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ARMY PONTRACTS.

OFFICE OF ODNANCE, PALL MALL, JAN. 2, 1837.
NOTICE islifiereby given to all Persons desirous
of Contracting to supply the following Articles for the USE
of the ARMY, the deliveries of which are to commence on and
for the Ist day of March, 1837, and to continue .(subject to the
usual Conditions of the Contracts) until the following periods—
MEAT, 31st March
BREAD, both days inclusive :—v iz. ,
FORAGE,} 30th April,

BEEF AND MUTTON
To His Majesty's Land Forces (the Foot Gnarls excepted) in
Cantonments, Quarters, and Barracks, in the undermentioned
Counties, &c.
Chester Monmouth
I
Cornwall (including Scilly) Northumberland (including
Durham (including Holy Island) Berwick-on-Tweed)
Gloucester (including the City Sussex
of Bristol) Warwick
Kent (including Tilbury 101.0 Worcester
Lancaster North Britain. •

BREAD
To His Majesty's Land Forces (the Foot Guards excepted) in Can
tonments, Quarters, and Barracks, in the undermentioned Coma
ties, &c.:--
Cornwall (including Scilly)
Berks
Isle of Man
Kent (including Tilbury Fort

Monmouth
Stafford
Worcester
North Britain.

FORAGE, viz.,
To His Majesty's Cavalry and Artillery Horses in Barracks, in
the undermentioned Counties, &c. :
Berks I Northumberland
Hants Suffolk
Kent I Sussex.
Middlesex
That Proposals in writing, addressed to the Secretary to the
Board of Ordnance, sealed up and marked on the outside " Tender
for Army Supplies," will be received at the Ordnance Office, Pall
Mall, on orobefore Tuesday, the 7th day of February next; but
none will be received after Eleven o'clock on that day.
Separate Proposals must be made for Meat, for Bread, and for
Forage ; and Proposals must also be made separately for each County
and Island, except for the Counties in North Britain, all of which
must be included in one Tender, and each Proposal must have the
Letter which is annexed to the Tender properly filled up, by two
persons of known property, engaging to become bound with the party
tendering in the amount stated in the printed Particulars for the
due performance of the Contract ; and no Proposal will be no-
ticed unless made on a printed Form of Tender, and the prices
expressed in words at length ; and should it so happen, that dn-
ring the continuance of the Contract no Troops should be supplied
by virtue of the same, the amount of the Stamps on the Contract
and Bond, paid in the first instance by the Contractor, will be re-
funded to him ; and Persons tendering are desired not to use any
Forms but those which may be had upon application at the Office
of the Secretary to the Board of Ordnance in Pall Mall.
N.B. Letters to and from Contractors and their Agents cannot
be allowed to pass free of Postage • but the Correspondence be-
tween the Contractors and Regimental and other Officers will be
forwarded as usual, provided it be strictly Official. The Board of
Ordnance, and their Officers, will not, however, be responsible for
any Letters, Money, or Orders for Money, which may be so
forwarded. By Order of the Board,
R. BYHAM, Secretary.

