The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-23 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.-{THIS DAY.)

Last week's arrivals of most descriptions of grain were good,
and of Flour there was a good quantity. The fresh supplies
moderate. Fine Wheat was scarce, and obtained last week's
terms, but the runs being tender in quality, sold at a reduction
of 2s. per cuarter. Barley is plentiful, and middling qualities
full 2c. per qr. cheaper trap last Monday. Old Beans unra-
ried, hut New ls. per qr. lower. Barley and Grey Peace
rather cheaper. Good Oats maintained their late value, and
otherriour
at late prices. sorts were very heavy in sale. A moderate demand for

rn.lczs ON LOA RD OF:$111T.
When% lied old) '5,. 7'..35. Beau::,tne.ll(ne.,7 41,466
—..— White (eld).:. ,: , S 5;. 14;11. .---......--- (old) ..... ....—s•—e•
----- Red (I 839) 5471. tios. --. Tick ',new) ....... ..n74 3d a.
.-----......- Fir • • GiS C.is. --_ (01d) ...... ....4;:5.44,
--'4lllx•rtine VSS ~.- (AS. ".^... Harrow (new) .....40,.4`2;.
--Wh.te (1::30) Aid, .t. 4,. --- (olcl 445,4G3.
--,--- Fine t:,l;. id,. Bran' —s.—s
--Superfine 72i. 755. Oats, Feed............ . ......75.—..,t•
---...Forentn free o.s. 82b. -- New ... ' . •,..44.24.4
••• -•••
Ilyt . 40. 49. F. FnTsne •
.—s.—s.
Barley. 104 384 ' • New '?.f;•;..2Si.
-- Grinding 10, -n6-1. —•Fotatoe . 2,1 3)s.
Malting `zS5. 43..
Malt . 5r z, t6ss. Scotch .--R ~,:?S.
--- Fine New (;,,, ;.(s, Irish 2e.... 25,..?...'. •
P.-.k.ase, Grey, .perk "Re. 40.5. Flour Town Trkcr eack).... ss, f;,,,,.
Maple New 401. 425.1-- Seconds 54E.Z.0s
White 40s. 425. I --... north Country .... A, :)..?...
---- Boilers 42a. 44,:.! limn 0 19
ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEKK
Wheat. Bade,. I km.. Fkk•.•r
5,247cr5, I
.14,q2S irs. I 3,,1,3 qr.. 10,"2176.iAtkr..
10,713 i
g 129 5,543 '.31,.

English
Irish ....•
Foreign ...

F,7.`,0 I 8.^24
• SMITHFIELD.
There were low cattle at market, and the trade having
bought largely last week, the supply was equal to the demand.-
Meat of all descriptions met with a better sale than could ho
ted ; Beef, for the choice sorts, at a decline of about 2d.,
and Mutton at an advance of 2d. per stone. Veal and Pork
also met a fair trade. Price per stone of Sibs., sinking the
offal :—Beef, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d., Mutton, 4s. to es. 2d., Veal,
4s. to ss. 4d., and Pork, 4s. to 4s. 3d. Head of Cattle at Mar-
ket—Beasts 862, Sheep 8,750, Calves 46, and Pigs 215.
BILLINGSGATE MARKET.

The supplies;;;7;elyg;O:l, and there was a great demand
for Cod is particular for Christmas ; prices were much the }
same as last quoted. Turbot 4s. 6d. to 203. ; Cod 3s. to 13s. ;
Soles 6d. to 3s. 6d. per pair; Lobsters 101 to 3,-- ; o,.sters
16s. to 48s. per bushel; Haddocks Bd. to 2s. ; and Whiting
4d. Bd. -
BERMONDSEY WATERSIDE POTATO MARKET. ,
There was a large supply, but the condition was bad, owing t
to the wet weather. The really fine descriptions only were t.
saleable. • Prices as last quoted.
1
SEED MARKET. 11
The arrivals of Seeds were moderate, both of Foreign and
English, and there was no business done worth notice in any
description. Prices the same as they were last Monday.
HOP MARKET.

The market was quiet, except for, the fine qualities, which,
were in good demand, and brought aivanced prices.

LLOYD'S 711-104'ING-(11171.1S DAY.)

FALNIOCTII, bite 20.—The Miriam, Goss, Item
Newfoundland to this port, was 'distrtastcd, and had her y
decks swept during a heavy gale on the igh ult., In lat. 1.
43., lon. 3S , and was fallen in with the following day by t)
the billa Rookb, from the Clyde to 14:krseille.F,
who took
out the crew and landed them at Gibraltar. 21.—The
Sackville, Fiddes, TeamSierrc Leone to PI/TroulT3 sprung
a leak the sth inst., had her decks swept' Dr' IT'e 1711-'4`
and became waterl,gged on the 19th, en t • t
north of Scilly, when she way fallen in wi!b by
from Swansea to' Nantes, 14Itich took out the PRO-
landed them here to-day.
_

Conx, Drc. 20.—K kale of cotton was pass^d u the
15th it t. in long. • 15.,- by the St. Patrick, Webster,
arrived here from Quebec. •

ODESSA, " DEC: 6.—Several vessel,: in •tlii3 port • SUS.
tained more or less damage during a ►ale from the. N, E.
on the night of the 34 instant. • Thl Emma, Simp-
son, the Goodluck, Deslando, iu particular the
.forruQr,
being neuly a wreck, and the latter, suffered

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LtvzrtrooL, Doc. 21.—Witni S. VI: to\',.. S. W .—'22,1
Wind S., modcrate.—Arrived, Petrel, T,,,,,,,,. Calcutv. ;
(• Bridkrit, Gibson, Montreal; Artemis, Lesh, ditto ; 'Flatea,
Neill, ditto ; Ilenry r;l7ss,. Qnebec ; .I!intbe, -.-, 'Nev.'.
foundland ; Blddington's, Ma,s, Old ailaliar ; Tarne.r-
lane, ./ll'lit,nzic., Calcutta; Queen, Thomas, Montieal ;
Zsnte, Green, St. John's, New BrunsWiek ; Phcenix,
Evans, Miramichi; Eagle, Harworth, Pug trash ; Chief-
tain, Dixon, St. Andrew's New Brunswick ; Glen, Ray,
Prince Edward's Island ;• Navarino, —, Quebec ; Int:cfa-
tigable, —, ditto ; Off Port.—Jessie, Mir,miclii. Sai2cd,
_Wanderer, Binds, St. Lucia; Diadem, Leslie, NefiY
Orleans; Ashburton, Bulkelcy, Azores; Dart, Gray, St.
Michael's. The Heath. hence to London, was abaacloned
in a sinking state, off Tuskar, on the 17th inst. The
Pursuit, hence to Shetland, was driven on shore at the
Isle of Man on the 17th inst., crew saved. The Col-
chester, Miltas, bound to Bombay, has put back le lkY•
The Ajo, Olivier, from Lisbon, to this port was tot. 'llY
wrecked on Watney Island on the 19th inst., crew ssvc d•
The Ludy Dana was totally wrecked in the harbour ~of
the small isles of Jura on the 12th inst., crew saved.
PLvtiorTzt, DEC. 22.—Wind S.W., strong breeze.
FALMOUTH, Iliac. 20. Wind W. S W., strong breezes
and squally.—Arrived the Isabella, Dempster, from Yar-
mouth, with bowsprit sprung, and loss of jibbcom, &c.,
having been in contact with a brig off Lowest:lc.
GUERNSKT, DEC. 20.—Sailed the Laura, Dennis, for
Tag' a :reg.

