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CONTAINS :
Fathers and Sons,by theEditor,lThe Widow Married, by Mrs.
The Gamesters. A French Trollope,illustratedby Phiz.
Story, by the Countess of The thes and Abuses of Truth.
Blessington. Specimens of German Lyric
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Calais Fair Sporting —On siting the Cell of the
French Trades-people—Ap- Ent eror Iscan in the
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Eye-witness. rative efficiency of Iron-built
England's Wooden Walls. and Timber-built Ships.
Trix VICTORT.—No. 6. Notices of Steam Navigation.
Recollections of the Expedi- Justice at Gibraltar.
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years 1814-16, by au Old Sub. Naval and Military Commission.
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English Catholics—The Ancient Ms.nor House—Medita-
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EAST INDIA HOUSE:M.IUL 29, 1840.
PHE COURT of DIRECTORS of the
EAST INDIA COMPANY do Hereby Give Notice,
That •a SPECIAL GENERAL COURT of the said
COMPANY will be held at their House in Leadenhall-Areet,
on WEDNESDAY, the 6th of May next, at Eleven o'clock in the
forenoon, at the desire of Nine Proprietors of East India
Stock, agreeably to the following letter, viz.--
To WILLIAM BUTTERWORTH BAYLEY, Esq., Chair-
.

man of the Honourable the Court of Directors of the East
India Company.
St a—We, the undersigned, Proprietors of East India Stock,
request that a Special General Court of Proprietors may be
convened at the earliest period, to take into consideration the
following resolutions proposed to be submitted to them :-
1. That the Proprietors cannot but express their surprise
and regret, that notwithstanding the deep interest taken by
them in the ease of his Highness the Rajah of Sattara, the
Court of Directors and the Board of Control should have pro-
ceeded with such unnecessary haste to confirm the deposal and
bani,bment of that Prince, not only without ordering a full
and lair investigation of the ,charTes, if any there be, against
him, but without having afforded the Proprietors an eppor.
tunity of considering the grounds on which the Directors have
sanctioned a measure of such extreme degradation and punish-
ment

2. That the Proprietors therefore call upon the Court of
Directors to lay before thou their proceedings in the case of his
Highness the Rajah of Sattara, together with the dipen.s of
such of their colleagues as may have declined to concur in their
decision.

3. '1 hat there be laid before the Proprietors Copies of such
DespatcheA as may have been received by the Court of Direc-
tors from the Bombay Government on the subject of the sud-
den death of Balla Sahib Seenapatty, Commander-in-Chief of
the Forces of his highness the Rajah of Sattara.
4. That there be also laid before the Proprietors Copies of
such Information as may have been received by the Court of
Directors from the Bombay government on the subject of the
appropriation of the money and jewels claimed as the private
property of his Highness the Rajah of Sattara, and said to have
been delivered over to Appa Sahib, the Rajah's brother.

We have the honour to be Sir,
Your most obedient Servants,
CHARLES FORBES.
CHARLES GRANT.
A. HOGG.
JOHN POYNDER.
T. C. BROWN.
JAMES MALCOLMSON.
ROBERT JONES.
SAMUEL M`MORRIS.
GEORGE FORBES.
JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.
London, April 28, 1840.

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This Day is published, price Is., Part 11. of
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF

DICK WHITTINGTON,
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ERASER'S MAGAZINE for MAY
CONTAINii-

CAUTION.

It having been represented to RIPPON and rIURTON that
cveral persons are vending a spurious metal as their NICKEL..
SILVER BRITISH PLATE, they assure the Public that
the Genuine Article can only be had at their Warehouses,
Fells-street, Oxford-street. The Nickel Silver British Plate
nanufactured by Rippon and Burton, is, by a chemical process,
tendered superior to any other so called, in appearance and
durability ; it is equal to.silrer ; all the articles being solid and
of wrought material, they improve with use, and are war-
ranted to stand the test of that strong acid aquafortis. The
ollowing prices are named as a criterion :
s.

'Fable Spoons and Forks, full
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per dozen
Dessert do lO 0 Do. Dessert, do. do., per
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Ritter Knives
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up Ladles .. 6 0 do I 11
Sauce Ladles 6 Do. Soup Ladles, do ..... ....... 13 0
sugar Tf.ags, each , 1 C' Do. Sauce Ladles, do 3 6
Table C:ouilesticks, per pair 19. 0I Do. Sugar Tongs, do.
Chanther ditto, complete, 'Decanter Stands, chased
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Knives, Itts.—Desserts, 16s. per doz.—Carvers, 69.—The same
in Balance 'fable, 21s.—Desserts, 15s.—Carvers, 70. fid.—
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Illaek Ilorn-handled 'fable Knives and Forks,
Desserts, Bs.—Carvers, 2s. 6d.—The Knives and Forks both
warranted. 11s. per doz.—

