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N°.17,802.] LONDON, MONDAY E E - X G _ .-- OCTOBER 15, 1849.

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iecurity of Debentures, bearing interest at the rate of Five per Cent.
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London.

By order,
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Easton Station, October 1, 1849.

APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED.

1 EA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE
SIUCE imparts the most exquisite reliste to Steaks, Chops,
aq,l all Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad,
and by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach t 9
perfectly digest the food.

The daily use, of this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe•
gttard to health.

Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrin% 6, yore-street, Oxford-
;treet, London, ant 68, Broad-street, Worcester; also by Messrs.
Barrlay and Sons, Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell. and other Oilmen
an•t Merchants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers In
sauce.

N.B. To gnarl against imitations, sea that the names of " LEA
and PEBRISS" are [span the label and patent cap of the bottle.

A L D G A TE'S
—" Auld Lanz Syne."
Shenld Moses' Warehouse be forgot,
Or ever set aside?
Shall Moses' Warehouse be forgot,
Whieli stands as Aidgate's pride ?

PRIDE

Chorus.
'With Allgatc's pride, my friends,

Wftlt Ildgate's pride,
I'll strike some tidy har4ains, yet,
With Aidgate's pride.

At Moses' Mart I oft have been
With famous dress supplied ;
And not a Press. mart have I found
Like Ab!gate's pride.
With Aldgate's pride, &c.

I wonder n,•t :hat Moses' fame
Is spreading far and wide;
Since s ,ch superior dress is sold
At Aldgste's
With Aidgate's pride, &c.

Go seek the Mart, my worthy friends,
Where I have often hied ;
And you'll g t s. right good winter cult
At Aldgate's p-ide.
With Aldgate's pride, &c.

Yes, surely they'll supply you well,
As surely I'm supplied ;
And we'll strike some tidy bargains, yet,
With Aldg,ate's pride.
With Aldgate's pride, &c.
LIST OF' PRIOE9.
READY MADE.

Autumn and Winter Over Coats, in every
styh. .• ....
The B ulwer, handsomely and warmly trimmed 0 18 0
The Paletot, • ..... .• 0 18 0
Chesterfield, ditt0..........•• •• 1 0 0
The Albert Wrapper, a very handsome style
of OY.r Coat .. ••• • • • •.••••• • • • .. • • • 1 5 0
Shooting Coats •• •••••••• • • • • .. 0 8 6
Lounging or Morning Coats •••••• ••• • • • 0 4 6
Autumn and Winter Trousers, in Tweed •••• 0 4 6
Ditto ditto Doeskin 0 7 6
Ditto Vests • • • •• • •• •• 0 2 6
Black Silk Velvet Vests ........ •• ••..•• • • .. 0 13 6
Dress Coats •
Frock Ditto ••••• • • • • • •••-•••••• • • • .. • • .. 019 0
Youths and Boys' Over Coats, in every style,
Hussar end Tunic Suits • • •••• • • .. 0 14 6
Boys' Autumn and Winter Vests • • ........ 0 0 8
MADE TO MEASURE.
Men's Autumn and Winter Over Coats..from 1 1
The Chesterfield Wrapper, in a warn ma-
terial, lined .. • . •••••.• • • • • • • • 1 8 0
The Paletot, handsomely and warmly trimmed 1 16 0
The Eglinton Wrapper, a very elegant style of
Over Coat •• ••
The Strathmore Witney Over Coat, newest
style, lined throughout • • • • • •
Autumn and Winter Trowsers, in Tweed and
Doeskin • • .............. ..... .• •• • • 0 10 6
Best Black Cassimere ditto .. ••••••.• • • .• .• 1 6 0
Autumn and Winter Vests . •
Best Black Cloth ditto .• .••• •••••• • • • • 0 13 6
Black Silk Velvet ditto •• .. • • .... 0 18 6
„ Dress C0at5...... • . from 325. to 2 15 0
•• Frock ...... •• • • from 353. to 3 3 0
Bussar and. Tunic Suits. ..... ••..•• •• .. from 1 5 ()
Men's Shooting Coat •• • • •• • • •••• .• .. 0 15 0
Elegant Dressing Robes, in great variety,
from ..... ........ .• •. • • 16s. to 5 0 0
A Large Stock of Fur Coats, in every shape, from 60s. to 201.
Naval and Military Ilnifo-ms, Liveries, &c.
Mounting to any extent at Five Minutes' notice.
A Snit of Mourning complete for ii. 10s.
The new book, entitled the " Great Fact," with full directions
or Sfdf-trieasurement, can be had on application, or forwarded, post
roe, to any part of the kingdom.
Notice— i h Shawl and Parasol Department are 11077 replete with
every novelty of the season.
Observe—Amy article purchased, either ready made, or made to
measure, if not approved of will be exchanged, or the money returned.
E. MO'-ES and S 4N, Tailor,, ‘Vooliendrapers, Clottuurs, atter3,
Jost:re, Furriers, Boot and Shoemakers, and Ge,:neral Outfitters, 154,
155, 150, and 157 Mlnnrie'=, and s=', 81, P• 5, and 86 Aldgate, City,
London ; all communicating with each other, and forming one vast
Establishment.
Caution.—E. Mose; and Ron regret having to guard the public
against imposition ; but having heard that the nntradesmaniike
falsehood of being connected with them, or " It is the same concern,"
teas resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons,
hay beg to state that they have co connexion volt!' any other house
In or out or London, except their Branch Establishments, 35, Far-
:ate, Sheffield ; and 19, Thornton's-buildings, Bradford, Yorkshire ;
,at wile require chi!, p and genuine clothing, Ste.. should call
at or to the Stinortes and Aldgal e, City, London ; or either of
the Branch Establishments, ac nhlove.
Tate Notice,—This Estalstis,lment is closed from sunset Friday,
to sunset Saturday. when business is resumed till twelro o'clock.

