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No. 15,200

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1841.

STEAM to MARGATE and HERNE BAY
DIRECT
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On TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS, and SATURDAYS,
from London Bridge Wharf, by the fast and favourite Packets,
RED ROVER or CITY of CAN'IERBURY.

Fast Coaches leave Herne Bay on the above days, for Can-
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TIONDON AND BRIGHTON RAIL-
WAY COMPANY.
TO COACH-MASTERS AND OTHERS.
The DIRECTORS of this COMPANY are desirous of re-
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to BRIGHTON, a distance of about fifteen miles, and from
Brighton to Hayward s Heath, in four-horse coaches and
omnibuses, at a price to be named per coach per journey,
from and after the 29th June next. The proposals to be sent
in or before TUES OAT, the Ist of June next.
By Order, THOMAS WOOD, Sec.
London and Brighton Railway Offices,
10, Angel-court, Throgmerton-street,
20th May, 1841.

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CONTRACT FOR LIGNUM VIT]E.
DIWARTMENT OF THE STOREKEEPER-GENERAL OF
THE NAVY, SOMERSET-PLACE, MAY 19, 1841.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUT-
ING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of
the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby give Notice, that on THURSDAY, the 3d
June next, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with
such Persons as may be willing to Contract for Supplying her
Majesty's Dock-Yard at Portsmouth with

THIRTY TONS of LIGNUM VIT/E,
Of from si to 71 Inches Diameter.

A Form of the Tender may-be seen at the said Office.
No Tender will be received after One o'clock on the Day
of Treaty, nor any noticed, unless the Party attends, or an
Agent for him duly authorised in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Ad-
witalty, and bear in the left hand corner the words " Ten-
der far Lignum Vit," and must also ba delivered at So-
merset-place, accompanied by a Letter signed by a reipon-
sible person, engaging to become bound with the person tender-
ing, in the sum of 2001. for the due performance of the Contract.

CONTRACTS FOR WELSH COALS FOR DEPTFORD

AND GOSPORT.

DEPARTMENT OF THE COMPTROLLER FOR
VICTUALLING AND TRANSPORT SER-
VICES, SOMERSET-PLACE, MAY 25. 1841.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUT-
ING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of
the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby give Notice, that on THURSDAY, the 3d
June next, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such
Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying 2,100
Tons of Handpicked BRYNDORWAY, LLANGENNEUK,
RESOLVEN, or GRAIGOLA COALS, 1,200 Tons whereof
to be delivered into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Dept-
ford, and the remaining 900 Tons at the Royal Clarence Victual-
ling Yard at Gosport, and half of each quantity by the 31st of
July, and the remainder by the 31st October next.
The Conditions of the Contract may be seen at the said
Office.

No Tender will be received after one o'clock, on the day of
Treaty, nor any noticed, unless the party attends, or an agent
for him, duly authorised in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the A nu-
rally, and bear in the left hand corner the words " Tender for
Coals," and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, accom-
panied by a Letter signed by a responsible Person, engaging
to become bound with the Person tendering in he sum of
200/. for the due performance of each of the Contracts.

CUSTOM-HOUSE, LONDON, MAY, 1841_
FOIE. SALE, by Order of the Honourable
Commissioners of her MAJESTY'S CUSTOMS, at
Twelve o'clock at Noon precisely, on TUESDAY, Bth June,
1841, at the Commercial Sale-rooms, Mincing-lane,
For HOME CONSUMPTION,
One Hundred and Five GOLD WATCHES, Nineteen
SILVER WATCHES, Four Hundred and Sixteen GOLD
KEYS, Two Gold Pencil Cases, Two Metal Brooches.
For EXPORTATION,
A Quantity of Watch Movements, Metal Watdes, keys,
&c. &c.

To be viewed at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom-house,
Saturday sth, and Monday 7th June, 1841, from Ten o'clock
in the Morning, until Three o'clock in the Afternoon ; and on
the Day of Sale,. from Ten o'clock in thellorning until Twelve
o'qtack at Noon. .
Catalogues may be had at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom-
house, price Sixpence each.

ROSE AND CROWN POSTING, FAMILY, AND COM-
MERCIAL HOTEL, WISBECH, CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
ANN GODDARD begs most respecifully to
acquaint the Nobility, Gentry, Commercial, and other
Gentlemen, and her friends in general, that it is her intention
still to continue in the above very old established and commo-
dious house; and trusts, by unremitting care and attention, to
merit a continuance of that support hitherto so liberally be-
stowed on her late husband; and assures them nothing shall be
wanting on her part to render the house replete with every
comfort and convenience. The bedroom department will be
strictly attended to, and at all times ready for the reception of
families. Choice Old Wines and Foreign Spi.iit,. Lock-up
Coach-houses and excellent Stables. Coaches to London, Cam-
bridge, Lynn, and Northampton, every day, Sundays excepted.

