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DEFERRED ANNUITIES DEPARTMENT.

By the plan exclusively developed by the Society, a single
deferred annuity is made, nc.t only to answer the same object,
bat to equal in amount the entire sum of all the advantages
heretofore only obtained by the middle and industrious classes
by separate investments in Savings' Banks, Benefit 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 ( ls.
a week) at 20 will at 65 give the policy holder the choice of an
annuity for life of 47/. 16s. 6d. : 3941. 11s. in cash; or policy
without further contributions of 466/. at death.
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.
The report to the Annual General Meeting of Proprietors,
prospectuses, tables, &c., may be obtained at the office of the
Society, by letter or otherwise, 26, Cornhill, London, or at
any of its Branches throughout the country.
F. FERGUSON CARIROUX, Sec.

THE AGRICULTURAL AND GENE-
RAL LIFE A SSITRANCE COMPANY,
29, NEW BRIDGE-STREET, BLACKFRIARS,
LONDON.
CAPITAL. £250,000.
In 10,000 Shares of 251. Deposit Si. per Share.
THE BOARD OF MANAGEMENT.
Sir James Broun, of Coulston, Bart.
William Bell, of Princes Street, Hanover Square, Esq.
Richard Broun, of Wigmore Street, Cavendish Sqnare, Esq.
Alexander Gordon, of Fludyer Street, Westminster, Esq.
Henry Kerr, of Orchard Street, Portman Square, Esq.
Harman Lewis, of Gordon House, M. A.
John Macdonald, of Norfolk Street, Esq.
Thomas Pemberton, of Cado,ran Place, Esq.
George Robinson, of Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, Esq.
Thomas Rolph, of St. James's Square, Esq.
With liberty to add to their Member.

AUDITORS.
Robert B. Pollard, of Bemell House, Middlesex, Esq.
Charles Hutton Gregory, of Croydon, sq.
MEDICAL OFFICERS.
Geo. G. Sigmond, Esq., M.D., F. R.S., 24, Dover-street.
Wrn. R. Basham, of Chester-street, Grosvenor-place, M.D.
Edward W. Pollard, of Bronapton-square, Esq.
BANKERS.

Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand.
London and County Joint Stock Bank, 71, Lombard-street.
Royal Bank of Scotland.
Nothing is more uncertain than the life of a single indivi-
dual, and the sense of this uncertainty has given rise to the
establishment of Life Assurance Companies, their object being
to equalize vicissitudes and to render the pecuniary relations of
mankind independent of individual casualty.
The Managers have availed themselves of the numerous au-
thentic sources of information applicable to the subject, and
caused an original and extensive set of Tables to be constructed,
which, for all the ordinary cases of Assurance, present the
Lowest Rate of Premium that can be offered, without compro-
mising the safety of the Institution.
The Premiums for each particular ease may be ascertained
at the Office.
ADVANTAGES presented by this COMPANY.
The Board of Management is composed of Shareholders and
Policy-holders, the majority being assurers to the extent of
2,0001. each with the institution.
The Trustees to be nominated by the Metropolitan Board,
and by the Local Committees, the majority of the latter in each
case to be the holders of policies for the term of Life for 1,0001.
and upwards.
The blinds of the Company to be tested in the Trustees,
none of whom are to be Shareholders, but all of whom may be
Policy-holders, who are to have a power of intervention in the
affairs of the Institution for the protection of Assurers.
No severance to be made of the assurance fund, nor any
dividend paid upon the capital stock, until a Report, approved
by the Auditors, shall have been made of the debts, credits,
and precise state of the Institution, showing the estimated pro-
fit, a cautionary reserve to protect against casualties, and the
sum applicable to meet the outstanding engagements to the
Trustees, who are vested with a veto against thc payment of an
excessive dividend.
No claim upon a policy to be resisted, except upon the autho-
rity of a special report and recommendation of the Committee
of the district within which the policy was effected, showing a
fraud upon the Company, or some well-grounded objection to
an unjust demand.
All claims payable within one month after proof of death.
Ten per cent. on the sum assured may be received imme-
diately after satisfactory proof of death shall be afforded, when-
ever the circumstances of the claimant shall render such an
accommodation essential.
No proof of birth required after a claim shall arise, as the
age of the assured will be at all times admitted in the policy.
Fraud only to vitiate a policy, and all disputes to be settled
by arbitration, at the option of the assured.
Policies assigned, or duly deposited, as equitable securities
with creditors, not vitiated by suicide, death by duelling, or
the hands of justice.
Policies forfeited by non-payment of premiums renewable
upon satisfactory certificates of health, and the payment of the
premium in arrear with interest thereon, with a small fine to be
fixed by the Board.
Females and others towhem it maybeinconvenient to appear
before the Board will be attended by the Medical Officers of the
establishment.
A Committee of the Managers and the Medical Officers
attend daily for the dispatch of business at the office, where
• every practicable facility is given for the completion of proposals
for Assurance, and where every requisite information relative to
the establishment may be obtained.
C. F. KIRKMAN, Esq., Resident Manager.
A reserve of Shares has been made for appropriation in the
country, and applications for them, and for the office of Agent
to the Institution in the different towns of the kingdom, are
requested, addressed to the Resident Manager, at the Office of
the Company.

BATEMAN'S CONCENTRATED PRE-
PARATiON OF RIO NEGRO SARSAPA-
RILLA is one of the most powerful medicinal agents for renovating
the Constitution which has ever been introduced to the Public.
It sweetens the blood, corrects a bad habit of body, removes pimples
and blotches, and is an infallible remedy for Scrofula, Smirvy,
Erysipelas, Secondary Symptoms, and all tnose dissrders originating
in impurities of the blood, whether hereditary or otherwise, and
particularly those arising from the long. continued use of mercury.
This Preparation, which is the result of many ye irs' laborious
research and experiment, is thus noticed by Dr. HANCOCK, in
his Philosophical Papers, read before the " Medico-Botanical So-
ciety :"
" It is a fact yet unheeded or unknown in Europe, that this species
of Sorsa, the Rio Negro, does manifest a peculiar power in healing
ulcers in all parts of the body, and removing a multitude of chronical
affections. It is scarcely less remarkable for its power in improving
the condition and habit of body, and the'efore it is not without
reason esteemed a great restorative; but the narrow views of the
Faculty have tended to restrict its use to syphilitic affections, and
there appears to be no comprehension of its general utility in alter-
ing the condition of the blood and amending the habit of body, as it
does most manifestly in scrofulous, consumptive, and dropsical habits,
and cachexies—foul or perverted states of the humours, &c."
Sold Wholesale and Retail in Bottles at is. and 21s. each, by WIL-
LIAM BATEMAN, at the Warehouse, No. Bi, Hatton Garden,
London; and by Medicine Tenders in the principal Towns in Eng.
land.
A table.spoonful diluted in a glass of water forms 'Decoction of
Sarsaparilla."
Orders per post for any quantity sent free of charge to any part of
the Kingdom

WITH A VIEW OF MACAO.

