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7 • JAN U ARY 7, 1847.

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ENGRAVINGS.
. Love and Jealousy. By W. Harvey.
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COMMERCIAL BANK OF LONDON,
Lothbury, and 6, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden.
DIRECTORS.
RICHARD WALKER, Esq., M.P.. Chairman.
JOHN TAYLOR, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
Thomas Barnewall, Esq.
William Beresford, Esq., M.P. • Jonathan II airman
Esq.
Edward Oxenford, Esq.
William Sprott Boyd, Esq. George Rennie, jun., Esq.
W. R. Collett, Esq., M.P. John Savage, Esq.
Henry Cornfoot, Esq. John Shewell, Esq.
Edward Cotton, Esq. I Joseph Thompson, Esq.
James A. Douglass, Esq. Joseph Underwood, Esq.
Notice is hereby given, that a DIVIDEND, at the rate of six
per cent. per annum, for the half-year eliding 31st December last,
will be PAYABLE to the Propietors, at the Banking-house of the
Company in Lothbury, on and after the 18th instant.
The Transfer Books will be closed front this date to the 20th hat,
Ily order of the Board, .._
Dated Jan. 6, 1847. A. R. CUTBILL, Manager.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR
ANCE SOCIETY,
26 CORNHILL, LONDON.
Capital .£500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.- -
This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages
with respect to Life Assuranees and Deferred Annuities. The assured
,as, on all occasions, the power to borrow, witkout expense er for-
citure of the Polley, two-thirds of the sremiurns paid (see Table) ;
Ilse the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion ef his in-
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Assurances for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible
sites

DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The remarkable success and increasing prosperity of the Society
as enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare
a fourth bonus, ♦arying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid
each Policy effected on the Profit scale.

EXAMPLES.

. _
tASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. I I yin,
OPENING OF THE PETERBOROUGH BRANCH. y g 2 '4 Bonus Bonus in 5g i Assured
Thi •
T, s Line will be opened for General Traffic on the 14th Instant. ~, g Premium. 2
added. Cash. E may
e arrangement of Trains will be as follows : • 0 Borrow.
FROM LONDON. . 9„ ....
7.15 a.m. ; 11.30 a.m. ; 2.0 p.m. ; 6.0 p.m.—Week Days.
6.45 a.m. ; 2.0 p.m.—Sundays. 1837 £217 15 1 £lOO 011 £l6 0 4'2445 0 0
FROM PETERBOROUGH. X £s. d. 1838 192 3 0 87 1 4 13 10 2! 395 11 1
*6.0 a.m; 8.25 a.m. ; 12.0 n. ; 4.40 p.m. ; 7.0 p.m.—Week Days.
8.45 a.m. ; 4.0 p.m.—Sundays.
.6,0 a.m. ' ,
;0 1000 3 4 1839 165 11 10. 74 191 11 3 1 346 2 3
-
A Train also leaves Cambridge at 6.50 a.m. every morning, for 1 1840 116 7 6 54 0 10; 718 10, 296 13 4
Peterborough and Stamford. I lB4l 111 6 8! 49 10 01 710 41 247 4 5

All the Trains, excepting those marked *. are in conjunction with
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the Trains see Time Bills, to be had on application at any of the
Company's stations, or at the coach-offices in connexion with the
Company, on and after the 10th inst.
By order,
C. P. ItOICEY, Secretary.
Ilishopsgate Station, January 4, 1847.

LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, and
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY
COMPANY.—ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY MEETING.
rNotice is hereby given that the ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY
EtTING of the SHAREHOLDERS of this COMPANY will be
'ld at the Palatine Hotel, in Manchester, in the county of Lan
taster, on the 2d day of FEBIWAST next, at the hour of Eleven o'clock
in the forenoon of that day.
And notice is hereby further given, that, in aecordance with a re-
Zuisitlon signed by more than twenty shareholders in the said under
„aking, holding, in the aggregate, not less than one-tenth of the
I!Dital of the said Company, an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL
be of the SHAREHOLDERS of the said COMPANY, will
held at the Palatine Hotel aforesaid, on the day and year afore-
at;',ld, at Twelve o'clock at noon of the same day, or immediately on
e termination of the business of the said ordinary Meeting. for the
;flee wing purposes, naraelyreceive, consider, and decide, on
, steps to be taken with respect to the report of Messrs. William
Investigation
George William Cram, and William Nichol, the Committee of
appointed on Saturday, the 23th day of July last, and
,2 determine on the propriety of reducing the number of the Directors
"In twelve to six, and if thought advisable, specifically to remove
'll of the present Directors.
And notice is hereby further gives, that at the said last-mentioned
eeting the Directors will apply for powers to proceed with, and en-
deavour to obtain, in the ensuing Session of Parliament, Acts fer
alteration of Main Line and Hawes Branch, with power to purchase,
rent, or use the Northern Counties Union Railway, and amendment .
Acts relating to the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-
APloJunction Railway, and to the Northern Counties Union Railway
nnranies ; Railway from the East Lancashire Railway near Burn-
ley, to join the Burnley Branch of the Manchester and Leeds Rail-
Way,, with power to sell or lease to the East Lancashire Railway
Company, er to the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company ; and
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction and
Northern Counties Union Railways Amalgamation.
And the Directors do hereby convene the said meetings accordingly.
THOS. ROM. WILSON FRANCE, Chairman.
C. MOORE WILSON,/ Secretaries.
W. 11. IN GRAM,
Cs'nllany's Principal Office, 31, Princess-street.
Manchester, Dec. 24, 1841.
19:,.r1,) Register of Transfers" will be closed, and remain so from the
‘UI3. of January, 1847, until after the above-named meetings.
C. MOORE WILSON,/ Secretaries.
W. H. INGRAM,

The division of profits Is annual, and the next will be made in
,ecember of the present year.