2 10 0

condition of the market, must be considered sumaimal.
The trade in flour continues active, and the demand for
every description is good, coarse qualities especially
being still eagerly sought after. We have no alteration
to notice in price. The business passing in Indian corn
is limited, and prices remain unchanged, 61 10s to 61 15s
being the current value per ton. Indian meal is ne-
glected, coarse flour apparently having superseded the
use of the article. Potatoes, we regret to say, grow
worse daily, and we much fear that by no means so large
a portion of this crop as wes anticipated will keep sound
Flour—First 13s 6d to 14s Od ; extra 14s 6d ;
seconds, 12s Od to 13s ; households lOs to 118; thirds, 6s to 8s
per cwt. Oatmeal 10s to 10s 6d; Indian meal Gs 9d to 7s Od; wheat-
meal. lOs Od to 11 s per cwt. Indian corn 6/ to 6l 1550 d per ton.
Bran 31 i 030 d to 3115 s per ton. Hay—Farmers 19s to 40s; average
30s; dealers 32s to 36s Od; average 34s per ton. Stt aw—Farmers
12s Od to 27s Od ; average 20s ; dealers 25s Od to 27s 0d;
average 23s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to so ;
household loaf 5d to 5d per 41b. Fresh butter, 7d to
9d per lb. Eggs-5s 6d to 5s 8d per hundred. Coals—
Newport 14s; Lydney 16s ; Landore 14s ; Best Ncath
Culm 13s per ton. Tallow 39s Od to 00s per cwt.
Whisky, 25 0. p., 53 9d per imperial gallon. Meat
—Beef 4d to 7d; mutton 4d to sd; veal 4d to
01; pork 4d to sd; bacon 7d to 8d; sausages 5d per
lb. Hops 51 105 per cwt. Bangor slates 312 s 6d to 315 s per
ton. Bark—Barbary 81 to 8110 s; Valonia 141 tool; French
71103; English 01 per ton. Fleece Wool lOs to 12s per stone.
Hemp 34/ to 35/ per tar. Fish— Scotch herrings 17s to 185; red
ditto 26s to 28s per barrel ; Newfoundland 10/ lOs to 121 per
ton. Timber—Memel, 85/ per ton; deals, first quality, 18s;
second quality, 16s per 100. Hides—Market 12s to 183.
salted 125 to 18s per cwt ; calf skins 2d to
per lb.'
Potatoes, white eld to 8d; Minions 10d to 00d; Guano—
Peruvian, 111 103; Ichaboe 91 per ton; Tar—Archangel,
19s per barrel.

Launcelot's year, when he rode Calypso for the St.
Leger. Shor;ly afterwards he withdrew himself
altogether fron public life, and went to reside at
Tickhill, where his remarkable eccentricities in after
life acquired forhini the title of " Admiral Nelson "
amongst the inh►bitants of that locality.

THE OBSERVANCE of the TRUTH.
" Andacter calumniare, scalper aliquid hmret."
In our last num)er we remarked on the breach of
one of the'COminandments—that against false witness
—through which the zeal for another is displayed in
the agitation against the new arrangement in the
Post office. The Bishop of London has since pre-
sented the very worst example of misrepresentation
that has yet appeared. He does not content himself
with statements of fact for which there is no ground,
but deals besides in aspersions carrying popular
odium with them. This prelate's religion should
teach him the charity that thinketh no evil; ~but see
his practice to the contrary, in this sweeping and
venomous imputation.
"The proposition of the Government seemed to
warrant the supposition that little feeling (for the proper
observance of the Sabbath) was entertained on the sub-
ject by those in authority."
Yet in tha same speech (at Willis's Rooms) he
afterwards expressed his belief that if Lord John
Russell were cognisant of the effects of the proposed
change, he would at once put his veto oa it.
In the
first passage, the Biabojs 'alp:A.. sn ttoo arwerranalit
at the leas!, leentmeince as to the observance of the
abbath; in the second, he declares his convic-
tion that the head of the Government is so far from
indifferent as to the observance, that if he were
aware of any danger to it from the meditated
arrangement he would forbid the alteration. As the
Bishop then knew the first imputation to be false, he
must consciously have flung out a foul calumny.
Now for truth :
"No one pretended to believe that this measure, if
introduced, would not lead to further changes."
This is flagantly false. The Post-office authori-
ties, and all who have defended the new arrangement,
have maintained that no further change is involved in
the one proposed. Bishop Blomfield may believe
them insincere; against the rule of Christian charity
he believes the worst of all men from whom he differs ;
but in that case he would be bound, by his own un-
charitable notion of the truth, to aver that they pre-
tended to think what he more falsely asserts no one
pretends to think.
More truth :
"The innovation was, it was true, very slight, but
still, the principle being once introduced, they were quite
sure that an extension of it would follow."
The innovation very slight ! The innovation is
none at all. There is no innovation in the case. The
practice of Sunday employment in the London Post-
office has long existed. So long ago as when Bishop
Blomfield passed a Sunday, as he publicly stated, in
counting the boats going through Putney-bridge, the
sorters and messengers were at work in the Post-
office. The Bishop talks of the consequences which
must follow " the principle being once introduced ; "
the principle being already introduced, and having
long been established, of partial occupation in the
Post- office on Sunday.
When we read such speeches as this, and the worst
of the class it certainly is, we feel how wofully wanted
is a stricter observance of the truth. With a strict
observance of the truth, the plea against the arrange-
ment in the Post-office, as involving desecration of
the Sabbath, would fall to the ground ; and in place
of it would appear the fact that the change will
operate the other way, to diminish most considerably
the amount of Sunday occupation in the Post-office
service throughout the country. But pharisaical zeal
is ever prone to fiction, making mountains of mole
hills, to swell the odium of whatever it rages against,
and to enlist the levy en masse of the antipathies upon
false pretences.
At the meeting at Willis's Rooms, Mr. Garrett
honestly stated, in bar to a condemnatory resolu-
tion—
"He had that day seen Mr. Hill, and had questioned
him on the subject, stating that he would use his answers
at the meeting that day. Mr. Hill had stated that there
were on Sundays posts called cross-road posts, which not
being able to go to London on Sundays, took circuitous
routes before arriving at their destination, and by taking
these routes kept a great many clerks employed at the
different stations. The abolition of these posts would
also do away with tho occoud Sunday delivery in the
country, and as to the employment of these clerks on
Sundays, it was always necessary that some should be
employed.: Ho had at first entertained apprehensions
that this innovation was a downward step, but after Mr.
Hill's statement, he was led to hope that it was going up
a step. Mr. Hill had stated that he was anxious to avoid
the desecration of the Sabbath, and that, in fact, be had
relieved many from the pressure of the old system by re-
moving the necessity of the reception of Post-office orders
on Sudays."
This explanation had not, however, the slightest
effect on the meeting. The truths of the question
have nothing to do with the judgment on it.—
Examiner.