THE COLONIAL MAGAZINE
For AUGUST. No. VIII.

.Edited by R. MONTGOMERY MARTIN, Esq.
CONTENTS.-1. Effects of the Abolition of Slavery in the
British West India Colonies-2. Van Diemen's Land ; Canni-
bals and Bush-rangers-3. Oceanic Tides and Currents.-4.
Jamaica Government, viewed with reference to the late Con-
test and present Policy of Sir Charles Metcalfe-5. Steam to
India-6. Rebellion in Upper Canada, and Invasion of the
Americans-7. Macao, with an Engraving-8. The Canada
Bill and its Consequences-9. Free Trade for India-10. Co-
lonial Intelligence, &c. Commercial Intelligence, Stocks,
Births, Marriages, and Deaths, &c.
Vol. 11. will be Ready August 10th.
Fisher, Son, and Co., Newgate-street, London ; Chatham-
street, Piccadilly, Manchester ; and Hunter-street, Liverpool.

Just published, price 2s. 6d.
APRACTICAL ESSAY on the DEBILI-
TIES of the GENERATIVE SYSTEM, their Va-
rieties, Causes, Treatment, and Cure
By a MEMBER of the ROYAL COLLEGE of SURGEONS,
London, and Surgeon to a Metropolitan Infirmary.
" I am impotent, and no' iv to live "—Last's Records of
Suicide.

Sold by Onvi hyn, Catherine-street, Strand ; Ross and
Nightingale, Liverpool ; and all Booksellers in Town and
Country.
N. B: Persons in the Country may have this work forwarded
by post (free), upon addressing either of the above Booksellers,
and inclosing a remittance of 3s.

ON tne CURE of SQUINTING, by the
DIVISION of one of the STRAIGHT MUSCLES
of the EYE, &c., Ice , &c.; being the HALF-YEARLY
REPORT laid before the GOVERNORS of the ROYAL
WESTMINSTER OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL, at their
GENERAL MEETING, on July 25. Second Edition.
By CHARLES WILLIAM GUTHRIE, Esq., Jun.,
Assistant-Surgeon to the Hospital, Demonstrator of Anatomy
at the Charing-cross Hospital, &c., &c.
And ordered to be printed and published, price One Shilling, by
J. Churchill, Princes-street, Soho; William Sams, St. James's-
street ; and J. Mitchell, 33, Old Bond-street.
The Poor in London are received, on their. own application,
without letters of recommendation, and those in the country
requiring operation, will be received, after a previous applica-
tion of the Clergyman, or duly constituted authorities of the
place, to tha Secretary.

By order,
THOMAS R. FOWLER, R.N., Secretary.

Just published, in royal 18mo., cloth, price 34. ; and sent in
Town or Country free, by post, 3s. 6d.,
MANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PRE-
MATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for
ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to those suf-
fering from the destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence,
Solitary Habits, or Infection ; followed by Observations on the
TREATMENT of SYPHILIS, GONORRHEA, GLEET,
&c. Illustrated with Cases, &c.

By J. L. CURTIS and COMPANY,
Consultin,s- Surgeons, London.

published by the Authors, and sold by Balliere, Medical
Bookseller, 219, Regent-street ; 011ivier, 59, Pall Mall ;
S.rarge, 21, Paternoster-row; Pattie, 4, Brydges-street,
Strand; Machen and Co., 8, D'Olier-street, Dublin • Duncan
114, High-street, Edinburgh ; and to be had ofall Booksellers
The Work which is now presented to the public is the result
of very extended experience in a class of diseases and affec-
tions, which for some unaccountable reason have been either
altogether overlooked, or treated with apathy, and almost in-
difference, by the 0: dinary practitioner. To enter into the
details of these affections, to point out their causes, and to
mark the terrific consequences, social, moral, and physical,
which are sure to follow from indulgence, in certain habits,
would be entirely out of place in an advertisement. We have
no hesitation, however, in saying that:there is no member of
society, by whom the book will not be found interesting, whe-
ther we consider such person to hold the relation of a PA-
RENT, a PRECEPTOR, or a CLERGYMAN.
The PARENT, who beholds his beloved child pining away,
and fast approaching to a premature grave, in consequence of
some disease, which for want of a careful investigation of its
real cause, has been set down to the score of consumption,
will, on perusing this work be astonished to find that in nine-
tenths of the cases of young persons of both sexes, who perish
of what is called pulmonary consumption, heart disease, tabes,
&c., the sole and exclusive origin has been the indulgence in
certain destructive habits, practised by youth much more fre-
quently than is at all suspected.
The PRECEPTOR, also, who holds temporarily, at least
the relation and lesponsibility of a parent, will, by perusing this
work, be directed, and very much assisted in investigating and
detecting the too often concealed practices so often introduced
intn schools, whereby the health and ulthrately the lives of his
pupils are sure to be compromised, unless the evil be checked
in proper time. He will here find a clue to guide him through
the intricate mazes of this moral labyrinth, and a standard
whereby to judge, when delicacy of health should appear to
attack any of his young charges, what the reap cause of such
attack may be, and thus he will be enabled to check the evil in
its incipient state.
The CLERGYMAN, in whose sacred character, is at once
concentrated the twofold relation of parent and instructor, will
here be directed as to the nature of those habits, to which
youth is addicted ; he will also be enabled to point out the
disastrous consequences which are sure to follow from them, if
not relinquished.
Messrs. CURTIS and CO. are to be consulted daily at their
residence,: No. 7, Frith-street, Soho, from Ten till Three, and
Five till Eight in the Evening; and Country Patients are re-
' quested to be as minute as possible in the detail of their cases,
—as to the duration of the complaint, the symptoms, age, ge-
neral habits of living, and occupation in life of the party ; the
communication muse be accompanied by the " usual Consulta-
tion Fee of 1/.," without which no notice whatever can be
taken of their application ; and in all cases, the most inviolable
secrecy may be relied on.
N. IL seven doors from Soho-square.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.
MESSRS. SLOAN and CO., Members of
the Royal College of Surgeons. 4, ARGYLL-PLACE,
1u GENT-STREET, and 23, IRONMONGER •LANE,
CIIEAPSIDE, may be consulted from Eight &Clock in the
'Horning until Ten at Night, on every variety and stage of
Syphilis, with that delicacy and sccresy they have hitherto ob-
served. The treatment they pursue will not subject any patient
to confinement or hindrance from business. Cases of an ex-
treme nature they eradicate in eight or ten days, or if slight or
recent in two or three, without the indiscriminat use of mer-
cury, and at a moderate expense. Generate ive fiebility,
Gonorrlicea, and Strictures of the Urethra, unhappily so preva-
lent, are reated upon those unerring principles which have in-
sured to Messrs. Sloan and Co. so large
an a sharw e of public pa-
tronage for nearly thirty years in London, sdwhich it be
their future exertion to maintain.
Letters, containing an enclosure, will be answered by return
and patients, however distant, will be cerresponded with until
recovered.

