The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-11 00:00:00

LON DON, IVION DAY MORNING SUN, JANUARY 11, 1847.

No. 16,946.

requisite official facilities. As a mere compilation, it Is probably the
most wonderful on record.

ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Nov. 3 0346.
This huge volume, the forty-eighth edition of the work, well sus-
tains the reputation enjoyed by the " Dii ectory" of late years. In
the preface, the proprietor maintains that the high character of the
work is not referable to its mere connexion with the Post Office ;
for an important change has been gradually introduced into the
manner of collecting the information ; and a larger portion of the
work than heretofore has been confided to selected agents entirety
unconnected with the Post Office, this being in great part the plan of
compiling the editions for 1845 and 1846. Nor has the proprietor
rested content with his past success, hnt has introduced many im-
portant alterations in this volume for 1847 .nd added to its bulk
without any increase in price. The " POSttu liirectory" is especially
improved, and there are numerous el...nges throughout the volume
to Insure its completeness. The compilation must be a vast labour,
to be accomplished only by systematic subdivision and the most pains-
taking minuteness. The appearance of the volume has suggested a
very lively effusion, to be seen in another column ; and we trust the
enterprising proprietor of the " Directory" will find thathis labours
are duly appreciated and remunerated. To a great commercial coun-
try this is an indispensable volume.

RAILWAY HERALD, Nov. 21, 1846.
The new volume of the Post Office Directory for 1847 is already
in oar hands, and we can only express our wonder that a work so
laborious, extensive, and minute, could be in any degree improved.
It would have been a sufficient merit to have maintained its former
reputation, it is a great merit to have surpassed itself. The produc-
tion of a work unequalled for accuracy and for clearness has placed in
the hands ofthe commercial public a most valuable and indispensable
aid in carrying on the business of this vast metropolis, which would
indeed be subjected to the greatest inconvenience and expense it it
were not for a work of this kind. In a short time our readers will
have theopportunity of judging for themselves on purchasing the new
volume, whether our anticipatorynotice is in any degree exaggerated.

N \Tit )NAI, i.,t) 'Zij LIFE ASSUR
ANCE SOCIETY,
26 CORNITELL, LONDON.
Capital .£5,00,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages
nth respect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured
s, en all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or tor-
ture of the Porey, two- ti or the oreinituns paid (sge Table) ;
the ntit,lon of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in-
csis TO 111,iei other c,ityealefices or oecesiity.
‘ssuralices air terot4 of years are granted op. the lowest possibie

urvisiom oF pttoFrrs. /
The remarKahle success and increasina- prosperity of the S,elety
enabled the Directors. at the last annual Investigation, to declare
o,rtli bonus, vsiyinz from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid
each Policy effected on the Profit scale.

EXAMPLES.

Bonus Bonus In g g Assured
pt • fliairn. added. Cash. 8 may
Fso Borrow.
1837X217 15 l.£loo 11,X16 0 4!.£445 0 0
£ Xs. d. 18381 182 3 0, 87 1 4, 13 10 2; 395 11 1
1000 3 4 118391 165 11 10' 74 19: 11 311 346 2 3
18401 116 7 6 54 0 101 718 101 296 13 4
tlB4ll 111 6 8, 49 19 0[ 710 4 247 4 5

the division of profits is annual, and the next will be made in
ceember of the present year.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary.

THE SELF-SUPPORT INSTITUTION,
(aided by Voluntary Contributions,) for the Cure of Stricture
of the Urethra, and all other Diseases of Urinary Organs, Nervous,
Local, and General Debility.
SURGEON —F. B. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.L., 2, Chandos-street,
Cavendish-square.

