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ECONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
G, tV BRIDGE-STREET, BLA.CKFRIARS.
Established 1823.
Empowered by Act of Parliament, 3 William IV.
- DIRECTORS.

CHAIRMAN—Right Hon. Sir T. FRANKLAND LEWIS, Bart., M.P.
DEPUTY CHAIRMAN—HENRY FREDERICK STEPHENSON-, Esq.
Alfred Kingsford Barber, Esq. Sir Alex. Duff Gordon, Bart.
Arthur Kett Bare!ny, Esq. Archibald Hastie, Esq., 1.P.3
Henry Barnett, Esq. . John Mendham, Esq.
Robert Biddulph, Esq. I William Routh, Esq.
Thomas Edgar, E,,q.
PHYiICIAN—John Ayrton Paris, M D., F.R.S., No. 27, Th:Ater-street.
. .

President of the Royal College of Physicians

SURGEON —Benjamin Travers, lEsq , F.u.S., NO. 12, Bruton-street.

iCTUARY—James John Downes, Esq.,

The following are among the advantages offered by this Society :

ECONOMY combined with Security.
The RATES of Premium are lower than those of any other office,
which entitle the assured to participate in the profits, and considerably
lower than those of any other Mutual Assurance Society.
The WHOLE of the PROFITS are civided every fifth year among
the Assured, and a ISonus is added, after the payment of the Fifth
Annual Premium to every Policy effected on the participating Scale,
if a claim accrue thereon prior to the next division of profits.
The BONUSES declared at the three former divisions (arising
from three-fourths only of the profits), averaged 16, 31, and 36 per
cent. respectively on the amount of Premiums paid.
The BONUS declared in 1649 (arising from the whole of the pro-
fits), being the result of the operations of the Society during the last
five 3 ears upon the Mutual Principle, averaged 62 per cent. o❑ the
Premiums received.
Ail Assurances effected during the year 1849, on the equal rates of
Premium, will be entitled to participate in the profits to be declared
in 1854

.The subjoined MI
resulting from low P
among the Assured :

le shows the advantages offered by this Society,
'remiums, and a division of the entire profits

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30 26 13 5 1205 205 110 12 1327
40 3' 19 6 1140 140 .. 118 11 1269
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Prospectuses and full particulars may be obtained on application to
ALEXANDER MACDONALD, liecretary.

ATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE
N ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
CORNIIILL, LONDON.
Capital £500,00. Empowered by Act of Parliament.
The leading features of the Society are guaranteed of an ample
Proprietary Capital.
Moderate Rates of Premiums.
Two-thirds Premium Loaned to the Assured.
Annual Division of Profits.
Half the Premium may remain as a Loan for Five Years.
Extensive Travelling Leave granted, without extra Premium.
Modetate extra Premium for Residence in Tropical Climates.
N.B. The last Annual Bonus to the AEAllra varied from 27 to 64
per wit. (according to age) on the Premiums paid.
Examples of Bemuses already Declared, and Options.

, Perma• Sum the
4 Annual Policy Bonus in
dcPtion Bonus nent Re- Assured
Age. :. e, Pre- taken
to Sum to ductien of may bor-
.?,* g mium. out in,Assured. Cash. Annual , row on
Premium.' Policy.
£ s. d., £ s. d £ s. d.I £ s. d.
1437 276 14 31128 14 3 21 7 2'593 6 8
1834 251 18 10,115 14 8 18 12 8 343 17 9
£ 1839 226 6 0 102 15 1 18 2 9,494 8 10
60 1000 Xs. d. 1840 178 0 0 82 14 2 12 14 11'445 0 0
74 3 4 1841 174 0 0 78 3 41 12 3 0 395 11 1
1842 147 4 2 . 5 15 101 10 2 4 346 2 3
1843 99 18 4 41 8 4 615 111296 13 4
L 1841 62 6 8 27 13 4 4 4 01247 4 5

Prospec
•r any of
xar&ed Si

Anse& with tables of rates, &c., nay be had at the Once,
Its branches in the country ; cr, on application, will bo for-
oat tree.

W. S. B. WOOLBOUSE, Actuary.

LIFE ASSURANCE ON THE PRINC iPLE OF MUTUAL CON-
TB IBUTION.
"ICOTTISH WIDOWS' FUND LIFE AS-
SURANCE SOCIETY.
Founded A. D 1815.
And Constituted by Act of Parliament, for Assurance en the Lives
of persons in every itation or profession, wheresoever resident.
Greater advantages cannot be obtained from any Insurance Com-
pany or Society, than those possessed by the Merotere of the Scot-
tish Widows' Fund Life Society, as the following illustrat on may
show :—A party in his 29th year, in the month of January, 1816,
having then become a Member by Insurance on his life to the ex-
tent of 1,0001., has, up to the present time, contributed altogether
8531., exclusive of any interest; and the sum which would be paid
under the Policy in the event of his death takit6r place at any time in
the course of this ye4r, is 1,9541. 3s. Sd. Were he to die between
Jan. 1850 and Jan. 1851, there would bo paid • • £1,980 7 5
between Tan . and Jan. 1852 • • • ........ 2 026 11 2
between Jan. 1852 and 31st Dec. 1852 .• •• 2,062 14 11
To the Representatives of this Member, therefore, were he to die
in the year 1852, after payment of the Premium for that year.
there would be paid more than double the amount of the original
Insurance. Members have the option of allowing their Policies to go
on increasing annually, as above stated;
Or of surrendering the Bonuses for their present value in cash ;
Or to have au equivalent reduction in future Premiums ; and in
the case of all of the early Insurances, the Bonuses have for some
years back been mere than equivalent to a total extinction of future
Premiums, so that, in reality, many Members are altogether freed
from payment of further Premiums, and yet have increased an in-
creasing Policies.
Also, Loans are granted to Members on the security of Policies
held by them in their own right, to the extent of nine-tenths of their
value.
The Sums Assured, with Additions, now amount to upwards of
7 03,000/.
The Capital Accumulated and Invested now amounts to upwards
of 2,070,0001., and the Annual Revenue to upwards of 300,0001.
And by last Annual Report, the deaths and relative claims were
in the ratio of only 531,4 per cent. of what might have been ex-
pected according to the Tables upon which the Society's calculations
are based.
Prospectuses and every information may be readily obtained on
application at the Head Office or any of the ~,,ciety's Agencies.
JOHN MACKENZIE, Manager.
WM. GEORGE, Chief Clerk.
Head Office, 5, St. Andrew-square,
Edinburgh, November, 1849.
OFFICE IN LONDON. No. 4, Royal Exchange-buildings.
HUGH M'KEAN, Ague.