ANEW TAILORING ESTABLISH-
MENT, on the READY MONEY PRINCIPLE,
combining MODERATE PRICES with the NEWEST
FASHIONS, and the best materials made use of, is just
opened at No. 3, FLEET-STREET, near TEMPLE-BAR.
G. EVANS respectfully begs to address himself to those
gentlemen who do not wish to pay the exorbitant prices con-
sequent on a credit trade, nor yet wish to have their clothes
made at such professed low prices, that it would be impossible
they could meet with an article they could wear with sa-
tisfaction, and to assure them they will avoid both these ex-
tremes, by giving him a trial., Ile has for many years con-
ducted a very large business with,great success, and intends to
continue to cut out his own ordersnd to supply the best gar-
ments, in every sense of the word, at the lowest possible
charge, and hopes thereby to meet with support from his
friends and the public.

A list of prices forwarded to any part of the country.

LARGE REDUCTION OF PREMIUMS ON SAFE
PRINCIPLES.
SECOND ANNUAL DIVISION OF PROFITS.
TTNIVERSAL LIFE ASSURANCE
%...) SOCIETY, King William-street.—At the SEVENTH
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Society, a RE-
DUCTION of SIXTY PER CENT. has again been an-
nounced on the CURRENT PREMIUMS on all POLICIES
that have been in existence five years ; and the correctness of
the estimates, on which a similar division of profits was declared
last year, has been fully confirmed.
The premiums are thus reduced to a rate which will bear
comparison with any other office, while the principle is recog-
nised, whereby a scale, originally fixed on a safe and prudent
basis, is capable of reduction in due time dependent on the
successful progress of the Society.
.t Messrs. Bagshaw and Co., Calcutta.
Agents in India Messrs. Hall, Bainbridge, and Co., Madras.
Messrs. Leckie and Co., Bombay.
By order of the Board,
DAVID JONES, Actuary.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND SOCIETY,
FOR GRANTING
LIFE ASSURANCES, DEFERRED ANNUITIES, &c.
No. 2ti, CORNHILL.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
EIRECTORS.
T. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman.
J. Elliotson, M.D., F. R. S. John Rawson, Esq.
John Griffith Frith, Esq. Jehn Riddell Stodart, Esq.
Hunter Gordon, Esq. Clement Tabor, Esq.
George Lungley, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq.

NOR LIFE.

Age.

Without With
Profits. Profits.
--
£. s. d. s. d.
1 13 7 1 17 4
244 2 9 3
2 18 8 3 5 3
4 4 2 4 13 6
6 13 6 7 8 4

For One
Year only.

s. d.
0 17 0
0 19 6
1 3 10
1 13 0
3 0 0

Bt
For Five
Years only.

X. s. d.
0 17 6
1 0 0
1 5 0
1 16 6
3 9 6

Two-thirds of Profits divided annually amongst the Assured.
DEFERRED ANNUITIES DEPARTMENT.

By the plan exclusively developed by this Society, a single
Deferred Annuity is made, not only to answer the same object,
but to far exceed in amount the entire benefit of all the ad-
vantages heretofore only obtained by the middle and industrious
classes through separate investments in Savings' Banks, Be-
nefit Societies, and Loan Banks.

1. A small yearly or weekly contribution will secure the
most ample return for after life; thus-21. 12s. per annum (Is.
a week) at the age of 20, will give the policy holder the fol-
lowing option, at the age of 65
Annuity for remainder of life... ... £47 16
Cash 394 11
Policy, without further contributions, of 466 0
Other periods of life (of 50, 55, and 60) may be
with similar advantages.
2. Two-thirds at any time lent on deposit of policy, being a
fund always available during sickness or want of employment.
3. Two-thirds of all payments returned to representatives in
case of premature death.
N.B. Policies, as collateral money-security, for periods of
one to five years, effected at lower rates than are charged by
any other Office, (See Tables A. and B.), with option of con-
tinuance for Life at the usual rates.

