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N°.17,088.]

ON the STATE and PROSPECTS of the
LABOURING CLASSES.

January, 1849.
The Committee of the SOCIETY for the IMPROVEMENT of the
CONDITION of the LABOURING CLASSES feel unwilling to allow
the opening of a new year, under such unparalleled circumstances as
the present, to pass over without offering to their subscribers, and
the gentry, clergy, and middle clams of England generally, 'a few
words of congratulation and of caution. -
The grounds of congratulation will be obvious to every one —that
a year of convulsions to Europe generally should have elapsed in
England almost without any serious alarm, and that this general
tranquillity should have been preserved during the pressure of much
want of employment, poverty, and privation, may well excite a feel-
ing of gratitude, arid lead us to prize more deeply those institutions
which have thus " weathered the storm ;" and, above all, that spirit
of religion, which, even partially and imperfectly diffused as it is,
has yet shown itself, though in weakness, the best controller of na-
tional perturbations.
But, besides these general grounds of thankfulness, the Committee
have much cause to congratulate their subscribers on the progress
ma:le in their own more immediate work in the course of the past
year. Not only has the gracious patronage of her Majesty and her
Royal Consort encouraged and enabled them to commence a new
work of magnitude and importance—the Model Lodging-house for..
Families, which will shortly, it is hoped, rise from the ground in the
immediate vicinity of St. Giles's—but the example already set be-
gins to be extensively followed.. Within the last few months the Com-
mittee have had the pleasure of witnessing efforts of a kindred na-
ture, and most of them confessedly in imitation of those carried on
by this Society, made or planned in Leveret populous and important
places.
In the great parish of St. Anne, Soho, the rector and a parochial
committee have coninleted and opened a large lodging-house, in
which excellent accommodation is provided for as many as 136 per-
sons of the industrious classes.
Adjoining to this, in St. James's, Westminster, the rector, with a
parochial committee, is employed on a similar undertaking.
At Edinburgh and Glasgow model lodging-houses have been opened
and further efforts in the same direction are contemplated.
In the city of Bath a similar work has ecently been undertaken
by the clergy and a local committee, and there can be no doubt of its
speedy and complete accomplishment.
At Brighton, a lodging-house for the working-classes is planned,
and measures for its establishment have been taken by several of the
clergy.
At Macclesfield the same object is engaging the attention of the
inhabitants, and a measure of this kind is now in progress. Several
other movements ofthe same description, in other towns, are in va-
lOUS stages of maturity.
Nor ought we to forget—though an entirely Independent move-
ment—the recent opening of the Metropolitan Buildings, near Old
St. Pancras Church, in which excellent lodgings are provided for' as
many as 110 families of the industrious classes.
Observing all these efforts of benevolence, commencing nearly at
the same time, the Committee feel that there is abundant ground for
congratulation ; and that it is hardly too much to hope that at no
very distant day the wants and comforts of the town labourers
throughout England may be generally, or even universally, regarded
with interest.
Turning to the agricultural districts, the Committee feel that the
only way in which these can be effectually attended to, is by the
active co-operation of the landed proprietors, the clergy, and gentry,
in the important work of raising from ignorance, destitution, and
discontent, a large proportion of the labourers of Great Britain,
With this view,.the Committee are ',rally to be able to state, tha'
having prepared plans and specircatloaa for several kinds of agri-
cultural cottages, they have received, since the month of June last,
no fewer than 184 applications for copies of them, the greater part of
which applications have been made by gentlemen who avowed their
intension of immediately beginning to rai,e, in their res;ective
neighbourhoods, better dwellings for the agricultural poor t an those
which have hitherto teen so common in our villages. The Com-
mittee have also issued a plan for a Village Lodging-house, adapted
for unmarried agricultural labourers, quarrymen, and miners, and
they have the sati fact on (.f knowing that, in wagons places especi-
ally at Brampton-park, near Huntingdon, and at Tunt,ridge-wells,
t is sort of dwelling is now in course of erection.
The Committee also receive most gratify:ng account of tie efforts
making iu differ ent part of the country to improve the dwellings of
the poor, among the foremost of se itch they mast place the recent
erection of a considerable number of excel ent cottages at Ampthill
and other villages, by his Grace the Duke of Bedford, who is about
to extend the same system of improvement over the whole of his
large property.
Yet, while giving utterance to these congratulations, the Com-
mittee feel compelled to add some words of caution. They fear that
certain erroneous notions, which have long been prevalent, are still
entertained in many quarters as to the expediency and propriety of
all or any such attempts to ameliorate the condition of the poor. It
seems still to be thought by some, that to render the labouring
classes comfortable is to encourage their increase—that to encourage
their Increase leads to the growth of pauperism—and that pauperism
is " the devouring evil which threatens to swallow up all the pro-
, erty of the country."
A moment's glance at the statistics of the present century may
suffice to dissipate some of these illusions.