q 1 7
HE INFANT SAPPHO LOUISA
X VINNING, three and a half years of age. This won-
derful specimen of native talent has been listened to with ac-
knowledged delight by their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of
Sussex and Cambridge, the Princess Augusta, and a great part
of the Nobility. UNDER COMMAND of HER MA-
JESTY she is to be introduced at the Palace. The most emi-
nent Professors have afforded unqualified admiration of her
Musical Talent. This beautiful little Girl will take a principal
part in a MUSICAL MELANGE of two acts, in which her
rather, Sister, and other talented Performers will also take a
part.

Between the acts the 0 XYHYDRO GEN MICROSCOPE
will have its vast powers exhibited on the most interesting ob-
jects of the season.

The Musical Melange will commence on WEDNESDAY
EVENING NEXT, the sth of August, at Eight o'Clock pre-
cisely, and finish at Ten.
Tickets may be had of Mr. \lnning, 29, Thayer-street,
Manchester-square, as well as at the Institution.
Mr. NI . H. ADAMS will posh& at the Pianoforte.
Doors open sct Half-past Seven. To be continued for a
limited number of evenings.
Admission to the body of the Theatre, 2s. ; to the Gal•
lery, 3s.

POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION,
309, REGENT-STREET.
The MORNING EXHIBITION, with 1,100 interesting
Scientific Works and its varied experiments, amusements, &c.,
together with the ALPINE SINGERS, are continued as
usual: Admission, Is.

PENINSULAR and ORIENTAL STEAM
NAVIGATION COMPANY.
Capital One Million, in Shares_of 50/. each (one-fourth already

paid-up and invested.)
This Company is formed for establishing steam commun
cation on an extensive plan with British India, &c. The D.
rectors are already under contract with her Majesty's Go
vernment for the conveyance of the East Indian mails and
public despatches, as well as those to the Peninsula and Me-
diterranean, the first vessel, with the mails for Alexandria,
being intended to start on the Ist of September, as per ad-
vek isement.

The Company is about to be incorporated by Royal Char-
ter, conferring limited responsibility, and the Directors deem
it xepedient to apprize the public that they have resolved to ad-
mit subscribers for a limited nun- I.ar of shares in the under-
taking at par, and with that view a prospectus will be issued
in the course of a few days, by which time they expect the
arrangements for the Royal Charter of Incorporation will
be completed.
By Order of the Board.
B. M. WILLCOX, }Managing
AR. ANDERSON,
F. CARLETON, Directors.
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigat ion
Company's Offices, 51, St. Mary-axe,
London, July 18, 1840.

PENINSULAR and ORIENTAL STEAM
NAVIGATION COMPANY.
The NEW INDIA MAIL STEAMERS, under Contract
with her Majesty's Government.—First vessel under the im-
proved system for goods, passengers, and parcels
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's
New Steam-ship ORIENTAL, of 1,500 tons and 450 horse-
power, will start from Southampton, September 1, for ALEX-
ANDRIA, touching at Gibraltar and Malta only, carrying her
Majesty's Mails and despatches, and will arrive at Malta on the
Sth, and at Alexandria on the 14th of September. The New
Line of Steam-vessels for the India mails will thenceforward
continue to leave England for Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexan-
dria, on the Ist of every month, and Alexandria for Malta, Gib-
raltar, and England, from the 20th to the 25th of every month,
snaking the passage each way, nnder ordinary circumstances, in
fourteen days. A branch steamer will run twice a month be-
tween Malta and the lonian Islands with mails, passengers,
goods, and parcels. Each vessel will carry a Medical Officer
appointei or approved of by Government, and the time occu-
pied in the
Passenge rs passage home will be allowed in the quarantine.
for India, who may desire to visit the inti resting
scenery and localities of Spain and Portugal, will have the pri-
vilege, free of additional expense, of proceeding in any of the
, Company's weekly Peninsular mail steamers, and may thus
visit Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon and Cintra, Cadiz, Seville, Gibral-
i tar, Algeciras, &c., joining the India mail steamer for Malta
and Alexandria at Gibraltar.
A liberal table, with wines and every necessary, will be
found, and included in the fare. Female attendants for ladies.
Private family cabins, and a separate sleeping cabin • for every
passenger under ordinary circumstances. , •
A large and powerful steam-ship will shortly be sentp out: o
'commence a line of communication between Calcutta, Madras,
Ceylon, and Suez, in 'connection with the line-to Ale-sa:neria;
particulars of whch will be given in a futureadvertisement.
Swift and commodious iron steamers are about to be placed
on the Nile for- the. conveyance of passengers, &c., between
Atfe. and Cairo, by which they will be enabled with certainty
to reach the outward steamer at Suez, and the homeward
steamer at Alexandria, as soon as the mails.
Full directions for travellers to and from India, Egypt, &e.,
by the new and improved conveyance, are in preparation, and
will shortly be printed. Meantime further particulars may be
known on application at 44, Regent-street, Piccadilly ; Messrs.
Grindley, Christian, and Matthews's Offices, 8, St. Martin's-
place, and 16, Cornhill ; at Mr. Waghorn's Offices, 34, Corn-
hill, London ; at the City of Dublin Steam-Packet Company's
Offices, Dublin and Liverpool ; and at the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Offices, 51, St. Mary-
axe.