THE POST. °MON.— The new arrangements pro-
posed for the Post-office have been deferred for a fort-
night—that is, from to-day (the 14th) to the 28th inst.
This was no more than was duo to the numbers and re•
spectability of the remonstrants against the proposed
change; although there is no doubt whatever that never
was there such a storm raised about so trifling a matter,
and never certainly was there so much apprehension
abroad upon any given subject. We took occasion, at
the very commencement of these proceedings, to say
that there was no intention whatever to propose either a
Sunday delivery in London or a Sunday dispatch of
letters from London. It was merely to send on somo
pressing letters, known as " forward letters," which
coming from one part of England to another, and mostly
arriving from abroad, ;would otherwise remain in the
London Post-office from periods varrying from twenty.
four to thirty-six hours. This was the "be all and the
end all, of the change which has caused such excitement
through all the realm of interested prejudice against a
plan, which wo verily believe to have been most usefully
devised for the public service, and which has been de-
nounced without bring at all understood. As far as re-
lates to the keeping of the Sabbath, we believe that the
leading features of the plan, whilst it only demanded the
voluntary attendance of twenty-five clerks, to be remu-
nerated within doors at the London Post-office, relieved
no less than 1,500 from public duties at the country
offices, during a greater part of the Sundays, where
they are now employed. This is the " head
and front of the offending." It is all very well
to talk of the fine end of the wedge, and of ulterior
intentions, and such other uncharitable accusations,
in which none are so apt to indulge as those who lay
claim (for themselves) to the greatest amount of Chris-
tian virtues. " All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye;''
but to us the whole thing seems, when properly under-
stood, to be scarce worth contending for. Mr. Rowland
Hill was placed in the General Post-office to carry out
those improvements which to so great an extent he had
so auspiciously begun. In the course of his experience
and !he progress of his investigation ho finds a state of
this gs producing the greatest amount of inconvenience,
for which he suggests a simple and what to us appears
a most inoffensive remedy. Had the Go►ernment not
exhibited a willingness to hoar, and if approved of to
adopt, the suggestion,. which rain ooquo.intanco with the
whole subject had led him to recommend, they would
unquestionably have laid themselves open to the charge
of obstructing a rational and well-considered reform.
We are not disposed to overrate the advantages of the
change proposed by Mr. Rowland Hill; indeed we be-
lieve that, for good or for evil, it has been overrated
more than any question with which the opinions or the
prejudices of the public have had to deal. Whatever
may come of it, it has seldom fallen to our lot to encoun-
ter so large an amount of misrepresentation as is over-
thrown by the authorised statement of the real facts of
the ease.-06server.

WHOLES&LB MURDERS OF INFANTS.—HANDS-
WORTH, SATURDAY.—For the last four or five years this
town and neighbourhood has obtained unenviable noto-
riety for the number of newly-born children bearing
marks of their having been deprived of life by violent
means soon after being brought into the world, that
have been found in the by-lanes and other remote places.
To such an extent has the atrocious system been prac-
tised, that.the local maghtrates have laid the whole facts
before the Secretary of State, and her Majesty's Govern-
ment have offered such a reward as will be likely to
suppress the revolting acts. During the past week a
farmer's labourer, named Ellis, was proceeding along
Cramp-lane, near the Birmingham-road, when he
observed a brown paper parcel in a holly bush in the
hedgerow. On opening it the contents were discovered
t.) be the bodies of two newly-born children. The
Coroner of the district, Mr. Hinchcliffe, held an inquiry
upon them, and Mr. Hammond, a surgeon, who had
carefully examined them, expressed an opinion that
they were born alive, and that strangulation was evi-
dently the mode by which they had come by their deaths.
Other facts showed that the innocents had been mur-
dere l as soon as tl,ey were born, and the Coroner's jury
lottn.l as their TO dict—" Wilful Murder against some
person or persons unknown." The Coroner, however,
with a view of doing all he could in the matter, waited
upon the Hon. F. Gough and Mr. Percy, county
magistrates, and it was at length determined to seek the
aid of the Secretary of State. The result has been that
Sir G. Grey has authorised a reward of 501. being
offered for the capture of the perpetrators of this atro-
cious crime, and a free pardon to any one giving infer-
provided they be not the actual offenders.
Mr. John Mackenzie, son of the late G. F.
Mackenzie, Esq., of Allangrange, was mortally wounded
on Tuesday, by the accidental explosion of a gun which
he was loading, and died on Wednesday. The melan-
choly event has caused general and profound regret.—
A6erdeen Herald.