The population of England and Wales, in 1817, was 11,349,750;
the sum expended in 1817 on the relief of the poor was 6,910,9251.
In 1847 the population had grown to at Last 17,000,000, but the
sum expended on the reit f of the poor in that year was only
6,2'8,785/. Thus, In 1817 the pauperism of the kingdom was equal
to a levy of more than 12s. on each person ; in 1847 it did notamount
to 7s. on each.
In 1817 a sum of 6,910,925/. was raised on rateable property of the
value of 52,000,0001. In 1847 the sum cf 5,298,7851. was raised on
property valued at 67,000,0001. Thus, in 1817 the rateable property
of the country had to bear a levy of 2s. Bd. In the pound, while in
1847 that levy was reduced to Is. 7d.

Hence, whatever allowance we may make for the stricter admi-
nistration of the poor-law, or for the reduced price of the necessaries
of life, these few figures will show how ungrounded is the alarm
entertained by some, that pauperism is an ever-increasing evil, which
must, sooner or later, swallow up all property.

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To take a contrary view, is it not a striking fact, that a property..
tax of only 7d. in the pound yielded, in 1847, more money than was
expended on the whole pauperism of England and Wales ?

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These few facts are adduced solely to quiet al irm, and to restore
confidence. The Committee feel assured that nothing is now wanted
to raise the English labourer, generally, to a position of moderate
comfort, so far as his physical wants are concerned, but an increase
cl hope and confidence—hope and confidence on the part of the
employer and proprietor, and the like feeling on the part of the
labourer.

It is to be feared that a sentiment of despair, naturally leading to
recklessness, is the principal cause of much of the improvidence and
vice still prevalent among the working classes. If the labourer is
not only poorly fed and clothed, and wretchedly lodged, but sees also
no prospect of imlirovement, even in the vista of years, who can won•
der if the least temptation, either to sensual indulgence or to reck-
less engagements, proves tco mach for kis stability ? To imbue a
Man with self-respect, or thoughtfulnss for the future, it is clearly
essential that hope should brighten the prospect. It is but too pro-
bable that most of the Improvident marriages which occur among
the poor arise from the utter absence of all hope that marriage shall
ever be anything e'se than improvident. The man who has known
the comfort of a decent home, and can look forward to the posses-
sion of such an one, will not be very likely to throw himself wilfully
it tt poverty and wretchedness.
Hence it may be safely regarded as one of the surest safeguards
against rail] nil(' imprudent marriage, to give the young labourer
some knowledge of the comforts of a respectable home, and to afford
him a prospect of acquiring such for himself by the exercise of in-
dustry, prudence, and frugality.

The Committee will not fbriher enter into details, or press their
convictions with undue confidence. But they may surely beg, with-
out blame, the attention of the gentry and :middle classes to the

signs of the times, mid to the vast importhnce of rendering the con-
dition ofthe labouring classes as comfortablo as their natural posi-
tion will allow. Everywhere the spread of knowledge and education
is clothing the working classes with power. That power they have
ased, and are using, in various parts of Europe, to overthrow those

whom they consider to have wronged or oppressed them. In Eng-
land, happily, there exists no real ground for such complaints. But
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even the ordinary sufferings of poverty, if not soothed by sympathy,
and alleviated by the hand of wealthy benevolence, may be some
times mistaken for the inflictions of injustice. Hence the Divine
warning and counsel can never be more seasonably applied than at
this moment :—" The poor shall never cease out of the land ; there-
fore I command thee, saying, thou shalt open thine hand wide unto
thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy in the land."

