The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-09 00:00:00

MAGAZINE

,NTINUED.)

TAIT S MAGAZINE.
A. comprehensive review is taken in Tait for
January of what is called, in an expressive but
hackneyed phrase, " the political hemisphere." Our
opinions are altogether at variance with those of the
writer, in regarding the Parliamentary labours of re-
formation as completed. Our legislators will have
something more to do than to abolish old or impose
new taxes. The system of taxation, undoubtedly,
xi/quires the most remarkable revision, but the atten-
tion of the hereditary, and representative senators will
be engaged by questions of still greater importance.
It is a gigantic fallacy to imagine, that in the abro-
gation of the corn-laws the Constitution is purged of
its discrepancies. Even in the scanty enumeration of
matters demanding the interference of the Govern-
ment, which is given in this article, there is, surely,
ample material for the constructive sagacity of Par-
liament. Education is the theme of a social agitation
which clamours for the interposition of our law-
makers. Ireland is a field sufficiently extensive to
occupy the wisdom of a national Legislature. The
landed interest affords scope for a thousand beneficent
innovations. The currency would repay the un-
divided investigation of an entire session. Beyond.
this the sanatory condition of the people_ is a subject
imperatively crying out for the efforts of the two
Houses. Never, perhaps, was so much work definitely
mapped out for the deliberations and decisions of the
Lords and Commons. Nor is the multitude apathetic
about the future conduct of the Members at St. Stephen's.
The destruction of monopoly by the glorious mea-
sures of Sir Robert Peel has only whetted the appe-
tite of the community for further relaxations of laws
which should be obsolete. Civilisation is too pro-
gressive to admit of any indolence on the part of an
enfranchised nation like Great Britain. Men cannot
tarry now in renovating the political and social state
of the empire. We are in the right groove—to ad-
vance is a necessity, to retrograde is an impossibility.
Let there be no carping, therefore, as to the conven-
tional habits or the arbitrary denomination of a Mi-
nistry. The people are the supreme tribunal in hu-
man legi,lation, as was decisively acknowledged by
the acts and the speeches of the past session. 1846
proved that whenever the national will shall be mani-
fested beyond any gainsaying, the dictates of that
will must thenceforth be obeyed by the Deliberative,
and the Administrative. It appears to us that Tait does
not sufficiently bear in recollection the fact that Pali
is not only virtually, but actually destroyed. " The
strong party," the Conservative party, was scattered
to the winds by the conversion of the late Prime
Minister to the doctrines of Liberalism, viz., the doc-
trines of free trade. The Opposition party, the Whig
party was almost simultaneously destroyed. It can
never be forgotten that Lord John Russell, while
forming his administration,, actually made overtures
to his predecessor for the continuance in office, under
his direction, of Lord Lincoln and other members of
the retiring Cabinet. The Tory party was defunct
in the very conception of Conservatism. The Radical
party is so mingled with the Liberal party, that it is
like the solution of the problem of Sphinx to indi-
cate the precise point in which they have merged into
each other. Even the Protectionist party lack the
source of all unity in being but indefinitely sup-
plied with a head, insomuch, that it would be
difficult to decide whether Lord Stanley, or the Duke
of Richmond, or Lord George Bentinck is the actual
leader of that forlorn hope, or whether Mr. Disraeli,
by reason of his superior intellect, should not be
nominated in the House of Commons the Gonfalonier
of Protection. Indeed, this wholesale disseverance of
party-ties has not been restricted to Westminster, but
has found its corresponding confusion in the councils
of Conciliation Hall. It were superfluous, however,
to insist further upon a matter which is ostensible
to the most superficial speculator in the
futurity of political progress, and it were
equally superfluous to do more than simply
deny the assertion of Tait, that no preparation has
been made in the registration courts for the approach-
ing general election. Preparation has been made
and is making in the registration courts and else-
where, and, above all, the popular mind is mellowed
upon all the prominent questions of the day. Candidates
may in certain snug boroughs be " packed, ticketed,
and forwarded for election," as the writer of the
article anticipates, but among the mass of
electors mongering in votes is not so practicable
now-a-days. In Manchester, for example, such
candidates as Mr. Bright and Lord Lincoln
will stand before the enfranchised citizens upon
the hustings, sustained rather by the prestige of
their individual merits, of their personal character,
and of their several careers, than by the imaginary
aid of parties that are no longer in existence. There
is a falsity in the deductions of Tait in this respect
which fills us with amazement, and the falsity of
those deductions arises from the shallowness of the
premises. Sir Thomas Dick Lauder contributes an
agreeable paper, descriptive of " A Visit to Auch
Melvich." The sketching is so vivid as to render a
perusal of the article almost tantamount to a visit to
that little township of Sutherland. Next is a mas-
terly chapter upon the " Life and Correspon-
dence of John Foster," written in the most
brilliant manner of that brilliant and subtle
critic, George Gilfillan. In commenting upon the
anomalies of the departed essayist the writer has
plombed the depths of that dismal but confiding
scepticism which blurred the faith of Foster with a
gloom nearly synonymous with misanthropy and not
far removed from despair. As he beautifully ex-
presses it, the tremendous doubts which oppress
him (Foster) have forced themselves into the sphere
of his soul, and hang there as if sustained by the
power of some dark enchantment." Of the pas-
sionate devotion of the great essayist to Nature, Mr.
Gilfillan speaks thus :
"From man, thus too utterly bare before him, he
urns away, with a deep pensive joy, to Nature, feeling
hat she is true, were all else untrue—that she is beau-

THE COMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND.
By Gilbert A. A'Beckett.

