The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-15 00:00:00

SUICIDE

WITH A POISONOUS

QUACK COMPOUND.
, On Monday Mr. Mills held an inquest at the Rutland
Arms, Rutland-street, Hampstead-road, on' the body of
Mr. Charles Tatham, aged 41, army accoutrement-
maker, of 37, Charing-cross.
Mr. Henry Tatham, gun-maker, at the same address,
said deceased was his brother, and carried on his busi-
ness at the same premises, and at 52,-Stanhope-street,
Hampstead-road. His brother died at the house last-
mentioned between ten and eleven o'clock on Thursday
night. From three o'clock to about five o'clock of the
same day deceased had been ill and troubled with con-
tinual nausea at Charing-cross, and, not getting better,
witness conveyed him to his residence in a cab. He
was put to bed and attended to, and. about two hours
before his death he told his wife he had taken poison,
purchased at the shop of Mr. Starkie; chemist, 4, Strand.
The moment the avowal was made deceased's medical
adviser was sent for.

Mr.F. W. Mackenzie, surgeon, of Chester-place, Hyde •
Park-square, said that on visitin.; deceased he found
him in a hopeless, exhausted state from the effects of
some irritating poison. He administered remedies for
the space of nearly two hours, but unavailingly. Since
death he had opened the body, and tested the contents
of the stomach in the
_presence of Professor Grah.on,
and discovered arsenic. He had no doubt that was the
poison which destroyed life. Deceased said that in the
course of the day he went to a chemist's in the Strand
and asked for arsenic to destroy rats. The chemist said
he. had none, but would give him a powder that, would
do as well. Deceased said he took the powder about
three o'clock on Thursday.
A packet of the powder was here produced, labelled
" Butler's Gloucester hire Vermin and Insect Killer,"
and stating " that it would entirely destroy them (rats),
and, at the same time, would not be liable to occasion
those serious accidents which constantly occur from the
use of common poisons."
Mr. Mackenzie said that the powder found in de-
ceased's stomach was identical with that in the packet.
Having examined a sixpenny packet of it, he was of
opinion that it contained arsenic enough to kill four per-
sons. It was a preparation of arsenic diluted with other
coloured ingredients. •
Mr. Starkie, chemist, acknowledged selling the powder
as a safe thing, thinking that it was so from an adver-
tisement he had seen in the Pharmaceutical Journal,
alleging that though the powder would kill quadrupeds
it would not kill human beings. He had not analysed
it, and took the statement in the advertisement for
granted.
Mr. Mackenzie said he knew of no powder that would
kill quadrupeds and be innoxious to man.
Evidence having been tendered showing that deceased's
mind was sometimes unsound
The CORONER said that when he bought the powder
he was of more sane mind than the vendor of it, be-
cause he knew what Mr. Starkie did not know—viz.,
that a poison for quadrupeds must be a poison for human
beings.
Verdict, Temporary Insanity ; the jury appending,
" That they strongly condemn the sale of poisons in open
shops, without proper precautions being taken to pre-
vent the frequent fatal consequences of such sales.
They regard the present instance as one calling for
severe reprehension. and trust that a public exposure of
the facts will tend to prevent the mischief which they
believe is frequently occurring from the sale of poison
in druggists' houses."

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

MANCHESTER, OCTOBER 14,

STOCK EXCHANGE..—The sales are—Ambergate, Nottingham, Bos-
ton, &c., 9-16 dis.—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction,
p.—Birmingham and Dudley, 2►% p.—Eastern Counties, York
Extension, 1 5-16 p.—East Lancashire, 3% p.—Ditto, ditto, New,
2% p.—East Lincolnshire, 14 dis.—Huddersfield and Manchester
Railway and Canal, 1% c. p.—Dito, Extension, 11-16 p.—Liverpool
and Bury, New Shares, 13-16 p.—Liverpool, Onuskirk, and Preston,
p.—London, Manchester, and Birmingham, Quarters (A), 7 % p.
—Ditto, ditto (B), 7j p.—Ditto, ditto (0), 6% c. p.—Manchester,
Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, % p.—Manchester and Leeds, Fifths,
p.—Ditto, Extension, 34 p. —North Staffordshire, 2 1-16 p.—
Sliefilel I and Lincoln, 21e. dis.—Sheffield and Manchester, Quarters,
No. 3, % dis. —Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, % die.—Trent
Valley, Midlands, &c., 1.16 p. —West Riding Union, 1% p.—White-
haven and Furness, 3 7-16 dis.
LEEDS, OCTOBER 14.

STOCK EXCHANGE.--The sales are—East Lancashire, 4 p.--Ditto,
New, 3 p.—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 5)4 dis:—lludderstlehl
and Manchester, 275. p.—Ditto, Extensions, 6 p.—Leeds and Dews.
bury, 265. p.—Ditto, Branches, 15s. p.—Leeds and Think, 5 dis.—
Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 61,4 p.—Ditto, Extensions, 16s. p.-•-•
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 15s. p.—North British,
Quarter Shares (late Carlisle Branch), 43e. c. n. p.—Ditto, Exten-
sion (scrip). I Is. 64. p.—Notth Staffordshire, 2 p.—York and New-
castle, 11 1,4 p.—York and North Midland (East and West Riding),
115 p.--Ambergatc, Nottingham, and Boston, 10s. dis.- Glasgow
and Dumfries, 20s. dis.—Leads, Wakefield,'and Midland, 15s. dis.—
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 31,4 p.—Midland and Think
Junction, 225, dis.—North Western, 25. Gd. dis.--West
kidiiig
Union, 314.