ritHE NATIONAL MERCANTILE LIFE
and FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETIES,
POULTRY, MANSION-HOU 12E, LONDON.
Under the same official management, but with separate capital and
ilabilii ice.
•tROBERT WILCOION, Esq., Chairman (Life Office.)
*tJANIES PEEK, Esq., Chairman (Fire Office.)
f Edward Baker, Esq. (Gale, Baker, Ward, and Oldfleld )
f George Cursham, M.D., Saville-row.
*Charles James Jones, Esq. (William and Thomas Jones and Co.)
*tWilliam Lawson, Esq. (Trower, Lawson, and Trower.)
*John Mair, Esq. (John Mair, Son, and Co.)
tGcorge Moore, Esq. (Groucock, Copestake, and Moore.)
tWillia ii Nicholson, Esq. (J. and W. Nicholson and Co.)
*}Giles Redmayne, Esq., New Bond-street.
f Peter Roll, Esq. (Breckelbank and Rolt.)
*llananiah Teape, Esq. (Wiggins, Teape, and Loder.)
The names marked f are Directors of the Life, and these marked *
are Directors of the Fire Office.
BONUS. - At the last division of profits assurers in this office were
beneficed to the extent of a reduction of 40 per cent, on their life
premiums, which, if investel in new assurances, would obtain for
every I,l'oBl. assured at the original age an additional policy for 4001.
CLAIMS.—Every claim npm this office has been promptly paid
without dispute.
PREMIUMS.—The rates of premium have been computed by the
first mathematicians of the day, and tested by the Actuary, and nil
be found as low as is compatible with safety to the assured.
JENKIN JONES, Actuary and Secretary.
N.B. Parties making prolosals for assurance upon life on or before
the aist December next, mill be entitled to participate in the division
of profits in 185.

sEA, FIRE, LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE.
Established by Act of Parliament,
31, COXNEIILL, LONDON.
Capitalloo,oool., in Shares of 20s. each, to be paid hi fall on allotment,
bearing a guaranteed interest ofi per cent. i• perpetu:ty (irrespective
of further dividends) ipon the paid-ap capital.
Application for Shares to be addressed to the Directors at the
Offices of the Society. Marine, Fire, and Life Assurances granted
on the most liberal terms.
Immediate and Deferred Annuities granted on terms especially
advantageous for investment of capital.
Ily order,
AUG. COLLINGRIDIita, Managing Director.

ITELL GWYNNE TAVERN and CHOP •
TIOUSE, Three Doors East of the Adelphi Theatre, and op-
posite Aiam-street. . _ _

The Legal Profession, Gentlemen connectel with the Public Offices
and Banking Houses, also Visitors tone Theatres, and Parties torn
the comitry will find the Tolle d'Hote at l'lalf-past Five precisely,
the most economical, comfortable, and convenient in the metropolis.
Fish and Joints, 2s. Hot Joints until Eight, and Suppers until One
o'clock. Luncheons, &c. Good Beds. Superior Wines and Spirits.
Barclay and Perkins's Stout, anti Salt's Ales.
JOHN ARCHER. and THOITA.S FIOLT, Proprietors.
N.B. A❑ Entrance also from Maiden-lane.

FROND'S PERMANENT MARKING INK.
The original, and by far the best, requiring no preparation,
offers the surest means of protection for every variety of household
linen and wearing apparel, against loss or mistake for which reason
be careful to ask for the genuine article, prepared by the inventor,
JOHN BOND, 2t, Long-lane. West Smithfield, City. Sold by most
Chemists, Stationers, and Medicine Vendor& Price Is. a bottle.