Merrily does Gilbert A. A'Beckett laugh through the
reigns of Richard 11. and Henry IV. in the present
number, and right merrie are the illustrations of
Leech. In accordance with " time-honoured cus-
tom," our historian gives us a chapter on " the con-
dition, customs, candlesticks, sports, pastimes, pit-
chers, mugs, jugs, and manners of the people, tracing
the progress of art from the coarse pipkin of the early
Briton, to the highly respectable tankard found in the
ruins of. Glastonbury Abbey, which proves the teeth
of the Monks to have been decidedly liquorish."
According to our facetious historian—
" The Anglo-Saxon husbandman was little better
than a serf who was paid for his labour by the land-
owner, but the former furnished the base without which
there would have been no locus standi for the latter's
capital. It was customary in those days to encourage
the peasantry by prizes, which did not consist of a coat
for a faithful servitude of nearly a life, but a grant of a
piece of the land to which the labourer had given in-
creased value by his industry. The proprietors of the
soil had not yet learned the wisdom of trying how much
a brute could be made to eat, and how little a human
being could exist upon.
" With reference to the domestic habits of the period,

it has been clearly ascertained that people of substance
took four meals a day, and as they took meat at every
one, their substance can be no matter of astonishment.
The Britons had not been in the habit of dressing their
food, which is not surprising, for they scarcely dressed
themselves ; but the Anglo-Saxons were not so fond of
the raw material. With them the pleasures of the table
were carried to excess, and drinking went to such an
extent, that every monk was prohibited from taking any
more when his eyes were disturbed, and his tongue
began to stammer. The misfortune, however, was, that
as all who were present at a banquet, generally began to
experience simultaneously a disturbance of the eye and
a stammering of the tongue, no one noticed it in his
neighbour, and the orgies were often continued until the
stammering ended in silence, and the optical derange-
ment finished by the closing of the organs of vision."

DAVIDSON'S UNIVERSAL MELODIST.
Park I. and 11.

Each of these parts contains the music and words
of 125 popular standard and original songs, for one
shilling. The work is edited by Mr. George llo-
garth, whose name alone is a sufficient guarantee for
its accuracy and its merit.

THE FREEMASONS' Qt7ARTERLY REVIEW.
This is an excellent number of The Freemasons'
Quarterly, and in addition to a vast ampunt of masonic
lore, which is most interesting to the craft, it contains
a very learned article on 'The Vitrified Forts of
North Britain," the perusal of which will be gratify-
ing to all who have a taste for antiquarian research.

tiful, were all else deformed—that she stands innocen
and erect, though her tenant has fallen—and, like a
child in his mother's arms, does he repose, regaining
old illusions, and recalling long- departed dreams of joy.
There is something to us peculiarly tender and pathetic
in Foster's love of Nature. It is not so much an admi-
ration as it is a passionate and perpetual longing. It is
not a worship, but a love. He throws his being into Na-
ture. It is as if he felt his heart budding in the spring
trees, his pulse beating high in the midnight tempest
and in the ocean billow, his soul shooting up, like living
fire, into Snowdon, as he gazes upon it; or we might
almost imagine him the divorced spirit of some lovely
scene, yearning and panting after renewed communion,
gazing himself away' into the bosom of Nature again,
while the murmuring of streams, and the song of
breezes, and the waving of pines, were singing of these
strange nuptials, the soft epithalamium. He engages in
mystic converse with the Creation. He seeks for mean-
ings in her mighty countenance, which are not always
revealed to him. He asks her awful and unanswered
questions. He soma to cry out to the river, What
meanest thou, thou eloquent babbler, wilt thou never
speak plain, wilt thou never shape me any distinct
utterance, from the vague and soft tumults of thine
everlasting song?'—to the rocks and mountains,' Will
ye never reveal those secrets of an elder day, which are
piled up in your massive walls; to your solemn likro-
glyphics shall there never arrive the key?' but to act!,
in stern resignation, Be it so, then; retain your tre-
mendous silence, or utter on your inarticulate sounds;
better these than the jargon, the laughter, and the blas-
phemies of the reptile and miscreant race of man; to
you, my dumb kindred, I am nearer and dearer than to
those that so speak."
The author of "The Gallery of Literary Portraits"
continues by observing that Foster goes forth in the
realms of nature, and, in the agonies of his " tre-
mendous doubt," propounds to the mountains and the
heavens " the infinite question," expecting from them
in return " the infinite answer." Yet, he continues,
" Though he is fond of questioning Nature, and
loves her old and solemn harmonies, he is no Fine ear'
to catch that subtler speech, that fairy music, that lan-
guage within language,' that angelic strain, which some
few purged and prepared spirits, who can the bird lan-
guage fully tell, and that which roses say so well,' hear,
or seem to hear, in the rustle of the leaves awakened at
midnight from their dreams of God —in the great psalm of
the autumn blasts—in the sweet self talk of the love-sick
summer waves—in the blue smile of the sky—nov, in the
hush of the evening, and the stammering sparkle of the stars.
To these low and silvery whispers. piercing the clash of
all common sand terrific sounds, like the calm No of
Shadrach Meshac, and Abednego, heard amidst the
idolatrous symphonies and cymbals on the plain of Dora,
Foster's ear is deaf as Byron s. He is aware of their
existence, indeed; he listens to hear them, but they will
not speak to him their profoundest tidings; he hears
only a great tumult, but knows not what it is—a tumult
of grandetir, terror—sweet, and despairing tones, end-
lessly interminzled—and dies, believing that God is
Lore, but not feeling, with Tennyson. that
" ' Every cloud that spreads above and veileth love itself
is Love.'"
Men have repeatedly mourned that Foster, writing
so well, wrote so little. Hear what Mr. Gilfillan says
in palliation of this apparent sluggishness :
"Foster's indolence has been often, but, we think, un-
justly, condemned. It ought rather to be deplored.
Unfurnished with a regular training, yet furnished with
as exquisitely sensitive taste, early damned to the
mines' of hopeless professional toil, transferred thence
to the drudgery of writing for breaelnewveoder that he
r gifted with
n
fluent language nor a rapid pea—whatfound composition an ungracious task, or that he shrank
from it with a growing and d
surprise is that he wrote somueh,ePen
and not disgust? Our
that he wrote
so little. Latterly, but for a n overwhelming sense of
duty, he would not have written at all. If we saw a
giant, whose arms had been cut off, moving in impotent
strength his bleeding fragments,h who would not weep at
such
his might sat Foster at
the spectacle? In
his desk."
An article on "Ireland and her present Necessities,''
by J. O'Connell, M.P., will be read more extensively
than any of the other contributions ; and it deserves to
be so read for three reasons, first from the distin-
guished position of its author among the practical
patriots of Ireland; secondly, from the eminent im-
portance of the subject at this moment; and thirdly,
from the many rational arguments and convincing facts
contained in the paper. It is to be continued in the

