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LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1841.

No. 5,162

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION,
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and other Popular Lectures, and the Buds Light.
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THE RAILWAYS.

(From the Railway Magazine.)
THE LONDON AND BIkMINGHAM, STAF-

FORD AND RUGBY.

Mr. Glyn and his short-sighted friends of the
London and Birmingham, clap their little wings, and
crow lustily, we understand, upon their success against
the Stafford and Rugby. They have much indeed to
be proud of. The time will come when the London .
and Birmingham Shareholders will find that they have
defeated the Stafford and Rugby, it is true, but for
what ? Shall we answer them? To lay a broader and
securer foundation for a lice ten times more fatal to
their interests. Then will the Shareholders find to their
cost the debt they owe to Mr. G:yn aid his policy.
Had the Stafford and Rugby succeeded, it would have
been a good reason for granting no other line from Lon-
don to Liverpool and Manchester. They might have
pleaded to Parliament that the distance was brought to
a minimum, that both time and expenses were con-
siderably reduced to the public, that by the present
grant they had experienced a great reduction in their
income, and that by any other line nothing in time
and little if any in expense would be saved to the public,
while it would reduce the London and Birmingham
Company to a state of pauperism. Such arguments
they might have used with the Legislature, and with
tolerably good reason. But what have they done ?
They have shut themselves out from all such pleas
and arguments, and they have exposed themselves to an
enemy many times more formidable than the
one they have triumphed over, and which the
Parliament is prepared to sanction. Messrs. Glvn and
Co. may endeavour to persuade their confiding Share-
holders that they have nothing to fear from any op-
position of the kind, and that Parliament would never
sanction it. We. however, beg to tell them, and from
our own personal knowledge, that numbers of those
Members who voted against the Stafford and Rugby,
did so because it was only a partial measure, and that
if a good line was proposed for the whole or greater
portion of the distance, it would have their hearty
assistance, for they believe the London and Birming-
ham will never be able to accommodate the traffic that
will ultimately flow in upon it ; that it is wrong to ex-
pose the public to the grinding charges of this Com-
pany ; and last, but not the least, that if any accident
should happen to this line—and with such awful tun-
nels and treacherous materials as they have to deal
with in some parts, no care can insure security even
for a day in a bad winter—they see the communication
with a great part of England would be utterly cut off,
and the trade and intercourse of the country brought
to a stand still. We repeat, therefore, that Mr. Glyn
and his associates may endeavour to persuade, if they
please, their constituents that they have done them a
great service, but we shall be wofully deceived if they
will not find it in the end a great dis-service.
BRISTOL AND EXETER.

TO CHENIFTS AND DRUGGISTS.
Ai.PUBLIC MEETING of the TRADE
will be held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, in the
Strand, on THURSDAY, the 15th day of April instant, at
Twelve o'Clock precisely, to receive the Report of th,• Metro-
poiita: Committee respecting the Bill of Mr. Hawes, and other
Bills of the same description, which involve the interests of
Chemists and Druggists.
Also to take into consideration the propriety of establishing
a Pharmaceutical Society as a means of protecting Chemists
and Druggists in case of any future hostile attacks in Parlia-
ment, or otherwise, for elevating the respectability of the pro-
fession of Pharmacy, and for promoting the general welfare in
other respects. R. A. FARRIER, Secretary.
Committee-room, 31, Throgmorton-street,
April 5, 1841.

LLANGENNECH COAL FOR SALE
BY TENDER.
The BLACKWALL RAILWAY COMPANY wishing to
RE-SELL a quantity of this COAL, desire to RECEIVE
TENDERS on or before SATURDAY, the 17th April, for
ONE or MORE CARGOES. The quantity is hand-picked,
and will be delivered in the Pool.
Further Particulars may be obtained by applying at No. 60,
Fenchurch-street.

