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DEFERRED ANNUITIES.

The best and most varied provision for after life hitherto of-
fered—E2 12s. per annum (Is. per week) at 20, will at 65
give the policy-holder the choice of an annuity of £47 16s. 6d.,
or £349 11s. cash, or policy at death of £466. Similar ad-
vantages at 50, 55, and 60—Two-thirds payments lent at any
time, and Two-thirds returned in ease of premature death.
The detailed Plans, and Last Annual Report to be had at
the Office, at any of its Branches, or on application will be
forwarded post free.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary.

NORTH BRITISH INSURANCE
COMPANY,
4, NEW BANK BUILDINGS, and 10, PALL MALL
EAST, LONDON
1, HANOVER-STREET, EDINBURGH
And 37, COLLEGE-GREEN, DUBLIN.
Incorporated by Royal Charter. Established in 1809.
Capital, One Million.
PRESIDENT—His Grace the DUKE of SUTHERLAND
Vista-PitustnENTs—VISCOUNT MELVILLE and the
MARQUIS of ABERCORN.
LONDON BOARD.
PRESIDENT—The EARL of CAMPERDOWN.
VICE-PRESIDENT—VISCOUNT STRATHALLAN.
Alderman Sir PETER LAURIE, Chairman.
FRANCIS WARDEN, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
Robert Cockburn, Esq. Isaac Sewell, Esq.
Alexander Cockburn, Esq. Walter A. Urquhart, Esq.
John Connell, Esq. George Webster, Esq.
William P. Craufurd, Esq. Benj. Boyd, Esq.
Resident.
John Irvine Glennie, Esq. Mark Boyd, Esq.
Charles Hertslet, Esq.
PnysiciAN—John Webster, M.D. 56, Grosvenor-street.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Parken and Webster, 13, New Boswell-
court, London.
BANKERS—The Union Bank of London.
The West End I)fficc is now open for Conducting the Business
of the Company upon the same terms as at the Chief Office.

911 HE LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND
1 DUBLIN GUARANTEED MUTUAL and PRO-
PRIETARY LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY,
No. 3, CHARLOTTE-ROW, MANSION HOUSE, and 5,
GREAT MARLBOROUGH-STREET, LONDON ;
64, FLEET-STREET, DUBLIN; and
21, ST. ANDREW-STREET, EDINBURGH.

DIRECTORS.
KENNETH KINGSFORD, Esq., Savage-gardens, Chairman
BENJAMIN IFILL, Esq., Welbeek-street,Deputy Chairman
Alexander Anderson, Esq., York-place, Portman-square
John Atkins, Esq , White Hart-court, Lombard-street
James Bidden, Esq. Spread Eagle-court
Captain F. Brandreth, Scots' Fusilier Guards
James Hartley, Esq., Mecklenburgh-square
John lU'Guffie, Esq., Osnaburgh-street
. .

John Maclean Lee, Esq., Seething-lane
{ric7:AwntgrilYadet, Kennington-terrace
Alexander Robertson, Esq., Portland-terrace, Regent's-park,
Manager.
Au DITORS
S H. Cannan, Esq., Finsbury-square
Robert E. Alison, Esq., Cornhill
MsnicAL Anvisre,—Marshall Hall. M.D., KR. S., L. and E.
SEcarrARY—F. Edgell, Esq., Noel-street
SoLicrroas—Messrs. Palmer, France, and Palmer, Bedford-

row.
CONSTITUTION OF THE COMPANY.

This is iiie only Guaranteed Mutual Life Company— All other
Assurance Companies are either Mutual, in which the parties ,
Assured are also their own assurers, there being no Share-
holders and no original Capital—or Proprietary, in which the
assured have no stare in the profits, which belong exclusively
to the Shareholders—or Mixed, in which the assured have the
option, on payment of larger premium, of participating in a
portion only of the profits. By the Constitution of the Lon-
don, Edinburgh, and Dublin Company, the Mutual Class of
the assured are entitled to the Whole of the Mutual Profits, as
if they had been assured in a purely Mutual Society, and they
have also the security of the funds of the Company supplied by
the Shareholders, who, guarantee by the subscribed Capital, the
payment of the sums assured—the assured themselves being re-
lievei from all responsibility, and thus placed in the right of
the advantages afforded both by Mutual Societies and Proprie-
tary Companies.
Table to Assure £lOO, with profits : •
Age. £. s. d. Age. £. s. 43.
1 20
25 ... ........ ... 2 2 7 50
35
40
Those who wish to assure a specific sum without regard to
future additions, are charged according to a scale which is as
IoW as a due regard to the complete security of all parties will
admit of.

Table of Premiums without addition of Profits :

Age. £. s. d.
20
25

Age. s. d.
45
4 3 4
50

35
40
PRACTICE OF THE COMPANY.
Important improvements have been introduced into Life As-
surance practice by this Company, whereby the mode of ob-
taining Policies is simplified, all doubts as to their validity are
removed, and their application is much extended.
The Policies are Indefeasible and Indisputable, unless they
have been fraudulently obtained. They at once create for the
assured an unquestionable right in reversion, easily negotiable,
and valuable as a collateral security in pecuniary transactions.
One-half of the Premiums may remain unpaid for Seven
Years, affording a greater facility and more economical plan
for loan transactions and family provisions than any other which
has been suggested, allowing a Policy to be dropped at one-half
of the usual sacrifice, and entitling the assured at a future pe.
riod,- when loss of health may prevent him from obtaining a
new assurance, to continue a Policy for double the amount of
the sum for which he has paid premiums.

