The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-24 00:00:00

`o. 17,139. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING SIT N 7 AUGUST 24, 1847.

OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND
woLvEltuA N 1 rros RAILWAY.
'The Directors will receive TENDERS of MONEY, to be advanced
111)4,71 Loan ta• Three, Five, or Seven Years, at Interest after the rate
o. 5/. per Cent. per Annum, payable halt-yearly.
The Debentures will be issuable on or atter the Ist Septem-
er next.
Tenders may he aldres<ed to the undersigned.
By order of the Board of Directors,
NOEL TROMAi SMITH, Secretary.
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton
Railway Office,
Worcester, August 10, 1947.

NORTHERN COUNTIES UNION
RAILWAY. •
Notice is hereby given. that the IMF-YEARLY ORDINARY
MEETING of the 511 kItEttOLDERS in the NOIITIJERN COUN-
TIES UNION RAILWAY COMP.► NY will be held, pursuant to the
Act 01 Incorporation, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, in
the City of London, on Thumper. the 'Mb Jay of August, 1847, at
the hour of Twelve. for half•past Twelve o'clock precisely, for the
transaction of the ordinary hu•iness of the Company.
Also, in cornpliawe with a requisition front the Shareholders, to
tike into consideration and approve, or otherwise. of a reduction in
the pres..nt Number of Directors to the minimum number required by
the Act of Incorporation.
And inrice is hereby furthei given, that an EXTRAORDINARY
N!.ItAL MEETING ofthe Shareholders of the said Company will
held at the London Tavern aforesaid, on the day and year afore-
-,aid, at One o'clirk of same day, or immediately upon the termh4a-
iion of the business of the said Ordinary Meeting, for the purpose of'
eonsidernig and approving. or otherwise, of an agreement entered
int. between the Directors of this Company and the Directors of the
:iockto.t and Darlington Railway Company ; and in case such
tgreement shall be approved by the Shareholders, to take the neces-
sary steps tbr carrying the same into effect.
The Transfer Books of. the Company will be closed from the 14th
lay of August to the 21th day or August, both days inclusive.
Dated this 10th day of August, 1847.
BERESFORD, Chairman.
CHAS. LOCOCK WEBB, Secretary.
Offices, 1, Poet's Corner, Westminster.

REAT WESTERN RA.ILWAY
1 TENDERS FOR LOANS.
The Direc!ors of this Company are ready to receive TENDERS
tin' LOANS on security of the Company's Debentures, In sums of
not less thin 1,0001. each, at 51. per Cent. interest, payable half-
yearly, and for terms of Three. Five, or Seven years.
Ai,plications to be made to the undersigned.
CHARLES A SAUNDERS, Secretary.
London Terminus, Raldington, August 20, 1847.

ENGLAND to IND:A and A USTRAL EA.
fhe INt)IA and AUSTRALIA MAIL STEAM-PACKET
co 11 PANY, incorporated by Royal Charter, which limits the re-
sponsibility of the shareholders to the amount for which th :y indivi-
dually subscribe.-And authorises the Company to establish comma-
,,ications to and and from the United Kingdom, the East Indies,
Australasia, and New Zealand.
Capital One Million sterling.
Divided into series of shares of 201. each.
COMMITTEE.
Sir George Larpent, Bart., Chairman of the London Committee of
1846 for Exten-ion of Steam Navigation t., Australia.
Sir William Verner, Bart., M.P.
Hon. Francis Sc ti, M.P., Agent for :iew South Wales.
sir Thomas L. Mitchell, Surveyor-General of New South Wales,
London.
Lieut.-Col. Abdy, Indian Army J. Maclean Lee, Esq,
Thomas Browne. Esq. Captain Richard Lloyd, Indian
t'aptam Cogan, Indian Navy Navy
arcitibald Cuninghame, Esq. Milbourne Marsh, Esq.
captain H. M. Denham, 1.R.5., It Montgomery Martin, Esq.
Royal Navy .1. Montetiore. Esq.
I. 11. Ininaldson, Esq. Sir F. Wit,ltett flyers, K.C.S.
'apt. R. J, Fayrer, Royal Navy Alexander C, Ogilvie, Esq.
Captain Ford. East India Maritime Richard Paterson, Esq.
Service Robert Henley Payne, Esq,
Captain G. T. Gordon, Royal Navy John Wilson Pinang, Esq.
S. Halsw ell, Esq., M.A., F.R.S. G. H. Skead, Esq., Master, Royal
Capt. H. Hamilton, Royal Navy Navy
;itstavus Hamilton, Esq. Colonel Torrens, I.R.S.
.Fames Hunter, Esq. William Gordon Thomson, Esq.
J. A. Jackson, Esq. Lieut. Waghorn, F.R.A.S„ Royal
Charles .Joyce, Esq. Navy
Frederick Lambe, Esq. Melvil Wilson, Esq.
BANKERS—Messrs. Currie and Co., Cornhill.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Barron and Clarke, Bloomsbury-square.
India, Australia, China, and the adjacent realms, contat•r a popu-
lation of mon, than half the number of the inhabitants of the
globe, and teem with every product which con minister to the wants
of man
To carry nut effectually and economically steam communication
with those countries is the object of this Company, for whose ope-
rations there Is an ample and profitable field, especially as regards
nor numerous and valuable colonies in the Southern Pacific, which
have an increa,ing intercourse with India as well as with England
—are the only portions of the British empire unconnected by steam
navigation with the parent stale, and for which a charter by the
ov errand route has been exclusively granted to this Company.
The route sanctioned by the Lords of the Admiralty tor this Com-
pany is via Ceylon, Singapore, and Torres Straits, the advantages of
which are, that S),doey, the metroplitan capital of the whole of the
Ins- ralasian colonies, would be brought to a certainty within 64 or
65 days of London (frequently in 60), and within less than 30 days
of India. The coal stations are convenient, ;excellent coal from the
pits at Newcastle, New South Wales, can be pat ott board there at
7s. to Is. 6d. per ton.
Prospectuses, with forms of application for shares, and further
information may lie had on application at the offices of the Com-
pany, where a copy of the Royal Charter of Incorporation may be
obtained.
Odices, 34, Cornhill, London

JOHN YATES, Sec.