CAUTION.
CHUBB'S PATENT LOCKS and FIRE-
PROOF SAFES.
As several insecure and paltry imitations of these inventions
are now offered for Sale, the Patentee begs to state that all of
his Locks and Keys arc stamped Chubb's New Patent,
,57, St.,
Paul's Church-yard, London, and that his Patent Fire-pfoof,
Safes and Boxes can only be purchased at his own establish-
Ment, where he his on sale Detector Locks for every purpose ;
Fire-pro:4 Safes for securing all kinds of valuable property ;
Deed Boxes, and Cash Boxes.

N.B. PATENT COMIII NATION LATCHES for Street-
doors, which are simple in construction, low in price, and quite
secure. The Keys are particularly neat and portable.

GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY,
Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 69, Lombard-street, London.
Notice is hereby given that the HALF-YEARLY GENE-
RAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of this Company
wilt be held on Tuesday, the 25th instant, at the Company's
Office, 69, Lombard-street, at One o'Clock precisely, pursuant
to the Act of Parliament, to transact the usual business, and to
declare the dividend for the half-year ending June 30, 1840.
JOHN WILSON, Secretary.
London, August, 3, 1840.

SIR WILLIAM BURNETT'S PATENT
for the PRESERVATION of TIMBER, CANVAS,
CORDAGE, COTTON, WOOLLEN, &c. from DRY-
ROT, MILDEW, MOTH, and PREMATURE DECA Y.
The value of this discovery has been amply proved in her
Majesty's Dock-yards, and elsewhere. Official Reports and
Specimens of Wood, Canvas, and other articles, may be seen
at the Office.
The process is simple, inexpensive, and per-
fectly innoxious in its use. As applied to Shipbuilding, it puri-
fies bilge water, and retards oxydation of metals. By the
process green wood may be rapidly seasoned. The Patent
NMoabtelermialen, maypurchased,Gbenetemen,
BuioldreLni,ceunspehsoltsotr kserTerasn,pgiarannoftoedrteto.
makers, Sail-makers, and others, when for purposes of
Trade on very advantageous terms to the Licensee. Timber of
all dimensions, Planking, Canvas, Cordage, Ship Sails, Awn-
ings, Rick Cloths, Tents, and all other articles of Lien and
Woollen Manufacture are received for preparation at the Pro
prietors' Waterside Premises, Copenhagen Wharf, Britannia-
bridge, bridge, Limehouse.
Particulars and terms may be obtained on application at the
Office, 4, Castle- court, Birchin-lane, Cornhill.

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De Porquet's German Tresor. 3s. 6d.
De Porquet's Spanish Tresor. 4s. 6d,
De Porquet's Portuguese Tresor. 4s. 6d.
De Porquet's Latin Tresor. as. 6d.
De Porquet's Italian Tresor. 3s. 6d.
De Porquet's Keys to all Tresors. 3s. 6d. each.
11, Tavistock-street, Covent garden.

on Tuesday afternoon, at Wilton House
--_,-. ..----- ----;_„..,
itOSSMORE rt - - i
DEATH OF LADY _ .---....i1s noble
bad only arrived on the previous ' Cheltenham, where she ous day,
oie from
by Lord RossmLer Ladyship
accompanied
' daughter Dublin.
was Lady Augusta Charteris, fourth
Lady expired suddenly
the 3d er of Francis, late
hadof June,
1819, to the
Lord Rossmore, by whom she no issue.
present
THE UNITE Q
COTTON CROP OF D vTATES.—.
hich a •
The packet Pats ick erasH,
al
cco. untrrolvfe(til at Liverpool on
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,c hhoa,s andiro
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1,321,784 -
a and at th le export supply,
stock of cotton to the latest dates, . e corresponding pe-
IN LONDON.
riods of the two preceding years, which
.is as follows :
Receipts at
Export to
England. the Ports. Stock.
2,065,001 260,121
1839
1,744,986
1838
t tmhar rieda
on
187,888
1840 .... ...
—Yesterday morning about four o'clock, as the private watch-
man in Savoy-street, Strand, was going his rounds, he was
much surprised at meeting a fox ascending the hill by the
I Savoy Palace Tavern; he was immediately chased up Burl h
FOX-HUNT ExTRAORDINAIty
street into Exeter-street, Renard then. turned andeig-
pursued
his way again into the Savoy, and took shelter in a cellar • ar, in
which he was eventually taken by the watchman, in whose
tody he now remains. ose cus-
tody
JAMES'S PARK.—We hear that '•it Is the
intention of the Commissioners of 'Woods and I,' -oi •
c4s to erect
a cottage on the island in St. James's-park, for the residence
' of the keeper, who is charged with the care of the water-fowl.
—Observer.

We are happy to say that two new churches were
opened on Monday last at Dudley, a town which, from the
rapid increase of its population, has been long in want of
adequate church accommodation. The land upon which
both these edifices stand is the gift of Lord Ward, who is
also a liberal patron of the undertaking. The churches
were consecrated by the Lord Bishop of Worcester with
considerable ceremony, and a liberal collection was made
after a sermon which was preached on the occasion. A
Communion-service, Bibles, robes, &c., have been pre-
sented for the use of the churches by the clergy of the
neiahbourhood.—lbid.

[The cunning Editor of the Times, or the Sub-editor,
' or the Sub-sub-editor, or the Sub-sub-editor's scrub, from
which journal we borrow these two paragraphs as they
stand, seems to have placed them in juxtaposition in order
to throw light on the present tendency of the community.
Churches flourish and trade decays. Such was the pro-
gress of Italy and Spain to ruin. What magnificent and
numerous temples are there in those countries, and what an
impoverished, degraded, and demoralized people. If our
statesmen look to the increase of churches and of priests to
maintain the greatness of England, or even to preserve,
much less improve, the morality of her people, let them
look to those two countries beggared by priests, and pre-
pare for a most grievous disappointment.]