Credit Tab'e to Assure £lOO.
Age. X. s. d. Age. X. s. 'd.
15
20
25
30

Whole World Policies, entitling the party to go or to reside
in any part of the World, are granted on payment of a small
additional premium, according to the circumstances of the case,
but fixed and determined at the time of granting the Policy.
Provisions for Old Age may be made by the purchase of an
annuity to commence at any defined age, or by effecting a Life
Assurance according to the following Table, whereby the sum
assured is made payable to the Assured himself on his attaining
60 years of age, and in the event of his death before that time,
it is payable to his heirs or assigns.
To Assure £lOO to the Assured Himself at 60, or to his Heirs.
A

ge. X. s. d. Age. X. s. d.
15
20 ... ........ .... 2 8 7 40
25
30

Chronic Diseases form no bar to the granting of Policies
upon the lives of persona suffering from them ; an additional
premium being charged according to the nature of the risk.
The Agents of the Company, and the Manager in London,
will, on application, forward, free of expense, Forms of Prop°.
sal and every requisite information, to parties desirous of effect-
ing Assurances.
All Official Communications are considered as strictly con-
fidential.

INIPORTANT.—Many Persons after learning
that so many wonderful Cures have been effected by
PARR'S LIFE PILLS, have a great deiire to procure the
Medicine which has done so much good. In dying this, how-
ever, caution must be obierved, as certain individuals, without
honour or honesty, are offering a dangerous substitute instead of
the genuine Medicine. , The Proprietors cannot, of course, be
accountable for any untoward results that may ensue to those
who have been thus imposed upon, but they can point out a
effectual means to prevent further imposition.
Purchasers may be sure they have the genuine Medicine, if
they find the words PARR'S LIFE PILLS engraved on the
Government Stamp, in White Letters on a Red Ground. Oh_
serve, also, that the name of Mr. Edwards, 67, St. Paul's,
London, is printed, as Wholesale Agent, en the directions
which are wrapped round every boa. nice Is. l 2s. 9d.,
and 11s. each.
Instances of Cures, when every other remedy bad failed, are
received daily. The following, from a highly-respectable indi-
vidual, is selected from hundreds of a similar nature :
FROM MR. HOWER, CHEMIST, DUDLEY.
To the Proprietors of Parr's Life Pills.
" Dudley, Sept. 14, 1841.
" GEWTLEMEN,—I forward you a copy of a letter sent to me
(as under), and which you can make what use of you think
proper. I am, your obedient servant, E. lIOLLIER.
" Tipton, Staffordshire.
" I, Joshua Ball, hereby testify, that I had been dreadfully
afflicted with Rheumatic Gout for 17 year=, so that I have at
times kept my bed for months together, and could not get any
thing to do me good, till I took Parr's Lite Pills,' which I
am very happy to state have nearly restored me to perfect
health. As witness my hand, this 11th day of September,
1141. " JOSHUA BALL."

SUPERIOR LONDON TABLE CUTLERY WAR-
RANTED.—TABLE KNIVES, with Ivory Handles, 14s.
per dozen ; Dessert Knives, I Is. ; Carvers, 41. 6d. per pair ;
Table Knives, with white bone handles, Bs. Bd. per dozen ,
Dessert, 6s. 84. ; Carvers, 3s. per pair ; Globe-shape Tea-
urns, 4 quarts, 275. ; new shapes, 395. ; Papier Mache Tea-
trays, gothic shape, 50s ; the set o f full size?. Catalogues,
containing the prices, with Engravings of every Ironmongery
Article necessary to the furnishing of a house of any size, 25
per cent. under any other old-established house, to be had
gratis (post free).
RIPPON and BURTON, 12, Wells-stree t Oxford-street.

Established 1820.

TO CAPITALISTS.

VALUABLE CHURCH PREFERMENTS IN YORK-

SHIRE.

l/( 'R. FULLALOVE will SELL by AUC-
TION, at the Black Swan Inn, in the City of York,
on FRIDAY, the 17th day of December next, at the hour of
Three in the Afternoon precisely (unlesspreviously disposed of
by Private Contract, of which due notice will be given), sub-
ject to such conditions of sale as will be then produced, and in
One or Two Lots, as shall be agreed upon at the time of Sale,
All that the NEXT PRESENTATION, and also the Ad-
vowson, Donation, Nomination, Free Disposition, and Right
of Patronage to the RECTORY of DA RFIELD, in the
County of York, of which the Rev. HENRY BOWEN
COOKE is now the Rector and Incumbent, together with the
Rectory-house, Glebe Lands, and Rent Charges, payable in
lieu of the Great and Small Tithes of, and arising within the
several townships of Darfield, Ard3ley, Wombwell, Great
Houghton, Little Houghton, Billingley, and Worsborough, all
within the parish of Darfield aforesaid, and belonging thereto,
and which have been duly commuted under the late Act of
Parliament for the Commutation of Tithes in England and
Wales.

The several Farms, Lands, and Premises out of which the
said rent-charges are payable, are in the possession of highly-
respectable tenants ; the income of the living arising from such
rent-charges, and also from the glebe-lands and tenements be-
onging to the Rectory, and also from canal payments, surplice-
fees, &c., amounts to the total annual sum of 1,5261. 93., or
thereabouts.