following number. There is a very silly article by i THE BISHOP OF OXFORD ON
a very clever man, beaded " Notes on Walter Savage THE MORAL CONDITION OF THE .AUSTRA-
Landon.' One little sentence in it, however, is de- LIAN COLONIES.
lightfully facetious—it is worthy of Charles Lamb. (From the Sydney Morning Herald).
Thewrileris speakingof an author who has penned "a In our paper of the Ist instant, we copied the Morn-
. vast array of works," but who has never been read ing Chronicle report of the discussion which took place
by any living being. There is the pile of volumes— in the House of Lord 3 on the 3d of March last, on the
never opened. " That was awful," he says : " such Fuh;ect Of Van Diemen's Land, and the intended new
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a sleep of pages by thousands in one eternal darkness, penal settlement in New Holland.
never to be visited by light; such a rare immunity Our object in now reverting to that discussion is, to
repudiate certain observations contained in the speech
from the villanies of misconstruction; such a Sabbath
reported to have fallen from the Lord Bishop of Oxford,
touching the moral condition of those colonies which
paper by Thomas De Quincey is sad trash, sad hi-
arc or have been made. use of as penal settlements.
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Alluding to the manner in which the transportation
system had been conducted by the British Government
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generally,Diemeil's Landsew
excellent number of this excellent publication. South Wales of course included—the Right Rev. Prelate
is reported to lhave expressed himself in these appalling

terms :
"Knowing, as we know, or ought to have known, that
evil was a fermenting principle—knowing that to asso-
ciate persons of vicions habits increases instead of di-
minishes evil, we consigned convicts to a more distant
part of the earth, after a long voyage, in the course of
which the evil principle of one man might be communi-
cated to all the rest; and then we set them down to be
the founders of a. new people, giving them no means of
mural restoration—no principle of religious healing. We
had reaped as we had sown. It was indeed impossible
to hear or read of the state of things in the quarter of
the world to which he referred, without shame or sorrow.
They found that there, connected with the English
name, had sprung up, commonly the most deep and
horrible pollution; that vices which Chrisitanity had
almost banished from the earth were more extending;
that the tone of society was altogether lowered, and
that those who were recovered in a great measure from
the particular sins of their progenitors, exhibited in
other respects no great moral improvement. They
round that chastity was still unknown among the women,
and that purity was a stranger to the men."
These are certainly fiightful imputations ; and
whether intended to apply to our unfortunate sister
colony exclusively, or to New South Wales and original
dependencies generally, they are not more frightful than
untrue. Nay, they ere not simply untrue—they are so
extravagantly, so preposterously
.untrue, that had they
not proceeded from the lips of one whom we are bound
to acquit of intentional misrepresentation, no words
would have boon too strong to express our indignation at
the monstrous slander. The picture of our society hero
held up to the horrified gaze of the House of Lords, of
the British nation, and of the world at large, is one of
unmitigated deformity and pollution. " Chastity un-
known among the a. omen—purity a stranger to the
men !" Where could the Bishop of Oxford have picked
up these shocking falsehoods ? And what could have
misled him to regard them as truths ? The only way
in which we can at all account for his Lordship's wrong
impressions—how dreadfully wrong to the virtuous
colonists I—is this :
His late father, the immortal Wilberfore, took a
very lively interest in the moral affairs of New South
Wales from its very commencement, having been the
means of extorting from the Home Government, but
with the utmost difficulty, the first appointment of a
Chaplain to watch over its moral and spiritual interests.
The late Rev. Samuel Marsden, the second chaplain,
was also, we believe, sent out at the instance of
the same illustrious philanthropist. And for many
years after the foundation of their settlement, Mr. Wil-
berforce continued to urge upon the King's Ministers,
from time_to time, the crying necessity for still further
supplies of clergymen, and for the appointment of
schoolmasters. His son, the present Bishop of Oxford,
may, therefore, be suppeseei t' have been accustomed
from earliest life to hear of the culpable remissness of
the Government in regard to the religious concerns of
this then penal country, and its demoralising results.
The impressions of boyhood may have grown up with
him ; and having been strengthened by the one-sided
rep,-esentations of the Transportation Committee of the
House of Commons, so recently as eight years ago, and
by the still more recent calumnies of the New Zealand
speculators, to the propagation of which, unhappily, the
Archdeacon of Dublin lent the high influence of his sta-
tion and character,—Dr. ‘Vilberforce may have come to
look upon it as a settled and indisputable fact, that
wherever the s:r(qiills of transpo tetion have flowed, they
have left behind thew the slime of moral pollution, in
which " things rank and gross in nature" have taken
obstinate root, spreading around in all directions, and
filling the land with their fruit of abomination. And
with this false conclusion fixed and' riveted in his mind,
the Right Reverend Prelate must have gone down to the
House of Lords for the purpose of bearing his testimony
against the system which had wrought such fearful mis-