MAEIPORT, DEC. 20. —Arrived the St. George, Poole,
from Quebec.

DUBLIN, DEC. 21 —Arrived the Palami Paster, from
Halifax; Industry, S ephei s S-. John's, N.B.
Corm, DEC. 19.—Arrived the Elizabeth, from
Newfoundland, with loss of sails, Sze. ; Gcn. • Doug-
las, Hyde, Quebec ; St. Petrick, Webster, ditto; Lo-
belia, Merolith, ditto.

MARGATE, Line. 22.—Off Port, the President, Chad.
wick, from New York ; Rosiea, Lowe, Calcutta.
PORTSMOUTII, DEC. 21.—Wind W. to S.W. fresh
breezes.---22. S. W.—Arrived the Mariner, Bartlett, from
Quebec. Off prt, the Hopeful, Reeves, from the Care
of Good Hope.

SHEERNESS, DEC 21.—Arrived H. M. S. Dolphin, from
the Coast of Africa.

DEAL, DEC. 21.—Wind S. S. W.-22. S. W., fresh
breezes. Arrived the Sudlane, Thorn, from Montreal ;
Regalia, Alexander, Quebec ; Fanny, Quebec ; Lord
Willington, Tate, Sierra Leone; Lord Saumarez, Simon,
Mauritius; Eliza Ann, Palmer, Cape Coast Castle;
Phcenix, Mayes, Newfoundland; Forth, St. John's, New
Brunswick.

BELFAST, DEC. 20.- A n Ted the Sarah Stewart, \M.
on, from Miramichi.

LEITH, DEC. 21.—Sailed the Isabella, Hardy, for Ha-
vannah ; Haidec, M'Bride, St. Vincent.
Billups, DEC. 21.—Arrived the Dovecot, Bui', from
Cephalonia. Sailed the Coquette, Morrison, 1,,r Rio
Janeiro; Mary Muir, Pain, Charleston.
SUNDERLAND, DEC. 21.—Arrived the Defender, Ro-
binson, from Quebec.
Hutt, DEC. 21.—Arrived the Alarm, Anderson, from
Batavia. The Norden, Anderson, hence to Shields, has
put back, having been on the Barcum.
BRIDLINGTON, DEC. 20.—Arrived the Thorpe, Stil:e,
from Riga, leaky.
Row:3/, DEC. 22.—Off port, the Fame, Purvis, irr..'in
the Cape of Good Hope.
POOLE, DEC. 21.—Arrived the Velocity, Whitway, from
in a damaged state. Newfoundland.
BRIDPORT, DEC. 21.—Off port, th 3 Mary, D'Esson,
from Riga. "
DAETHOCTII, DEC. 21.—The True Bess, Jones, from
Limerick to Portsmouth, in proceeding to sea, was driven
on the rocks near Ringswear Castle, was assisted off is a
sinking state, and toured into this harbour. Cargo dis-
charging,

VESSELS SPOKEN WITIL —The A( miral Benbow, for
Liverpool, in the Gulf of St. Laurence by the Avon,
Robinson, arrived at Liverpool ; Mary Jones,
1 lth ult.,
let. 49, long. 9, by the Dinah, arrived at Gloucester;
Caroline, bound to Bombay, tSth inst , lat. 35, long. 16,
by the Dart, Airth, arrived in the river; Thomas Row..
land (or Hyland) Savannah to London, 25ili ult., lat. 43,
long. 34 ; Adventure, Catto, of Peterhead. from Cartha-
gena, Bth inst., lat. 52, long. 13, by the Mariner, Craw-
ford, arrived in the Clyde.

FALITOUTII.-"Mr. Hutchins having completed
a most successful canvass, left Falmouth, accompanied
by Captain Lay and and Mr. Coppock, on Saturday
evening, having previously put out an address thanking
the electors for the reception he had experienced, and
regretting that his duty as a Magistrate for the disturbed
district in Wales compelled his departure until nearer
the election, when he would be found at his post, with
the certainty of triumph. Mr. Hutchins's canvass has
been the most dAttering ever made, both at Penrbyn-and
Falmouth ; and the union of all classes of Reformers
having
'men completely accomplished, there is no chance
for the Tory candidate, Mr. Cabbell, who having been
deluded
s place defeated at St. Albans the last general
election,only eideel
awaits now .a similar fate here. He also
left
by the Devonport wail alone, and under
t
a feigned name, on Sunday. (yesterday), morning, and
with a very downcast countenance. In truth the Tories
having relied upon the disunion of the Reform party,
and finding their hope's disappointed, know that they are
dead beat, and that the result of this election will involve
them in a costly and doubtful struggle for the\ second
seat.