The RECTORY-HOUSE, which is in complete repair,
contains spacious Entrance-hall, Dining-room, Drawing-rooms,
and Library; Butler's Pantry, Housekeeper's-room, Kitchen,
Servant's Hall, back Kitchen, Laundry, Dairy, and other Of-
fices on the ground floor. Six best Bedrooms and four Dres-
sing-rooms ; six other Bed-rooms, besides good and convenient
Attics, and other requisites ; together with Coach-house,
Stabling, and other suitable Office 3, Outbuildings, with excel-
lent Gardens and Hothouses therein ; and Shrubberies and
Orchards within wall fences. Also spacious Farm-yard, with
all suitable Outbuildings thereto belonging, and as now oecu-
pied therewith. '

Appurtenant and belonging to the Rectory of Darfield afore-
said is the Perpetual Curacy of Worsborough, which is in the
gift of the Rector of Darfield, the Glebe Lands thereto belong-
ing, with the augmentation, being now of the annual value of
3001. or thereabouts, and part of the land containing valuable
Beds of Coal, which may be brought into immediate use.
There is also attached and belonging to the Perpetual Cu-
racy of Worsborough, an excellent Parsonage-house, with suit-
thle..Offirte,pv,i Oothuildinps. Garden _nr,-3,—,1
Andrew, the present Incumbent of the said Curacy, who is now
of the age of 29 years.
The Rector and Incumbent of the parish of Darfield will at-
tain the age of 45 years in the month of April next.
It is considered worthy of remark that Church Preferments
so valuable as these are but seldom offered for public competition.
They are situated in the most delightful part of. the West
Riding of the county of York, being surrounded by the resi-
dences of, and properties belonging to, families of the first dis-
tinction and highest respectability.
Darfield is situate five miles from Barnsley, twelve from
Sheffield, twenty-two from Leeds, ten from Doncaster, and
thirty-five from York, and is within a quarter of a mile of, the
Station on the North Alidland Railway.
To treat for the purchase by Private Contract, application
may be made to Messrs. Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, solici-
tors, Temple • and Messrs. Yarborough and Adams, 44, Lin-
coln's Inn-fields, London ; of Mr. Birks, of Hernmingfield, near.
Barnsley ; or at the Offices of Mr. Andrew, solicitor, No. 1,
Bexley-street, near the Town-hall, Sallord, and Ne. 10, Back
Piccadilly, Manchester, where printed particulars and all
further information may be obtained.

Just published, price 35., and aent free on receipt of a Post-
office Order for 45.,

MANLY VIGOUR : a Popular Inquiry into
the CONCEALED CAUSES of its PREMA-
TURE DECLINE ; with Instructions for its COMPLETE
RESTORATION, addressed to those suffering from the De-
structive Consequences of Excessive Indulgence in Solitary
and Delusive Habits, Youthful Imprudence, or Infection ; with
Remarks on the Treatment of Gonorrhoea, Gleet, Stricture,
and Syphilis. Illustrated with Cases, &c.
By C. J. LUCAS and CO., Consulting Surgeons, London.
Published by the Authors ; and sold by Brittain, 11, Pater-
noster-row ; Effingham Wilson, 18, Bishopsgate-street ; Field,
65, Quadrant, Regent-street • Burgess, 28, Coventry-street,
Haymarket ; Huett, 141, High Holborn ; and by all 13ooksel-
lers in the United Kingdom.
The various forms of bodily and mental weakness, incapa-
city, suffering, and disease, faithfully delineated in this cau-
tiously written and practical work, are almost unknown, gene-
rally misunderstood, and treated upon principles correspond-
ingly erroneous and superficial, by the present race of medical
practitioners. Hence the necessity for the publication of a
timely safeguard, a silent yet friendly monitor, or, where debi-
lity has made threatening inroads, the means of escape and the
certainty of restoration. The evils to which this book adverts
are extensive and identical in their secret and hidden origin,
and there are none to whom, as Parents, Guardians, Heads of
Families, and especially of public Schools, is confided the care
of young people, who ought to remain for a moment devoid of
that information and those salutary cautions this work is in-
tended to convey. Not only are the most delicate forms of
generative debility neglected by the family physician, but they
require for their safe management the exclusive study of a life
entirely abstracted from the reutine of general practice, and
(as in other departments of the profession) attentively concen-
trated in the daily and long-continued observation requisite for
the correct treatment of sexual infirmities.