SIR ROBERT PEEL in ABERDEEN.
! (Abridged from the Aberdeen Herald of Saturday.)
When it was ascertained that Sir Robert Peel was
to pass through Aberdeen the magistrates resolved
that a suitable expression of respect should be made
to one who stands so high in the estimation of his
fellow-countrymen as a man and a statesman ; and
the Council having unanimously voted the freedom of
the city to the Right Hon. Baronet, it was remitted to
an open committee to make the necessary arrange-
ments for his reception, in such a manner as the credit
of the town required.
An elegant banquet was accordingly prepared in
the Town-hall yesterday, to which a number of the
clergy and principal citizens, to the number of 260,
were invited.
Sir Robert arrived in Aberdeen, from Haddo House,
at about a quarter past twelve, along with the Earl of
Aberdeen. Shortly after, Lady and Miss Peel ar-
rived, and proceeded to visit Marisbbal College, the
New Market, and other public buildings, conducted
by Mr. Robertson of the Royal Hotel.
The Senatus of the University and King's:College,
Aberdeen, at their meeting yesterday unanimously
conferred the honorary degree of Doctor in Laws
on the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart.,
M.P., and appointed a deputation of their number to
wait on the Right Honourable Baronet on his arrival
at the Royal Hotel. The deputation, consisting of
Dr. Tulloch, Professors Thorn.,m' _L. goo t&, and
F.rguson, and 11. J. Leslie, Esq., of Powis, one of the
assessors to the Lord Rector, were severally intro-
duced by the Earl of Aberdeen, Chancellor of the
University, who intimated to Sir Robert the honour
which had been conferred on him. Dr. Tulloch
stated that the Senatus had conferred this honour as

a mark of the sincere respect entertained by them
for his distinguished character as a statesman, and
expressed a hope
,that Almighty God would long
spare him to continue to lend his valuable services to
his country. Sir Robert, in reply, said that he felt
deeply grateful for the high honour which had been
conferred upon him by the 'University and King's
College, and for the kind wishes with which it bad
been accompanied.
At one o'clock Sir Robert Peel, accompained by
Lord Aberdeen and the other illustrious guests of the
Magistrates, left the Hotel, and proceeded to the
Town-hall, receiving on his way the adulations of a
large crowd of spectators.
Sir Robert, with the Earl of Aberdeen, and the
other illustrious guests, entered the Town-hall a few
minutes after one o'clock, and was received with loud
cheers.