LONDON COLLIER and STEAM SHIP-
PING WHARF COMPANY, on the east side of the
Isle of Dogs,'svith a Railway to communicate with the Commercial
London arid Blackwall Railway, near Limehouse Church. To be
incorporated by Act of Parliament.
Capital 500,0001. in 20,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 11. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
With power to add to their number.
John Henry Cassell, Esq. A. Ridley, Esq.
Captain Faed, John Stock, Esq.
Charles A. Ferguson, Esq. H. Stock, Esq.
T. B. Fyler, Esq. Thomas Teed, Esq.
Richard Green, Esq. B. M. Willcox, Esq.
Dixon Holmes, Esq.
NEWCASTLE COMMITTEE.
Richard Day, Esq, I Stephen Lowrey, Esq.
Thomas Gibson, Esq. T. C. Gibson, Esq.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Ladbrokes, Kingseote, and Co., Bank-buildings.
Sotaerroas —Messrs. Amory and Coles, 25, Throgrnorton-street.
AGENT I'OR COLLIERIES AND SHIPOWN'ERS—
Thas Browne,
Esq., 11, Mark-lane.
ENGINEER--Joseph Gibbs, Esq., 25, Bucklersbury.
ARCHITECT AND SURVEYOR T. Marsh Nelson, Esq., 7, Charles-
street, St. James's-square.
SECRETARY—Mr. Charles Dow-ding.
Office, 57, Old Broad-street.
The object of this undertaking is to construct a public quay,
nearly one mile and a half in extent, to be accessible at all times of
the tide, combined with machinery for discharging laden vessels,
and adapted--
I. To the great object of a rapid discharge of coals.
2. To the Steam Navigation Trade, in conjunction with the
Black wall Railway, for the conveyance of passengers to the heart
of the metropolis.
3. To the coasting trade and all vessels requiring a speedy
delivery of their cargoes.
The principal feature in this undertaking is the discharge of
coals by machinery on the wharfs into one or two ton baxes, and
conveying them to the cellar :of the consumer without either
chanp or breakage, or into barges alongside, and towing them to
their respective destinations by steam tugs, in strings of a number
at a time.
Thus the interests of the merchants and the consumers in all
parts of London will be consulted—the shipowner will have his
-vessel afloat in the stream, without obstructing or impeding the
Tiavigation—the intentions of the Legislature (contained in the
Ileports of the Navigation of the River Thames, and on the Coal
Trade) in clearing the Pool not only of the colliers, but of the
straggling barges, will be most completely carried out—and the
ot-istructiou of collier or steam docks (the impracticability and
inconvenience of which have been fully established) will be ob-
viated, no compulsory clauscwill be required, and the discharge of
the coals can be effected without any additional expense, and at a
great saving in point of time to the coal and shipowners.
The estimated revenue has been calculated on data from Custom-
house and Parliamentary documents, and shows a large remunerat-
ing profit to the shareholders.
Resolutions in favour of the measure have been passed by the
colliery and ship owners of the north of England, and by the town
council of Newcastle.
The Committee, therefore, recommend it with confidence to the
public, on account of its importance as a great national work, its
certainty of profit to the shareholder, and from the substantial sup-
port it has already received.
The plans, sections, and books of reference have been deposited
with the clerks of the peace and parish clerks—notices have been
given to the owners and occupiers--and the standing orders have
Sessbeen
ioncomplied with to obtain an Act of Incorporation in the next
Application for shares to be made to the Secretary at the Corn-
tny's Office, 57, Old Broad-street, and of the following Agents :
John Ridley, Newcastle; Messrs. Kidson, Sunderland; Messrs.
Bainbridge and Spurrier, solicitors, Shields ; Mr. Thomas Card-
Manchester; Mr. Henry Fox, Liverpool; Mr. John Wrighton,
'N Irtnintrham • Mr. Lancelot Beck, Bristol; Messrs. Reynolds and
I 0
~,'"lner, Go p=areat Yarmouth ; Mr. James Watson, Glasgow ; where ,
ses and plans may be obtained.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
EXTRACTS from PART 11.
(if " The Anti-Railroad Journal; or, Railroad Impositions
Detected."
It not, therefore, too much to anticipate a similar termination
to the initior Great Western Railway from Bristol to London ; for,
thouh
"mg. likProbably it may reach as far as Bath from Bristol, after hay-
t e " a mole, explored its way through tunnels, long and deep,
:air,
who travel by it will be so heartily sick, what with
foul air
will he s'noKe, and sulphur, that the very mention of a Railway
th
worse than ipecacuanha, especially when the only prospect ey -?11 'lad the least cheering in the midst of all this derangement
of their stomachs, will be a'granite tramway, actually in operation,
alongside of their own dose of ipecacuanha, ready to follow up the
black draught, so t get rid.of every particle of obstruction with
which the bottomsaosf toh-eir pockets might be otherwise afflicted.
Trot,
it i 59 that though the last 40 miles from Reading to London
will not require (pine so much mole-like engineering as through the
first 13 miles to Bath, yet for the gratification of Mr. Brunel, who
mad wish to tunnel more successfully for the Great Western Bubbl e
through dry land, than has hitherto rewarded the ingenuity and
talent of his father through wet land, another field is open to his
skill and dexterity in the shapi of viaducts and aqueducts, through
which the Shareholders will find, as well as Mr. Brunel, solicitors,
4111 others, of "undoubted talent and activity," that the aqueducts
and viaducts will doubtless form capital ducts to carry oil all the
superfluous cash of the Shareholders.
uy
But th bar e serious for in a question where so much is to be lost
ne pt
lutist be
Y, and nothing to be gained by another, even ridicule
economised ; since it should ever be borne in mind, that
a the parties who have concocted the minor Great Western
liubbylceaY were conscious that they were putting forth nothing but a
w syeculation, they ought to be able to show that the whole
lingtem. °1',1(.1 pay a liberal profit, and not fall short of
.eTi one per
scribe Profit, so as to induce the most cautious capitalist to
sub-
that thuer is they must be willing to labour under the imputation
liiscale,ltit?Ave miscalculated the traffic of the load ; and as such
they mser,:on could not be the result of ignorance, if founded, as
slit (41114i:en " Stamp-office returns," it must have been the re-
Nov', to ~YrePense.
the truth, itris/oe,sh necessary, if they w.ould, have arrived at
facts : "LY to draw attention to the following
The total Mc
Western Line the first Great
°lt, in the waggon department for
eon orange and lera
of ora . exclusive of the canal and coastin trade, besides lot
stint mot' • hthe tribe of Israel in
fruits ° enough to eep whole
ion in P
net
Phil ot-laneoho grand mart for th;Se,svbillle
civil engineers, is estimated to bo '
£143,515
Ditto Ditto pare& the included
and posting, ditto
__

