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Kyan, the inventor of certzin letters patent granted by his late
Majesty in 1832, for the term of 14 years, for protecting two
dis(.o,;cries for preserving certain vegetable subtancei from

decay.
The Bill requires the Company, during 21 years from the
passing of the Act, to grant licenses to use the discoveries pro-
tectsti-by letters patent, to all persons desirous of purchasing
such licenses, at the rate of not more thin Is. per annum per
cubic foot of the internal contents of every tank licensed • or
if the Company agree to receive a sum in gross, instead of an
annual sum, not more than the sum of ss. in the whole per cubic
foot of such tank.
It provides that all existing licenses granted by the Com-
pany shall remain in force, and prohibits the use of the dis-
coveries, without the license of the Company, for 21 years,
with a proviso that all objections applicable to the letters patent
shall apply to the Act, except as to the term.
Birmingham Equitable Gas Bill.—Preamble states that
the population and business of the town of Birmingham and
the neighbourhood thereof, and the parish of Edgbaston, in the
county of Warwick, and the Hamlets and townships of Dud-
deston and Nichols, and Deritend and Btrdesley, in the
darial: of Aston, in the said county ; and Auseley Yi Id, in
the parish of King's Norton, in the county of 'Worcester,
and also the parish ofe Handsworth, in the county of Stsff, )rd
(which said several parishes, hamlets, or townships, and Yield,
arc near or adjoining to the said town of Birmingham, have
of late years much increased, and are likely still further to in-
crease, and it is expedient that a further and better supply of
gas should be provided, for lighting the streets, dwelling-
houses, and other buildings, anti for manufacturing purposes,
within the said town, hamlets, and other places.
The object of this Bill is to incorporate a Joint Sock
Company, for supplying the town and neighbouthood of
's:assairigham with
The Bill incorporates the Subscribers' under the name of
" The Birmingham Equitable Gas-light Company."
The Bill contains provisions for the reparation of dams&,se
done by the Company for preventing the escape of gas, and
for the protection of water and streams, under penalties to be
paid by the Company.
The capital of the Company is to be 80,0001., to be raised
in shares of 10/. each.
The Company is authorized to borrow 25,0001. on mort-
gage, with power to raise any part of the sum in shares as capi-
tal, instead of borrowing it.
One-fourth of the annual profits (after the first five years)
is to be divided amongst the customers of the Company, who
shall have taken gas for five years ; the remaining three-fourths
to be divided amongst the Proprietors, with power to set
apart a sum, not exceeding 10,000/. to answer contingencies.
The affairs of the Company are tube managed by a body of
twelve Directors, to be annually chosen by the Proprietors,
the Directors of the past year being re-eligible ; qualification
the holding of fifty shares.
One-fourth of the profits to be divided amongst consumers
of gas, and the remaining three-fourths amongst the Share-
holders.
,Note.—The clause provides that the landlord shall have the
benefit of: the privilege of an outgoing tenant, but does not
enable him to traiiff
er it to an incoming tenant.
Refuge for the Dest;:::!te•—Preamble recites the founda-
tion of the Institution in 1315, a,;,1 the indentures under which
the freehold and leasehold property arc Itiaid.
Officers, if required, to swear to accounts before two of the
Committee.
Note.—Any officer refusing to account on oath, or to make
payment, to be committed to one of the City prisons until he
should have accounted, and paid or compounded with the
Committee. There is no limit to the term of imprisonment
The object of this Bill is to incorporate the subcribers to
an institution called " The Refuge for the Destitute," of which
the design is to promote a place of refuge for persons discharged
from prisons, or the hulks, unfortunate and deserted females and
others who, though willing to work, are unable, from loss of
character, to procure an honest maintenance ; and also, in
certain cases, to afford temporary relief to distresse ersd pons,
The Bill accordingly constitutes the President, Vice-Presi-
dents, Treasurer, and Governors for the time being of the
Institution a body corporate, by the name of the President,
Vice-President, Treasurer, and Governors of the Refuge for
the Destitute, and vests the present real property of the insti-
tution in the Corporation. This property is in
and the preamble
stated to consist of a freehold piece of ground buildin
at Hoxton (used for the reception of males), and a leasehold
piece of ground and buildings in the Hackney-road (used for
the reception of females), held for a term of which about six
years are unexpired, at a rent of 2101.
Note.—The power to acquire by will land, or monies se-
cured on lands, is at variance with the general law, as
ca deeclare the
d
by the Act of the 9th Geo. 11., c. 36,
commonly lld
Mortmain Act. By that Act no interest in land can be con-
veyed for charitable uses, except by deed executed twelve
months before the death of the donor, and enrolled in Chan-
cery within six months from the execution.
The Walsall Market Bill.—The object of this Bill is to
provide new and improved market places for the borough of
Walsall.
Market; and Tolls.—The Bill authorises the Corporation
of Walsall to purchase, by consent of the owners, lands and
buildings within the boroegb, and to appropriate the same, and
also any other land belonging to the C ororation, for the
erection of a market-house, weighing-housep, and buildir.gs,
sultable for a general market.
The Bill also authorises the Corporation at any time here-
after, if they shall so think fit, to appropriate any piece
of
ground belonging to the Corporation within the borough, or
within one mile thereof, as a market for live cattle.
It authorises the Corporation to take the tolls mentioned in
the schedule to the Act, and provides that as soon as the
new market places shall be completed, the existing markets
shall cease.