F. FERGUSON CA3IROUX. Secretary.

11RITISH COLLEGE of HEALTH, New-
.' P road, London.
REPORT for 1847 of RICHARD TOTHILL, Esq., M.R.C.S.L., of
Heavitree, near Exeter, of the Cures effected at the Exeter Hygeian
Dispensary, 91, Fore-street-hill, Exeter, by Morison's Vegetable
Universal Medicine.
1. Abraham llosking, aged 52, cured of a complication of disorders
of 40 years standing.
2. John White, aged 34, cured of pains in the stomach, side, and
back.
3. Maria 'tonelake, aged 20, cured of tightness of the chest, which
completely prevented sleep or rest.
4. William Woodley, aged 62, cured of a liver and stomach
complaint.
5. Elizabeth Plymsole, aged 50, cured of an ulcerated leg.
6. Ann Warren, aged 38, cured of nervous debility.
7 John Carter, aged 45, cured of rheumatic gout.
8. Elizabeth Wood, aged 46, cured of violent pains in the head and
chest.
9. Mary Balstone, aged 41, cured of severe pain in the right side,
arising from ulcerated lungs.
10. Charlotte Trump, aged 26, cured of a liver complaint.
11. Rebecca Middich's children, cured of St. Vitus's dance.
12 . Ann Lewis, aged 7, cured of a scorbutic complaint.
13. Mary Ann Gardner, aged 41, cured of general weakness and
loss of apetite.
14. William liturrige's child, aged 6 years, cured of diseased arm.
15. William Sargent, aged 18, cured of rhematic complaint and
glandular swelling.
16. James Todd, aged 14, cured of fever, accompanied by delirium.
17. Ann Down, aged 25, cured of inflammation of the bowels,
18. Elizabeth Tucker, aged 38, cured of a scorbutic complaint.
19. John Drew, aged 19, cured of typhus fever.
20. Benjamin West, aged 56, cured of a general deranged state of
health.
21. May Squance, aged 16, cured of a violent cold producing in-
flammation of the eye.
22. Louisa Partridge, aged 11, cured of abscess.
23. Emilen Hall, aged 43, cured of a severe stomach complaint.
24. Ruth Maddock, aged 22, cured of pains in the head, &c.
25. John llandcock, aged 57, cured of rheumatic affection.
(Signed) R. TOTIIILL.
N.B.—The full particulars of the above cases appear in the
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members of the British College of Health, and at the Office, 388,
Strand, London.

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NOTICE.—No applications for SIIA RES in this undertaking
will be received after SATURDAY, the 16th day of January, as the
Directors will, after that date, proceed to make an allotment.
Applications for shares may be addressed to the Secretary, at 163,
Fenchurch-street, by whom prospectuses and a detailed statement of
the sources of profit, &c , will be forwarded, post free, if written tor;
to Messrs. Sutton and Co., solicitors, 6, Basinghall-street; Messrs.
Capron and Co., solicitors, Saville-place, New Burlington-street; and
to Messrs. Sutton and Co., stockbrokers, Royal Exchange_

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ANOTHER, CURE of ASTHMATIC COI.IGII
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THE NAVY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
SlR,—The remarks in the Times of Friday upon what
you justly term " the most important point of all in naval
matter, that of securing an effective supply of trained
sailors to man our ships in case of emergency," and your
promise of recurring to the subject, induce me to' tres-
pass on your indulgence.
There is so much in your observations exactly in
accordance with my own views, as expressed in a little
book which you were pleased to notice favourably last
July, that I trust whenever you recur to the subject you
will afford me space for some practical suggestions of my
own. For the present, I would only enforce the necessity
of not postponing so vital a question as that of manning
the navy until war breaks out. and would urge one or
two obvious inexpensive and ineffectual measures for sup-
plying our first wants. It cannot be too seriously consi-
dered that the defect of organization which leaves Eng-
land without those resources for any sudden emergency
which other Powers possess is no longer a secret. Not
only has it been officially admitted in England upon the
best authority that in the critical times of 1840 and 1844
we were completely a deecouvert to any hostile attack,
from our inability to collect seamen in time, but foreign
countries ere now fully aware of the fact, and caculate
upon it. The subjoined extract from a very clever and
singularly impartial History of the late War, by an in•
intelligent French naval officer, establishes the truth of
an assertion which I believe I was the first to bring pro-
minently f, irward last summer. Captain E. Jurieu de la
Grav:ll.e, after detailing the straits to which England
was reduced at the breaking out of war in 1793—a
war for which we were unusually well prepared, on ac-
count of the Spanish and Russian armaments of 1790,