If we consider the topics touched upon, either in a moral or
social view, we find the interests and welfare of mankind
seriously involved. The effects of licentious, indiscriminate
and secret indulgence in certain practices, are described with
an accuracy and force which display at once profound reflec-
tion and extensive practical experience.
The best of all Friends is the Professional Friend : and in
no shape can he be consulted with greater safety and secresy
than in " Lucas on Manly Vigour." The initiation into
vicious indulgence—its progress—its results in both sexes, are
given with faithful, but alas ! for human nature, with afflicting
truth. However, the Authors have not exposed the evil with-
out affording a remedy. It shows how " Manly Vigour"
temporarily impaired, and mental and physical emasculation,
produced by uncontrolled indulgence of the passions, can be
restored ; how the sufferer, who has pined in anguish from the
consequences of early indiscretion—afraid almost to encounter
his fellow man, can regain the vigour of health and moral
courage. The work is written in a concise and perspicuous
style, displaying how often fond parents are deceived by the
outward physical appearance of their youthful offspring ; how
the attenuation of the frame, palpitation of the heart, derange-
ment of the nervous system, cough, indigestion, and a train of
symptoms indicative of consumption or general decay, are often
ascribed to wrong causes ; and instead of being the natural re-
sults
of congenital debility or disease, are the consequences of
an alluring and pernicious practice, alike destructive to the
mind and body.
Although a newspaper is not the ordinary channel for the
expression of opinion upon the merits of a medical work, this
remark is open to exception in any instance where the public,
and not the isolated and exclusive members of the profession,
are the parties addressed. Upon that which is directed to
men indiscriminately, the. world will form its own opinion, and
will demand that medical works for public study should be
devoid of that mysterious technicality in which the science of
medicine has hitherto shrouded its own ignorance. The work
before us treats of subjects we believe generally, yet very
strangely, neglected by the medical attendant, and requiring
doubtlessly (as in operative midwifery and the surgery of the
eye) an entire devotedne,s to a deeply important branch of
stu(ly.l'htonhrreaofo,,,ng, yet is
ee
this bookcohrrightly moral, and it abounds
in well-written, displays of the suffering
consequent upon unbridled sensualism. No human being can
be the worse for its perusal ; to multitudes it must prove a
warning beacon, a well-told appeal to. reason, a permanent
blessing. It is written in a clear, intelligent style, and is evi-
dently the production of a mind lent; and practically conver-
sant with the diseases of the most delicate division of the human
organisation.
she security of Happiness in the Marriage State is the chief
anxiety of all; but many dread entering upon the wedded
union, through a secret fear of unfitness for the discharge of
matrimonial obligations. This essay is most particularly ad-
dressed to all suffering under a despondency of the character
alluded to ; and advice will be found calculated to cheer the
drooping heart, and point the way to renovated health.
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whatever can be taken of their application; and in all cases
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containing a New Chapter on Soils, of
CHEMISTRY, in its APPLICATIONS
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JUSTUS LIEBIG. M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry
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Eleventh EAition (in an envelope), with upwards of 100 En-
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THE GREEN BOOK, price 10s. (by post-
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NEW WORK ON DEBILITY, &c.

Just published, price 4s. ; or sent by Post, free, 55.,
SE"-PRESERVATION ; a Popular Essay
on the Concealed Causes of those obscure and neglected
Disorders of the Geoeraput §Atim,sataktlpir,„,l3lo,6u
hcea, Syphilis, Indigestion. Insanity, and Consumption. With
Practical Observations on MARRIAGE, and on the Ana-
tomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs,
with plain directions for their perfect Restoration.
By SAMUEL LA'MERT, CONSULTING SURGEON,
01, FALKNER-STREET, MANCHESTER,
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Just published, the Seventh Edition, price 3s. ; and sent free,
on receipt of a Post-office order, for 3s. 6d.,
MANHOOD; the CAUSES of its PRE-
MATURE DECLINE, with plain Directions for
ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to those
suffering from the destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence,
Solitary Habits, or Infection ; followed by Observations on
the Treatment of Syphilis, Gonorrhoea, Gleet, &c., illus-
trated with cases, &c. By J. L. CURTIS and COMPANY,
Consulting Surgeons, London.
SEVENTH EDITION. _ _

Published by the Authors, and sold by Balliere, Medical
Bookseller to the Royal College of Surgeons, 219, Regent-
street ; Strange, 21, Paternoster-row ; Pattie, 4, Bridges-
street, Strand, London ; Guest, Birmingham; Sowler, 4, St.
Ann's-square, Manchester ; Philip, South Castle-street, Liver-
pool ' • Fannin and Co., 41, Grafton-street, Dublin ; Duncan,
114, High-street, Edinburgh ; and to be had of all Booksellers