The customary loyal and national toasts hating
been drunk,

The CHAIRMAN called for a very full bumper and
said—My Lords and Gentlemen, before partaking of
the bumper which I have now requested you to fill, I
have a duty to perform which, with your permission,
I will endeavour to discharge ; and, in doing so, I
will take the liberty of addressing the Right Hon.
Barcnet on my right—Sir Robert Peel—(Loud ap-
plause)—in honour of whom we are all assemb'ed on
this occasion.—(Renewed applause.) [His Lordship
turning to the Right Hon. Baronet, proceeded.] Sir R.
Peel, when the Magistrates of this city heard of your
intention to pass through Aberdeen on your way
southward, there was only one feeling and one
opinion on their part and on that of the Town Council,
that the opportunity should be embraced of paying
some signal mark of respect to one so eminently dis
tinguished.—(Loud applause.) At the same time,
there was expressed on the part of many of the citi
zens a strong desire that, in addition to the presenta-
tion of the freedom of the city, you should be invited
to partake of a public dinner.--(Hear, hear.) I
am sure that we all regret that your time and other
arrangements have prevented your accepting of this
invitation. It is, however, extremely gratifying to
the Town Council of Aberdeen, as I am sure it is to
this large and respectable assembly, to find that you
have honoured us with your presence, for the pur-
pose of receiving the greatest mark of respect which
this community can confer.—(Loud applause.) If it
were in the power of the citizens to confer any
higher honour, I am sure they would most readily
and cheerfully do so.—(Loud applause.) Perhaps it
may not, in your estimation, depreciate from this tri-
bute of regard, to inform you that, in the records of
this city are the names of not a few men celebrated
for their genius, their piety, and their patriotism, and
that the last individual upon wham a similar honour
was conferred was his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
her Majesty's illustrious Consort. I am desirous, Sir
Robert, on this occasion, to convey to you the sense
which is entertained of your great public services, and
of your high eminence as a statesman.—(Cheers.)
Your name has been inseparably interwoven with the
history of your country, and during a long period
of your public life you have filled many important
offices in the state, and more recently the highest
civil office to which any subject can aspire.—(Loud
applause.) In all these positions you have dis-
charged your duty in 'an admirable manner, with
great industry, singular prudence—(Applause)—and
consummate ability—(Loud applause) —and you have
earned for yourself a reputation which has long since
placed you in the first rank of British statesmen.—
(Loud applause.) It would be presumptuous on my
part to attempt to delineate your career, or even to
trace the course of your public services. I have no
intention of doing so ; but I may be permitted to
refer to your early and successful efforts to restore
the currency of this country to a sound and heatbful
condition—your unwearied and benevolent exertions
to ameliorate the civil and criminal code—your pro-
motion of education—your patronage of the fine arts
—and your generous and liberal encouragement of
charitable institutions—(Loud applause)—efforts and
exertions which have all had a tendency, in no ordi-
nary manner, to advance the prosperity, and to im-
prove, elevate, and refine the character and condition
of your countrymen.—(Loud applause.) Nor must
I omit reference, although in a single sentence,
to the great and important measures which
marked the period of your last occupancy of
office—(Loud and continued cheering)—measures
which, I have no hesitation in saying,
have placed the trade and commerce of
this country on a solid and permanent foundation,
and which will be found in every succeeding year
more and more to improve the comfort and happiness
of the people of this country.—(Cheers.) Whatever
diversity of opinion may exist as to the ultimate effect
of these measures, there can only be one sentiment as
to the purity of your motives in advancing them, and
of the profound conviction which animated you in
proposing them.—(Loud cheers.) Impartial posterity
will be more able to appreciate than your own times
and your contemporaries, the great benefit you have
conferred upon the nation, and I feel assured that
your reputation will grow brighter and brighter, and
that your name will descend encircled with renown to
distant generations.—(Loud cheers.) I am not here,
Sir Robert, to offer insincere adulation, but I may be
permitted to express what I conscientiously believe to
be a truth, that a deep feeling pervades the mind of
the public, that in whatever circumstances you
may be placed, in office or out of office, as a member
of the Cabinet or of the Senate, your lofty powers,
your varied attainments, and your great experience,
will continue to be devoted to the interests of your
countrymen, and to the welfare and happiness of
msnkind.—(Loud cheering.) lishall not detain you
longer, nor this assemhlage, but I shall at once proceed
to present to you to the freedom of this ancient burgh.
The diploma conferring 'the freedom was imme-
diately presented to the Right Hon. Baronet, who
tied it on the front of his hat by the scarlet ribands
attached to it. Placing the hat thus adorned on his
head, Sir Robert rose, and was received with raptu-
rous cheering.
The LORD PROVOST then said—You are now a
burgess of the ancient city of Aberdeen, and I think
that I may congratulate my fellow-citizens that so
distinguished a name has been added to our roll of
burgesses. I am sure that you will one and all join
in a cordial bumper to the Right Hon. Sir Robert
Peel, the youngest burgess of Aberdeen.—(The toast
was received with the greatest enthusiasm.)
Sir ROBERT PEEL, on rising, was received with
rapturous and continued cheering. He said—My
Lord Provost and gentlemen—l wish that I could
find any terms in which I might adequately express
my grateful acknowledgement, not merely for the
municipal distinction which has just been conferred
upon me, but for the most kind and cordial reception
which has been given to me on my first visit to this
ancient city. That visit must necessarily be of short
duration, but it will leave impressions upon my mind
of lasting satisfaction.--(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I
came to Scotland in a purely private capacity, for
the purpose of enjoying the pleasures of seclusion
and retirement from the busy scenes of public life
—of enjoying a happy oblivion, for a time, of all
topics which are the objects of political contention,
and of avoiding—you must excuse me for saying it—
that exciting interest which is inseparable from public
meetings, even of the most friendly character. I came
to this particular part of Scotland for the purpose of
marking my respect for the honourable Lord of whom
I have been the guest—(Loud and continued cheer-
ing)—whose feelings, as he is present, I will not
wound by describing in the only terms in which I
could adequately describe them, my warm attach-
ment to him as a personal friend—(Applause)--mv
admiration of his conduct in every relation of private
life—(Renewed applause)—my gratitude for the in-

valuable aid which I received from him as a minister
of this country—(Loud cheers)—in carrying on the
public service. I say, gentlemen, I came to Scotland
in a purely private capacity, and determined to main-
tain that character, but your kindness has compelled
me so far to depart from my resolution, as to be pre-
sent on this occasion, in order that I may receive, in
the most respectful manner in which I could receive
it, the freedom of the city of Aberdeen.—(Cheers.)
Gentlemen, I was well aware before the Lord Pro-
vost referred to the fact, that that freedom
had been conferred upon men of the highest
eminence in literature and in the walks of
public life. I was aware that it is a high honour to
have one's name associated with them. I believe it
was observed by one—almost the most eminent of the
distinguished men who have received this same
distinction —I think, if I recollect aright, it was
observed by Samuel Johnson, in speaking of the
freedom of Aberdeen, that the honour had been con-
ferred on him " with all the decorations which
politeness could add.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, in
witnessing the kind feeling which has been manifested
towards me, not only within these walls, but, allow
me to say, without these walls—(Cheers)—and
which I will, with your permission, now acknowledge
in grateful terms—l say, after witnessing that feel-
ing, I can now say with truth, that this distinction
has been conferred upon me net eniy with all the
depcm....e;..nis which politeness could add," but that it
has received that stamp of substantial and intrinsic
value which it could only receive as a token of your
cordial goodwill towards one who is personally a stran-
ger to you.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I shall not abuse
your generosity in giving me this cordial reception.
The freedom of the city of Aberdeen has been voted
to me by the unanimous voice of the magistrates
and, Council of the burgh, and I can readily believe
that some who have joined in that unanimous vote
have been prepared to pay a compliment to one who
has held high offices under the Crown, and has fbr
many years taken an active part in Parliamentary life,
and yet who may differ in opinion—(Bear, hear)—as
to the policy of the great measures which it has been
my duty to recommend. I will not presume that their
approbation of the motives by which I have been ac-
tuated necessarily implies concurrence in approbation
of these particular measures ; it is sufficient for me
that you have given a decisive proof, by this act, that
you do believe that, in advising the Crown at critical
periods, and in recommending to Parliament certain
measures, I had no other object in view than to avert
public danger and promote the public welfare.—
(Great cheering.) I will not incur the risk of dia-

