The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-06 00:00:00

No. 17,795.] LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING S -1( Ny OCTOBER 6, 1849.

ATLAS ASSURANCE COMPANY,
92, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON.

Established 1808;
DIRECTORS.
JOHN OLIVER HANSON, Esq., Chairman
WILLIAM GEORGE PRESCOTT, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
Sir William Baynes, Bart. Moses Mocatta, Esq.
Arthur Edward Campbell, Esq. James William Ogle, Esq.
Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S. Emanuel Pacifico, M.D.
Donald Maclean, Esq. Joseph Pulley, Esq.
Samuel Eustaco Ragan, Esq.
AUDITORS—Francis Bligh Hookey, Esq., and Arthur Augustus
Rasch, Esq.
AcTusar—Charles Anscll, Esq., F.R.S.
Souction—Thomas Browning, Esq.
SURVEYOR—Thomas Hopper, Esq.

FIRE DEPARTMENT.
RETURNS.—Policies for 3001. and upwards which may have been
in force for one year prior to the date to which the Account is
made up. will be periodically entitled to participate in the return of
Surplus Premium.

Sugar Houses ; and Alemannic Property, in the Docks;
In Private or Public Warehouses ; also Shipping in Harbour; assured
for the Year, or for any shorter period on advantageous terms.
Farming Stock is now exempt from Duty, and may be assured
without the average clause.

On Assurances for Seven Tears by one payment, a deduction of
one-seventh part of the Premium and Duty wlll be made.
ItElsTEWALS.—Policies due on Midsummer-day should be renewed
within fifteen days thereafter.

LIFE DEPARTMENT.
The attention of the public has, in the advertisements and pro-
posals of this Company of late years, been called to a Table of
Additions applicable to and expectant on Policies of particular
dates and ages ; the Directors now beg to submit the following
statement of Claims actually paid, showing the sums reEpectively
assured and the Bonuses thereon, and they request, in order to
exemplify the advantageous plan of Assurance proposed by this
Company, that persons desirous of effecting Assurances on their own
lives or on the lives of others, will compare the statement now sub-
mitted, with the addition or bonus of any of the other offices which
may apply to a Policy issued by them since 1816, when the Atlas
Company adopted the Bonus System.

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Persons assured for the whole term of Life for 1001. and upwards,
in Great Britain or Ireland respectively, will be entitled at the end
of every fifth year (instead of every seventh year as heretofore) to
participate in the Surplus Premiums, either by Addition to their Po-
licies, or an equivalent Reduction will be made in the future pay-
ments of Premium at the option of the Assured.
Policies may also be effected for the whole term of Life by a limited
number of yearly payments.
ASSURANCES for SHORT PERIODS may new be effected in this
Office at considerably reduced rates of Premium.
The NEXT VALUATION will be made at Christmas, 1849, and
Policies effected before that date will participate in proportion to the
time they may then have been in force.
The Company's Rates and Proposals may be had at the Office in
London, or of any of the Agents in the Country, who are authorised
to report on the appearance of Lives proposed for Assurance,
HENBT DESBOROUGH, Secretary.
92, Cheapside, June, 1849.

THE LONDON INDISPUTABLE LIFE
POLICY COMPANY
INCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT.
No. 31, LOMBARD-STREET, LONDON.
TRUSTEES.
J. Campbell Renton, Esq., M.P. Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P.
Richard Manus, Esq., Q.C. I James Fuller Madox., Esq.
William Wilberforce, Esq.
DIRECTORS.
Robert Henry Forman, Esq.
John Hamilton, Esq.
James Fuller Madox, Esq.
John Matthews, Esq.
Charles 0. Parnell, Esq.
ArDITORS.

William Adams, Esq.
John Atkins, Esq•
Henry Augustus Bevan, Esq.
John Thompson Bramwell, EEL
John Dangerfield, Esq.

I Samuel Field, Esq.
William Ghrimes Kell, Esq.
MEDICAL ADVISER.
Benjamin Phillips, Esq., F.R.S.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Spooner, Attwood, and CO.
SECRETARY.
David Alison, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Atkinson and Andrew.
MANAGER.
Alexander Robertson, Esq.
The POLICIES are INDEFEASIBLE and INDISPUTABLE,
.he Company being prohibited, by the 54th clause of their Deed of
Constitution, which is duly registered In terms of the Act, from dis'
puting a Policy upon any ground whatever.
The Rates of Premium are calculated upon Carlisle mortality, and
are as low as a due regard to complete security will justify.
HALF PREMIUM SYSTEM. —By this plan only one-half of the
premiums. with interest of the retained halves, is required to be peid
for the first five years—the retained halves, being payable at the
eOnventence of the assured, or allowed to continue, to form
a deduction from the claim on the Policy ; and as the As-
surance may be relinquished at any time without payment
of the retained premiums, this scheme enables a party to
assure for the first five years at little more than half the usual rate,
and to discontinue a Policy at about one-half the usual sacrifice.
WHOLE WORLD POLICIES are granted, whereby the security
of a creditor, holder of a Policy, continues unimpaired, although the
assured life should go beyond the prescribed limits.
Sums are assured payable to the parties themselves on attaining a
specified age, or at their death, whichever shall first occur.
PARTNER HI P POLICIES are granted, whereby ajoint assurance
effected by partners, at the charge of the firm, secures the capital in-
vested. On the death of either, the survivor is benefited by retain-
ing the whole capital, and the representatives of the deceased obtain
their share without having to wait until it can be recovered from
outstanding debts.
There is no extra charge for residence beyond 35 degrees of the
equator.
No Admission or Entrance Fees are required, nor is any charge
made for the Policy beyond the amount of the Stamp.
Claims are payable within three months after proof of the death of
the assured life.
The usual Commission allowed to Solicitors, and also to persons,
approved by the Board, who extend the business of Life Assurance in
connexion with this Company.

George Cumming, Esq.
James Turner, Esq.

