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London, England, 1847-06-26 00:00:00

N 17,089. LON DON, SA rtl RDAY MORNING SU N,

TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF LONDON.

GENTLEMEN,
I.IAXING received very flattering assurances of
support, I beg to announce my intention of offering myself
as a CANDIDATE at the ensuing Election, to represent the City of
London. .

My life has been spent in mercantile pursuits, my owa interests
are identified with those of a large portion of the constituency.
Commercial questions of importance must be brought before the new
Parliament, and I seek upon a wider sphere to promote the trade
and commerce of London by carrying out those sound principles of
legislation which I advocated as an individual before they were
adopted by Parliament, or stamped with popular approbation. It is
chiefly upon those grounds that I venture to solicit your suffrages,
and ask you to confer upon me the highest honour to which a mer-
chant of London can aspire. lam a Freeman and Liveryman of the
City, and I shall always be ready to attend to the business of the
Corporation, and to support its interests consistently with the general
good.
We have fortunately arrived at a period when no bitter party
animo—ties exist, and when we may hope measures intended for
the social improvement of the country will be considered with calm-
ness and impartiality.
The ext,nsion of education shall receive my warmest support. I
admit the right of every class in the community to share in the dis-
tribution of the public funds appropriated to that object : but whilst
I am desirous of acting justly by the members of other religious per-
suasions, I shall not forget what is due to the Protestant faith to
which I am sincerely attached.

I am prepared to agree to such modification of the details and
such improvement in the administration of the poor-laws as expe-
rience may dictate, ensuring to extreme want, and to the aged, the
young, and the infirm poor, that support and assistance to which
they are justly entitled. Internal improvements directed to benefit
the health, improve the morals, and to increase the comforts and
enjoyments of the great bulk of our population, shall receive my
strongest approval ; but my a:m will be, not so much to create new
institutions for these purposes, as to render those already existing
more effective, still preserving the principle of local self-government.
Attached as I have been through life to that party by which, in
my judgment, the civil and religious liberties of the country have
been best promoted, and prepared as I am to support the present Ad-
ministration, in the confident hope that by its influence, wise and
salutary measures, to extend those blessings will be adopted, I shall
nevertheless endeavour, In every Instance, to form a right individual
judgment. and to maintain that independence which becomes the re-
presentative of the city of London.

I have the honour to be, -
Your very faithful and obedient servant,
GEORGE LARPENT.

Austin•friars, London, June 24, 1847.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY ELECTION.
LORD FEILDING'S COMMITTEE SIT DAILY at the
BRITISH HOTEL, 27, COCKSPUR-STREET, Sir GEORGE H
ROSE, Bart., Chairman.

TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
IN the press of business it may occur that Letters of
Thanks miscarry ; and, being anxious to guard against the possi-
bility of being supposed insensible of favours, I adopt this public manner
of offering. for the acceptance of my Supporters and Friends, the ex-
pression of my most grateful acknowleegments. I have now the
satisfaction to assure them that their exertions justify my indulging
the most confident expectation of complete success. To preclude all
chance of the non-receipt of proxies forwarded for execution, I
earnestly request that my Friends will be careful to give me timely
intimation of any changes in their places of residence.
I have the honour to remain,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient and faithful Servant,
J. CAULFIELD,
Committee-room, London Tavern, June 25, 1847,

CONTRACT for CARRIAGES, CARTS, &c.
Her Majesty's Postmaster-General will receive Tenders for
the supply of CARRIAGES for the conveyance of Letter-carriers,
Mail-bags, &c.; and also for the conveyance of Mails and Mail-
guards to and from the several Railway Stations, for the term of
Five Years, to commence on and after the 6th April, 1848.
t'he conditions of the Contract may be seen upon application at
the Inland-office of this department between the hours of 10 A.M.
and 4 P.M.
The Tenders to be addressed to Her Majesty's Postmaster-General,
marked "'Fender for the Supply of Carriages for the Conveyance of
Letter-carriers, Mails," &C.; and to be delivered at the Secretary's
department of the Post-office, at or before Twelve o'clock at Noson on
the 31st day of July, 1817- Each Tender must bear the signature
and address of two persons willing to become sureties for the due
performance of the contract.
General Post-office, June, 1847.

