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and goods into railway carriages and truffs.,:b
right alongside, and taking mails and DiffgeliSt _ -
and cotton goods aboard from other truitr4.ke 34-o€B, . 44_
again all in one tide. The communitoloti.ijetweeiL4
the open tidal basin and the twb-, docks vrkPf
be effected by two locks. The one, A'oo feet long
and 65 feet wide, will admit the largest w(r-steamer
at
any time except an hour before and an • }loaf "OUT
dead low water. The other will be 200 feet IbPk,stsh" • Y
46 feet wide. At the lowest tide there will be six feeC ' •
of water on the ;threshold of the dock gates. All the
ordinary class vessels and steamers will find water
enough to enter and lie in the basin at any hour. The
dock has capacity for accommodating 700 average ship*,
and the basin 500: in all, 1,200. These docks. Saving
twenty miles of river navigation, and lying 50 utiles
nearer London than Hull, will always enable passen,Vre
and mails to reach the metropolis six hours sooner Wan
by way of Hull. The following is an outline of the pro,-
ceedings next Tuesday in Lincoln, on the occasion or
Princa Albert's visit on his way to Grimsby:—The cor-
poration will asemble in the Corn Exchange about
noon, and proceed in carriages to the Midland Railway
station, to meet the Prince, who is expected to ar-
rive about half-past one. They will th.in conduct the
e
Pi ince to the C-rn Exchange, where the a.idresse! of .
corporation will be presented. After the reply, tile
boys of the Blue Coat School, assisted by the
Prince
choir, will siug " God save the Queen."
Ro
yal
his
will then proceed
to the Cathedral. where =Teter
nd
Highness will be received by the dean and chapter,
after inspecting the building he will return to the :to!
way station, and proceed to Brocklesby. The Prince'
desirous of inspecting the Wold system of farming all
the neighbourhood of Brocklesby, before dinner; and
therefore his stay will not be protracted at Lincoln.
The day will be devoted to holiday in Lincoln.
There will be a dinner at the Great Northern Ho'-el; the
children of all the schools are to have tea and plum•cske
in their respective school-rooms; there will be an
bition of fireworks in Eastgate- in the evening, ants
ball in the city assembly rooms at night.

LITERATURE.
TR& HISTORY of PENDENNIS. No. VI.
By W. M. Thackeray.
The present number contains the narrative of
Pen. 's college career, in the course of which he makes
hosts of friends, and forms, under his uncle's advice,
various kigh connexions, and becomes the man
of the university, the admired and the imitated
of Freshmen. But, alas in order to keep
up this character, poor Pen. contracts debts
which he is unable to liquidate, and neglects
studies to which he should have attended. His door
was beset with duns, and when the degree examina-
tions came "a dreadful rumour rushed through the
University that Pcndennis of Bonitace was plucked."

CON. CREGAA; the Irish Gil Blas. No. IV.
In the present number Con. is fairly launched as a
livery servant in Queb.tc. He has at length succeeded
in obtaining a status, such as it is, which will open to
him a career, and he is the boy not to let slip an
opportunity. This number is full of variety and in-
cident.

THE ECL EC2 !IC REVIEW.
The new series of the I,7clectic Review proceeds
well. The present number contains nine articles
more than usually interestinj and excellent. The
first article is on " The Nature and Office of the
State," in which, in.reference to ,punishment of crime,
it is justly said that the safety ol" society requires a
protective rather than a preventive principle in refe-
rence to crime, " a new science must be invented—the
science of moral diseases." In the s econd article,
review of " Reade's Revelations of Life, " we find the
following beautiful and truthful passagt9 :—" To all
who reflect that above that unquiet stratum of physi-
cal activity in which we plunge forward And back-
ward, in which we are swayed hither and tbither by
the currents of business, in which we toil and triumph,
love or hate, there is another stratum, calm and beau-
, tiful, called the ideal world, and that in order to taste
of real happiness, we must often ascend from the
former to the latter; poetry becomes, in some resptlets,
a necessary of life, or, perhaps we should say, it! is
the Sabbath of the imagination, that portion of oilr
lives in which we repose and think, in which we rem
fleet on evils past and happiness to come." "
Ameri-
can Scenes and Christian Slavery," " The French
Revolutionary Press," " California ; its History and
Resources," " Celts, Britons, and Anglo-Saxons,'
" The Pulpit and the People," and last, not least,
" Milton's Prose Works," in which article we are
glad to find quoted Mr. Macaulay's admirable
description of the Puritans, which appeared some
years back in the Edinburgh Review, constitute the
remaining article of the Eclectic.