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In conclusion, the Committee would add a few words on their
own immediate concerns. The work entrusted to them becomes
daily of increasing importance. Thei• correspondence with all parts
of England rapidly extends, and appeals are continually made to theta
which involve an increased expenditure. The principal work, too,
in London —the Model Lodging-house for Families, now about to be
commenced, will require an expenditure of at least 8,0001., while
little more than 5,0001. has yet been subscribed for that purpose.
On every ground, therefore, the Committee would earnestly ask
for new and enlarged contributions. No other society, they believe
it may be safely asserted, devoting itself to the physical necessities
of the poor, has embarked in so extensive and necessary an under-
taking as this in which they are engaged. They desire to do some-
thing to ameliorate the condition of the whole labouring population
of the kingdom; and few and feeble as their efforts have yet been,
they still find encouragement to hope that, by perseverance, and
with the blessing of flint .` who judgeth the cause of the poor and
needy," even this great work may in a measure be accomplished.
Signed for the Committee,

ASHLEY, Chairman.

Subscriptions.
Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen and his Royal High-

ness Prince Albert • • ••
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager
Her Royal highness the Duchess of Kent
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
The Right lion. Earl Spencer . •
Sir Joseph Copley, Bart., Id don. ..
The Right lion. Lord Feyersham
S. M. Peto, Esq., M.P.
Rey. E. Holland ..
His Grate the Duke of Bedford ..
Miss Portal .. . •
➢tessrs. Barclay and C 0.....
Kosmos •• ~ .. ..
Abel Smith, Esq. ..
Lord Willoughby De Eresby
A Friend, by L. Sullivan, Esq. ..
Total to Jan. I, 1849 ..

•• £3OO 0 0
- 150 0 0
•• 100 0 0
.• 50 0 0
.. 100 0 0
.. 110 0 0
.. 100 0 0
.. 100 0 0
.. 100 0 0
.. 100 0 0
•• 100 0 0
.. 100 0 0
.. 100 0 0
•• 100 0 0
.• 100 0 0
•• 100 0 0
•• £5,663 3 6

Donations since received : - - -
The Rev. Dr. Ellerton £25 0 0 Mrs. llughaFn .• £2O 0 0
A Friend .. .. 50 00W. P. Angell, Esq. b 5 0
lt. B. Cooke, Esq. .. 5 0 0 Mrs. Schael .. 2 0 0
Major Cruikshank .. 5 0 0 Miss Cath. Stuart .. 2 0 0
A., per Nisbet .. 5 0 1 i,:',. W. M. L. .. 5 0 0
Y. 'P. • • .. 4 0 (. Major Little .. 1 0 0
c. Saver, Esq. .. 5 0 ( i.ady Murray .. 2 2 0
A. Palmer, Esq. .. 5 05. V. Jennings, Esq. .. 50 lo 0
A. H. liradsliaw,Esq. 10 0 C 1. Wilkinson, Esq .. 5 0 0
Donations and annual subscriptions will be received by Messrs.
Williams, Deacon and Co., Birchin-lane ; Messrs. Ilerrics, Farqu-
har, and Co., St. James-street ; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand ;
Messrs. Strahan, Paul, and Co , Temple-bar ; and by Hatchards,
Picadilly ; Seeleys, Fleet-street and Ihnover-street ; and Nisbet,
Berners.street ; or by the Secretary, at the office, 21, Exeter-hall.

Just published, price 55., tivo., in cloth,
PEE RATIONAL TREATMENT of STRIC-
TURESI_ of the URETHRA, in all their varieties and compli-
cations. With practical observations on the use and abuse of instru-
ments in the treatment of urethral diseases, showing that the unne-
cessary employment of instruments is a frequent exciting cause of
stricture, and that a want of practical knowledge and manual dex-
terity in their use, when necessary, is the source of most of the se-
vere, long-protracted, and complicated cases of that disorder so fa-
tally prevalent!
Ily F. B. COURTEXAY,
" The operation of introducing a catheter through an impermeable
stricture is, without doubt, the most difficult in the whole range of
surgical operations, and demands all the prudence, science, and skill
fceof a master. The art can only be acquired, and that gradually, by
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Published by H. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street ; and may be had of

