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London, England, 1847-03-27 00:00:00

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NEW WORK BY MICHAEL A NrGELO TITMARSII.
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Parts, price ls. each, with numerous Illustrations on Steel and
Wood, Part IV. of

VANIT Y F A IR:
PEN AND PENCIL SKETCHES OF ENGLISH SOCIETY.
By W. M. THACKER AX, Author of " Mrs. Perkins's Ball,"
" The Irish Sketch Book ;" " Journey from Cornhill to Grand
Cairo ;" of " Jeames's Diary " and the " Snob Papers " in
Punch ; &c., &c.

Bills and Advertisements will be received at the Office, during the
month.

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3IA.RYLEBONE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 38, UPPER
GEORGE-STREET, EDGEWARE-ROAD.
ON SABBATH NEXT, March 28, 1847, being
the anniversary of the OPENING of this Church, TWO
SERMONS will be preached in it. That in the morning, at Eleven
o'Clock, by the Rev. Thomas Guthrie, of Edinburgh ; and that in
the evening, at Half-past Six, by the Rev. William Chalmer, A.M.,
Minister of the Church.

After each Service, a Collection will be made towards liquidating
the debt incurred in the erection of this place of worship.

New Edition, Carefully Corrected and Greatly Improved,
NEW UNIVERSAL FRENCH GRAMMAR;
being an accurate System of French Accidence and Syntax,
on a Methodical Plan. By N. HAMEL, Graduate in the University
of Caen, and Rector of the Town of L'Aigle, in Normandy. 12mo.
45., bound.
EXERCISES on the above, 4s.—KEY, 3s.—QUESTIONS, 9d.
Lately Published, 12mo. ss. 6d., bound,
HAMEL'S FRENCH GRAMMAR and EXERCISES.
A New Edition, in I vol. By N. LA-MBERT. KEY, 4s.
London : Longman and Co. ; and Whittaker and Co.

IRELAND.
This day is published, Third Edition, price Is., with a Postscript on
the Government Measures for the Relief of Ireland.
ADEFENCE of the LANDLORDS of IRE-
LAND, with Remarks on the Relation between Landlord
and Tenant. By W. W. SIMPSON, Member of the Dublin Society,
John 011ivier, 59, Pall-mull, at No. 18, Buck-lersbury, London ;
Machen, and Co., Westmoreland-street, Dublin ; and to be had of
booksellers. Extract from the " Times" of November 9, 1844 :
" DI:. W. W. Simpson, the well-known and deservedly respected
Auctioneer and Land Valuator, has recently published a pamphlet,
entitled, ' A Defence of the Landlords of Ireland, with Remarks. on the
Relation between Landlord and Tenant.' The 'Dublin Evening
Packet,' in reviewing this work, gives the following cha-
racter of its author :—' Mr. Simpson, we need scarcely
remind our readers, is an Englishman of vast expe-
rience in matters relating to the improvement and value of land
in his own country. He is, moreover, a gentleman of most com-
prehensive views, and possesses an understanding naturally strong,
and a stock of practical knowledge and sterling sense, which falls to
the lot of very few persons in his own or any other rank of life.
With the social condition of Ireland he has made it his business, al-
most as a matter of necessity, to make himself thoroughly ac-
quainted. He feels for her wants, and has contributed as much, per-
haps, as any man in his time, to improve her resources, by encou-
raging the investment of British capital in every department of Irish
industry. Such a witness as this we therefore hold to be beyond the
reach of suspicion on the score either of interest or partiality. His
testimony must be regarded as invaluable, as it is unquestionably
unimpeachable.' "
March 17.

UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE,
and NAVAL and MILITARY JOURNAL, for APRIL, 1847.

CONTENTS:
General Okounef, on the New Employment of Artillery, and the
Revolution it is destined to produce In the System of Modern
Tactics.

The African Ring Money, considered with reference to the sup-
posed Ring Money of the Ancient Irish. By Majsor O'Connor.
The Indian Army as it Now is.
History of Texas. By a Traveller.
Napoleon and Goethe, From the Posthumous Diary of the latter.
Attack on the Port of Boolukumba. By H.M.S. Cornwallis in
1809.