SEA, FIRE, LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE ;
United with the
PORT OF LONDON ASSURANCE COMPANY.
Incorporated nu,scant to Act of Parliament, April 22, 1847.
Admitted to Lloyd's by Vote of the Committee, January 15, 1848.
Amalgamated pursuant to Re- olutions dated February 5, 1849.
Offices :
31, CORNIIILL, LONDON.
with Powers of Extension reserved to the
CAPITAL / Proprietors under the 16th Clause of the IXIOO,OOO
Deed of Settlement),
In Shares of Twenty Shillings each, all paid ; affording the security
of a large actual paid-up Capital, constantly augmenting.

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES.

if.lßlNE.—Limited risks in and upon vessels of the first class at

Lloyds.
FlRE.—Reduced premiums on buildings erected in conformity with
the Building Act, 7 and 8 Vic., c. 84, proportioned to the diminu-
tion o frisk secured by the provisions of that statute.
LIFE.—The unmixed mutual system in its purest form—whole
profits being divided among the Assured, without the entailment
of any risk. The operation of this department also extending to
RAILWAY ACCIDENT COMPENSATION, at moderate Pre-
miums ; and
GUARANTEE for assuring the fidelity of persons in situations of
trust and confidence on the Annual Payment of a stipulated rate
per Cent., either in connexion with Life Assurance, or distinct
therefrom.

Forms of Application for Provincial Agencies in those towns of the
United Kingdom where none have been already appointed may be
btained from the Head Office as above.
AUG. coLLuspanuomE, Managing Director.
London. June 9. 11149.

WENTIAM LAKE ICE.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.

Apply to
WILLIAM LYNN,
Waterloo Hotel, Liverpool.

DR. RAMADGE ON ASTHMA AND DISEASES OF THE lIEART.
I vol. Bvo.' greatly improved, Second Edition, 103. 6d.
ASTHMA;; its Varieties and Complications, with
practical remarks on the specific treatment of each. Illus-
trated by cases and plates, coloured from nature. To which is an-
nexed a succinct treatise of the principal diseases of the heart. By
F. H. RAMADGE, M.D., Fellow of the College of Physicians, late
Senior Physician to the Royal Infirmary for Asthma, Consumption,
and other diseases of the Lungs.
London : Longman and Co.

ANOVELTY for the approaching season is in
preparation to which a distinguishing name has not yet been
given, but which the Inventors, Messrs. NICOLL, can recommend
as one of the most useful, warm, comfortable, and graceful articles
of gentlemanly attire ever produced. Specimens can be seen at 114,
116, and 120, Regent street, and 22, Cornhill, at also THE TREBLE
Garment, or PALETOT, called THE NICOLL, which retains all the
characteristics of the famed Paletot (registered 6 and 7 Vic., cap. 65)
ix its exterior, and has the additional advantages of being convertible
from a warm to a light Overcoat, or vice versa, at the pleasure of
tke wearer, or as the mild or cold nature of the weather may re-
quire. This garment must be seen and worn to be properly appre-
ciated ; it will be found, perhaps, the best preservative of health in
this variable climate. THE NICOLL has been secured by Royal
Letters Patent in ENGLAND, IRELAND, SCOTL AND, and the
COLONIES ; it can, therefore, only be purchased in the country, or
abroad, of Messrs NICOLL'S (the patentees) recognised AGENTS,
and in LONDON only of themselves, viz., at 114, 116, 120,
REGENT-STREET, and 22, CORNHILL.

THE NICOLL PALETOT (Regd. 6 and 7
Viet., cap. 65) WAREROOMS, 114. 116, 120, REGENT-
STREET, and 22, CORNHILL.

Also for Nicoll's Morning Coat, now in almost universal request
for the Country, Riding, Walking, Seaside, Sec. Shooting Jackets
adapted for the Moors, &c.
Many have assumed the use of the word PALETOT, but Messrs.
NICOLL are the sole Patentees of the design and material.

fur ESSRS. NICOLL'S Wholesale and Counting.
1, House Departments for the London Branches in the Ship-
ping and Woollen Trades aro in CHANGE-ALLEY, CORNHILL,
and 120, REGENT-STREET.

THE FIRST OF OCTOBER
JL TO SPORTSMEN.
While the Autumn dew-drops glisten
On the grass and fading tree,
Listen, fellow-sportsmen, listen,
To a word or two from me. ,

Nature now is calm and Sober ;
Autumn's beauties are revealed—
'Tis the month of pale October,
When the sportsman seeks the field.

New delights are now presented
To the man that loves his gun;
Other favourite game is scented,
Other sporting havoc done.
But, I pray you tell me, brothers,
Whether you're prepared or not?
Rave you changed your coats for others,
Like the one which I have got ?

If you've never been t• MOSES'
For a stylish coat, and strong:
By your pointers' tails or noses,
I declare you've acted wrong.