To small tradesmen, clerks, mechanics, and the working classes
generally, this Institution offers, in at 1 cases, gratuitous surgical
assistance, and in others medicine also f'reesf expense.
Apply at the Surgery adjoinng the Surgeon's residence.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
OPENING OF THE PETERBOROUGH BRANCH.
This Line will be opened for General Traffic on the I 4th Instant.
The arrangement of Trains will be as follows:
FROM LONDON.
7.15 a.m. ; 11.30 a.m. ; 2.0 p.m. ; 6.1 p.m.—Week Days.
6.45 a.m. ; 2.0 p.m.—Sundays.
FROM PETERBOROUGH.
•6.0 a.m ; 8.25 a.m. ; 12.0 n. ; 4.40 p.m. ; 7.0 p.m.—Week Days.
.6,0 a.m. ; 8.45 a.m. ; 4.0 p.m.—Sundays.
A Train also leaves Cambridge at 6.50 a.m. every morning, for
Peterborough and Stamford.
All the Trains, excepting those marked *, are in conjunction with
Trains at Peterborough to and from Stamford.
For particulars as to Fares, Rates, and Coaches in connexion with
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. RONEY, Secretary.
Bishopsgate Station, January 4, 1847.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
PROFESSOR SCHCENBEIN'S GUN COTTON, and other
Exwo we Compounds, with brilliant Experiments, LECTURED on
y Dr. RYAN, daily at Half past Three o'clock; and on the Evenings
of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
The principle of the various EL CTRO-MAGNETIE TELE-
GRAPHS explained daily by Professor BACHHOFFNER, including
the Patent of Messrs. Cook and Wheatstone, in use on the railways, and
the more recent Patent of Messrs. Nott and Gamble ; the various
Models explained. Magnified Specimens sof DISEASED POTATOES,
exhibited by the OXYIIYDROGEN MICROS'OPE, with the DE-
STRUCTIVE INSECT, supposed by A. Smee, Esq , F.R.S., to be
the cause of the disease. A beautiful Series of NEW DISSOLVING
VIEWS. The DIVING-BELL and DIVER, with Experiments.
The PHYSIOSCOPE, new CHROMATROPE, &c . &c.
Admission Is. Schools, half-price.

REMARKABLE CASE of RES TORATION.
A striking instance of the power of scientific art to remedy
the defects of nature has lately occurred in the ease of a Mr. F. Balls,
a gentleman residing at Wortham, in Norfolk, who, in the year 1842,
on returning from - arlestone darket to We• bred, where he then re-
sided, sustained so, severe a fall from his horse, as to bring on an ill-
ness of several months' duration, during which period his hair con-
',United to come off, till he became, to use his own terms, " as perfectly
bald as if his head had been shaved ;" and the Rev. J. E. Daniel,
then clergyman of the parish, offered him a wig as a substitute for
his lost hair. Under these circumstances, he was induced to try the
effect of ROWLAND'S MACASSA t OIL, and it is highly gratifying
to add, with the most happy results. As soon as part of a bottle was
tii.d the growth recommenced, and he has now to boast of a very
thick and luxuriant head of hair, which presents this peculiarity,
that, though prior to losing his hair it evnced no tendency to curl,
the new growth is curly and strong. This fact speaks too strongly
fbr itself to require observation.—Bell's Messenger.
110 •VLAND'S MACASSAR OIL preserves and reproduces the
Hair ; prevents it from falling off or turning Grey ; Changes Grey
Hair to its Original Colour; frees it from Scurf and Dandruff, and
makes it beautirully soft and curly.
11,,* Beware of " spurious compounds" under the title of " MA-
CASSAR OIL," some under the "implied" sanction of Royalty and
he Government Departments, with similar attempts at deception.
ROWLAND'S MACASS 1R OIL is sold by the proprietors, at 20,
HATTON-GARDEN LONDON, and all respectable Chemists and
Perfumers.

rrHE TWO FEET!-AN ANECDOTE.
FOR E. MOSES AND SON'S BOOTS AND SHOES.
Two trotters conversed as they happen'd to meet,
And the realer shall hear what was said by the feet.
" Pray what do you honestly think (said the one),
OC the boots and the shoes made by MOSES and SON?
For my own part a full satisfaction I feel,
With my sole and my instep, my toes and my heel.
The boots we have on are so stylish and neat,
That, in truth, we're a couple of beautiful feet."
" Well done (tai i the left with a stamp of the foot),
You are ' right, Mr. Right,' with regard to your boot ;
I've oftentimes thought I'd begrudge not a raniom
For a boot or a shoe that would make me look handsome ;
And now I have got it, and so have you, too,
Such a pair of neat feet very seldom we view.
Another prime feature which ev'ry one views
As belonging to MOSES and SON'S boots and shoes,
Is the fact that they are faultless in fit and in style,
While they answer their purpose a very long while.
Ev'ry foot would do well to attend our advice
By obtaining such goods at a very low price,
For MOSES end SON, in their boots and their shoes
Are determined that a 1 folks shall gain and not lose.
- LIST OF PRICES.
READY MADE.