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Yesterday the Lord Bishop of London, assisted by
several clergymen, held an Ordination at the Church of
St. James's, Piccadilly, in the presence of a numerous
congregation. The candidates for admission into Dea-
cons' and Priests' orders amounted to thirty, and occu-
pied the whole extent of the line around the altar. Af-
ter the usual service had been gone through,
The Lord Bishop ascended the pulpit, and preached
to the candidates. His text was the 4th chapter of
the Second Epistle of St. Paul to Timothy, sth verse
—" But watch thou in all things ; endure uffliction ; do
the work of an evangelist ; and give full proof of thy
ministry." These directions of the Apostle to his
youthful pupil and associate contained, said the Preacher,
a summary of the duties of a minister. Having com-
mented on the necessity of a predilection for the Church
on the part of a candidate as being indispensable for a
proper discharge of his duties, and an observance of those
rules which were laid down by the wise and pious men of
past ages for the direction of the clergy, the Right
Reverend Preacher proceeded to say, that it
should be a solemn consideration with parents
who desired that their sons should enter the mi-
nistry to shape the education of the children accord-
ingly in studies, habits, and tastes, for on their future
care and diligence the salvation of many would depend.
In exhorting the candidates to watch both their flock
and their own frailties, he reminded them that, whether
they should watch or not, many would watch them,
for priests stood upon an eminence whence it was their
duty to shed the light of truth and the influence of good
example over the world. Many eyes would be turned
upon the conduct of the priest with anxious but un-
friendly scrutiny ; and many who were either avowed
Atheists, or the enemies of their Church, under other
names, would be sure to exult over and proclaim any
fault the priest might fall into, while the error of a pri-
vate Christian would perhaps escape unnoticed. The
Lord Bishop then dwelt upon the importance of cou-
rage, meekness, fortitude—a system that should, if pos-
sible, offend no one, and yet not lose an opportunity of
making or retaining a single convert. He then
pointed out the many hardships and vexations the can-
didates would have to undergo, whether in the ministry
at home or in the colonies, how to surmount them, and,
finally, the rewards that await here and hereafter the
minister who shall faithfully, by precept and example,
have done his duty in the Church of Christ.

The following is a list of the gentlemen who were
then ordained, together with their appointments :
DEACONS.—WiIIiam Twiss Turner, M.A., Trinity
College, Cambridge, nominated to be Assistant Curate
at Henham, Essex ; Henry Halden, M.A., Baliol Col-
lege, Oxon, to be Assistant Curate at Upminster, Es-
sex ; Robert Lawson, 8.A., Jesus College, Cambridge,
to be Assistant Curate at Great Halland, to reside at
Walton ; C. J. Scratchley, 8.A., Brazen Nose Col-
lege, Oxon, to be Assistant Curate at St. George-the-
Martyr, Middlesex ; Chas. Brian Leigh, 8.A., Christ's
College, Cambridge, to be Assistant Curate at Wick-
ham Bishops, Essex ; George Herbert Rupton, 8.A.,
University College, Oxon, to be Assistant Curate at
St. Philip's Chapel, St. James's, Westminster ; Samuel
Pryer Field, 8.A., Pemberton College, Cambridge, to
be Assistant Curate at Finchingfield, Essex ; Charles
Maunders, B. A., Queen's College, Cambridge, to be As-
sistant Curate at Shepperton, Middlesex ; E. T. Champ-
neys, S.C.L., All Souls' College, Oxon, to be Assistant
Curate at St. Mary's, Whitechapel ; Frederick Charles
Cooke, 8.A., St. John's College, Cambridge, to be
Assistant Curate at Trinity Church, Gray's Inn-lane ;
Charles Coleby Roberts, to be Fourth Master at St .
Paul's School ; Arthur Roberts, 8.A.. Magdalen Col-
lege, Oxon, to be Chaplain of Halstead Union, and to
assist his brother at Halstead ; Frederick Style, 8.A.,
St. John's College, Oxon, to be Assistant Curate at
St. John's, Westminster ; George France, 8.A., Exe-
ter College, Oxon, to be ditto : Charles Greenwood,
Church Missionary College, Islington, for the Colonial
Mission ; Thomas Spurr, Trinity College, Cambridge,
and Arthur Wellington Wallis, 8.A., Magdalen Hall,
Oxon, both to be under the direction of the Society
for the Propagation of the Gospel.
PansTs.—Robert Abercrombie Johnstone, M.A.,
New College, Cambridge, to be Assistant Curate
at St. Giles's-in-the-Fields ; Edward Henry Lan-
don, M.A., Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,
to the Curacy of East Hornden, Essex ; Charles
Burney, M.A., Magdalen College, Oxon, Licensed
Curate of Sible Hedingliam, Essex ; Arthur Welling-
ton Roper, 3.A., Emmanuel College, Cambridge,
Licensed Curate of Bradivell-by-the-Sea ; Barrett Ed-
ward Lampet, 8.A., Corpus Christi College, Cam-
bridge, Licensed Curate of Great Bardfield ; Tho-
mas Richardson Birch,. 8.A., Pembroke College,
Oxon, -- ; Henry Augustus Loveday, B.A , St.
Peter's College, Cambridge ; Licensed Curate of Hor-
kesley Parva ; John Tahourdn White, M.A., Corpus
Christi College, Oxon, Christ's Hospital, and Licensed
Curate of St. Andrew-hy,tbe- Wardrobe ; Thomas
Wm. Henry Gromey, 8.A., St. John's College, Cam-
bridge, Christ's Hospital ; J. Aubone Cook, 8.A.,
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Licensed Curate
of St. Margaret's Westminster ; Abraham Borrackaile,
M.A., Christ Church, Oxon, Licensed Curate of St.
John's, Westminster ; John Hawksworth, Church Mis-
sionary College, Islington, a;:d John Philip Menge, of
the same College, both for the Colonial Mission.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLI-

GENCE.

OXFORD, DEC. 21.—T. Leah, Esq., of Lyme Hail,
Cheshire, has presented the Rev. Roger Kent, of Bra-
zernose College, to the Perpetual Curacy of Disley,
Cheshire.

The Rev. Josh, Birch, late of Pembroke College,
has been presented to the Perpetual Curacy of Crosens,
Lancashire.

The Rev. J. M. Cholmeley, late Fellow of Magdalen
College, has been instituted, by the Lord Bishop of
Chichester, to the Chapelry of Lower Beeding, Sussex.
The Dean and Chapter of Christ Church have pre-
sented the Rev. F. F. Fawkes, one of the Chaplains of
Christ Church, to the Perpetual Curacy of Great and
Little Hampton, Worcestershire.
The Lord Bishop of Ripon has licensed the Rev.
John Charnock, of Lincoln College, to the Perpetual
Curacy of Aldfield, Yorkshire, on the presentation of
Mrs. Elizabeth Sophia Lawrence.
The Lord Bishop of London has appointed the
Rev. H. Taylor, of St. Mary Hall, Incumbent of All
S tints, Stepney.
CAMBAIDGE, DEC. 20.—There will be congrega-
tions on the following days of the ensuing Lent term :
Saturday, Jan. 18 (B.A. commencement), at 10 ; Wed-
nesday, Jan. 29, at 1 t ; Wednesday, Feb. 12, at 11 ;
Wednes.lay, Feb. 2(, at 11 ; Wednesday, March 4, at
11 ; Wednesday, March 18, at 11 ; Friday, April 3
(M A. Inceptors), at 10 ; Friday, April 10 (end of
term), at 10.
The following is a list of those gentlemen in the first
class who have completed their third and second years
respectively, at St. John's College, being those who were
classed at the examination just ended, as follows :
Third Year—Boultbec, Scott, H. J. Bull, Lovell.
Riggott, Ellicott, Shears, Wrieley, Sangster, and Parish.
Second Yeer—Simpson, Wilson, Ainger, A. Frost,
Bird, Light. R. Mayor, 0. E. Vidal, J. H. Vidal,
Johnstone, Parnell, Wolfe, Davies, Dcwe, Greenwell,
Sheringhnrn, S!larples, Cook, Middlemist, Wilkinson,
and Penny.
The subject for the Seatonian prize poem for the en-
suing year is—" The Ministry of Angels."
PRlZES—Annexed are the subjects for the following
prizes, as issued by the Vice-Chancellor :-
1. English Ode (Chancellor's gold medal)—Richard
I. in Palestine.

