this life of labour and self-denial, does jus-
tice to the universal regrets with which England
follows her great commander and statesman to his
tomb. Here, then, are two weighty testimonies, ex-
pressed with great force and even eloquence, and
coming from quarters where political or national an-
tipathy are usually allowed to reign supreme. And
now for another testimony still more weighty, inas-
much as it is offered in spite of a combination of po-
litical and national antipathies. This wreath, not of
bays, but of prickly holly, is offered by two amiable
contemporaries breathing the mild air of the Atlantic
in the classic city of Galway. They freely acknow-
ledge the " mighty genius of the departed hero." They
chide the cold tone and scant measure of our praise.
" Wellington," as they express it, was " one of the
eyes of England." He was " the greatest comman-
der that ever led the British armies to victory."
We may well weep over his coffin, for now he is
gone we may soon want one like him. But the
climax of the eulogy—which, however, these
writers express in the language of complaint—is
that Wellington was thoroughly, deliberately, and
consistently loyal to the Sovereign whom be served.
Perverse, cold, stupid, mistaken man that he was, he
would not rebel. He commanded the British armies
against all sorts of foreign foes, with a certain cold-
blooded, calculating, commercial sort of courage, and
so enabled England to maintain her ascendancy at
home. In doing this he was a traitor to Ireland.
" May Erin never rear such another son to turn his
mighty genius to the service of her tyrant !" But
Wellington, it seems, bad no soul for agitation or
rebellion. " There was not an atom of chivalry about
the Duke.—There was no heart in his fighting. He
served a commercial people steadily, rigidly, soberly,
regularly, just as a commercial people likes to be
served.—He was no boiling enthusiast be was cold,
rigid, and calculating—in a word. the Tr.n Dukw.
lie devotoa himself to the English service." Yes.
There is the one unpardonable sin in Galway, for
which there is neither political indulgence nor priestly
absolution. The Duke was loyal. He was provokingly,
stupidly, obstinately loyal. With one spark of true
heroism how different his career would have been ! At
theheadof the United Irishmen he might have achieved
the independence of his country—and then woe to
England 1 Under him the Irish Brigade would once
more have followed the standard of France. Ireland
would still shout, as of old, Faugh-a-ballagh—what-
ever that may happen to mean—under the bright eme
blaaonry of the silken banner of every country that
hates England. What would, have been the
conse-
quencefthe ourse
? The field of Waterloo might have been
another Fontenoy. This delighful daydream,
pathetic regrets, we give in the very words
Galway contemporary. Such is the last touch that
was required to the portrait of this
great man.
He lacked but one thing—the generous enthusiasm
that prompted a certain nameless personage to ex-
claim,
" Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."
Under the tuition of Dr. I\i'llale, the probable writer
of the article we quote, he would have learnt to es-
timate at its proper value the service of his Sovereign,
and he could have realised the romance of Celtic do-
minion. What might Ireland, what might Arthur
Wesley, what might Dr. M'Hale have become- under
such auspices ? We have only to turn everything
upside down and substitute the tail for the bead, and
then you have the reply.
CHRONICLE.—It is not surprising that, in the
discussions on the income-tax, the case of short an-
nuitants should have been put forward more promi-
nently than even the alleged grievance sustained by
professional men and traders. The grneantni tan tg majority;
of
and
holders of property are in fact
the original intention of those whoe deviseda the form
of security more commonly known
Government Annuities, was to nby the name of
facilitate the operation
of sinking capital for the purpose of increasing the
available income of individuals. In. the ordinary
tenure of a terminable
.annuity, there is no peculiarity
species of income from any other
to distinguish this
kind of revenue fairly
liable to taxation. The
jointurer or life inc.umhcancer on land pays the im-
post as long ite his interest continues ; and the pur-

