The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-27 00:00:00

No. 16,960. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING

MIDDLESEX ELECTION
The Committee for conducting the Election of. Lord
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

WESTMINSTER.

GENTLEMEN, •
Mit. LEADER has declared his intention to
decline seeking a renewal of your suffrages.
In addressing the Electors cf Westminster as. a Candidate to fill
the expecte3 vacancy, I deem it right to state that I should not
venture to offer myself unless I had been previously honoured by the
uniought preference of a highly.respectable portion of the consti-
tuency. I 40, however, gladly avail myself of this mark of confi-
dence-, and shall now briefly state to the Electors the grounds on
which 1 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 hut not precipitate, efficient but not destructive, or
whether we are to revert to the old system of monopoly and protec-
tion. lam thjs decided frien4 of Free Trade. _

On the subject of Education, which now happily commands the
attentin of a very large part of the community, I enter: ain 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-
ciples 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 exten-
sion of the Suffrage.
I think it unnecessary to enter into farther details. When in Par
'lament I acted, and, If again returned, intend to act on the principle
of progress, and to support an well-censidt•red improvements in our
laws and institutions, for which. there is a just and growing demand.
My best appeal, however, to your confidence le 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-1n that respect I may
safely promise that I shall not be found wanting.
I hare the honour to gentlemen,
Your faithfill and obedient servant,
CHARLES .LUSHINGTON.
1, Palace-gardens, Bayswater, 26th Jan., 1847.

BOSTON, STAMFORD, and BIRMINGHAM
RAILWAY,—(STAWORD and WISREACH LINE).
Notice` is hereby given, that tha'aRDINA.RT HALF-YEARLY
MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of this Company will he held,
pursuant to the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway Act,
1846, (Stamford and Wisbeach Line), on WEDNESDAY, 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 Northest 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 221 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 Railway from Wisbeach to Sutton •bridge,
with a Branch to Sutton Bt. Mary, and to improve the Harbour at
Sutton- bridge.

TIIOMAR MACULAY, Chairman. •
GEORGE EIUSSEY 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 be held at the Company's Offices, 61, Moorgate-street,
London, on WEDNESDAY, the 10th day of February next,ist one
o'clock precisely.
SPECIAL MEETING.
And nodes is hereby given, that an Extraordinary, 'or Special
General Meeting of the Shareholders of this Company will be held
at the Company 'a Offices. tl, Moorgate-street, London, on the said
Wednesday, the 10th day of February, next, at Half-past One o'Clock
precisely, to approve of the Bill to be submitted to Parliament in the
ensuing session, for extending the Line of the Chester and Holyhead
Railway at Chester, and Holyhead respectively—for authorising cer-
tain alterations in the levels of the said railway, and for empowering
the Company to subscribe towards the construction of a Harbour at
Holyhead, and to purchase, hire, and use Steam-boats.
And also to approve of a BM to be submitted to Parliament in the
ensuing cession for making a Railway from •Mold, in the county of
Flint, to join the Chester and Holyhead Railway in the parish of
Hawarden, in the smile county, with branches, to be called " The
Mold Railway."
The Register of Transfers will be closed from the 31st of January
until after the meeting.
By order, GEORGE KING, Secretary.
61, Moorgate-street, London, January 6, 1847.

ITEAM via the CAPE to MADRAS, CAL-
1. PENANG, SINGAPORE, and HONG-KONG,
calling at the CAPE, MACRITIUS and CEYLON.

The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company intend
to eispateh their Steam Ships.
" PEKIN," 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 arc provided at the Company's expense, The rates of pas-
sage are, to the Cape, 601.; to the Mauritius, 751. ; to Calcutta, 841.,
Including a handsome table, wines, &c., and every expense.
For pums and further particulars, apply at the Company's Offices,
51. St, Mary Axe, London.

LOYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
PROFESSOR SCIRENBEIN'S GUN COTTON, and other
Explosive Compounds, with brilliant Experiments, LECTURED on
y Dr. RYAN, daily at Half past Three o'clock; and on the Evenings
of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
The principle of the various EL ECTRO-MAGNETIC TELE •
GRAPHS explained daily by Profecsor BACHHOFFNEN, including
the Patent of Messrs. Cook and Wheatstone, in use on the railways, and
the more recent Patent of Messrs. Nott and Gamble ; the various
Models explained. Magnified Specimens of DISEASED POTATOES,
exhibited by the OXYHYDROGEN MICROSCOPE, with the DE-
S TRUCTIVE INSECT, supposed by A. Since, Esq., F.R.S., to he
the cause of the disease. A beautiful Series of NEW DISSOLVING
VIEWS. The DIVING-BELL and DIVER, with Experiments.
The PHYSIOSCOPE, new CHitOMATROPE, &c . &c.
Admission 13. Schools, half-price.

IMPORTANT TO GAS CONSUMERS.
The principle now generally adopted by Gas Companies being to sup-
ply only by Meter, it becomes necessary, for the benefit and pro-
tection of every consumer, that he should be practically acquainted
with the Index and management of his GAS METER.
S. UNDERWOOD, GAS LIGHT and
tp • FITTING SURVEYOR (many years engaged with Metro-
politan Companies), 2, Cobourg-row, Vincent-square, Westminster,
guarantees to give instruction that will immediately qualify any one
to take an exact registration of the quantity consumed; and also the
most economical method cf using the supply. Terms, 2s. Gd.; being
a very small outlay for such great advantages.
Disputed accounts valued, for settlement by arbitration ; and Esti-
mates given for Now Fittings, at 5 per cent. upon the valuation.
Every arrangement made with Gas Companies for laying on
Service Pipes to premises, and for fixing; either water or dry Meters.
The following statement will manifest the immense saving effected
by the use of G :

_ .
The Light from a pound of Wax Candles costs - - 2s. 6d.
A pound of Tallow Candles, giving the same Light - 7d.
An equal quantity of Light from 011 - - - -10 d.
The same quantity of Light from Gas, at 7s. per 1,000 feet 2d.
Gas Burners of all descriptions furnished on reasonable terms.
Families supplied with the best screened Coals and Coke, at liberal
prices for cash.
Letters promptly attended to.

THE BENEVOLENT INSTITUTE for the
TREATMENT and CURE ofSTRICTURE of the URETHRA,
and all DISEASES of the GENITO-URINARY ORGANS.
Surgeon, F. B.COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.L.

This Institute founded, and partly supported by subscriptions, and
placed under the supervision of a Conimittee of Subscribers, offers to
the industrious classes, IN ALL CASES, THE GRATUITOUS
ADVICE of an able and experienced Surgeon, and, in sonic cases,
Medicines also free of expense. The guarantees for uniform, humane,
and skilful treatment. which such an Institute affords, will, it is
hoped, induce the afflicted humbler classes to seek its aid, and
thereby avoid the waste of pecuniary means, and the risk to lite
they are sure to incur, by app ying for surgical, or medical, relief to
ignorant and unprincipled (pucks, and nostrum•yendora.
Applicants for relict must apply at the Surgery adjoining the
Surgeon's private residence, 2, Chandos•street, Cavendish-square.

W ESTMINSTER BRIDGE.
The Westminster and Lambeth Committees for opposing
the abolition of Westminster Bridge, have the satisfAction of an-
nouncing, on the authority of a statement made by Viscount Mor-
peth, that it is NOT intended to proceed with the Bill for the eree
tion of a Bridge near Charing Cross, in lieu of the present West-
minster Bridge.

In congratulating the inhabitants of the City of Westminster and
Borough of Lambeth, on this determination of the Government, the
Committees desire to take the opportunity of repeating their thanks
to General Sir De Lacy Evans, M.P., and Benjamin Dawes. Esq.,
M.l'., for the warm interest they have taken in their proceedings
now brought to so favourable a conclusion.