IMIEFFTELD. OCTOBER 14.
SW= EXCIAXO3.—The sales are —Great Grimsby and Sheffield,
6/. Is. Ga. dis. Ditto, Eitenslon, 425. dis.—Manchester, Midland,
an/ Grimsby, 20s. Gd. dis.—Manchester and Lincoln Union, 225.
did.—Sheffield and Lincoln, 235. dis.—West Riding Union, 1 14 p.
NE weAsTLE-uros-T y \E, OCTOBER 14.
STOCK Exclusrs.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, New, 614
p.—Nortli British, 814 p.—Ditto, Quarters, 1 3-9 ex new—North
Western, 14 dis.—North Stafforashire, 2g p.—Shrewsbury and
Hereford, IGs. dis.—West Riding Union, 235. 9d.—York and New-
castle Extensions, • 1214 p.--York and North Midland (East and
West Riding Extension), 12% p.

HULL, OCTOBER 14.
STOCK Excitexur.--The sales are— Leeds and Bradford, 74-311d-
land Railway Consols, 401. Sluires, 34% —North British, Halves, 58s.
—Ditto, Quarters, 12s. 31—Ambergace, Nottingham,
41s.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 21. IN.—North Western, 2s.
dls.—North Staffordshire, 2
p.—West Riding Union. 3 Leicester
and Bedford, 14s. 6d. and Boston,

YORK, ma 14.
ST:mit EXCn4Noz.—The salesOcro t are —Eastern Counties, York Ex-
tension, 11. Is
--s. A.—lpswich and Bury, 11—Leicester and Bedford, 1
—London and York, 1 c. div.—Malton and Driftield Junction, 21.
11L—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 21. 188.—North
British, Quarter Shares, 31. 7s. cum new—North Staffordshire, 41. 3s.
—North Western, 11. 38.—West Riding Union, 3% —York and New-
castle. New,
12% —York and North Midland (East and West Riding
Extension), 12%.

EDINBURGH, OCTOBER 13.
Stocx EXCHANGE. -The sales are-Aberdeen, 141. 55.-Airdrle
and Bathgate, 4/. 55.-Arbroath and Forfar, 281.--DittO, Halt
Shares, 151. 10c-Arinagh and Portrush. 12s. 6d.-Ayr and Gal-
loway, U. 7a.-Belfast and County Down, 35.-British and Irish
Union, 21. 35.-Caledonian 201. 158.-Ditto, New, 11. 55.-Caledonian
and Dumbarton, 11. 61.:-Clydesdale Junction, 321. 108.-Corn-
wall and Devon Central, 11. 12s. 6d.-Deeside Railway, 21. 7s. 6d.
-Direct Northern, U. 65.-Dundee and Arbroath, 371.--Ditto, New,
251.-Dundee and Perth, 251. -East Indian Railway, 125. 31.-East
of Fife, 19s.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 21. 1011.--Eclhiburgh and Ole i-
gow, 72'. 10s.-Ditto,
_Half Shares, 18/. 10s.-Ditto, Quarters, 181.
- Ditto, ditto, Now, 18/.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Gran:on, 18/.-
1 dile, Preference, 20'. 155.-Edinburgh and Nrdrtliern, 9/. 19s. Gd.-
361.-Ditto,D.mcle,3,
anQduarcarter.
ewport, 21. Bs. 6d.-Edinburgh and Perth, IL 19s.- Glasgow
and • Ayrshire, 691. 55.-Ditto, New Stock,
Shares, 171. 153.-Ditto, Halves, 51.-Glasgow,
lisle, 1/. 123.-Olasgow and Dundee Junction, It. 13s. 9d.-Glasgow
and Garnklrk, 401.-Glasgow General Terminus, 91.-Glasgow and
Greenock; 161. 10s.-Ditto, New Stock, 81. 155.-Ditto, Prefer-
ence, 11. 138.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrosssn, 11. 12s. 6d.-
Granton Junction, 108.-Great North of Scotland, 14s. 6d.-Larne,
Belfast, and Ballymena, 10s. 3d.-London, Bristol, and South Wales,
11. 3s. 6d.-London and York, 11. 12s. 6d.-Ditto, Half Shares, U.
158.-Midland and Eastern Counties, 155.-Newcastle and Berwick,
251. 12s. 6.1.-North British, 331.-Ditto, Halves, 14/. 10s.- Ditto,
Quarters, cum now, 31. 6s. 6d.-Ditto, Now Quarters, scrip, 1/. 2s.
6d.-Ditto, Fifths, 61. 10s.- North Staffordshire, 31. 17e.-North Wales
Mineral, 181.-Ditto, Nfvf, 91. 7s. 6d.-Scottlsti Central, 181. 105.-
Dltto, New, 91.-Bcottlair-leutral and Caledonian .Luntion, it, 103.

s-Eicottiat kottioi in4,--446011iiiii
southern, I/. I'M—Shrewsbury and Hereford, lis.:—EthrewShttrY. 04'
westry, end Chester, itunferontht*, U. L.
Intc. and M idiand, 2/. 16s.—StratheruSunettou, 2/.—Wistiaw and Coiv
Less, 47/. 10s.