says :--
" The difficulty which the Admiralty experienced in
forming the first crews at this epoch presented itself
again in 1840. It will present itself every time England
finds herself obliged to face unforeseen embarrassments,
and will always give to an active and enterprising enemy
the advantage of most favourable chances during the first
months of a war."
Here we have a judicious and dispassionate French-
man exact]) confirming my own assertions as to a fact
which, though controverted at the time by a large part
of the daily press, has since been officially admitted in
Parliament. Would it not, then, be lamentable apathy
and inexcusable neglect, if, with our eyes open, we con-
tinued to tempt other nations to insult us, by gratui-
tously offering them chances of easy success against us?
Are we again to enact the old farce, the transparent
cheat, of moving " demonstration ships" about our har-
bours, sticking their masts in, painting their sides, and
trying, by ail:- demonstration, to frighten foreign Powers,
like naughty children, when they are perfectly aware
that it takes us several months to man a single line of
battle ship? Are we to pay above 7,000,000/. annually
for keeping up a navy, and yet leave it a demonstrable
fact that we are behind France and Russia in the power
of making any effective demonstration in case of emer-
gency, and that we have not advanced one step beyond
the crude, and now uncei tain expedient, of impress-
ment for manning our fleets? I am happy to think there
is reason to believe that the present Admiralty do not
intend to sleep over this danger, or to tolerate so dis-
creditable a state of things. But, as any great measure
involving (as it must) the interest of our maritime popu-
lation, requires the support of public opinion, I trust
the Times will afford its powerful aid in establishing the
necessity of some change. We may shut our eyes
to the face, but it is undeniable, that the present
is a new era in naval affairs, and England might just as
~well trust to her old feudal levies for a regular army, as
to impressment for an adequate supply of trained sea-
men, capable of meeting the disciplined forces of other
Powers.

The optimists and quietists of the press may argue in
favour of doing nothing, but no Government can leave
things as they are. The experience of 1840 and 1844
A well-groundedlvsoeradnisceuanlpcmounlaaytt
iiiboenegsmeonafedfr'eoarl eapiygrainiiilewai
bprlileteesrt
bsoyf otwhr bheiideshitt .at
forbids it, the admission of 1846 forbids it, and the too
merchfeawnt
thee.
It is certain that whatever may be circulated to the pre-
judice of the navy, it is least unpopular where it is best
known. Our first step, then, should be to make it better
known to our merchant seamen; and how can this be
done but by sending ships of war (not wretched, ill-
conditioned tenders, but ships deserving the name) to
our commercial ports, where they are never seen by any
chance? I do not mean to raise volunteers, but merely
to show themselves in all the attractive " pride, pomp,
and circumstance" belonging to a well-ordered " Queen':
ship." Ido not theorise here, but can assert, from my
own experience, that the ship of war, at her first ap-
pearance, will be regarded with distrust and dread, then
with distrust alone, next with indifference, and finally
with a strong desire to join her smart, cleanly, rakish-
looking, happy crew.
This would do much, if steadily and systematically
carried out; but more would be necessary in order to
dispel the strong prejudices which alienate our maritime
population from the Royal Navy. A further measure I
would suggest is an enactment requiring that all boys
apprenticed to the sea should serve some stated time, be
it ever so short, in her Majesty's navy. They would
then learn the truth concerning that terrible bugbear
they had heard so much of; and, of ten boys who should
spend two months in the navy, eight at least would wish
to remain in it. They would, while in it, acquire habits
of cleanliness, order, and alacrity, which would be use-
ful to them afterwards ; and they might be sufficiently
instructed in the gun exercise, to make them doubly
valuable whenever called into the service of their coun-
try. Ido not say that this would do all that is neces-
sary, but it woulu undoubtedly place our capabilities of
defence on immeasurably higher ground than they now
occupy, and might prepare the way for abolishing:, a
practice which we may make necessary by our own im-
providence, but cannot justify on the plea of a necessity
which had been foreseen for years and might have been
provided against.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant.
G. PLUNKETT.