chiefs.
Fortunately we can oppose to the errors of one Pre-
late the tiuthful representations of another. Some of
our readers may remember, that in the session of 1840,
during the d( bate upon the Immigration Report, the
Lord Bishop of Australia took the opportunity of re-
butting these aspersions which had then been recently
cast upon the moral character of our community by Dr.
Whateley, the Archbishop of Dublin. In the speech de:
livered on that occasion (2311 October, 1840), the Bishop
of Australia, referring to what had been advanced at a
recent public meeting in Dublin, by the Rev. Dr. Dick-
inson, chaplain to the Archbishop, is reported to have
spoke❑ as follows :
" He knew no single instance (either in this colony
or in Van Dieman's Laud), of any man or woman either,
indulging in open vice, who received the notice of any
whose notice was of auy worth. He knew that persons
of blemished character found themselves as much
shunned, and as uncomfortably situated here as in any
other country in the world, in fact, as completely ex-
cluded as they would be from the most scrupulous of the
societies to which they had been accustomed in their
native country. Nor was this feeling confined merely to
the higher classes, but had much prevalence and influ-
ence to a very :wide extent even in other orders of
society."
This testimony is full, ample, complete, and coming
from one whose opportunities of estimating the moral
character of these colonies have been such as no one re-
sident in England or Ireland can pretend to—from ono
whose credibility as a witness admits of no question,
and whose civil and ecclesiastical station entitles his
opinions to the most respected consideration—we leave
it to work out its own way as a triumphant refutation
of the calumnies we have been complaining of ; only
requesting, that such of our British contemporaries as
are accustomed to pay some attention to colonial affairs,
will do New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land the
justice to give publicity in England to our present article.

THE LATE WILLIAM EGERTON JEFFREYS, ESQ.—
We regret to record the death of this highly-esteemed
gentleman, which took place on Saturday last., the 2d
instant, in the 73d year of his age. Mr. Jeffreys was a
magistrate of the county, and formerly a solicitor of
first-rate practice in Shrewsbury; was one of the ancient
freemen of the borough, who had served the office of
mayor in the old corporation, and was an alderman of
that body, being likewise a borough magistrate in the
new municipality, .&c. This might serve to show his
high standing as a townsman, but would convey no fur-
ther sense of the estimation in which he was held be-
yond the duties of his office and profession. Ile was,
happily for the times and his colleagues, an uncompro-
mising Tory, during 50 years of his active and useful
life—distinguished epially for the firmness and consis-
tency of his principles, the evidence of his talents, and
the amenity of his manners. These were the cause of
his being looked up to in all emergencies, both by the
leading gentlemen of the county and the town, whether
fur his aid or for his advice; and never looked up to in
vain—his time was ever at the service of the people, in
fair weather or in foul, and his purse at the command of
their cause. His death is, therefore, as extensively felt
as it is deeply regretted; and in the absence of such a
man, in an age of lax Protestantism, and of defections
alike from post and from principle, we have lost one of
the great constitutional landmarks of other and better
times.—Shrewsbury Journal.
THE WESTMINSTER IMPROVEMENTS.—Thursday,
in contemplation of the Westminster improvements,
set oral houses were disposed of by auction, by the
Messrs. Eversfield, by order of the Commissioners of
Woods and Forests, in order to be cleared away for the
new line of street. They are situated in Little Dean-
strt et, Westminster, and are the first that have been sold
for the purpose in question.
DEATH OF TWO FEMALES DURING SLEEP.—On
Thursday two inquests were taken by Mr. W. Carter. on
the bodies of persons who died under very sudden and
awful circumstances. The first ease was investigated at
Mr. Mortram's, the Horse and Groom, High street,
Newington, on the body of Miss Ann Long, aged 63
years, of 12, Church-row, High-street. The deceased
was a maiden lady of independent property, and occu-
pied apartments at the house of Mr. Joseph Simpson.
On Saturday night.the deceased gave the servant a pre-
scription for a composing draught, which had
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scribed by a physician. It was made
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a neighbouring chemist. Deceased
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her usual health.
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second inquest was held by the same coroner at the
Duchess of York, Pitt-street, Lock's-fields, Walworth,
respecting the death of Eliza Chambers, aged 49 years,
lately residing at No. 10, Salisbury-street, Walworth.
The deceased. was a single woman, and of remarkable
habits. She had an income sufficient to keep her in
circumstances, but ofto lbaeteotryeaarsas
saving
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neighbours
miserly disposition. On Friday last the deceased was
an
missed by the landlord and the other neighbours, and
as some suspicion was excited, a policeman was called,
who forced her room door, when she was discovered
lying on the bed in her night dress. A surgeon was
called in, who pronounced life to have been extinct
many hours. The jury, in each case, returned a verdict
of " Natural death."