turbing the unanimity and harmony of this meeting
by introducing any topic which has been the object of
fierce contention. You shall hear nothing from me
that can provoke dissent with regard to particular
measures. I am too much overpowered by_ feelings
of gratitude for the kind construction which you have
put on the motives of a public man—(Applause)—in
publicly showing that you disbelieve and disregard
the calumnies by which— (Tremendous cheering,
amid which the remainder of the sentiment was lost.)
I feel too grateful to you for these marks of public
esteem and confidence, at least in the integrity of the
motives by which I have been guided, to offend any
one of you by introducing matters upon which there
might be a difference of opinion—(Hear)—and al-
though you have compelled me to depart from this
resolution which I had formed to take no part in any
public meeting; you will allow me to adhere to my
resolution to avoid any reference to topics of a con-
troversial nature. Gentlemen, there is one point on
which I might dilate with the certainty of uninter-
rupted harmony and perfect concord. The Lord
Provost has referred to the fact that I am the
youngest of the burgesses of Aberdeen ; but, al-
though I am the youngest burgess, I yield to
none—not to the oldest Inhabitant—not to
him who has the warmest personal interest in the
prosperity of this ancient city—l yield to none in
the earnest desire that Aberdeen may long pre-
serve the illustrious name which it has borne in the
annals of this country.—(Cheers). I yield to none
in the earnest wish that she may maintain her double
title to respect, as the seat of academia learning and
the seat of commercial enterprise—in the earnest wish
that the Universities of this city may long continue
to dispense to the generous youth of Scotland the in-
estimable benefits of sound learning and pure religious
doctrine—(Cheers) —that this great city, in its com-
mercial capacity—by its enterprise—by its ingenuity
—•by its industry and by its skill—may, through the
free and unrestricted intercourse in the products
with which Nature has blessed the county—(Cheers)
—contribute at the same time to the prosperity of
her own citizens, and to the enjoyment and comfort
of other parts of the world with which she carries on
her commercial intercourse. Gentlemen, I will, with
your permission, embody this sentiment in that brief
expression which is best suited to a convivial meeting,
by calling upon you to join with me in drinking, with
the utmost sincerity and enthusiasm, "Prosperity to
the City of Aberdeen."—(Cheers.)
The healths of the Earl of Aberdeen, the Lord
Provost, and Lord Claude Hamilton, having been
drunk,

Sir ROBERT PEEL again rose, and was again re-
ceived with vociferous cheering. He said—Gentle-
men, as the period is fast approaching when I must
sincerely bid you farewell, I cannot reconcile it to
my feelings to do so, without again expressing to you
what cordial satisfaction I have derived from the
meeting of this day—(Loud applause)—how deeply
I regret that I have made arrangements which compel
my immediate departure—how firm is my resolution,
whenever I return to Scotland, to make compensa-
tion.—(Loud cheering)—for this very brief visit, so
unworthy of the interest which I feel in this city, i❑
its antiquities, and in its name—and how firm his my
resolution never again to come to Scotland without
repairing to the city of Aberdeen, and exercising the
privileges of a citizen.—(Loud and continued
cheering.) lam afraid that, in thus addressing you,
I am breaking through the ordinary rules—(No, no,
and applause)—but I wish to return my grateful
ackowledgments to those of the citizens who are
not present, and who signified a wish that they
might do me the honour of receiving me as a guest
at a public dinner. Gentlemen, lam deeply grateful
for the intention which they thus manifested. I
shall have no opportunity of meeting with many who
joined in an expression of that wish, but I shall trust
to your kindness to do me the favour of informing
them of my gratitude for their intention.—(Cheers.)
Gentlemen, I must also express my acknowledgments
to the Lord Provost, for the great kindness which I
have experienced from him. I am afraid he spoke
of my public services in much too flattering terms.
—(No, no, and cheers.) But if I have gained
the esteem of so truly respectable a man, I will for-
give the exaggeration.—(Cheers.) I now feel myself
bound to you all by the ties of common citizenship,
and I shall feel with you a warm interest in all that
concerns the welfare of Aberdeen. I came here and
met you as a stranger, but I shall depart and re-
member you as friends.—(Loud cheers.)
The Loan PROVOST said—lt is always extremely
painful to terminate so pleasing and so comfortable
a meeting as the present. I have never seen any as-
sembly within this hall at which it was not ex-
tremely disagreeable to pronounce the parting word
" Bon-Aeord." And if I have always felt so be-
fore, lam sure that on this ;occasion I feel it most
deeply— (Hear, hear.) But I trust that on another
occasion we may have the pleasure and happiness of
meeting again, when we may enjoy a longer period of
the Right Honourable Baronet's time. I beg leave,
with your permi.sion—though I know it is disagree-
able—to say good bye; hut, as Sir Robert Peel must
be in Edinburgh early to-morrow morning, it has
been announced to me that the proceedings must
necessarily be abridged. I therefore give the parting
word—" Bon-Accord."

The company then broke up, and Sir Robert returned
to the Royal hotel, wearing his burgess diploma
round his hat, and taking the arm of the Earl of
Aberdeen. On making his appearance on the street,
Sir Robert was loudly cheered. Sir Robert, with
his lady and daughter, left Aberdeen immediately,
for Brechin, where they were to dine with Lord Pan-
mure, and pass the night, leaving early this morning
for Edinburgh.