ITECHI'S PREPARATIONS for CHRIST-
MAS and NEW YEAR'S PRESENTS.
Sensible that the season is approaching when love and friendship
give their tangible testimonials, 311.1. 'HI has taken care to provide
an abundance of objects for tasteful selection. None need deny
themselves the luxury of giving', for the most inexpensive as well as
the most cortly articles are to be found at his repository of oracles
and elegancies,
-4, LEADENHALL-STREET, near the India House.
England has always been renowned for its hearty Christmas libe-
rality, while " Le jour de l'an" of our lively neighbours the French is
equally consecrated to the gifts of :Section. MECIII invites a visit
from the native of all countries to his emporium, which has been
pronounced to be the most tastefully arranged and best-lighted esta-
blishment in Loudon, and where they may be sure of putting their
kind intentions into an acceptable shape.
SHOW-ROOMS for PATTER MACIIE.—In this elegant apartment
are exhibited the mast recherché specimens of i'tritish art in ladies'
work-tables, hand-screens, pole-screens, chess-tables, t.,a-trays,
work-boxes, tea-caddies, ladies' and ger tleinen's dressing-cases, clrd-
site landscapes and other paintings.
cases, &c., embellished with exqm
Those who desire to make really useful presents will find in the ge-
neral department the best tbale cntle-y, scissors, thimbles. penknives,
writing-desks, ivory and other hair-brushes and combs, and an infi-
nite variety of goods adapted to every exigmey. Also bagatelle-
tablet, aff,rding a charming amusement on a wintry or wet day.
4, Leadenhall. street, London.

A it h I A G E.
One half the World are desolately single, and the other
-uppoz!vg them married, qeeitioveSly contented. Diffidence, or a
.case of right deteriteee the former, and miscaleuleted hopes em-
.ltterthe latter. The solitery one may shield himself neder the plea
if caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un-
soreprosing harry ; but the truth lieu deeper. Physical incapacity,
and broken health, WO the great lendrancee to domestic happiness
end foe: it content. The dowry should not be the only marriage set-
dement. Ilonear and juetiesdeaeand that health should form au item
:n the compact; it alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes or
leglaCt Wetall more sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, if
these surmses concern you, procure Dr. CULVERWELL'S little
AILMOIRS "On Single and Married Life, " pub. in 2 vols., is.
sash (by pest, in stamps, Is. 6d. each). Let no imaginatively
-efined, er prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered
re misinterpretation of their supposed contents, from obtaining
tieln. They are net intended certainly for mere idle curiosity, hut
for the closet perusal of those mere deeply interested, to whom
they are offered as antagonistic to the empyrical trash put forth on
the above subjects, by unqualified authors, whieh alone or
together, are a degrees) to the age. Furthermore, two other
ittle publications claim your attention (same price Is. each,
by rest ls. 6d.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and
Avoid," and " 'flow to bo Happy." They are not merely
Pftmplete, but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are they the
mere ephemeral sexibblings of the hour, but the study of the author's
!ife who owes his preecnt emisience, health, and position to this oh-
servasce of the maxims he would inenicate—te do unto others as he
wend he done ante—to live utter nature's laws—and to keep always
(melee "sunny side of the way." The above works may be had ci
Sherwoo I, ea, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet-street • Mann.
39, Corn di; Spokes, 5, Holborn hill ; or direct (by post or ether.
wise) trans the amber (who may be conferred with personally,
Mornings and Ivext4s), :IQ. Argyll-040 4egent-street;, and all
Booksolior

CROWN COMMERCIAL INN,
DISS, NORFOLK.
J. LANE begs most respectfully to Inform the Nobility, Gentry,
Commercial Gentlemen, and the Public in general, that he has taken
the abi.ve old-established and well-conducted Inn, and intends carry-
ing it on in a manner he trusts will meet the approbation of thosa
who may please to favour him with their patronage.
The House is pleasantly situated, and the premises, he flatters him-
self, are equal to any commercial house in the county.
J. L. also begs to state, that for the accommodation of his patrons
and the public, he has started an OMNIBUS Irons his Ilouse to the
Railway Station, to meet every Train, so that persons wishing to
meet the Train, by leaving their address at the Crown Inn, will be
sure to be called for in due time, us ;ho greatest punctuality in start-
ing will be attended to.
N. B. Choice Old Wines, superior Fore'gn and British Spirits, real
Ifavannah Cigars, Bottled Pvrter, Scotch and other Ales, Cider, dr,c.,
well-aired Beds, spacious Stabling, loose Boxes and lock-up Coach-
houses.

THE CATHOLIC LAW and GENERAL
LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
No. 8, New Coventry-street, Leicester-square, London.
TRUSTEE. 4.
The Right Rol'. Nicholas Wiseman, D.D., 35, Golden-square.
The Right Rev. William Morris, D.D., Acton, Middlesex.
The Right Hon. the Lord Stafford, Cossey Hall, Norfolk.
Sir Henry Paston Bedingfield, Bart., Oxburgb, Norfolk.
Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.IS., Director of the lion. the East India

Company.
Thomas Barnevrell, Esq., 15, York-terrace, Regent's-park,
Thomas Eyre, Esq., 62, Palteney-street, Bath.
James Marshall, Esq„ 24, Carlton Villas, Maids-hill.

DIRECTORS.
The Right Rev. William Morris, D.D., Acton, Middlesex—Chairman.
Michael Forristall, Esq., 13, West-square, Southwark—Deputy
Chairman and Managing Director.
Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.8., Director of the lion. the East India
Company, and of the London Joint Stock Bank.
Rev. Thomas Doyle, D.D., London-road, Southwark.
Echnonct Beales, Esq., Carlton Villas, Maida-hill.
Henry Clark Duppa, Esq., Malmain-hall, Stoke, near Rochester.
George Drew, Esq., Streatham, Surrey.
James Marshall, Esq., 24, Carlton Villas, Maids-hill.
ACTUARY—WiIIiam Henry Archer, Esq.
SECRETARY—WiIIiam Norris, Esq.
Prospectuses, Forms •f Proposal, and every information promptly
orwarded en application to the Actuary or Secretary, at the Office,
8, New Coventry-street, Leicester-square, London.