DUEL.—A duel has just taken place at Caen be-
tween two law students ; one of them received the
thrust of a sword in the side, hut, the point having;
broken against one of the ribs, the wound is not con-
sidered dangerous. This affair led to a meeting between
the seconds, who fought with pistols. One of com-
batants received a ball in the thigh. An inquiry has
been ordered by the authorities into this affair.
SIGNS or 'DISTRESS.—The number of recruits

from different parts of the country brought up to West-
srinster during the few days of the present year, has
been much greater than for many years past ; whilst
experienced recruiting sergeants state that the men are
in a far greater state of destitution than usual, even at
his season.

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THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—On Thursday the
excavations for the conducting pipes of the electric
telegraph were commenced on Waterloo-bridge, so that
by Monday next it will have reached the central station in
the Strand, formerly the office of the Courier.

FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
WHITEHALL, JAN. 7, 1847.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed u der the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a
Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-
land unto Sir Henry Wheatley, Knt., late Keeper of Her
Majesty's Privy Purse, and to the heirs male of his body
lawfully begotten.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, Jae. 7.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of M. Abel Fre-
deric Gautier, as Consul at Gibraltar for his Majesty the
King of the French.
WAR-OFFICE, JAN. 8.
Ist Dragoon Guards—John Peile, Gen'., to be Assistant
Surgeon, vice Mackenzie, promoted on the Staff; Cornet
Emanuel Bradbury to be Adjutant, vice Moore, who resigns
the Adjutantcy only, Jan. 8.
7th Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Atwood Dalton Wigsell
to be Captain, vice Pipon, who retires; Cornet Annesley
Paul Gore to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wigsell ;
Robert Young, Gent. (Ridingmaster), to be Cornet, by pur-
chase, vice Gore, Jan. 8.
14th Foot—Ensign Browning Drew to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Warre, promoted in the 56th Foot; Thomas
Segrave, Gent.,to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Drew, Jan. 8.
28th Foot—Captain Charles Hugh Lyle Tinling, from half-
pay 7th Foot, to be Captain, paying the difference, vice
Moller, appointed to the 50th Foot, Jan. 8.
36th Foot—Ensign Hercules Ellis to be Lieutenant, with-
purchase, vice Barnston, appointed Adjutant; William Low,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice Ellis, Jan. 8.
46111 Foot—Lieutenant William Henry O'Toole to be Cap-
tain, without purchase, vice Martin, promoted in the Ceylon
Rifle Regiment, Jan. 8.
50th Foot—Captain John Olans Moller, from the 28th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Alexander Clotworthy Downing
Bentley, who retires on half-pay 7th Foot, receiving the dif-
ference, Jan. 8.
56th Foot—Lieutenant Henry J. Warre, from the 14th
Foot, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Keane, appointed to
the 91st Foct, Jan. 8.
59th Foot—Lieutenant George Maunsell, from half-pay
87th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice William Willis Williams,
who exchanges; Ensign Charles Stuart Baker to be Lieu-
tenant by purchase, vice Maunsell, who retires; Stephen
Remnant Chapman, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Baker, Jan. 8.
62d Foot—Ensign George James Ambrose to be Lieute-
nant, without purchase, vice Sinclair, who retires ; John
O'Callaghan, Gent„ to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Am-
brose, Jan. 8.
67th Foot—Captain John Bowness, from half-pay Unat-
tached, to be Captain, vice Henry James Vincent Kemble,
who exchanges, Jan. 8.
70th Foot—Captain Edward L'Estrange, from half-pay
Unattached, to be Captain, vice Charles Frederick Gibson,
who exchanges, Jan. 8.
91st Foot—Captain the Honourable John Arbuthnot
Keane, from 56th Foot, to be Captain, vice Barney, who
retires, Jan. 8.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Major George Adolphus
Tranchell, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase,
Jan. 8.
To be Majors, without purchase—Brevet Major Robert
Martin, from the 46th Foot; Brevet Major George Cochrane,
vice Tranchell, Jan. 8.
To be Captains, without purchase—Lieut. George Richard
Campsie, from the Ist Foot; Lieut. Arthur Gray, from the
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment; Lieut. Benjamin Bloom-
field Keane; Lieut. Henry Gibbs Itemmett ; Lieut. henry
Alexander Raitt ; Lieut. William Henry Underwood, vice
Cochrane, .Jan. 8.
To be First Lieutenants, without purchase—Lieutenant
Alexander Paterson Smith, from 2d West India Regiment;
Lieutenant Charles Gaspar David Annesley, from half-pay
57th Foot ; Ensign George Shaffner Pearson, from 18th
Foot ; Ensign Samuel Sharpe, from 30th Foot ; En-
sign Richard Trevor Irwin, from 18th Foot ; En-
sign William Robert Gray, from 30th . Foot ; En-
sign John Jermyn Symonds, from 30th Foot ;
Ensign Francis Thomas Frederick Augustus Mac Donnell,
from 18th Foot; Ensiem James Armar Butler, from the 90th
Foot, Jan. 8; Second Lieutenant George Sidney Dwyer,
Second Lieutenant John Henderson, Second Lieutenant
Thomas Cochrane, Second Lieutenant Poveton Downes
Greentree, vice Keane; Second Lieutenant John Meade, vice
Remmett ; Second Lieutenant George Adolphus Tranchell.
vice naitt, Jan. 9 ; Second Lieutenant William Leman Bray-
brooke, vice Underwood, Jan. 10.
To be Second Lieutenant, by purchase—Charles Peregrine
Teesdale, Gent., Jan. 7.
To be Secord Lieu'enarils, without pnrchase—John
Warden M'Farlan, Gent, Jan. 8; Charles Stanhope
Smelt, Gent , January 9; Richard Percival Wiginore,
Gent., January 10; John Liman, Gent., January 11 ;
Mari. Ward, Gent., Jan. 12; William Joseph GormarnGent.,
vice Dwver, Jan. 13; William De:bishire, Gent., vice llen-
derson, 'Jan. 14; Richard Henry Brook, Gent., vice Coch-
rane, Jan. 15 ; Alexander Rutherford, Gent., vice Greentree,
Jan. 16 ; William Dobyns, Gent., vice Meade, Jan. 17 ;
James Cox, Gent., vice Tranchell, an. 18 ; Robert Atherton,
Gent., vice Braybrooke, Jan. 19.
Cape Mounted Riflemen.—To be Captains without pur-
chase—Lieutenant Charles Henry Somerset and Lieutenant
John Armstrong, Jan. 8.
To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensign Charles Ed-
ward Phillpotts, Ensign Joseph Salis ; and Ensign John
M'Donnell, vice Armstrong, Jan. 8.
To be Ensigns, without purchase—Edward Monckton
Jones, Gent., Jan. 8 ; David Smith, Gent., Jan. 9 ; Alex-
ander fliomas 'Armstrong, Gent., vice Phillpotts, Jan. 10 ;
William Benjamin Croft Goodison, Gent., vice Sans, Jan. 11;
Henry James Palmer, Gent,, vice M'Donnell, Jan. 12.
Br:sem—The name of the under-mentioned officer was
omitted in the list of those promoted by Brevet, in the
Gazette of November 10, 1846 :—Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph
Creighton, on half-pay, 59th Foot, to be Colonel iu the
Army, Nov. 9.
To be Majors in the Army—Captain John Bownes, of 67th
Foot; Captain Edward L'Estrange, of 70th Foot; Captain
Charles Hugh Lyle Tinling, of 28th Foot, Nov. 9 ; Captain
John Edward Dupuis, Royal Artillery, Jan. 8, 1846.
lICHPITAT. S'r.um.—Assistant-Sugeon William Ord Mac-
kenzie, M.D., from Ist Dragoon Guards, to be Staff Surgeon
of Second Class, vice James Finlaison Nivison, who retires
upon half pay ; Frederick Martin Tivedrlell, Gent., to be
Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces ; Walter George Dickson,
Gent., to be Assistant Surgeon to the Forces, Jan. 8.
COMMISSARIAT.