FRENCH NAVAL DEPARTMENT

EXTRACTS FROM THE OFFICIAL ESTIMATES OF THE
MINISTRY OF THE MARINE AND THE COLONIES.
SERVICE OF 1841.
The military marine is expected to protect the exter-
nal commerce of the nation on every point. To do this
successfully, it ought to be constantly able to exercise
an active vigilance on the distant shores to which French
traders direct their operations of different kinds, as some
with a view to mercantile exchanges, others to enter-
prises in the great fisheries ; to support, when neces-
sary, nen-founded claims on their part ; to maintain or
restore discipline on board of merchantmen, particularly
when the crew is numerous and the voyage of long du-
ration ; finally, in exploring other seas to seek to dis-
cover places where it may be possible to open new mar-
kets, either for the productions of the soil, or the varied
works of industry—a result which, while extending the
participation of our flag in the general movement of na-
vigation, will also re-act favourably on the maritime in-
scription. Independently of this habitual service of pro-
tection to commercial interests of the first order, there
are several other relations under which the naval force
of the State ought to be regarded—it is a powerful auxi-
liary for the army on land ; as an instrument of obser.
• vation it possesses the most favourable qualities for aid-
ing the views of a vigiiant and moderate policy in ques-
tions arising at a distance ; next, and under a different
order of ideas, it presents to the sciences and the arts,
in return for what it owes them, the concurrence of an
enlightened and indefatigable zeal. Thus the royal
nn
nal
nv ymceor
en
et i bauntde
,s
no thea
d ppl
or oingar
tei s of knowledge,
ns
point
nf view,
favours
may
fre-
quently augment the influence of the Government.
Such, then, in the whole, is the mission confided to the
department of the marine and the colonies. To be en-
abled to fulfil, in 1841, the duties of that mission, a
total credit of 74,015,800 f. is required.
Before indicating the intended application of this
credit, we will call to recollection, that, according to an
Ordinance of February 1, 1837, the naval force for
the peace establishment is to consist of 40 ships of the
line, 50 frigates, 1W other vessels rigged with sails, of
regulated rates, and 40 steamers. One half of the
ships of the line and steamers must be launched ; the
other half remaining on the stocks ought to be for-
warded to the extent of 22-24ths of preparation. The
40 steamers and the 180 sail-rigged vessels of inferior
order are to be kept afloat. Were we to suppose, con-
trery to all probability, the whole of such a force as this
placed by a complete .and simultaneous equipment on
thcieto
twve
eat
es footing,v.oe toyi
ot,t.
°rimy o7gun,
.:with
wit
ahr presentv9 sboerol s
gunshe crews n
nann t
eedf
feCalculating of 9ing upon, the .hypothesis of an
thatequ is ipmteontsare-
strto the,ships'of the line•and •frigates,• the effective of the'
crews W6uld'be's7,ooo men applicable to the working
of about 6,500 and' if we add 40 steamers, that ef-
fective would amount to 60,000 men. The number of
'armed vessels for the service of 1841 is kept up to 130,
as in the last two budgets. But the composition of the
equipments is extensively modified in what relates to
steam navigation. The number of vessels which stood
in the budget of 1840 at 20, has been raised to 30,
and the progress in this respect is the more consider•
able, inasmuch as the machines of several of the, new
vessels greatly exceed in power those hitherto employed
in the French navy.* These 10 steamers will be sub-
stituted for 10 sail-rigged vessels of a secondary class.
As to the ships of the line and the frigates, the number
remains the same : thus we preserve those vessels,
which, while they constitute the principal force as to ar-
tillery, arc at the same time the best schools for nauti-
cal instruction, and afford the most efficacious means
of maintaining discipline and a true military spirit in
all ranks: -
The results of the equipments for the year 1841 will
be thus arranged :

SAIL-RIGGED VESSELS.
1
1 of the 2d rate, of 100 guns.
5 Ships of the line
2of the 3d rate, of 90 guns.
4 of 74 guns.
sof the 4th rate lof 80 guns.
2 of the Ist rate, 60 guns.
12 Frigates 5 of the 2d rate, 52 guns.
5 of the 3d rate, 46 guns.
6 War corvettes of from 20 to 32 guns.
4 Aviso-corvettes of 16 guns.
13 Brigs of from 10 to 20 guns.
6 Aviso brigs of 10 guns.
7 Gun-brigs of 8 guns.
14 Galliot, cutters, &c., of from 6 to 8 guns.
16 Flotilla craft.

tzti War vessels:
VESSELS OF BUhDEN.
14 10 Corvettes of burden, or store ships.
4 Gabarres.

STEAMERS.

r 2 of
1 of
320
304 14 (tfhe Veloce) of 240
220
118 of
. •
L 4 of
120 _

130 Total vessels.
These 130 vessels are destined to maintain useful
communications, to execute orders relative to special
expeditions, and for the protection of trade.-f- They
will occupy the 11 ordinary stations—namely, the coasts
of the Peninsula, Brazil, South America, the Antilles,
Cayenne, Mexico, the coasts of Africa, the Levant,
Bourbon, Newfoundland, and Algiers.
Adhering to the provident system adopted in former
years, there will be added to these 130 vessels, keeping
at sea, a reserve of 24 vessels--namely, eight disposa-
ble in roadstead, and 16 in commission in port. The
composition of this reserve will be according to the fol.
lowing statement :
Eight disposable in road.—Two ships of the line,
three frigates, one war corvette, two brigs.
Sixteen in commission in port.—Five ships of the
line, and seven frigates, one vessel of inferior rate, three
steamers.

The effective of the crews required for the 130 ves-
sels in active service will be 20,542 men, and for the
reserve 1,922, making altogether 22,464 men.
The budget for the navy is drawn up according to a
plan adopted in all the Ministerial departments. It
consists of 22 chapters, which are distributed under
four divisions. The first comprehends the Central
Service ; the second, the General Service ; the third,
the Scientific Service ; the fourth, the Colonial Service.

THE CENTRAL SERVICE.—The two first chapters,
entitled Personnel and Materiel, belong to this divi-
sion. Under the Personnel are enumerated the salaries
of the Minister, heads of offices, clerks, &c. Under the
Materiel, the expense of edifices, furniture, fuel, sta-
tionery, lithographic presses, &c. The total expense is
892,500 f. _ .

THE GENERAL SERVICE has 14 chapters, and the
principal items are pay and clothing of crews and troops,
pay of officers, naval works, &c. The amount of the
whole is 64,362,000 f.
THE SCIENTIFIC SERVICE.—Under this section there
are two chapters—namely, chapter 17, the Personnel,
and chapter 18, the Iklaleriel. Chapter 19 is allotted
to temporary scientific expenses. The charge for chap-
ters 17 and 18 is 889,6001., and for chapter 19, 66,2001,
making the total 935,800 f.
THE COLONIAL SERVICE.—TIIO remaining three
chapters which are arranged under this head embrace

GENERAL SERVICE
3 Officers, civil and military
4 Maistrance, gardicnnage, and surveil-
lance
1 5 Pay and clothing for the crews and troops 19,066,000
6 Hospitals
7 Provisions
8 Naval materiel works (ports)
9 Naval materiel works (establishments
without the ports)
10 Artillery works (ports)
11 Artillery works (establishments without
the ports)
12 Hydraulic works and civil edifices
13 Frcig,lital;re and carriage by sea 93,000
14 Galley crews
15 General expense for impressions ..... 170,000
16 Materiel for administrative services in
ports, and for various other objects
SCIENTIFIC SERVICE.
17 Maritime sciences and arts (personnel) 432,600
18 Maritime sciences and arts (materiel)... 457,000
19 Temporary expenses 66,200
COLONIAL SERVICE.
20 Military services.. ..
21 Accessory services
22 Aid to the colony of Martinique

Total .