The following are a few of the numerous testimonials this
popular work has received, and which the limits of an adver-
tisement will only allow of being published :
The rage for books in all departments of Science, literature,
and the arts, was, we believe, never so prevalent as at the pre-
sent time. The unavoidable consequence of this is, that we
meet a very considerable proportion of indifferent. useless, and
even bad books. With the force of this prejudice on our
minds, wo with no little reluctance were induced to peruse
Messrs. Curtis's work, entitled "Manhood ;" nor did it re-
quire much perusal fully to satisfy us that the book was not
one of the common stamp. The scientific views taken by the
authors of the source and origin of many of the most distressing
effects of certain depraved habits, fully establish their claim to
the character of experienced and judicious surgeons. To
quote passages from the work in prsof of our assertion would
be departing from the established rules of the daily press. The
result, however, of our careful perusal of the work, has been
to impress us with a thorough confidence in the talent and
skill of the authors, and to satisfy us that those entrusted with
the care of youth are not a little indebted to them for fur-
nishing them with a means of preventing some of the most
frightful maladies to which flesh is heir.—Old England.
Messrs. Curtis's work, entitled "Manhood," is one of the
few books now coming before the
.public on such a subject which
can lay claim to the character of being strictly professional, at
the same time that it is fully intelligible to all who read it.
The moral and medical precepts given in it, render it invalu-
able.—Magnet.
The perusal of Messrs. Curtis's book entitled " Manhood,"
has really astonished us by developing a series of maladies, the
never-failing consequence of the vicious habit of which it
treats. The clear connexion pointed out between the assigned
cause and the effects is perceptible to every capacity. We
strssngly recommend the work..—Age.
The multitude of books daily coming from the press, some,
nay most of them of a very questionable tendency,
tremely reluctant to take up another. Having, however, been
induced by the character given of this work by an intelligent
friend, we ventured to open its pages, and made us ex •
now feel no hesita •
Con in saying that we ariso from its perusal instructed and
edified. The clear exposition of the source of many of those
diseases which proves so fatal to youth, and which are set
down by the every-day observer as the result of common
causes, suPli as exposure to cold, sudden vicissitudes of tempe-
rature, hereditary taint, &c., is truly convincing and extre-
mely satisfactory. We say " satisfactory," inasmuch as Messrs.
Curtis have shown that many diseases, such as Pulmonary
Consumption, Epilepsy, &c., hitherto the opprobria of medi-
cine, may, when taken in proper time, and submitted to judi-
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a
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BRIDGNORTIAAO-D- Itt SS TO
LORD PALMERSTON.
BRIDGNORTH, DEC. 3.—The following address to Lord
Palmerston, while on a short visit at Lord Leveson's, in
this neighbourhood, was presented to his Lordship by
J. Milman Coley, Esq., on the part of the inhabitants of
that town
To the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Palmerston, G.C.B' ,
her Majesty's late Principal Secretary of State for
the Foreign Department.
" We, the Mayor and Town Council of the ancient and
loyal borough of Bridgnorth, deeply deploring the pre-
sent change in the Administration, which we fear will fail
to answer the expectations of a numerous and influential
party, by whom the present Ministers have been forced
into office in consequence of a late vote in the House of
Commons, take the opportunity of your Lordship being in
the neighbourhood, most gratefully acknowledge our ob-
ligations to your Lordship and your late colleagues for
your strenuous efforts in support of civil and religious
liberty, and for your late arduous but unsuccessful at-
tempt to extend the commerce and improve the resources
of this nation by measures, which if carried into effect,
would have laid the foundation for commercial freedom,
and brought into operation these elements of wealth,
prosperity, and happiness, which are at present op-
pressed by, monopoly, and by statutes at variance
with the principles on which the commercial operations
of an intelligent, wealthy, and powerful kingdom ought
to be based. We confidently hope that the time may
speedily arrive, when it may please her Gracious Ma-
jesty to restore to your Lordship and your late colleagues
that power which we feel satisfied will ever in your
hands be exercised for the benefit of the community,
and for the promotion of the honour and safety oc
the nation. We cannot conclude this hasty expression
of our sentiments without assuring your Lordship of
our unabated respect and confidence in your wise, en-
lightened, and patriotic conduct, and offering our best
but feeble support, should an opportunity recur, to any
measures of reform in the trade, commerce, and institu-
tions of this great nation, which; in your wisdom, you
may hereafter have occasion to propose ; and, should it
not be your lot to enjoy a return to the administration
of public affairs, we shall always consider your Lordship
and your late colleagues entitled to our best thanks, and
to the merit of any measure of reform in the income and
expenditure of the country, and in the relaxation of any
monopoly which the expediency of the present Cabinet
may force them to adopt.
" JAMES MILMAN COLEY, Mayor.
"Bridgnorth, Nov. 24, 1841.
The following is Lord Palmerston's reply :
Aldenham, Nov. 25, 1841.
" SIR—I have received with extreme gratification the
oariess which you, and the gentleman who accompanied
you, did me the honour to present to me this morning,
and I beg, for myself and for my late colleagues, to
thank you and the Town-council of Bridgnorth very sin-
cerely for this flattering expression of your approbation
and confidence.
"It has always been the study of the late Government
to carry into practical application those principles of civil
and religious liberty which are founded upon natural jus-
tice, and which are eminently conducive to the happiness
and well-being of mankind, and we trust that our endea-
vours in thisrespect have not been fruitless. We attempted
to apply to the commercial legislation of the country
those principles of trade, the soundness and truth of
which have long been demonstrated in reasoning, and
which all enlightened men have for many years acknow-
ledged as the only foundation for the permanent prospe-
rity of nations. But a combination of monopolists pre-
vailed, and private interests triumphed over public goed.
o
The victory so achieved will, however, be short-liv
Reason will, in the end, prove stronger than prejudice,
and the great interests of the community must finally
overrule the resistance of the few. Even the monopolists
will find that they delude themselves as to that advan-
tages which they fancy they derive from the present
system of commercial restriction; for no class of men can
build up permanent prosperity for themselves upon a
system which is ruinous to the nation of which they form
a part.
" I am glad to find that the Town-council of Bridgnorth
keep steadily in view those great principles of commerce,
in contending for which the late Ministry was over-
thrown ; and, I trust, that by the united efforts of the
enlightened portion of the nation, those principles may,
at no distant period, become triumphant ; and that no
administration or Parliament will long be able to main-
tain in force a system of commercial legislation, which
has long bee* exploded in theory, and which has been
found deeply injurious in practice.—l have the honour
to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
" PALMERSTON'.
M. Coley, Esq., Mayor of Bridgnorth."

EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.-.—A sin.
gular instance of the voracity of the pike occurred on the
subsiding of the flood from the footpath adjoining Mr.
n few days since. Some young lads were
Oldham's mill,
ervi-aged in play, and dabbling with their naked feet in the
waters overflowing the banks of the Leam, when one of the
juvenile party was seized by the foot by a pike of about
Albs. weight, and such was the tenacity with which thi s
tyrant of, the watery element kept its hold, that it was
with no little difficulty the boy succeeded in shaking it
off, which hating at length accomplished, he carried it
to the domicile of his parents, where it formed part of
the' 'family ' meal a few hours afterwards.—Leamingion
Courier.

' SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The position in his Lordship's
letter which has roused the ire of the Times, is,
that if the people of England be but united, the
question -of free-trade will eventually triumph ;
in fact, that the downfal of monarchy is at hand;
that prohibitory duties will share the fate of reli-
gious disqualifications, negro slavery, and other
works of darkness. His Lordship proceeded to
illustrate and strengthen the opinion expressed in
the encouragingform of'assurance to the Plymouth
addressers, by a reference to facts with which
they, and all, are well acquainted :—" The men "
(Wellington and Peel) a who surrendered what
they deemed the external bulwarks of the Church
and the Constitution to the menaces of the Ro-
man Catholic Association of Ireland, will be sure
to yield the fortress of commercial restriction
when they shall be summoned to do so by the
peaceful but 'powerful voice of the people of
England and Scotland." Now what is there in
this either false or foolish ? Did not pub-
lic opinion compel the Duke of Welling-
ton and Sir Robert Peel to abandon their
antagonistical position to repeal the laws
which imposed religious restrictions on Ro-
man Catholics and other classes of Dis-
senters from the National Church? What
does the Times find in this part of his Lordship's
letter to assail with either ridicule or reasoning?
Was Catholic Emancipation the. fruit of con-
viction in those statesmen of injustice to the
Roman Catholics, too long excluded from the
privileges and immunities of freemen -by the
penal laws in force against them, or was it wrested
from their fears? in other words, was Catholic
Emancipation a sacrifice toexpediencyi.or a spon-
taneous emanation of political justice? If of the
thriller, it was public opinion which strengthened
the demands of the claimants, without which
they would have still urged their demands in
vain; if of the latter, the Duke and Sir Robert
Peel would not have ventured to introduce the
measure. In either case, public opinion, which
the Times with more boldness than honesty ven-
tures to despise, effected that great national mea-
sure. The same may be said of the repeal of the
Corporation and Test Acts, which excluded Pro-
testant Dissenters from municipal and otherposts
on account of their relious opinions. The slave-
trade, and atlength slavery in the British Colonies,
fell before the same resistless energy. When
the abolition of those inhuman practices was first
proposed in Parliament, the project was regarded
as chimerical, and its advocates were scouted as
fools and madmen. Let any one compare the
commencement of those struggles which finally
issued in triumph, to which Lord J. Russell al-
luded as ministering hope to the advocates of free-
trade principles, the fewness of the numbers and,
1 with few exceptions, the destitution of rank and.
influence among those who identified them-
, selves - with their cause, with the host of
doors ready to pour in their petitions into
both Houses of the Legislature so soon as
Parliament shall assemble, urging the adoption
of
.those principles upon the Legislature ; thus
giiiing, real power to the more than 260 advocates
orrfree-trade within the walls of the House of
Commons, ready by their speeches and votes to
enforce upon the Legislature the claims of the
people. And then let the Times rail, and the Tories
snarl, at the statesman who has predicted that Sir
Robert Peel must either yield to, or fall before,
public opinion, thus combined to demand a repeal
of the prohibitory duties upon corn, and other ar-
ticles of general consumption. The foundation on
which Lord John Russell rests his predictions of
a final and early triumph of the cause on which lie
and his colleagues staked their existence as a
Government, and which with them sustained a
"temporary defeat by the combination of those
classes which imagine their interests are bound
up with monopoly—that foundation remains un-
shaken. Neither fraud nor force can prevail to
overthrow it. Lord John Russell's reputation
and reasoning are equally beyond the reach of
those who would gladly diminish the influence
of both.
STANDARD.—When Sir Robert Peel was
driven from office by "the appropriation clause"
iliousands of addresses, bearing more than
one million ! of signatures, presented within
a week, or at most within a fortnight,
of the announcement of the Right Ho-
nourable Baronet's resignation. These ad::
dresses, so. prompt, so numerous, and so nu-
merously signed, came from all classes and
descriptions of the people, without any other
distinction than that the addressers were all
intelligent and all respectable. The Whig-
Radical Cabinet has now been three months
expecting and canvassing the condolence of the
people ; and with what result ? Just two ad-
dresses : one from certain persons (who call them-
selves a meeting) at Plymouth, directed to Lord
J. Russell; the second, which appears for the first
time this morning in the columns of the Morning
Chronicle, is from the town council of Bridg-
north, and addressed to Lord Palmerston—sug-
gested, too, as, is confessed, by the fact that the
Noble Lord happened to be in the neighbour-
hood. As to Lord Melbourne, Lord Normanby,
and the rest, they . are as wholly forgotten as if
they never had been born, or never made any
more serious claims upon public notice than
" Whistle for it" and " Matilda." The neglected
Ministers have, however, this consolation,
that if they have had no addresses to parade,
they have escaped the necessity of showing them-
selves in answers. How much reason Lord John
Russell has to complain of such a forced exhi-
bition, the public has already seen ; and the self-
exposure extracted from Lord Palmerston can be
scarcely less afflicting.
COURIER.—There is but little, as all who
read it will readily admit, in Lord J. Russell's
curt reply to the Plymouth deputation, either
to invite or justify a second notice of its
meagre contents; yet the peculiarly artful
assumptions, adopted evidently with the view
of impressing the public mind with erroneous
notions and inferences as to the cause, or combi-
nation of causes, that has placed " a new Ministry
in power" (the words are well chosen, for the
late Ministry, though in place, .was not in power);ae
and the vivid eagerness with which theselo,
and
leave
been grasped at and expanded in to n,
laboured tirades against the principles,
rpeolditeicr aal
and fiscal, of the present Government, render
recurrence to the subject a matter of duty, how
a
unpleasant soever it may be.
state, that the direct and sole We
pnimposy at once
e of that
cunningly contrived document wag; to convey
an impression that the Whig Government had
endured martyrdom lu , Llic t;auac ve Aec trade,
and that to its devotedness to
_th.at principle
was solely ascribable its downfal in July_ last.
" We have (boldly vaunts the ex-Colonial Secre-
tary) ruined ourselves in endeavouring(i to relieve
the country; consider and
.admire (he virtually
adds) the fervency of that patriotism, and the emi-
nence of that disinterestedness which prompted
hosen Ministers, to peril, nay,
us, her Majesty's c.
of our own free-will and accord to sacrifice, our.
places, our salaries, our consistency,ouralle, isn,
thetlie
glorious cause of fiscal reform." Now, to
challenging
of the nation's gratitude and confi-
dence on the grounds here specified appears the
very heightof daring effrontery. The Whig Cabi-
net had been known by friends and foes to be in
a ricketty, declining condition, tong anterior
to its _final . annihilation. The cause which
operated to weaken its strength, and da-
mage • its character in and out of Parliament
it is not .necessary for us either to examine or spe-
cify. It is sufficient for the purpose of our present
argument; to knowthat immediately preceding the
session oflB4l, the belief was generally entertained
that the Ministry would find it impossible, even as
the House of Commons was then constituted, to
struggle through half time session; that belief was
strengthened into conviction by the simultaneous_
and significant defeats their party sustained at the
various isolated elections which immediate fol-
lowedCrious-
the meeting of Parliament. Thescoan‘svar a
ness that " we cannot be worse off," is always I
great temptation in the way of-the weak and the
the evil prompters
selfish. It induced the Whig Ministry to in-
cline a favourable ear to
adventure the course
of the " league," and
ttocaused, its ruin. Thus
which precipitated,
We have
ll so thrasonically boasts, seen thatsu the " endeavours" of
which Lord John R
tciolueyntpryro,cbeuetdetod,rnoopt
were not made to relieve
up the Ministry ; nen
tram country of any por-
Fethtialte
front an anxiety to
or of any of its restric-
tion of its burdens,iy and solely from a desire to pro-
tions, but simply
long or renew the tenure of their own official
existence.
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MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
TIMES.—The public are generally much dis-
appointed at the abrupt termination of Mr. E.
B. Smith's trial. They had long anticipated
this clay as One on which important facts would