0 or a

0 at death.
also taken

F. FERGUSON CABIROUX, Sec.

SKTs_PmpAoIiG.DEA:O, FmA IDT.N2E4.—The 'lg'
lireEatesSi imaa gE iln Va
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or tnY-
sternation and surprise were excaed throughout this town and
BAN
neighbourhood to-day, by the announcement that the long-
established and highly-respected bankers, Price, Jones, and
Edwards, had susperidid payment. The blow was wholly un-
expected, and will be most severely felt by the tradesmen of
Shrewsbury, and by great numbers in every sphere of life in
the immediate vicinity. For many years previous to his
demise, which took place a few weeks ago, the acting
partner in the firm was Mr, William Jones, and the other
two (one of whom was known to have a very large pri-
vate property) now allege that they believed the bank
not only to have been perfectly solvent, but to have been
in as flourishing and prosperous a state as it had
been in for years previous to Mr. Jones's death. An
adjustment of affairs, satisfactory to the creditors, is pro-
mised at no distant date; but strange stories (to which, of
course, we shall not give a tangible form) are in circulation as
to a disposal of the private property alluded to having taken
place, that will render the fulfilment of these pledges not quite
so certain or so speedy as could be wished. Trade throughout
this district is in a most lamentable state, particularly in Coal-
brookdale, Wellington' and all along the scat of the great iron-
works on the borders of Shropshire and Staffordshire ; and the
stoppage of this bank following so close, too, on the heels of
the failure of the Commercial—who had several branches in
Shropshire—will tend materially to :hake publie credit, and
consequently still further circumscribe. the little business that is
at present being transacted. The liabilities of
- Price, Jones,
and Edwards, are not yet known, but they are believed to be
very heavy. Their London agents are Barnett, Hoare, and Co.
—Times.