GLASGOW, OCTOBER 13.
STOCK ExcaAtvor. —The sales are—Abe. deen, 14% —East Indian
Railway, 13s.—Edinhurgh and Glasgow, 72—Glasgow General Ter-
minus, 9%—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 334 —Ditto, QuarterS
(5 per cent. guar.), 17/.—Ditto, halves, 51. p.— Glasgow, Dumfries,
and Carlisle, 33s.—Glasgow Harbour Mineral, 28s. 6d.—Great North
of India. 6s. 9d.—Madras, Nellore, and Arcot, 4s. 9d.—Manchester
and Southampton, 20s. 6d.—North Britisb, New Quarters (50r10,224'
—Wisttaw and Coltness, 471.

STATE OF TRADE.
MANCHESTER, OCT. 13.—The market to. day presented
the same languid appearance which it has genera,'
borne during the lust month. The demand continues
limited, and spinners and manufacturers experience
great difficulty in obtaining even a portion of the advance
which ham taken place in the price of the raw material.
Under these circumstances, their attention is very
naturally directed to the production of some plan for
diminishing production. A meeting of the Rochdale
spinners,4to consider the propriety of working short time,
has been or is about to be held; and we understand that
the subject is under consideration in other localities.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, OCT..
The flannel market has been rather quiet to-day, and
the demand for goods more limited. In the, wool market
there has been very little doirg ; the demand has, been
chiefly for low-priced woolv, varying from 10d. to
14d. per lb. ' •
HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY, OCT. 13.—Our market'
is again without much animation, although two or three
manufacturers 'have made fair sales in Acerseyrneree.'
Wools are much the same as last week. Sales cannot
be effected, owing partly to the market for woollen yarns
having become suddenly depressed, 'the domand for that
article having ceased much sooner' than last year. Ia
the warehouses there is no improvement since last week'
Every branch, according to present appearances, is likely
to be flat.

LEEDS, TUESDAY, OCT. 13.—We have nothing par'
titular to say about this day's market ; but the sudden
and favourable change of the weather is sure to bring
more life in our trade, which as yet remains uncommon
quiet. Manchester Guardian.

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Z`e7ll. and changing their residences, and not wishing to. dispose of
careftrPertY during their temporary absence. Can have the same
above Y removed and waraioused, upon moderate terms, at the
%Li extensive store warehouses. Parties are invited to inspect
_ "Cry useful building. Established 1839.
I:PK-EN HEAD DOCK COMMISSIONE7B. The A; ~. LOANS OF MONEY.
or uor .4enhead Dock Commissioners are ready to receive Loans
their '6Y for periods of Five or Seven Years, under the authority of
__ Acts of Parliament, at the rate of Fire per Cent, per Annum.
4. The Interest will be paid Half-yearly, on the let January and Ist
61,
_it London or elsewhere, as the parties lending may prefer.
th:elued Tenders, stating the Amount and Term of Years for which
aion"neY is proposed to be lent, to be addressed to the Commis-
_ er6, endorsed " Tender far Loans." Br order,
Birkenhead, Sept. 21, 1846. RICHARD HIND, Secretary.

PANT.

This line of Railway was originally projected to supply a most im-
portant mineral, agricultural, and manufacturing district with much-
required means of inter-communication, and is now rendered still
more necessary, inasmuch as it will connect, by an intersecting route
the North Staffordshire, the Trent Valley, the London and North
'Western, the South Stafforshire, and (by means of the last) the
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railways. It will, con-
sequently, be in immediate communication with first•ciass stations
on all these lines.

This Company applied for an Act in the last session, and the Bill
passed the House of Commons, and was only defeated in the House
of Lords upon a technical non-compliance with the standing orders, so
trifling, indeed, that the Commons' Select Committee on standing
orders had specially reported that the Bill might and ought to be
proceeded with.

The line may now be made on Its original integrity, from Uttoxe-
ter, where it will join the North Staffordshire Railway, to a junc-
tion with the South Staffordshire, near Walsall. The latter Com-
pany having obtained an Act, last session, for constructing the line
from Walsall to Dudley, will execute that, the most expensive part
of the whole scheme, and render it unnecessary for this Company to
require more than a capital of 400,000/.
The Directors have the picas ;re of stating that upon this capital
the evidence adduced last session proved a probable return of con-
siderably more than ten per sent.
The surveys of last year are now being carefully revised, to enable
Mr. Rastriek, the present engineer of the Company, to select, where
opportunity offers, the line which will best accommodate the public
at the least expanse of construction.
The Directors beg to inform the Shareholders of this Company,
and also those of the Direct East and West Junction Railway Com-
pany, that they have been engaged, for some time past, In making
arrangements, which they feel assured will prove much to their be-
nefit, and not only secure a return for the great expenses necessarily
incurred in the last session, but will also be of material advantage to
the success of their application to Parliament.
The Directors do net propose to make any further call upon the
Shareholders for that purpose, but as it is necessary, in compliance
with the standing orders, that fresh Parliamentary Deeds should be
signed, each Shareholder is requested to attend, with his scrip, at
the office of the Company, for that purpose, when the old scrip will
he exchanged for new scrip certificates, in which credit for the full
deposits alreadypaid will he given, and power of attorney will be for-
warded, free of expense, to Country Shareholders, on application to
the Secretary.
The new deeds will be ready for signature on and from the 22nd
day of October instant. In the meantime, all further information
relative to the position and prospects of the Company, may be ob-
tained from the secretary, by personal application to him, or other-
wise, at the Company's office.