82,178

the total
°T tal c' goods alone
Consequently f
at 40. per ton per ~,iietantity of goods estimated to be conveyed
being 8,000 tons /tore rum end to end, will be about 28,864 tons,
vehicles on the Birrrtiv: the whole of the traffic from similar
latter is far more produetiventhi'llne,,
But, granting that the pi.„ ill 4 the Bristol Line.
though it is notorious that the
tons of goods, still the item fOi-:eirttsiave not over-credited 8,000
least three4ourths, even assuming „., 35,750, must be reduced at
and owners of cattle will, out of
lanchesterallY
cons to be possible that graziers
throw away their own profits more 11:113i,isnelit to the Bristol Bubble,
'willing to bestow them on th than they have proved
more than three years trial of that modr,and Liverpool Line, after
very few horned-cattle, if any at all, 1,„ °f conveyance. In fact
as few sheep, because it is impossible toe „nen carried, and quite
vey such animals at
rates salliciently low to pay, for reasons assigned in the estimate for
the Birmingham Line. •
From the total income, therefore, of 143,515/. will
26,8131. for cattle over credited, thus reducing the nettbe. deducted
116,702/. ; and if from this be abated the expenses, in the 1
731 ier cent. of the income, as on the Manchester Lriaetiosao
85,::i/„ it leaves a gross profit of not more than 30,820/. whichy
upon the estimated capital of 3,000,000 L, is about one p'er cent.
itut, as the cost of construction would more likely reach
4,T0,04-0/., the gross profit would not be more than 6-Bths per cent.
But it is not pretended that even this traffic can be obtained
-with( ut superseding every other interest, and- bidding defiance to
any velocity or economy equal to what is now so fully established on_
:many of our canals; and notwithstanding there is one water line
(lesides canals) by which goods may be brought to London from
Iristol, eta freight but little exceeding one penny per ton per mile,
cr nearly 300 jeer cent. cheaper than the Railway, together with

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No. 13,837.