THE PERFECT SUBSTITUTE for SILVER,
The high estimate formed by the public during the twelve
yetirs WILLIAM S. BURTON'S (late RII'rON and BURTON'S)
chemically purified material has been before it (made into every
uselul and ornamental article usually made in silver, possessing, as
it dces, the characteristic purity and durab
lute existence the deleterious compocnds of "
litilebfatsailileart)e,"" Be:rilielnit
Silver," and other so called substitutes ; they bad
only
est bbuyt
imitations of the genuine articles manufactured,
e
Fiddle Threaded King's
aarn saotldb
Table Spoons and Forks, full size per Pattern. Pattern. pattern,
12s. ed. 28s. Of. 30s. d
Dessert ditto and ditto ditto .
ss. Od. I ls. N. 12s. Od.
Tea ditto and ditto, ditto.
SILVER, N1C10:L ELECTRO-PLATED. —The REAL NICKEL ST •
Gravy ditto ................. ..... 3s. Od. Es. Od. 7s. Od.
introduced and made only by IVILLIAM S. BURTON (late
RIPPON and BURTON'S) when plated by the patent process of
Messrs. Elkington and Co.,i beyond all comparison the very best
article, next to sterling silver, that can be employed as such either
usefully or ornamentally. in the lengthened and increasing popu-
larity of the material itself, and the high character of the method of
plating, the public have a guarantee that the articles sold by W. S.
Burton (and by him only) are, as it regards wear, immeasurably
superior to what ean he supplied at any other house, while by no
possible teat can they be distinguished front real silver.
Fiddle, Thread: King's.
Tea Spoons, per dozen •••• • • 18s. • • 325. ••
Dessert Forks „ •• ••• • • 30s. •
.. 465. 58s.Fi.
Dessert Spoons „
Table Forks
Table Spoons „ ....
Tea and coffee zeta, waiters, candlesticks, &c., at proportionate
prices. All kinds of re-plating done by the patent process, Detailed
catalogues, with engravings, as well as of every ironmongery article,
ent (per post) free.
WILLIAM S. BURTON (late RIPPON and BURTON'S) Stock
cf general Furnishing Ironmongery is literally the largest in the
world, and as 110 language can be employed to give a correct idea of
its variety and extent, purchasers arc invited to call and inspect it
—3O, Oxford-street (corner of Newman-street). Established in
Wells-street, l een.

Ran ORIENTAL BALSAMIC
of 6111,.;uolttisr
()NYLAND'S KA L YDOR
efficacy in thoroughly purifying the Skin from all Pimples,
Blotches, Freckles, Tan, and Discolourations, producing a healthy'
freshness and transparency of Complexion, and an admired sonnets,
and delicacy of the hands, arms, and neck. Its purifying and re-
freshing properties have obtained the exclusive patronage of the
Court and the Ho) al Family of Great Britain, as well as the
principal Corte of Europe, and the most distinguished .Nobility and
Gentry of all civilised nations.
*** Beware of Spurious " KALYDORS," containing mineral as-
tringents utterly ruinous to the complexion, and which, by their re-
pellent action, endanger health. Some are announced under the Im-
plied sanction of Royalty, &c., &c. Each bottle of the genuine teas
the words " ROWLANDS' KALYDOR" on the wrapper, and A.
ROWLAND and Son, :10, Hatton-garden, is also enzraved (by desire
cri Lu at :Amur, a.tjr.tr:d.

•
Sold by the Proprietors at 20, Hatton-gartieu, Louden, and by all
espeetable Chemists and rex-flters.

DURSLIANT to a DECREE of the HIGH
COURT of CHANCERY, made in two causes ASHTON
against HIGGINBOTTOM, and ASHTON against WOOLLEY, the
Creditors of BENJAMIN ASHTON, late of Newton Bank, in the
parish of .Mottram 3n Longdendale, in the county of Chester, Esq.
(who died in the month of December, 1835), arc, on or before
the Gth day of March, 1847, to come in and prove their debts before
Sir GIFFIN WILSON, one of the Masters of the said Court, at his
Chambers, in Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London, or,
in default therof, they will peremptorily be excluded the benefit of
the said Decree.