NOTICE.
REDUCED FARES-LOWER THAN EVER.
1 RAVESEND via BLACKWALL RAIL-
)11- WAY, and STAR and BLACKW kLL PACKETS.
Second Class :yid Fore Cabin, SIXPENCE;
First Class and saloon, EIGIITPENCE.
Railway and Boat Included to one Payment.
From the Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall, at 9,9%, 10, 10%, 11, 12,
13h, 2%, 3%, 4%, 5%. 6,7, and 7%. Sundays, at 8%, 9,9%, 10,
.0%, 11. 1%, 2%, 3%, 5,6, 7, and 7%. The TRAINS starting one
tuartcr of an hour before each of these times.
The New Terrace Pier, Gravesend, at 7,7%. 8%, 9%, 11%, 1,
3,4, 5,6, 6%, 7, and 8. Sundays, at 7,7%, 8%, 11%, 12, 1,3, 4,
6,6%, 7,7%, and 8.
star ( Mice, 4 lraveeend. Jnne 29, 1,447.

lIINESE COLLECTION, FAIIIFI`r:LI)
C •
NEAR T: ;E CHURCH, BOW.
This magnificent assemblage of Chinese Curiosities, which has
been recently enriched by vast and important additions. •Orming a
mini let, pictorial ,pitome of ClVnese history, scenery, and customs.
will be opened on TUESDAY next, the 24'h inst., in the spacious and
gorgeous KIN TEEN, or " GOLDEN PALACE."
This superb structu e. which has occupied eight months in build-
ing, consists of Seventeen Monstre Carriages, built by Adams and
Co., Bow," characteristicey decorated, and forming a spacious
Saloon. It is entered through a Pagoda of exquisite co:lstruction,
within which are paintings of War Gods, Landscapes, &e. Adjoining
this apartment is the Flowery Vestibule of Crystalline Mirrors, st,,d
in its rear the GRAND SALOON, 170 feet in length, 30 in height,
and 50 in width, lighted irom above by numerous windows, awl
,unnounted by a spacious roof, constructal of a material which
sheds a golden haze *roux& In this magnificent apartment Chinese
Scenes are so faithfully reprod,ced, that the huge Golden Gods in
their mystic temple—the Emperor on his throne—the Mandarins in
their ckstly homes--the Judge in his ccOnrt —the Merchant in his
shop --the host 14 Boatmen, Agriculturists, Street Traders, an;
Mendicants, together with interesting domestic scenes, and curious
paintings, illustrative of art and science, es well as of nature;
history—may be seen almost at a glance, although each view affords
ample material for hours of study ; thus informing at once the eye
and the understanding of the appearance, manners, and pursuits of
' the people of the "CENTRAL FLOWERY NATION."
AYOU, a Native of China, will he in attendance.
Admittance, ' me shilling.
flours of Exhibition, from Eleven till Six Morning, and from Seven
till Ten, Evening.
*** Omnibuses direct to the Collection every five minutes.
Fare,, from the extreme West of London, 6d. ; from the City, 3d.

WHAT SAYS 'JENNY. LIND?
What says Jenny Lind ? Why we
On this essential point agree ;
And presently you all shall see.
What says Jen,y Lind

She says she likes the English much,
For " ready cash," there's few that's each,
She " thousands" makes at one slight touch,
Oh ! lucky Jenny Lind!
She says our Queen is all in all,
And wi,en she did at " Ostoorne" call,
She was the pride of one and all
Oh lucky Jenny Lind I
She says the sons of England dress,
In " lovely ta•hions" to excess,
On " II YAM'S" name she lays grant stress,
Oh ! famous Jenny Lind !
She says through Europe lIYAM still
Reigns mute supreme for taste and ski.l;
She says to please he has the will,
So says Jenny Lind I

She says the court of Europe owes
To lIYINI thanks for gorgeous clothes.
She says it, who dliputes she knows.
Oh! charming Jenny Lind!

The Hosiery, Hat, and Outfit Department, recentl' added to thlt
Establishmem , is now complete, containing a well-selected stock of
Shirts, Gloves, Hose, Handkerchiefs, &c. &c. Paris and town made
Hats. Travelling. Fishing, Youths', and Meng Caps, in every va-
riety, at prices in accordance, with L. Hyam's well-known econo-
mical system.
L. lIYAM'S LIST OF PRICES I. d.
Good Dress ('oats (well matte) ......... •• .21 0
Good Saxony Do. d 0............... .. 27 0
Good wool-dyed ..
Very superior West of England .• .. ..... .•. 4U 0
Good Surtout Coat .. •••• • • • • ........ ...... . • 25 0
Do. faced with Silk .•..• • • • ........ ..... ••• .. 30 0
Imperial wool-dyed Black •••••••• • • • • • • .. ••••• • • . • 42 . 42 6
Do. St, xony d 0... .. . ..... ..... .48 0
Do. West of England do. • - 54 0
The Ilyamonian Paletot (a superior article) .... 25 0
The Mazourka Wrapper ... . .. 34
The Capot Dete (a delightful Autumn Coat) .... 42 0
Vests in every description of material and
style ..... ..... ....from 3 6
Trowsers cut in a superior style,.ofthiroost novel
fabrics and designs •• .. • • ..........from 6 6
The Registered Lustre Shooting ("oat .. • • ...... 14 6
Youths' Jackets and Tunic Suits •• .. .. —from 16 6
L. HYAM'S Clothing, Hat, and Outfitting Establishment. 36,
Gracechurch-street.