Combrnartin Roads Bill.—The object of this Bill is to
authorise the making of a turnpike-road. from Combmrrtin
to Braltnn Down, in the county of Devon, and other roads in
the neighbourhood.

NEW WORK BY TILE AUTHOR OF " RATTLIN,
Tiir REEFER,"-The announcement of a new work front the
pen of this writer must evt:r he an event calculated to excite
uacemtnon degree of interest. There are in the naval
novels of this gentleman a depth of imagination, and a force
and eloquence of style which the wild nature of his suijects
has hitherto put under a constraint incompatible with thenid
r
full and fait development,t. They demand a wider range a
a richer soil of humanity than the limited one in which they
have hitherto worked. Should it turn out that they have found
such a field in the forthcoming production (which is entitled
" Outward Bound") we anticipate the highest results.
CAPTAIN BRENTON'S LIFE OF EARL ST..
ViNcENT.—To the several valuable records of the achieve-
ments and characteristics of our great heroes which late years
have produced, these excellent volumes are now to be added.'
They will claim a permanent place in the splendid collection,
as worthy to rank in design and .execution with any work of
the class. Captain Brenton justly remarks upon his endehe
a-
vour to draw a faithful picture from life :—" My duty,"
says, " was to avoid every thing like concealment, extenuation,
or flattery. Professing to be of no party, I may probably
subject myself to the censure of many, but I shall have the
satisfaction of knowing that impartial men will concur
con-
with
me." His task was no easy one, and we unaffectedly
gratulate him and all his readers, naval or otherwise, on his
successful execution of it.
QUEEN ELIZABETIL—A new historical work is
announced for immediate publication, by Mr. Colburn, which
promise! to be of even a more iof Marlborough, nteresting nature
which has
than the
" Correspondence of the Dechess "
met with such success that a new edition is already in the
press. The book to which we allude is entitled " Queen
Elizabeth and Her Times, illustrated by a Series of Original
Letters, selected from the inedited Private Correspondence
of the Lord Treasurer Burghley, the great Earl of Leicester,
the Secretaries Walsingham and Smith, Sir Christopher
Hatton, and most of the distinguished Persons of the Time."
Such a work must undoubtedly throw much light on the prin-
cipal events and characters of the most brilliant period in
English history.
Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle
enlarged, and no additional charge—Price Fivepence. On
Sunday, March 25th, the promised enlargement of Bell's Life
!-in London will take place, thereby aiTurding additional scope
Lfor the extension of its Miscellaneous as well as Sporting In-
.o.igence. Extraordinary efforts will be made, by the employ-
I.neee of competent correspondents, to procure the most accu-
- rate acco:'nts of the approaching Coursing 'Meetings in all
and
pat is of the k:7,Fdom—SteepleChaces—Hunting ex,'
every event interesting to the Sporting world—while, in the
loits,
Racing department, tii2 high reputation and accuracy of this
widely circulated Journal, swill be fully sustained. O: des'
received by every News Agent in the United Kingdom. Sport-
ing Advertisements of Coursing Meetings, Steeple Chace',
Race Meetiags, &c., must be sent to the Oillee on or before
the Friday previous to publication—a rule also applicable to
the Sporting communicaeions of our friends. Price of Bell's
Life iq London, five pence. Office, No. 170, Strand, where
can be had for threepence each, together or separate, Firts 1,
2,3, 4, and 5, of the Gallery of Comicalities ; the 5 parts
contain 43S comic wood-cuts, the cost of which, designing',
and engraving, exceeded two thousand pounds—near tth
wo
millions have been sold—never out of print. Part 6of e
Gallery of Comicalities, price threepence- only, will be pub-
lished at No. 170, strand, on the Ath of April. Any of the
Parts taken back, and the cost price of twopence ech
returned, before Jan. 1, 1839. Placards for shop windows,
HYDROPHOBIA.—A lamentable case of this de-
scription occurred last week, at Everscrecch. It appears that
a man. named Reake:2, of that place. kept a favourite little
dog, with which he was playing as long ago as in October
last, when the anim l bit him in the upper lip. No impor-
tauce attached to the circumstance at the moment, although
surgical assistance was hid recourse to. The deg, however,
having left his home, more serious suspicions of his state were
entertained, and he was ultimately shot at ailtonsborough in
a pe,fectle rabid state, not, however, till after he had bitten a
valuable horse, at Everscrecch, the pi operty of Mr. Brown,
and which died on Monday week. The more melancholy p:Jr.
tion of the affair, however, vet remains ao be told—the poor
/lien (Reakes), also last week-, exhibited symptoms of the
frighttu: malady in its most deplorable form, and at the time
our informant ;CPt us this account, he (Reakes) was suffer ing
under the most severe r7aroxysme._ Somerset County Gat,
On Saturday mornirig, rout eight o'clock, the
going down tnt
Vivid (steam-ship) was ;ver, on her voyage
to Hull, keeping her proper course, when, in }4-
eeing over the
Thames Tunnel, she grounded on the mud-bank,vv:"'^l h
been produced by the enormous quantities of clay and bags of
an
clay, thrown down for the purpose of forming artificial bed
in the Thames through which the tunnel. is excavated. The
Vivid, which had a full cargo of goods and merchandise and
many passengers, remained on the bed of clay, with her head
well up, for more than two hours, when the tide • • ri tog lifted
her, and she proceeded en her voyage.