SOUTH WALES.—COLLERIES OF ANTHRACITE
COAL AND IRON MINES.
ESSRS. BRAY and SON have the honour
to announce that they are instructed to SELL by
AUCTION, at Garrawny's, on WEDNESDAY, April 28th, at
Twelve for One, in Three Lots,
The very valuable FREEHOLD ESTATE of THORN-
HILL, in the county of Carmarthen, containing 750 Acres,
together with the very extensive and valuable mineral property
adjoining, running under upwards of 2,000 Acres. The pe-
culiarly favourable position of this property, its extent, com-
pactness, and intrinsic value are such as to be far beyond the
limits of an advertisement, but which are fully detailed and set
forth in the particulars, with lithographic plans and sections,
which will at once establish it as •ne of the most desirable
opportunities for the investment of capital which has been
offered to the public for many years.
Particulars may be had of Messrs. Bicknell, Roberts, Finch,
and Neate, 67, Lincoln's Inn-fields ; to. the Ivy Bush, Car-
marthen ; Mackworth Arms, Swansea ; Bush Inn, Bristol ;
York Hotel. Manchester ; Hen and Chickens, Birmingham ;
Exchange, Liverpool ; Bell Inn, Gloucester ; Hop-pole Inn,
Worcester ; of Mr. Gibh, Royal Hotel, Edinburgh ; Buck's
Head Hotel, Glasgow ; Royal Hotel, Dundee ; Plough Inn,
Cheltenham ; Tontine Hotel, Sheffield ; Royal Hotel, South •
ampton ; and at the Offices of the Auctioneers, 259, High
Holborn. The property may be viewed on application to Mr.
Jacob Davies, at the 'Cross Hands Inn ; or at the house at
Thornhill.

TO LAND SURVEYORS, AND OTHERS EMPLOYED
UNDER THE TITHE AND POOR-LAW COMMIS
SIONS.

COMPUTING MACHINES.

HAW and SONS beg to draw the attention
ki of the Profession to their New and Improved PARAL-
LEL SLIDES for computing the Areas of Maps. By the
use of one of these Instruments, the former tedious method is
avoided, and a surveyor may with ease compute from 800 to
1,000 Acres of average work in seven hours. Price 15s. The
usual charge 21s.
London : Shaw and Sons, 137, Fetter-lane.

It is with no ordinary satjsfaction we inform our
readers, that the contracts lately advertised in our
journal, from Bridgewater to Taunton, have been let,
so as to ensure the completion of this eleven miles
within one year. The terms arc 18,000/. a mile, in-
cluding the permanent way, and every other expense.
Notice has also been given to the Great Western Di-
rectors, the lessees of the railway, that the line to
Bridgewater will he ready to be opened for traffic on
Whit Monday, the 31st of May next. Tenders for
loans on debentures are being offeted every day, and,
in fact, the fulfilment of the anticipations of the
Chairman, at the half-yearly meeting, sanguine as they
were even then in the promising state of the Company
thought to be, is so fairly in progress as to render it
likely to fall short rather than to exceed the reality.
All this is the result of having firm and resolute Di-
rectors and officers. Had it not been for a few deter-
mined individuals at the board, aided by the judicious and
extraordinary exertions of the Secretary, to counteract
the hot-brained, shallow-pated conduct of others, this
line would, for years to come, have presented a chaos
of incomplete works, instead of a well-finished railroad,
returning a handsome dividend to the Proprietors, and
conferring incalculable benefits upon the surrounding
country.

FLOOR CLOTHS cut to any size, at 25.41
Shippers and Country Dealers would do well to look ai
the large lot on hand, from half )ard to eight yards with..
Half yard Passage Cloth
Five-eighths
Three-quarters
Patei.t finish Table Covers, equal to Papier Mache.
A prime lot of best Brussels Carpets, a bargain, 3s. 4d.
worth 4s. 3d.
At BURNET'S, PIAZZA, COVENT-GARDEN.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

(LLOYD'S.)