LAMB'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND; an
Effectual Cure for all descriptions of Worms that infest
the Human .Body, Indigestion in all its varied forms, Ner-
‘, us Diseases. Bilious or Liver Complaints, all cases of Fits arising
from Intestinal Irritation, Impurities of the Blood, Early stages of
Consumption. and all other ailments producing a delicate state of
the constitution.
The Vegetable Compound is extremely mild and easy in its opera-
tion ; females of the most delicate constitution, either suckling or
during pregnancy ; young children, or persons at an advanced
period of life may take it with perfect safety, without hindrance of
business or change of diet, and at all seasons of the year without
the least danger of taking sold, and warranted not to contain any
preparation of mercury or turpentine.
The following are a few of the many thousands of eases success-
fully treated by the Vegetable Compound, during a practice of up-
wards of twenty years .-
1 May 19th, 1817.—Tohn Lawrence, cabinet-maker, of 13, Essex-
street, King's Cross, New-road, London, while taking Lamb's Vege-
table Compound, passed a tape-worm eight yards long. He corn.
plained for some time of pains and giddiness in the head, sickness in
the morning, and violent pains and weakness between the stomach
and bowels, unpleasant fullness after eating, the bowels
something
with wind, very low-spirited and nervous, a sensation of
in the throat, aching pains in the limbs, &c.
Malice 20th, 1847.—Mrs. Draper, aged GO, wife of
John Draper,
of Wiidmoor, in the parish of Sherfleld Green, near Basingstoke,
while Making Lamb's Vegetable Compound passed a
tape-worm
several yards long. She had been subject to almost symptom
every sy
of indigestion for many years, and never could obtain any
be
until taking the Vegetable Compound, since which she has enjoyed a
good state of health up to the resent time, May 22d, 1847.
MAT 18th, 1847.—Mrs. Sims, living serv.int with Mrs. Hill, St.
James's-walk, Clerkenwell, London, while taking Lamb's Vege-
table Compound passed a tape-worm several yards long. Ske had
complained of pain and giddiness in the head, sickness, weakness,
of the limbs, shortness of brelth, and palpitation of the heart ; pains
in the stomach, side, and back, and scarcely ever felt refreshed from
food or sleep.
Sold wholesale and retail by the proprietor, Richard Lamb, 75,
High Holborn, in packets at 2s, 9d. each; one packet being suffi-
cient for a child from one to ten years old; all person above
ten years require two packets. Retailed in London by Mr. Miles,
Chemist, 78. Graceehurch-street ; Mr. Dodd, Chemist, 91, West.
minster Bridge-road. Lambeth; T. A. Bridge, Chemist, 270
.stereehetm;
inste.cosl.tro and Co. Chemists, wiiton-peace, Knights-
bridge J. Chapman. Chemist, 7, ll' h tre lallagtm ;
Ne*Grelelnriwidgcr
Ingham. It will be sent to any part
Chemist. London-street,
paid, on remitting 84 postage stamps f
Nett .16SultVgtonalhi.alaBle'vl 'ROieffiheees,
old ; under ten years, 48 postage stamps,of the.kingdom, carriage
ordtpree
High Holborn, London. errendstoabrr. Ltaemaby,ea7rBs,

i.* Observe.—AU persons above ten years old must ask for the
double packets.

Mr. Lamb niay be moulted personally at big residenee. ervari
NisUr.Tualavi w03a0447. ems Ten to rear.

liE W ELL INGTON SURTOUT, a New
1 Light Repellant Coat, for ALL SEASONS, may be worn with
or wi thnut a coat underneath. Registered 6 and 7 Vic., cap. 65. by
JAM ES FOUG%.'n 6, Conduit-street, and 11, Poultry, near the
Mansion-hou,e, Londen. Patronised by 11.1111 trince Albert, the
Royal Family, his Grace the Commander-in-Chief, the principal No-
bility and Officers of the Guards. 6, Conduit-street, Regent street,
and 11, Poultry, not else Where in London.
Price Two-and a-half Guineas net Cash on delivery._

GENTLE3I EN LE .% VI NG TOWN. who have not availed, them-
selves of the WELLINGTON SWITOUT, are resta ctfuily informed
by the Patentee, JAAI,:S FOEGEHE, that they can be obtained in
London, at hIF. West-end Establishment, 6, Conduit-street, and City
Depot, 11, Poultry, only. As this very popular garment is now pa-
tronised by almost every Nobleman and Gentleman in the country,
it is presumed that further commendation or description is un-
nece,sary.

Agewts nr the provinces continue to be appointed.

COLLINS'S ODE on the- PASSIONS will tw
recited by Mr. J. RUSSELL, with Illustrations in a Series of
DRAWINGS magnined by means of the OPAQUE MICROSCOPE,
accompanied by Music by Dr. NVallis, on the Mornings of Tuesday,
Thursday, and Saturday, and on the Evenings of Tuesday and
Thursday, at the .:OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. Dr.
Bachhoffner's LECTITIV.S on NATURAL 1'111.1.0,0191Y will
comprise the sultjeet if the ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHS, &c. CHE-
MICAL LECTI7RES by F. H. Holmes, Es q., on the Evenings of
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The heautif I OPTICAL EF-
FRC TS include the last DISSOLVING VIEWS, DIVING BELL
and DIVER, with EXPERIMENTS, &c. &c.
Admission. Is.; Schools, Half-price.

F_%A VIES'S CANDLES, bid. per lb. ; Genuine
Sperm., Is.9d. ; Yellow Soap, 48s.' 5.45„, and 60:. per !laths.;
Mottled, fills. and .4s. ; Wax Candles, Is. per lb. ; German Wax,
Is. 2d. ; Fine Wax, Is. sd. Transparent Wax, Is. lid. ; Genuine
Wax, as. Id. ; Waxed-wick Moulds, 73%d.; Sperm Oil, tic per gallon ;
solar 3* 3d , Pale Seal, 4s. ; Argand, or Vegetable, As. 14.; Wind-
Az>r and Palm Soap, Is. Ad. per packet; Brown Windsor, Is. ;
Rose. as. , Almond, 2s. 6d. ; Sealing Wax, As. 6d.; Hale's Paragon
Composite, requiring no snuffing, 104. l'or lb.
For Cash—At DAVIES'S Old Established Warehouse, 63, St.
NfArtin's-lane, opposite Slaughter's Coffee-house.

