The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-09 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1841.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, SETT. 8, 184!.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of tht
EAST INDIA COMPANY do hereby give Notice,
That the QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT of the
said COMPANY, appointed to be held at their House in Lea-
denhall-street, on WEDNESDAY, the 22d instant, is /WADI'
SPECIAL, for the purpose of submitting t 3 the Proprietor.
a Resolution of the Court of Directors, proposing an ahem•
tion in the By-law, Cap. 6, Sec. 16.
A Copy of the said Resolution is open for the perusal of th,
Proprietors at this House.
JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, SEPT. 8, 1841.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the
EAST INDIA COMPANY do hereby give Notice,
That a GENERAL COURT of the said COMPANY wil
be held at their House in Leadenhall-street, 011 Wg/NESDAY.
the 13th April, 1842, for the ELECTION of SIX DIREC-
TORS for FOUR YEARS.

. The Form of a Letter of Attorney, and of a. Declaration
or enabling Proprietors of East India Stock to Vote by Proxy
on this occasion, may be obtained upon application at th;
Treasury in this House.
JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, Sam.: 8, 1841.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the
EAST INDIA COMPANY do hereby give Notice,
That the LIST of such PROPRIETORS of EAST IN-
DIA STOCK as by the Company's Books appear to he QUA-
LIFIED to VOTE at the GENERAL ILECTION, on
WEnNEsnAT, the 13th April, 1842, will be ready to be deli-
vered on FRIDAY, the.l2th November. 1841.
JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.

THAMES HAVEN RAILWAY COM
PANY.—The Remaining Shares, Plans, and a Pam
phlet, may be had by application at the Office, St. Mil
dred's Court. HENRY AMSINCK, Secretary.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND SOCIETY
ro R oRANTING
LIFE ASSURANCES, DEFERRED ANNUITIES, &c.
No. 2t, CORNHILL.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
EIRECTOAS.
T. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman.
J. Ellioteon, M.D., F.R.S. I John Rawson, Esq.
John Griffith Frith, Esq. Jehn Riddell Stodart, Esq.
Hunter Gordon, Esq. I Clement Tabor, Esq.
George Lungley, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq.

AUDITORS.

Professor Wheatstone, F. R. S. i;lessor Graves, A.M. F. R. S
ACT U A RY—W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F. R. A. S
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Sweet, Sutton, Ewens, and Omman-
ney, 6, Basinghall-street.

FOR LIFE.
A. B.
Age. Without With For One For Five
Profits. Profits. Year only. Years only
£. a. d. a. d. £. s. d. £. a. d.
20 1 13 7 1 17 4 0 17 0 0 17 6
30244293 0 19 6 1 0 0
40 2 18 1 3 5 3 1 3 10 1 5 0
50 4 4 2 1 413 6 1 113 0 116 6
60 613 6 I 7 4 ' 3 0 0 3 9 6

Two-thirds of Profits divided annually amongst the Assured.

DEFERRED ANNUITIES DEPARTMENT.

By the plan exclusively developed by this Society, a single
Deferred Annuity is made, nut only to answer the same object,
but to far. exceed in amount the entire benefit of all the ad-
vantages heretofore only obtained by the middle and industrious
classes through separate investments in Savings' Banks, Be-
nefit Societies, and Loan Banks.
1. A small yearly or weekly contribution will secure the
most ample return for after life; thus-21. 12s. per annum ( Is.
a week) at the age of 20, will give the policy holder the fol•
lowing option, at the age of 65
Annuity for remainder of life... ......... £47 16
Cash 394 11
Policy, without further contributions, of 466 0
Other periods of life (of 50, 55, and 60) may be
with similar advantages.
2. Two-thirds at any time lent on deposit of policy, being a
fund always available during sickness or want of employment.
3. Two-thirds of all payments returned to representatives in
cue of premature death.
N.B. Policies, as collateral money-security, for periods of
one to five years, effected at lower rates than are charged by
any other Office, (Sce Tables A. and with option of con-
tinuance for Life at the usual rates.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Sec.