W. and H. P. SHARP. 2, Vertilam-balldngs,
Gray's-Inn, London, '

Agents for.

J. W. and H. E. RIDGWAY, Manchester,
Plaintiff' Solicitors.

WANTED, a 'IT. 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 Town
and Country Advertisement Ofliee,27, Lombard-street.

PARCEL POST COMPANY.
Capital 300001., in 6,000!. Shares of 5/. each,
No call beyond 21. Ms. per share to he made until after the first
Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders,
Central Depot-,--67, Fleet-street, London.

The Directors have the giatiflcation 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 npoa
a resolution not to make 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 for those shares until the 28th instant, after which day the
list will be finally closed.—By order of the Foard,
E. T. GOUGH. Secretary and Resident Manager.
67, Fleet-street, London, Jan. 18, 1847.

POSTER'S . MERCANTILE COLLEGE,
NO. 161, Strand, is designed to qualify young men to dis-
charge the duties of the Counting-house in an able and efficient
manner, and to afford adults an opportunity of acquiring skill and
dexterity in writing, arithmetic, bookkeeping, &c., upon sound and
undisputed principles. "Mr. Foster's .system abridges the period of
study, removes every difficulty, and imparts a power of investigating
accounts which neither fraud nor error can escape." "Foster's
Counting house-Assistant," price be., for sale as above.

-BEARD'S COLOURED PHOTOGRAPHIC
PORTUATYS, " now exhibit a degree of boldness. and stand
out with • a relief greatly desiderated in all the earlier specimens of
the art, while the method of colouring renders them agreeable and
life-like."—The Times.
85, King William-street, City ;
34, Parliament -street, Westminster; and the
Royal Polytechnic Institution, Regent-street.

JERROLD'S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER.
The universal response made in all parts of the Kingdom to
the efforts of the Proprk tor and Editor, has enabled him to enlarge
his Paper to the utmost extent allowed by the stamp law. •The
addition of one-third more matter will enable the Dzbates of the
present Most important Session to be fully reported, and all the news
of every kind to be given in the amplest manner, without trenching
on the variety of original articles on political and social affairs that
secured for the paper so rapid and erenstvo a circulation on its first
appearance. The enlargement commenced on the 23d of January,
and being eagerly and cordially received, has already doubly extended
the sphere of its influence and circulation. With such encourage-
ment, every department of the pa-per will be conducted with unabted
zeal and attention. Published in various editions, so that the early
may reaoh every town of the United Klngdon on the Saturday, and
the last contain all the news up to the latest moment. To be had of
any newsmen, town or country. Price Sixpence.

Just published, the Second Edition, price ss. coloured,
THE BOOK of the FEET; a History of Boots
and Shoes, with upwards of One Hundred Illustrations of
the fashions of the Egyptians, Hebrews. Persians, Greeks, and
Romans, and the prevailing style throughout Europe during the
Middle Ages down to the present period. Also, Hints to Last-
makers, and Remedies for Corns, Ice. By J. SPARKES HALL,
Patent Elastic Root-mrker to her Majesty the Queen, the Queen
Dowager, and the Queen of the Belgians.
London : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.

MR. CIUTCH'S COLLECTION OF THE ROBIN HOOD

BALLADS.

Just ready, in 2 vole. Bvo., with Illustrations on Wood, 30s. cloth,
LYTTELL GESTE OP ROBIN RODE,
in Eight Fyttes, with' other Ancient and Modern Ballads
and Songs relative to this celebrated English Yeoman. To which is
preflaee, his History and Character, grounded upon other Docu-
ments than those made use of by bis former Biographer, " Mister
Ritson."

Edited by JOHN MItHEW GIITCH, F.A.S. ; and adorned with
Cuts by Fred. Wm. Fairholt, F.A.S.
London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmont.