WILSON'S LAST NIGHT OF THE SEASON.
V$T IL SON'S SCOTTISH ENTER-
TAINME NTS,
MUSIC-HALL, STORE-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE.
On MONDAY EVENING, June 28, at Eight o'clock, Mr. WI LSON
will give his entertainment, entitled
AN HOUR Wl' BURNS;
In which he will sing a selection of the favourite Songs of the Poet,
and recite the humorous poem of TAM O'SHANTER.
The Second Part of the Programme will consist of a Miscellaneous
Selection of the SONGS of SCOTLAND, it being his Last Night of
the Season

FAST FIRST.
AN HOUR Wl' BURNS.
Happy Friendship-0 whistle and I'll come to ye, my Lad—John
Anderson my jo—Duncan Gray—Highland Mary—My Spouse Nancy
—A Man's a Man for a' that.
At the end of the first part, Mr WILSON will recite Burns's
humorous Poem of TAM 0' SHAN PER.
PART SECOND.
MISCELLANEOUS SONGS.
When buy Caller Herring—Come under my Plaidie—The First Blast
of the Trumpet—We're a' noddin —The Reel of Tullochgorum.
Tickets, 2s. ; Reserved Seats, 2s. 6d. ; Private Boxes for Six Per-
sons, 15s. ; for Eight, 11.

ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS.
TRAFALGAR SQUARE.
BY HER MAJESTY'S COMMAND.
The marble statue of HER MAJESTY, by JOHN GIBSON,
R.A., Just arrived from Rome, is now placed in the Exhibition of
the Royal Academy.
JOHN PRESCOTT KNIGHT, R.A., Dep. Sec.

SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER COLOURS.
THE FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL EXHIBI-
TION is NOW OPEN, at their Gallery. 5, PALL-MALL
EAST, each day, from Nine till Dusk.
Admittance, One Shilling. Catalogue, Sixpence.
J. W. WRIGHT, Sec.

SALES BY AUCTION.

IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.
CATESBY ABBEY, with its important ESTATE of 646 ACRES
of the RICHEST GRAZING LAND in the COUNTY, exonerated
from Land-tax, and Tithe Free, divided into FIVE FARMS, an
ANCIENT MANOR HALL, with CHAPEL ATTACHED,
NOBLE AVENUE of ELMS and ORNAMENTAL TIMBER,
.MANORIAL RIGHTS, and EVERY ATTRACTION for a
RESIDENCE, in a TRULY BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY.
R. ROBINS is favoured with instructions to
.11,_ SUBMIT to PUBLIC SALE, at the Auction Mart, London,
on Tntiaso.., July 29, at Twelve o'clock, in Two Lots,
A MOST INTERESTING ANCIENT MANORIAL ESTATE,
FREEHOLD of INHERITANCE, CATESBY ABBEY,
situated in a beautiful part of Northamptonshire, four miles from
Daventry, six from Weedon Station, about fourteen from the county
town, not far distant from Leamington, and within sight of War-
wickshire.

Thi- famed property is briefly noticed in " Dugdale's Monasticon "
as Catesby Nunnery, and since more particularly described in the
" Beauties of Northamptonshire ;" and to which the reader is re-
ferred. It pr,sents strong claims to those who would invest with
security, and at the same time possess some feeling of admiration for,
and who know how to appreciate the charm and importance con-
nected with an estate possessing so many interesting 'relics of an-
tiquity, and since that period the true stamp of the goal old English
time. The first object of importance to be noticed is

THE ANCIENT MANOR HALL,
an abode of singular pretension, erected with due regard to dura •
bility, placed in the centre of the domain, and commanding from its
front a quiet, picturesque, and lovely scene. It is a quaint and sin-
gular building in stone,, of a ♦ery early period, containing aumerous
lofty and well-proportioned chambers, many of them enriched with
fine old carved oak, offering every accommodation for a large family,
which, if assisted by a tasteful and judicious outlay for embellishment
and furniture, in accordance with its character, a residence not only
of the first importance but of extraordinary attraction would be
obtained.