the fact already proved on the Manchester Line, that owners of
goods, not requiring dispatch, prefer the water line in the propor-
tion of ten to one. -
How then the bubble makers at Bristol, even sleeping with one
eye open, as they are said to do, could think of overloading the esti-
mate so prodigiously beyond the just limits, is only to be reconciled
by the fact of their supposing the bubble payers were never awake
even with both eyes open, consequently would never detect the
same over-reaching principle in the coach department.
But let us look at the revenue of the waggon department of the
minor Great Western, and the sweets will be found still less like
honey to the Shareholders. For, assuming that the whole quantity
of goods will be one-third, with more than half of the whole dis-
tance cut off in the middle of the line, making the total quantity of
conveyance 9,621 tons, and the gross income about 38,900/., from
which deduct expenses in the ratio of 73:4 per cent. of the income,
say 28,543/., and the total gross profit will be 10.357/., which, on e
capital of 1,500,000/., the least sum requisite for such a line, is about
five-eighths per cent !
In the coach department it is notorious, that there is at least one-
third less travelling between London and Bristol, than between
London and Birmingham'; yet the Bristol Committee assert, that
they shall carry 110,403 passengers in one year more than the Bir-
mingham Line, and 208,072 more than the Manchester Line has
carried on an average for the last three years, under the authority
of areturn said to be from the Stamp Office, only taking care not to
produce it as the Birmingham Committee have done. In fact the
blowers of the Great Western Bubble stand charged with having
designedly over-credited the annual income with no less a sum than
110,403/., on the asserted authority of a return from the Stamp
Office, which never has and never will be obtained.
But, granting the fact to have been proved, are Steam Car-
riages and Canals not to carry any portion of the traffic, merely be-
cause they will both condescend to do it many times cheaper, long
before the Railway opens ? Is the Bristol Line, like the Birming-
ham Line, to monopolize all the traffic, even against a saving of 50
per sent. to three-fourths of the community, to whom money is
more valuable than time ? Yet that saving must be sacrificed alto-
gether, before the Bristol Railway can expect to realize more than
six times the income from passengers alone, than has been made by
the mostfavourable line in the kingdom.
Assuming, therefore, the total income to be 493,833/. for passen-
gers alone, and not 604.2361., and deducting the expense in the
ratio of 44a per cent. of the income, say 214,200/., it leaves a gross
profit of 279,633/. • taking therefore one-half only of this sum as a
more reasonable share of the road earnings, it brings the income to
138,816/. (without allowing for any additional tax to be in a par
with common road stage coaches), being on a capital of 3,000,000/.
about 4a per cent. ; or, supposing the capital to be 4,000,0001., 31
per cent. ; making, in the latter case, the total profit in both de-
partments about 4 per cent., or less than one per cent. net profit
for the whole line, supposing the bubble blowers for the Great
Western Railway to carry 208,072 passengers more in one year than
the Manchester and Liverpool Line, the best in the world ! whilst

TWENTY POUNDS REWARD.

Iv-HEREAS WILLIAM WEATHERLY
HARTLY, aged about 39 years, about 5 feet 7 inches,
grey eyes, ruddy complexion, full face, small nose, a mole on left
cheek, large mark from small-pox, over the nose, and betwixt the
eyes, dressed in a dark brown frock-coat, bound with black dark
mixture trowsers, and dark checked waistcoat, with a Mackintosh
cloak, having absented himself from his late employment, as a
Collector of the Poor Rate of St. Pancras, Middlesex, and a de-
faulter of several Hundred Pounds,—We, the undersigned, being
his sureties, hereby offer the above Reward for his apprehension
and detention.

JOSH. HALLETT, Skinner-greet, Somers' Town.
JOHN BURNHAM, Church-row, St. Pancras.
January 17, 1837.

KELLEWERRIS CONSOLS MINING
COMPANY.

The DIRECTORS of this COMPANY finding it absolutely
necessary that powerful Steam Stamps should be erected on these
Mines, have this day made a CALL of TEN SHILLINGS PER
SHARE, to be paid tq Sir J. W. Lubbock, Bart., and Co., on or
before the 18th day of February next, and all Shares on which the
said call is not paid within 21 days after that date will become for•
kited, according to the indorsement on the Scrip.
HENRY TRIBE, Secretary.
No. 19, Austin-friars, Jan. 17, 1837.

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the petitioners themselves against the Birmingham Railway con-
fess, that " without indulging in any extravagant expectations, there
is now every reason to hope that, within no long time, these Steam
Carriages, by means of successive improvements, will be brought to
such a state of perfection, as to admit of their being advantageously
used upon turnpike roads, without the expensive accompaniment of
a Railway."
Besides, it should be borne in mind, that the Projectors have
founded their estimate on the result of the Manchester and Liver-
pool Line, which was tax-free for 2li months; but after the facts
disclosed in par. 93, every one must see, that no other Railway will
be permitted to pocket profits at the expense of both the nation and
the common road coach masters.