2. Latin Prose Pleml)crs)—For Bachelors, "In
ilia Philosophia, in qua de vita hominum et moribus dis-
putatur, tractanda quibus principiis quasi fundamento
inniti, quibusque potissirnum ex fontibus recte vivendi
prwcepta haurire oporteat ?" For the Undergraduates,
" Quid censes plausus et amici dona Quiritis ?"
3. Sir W. Browne's gold medals.—For Greek Ode,
" Eleusis." Latin Ode, " 1110 Virgilium me tempore
dulcis alebat Parthenope,studis florentern ignobilis oti."
Greek Epigram, " Duke periculum." Latin Epigram,
" Se sequiturque fugitque."
4. Porson translation from Shakspeare.—Troilus and
Cressida, Act. 1., Scene 111., beginning, " Th© ample
proposition that hope makes ;" and ending, " make a
toast for Neptune."

DURHAM, DEC. 19.—At a Convocation holden on
Thursday, 11. J. Spearman, Esq., was nominated by the
Warden, and approved by Convocation, as one of the
Curators of the Observatory.
The Rev. George Fyler Townsend, 8.A., of Trinity
,
Cambridge
College, was presented and admitted, ad
cundem.
The University seal was affixed to a security to the
Bishop of Durham.
The prize for the best English Essay, to be written
by any Student under the standing of M.A., who has
passed the examination for the degree of 8.A., or by
any Student in Theology, " On the influence of Com-
merce on National Character," has been assigned to
Thomas Charles Thompson, Student in Arts.

Among other reductions in duties to be recom-
mended, it is said, is a diminution of the duty upon
brandy imported to 12s. 6d. per gallon.
A few weeks ago, Anthony Douthwaite and
his wife, removed from Northallerton, with their furni_
tore, to reside at Sunderland, and took with them a fa-
vourite cat, which appears on its arrival to have had
no relish for Sunderland, for, to the great surprise of the
next door neighbour to where Douthwaite resided at
Northallerton, the poor cat returned to that place a few
days ago, having travelled a distance of forty-seven
miles.—Carlisle Journal.
ENORMOUS TURNIP.—In our last, we noticed
a turnip grown by Mr. Hughes, Bee Inn, Abergele,
weighing 161bs. and this week we have to notice one of
the Globe kind, grown on Mr. Horne's Farm, near
Denbigh, and now to be seen at the shop of Mr. Edward
Bland, nursery and seedsman of that town. It is 48
inches in circumference, 12 inches deep, and weighs the
enormous weight of 371bs. after taking off the root and
1 eaves.—Carnarvon Herald. 1

SOJTHWAITIC.—Meetings of the respective
friends of the candidates for the representation of this
borough continue to be held. There are in the field
Mr. Wood, a gentleman of decided Liberal politics,
Mr. Walter, an anti-ministerialist, opposed to the New
Poor-law, and Mr. Curling, who declares himself op-
posed to the ballot and to the total repeal of the Corn-
laws ; but favourable to triennial Parliaments, and a
supporter of the principle of the new Poor-law.
It P.as stated on Saturday that a demi-official
intimation had been given to the trading private bank-
ing firms of the City, that the Directors of the Bank of
England are anxious to make
_preparations for a reduc-
tion in the rate of interest to a per cent., provided the
establishments alluded to will first take this highly use-
ful and important step. The advantages which a boon
of this description would confer upon the commercial
interests it is almost impossible to estimate. This
rumour produced but a slight influence upon the quo-
tat ions of stock.
The Countess of Devon, whose melancholy death
occurred lately, was the daughter of the Countess of
Rothes, and Sir Lucas Pepys, Bart., and aunt to the
present Earl of Rothes. Her Ladyship has left three
sons : Lord Courtenay, and the Hon. Hugh and Charles
L. Courtenay. The poor have lost a sincere friend in
this lady, whose charity was most unostentatiously eon-
ferred.—Ereter Post.
GREAT NORTII OF ENGLAND RAILWAY.--
The Directors of the Great North of England Railway
have suspended any further proceedings with regard to
the line of road throur.rh the county of Durham, until the
Government engineers, now employed on a survey, have
completed their work, and made their report to the
Home
; and it is anticipated that their report
will, in a great measure, influence the decision of the
Board as to the line to be adopted. The line for which
the Company obtained an Act of Parliament a consi-
derable time ago, is attended with most formidable diffi-
culties, and considered almost impracticable.
A Committee is forming for the purpose of erect-
ing a public monument to the memory of Dr. Butler,
the late Bishop of Lichfield, in the Shrewsbury Abbey
Church.—Salopian Journal.

Some interesting papers have been laid on the table
of the India House, forming extracts from the secret
correspondence from the Governor-General connected
with the late brilliant siege of Ghuznee. The following
correspondence, including a letter from the restored King
of Affghanistan to Queen Victoria, which took place
after the victory, will be read with interest :-
1 Abstract translation of a letter from his Majesty
Shah Shooja-001-Moolk to the Right Honourable the
Governor-General. After compliments—
" I beg to enclose a letter in duplicate to her Most
Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, a copy of which is
sent for your perusal, and I have to request that you
will transmit the same to its destination at your earliest
convenience, and that you will use your utmost endea-
vours to induce her Most Gracious Majesty to comply
with my wishes as therein set forth.
" The receipt of an early and satisfactory reply to this
communication will be the source of more pleasure and
gratification to me than I can possibly express.
" I have one more favour to ask of your Lordship,
which is, that you will oblige me by accepting yourself,
and wearing for my sake, the decoration of the order of
my kingdom, the recovery of which I mainly attribute to
your Lordship's assistance."
Translation of a letter from his Majesty Shah Shooja-
ool-Aloolk, King of Affghanistan, to her Most Gra-
cious Majesty Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and
Ireland. Atter compliments—
" Be it known to your Majesty that I having set out
from Skikapore, in company with the victorious British
troops, have now, by the favour of God, and the ex-
ceeding kindness of the British Government, ascended
the throne of my ancestors. Candahar, Ghuznee, and
Cahool, having successively fallen into my possession.
I am unable to express my gratification for this bless-
ing. I pray that the Almighty may preserve and in-
crease your Majesty's prosperity and glory. I have
been for some time considering by what means I
could reward the gentlemen and troops who accom-
panied me for all the troubles and dangers they have
undergone for my sake.
" I have now fully resolved upon instituting an
Order, to be designated the Order of the Dooraunee
Empire (Nishawi Dooni Dooaw,) to be divided into
three classes. _ _