EYEBROWS, _MOUSTACHIOS, awl H !S-
-KEW. produced in a few weeks, and Baldness removed and
prevented toy the use of GRIMSTONF.n4 AROMATIC REGENE-
RATOR, an essential s:.irit, drawn from aromatic herbs and flowers,
tew drops of which cure headache in a few minutes it is also a
most delightful, fragrant toilet perfume. Sold only in tria►ular
bottles, protected by the Government stamp, at 4s. ; double the size.
Is. ; and double this size, I Is. each ; enclosed in a Pamphlet, con-
taining testimonials of undoubted authority, entitled " Three Minutes'
Advice on tko Growth ,ind Preservation of the Human Hair, &c."
By post, 4s. fid., 7s. del„ and 125., for money orders only.
Sold wholesale only at Grimstone's Herbary, Highgate, near
London ; and by Messrs. Barclay and Son. Farringdon-street ; Sanger,
Oxford-street; Messrs. flutter and Co.,Cheapside • Fisher and Toiler,
Conduit-street ; Mr. Johnston, medicine warehouse, 48, Cernhill •
and by all chemists. Perfumers, and others For Edinburgh, J. and
R. Raimes, Leith-walk ; for Manchester, eresehe and Son, Adver
tiser-otlice.

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

ILLUSTRATED WITA COLOURED ENGRAVINGS,
Just Published, in a Sealed Envelope, price 2s. 6d.. or free
by post, 3s. 6d.

C.
ONTROUL OF THE PASSION: a Popular
Inquiry into the Concealed Cause of its premature Decline,
with Instructions for its Complete Restoration. Addressed to those
suffering trom the destructive consequences of excessive indulgence,
terminating in Mental and Nervous Debility, Local or Constitutional
Neakiless, Indigestion, ant Consumption. Including a comprehen-
sive Dissertation on MARRIAGE, Incontinence, and Celibacy.
Illustrated with Coloured Engravings, explanatory of the various
Cases, &c.
By C. J. LUCAS and Co., Consulting Surgeons, No. 60, Newman-
street, Oxford-street, London.
Member of the London College of Medicine, &c. &c,
CONTENTS OF THE WORE.,
Chap. 1. —Bodily and Mental Exhaustion induced by inordinate
indulgence of the Passions, illustrated with Coloured Engravings.
Chap. 2.—Baneful Results of a Secret Vice on the Mind and Body,
evidenced in the production of Consumption, Epilepsy, and other
convulsive diseases, Insanity, Idiocy, moping Melancholy, indiges-
tion, Stricture, Impotence, and Sterility, with Observations on the
Duties of Married Life, and on the unhappiness caused by Unfruitful
Unions. Chap. 3.—Debility. and Exhaustion of the principal Vital
Functions, the nature and treatment of Impotence an,l Sterility, and
the imperfect performance of the Marital act, caused byt he practice
o t self-induluence. Chap. 4.—tlonOrrhCea, its symptoms, complica-
tons and treatment, Gieet, Stricture, and disease of the Prostate.
Chap. 5. —syphilis, and its attendant maladies and treatment. Cases,
and concluding observations, Plates, &c.
Sold by Brlttain, 54, Paternoster-row ; Gord rn, 146, Leadenhall-
street , Hannay and Co., 63, Oxtord-street ; Noble, 114, Chancery-
; Mansell, 115, Fleet-street; Winhal, 7S, High-street, Bir-
mingham; Whitmore, 119, Market-street, Manchester; Howell,
54, I;harch-street, Li verpool ; Robinson. 11, Greenside street,
Edinburgh ; Powell, 10, Westmoreland-greet, Dublin ; and all
Booksellers.
Persons desirous of obtaining the above work, and not wishing to
apply to a nookseller for the same, may, to insure secrecy, have it
Messrs.
Ltutlela' Fight direct from the Authors, by enclosing 3s. 6d., or Postage Stamps.
srs
gnhdtCo in . atrhee evtoiLcong.
nsnalttedthfreoirmrrdteinlcel and6o
fr Wive
Newman-street, Oxford-street, London, and country patients 'may
155 successfully treated, on minutely describing their case. and enclos-
ing the lisnal fee of I/. for advice.

UN TUE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH,. AN I,
MATURITY.
WITH TWENTY-FIVE COLOURF,P ENGRAVINGS.
rhis day is lublisbed. Twentieth Thousand, In a sealed envelope,
M. 3r forwarded, post
paid, to any address, secure front
ohservation, for 35, 64. ,n Pox+ rwP 8,011
SELF. PRESERVATION : A Medical Treatise
on Marriage, and on thee. Secret Infirmities and Disorders of
Youth aim Matter. y, that are tt ,ually acquired at an early period of
lite, which tend to destroy phys cal and mental energy, ardour, pas-
sion, and all the attributes o Manhood. illuerated with Twenty-
live Coloured Engravings on the Anatomy, Physiology, and Dia-
oases of the Urinary and Reprednctive Or.rans, explaining their
varioul structures, uses, and functions, and showbg the injuries that
,re produced in them, by solitary habits, excesses, and infection.
Wit!. "yractizal Observations on the Treatment of Nervous Debility,
.cal and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis, Stec' ure, and other
(11,ett4p,„

By SAMUEL LA'MERT, CONSULTING SURGEON,
9, itedforo7street, Bedford-square, London;
Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorer!
Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of
Apo`. teearies' Ball, London, &c.,.&c.