Captain Plunkett's letter, as given above, will be
read with attention by all who remember his claims to
be heard upon the subject in question. We took occasion
the other day, in commenting on the French historical
essay to which he refers, to remark on the lessons which
our neighbours are evidently extracting from past expe-
rience, and we may surely hope that the warnings so
instructive to other Governments will not be lost upon
our own. The plans for manning our navy, to which we
alluded in our notice of this subject some days ago,
eomprise the supply of two different classes of men—first,
of trained seamen already lir the Queen's pay, and held
in reserve for any ceders that may be issued ; and,
secondly, of able or ordinary seamen, untrained to man-
ot-war's work, such as have hitherto been raised on any
emergency by the discreditable practice of impressment.
The former of these would furnish us with a corps such
as we have never possessed yet, the latter would supply
our old personnel by fairer means ; one provision
is adapted to the advanced state of naval
warfare, the other to the enlightened state
of public opinion. If the other navies of
Europe remained in the condition in which
they were left at the conclusion of the war, it might not
be necessary to extend our care beyond measures for
the abolition of that practice which justice, humanity,
and policy, alike condemn ; it would be sufficient simply
to secure such sailors by enlistment as we formerly ob-
tained by impressment, and we might then trust to a like
training for a like result. Such, however, is notoriously
not the state of affairs. Though we have happily bad
no occasion for proving our relative strength on an ele-
ment we have been taught to consider our own, yet,
making all allowances for exaggeration, it is dear
enough, from fact within our actual cognisance, that the
improvements iu artillery practice and naval architecture,
backed by the novel and scarcely appreciable power of
steam, have supplied our opponents with such resources
as leave us no longer at liberty to reckon upon a day's
breathing time after the declaration of hostilities. 'We
must be prepared with fighting-crews at an hour's
notice ; and these can only come from a regularrom
wellagood captain,
reserve. A full complement of
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under a particular captain; but the loss of this freedom
of election might be compensated by a small improve-
ment in pay, pension, or prospect of ratings, even if it
were not thought to be fairly met by the advantage
of continuous instead of temporary employment. The
expediency of prolonging the present term of a seaman's
engagement is admitted by almost every writer and
:pecker on the subject, and can hardly be doubted by
he men themselves. A discharged sailor is as helpless
is a banded soldier, and is the worse off as his desti
wtion is almost sure to recur. Nor are the old stories
'bout these matters altogether inapplicable to the pre-
,er:t day. It is barely eleven years since 15 per cent. of
oertain ships' crews were summarily turned adrift, al
though their engagements had been understood by them
is exten,ling t the whole period of the commission. I
is clearly, however, impracticable to increase this reserve
traine 1 men to such an amount as would at once send
to sea all the ships we might require, although it should
undoubtedly be strong enough to constitute, along with
those afloat, an effective squadron, and to furnish a nu-
cleus of good hands on board ships less advanced in dis
•,:ipline. Next, then, there arises the question, how the
bulk of cur sailors are to be obtained without recourse
to impressment when necessity requires. One of the
schemes for this purpose which has obtained the
attention of two successive Administrations is that
of Lieutenant Bowden, of which the following
is an outline : Every merchant vessel is to carry,
for every 150 tons of her register, one " Queen's man '
and one " Queen's boy," the first to be an able seaman,
and the second not under fifteen years of age. The
former is to be liable at any time and under any circum-
stances to serve in the royal navy, and the latter is to
step into his full rank at the age of twenty. The term
of the Queen's man's engagement is to be five years,
renewable at its expiration for a liko term, and then en-
titling him to a pension ; and both he and the boy, in
addition to their regular wages, are to receive a small
monthly allowance from Government. It is calculated
that from London and Liverpool alone some 13,000 or
14,000 able seamen could thus be procured at a fee
days' notice, even if only ofie xter of the vessels had
been enabled to eater the piescribtel number of Queen's
men. The readiness of the men to accept these terms
is presumed from the considerations that their wages
would be increased, their time of servitude defined, their
pension certain, and their chance very good of enjoy ink
the advantages of the royal service without ever actually
serving. Nor is it conceived that the masters o
merchant vessels would be otherwise than consenting
parties, inasmuch as they are not required to enter these
men over and above their proper compliments, but only
as part of them, and since these men, and these only,
would be liable to be taken away from their ships by any
of her Majesty's vessels, a regulation which would in-
form them of the precise extent of their liability in the
event of any sudden demand. The possible efficiency of
merchant seamen for the higher duties to which they
may be rendered liable, is a consideration only second in
importance to the regulations for securing their services
by an equitable contract ; and a former suggestion of
our correspondent's deserves attention as well as the
hints thrown out in his present letter. It is to the effect
tbat.as this class of persons are exempt from the militia
ballot, they should be required to attend a drill of their
(awn on board an " exercising ship" at certain periods
while within certain limits of a port ; and we are en-
tirely of the gallant author's opinion, and that a few
trifling prizes and a little tact in the captain-
superintendent would soon make this exercise a
great deal more popular than skittles or nine-
pins. If any person should be impressed with an idea
that our sailors have degenerated in a long peace, or
that improved treatmeut has relaxed their nerves and
subdued their hardihood, we commend to his notice the
story of the shipwreck of the Osprey, as reported in our
paper last week. An accident of a most grievous kind,
than which few ever involved less culpability, was reme-
died to a singular extent by the behaviour of the officers
and crew under circumstances far more trying than the
hazards of an unequal battle. After the lives of all had
been saved by the most energetic promptitude of action,
the ordnance material and provisions were landed
through a heavy surf, and guarded with effective disci-
through have been excited
e and murder. Al-
most all the stores of the ship, including even her copper
hpylinteh,eam slighteston g a
relaxation
ill
and copper bolts, were saved, and transported across more
than a mile of deep sand. After the provisions had been
expended, during a period of two months' ceaseless toil,
the whole ship's company was mustered and marched 110
miles across a savage and unknown country, the disci •
pline and behaviour of the men, during nearly a year's
exposure to these severe duties, being so admirable as to
have been honourably recorded by their captain in the
course of his own defence, and to have received from the
Court a testimony which both Captain Patten and his
crew merited almost as fully by their improvement of an
inevitable misfortune as they could have done by an)
instance of less costly, though more glorious success.-
2 inter.