Guerilla Leap; a True Tale of Portugal.
A Passage in the Life of an Elderly Sub.
Memorial of Ensigns Blake and Patterson attached to Sir John
Moore's Army in Spain.
Rocket Battery at St. Lorenzo on the Parana.
Guard-Room Stories.
A Tale of the Sea.
On District Medical Officers.
The Peninsular and the Naval Decoration.
Reform of the Army—The Propositions of the Secretary-at-War.
Affairs of India and Portugal.
Promotions and Appointments—Stations of the Army and Navy—
With all the Professional News of the Month.
H. Hurst, Publisher, King William-street, Strand.

PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.
HANOVER•SQUAIRE ROOMS.
Programme of the Second Concert, MONDAY Evening, March 29 :
Overture, Spohr's Last Judgment. Air, "Jerusalem," Miss Birch;
Chorus, " Happy and blest ;" Song, " 0 God have mercy," Mr. H.
Phillips ; Mendelssohn's Saint Paul ; Mass in C, Beethoven ; Choral
Sinfoula (No. 9), Beethoven, the principal voice parts by Miss Birch,
Miss M. Williams, Mr. Lockey, and Mr. 11. Phillips.

Conductor, M. COSTA.
Subscription Tickets Four Guineas, Single Tickets One Guinea, and
Double Tickets 1/. 10s. ; to be had of Messrs. Addison and Hodson,
210, Regent-street.

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Evening of Saturday), wAli Illustrations, in which the latest in-
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ment by Dr. Wallis. ARMSTRONG'S HYDRO-ELECTRIC MA-
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the last beautiful DISSOLVING VIEWS. Experiments with the
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UNDERTAKEN BY THE
SCOTTISH UNION INSURANCE COM-
PANY, 37, Cornhill, London, on the most liberal terms and
conditions.
Special risks reasonably rated.
Renewal receipts for insurances falling due at Lady-day are now
ready.
Printed particulars of the large bonus just declared in the Life
Department may be had on application.
F. G. SMITH, Secretary.
37, Cornhill, London.

1.1-14 ASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY
EXTENSION STOCK No. 2.
Warrants for the half-yearly interest will b t.-..omitted w the
Proprietors of Registered Shares on MONDAY, the sth of April next.
Unregistered Certificates must be left at this office two clear days
before the Interest Warrants can be made out.
By order,
C. P. RONEY, Secretary.
Bishopsgate Station, March 25, 1847.

VALUABLE MISCELLANEOUS PROPERTY, including 4,000
yards of Rich Black Silk, 300 dozen of black and coloured Silk
Handerkerchiefs, 60 dozen of Cambric Handkerchiefs, 30 pieces of
Lawn, 40 pieces of Linen. Velvets, Satins, Muslins, Honiton and
other Laces, Merinos, Persian Silks, Shawls, and an extensive
assortment of Hosiery, &c.
MESSRS. DEBENHAM and STORR will
SELL at their ROOMS, KING-STREET, COVENT-
GARDEN, on MONDAY, March 29, and three following days, at
Eleven, a variety of valuable property, comprising silver tea and
coffee services, table spoons and forks, waiters, tankards, cruet-
frames, &c. ; elegant bijouterie set, in good taste and of modern de-
sign ; highly finished gold and silver watches, by esteemed makers,
&c. ; sable muffs, tippets, wool-dyed black and other clothes, kersey-
meres, doe and buckskins, tweeds, easmerettes, rich silks, satins,
velvets, excellent wearing apparel suited for the present season,
household furniture, feather beds, dressing-cases, writing-desks, and
other effects, pledged in months prior to April, 1846, with the follow-
ing pawnbrokers, viz. : —Messrs. Brown and Co., Upper North-place,
Gray's Inn-lane ; Brown, Fetter-lane ; Blackborn, Skinner-street,
Somer's. tovrp ; Benton, Tottenham Court-road ; Chapman, High-
street, Kensington ; Chapman, Turnmill-street, Clerkenwell ;
Crouch, Grafton-street East, Fitzroy-square ; Folkand, Brighton ;
Kirkwood, Brick-lane, Old-steet ; Lill, Blackman-street, Borough ;
Lindner, North-place, Gray's Inn-lane ; Muncaster and Warre,
Skinner. street, Snow-hill ; Smith, Pitfield-street, Old-street, St.
Luke's ; Smith, Clark's-place, Islington ; Reeve, Red Cross-street,
Cripplegate ; Turner, Crown-row, Walworth-road ; Thompson,
Frederick's place, Hampstead-road; Walter, Victoria-road, Pimlico ;
Walter, Aldersgate-street.
May be viewed this day, and on the mornings of sale, when Cata-
logues may be had at the Auctioneer's offices'.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

(YESTERDAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
GROUP I.
The Select Committee appointed to consider the merits of
the Bills comprised in this group re-assembled in Room 30,
at the usual hour this morning; Lord Granville Somerset in
the chair.
THE SOUTH-EASTERN RENT'S)"
SCUEMES•

Mr. Stephenson's cross-examination by Mr. TALBOT was
brought to a close this morning. His evidence in chief re-
mained unshaken.
Mr. Stephenson was cross-examined by Mr. Horn, on be-
half of Sir Percival Hard Dyke, but all that was elicited
was, that the South-Eastern Mid Kent line of last year, was
on a par with the Brighton scheme of this year. The pre-
sent South-Eastern scheme, however, in every point of view,
was superior to either. Sir Percival Hard Dyke was the oc-
cupier of a park on the Mid Kent line, which would cost the
South-Eastern Company 100,0001. to avoid.
Mr. Burton, the architect, was called to prove that the
railway would do none but imaginary injury to Sir. P. H.
Dyke's house and park.
The Committee adjourned at half-past four till te-morrow
(this day) at twelve.

GROUP XII.

This Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock, the Hon,
W. S. Lascelles in the chair.
THE CHESTERPORD AND NEWMARKET
(EXTENSION TO suivrroltD, WITH
BRANCHES TO BURY ST. EDMUNDS
AND ELY).

The Committee, on assembling to-day, proceeded with the
clauses of the two Bills of the Chesterford and Newmarket
Company, the preamble of which had been proved on Tues-
day last.

Mr. AUSTIN tendered several clauses in behalf of the
Ipswich Company, in relation to the junction which the
Cheatorford and Newmarket Railway ehotold malro with the
line of the former company at their station at Bury. St.
Edmunds, or in relation to some other matters.

Mr. HILMAR') objected to Mr. Austin being heard. The
company for which the Hon. Member appeared had been.
defeated, and therefore he had no locus standi.
The Committee decided that the clauses should be taken
into consideration.

The first clause, which regulated the junction at Bury St.
Edmunds, was agreed to; also, the compelling the comple-
tion of the line in five years, or, in default, that they
should not be entitled to charge for any such portion of the
line that remained unfinished. The other clause proposed
were rejected.
The remaining clauses of the Bills were then agreed to.
NEWMARKET AND CHESTERFORD RAIL-
WAY AMENDMENT ACT, &c.
This was an application to Parliament made by the
Eastern Counties Company, to repeal a clause in the New-
market and Chesterford Act, obtained last session, which
gave the latter company a right to run over the Eastern
Counties line from Cambridge and Chesterford to London.

It was alleged that the Eastern Counties line had received no
notice of the intention to propose such a clause, and had not
been parties to it. _ _

Mr. AUSTIN opened the case, stating briefly the object of
he Bill.

Mr. TYRRELL, the solicitor of the Newmarket and Chester-
ford Company, was heard in reply.
The Committee decided in favour of the Bill.
The CHAIRM&N was then instructed to report the Bills,
with the amendments, to the House.

This having closed the business of the Committee, the
Members separated.