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MIDDLESEX ELECTION
The Committee for conducting the Election of Loru
ROBERT GROSVENOR sit daily at the Central Committee Rooms,
British Coffee House, Cockspur-street.
S. C. WHITBREAD, Chairman.
January 23, 1847.

TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY AND LIBERTY OF

WESTMI2iSTER.

GENTLEMEN,
MR. LEADER has declared his intention to
decline seeking a renewal of your suffrages.
In addressing the Electors of Westminster as a Candidate to fill
the elpectel vacancy, I ldeem it right to state that I should not
venture to offer myself unless I had been previously honoured by the
unsought preference of a highly-respectable portion of the consti-
tuency. I do, however, gladly avail myself of this mark of confi-
dence, and shall now briefly state to the Electors the grounds on
which I solicit their support, namely, the political options which I
have hitherto maintained, and to which I shall adhere.

One of the most important questions of the present day is whether
the principle of Free Trade should be carried out by a series of mea-
sures, prompt but not precipitate, efficient but not destructive, or
whether we are to revert to the old system of monopoly and protec-
tion. lam the decided friend of Free Trade.

On the subject of Education, which now happily commands the
attention of a very large part of the community, I enterain a deep
anxiety that means should be adopted for the due instruction of the
people at large, and that on the most comprehensive basis—on prin-
dples fair and just to all; to whatever profession of Christianity they
may belong.
_ _ _

I need scarcely add my voice to the universal opinion that the laws
relating to the poor require extensive modification.
I have always been an advocate for the Ballot and for the axten•
sion of the Suffrage.

I think it unnecessary to enter Into further details. When in Par
liament I acted, and, it again returned, intend to act on the principle
of progress, and to support all well-considered improvements in our
laws and institutions, for which there is a just and growing demand.
My best appeal, however, to your confidence is my votes.
With respec: to foreign policy, I deprecate all interference in the
affairs of other nations, unless when such interference becomes
indispensably necessary for the safety of our country, or the protec-
tion of its most important interests—a necessity which, I apprehend
very seldom occurs.

Constant attendance in Parliament the Electors of Westminster
have a right to expect from their Member—in that respect I may
safely promise that I shall not be found wanting.
I have the honour to ne, gentlemen,
Your faithful and obedient servant,
CHARLES LUSHINGTON.
1, Palace-gardens, Bayswater, 26th Jan., 1847.

BOSTONo STAMFORD, and BIRMINGHAM
RAILWAY.—(STAMFORD and WISBEACH LINE).
Notice is hereby given, that the ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY
MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of this Company will be held,
pursuant to the Roston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway Act,
1846, (Stamford and Wisbeach Line), on WISDNZSDAY, the 17th day
of February next, at the Company's offices, 18, Abingdon-street,
Westminster, at One o'clock in the afternoon precisely, for the pur-
pose of transacting such business as is required by the Act of Parlia-
ment to be performed.
And notice is hereby also given, that immediately on the termina-
tion of the said Ordinary Half-yearly Meeting, an EXTRAORDI-
NARY and SPECIAL MEETING of the Shareholders of this Com-
pany will be held at the Company's Offices aforesaid, for the purpose
of confirming or otherwise an Agreement entered into by the Direc-
tors of the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway Company
with the Directors of the Great Northern Railway Company, for the
lease and sale of the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway,
and its Extension, to the Great Northern Railway Company, upon
the terms and conditions mentioned in such Agreement, and promul-
gated to the Shareholders in the report presented to and adopted by
the General Meeting of the Shareholders, held at the Company's
offices on the 22d day of December last. And also for the purpose
of submitting to and obtaining the confirmation of the Shareholders
to drafts of the several Bills hereinafter mentioned, which are
about to be introduced into Parliament in the present Sessions, viz.
A Bill to empower the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Rail-
way Company to make a Railway from the Syston and Peterborough
Railway, at or near Peterborough, to tke Stamford and Wisbeach
line of the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway, in the
parish of Thorney and Isle of Ely.
A Bill to empower the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Rail-
way Company to make a Branch Railway from the Stamford and
Wisbeach Line of the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway,
at Wisbeach, to Wisbeach Harbour, and to construct certain works
at Wisbeach Harbour.