ON PHYSICAL DIB,II
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ImpLICATIONS, GENERATIVI I •
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ADIMENTS TO MARRIAGE.ICCAPA-
nius;TteaY,
by
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Published, price 2s. 6d
HiveW
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THE SILENT FRIEND,s 3s. 6d. in postage stamp's',"
the infirmities and decay of the Medical Work on
cessive indulgence, infection,
and
th:einiterative system, from ex
with remarks on Marriage, and the mean: nate use ef mercury-,
qualifications. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engrobaytting certain dis-
and
qualifications.
PERRY and CO., Consulting Surgeons, le, IlerageB. R.
ford-street, London. Published by the Authors : sold by stre
21, paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, ocrii-trange'
Starie, 23, Titehborne-street, Haymarket ; and Gordon, 146,
_street
ha It.
PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive
organs, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings.
PART 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessiveindul-
once, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing mental
and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative neapacity.
Illustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings.
PART 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.
PART IV. contains a Prescription for the Prevention of Disease
by a simple application, by which the danger of infection is ob-
viated. This important part of the Work should not escape the
reader's notice.
PART T. is devoted to the consideration of marriage, and its
duties. The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and
the whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into.
Tux CORDIAL BALM OF STRIAOIIM is exclusively employed he treat-
ing nervous and sexual debility, impotence, &c., Ils. and 335. per
bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, au anti-syphilitic
remedy, for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary symp-
toms, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, 11:. and 335. per bottle.
Perry's PurifyiEg Specific Pills, 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and lie. per box, a
certain remedy for gonorrhoea, elect, stricture, 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.
Si. Packets, with advice, to be had at the Establishment only, by
which the fee,ll., is saved. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, are in atten-
danee daily at 19, Beraere.street, Oxford-street, London, from Ele-
TM tW Tyres iind Fir) t 9 on Onndals from =oven ta_9l3o.

NELL G WYNNE TAVERN and CHOP-
HOUSE, Dull Inn-court, Strand, for Luncheons, Dinners,
and Suppers, Three Doors East of the Adclphi Theatre, and opposite
Adam street.

Messrs. ARCHER and HOLT most respectfully invite their
friends and the public to patronise the Nell Gwynne Coffee•room,
which has been fitted up in the style of the period in which she lived.
Visitors to the Theatres, Citizens, and Gentlemen connected 'with
Somerset House, and the Banking Houses in the vicinity, will find
the Table d'Hote, which takes place at rlalf.past Five p ecisely, the
most comfortable and rea,onable in the metropolis.—Fish and
Joints, 2s. per head. Hot Joints until Eight, and Suppers until Ten
o'clock. Private lining-rooms excellent Beds, superior Wines and
Spirits, fine Ales, and Barclay and Perkins's Stout.
N.B. An Entrance also from Maiden lane.

THE NICOLL —REGENT-STREET and
CORNHILL.

BESIDES the above Patented Article, there
is another Novelty introduced for this Season which is
however, Registered, and consists in a BODY GARMENT some-
what in the form of a Dress-coat, that Is to say, a Gentleman
can wear it in the evening without distinctly infringing the laws
of costume recognised in Society ; but as it Is 'more especially in-
tended for morning wear, when Riding or Walking, it necessarily
avoids the stiff formality to De cbserved in the cut and form of the
Dress-coat. The price is

_
TWO GUINEAS.
the same as charged at 114, 116, and 120, REGENT-STREET, and
22, CORNIIILL, for

THE REGISTERED PALETOT,
which is likewise now ready for the Spring months, with all
the new and patentel improvements included in the above moderate
price; thus it deservedly bears the name of being not only the most
fashionable but also the cheapest and most durable garment ever
offered to the Public, tte intrinsic value of the raaterial known as
NICOLLIAN or LLAMA CLO l'H, being, within the last few months,
much enhanced, the same durability being retained, with an increased
fineness and beauty in appearance. It can be seen ready for imme-
diate wear, in every size, at 114, 116, and 120, REGENT-STREET,
and 22, CORNHILL, bat

IT is impossible to detail in an ordinary Adver-
tisement the many advantage appertaining to the above gar-
ments. In the first place, Messrs. NICOLL purchase the wool
direct from the foreign grower, and it does not leave their possession
until it is produced In a complete form and ready for the inspection
of their Patrons. Messrs. NICOLL are honoured with the patronage
of their Royal llighnesses Prince Albert, Prince George of Cam-
bridge, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, his Grace the Duke of Wel-
lington, and all others distinguished in Rank and Fashion, the Court,
the Pulpit, and the Bar.