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SECOND SERIES OF " BOZ."

Nor does the minor luminary from Reading to London, and
Thistol to Bath, hold out any stronger inducement in the coach de-
partment, to throw away income, for five or six years, merely to
put a fortune into the pockets of a set of crafty Projectors, who are
bound hand and foot, by their own interests, to reveal nothing to
open the eyes of those ,whose purses are scarcely ever free from the
fingers of one or other of the party.
For, if the gross profit of 138,8161. in the coach department for
the whole line be nearly correct, the proposition for the minor bub-
ble line, in the ratio of one-third, will be 46,2721., which, after de-
ducting the expenses, 44,4 per cent., as before, leaves a gross profit
of 25,7391., being, on a capital of 1,500,000/., about 1g- per cent.
But what is the inference to be drawn from this last shift to the
Maximum Bubble Line? The projectors must have felt convinced,
that the one-eye sleepers at Bristol, who knew best how to appre-
ciate the minimum, never would risk a shilling en the major cheat
—seeing that it must in the end be far more ruinous than any one
of the 7,000 bubbles of 1825, that helped to fill half the mad -houses
in London ; and consequently the blowers were well aware that they
must all go out of commission, even without half-pay, if they did
not beat up for recruits in other quarters ; whilst, by setting fire to
the candle at both ends, they speculate to lighten the darkness of
their opponents so effectually, as to place nearly 70 miles of inter-
mediate space, at present struck out of the way-bill, in so clear a
light, that the ultimate junction may be insured in self defence. For
neither engineers, lawyers, nor agents will work long in good hu-
mour, without slipping their fingers into the pockets of the com-
munity ; nor is there any good reason why they should waste brains
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For in Manchester alone, in 1824, there were not less than 200
steam engines at work, and 30,000 power looms ; and in 1829, nearly
2,000 vessels paid clock duties at Liverpool. Whereas the whole
barthen calculated for the first Great Western Railway, throughout
the line, from BriAll to London in waggon and van goods, is only
about 28,864 tons, being 1,219,136 tons less than the annual bnr-
then estimated for conveyance on the Manchester Line ; yet, s ith
all this enormous additional traffic, even the latter has not made one
per:cent. nett profit. What then can be thought of the maximum
bubble, the minor Great Western, that cannot even speculate upon
carrying more than 10,000 tons at most from vans and waggons.
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Neither was his Worship duly apprized before his taste was con-
sulted, that the hilly country for 20 miles to the east of Bath is
from 700 to 1,000 feet high above the level of Bath, and therefore
forms almost an insurmountable barrier to a Rail-road at the end of
the minor Great Western Line. What chance then his Worship
of Readineean have for customers, to get rid of the moonshine rab-
bits, time alone can tell.
For Mr. Brunel, according to Mr. Cundy, the civil engineer,
proposes to tunnel though these hills, and one plan is to dig a huge
gutter for delicate ladies and gentlemen, of infirm mind as well as
body, to be poked through all the way under the good city of Bath :
for the excavation must be long ana deep for miles ; and the want
of air, combined with the combustion of gas, smoke, steam, and sul-
phur, will render the tunnel almost fatal to human existence.
Besides his Worship 'may not see that the condensed or com-
pressed air in tunnels for one mile long, much less others for several
miles, will give forfeitable resistance to the speed of the propelling
engine, and train of rriages, that would require more than double
the power to propel them, comrared with the power on the same
level in the open air ; for though air shafts may be made, and other
means provided, at a great expense, yet if two carriages enter at each
end at the same time, the rapidity of motion would so compress the
air before each of them, as to operate like wedges one against the
other.