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Fashionable Black Iron Fenders from 9s.—Bronzed ditto
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3s. 0,1. per doz.—Brass Cornice er Window Curtain Poles,
Is. 3d. yer foot.—Copper Tea Kettle to hold 1 Gallon, 7s.—
Copper Coal Scoops, from 10s. 6d.—Tea Urns, from 275.
Shower Baths, with Copper conducting Tubes and Pump, and
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CHURCH ASSOCIATION.
President—Sir CULLING EARDLEY SMITH, Bart.
ADVOCACY OF THE VOLUNTARY PRINCIPLE
ON RELIGIOUS GROUNDS ONLY.
A LECTURE will be delivered by the Rev. F. A. COX,
D.D., LL.D., at the London tavern, TO-MORROW
EVENING, the Ist of May, 1840.
Subject—The Rise, Progress, and Influence of State Esta-
blishments of Religion.
To commence at Seven o'clock precisely.
Ticke's may be procured at the Tavern.

MONS. MALLAN and SONS' improved
MINERAL SUCCEDANEUM, with permanent
and indestructible White Enamel, not distinguishable from the
natural Cortex or Enamel of the Teeth, for filling decayed Teeth.
Mons. MALLAN and SONS, Surgeon-Dentists, 2, Upper
Eator-street, Belgrave-square, Pimlico; 32, Great Russell-
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apprise their Patients and the Public generally. that they have
succeeded in effecting.tho above desirable improvement. In-
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and articulation. Loose Teeth securely and effectually fastened.
2. Upper Eaton-street, Belgrave-square; 32, Great Russell-
street, Bloomsbury; and 8, Rue de Castiglioni, Paris.

COLONIAL LAND AND EMIGRA-
TION BOARD.

Primitive Traditions of Heathen Nations—The Castle
of Fulness, a Poem—A Tale of the Year 1683—Secret
Societies and Political Clubs—Visit of the Great Mimes to
the Mighty Spirit of the Earth, Demogorgor—Church in the
Isle of Man—Trip across the Spanish Frontier—Guizot's
Progress of European Civilization—A full, true, and particular
account of Her Majesty's Marriage with 11.11.11 Prince Al-
bert ; done into Epic by Patricius Terentius Thadwus O'Toole
—A Chapter on Duelling—The Charming Woman—Did Han-
nibal knew the Use of Gunpowder?—Lord Brougham's De-
mosthenes.
James Fraser, 215, Regent-street. London.

NIOONLIGIIT FLITTING.—On Friday morning
a woman and two men were seen taking a stolen march with
some of their furniture from Glasgow to Springburn ; and h
order to bk‘ unobserved they took a road through the fields.
The men had a chest of drawers, and the woman some bed-
clothe,. When tear Springbura, they went into a cut of the
injured. Glasgow
Edinburgh and Glasgow railway, 5 feet deep, where they
were got in the morning very seriously
Chronicle.
On Tuesday morning, the Hon. Robert Sear.
lett was sworn into the dice of one of the Masters of the Court
of Exchequer, in the room of the late Mr. Sprenger.
SUBSTITUTE FOREMBALMMENT,—.whe, M.
hevirlelf;ii:eekr;
Gaunal made his process public he was notawares
mysterious circum-
haps, of the use to which it could be applied.
ago the bOdy of a boy, murdered under very
stances, was brought to the Morgue—the place where all per.
sons found drcwned or murdered, and who are not immediately
recognised, are exposed—and the veins were injected accordinc,
to the plan laid down by M. Gaunal. The corpse of this poor
boy has remained several weeks in as fresh a state as when was
found a few hours after the murder. It has nottly: otftheereendr fore•
cognised, but one cannot but admire the facility h
recognition. But for this discovery, the utmost time that the
body could have remained at the Morgue would have been fire
or six days. M. Gannal's process is exceedingly simple, and
attended with very little expense. He makes a solution, com-
posed of sulphate of alum and hot water, in the proportion of
two pounds of the sulphate to a pint of hot water, and injects by
the right carotid artery ; in summer three quarts of this liquid,
and in winter less, according to the temperature.

Just published, price 2s. Gd,
APRACTICAL ESSAY on the DEBILI-
TIES .f the GENERATIVE SYSTEM, their Va-
rieties, Causes, Treatment, and Cure
By a MEMBER of the ROYAL COLLEGE of SUR G EONS,
London, and Surgeon to a Metropolitan Infirmary.
" I am impotent, and no ti to live."—Last's Records of 1
Suicide.
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Nightingale, Liverpool; and all Booksellei in 'town and
Country.
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and inclosing a remittance of 3s.