0 or a

0 at death.
also taken

STOCKBRIDGE, in the COUNTY of HANTS, Three and
a Half Hours' Journey from London.
MR. G. EYRE BROOKS will SELL by
AUCTION, at his Gallery, 28, Old Bond-street, Lon-
don, on TUESDAY, the 12th of October, 1841, at One o'Clock,
HOUGHTON LODGE, an elegant freehold retreat, de-
lightfully seated on an elevated sloping knoll on the banks of
the celebrated trout river Test, and commanding extensive and
varied views of the surrounding country. It contains—Entrance
Hall, 19 feet square ; Library, 20 by 19, opening into a Con-
servatory; Drawing-room, 27 by 21 ; Circular Saloon, 20 feet
diameter, with lofty dome ceiling ; Dining-room, 31 by 19 ;
five best Bed-rooms, and two Dressing-rooms. Servants' Bed-
rooms for a large establishment. Capital offices, Ice-house,
Coach-house Stabling for eight horses. Loose Boxes,
Stabling, and Paddocks forj hunters. Walled Gardens, con-
taining two acres; delightful Flower Garden, Rustic Summer-
house, Farm-yard and Buildings, and altogether thirty acres
of land. Two Pews in the Church. Fox-hounds and Harriers
kept in the neighbourhood; the finest Trout fishing in England.
Particulars may be had at the principal Inns at Stockbridge,
Winchester, Southampton, Portsmouth, Hyde. Newport ;
Garraway's Coffee-house ; and at Mr. G. Eyre Brooks', 28, Old
Bond-street, London; and East Cowes, Isle of Wight.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
WARWICK RACES—WEDNESDAY.
The Selling Stakes of 5 sovs., with 30 added.
Lord Chesterfield's AU Fours, 5 yrs, 9st 41
Mr. Denham's f by Pantaloon—Souvenir, 3 yrs,
7st 51b
Lord Warwick's Syria, 3 yrs, Est 13 lb
Mr. Isaac. Day's Mulciber, 4 yrs, Bst 121 b
Mr. Goodman's Sister to Glencoe, 3 yrs, 7st 21b
Captain Pettat's Caliph aged, 9st 61b,
BETTING.-15 to 6 against the Don, and 15 to 6 agst
Caliph. Won half length.
The Avon Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft, once round and
a distance. (3 Subs.)
Mr. Cooke's Sequidilla, ist 111 b, walked over.
The Warwick Cup, by subscription of 10 sovs. each ;
4 miles. (29 Subscribers).
Mr. Wreford's Wardan, 4 yrs. Bst. 31b (J. Day, jun.) 1
Mr. J. Day's Viola, 3 yrs. sst 81b 2
Mr. Collett's The Dean, 5 yrs. Bst 131 b 3
5t02 on Wardan. Won by a length.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each ; h. f., with 50
added. (6 Subscribers).
Mr. Holmes's Vulcan, 4 yrs, 6st 71b 1 1
Mr. J. Day's Tamburini, 5 yrs. Bst 121 b 4 2
Mr. Goodman's Mungo Park, 4 yrs. 7st
Mr. Morris's Fat Jack, aged, Bst 71b
The Hunters' Stake was not run for when our account
left.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS or THIS DAY.
HERALD.—What will Sir Robert Peel do with
Ire-
and ? Driven from every point of attack on the new
administration, the Whig-Radical journals fall back on
his question, and quote against the new Cabinet Sir
Robert Peel's candid admission on resigning office in
1£335—" My chief difficulty was Ireland." Now this ad-
nission, be it remarked, was a qualified one: Ireland was
iir Robert Peel's chief difficulty ; but it did not, even is
:835, form an insuperable obstacle to his satisfactorily
tarrying on the Government of the empire ; and even if
t did so then, it is wholly inconsequential to infer that
it will do so now. The fact is, that the difficulty of go-
verning Ireland has always been overrated by both par-
ties, and by the British people. It suits the views of a large
:lass of influential Irish politicians, of either division
Jf political opinion, to magnify the existing difficul-
ties in the way of good order and quiet in their country,
that their own services may be the more highly appreci-
ited by their Parliamentary and official leaders, and
their own claims to place and preferment be the More
readily rewarded, while to the British people, ignorance
,if the sister kingdom and " distance lend enchantment
to the view," and those difficulties, which in reality are
sufficiently serious, become in imagination gigantic. The
obstacles to good government in Ireland may be great,
but they are not, and cannot be, insuperable. Justice,
mercy, firmness, and determination, will govern any
country under the sun. What then will Sir Robert Peel do
.with Ireland ? Govern it justly and firmly, and in strict
accordance with the principles of the British constitu-
tion. To such government is Ireland entitled, and
to none other. The primary duty of the Irish, as of
-cvery other people, is obedience to the powers that be ;
in return for such obedience they are entitled to protec-
tion from and equality in the eye of the law. But the
Irish people have no right, from any,piolue of their own,
or from the agitation and incitement of those in whom
,hey choose to place confidence, so to embarrass, an Im-