A 8. d
Beaver Taglionis, frora ••• • • ... ••••••..••••• • • • • • .. . • • • 0 8 6
Chesterfields and Codringtons ... ...... ............... .. 0 10 6
Pashas, D'Orsays, and Chesterfields, and every description
of winter coats. • ................. ...... : ..... 1 5 0
Boys' Winter Coats, in every style and make • 0 8 6
Tweed Trousers,lined • • • •
Dress Coats...—. ,„ .. . , . 1 0 6
Frock Coats .. .. ..... ... .. . . •• . 1 5 0

' •
Double-breasted Vests '' . ........ ........ 0 2
Boys' Hussar and Tunic Suits • • •0 18 6
i:oys' Winter Trousers ....... . ..... 0 3 0
Ditto'Vests....... ..•
Mourning to any extent at dye minutes' notice.

MADE TO MEASURE.
Winter Coats, warranted waterproof, made to any style,
handsomely tiemmed ................. ........... 1 6 0
Milled Cloth Cotits, trimmed, velvet collar and cuffs, lined 2 6 0
Tweed Overcoats, • • ••••• • t • • • •• • • •••••• • • • • • 018 0
Tweed
...... ..... . .... 0 8 6
Winter Trousers,„ in all the most approved Fr4ch patterns 1 2 6
Best Dress Troupers
Dress Coats ........... ..... ...... ............ 1 12 0
Best quality macie.' ....... . . .
Frock Coats .. •
.......... • ••• • •
Best quality naade
Fancy Vests .
Satin, plain or fancy
. • •. .. .
•••••••••••••• 0 12 0
Boys' Hussar and Tunic Suits
....... ..... •• • • I 5
Observe.—Any article purchased, ready made, or made to mea-
sure, if not approved of, will be exchanged, or if preferred, the
money returned.
E. dlOsEs and SON, Tailors, Woollendrapers, Clothiers, Hatters,
Hosiers, Farriers, and General Outfitters, for Ladies and Gentlemen,
154, 155, and 156, 157 Minories, and 83, 84, 85, and 86 Aldgate,
city, London.
Caution.—E. Moses and Son regret being obliged to guard the
public against impostors, but have learned that the untradesman.
like falsehood of being connected with them, or it's the same concern,
has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons.
They have no connexion with any other house in or out of London;
and those who desire genuine and the clothing, &c., should call at,
-or send to, Minories and Aldgate, City, London.
Netice.—No business transacted at this establishment from sun-
set Friday, till sunset Saturday, when business s resumed till twelve
o'clock

The entrance to the fur department is at 83, Aldgate, corner of the
liinories and Aidgate, opposite the church.

ASSOCIATION FOR THE REDUCTION
OF THE DU I'Y ON TEA.
WILLIAM NICOL, Esq., Chairman.
CHRISTOPHER. RAWS')N, Esq., and HENRY WINCH, Esq.,
De uty Chairmen.
WILLIAM BALL ENY, Esq., Treasurer.
ROBERT C. CROSBIE, DI., and JOHN SCOTT, Esq.,
Honorary Secretaries.
COMMITTEE.