BOW-STREET.—We have been requested to in-
sert the following as the evidence given by the father of the
boy Goulbourne, committed from this office for stealing money
from his master :—" A short time ago I left a bunch of keys in
my trovvsers pocket in my bed-room on the Saturday night. On
the Monday morning, when I went to put them on, I missed
my keys. I did not at the time suspect him. I had a fresh
set. Shortly after I missed a bag out of my desk, containine• a
sovereign and some silver. Could not suspect my own ehird ;
but now he had been detected, in a similar offense, I feel firmly
convinced he had robbed me.
FATAL OCCURRENCE.—Last week three old
women who had been inmates of the Raino workhouse, near
Macclesfield, who had gone to church with other paupers, in-
stead of returning home at the proper time, wandered about
the country, the consequence of which was that one lost her
life by falling into a sluice, another broke her leg, and the third
has not yet been discovered. They were all persons of rather
weak intellect, and she who lost her life was upwards of seventy
years of age. An inquest was held on her body, and a verdict
returned of " Found drowned."

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PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.
When the miscellaneous estimates are brought for-
ward, there is to be proposed a charge of 3,5401, 153. on
account of the Colonial Land and Emigration Bnard,
and of emigration agents. On this subject the following
is printed for the Parliament :
COREESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE COLONIAL-OFFICE
AND TILE TREASURY, RELATIVE TO THE FORMA-
TION OF THE COLONIAL LAND AND EMIGRATION•
BOATCD.

D ironing-street, December 30,1839.
My Lords—ln the administration of the affairs of the
British Colonies there is no duty more indispensable, or
to which, from its constitution, this department is less
adapted, than the superintendence of the sale of waste
lands of the Crown, and the application of the proceeds
suc!l sales in defraying the expense of removing emi-
grants from this country to the Colonies in which the
lands so sold are situate. This is a business of minute
detail. To the right discharge of it, it is necessary that
the persons employed should be exempt from the many
other demands on their time and attention to which
the head of this office is continually subjected. It is an
employment for the right execution of which it is re-
quisite that there should be a daily intercourse with the
nureerous classes of persons, who, either as capitalists,
ship-owners, surgeons, or emigrants, are to be seen,
either for effecting sales of land, taking up vessels,
making arrangements for the departure of emigrants,
or for obtaining and imparting accurate information
on those subjects. Such an occupation, at once im-
portant, arduous, and responsible in a very high degree,
can obviously be best undertaken and performed with
propriety by public officers devoted exclusively to this
service.

If, however, an establishment for the purpose should
involve any increase of the public burdens, I shoul I be
alive to the force of that objection. But I trust that
it will be practicable to form a Colonial Land and Emi-
gration Board, not only without any additional expendi-
ture, but with sonic reduction of the charge whicli is
already incurred on this account.

For this purpose I propose to consolidate the office
of the Emigration Agent-General with the office of the
South Australian Colonization Commissioners, and
from this measure I anticipate a material improvement
in ale efficiency, as well as in the economy, with which
the duties of the two offices are at present conducted.
The South Australian Colonization Commissioners
are nine in number ; they are appointed under the sta-
tute 4 and 5 W illiam IV., c. 95, which requires that
the smallest number of such Commissioners shall be
three. Of the nine members of the Commission,
eight have hitherto served gratuitously, the chairman
alone reeeivinc, a salary, which has been fixed at GOOI.
per annum. I have, however, very recently received
from the Commissioners a request that salaries
may be assigned to them all. To this application I
have thought it my duty, at once and decisively, to
oppose myself. Your Lordships will concur with me
in thinking that an establishment of nine salaried Com-
missioners for the service of a single colony would be
quite inadmissible. On the other hand, it is impossible
that her Majesty's Government should insist upon gra-
tuitous services of this nature, which have become bur-
densome to those from whom they have hitherto been
received. I have therefore signified to the Commis-
sioners her Majesty's intention to relieve them from tlieis
present duties, conveying to them, at the same time,
collectively, my grateful acknowledgement of the
ability with which their duties as Members of the South
' Australian Commission have been discharged.
Even, however, if the consideration I have noticed
had not required a great reduction in the number of
this body, there are other obvious motives which would
have dictated that same conclusion. A board of nine Com-
missioners is manifestly far too numerous for the effec-
tive discharge of the duties confided to this body, which
would ba much more conveniently executed by the
smallest number sanctioned by Parliament, that is, by
three Commissioners. The oapericnce of late years,
especially in the various revenue boards, fully confirms
the opinion that bodies of this nature become effective
and act under a quickened sense of responsibility when
their numbers are so reduced as to impose on each
member the necessity for the active exercise of all his
time and talents in the service to which he is called.
If the Constitution of the South Australian board
was objectionable, as being unduly numerous, the con.
stitutiou of the office of the agent-general for emigration
is, perhaps, open to the opposite objection. A single pet-
son presiding over such an establishment, and liable to the
jvarious casualties which render it impossible for any man
to give a perfectly uninterrupted attention to official
duties, must occasionally leave them unperformed. In
new and critical cases he is without the support of
other judgments in confirmation of his own, ate! his
decisions may not be considered by petitioners so satis-
factory as if resulting from the united voices of a deli-
berative body.
I propcise, therefore, to revoke the commission of the
existing South Australian Commissioners, and to renew
it in favour of Colonel Torrens, Mr. Ell'ot, and a third
person. I further propose to abolish the office of the
Emigration Agent-General, and to advise her Majesty
to issue to the three South Australian Commissioners a
separate Commission, constituting them a Colonial
Land and Emigration Board for the British Colonies
generally. I shall hereafter transmit to your Lordships
a copy of the instructions to be addressed to the Board,
explanatory of their duties in every respect, excepting
in what relates to the expenditure and accounting for
public money ; on which subject I would propose to
convey to them such instructions as may be prepared
for the purpose, at your Lordships' Board, or under
your directions. _