,erial Administration, as to deprive England and Scot-
land, and all the dependencies of the empire, of the ad-
vantages of that Government in favour of which they
have lately made such unequivocal demonstrations.
,Vere it otherwise, the superior wealth, greater industry,
ind the far higher intelligence of the British people
vould be subservient to the ghostly confessors and poli-
tical agitators of the Irish nation, and the Union, instead
,f being a blesSing to the United Kingdoms, would be an
apparent good to Ireland and a real curse to Britain.
CHRONICLE.—" Ireland," said Sir Robert Peel,
" Ireland will be my great difficulty." And 'a greater
difficulty it will prove too than even the Right Hon.
Baronet anticipated, when he made this memorable ad-
mission. Swift tells a story of a Yorkshireman in his
lay, who, upon seeing a group of Irish pass his door,
could not repress his astonishment at finding them
" without tails." About as intelligent, we apprehend.
are the great mass of Sir Robert Peel's supporters, in
their appreciation of his " great difficulty." They will
and it something very different, indeed, from what they
anticipated. For a Tory Administration to govern Ire-
land must, under any circumstances, be a task all but
insurmountable. The people of that country have
been so long accustomed to look upon the return of
the Tories to power as tantamount to a restoration
of the old ascendancy party, that, to prevent•it, they
would hazard everything short of civil war. The old
expedients of resistance, within the bounds of the law,
but fatal to the supremacy of the law ; those startling
combinations:—anomalies in a country under constitu-
tional Government—which were created, nurtured, and
matured by the stupid bigotry of the Castlereaghs, Li-
verpools, and Peels, down to 1829, and which rose up
again with renovated strength under the evil influence
of Lord Stanley's genius ; the vast though perfect
organisation exhibited one day in the assembling of
a whole province, on another in the simultaneous
meeting of every parish in the island, embracing
people, priests, and prelates, animated all by one
feeling of enthusiasm, and directing their efforts to
Jne common object ;—all this is again in the power
of the people of Ireland, and seems to be
again in their contemplation. Yet this is not all of the
" great difficulty." If it were, we could comprehend the
shallow confidence with which we hear men talk of" sup-
pressing" such evidence of popular discontent—just as a
pedant would talk of chastising the temper of an unruly
school-boy. What 1 this not all the difficulty ?
O'Connell, the priests, and the religion—will Sir. Robert
Peel have more to encounter than this ? Formidable as
these difficulties are, we believe them to be least of Sir
Robert Peel's immediate difficulties. There was much
truth in Mr. Grattan's classical allusion the other night,
that Sir Robert Peel would, like Actaeon, be devoured
by his own hounds (though the country gentlemen, who
probably never heard of that particular pack, thought it
a good joke.) The rebellious cry has already broken from
the Irish kennel.
TIMES.—We call attention to the curious exhibition
which Mr. Roebuck made of himself last night on the
floor of the House of Commons. Mr. Roebuck, it ap-
pears, wished to exonerate himself from the charge of
being a member of " the one-shilling-gallery class in the
House of Commons," in which we unluckily—we cannot
say unjustly—ranked him in our article of yesterday,
and, presto ! he jumped out of the one-shilling gallery on
to the stage itself. As might be expected, he came down
with a terrible squash. Though on his first appearance
he enacted the part of Bobadil, the angry boy, in his
friend Jonson's comedy of Every Man zn his Humour,
there appeared to be a lurking apprehension in his
audience, that lie would have acted the part of
Sir Giles Over-reach much more naturally, as he
harped with as much evident zest as that re-
nowned knight himself on the words " honourable"
and " right honourable." His next appearance was in
the character of Sir Fretful .Phyiary, who never cares
—no never—what those " most villainous, licentious,
abominable, infernal" scribblers, the newspaper critics,
say against him, and who is nevertheless ready to horse-
whip, ay, and to hang up too, every mother's son of them
who dare to aver that he is not the most honest of men,
the most enlightened of politicians, and the most distin-
guished professor of science and literature in the present
day. As the wont is, the audience laughed—not with,
but—at this exquisite representation of paltry spite
and miserable self-conceit, and saw at once that,
though he affected contempt for all Newspaper stric-
tures, " he was the sorest man alive, and shrunk,