Lastly, in driving the tunnels at the Bath end of the line, if only
a few hundred feet below the surface of that country, it would be
considerably below the level of several great springs that form the
head of the rivers Isis, Kenne t, and Avon ; and, cutting across the
country by such tunnels, would no doubt tap these powerful
springs ; drain all the high country, and convert the old road into
something like a ship canal between Bath and Bristol ! so that the
Granite Line Company must apply to the Humane Society to keep
proper people in attendance, to taie the passengers home occasion-
ally in warm blankets, should the Great Western only get an act to
make a Railway or Floating-road from Bath to Bristol, or the for-
mer Company will have no chance of saving a single passenger from
a watery grave.

Kairon gnothi—Fugit hora.
ABelief in the existence of the fountain of youth,
from which those who bathed in its waters gained a pristine
energy, was among the speculations of the 15th century ; it will, how-
ever, serve as no inapt type of the revivifying powers of art and medicine.
Those who, early victim+ to a morbid imagination, have sought fatally to
anticipate the purposes cf nature, and have consequently lapsed into a
state which brings with it weakened capabilities and clouded hopes, may
by timely application to professional treatment, regain those first, noblest,
and best of powers that have been compromised by the criminal propensi-
ties of "guilty solitude," the progress of which is marked by the lym.
phatica somnia" of Pliny, attended with bodily weakness and mental
apathy, We may indulge a natural exultation in referring to our daily
correspondence with grateful and convalescent patients, not confined to
our own country, but difflised over the whole world. For twenty-five
years has our peculiar treatment in cases of Nervous Debility proved emi-
nently successful, and we have hitherto resisted the earnest solicitations
of our patients to publish their cases in a public address: the following,
however, has been so urgently pressed upon us by a medical friend, that
we have yielded toan importunity sufficiently excusable by the gratitude
it evinces:—
• • -

" Dear Sirs—My fondest hopes are realized! Accept my most heart-
felt thanks; words are inadequate to express my unbounded gratitude.
May you long live to reap the rich reward of your labours in the treat-
:lent of that class of diseases which have hitherto baffled the skill of your
medical brethren.
Nov. 1832." Your's, most sincerely, L. H."
There are many disorders of the generative system (which, when com-
pared with the above, may be termed subordinate) that are consequent
upon the too free arid indiscriminate indulgence of the passions, exhi-
lilting in some, debility from excess, in others, the relaxing effects of a
tropical climate, and in many, indeed in how many, the various maladies
which afflict the student, the misanthrope, the gay, the dissipated, and the
libertine. In all these cases cur practice, which embraces every grade in
society, from the man of rank to him of the humblest sphere, has been
uniformly successful; and as secresy belonr to our profession, the most
delicate and diffident may api;ly without fear or hesitation
MESSRS. GOSS and Co. are to be consulted every day at their resi-
dence; and Patients in the remotest parts of the country can be treated
uccessfully on transmitting their report, which will be immediately an-
swered; these must contain a reniitta:,ue for Advice and Medicine, de-
scribing minutely the ChSe: which cans be forwarded to any part or the
world, however distant. No diffituity can occur, as the Medicines will be
securely packed, and carefully protected from observation.
GOSS and CO. (M. R. C. Surgeons),
7, Lancaster-place, Strand, London.
Just published (twenty-first edition)-
Ist The /EGIS cf LIFE, a fami-
;l,4r, commentary on the above Diseases.-2d. HyGEIA NA, addressed
)(elusively to the female Sex.—f3d, The SYPHILIS", a Treatise on
I ues Venerea Gonorrhcea,
May be had at 23, Paternoster-row, London; 12. Calton. street, Falln.
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MEETINGS OF CREDITORS TO-MORROW.
11. Wilkinson, flannel factor, Addle-street 2 at 12
T. Turner, upholsterer, •New Load-street 2 11
J. D. Gander, vieival:er, Somers'-kown
F. J. 141T.urthy, baker, Drury-lane

A circular has been 'lately transmitted to the Lord

Lieutenants of counties by Lord John Russell, intimating
that his Majesty has been pleased to command that the
uniform of the officers of the militia of the United King-
dom shall in future be laded in silver, and that the officers
of such regiments as are Royal shall wear, by way of dis-
tinction, silver embroidery instead of lace.