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PRICE 5d

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY:
CHRONICLE.—The object of Sir Robert Peel's motion,
announced for to-morrow evening, is to deprive the people of
this country of their legitimate control over the management
of their most important interests. It condemns the continu-
ance of Ministers in office, for the assigned reason that they
"do not sufficiently possess the confidence of the House of
Commons, to enable them to carry through that House mea-
sures which they deem of essential importance to the public
welfare." But the confidence of the House may be one thing,
and the confidence of the nation another. Do the millions tell
for nothing on questions affecting the means by which they live,
the markets for their industry, the quantum of employment
and consequent amount of wages, the price of every article of
consumption, bread, meat, fish, sugar, and of many articles
essential to their occupations ? Have the people no
rights, has the nation no voice, on such questions ? In
the present state of the representative body, the only constitu-
tional appeal is to those whom they claim to represent. There
is, at any rate, a strong prima facie ease in favour of the
policy which the proposed resolution, by implication, stigma-
tises. Does that deserve no respect from the members of her
Majesty's Government? "No," replies Sir Robert (by the
tenour of his motion), " you should disregard the people alto-
gether; a majority in favour of monopoly should make you
throw up their cause without any further effort; you should
resign, and hand over to us the powers of the State, that we
may employ them for purposes which you believe alike
hostile to the intelligence and interests of the nation." The
adoption of such advice would be traitorous to the community.
The occasion demands an expression of the people's prefer-
ence. Unless the old boroughmongering system be an excep-
tion, there has been a larger body of petitioners against the
Corn-laws than ever before applied to the House of
Commons for the redress of any grievance whatever.
That which forfeits Sir Robert Peel's confidence
secures the nation's confidence. The country has expressed
its opinion by petitions ; it expresses that opinion from day to
day with augmented earnestness; and yet the Tory leader has
the modesty to ask Ministers to agree with him in ckpriving
the country of its right to repeat by voting. and so mace the
opinion if •has already Manifested by its petitions. He urges
resignation as a duty, because it will deprive public opinion of
its proper efficiency. Thus, the first step on the ladder by
which it is hoped to scale the heights of power, is made upon
the substance of a national right. The intended preface of a
Tory restoration is a gagging resolution. Nor would its cha-
racter be improved were Sir Robert Peel to declare his own
purpose to be a dissolution immediately on his taking office.
He is in this dilemma ; if he will not dissolve, he obstructs the
appropriate expression of the public mind, demanded by the
exigency; and, if he will dissolve, his attempt to force Mi-
nisters to a resignation previou.ly, is pain intimation of a dis-
honest purpose. It implies the premeditation of unfair and
corrupt practices to secure the results of an election.
TIMES.—Sir Robert Peel has done no more than satisfy
the general expectation of the country by the manly and de-
cided course which he has taken in the present crisis. A con-
stitutional principle of first-rate importance was at stake, and
the effect of a weak or vacillating line of action might have
been to establish a precedent of the most pernicious conse-
quence, and to break up the understanding which from 1688 to
1841 has settled the mutual relations of the legislative and exe-
cutive powers in Great Britain. What Ministers have been
attempting for the last month is in truth nothing less than a
coup d'etat—an endeavour to carry on the Government upon
the strength of Court favour alone, in the face of an adverse
majority in both kjousee,-,qf Parliament. Not only have they
brought forward a finanOatsscheme of a novel character, after
the rejection df a hill 'Upon a most important subject, intro-
duced by themselves and supported by all their influence, but
after that financial scheme has been repudiated by the
House of Commons, they still persevere in the reso-
lution openly avowed by one of their Journalists, of
" neither resigning nor dissolving, but carrying on the
Government of the country." They. imagine that the
House of Commons will tamely concede to them, under
these circumstances, the privileges which, by prescrip-
tive usage, belong to the Ministers of the Crown ; will sub-
mit to arrangements of their making ; will suffer them to bring
forward measure after measure from the Treasury benches,
alter it has declared against their continuance in office by a
greater majority than ever mustered in their favour. If those
upon whom the Constitution has thrown the duty of resisting
this bold experiment, had failed in its performance—if Sir Ro-
bert Peel had not given notice of a want-of-confidence resolu-
tion, to be moved with the smallest possible delay—if he had
not determined, upon the success of that motion, in the event
of Ministers attempting to meet Parliament again without an-
nouncing their resignations, to propose an address to the
Crown for their immediate removal, and, in the event of a de-
nial or a dilatory answer to that address from the Crown, to take
the conduct of the public business in the House
of Com-
mons entirely out of their hands--a severer blow would have
been inflicted upon the British Constitution than it has ever
suffered since the times of the Stuart dynasty. All parties,
and all persons, of all shades of politics, who are capable of
taking thought for the future, must rejoice that such a pre-
cedent has not been allowed to become established. Whigs
would have deplored their own short-sighted infatuation
hereafter, when they saw their own example followed by
Tories. A Minister of sonie future Charles 11. might have
maintained himself in office without a Parliamentary ma-
jority, under the sole shelter of prerogative, and would have
pointed to Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell as those
who first taught him the way ; and a revolution (for the stop-
page of supplies is a revolution) must have been resorted to,
as the only remedy, as often as the judgment of the House
of Commons came into collision with the personal inclinations
of the Sovereign.
ADVERTISER.—Like all the measures of the Peel-Tory
policy, the proposed motion for a vote of want of confidence is
an evasion—an evasion of the greater difficulty in which the
Tories would be placed by a full, fair, and thorough discussion
upon the Corn-laws. That it is a mere evasion is palpable,
from its being thrust forward on Thursday, the day before the
House breaking up for the Whitsuntide holidays, when it can-
not be discussed fully, and must therefore be adjourned. And
yet, with all this laborious cunning, will the party really
succeed in their object ? They may postpone the formal
discussion of the Corn-laws, but still the odious doctrines of
free trade, and all that constitute the policy of the Government,
and makes it worthy of the confidence—if not of the House,—
of the country, will b-eak forth. " But," says the wary
politician, " the truths which you would by such a
discussion disclose will be swamped by the ollapodrida of
talk on every sort of thing besides, which we shall take
care to introduce ; and thus the public will be confounded
and in the mystification we shall escape." Not so, worthy tac-
ticians ; the debate will possibly last ten days or a fortnight ;
the young and active energies on the Liberal side will apply
themselves to unravel your exquisitely wrought fallacies and
clap-traps, so that your latter day will be worse than the first.
The public will judge between you and them—on that which
is emphatically (if ever cause was) their own cause. The more
we think of it, the more we relish the idea of this want-of-con-
fidence debate. Many thipgs which could not come out in a
mere Corn-law debate, will find vent ; and besides, let us add,
there will still remain behind, if we mistake not, the oppor-
tunity for the Corn-law debate too. It is, in short, the very
best thing for the Ministerial party ' • and if we were not up
to the tricks of the Tories, or at least of their leader, we
should say, the very worst for them. But, no doubt, he has
his own personal objects in it. Let this be as it may, the
motion is to be met, and met it will be, in a gallant spirit by
the Liberals, who are chirping with delight at the idea of
another good round battle with the enemies of public li-
berty. Fortunately, in the present case, Sir Robert Peel
will take the lead. He must make out his case at the outset.
There will be no drawing back to await the chances of the de-
bate. He must make out his case, ar be nonsuited, as the
lawyers say. What will be his case? We apprehend, three-
fold ; past, present, and to come—that the Whigs have done
much good, are doing much good, and will do, if they are per-
mitted, a great deal more—that, with all the opposition which
the Tories have been able to offer, this good has been done ;
but that now, the Tories being too much for them, it is quite
unconstitutional to attempt to do more, and that they ought,
therefore, to leave the field to the Tories, to do as much mis-
chief, or prevent as much good, as they can—that it was never
heard of, in the times when the public liberties were bought
and sold by the boroughmongers in the unreformed Parliament,
that the Government held out after the transfer had beets ra-
tified by an Opposition, however factious—that the people are
to be held of no accopnt in such matters, still less appealed to.
This is the upshot of the nonsense which the Tories are held-