NATIONAL ANTI-POOR-LAW PROVI-
Alll A DENT AND BENEVOLENT UNION.
PUBLIC MEETING to promote the objects of this Institution,
be held at the London' Tavern, on TinTasnay, sth November
;',,e,tt,c at which the Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR will preside.
hair to be taken at One o'clock precisely. In the meantime,
CO
in writing may be made to B. B. CABBELL,
forinsq"ed3itOP.' and after the 28th inst. a committee will
,be
meet in dings, bell's chambers, I , Brick-court, Temple,
to arrange the proce, &c.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR
26, CORNIIILL,
AN CE SOCIETY,
LONDON.
Capital .£5.0,000. Ernpewered by Act of Parliament.
This Institittion embraces impertant and substantial advantages
'with respect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured
11/1 Mg all *cessions, the power to borrow", without expense or for-
f_eitu' re ef the Policy, tvre-tkirds •f the premiums paid (see Table) ;
V the optics of selecting beneilts, and the conversion of his in-
rsts to meet other cenveniences or necessity.
its
for terms ef years are granted ea tke lowest possible
rates.

By order of the Directors.
R. S. MACKENZIE, Secretary,
Office of the Company, 4, Queen-square, Westminster,
Oct. 13, 1846.

DITISION OF PROFITS.
itasTl22 remarkable success and increa.sing prosperity of the Society
fourt"red the Directors, at the last annual inyestigatien, to declare 01 eack varying front 25 t• 25 er cent. en the premiums paid
I-6 11 Q'effected ea the Profit spcale.

WILTS, SOMERSET, and WEYMOUTH
RAILWAY.
Call for Fourth Instalment of 51. per share, making 151. paid.
The Directors of the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway
Company, having resolved, at a meeting, held this day, to call, under
the provisions of the Act of Incorporation, for an instalment of 5/.
per share,
Notice is hereby given, that the Proprietors are requested to pay,
on or before the 13th day of November, 1846, to any of the under-
mentioned bankers, the said sum of Si. on each of their respective
shares :

EXAMPLES:
;12.,7
P Preadu '1:1 Moans Bonus 1a igi Assured
added. Cash.
nay
li2 Morrow.
"
$8 d. 1637;£217 15 1 £lOl 0 11£16• 4£445
3 4
601.00 18331 192 3 0 37 1 4 13 111 2' 395 11 1
1839 165 11 10 74 1 9! 11 Y 1! 346 2 3
1340 116 7 6 84 • 10. 7li 111 296 13 4
910 •0; 710 4! 247 4
!Ehe

b._ll° divisloa of profits yeaalaal, and tke next ►ill be made ia
welkker et' tke preseat .
F. FERGUSON CAMROUI, Secretary.

STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
Constituted by Act of Parliament.
Established 1825.
EDINBURGH-3, George-street.
LONDON-82, King William-street.
DUBLIN-66, Upper Sackville-street.
GOVERNOR.
1113 Grace tho Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry.
BEPDTY-GOVERNOR.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine.
LONDON BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
CHAIRMAN—George Frederick Young, Esq.
The ii-fr,PUTY-CHAIRMAN—Matthew Forster, Esq., 31. P.
13 RN Int
.PHon. Lord Ernest James Gadesden, Esq.
1r jn 31.
William Haigh, Esq.
'41,8 Eyre, XD. Edward Thomas Whitaker, Esq.
BeareThe SPECIAL NOTICE.--1846.
lut, uLICIKS granted by this Company in the participation Class
Periodical Divisions of Profit, according to the particular
Near,
hich they have been opened. At 15th November, in each
14.1:w 9! lists are made up; and all policies opened BEFORE 15th
,411• BER, 1846, will secure

BANKERS.
London—Messrs Glynn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co.
Bristol-3fessrs. Miles, Harford, and Co.
Bristol and' The West of England Bank.
Bath. Messrs. Stuckey's Banking Company.
Salisbury—Messrs. Iletley and Everitt.
Salisbury—Messrs, W. Brodie and Co.
Warminster—Messrs. Everett and Ravenshill.
Devizes—Messrs. Hughes, Locke, and Co.
Frome—Messrs. Stuckey's Banking Company.
Frome—The Wilts and Dorset Rank.
Trowbridge—The North Wilts Bank.
lielksham—The North Wilts Bank.
Bradford—The North Wilts Bank.
Shepton Mallet
Bruton —Messrs. Stuckey's Banking Company.
Castle Carey
Yeovil—Messrs. Edmund and John Batten.
Yeovil—The Wilts and Dorset Bank.
Dorchester—Messrs. R. It. and 11. Williams,
Bridport—Messrs. Gundry and Co.
Bridport—Messrs. R. R. and H. Williams.
Weymouth—Messrs. Elliot and Pearce.
Lyme Regts—Messrs. Gundry and Co.
By order of the Board of Directors,
W. O'BRIEN, Secretary,

Office, 449, West Strand, London.
Trowbridge, Wilts, Oct. 13, 1846.
Interest at the rate of 4/. per cent. per annum (payable in January
and July), will be allowed on the amount of all calls, paid up until
the railway shall be opened throughout for traffic, but should any
call remain unpaid, after the day appointed for payment of the same,
interest at the rate of 5/. per cent. per annum will be charged
thereon.