" It is my wish to confer the First Class of my Order
upon the Right Hon. George Lord Auckland, Gover-
nor-General of India ; upon the Commander-in• Chief
of the Army, Sir John Keane ; upon the Envoy and
Minister at any Court, W. H. Macnaghten, Esq., upon
Major-General Sir Willoughby Cotton ; upon Lieute-
nant-Colonel Sir Alexander Baines ; and upon Lieute-
nant-Colonel C. M. Wade. Tne -2.,(1 and 3d Classes of
the Order upon those officers who are named in the
accompanying lists.
" As I wish also to confer upon the whole of the army,
as well as upon the officers, some mark of distinction
commemorative of the battle of Ghuznee, it is my desire
to have a medal struck, to be conferred upon every offi-
cer and soldier who was present on that glorious oc-
casion. _ _

" I have the fullest confidence in the kind considera-
tion for my wishes which is felt by my Royal Sister ;
and feel assured that she will be graciously pleased to
permit the gentlemen and soldiers above-mentioned to
wear the decoration which I shall confer upon them,
so that a memorial of me may be preserved, and the
fame of the glorious exploits achieved in this quarter
may resound throughout the whole world."

CHRISTMAS SOUVENIR.—At a period when
the social sympathies are most predominant, and the
genial influence of " Home" is felt in the highest degree
—more especially by " My young misses," just arrived
to spend her vacation, at the " Old Hall," the most
appropriate present becomes the first subject of consi-
deration ; a merely useful one can afford no evidence of
taste, while a present possessing no claims to utility,
shows a want of judgment. To combine these requi-
sites, we can hardly suggest a more fitting souvenir than
Roe land's Toilet Articles, the " Macassar," " Kaly-
dor," and " Odonto," which, from their beautifying
effects on the hair, complexion, and teeth, are calculated
to preserve a grateful recollection of the donor.

INCREASED CONSUMPTION OF OPIUM.—
On Saturday a very animated discussion took place at
the Westminster Medial Society, on this matter. Mr.
Downing, who is, we believe, the author of a book on
China, elucidated the action of opium in all those
countries in which it is habitually consumed, and fully
proved that all the arguments produced against the use
of spirits applied with tenfold force against the use
of opium.—Dr. J. Johnson, in the course of the even-
ing, said, from his own personal knowledge, he was able
to state that opium eating had increased in this country
to such an extent as to have become nearly equal in
its proportion with tee-totalism. Indeed, the subject
had called forth the particular attention of the different
insurance offices, who were about to hold a meeting in
consequence of their having discovered that they had
sustained considerable loss from, as well as that a new
risk had been created by, the enormous increase in the
consumption of opium. In future policies, of course
the risk could be provided for by the charge of an ad-
ditional premium ; but as such a course of chance had
not been anticipated on policies already effected, the
matter had assumed a somewhat serious aspect.—Seve-
ral gentlemen bore testimony to the deadly results to
which the practice invariably led.

BLACKwALL RAILWAY.—We understand that
the Directors of the Blackwall Railway Company have
determined upon fitting up an electro-magnetic telegraph
along their line, similar to that which we recently no-
ticed as having been for some time in successful opera-
tion on the Great Western Railway. In addition to the
facilities which such an arrangement will afford in the
working of the railway (an arrangement peculiarly
adapted to this lire, as we shall take a future opportu-
nity of showing), the public will be benefited in ❑o small
degree by its application to other purposes. For instance,
a vessel coming up the river can before reaching Woolwich
easily communicate by signals with the railway termi-
nus at Blackwall, and the information being instan-
taneously conveyed to the Fenchurch-street station
in the immediate vicinity of the great seat of bu-
siness, parties who arc expecting the arrival of friends
will at once be prepared to meet them in town, without
the necessity of waiting for hours about the docks and

wharfs ; or if so inclined can joi❑ them at Blackwall,
almost as soon as the vessel has reached that point. In
the case of steam-boats especially this will be of great
advantage, as there can he no doubt that the whole of
the passengers by these vessels will at once avail them-
selves of the Railway to avoid the always tedious, and
sometimes dangerous, navigation of the Pool. We are
glad to find that the works of this short but most im-
portant line are proceeding with much vigour, and that
the prospects of the Company are in the highest degree
satisfactory.—Railway Times.

A question of very great importance, as respects
the trade of Great Britain is at present under the anxious
consideration of Government, and which will exeitc
some interest when the facts connected with it are
fully known. Many of our merchants have complaints
to make of the little regard shown to the commercial
treaties entered into by the Governments of some of
the most distant parts of the world. For some time
past this subject has occupied the attention of Lord
Palmerston, with the view of taking such prompt mea-

sures, in a case capable of full proof, to put a stop en-
tirely to the exactions made upon British property im-
ported into foreign ports over and above those duties
established by reciprocal treaties of commerce. A case
of some importance is now under the consideration of
Sir John Dodson, her Majesty's Advocate, by which we
are informed reclamations upon the Government of

Brazil are likely to be enforced for the restoration of
duties, overcharged in the way we have stated. We
are assured, that should the opinion of the Queen's
Advocate concur with those of Lord Palmerston, that
very decisive measures will be taken to obtain for British
merchants interested prompt and full compensAion.
Should this be effected, a lesson will be taught to other
authorities who may be disposed to act in the same
manner.—Observer.