FilE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE
NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
An inquiry into the circumstances attending the late
fatal accident at the King's Langley station was com-
menced yesterday, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon,
before Francis Osbald, stun, Esq , Coroner for llertford-
shire, at the Bell Inn, Primrose-hill, a small hamlet in
the parish of Abbot's Langley.
Mr. Hayes (of the firm of Parker and Hayes, solici-
tors to the North-Western Railway Company) was pre•
sent to watch the proceedings.
The bodies of the deceased were lying in an apartment
at the rear of the house. The remains were respec-
tively proved to be those of William Assup, aged t wee ty-
two years, engine-driver, and George Mathurs, aged
thirty-two years, fireman.
James Owen was the first witness called. lie said—l
am an engine-driver in the service of the North-Western
Railway Company. I came into their service in April
ast. On Monday last, being in charge of the engine
No. 16, I was directed to pilot (assist) the goods train,
which left Camden station at half-past one, to Wolver-
ton. I did so, and remained at Wolverton until
half-past eleven at night, at which time a luggage train,
consisting of twenty-six waggons, came up from Rugby.
Eight coke trucks were here attached, and I was directed
to pilot (assist) this train on to London. The- first
station we stopped at after leaving Wolverton was
Leighton, where we left one waggon. The deceased
William Assup was the driver of the engine behind me,
and after the waggon had been detached I asked him
whether I should take in water there or at Tring. He
said, as he had nothing to leave at Tring, it would be
better to take water at Leighton, and I did so. The
.:onducting of a train, where the same is driven by two
engines, is under the control of the driver of tho second
engine, except with regard to looking out for signals,
which devolves upon the first driver. We did not stop
at any station after leaving Leighton until we came in
'sere, about three minutes after one o'clock on Tuesday
morning.
CORONER—And when you got in here what hap-
pened ? Witness—l saw a red signal.
ConoNsk,-,Was tke, night foggy 2 Witness—Yes,
very. I did not see the signal until we were within
about two hundred yards of the post. I then opened my
whistle, let off the steam, reversed my engine, and put
the steam against her. I do not know whether my mate
had actually applied the break. When we advanced a
little further I saw three red lights on the main line,
and the next instant a red hand signal lamp. I at once
iaw the danger we were in, and jumped off the engine
on to the line. On a clear night there would have been
no difficulty either in observing the signal or in stopping
the train.
CORONER—Did Assup let the steam off his engine ?
Witness—l cannot tell. I was too busy in minding my
own duty.
CORONER—You can surely tell whether his steam was
let off or the engine reversed? Witness—lndeed I
cannot. He might have been working his engine by
expansion, and then I could not hear its beat. If I
must answer the question, my impression is that Assup
had certainly not reversed his engine.
CORONER—What happened after you jumped off your
engine? Witness—The luggage train ran directly into
the coal train.
Examination in chief—After the collision I went to
look for the guard of my train. I found that he had
been sent back by the policeman on duty at the Langley
station, to stop all up trains. That policeman's name is
rhomas Smith. Ho was the only man on duty at the
station when the accident occurred. When a train
passes a station, it is the duty of the policeman to turn
el the red signal for so many minutes, and subsequently
the green for a similar time, before showing the white
iight. After the accident, the policeman gave me two
fog signals, and directed me to follow the guard doWn
the line towards Boxmoor, and place them upon the rails.
I went down the line until I overtook the guard. I did
not see the station master. On my return, the police-
man told me he had gone on to Watford, on the coal
train engine, for assistance.
CORONER—And what had become of the poor fellows
who were killed all this time? Do you mean to say
they were left unattended? Witness—Yes. The po-
liceman told me they were dead very shortly after the
accident, but owing to the steam and water, which was
flying about in all directions, it was impossible to afford
them any assistance, or indeed to get near them until
nearly an hour after the accident.
The witness was further pressed by the Coroner, with
a view to show that unnecessary delay had taken place
before any attempt was made to extricate the deceased
parties, but nothing of a character to bear out such a
presumption was elicited.
Examination in chief—My engine lay upon her side
athwart the rails of the up and down lines. The leading
wheels of the second engine had mounted upon my ten-
and the second tender had crushed the footplate of
the deceased's engine. The bodies of both the deceased
were crashed by the second tender. The fireman was
fastened between the reversing lever and the fire box
when I first saw him. He was very much crushed and
quite dead. I did not see the driver. I was so shocked
at the sight of the firemen that I did not go to look fur-
ther, but I heard that he was in a similar position on
the other side of the engine. My opinion that deceased
had not reversed the. engine arises from this fact ; for
had he done so, both men would in all probability have
been found on the reversing lever side of the engine.
When on the road the driver and stoker generally stand
one on each side of the boiler, as the deceased parties

CONVICTS UNDER SENTENCE OF
TRANSPORTATION.
A letter, of which the following is a copy, has been
transmitted to the visiting magistrates of all the county
and borough gaols in England, and has caused consi-
derable discussion at the several quarter sessions, many
of the prisons not being sufficiently capacious to accom-
modate more than the usual number of prisoner.,
sentenced to short terms of imprit sonment:—
" Whiehall, Dec. 31, 184 G.
" Gentlemen,--I am directed by Secretary Sir George
Grey to acquaint you that, in consequence of the sus-
pension of transportation of male convicts to Van
Dieman's Land, it will be requisite to make immediate
provisions for the confinement and imprisonment in this
country of the greater portion of such offenders. Ie
order to facilitate the measures requisite for the accom-
plishment of this object, it appears to Sir George Grey
that the ,temporary imprisonment in the county and
borough prisons of a proportion of male convicts unhere
der
sentence of transportation may be necessary,. w
there is sufficient accommodation for their reception, and
where proper arrangements exist for reformatory
discipline. I am, theiefore, to request that you
w hat
will
state, for the information of Sir George Gre
in the
y,
number of prisoners can be conveniently lodged
prison under your superintendence without interfering
with its discipline and good order—what has been the
greatest number of prisoners actually confined in the
prison at any one time during the past year, and what
system of discipline is now in force in the prison. Sir
George Grey directs me to inform you that a vote
having been taken in the last session of Parliament for
defraying the cost of maintaining convict prisoners in
gaols, no additional expense will be imposed upon the
counties and boroughs in respect of the maintenence of
prisoners who may be retained in, or sent to, any prisons
in pursuance of the convict arrangements.
" I am, gentlemen, your most obedient servant.
S. M. PRILLIPPS.
" To the Visiting Justices, &c. &C."
By the adoption of this plan the blilbank Prison,
which has now between 1,000 and 1,500 convicts under
sentence of transportation within its walls, will :be pre-
vented from being overcrowded.