George Armstrong, Esq.
.mas Bold, Esq.
Edward llrodr:bb, Esq.
W. Y. Bushby, Esq.
Malcolm Cords, Esq.
C. Cottesworth, Esq.
Edward Cropper, Esq.
John Cropper, jun., Esq.
J. Crosfield, Esq.
R. Duckworth, Esq.
A. Findlay, Esq..
W. F. Foster, Esq.
R. Fry, Esq.
T. Fry, Esq.
George Grant, Esq.
W. F. Gray, Rsq.
Daniel Harrison, Esq.
Lawrence Heyworth, Esq.
In announcing the formation of this Association, the Committee
feel that little introduction from them is necessary to ensure from
the public their hearty concurrence and support, seeing the benefit
which would accrue to all classes of the community from the realisa-
tion of the object they have in view.
It has long been the conviction of philanthropists, that the obtain-
ing for the poor, at a moderate price, a beverage so wholesome as
tea, would be an inestimable boon, not merely on account of its com-
fort as an article of daily use, but especially on account of its
tendency to promote social feeling and temperance, with all the
domestic and orderly habits consequent thereupon.
Ample experience has also convinced the merchants engaged in
the tea trade with China, as well as those engaged in the tea trade at
home, that our export trade with the Chinese is in danger, and
that, to preserve it, there is the most urgent necessity for a large
reduction of the present high duty on tea.
The Committee earnestly request attention to the following Ce.
siderations on this important subject:—
That pressing, as this duty does, most heavily on the lower kinds,
it prevents the use of tea amongst the most numerous class of our
countrymen.
That the original cost of tea is very moderate, the bulk of the
qualities generally consumed varying from Ed. to 2s. per 841),
that BS Coostuswatin is restricted by no indisposition on the parf of
the public to purchase it, but by its high price, caused solely by the
present oppressive duty.
That there is scarcely a limit to the capacity or disposition of the
Chinese to purchase our manufaotures.
That while, as already stated, our duty on tea ranges from 200 to
400 per cent., the Chinese admit our imports at an ad valorem duty
of five per cent.
That this impolitic duty materially limits our exports to China, and
seriously interferes with the employment of labour.
The Committee feel confident that a similar increase to that which
has taken place in the consumption of coffee, by the material reduc-
tion of the duty, may be anticipated from a proportionate reduction
of the duty on tea.
That thereby the consumption of tea would be greatly augmented,
and the revenue correspondingly benefited.
The Committee feel assured that there will hardly be found a
single oppo,ient to the justice of their claim, and that it only requires
the hearty co-operation of the public to ensure succe's.

J. Hosack, Esq:
A. Kelso, jun., Esq.
Harold Litticdale, Esq.
Thomas Littledale, jun., Esq.
Hugh Matheson, Esq.
W. G. Molyneux, Esq.
William Potter, Esq.
W. Prowse, Esq.
William Rathbone, Esq.
Rathbone, jun., Esq.
W. Rotheram, Esq.
G. C. Schwabe, Esq.
T. W. Sharland, Esq.
James Stealns, Esq.
J. Thomson, Esq.
Charles Turner, Esq.
James Tyrer, Esq.

They have much pleasure in annexing a list of subscriptions
already received, and thpy respectfully solicit the assistance of the
public in furtherance of the object of the Association.
Subscriptions will be received by the treasurer, or any member of
the Committee.

WILLIAM NICOL, Chairman.
No. I, Exchango-buildings, Nov. 2, 1846.

SUBSCRIPTIONS.

Mr. C. Rawson -
Mr. 11. Winch
Mr. R. C. Crosbie -
Mr. E. Brodribb
Mr. A. Kelso
Mr. W. Prowse
Mr. D. Harrison -
Kr. W. Balleny - •
Mr. A. Findlay -
“r. R. Duckworth
Mr. Steains -
Mr. J. Scott -
Mr. R. Jamieson -
Mr. H Mathc.on -
Mr. C. P. Dickson
Mr. W. Rathbone -
Mr. W. Rath!, ne, jun. -
Mr. Gei.rge Armstrong -
Mr. Wilk= Nicol -
r. Potter
r. Molyneux
Mr R. Fry -
Mr. T. Fry -
Mr. J. Thomson -
Mr. W. Foster
Mr. George Grant
Mr. Robertson Gladstone -
Mr. Smith Harr son
Mr. Joseph Crosfleld
Mr. T. W. Sharland
Mr. W. Retheram
Mr. James Tyrer -
Mr. Thomas Bold - -
Mr. J. Cropper, jun.
Mr. E. Cropper -
r. C. Cotesworth -
Corrie and Co.
Mr. Charles Turner -
Mr. William Earle -
Mr. Thomas Earle -
11. 11.
Moffatt and Co. -
Mr. J. Stokes
Mr. W. F. Gray -
Mr. W. P. Bushby -
Mr. Robert Lloyd -
Mr. Thomas Matheson -
Mr. G. Schwabe -
Mr. L. Heyworth -
Mr. H. Littledale -
Mr. M. F. Brownrigg -
Mr. G. Hargreaves •
Mr. Kindermann -
Mr. J. Hosack
Mr. W. J. Millard -
Miller Brothers -
Mr. E. Hall -
Mr. William Higgins
Mr. R. N. Jones -
Mr. J. A. Hulbert -
Mr. Thomas Murray
Messrs Woodall and Jones -
Mr. Caleb A. Tate -
A Lady -
A Labouring Man -
Mr. James Chesney-
Mr. John Benyon
Messrs. J. W. Cater and Co.
Mr. G. J. Wainwright
James Alex. Scott -
Thos. Littledale, Jun.
John Wilks
A. Radcliffe
Robert Roberts, Bank-buildings