SHORT WHIST BY MAJOR. A—.—A second
edition of this little treatise has been published contain-
ing several laws of the game, differing in some respect
from those laid down by Hoyle, together with some pe-
culiarities of short whist, as played at the West-end
Clubs. We confess we cannot see any material differ-
ence, and therefore arc not at all disposed to forsake the
precepts of the venerable lawgiver. But it may be pre-
judice, and prejudice certainly we have against this bas-
tard game, this offshoot from legitimate long whist, for
centuries the object of idolatry to all old maidens and
Cheltenham Nabobs, because it encourages gambling
and consequently late hours, so prejudicial to health,
and to which the Major attributes " his shattered nerves

and general debility:" It is part of his advice in
" Maxims to Beginners," to avoid late hours and long
play, and for this, as well as the insight it gives into the
game, it may be consulted with interest.
PRESBYTERY OF STRATFIBOGIE.—The seven
Ministers of the Presbytery of Strathbogie, who have
been deprived of their place in the Church, by a
judgment of the Commission of the General Assembly
on the 4th current, for a time, and for ever, unless on
certain specified conditions, met at Keith, on the 16th
at an early hour, to take into consideration the distress-
ing and perilous situation in which they are thus
placed ; and after hours of grave and solemn delibe-
ration—looking at their position on all sides, and
searching wistfully for some way by which they might
escape from it, without sacrificing their principles and
compromising their truth,as thesehad been put forth in the
whole of their proceedings, and in their solemn declaration
to the Church on the 4th current—and finding no such
way, they were again constrained to come to the still
more painful resolution to resist the authority of the
Commission as now exercised against them, and—view-
judgment of the Commission, as against
ing without passion, and, as they believe, without pre-
judice, the late
law, and, therefore, as without right, and subversive of
justice—to throw themselves on the protection of the
civil power. They have accordingly applied for a Bill
of Suspension and Interdict from the Court of Session,
—Aberdeen Journal.

(From a Letter on the Commercial Relations of Great
Britain with the United States, By a Citizen of New
York.)
A wise statesman, and emphatically a British states-
man, will seek by every honourable means to sustain
and benefit the industrious classes in the community he
governs ; and in no way can he so readily effect this as
by opening and preserving to them good markets for the
surplus products of their labours. I need only refer to
the official returns of the trade and commerce of the
empire for the evidence of what has been the value of
the American market to the British manufacturer ; and '
in this respect, as in others, the past is assurance for
the future. Why does Britain at a vast expense plant
and maintain colonies in every quarter of the globe, if
not to extend and enlarge her commercial markets ?
America, in this, is to her a colony exempted from the
burthen of maintenance ; her vast resources only now
beginning to be known to herself, developed by an in-
dustry that never tires, and an enterprise that never
sleeps, must make her ever a valuable friend, and may
make her a dangerous rival. Fifty years ago, when
her present form of government was organized, she
numbered barely three millions of people, exhausted
by eight years of war, and nearly as many of inefficient
government ; without commerce, money, or credit, and
burthened with a debt of more than a hundred mil-
lions. In the comparatively short period that has inter-
vened, the three millions have increased to eighteen ;
they have passed through every trial of peace and war,
have doubled their debt, and paid it all to the last
dollar. Her territory by honest purchase has been
greatly enlarged—her commerce whitens every sea,
and her manufactures have attained such extent and
perfection, that, nourished by a little more opposition
from this side, they may be so strengthened as to need
no protection from any quarter.
Our tariff domestic war must be fresh in your
recollection. Six years ago, after a contest of more
than ten years' duration, it was settled by compromise,
and the protective principle was formally abandoned.
Two years hence our duties reach the minimum.
Already are the measures adopted on this side to dis-
parage our credit and restrict our mutual intercourse
working their effects, and our public journals have
begun to discuss the subject, and to call for a revision
of the tariff laws, with a view to return to the system
of protection. A little more pressure from this quarter
will settle the question at once, and probably for ever.
Nine years ago our own manufactures consumed one-
eighth of a cotton crop of less than a million of bales.
They now take more than one-fifth of a crop of a mil-
lion and a half, and that in the face of a diminishing
protective duty.
Originally we were an agricultural and commercial
community. Manufactures did not enter into our
policy ; British orders in council and French decrees
drove us from the ocean, and finally to war ; and from
necessity we became manufacturers. The return of
peace again opened the ocean to us, but with it came
restrictive laws upon important portions of the produce
of our agriculture, and manufactures were again re-
sorted to, to fill up the void in our national industry.
The spirit of our people is opposed to idleness and
inaction. If you will not permit them to trade with
you, they will speedily strike out for themselves some
new path to wealth. But it is said, that they are not
only industrious and enterprising, but speculative and
vi!ionary also ; and that they borrow money for works
of doubtful expediency and profit. And the multitude
of railroads and canals projected in almost every section
of our country are adduced as examples of this thriftless
profusion. I will not say that every undertaking of the
kind has been wisely projected, and will result in profit ;
but I will venture the suggestion that the same rule
which may be a sound one in judging of such works in
this country will not apply there. In a country like
this, where the land is all occupied, and where trade has
reached or approached its maximum, it may be impru-
dent to set on foot any such undertakings, unless there
is already a sufficient commerce and travel to afford
them profitable support. But in one like the United
States, where what is a wilderness to-day, a few short
years will see the abode of civilization, covered with
flourishing cities, and filled with a busy and thriving
people ; the case is widely different. A rail-road or a
canal may there be undertaken in almost any section
where the elements of commerce exist, although they
may yet be inert and undeveloped. Indeed, they are
the great labour-saving machines, which, more rapidly
than all others, unfold and bring into action the dormant
resources of our new regions. Nine states and terri-
tories of the republic, containing a population of more
than six millions, have, in the short space of little more
than a quarter of a century, passed from the one condi-
tion above described to the other, and more than half
of that great change has been effected within the last
fifteen years, and mainly, through the instrumentality
of roads and canals constructed with borrowed money.