LIME v. RATs.—A gentleman who had occasion
to use considerable lime about his pr
hitherto been much infested with rats,elnises' which had
says appear and
that those
destructive vermin had suddenly ceased
sto a's be, `you
annoy him. " Before using the lime,
could scarcely walk across the yard at"
night without
treading on them." Around the princiPal holes ho de-
posited a small portionAroun of fresh unsl led
lime, which
from these places,
evidently had the effect of driving the
which they
.before resorted to in
teatf etting rid of this
g_ uumbers. The
above is a simple and cheap methoidero_
annoying and destructive pest.— S i
Never take a shot
GOLDEN RULES IN SIIOOTING Irogrne Mercury.
l to give the coup de
from your neighbour,
,although,should' he be a bungler,
be always prepared with a
ma urzezle of your gun pointed,
grace. Never walk with the
or getting through
except towards the ground or to the sky. Always un-
one barrel, never
lock your weapon in crossing
a d_itc_nhi
a fence, or over a gate. After firing
the charge may have got
fail to ram down the other, as
loose. Never load one barrel with the other cocked,.ular, or
oushootingr beaters,, be Partle
andy
the ramrod down it. In covero companions,careful to ascertain where y
kthem
dogs are, so as not to mists e
elf for game.
Always un-
load your gun, or see it done yours _ Keep your powder
or copper caps dry. Never put your hand or arm over
it. Never
the muzzle of a gun, or lean over blow into
the barrel of a gun, and always, treat it as if it was
loaded ; for no sooner does an accident take place, than
the first exclamation is, 661 had no idea it was loaded."
Never take a loaded gut/ into a house ; I remember
hearing of one of Lord Anglesey's brothers walking
across the 'hall at Goodwood, with both barrels loaded,
and the cocks down ; in a second, without any ap-
parent reason, both went off, and might have caused
considerable havoc ; for _ttnatel Y., no one was in the hall
at the time. Be particularly careful where you
keep your powder, for housemaids and chil-
dren will poke their noses into cupboards and
drawers with lighted candles. Never fire near
a hayrick or any outbuildings. Whenever
you
come to a difficult pass, such as a large ditch, stiff
fence, high gate, wall, or very thick covert, take off your
copper caps. In the event of your ram-rod sticking fast
in your gun, do not allow a clod to try to extract it with
his teeth, but, having removed the cap, force the ramrod
by knocking it against a tree. To these I will add two
maxims, the one from Colonel Hawker, the other from
Daniel. The Colonel thus writes :—" Never suffer a
gun at any time to be held in the direction of either man
or beast." And the author of ~ Field Sports" gives the
following excellent advice :—" In shooting with a
stranger, who perhaps keeps his gun cocked,
and muzzle
usually pointed to the left, plead for the. right hand sta-
tion, and urge that you cannot hit a bird fi • to the
left. With a gamekeeper, take the hying
right hand without
ceremcny."—Sporting Magazine.
Another claimant to the Estate and Earldom of
Crawford and Lindsay has appeared in the person of
William Lindsay Barfoot, Esq., 30, Queen street, Edge-
ware-road ; (the title has lain dormant since 1808).
He claims as a lineal descendant of Sir Alexander Lind-
say, of Dumod, (A. D. 1500, or thereabout,) and im-
mediate steps are about to be taken to bring his claims
before the House of Lords, where he calculates upon
success. In consequence of his predecessors, for five
generations, having been clergymen their records have
been kept with great care and regard for correctness.

pleasure? Witness—No, ;sir ; but there is a great un-
certainty as to the time of the goods trains arriving.
CORONER—How long had the coal train been at the
station when the collision occurred? Witness—About
three minutes.

CORONER—Did you start it ? Witness—No, sir. I
was assisting the breaksman to detach some waggons
when the collision happened. I had previously turned
on the red signal lamp on the stationary post.
CORONER— Hay,: you not got fog signals? Witness—
Yes, but there was PO time to use them.
Conorma—How do you mean no time? You have, I
b:Teve, only to throw them down on the line? Witness
—On, dear co, sir. They would have had to be placed
on the rail at a distance of 500 yards from where I was
to be of any service.
CORONER—Did you not think it requisite to rmploy
them on such a night? Witness—Highly rc onisite, and
after the collision I gave sortie such signals to the driver
of No. 16, in order to place on the rails as a caution to
any advanc n. train.
The witness here stated at length the course he had
I adopted atter the collision, in order to obtain assistance;
I and explained to the Coroner that so soon as the steam
and fire allowed any one to apprcach the spot, Every
exertion was made to extricate the deceased parties.
He further stated that on hearing the approach of the
goods train he ran do,vn the line about a hundred yards,
waving his red lamp, and doing all in his power to stay

its progress.
The foreman said he thought if the fog signals had
been used no accident would have happened. Several
other members of the jury expressed a similar opinion.
reethoef
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nTyo,mweays,
nextpolic ee -acl ol
ends.t a blliee2s3a2i
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night of Monday last. I was on duty at the Boxmoor
station about twenty-five minutes to one, at which time
the special coal train arrived. I expected this train
in consequence of a signal attached to the preceding
train. When it arrived the driver told me ho had
five waggons to detach at my station. The night
being very foggy, I brought out the porter and asked
him to uncouple the waggons and attend to the points
while I returned down the line to stop any train
which might come up. I went about a quarter of a
mile, and remained until I heard the coal train go on. I
then returned to the station, and went into my hut,
where I trimmed my hand lamp, on which I came out
on to the line again, when I fancied I heard a train
coming up the Boxmoor Bank. I ran down to the
signal post, exhibiting my hand lamp as I went, but
before I could get there the driver of the leading engine
blew his whistle, and I believe he slackened his pace.
The coal train had been gone by at this time about 11
minutes. As soon as I arrived at the signal post I
showed a green light, to denote that the driver ought to
proceed cautiously. had there been no coal train so
recently in advance I should have shown a white light.
Even as it was, the time had expired for the exhibition
of the green light, but being a foggy night I was in no
hurry to take off the red signal, and had allowed it to
remain eleven minutes instead of five, as laid down in
our regulations. If the red light had been allowed to
remain on, the effect would have been to stop the goods
train. As it was I was under no apprehension that the
goods train would overtake the coal train.
The foreman thought that if the same degree of
caution had been shown at Langley as at Boxmoor no
waccident
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at Boxmoor, even then I think the collision might have
been avoided.