-2 2 0
.2 2 0
-5 5 0
.2 2 0
-1 0 0
- 010 0
-0 2 6
_o 5 0
.0 5 0
-5 0 0
- 10 10 0
-5 5 0
- 10 10 0
-1 1 0
- 10 10 0
-2 2 0

ADDRESS of the LIVERPOOL ASSOCIA-
TION for the REDUCTION of the DUTY on TEA. ,
In again calling public attention to the present oppressive and
impolitic tax upon tea, the Association are anxious to give promi
nence to those facts which indicate the neeessity for an immediate
reduction of the duty.

The conclusion of the treaty with China encouraged confident
expectations of the extension of our trade with that empire It was
reasonably anticipated that the low rate of duty imposed by its
Government upon British manufactures would be reciprocated by a
corresponding liberality in the admission of the staple production of
the Chinesefor the use of ourselves. The elements of agricultural
industry essential to the production of tea,—the fertile and exten-
sive territory, and the superabundant population of China, esti-
mated at above 350,000,000,—are capable et enlarging its supply in
a ratio at least equal to that in which the machinery of our manu-
facturers can increase the production of fabrics required for exporta-
tion. Our imports of tea from China have never yet reached four
per cent. of the entire production of that country, according to the
best calculation.
It is, however, a notorious fact, that the expectations thus cherished
have been disappointed. The merchants are exposed to heavy losses
n the importation of teas, which are now selling in the British
'markets at prices below their current value in China ; while at the
same time our manufactures are selling in China fo- less than the
cost of their production here. The population at large are unbent flted
by any practical result accruing from a treaty that has left behind it
a tax upon British ind O stry, which at the same time conic a bonus
upon foreign competition•
There is no difficulty in ascertaining the cause of so disastrous an
issue. The pressure of an impost, unprecedented in any other tariff,
cripples the operations of our merchants, and excludes our manu-
factures fr m the larger proportion of the Chinese population ; while
it deprives the labouring classes in this country of one of the most
needful articles of domestic comfort. The foreign policy of our Go-
vernment has achieved a brilliant success; but its results are marred
and counteracted by the incongruous arrangements of the Home
Exchequer. The chief export oi China is brought in abundance to
our shores, only .to accumulate in our warehouses. A tax, as
anomalous itt its principle as it is mischievous in its results, stops at
once the tide of commercial prosperity and the pervading currents of
soci Al civilization.

Under sach circumstances, it is almost as easy to predict the future
as to review the past A losing trade can never be a permanent one.
The discouraging results of this year's imports will curtail the ship-
ments of the next. Comparative scarcity, and proportionately high
prices, will follow. Ihe professed intention of the financial measures
of Government for some time past has been to cheapen the necessa-
ries of life. In this country tea occupies a more prominent place
among those necessaries than in any other. Under the operation of
any uniform and reasonable system of taxation, it would, therefore,
have been recognised as a primary object for the ameliorative inter
position of Government. On the contrary, however, the Legislature
of the country in which it is most extensively consumed is the last
to recognise its importance in the civil and social economy of the
state. The British Government has afforded every facility for its
supply to other countries, where it is little more than an occasional
luxury, and has impeded its consumption among ourselves, where its
use is indispensable