348,000

5,077,100
2,128 400
600,000

74,015,800

* The largest steamers have hitherto been of 220-horse
power. The department will soon possess some of 320 and
and 450 horse power. The total power of the machines in
steamers, according to the budget of 1840, was to be equi-
valent to 3,130. This power for 1841 will be equal to
5,780. Thus the motive power will be nearly doubled.
In a note some inipbrtant facts are given from a docu-
ment published by the Board of Customs, under the title
of " Tableau General du Commerce de la France pendant
Pannee 1838." It is stated that the trade cf France exhi-
bited at no previous period such considerable results as
during the year 1838, when the imports end exports united
amounted to 1 milliard and 893 millions. In examining the
account with reference to the mode of c, nveyance for mer-
chandise, it appears that the foreign trade by sea was to
the same trade by land in the proportion of 70 to 30 ; in
1837 the proportion was 68 to 32 ; so that the trade by sea
had consequently increased 2 per cent. Looking at the
statements respecting tonnage, we find that the total burden
of the mercantile shipping employed in 1837 was 970,078
tons, and that in 1836 it amounted to 1,077,169 tons, with-
out including the vessels in ballast. 'This is equivalent to
an increase of 11 per cent, on the tonnage. On the 31st
of December, 1838, the total number of the merchant ves-
sels was 15,617 of which 73 were steamers.

THE AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY
BILL.

It cannot fail to be matter of great interest to commer-
cial men in this country to be made aware of the line of
argument taken in the opposition to the Bankruptcy Bill
in the American Congress. We have selected, therefore,
some illustrations of it from the speeches of Mr. Calhoun,
rho is acknowledged to he an authority of great weight.
He, in the first place, denies that the constitution has
given Congress any power to pass such a Bill as that in
contemplation, for while it allows the estehlishing of laws
on the subject of bankruptcies, he considers the present
measure, though called the " Bankruptcy Bill," to refer
to insolvency, " miscalled voluntary bankruptcy,"
which is not embraced in the constitution. Ile
describes the two systems of bankruptcy and insol-
vency, known both in America and England at the
time the constitution was framed, as originating in views
entirely different from each other. The system of insol-
vency he considers as " growing out o`•the debtor side of
the question," the object being to relieve a debtor from
the power of his creditors, en a surrender of his property
for their benefit. The system of bankruptcy, on the other
hand, " grew out of the creditor side," the object being to
invigorate credit. These two systems being perfectly
well known to the framers of the constitution, he finds
that the reason they mention bankruptcy alone is, that they
- intend the insolvent system not to be adopted, and that, such
being their intention, it is beyond the power of Congress
to cause such adoption. The matter has been brought
before Congress on account of the opinion that the State
Legislatures can do no more than discharge the person of
the debtor, and that any feather power must lie in Con.
grcss alone • but Air. C.alhoun contends, that if the States
ealeaot discharge the debt, neither can Congress. The
rt!lecse of a contract,he declares to be out of the power
either of Cengress or the. States, the obligation being im-
posed by a power higher than human, and protests that if
a discharged debtor had release from every Government
on earth, and did not pay his debts when in his power, he
would not be an honest man.
Being thus opposed to the voluntary system proposed by
this Bill, or, to use his own words, the " system of insol-
vency," as unconstitutional, he now surveys the compul-
sory system, which he considers to be constitutional, and
indeed the only system of bankruptcy contemplated by the
constitution, but objectionable on the score of expediency.
He thinks the genius of the nation greatly adverse to
harsh measures, and the summary power given to cre-
ditors by a bankrupt law, by which, on a suspicion of
insolvency, a creditor to a smell amount can at once
cause a debtor's whole estate to be distributed, to be par-
ticularly harsh, especially when so many persons are ex-
posed to misfortune horn the sudden contractions and
expansions incident to the vicious system of paper cur-
renu. If it be,uneonetitutianeli though humane, to inter-
pose against the creditors on behalf of the debtors, it is
cruel, though constitutional, tie give additional arms to the
creditors against the debtors in such a state of things.
Hence he is against the Bill, and against the amend-
ment also, on which the compulsory system wouin ti
founded. Although no friend to the banks, Mr. Calhoun
considers the operation on them by the compulsory
system as likely to be mischievous to the community, since
a small creditor may at once cause a distribution of pro-
perty, and in the panic which the passing of such a measure
would at once create, many of the non-suspended banks
would net be in a position to escape the penalties of the
Act. The very measure of requiring the banks at once to
wind up would, he considers, cause such a commotion that
the creditor would be afraid to apply the powers given him
by the Act, which would thus be virtually swept from the
statute-hook. He proceeds to argue that the very bringing
banks under the operation of such a law would in reality
produce that connexion between the Government and the
banks which he considers it so desirable to avoid. It Con-
gress could pass a bankrupt law, it could also define nhat
should be an act of bankruptcy on the part of the banks,
and it might make several regulations, so that a com-
plete subjugation of the banks would follow, and the effect
of such a subjugation, all power of contest being gone,
would be a perpetual alliance. He denies that Congress
has the power of extending a Bankrupt Act over the in-
corporations of the States, since the power of the States
and that of Congress both emanating from the constitution
as a common source, one cannot have a right to destroy
what the other has a right to' create.
It need not be remarked that in describing Mr. Cal-
houn's argument, there is no disposition to adopt his
views, but the application of the subject to a country like
the United States is so curious in its bearings, as well
as important in its results, that it is imagined all coal-
mercial men in this country must take a lively interest in
the discussion. Leaving that direct interest out of the
question, they may probably derive, from ac consideration
of these arguments, some advantage to the administration
of the bankrupt laws in this country, in which great defects
are still admitted to prevail.— Times.