Mr. Bruyeres—l assure you, under ordinary circum
stances, the hands employed at Langley are more than
sufficient for the work they arc required to perform.
Mr. John Weaver, foreman of the locomotive depart-
ment at the Rugby station, said he knew the deceased,
Assup, who was an industrious and intelligent man. Wit-
ness had furnished deceased with the necessary rules on
his entering the service, and so late as the 29th ult. had
examined him as to his knowledge of his duties. Before
being employed as a driver he had acted as a stoker in
the company's service,
Mr. Weaver was examined at some length as to his
opinion whether the deceased had reversed his engine
or shut off the steam. He was inclined to believe that
the position in which the lever was found was attribut-
able to a blow from the tender, and not from the driver
having touched it.
Richard Ashby, the driver, and Langley, the breaks-
man of the coal train, were successively questioned, but
their evidence threw no new light on the matter. Ashby
said he travelled about sixteen miles an hour, and was
not aware of having lost any speed between Boxmoor
and Langley.
The foreman said an impression had gone abroad that
the deceased men had been overworked, and in conse-
quence bad fallen asleep while on the engine. He should
be very glad to have this point cleared.
Mr. Weaver was then recalled. He said they came on
duty at seven o'clock on Monday night, having had 14
hours' rest previously.
The jury expressed themselves satisfied on this point,
and no other evidence being forthcoming,
The CORONER summed up. He said the case appeared
to him to be a very simple one. If blame attached to
any person, he thought it was to the poor fellows who
had lost their lives. Ho thought it quite unnecessary to
read over.the evidence, inasmuch as he had no doubt the
jury' would agree that neither the railway company nor
any other person were to blame in the matter. The
law of deodand, as no doubt they were all aware, had
been abolished, and in its stead, a statute, entitled "The
Accident Compensation Bill " had been passed. This
measure, by the way, he might remark, was a most ex-
traordinary one, for while it professed to give a remedy,
it took away the means of obtaining it (so the Coroner
was understood to say). He did not know whether the
royal Member for Sunderland was in the House when
the Bill passed, but for his own part he should think it
was him who prepared it. However, without making
any further remark, he would leave the case in the
hands of the jury, who would say whether, in their
opinion, the accident had arisen from the negligence or
carelessness of any individual.
The jury, after consulting for a few moments, found
" That the deceased, William Assup and George
Mathurs, were accidentally killed;" and in returning
this verdict the panel felt it their duty to recommend
that more servants should be employed iu future at the
King's Langley station.
Mr. Bruyeres remarked, that if twenty servants had
been employed he felt satisfied the accident would still
have occurred under the circumstances proved in evi-
dence.

were found.
CortoNErt (addressing the witness)—Now, Owen, one
word as to your regulations. Does any ono time the
iuggage trains? Witnes—Yes, the guard. Our train
was late on Monday night. Wo were late in leaving
Wolverton.
CORONER—What time did you expect to get to Wat-
ford? Witness—l cannot say exactly,
CORONER—The policeman at the Langley station
knew that goods trains were likely to pass between one
and two o'clock? Witness—Yes, there can be no doubt
of that fact.
CORONER—And, knowing that, he leaves a number of
waggons on the line? Witness—He was going to put
some of the trucks back into the siding. The luggage
trains have been very much behind of late. We have
had a difficulty in getting through our journeys some-
times, especially during foggy weather, when the rails
have been damp.
CORONER—And, in the face of all this, a number of
carriages are left on the line, on purpose to cause an
accident.
Mr. Hayes (the company's solicitor) here rose and ob-
jected to the Coroner making remarks, unsupported by
evidence, which were calculated to bias the jury.
The CORONER expressed his regret if he had implied
any wilful neglect by his observation, and begged to re•
tract the same.
Examination of Owen continued—Under ordinary
circumstances we can stop a train in 500 yards; but in
foggy weather, and when the rails are damp, we require
a longer distance. The deceased, Assup, had been em-
ployed four years as a stoker on the line, and about
three months as a driver.
The CORONER here suggested that perhaps the jury
would like to visit the scene of the accident before they
proceeded further with the evidence.
Several members of the panel expressed a wish to do
so, one juror remarking that he thought they had
already heard enough to prove that extraordinary rules
ought to be enforced in foggy weather.
Mr. Bruyeres, the superintendent of the railway, re-
marked, that he thought there could be little doubt, if
the driver of the second engine (No. 115) had observed
and acted on the signals as Owen had done, the jury
would not have had to sit there that day. Mr. Bruyeres
kere read the foliowing rule from the book of regula-
tions :—" The engine-man is at all times to use great
caution in foggy weather, and especially on approaching
stations, from the difficulty of discerning the regular
signals until close upon them ; and be is to be prepared
to bring his engines to a stand should it be required. In
cases of this sort the whistle is to be kept frequently
going."
Mr. Bruyeres (addressing the witness Owen)—You
have said that on observing the signals at tho Langley
station you shut off the steam and reversed the engine.
Do you not think that if Assup had been equally vigilant,
your train might have been stopped in time to avoid the
collision ?—I am not sure of that, but, at any rate, he
would have been prepared to jump off as I did.
CORONER—The fact is, Mr. Bruyeres, this is where
the shoe pinches. Although it was perfectly understood
that another train was coming up the line, a number of
waggons were left directly in the ordinary track.
Mr. Bruveres hoped that this matter had been satis-
factorily explained. The fact was simply this. If the
Coroner or any other gentleman, in coming up from
Birmingham and wishing to get out at Tring, were
brought on all the way to London, it would be no satis-
faction to him to be informed by the guard that the train
was a quarter of an hour late, and therefore could not
stop at Tring. The proper course would be to stop at
Tring, as usual, taking care to exhibit proper signals.
So, with a coal train, having to detach waggons, the
same principle applied. In the present case the signals
had been all duly exhibited, and he contended that the
accident could not hare happened but for the neglect of
the deceased parties.
station, and explained The jury then left the room. with Mr. u yeres,. who
accompanied them to the ,the
scienti-
fically all that had occurred to him in explanation of
manner in which the accident happened.
On the return of the jury,
William Heaver, stoker to the last witness, exa-
mined,wasffhe
engine,fnoro
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and knew very
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Thomas Smith, police-consta e, 21t1,cainlietdb.eisieervsiscied—
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next
and four months.
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signal on the arrival of
It is my duty to turn on h
night of Monday last. On
that night, or rather
the night. I reco.llec
ont
a train, and also to startth eall trains which arrive during
Tuesdaymorning, a goods trap
passed up the line about half-past twelve. A coal train
arrive ;
about one o'clock, five minutes under or over. This
train consisted of eighteen waggons and one engine.
train
IThey come so irregular, I cannot say exactly.
CORONER—When was the next
you expect
sanexy be
ectinfore
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The proceedings, after extending over four hours,
here terminated.