At 114, 116, and 120, REGENT-STREET, and 22, CORNHILL,
there is to be seen

THE NICOLL.—A patented garment and pos
seating this peculiarity, that whilst in its exterior it preserves
every characteristic of he Registered Paleiot, it can, by simply
detaching an inner li ing, be conver ed from a warm to a light
0 ercoat, or vice versa, at th, pleasure of the wearer. This same
inner lining, .hen detached, of itself forms a most comfortable
reading or dressing jacket. There are many other a ivantages con-
ained in TilE NICOLL, rendering it as a garment a most valuable
adjunct in a variable c.imate, also for travelling, &c., but it should
be seen and won to be fairly appreciated, but it can be had in Lon-
don only at 114, 116, 120, REGENT-STREET, and 22, CORNIIILL,
an

TT is perhaps unnecessary here to state that Messrs.
Nit OIL will endeavour to deserve and retain the eminent
position they have attained through the employment and liberal
payment of the best skill and talent that can be net with in order
to introduce articles of gentlemanly costume in the most perfect
taste. Messrs. N. are well aware that their great popularity induced
by the high character exhibited in every point of the Registered
Pal. tot, &c., &c., has caused many to assume a somewhat similar
title for ►heir goods, but the copy has consisted only in a close re-
semblance of the name but not of the article; a careful observance
of the annexed address is therefore respectfully solicited, where the
above garments can only be obtained in London.

H. J. and D. NICOLL,
114, 116. 12 ), REGENT-STREET,
and 22, CORNHILL.

UNDER the SH &DOW of the GRASS•
lIOI'PER (22, Cornhill, opposite the Royal Exchange) may
be seen tha City Depot for the NICOLL, the REGISTERED
PALETOT, NICOLL'S MORNING COATS, and other garments,
with some portion of each of the beautiful fabrics daily exhibited In
the spacious warerooms, 114, 116, and 120, Regent-street, as not
only these last-named premises, bat also those in Cornhill, are the
property of one and the same firm.

- The following agents have also a large variety ofgoods for inspection,
viz.:—Messrs. Wareing and Son, New-street, Birmingham ; Messrs.
Dawbaru and Son, Bold-street, Liverpool ; Messrs. Macdona, Moles-
worth-street, Dublin ; Messrs. Christie ane. Son, George-street, Edin-
burgh; Messrs. Wilson and Co., Calcutta; Messrs. Rutherford, Hong
Kong ; Messrs. Roth, Philadelphia; Messrs. Bruce, Cape Town.
Il y a des agents pour la vente de ces articles breve:es dans Waal
les principales ♦illes de l'Augleterre et des colonies qui ont des as-
sortiments prets A etre examines.

TO THE COUNTRY TRADE, &c.—Such re-
spectable Houses as may be disposed to add to their present
trade the very important addition of a first-rate connexion, consisting
of purchasers of first-class Goods, principally PALETOIS, Ike., can
effect their object by applying for terms, Sec. to the under-men-
tioned, who will duly forward same, with fullePt particulars,
In the event of there being an opening for an agency in the
town from whence they write.—H. J. and 1). NICOLL, WHOLE-
SALE and COHN ,2ING-LIOUSE DEPARTMENT, 120, REGENT-
STREET, Loudon.

AVIES'S CANDLES, sd. and sd. per lb. ;
ka Waxed-wick Moulds, 6%d.; Composite, 8%d., 10d., and 10%d;
Wax Candles, Is.; German Wax, Is. 2d.; Fine Wax, Is. 5d.;
Transparent Wax, Is. 9d. . • Best Wax, 2s. Id. ; Sperm Candles,
is. and Is. 7d. Metallic, 7%d. and 8% d.; Mottled Soap, 60s. and
645. per 1121bs. ; Yellow, 485., 545., and 60s. ; Windsor Soap, Is. 4d.
per packet ; Brown Windsor, Is. 9d. ; Rose, 25.; Almond, 2s. 6d. ;
Sealing Wax, 4s. 6d. per lb. ' • Sperm 011, 7s. 6d. per gallon; Solar
38.3 d. , Seal, 45.; Argand, or Vegetable, 45. 6d.
For Cash—At DAVIES'S Old Established Warehouse, 63, St.
Wartin's-lane. Export or Grocers' and Oil-shop Goods at lower
prices.

TO LADIES.
The high and universal celebrity which
ROWLAN KALYDOR
continues to maintain as an active, yet mild and soothing ex-

tir pater of ffil impurities of the skin, is during the period of spring,
most pleasingly evinced. This preparation, eminently balsamic,
restorative, and invigorating, is equally distinguished for safety in
application, as for unfailing efficacy in eradicating all redness, tan,
pimples, spots, freckles, discolouratiens, and other cutaneous visita-
tions. The radiant bloom it imparts to the cheek, and the softness
and delicacy which it induces in the hands and arms, render it indis-
pensable to every toilet.