THE BOARD OF HEALTH AND THE PARISH OF ST.
PANCRAS.—On Saturday, at Bow-street-office, Mr. Jar-
dine rose shortly before the time appointed for giving
his decision in the case, and addressing a member of
the authorities of St. Pancras, who was present, said
that he did not intend giving his decision in the case
between the Board of Health and the parish of St. Pan.
eras for the present, and it was subsequently ascertained
that a communication had been forwarded by the ma-
gistrate to the clerk to the Board of Directors, and to
Mr. Heath, the solicitor of the parish. to that' effect.
Thus terminated, in this extraordinary manner, the
proceedings, which are viewed by the members of the
Board of Directors of St. Pancras, who were in attend-
ance, as a triumph over the Board of Health.
DETERMINED SUICIDE.—On Saturdiy, Mr. 11.
M. \Yakley held an inquest at the Thornhill Arms,
Chalk Farm-road, on Elizabeth Lewes, a washerwoman,
aged 50. For a length of time deceased complained
that she could not work, and said that she was tired of
life. She also hinted that she would destroy herself.
On Thursday morning she was found, half dressed,
standing] in the water butt of the house, her body half
bent, so as to put her head under the water. Verdict—
Insanity.

litiriility is the dress-coat of pride.—Eliza Cook's
Journal.

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE,
Admiral of the Red (eighth on the list) the Hon.
Ti• John Talbot, G.C.8., it is reported, is very ill.
'he Gallant Admiral entered the service sixty-five
cars since, under the care of Lord Nelson, who at
lat time commanded the Boreas, frigate, and served
ith him in the West Indies.
PROMOTIONS.

Acting Lieutenants—William Lambard, who
passed for seamanship Dec. 26, 1846, and was pro-
moted to acting lieutenant, Feb. 10, 1848, and Wil-
liam Graham, who passed for seamanship, August
25, 1848, and was promoted to be acting lieutenant
June 13, 1849, having passed at the college, have been
confirmed to the rank of lieutenants from the above
dates.

Mate—James William Vaughan, who passed in
seamanship, Sept 29, 1847, and has recently arrived
home in the Melampus, having passed the college, has
been promoted to the rank of lieutenant.
Second Master—James D. Milne (1841), acting
master of the Ueda, steam-sloop, on her way to the
coast of Africa, to be confirmed in his rank.
APPOINTMENTS.

Captain Sir Thomas S. Pasley, Bart., superin-
tendent cf Pembroke Dockyard, from the Royal
Sovereign yacht, to the Saturn, commissioned as
guard and depot ship at Pembroke. The other officers
and crew have been turned over to the Saturn from
the yacht, which vessel will probably be broken up.
Master—R. W. Roberts (1846), late of the Ter-
rible steam-frigate, to the Blenheim, 60, screw two.
decker, at Portsmouth.
Surgeons—Richard D. Mason (1844) to the Fire-
brand steam-frigate at Woolwich.
Paymaster and Purser—William Horton (1832)
to the Saturn guard-ship, at Pembroke.
Second Master—Horace H. Cook (1847) to the
Superb, 80, at Spithead.
Clerk—F. J. N. Kenyon to the Superb.
Midshipmen—Robert Maunsell to the Superb; H.
J. Moule, to the Conflict screw•sloop, at Devonport.
OBITUARY.—Surgeon John J. W. Roberts (1846),
of the Champion, in the Pacific, died on board that
ship recently. Dr. James Tweeddale (1811) died
at Port Adelaide, South Australia, on May last. Pay-
master and Purser William Morton (1814) died a
few days since, of cholera.
VERT UNSEASONABLE DRESS IN TILE NAVY.—On
Friday last, when the Court removed from Osborne
to London, the Superb and Encounter, at Spithead,
and the ships in harbour, excepting the Victory, manned
yards, and although the weather was excessively cold,
and a keen N.E. wind blowing, the men were dressed
in white trowsers. This is according to Admiralty
orders ; but with due deference we are of opinion that
in ti.e matter of dress the arrangement should be left
to the discretion of the Commander-in-Chief or
officer:commanding. White trousers on such a day
were a punishment to the men, and in many cases
(where flannel drawers were not in their possession)
very injurious to health. The Victory, on account of
being short-handed, did not man yards ; but her crew
manned the rigging in white trousers, and cheered as
enthus'ioticaty as ever.
Lieutenant James Sabben (1810) died on Wednes-
day last, aged 62. This officer (who had been in
the merchant service, and had witnessed the destruc-
tion of the Queen Charlotte, 100, in Leghorn Roads,
March 17, 1800), entered the navy March 16, 1803,
as first-class volunteer, on board the Dreadnought,
98. Shortly after he had joined he was se-
verely injured by a blow from a storm-staysail-
sheet. In August, 1805, he was present off
Cadiz when the Dreadnought, with two other
ships of the line, was pursued by the com-
bined squadrons of France and Spain, on their return
from the West Indies, whence they had been driven
by Lord Nelson, and was signal midshipman, and
was wounded at the battle of Trafalgar. On Dec.
17, 1806, being at the time a supernumerary in the
Netley schooner, he was taken captive by the French
frigate Thetis and brig Sylphe, and carried into
Guadeloupe. He was soon, however, restored to
liberty, and on again joining the Wolverine was
awarded the rating of master's mate. When subse-
quently in pursuit of an enemy he was a second time
accidentally hurt. Was received by Sir Alexander
Cochrane, on promotion, on board his flag-ship the
Neptune, 98, part of the force engaged in February,
1809, at the reduction of Martinique. 'Was acting
lieutenant of the Julia, 16, when she put to sea, at a
moment's notice, in pursuit of a large French letter-of-
marque brig, whom she succeeded in capturing.
When in the same sloop, at the blockade of Guade-
loupe, Mr. Sabben was almost daily in action, either
in cutting out vessels, in storming batteries, or in
intercepting the coasting trade. He also partici-
pated in three attempts to capture or destroy the
French frigates Furieuse and FeliciUs in the road-
stead of Basseterre. As acting first lieutenant,
afterwards, of the Ringdove, he passed through
scenes of great mortality—was wounded Dec. 18,
.180 v, at the destruction, in L'Ance la Barque, of the
40 gun frigates Loire and Seine, laden with stores
and protected by numerous batteries—and contributed
to the reduction of the island of Guadeloupe, where,
during the absence of his captain on shore, he held
command of the ship. Lieut. Sabben was possessed
of a scientific turn of mind.