From Henry Cowper, Esq., of Tewen-waters,
Herts, to Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, 39, Albemarle-street,
Piccadilly, and 76, King William-street, Bank of England.
—Gentlemen, having been deaf for many years, I was
induced from recommendation to try your Invisible Voice
Conductors, and I have great pleasure in telling you that
they enable me to hear persons in company and at a place of
worship most distinctly; and in consequence of the great ad-.
vantage which I have derived, I have recommended many
persons to you, and I am happy to state that their report is
similar to mine, most favourable. The Spectacles and Hand_
glass which you have sent me are very excellent, and suit my
sight precisely, and surpass anything of the kind I have ever
tried ; the transparency of which is so brilliant, that althoue'h
I have passed my Bth year, the 22d of May last, yet they l'
ene of Mr. best
able ire to read, &c.,_ by candle-light with the greatest ease
-
u
and remgeafaipnjpnlynicoeau,trionmsofsrtomobaelidileunatrtesresrvaynet 711:NR T
and comfort to myself.—Gentlemen,—lemlnenc,onlsergeutenar
thanks,
letter is authentic or not, he has addressed a
Henry
anyincrefausritihito know whe-
ltCCe:toetwer-P:ethEro:;:te—haebee2oiS2sv. ediina ii dar d , which was inserted in that paper on
the 6th of April last, stating that it was so, and that in conse-
quence ageed witha infirmity, requested
increasing
inquiries. No bqueeninciegbotf
not
ebxettrreomu
nd
con-
nection with persons of the same name.
THE ADVANTAGES OF EARLY TRAINING.
The following dialogue is rep
Queen's County Assizes between a medical witness and a bar-
straw were deprived of all the et )—lf a person lying on wet
comfortswould it not hasten death 9 or necessaries of life,
Dr.Edge—That would greatly
depend -on whether they had been accustomed to them. Mr.
Hayes—Do you mean to tell
pond it would not be • us that if a person lived in a horse-
not, if he had lived 60 injurious to him : Dr. Edge—l think
or 70 years in it.
A sinol h
sin, le barleycorn which s rano- up among
some potatoes, in a plot of P b
ground on Court Barton, in the
parish of Cornworth •
• • grains, 3,, has produced 45 ears, each ear average
30
making a total of 1,350.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS CF THIS DAY.
( From the Tintes.)
An amendment mee!e by the Lords in the Irish Muni-
clod Corporntiens' Bit?_ ha. struck cut certain words wnlch
prepesed to give to the Lord Lii,utenant (in (Met to the
Seerstery for Ireland), and not to the Judge of the Ceurt
of Sessiees in Dublin, who is also A Member of Pariia-
mern, a discretionary power of fixing mere frequent timeo
for the sitting of that Court, and thus to eneble the It is_.3
Government, whenever conver:ient, to abstrict one vote
from the side of their opponents—a privilege which wseild
have been invaluable if capable of' being exercised during
the progress of Lord Stanley's Bill-
It may be said that the Lord-Lieutenant might safely be
intrusted with the proposed power without any fear of its
being injudiciously or improperly exercised. We reply,
and we do so advisedly, that the Judge, and net the frith
Government, should, in the case of so important a jetrisdic-
tion as that of the Recorder of Dublin, requiring as it does
the assistance of an intelligent bar, be alone intrusted with
the power of making arrangemeete for the due adini-
niqration of justice in ids Court. We say, in addition,
that he who should predict that such a power weeki
net be improperly exercised by the Irish Government,
must be one upon whom -the experience of the past has
been altogether thrown away. We hare not forgotten,
that in order to save one vote in orposNen to Lord Stan-
ley's Registration Bill, that Goverrmeet. despite of the
injury inflicted by delay upon suitors in the Court of Chas-
eery in Ireland, delayed for a considerable thee to All up
the vacant appointment of one of the masters of that
Court ; and we are Omp;e-minded enough to believe, th tt
it is probable that such a taenpering with the interests of
justice, in order to sase the political existence of a Govern-
ment like the present, would not, if opportunity offered, be
allowed to remain a solitary instance.
(From the Mornings Advertiser.)
Notwithstanding the nighty din of the French Press,
and the alarming echo of some of our Tory Contempora-
ries, it is in vain that we look for any thing like a just
cause why France should take cffence at the measures
taken by the British Government for the adjustment of
the Turko-Egyptian question ; nor do we believe that the
French Government, though prevented' from co-operating
by individual motives—a dislike to oppose the wisher •r
pretensions of Mehemet Ali—entertain the slightest intee- .
tion of making any active or open demonstration egainst tise
proposed arrangement. Even the Constitutionszet, anon so
bellicose, admits that no slight bad been put upon the
French Government, which was thoroughly acquainted witk
the terms and progress of the negotititeion between Great
Britain and the other Powers, and in vindication of lb.
national dignity observes—" It is becuire the French
Government was cognizant of these negotiations airmi
their purport that it refuses to- take any part in them-.
And after repeated intercessions, in order to obtain its as-
sent, it persisted in abstaining ; there is nothing humiliaid-
ing to her dignity in the circumstance that negotiations were
effected without her." What then becomes of the charge
made by the Constitutionnel against Lord Palmerston, of
insulting France, by keeping her in ignorance of the ne-
gotiations; and attempting to make her the dupe of in-
trigues prejudicial to her interests? What becomes of its
indecorous allusion to the son of Louis Philippe accepting
the hospitality of the British Court, and reviewing British
Forces in company with Prince Albert, white the honour
and interests of his country were so seriously compromised ?
How, after the quotation just made, are these aliegstiens
to be explained ? By the simple fact that M. Thiers,
whose organ the Constitutionnel is, wished by the fret to
excite a political sensation„and by the next to infuse a little
annoyance into the cup of his master, Louis Philippe.
was altogether the paltry contemptible manoeuvring of a
clever intriguing Minister, having neither integrity nor
ability to achieve his obj,7ct by an open, frank, and bc,oest
course of policy.

( From the Morning Post.)