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.-The Lily, Monte Video to Lon-
don, 4th February, lat. 24, lon. 35 ; Achilles, Marseilles to
Mauritius, 16th ult., lat. 18, lon. 23 ; Patriot, of Plymouth,
2a instant, lat. 47, lon. 9 ; Agripina, Ceylon to London,
4th, lat. 49, lon. 15 ; Irt, Bahia to Cork, 7th, off Cape Clear,
by the Thomas Leish, arrived at Liverpool. Brega, Ancona
to Falmouth, 28th ult., lat. 28, lon. 11, by the Sir John Hardy, '
arrived at Portsmouth. Antoino, Liverpool to Ilavannah,
13th, lat. 20, lon. 50 • Liverpool. Bahia to London, 17th, lat.
28, lon. 49, by the Andes, arrived at Falmouth. M. M. S. B.
497, Alicata to Scilly, 17th, off Majorca ; Ann, Liverpool to
Lyra, 29th, lat. 39, lon. 19, by the Breeze, arrived at Fal-
mouth. City of Poonah, 3d ult., on the Equator; Inglis,
London to Bombay, afterwards, by the Owen Glendower, ar-
rived off Margate. Britannia, Havannah to Cowes, Ist, lat.
47, lon. 21, by the Victoria, arrived at Cowes. Bucephelus
and John Drysdale, outward bound, lat. 32, by the Jane, ar-
rived off Port,mouth. Tory, of Liverpool, from London, 13th
February, lat. 3, lon. 23; Elizabeth, of Bristol, Bth ult., lat.
23, lon. 34, by the Duan, arrived at Cowes. Fairy Queen,
of Ceylon, south of the Equator, by the Ocean Queen, ar-
rived at the Cape. Abbotsford, London to Sydney, New
South \Vales, 20th January, lit. 35, Inn. 12, by the Courier,
at ditto. John Cooper, for Port Phillip, 23d December, by
the Harlequin, arrived at ditto. Augustus, I3ourdeaux to
Mauritius, 30th December, lat 7, by the Norval, arrived at
ditto. Indian, from Bombay, 20th January, lat. 24, lon. 38;
Childe Harold, from ditto, 31st, lat. 30, lon. 83, by the Ma-
labar, arrived at ditto. Fame, London to Mauritius, 6th Ja-
nuary, lat. 29, lon. 26 ; Duluis, Bristol to Van Deimen's
Land, lat. 37, lon. 4, by the Catharine, arrived at the Cape
of Good Hope. Araste, for Sydney, Ist December, and Blor,
for Singapore, 12th, out fifty day., by the George, arrived at
ditto. A large steamer, off Cape Infanta, by the Tartar, ar-
rived at ditto. Logan, Havre to Batavia, lat. 3, lon. 21 ;
William Bryan, Plymouth to New Zealand, by the Grafton,
Cook, arrived at ditto. John Coloin, bound to Calcutta, 14th
December, lat. 32, lon. 21, by the Eliza Steuart, arrived at
ditto. Thomas Saunderson, Singapore to Sydney, Malcolm,
ditto to London, and Bolton, ditto to ditto, 17th, all in the
Straits of Banca, by the Harbinger, arrived at Singapore.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
A communication has been received at Lloyd's, from their
agent at Hamburgh, containing the translation of a notice to
mariners i►sued by the deputation for the navigation there, to
the effect—That the wreck of a Hamburgh brig, lost in the
Elbe in December last, having been entirely removed on the
15th April, the craft placed near and down the river will be
shortly removed; but that, in order to mark the spot, a buoy
will be placed over it, with a large wicker-work,and a black buoy
placed at about 20 feet northward of the wreck, and nearer to
the fairway.

CAUTION TO MARINERS ENTERING PATRAS.
From several vessels having grounded on a bank of soft
mud, about half a mile west of St. Andrew's Church at Pa-
tras, mariners are hereby cautioned of the spot, it not being
very generally known.

NEW LIGHTHOUSE
HILIP.AT MELBOURNE, PORT
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The following has been received at Lloyd's, from their agent
at Melbourne :
Afrcr August 1, 1840, a plain stationary light will be shown
from sunset to sunrise, from a Lighthouse erected on the ex-
tremity of Geliibrand's Point, William's Town, Hobson Bay,
visible five leagues in clear weather, from any safe position to
the southward. The following bearings are by compass :
From the N. end of Simond's Channel, the anchorage at Wil-
liam's Town bears N. 6 deg. E. ; from the N. end of the
Western Channel, N. 14 deg. E. ; Pinnace, N. 5 deg. E. ;
the South, N. 6 deg. W. The courses indicated will give
vessel; a fair berth from the Shoal off Gellibrand's Point. Care
must be taken after bringing the Lighthouse to bear N. 67 deg.
30 min. W., by compass, not to stand into less than four fathoms
water on the Western Shoal, and also to guard against a bank
which lies off the Eastern Beach, bearing from the Lighthouse
from about N. 22 deg. E., to N. 67 deg. E. One and a half
miles after rounding the light, and bringing it to bear about
S. 14 deg. W., one mile, the anchor may be dropped in four
fathoms water, in good holding ground of stiff clay and mud.

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POLITICS OF THE ~ BRITISH

QUEEN" NEWSPAPER.