175 feet long, 22 broad ; three masts, carries five
sin4ll guns, and has a complement of 23 hands. On
Thursday and Friday the prevailing tempestuous
weather was experienced by the yacht when off the
Liz ird, in severe gales from the' south, with a heavy
sea, which continued until four o'clock on Friday
afternoon, when the wind suddenly veered to nc,rth-
west ; the casing of her larboard paddle-box was car-
ried away, and she was for some time in great dan-
ger. After coaling here, under directions of the
Consuls, Messrs. Luscornbe, Driscoll, and Co., she
proceeds to Amsterdam, Captain T. H. Savent,
who commands the yacht, passed two years and a
half of his early days as a prisoner on board a hulk
at Hamoaze, in this harbour. I'Vhen serving in a
French frigate off Brest, they were captured by an
English frigate on the 21st of October, 1812, and
brought to this side of the Channel. He appears
most deservedly to possess the confidence and esteem
of' his present Royal patroness.
Wind, W.S.W.; fresh bre(
WOOLWICH, Dac. 8.
APrOINTMENTS.

Mate—William A. V. Boyce, to the Phaeton, 50-
gun frigate, Sheerness.
Master-Assistant—W. J. Yelland, to the Strom-
boli, steam sloop, Portsmouth.
Naval C dets—David A. Price and R. G. Perry, to
the Phaeton.

Acting Gunner—Michael Thompson, to the Phaeton.
The Messenger, coal dopat, at Woolwich, was re-
moved from her moorings and taken alongside the
Terrible, steam-frigate, Captain Hope, C. 8., to put
on board 450 tons of coals, that the latter vessel may
be ready fur sea on the shortest notice. It is expected
she will join the trial squadron at Lisbon, and ulti-
mately proceed to the Mediterranean station.
- The Phaeton, 50 gun frigates Capiain George Elliot,
is now at Sheerness, where the greater portion of the
officers appointed to her have joined, and she will soon
be ready to join the squadron ordered to assemble at
Lisbon for trial sailing and other qualities.

IMPROVEMENTS AT WOOLWICH DOCKYARD.
The interior economy of this dockyard was never
in a more efficient state than it is at present, the ex-
cellent arrangements of Commodore Henry Eden
having placed every article of its numerous contents
so that hands can be laid upon it at the shortest no-
tice. In these arrangements the Gallant Commodore
has been ably assisted by the heads of the various de-
partments. In the factory departments the only
regret is that they have not more to do ; not that any
of the workmen are idle, but they always desire
to see a prospect of a great quantity of work before
them, to stimulate them to exertion. The using up
of the old wrought iron in the factory, instead of
selling it for a trifle, as formerly, saves many thou-
sands of pounds sterling; and, in order to effect a
still greater economy, arrangements have been
made for erecting ruling mills at the dockyard,
to obviate the necessity of sending the bars, as at
present, to Chatham to be rolled. This arrange-
ment will save a great expense of carriage, and afford
an opportunity of having wrought iron sheets of any
dimensions made on the shortest notice required. It
is also intended that the whole of the forging of old
wrought iron shall be removed from the factory to the
blacksmiths' department at the east end of the yard,
where several of Nasmyth's powerful steam hammers
are now •in full operatic,n, and it Is contemplated that
the work shall be done and paid for by piece-work,
the present able master of the blacksmiths having
introduced a system which will enable the men to
produce an equal amount of work for about 133. GI.
to that which used to cost nearly 503,, a vast differ-
ence where so many tons of metal are now recon-
verted into use at this dockyard. It has hitherto been
usual to make all the tunas required for naval pur-
poses here by baud, but a set of machines for the
purpose of turning and finishing them is to be con-
structed over the spacious sawmills at the east end of
the yard.

DEATH FROM SUFFOCATION.—An inquest was
held en Saturday last, at the Item Inn, Mansfield, on
the body of Harriet Beckett, aged 21, daughter of Wil-
liam Beckett, of the Welbeck toll-bar. The deceased
was a servant of the Rev. Dr. Curshanfe, Mansfield
Vicarage. On the previous Monday and Tuesday, the
deceased was ill, and confined to her bed the greater
part of the latter day. On Wednesday night she com-
plaint d of being very cold, and told one of her fellow
servants that she should take a portable fire-place, used
in ►he kitchen, into her bad room with her. Thomas
Widnall, the boy to whom she told this, shortly after-
wards went to bed, leaving the deceased up. She, how-
ever, retired to bed at half-past ten. Between six and
seven the following morning, Widnall knocked at the
deceased's bedroom door several timer, but could obtain
no answer. He at length went into the room, and there
saw the deceased with her clothes on in a kneeling posi-
tion by her bedside. He touched her shoulder, but it
felt cold, and she made no answer. He then ran down
stairs, and told the groom that she was dead. The man
immediately went up, and found that she was dead and
quite cold. The grate, with Some cinders in it, was lying
on a dust pan in the middle of the room, and a smell of
sulphur was clearly perceptible. Mr. Hurt, surgeon, ex-
amined the body, and proved that her death was owing
to suffocation, caused by the carbonic acid gas which
arose from the hot cinders. Verdict accordingly.—Not-
tingham Journal.
AMATEUR DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE.—The mem-
bers of the typographic art connected with the metro-
politan daily press devoted Saturday evening last to the
application of their histrionic talents to a dramatic per.
formance, for the benefit of the widow and seven orphans
of one of their own fraternity, the late Mr. Tattersall,
who, after a few hours' illness, was cut off by an attack
of cholera. The arena selected for the performance was
the little theatre attached to the Bower Saloon, Lambeth,
and the performance was headed with the announcement
of the play of A New Way to Pay Old Debts. A musical
Melange followed; and with the farce of 7-he Irishman
in Leaden the performance closed. The house was
densely crowded, and the result has been productive of a
handsome sum for the purpose for which the entertain-
ments were designed.