like scorched parchment, from the fiery ordeal
of true criticism." ' His last exhibition was in the chte
ratter of " Pistol eating his leek," and we can assure the
public that Il alien did not enjoy with greater gout the
wry faces into which that worthy ancient, after strutting
and swelling like a turkey, distorted his •countenance
whilst swallowing that accursed thing, than the specta-
tors did the appearance of the Honourable, and, it may
yet be, the Right Honourable Member of Bath, while
digesting the unsavoury affront which he was obliged
to gulp down from the House of Commons, when lie was
called upon to find a seconder to his motion against us,
and when he could find no one, not even Dr. Bowring,
to respond to his call. The audience, who were rather
surprised at this unusual exhibition, seemed yet more
surprised that an announcement was not made of its
intended repetition; and hence it has been suspected that
this new aspirant to theatrical honours—who, if he owe
us anything, seems inclined, like Flueten, to pay us in
cudgels—feels that he has made a most lamentable fail-
ure, and that he is in the situation so ludicrously describ-
ed by the late Lord Londonderry of " standing pros-
trate" himself, when he only thought of prostrating
others. We humbly trust, that on the next occasion up-
on which Mr. Roebuck becomes histrionic, and deals in
antics and gesticulations quite as extraordinary as the
speeches he utters, he will give us notice of his inten-
tions, that we may be present to enjoy the scene.
ADVERTISER.—Mr. Roebuck, who seems deter-
mined to make a figure of one sort or another in the
Legislature, last night made the observations of our
habitually -pate cotemporary (the Times), the subject of
a speech in the House of Comintau, complaining of a
breach of privilege. We are sorry that Mr. Roebuck
did not exhibit less irascibility and better judgment than
to trouble the House with such a paltry application ; we
should have expected more discernment even from " the
one-shilling gentlemen at Drury-lane." In addressing
the House, Mr. Roebuck observed, " he held that no man
could be written down but by himself ;" and yet, in de-
fiance, as it were, of his own better judgment, before
he concluded his 'speech, he illustrated his position by
lowering himself more from the position to. which, as
the representative of a great and influential consti-
tuency lie is fairly entitled, than could the Times by
showering upon him its daily vituperation for six
months. It was but natural for Mr. Roebuck to feel
indignant at the revolting and indecorous language of
the public maligner, but it was injudicious to treat its
vituperation otherwise than with contemptuous disre-
gard, and stark %Hy to bring the matter under the no-
tice of the House of Comm Ons. It is not a time fur
that House to measure its strength with the public
press, and therefore Mr. Roebuck merely exposed its
ludicrous incompetency when on attempting to over-
strain privilege he said, " he would remind • the House
that according to its rules ho was entitled to bring the
party responsible on his knees to the bar of the House."
Psha ! The time is past for these tyrannical exhibitions
of authority.
POST.—If we may believe the Whigs themselves
(and who should know so well ?) they have always been
great patriots—very ardent lovers of their country. And
since this sort of love—as well as the more tender pas-
sion—is very apt to be strengthened and made perma-
nentba)iwray
have ecisprtaokcietny
caorfe,beantefithtse proper opportunity, that, the philosophic Whigs
their country should afford them something substan-
tial in return for the patriotic affection with which
they regard it. It grieves us to find that these lovers
of their country have at present nothing but a very for-
lorn hope to comfort and support them. It has been
announced by them that no lover of his country (and
therefore no patriotic Whig) has at present any
hope save in the possible rupture of that remarkable
combination which constitutes the present Government
party. Now we must say that this is what may be called
an exceedingly (lull and dolorific prospect. If there be
no hope save that which rests upon the probability of
the aforesaid rupture, we apprehend it is something very
like no hope at all. Our worthy antagonists should not
take so gloomy a view of things, especially as November is
approaching, and as that almost übiquitous persanage Mr.
Wakley has already (as it seems to us), quite enough to do.
We recommend the Whigs to look out for a better hope,
and if nothing more promising should turn up, to make
themselves as cheerful as possible with the reflection that
they may do great good in opposition. Perhaps upon