A Bill to empower the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Rail-
way Company to make a ltall way from Wisbeach to Sutton abridge,
with a Branch to Sutton St. Mary, and to improve the Harbour at
Sutton- bridge.

_
THOMAS MACULAY, Chairman.
GEORGE HUSSEY PACKE, Vice-Chairman.
GEORGE SAWARD, Secretary.
Company's Offices, 18, Abingdon-street, Westminster,
Jan. 20, 1847.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY
HALF-YEARLY ORDINARY MEETING.

The Half-yearly Ordinary Meeting of the Shareholders of this
Company will beheld at the Company's Offices, GI, Moorgate•street,
London, on WEDNESDAY, the 10th day of February next, at one
o'clock precisely.

QTEAM via the CAPE to MADRAS, CAL-
► CUTTA, PENANG, SINGAPORE, and HONG-KONG,
calling at the C APE, MAURITIUS and CEYLON.

The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company intend
Clepateh their Steam Ships.

.:I'EKIN," of 1,000 Tons, 400 horse power, 30th January.
“POTTINGER." of 1,400 Tons, 500 horse power, sth February.
The accommodation for passengers are of a very superior descrip-
tion. The Cabin fittings, together with bedding, linen, and every,
requisite are provided at the Company's expense, The rates of pas-
sage are, to the Cape, 60/. ; to the Mauritius, 751. ; to Calcutta, 241.,
including a handsome table, wines, Scc., and every expense.
For plans and further particulars, apply at the Company's Offices,
51, St, Mary Axe, London.

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W. and H. P. SHARP, 2, Verula.m-buildings,
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Agents for
• J. W. and H. E. RIDGWAY, Manchester,
Plaintiffs' Solicitors.

'WANTED, a ,TRAVELLER in the LACE
TRADE. He must be a person of thorough business habits,
possess a knowledge of the trade, and have a connexion in the Mid-
land Counties and the West of England.
_ _

Apply, by letter, post paid, addressed to X. P., Hammond's Tow*
and Country Advertisement Office, 27, Lombard-street.

PARCEL POST COMPANY.
Capital 30•00/., in 6,0001. Shares of 5/. each,
No call beyond 21. 10s. per share to be made until after the first
Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders,
Central Depot-67, Fleet-street, London.
The Directors have the gratification to state that the preliminary
arrangements of the undertaking having been perfected, the Com-
pany will COMMENCE BUSINESS on MONDAY NEXT, the 25th
of January instant. The Board having based its arrangements upon
a resolution not to snake an allotment of the shares on the capital
stock of the Company until after the actual commencement of the
business operations of the undertaking, will continue to receive ap-
plications ter those shares until the 28th instant, after which day the
list will be finally closed.—By order of the hoard,
E. T. GOLIC)H, Secretary and Resident Manager.
67, Fleet-street, London, Jan. 18. 1847.