iStricrou or ICYOUNG FRENCIESTOMAN.—An inquest
was held on Satu day Mare Mr. Bedford, at St. Mar-
tin's workhouse, on the body of Justin Chaler, aged 30,
a young Freachwoman, well known at the West-end,
who was remarkable for her prepossessing appearanc ..
It appeared that the deceased had thrown herself out of
a seconl-fluor window, at 13, Pantonestreet, Haymarket.
From the evidence of Caroline Hemmings, a servant at
the house, it appeared that the deceased had lodged
there for six weeks, and was frequently in the habit of
getting intoxicated; that she came home on Friday
morning, ego: t four o'clock, accompanied by a gentle.
man, who, after staying with her a few minutes in the
passage, lot her. Deceased had been drinking, and
witness accompanied her up stairs and closed the door.
Immediately afterwards she heard a smash of glass, and
the deceased was found upon the pavement outside. She
died almost directly. The jury returned a verdict—
' That the deceased died from injeries received in fall-
ing from a window; but whether she threw herself out
with a suLiclal intent or otherwise, there was not suffi-
cient evidence to prove."
Menaleos IN HIGH LIEB.—The marriage of the
Lady Elizabeth Georgians Conynghtm, third daughter
of the Marquis Conyngham, with George Brien; Esq ,
of J4nkinato o•n Castle, in the county of Kilkenny, was
solemni,ed by specie.' licencc,; on Thursday morning, at
the lodge of Sir William M. Somerville, Bart., Chief
Secretary, Phateix Park, in the pruence of their Excel-
lencies the Lord-Lieutenant and Countess of Clarendon,
Lord Francis George Spencer and Lady Churchill, Lord
and Ledy Bellew, the Eat of Mountcharles, Mr, and
Lady Fanny Lambert, Mrs. and Miss Ferteseue, the
Hon. G. Ponsonby, Major Talbot, of Tulta:A llall,
county of Wexford, uncle to the bridegroom; Major
Ponsonby, Mr. Thomas A. Jaye°, Captain and Mrs.
Williams and Mr. Seymour, aide-de camp in waiting to
the Lord-Lieutenant, and a select circle of relatives and
friends The ceremony was performed by the Rev►
11 doh Sadleir, one of his Excellency's chaplains, and
subsequently by the Very Rev. Dean Meyler, of St. An-
drew's, Westland-row. After the usual attestation and
salutations had been gone through, the interesting event
was celebrated by a grand break'ast; and afterwards the
bride and bridegroom left by special train for Upper
Court, county Kilkenny, the present residence of Mr.
Brien.—Evening Mail.
SUNDAY TRADING.—The memorial to her Majesty
from the parish of St. Clement D Liles, which was pre-
sented to Sir George Grey on Friday by a deputation,
stated that in that parish alone, which contains 738
shop=, the large proportion of 220 are open fir trading
on the Lord's-day, a':d the parishioners expressel their
conviction that the present law against Sunday trading
is in a great measure inoperative, by reason of the small
penalties annexed to its violation, and the feeble agency
through which its provisions are at present carried out.
The memorialists prayed her Majesty to direct the at-
tention of Parliament to the subject in the ensuing ses-
sion, in order that some measure to strengthen or im-
prove the pre§ent law for the prevention of Sunday
trading, and for promoting the better observance of the
Lord's-day, may be originated by the Government of
this Christian country.
The Commissioners for Inquiring into the Markets
of the Metropolis will hold their first meeting at the
Hume-office on Tuesday next, when it is expected that
the City uuthorides and several deputations will be in
attendance. The commission is an unpaid one, and the
duties of secretary will be discharged by Mr. H. Red-
grave, one of the clerks in the Home-office.
Feelings are always made the excuse of temper;
whereas temper much more frequently influences feel-
inv.—Eliza Cook's Journal.
A BOOK COLLECTOR'S HOUSE.---M. Verbeyst, the
most celebrated bo.de collector in Europe, or perhaps in
the world, has just died at Brussels at an advanced age.
Ho had founded a very curious establishment, consisting
of a house of several stories, and us high as a church, end
disposed so as to contain about 3C0,000 volumes, arranged
according to their subjects.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.—The " needle women" of the metropolis
are in no sense a class, for they consist of all classes,
and they suffer a pressure of competition on all sides,
as great and as universal as the pressure of the at-
mosphere itself. They are not a trade, or a craft, or
a calling; for all these terms imply an express
education for the employment, and a virtual mono-
poly arising from the difficulty of the art, or the
capital, the stock, the apparatus, or the connexions it
requires. In England every woman is a needle-
woman. Every labourer's child is handy at her
needle before she is six years old, and has learnt all
kinds of mysterious stitches before she is twelve.
Unmarried women were formerly called spinsters ;
they might now, with greater propriety, be called
sempstresses, for all are sempstresses, and spinning
is obsolete, except with the aid of steam. When
a woman takes to needlework, it is for want
of other employment. She is falling back
upon her simplest, commonest, and most child-
ish accomplishment. The captive women and
other miserables of antiquity were put to grinding
corn in clumsy mortapi, and carrying water from
the distant spring. All such drudgeries, being
things that any woman can do, and none do if they
can help it, denote not a class, but a • want of
class. 'they should, therefore, be regarded in their
negative bearings. Instead of saying, " Here are
twenty thousand women living miserably by their
needle," we ought rather to say, " Here are twenty
thousand women with nothing else to do but needle-
work." As we have often had occasion to observe,
there are many other employments of the same
negative character. For example, stone-breakers
are not a class, and it is impossible to help them as
a class ; they are only men who can find no better
work. We have, then, to deal with the miserable
fact of so many thousand women—we are afraid to
say how many—who are destitute of proper class,
position, and employment. Many of them have
forfeited their place in society, and can never re-
gain, it. There are many, on the other hand,
who may yet be plucked by the hand, as it were, out
of the crowd, and restored to the exercise of
higher powers, and the enjoyment of better oppor-
tunities. It is for this class that Mr. Sidney Herbert
proposes emigration to our Australian colonies, as
far as means can be raised for the purpose. There
is no doubt that this metropolis contains, in its
crowded streets and alleys, thousands of women
admirably qualified for colonial life. They were
born and bred in industrious and thrifty village
households; they are acquainted with the duties
and the hardships of the labourer's lot ; it was their
superior willingness and docility which recommended
them to Service; they have, it is true, had to en-
counter the dissipating and enervating influences of
London life, but if they have done their duty they
are all the better for that ordeal ; they may also have
become wiser in the school of misfortune ; but there
is nothing in all this which should disqualify the
London servant out of place even for the hardships
of life in " the bush." Go down into the most re-