that "bleak shore" (as in one of his moments of unaf-
fected enthusiasm, Lord Brougham called the Oppositior
coast), they may pick up some pearls of price wherewitl
to set up business again, and with more success than ii
their last start. But even should this luck not attenc
them, their condition will at least have the charm of va-
riety, to which they may make additions ad 1 Lawn, Izt
adopting honest, sincere, and practical courses of politi
cal exertion.

MONEY MARKET and co.Y...NEWS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS' OF TDIS DAY.
TIMES—A practice is said to exist among th,
brokers in the metal trade, which, should it prove to b.
carried out, attended with the circumstance which i
brought under notice by the correspondent writing oi,
the subject, must eventually injure the parties followinp
that avocation. Already it has been said that in seve-
ral instances the dealers have acted without. the inter-
vention of brokers ; and the existence of such an abuse
as that described will, when it is Made public, go far ti
lessen the confidence now reposed in them. The corn
plaint, made is, that some of the brokers do not in their
contracts give the name of their " principal," but insert
simply " sold to my principal ;" and that by this means
the brokers cover their transactions, while they make
great profit in addition to their customary brokerage,
as the seller allows the broker 8 per cent. discount, while
he to the buyer allows only 4 per cent. It is not an un-
usual thing in other branches of brokerage to refuse the
name of the principal, but it is not supposed that it is
accompanied by any such profit as that here described.
If it is, it is open to the same censure.
Among the many suggestions that are from time to
time brought forward with the view to facilitate the
conveyance of the overland mail, is one which emanates
from Bombay, and is deserving of attention in the pro-
per quarter, as it is stated materially to affect the
forwarding of the mail on its arrival there from Suez.
The East India Company are said to send out vo-
lumious despatches, many of them, nevertheless, of an
unimportant nature, being either duplieates of former
despatches, or letters containing instructions of an or-
dinary nature, which do not require immediate attention,
the delay of which would not cause the slightest incon-
venience to the Government, nor be in any way injurious
to the public service. It is therefore suggested that
it would be very desirable that the authorities here
should divide their communications into three classes—
the most important to be marked "Express ;" those of
secondary consequence, "By regular mail ;" and all
heavy and comparatively unimportant documents, " At
convenience." This would be a most useful arrange-
ment, and would enable the postmaster-general of the
Presidency to transmit the contents of the mail in a
much more satisfactory manner than he can possibly do
under existing circumstances.
POST.—Attention has been drawn to-day to the late
meeting of the shareholders of the Marylebone Blnk,
and it has been considered that the remarks which had
been made some time since on that establishment were
neither unjust nor undeserved. The report of the Com-
mittee declaring that they were unable to furnish the
meeting with a statement of the affairs, in consequence
of the accountant having failed to perform his promise ;
and the reason put forth by that gentleman for the omis-
sion, ought to be received with some interest by the
shareholders in similar establishments. Mr. Quilter (the
accountant) states, " that the accounts were so compli-
cated that he could not make them out, but that they
had been admirably kept for the purpose intended ;
that facts were not recorded until long after their
occurrence ' • and that the whole system was obviously
designed for the purposes of fraud." At a late
meeting of the Committee he 'informed them that
he had discovered " that when it was reported
that the Bank bad made 1,0001. profit, instead of such
being the case, there had been an actual loss of 3,00(/.;
that the dividend had been made by debiting certain
gentlemen's accounts for commissions improperly and
crediting them afterwards ; and that the salaries to the
clerks in the establishments had not been paid until
after the declaration of the dividend." The Chairman
acknowledged that up to the present time the Commit-