MOSES' for a moderate figure,
Far eutrival all the trade ;
And I'd never touch a trigger
In a coat by others made.
No one in his senses sober
Messrs. MOSES could condemn,
Therefore, since 'tie now October,
Buy your shooting-coats of them.
LIST OF PRICES.
READY MADE.
Autumn and Winter Over Coats, in every
styli ..... .• • ..... •••••••• • • • .. •• £0 g 6
The Bulwer, handsomely and warmly trimmed 0 18 0
The Paletot, ditt0........•• ..•• 0 is 0
Chesterfield, ditto.... • • .... •• • • 1 0 0
The Albert Wrapper, a very handsome style
of OT. r Coat ••. • •• . 1 5 0
Shooting Coats .•
Lounging or Morning Coats .......... •• .. 0 4 6
Autumn and Winter Trousers, in Tweed ...• 0 4 6
Ditto ditto Doeskin .. 0 7 6
Ditto Vests • • •• •
Black Silk Velvet Vests...
Dress Coats ....
Frock Ditto .............................0 19 0
Youths and Boys' Over Coats, in every style,
from .. .. .
Hussar and Tunic Suits •• .. ..... ••••• •• • . 0 14 6
Boys' Autumn and Winter Vests ..... ... • • 0 0 8
MADE TO MEASURE.
Men's Autumn and Winter Over Coats from 1 1
The Chesterfield Wrapper, in a warm ma-
terial, lined .••
The Paletot, handsomely and warmly trimmed 1 1.6 0
The Eglinton Wrapper, a very eli,gant style of
Over Coat .••• .. • ...... ••••••• • .. • • • • 2 0 0
The Strathmore Witney Over Coat, newest
style, lined throughout .......... •••• • • • • 2 10 0
Autumn and Winter TrowserS, in Tweed and
..... ........... 0 10 6
Best Black Cassimere ditto .. ••••••• . • • .. • • 1 6
Autumn and Winter Vests •••• ...... ••• • • • 0 8 6
Best Black Cloth ditto • .•••.. • • • • 0 13 6
Black Silk Velvet ditto .• • ... . 0 18 6
„ Dress Coats• •• • • from 325. to 2 15 0
„ Frock ••••• • • • .. •••• • • from 355. to 3 3 0
Hussar and Tunic Suits .... • from 1 b 0
Superfine ••.•••••• • •• • • • • •
Men's Shooting Coat •• • • .... •• • • is o
Elegant, Dressing Robes, in great variety,
from ....... ..... ........ ..16s. to 5 0 0

A Large Sleek of Fur Coats, in every shape, from 60s. to 201.
Naval and Military Uniforms, Liveries, &c.
Mourning to any extent at Five Minutes' notice.
A Suit of Mourning complete for 11. 10s.
The new book, entitled the "Great Fact," with (till directions
or Self-measurement, can be had on application, or forwarded, post
roe, to any part of the kingdom.
Notice—the Shawl and Parasol Department are new replete with
every novelty of the season.
Observe—Any article purchased, either ready made, or made to
measure, if not approved of will be exchanged, or the money returned.
E. MOSES and SON, Tailors, Woollenvirapers, Clothiers. Hatters,
Hosiers, Farriers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters, 154,
155, 156, and 157 Minories, and 83, 84, 85, and 86 Aldgate, City,
London ; all communicating with each other, and forming one vast
Establishment.
Caution.—E. Moses and Son regret having to guard the public
against imposition; but having heard that the untradesmartiike
falsehood of being connected with them, or " It is the same concern,"
has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons,
hey beg to state that they have no connexion with any other honre
in or out of London, except their Branch Establishments, 38, Far-
gate, Sheffield ; and 19, Thornton's-buildings, Bradford, Yorkshire ;
Ind those who require cheap and genuine clothing. 20e., should call
at or send to the Nfinories and Aldgate, City, London ; or either of
the Branch Establishments, as above.
Tate Notice,—This Establishment is closed from sunset Friday.
to ennset Saturday, when business is resumed till twelve o'elock.

THIRTY-FIRST EDITION.
Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel.
ON PHYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPA-
CITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE.
New Edition, enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 21. 6d., or
by nost, direct from the Establishment, 3s. 6d. in postage stamps,
THE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on
the inArmities and decay of the generative system, from ex-
cessive indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury,
a-ith remarks on darriage, and the means of obviating certain dis-
malifleations. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By R. and
L. PERRY and CO., Consulting Surgeons, 19, Berners-street, Ox-
hrd-street, London. Published by the Authors : seld by Strange,
21, Paternoster-row ; Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ;
itarle,23, Titchbonle-street, Haymarket; and Gordon, 146, Leaden-
hall-street.

Rum I, treats of the anatomy and physiology et the re-productive
organs, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings.
PLAT 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessiveinelnl-
once, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing mental
and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative noapacity.
Illustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings.
PAIT 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in
the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for
their treatment. This section is illustrated by Seventeen Coloured
Engravings. _

PLAT IV. contains a Prescription for the Prevention of Disease
by a simple appiicati•n. by which the danger of infection is ob-
viated. This important part of the Work should not escape the
eader's notice.

PAST •. IS devoted to the consideration of marriage, and its
duties. The causes of unproductive anion are also considered, and
the whale subject critically and philosophically inquired into.
Taxooznita. BALM Or tilYziAorst is exclusively employed in treat-
nu nervous and sexual debility, impotence, &c., Ds. and 331. per
bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, as anti-syphilitic
remedy, for purifying the blood in cases ofinfection, secondary symp-
toms, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, 11s. and Sas. per bottle,
Perry's Purifying Specific Pills, lie. ed., 45. Gd., and I ls. per box, a
wercent remedy for gonorrhosa, leapt, etricture, and chronic inflamma-
tion of the bladder. Consultation fee, if by letter, 11. A minute
retail of the case is required : age, habits, and position in society.
51. Packets, with advice, to be had at the Establishment only, by
which the fee,ll., is saved. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, are in atten-
lance daily at 19, Berners-street, Oxford-street, London, from Ele-
ven till Twe, and rive to Eight: on Sundays from Leven to Ore.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEWS OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.
PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY.—This afternoon a tele-
graphic announcement was made by the Admiralty to
the Commander-in-Chief here that they had received
news of the discovery of Sir John Franklin and Sir
James Ross in Prince Regent's Inlet, ali safe and well.
Such highly gratifying intelligense was speedily dis-
seminated throughout the port, and the joy was
universal.