tired village, and you will often find that a large pro-
portion of the labourers' wives have been in gentle-
mens service. They do not discharge the duties of
the cottage the worse for having been pampered in
an aristocratic kitchen, for having stood by a lady at
her toilet, or spent years in making beds and dusting
tables and chairs. On the contrary, it is a very usual
thing in a village to hear slovenly habits accounted
fur by the fact of the woman never having heen in
service. But whatever the prospect of transforming
some thousand London " needle women" into colonial
matrons, it is far more important, and far more
within the compass of reasonable hope, to prevent
our village girls, and our domestic servants, from
becoming " needlewomen" at all—that is, from
being reduced to that only resource. Instead
of encouraging village girls to seek their
fortune in London, as rural authorities are always
ready to do, it would at least be far kinder and wiser to
send them to the colonies, under proper protection. We
say this advisedly and emphatically, and we address it
to the special consideration of the clergy and others
apt to take a poetical view of society. The higher-
minded among the clergy hug the pleasing illusion
of rural innocence and simplicity, till they are only
undeceived late in life, when their enthusiasm, and
perhaps their powers, are gone. They hear of colo•
nial degradation, and they feel the responsibility of
advising a perilous voyage and a perpetual exile.
They shrink from the idea of sending the first class
in the Sunday-schools to rough it at the antipodes.
As fur the greater part of the clergy, who are not
high-minded, they let matters take their course.
Hence the comparatively little spontaneous and self-
paid emigration from our villages; hence, at least,
the few that go out of, a superior order, and the want
of a continuous flow to our noble colonies.
Now, we beg to advise the clergy, and
others possessing rural influence, to institute
a dispassionate comparison between the actual
results of staying at home and going to the colonies.
We beg them to compare the casualties, the prema-
ture deaths, the temptations, the evil companionships,
the stumbling•blocks to religion, the moral ship-
wrecks, not only incident, but actually coming to
pass, in both courses. Let them watch the settler's
wife, if they please, to her drear home in the woods,
to her fanatical worship, or to her early grave; but

let them also track the village maid through the perils
of a gentleman's service, through the allurements of a
luxurious state of society, through the pride, the
quarrels, and the folly of the servants' hall, to the ob-
scure lodging, the incessant needle, the hour of ex-
treme distress, the deceitful friend, and the irrepa-
rable fall. If not the most numerous, at least the most
interesting and most pitiable members of the class we
are considering are supplied from domestic service.
It is a great object to stop that supply ; but it will be
impossible to do that till all parties realise the great
perils that beset a servant out of place. Without
inquiry, no one could imagine the übiquitous and
continual nature of these perils. A servant leaves a
place which she might easily retain, and where she
could make herself as comfortable as mortals may
expect to be, for some very slight reason, for a tiff
with her mistress, or a disagreement down stairs.
She is not particularly anxious for another place at
once, and does not dislike the possibility of a month's
freedom. Once out of service, however, she finds
it all up hill ; and as soon as her money fails,
all the world is against her. Some benevolent
persons have founded " Servants' Homes ;" but
even these have their dangers, for it is ab-
solutely impossible to exclude all unworthy and
demoralizing inmates. The hospitals to which ser-
vants in service and out of service are frequently
sent are, unfortunately, often perverted into the
means of moral injury. Bearing all these things in
mind, mistresses should make more a point of re-
taining moderately good and useful servants; and
servants, for their part, should make a point of
remaining in tolerable situations. There is no
servant without failings, and no place without
drawbacks, so that a perfect servant, and a perfect
place, are nowhere to be found. Such topics may
scarcely seem proper to a journal, but when the
public is called upon to remedy the evil of some
thousand servants out of place, and keeping soul
aed body together with the needle, it is very na-
tural to suggest some simple remedies far more
efficacious than societies and emigrations. Prevention
is better than cure; and we would rather see fusser
domestic servants driven to their needles, than a
thousand needlewomen sent to the colonies. One
other domestic duty we will notice, bearing on this
subject. Masters and mistresses are bound to see
that their servants are laying by out of their wages.
They should all remember that " service is no inhe-
ritance." Tae most obvious course is that servants
should be urged to put by as much as they can spare
in the savings bank. This, however, has its objections.
A servant will sometimes be tempted to return a sharp
answer all the quicker because she has a few pounds
at command, just as the like state of things produces
a strike in Lancashire. Money in the savings•