chaser of a life annuity from Government, or from
an insurance office, enjoys equal advantages, subject
to the same deductions. It must be wholly imma-
terial whether a deceased husband has provided for
his widow by charging her income on his landed
property, or by procuring for her a Government
annuity for life. In either case .the saleable
value of her interest is the same, as well
as the annual revenue. Yet it will be found that,
while only a few careless theorists propose to
tax a life interest in land at a lower rate than a per-
petuity, all the actuaries who have given their opinions
on the income-tax concur in asserting that a termi-
nable annuity ought only to be assessed on the intee
rest of the capital which it represents. The reason of
this distinction is worth considering, inasmuch as it
is connected with the professional position of its au-
thors. Actuaries are the advisers and principal
managers of insurance offices ; and those associations
are amongst, t 4 larger holders of terminable annui-
ties. The preference which they give to this class of
securities is founded piatly on the higher interest
which they return, even after allowing a sufficient de-
duction for re-investment to ensure the reproduction
of the capital. There is also a convenience in the
constant replacement o.f the principal sum, which ob-
viates the necessity of selling out stock to meet the
demands which
companies, in shortcapitalists, periodically arise. The insurance
have no , well as other speculative
petuity. Thereult7'
no gerpose sinking money in a
terminable annuity
rAtio or it wouldexcept to reconvert it into a per-
t .of course, a profit on the epe-
e be effected ; but the banker
and the actuary
interest due on '
and
ailathcome-
habitilliedivide an annuity into the
se'
money, and the Wad-
meats nicessaffto re
which is sunk at the beginning caPitah 'The sum-
at the end, still subject to the of
the term emerges
new form of investment ; tax under any
exagge-
rated statements of the grievance haveough most
published, it may be admitted that, in been repeatedly
all others in which capital is hardlyln thisd case; as in
from income, the principle of equal assessmentistinguished
poses a discouragement on one particular teid im-
poses
in-
vestment. The ordinary method of replacingeof
capital consists in the annual employment of
i the
the
excess of the annuity, over the interest of the pur-
chase money, in buying other annuities of the
same kinds. Many advocates of graduated taxation
have assumed, with singular inaccuracy, that a
fresh loss is incurred as often as an annuity is
purchased; but it is evident that the market price
of all securities adjusts itself to any permanent
fiscal system. The whole grievance, therefore,
whatever may be its amount, was inflicted at the
time when the income-tax was first imposed. If
annuities have since maintained their former relative
value, as is assumed by our correspondent " Igno-
ramus" and others, the fact only proves that the dis-
turbing influence of the tax has been practically im-
perceptible. Even Mr. Hardy, in his evidence, ap-
pears in some degree to have forgotten this obvious
consideration. No permanent impost on any species
of property can have any effect in increasing the price
to the purchaser, so long as other investment, equally
eligible in themselves, remain exempt from the burden.
There can be little doubt that the annuities actually
held by the offices have, for the most part, been pur-
chased with full notice of the tax ; and in all such in-
stances, the Government or other grantor, must have
been the only sufferer from the peculiar incidence of
the impost. The case of the annuities taken by the
Bank of England at the request of the Treasury is,
however, of a different character. The actual
loss suffered by the capitalist or speculator who
holds terminable annuities is easily expressed
iu any case which may be selected as an
example. If, in the absence of an income-tax,
A. invests 1,0001. in Consols at par, while B.
purchases an annuity of 901. with the same
sum, it may be assumed that—the interest of the
money remaining the same—B. will be able to spend
301. annually as income, and at the end of his term
of about eleven years, to realise the same perpetuity
which A. has already secured. The relative posi-
tions of A. and B. will be precisely the same if their
respective purchases are made after the establishment
of an income-tax, although the gross terminable an-
nuity will be larger in amount. If, however, the
tax of 7d. its the pound is imposed immediately after
the first investments have been made, B. will suffer a
comparative disadvantage. The income of A. will
be permanently reduced to 291. 2s. Gd.. while, if B.
spends an equal annual sum during the continuance of
his term, he will find himself, at the end of the
period, only able to purchase a perpetuity of the same
amount, subject to income-tax, or a net income for
ever of 281. ss. Gd. In other words, his loss in
the first instance, will be represented by the
value of the tax on A.'s tax-free annuity,
deferred to the end of his term. The elaborate
ti bles which have been published for the purpose
of exhibiting the decreasing values of terminable an-
nuities may be accurate ' • but they are in the highest
degree complicated and perplexing. In calculating
the present value of an annuity at its commencement,
all the elements of the problem are taken into consi-
deration. It is evident that, after the payment of
each instalment, the residue is diminished in value, so
that, if the tax is estimated as a perpetuity, its ratio
to the capital represented by the annuity must in-
crease from year to year. The only question for the
financier relates to the assumption on which invest-
ments of this kind are to be assessed. If, in point of
fact, terminable annuities are habitually reduced to
perpetuities by the holders, the Exchequer will be
justified in regarding the excess of the annual pay-
ments above the ordinary interest of money in the light
of instalments of capital. On the other hand, common
experience will probably lead to t colusion that
annuitants are not, as a general rulhe,e mere speculators
in money. Where a principal sum is sunk in the pur-
chase of an increased income, the exaction of an equal
percentage from temporary and perpetual annuities
can inflict no hardship or inequality. The duration
of the tax is equal to that of the income; and the
same total impost is assessed on the sum invested in
Consols in the one case, as on the amount laid out in
an annuity in the other. It is possible that means
might be devised for reducing the rate of taxation
where security was given for the re-investment of
the principal from time to time, so that income could
not benefit by an exemption allowed to capital. In-
surance offices and money dealers will be able to
judge whether such an arrangement would be prac-
ticable and convenient. If it cannot be contrived,
the only future result of equality of assessment will
be to discourage speculations of a peculiar kind in a
highly artificial species of investment. There are
considerations bearing on the tendency of an income.
tax to raise the interest of money, which tend to show
that, even to dealers in annuities, the loss under the
present system is necessarily less than the proportion
which we' have assumed for the sake of convenience.
t
Our immediate purpose has been to show
that the
bona fide annuitant stands in an
entirely
different
position from the speculator in securities.