Deputy Commissary-General Charles Palmer to be Com-
missary- General.
Assistant Commissaries-General John Edgecumbe
William Thomson, John Bland, to be Deputy Commissaries •
General.
Deputy Assistant-Commissaries Geleral Thomas Turner,
James Campbell, John Paty, George Shepheard, Robert Neill,
William Henry Maturin, John William Bovell, Randolph
Routh, Maximilian Malassez, Philip Turner, to be Assistant-
Commissaries-General.
Commissariat Clerks Frederick Saintbury Parker, Thomas
Browne, Frederick William Waldron, Conrad Potgieter,
Henry Moore, James Coxworthy, James 11. Tubby, Wid-
driugton Tinting, Henry Bartlett, Alexander Crowder
Craokshank, Henry Robinson, to be Deputy Assistant Com-
missaries-General.
The commissions of the said Commissariat Officers to bear
date 26th December, 1816.
MEMORANDUM.—The Christian names of Ensign Thistle-
thwayte, of the 85th Foot, are Augustus Frederick.
Erratum in the Gazette of the Ist May, 1846.-29th Re-
giment of Foot —For James William Bostock, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Barry, who retires, read, vice
Parry, who retires.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, J.N. 6.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Lieutenant Alfred
Wilkes Drayson to be First Lieutenant, vice Frye, resigned,
Jan. 1.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Middlesex.
Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia—William Reed,
Esq., late Captain of the 6th Royal Regiment of Foot, to be
Captain, Dec. 19; Edward James Dyson, Gent, to be Lieu-
tenant, Dec. 27; Christopher Charles Horne, Gent., to be En-
sign, May 4, 1846.
Royal West Middlesex Regiment of Militia—Edward Day,
Gent., to be Lieutenant, May '2 ) , 1846.
Royal Westminster I'.4ment of Middlesex Militia—
George Samuel, Gent., to be Lieutenant; Charles Villiers
Bavly, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; James Haggard, Gent., to
be Ensign, Dec. 19. 1846.
WHITEHALL, J. 4. _

The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Lane, jun., of
Stratford• upon Avon, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary
in the High Court of Chancery.
BANKRUPTS.