The necessities of the Exchequer, the only plea advanced in pallia-
tion of an impost so obviously indefensible, is one which will nut
bear examination. There is no reason to apprehend that the reduc-
tion of the duty to ls. per pound would leave a deficit of any import-
ance. The immediate result of such a change would unquestionably
be the liberation of a larger quantity from bond than had ever been
taken out during the same period before. If any temporary pres-
sure upon our finances existed, it would thus be promptly relieved.
There is no room to doubt that in the further course of time the gra-
dual increase of consumption would enlarge the revenue upon a sure
and satisfactory basis. This is not a gratuitous conjecture, but a
reasonable deduction from the result of similar changes in the duties
on coffee and sugar ; and, above all, it is confirmed by the only two
existing precedents of a reduction in the tax upon tea itself. In
174', the duty'was reduced from 13/. 18s. 732 d. per cent. and 4s. per
lb. to 381. 18s. 7%c1. per cent, and ls. per lb. The consumption im-
mediately advanced nearly 50 per cent. In 1784, the duty was re-
duced from 551. 15s. 10d. per cent, and ls. ld. 4-sths per lb. to 12%
per cent. The consumption was at once more than doubled. In
1785 it was trebled, and in 1794 it was quadrupled. Since that pe-
riod the duty has gradually advanced. Under the monopoly of the
East India Company it was 100 per cent. ; and under a system of in-
dividual enterprise and competition, it is nearly 200 per cent. Every
reduction in the price of the article has, however, been followed by
an increase in its consumption.

The present consumption of tea in this country amounts to an
average of about 1)41b. per head per annum for the entire popula-
tion.abo uita one-fourthfam uies
of
allowancesensually afforded to
domeatTiohis is
servants
one-half of the quantity consumed in the Channels Islands, where all
it is less than
intoxicating beverages are far cheaper than in this country ; and it
is scarcely one-sixth of the proportion used in Australia, by a popu-
lad en whose physical requirements will appear to most
favourable to its use. Whatever test may be applied to
opcersonsless
our
ent
consumption, it will evidently appear to be restricted by the artificial
limits of price, and not by any objection to the qualities and proper-
ties of the article. A careful examination of these will justify the
conclusion that It is adapted more than any other beverage for in-
corporation with every description of diet, and for use at every
meal ; that it is suited to every variety of physical constitution,
and adequate to sustain every description of mental or corporeal
exercise.
The present duty amounting to two-thirds of the cost of the most
serviceable descriptions of tea, it is evident that the dealers require,
in order to cover their investments in its purchase, three times the
profit which would repay them, were the article free of duty.
The
public have thus to pay a tax upon a tax; the magnitude of theim-
post, in the first instance, being indefeasible and oppressive. Were
the duty reduced to Is. per lb., the consumer would obtain at least
31bs, of tea for the same money that he now pays tor 21bs ; and
there is no doubt whatever that the larger quantity would be used.
As the consumption of every pound of tea involves that of 51bs. of
sugar, the extra duty on the latter, added to that on the increased
quantity of tea at Is., would at once yield a revenue of about four
millions, .accordin4 to the most moderate eomputation, while the
future enlargem nt of this source of public income might confidently
be expected.
The committee conceive it unnecessary to enlarge upon those
moral and social benefits that may fairly be anticipated under the
operation of a more equitable impost. They are persuaded that the
removal of those restrictions which now impede the use of a cheap
and salubrious beverage would be highly conducive to the happiness
and well-being of the community, by encouraging habits of tem-
perance and domestic comfort, and by supplying practical dissua-
sives from crime. They regard the burden of the tax as now
pressing upon the energies of the entire population, under what-
ever character these may be beneficially developed; and they there-
fore invite the sympathy and support of all classes in their efforts
for its removal.
Liverpool, November, 1846.

WILLIAM XICOL, Chairman.

AGENTLEMAN of considerable influence and
long standing on the Liverpool Exchange is desirous of taking
a: Agency, which he could further by his general knowledge of the
Merchants, Shipowners, Ship ‘.nd prduce Brokers, &c., of Liver-
pool. His references will be of the most unexceptionable character.
Apply by letter, only, to "L. S. B. Box C., 112," Post-office,
Liverpool.

'PO WHOLESALE CABINET MAKERS,
A UPHOLSTERERS, PAPER STAINERS, and FACTORS.
The ADVERTISER, having a first-rate connexion thoughout
Scotland, amongst Cabinet Makers, Upholsterers, and Paper Hangers,
wishes a Commission trona any respectable parties for any article in
the above trades.

The Advertiser, residing in Flcotland, and taking his journey twice a
year. Most resp stable references and security to any amount can
be given.—Address, A. L., Post-office, Glasgow.

PUBLICATIONS.