o PAPERS
avoeenTotuiesianpsaevd.
since
the President of the United States communicated to
the American Congress the intelligence that they
were engaged in a war on their south-western fron-
tier. The motives which impelled Mr. Polk to the
origination of so serious an incident in the annual
register of a nation were very candidly discussed at
the time. It was asserted that the war arose from a
source little more respectable than the imperfect win-
dow at Tri anon, or the cup of tea on Mrs. Masham's
gown. It was said that the President desired by
some signal exploit to endear his term of office so
deeply to his constituents, that they would be loth to
see the termination of so glorious a reign ; that he
wished to identify his administration with gratifying
victory and profitable conquest, and that he expected
to divert or overbear the remonstrances of political
dissent and the chances of a possible rival by the
spoils or songs of a triumphant expedition. We are
by no means of opinion that the end is come by
which such actions are judged. But as our corres
psndence of yesterday spoke a little more pointedly
than usual as to the prospects of peace, let us compute
for a moment the gains of the war, upon the suppo-
sition that the three million dollars have secured the
assent of the Mexican authorities, and that the Mexi-
can authorities can command the submission of the
people. Mr. Polk looked for a short campaign and a
summary surrender. He dreamt, like Napoleon in
l 812, of deputations and offerings, of cessions and
spoils. He thought to acquire a province at the cost
of a parade, and to discover a new planet for his star-
spangled banner without a mentionable expenditure or
labour or time. Now, supposing that the next dis
patches should bring the actual intelligence of a treats-
on the specified basis, the account will run thus :
The Americans have been subjected to the drain of
an eighteen months' war on a far more ruinous scale
than any of their recent armaments. No very close
approximation has yet been made to the precise
amount of the penalty thus incurred, but it is ad-
mitted on all hands that it has gone far to postpone
that revision of the American tariff, to which pre-
vious experience was leading, which was so em-
phatically called for by the reforms and prospects of
other states, and which would have spoken so power-
ful!) for trans-Atlantic wisdom amongst the people of
Europe. Instead of a conquest, Mr. Polk can only
point to what by the most favourable appellation
must be termed a compromise. Instead of enriching
the Exchequer, or reducing the burdens of the
country, he has retarded, it may be for years, its
opportunities of sage experiment or enlightened re-
form. At an early period of the war, it was indus-
triously set forth that Mexico would indemnify her
conquerors for the expenses which they condescended
to incur ; but as this claim gradually became larger
and larger, it was proportionately withdrawn from
notice, and such impracticable arrangement no longer
figures in any sketch of the preliminaries. Six
months ago, before the battles of Vera Cruz, the ad-
vance to Puebla, or the dispatch of reinforcements,
the costs of the war were stated in Congress by a
calculating Senator to approach 30,000,000 of dollars.
By the same estimate the marketable value of Cali-
fornia was set down at 15,000,000. Omitting, there
fire, the intermediate accumulations of expenditure,
and stating the case in a form most familiar to trans-
Atlantic capacities,:it may be said that America
has exposed herself to the hazard of disgrace and
the reprobation of Europe for the sake of purchasing
an unnecessary commodity at twice its worth. But
this is not all It is notorious that the United
States can receive no considerable acceasion of ter-
ritory without the agitation of a question which
may involve the most momentous results. A large
and powerful portion of the union is resolved that
slavery, if it cannot be abolished in the states where
it is at present legalised, shall at least never be in-
troduced into any newly-annexed province ; and the
energy displayed in such matters on our own shores
may lead to a pretty safe inference as to the obsti-
nacy with which this not unreasonable point may be
insisted on abroad. On the other hand, it is alleged
and declared with equal violence that slave labour
will be more than ever indispensable in bringing
under cultivation a prolific but encumbered soil,
promising abundant returns, but demanding extra-
ordinary outlays of capital and labour. The best
informed prophets of this dispute are unable to an-
ticipate its decision, but it has been very pal-
pably hinted that the eventual disruption of
the union and the formatian of two separate and
hostile powers on the North American continent,
may be the consequence of so inveterate a dissen-
sion. Other anticipations combine with this pros-
pect to bring the policy of Mr. Polk into almost
universal suspicion. Instead of extinguishing oppo-
sition by the dazzling splendour of conquest and the
emollit-tit importation of plunder, he has raised up by
the events of war a formidable rival to his own fame.
He has given his adversaries an inexhaustible topic of
invective, disheartened his friends by the falseness of
his position, and determined the course of neutrals by
the ill success of his speculation. That quite so mis-
chievous a result was to be apprehended from the be•
ginning, we do not say was probable. It was, per-
haps, not easy to calculate on the operation of the
several substitutes for patriotism and valour which
have befriended the Mexicans. But very few persons
will be found, we think, to lament the disappoint-
ment of such unholy hopes, from whatever cause
arising. A philosophical historian would hardly be
dissatisfied with the moral of the chapter as it at
present stands ; but we do not conceal our suspicions
that the catastrophe may possibly have yet to come.
The arguments which are said to have reached
Santa Anna must necessarily be limited to a narrow
circle of converts. But a short time ago it was
announced that the Mexican Congress had refused
to assemble or to debate ; that they had refused to
delegate the power of the Executive to another, or to
exert it themselves, and that Santa Anna would be
left to a self-conferred dictatorship or to utter incom-
petency. That he and his fellow proselytes may pro-
claim the termination of hostilities, is not unlikely, if
his disposition has been fairly represented in the last
reports ; and, perhaps, such timely compact may en-
able General Scott to decamp from La Puebla with
the honours 'of peace. But there still remain the
feelings of an invaded and exasperated nation to be
cajoled or subdued, and this task, not always very
practicable to more efficient administrations, may pos-
sibly be beyond the strength of that faction or coali-
tion which is termed the Government of Mexico.
" There are two things," says a noble historian,
" which are generally popular in their beginning;
the first is a war, the second a peace Mr. Polk s
war certainly claimed its share of favour ; but though
his peace may undoubtedly demand the welcome
which the lesser evil always deserves, we think it will
pass even his ingenuity to represent it as an advan-
tageous bargain or an honourable conclusion.
CHRONICLE.—The failure of the Governor of
the Bank of England has given rise to a good deal of
discussion upon the principles according to which the
Bank managers are chosen. The event which has
just occurred being unfortunately by no. means un-
precedented, it will not be surprising if the public
becomes persuaded that there is something wrong in
a system which is, from time to time, found to
subject the most important mercantile interests to the
discretion of individuals who are themselves strug-
gling with pecuniary embarrassments. For our own
part, we believe that such a change in the con-
struction of the board of directors as would secure a
firm and judicious application of certain principles in
the conduct of the Bank business would he a practical
and valuable reform, and that it would remove every
pretence for the continuance of the existing restric-
tions upon the circulation ; but we are unable to see
how any advocate of those restrictions can make out
a greater right in the public to overhaul the manage-
ment of the establishment in Threadneedle-street,
than to prescribe rules to its neighbour the London
and Westminster, or to any house in Lombard-street.
We do not think there ever was a more erroneous,
or a more superficial notion, than that which represents
the Bank of England as a private money-dealer, bound
only by the considerations which govern all other
traders in capital. This notion, however, was most
distinctly maintained in advocating the separation of
the Bank into two departments, and it has been prac-
tically realised, so far as
it could be, by the present
law. The issue of notes is as completely cut off from
the business of the Bank as if the former operation
took place at Whitehall and under the control of
Government commissioners. The Bank directors
have to manage a business differing from that of other
bankers only by its prodigious extent. They have to
trade upon the capital of their proprietors and depo-
sitors, and no obligation, either expressed or im-
plied, by law requires them to look to the public
interest where it does not happen to coincide with
their own. In short, one of the most frequently
urged arguments in favour of the present system
was, that it would at once strip the Bank directors
of a dangerous discretion, which had been often
abused, and leave them no functions to discharge
but those which might be safely entrusted to
men acting with the motives and the intelligence
of ordinary traders. If this theory were admitted, it
would be absurd to demand a change in the system
of the Bank direction upon the ground of its being
required by the interests of the public. The only
legitimate consideration would be, whether the in-
terests proprietors-- required it, and to pro.