A PORTION OF ONE WING IS DEVOTED TO A CHAPEL,
DULY CONSECRATED,
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fitted up with carved oak pulpit, reading-desk, and pews, and con-
stantly used for Divine service. The offices are numerous, and open
to a spacious court-yard, opposite to which is a capital vArige of
stabling, coach-houses, &c. A ples.are garden of some extent 20
front, and a
liorwEitv, WITH A BEAUTIFUL GROVE OF LOFTY LIMES
close to the mansion, whilst a road through
A NOBLE AVENUE OF STATELY ELMS,

leads to an ancient cemetery, and the ruins of a chapel, a time-
hallowed spot of singular beauty, presenting a highly interesting
feature, the interesting village of Catesby, in all its pristine quietude,
being close at hand, forming no small addition to the importance and
rental of the estate. Several fish-ponds adorn the grounds, particu-
larly one of considerable promise, encircled by a grove of finely
grown trees, where numerous wild-fowl congregate, and a never-
failing supply of fish is obtained.
THE DOMAIN INCLUDES 646 ACRES OF FIRST-RATE LAND,
principally the richest pasture, well supplied with water, and several
woods, affording excellent preserves for game, in the parishes of
Catesby and Mill:Ion, divided into
FIVE CONVENIENT FARMS,

each with suitable residences, the principal farm having a newly
erected abode, with capital bu ldings, let upon leases to a highly
respectable tenantry, and producing a rental exceeding 1,0001, a-year,
but there can be no question a considerable increase may be obtained.
The annual value, with the mansion house and land attached to it,
being estimated under the most adverse times for a farmer, at snore
than 1,500/. A YEAR,

including the manorial rights and other sources of profit ; and the
Estate Is free from LAND-TAX and TITHE.

Mr. Robins cannot close this announcement without calling upon
the capitalist to pay a visit to Catesby Abbey, in the full assurance
that it possesses true elements for permanent investment of capital
and real enjoyment of country life.
he estate may be viewed twenty-eight days prior to the sale, by
applying at the mansion ; and particulars, with a plan and sketch of
the hall, then had ; also at the George, Weedon ; , Da-
ventry ; George, Northampton ; Spread Eagle, Rugby ; of Messrs.
Fuller and Saltwell, solicitors, 12, Carlton Chambers, Regent-street ;
at the Auction Mart ; and at Mr. Robins's offices, Covent-garden.

MOST ELIGIBLE INVESTMENTS, PRODUCING UPWARDS
OF 8001. A YEAR, arising from Freehold, Copyhold, and Long
Leasehold Ground Rents and Properties, directed to be Sold by
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order of Executors.
MR. ROBINS is instructed to OFFER to
PUBLIC COMPETITION, at the Mart, on THURSDAY, July
15, at Twelve, in several Lots,

MOST ELIGIBLE INVESTMENTS, presenting to the Capitalist
the means of employing his Money to a very great advantage, viz.:—
A CAPITAL FREEHOLD ROUSE, with attractive Shop, No.
92 in the best part of the STRAND, let to Mr. Taylor upon Lease,
eleven years being unexpired, at 130/. a year.
A small FREEHOLD RESIDENCE, No. 8, Crimscot-street,
Grange-road, Bermondsey, let to Mrs. Lamb, at 30 guineas a year.
A COPYHOLD HOUSE, with Baker's Shop, in KING-STREET,
RICHMOND, let to Mr. Moore upon Lease, who has been many
years the tenant, at 40 gulaeas a year.
LEASEHOLD GROUND RENTS, arising from several Houses in
Nottingham-street and Northumberland-streot, MARYLEBONE,
producing 139/. 6s. a year, and held under the Duke of Portland at a
nominal Ground Rent.

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CAPITAL PROPERTY, known as the TAVISTOCK VILLAS,
which may be designated the Rusin Urbe, close to I' avistock-square,
let to Messrs. Stone and Hawke', Wm. Cardale, Esq., and the Rev.
Win Webster, excellent tenants, at a clear rent of 2601. a year, and
held for a long term, free from ground rent.
A desirable LEASEHOLD PROPERTY, including a RESIDENCE
and GROUND RENTS, producing about 901. a year, at LLOYD'S-
ROW, ISLINGTON, with the celebrated mineral water known as
the Islington Spa.
FOUR LEASEHOLD RESIDENCES, Nos. 3,6, 7, and 8, in
Melina Place, Westminster-road, let to respecrable tenants, at 1501.
a year.
Full particulars may be had of W. H. Surman, Esq., solicitor, New-
square, Lincoln's Inn; of J. Aldridge, Esq., solicitor, 27, Montague-
place ; of Messrs. Parke, Freeth, and Parke, solicitors, Lincoln's Inn-
fields; at the Mart; and at Mr. Robins's Offices, Covent-garden.