THE ARTISAN CLUB ON THE STEAM ENGINE.
Just published, in One Volume, 4to. with 30 Steel Plates and 349
Wood Engravings, 278. cloth,
Al TREATISE on the • STEAM 'ENGINE, in
its Application to Mines, Mills, Steam Navigation, and
Railways. By the ARTISAN CLUB. Edited by JOHN BOURNE,

** Subscribers are requested to complete their sets.
London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

Price One Shilling, with Illustrations.
THE MIRROR, for FE➢RUARY, will contain
"TILE MISER'S WILL," by PERCY B. ST. JOHN, hi-
eluding the following chapters :—" The Japanese Minstrels," " Mrs.
Lewis," &e. With contributions by John Oxenford, Edmund Oilier,
J. A. Herand, Frances Brown, Stuart Farquharson, Fanny E. Lacy,
and others; also Notes of the Month, Poetry, Reviews of Books, and
Articles on the Advantages of Life Assurance and Building Societies.
Charles Oilier, Di and 19, Southampton-street, Strand.

ON THE CONCEALED CAUSE THAT PREYS ON TILE
HEALTH AND SHORTENS 'I DURATION OF HUMAN
LIFE.

ILLUSTRATED WITH COLOURED EMORATINGS,
Just Published, iu a Sealed Envelope, price 2s. 6d., or free
by post, 3s. 6d.
CONTROUL OP' THE PASSIONS : a Popular
Inquiry into the Concealed Cause of Its premature Decline,
with instructions for its Complete Restoration. Addressed to those
suffering from the destructive consequences of excessive indulgence,
terminatiug in Mental and Nervous Debility, Local or Constitutional
Weakness, Indigest'on , and Consumption. Including a comprehen-
sive Dissertation on MARRIAGE, Incontinence, and Celibacy.
Illustrated with Coloured Engravings, explanatory of the various
Cases, &c.

By C. J. LUCAS and Co., Consulting Surgeons, No. GO, Newman-
street, Oxford-street, London.

Published by the authors ; Hannay and co., 63, Oxford-street ;
Noble, 114, Chancery-lane; G. Mansell, 115, Fleet-street; H.
Winhal, 78, lligh-street, Birmingham; H. Whitmore, 119, Market-
street, Manchester ; J. Ilowell, 51, Church-street, Liverpool; w.
and H. Robinson, 11, Gresnside street, Edinburgh; I. H. Powell,
10, Westmoraland•strect, Duhlin ; and sold by Brittain, 11, Pater-
uoster-row ; J. Gordon, 116, Leadenhall-street ; and all Booksellers
" The best of all friends is the professional friend, and in no shape
can he be consulted with greater safety and secrecy than in " Lucas
on Manly Health."—The dew Bell's Weekly Messenger.
Persons desirous of obtaining the above work, and not wishing to
apply to a bookseller for the same, may, to insure secrecy, have it
direct from the Authors, by enclosing 3s. Gd., or Postage Stamps.
The security of happiness in the Marriage state is the chief anxiety
of all ; but many dread entering upon wedded union, through a
secret fear of unfitness for the ;discharge of matrimonial obligations.
This essay is most particularly addressed to all suffering under a
despondency of the eharaater allude!! to ; and advice will be found
calculated to cheer the drooping heart, and pain; the way to renovated
health.

Messrs. Lucas and Co. are to he consulted from Ten till Two, and
front Five till Eight in the evening, at their residence, No. 60,
Newman-street, Oxford-street, London, and country patients may
ha successfully treated, on minutely describing their case, and enclos-
ing the usual fee of 11. for advice.