The Scourge steam-sloop is commissioned at this port
by Commander Lord F. H. Kerr (1846) to have a com-
plement of 160 men for foreign service. The following
other officers have also been appointed to hert—Liente-
mints, H.W. Wright and 11. V. Haggard; Master J. W.
M'l. Hall; Paymaster and Purser, Frederick Gilbert;
Clerk, Richard Allen; Clerk's Assistant, J.W. Harriott;
Master's Assistant, J. A. R. Petch. The pennant was
hoisted yesterday.
The Vivid steam-packet, Master-Commander L.
Smithett, arrived thin morning at six, and came into
harbour to replenish fuel. She sailed again at 12.40 for
Holyhead.
The royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain Lord
Adolphus Fitzclarence, G.C.H., was returned to ordinary
this day.
An extraordinary high tide has flowed to-day.
Mr. White's new steam-frigate Termagant is ordered
to be fitted as an advance steamer to join the first divi-
sion of the squadron at this port.
The Encounter steam-corvette, Captain Gordon, is
ready to leave the harbour.
Wind—W. by N., fresh breezes and cloudy weather.
HONULULU, MAY 30.--Her Majesty's ship Amphi-
trite, 26, Captain T. R. Eden, arrived here on the 23d
inst. from Callao, and exchanged salutes with the fort,
and on the 24th the ship was dressed from an early hour
in honour of her Majesty's birthday. On this occasion
likewise a salute of 21 guns was firedfrom the fort, and
the ships in harbour and various public offices ashore dis-
played their gayest colours.
On the 25th his Majesty King Kamehamea 111. gave
an audience to the British Consul-General to present
Captain Eden and several of the officers of the Amphi-
trite, when as many officers as could be spared from the
duties of the ship attended.
Her Majesty's ship Herald sailed hence on the 19th

inst., with provisions for the Plover discovery ship, in
aid of Sir J. Franklin's expedition.
The Sandwich Islands experience a depression, similar
to other places, from the California emigration mania,
but great hope is entertained that they will speedily be
benefited by the enterprise it his awakened.
ROYAL MARINES.
_ _

Major Robinson died at Woolwich yesterday, by which
casualty the following officers are promoted:—
First Lieutenant William Stratton Aslett, of the Ply-
mouth division, to be Captain, vice Robinson; Second
Lieutenant Charles Roberts, of the Woolwich division, to
be First Lieutenant, vice Aslett.
Captain Moore, First. Lieutenant Tinkler, and 96
men of the Portsmouth division, embarked yesterday on
board her Majesty's ship Leander, 50, at Portsmouth.
ROYAL MARINE ARTILLERY.
One sergeant, one bombardier, and 15 gunners,
em-
barked yesterday at Portsmouth, in the Confiance
steamer, for Plymouth, to join a newly commissioned
steamer there.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 3.—Her Majesty's steam-vessel
Confiance yesterday towed the merchant schooner Eliza
from Barnpool to the sheer hulk, when her broken masts
were taken out and sent to the dockyard. The Admiralty.
have given instructions for the repair of all damages
consequent on the collision of the Eliza with her Ma-
jesty's steam-vessel Volcano.
The Ilecla sailed for the coast yesterday. , •
The Confiance left in the evening With-stores'Or the
eastern port. .
The merchant ship Thomas and Joseph Crisp, 350
tons, Captain Blackall, which left Newport with coal for
Ceylon, experienced a succession of westerly and south-
westerly gales when in long. 12 W., 'Which strained the
ship, and caused her to make 12 inches water hourly,
both pumps going; she, in consequence, put back, and
arrived in the Sound this morning.
PORTSMOUTH, OCT. s.—The Encounter steam cor-
vette, Captain G. T. Gordon, west out to Spithead to-day
ready for sailing orders.
The Leander, 53, Capt. C. S. Decree, picks up men but
slowly.
The Cleopatra, 26, Captain T. L. Massie, arrived at

Rio, from England, on the 29th of July ; she reports
several slavers having been taken by our cruizers on the
Brazil coast, and the arrival of the Apollo troop-frigate
on the 7th of August, which was pat into quarantine
immediately she anchored, the cholera baying broken
out on board when she sighted Madeira. The Portu-
guese treated her brutally there, would allow no inter-
course, nor supply provisions of any description ; ten
men and one officer I believe, says our correspondent, are
dead. The Brazillians are not inclined to assi►t them, so
she has been sent to about 60 miles along the coast to
clear out.

The Cleopatra sailed on tho 11th August for the Ease
Indies.

The Reynard, 11, Capt. Cracroft, by the above advice',
had arrived at Rio from England, refitted, and sailed fur
the Cape of Good Hope, en route to Singapore, on the
11th of August.
The Dragon steam.frigate, Captain Hall, arrived at
Gibraltar from this port on the 26th ult.
Several more vessels are about to be commissioned,
among them the Conflict, Vulture, Firebrand, Spiteful,
Terrible, &c.

WOOLWICH, OCT. s.—The Archer steam-sloop went
down the river, under the charge of Lieutenant Robert-
son, on Wednesday to try her speed with the screw-pro-
peller reduced to nine feet in diameter, but she had only
proceeded as far as Barking-paint when the piston rod
of one of her air-pumps became bent, and as her engines
could not work the anchor was let go promptly, and she
was safely brought up. After remaining three hours off
Barking-point she returned to Woolwich, working only
one of the air-pumps.
The Terrible steam•frigate has been visited by a num-
ber of naval officers during the last and present week.
She is now in the basin having two of her boilers and
two of her funnels taken out, and it is supposed that she
will only have two boilers and two funnels in future,
instead of four of each, having been found when last in
commission to get her steam up very well with the
smaller number.

The Firebrand steam-frigate, of 400-horse power, has
taken her guns on board, consisting of two 68 pounders
I of 95 cwt. each, and 10-feet long, on pivot slides and car-
riages, and for 10-inch guns of 85 cwt. each, and 9 feet
4 inches long, on slides and carriages. She is now or-
dered to remain at Woolwich ready for commission in-
stead of being sent to Sheerness or Portsmouth for
that purpose. This arrangement bas given great satis-
faction, as it is a long time since any large vessel has
been commissioned here, and the paying off of vessels
at this port is not of much benefit to the town, the ofli•
cers and crews generally leaving immediately after.
The Hercules store-ship, with a number of troops on
board for Gibraltar and Malta, passed through the
Downs on Tuesday, piloted by Mr. Stuart from Wool-
wich, who conducted her safely through the channel,
although she draws a considerable depth of water.
The old Romulus, 74, was towed from Sheerness to
Deptford on Wednesday, to be broken up.
The Magicienne steam-vessel is ready to bo taken out
of the East India Docks, and will be remo►ed to Messrs.
Penn's establishment, where her machinery is to be
fitted by that firm.