Gentlemen, after shaving, will Sind it allay all irritation and ten-
derness of the skin, and render It soft, smooth, and pleasant. Its
purifying and refreshing properties have obtained its exclusive
selection by her Majesty the Queen, the Court, and the Royal
Family of Great lirPain, and the several Courts of Europe.
*** Beware of spurious " KALYDORI" for sale, containing
mineral a,tringents utterly ruinous to the complexion, and by their
repellent action endangering health. The wards " ROWLANDS'
KALYDOR" are on the wrapper of the genuine article. Price
49,6 d. and Bs. Gd. bottle.

Sold by A. ROWLAND and SONS, 20, Hatton-garden, London,
and by Chemists and perfumers.

TO ONE-TREE HILL.

Hail, charming eminence ! I love to mark
Thy beautiful ascent in Greenwich Park.
When but a child I loved thee, and I still
Respect the very name of One-tree Hill.
Thy steep acclivity and crowning tree,
Were ever honoured, ever hailed by me ;
And many a time I've left the busy town,
To try my skill at running up and down.
Or stood upon thy lofty brow to mark
The happy multitudes in Green a ich Park.
Once more, famed hill—once more do we discern,
The approaching sign of Er.ster's glad return.
And soon thy park will echo with the hum,
Which p'ainly tells of Easter's season come.
Thousands preparing for thy cheering scene,
To MOSES' Dress Establishment have been.
And had'st thou eyes to see, thou would'st admire
The specimens of .HOSES'
SPRING ATTIRE.
Such splendid s.' pies of artistic skill
Were never knoicn be:ore, thou noted hill.
MOSES and SON will show you something prime
I❑ Easter Dress for Eighteen-Forty -Nine.
THE HATS OF MOSES,
Which we soon shall mark,
Mere, there, and everywhere in Greenwich Park,
Arc equally deserving of approval,
While throngs of buyers aid in their removal.
THE BOOTS AND SHOES
In every sense are prime,
And thousands have been bought for Easter time.
Never did feet ascend thy pathway steep
With shoes so smart. so durable, so cheap.
TIIE HOSIERY AND SHAWLS,
I would remark,
Will beautify thy scene in Greenwich Park.
Nor there alone, but all throughout the land,
Will proofs be seen how MOSES' dress is planned.
Dress such as never has been matched in skill,
Since first the verdant grass dressed One-tree Hill.
UST OF PRICES.
BEADY )(ADC
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Autumn and Winter Coats, in all the new styles ••from £0 9 6
Chesterfield and Codrington's, and every description
of Over-coats, handsomely trimmed .... •• ....... 1 5 0
The Premier .• •• •• • •
D'Orsay ••••.•••.••••••• .• •• .• •• • • •• ........
Shooting C0at5........ ...
Autumn and Winter Trousers .. • • • •
Doeskin ditto • 0 12 6
Autumn and Winter Vests 0 2 I
Dress Coats .. • • •• • • ... ..........
Frock do. .• .•
Boys' klussar and Tunic Suits 0 16 6
MADE TO wzisuaa.