bulk, too, is sadly at the mercy of lovers and other
needy friends; and many a good servant loses the
savings of long service in one rash investment. By
far the most prudent course for persons in this help-
less condition is the purchase of a deferred annuity,
on the plan recently provided by the Legislature, and
urged on the public in a remarkable speech by the
Prince Consort. A servant who at the age of twenty
begins to pay 51. a year—generally no difficult
matter—and continues to pay that sum till she is
forty, will then be sure of 101. a year for the. rest of
her life. Thus at the time when servants are begin-
ning to tire of service, or are losing their places
through the death or changed plans of their masters,
they would find themselves comparatively indepen-
dent, or with at least a comfortable addition to any
other income.

DEATH OF THE HON. THO3IIB STAFLETON.—WE
regret to announce the death of this gentleman, who
was for many years known as a patron of the fine arta
and sciences. He expired at Cromwell Cottage,
13rompton. The deceased was a Fellow of the Royal
Society, tha Society of Ants, tha Antiquarian and other
institutions. He was brother to Lot d.l3eaumont, a pro-
minent Roman Catholic Pter, and was born in 1806.
The family is one of great antiquity in Yorkshire.
A printsd circular, dated IN ovemher 30, announces
the fact that the Rev. J. A. Harmer, curate of Tidcombe
ration, Tiverton, has gone over to the Church of Rome.

HER. LATE MAJESTY THE
QUEEN DOWAGER.

During the past week several erroneous statements
gained currency, asserting that the day had been
definitively appointed for the funeral of her late Ma-
jesty the Queen Dowager, end to-morrow (Tuesday)
and Saturday next were both named as days on one
of which the solemn ceremony would positively take
place. We are informed, on the best authority, that
it was not decided on what day in the present week
the funeral should take plaCe until after the visit of
the Duke of Norfolk (the Earl Marshal) to her
Majesty the Queen, at Osborne, on Friday last, and
the information of the appointed day did net reach
Bentley Priory until Saturday.
We may now state on authority, that the interment
of the remains of the late venerated Queen Dowager
will take place on Thursday next. At the early hour
of six o'clock the funeral procession i,; to leave Bentley
Priory, and will consist of a hearse and one or two
mourning coaches, containing the page in waiting
and dressers of the late Queen, and some of the
principal domestics of the royal household. Shortly
after nine o'clock their Serene Highnesses the Prince
Edward and Gustave of Saxe-Weimar (nephews of
the deceased Queen), the Earl Howe, lord cham-
berlain ; the Earl of Denbigh, master of the horse ;
the Hon. William Ashley, vice chamberlain; Sir
Andrew F. Barnard, clerk marshal ; the Rev. Geo.
T. Hudson, domestic chaplain ; Colonel Cornwall,
equerry to the Queen, as well as the ladies in
waiting, bedchamber women, and maids of honour of
her late Majesty's court, will leave the Priory for
Slough, where the funeral cortege will be formed.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert (who will
leave Osborne at an early hour that morning), his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, and most
probably his Royal Highness Prince George of
Cambridge, will attend the obsequies, and will join
in the mournful procession at Slough.
His Serene Highness the Duke of Saxe-Mein-
ingen (only brother of the late Dowager Queen), and
his son, the hereditary Prince of Saxe-Aleiningen,
are expected hourly to arrive at the Priory, in order to
attend at the solemn rites of their departed relative;
but their Serene Highnesses had not arrived at Stan-
more yesterday evening. A courier was dispatched
by Viscount Palmerston from the Foreign-office, on
Sunday evening, after the death of her Majesty, to
apprize the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen of the melan-
choly event.
We understand that all the wishes of the lamented
Queen Dowager, which were expressed in a sealed
document opened shortly after her demise, are to be
strictly carried out, and that it was her earnest re-
quest that her funeral should not be marked by any
of the pomp which generally distinguishes that of a
personage of her elevated rank ; that the customary
Embalmment, and the ceremonial of " lying in state,"
should be dispensed with ; and that the funeral
should be conducted more as belonging to a private
individual than to royalty. One request was, that
she might be borne to her .archly resting place by
twelve seamen of the British Navy. In consequence,
the pomp and splendour invariably associated with
the funeral of a member of the royal family are to
be avoided on this mournful occasion ; and, in com-
pliance with her late Majesty's request, little external
show will be exhibited mu carrying out the funeral
arrangements.
No private carriages are to follow in the procession,
which is to arrive at St. Geerge's Chapel at one o'clock
and will he received at the entrance porch by the
Hon. and Rev. the Dean of Windsor.