ItEUISTRA.TION -
CITY OF LONDON,
Mr. MTEIRISTIE, the revising barrister,
Guildhall yesterday, and delivered judgment with re-
spect to the numerous objections that had been taken to
the want of the proper description of the livery of
several companies, but in which he had allow the
r ester.
names to be corrected, retaining them on the, t-heiTeem-
He said he should not have fined the clerks :c,"
if the objections
Sat at the
panies so heavily as he had done, but he-,;onlpanies, or
arose from the neglect of the clerks o 1.1
their clerks. For the future, however, laced on the
take care that their correct address„ wer p
register, they would be disfranchiseddea to dispose of the
The Learned BARRISTER proceeded of St. Andrew
I parishes
iffsliveserymen did not
list of voters for the were
Agnes, St. Botolph, eg St. Andrew Hub-
Leonard Foster, ry Stain' , John Zachary, St.
n'Scit.st. James, Duke's-
bard, St. Andrew 0 ?
Ijdr arose any question of import-
place—in none of which princiPallY confined to over-
beingance, the business
d misdescriptions.
seers' objections an
Sr"st. tledesrshig:fat,te.a,
-th and Mr. Ledger appeared for the Re-
Mr. Sidney
; tri and Arr. Brows for the Conservatives.
form Assoc•fi- D' MARYLEBONE.
The commenced yesterday morning before
revision of lists of voters for the borough of
Mr. gaeqU ' 1 e The following is a list of the
MarYleb"eeersthe revising barrister, at the Court
Marylebone- an .
House,
.Objections.
chums and objections set down for C hlaimsearing:—
. 4 . . 0
. 25 ... 100
~ 19 ... 31

Paddington
St. Marylebone
St. Pancras ...

Total

... 4S

Mr. Nicholls claimed to be inserted in the list, rind
the only ground of objection to his being so was, that
he had not paid the two quarters' rates due on Lady_
day until the 27th of July, the proper day being the
20th of July. _ _

The REVISING BARRISTER stated that this WEIS a most
important question, and similar claims had arisen in the
Westminster and Tower Hamlets districts; and until he
had decided those at the former place, he must defer his
decision. It was his intention to hear two legal gentle-
men discuss the question pro and con, to-merrow (this
day), at Westminster, and he would, therefore, defer his
decision until Thursday morning, lie might, however,
state that he and Mr. Bayley had decided similar cases
against the claimants.
OBJECTIONS TO THE RIGHTS OF COL-
_ _ ASSESSED-TAX