That all persons, whatever be their sentimen's or
creeds, are certain Dot only to abuse their power, but
to come short of their professions and the expectations
of the public, is a truism so amply proved, as not to
admit of dispute. The page of history corroborates the
fact in every age and in every country. The tendency

. „ .
of all governments is towards a monopoly of power,
and not to the preservation of the rights of others. Self
is the governing principle—the people and their rights
are a feather in the balance. When, therefore, whe-

ther by matter of accident, or by the overpowering
force of public opinion, a governmnt is formed, well
disposel towards the people, and more inclined to en-
large their rights and privileges than to appropriate
them for its own special benefit, too much indulgence
to its short-comings and errors cannot be shown towards
it. I.t is the interest of the people to support it ; and
the more strongly they do so, the more do they
strengthen their own cause, and the cause of justice
and liberalism throughout the world.
We make these observations for two reasons—the
first, in order that our readers may not mistake the
polities of the British Queen; the sccoad, because,
being attached to " progressive Reform," we are deter-
mined to support the present Administration until we
can find a better to supply its place. That it has done
all that it ought to have done—that, in power, it has
carried out the professions which its different members
made before coming into office—it would be impossible
to affirm ; but when we look, as we do calmly and con-
scientionJy, to the improvements which they have ef-
fected in the Constitution of the country, we are more
astonished at their number, than at the omissions of
which they have been guilty. .The following is a brief
list of a part only of what they have accomplished :
X

Taken off taxes to the annual amount of
Leisened the annual expenses of the Govern-

meat
Lessened the number of official persons, 1,658
—salaries thereby saved
Abolishei upwards of 2,000 places—salaries

259,230

saved 369,250
Reduced the salaries of the Minister=, Chan-
cellor, Chief Justices, Attorney and Solici.
tor-Generals, all salaries above 1,0001. per
annum, nearly one-half
Reduced salaries and allowances of Ambassa-

199,430

dors, &c.
Entire Boards of Commissioners swept away,
members of the Boards reduced one-third
Two Boards of Stamps and Taxes thrown
into one, with various other economical
preparations
Honse-tax Repealed
Duty on printed cottons
Duty on candles
Duty on starch Repealed
Duty on soap
one-half

50,525

Duty on slates and coals
Repealed
Duty on tiles
Duty on hemp
Duty on drugs Reduced
Duty on currants and fruit Reduced
Duty on cotton wool Reduced
Stamps or► marine insurance
Stamps on fire insurance—farming stock Repealed
Duty on advertisements
St imps on small receipts
Land tax on personal estates Repealed
Duty on pamphlets and almanacks Repealed
Duty on commercial travellers
Duty on clerks and book-keepers Repealed
Duty on horses of clergymen and ministers—if
salary under 1201.
Duty on tax-carts Repealed
Duty on overseers, warehousemen, and shop-
men
The Irish Church placed on a more satisfactory foot-
ing by the abolition of several useless Bishoprics, and add-
ing to the salaries of the inferior clergy.
Irish Church-cess abolished.
Irish Tithe Abolition Bill now passing through the
House of Parliament. . . ... .

Tho Bank Charter renewed on a much more liberal
system—a monthly report of its accounts to be made pub-
lic. The convertibility of bank-paper into gold main-
tained inviolable.
The East India monopoly destroyed ; all India and
China thrown open to British enterprise and the employ-
ment of British capital.
Negro slavery abolished.
These are great and glorious improvements, but they
are only a feather in the scale compared with the en-
deavours of the present Administration in favour of a
pl,eral education of the people—the reduction of the
stamp duties upon newspapers and advertisem;nts—
and the adoption of the penny postage—an "invention,"
if we may be allowed to use the expression, which is
alone sufficient to immortalize any administration.
Still there is a something wanting, and that is a re-
peal of the Corn-laws, either immediate or gradual.
Tho latter may be effected without any great difficulty,
provided the Members of the House of Commons in
favour of abolition would co-operate with the more mo-
derate repeaters. An immediate abolition, however, in
the present position of parties is altogether impossible.
The county Representatives are active and determined
in its opposition—the Tories are on the watch to ob-
struct every improvement, and the people themselves
are lamentably supine upon the subject. Unless the
masses are prepared to act with promptitude—to evince
their purpose in the same manner as on the triumphant
passing of the Reform Bill—it is equally foolish and un-
just to expect that her Majesty's Ministers, situated as
they arc, can proceed further in their remedial measures
than they are now doing. Let the people press the
question on Ministers as they ought to do, and the
latter will readily and joyfully respond to the nation's
cal—British Queen.

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