MRS. S. C. HALL, in her forthcoming novel,
of " Marian," or A. Young Maid's Fortunes," a
deeply touching story of the trials of a female foundling
—has, we understand, occupied new ground ; placing
her scene and characters in our own time, and mixing
up persons of every day aspect with the wilder events
that belong to romance, and more especially tracing
those strong and fervent feelings of devotion and attach-
ment which so peculiarly mark the nature of her Irish
countrymen.
EDUCATION OF THE CLERGY.--ID a parish
in the north (he would not mention names, but would
vouch for the truth of what lie asserted) a school-house
had been erected ; a salary was provided for the school-
master by the will of some charitable individual. On
visiting the parish some short time since a friend of his
had found that the schoolmaster's salary wss paid to-
wards the poor-rate, and the school-room was a depot
for bacon and cyder ; not a single scholar. There was
the Clergyman in the parish ; there was the Bishop in
the diocese ; there was all the necessary apparatus, as
we are told, for sound education, and there was the
school-house full of bacon and cyder.—(Great laughter.)
In the case of the Pocklington school the endowment
amounted to 9001. per annum, and the country would be
surprised to hear that the guardians of the endowment
—those who were bound to see its provisions duly exe-
cuted—were the Masters and Fellows of St. John's
College, in this University.—(Hear.) On inquiry,
some time since, it was found there was only one scholar:
and the master was gone out of the way of his creditors.
Gisbornc's Sneceli at Cambridge.
A poor woman with two children, living for the
last ten years in a wretched garret, in an obscure part
of the city, and earning a scanty subsistence by her
own labour, was, a few evenings ago, surprised by the
entrance of a gentleman, who, in a civil manner, but
without waiting for any express permission, went to an
old cupboard which the woman had found in the room when
she hired it, opened it, and, after some rummaging of its
contents, removed a board at the back, and drew forth a
quantity of papers. Having carefully examined them
with evident satisfaction, he turned to the present occu-
pant and apologised for his abrupt proceedings. He
informed her that ten years ago he was her predecessor
in that very room, but being, from untoward circum-
stances, compelled to leave Paris at a moment's notice, he
had not time to return and take with him the papershe then
had found where he had concealed them, to prevent his
being brought into trouble. He then presented her
with a bank-note for 500 f. as a compensation for the
damage he had done to the cupboard, and took his de-
parture.—Paris.Paper.
REMARKABLE CELESTIAL PHENOMENON.—
Between the hours of twelve and one o'clock, a very
remarkable arch was observed in the heavens at East
Retford, extending from N.E. to S.W., and crossing
the meridian about 30 deg. from the zenith. The outer
position of this phenomenon was extremely dark and
well defined, but the inner part gradually became paler
and paler, until it was of the same colour as the other
part of the heavens, which to the south was dense and
thick, and this density and thickness extended to the
earth so as to have the agpearance of smoke up to the
apparent verge of the shadow of the arch above. To
the north of this line the air was uncommonly clear, and
the sky without a cloud, which remarkable contrast ex-
cited the surprise of all who witnessed it in the northern
parts of the county of Nottingham. Within an hour
afterwards, the thermometer suddenly fell upwards of
five degrees, but up to the present time, with one single
exception, we have had no rain ; and the weather dur-
ing the week has been more favourable than we have
experienced for some months past.—Doncaster Gazette,
Dec. 20.
RICE HARVEST IN GERMANY.--A harvest of
a very uncommon description in northeri! Europe has
been reaped at Blansko, near Brunn, in Moravia.
After many trials, a Baron Von Reichen bach has, it
appears, succeeded in bringing to perfection a field of
rice, which in Germany, even more than with us, is an
article of constant and extensive consumption. As the
land where the crop has been grown is situated in a
cold, mountainous region, more than a thousand feet
above the sea, and surrounded by forests, where the
climate is too severe for the growth of grapes, his suc-
cess is the more extraordinary. The seed was sown
and raised entirely in water ; in the first instance in a
sort of hot-bed, or hot water, for the water was a little
warmed whenever, during the spring, the weather was
cold enough to render it necessary ; and it was then
transplanted according to a method practised in Hin-
dostan.--ifthenceum.
EXTRAORDINARYWAGER.--011 Friday even-
ing last, in the presence of several betting characters, a
wager of 100/. was laid in the parlour of a sporting
tavern in Piccadilly, between two extensive butchers,
both celebrated at this time of the year for prize cattle.
One is a residentiin the city, famed for barons of beef and
roasting bullocks whole, and the other of equal noto-
riety, near Bond-street, The wager is as to which will
sell, by retail, the greater quantity of meat from the
21st of December to the 31st of December. The 2001.
was on Saturday morning deposited in the hands of the
proprietor of the tavern, and at twelve o'clock a disinte-
rested person was stationed at each establishment to take
an account of all sales. The wager is to be decided on
New Years' Day.

On the balance sheet, showing the demands upon
the Vestry for the ensuing week to be 12,0001., being
read by the Vestry Clerk,
The CHAIRMAN said they had heard the balance
sheet read, and he regretted to inform them that the
Vestry had not one shilling at their disposal to meet the
pressing demands upon them. Thus far the opponents
of the Vestry, through the medium of a portion of the
Press, had effected a temporary triumph. In the pub-
lic Press of Friday and that day the opinion of Sir
William Follet, had been put forward, declaring the
act of the Vestry borrowing money on the parish bonds
to be illegal.—(Hear.) Whether that was the case or
not, it was not at the present moment the duty of the
Vestry to inquire. The question was, how they were
to free themselves from the great and difficult
position in which they were placed.—(Hear.) He be-
lieved, although the Vestry were at the present moment
in this dilemma, that through the great and undeviating
kindness of their Treasurers, Sir Claude Scott and Co.,
they would be enabled to obtain practical and efficient
relief from their present embarrassment.—(Hear, hear.)
He felt assured that this would be the case ; and al-
though it might be deviating from the general rule far
the Chairman of a meeting to propose a motion, yet,
from the great interest he took in the subject, he begged
leave to submit the following resolution :—" It appear-
ing to this Board, from a statement in several daily pa-
pers of yesterday, that Sir William Follett has given an
opinion against the legality of borrowing money on parish
bonds—Resolved that the borrowing money on bonds be
suspended, and that a case be prepared by the
Vestry Clerk, assisted by a Committee, setting forth
an exact statement of the facts for the opinion
of the Attorney-General as to the powers of
the Vestry under existing circumstances to raise
on parish bonds the sum of 25,0001., as already re-
solved on by the Board. And that a deputation be
appointed to wait upon Sir Claude Scott and Company,
the treasurers to the Board, to represent to them the
great inconvenience to which the Vestry would be put,
unless they will advance as a temporary loan a sufficient
sum for defraying the police and county rates due at
Christmas, and amounting to 12,0001. And that such
deputation be appointed to confer with the treasurers
forthwith."

Mr. KENSETT rose to second the resolution. The
result of that day was no more than he had anticipated,
and was no doubt produced by that portion of the public
Press which had laboured in its vocation to cause that
effect. The case which had been presented to Sir W.
Follett for consideration was a most unfair and garbled
one, and not such a one as ought to have been prepared
for a legal opinion.—(Hear, hear.) In the month of
December, 1826,he found from the Vestry minute of that
date that they borrowed the sum of 10,0001. on the new
paving rate bonds, and the remaining sums to complete
the sum of 20,000/. due to the bankers from the Poor,
Church, and Highway-rates : and yet they now said
that a similar act was illegal. Who did the Vestry sup-
pose this very minute upon its confirmation was signed
by as Chairman ? Why, no less a person than John
Hume Spry, the rector, who was the instigator of
placing the Vestry in the present embarrassed condition.
—(Hear, hear.) It was true that the Doctor and some
of his friends were the originators of what would pro-
bably end in a serious manner to the Vestry and parish ;
but it was mainly through the medium of that apostate
Journal, the Times, and its twaddling old paramour, the
Herald, that they were now reduced to the present state
of embarrassment, and probably expence.
Mr. Young and Mr. Joseph followed on the same
side.