transpire which might serve to guide thei ore.
rations, but now they And the chance of that
information they felt they had a right to obtain
suddenly taken from them, and the whole affair
as much enveloped in mystery as on the day
when Mr. E. B. Smith was trst 'taken into cus-
tody. As to the position of the holders of Ex-
chequer bills, various opinions are entertained.
Some think that the evidence which would
have been brouht forward, had the prisoner
pleaded " Not Guilty," would have been of
great service to them in establishing their
claim, and that the absence of this is there-
fore a positiVe loss. Others attach great import-
ance to the- addiesi of the Judge, in which he
speaks of the ruin of individuals, as if expres-
sions of that sort were conclusive proofs against
the holders. This reference to the address is,
however, particalarly weak, and nothing but the
natural timidity accompanying an uncertain po-
sition can account for the assumption that a
speech on the bench was in any way tantamount
to an official declaration of the Government. It
is even too much to assume the phrases in ques-
tion as expressive of the Judge's opinion,_ as it
was only the magnitude of the crime that he was
pointing out, and he was not called on to give an
opinion as to the position of the holders.
It should be observed, that by Mr. E. B.
Smith's pleading guilty to all the matters con-
tained in the it dictment, the whole proceeding is
made to emanate from an officer of the Govern-
ment; that forgeries out of doors, and by parties
unconnected with the Treasury, can no longer be
cited as a defence, but that the hills originate
with the office itself. Again it may be repeated,
that no negligence or culpability can be laid to
the charge of the majority of the pre_ eat holders—
that they exercised every caution that the nature
of the instrument permitted—and that no doubt
is thrown on any of the authenticating marks
of the bills except the signature. Whatever
difference of opinion there may be as to the si-
tuation of the holders, -it is generally agreed
that the credit of the Exchequer market will be
compromised materially if they are not indem-
nified. The loss of thousands of pounds, fol-
lowed by a trial at which no information was con-
veyed, and no furthet compensation afforded to
the sufferers but the punishment of an officer of
Governnent,..:could not be -forgotten, and the
readineSs tit-transfer and the general conveniences
of an Exchequer bill would be gone, perhaps for
ever. Hence, from the present aspect of affairs,
there is every reason to hope that the innocent
holders will not sustain a loss.