ing forth ; but they do not believe that tho Ministers are such

geese as to act upon it.
POST.—There is a just and happy appriciation of the Eng-
lish character in the course nhich the distinguished leader of
the Opposition has resolved upon. To combine boldness
with prudence—resolution with reasonableness—is the charac-
teristic of the English nation. Therefore we may fairly cha-
racterise the brief resolution of which Sir Robert Peel has
given notice as a national appeal. We are confident that it will
be a successful one. He appeals not merely to the House of
Commons, but also to the common sense and manly feeling of
the nation. He says it is not constitutional that beaten
men should meanly cling to the administration of public
affairs, and the sense and Spirit of the country will respond
that neither is it reasonable or consistent with the public safety
and the national honour. For ourselves, that which we ad-
mire most in the resolution of which the Right Hon. Baronet
has given notice is, as we have already said, its frankness, fair-
ness, and bold straightforward spirit. In a word, its utter op-
position, and absolute contradiction, to the character and habits
of Whig-Radical policy. It asserts the plain truth with dignity
and distinctness. It is honest without rudeness, and earnest
without extravagance. But they who care less about these par-
ticularly English characteristics of the resolution will perhaps
be better disposed to dwell upon the constitutional and popular
principles which it plainly asserts. Here arc Ministers who
presume to retain office in defiance of the strongly-expressed
disapprobation of Parliament. They have brought forward
measures which they themselves confess, and all must acknow-
ledge, to be of a deeply important character, and fraught with
deeply-important practical consequences. They hare been
beaten upon the first of these measures in the House of Com-
mons, and they do not pretend to expect any better fate for
those which are to follow. And yet they cling to office with-
out affording one word of explanation or apology for conduct
so much at variance with the practice of the Constitution.
'fhey have not told the House that they mean to advise her
'Majesty to dissolve it. We believe they are afraid to do so.
They are afraid to dissolve the Parliament, being well aware
that the feeling of the country is against them, as well as the ma-
jorities of the Houses of Lords and Commons, but still they
cling to office, relying on the partiality of the Court, and
despising the constitutional rights of the people. This is the
charge which the people have against these Ministers ; and the
bold, prudent, honest step upon which the leader of the Op-
position has resolved is simply the first step in the assertion of
the public liberties of the people of England. These liberties
are in danger from the carelessly impudent course which a
merely courtier Ministry has adopted, and they are net the less
so because attacked in an undermining - way. There 13too
much courage—too much manly spirit—in the British people
ever to allow their constitutional liberties to be taken from
in
them by open assault. The danger to these liberties lies
the possibility of their beingsapped by treachery—by
selfish machinations of those who have the words of freee fb
in their mouths, while their arts are i
bul-
warks of freedom which the practice:of the
up. Sir Robert Peel's resolution assertsndefiance
the right Constitutionn f
of
the thosea
of any
House
setcontinuance
Government in England. This eight it is which the present
Ministers practically contest.
HERALD.—Her Majesty's
M
position. In real pity we trust
tihnoitstesrisare now
Sir
Robert in a criticalpeelis
s
t
chided, laughed at, as wanting courage.
has
such a
revenging himself for his disappointment in 1835,
hheasdobneeen?
decided step as he
There is not on theh
of
fM
Parliamentary
tell Lor Lord historyJ l Russell
asretackoennis.
the immense difference between him and Sir Robert Peel?
Lord John is a conceited Whig. For years has he been trying
agitation, and Sir Robert has not. '(here is no comparison
between the men's talents. Sir Robert has proved him-
Self equal to the occasion. The Globe tells us last night