OPENING THE PORTS.
MANCHESTER, WEDNESDAY.—A meeting of working
men of Manchester, convened by placard and advertise-
ments, was held last evening in the Town Hall, " To
memorialise Lord John Russell to open the ports." The
large room of the hall was filled to overflowing. At a
quarter before eight o'clock, Mr. Abel Heywood, Dr.
John Watts, and other promoters of the meeting, came
upon the platform, and on the motion of Dr. JOHN
WATTS,
Mr. ABEL,LIETWOOD was called to the chair, in taking
which he said:—At the latter end of last year a meeting
of the working classes was called to memorialise Sir R.
Peel upon a question similar to the present; and it was
thought desirable that another meeting of a similar
character should now be called, in order that the work-
ing classes should take the lead in a movement so impor
taut to themselves. The time for opening the ports had
no .v evidently arrived, and the only question was, " How
soon can they be opened?"—(hear hear.) The pressure
which must arise might and would be dangerous to the
peace of the country, if the people thought the country
had n,t a sufficiency of food. To prevent outbreaks, it
was a duty to suggest the propriety of memorialis-
ing Lord John Russell, to induce him to open the ports
at once for all kinds of grain.--(Applause.) He hoped
this example would be followed elsewhere with such
spirit as to induce Lord John Russell to consider the
importance of the memorials and the state of the
country, and accede at once to the request of the people.
He believed the Government only wanted an expression
of opicion on the part of the people, who had but to
speak in one universal echo, and the thing was con-
summated.—(Applause.)
Dr. JOHN WATTS, in moving the first resolution, said
that if Sir Robert Peel had a reason last year to repeal
the corn laws, Lord John Russell had a double reason
now to open the ports. Manchester and its vicinity
contain about 300,000 people, and if each consumed a
41b. loaf per week, the difference in price wouhl .amount
to 3,1251. per week, which would put 104 tradesmen's
shops in the receipt of 301. each per week, or would em-
ploy 2,125 men at 20s. per week. If two-fifths of the
men were thrown out of work, there would soon be 1,2r,0
families, or 6,250 individuals, extra-dependents upon
parochial relief. Riot and murder had already com-
menced in Ireland ; famine was in Caithness, where they
were not only without potatoes, but the herring fishery
had failed ; and iu London there were 7,000 to 8,000
journeymen tailors out of employment. This was the
first trade that felt the effects of distress ; for people
must have food, but could do awhile without new cloth-
ing. The duty last week was Bs. a quarter on wheat ;
and it was important not to have a penny of difficulty in
the way of raising supplies of food and preventing
tumult. There were two good things to be got by open-
ing the ports,—commercial relations would be drawn
much closer, and consequently friendly feelings between
nations. Then the import duty was a sort of gam-
bling-table, and people were always ready to lock up
food when the people were starving, in order to reap
a richer harvest of profit from it. There was now
immense corn-jobbing. Open the ports, and this
gambling would be at once knocked on the head, and
food would be obtained for all. Suppose we imported
only half a million of quarters, knocking off the Bs.
duty, the result would be a saving of only 200,0001.,
which, if turned over only once in two months for a
year, would find employment for 23,077 men, at 20s. per
week, paid in wages ; and if these men were heads of
families, it would relieve our parishes from 75,000 indi-
viduals, who, without such return, must become charge-
able to them. Perhaps Ministers thought the people
apathetic ; but the apparent apathy had arisen from the
fact that the people hesitated before they would throw
any impediment to Lord John Russell's carrying out
his own policy, as they had great confidence in the man.
He concluded by moving the first resolution, for opening
the ports.
Mr. JOHN THEE seconded the resolution. In Ireland,
instead of opening the ports, the Government opened
the barracks, and poured soldiers in upon a starving
people, who had no disposition to riot.—(Hear.) Could
soldiers calm the storm that hunger must necessarily
produce ?—(Hear.) He hoped there would be no vio-
lation of the public peace in Ireland. He thought that
people had manifested a degree of patience and forbear-
ance which he feared would not have been manifested in
this country. Thero was one thing in favour of this
meeting as regarded its influence, that it was one not of
Chartists, Whigs, Radicals, or Tories. In Manchester,
at this moment, the feeling in favour of opening the
ports was general, and pervaded all classes, from the
wea'er to the richest manufacturer.—(Applause.)
Mr. CHARLES POUNTNEY said he was glad to See so
large an assemblage, and he hoped they would keep to
the specific business and duty of the meeting—to memo-
rialise the Government to open the ports. Already
Dundee had sent up a memorial; and he hoped Man-
chester would be at all events second in calling the at-
tention of Government to this matter. They were now
constitutionally assembled in the Town-hall of Man-
chester—a circumstance which wouid give weight to their
memorial.—(Cheers.)
Mr. GEORGE FREDERICK MANDLET also supported
the motion. He said he had fur some time abstained
from politics, but observing that the price of the people's