After some observations from Mr. Byers and the
Chairman, the resolution was put from the Chair and
carried unanimously ; and the Chairman, together with
Messrs. Joseph, Skynner, Byers, Kensett, Dexter,
Clapp, and Young, having been appointed as a deputa-
.

tionio Sir Claude Scott and Co., the treasurers of the
parish, left the Vestry to wait upon them.
After the lapse of about an hour and a half the depu-
tation returned, when

Mr. JOSEPH said, he was gratified to inform the
Vestry that, notwithstanding letters had also been sent
by their opponents to the treasurers, having a tendency

to shake their confidence, as well as the public, in the
Board, those gentlemen, feeling convinced of the honour
and integrity of that body, had, on being informed of
the position they were in with respect to the country
and police rate, in the most generous manner acquiesced
in the resolution proposed by Mr. Daniell ; and had
consented to let them have immediately, as a temporary
loan, the sum of 12,000/.—(Cheers.) Thus far the
machinations of their enemies had been defeated.—
( Hear, bear.) Mr. Joseph concluded by moving the
adoption of a report embodying the result of the confer-
ence of the deputation, which was seconded by Mr.
Kensett, and carried unanimously.
A vote of thanks to the Treasurers was then pro-
posed by Mr. Gibson, and seconded by Mr. Young, and
carried nem, con. with acclamation.

POWERS OF THE MAGISTRACY AND INFORMERS UNDER

THE NEW POLICE ACT.

Mr. YOUNG said he had been deputed, by a meeting
composed of not less than from 800 to 1,000 tradesmen,
resident within the three parishes composing that bo-
rough, to lay before the Vestry a most serious and vexa-
tious abuse to which they had latterly become subjected
at the hands of the Magistracy and of a common informer,
named Stowell, under the 7th section of the 60th clause
of the New Police Act.—( Hear.) By this Act even
sun-blinds, or the slightest projection in front of a
tradesman's premises, rendered him liable to a penalty
of 40s.—(Shame.) Within the last few days Stowell
had been realizing within the borough, from convictions,
a sum amounting to 13/. per day ; and at the present
time he believed he had no less than from 600 to 700
informations against tradesmen of the district. That
Vestry, under their local Act, bad all the powers
vested in them contained in this clause of the New
Police Act, which, until recently, the Magistrates had
acted under. Now they had put a construction on the
60th clause which had a most vexatious and injurious
tendency to the honest tradesman, and which did no
further good than putting money into the pockets, and
holding out a premium to common informers.—(Hear.)
At the meeting to which he alluded a series of resolu-
tions were passed, one of which was to form a deputa-
tion to Lord Normanby, to impress upon him the vexa-
tious and injurious tendency of the clause upon them,
and to obtain through his influence a mitigation by the
magistracy, or a total repeal of that clause. As these
tradesmen ‘v ere in a great measure the constituents of
the Vestry, he thought they ought to aid them in coun-
teracting such a diabolical proceeding, and he would
move that a deputation of the Vestry be appointed also
to wait upon Lord Normanby, as well as the magistrates
of the district, and impress upon them the gross injustice
entailed upon the tradesmen.
Mr. HICKMAN seconded the motion.

Mr. JOSEPH said the way in which this Act was car-
ried out by the Magistrates was most extraordinary.
He had occasion to attend Marylebone Office one day
during the present week, and whilst he was there no
less than 16 persons were brought up under informa-
tions of the informer in question, and severally convicted
in the sum of 7s. each. No inquiry was gone into as to
the merits of the cases, but the parties were convicted
upon the question of guilty or not guilty.

The Rev. Dr. DIBDIN said that this was the most
tyrannical system, carried out in the way that it had
been, that ever existed.—(Hear, hear.) Ho cordially
concurred in the motion.

Mr. GIBSON thought that the Magistrates had
stretched the points of the clause of the Police Act to
the very extreme.
Mr. KENSETT followed on the same side, and gave it
as his opinion, that Lord Normanby was the man to
set both the Magistrates and informers to rights.—
(Laughter.)
The question was here put, and the resolution having
been carried unanimously, a deputation to the Secretary
of State was appointed, and the Vestry separated.

96, CHEAPSIDE, AL D 39,_ALBEMARLE-STREET

PICCADILLY.

DEAFNESS AND DEFECTIVE VISION.—At
length those dreadful maladies are completely obviated,
without torture and serious risk by medical treatment.
The Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, Opticians and Aurists
to their Majesties the King and Queen of Hanover, and
their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Augusta and Sophia,
&c. &c., have constructed a Voice Conductor, and newly-
invented Spectacle Lenses, which will be found in most
extreme cases to effect instant relief. It is seldom or
ever that an invention of striking merit is laid before the pub-
lic that ignorant pretenders do not start forth. In no case
is this more observable than in Ireland, as well as England,
byfpersons who not only assume the name of Solomons, but
actually as having a connexion with their house. Numerous
ladies and gentlemen are daily calling who have been misled
by these pretenders, and who have made purchases of their
spurious imitations, which they term Voice-Conductors and
Spectacles, supposing them to be the Messrs. Solomons'
invention, which not only proved to be useless, but pro-
ductive of very ill effects. The Messrs. Solomons do not
employ any agents or travellers. Their improvements in
the materials are secret to themselves, and are solely con-
fined to their establishments, 39, Albemarle-street, and 96,
Cheapside.
SAINTS AND SINNERS T.—A small shopkeeper
named Jannaway, living in Chelsea, who was brought
up last Friday to Queen-street, charged, with a multi-
tude of other miserable sinners, with exercising his
worldly calling on the Sabbath-day, said his serving was
an act of necessity and charity. People knocked at his
door, and said they had not had time nor money to pro-
cure necessaries before
The splendid furniture, glasses, cut-glass, books,
plated goods, with 300 dozen of the choicest and most
expensive wines, of Stephen Price, P,
_sq., proprietor of
the Park Theatre, New York, were consigned to the
hammer of Mr. Winstanley last week, at 15, Russell.
square. Mr. Price is at present in America, and in-
tends, it is said, to prolong his stay in New York until
April next.