Autumn and Winter Coats, in all the newest style from £1 6 0
Billed cloth Coat .. . ..... .• .. 2 2 0
Tweet Trousers • •• ........... ...... .......•• •• .. 0 9 6
Tweed Wrappers ••• • •• 0 18 0
New Patent Trousers, in all the approved styles • • .... 0 16 8
Doeskin Trousers.... •• . ....... .. 1 2 0
Dem., or Dress....
Dress Coats •••••••••• ••••••....••••....•••••• •••• 1 12 0
Best quality ...... •
...................• 2 15 0
Frock do. ..... ,„•..
Satin, Plain or Fancy •.
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THE IMPORTANT QUESTION 3 OF COLONIZ TION,
EMIGRATION, AND PENAL ARRANGEMENTS.
Just published (with a Map by Wyld, Charing-cress),
A LITTER. from Major Robert Carmichael-
Am. Smyth to his Friend, the Author of "The Clockmaker," con-
taining Thoughts on the Subject of a British Colonial Railway Com-
numication between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, at the same
ti tie assisting Emigrat:on and Penal Arrangements; concludng with
a few Remarks on the Grand Canal and Railway Project of Lieut.
Henry. Millington -ynge, of the Royal Engineers.
Publishes by W. P. Metchiin, 20, Parliament-street. Sold also by
Simpkin and Marshall; Ridgway., Piccadilly; Wilson, Royal Ex-
change; Saunders, Charing-cross; and R. Folthorp, Royal Library,
itrighton.
Concluding paragraphs frsm the article in the HISTORIC TIMES
of the 23d of February, on the Missing Arctic Expedition.
" This brief sketch of Arctic discovery may serve to remind our
readers of its progress to the present time, and prepare them for
further discoveries, while it sufficiently illustrates our estimate of
the national character that in about fifteen years the ice-bound
coasts of a continent extending 110 degrees of longitude, i.e., as
wide as Asia; and twice as wide as Europe, has been traced by land
and sea, and its interior traversed in every direction. It cannot,
howecer, be doubled that the same amount of energy and capital thus
employed might hare joined the Atlantic and Pacific by a path available
for commercill purposes, united the west with the east, poured the
wealth of the latter into the coffers of our merchants, and spreal reli-
gion and civilization to the most remote corners of the globe."
Extracts from THE SUN, 16th February.
" Accordingto the seheitie dlielised in this 'remarkable pamphlet,
mails, merchandize. and passengers might be perpetually conveyed
to and fro between England and her colonial territories in the two
hemilpheres without having to traverse the 'roads of Continental
Europe (which roads might be rendered impassable at any moment
by the outbreak of a general war), and without the necessity of
having to double either the Cape of Good -Hope or Cape Horn,
where the seas are as tempestuous as the voyages are circuitous ;
and the Intercourse between Great Britain and her most distant
and scattered possessions would not only be by this means less liable
to interruption, but it would be infinitely more rapid, and, in every
respect, more convenient. The proposed line of railway would link
together the two oceans, the Pacific and the Atlantic; it would
stretch in a direct line across our colonies in North America; it
would commence at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and would terminate
at Frazer's River, pouring into the Gulf of Georgia; it would com-
municate by steam-vessels with the ports of. the United Kingdom in
one direction, and in the other would promote a continual inter-
change of commodities and intelligence with Pekin, with Canton,
with Australia, with New Zealand, with the Spice Islands, with
Ceylon, with Madras, and with Calcutta.
" The Nerds American Railway from the Gulf of Georgia to the
Gulf of St. Lawrence, running from Nova Scotia by St. John's
through New Brunswie• across the St. Lawrence and Otawa, tra-
versing Upper Canada dong the shores of Lake Huron and Lake Su-
perior, through the dominions of the Hudson's Bay Company to the
south of Lake Winnipeg, over the chain of the Rocky Mountains to
the coast of the Pacific confronting the Island pf Vancouver—this
enormous line of railway would then be the first substantial em-
ployment of that felicitous fact which has been intimated in the ex-
pression that the shores of the Pacific constitute the end of the West
and the beginning of the East.'
" It would form the great link required to unite in one powerful
chain the whole English race.' It would penetrate the enormous bar-
rier of the Rocky Mountains. It would, in a particular manner,
bind together the interests of England, of the Hudson's Bay Corn-
pally, and the Canadas. It would present a magnificent field for the
employment of gangs of convict labourers—criminals who by clear-
ing and enclosing lands, by constructing roads, and building bridges,
would be withdrawn from the diabolical contaminations of the
penal settlements, and would, unconsciously be instrumental to for-
warding the grand labeurs of civilization.
" It would pass through regions 'rich in mines of silver and copper,'
such as the vicinity of Lake Superior. It would draw into use the
abundant timber of the Oregon, the plentiful coal of Vancouver's Is-
land, the iron, lead, and tin, the granite, slate, and sandstone, the
oolites, the cattle, wool, hides, and tallow, the salted meat, the best,
the pork, the wheat, the barley, the Indian -corn, the apples, and
the rest of the nutritious vegetation which now flourishes uncon-
awned in the length and breadth of the North American Continent.
" Such is the noble project of a Colonial railway suggested by
this patriotic pamphleteer."
Extract from THE SUN, 13th March.