John Fitness, bricklayer, Addington, to surrender Jan.
15, at one, and Feb. 12, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Belcher, official assignee; Bower and Son, Chan-
cery-lane.
NVilliam Richard Barnard, upholsterer, Midhurat, Sussex,
Jan. 15, at two, and Feb. 19, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Birchin-lane ; Gals-
worthy, Ely-place, Ilolborn.
Francis Henry Bourquin, watch manufacturerer, North-
ampton-square, Clerkenwell, Jan. 29 and Feb. 19, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignees
Birchin-lane • Spyer, Broad-street-buildings.
James Bohn, bookseller, St. James-street, Middlesex Jan.
22, at half-past twelve, and Feb. 19, at eleven, at the 'Court
of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane,
Lombard-street; Dickson and Overbury, Frederick's-place,
Old Jewry.
William Johnson, builder, High-street, llampstead, Jan.
13, at half-past one, and Feb. 18, at half-past twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, Colman-street-buildings;
Lawrance and flews, Old Jewry-chambers.
Henry Fisher, broker. Great Tower-street, Jan. 21, at
half-past one, and Feb. 18, at half-past eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street;
Taylor, Fenchurch-street.
Edmund Masters Ivens, salesman, Long Itchington,
Warwickshire, Jan. 19 and Feb. 23, at half-past twelve, at
the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee,
Birmingham ; Ratislaw, Rugby.
John Corbett, wool dealer, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire,
Jan. 22, and Feb. 12, at eleven, at the Sheffield District Court.
Freeman, official assignee, Leeds ; Johnson and Co., Temple ;
Bowley, Nottingham.
Andrew Dawn, draper, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, Jan.
22 and Feb. 12, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
,
Freeman, official assignee, Leeds; Johnson and Co., Temple;
Bowley, Nottingham.
William Bottomley, millwright, Almondbury, York. Jan.
22 and Feb. 9, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope,
official assignee, Leeds; Sudlow and Co., Chancery. lane;
Floyd, Huddersfield.
Richard Morris, coach-builder, Gloucester, Jan. 22, and
Feb. 23, at one, at the Bristol Diitrict Court. Millar, official
assignee,, Uristol ; Wilkes, Gloucester.
cha rlea Edmonstone, paper manufacturer, Over Darwen,
Lancashire
ter DistriCt Jan.t:,ou2o and Feb. 15, at eleven, at the Moriches-
Reed and Langfortr.d. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester ;
thin ;;ton, and Shi arhester.
prnan,ray-street, Chcapside ; Sale, Wor-
Willian) Ferries Brand,
and Feb. 12, at
Wigan, Lancashire, Jan.
22, at eleven,
official assignee,
at the Manchester
District Court. Hobson, o
and Langford, Friday-streeeassignee, Manchester; Reed
and Shipman, Manchester. t, Cha pside; Sale, Worthington,
DIVIDENDS, DECLARED
S. Milton, sail maker, Barking, Essex—fir.
in the pound, on any Saturday, at the _ st div. of 4s. 3d.
Aldermanbury. office of Mr. Green,
W. Groves. grocer, Huntingdon—first div. of 2s. Ga ;
the pound, on any Saturday, at the ()Mee of Air. -al
Green,
Aldermanbury.
C. 0 Robson, builder, Finsbury-street, Finsbury-square—
first div. of 4s. in the pound, on any Saturday, at the office
fi,Mr. Green, Aldermanbury.
...,„, ‘4i' v• F. 11. Evans, beer shopkeeper, Maiden-lane, Llington—
..vOn 1 - 9;fi.iit- .v. of 2s. 3d. in the pound, oa any Saturday, at the
r• ,' .41flicg Mr. Green, Aldermanbury.
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,e..,.;- vir.. ouse, baker, Rutherhithe—first div. of 25., Bd. in the
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-ic'- "; .--: ' potirld/d.n any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Green, Alder-
, • '4
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A'l"... ~.5,:..,', 1 -.-,- -.- ilr J. arris, tailor, lligh-street, Southwark—first div. of
~,I .44'"1,:k,'-i *- - ..---Qd.4n t pound, on any Saturday, at the office of Mr.
„.arein,Aldermanbury.
--3 -, --- • 74,5h0r1ey, cabinet manufacturer, Newman-street—first
Idiv., bf 38.6 d. in the pound, on any Saturday, at the office of
Mr. Green, Aldermanbury.
G. Baxter, currier, Church-street, Southwark—first div.
of 6d. in the pound, on any Saturday, at the office of Mr.
Green, Aldermanbury.
J. Harlow, tobacconist, Leicester-square—first div. of

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6s. 7d. in the pound, on any Saturday, at the office of Mr.
Green, Aidermanburv.
J. Mahon and R. Simons, wine merchants, Mincing-lane,
City—tinal div. of 9-20ths of a penny in the pound, on any
Saturday, at the office of Mr. Green, .Aldermanbury.
J. Peters, innkeeper, Godstone—inal div. of %d. in the
pound, on any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Green, Alder-
marbury. _ _ _