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oresxYt
atNlt -----------
31sv•i—c
Wick,
ont Tuesdaymeeting of the
SAChamberTTEof Commerce,
of a meeting betwixt a deputation and e last,7a report
members
county was read, from which we gather the "I"in—rorf,:(l4e,
as to the state of the country:—parish of f Latheron —ln
the district comprising half the estate of Dianb
e
onwheel, and Latheron, and the greater part of aiti, Lather-
are 291 families, comprising 1,499 individuals, requiring,o!se, there
some for the whole period to next harvest, some
e meal,
have
supply perhaps for three months. Of the 291,45 are a
already
depending on charity. This distress, greater than ever
before known, proceeds from the Ware of the herring fisher
and the depression of the herring trade, as well as tli.e,
failure of the potato crop. On some of the estates in the
parish a good deal is doing, and proposed to be done, and in
one or two instances, food for the poor has been pro-
Yided. Many of the poor are literally starving. In the
whole parish it is supposed that no less than 3,000 bolls of
meal will be required to be stored. Parish of Lybster—Forty
faiiiilieS are at presentdestitute, and it is supposed that thirty
families a month, till July, will be added to the list. At the
same meeting, however, a letter was read from Mr. Morrison
Snody, a factor on Lybster estate, stating that "a sum of
some hundreds Is about to be laid out in labour, and at this
moment (January tith), labourers cannot be got." Ac•
counts thus dld'ered. Mr, Snody, however, resided twenty
miler front Lybster, and the gentleman who made the state-
ment in the pariah, Swiney—Moy families have been com-
pelled to betake themselves for support to the turnip fields.
Cyth—l±:uipleyroent for thirty men has been provided, but
if the
he of the work Could get olio hundred more
e was instructed to ernilo,V them.—ealedonian Mercury.
THE WEATHER IN V ANOLIESTEII,—SIJNDAY, JAN.
24. Yesterday a thaw set in, and continued during the
whole of the dq-Y, The railways: leading from the town have
41„" P
been, 691-Op relieved from much inconvenience, The
trains have bet:: :wettY 11 Up to their time, and no further
&hips 41) t44tleiplitpe, e . i;'.;4

THE SPANISH MARRIAGES.
The diplomatic correspondence relating to the Mar-
riages of the Queen and Infanta of Spain has been pre•
sented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of her
Majesty. Several of the communications contained in
this document have been presented by the French Go-
vernment to the Chambers, but the following additional
extracts from the correspondence are of considerable in-
terest. Our readers will bear in mind, that as the papers
we have already published formed, as it were, the French
case, so these, from which we subjoin ample extracts,
may be taken ai the justification of the English Govern-
ment in the policy it has
re-
ference to the royal marriages:—
THE EARL OF ABERDEEN TO SIR ROBERT
pursued towards Spain with

GORDON. --
Foreig, March 16, 1842.
The great remedy which the Kn-officeing of the French proposes
for all the evils of Spain, both present and future, is an agree-
ment respecting the marriage of the Queen. lie declares
that ho entirely renounces all pretensions for any son of his
own ; but that France will never submit to see the Queen
married to any prince but a member of the family of
Bourbon. He is indifferent respecting what individual may
be selected, or from what branch of the family; but, according
to the expression of M. Pageot, he would place his veto upon
the choice of a prince of any other house. Should such a
marriage as that which he contemplates be effected, he pre-
sumes that the northern Powers would at once renew their
friendly relations with Spain; and that, by the cordial as-
sistance and support of France, the tranquillity and happi-
ness of the country would be secured.
To all this, and a great deal more urged by M. Pag_e°4 in
the same sense, I replied, that I did not recognise in France,
or in all Europe, any right whatever to dispose of the hand
of the Queen of Spain; that when the King of the French
acknowledged the succession of the Queen, he did so without
any stipulation that she should marry a Bourbon Prince, and
that he must have known such an event was necessarily un- ,
certain; that although, for political reasons connected with
the preservation of the balance of Europe, England would
not look with indifference on the choice of a French Pririce,
we by no means pretended tome a veto upon the family
of Bourbon, and that it the Queeix.of Spain and her Govern-
ment thought fit to make such a seliction, we should readily
accept the Prince as her husband. - t
In truth, we regard this question as entirely and exclu-
sively Spanish; and that it ought to be regulated by con-
siderations affecting the happtness of the Queen and the
welfare of her people. It is for the Spanish nation and Go•
vernment to advise in a matter so important to the interests
of Spain.

in 8.)
No.
THE EARL OF(Enclosure ABERDEEN TO THE DUKE OF
SOTOMAYOR.