Yesterday morning, between six and seven o'clock,

the body of an elderly— man was picked out of the mud
along the quay of the Custom-house by some watermen. It
was conveyed to the bone-house belonging to St. Mary at
Hill Church. From the dreadful dcomposition of the
body, it is supposed that it had been in the water for seve-
ral weeks. The clothes of the deceased were of a good de-
scription. Nothing was found on his person to discover his
name.

MORE DARKNESS.—The metropolis was again
visited during the whole of yesterday morning with much
darkness; and though not so intense as the day before,
yet it has greatly impeded public business. Candles had been
in requisition throughout the day in all ,the public offices,
merchants' counting-houses, mechanical establishments, and
commercial warehouses.

A most impudent robbery was committed during
the thick fog on Tuesday morning. A gentleman was
passing along the Regent•quadrant, and while he was blow-
ing his nose a thief snatched his silk handkerchief out of
his hand, ran off with it, and in an instant was concealed
by the thickness of the atmosphere. a _ _

Yesterday morning, between six and seven o'clock,
the body of a new born male infant, wrapped in a new
jack-towel, was found in the Islington-fields on a heap of
rubbish. The body was that of a very flue child, and had
every indication of havirr, been born alive. There were no
marks of violence on the body.
. .

The General Steam Navigation Company's packet
the Sir Edward Banks, from Rotterdam, arrived on Tues-
day off the Custom House with the Dutch mails.
Among the club-houses renovated, altered, and em-
bellished, since last season, are Brookes's, the Athenaeum,
and the Carlton Club-house, which are now all ready to
receive their members ; and from the rapid progress made
in erecting the Universities new club-house, it will probably
be ready for the reception of its members early in the en-
suing year. _ _ _

Dowton, the celebrated comedian, and son,
came passengers in the NeW York packet ship Virginian,
which arrived at Liverpool on Monday evening. The
Sheyfie/d, Liverpool packet ship, also the Albany, Havre
packet, had arrived at New York.
On Tuesday night a seaman, named James Austend,
who has lately arrived in England, and has been lodging at
No. 6, Fox and Goose-yard, Shadwell, asked a woman of
the town, with_whom he has been cohabiting, to swallow
some liquid contained in a phial which he offered to her.
On refusing to comply with his request, he put. the phial,
which contained laudanum, to his mouth, and drank the
contents. The woman immediately raised an alarm, and
policemen 43 and 253 K procured the stretcher and re-
moved him to the London Hospital, where he died from
the effects of the narcotic yesterday morning. The phial
was found in the room ; it was labelled " Laudanum—
poison." The sailor was not very sober when he committed
the rash and foolish act.

THE LATE MURDER IN RATCLIFF HIGHWAY.
—On Tuesday afternoon a dense mob collected in Rateliff
Highway to witness the funeral of the late Mr. J. H.
Ready. The murder has created the utmost horror, and
public curiosity was strongly excited. At four o'clock the
street was quite impassable, and soon after that hour the
mournful procession left the house of the late. Mr. Ready,
No. 125, Rateliff Highway. The coffin was followed by
the widow, sister, father-in•law, and other relatives of the
deceased ; and the police of the K division, under the di-
rection of Mr. Young, the superintendent, and Mr. Rice,
the inspector, had great difficulty in clearing a way through
the crowd for the mourners to pass. On the arrival of the
body in the chapel, the widow, who was an object of great
commiseration, cried aloud. She appeared eve. whelmed
with grief, and was supported to a pew by her friends. The
mourners having been seated, and the coffin placed on
tressels near the pulpit, the Rev. Mr. Hyatt, the minister
of the chapel, delivered a long and interesting discourse
to his hearers on the melancholy subject which had brought
them together. We understood that Pegsworth, who, for
three or four days after he had murdered Mr. Ready, dis-
played the most cool indifference, and expressed no sorrow
for having deprived a fellow-creature of life, has since began
to display some contrition, and has paid great attention to
the exhortations of several pious gentlemen who have visited
him in Clerkenwell prison.
The present number of post-oflices in the United
States is 11,100 ; miles of post-road in July last, 118,264 ;
miles of annual transportation, 27,518,620. Revenue of
the year ending 30th of June last, 3,398,435 19 dollars ;
expenditure, 2,755,623, 76 dollars. Excess of revenue over
expenditure, 642,831, 43 dollars.