...

prietors it might be safely left to take the measures
-equisite for the protection of those interests. It
has now, however, become pretty obvious, that no
theory, or law, which attempts to place the Bank
,f England on the footing of a private establish-
inent can be stricly carried out without entailing very
4erious mischiefs upon the mercantile community.
The operations of the Bank, even within that sphere
in which it has an unfettered discretion, are upon
,o vast a scale that they affect the welfare of the
whole nation. The London Money Market is the
2:reit heart whose beatings regulate the circula-
tion of capital through all the ramifications of our
industry ; and though the Bank of England is but
one of the dealers in that market, it exercises,
from various causes, an immense power over the
proceedings of all the other dealers. The power
thus possessed may be so used as either to aggravate
or to diminish the fluctuations in the value of
lisposable capital ; and it is with reference to the
-xercise of this power that the interest of the whole
..ornmunity sometimes requires a surrender of profit
by the Bank. It is for the good of the community
-hat the fluctuations in the rate of interest should
never, if possible, be sudden or violent, and that mer-
cantile calculations which extend over a considerable
pace of time, and which include this element, should
'lot be liable to complete derangement from its un-
o.ertainty. A steady use of the power of the Bank of
England, however, for the purpose of moderating the
alternations in the value of money, would require a
kind of regard to the distant future which has never
been considered necessary by the Bank directors.
'Neither under the old system nor under the new
have they ever thought it necessary to anticipate.
Their system has been to wait for the action of the
public, and never take measures to meet such em-
oarrassments as those caused by drains of gold until
the bullion has been flowing out in a full tide. But
a statesmanlike anticipation of the future is the very
quality which the public welfare most requires in the
Bank direction. From the Bank ought to have come
first the warning against undue absorption of floating
capital in railways, and from the same quarter we
)ught to have had the first intimations of a probable
'rain of gold on account of extensive purchases of
foreign corn. To secure this regard to the future
in the Bank direction, it would be very ad-
idvisable to have at its head a more perma-
nent officer than the Governor is under present regue
lations, and it would be still more desirable that that
ifficer should be a person not actually engaged in
commerce. Commercial experience, indeed, is essen-
tial, but a good:deal more than commercial experience
is wanted, and we think it is not too much to say,
that in certain kind of political knowledge and saga-
city is absolutely essential to wise and safe manage-
ment of the Bank. This subject is well worthy
of the consideration of Ministers, and they would
earn and receive the gratitude of the mercantile
:ommunity, if, by the removal of unwise restric-
tions and establishment of a better system of Bank
management, they could place the country in a
better position for overcoming its present difficulties.
The management of the Bank of France, though
we would not hold it up as an example to be copied,
is deserving of consideration. It has a governor and
two deputy-governors, appointed by the Crown. This
regulation was introduced by Napoleon in 1806.
Attempts were made to alter it under the Restora-
tion, but without success. Subsequently, the oppo-
sition of the Bank, which caused those attempts,
appears to have been softened, and the system has
become established. The governor presides at the
general council or board of direction. He appoints
and removes agents, signs agreements, sanctions or
not, at his pleasure, the discount of bills, and the re-
solutions to which the council may come, and exer-
cises a general supervision. These powers are exces-
sive, like the powers given to all superior functionaries
of administration in France. In the case of the Bank
of England we should expect little benefit fram the
introduction of a new officer with extraordinary
legal powers, but a good deal from the presence of
one qualified to guide the councils of the Bank, and
whose character and capacity enabled him to impress
his opinions upon his brother directors.
POST.—The failure in business of the Governor
of the Bank of England is certainly a startling
event. It may, however, be of some public use
if it serve to convince men, as it ought, of the
fallacy of the arguments upon which the friends of
the existing monetary system rely. Mercantile
failures are now taking place right and left, in conse-

•
quence of the great 'fail in price of those various
articles of food which have been for some months
past the object of mercantile speculation. These
stoppages are certainly precipitated, and probably
caused, by the difficulty or impossibility of obtaining
such assistance in money as, under a less restrictive
system,
might safely have been given. The denial
..f such assistance. under such circumstances, was net
unforeseen by the authors of the present system, but
they said that with thelx system such circumstances
would not occur. Their restrictive system they
supposed would be such an impediment to specula-
tion that a crisis arising from unsuccessful specula-
tion was a contingency against which there was
no longer any occasion to guard. It is now but
too apparent that this reliance upon the Bank Charter
Act of 1844 was as ignorant as the refusal to attend
to the warning of the bankers of London, offered at
the time of its enactment, was impudent. But it
has been recently said in Parliament that if the Bank
Charter Act had not worked as it was expected to
work, in checking speculation, it was because the
Bank did not soon enough restrict monetary accom-
modation, in anticipation_ of coining difficulties
Easily said, but great nonsense ; for how is the Bank
to act upon anticipation of circumstances which
even the most intimate acquaintance with the affairs
of the Bank does not enable any one to anticipate ?
The Governor of the Bank, it appears, was so far
from being able to anticipate the crisis which was
coming on, that his own house is obliged to stop pay-
ment in consequence of the exigencies of the crisis.
It is, therefore, utterly idle to think of working a
monetary system, in such a country as this, by a
calculation of coming events in the mercantile world.
That which the country requires is a monetary sys-
tt m which can accommodate itself to the state of the