SILVER-PLATED DISH COVERS.
A B. SAVORY and SONS, Manufacturing
Lm..• Silversmiths, 14, Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank of
England, submit for choice in their Plate-rooms, many Patterns of
SILVER-PLATED DISH COVERS, of Sheffield Manufacture, from
Eleven to Twenty Guineas the set, viz.:—
The Uxbridge Pattern. The Montrose Pattern.
Size. s.d. Size. £ s.d.
1 Plated Dish Cever, 20 in. 5 13 6 1 Plated Dish Cover, 90 in. 5 17 0
1 Dish Cover, 111 in. 4 7 0 Dish Cover, 16 in. 4 14 6
2 Dish Covers, 14 in. 5 12 0 3 Dish Covers, 14 in. 6 6 0
Per set ...... .....£l5 13 0; Per £l6 17 6
The above have silver handles and mountings, and silver shichis
for engraving the crest or coat of arms.
A Price Current, illustrated by Drawings, and containing every
information:relative to the purchase of Silver or Sheffield Plate, may
be had on application, or will be sent into the country, free of
postage, in answer to a paid letter.

NORTON'S TRULY VALUABLE CAMO-
MILE PILLS, FOR INDIGESTION, &c.
These Pills are a pure extract of camomile flowers, prepared by a
peculiar process, by which all the medicinal properties of rather more
than one ounce of the flowers are concentrated into four moderato
biZed pills, They are mild in eperation, and have proved wonder-
fully successful in removing every sympton of indigestion, sick head-
ache, loss of appetite, giddiness, heartburn, costiveness', eruptions of
the skin, and all complaints arising from a disordered state of the
digestive organs ; they require no alteration of diet, and their opera-
tions will be found so beneficial in giving tune to the stomach, regu-
lating the bowels, and in promoting a healthy habit, as fully to con-
vince all who take them of their great utility. Per. ons who have
suffered front indigestion for several years, have, by their use, in a
few weeks perfectly recovered, which is a convincing proof that in
the smallest compass is contained the largest quantity of the tonic
principle of so peculiar a nature as to pervade the whole system,
through which it diffuses health and strength.
Sold in bottles at Is. I cy., 25.9 d., and Its. each, in every town in
the kingdom.
CAUTION.—Be sure to ask for " Norton's Pills," and be not per-
suaded to purchase an imitation.

STATE
on luetmsd
meeting g of the
Chamber
OCTomemAeireT:Naßt
of a meeting betwixt a deputation and the meinalsater:sa
of
freport
or the
county was read, from which we gather the follo facts
38 to the state of the country:—Parish of Latl'ivern;'
the district comprising half the estate of Dunbeath, ath—ln
onwheel, and Latheron, and the greater part of horse, there
aro 291 families, comprising 1,499 individuals, requiring meal,
some for the whole period to next harvest, some have a
supply perhaps for three months. Of the 291,45 are already
depending on charity. This distress, greater than ever
before known, proceeds from the failure of the herring fishery,
and the denression of the herring trade, as well as the
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-
vided. 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
families 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 latter 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 6th), labourers cannot be got." Ac •
counts thus differed. Mr. Snody, however, resided twenty
miles from Lybster, an the gentleman who made the state-
ment in the parish. Sinev—Many families have been com-
pelled to betake themselves for support to the turnip fields.
Clyth—Employment for thirty men has been provided, but
the superintendent of the work could get one hundred more
if he
was instructed to employ them.' Caledonian Mercury.
THE WEATHER IN MANCIIESTER.—SUNDAT, JAN.
2.l.—yesterday a thaw set in, and continued during the
:.'hole of tbc clay • .."
. ,
incutiveulmleu. '-ue
trains have been pretty well up to their time, and no fttrther
delay are anticipated.

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 as the justification of the English Govern-
rnent in the policy it has pursued towards Spain with re-
ference to the royal marriages i
THE EARL OF ABERDEEN TO SIR ROBERT
GORDON.
Foreign-office, March 16, 1842.
The great remedy which' the King of the French proposes
for all the evils of Spain, both present and future, is an agree-
ment respecting the marriage of the Queen. He declares
that he entirely renounces all pretensions for any son of his
own ; but that Frane.e 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- •
stune.s 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 trannufllitY and happi-
ness cf the country would be secured.
To all this, and a great deal more urged by M. Pag..?°t' 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 balms* of Enrope, England would
not look with indifference on the choice of a French Prince,
we by ne means pretended to plac¢s veto: upon the family
of Bourbon, and that if the-Queen of 'Spain-sad her GOvern-
ment thought fit to make such a selection,•we should readily
accept the Prince as her husband.
In truth, we regard this question as entirely and exclu-
sively Spanish ; and that it ought to be regulated by con-
siderations affecting the happiness 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.