NEW WORK ON BIBLICAL CRITICISM.
In the course o, January will be published, in Bvo., Vol. 1., Part 1., to
be continued Quarterly,
ASYNOPSIS of CRITICISMS upon those
PASSAGES of the OLD TESTA3IENT in which MODERN
COMMENTARORS have differed from the AUTHORISED VER-
SION : together with an Explanation of various Difficulties In the
Hebrew anti English Texts. By the Rev. RICHARD A. F. BAR-
RETT, M.A., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.
London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

On Monday, the 18th, will be published, in two thick and handsome
Bvo. volumes, the Third Edition, corrected throughout, enlarged,
and greatly improved, of a
DESCRIPTIVE -and STATISTICAL
ACCOUNT of the BRITISH EMPIRE ; exhibiting its
Extent, Physical Capacities, Population, Industry, and Civil and
Religious Institutions. By J. R. WCULLOCH, Esq.
London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

FNCYCL OPIEDIA BRITANNICA.
Seventh Edition. Edited by Professor NAPIER.
In 21 volumes 4to. Illustrated by 506 Engravings on Steel, and

many thousands on Wood.
An Index. of 68,000 References, compiled with great industry and
judgment, is appended to the work, forming a ready key to its multi-
farious 00.1341#4.
- —Admit anlltrfiaries Black, Ectinbttrigh-; and Sold* all Booksellers.

PERFECT FREEDOM from COUGHS, in
Ten Minutes after use, is ensured by
DR. LOCOCK'S PULMONIC WAFERS.
From Mr. W. U. Waterhouse, Chemist, George-street,' Ashton,
under-Lyne,

"Jan. 8, 1846.
" Gentlemen,—One of our most respectable townsmen called upon
me yesterday, and stated that he had derived mot.* benefit from
Locock'. Wafers than from all the cough medicines he has used for
the past live-and-twenty years. Several other cases equally remark-
able have been reported, so that the efficacy of the medicine in this
district is now beyond dispute.

(Simed) W. 11. WATERHOUSE."
Dr. LOCOCK'S WAFERS give instant relief, and a rapid cure of
asthma, coughs, and all disorders of the breath and lungs.
To SINGERS and PUBLIC SPEAKERS they are invaluable for
clearing and strengthening the voice ; they have a pleasant taste.
Price is. 1%c1., 2s. 9d., and I Is. per box.
Agents :—Da Silva and Co., 1, Bride-lane, Fleet-street, London.
Sold by all medicine vendors.

SAUNDERS' RAZOR STROP.
THE METALLIC TABLET STROP, for keeping RAZORS
in perfect order, has been in constant use for the last thirty years.
The following certificates, from the most scientific gentlemen, are
published to show their worth.

From General James Tallmadge, President of the American In•
stitute.

" Saunders' Razor Strop, with its four sides, combines admirably
all the requisites to sharpen and set Razors with a fine ao.d smooth
edge ;—it is a real comfort to possess it.
" New York, Nov. 1841. JAMES TALLMADGE."
" Front Professor Griscom and Dr. Valentine Mott.
_ .

" George Saunders' Imperial Strop.—We can freely testify to its
value. The .lile which ke calls the Metallic Tablet is, as far as we
know, a thing of his own introduction into this country ; it appears
to be an excellent, convenient su,,stitute for a hone, and operates on
the same principle as steel does upon a table•knife, but with far
greater smoothness and certainty; it saves the unpleasant necessity
of oil and water, to assist in whetting. The other three sides of the
Strop are extremely well finished, flat, smooth, and almost elastic,
preserving the razor from that roundness of edge which so soon
destroys its keenness.

" J. GRISCOM.
" May 10, 1827. " VALENTINE ArOTT."
Depot, No. 278, Strand.

THE PERFECT SUBSTITUTE for SILVER.
The high estimate formed by the public during the twelve
years WILLIAM S. BURTON'S (late RIPON and BURTON'S)
chemically purified material has been before it (made into every
useful and ornamental article usually made in silver, possessing, as
it dces, the characteristic purity and durab.llty of silver), has called
into existence the deleterious compounds of " Albata " Berlin
St'ver," and other so called substitutes ; they are at best but bad
Imitations of the genuine articles manufactured, and sold only by him.
Fiddle Threaded King's
Table Spoons and Forks, full size per Pattern. Pattern. Pattern,

dozen. 12s. Od. 28s. Od. .30s. Od.
Dessert ditto and ditto ditt0...... 10s. Od. 21s. Od. 255. Od.
Tea ditto and ditto, ditto•• •• •• ss. Od. Ils. 04. 12s. Od.
Gravy ditto ......... ...... • •• • 3s. Od. 6s. Od. 7s. Od.