The Buzzard steam-vessel was taken out of Deptford
basin to day, and is to be taken into the East India
Docks to have her machinery put in by Messrs. Miller,
itivenhill, and Co.

The Stromboli steam-sloop, Commander Lord Amelius
Beauclerk, is hourly expected at Woolwich to be refitted.
A quantity of the stores which sunk in the Bee lighter
when loading from the Terrible steam-frigate were re-
covered yesterday.

The Cndine steam-vessel had her steam up yesterday,
and was taken out of the basin to-day.
The Styx steam vessel had her steam up in the basin

Cor;siderable interest has been excited by the attempt
of a number of divers to recover the specie of the
Plumper, a 14-gun brig, lost in 1812, on her passage
from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to St. John's, New Bruns-
wick, under the command of Lieutenant James Bray, and
having on board at the time upwards of 74,0001. in specie
in boxes, destined for the payment of the troops of his
Majesty. A. number of silver dollars, covered with a
grey mould, grape shot and bullets, the scabbards of
side-arms, leathern sheaths, and many other articles,
have been recovered by the divers.
It was made known at the Admiralty that Captain
Knox is to commission the Firebrand at Woolwich,

The Conflict and Spiteful steam-vessels are also or-
dered to Ise commissioned immediately.

TURKEY AND-It USSIA.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—l trust that there is not an Englishman who
does not feel that the demand of the Emperor of
Russia for the persons of the wretched Hungarians
who have fled to Turkey to save their lives, is a back-
ward march in the civilisation and humanity of the
present age.
A Turk denies the gratification of the bloodthirsty
vengeance which is required by the Autocrat of All
the Russias ! May God bless the Turk in his superior
humanity, I pray. But there is more to be done than
this. Let England support the Turk in his Christian
benevolence and mercy. I, for one, am ready to do
so, and, without calling a meeting fmy countrymen
to join in the measure, I subscribe my name for 5001.
towards a fund to be handed over to the Sultan of
Turkey, to assist in defending himself and his coun-
try against the hostility of Russia, if any is shown in
consequence of her humanity ; and let every one
remember that upon such an occasion, Qui dat cito,
dat

Surely, the day has not gone by when the wretched
persons of a few defeated beings ought to be left quiet
in self-chosen exile, and not bo dragged forth for
execution by an arbitrary tyrant, of whom even the
exile is not a subject !-1 am, Sir, your very obedient
servant, WILLIAM CRAWSHAY.
October 4.

THE PALACE CoURT AND THE LOAN SOCIETY.—
At Worship-street yesterday Mr. Arnold expressed
great satisfaction in announcing to the reporters his
receipt of the undermentioned contributions, for the
benefit of a poor working gun-smith, named William
Jones, the particulars of whose harsh and oppressive
treatment under an execution from the Palace Court, at
the suit of a Loan Society, by which the whole of his
goods, value 501., were swept away for a debt of Si. 18s.,
shortly after he had sustained the loss of three of his
family by cholera, were recently brought under his
notice :—" A Lady," 11.; " A Soldier," Essex, 11.; " L.
F. 1/. " 5.," 11; "H. 5.," half-a-sovereign; 2s. 6d.,
forwarded from The Sun-office, where it had been de-
posited by W.D.," a labourer; "W. C.," 11.; the first
half of a 5/. note, numbered 93,568, from an anony-
mous correspondent at Tunbridge-wells,',in reference to
which the magistrate expressed his intention to devote
one half of the amount to the purposes of the poor-box,
pursuant to the discretion vested in him by the owner;
" A. 8." 2s. 6d. in postage-stamps; Mr. W. Mercer, land-
lord of the Coach and Horses, Blue Anchor-alley, Bun-
hill row' and a few of his customers, half-a-sovereign;
and the half of a Si. bank-note, numbered 11,221, from
a gentleman using the initial "H.," who described it as
a tribute of his sympathy for the sufferings the poor man
had undergone from two such visitations as the cholera
and the Palace Court. The magistrate has also received
I/. from " A Lady," 11, from " 5.," and 103. from "L.
in aid of the poor- box fund; also, from " J.N.," 1/.;
" U. T.," 11. ls.; and " A Lady," 12i. in postage-stamps,
for the relief of the widows and children of poor
persons who had died of cholera. All the benevolent
donors desired to see an acknowledgment of their contri-
butions in the papers.
ROYAL ARTILLERY, WOOLWICH, OCT. s.—One
non-commissioned officer and two gunners, with one non-
commissioned officer and two privates of the Royal
Sappers and Miners, embarked at Roff's-wharf, at ten
o'clock A.M., to-day, for Shoeburyness, to take charge of
the stores there during the winter; and Captain Hyde's
company will return to head-quarters this afternoon
from Shoeburyness, as the company has been placed
under orders, with Major Desbrisay's company, to pro-
ceed to Ireland about the middle of the present month,
to relieve Captain P. Benn's and Captain Wright'a com-
panies, being the two that on the roster for foreign
service.