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

Foreign-office, June 22, 1846.
M. le Due,—You have informed me that you had been in-
structed to ascertain whether it would call forth the dis..
pleasure of the British Government if the Cabinet of Mairid
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
therefore urged no objection against the proposal of seeking
among the descendants of Philip V. for a husband for the
provided such
echoice
theshoa intldbeereas of herconforma Gbleotvoetrnhe..
iQnculeiennal liot of er maisti, and
ment.
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 u mild not only receive the warmest sympathy of
Great Britain, but of all Europe.—l am, &c.,
ABERDEEN.

No. 9.

LORD COWLEY TO VISCOUNT PALMERSTON.

Paris, July 13, 1846.

Soon after the declaration of the Queen of S-pain''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, he 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 deterinina-
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 lie 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 P resistas with whom lie
is strictly united ; and an apprehensionr i; 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 th
upon equal rights to the throne, before be can oiler e (. bu2un"
eein
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
the greatest consternation here. M. Guix4t told in 9
theshat
if
the project was persisted in, he should recommend it to
King to put forward the Duke de Montpensier as a candidate
for the Queen's hand.

No. 22.
VISCOUNT PALMERSTON TO MR. BULIVER.
(Extract) Foreign-oflice, Aug. 25, 1846.
With regard to the Queen of S ain's marriage, I have
al ready explained to you the opinion of her Maje,sty'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 ; and
the only case in which, in the opinion of her MajesWs 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, iu 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 Lo
Aberdeen's note to the Duke of Sotomayor, of the 22d of
June last, and also in the instructions which I have had oe.
casion to address you since I have held the :seals of this
department.
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No. 25.
TO VISCOUNT PALMERSTON.
MR. BULIVER Madrid, August 29, 1846.
I have now to announce to your Lordship that the Queen
htess DonadErnraandecisucpo
k. that she h
declared last night, her
mind in favour of his R
at 12ooy'Lalocuig
Assis.
told, took some little time to consider,
The Queen. I am her cousin
and then decided in favour of
I sin sorry to inform your Lordship that the marriage of
the Duke of Montpensier, who is to be here in a fortnight,
is to take place at the same time as that of her Majesty. I
have at different times, though Privately, warned M. Isturitz
and the Court, that this event would excite considerable
discontent in England, and produce a rery nnfaroarable
impression on the public mind there. I have also touched on
the subject with Count Brcsson, but, I had no instructions
to speak to him on the question, I did not do more than ex-
press my own views respectiug it.
I learn that directly the Queen had signified her intention
of marrying her cousin, Count Bresson forman—
j, asked the
hand of the Infanta for the Duke de Montpeltsier, stating
that he had powers to enter upon and conclndri that affair;
and the terms of the marriage were then definitively settled
between M. Isturitz and Lim.

No. 27.
TIIE MARQUIS OF NORMANBY TO VISCOUNT
PALMERSTON,

Paris, Sept. 1, 1846.
My Lord,—l this morning received a note from M. Guizot,
requesting to see me after his return from the Chambers, a
little before six.
Upon my keeping the appointment, he began by telling I
me that he had news from Spain that the marriage of the
Queen with the Duke of Cadiz was settle I. I said that
the last intelligence we had received then ce had induced
us to think such a result not unlikely. Ie said he had
no details, as he had received it by telegraph. lie then
added, that the Queen was at the same ti me to give her
sanction for her sister's marriage with the 1 )uke de Mont-
pensier. "At the same ?" I inquired. " Z.ll ot at the satTle.
atne, he iti,bW6Led hut, 1,0 tune place ut t same tune."
I said I laid no stress upo n that ; that, c,f course, I was
entirely without instruct 1 ;from sav wenn:dont, to