For my immediate purpose it may be sufficient to
say, that, subject to the instructions to be from time to
time addressed to them by myself or by your Lord-
ships, the duty of the Commissioners would be-Ist, to
collect and to impart to the public at large, or to indi-
viduals desirous of obtaining it, authentic information
as to the Crown lands, which, in the exercise of the
Royal prerogative, are saleable in any of the British
colonies ; 2dly, to consider the best manner of ef-
fecting such sales, either in this country or the
colonies ; idly, to effect such sale, as far as
that service can be performed here ; 4thiy, to
apply the available proceeds of any such sales, wherever
effected, towards the removal of emigrants to the colo-
nies in which the land sold may be situate. To these
duties may be added, sthly, The general charge of
emigrants, which is at present vested in the Emigration
Agent General ; and, 6thly, those special duties with
regard to South Australia which Parliament has in-
trusted to the Colonization Commissioners for that
province. This enumeration might readily be enlarged
by indicating some other services which such a board
would render with regard to territories over which
British Colonies are now, for the first time, spreading ;
but it would be superfluous to anticipate questions of
that nature, which are not yet ripe for decision.
I have stated that the proposed consolidation of offices
would rather diminish than increase the actual expen-
diture. To explain this, it is necessary to observe that,
at present, the two bodies engaged in services so closely
analogous are unavoidably drawn into a competition,
which is at once injurious to the public revenue and
prejudicial to the public interest. They mutually raise
against each other the price of shipping employed in the
carriage of emigrants. They employ a double agency,
who in distant parts of the country meet as rivals, and the
laudable solicitude of the South Australian Commis-
sioners to effect sales of land'in that Colony has induced
them to pay a brokerage of five per cent. on such sales,
although it is the opinion of Colonel Torrens and of
Mr. Elliot that, when their two offices are combined,
a brokerage of half that amount will be sufficient for
the purpose. It appears reasonable also to calculate
on a diminished charge for house-rent and the contin-
gencies connected with the maintenance of two esta-
blishments when superseded by one. Without, how-
ever, allowing for any saving beyond that which Col.
Torrens and Mr. Elliot expect to effect on a brokerage
on land sales and on shipping charges, there is an an-
nual charge of 2,0501. less to be incurred for the joint
than is now incurred for the separate establishments.
On the other hand, there will be some increase of
expenditure for salaries of the Commissioners. Mr.
Elliot's salary will shortly reach the assigned maximum
of 1,000/. per annum. Colonel Torrens's salary is
6001. :per annum. But, adverting to the increased
duties of both these gentlemen, and to the arduous and
responsible nature of the functions to be confided to the
proposed board, I am of opinion that each of the mem-
bers of it should receive 1,000/. per annum. This,
under the head of " salaries to the principal officers,"
would involve an increase of 1,4001. per annum, to he ,
sot off against the saving of 2,0501. per annum, already
at tinned, thus reducing that saving to the annual sum
oft.
e possibility of effecting the saving of 2,050/. per
annum under the two heads of " Brokerage on land
sales" and" Shipping Charges,"if the two offices'are con-
solidated, I assume in reliance on the joint report and
estimate of Colonel Torrens and Mr. Elliot, which I
perceive no reason to distrust. I shall hereafter trans-
mit to your Lordships an estimate in detail for the pro-
posed new establishment,
For (he present I confine myself to this general indi-
cgion of the nature of the measure that I am about to
adopt, with a view at once to increase the efficiency, to
enlargeen the sphere of action, and to diminish the ex-
p
of the two existing establishments. I shall be
,o
happy to be apprised of your Lordships' concurrence in
my proposal respecting the rate of remuneration of the
three Commissioners to be employed in this service,
that-remuneration being recommended upon the basis