MR. DISRAELI'S POLICY.
MEETING AT CASTLE HEDINGHAM, IN
ESSEX.
The annual meeting of the Agricultural and Conser-
vative Club for the hundred of Hinchford, in North
Essex, was held yesterday at Castle Hedingham, a
small village about nine miles from Braintree, and nearly
I as many from Sudbury.
The principal attraction to the Castle Hedingham
meeting on the present occasion was the presence of
Mr. Disraeli, who, happening to be on a visit to the
Member for the division, Sir John Tyrell, was invited to
cane over with the Honourable Baronet, and attend the
gathering. Upwards of 200 persons were present; and
the place was rendered yet more gay by the presence of
a number of ladies in the gallery.
Ashurst Megendie, Et q., the present proprietor of the
Castle, and president of the club, took the chair. There
were president on his right, Lord Headley. Sir John
Tyrell, Bart., and on the left Mr. Disraeli, Major Bert s-
ford, M.P., Sir F. Siwpkinson, Bart., &c.
After the usual loyal toasts, the CHAIRMAN then,
amidst loud applause, proposed " Success to tho Hunch.
ford Agricultural and Conservative Club."
The Rey. Mr. Cox, of Favistead, who was saluted
with loud cheers, and all the cries peculiar to fox-hunt-
ing, returned thanks. He defended the connexion of
Conservatism with agriculture in this club, on the
ground that five agricultural societies had previously
existed in Chelmsford and Colchester, which had lately
expired, while this society had met tonight, increased in
numbers and influence, to celebrate its sixteenth anni-
versary.—(Loud cheers.) Besides, the friends of the
farmers were invariably to be found in the Conservative
ranks ; for among the Whig and Radical members there
were not five who could be trusted as friendly to their
cause. There were Lord Beaumont and Lord Worsley,
now Lord Yarborough, who, when Peel was in power,
joined the Central Protection Society ; hut since the
Whigs had come into power these Noblemen never
darkened the doors of the Protection Society, and they
both voted for the repeal of the navigation-laws, to put,
as was said, the capital on the column of free trade.—
(Hear, hear.) At the same time, he did not mean to
blame the Whig gentry and farmers—he knew they
blamed Lord John Russell for deserting his principles, as
much as the Conservatives blamed Sir Robert Peel for
deserting his ; and his advice to the Whigs was to fol-
low the example of the Conservatives—to turn off their
leader and find another.—(Cheers.) He then referred
to the fact that six farms had been advertised in the
local papers to be let for a month together, and there
appeared to be no bidders. This was significant of a
great change of opinion among the farmers, who began
to despair of things ever being better.—(Hear, hear.)
He would instance the case of his own farm, which he
attended to daily, and had held for fourteen years. Hie
farm was of 100 acres, and he had 1,0001. capital in it;
and the result of his accounts for this year was that the
produce paid his rent and all his outgoings, except
41. 17s. 6d. But then he had no return whatever for his
capital of 1,0001. That was the state of the tenant-
farmers at the present moment. It might be said he was
making out a case for the non-payment of rent; but he
was there to speak the honest truth, and the honest
truth was, that the farmers were paying rents out of
their own pockets. He asked the meeting if this state
of things could go on?—(No, no.) The Rev. Gentleman
then proceeded to satirise what he called the modern
agricultural quack doctors, from Mr. Mechi of the magic
razor-strop to Lord Brougham, whose plan was to pro-
duce a cross between a steam-engine and a tea-kettle—
(Laughter)—and he concluded by giving his own plan
for the cure of agricultural distress, and that was to
convert the minority that followed his Hon. Friend the
Member for Buckinghamshire into a majority, and the
husines was done.—(Cheers.) How was this to be effected?
It rested with the gentry and the tenant-farmers of Eng-
land, and he called upon them to begin by displacing
Sir E. Buxton from South Essex, Mr. Hardcastle from
Colchester, and Mr. Lennard from Maldon.—(Cheers.)
What they were to do when they got that majority he
would leave to wiser heads than his own; but this he
would say, on the part of the farmers of Essex, that all
they wanted was justice, and that the Hon. Member for
Bucks should persevere in his efforts to obtain an equ-
lity of taxation—(Cheers)—and to make the foreigner
pay a toll for the liberty of entering our markets, and
then the farmers would be content.—(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN then, amidst enthusiastic applause,
propos, d the health of their distinguished visitor, Mr.
Disraeli, who was recognised as the leader of the agri-
cultural cause in the House of Commons. His writings
were not mere pictures of persona and manners, but he
laid before them sentiments that did honour to the human
heart—he laid open to them the evils of the political
'system of England, and held out brighter destinies to
England than that she should become a mere cotton
manufactory.—(Cheers.) But it was no: as an author,
but as a pelitician, that he was now among them. In
his works kindness and gentleness appealed to be his
chief characteristics; but when the time came, and it had
come, to lay bare treachery, he was possessed of
thoughts that breathe and words that burn to expose
and to 'scathe that ire achery.—(Cheers ) Without fur-
ther preface ho begged to give them the health of their
distinguished guest Benjamin Disraeli, Esq.—(Cheers )
Mr. Desnaaee wan received with loud cheers. Ile
said-TI feel no inconsiderable embarrassment in pre-
suming to address you on this occasion. As a general
rule, which has alwa) s guided me through any public
experience I have had in political life, I have refrained
from venturing to give any opinion on public affairs out
of the limits of that district where it is my happiness to
live, and which I have the honour to represent.—
(Cheers.) For this reason I have taken the liberty al.
ways to refuse those invitations which have too flatter-
ingly been proffered me from bodies of my countrymen
in other parts of England who wished to express to me
their sense of my humble services in their behalf, and if
I venture to make an exception in the present instance
of the county of Essex it is for two reasons. The first,
indeed, is one which has already been alluded to by my
lion. Friend Mr. Cox, that I was well assured that in
coming here I would meet with a genuine body of Eng-
lish yeomen.—(Cheers)—that it could not for a mo-
ment be supposed that in appearing before you this
day I came only es the guest of some fortunate indi-
vidual who dictates his opinions to multitudes who were
ready or obliged to accept them ; but that at a moment
very critical to the fortunes of all who are interested in
the cultivation of land in England, I should find among
you a fair specimen and a fair representation of
the yeomanry of the country. But, notwithstanding my
wish to attend a meeting of such a character, I should
have hesitated to accept the invitation which was prof-
fered me, had I not recollected that in the course of last
year I received from the county of Essex a petition
signed by several thousands, which, with the consent
and the sanction of the Members for Essex, the consti-
tuency wished that I should present to the House of
Commons, as a general testimony of their sense of my
humble services on behalf of agriculture.—(Loud cheers.)
Therefore I hope that I shall not be considered an in-
truder or a stranger—(No, no)—when you have already
so publicly expressed your approbation of my conduct,
and your confidence in me, and since you allowed me
in my place in Parliament to prove that I possess the
confidence not only of my constituents, but the confidence
of the county of Essex.—(Loud cheers.) My Hon.
Friend the Chairman has told you that I wish to express
to you my views on our present forlorn situation. I can
hardly presume to do that; though I will venture, if
you will permit me, to offer a few observations.—(Hear,
hear.) And it is still less necessary for me to do so,
because you have already had an able exposition of
your condition from my Hononrable Friend Mr. Cox,
to whom I listened with delight, but I confess
I wish I had heard it another place, for if
that speech had been made in the House of
Commons you may depend upon it that it would have
produced not less effect than it has done in this ancient
hall of the De Veres.—(Loud cheers.) _ We meet here
after the advantage of considerable experience since those
changes occurred .0 which every gentleman who has
addressed you to night has adverted. It was an expe-
rience of three years, on which those great changes
were decided by a Minister and passed by a Parliament.
Three years have elapsed since those changes, and more;
and I accept that test of time which was fixed by the
counsellors of our Legislature, and I ask the country
now to decide upon those measures by the fruits which
they have produced.—(Cheers.) I remember, when op
position was made to the abrogation of the ancient
agricultural policy of England, we were met with this
question by a Right Hon. Gentleman, a Cabinet Mini-
, ster—and, I am ashamed to say, still a county Member—
he used to say, when we attempted to defend the inte-
rests of national industry against the competition of
foreigners as respects agricultural produce, he said, I
wish those gentlemen who are so alarmed would tell us
where the corn is to come from?—(hear, hear.) Now,
I believe that every one present knows where the corn
is to come from—where it has come from, and where,
unless it is stopped, it will continue to come from.—
(Laughter and cheers.) I have alluded to this, not in
the way of taunt to the individual, but
.to call your
attention by this trait to the position which you now
occupy. What was matter of theory is now a fact proved
by severe demonstration, and whether what is called the
Protectionist party, of which I am a humble member—
whether they were right or wrong in the policy which
they counselled the House of Commons and wished the
country to adopt—whether they were right or wrong in
this—ono thing is quite clear, that every prediction which
we made has been verified, and every prophecy which we
uttered has been realised. We said that the measures
would be a fatal blow to the agricultural industry of the
country—we opposed those who maintained that they
would stimulate your industry and improve your for-
tunes. Now you are the best judges, from your expe-
rience, who was right on that occasion. It is acknow-
ledged by all—by men of all parties and of all opinioets;
I may say by the leading men of all counties—that this
is a critical period—a critical epoch—for thbeenaerwicituhl:
tural fortunes of England. That, then,
nisi.as
result
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is not increased prosperity, it is not enve
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enjoyed.. is
adversity,
one of unmitigated pressure and o
which even the boldest can scarcely presume to encoun-
ter.—(Cheer.) Well, then, the practical question arises
in these circumstances: What are we to do? That
is the question of the day—it is the question to
which every man must address himself who
wishes to influence the opinions of the day, and it is
because I thought I might presume to offer