It is yet possible that the investigation may
not have come to an end. It is understood that
the Bank clerks who were subpoenaed have been
ordered to be in readiness on Monday, though
for what purpose has not yet transpired.
This being the 4th of the month, and the sth
falling on Sunday, it was a most important day
for the holders of commercial paper. The amount
of bills due was so great, and they have with
very few exceptions been so well met, that the
good state of credit is not only a cause of satis-
faction, but also of surprise.
CHRONICLE.—The important " disclosures"
alluded to openly in Court by the lawyers pre-
vious to the committal of Rapallo for trial are,

it seems, to be " hushed up," and the ends of
justice defeated. The very last time that the
matter was publicly discussed, the legal advisers
employed on both sides specially alluded to im-
portant disclosures that bad entirely changed the
aspect of affairs, and the Counsel for Rapallo,
who formerly grumbled at the mere motion for
remanding his client, confessed that " important
circumstances which had transpired elsewhere"
made it necessary to clear his character before a
jury. The public mind was thus impressed
with the belief that the confederates of Smith

had become known to the Crown lawyers,
and that the whole ramifications of the con-
spiracy would be laid bare to the very root.
Such being the fact, strong suspicions are now
necessarily entertained that there has been a
bargain between Smith and the law officers of
the Crown ; that the whole affair of the trial was
a mere sham fight, a regular" cross," as such
things are technically termed in the phraseology
of the ring; and that the sentence of transporta-
tion fbr life will be commuted or never enforced.
It is, certainly, most unlikely that Smith would.
have pleaded guilty to the main charge of forgery
unless he had seen his way to some advantage
by so doing. His legal advisers, indeed, would
not have allowed such a course, unless they
saw that their client would be a gainer by it.
According to the paper read by him at the
bar, it would appear that there are others
equally, if not more, guilty; that he was
the victim, in fact, of more cunning and.

cx.scs J 5 -
it now is. Further investigation must -take
place, and fresh parties be brought to trial,
otherwise the public will look upon the whole
affair as a solemn farce, and bad consequences
cannot fail to follow. As the matter now stands
there is an evident concealment. The tribunals
of justice have the appearance of acting as the
screeners of guilt.
The Government seem to have been absolutely
deterred from going to trial, knowing well that
the evidence to be adduced would establish gross
want of superintendence in the Exchequer Bill-
office, and bring home irresistible proof of ladies
against them.
The trial (such as it was) being at an end, the
next step to be looked for is the ilecision of the
Lords of the Treasury with the impounded. bills
detained by Lord Monteagle, to wait the direc-
tions of their Lordships. They cannot have
much difficulty in making up their minds. The
guilt is now restricted to the act of a Go-
vernment officer holding a situation of
high trust and confidence, and the asser-
tion that the signatures were attached by
another party after the bills went out of his
hands is no longer tenable. The chain
of connection sought to be formed between the
holders of the spurious bills and an individual
not in Government employ is broken up, and the
Crown remains fixed by their own act and deed
isolated with the confession of Smith, their own
officer, as the sole criminal. But, on the other
hand, the innocent holders are deprived of the
benefit of the evidence of laches which must
have come out against the • Crown if evidence
had been led to convict any party. The Crown
have thus taken a double advantage. First
impounded the bills, and thus de-
prived the means of making good their
o f allt
them
f
claims in a Court of Law, and then an arrange-
ment is made by which they are precluded from
the benefit which they must have derived from
a rigid investigation of the truth. There is still,
however, one fortunate circumstance in favour
of the innocent holders which legal subtlety
cannot easily circumvent. A considerable amount
was
who haveirtspuri p
their scrip. spurious 'paper by subscribers
Theseubscriber parties
lo the
funding
sold
were called upon to replace the spurious bills with
paid
genuine paper, or to return their scrip. They
have refused, we believe; to comply with either
demand, and it _thus becomes incumbent on the
officers of the Crown to compel these parties to
do as they have been required, or they must have
ctfreardy made up their mind to pay the innocent
holders.
POST.--This was what may be technically
termed the monthly account-day among the
commercial houses. The difficulties which have
existed for the last few weeks in the Exchequer
bill market, combined with the rather numerous
and important failures that have taken place,
both at home and abroad, had excited fears in
the minds of many, lest the heavy payments of
the present month might not be so punctually
provided provided for as usual; but such fea d
rN
r enaoc not
hapoi
pear to have been well-founde_d scio bent
jna
engagement occurred to-day of su _
observation, gn
tilde to become a subject of general
although it is not unlikely that some minor
_ cases
of embarrassment may have been heard
_Ol. . The
trial of Beaumont Smith, in the Central Criminal
Court, and the curious circumstances attending
it, were matters of deep interest, the prevailing
expectation being that other and
.less unimpor-
tant names than those of Smith himself and the
approver Rapallo would be brought before the
public iu connection with the proceedings; but,
ord •
apart from these, the day was more than -ma-
rily tranquil.
HERALD:—The trial of Beaumont Smith, so
far as the circumstances attending it, has taken
People in the City greatly by surprise; and
more still the discharge, or presumed discharge,
of Rapallo ; not because that person may not
be, and must be accepted as being, innocent of
implication in the mal-practices of Smith, but
because it cannot be understood on what ground,
consistently with the result, he should have been
apprehended and incarcerated. Again, Smith,
after pleading guilty, states that he has made a
full disclosure of all particulars and persons (sub-
stantially) connected with these nefarious Exche-
quer frauds and forgeries. This confession, after
being laid before the Judge, was -given up and.
remains in the possession oOlr AlauleSolici-
tor to the Treasury. People
naturally ask,
what next? Are there no parties taken into
custody, no prosecutions instituted in conse-
quence ? If Smith's confession may be believed,
he had accomplices—accomplices more guilty
than himself—accomplices who received and mo-
nopolised all the gains flagitiously made by these
tainted Exchequer issues, by which the convict
avers he never benefited to the extent of one
farthing received or participated in, or was cog'
nisant of, any of the stock or other gambling