TO LICENSED VICTUALLERS and OTHERS requiring a DE-
LIGHTFUL COUNTRY RESIDENCE and BUSINESS PRE-

EXCELLENT REPAIR.
THE NEW SALISBURY ARMS TAVERN
and COMMERCIAL INN, at HADLEY, adjoinifig BARNET,
and at no great distance from the Great Northern Railway, with ex-
tensive STABLINU, COACH-HOUSES, LARGE YARDS, GAR-
DEN, &c., for Thirty Years, at only 401. per annum for the whole,
with immediate possession.
J. J. CLEMMANS has received instructions to submit the above
to Public Competition, at Garraway's Coffee-house, 'Change-alley,
Cornhlli, on WEDNESDAY, June the 30th instant.
May be viewed, and particulars had, upon the premses of G.
Ware, Esq., solicitor, 33, Blackman. street, Borough, and of the
Auctioneer, Holywell-row, Finsbury-square.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
Pmeount, Jost! 22.—This morning, a little before
five 'clock, her Majesty's ship Queen, 110, Captain Sir
Henry J. Leeks, with the Port-Admiral's flag (white)
at th, main, cleared her mooring inside the western arm
of tie breakwater, under topgallant sails, courses, and
spanker. When ableast of the west end of the break-
water, she set her rorals. After passing the outer shoals
she hauled up her curses, took in her royals, backed
hernaintopsail, and waited for her consort.
licr Majesty's ahipCaledonia, 120, Captain Manly H.
Dix); with the flag cf the Admiral-Superintendent(red)
at the mizen, slipped ier moorings inside the eastern arm
of the breakwater- about the same time as the Queen ;
but, owing to the lightness of the westerly wind, did not
leave the souni untl half-past seven o'clock. She had
her courses and topfallantsails set, and on joining the
Queer both ships hotted their royals.
They are gone sone distance off the harbour for the
purpose of a day's shell exercise, under the inspection of
Port-Admiral Sir John West, K.C.8., who accompanies
them is the Sylph tetder.
At nne in the forenoon the Plymouth, dockyard ten-
der, at lier moorings in Hamoaze, had her sails set, and
would probably follow the ships with the Admiral-Su-
perintenieiat of the irsenal, Sir J. Louis.
PonTssrotrrif, Jaxit 23.—This morning Col. Owen, the
Deputy-Adjutant-General of the Royal Marines, and
staff, proceeded to 1,e4 Cumberland to have a grand
field-day with the al Marine Artillery, under the
command of Lieq ot-Colonel D. A. Gibsone, Com-
mandant of that -f hed corps.
At eleveD.W., : • w commenced with practice
from a sea sevvicebettery, on which were mounted one
CD I,,,unaer, three 32-pounders. 3s-pounaui ear-
, ronade, and one. 24-pounder, from which six rounds
were fired at targets placed at a range of 425 yards,
the destruction of which was complete at each
discharge. Better practice we never witnessed, and
when it is considered that nearly all the men upon the
field were recruits, the merit is considerably increased.
Practice from three 10-inch mortars in the rear of an
epaulment followed, from which four rounds were pro
jected, the shells each time taking a most accurate direc-
tion, to the admiration of all present. The officers
attached were Lieutenant-Colonel Gibsone, Commandant;
Major Castieau, Captain Fraser, and Lieutenant Parke.
After this portion of the day's operations, the scene
was moved to the immediate proximity of the fort, where
practice from an 8-inch howitzer and a 12-pounder
medium gun, at ranges of 1,350 yards, and a 24-pounder
and a 12-pounder howitzer, and a 6-pounder light field
gun, at ranges of 900 yards seaward respectiiely, was
exhibited. The missiles used in the practice were shell
and spherical case (Shrapnel shell), the latter riddling
the target flap at nearly every discharge.
Practice from a 32-pounder, mounted on the south-
east bastion of the interior of the fort, with live shell
fired to seaward at a target placed at a range of 1,500
yards, concluled the day's operations, the practice from
which was most admirable, the direction of the shells
being very true.
Some idea of the thorough efficiency of this gallant
corps may be formed from the fact of the field-battery
exercise yesterday on Southsea-common, in the presence
of Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, the Lieutenat-Governor,
and a brilliant assemblage, having been mounted, loaded,
and discharged within the astonishing space of 30 se-
conds 1 For th.s unparalleled efficiency the service is
indebted to Colonel Gibsone.
PORTSMOUTE, THURSDAY.—Yesterday a highly inte-
resting experiment was made in this dockyard, in the
presence of Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Commander-in-