NICKEL ELECTRO-PLATED. —The REAL NICKEL NELTER,
introduced and made only by WILLIAM S. BURTON (late
RIPPON and BURTON'S), when plated by the patent pro tees of
Messrs. Elkington and Co.,it beyond all comparison the wary best
critic, next to sterling silver, that can be employed as such either
esefully or ornamentally. in the lengthened and increasittg popu-
larity of the material itself, and the high character of the method of
plating, the public have a guarantee that the articles sold by W. S.
Burton (and by hint only) are, as it regards wear, immeasurably
superior to what can be supplied at any other house, while by no
possible test can they be distinguished from real silver.
Fiddle. Thread.

Tea Spoons, per dozen ...... „ Ws:
Dessert Forks „ ••• • • ... • 30..

king's.

.......... 30e

PP

• -38 s.
.. 58s.

• • 12s.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

The Leeds and Thirsk are showing symptoms of a
speedy commencement of actual working traffic between
their termini. Their last public notification gives an
inventory of their wants for working plant, in the shape
of 24 second and 36 third-class carriages. Of heavier
plant they require 50 close vans for the conveyance of
general merchandise, 50 fiat trucks, 20 horse-boxes,
30 trucks for the conveyance of cattle, 20 trucks for
the conveyance of carriages, eight vans for passengers'
luggage.
The grand central station about to be erected on the
land opposite to the present terminus of the Chester and
Crewe branch of the London and North-Western Rail-
way, at Chester, is estimated to cost 80,0001.

The North British are about to take tenders for the
execution of the whole works on their Dunse, Tranent,
and Cockenzie branches, about eleven miles in length.
No tender has been made to the Minister of Public
Works for undertaking the Saint Dizier and Gray Rail-
way, consequently the execution of the works remain in
the hands of the Government.
One of the workmen of the London and North-West-
ern Railway Company's works, Crewe (says the Liver
pool Mercury), gave a vocal entertainment in the girl's
school-room, on New-year's evening, which, though not
numerously, was very respectably attended. The audience
were extremely delighted with the abilities of the per
former, and expressed their desire, amidst rapturous ap-
plause, for the repetition of the entertainment, on some
future evening, when, it is hoped, his exertions will
meet with that reward he has so justly merited.
RAILWAYS AND PAROCHIAL HATES.—The following
instance of the benefits derived by parishes through
which railways pass, was related by one of the speakers,
a Mr. Hudson. at a public meeting of landholders and
occupiers, held at Chobham a few days since, to take
into consideration the proposed Windsor, Staines, and
South-Western Railway. Mr. Hudson stated, as a proof
of the beneficial results of railways on parochial rates,
that in the parish of Woking a piece of land which, be-
fore the completion of the railway only paid eleven shil-
lings towards the rates for the relief of the poor, now
paid no less a sum than 1751.

PROJECTED RAILWAYS.—STANDING ORDERS
OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, SESSION 1847.
I❑ pursuance of the standing orders of last session,
authorising Mr. Speaker to appoint one or more officers
to be called " The Examiners of Petitions for Private
Bills," one to be chief examiner, that Right Hon.
Gentleman has appointed Mr. Smith (chief) and
Mr. May, who, in accordance with the 9th standing
order, have fixed Friday next, the 15th inst., for the
commencement of their duties. The petitions have been
entered on the general list, in the order of their deposit,
and by the Speaker's regulation the petitions will be set
down for hearing before the examiners in that order.
The examiners will commence their sittings daily at
10 o'clock precisely, and, by the 10th standing order,
"In case the promoters shall not appear at the time
when the petition shall come on tb be heard, the examiner
to whom the case shall have been allotted shall strike the
petitibn off the list, and shall not re-insert the same,
except by order of the House."
The following is a list of the petitions for the 15th and
16th inst.:—

PRICI SD.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

BRISTOL, JANUARY 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bristol and Exeter,
New, 94—Caledonian, New, 21. 18s. 9d.—Great Western,
Fifths, 31—Ditto, New. 73/a —Leeds and Thirsk, Preference
(6 per cent.), 13g p.—Midland, New, 39—Ditto, New, 63,4—
North British, Thirds, 23% p.—Ditto, Extension, 15s. p.