LIEUT. GRAHAM AND MR. ELLIOTT.—We can,
from undoubted authority, contradict the statement
which has been going the round of the papers respecting
the suppossd mistake in passing sentence on Lieut.
Grahatn and Mr. Elliott, master in the Royal navy.
The imprisonment was distinctly placed in the wording
of the sentence, prior to the dismissal from her
Majesty's service.—Exeter Gazette.
The Prince Regent, 92, Captain %V. P. Martin, was
left with the flag-ship at Corfu on the 26th ult. She
left Naples suddenly on the Gth, and was towed through
the Straits of Messina by the Bulldog, steam sloop,
Commander A. C. Key, and joined the Admiral at
Cephalonia.
The St. Vincent, 120, is ordered to be docked at
Portsmouth when the Princess Charlotte, 104, comes
out, which will be about the alst instant.

The Dreadnought, seaman's hospital-ship, will be
completed at Woolwich this day.
The Revenge, 76, will be completely broken up, at
Sheerness, by the end of this month.
The Firebrand, 6, steam-frigate, Captain Knox,
has nearly completed her crew. She is destined for
service in the Mediterranean.

The Conflict, scre,,v-sloop, Commander Drake,
fitting at Devonport, is not to go to the coast of
Africa; but the Wolverine, 12. Commander Falcon,
fitted at Chatham, is ordered to Devonport to be paid
advance, and to take the October mails to the coast.
The Cuckoo, 3, steam. vessel, Commander Duma-
resq. proceeded from Guernsey, on Thursday morning,
with a detachment of the 16th Regiment to Alderney,
and returned from thence in the evening with the
detachment which had been in garrison in that island,
and who were landed at Castle Cornet, where they
will remain till the state of their health is ascertained.

his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor went to
and returned from .Alderney in the Cuckoo.
The Dasher, 2, steam vessel, Lieut. Commander
Parks, has returned to Sheerness from the coast of
Scotland to be paid off.
The Shearwater, 3, steam-vessel, Lieutenant Com-
mander Tumour, has returned to Queenstown, from
Kinsale.

PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—Yesterday the Prince of
Wales hoisted his standard for the first time, on the
occasion of his Royal Highness, with the other
juvenile members of the Royal Family, embarking at
Cowes in the royal yacht Fairy for Gosport, unac-
companied by her Majesty and Prince Albert. Tile
following officers of the yacht were present on the
occasion :—Captain Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence,
G.C.H., Commander Crispin, Mr. Welch, master,
and Dr. A. Armstrong, assistant-surgeon. Lord
Frederick Fitzclarence and staff received the royal
party in the Clarence-yard and conducted them to
the train. The guard of honour was furnished by.
the 77th Regiment, and commanded by Major Eger-
ton. The worn-out colours of the regiment, on which
was embroidered his plume, attracted the Prince of
Wales's notice, and were presented for his inspection.
The royal train started for Windsor in charge of Mr.
Cornelius Stovin, manager of tie South-Western
Railway, at a quarter to eleven o'clock.
'he Leander, 50, Captain S. G. Decree was re-
movediinto the basin yesterday to proeeed with her
fittings. She picks up men slowly, bat those she has
entered are above mediocrity.
Wind—N.E., strong br.aczes and cloudy weather.
Wooovicii., OCT. 13.—Captain Fitznardinge Ber-
keley, C. 13., and Captain Lord John Hay, C. 13.,
Lords of the Admiralty, Captain Sir Baldwin
Walker, K.C.8., Surveyor of the Navy, with Captain
Ramsay, late commander of the Terrible steam-
frigate, and Mr. Lloyd, Chief Engineer at the
Admiralty, arrived at Woolwich Dockyard shortly
after one Alock P.M. to-day, and their Lordships
were received by Commodore Henry Eden, Lieute-
nant Robertson, Flag-Lieutenant Gore, and the heads
of the various departments. Their Lordships pro-
ceeded to inspect the Terrible, and remained upwards
of half an hour on board that vessel. The taking nut
of the two boilers in the fore part of the vessel will
be completed this afternoon, and when their funnels
are also taken out, the difference will be about 64
tons in favour of the accommodation in this fine
frigate. The vessel having been found so efficient
when working with only two boilers, it is intended
to get her ready again as soon as possible. The
two aft funnels and boilers left in her having been
but seldom used, they are nearly as good as new,
and will not occupy much time in getting ready for
service.

From the Terrible their Lordships proceeded to the
Royal Albert, 120, and went on board that vessel
with Mr. Lang, master shipwright, when they ex-
pressed themselves much pleased with her excellent
and substantial appearance. After inspecting the
Royal Albert their Lordships,! with Captain Sir Bald-
win Walker and Commodore Henry Eden went on
board the Firebrand steam-frigate, Captain T. U.
Knox, at moorings alongside the coal deppt in the

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS bie,/ —M ,male, 3 min. after I Evening, 26 min. after 1
To- ern:ng, 45 min. after l EverCr,,, 3 m 11. After 2

TIIE WEATHER.—SON OIFICE, OCT. 14.
THERMOMETER, LOwein, 35 Highest, 45; "Iron. 46.
BAROMETER, 30.07; a rise of nearly half an inch since

yesterday.
WIND E. to N.E.—very cold and cloudy; afternoon, fine.

OCT. 15.
T LIER3IOSIETER, Lowest, 37; Highest, 46; Noon, 47

BAROMETER, 30.11.
WIND N.E.—dull stormy weather; afternoon, fine.