staple articles of food had been enormously advanced, he
could not, as the head of a family, and one sympathising
with working men, refrain from coming to make some
statement of facts, which, from his peculiar position and
means of information, had come to his knowledge. It
was to him a delightful circumstance that he could stand
there, and (though there were high prices of edible
stuffs) vindicate the providence of God, by denying that
there was famine. Nevertheless, he could support this
motion, because he doubted not that if the ports were
opened there would be a check given to that large
amount of speculation in corn which had run it up to the
present high price, and was doing enormous mischief to
the working classes, and all who were engaged in the
regular trade of the country. Every one who had
heard the speech of Mr. Watts must be satisfied
that every shilling extra taken from the working
man in the shapo of food must operate to the dis-
advantage of those engaged in textile manufactures; it
must affect our home trade, and he was assured, on
most undoubted authority, that it was doing so to an
alarming extent.—(Hear, hear.) The whole of the fall-
ing off in trade he did not mean to say was owing to
this circumstance, because there was the war in Mexico
and the rising in Kafirland had some influence upon
trade. His main object was to show that the high price
of food was not the consequence of scarcity, and he had
in his hand tables which would show that there was at
the present time in this country a larger amount of
wheat and wheat-flour than was ever known in this
country.—(Hear' hear.) The document he held in his
hand, and which he should quote from, was not a mere
newspaper paragraph, but a return issued by Mr. Porter
of the Board of Trade ; and it would show that at this
time, when people were talking of the impending famine
—when owing to the abundance of money speculators
were advancing the price of food so rapidly that the
price of the 41b. loaf had gone up from 6d. to Bid. in six
or seven weeks only—there never was such an abun-
dance of food in this country. The table which he held
in his hand to quote from first was, a return giving a
three years' comparative statement of the quantity of
wheat and wheat-flour imported into this country, and
entered for home consumption, and of the amount ex-
ported, during a period of seven months in each year
ending on the sth of August, namely the years 1844, 1845,
and 1846. The imports of wheat and flour were, for the
seven months ending sth of August—
Quarters of wheat. Cwts. of flour.
1844... ........ 809,667
1845 201,761
1846
—(Loud cries of "Hear, hear.") Now, then, the next
item was the amount entered for home consumption
within that same period of time in each year, and the
wwaosulednteearleldthiberirhaotmteenctiuonnsutomtphteiuenircinUsinevsetnannCeunthawat there
was entered for home consumption in seven aontlm, end-
e
ing the sth August—
Quarters of wheat. Cwts. of flour.
1844
1845 72,720
1846 1,798,329
And this last year, let it be remembered, was the year
of famine!—(Applause.) The quatity of oats imported
in 1844 was 85,198; in 1845, 234,857; and in 1846 (in
the same period of seven months), 328,886. Add to this
that in the present year there had been imported 92,689
quarters of Indian meal, whilst there had been none of
that article imported during the two previous years.—
(Hear.) It was an interesting fact, before they went
further, to see what stock of grain and flour there was
in the country at the commencement of the periods he
had named. There was in bond, then, on the sth De-
cember, 1845—wheat, 794,250 qrs.; oats, 108,600 qrs.;
wheaten flour, 405,455 cwts. Any gentleman who had
been observant of what was going on around him, would
have seen corroborations of this excess of food, for it
was a subject of remark that there was a larger amount
of wheat-flour traversing our streets at this time than
was ever seen before.—(Hear, hear.) This was not a
period of famine in wheat, then. The Farmer's Maga-
zine corroborated this statement, for it said the crops of
the present year were well got in, large, and that the
quality and yield of the wheat were never finer.—(Ap-
plause.) The parties who were causing high prices,
then, were the speculators. And let it not be supposed
that he was inveighing against speculators, because he
held that capitalists had a right to invest it as they
thought to the best advantage, and it might be a ques-
tion whether, in times of real scarcity, the heightening
of the price did not do good by keeping the people from
at once exhausting their stock of provisions, and by
spreading the consumption over a longer period. He
was anxious the more to make these facts known, be-
cause the editors of newspapers, who are men engaged
personally in commerce, and consequently dependent
upon interested parties sometimes for information, had
been putting abroad grossly unfounded, or at least mis-
leading, statements. The Times had stated some time
since that there were not more than 700,000 quarters of
corn in bond, but said nothing about the fact that
2,700,000 quarters had been released from bond in two
qh
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the advantage of an increased price. He held in his
the New York Courier and Enquirer of September
increasedear
16th, which corroborated his statement that there was
no fear of famine, for it said that the crops of grain
there exceeded this year the crops of last year, and that
the people of the states could not, by many tans of mil-