W. Gieenwell—first div. of 2s. 2d. in the pound, on any
Saturday, at the office of Mr. Green, Aldermanbury.
W. Stone, laceman, Wood-street, City—first div. of Is. 6d.
in the pound, on any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Green,
Aldermanbury.
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S. Pritchett and J. P. °ridge, drapers, Charlbury, Oxford-
shire—first div. of 3s. in the pound, on any Srturday, at the
office of Mr. Green, Aldermanbury.
11. Burton—second div. of Bd. in the pound, on any Satur-
day, at the office of Mr. Green, Aldermanbury.
W. D. Smith—first div. of 14s. in the pound, on any
Saturday, at the office of Mr. Green, Aldermanbury.
T. Day, clerk to the Commissioners of Land and Assessed
Taxes, Crown-square, Southwark—second div. of 9d. in the
pound, on any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Green, Alder-
manbury.
G. Marshall—first div. in the pound, on any Saturday,
at the office of Mr. Green, Aldermanbury.
E. B. Kilpin, jeweller, Ryde, Isle of Wight—first. div. of
3s. 3d. ier the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr.
Graham, Coleman-street, City.
J. Martin, fringe manufaoturer, Wood-street, Cheapside—
first div. of 2s. 3d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the
office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street, City.
R. H. Beart, wine merchant. Great Yarmouth—first div. of
ls. 3d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr.
Graham, Coleman-street, City.
R. Sheol, grocer, Wilstead-street, Somers'-town—first div.
of ls. 7d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of
Mr. Graham, Coleman-street, City.
A. C. Fowler, draper, Louth, Lincolnshire—first div. of
105. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr.
Whitmore, Basinghall-street.
E. Roberts, corn merchant, Liverpool—a div. of 6d. in
the pound, on any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Turner,
Liverpool.
J. Quinn, plumber, Liverpool—a div. of 1l d. in the pound,
on any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Turner, Liverpool.
T. M. Whiteley, hatter, Liverpool—first div. of 2s. 10d. in
the pound, on any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Turner,
Liverpool. •
11. Jones, provision dealer, Liverpool—a div. of 41/ d. in the
pound, on any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Turner, Liver-
pool.
T. 11. French, chemist, Liverpool—a div. of 2d. in the
pound, on any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Turner,
Liverpool.
J. Crosby, grocer, Knotty Ash, Lancashire—a div. of Bd.
in the pound, on any Thursday, at the cffice of Mr. Turner,
Liverpool.
I. Roberts, grocer, Mold, Lancashire—first div. of 7d. in
the pound, on Thursday, Jan. 21, or any subsequent Thurs-
day, at the office of Mr. Turner, Liverpool.
W. W. Benn, merchant, Liverpool—first div. of Bd. in
the pound, on any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Turner,
Liverpool.
11. W. Carr, sharebroker, Liverpool—a div. of Bd. in
the pound, on any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Turner,
Liverpool.
11. Parry, merchant, Liverpool—a third div. of ll4d. in the
pound, on any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Turner, Liver-
pool.
Schultz and Carr, stock brokers, Liverpool—first div. of
sd. in the pound, on any Thursday, at the office of Mr.
Turner, Liverpool.
C. Humberston and S. Frodsham, merchants, Liverpool—
second div. of 7%d. in the pound, on any Thursday, at the
office of Mr. Turner, Liverpool.
J. Grundy, sen., woollen manufacturer, Ramsbottom, Lan-
cashire—first div. of 6s. td. in the- pound, on Tuesday,
Jan. 19, or any subsequent Tuesday, at the office of Mr.
Fraser, Manchester.

J. Birch, draper, Hull—first div. of 2s. 3d. in the pound,
on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Kynaston, Hull.
T. Robson, publican, North Shields—first and final dir. of
4s. Bd. in the pound, on Saturday, Jan. 16, or any subsequent
Saturday, at the office:of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
P. Hansen, merchant, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—third div.
of Is. in the pound, on Saturday, Jan. 16, or any subsequent
Saturday, at the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
J. A. Bearer, cotton spinner, Manchester—first div. of 2s.
in the pound, on any Tuesday, a: the office of Mr. Putt,
Manchester.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
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A. C. Fowler, draper, Louth;LiiiColushii:e, Jan. 29, at one
—D. l'attie, stationer, St. Alban's-place, Edgware-road,
Jan. 29, at half-past eleven-11 Woolcott, fringe manufac-
turer, 111useum-street, I3!oomsbury, Jan. 30, at half-past
eleven—W. Pannell, grocer, High-street, Poplar, Jan. 30, at
eleven—J. liarriss, butcher, Leadenhall-market, Jan. 30, at
half-past eleven—E. Green, tailor, Clifford-street, Bond
street, Jan. 30, at one—J. Barwise, house decorator, Pail-
mall, Jan. 30, at twelve—G. Jackson, jun., upholsterer,
Hertford, Jan. 30, at half-pa:t twelve—W. Burton, uphol-
sterer, King-street, Soho, Jan. 30, at one—J. Elliott, builder,
Chichester, Jan. 30, at one—J. Marshall, merchant, Birchin-
lane, City, Feb. 1, at one—J. Day, Richmond, Surrey, Feb. 1,
at half-past twelve.