The stat 3 coffin is of Spanish mahogany, covered
with rich crimson Genoa silk velvet. The panels are
formed by three rows of small burnished gold nails,
the corner platings being engraved with the royal
crown, the handles on each side, within the panels,
being of dull gold ; the whole being finished with a
single row of large gold nails. Above the inscrip
tion•plate on the lid is a large crown, and in the
compartment at the foot a torch reversed, within the
coil of a serpent. The plate bears the following
inscription :

DEPiXITLINI
SERENISSIMX PRINCIPESSM
ADELAID.E,
REGINA: DOTARD,.
OBIT 11. DIE DECEMBRIS
ANNO DOMINI MDCCCXLIX.
.33TATIS SLLI LYII[."

The other coffins within which her Majesty's
remains are depo.4ted will be placed in the state
coffin, which will bs conveyed to the Priory to-
morrow or Wednesday.

THE SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE

SHOW.
On Saturday the arrangements for the great An-
nual Metropolitan Cattle Show, produced under the
management of the Smithfield Cattle Club, were
rapidly approaching towards completion, and the
specimens of cattle which have already arrived are
stated by judges, who have had the opportunity of
seeing them, and who are members of the club, to be
superior to anything which has ever been witnessed
in the metropolis.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, who, in conse-
quence of the lamented demise of the Queen Dowager,
it is feared will not be able to pay the exhibition a
personal visit on this occasion, has nevertheless, made
several entries, and has contributed some exceedingly
fine specimens of the Scotch and other breeds, and
also in the sheep and pig classes. His Royal High-
ness the Prince of Wales, it is also rumoured, has an
entry or two made in his name. Amongst the other
contributors are the Duke of Richmond, the president
of the club, the Duke of Rutland, the Duke of
Bedford, the Earl of Leicester, Earl Spencer, Lord
Portman, the Duke of Buccleuch, Mr. Pusey, M.P. ;
Mr. Webb, Babraham ; Mr. Fisher llobbs, and a
number of leading agricluturists in the various
counties of England.
The entries this year have amounted to one-fifth
more than they were last year or any preceding one ;
and in consequence a vast increase of accommodation
has been rendered necessary. its order to effect this
Mr. Boulnois, the proprietor of the bazaar, has added
a large building, situate at the north-western angle,
to that portion of the show usually appropriated to
the sheep and pig classes. The main building, in
which the cattle are kept, remains much the same as
usual, with the exception of the entrance, in which a
most important improvement has been made for the
accommodation of the public. In the implement
department there has been a wonderful increase in
the entries, and consequently in the demand for places
for the exhibition of the various implements used in
husbandry, and in every department of agricultural
and farming operations. In this department addi-
tional accommodation has been afforded, and that
portion of the building appropriated last year to the
exhibition of the stupendous picture of the Alderney
bull, cow, and calf, painted after the celebrated Paul
Potter, by Mr. Ward, R.A., has been added by Mr.
Boulnois to the implement department. Another
exceedingly important improvement, both for the
comfort of the animals as well as the visitors to the
bazaar, has been effected with regard to ventilation.
Very general complaints have been made, especially
before the introduction of the lofty glass roof to the
main building, of the oppressive heat of the place.
This complaint has heen entirely obviated by the
introduction of a number of air-traps made in the
roof of the implement galleries, and the effect is evi-
dent to any one who will stand for a moment under
one of them.

NAPIER'S EXCURSIONS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA.—
" The public mind is at this moment keenly alive to
everything connected with the Cape of Good Hope.
There is a general anxiety among all classes, to learn
how Great Britain became possessed of this colony—
what is its intrinsic value in a national point of view, and
what is the general character of its inhabitants. As a
large amount of information is contained i n these
volumes upon the subject, no less than other most
valuable matter relative to the tribes and climate of
different districts of Southern Africa, they will un-
doubtedly attain a greater circulation than if they had
appeared under ordinary circumstances."—Beles Nies-
' sever.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following
gentlemen being members of this institution, having un-
dergone the necessary examinations, were admitted
Fellows of the College, at the meeting of the council, on
the 7th instant:—Messrs. Walter Goodyer Barker,
Worthing, diploma dated October 25, 1839; Frederick
John Butler, Winchester, May 8, 1840; George Wash-
bourne Charleton, Glocester, July 3, 1835 ; William
Druitt, Wimbarne Miaster, Dorsetshire, July 30, 1841;
Nathaniel John Dampier, Woburn-place, Russell-squire,
May 24, 1844; Tharp Mountain Girdlestone, Lincoln's-
inn-fit•ids, lanuary 3, 1845; George William Hind,
Alfred place, Bedford-square, November 3. 1827; Ray-
mond Levi Haynes, Holloway, March 5, 1341; Richard
Hodges, Rcchford, Essex, July 31, 1843 ; Edward
Charles Ilulme, Masionette, Totnes, Devon, April 12,
1844; Robert George Mager, Highgate, May 15, 1829;
Edwin Morris, Spalding, Lincolnshire, April 22, 1839;
John Marshall, Crt•scent-place, Mornington-crescent,
August 9, 1844; William Potts, South Audley-street,
May 3, 1839; Augustin Pritchard, Red-lodge, Bristol,
October 30, 1840; Edward Ray, Dulwich, Surrey, April
5, 1839; Ebenezer Smith, Billiter-square, March 18,
1831; George Carrick Steel, Chadwell-street, Islington,
July 3, 1840; Henry Smith, Caroline-street, Bedlotd-
square., April 24, 1846; John Wiblin, Southampton, Juno
2, 1837; and Thomas Henry Wukley, Guildford-Weer,
Russell•square, July 25, 1845,