5 years' claim for Profits in 1850.
10 years' claim for Profits in 1855.
15 years' claim for Profits in 1860,
aLL
and so on increasing.
AVLIONS DESIROUS OF SECURING THE BENEFIT OF THE PRESENT
ENTRY MUST LODGE THEIR APPLICATIONS WITH THE
eoup
ANY BEFORE 15TH NOVEMBER NEXT.
Ar,AII'EPLES OF BONUS ADDITIONS ALREADY DECLARED.
sitrance of £lOOO effected in 1825, is now a claim for £l6OO
£lOOO do. 1826, do. do. for £1562 10s.
£lOOO do. 1827, do. do. for .£1525
£lOOO do. 1828, do. do. for aal4B7los.
being larger additions than have been declared by any other
Scottish Office, whether mutual or proprietary.
Policies of later dates have also received large additions. The Be-
llUs Table will be found in the Company's Pamphlet.
The Assurances effected in the year 1845 alone, amounted to the
large sum of FOUR lIUNDRED AND FIFTY TROUSAND
POUNDS, and the Income of the Company is now upwards of ONE
RUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS PER
A.NNUM.

Next week, post Bvo.,
THE EMIGRANT. By SIR FRANCIS B.
HEAD, Bart.

John Murray, Albemarle-street.

MR. LEIGH HUNT'S NEW WORK,

This day Is published, in post Bvo., pricy 9s. boards, or 10s. 6d. ele •
ganily bound in cloth (uwiform with " Imagination and Fancy"),
WIT AND HUMOUR, Selected from the
English Poets : with an Illustrative Essay and Critical
Comments.

By LEIGH HUNT.
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Of whom may be had " Imagination and Fancy." By Leigh
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This day is published,
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By Order of the Directors,
London, Ist October, 1846.
PETER EIVART, Resident Secretary.
....._

REPLATING.—PLATED ARTICLES, which
have been worn through, REPLAT ED by the NEW
COX SAVORY dop" from Gracc churc ah-s nd
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as was amply demonstrated by the excellent light of the Institution,
where these burners have been used. In comparing the consumption
of these burners with that of the concentric ring burners, and trying
the power of the two lights by the photometer, the new burner gave a
better ght, with a saving of rather more than one-third."
CERTIFICATE. POLYTECENIE CuEsrics.r. Scnoot.—" In testing Clark, Mc Niell,
and Co,'s Universal Gas Burner with ono of the best shawdowless
burners, it gave a more pare and brilliant light, with a saving of 20
o 25 per cent." GEORGE CRISP, Engineer,
ROUT. LONGBOTTOM, Secretary,
CERTIFICATE..
"In a series of experiments made upon Clark as Niell, and Co.'s Patent Universal Gas Burner, Its superiority satisfactorily esta-
blished in economy and the quality of the light. Tested against
argand burners, Nos. 4 (12 holes), and 6 (15 holes), it afforded a
saving of at least 25 per cent., and against three fish-tail burners,
No. 4, 40 per cent. The colour and brilliancy of the lame is supe-
rior to any other burner."

Liberals

entitGESS'S NEW SAUCE, for general pur-
e, „ Asses, having gained such great approbation, and the demand
rii,„.._" Continuing to increase, JOHN BURGESS and SON beg most
eifo. '.. tritilY to offer thus their beat acknowledgments to the Public
:1 ',heir liberal patronage of the same ; its utility and great convent-
tillein all climates have recommended P, to the most distingaished
ign connections, who have all spoken highly in its recommenda-
blueeni It is prepared by them only ; and for preventing disappoint-
bottle te
fames'
all possible care has been resorted to, by each
being sealed on the cork with their firm and address, as well
is each label having their signature, without which it cannot be
genuine.
x4.011N BURGESS and SON'S long-established and much-esteemed
St NCE of ANCHOVIES continues to be prepared by them after
the same maimer that hu given the greatest satisfaction for many
ream
Warehouse, 107, Strand, corner of Savoy Steps. London.

OPENING of E. MOSES Entrance at 83, coand SON'S FUR
D of
OT, 15, Minories.
corner of the Min7eries (opposite Aldgate Chnrch.)
On Tuesday, October 20, 1846, will be opened to the public a new
orauch 111 the business of E. MOSES and SON, on entirely new prin.
._eiPles. The proprietors have long had in oontemplation what nay be
`rut.7oled a UNI VERSAL ATTIRE DEPOT, and the new feature
to be added is a decided advance towards the accomplishnient
6141116 most comprehensive project. The extensive Fur 'Warehouse
or ~. MOSES and SON will be stocked with an immense assortment
h. 1441 es and Gentlemen's Furs, possessing every possible reeom-
aeudation. The stock will consist of Sable, Mink, Ermine, Chin_
b,—;,.,1114, Rolinstey, and every other species of Fur materials adapted in
—Zerri winter attire.
E. MOSES and SON subjected
hem ,i or to manufacturing the Furs,
)4:1,,i to the strictest scrutiny, ands pereelal care was observed that no
well seasoned. Equal atten-
-1104441/ds were made up bu what
MOSES and SON on the making up
Of thews been bestowed by
.E.
Nan.. Pura, and on examination. atntedstrvialletoofritohoes,Ecoaa.ffsa,(floapteraund,
e". 2), Capes, Cardinals, Muffs, Vlse ,
th, '.e., will be seen that none but first class
new feature of E.
this
are offered to
koriblic by the proprietors. Economy, in this
to.
The Fur trade
oet ittS and SON'S trade, will be strictly adhered
but a
the be distinctly understood), like that of tailoring, has long. taxed
newl4lbe with most extortionate and unwarrantable Pri.cnees%
) Principle shall distinguish the new branch of busismallo, fE.
and
mill prices
SON'S—large profits shall be succeeded by
~I,
.Priees by low. Every article, according to its relative value,
be2,l bave marked upon it, in plain figures, the lowest at which it can
Bold, from which no abatement can possibly be made.
OPENING OF THE NEW FUR DEPOT.
Ilehold
Reserve your Purchases until the 20th.
Another f I—the vast Establishment of MOSES
eature in its trade discloses.
The present month shall reach its twentieth day
When this New Branch will make its first display.
Come annspect (for you have every reason)
Well-seasond ied Fu rs, adapted to the season.
Soon will the winter show its threatening form
And an will stand in need of something warm,
Come.ocaand inspect our Furs, and you will find
Choice
and and utility combined.
We've'anrt4icinie-s""thtatouwroulFudrabecoate'twyoilorl be
Come and inspect our Fu
How choice these artielearsOfan4
ail
here,
dress.
USee.enn.
you'll confess
Come, for economy is studi
Though choice the goods we never '
aeysell them dear.
Again, in invitation, we would a
Come and inspect them on our opening
...E. MOSES and SON, Furriers, Tailors, Woonglie day.rapers, Clothiers,
tiatters, Hosier; Outfitters, and General WarehoUSeinen.
R. MOSES and SON, 154, 155, 156, 157 Minories ; and 63, 84.
.............___4. and 86, Aldgate. City, London. —........._—,—..--
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T. W. KRATES, Consulting Chemist,
J. D. PALMER, Mechanical Inspector.
The IfNITERMAL GIS BURNIIR is used nightly at the Poly-
technic Institution, and may be had and seen from 11 till 4, at the
Patentees.6o, St. Martin's-lane, Charing-cross ; and of all Gas Fitters.