tee were completely in the dark as to the state of af-
fairs, and knew nothing whatever as to what might be
the assets of the Bank, and could furnish no informa-
tion to the shareholders as to the extent of their liabi-
lities. Upwards of one month has elapsed since the ap-
pointment of the Committee, and yet such has been the
method of keeping the accounts of this, a public Com-
pany, upon the capital of which more than one dividend
has been paid to the shareholder' and to whom reports
of the state of their acconunts have been presented,
that an experienced accountant with all his skill is un-
able to unravel them. These facts require no comment.
HERALD.—Some alarm appears latterly to have been
occasioned on the Paris Stock Exchange by some large
sales, and offers of more, of 5,000 franc shares in the
Lafitte Joint Stock Bank there. At one time it was ob-
served the holders seemed determined to sell at any sacri-
fice. The cause of the panic was referred to a lawsuit
in which M. Lafitte, the founder and chief Director of
the Bank, had been engaged, and which was decided
against him ; but it does not appear that the Bank was
otherwise connected with the affair.
'I here has latterly been a kind of speculative mania
in Madrid, such as was witnessed lately in Lancashire
and Yorkshire for all sorts of mining, bank, railroad and
industrial undertakings, and such more recently as has
been exhibited in the same way in France and
Germany, to say nothing of the United States. In
Spain this fury has more particularly been directed to
coal, iron, lead, and silver mines. The Government
finding this disposition to industrial speculation,
which is a new feature in the Spanish character, and
that it was degenerating fast into the excesses of
gambling, a vice only too common among the people,
wisely resolved, if possible, to turn it to account for
works of public utility. Accordingly, two enterprises
have been projected in which the public are invited to
take shares in the shape of contributions to loans ou
which dividends at the rate of 6
.per cent. per annum
are to be paid, until the capital is repaid and extin-
guished periodically in a given number of years. The
first of these projects consists of the formation, or re-
storation of a high road from Madrid across Castile to
Corunna. The second for the high road to Valencia
by the Cabrillas. For carrying into effect these under-
takings, subscription lists are opened for two loans
of eight and nine millions of reals respectively, as autho-
rised by a law of the Cortes. A brief description of the
mode in which the loan operation is proposed for the
completion of the first line of road will serve for both, as
the plans do not materially vary. Each loan share is to
represent the amount of 1,000 reals, to be paid up in
four half-yearly payments of 250 reals each, reckoning
from the Ist of January, 1842. Interest runs on from
the date of each instalment and upon it, but until all the
four payments are completed the dividend due on the
payment previously made may be' deducted from such
payment, which will -then stand the same for the 250
reals as if the whole sum were then paid.
SUN.—There was very little animation in the English
Stock Exchange to-day, and before the close of business
prices had a downward tendency. For immediate transfer
Consols were 891 to f, and for Account 891 to 90, and
time bargains were even made as low as 89i. tol, the
latest bargain for money being 891 buyers. Exchequer
Bills were 1 ls. to 13s. premium, and East India Bonds
par to 2s. premium. The New Three-and a-Half per
Cents.-were heavy at 981 to +.
The market for Foreign Stocks exhibited no improve-
ment. Active Spanish Bonds for account were at 211 to
22/. The money bargains were at 211 to 22. Alto-
gether spebulation is much less animated than it was.
Mexican Stock was dull at 251 to 251, and Brazilian at
661, but Cliilian was firm at 70 to 71. Dutch Two-and-
a-Half per Cents. were worth 511 to ; the Five per
Cents. 1021, and Russian 1121.
Shares were offered rather freely, and this brought
down the quotations a little. Great Western were at
12 to 13 ; the New at 4 ; Birmingham 68 to 69 ; the
South Western at 12i ; and the York and North Mid-
land at 253- premium ; Brighton Shares were 3f ; Croy-
don ; South Eastern 21, and Birmingham and Glou-
cester 42 discount ; London and Westminster Bank
Shares were 21 premium, and Union of Australia 5 to 6
premium.