times, such as they may happen to be. The country
requires a description of currency which can be ex-
.panded or contracted according to the peculiar cir
cumstances which a small circulation may satisfy, or
which it may require a very large circulation to meet.
Ile currency we have is one, indeed, which may be
contracted, but which, unfortunately, cannot be ex-
panded without obtaining that which the country
cannot obtain when it is most wanted, namely gold.
Our law insists that when money is scarce, owing to
the effiux of gold from the country, and when mer-
chants are in difficulty because of the scarcity of
money, they shall break unless they can obtain gold,
the very thing the departure of which has caused
their embarrassment I Then they are told that the
Bank, seeing what was about to happen, should have
taken early measures to avert the difficulty ; and
presently the evidence afforded of the Bank being able
to see what was about to happen is the failure of the
Governor of the Bank, who, with all the knowledge
of the directors' room at his command, was not able
to foresee what was about to happen !

DISGUSTING SCENE.—STOURBRIDGE, AUG. 111.—
Yesterday a protracted investigation was brought to a
close before the county coroner at Lye, near this town,
employed relative to a revolting conflict between two women, which
terminated fatally to one of the parties. The deceased,
Maria Foxall, and her more fortunate adversary, Jane
Perry, both single women under 20 years of a g e, were
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a lane in the direction of her home, when some one called
ing all haste towards her. Not wishing to have any
was induced to stop by some men, who kept calling
her a "coward," and to "fight it out." Perry re-
fused to fight, and again attempted to get away.
Foxall, however, encouraged by the depraved wretches
around her, succeeded in overtaking the other
girl, and a truly revolting scene took place. For
near ten minutes they were engaged in what might be
termed a " stand-up fight." Blows were first dealt, and,
as they became more excited, so did the disgusting na-
ture of their violence increase. They fastened on each
other's hair, and tore it out by handfulls. blood flowing
from wounds about the face and head. At length.
Foxall fell back in apparently. a dying condition, and it,
was then di,covered that during the conflict her neck
had been dislocated. She died alcnot,t instantaneous
body.
Mr. H. Wilson, surgeon, who had examined the
stated the dislocation to be between the first and second
vertebra. It might have been produced by the head be-
ing violently pulled on one side or backward, or by vio-
lent rotary motion. A blow would not produce disloca-
tion without some outward injury being apparent. The
coroner (Mr. Docker), in summing up, left it to the jury'
to state whether the girl Perry had exercised any more
violence than was necessary to protect her from-the at-
tacks of the deceased. The jury, after a short consulta-
tion returned a verdict, " That the death of the de-
' ceased was caused lay the dislocation, of the first and
second vertebra of the neck, occasioned daring a struggle
with Jane Perry, and that the ANA Jane Perry was at
g the time acting in st.-defewe,r
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4110 M
HER MAJESTY'S SIT TO THE
HIGHLANDS.
FORT WILLIAM, Aua. 20. Yesterday at eight L
o'clock the Royal Squadron left Crenan, and
after visiting the Bay of Oban,
passed through the
Sound of Mull to Stet& and lona, returning at night
to anchor in Tobermory Harbour. As
the route-
thus followed by her Majesty lay among scenes re-
markable not only for their natural attractions, but
also for their great historic associations and the rich
mine of traditional lore which among them invites the
researches of the curious and the learned, I propose
adopting the same plan with regard to them as I did
in my last communication with reference to the
coast further south, and giving a brief outline of the
families and races whose fortunes in remote periods
determined the present circumstances of those dis-
tricts. It is needless, with so large a field for specu-
lation in the imperfect records of less fabulous ages,
to go back to those times when the Vickingrs held
sway among the Western Islands, and when the
piratical galleys of the Fingals and the Dubhgall
swarmed in the lochs and sounds of the Hebrides.
The names of Magnus Barefoot and Malcolm Can-
more (Malcolm with the large Head), sufficiently in-
dicate the primeval barbarism of the tribes over whom
their rule extended. During the close of the 13th and the
beginning of the 14'h centuries the history of the
Western Islands first begins to assume the form of a
connected narrative. It was at this period that,
through the wise munificence of King Robert Bruce,
the M'Donalds of the Isles began contemporaneously
with their rivals, the Canipbells of Argyleshire, to
rise into power. The policy of Robert demanded
that antagonists should be raised up to crush the
Nlillougalls of Lorn, his hereditary foes; and to effect
this object, when Lorn was forfeited, he made great
grants of land not only to Sir Neil Campbell of
Lochawe, but also to Angus Oig M'Donald, whose
son John, in addition to his paternal inheritance, de-
rived through his wife possession of the North Isles,
and assumed for the first time the title of Dominus de
InsulisvPr Lord of.. the Isles. .By the marriage of
his descendant Donald to Mary Leslie, the Earldom
of Ross was added to that lordship, and thus the great
family of the M`Donalds acquired an amount of power
which, taken in connexion with their previous claims
to sovereign dignity and the turbulent spirit of the
times, proved most formidable to the authority of the
Scottish throne, and in the end disastrous to them-
selves and all connected with their house and for-
tunes. After a lengthened contest and many deter-
mined struggles for supremacy—after holding Par-
liatnents of their own, and negotiating independent
treaties with England—after repeated, and some-
times successful, attacks on the royal castles and
armies, the Lords of the Isles towards the close of the
15th century yielded to the sagacious policy of James
IV. ; their wide possessions were forfeited, their titles
attached to the Crown, and the subsequent represen-
tatives of their ancient state ceased to exercise any
paramount influence in the Highlands, holding the
rank of baron in the peerage by an Irish title. Yet
as the tree does not fall without leaving on the ground
the seeds of future vegetation, so the Lords of the
Isles were not stripped of their territories and power
without leaving behind them the evident signs of their
rule. From them, in direct descent, sprang the
M'Donalds of Lochalsh--the clan Huistein of Sleet
—the clan lan Vor of Isla—the clan Ranald-bane of
Largie—the clan Ranald of Lochaber—Seol Gorrie
of Uist—the clan Ranald of Moydert Morar Knoy-
dirt and Glengarry—the M'Donalds of Glenco and
Ardnamurchan, and the clan Allaster of Kintyre.
Besides these formidable tribes, the following great
families, either from the influences of vassalage or
affinity, retained for a. _long .period the traditional
politics of the Lordship of the Isles, and many of them
were only finally dismembered by the events of " the
45 ;" these were the Macleans of Dowart, Lochbury,
Cole, and Ardgour—the Macleods of Lewis and Harris
—the Camerons of Locheil—the Maeneils of Barra
and Gigha—the Mackinnons—the Macquarries of
Ulva—the Macfies of Colonsay—the Maccacherns of
Kilelan—and the Mackays of Nyadale in 'Kintyre.
Several of the races here enumerated have disap-
peared or been swept from the land, and over all of
them a mighty change has passed, transforming their
habits, character, and manners, but yet can be traced
among them the expiring embers of the fiery past ;
for the Highlander still, though he labours indiffe-
rently, makes a brave soldier, still the love of country
and kin is a ruling passion of his heart, and still each
locality preserves, more or less tenaciously, the name
of the clan which formerly possessed it.