trans.
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A RIGHTEOUS DECISION.—Some time ago, a poor
fugitive escaped from Aiaryland, and, hotly followed by
the pursuer, on his way to safety beneath the broad flag
of England, in Canada, was overtaken and seized in
Vermont. The abolitionists instantly got out a habeas
corpus, and carried all parties before court, to see what
warrant they had to arrest any man in Vermont
who had committed no crime. Three judges were on
the bench, two of them young and energetic, one aged
and feeble, who came to his seat by the habit of
years, but seldom spoke, his eyes being dim and
his strength abated. The counsel spoke—the defence
wished to know why the man was kept in custody.
The lawyer for the slaveholder rose to reply, and
said he should move that the offender was guilty of
a breach of the laws of Maryland State ; he was a
slave, and had stolen himself. The other lawyer then
said he should require proof that he was a slave.
The slaveowner then stood up and held forth a docu-
ment ; this, he said, is a bill of sale, made in my favour,
for this man, signed by his original owner. Then the
old judge rose to his feet, and with a voice of thunder,
strangely loud for one so old, demanded " who signed it,
Sir ?" " John Williams," replied the astonished owner.
" Take it away ! take it away 1" said the old man, rais-
ing his hands to heaven. "It is not valid, Sir ; it is
falsely signed, Sir ; it is a blasphemous forgery ; none
can sign the bill of sale but God Almighty." The court
was electrified ; the slaveholder slunk out, and Vermont
awakened like a sleeper, gave twenty thousand abolition
votes at the next election.—Extract of a letter from Troy,
State of New York, Oct. 1845.
MARY ANNE WELLINGTON, EY THE REV R. COB-
BOLD, M.A.—This work, which has been dedicated, by
permission, to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, is one
which possesses very peculiar claims upon the favourable
consideration of the public. It is not only extremely
interesting in itself, but the object which the author has
in view, is to obtain relief for the heroine of the tale,
who, after having braved the perils of the whole Penin-
sular campaign, during which her kindness to the sick
and wounded made her generally known to the army,
and attracted the attention of the Duke of Wellington
himself, now finds herself, in her old age, in a state of
destitution. The daughter of a soldier, the wife of a
soldier, and now the mother of soldiers, she may be said
from her very cradle to have
" In the pitched battle heard,
Loud larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets long."
The work gives a full account of her personal adven-
tures, comprising a very stirring narrative of the princi-
pal events of the Peninsular campaign. Thef work, on
the whole, we have no doubt, will attain a :it greater
popularity even than " Margaret Catchpole. '—Send ay
Times.
Already has the address to his Holiness the Pope
from the Animals Friend Society, of 18, Strand, been
responded to by the humane Pontiff, in his causing an
edict forbidding all dog fighting at Rome, even among
the English residents ; and having also passed some
other regulations of a like nature. The address, as we
understand, caused a strong sensation on the Continent;
and owing to the exertions of the society, through its
foreign lion. Secretary Dr. Forster, cruelty to animals is
now checked by the police there. The society also, last
week, caused Wm. Shrale to be fined in costs at the
Southwark Court by Mr. Seeker for great cruelty to a
horse.

In consequence of the public announcement from
Mr. Byng, that it is not his intention to offer himself
again as a representative for the county of Middlesex.
we understand that the electors in the different districts,
who have carried their venerable Member through so
many struggles, are taking steps to get up a requisition
to Lord Robert Grosvenor, requesting him to come for-
ward as a candidate for the metropolitan county, when-
ever a dissolution may take place.—Titues.