you a few brief observations upon this subject that I
came here to-day as your guest, to ask your counsel,
and place you in the true knowledge of your position,
and, I hesitate not to say, to induce you to combine to-
gether in order to improve and remedy it.—(Cheers.) I
know from experience the great difficulty which any
person who is your sincere supporter, and the advocate
of your real interests, must encounter at the present
day, if he wishes to suggest what he thinks may be for
your advantage, but which may not be identical with
that particular scheme of policy which has been re-
pealed to your detriment. It is the interest of your op-
ponents to describe such an individual as a person who
has given up the opinions he once professed, if he do
not, as the sole specific for your disquietude and suffer-
ing, rise and tell you that a recurrence to protection is
the only means of relief. I fought as hard as I could—l
fought as hard as most did—in defence of those laws
which have been repealed.—(Loud cheers.) I don't
bate one inch of the opinions which on that occasion 1
expressed. I don't bate one inch of confidence in the
facts which I then brought forward, of which time has
since proved the accuracy. I don't bate one inch of my
confidence in the truths of the arguments which I then
brought forward. lam prepared at all times, and under
all circumstances, to maintain and to advance those
great principles of industrial polity which the Protec-
tion party upheld in Parliament in the great struggle of
1846. But I find that various classes of the agri-
cultural body are suffering. I know that the present
Parliament will not revert to the ancient policy, the
repeal and the abrogation of which I opposed, and still
deplore—l know that the present Parliament may exist
for four years at least longer yet, and therefore I say I
would not be your-friend—l would not be, what I trust
I am, both from sentiment and conviction, devoted to
your interests, if I did not venture a suggestion, in the
interim, which I think may ameliorate your position,
and advance your fortunes.—(Loud cheers.) I say then,
without giving up one iota of the principles which I have
always advocated—l say it is wise aid expedient, and
most necessary in the present critical position of the
agricultural body, that we should look about us and see
whether there are not certain measures which we might
advocate,
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Commons and of the country to the fact that the real
property of England is subject to peculiar burdens and
severe taxation, from which other property is exempt.
I did not call attention to this subject, or suggest what
I thought would be a remedy, under the idea that that
would be any alleviation of a loss of Protectionist policy;
but I said, you have deprived us of our rights—you
have deprived us of
.that which both in policy and in
justice you were bound to secure to us—and I must, in
our present forlorn condition, look round me and see
whether on your own premises and principles I cannot
find some remedy for that condition to which your policy
has brought us. I do not tell you, gentlemen, that if I
succeed—and with your assistance I am confident I shall
succeed—l do not tell you that that would be any com-
pensation for the laws which you have lost; but I ask
you, as sensible and practical men, whether you would
refuse to accept remedial measures because you have
been deprived of advantages which you think superior
to them? At the present day your opponents acknow-
ledge the difficulties in which you are placed. They
offer you those remedies which have been alluded to with
so much skill and graphic power by my friend Mr. Cox.
You are the best judges of the validity and worth of
those remedies. I confess I have no confidence in them;
I confess I cannot take upon myself the responsibility of
attempting to convince you that in such remedies you
will find relief.—(Cheers.) I know nothing more easy
than to tell the farmers of England that the sure way for
them to cope with the difficulties which they may en-
counter is to have recourse to the commercial principle.
But in the first place I don't quite clearly understand
what the commercial principle is. I sat for forty days
on a Committee of the House of Commons
to inquire into the severe distress of the na-
tion in 1847. On that Committee there was a
majority of free-traders—we differed on many points;
but there was one point on which we were all agreed,
and that was, that the distress was caused on that occa-
sion by the over-speculation of commercial men.—
(Chee rs.) Now, really, if the commercial principle is a
principle of over-speculation, that is not a principle the
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commercial principle, as shown in those enterprizes
which were held up as models of management, of energy,
and skill, for the benefit of the agri, ultural body—it
turns out now that the commercial principle as applied
to them
.consists in the pa) ment of dividends out of
capital. I ask, is the commercial principle, as applied
to land, to consist in the payment of rents out of capital?
—(Cheers and laughter.) Well, then, finding these re-
sults, I am obliged to plod on in my own way, and till I
can obtain for 3ou that which, with my friend here, I
believe you are entitled to, end which you can only
obtain by energy and enterprise—energy and enterprise
directed in a very different way and to a very different
resu;t from what the free-traders imagine—till that
moment arrives, I must, so long as I have the honour to
sit in the House of Common., representing the agricul-
tural interest, see if I cannot obtain an alleviation of
your position in some degree—(Cheers)—and as I
cannot help fancying, in pursuance of the policy which I
shall venture to indicate, you not only obtain relief to
a certain extent—but if, by the exercise of your enter-
prise and energy—for I want both as much as the free
traders do—if you lay the foundation for that great re-
lief which you require—why then I think you will not
be pursuing a policy which you ought to look upon with
suspicion and distrust, and I have a right to call upon
you to support me in it.—(Cheers.) Now, gentlemen,
lam at the present moment for practical measures and
for immediate exertions. I want the various classes that
form the great agricultural body—landlords, cultivators
occupiers, and labourers—l want them all to join to-
gether within the few months that have to elapse before
Parliament meets, to decide on the line of policy which
they think ought to be pursued and prosecuted by the
Legislature of the country, and by their petitions, and by
all constitutional methods and by their influence on
their representatives, I wish that when Parliament