Chief, Vice-Admiral Ross, Captain Dacres, of the
Avenger, and ether distinguished officers, of a new life-
buoy, invented by Lieut. Irvine, R.N., 1813, which, be-
sides its properties as an infallible agent in the saving
of life at sea, possesses also the uses of a trunk or sea-
chest, in which may be stowed without the possibility of
the approach of wet such matters as bread or other dry
provisions, linen, ammunition, &c. The principal mate-
rial in this new lite-buoy or trunk is cork. Yesterday
one of these trunks was filled with hammocks and heavy
iron weights, some of 561 b. each, and thrown into the
harbour in presence of the above distinguished officers
and numerous scientific gentlemen. The result was, that,
although the weight in the interior of the apparatus was
treble that of a heavy man, it floated upon the surface of
the tide with a buoyant force which would infallibly sup-
port 25 men as long as they could cling to it, ropes being
appended in all directions of it to admit of that advantage
in the event of an emergency. There is no inflation
used, nor any preparation necessary, other than merely
buckling a strap round the mouth of some webbing-cloth
inside the chest, which acts as a preventive to the admis-
sion of water and alike excludes the air. Lieut. Irvine
can fit the seats of steam-boats with his apparatus
with little expense, but with certain efficacy in time of
need; and considering the recent wrecks and loss of life,
so fearfully augmented of late by the staving of boats
when they were the only means left of attempting to
brave the waves, such an instrument as this must be
hailed with great satisfaction by all who have occasion,
from necessity or otherwise, to travel upon the waters.
The gallant veteran who has invented this new buoy has
served his country in the time of need, and it is only
with regret that we can allude to the necessity which
compels him to thus endeavour to add to his scanty
pittance of 6s. per day in the decline of his days, after
holding the commission of a Lieutenant in her Majesty's
navy 34 years with an untarnished reputation. He was
placed by his late Majesty William IV. on board the
Superb, 74, Captain Keats, in 1805, with whom he served
to the end of the war. He was in the action off St.
Domingo ; the expedition to Copenhagen; taking the
-,panish troops from Denmark ; English aide-de-camp
to the Marquis of Romans;
was in the expedition to
Walcheren; at the siege of Cadiz; in gun-boats and boats
taking several forts; and, besides, had the pleasure of
saving the lives of two men by risking his own, in
jumping overboard at different times, when in the
Hibernia, in the Mediterranean.
The Falmouth lighter sailed yesterday, with stores
for Plymouth.
The Tartarus steam-vessel sailed this morning for
Sheerness, with Commander James C. Caffin, of the
Scourge, and about 60 of his men, to bring the Fury
steam-sloop to this port.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 23.—The barque Pathfinder, Cap-
tain Strickland, came in this morning with Indian corn
from Alexandria for orders. This vessel was freighted
out last winter from England at the then current rate.
On her arrival freights had considerably advanced, and
her master, Captain James Thompson, was so chagrined
at the circumstance, that, in a -fit f despondency, he
poisoned himself with the contents of the laudanum
bottle belonging to the ship's medicine chest. The com-
mand devolved on her mate, Mr. Strickland; they left
Alexandria the 6th of April, and, being short of provi-
sions, attempted to enter Cadiz, but were repulsed by
the Spanish authorities, who refused permission for the
barque to receive supplies, on the pretext of her having
come from an eastern port. They then put to sea, in-
tending to make the English Channel; but meeting
contrary winds, first purchased a bag of bread for 21. 15s.
from a passing ship, and when half way across the Bay
of Biscay bore up for Oporto. At the entrance of the
Douro they received two bags from a British man-of-
war steamer, at which time there was but a pound and a
half of bread left for a crew of eleven persons. On her
passage from Oporto, about eight days since, one of the
lads was sent aloft to furl the fore royal in a sudden
breeze, which carried the fore topgallant mast and rig-
ging over the side, and flung the lad on the deck of the
ship. His fall was providentially broken by his first
pitching on the fore trysail, and he thus came down un-
injured a height of eighty or ninety feet, the only effect
of the accident being a slight scratch on the lip.