A FEMALE MISER.—The other day a person
named Croft waited upon Mr. Stronger, the relieving
officer for Greenwich, and stated that she believed an
old woman, named Elizabeth Barron, the widow of a
college-man, was in a most destitute condition, having
been without food several days, adding, it was the im-
pression of herself and neighbours that unless immediate
assistance was rendered• the poor woman would be found
starved to death. Mr. Stronger immediately proceeded
to the hovel where the woman lived, and found her as
described, in a most miserable and pitiable condition. In
answer to Mr. S. she stated that such was her extreme
poverty that she had not tasted food for a considerable
time. He got up for the purpose of sending her relief, when
he thought he saw some money on a ledge in the room.
Upon looking further he found 4s. 6d. The old woman
seemed confused and stated it '.vas not hers, and then it
was for rent. Mr. Stronger's suspicions were aroused
by this circumstance, and he requested to be allowed to
look into an old box that stood in the room this she
refused, but he without ceremony proceeded to overhaul
its contents, when he found 39/. ss. 6d. in shillings and
sixpences, wrapped up separately in pieces of paper
and old rags, the greater part of the money being quite
black, and evidently had been there many years, 46/.
in gold, wrapped up in the same manner, one shilling's
I worth of copper, two silver watches, a number of table
and teaspoons, and other articles of plate, gold brooches,
rings and pins, and a large stock of excellent wear-
ing apparel. Upon this discovery of the old hag's trea-
sure being made she was exceedingly mortified, and ex-
pressed in no very measured terms her. regret that her
carelessness in leaving out the few shillings should have
brought to light the property, that for years and years
her dayS, her nights, and health, had been consumed in
collecting. It has since been :ascertained .by Mr.
Stronger that this wretched woman has actually been in
the receipt of Is. 6d. per week for a length of time from
one of the Unions in London. It also appears that two
or three months ago she was robbed, of a five-pound
note and twenty sovereigns by a pensioner, but fearful of
a discovery the old woman would not bring the thief to
justice.
RAILROADS IN IRELAND.—The counties of
Clare, Limerick, and Cork, and the cities of Limerick and
Cork, have unanimously adopted petitions to the Legis-
lature, in support of railway undertalgngs..l-3 •
expected, will shortly be comilitileedcl,,it is I