Returning to the route of the royal squadron yes-
terday, I must now attempt to give some faint idea
of that splendid coast, so wonderful and wild, which
along many a winding bay and far-extended headland
stretches,
" Where the Atlantic's wave pours o'er the stormy
Hebrides."
Passing from Loch Crenan up to Oban, the squa-
dron left the whirlpool of Corryvrekan on the left,
and crossing the " Dorust-more," or Great Door,
a point at which the tides of the ocean meet,
steered on round the stormy shore of Easdale.
Here the prospect opened up was surpassingly
wild. Moving along a c 'list indented with lochs
and studded with rugged and inhospitable little
islands, the eye extended westward over the broad
expanse of the open ocean, and moving thence south-
wards rested upon Colonsay and Jura. To the west
lay the green hills of Argyieshire, and on the north in
formidable array stretched the massive and iron-bound
headlands of Mull, prolonged into the Atlantic, and
backing up against the fury of its waters the defence-
less and wave-worn lona. The squadron rested in
Ohan Biy for a few minutes, that the royal party
might survey this beautiful and picturesque harbour,
round which wood-crowned heights of exquisite out-
line form in a semicircle, the mouth of the harbour
being closed in by the island of Kerrera, and the
ancient seat of the M‘Dougals of Lorn Dunolly
Castle, towering from a rock on the upper
extremity of the bay. From Oban the royal
squadron sailed northwards past the point of
Lismore, and through the Sound of Mull. On
either shore, as the fleet steered up the Sound, ob-
jects of great historical interest and the highest gran-
deur presented themselves to the view. Far off to
the south and east stretched the mountains of Appin
and Lochabar, flanked by Ben Cruiachan at the one
extremity, and Ben Nevis on the other. On the
west lay the stately Ben More, and eastward Morven
—the country where Fingal fought and Ossian sang ;
or where, to use more guarded language, Macpherson
said they did so. The sea, which was as smooth as
glass,
reflected on its surface every feature of the ad-
jacent heights, and at short intervals, on either side,
the ruins of ancient strongholds rise on the sea side,
their grim and solitary aspect calling back the mind
to times of violence now past. As the squadron
steamed up the Sound, Doward Castle, once the
stronghold of Maclean of Doward, appeared on the
left, and on the right the ancient fortresses of Ard-
torinsh and Mingary. The former belonged in re-
mote periods to the Lords of the Isles, and the latter
to the Maclans_of Ardnamarchan. In one or both of

them James IV. and V. resided when visiting the
Highlands to compel the submission of the refractory
chiefs ; nor have these wild shores and deserted
promontories been since visited by the Sovereign
until yesterday her Majesty surveyed them from the
quarter-deck of the Victoria and Albert. The changes
which have been wrought on that coast in the inter-
val are striking enough, for few can help recognizing
the distinction between the peaceful objects of Queen
Victoria and the mission her.predecessora ;
ob-
serving, that lands which, in the 16thdcantvueryormust
adventurous
hade produced a numerous,
race of mountaineers, now
devoted to pasture.
sht:lP.pdorty, and
else than
black-faced sheep, and are entirelyt
from
As the royal squadron cleared out
of that island,
the Sound of
Mull, and round the northern extremity
a noble prospect lay before inagteenpwlaynd barren
into the
headlands of Ardnamarchan strettchhe
precipitous cliffs
Atlantic on the right, onf the left the
way and em bosomed in the
of the Mull coast, and
good deal
ocean, the fantastic andarvasried forms of ofasthae adjacent
the north as
islands. The horizont
obscured by toward
haze,l2:,notwithstanding, Skye was dis-
steamed round the point of
tinctly visible. HCampbellulg composed the greater part
Calluch, where
of his " Pleasures of Hope," the fleet at length '
stopped off the lonely island of Staffa, and her Ma-
je ty in her barge was rowed to the furthest ex-
tremitys of the great cave. The construction and
appearance of this wonderful natural temple have
been so often described that it is unnecessary to at-
tempt giving any account of it here, yet the
circumstances of yesterday's visit to the cave were so
striking and novel as to impress most powerfully the
minds of those who witnessed the scene. The de-
serted and solitary aspect of the island was brought
out with strange and startling effect by the presence
of so many steamers ; and as her Majesty'.
barge with the royal standard floated into
the cave, the crew dipping their oars
with the greatest precision, nothing could
be more animated and grand than the apt;
*arauce which the vast basaltic entrance, so solemn in
its proportions, presented. lons, which s
for ae
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proceeded to on leaving Staffs, is
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