Forei gn:offic, June , .
M. le Duc,—You have informed me that younhad22 bean in-
structed to ascertain whether it would call forth the dis-
pleasure of the British Government if the Cabinet of Madrid
should find it necessary, in the interest of the Spanish
monarchy, to select some Prince as the future husband of
the Queen other than a member of the family of Bourbon ;
and also whether, if France should resent this proceeding,
and attempt to coerce the free action of the Spanish Govern-
ment, it would be regarded with indifference by Great
Britain?
I can have no difficulty in answering these inquiries.
We have always denied, and still deny, the right or pre-
tension of the French Government to impose a member of
any family upon the Spanish nation as the husband of the
Queen, or to control in any manner the decision of a ques-
tion so purely Spanish. But we have felt, and have readily
admitted, that there might be various reasons which should
induce the Spanish Government preferably to select from the
house of Bourbon a Prince for this station. Of these rea-
sons, the desire on the part of Spain, and the interest of
Spain to maintain friendly relations with France, 'might
naturally be supposed to possess much weight. We
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If it should be found that no descendant of Philip V.
can safely be chosen, consistently with the happiness of the
Queen, or with a due regard to the tranquillity of the
country, the Spanish Government, in the exercise of their
independent judgment, must act in such a manner as
may be dictated by a sense of their own dignity and in-
terest ; and, in this case, it could be no cause of displea-
sure to Great Britain if they were to select a prince from
some_ other family.

Whatever might be the disappointment experienced by
France at such a decision, I cannot for a moment admit the
possibility of anything so unreasonable and unjust as an at-
tempt to control the choice of the Queen in a matter of this
kind. The French Government must be perfectly aware that
no marriage which does not accord with the wishes of the
Queen and receive the assent of her people, can be at all
likely to promote the happiness of the Sovereign, or the wel-
fare and prosperity of Spain.
France is too deeply interested in the happiness of Spain,
and the Court of the Tuileries is too much enlightened and
toe just, to entertain the notion of such an interference as
that supposed. It may, therefore, be at once rejected as im-
possible. But if, contrary to all reason and probability, any
such project, that is to say, an attempt to control the wishes
and feelings of the Queen, and the clearly understood will of
her people, should be contemplated, there could be no doubt
that Spain would not only receive the warmest sympathy of
Great Britain, but of all Europe.—l am, Szc.,

ABERDEEN.

No. 9.
LORD COWLEY TO VISCOUNT PALMERSTON.
Paris, July 13, 1846.
Soon after the declaration of the Queen of Spain's majo-
rity, the French Government commenced a negotiation at
Naples, with a view to a marriage between the Count Tra-
pani, the King's brother, and the young Queen of Spain ' • and
if any credit is to be given to the reports of the French Am-
bassador at that court, lie had every prospect of bringing the
negotiation to a successful issue, when the whole proceeding
was rendered fruitless by the extreme unpopularity through-
out Spain of a Neapolitan connexion, and by the determina-
tion which, as it would appear, has lately been taken to re-
sist it, if necessary-, by force.
The question, therefore, of marrying the Queen to a Bour-
, bon Prince of the Spanish line is now one of greater difficulty,
and has been rendered still more difficult by a proposal which
seems to have come from the Spanish Court, for an alliance
with a Prince of the house of Coburg. Supposing a Nea-
politan alliance to be out of the question, the three remaining
princes of the Spanish line are the two sons of Don Francisco,
and the Count de Montemolin, the eldest son of the Infante
Don Carlos.