ROBBERY BY A RAILWAY OFFICIAL.—PLY3dOUTE4
APRIL 12.—At the Guildhall this morning a sub-in-
Spector of the South Devon Railway, named Wrensley,
was charged with attempting to steal 1171. lls. 4id., the
property of the company. It appears that shortly before
six. o'clock lust night he procured that sum of money
from police. constable Coram, whose duty it was to pay
the enginemen, &c., on the line, drawing the money on
the Wednesday, and haring some on Thursday, Friday,
and Saturday in each week. Wrensley, instead of pay-
ing the men, went off by the train, and was arrested with
all the money in his possession at Exeter, in consequence
of a telegraphic communication. He was brought down
here, and after an examination this morning was re-
manded till Saturday next, when he will be brought up
again.
GuTTA PEncnA.—The vessel Duke of Bronte, ar-
rived from Singapore, has brought the very large quan-
tity of 36 bags, 112 bales, 11.347 blocks, and 1,934 other
packages of this peculiar article of merchandise, as a
portion of her cargo, consigned to order; and the vessel
Ann Watson, also arrived from Singapore on the follow-
ing day, has brought 7,402 packages, 120 blocks, and 3
baskets of the article, consigned to order. Application
has recently been made to the revenue authorities for
permission to land a quantity of gutta perchs, which is
free of duty, at one of the wharfs on the river aide,
having sufferance privileges to land and house certain
specified descriptions of goods from foreign parts; and
the request has been complied with; and the authorities
have further given permission for the article to be al-
lowed to be landed at all the first-class sufferance wharfs
on the river side, which are in possession of the addi-
tional privileges, as it is termed, when such indulgence
may be required by the parties.
SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL.— Yesterday afternoon, a
General Court of the Governors of this charity was held
at the offices, 74, King William-street, City, Rear-
Admiral Bowles, M.P., in the chair. The secretary
proceeded to read the report of the operations of the
society since the commencement of the present year.
Since the Ist January, 1849, the total number of sea-
men admitted to the hospital was 794, and of these 583
belonged to the British merchant service, and 26 to her
Majesty's navy. There had been discharged cared from
the hospital-ship 642, and there remained at present
under treatment 142. The income for the quartet
amounted to 2,211/. 15s. 5d., including a former balance
of 1521. 71. 4d. The fines levied under the 7th and Bth
Victoria, cap. 112, commonly called the Seamen's Re-
gistration Act, amounted to 65/. The expenditure had
fallen short ot the income by 7441. 12s. 4d. This report
was received and adopted, and the court agreed to a
resolution that the further sum of 800/. be invested in
the Three, and-a-Half per Cent. Consols, in the names
of the trustees of the hospital. Several members of the
court expressed their regret at the decease of Mr. Harvey,
who had acted as secretary since the foundation of the
charity, and it was resolved that the expenses of his
funeral be defrayed by the institution, and the sum of
20/. presented to his surviving relatives. After a vote of
thanks to the chairman, the court adjourned.
NENE ESTUARY EMBANKMENT, WINGLAND.--ThS
land enclosed by this work has proved to be of the most
productive and fertile character, and from a waste of mud
and weeds covered with water, has emerged into a fruit-
ful and prosperous region, and the subject is:one so:peTi-
Harty fitted to arouse the attention of every one in-
terested in the prosperity Of the country, es to force
itself upon public attention. The last year's crops were
very large, exceeding the anticiitations ot the most san-
guine, and the present appear to be equally promising.
The quantity of land enclosed within this embankment
amounts to 2,500 acres, valued at 200,000/., and the
works were carried into execution Linder the auspices of
Commissioners of the River Nene Outten, Mr. Tycho
Wing being their chairman, after w born the reclaimed
land is called. The engineers were Sir ,John Rennie and
Mr. Hamilton Fulton. The undoubted auccess wr hit
has attended this measure, not only as regss•d s
mation of land, but also the improvement :e attention
t dins
and navigation, will unquestionably drawchtura
cter, andAe
olge
of capitalists to undertakings of the same
wined in evecuting
from the experience which has 1).n.g1"..,
which an Act has
out works of a similar nature.
these works, a great saving wouldlekbehi
Project is a like.
dundertaking,sd th ew ofro
r eewul:TelelotebrfdeolicknoisrretnuY carrying
already been obtained,
as soon as some additional powers have hpereensengtrasnetsesdionO.
Parliament during the
Company by
theEADvERTistaiENT.]—CONSUMPTION, BRONCHIAL)
ABTEIMA, INFLuNNEA, &C.—The following cases of the
severest forms of disease are selected from the clinical
report published by Dr. Cronin;—Mrs. Osborne, 8, Ox-
ford-street;
Churchyar Mr.
aMjoorridleyyn,
cMhe(sisasts. C
e
14th Foot),
and
Wood-
land-place, St. John's 7
, Co.
w ,
oßowod.
Wood; Mr. Bryant, 7, Padding-
ton-street Marylebone; Mademoiselle Dupree, Royal
Academy of Music; Miss Erwood, 72, New Bond-street;
Miss Robb, at the Baroness Bassett's, Tehidy Park, near
Truro, Cornwall; Mrs. Tburmott, 29, Bedford-street,
Covent Garden; Mrs. Williams, Portobello Arms,
Kentish New Town; —, 14, Leicester-place, Leicester-
square.
The infant daughter of Lady Adeliza Norman was
christened at the parish church, Bottesford, on Good
Friday afternoon, in the presence of the Duke of Rich-
mond, Lady Caroline Lennox, the Marquis of Gmbh
Lady E. Drummond, Lords Charles and John Manners,
Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Forester, &c. The church was
crowded to excess. The names given to the interesting
child are, " Elizabeth Cecil Sophia."
THE DUKE OP BUCKINGIIAM'S IRISEI E
—Notwithstanding the difficulty
.his Grace
th
of the
of Buckingham's trustees have disposing
fact that
Duke's English estates to their mind, it is ager re.
the estates iu Ireland were readily disposed of at sums
amounting to 30 years' purchase on peel rentals.
A MARKED SALMoN.—One of the Duke of A
thors
marked salmon, " No. 168," was caught at Bknehill, on
Monday last, and was found to weigh fully 121 b. The
same fish was a k 215 of 51b.: weight when first caught
and restored to its native element, which took place at
Pool-in-arn, near Logiecait, on
_the 25th February last
year,--Path Courier.