There is the strongest possible evidence—direct and in-

direct, positive and negative, evidence—that the. ad-
ministration of justice in Dublin, to far es the Right Ho-
nourable and Learned Recorder of that city is engaged tea
it, is well conducted. The direct and positive evidence
to this point mizht, we think, suffice, comprehending, es
it does, the ample testimony of persons differing so widely
from each other in positien, motives, and character as the
Duke of Wellington and Mr. O'Connell. But the indi-
rect and negative evidence to the same point is. if possible,
still stronger. Among all the enemies whom the Re-
corder of Dublin has had the virtue to create—cor-
rupt M;nisters whom he has thwarted and annoyed.
jobbing corporators whom he has controlled cod
rebuked, cunning or eccentric politicians whose manoeuvres
he has refused to assist, or whose aberrations he has refused
to follow—not one of this diversified host has ventured to
mention a single case within the range of the judicial
functions of Mr. Shaw in which justice has been denied,

or polluted, or delayed. Every argument that is urged i■
favour of a provision which, under the thin disguise of zeal
for the administration of justice, and for the real purpose of
destroying the efficiency of Mr. Shaw as a Member of the
[louse of Commons, would degrade the Recorders of Irish
cities and boroughs into lacqueys of the Lord Lieutenant,
steers clear of the judicial character and conduct of the pre.
sent Recorder of Dublin. These were rocks ahead which
bark; so frail as those of the Marquis of Lansdowne, in
wholesome dread of shipwreck, sedulously avoided, pre.
ferring, with i.ufinito wisdom, the wide and open sea of
conjecture and hypothesis, contingency and speculation.
How few Recorders, whether in England or Ireland, who
are not Members of Parliament, could produce equal tes-
timony to the adequate discharge of their judicial duties !
But the fault of Mr. Shaw is, that while he performs his
jui)eial duties in a manner in which the most inveterate or
the most conceited of his enemies can find nothiag to
blame, he also discharges bis Perrliamentary duties as the
representative of the University of Dublin provotanglywell.
( From the Morning Herald.)
Our readers have seen that oar information as to the

job contemplated in the Irish Municipal Ball fur- Mr. RN,
c,n-cler Shaw, was to the letter correct—Correct. eves as to
cur predicted silence of Lord Devon,-who, ou a former
casion, had protested against such au attempt. Oa Friday
night, in a thin- house,
,Lord "Lyndhurst; we regret to
say, renewed the attempt. wiiichiOn a termer occasion, he
had been obliged, when the House was full, to abandon ;
a
on this occasion he succeeded by Majority of- 16. The
Duke of Wellington supported the amendment evidently
under a total mistake as to the real state of the question.
His Grace assumed that the clause under discussion
was levelled personally at Mr: -Shaw, and-on this ground
he objected to it on the obvious unfairness of legislating
with reference to an individual. .So strange is the igno-
rance of the Ministers with regard to the details of their
own measure that not one of them was able to set the House
right upo I this point. Now, how stand the facts ? One
of the professed objets of the Bill is to improve the Muni-
cipal Courts, and with th s view by the 167th clause the
Recorder ul every borough is de-ired to hold Sessions of
the Peace at such times " as he mat in his discretion
think fit, or at such times as the' Lord Lieutenant may di-
rect " This clause extends to every borough except
Dublin, for 771lich it was necessary to provide by a separate
clause, and accordingly in the. 163 d clause the very
same words arc applied to the Recorder of Dublin,
'

who is desired to hold his sessions at iueh times as " he hi

Isis Cl4ri:•tiCori may fit, or as theltord,Lientenant -may
direct," applyieg to him just the very saine proilisioitt to
which all other Recorders are subject." 'This certainly-is

not legislating against an individual: there is no Fewer),
there can be no reason, why the Recorder of Dublimshoulti
not 1-:e subject to the same regulations as are all others,
except the one, which no one dare put forward, that Mr.
Shaw ought to have a special dispensation, because he has

priived himself the most subservient, although we can
scd...qlv call him the most useful, tool of Harty in the House

of Commu..

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

SATURDAY EVENING

TI ME S.--The late fraud committed in the abstraction
of a large amount of foreign stock has drawn some atten-
tion to the trouble, as „ell as the risk, which bankers
incur from the custody of such property, and which they
are content to undergo, it seems, for those who have de-
posit acc,,unts with them, without any charge. In houses
of extensive business it is common for clerks to be cm-
. ployed for many weeks in separating the coupons, or di-
vidend warrants, from the body of the foreign bonds,
and in sorting and numbering them before presentation for
payment. During this process the bonds themselves must
necessarily be in the custody of the person so occupied,
and the greatest temptation and opportunity for fraud
arc thus opened. When the system was new, and the
loan contracts with Foreign Powers very limited in
number, this formed but a small part of the banker's
business, but it has now grown into a serious impediment
and hindrance. It will be difficult at the same time to fix
a charge for this service, as the competition of banks with
each other will probably insure its continuing to be dew
gratuitously. In the absence of all remuneration, the risk
is perhaps the reore seriously regarded, and of the fairness
of some charge fur the risk and trouble united there can
be no doubt. Had the extent of it been foreseen, a trilling
commission would have been imposed; but it is now too lath.
A Treasury minute relative to the appropriation of tbe
balance of the fund for indemnifying the claims of &kills
subjects for losses in France has been printed in retsin to
an order of the House of Commons. Considerieg throe
the claims, which may be regarded of right, as well as
such as have been admitted by former Ministers, as of
grace and favour, have both been satisfied, the Lords of
the Treasury have been reflecting how to apply the SW-
plus of 83,3311. Is. 3d., which remains unappropriated.
In the first place, they took into consideration a suit in
equity, commenced by Inglis and others against the
board, when they resisted all claim of jurisdiction of tt
Courts of law or equity over their own minutes, and the
plaintiffs discontinued their proceedings. They read the
opinion of the law officers of the Crown, according to which
the minute of 1830 conferred no right on the applicants,
but if treated as an instrument giving an absolute right,
would give interest, besides principal. The Treasury are,
therefore, of opinion, that they should pay over the sup of
46,9801. 10s., theamount which would be due, adopting the
above opinion, deducting fur expenses the per centage
of 21. 12s. 6d. The next cases were those where
the conduct of the parties was influenced, to their own
loss, by the act of the commissioners or those under
their authority. The first of these claimants appealed
to the Privy Council on the ground of difference
between three and five per cent. interest, but the CBXO
was not argued, it is alleged, on account of a statement
on the part of the Crown, that the amount of the dis-
posable fund would not admit
eoxfbtpihethheigphaerrtierst
atsouldn
oCon-
sidering that when a surplus
suffer from previous misapprehension, Treasury
A(snuobtjheeert tcolatbime
aunstuahlatductions)
baring lost a
should
nbteh
aa that
p 2 2r0,3p260a/t.e
d 1
.6 s.
right of appeal to the Ps ivy Council in consequence of a
communication from the Commissioners, the amount
of 5,336/ Bs. was awarded to him, the interest being
computed at four, not five,. per cent., because that
was the amount of his claim as originally put forward'
by himself. Another party was misled by a letter
,`arrived from the Secretary of the Commissioners in
-1&15, which justified them in assuming that their
claim was duly registered, and therefore they are to be put
on the same footing as if their claim had actually been
registered at the date of the letter. Provision being thus