"On the 16th of February we directed public attention to a
pamphlet, in the form of a letter, addressed to Judge Halliburton,
the immortal " Clockmaker"—a pamphlet in which a magnificent
scheme is proposed for the connexion of the Pacific and the Atlantic
by a railroad running through our North American possessions,
through the Canadas, and through the territories of the
Hudson's Bay Company, beginning at the harbour of Ha-
lifax, near Newfoundland, and terminating on Frazer's River,
bpposite Vancouver's Island. Since then, it will have been
observed by our readers that the author of that remarkable
pamphlet, Major Robert Carmichael Smy th, has addressed a
letter to ourselves, in which he disclaims any of that dogmatic
egotism which is generally supposed to actuate the projectors of such
colossal enterprises. The pamphlet of Major Smyth, previously
printed for private circulation. and written without any signature
upon the title page, has, subsequently to the appearance of our re-
Marks on the 16th ult., bean published in a complete and well-
digested form, accompanied by an illustrative map from the hand of
Mr. Wyld, the geographer. Now, that the plan may be regarded as
fairly before tte public, we cannot but take this, the earliest oppor-
tunity, of reiterating our previous argument, that the noble scheme
suggested by Major Carmichael Smyth is one intimately associated
with the present condition and the future destinies, with the glory,
the greatness, and the prosperity of the British empire."
Extract from the BRITISH and ARMY DISPATCH, lath February,
before the Pamphlet was Published for General Circulation.
" This pamphlet is from the pen of an officer of rank, whose long
residence on service in North America has enabled him to offer to
the public some valuable suggestions on the subject of the extension
of railway communication on that vast continent, in the further ex-
tremity of which new ground his lately been broken in the progress
of civilization. The pamphlet purports to point out means for the
employment of the people and capital of Great Britain in her own
colonies, by undertaking a great national work, and thus opening
the shortest road to the most extensive regions of wealth over
before at the command of any nation in the world- (not regions of
gold, but for commerce and industry), and opening to Great Britain
a new outlet for the superabundant population of her soil, and new
markets for her labour. With great minuteness and considerable
local knowledge the author traces the means by which the far apart
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans shall be made easily communicable, and
urges that on that part of the line where the district labour and ca-
pital is sufficient, it shall be undertaken by the residents, and where
population is too thin, the remedy can be supplied by English capital
and convict labour. •
" The pamphlet is altogether well worthy of perusal by all who
are interested in the progress of the great tide which is now so
strongly setting westward.' "
Extract from the BRIGHTON GAZETTE, Bth March.
" One consequence of the recent diseoveri-s in California has been
the renewed and zealous discussion of various plans heretofore
Nicaragua ; and certainly, as corn
sug-
gested for opening a direct communication between the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans, instead of the present circuitous and hazardous route
Major Carmichael Smyth will
by Cape Horn. A general feeling seems to have hitherto prevailed
in preference of a water line by the river and Lake of San Juan de
or that of Tehuantep, pared with the Isthmus of Darien
eh•museeint
on
nonheide
publiccoti contends—and dOsp—inaiorid. therein For
But we think that the
oere cfaani. be little derotethettinogf iatsrseuvpoleurtlioonr eli-
gibility.inviews developed in the able pamphlet of
thhee
will
lited States, the routeEani:oliss.
may be a sufficiently desirable one • but the author of this pamphlet
have at least every
side—that such a communication ought, if possible, to be made
within the limits of our own territry •
" In a question like this the
advocateso of Colonization must feel a
strong
interest; for 'let England her NorthernNorthernAmerican, colonies,
and the Hudson's Bay Company, join heart and hand, and with the
great power of steam which it has
soon eased the Almighty to place at
the command of man, there will arise a work that will be the
wonder and admiration of the age—and such a mercantile and cc-
lonizin
• g road will be open to Great Britain, that at no future period
(at least within the imagination of man), will she ever again have to
complain of too great a reputation on her soil, and too small a market
for her labour." This Letter is addressed to the Ciockmaker,' and
who will not echo the exclamation of that distinguished writer—
' 011, squire, ifJohn Bull only knew the value of these colonies, he
would be a great man, I tell
you—but he don't."
Extract from the RAILWAY TIMES, March 10.
" There is work to be done—wealth to be opened up—men's bodies
and souls to be saved—the press teems with suggestions, plain,
practical, and operative—yet not a ray of intelligence, of apprehen-
sion, not a sign, not an expression indicative of activity, escapes
from the chief, of the Colonial -office,
-o ce, or his fussy, yet do-nothing,
subordinates.
"We shall revert to this topic in our next, and lay before our
readers the able, invigorating arguments of Major Robert Carmichael
Smyth, in reference to the subject of a British colonial railway eons.
munication between the Atlantic and Pacific.

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