meets Parliament should understand that the grand
agricultural interest of England comprehends its posi-
tion; and not only comprehends its position, but, to a
certain degree, the remedies which that position requires.
—(lean) Now, gentlemen, I will not dwell much on a
subject upon which it has often boen my lot to speak, both
in the House of Commons and oat of it. But it is necessary
to repeat truth when truth is not acknowledged; and it is
only by its repetition that you can get bodies of men to
be convinced of the truth, and to act in a way that truth
ceases to be theory and becomes fact. Now, I have men-
tioned over and over again this circumstance—an ano-
maly in the history of this country—that the real pro-
perty of this country, besides contributing to the general
and imperial revenue of the State, has also to raise a

revenue peculiar to itself. That real property, which,
according to the last official rating does not count be-
yond one quarter of the general income of the country,
but which, under no circumstances, can be placed at
higher than ono-third, not only contributes its propor-
tion to the 50 millions or more which forma the general
revenue, but is also called on to raise another revenue to

•
the amount of 12 millions sterling, for purposes, although
the taxation is local, of essentially a public character.
—(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, I say that that great ano-
maly never should have been passed over and endured,
had it not been for the existence of those laws which
have been repealed with respect to the cultivation of the
land in England. Now let us try this case in a way that
I believe I have not yet put it, but it is a
very simple and a very striking one. Suppose
that the real property, which is taxed to the
amount of twelve millions a year for national purposes,
ought to contribute to the amount of one-third—and if
it were not that I always endeavour to avoid over-
colouring my case, I might fairly, for the argument,
take it at ono quarter—but let us take it at one-third;
and this, gentlemen, may be wearisome, but I must dwell
upon it tor a moment, because it is of the utmost im-
portance that the matter should be clearly laid before
you. Now suppose that this twelve millions a year paid
by real property is reckoned for the whole period since
the peace of thirty-three years ago, deducting the four
millions per annum w hich the real property ought, in its
fair proportion, to have contributed to the general in-
terests of the community, it will show that nearly three
hundred millions more has been pail by real property
than it ought to have dune. Why, gentlemen, is it pos-
sible that real property, which has been held up almost
to public scorn for its rapacity for the last few years,
should have contributed, since the peace, to the
general interests of the community nearly three hun-
dred millions, which, according to every principle of
justice, it ought not to have been called on to contribute;
—that this should be the property—the great proportion
e
and most important proportion of which, namely,
land of England, has been held up to public indignation
as the interest and property that has obtainedsuc,,r,
unfair,ea
advantages over the general body of the people _ cli
hear.) Why, that fact alone is a fair basis for petitioning
Parliament for relief. The time has come: you have a
owners of real properotsyt,iitintdheisr
right to consider—as the
country—not more than one-third, oratthe
any circumstances, approaching to one-third m
of the whole
property of the country, are obliged to contribute twelve
millions a-year, of which their just proportion would
only be four millions—l say the time has arrived when
real property is entitled to come to the Legislature and
ask for some relief under these monstrous circumstances.
—(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, I was reading the other
day in some book about the earliest ard greatest revolu-
tion in France; and I met with a story about a pick-
pocket who was caught in the fact. No sooner was he
caught in the fact, than he turned round against his in-
tended victim, and said he was an aristocrat, got the
mob round him, and the gentleman was hanged
at a lamp-post.—(Laughter.) Now, that is exactly the
position of the real property of England.—(Hear, hear,
and renewed laughter.) Fur the last thirty-three years,
since the peace—and I don't wish to go further back—l
don't wish to push the painful investigation farther than
that—the real property of England has been pillaged
and plundered to the amount of nine millions a year.
And the moment that, tortured by the Legislature which
has deprived you of the only circumstances that per-