The two Queens have insuperable objections to the sons of
Don Francisco, though tho Queen-Mother, as I lately learned,
has expressed a less unfavourable opinion respecting the Duke
of Cadiz. It would appear, from the language of Don En-
rique, the younger son, that he is no longer a candidate for
her Majesty's hand, and that he is rather disposed to push
his fortunes as a partisan of the Progresistas, with whom he
is strictly united; and an apprehension is entertained that
he will proceed from Brussels to England for the purpose of
putting himself in communication with Espartero,
and con-
certing measures with him for the advancement of the pro-.
jects of that party.
There is a party in Spain in favour of the Count de Monte-
molin, but he must be recalled from banishment by the
Cortes, and abandon his pretensions to espouse the Queen
upon equal rights to the throne, before be can offer himself
as a candidate for her Majesty's-hand.
The intelligence of a proposal having been made for an
alliance with a Prince of the house of Coburg occasioned
f
the greatest consternation here. M. Guiut told me that i
the project was persisted in, he should recommend it to the
King to put forward the Duke de Montpensier as a candidate
fur the Queen's hand. •

No. 22.
VISCOUNT PALMERSTON TO MR. BULWER.
(Extract) Foreign-office, Aug. 25, 1846.
With regard to the Queen of Spain's marriage, I have
already explained to
you Om opinion of her Majesty's Go-
vernment.
But that opinion is not given in the spirit of dictation.
The British Government has no right and no power to
dictate to the Spanish Government in this matter.
The question as to the choice of a husband for the
Queen ought to be decided by those persons in Spain who
are properly competent and entitled to decide it ;
'aud
the only case in which, in the opinion of her Majesty.B Go-
vernment, any foreign Power could have a right to inter-
fere in that matter, would be the case specified in my dis-
patch to you of the 19th of July, namely, the case in which
the choice should be expected to fall upon " some prince so
directly belonging to the reigning family of some powerful
foreign State, that he would be likely to connect the policy
of the country of his adoption with the policy of the country
of his birth, in a manner that would be injurious to the
balance of power, and dangerous to the interests of other
States."
Upon these matters, then, her Majesty's Government see
no reasons to depart from the doctrines laid down in Lord
Aberdeen's note to the Duke of Sotomayor, of the 22d of
June last, and also in the instructions which I have had oe.
casiou to address you since I have held the seals of this
department.

No. 25.
MR. BULWER TO VISCOUNT PALMERSTON.
Madrid, August 29, 1946
I have now to announce to your Lordship that the Queen
declared last night, at 12 o'clock, that she had inade up her
mind in favour of his Royal Highness Don Francisco de

Assis. little time to consider,
The Queen. I am told, took some
and then decided in favour of her cousin.
I am oorry to inform your Lordship that the marriage of
the Duke of Montpensier, who is to be bere in a fortnight,
;r
is to take place at the same time as that of her Majesty I
have at different times, though privately! warned M. Isttitz
and the Court, that this event would excite considerable
discontent in England, and produce a very unfavourable
impression on the public mind there. I have also touched on
the subject with Count I3resson, but, as I had no instructions
to speak to him on the question, I did not do more than ex-
pleas my own views respecting it. . .
I learn that directly the Queen bad signified her intention
of marrying her cousin, Count Bresson formally asked the
hand of the Infanta for the Duke de Mont
n
r
Montpensier, stati
that lie had powers to enter upon and conclude that affaig
and the terms of the marriage were then definitively settled;
between M. Istui itz and him.

No. 27.
THE MARQUIS OF NORMANRI TO VISCOUNT
PALMERSTON.
Pens, Sept. 1,
My Lord,--I this morning received a note from M. Guizot
requesting to see tice after his return from the Chambers,
a'
little before six.
Up.m my keeping the appointment, he began by telling
me that lie had news from Spain that the marriage of the Queen with the Duke of Cadiz Ives settled. I said that
the last intelligence we had received. thence had induced
us to think such a result not unlikely. lle said be had
no details, as he had received it by telegrapb. He then
added, that the Queen was at the same time to give her
sanction f.ur her sister's marriage with the Duke de Mont-
ponsier. "At the same?" I inquired. " Not at the same
time," he answered; " not to take place at the same time."
I said I laid no stress upo u that ; that, of course, I was
entirely without iaotruct 4 :from DIY Goveruittont3 to