4,Z PENCER'S CHINESE LIQUID HAIR DYE.
-7 The thousands of individuals who for upwards of twenty
years have used this celebrated liquid, pronounce it to be the only
article extant which effectually changes, in a few minutes, red or
grey hair, whiskers, moustaches, &c., to a dark brown or black,
without trouble (by simply combing it through the hair), and pro-
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can be incontestibly proved, that while many dyes tend to destroy
the hair by their pernicious properties and dangerous process of ap-
plication, that this article promotes the growth of hair, nourishing
the roots till the latest period of life. Price Es. id., 65., and les.
per bottle. -

To be had of the Proprietors, 29, Nottingham-place, Fieldgate-
atreet, Whitechapel-road, London ; also of Mr. Johnstone, 68, Corn-
hill ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Prout, 229, Strand ; Sanger, IN, Oxford=
street; Barclay, Farringdon-street ; Atkinson, 24, Old Bond-
street ; Hooper, 43, King Witham-street, London bridge ; Finnigin,
Milsem-street, Bath ; Elmore, Bull-street, Birmingham ; and of most
Perfumers and Medicine Vendors in town and country. Sent to
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Please to ask for " Spencer and Co.'s Chinese Liquid Hair Dye.*
Observe, the Proprietor's address is on the wrapper.

THE BEST APERIENT AND ANTIBILIOUS MEDICINE FOR
GENERAL USE IS
FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH which
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head •ache,' sickness, dizziness, pains in the chest, &c., are highly
grateful to the stomach, promote digestion, create appetite, relieve
languor and depression of spirits ; while to those of a full habit, and
free livers, who are continually suffering from drowsiness, heaviness,
and singing in the head and ears, they offer advantages that will not
to be appreciated.
This Medicine has for many years received the approval of the
most respectable classes of society, and in confirmation of its effi-
cacy, the following letter has been kindly forwarded to Mr. Prout,
with permission to publish it, and, if requisite, to refer any respect-
able person to its author :
" To Mr.Prout, 229, Strand, London.
" Heavitree, Exeter, April 24, 1844.
" feel pleasure in being able to bear my strong and unso-
licited testimony to the excellence of your " Frampton's Pill of
Health," which I considet a most safe, efficacious, and very superior
general medicine. The widow of an officer, an elderly lady, and
near relative of mine, has used them—very rarely having recourse
to other medicines for a long period of yearn ; she has recommended
them extensively, and in one instance' n which she induced a person
to adoptthena, and supplied the first box herself, they have proved of
extraordinary efficacy. I think that perhaps there is scarcely any
other of the many patent medicines before the public of equal value
as a " friend in need"—certainly none possessed of superior claims
I shall be happy on all occasions to give there my individua recom-
mendektion, and am, Sir, " Your obedient servant, _

Sold by T. Prout, 229, Strand. London, price Is. I%d.* and 4 25.• 9d.
(l boa; also by the Vendors of Medicines generally throughout the
Kingdom.

Ask for FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH, and observe the
name and address of ' Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," on the
government Stamp.

/kitting the Sea Coast, LADIES TRAVELLING, or otherwise exposed M'R the scorching rays of
the Sun, will And OWLAND'S KA.LYDOR, a most refreshing
rYr preparation for the Complexion, dispelling the cloud of lan-
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affording the pleasing sensation attending restored elasticity of
b.. 4 Skin. The numerous varieties of Cutaneous Eruptions,. gun-
bLll, Freckles, Tan, and Discolourations, are pleasingly eradicated
tiZfYY,..lbe kalyder, and the skin rendered delicately soft and clear. Its
ing and refreshing properties have obtained its exclusive selec-
,„,` by tke Court and tho Royal Family of Great Britain, and those
CZIL trne Continent of Europe, together with the " elite" of the Aris-
-1;1%4,7 4" " saute Volee," from the sultry climes of India, and the
g-roms of Calcutta and Madras, to the frozen realms of the
...‘r and the Salons of St. Petersbargh and Miscow.—Price 4s. 6d.
"': 8. 6d. per bottle.
Italr,egi_s Bevrare of spurious "Kalydors" containing mineral astrin-
;:t_ll,tterly to to the complexion, and which, by their
t reffredi-,
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p health.
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bstlte oltnlasioners) on the Government Starap affixed on each
Sold .
fi. - .1' the Proprietors, and by respectable Chemists sag Per-
-Alen.
4 "lin ! Balrdors! are fraudulent onaterfetts.

Mrs. Gore's new novel, entitled " Men of Capital,"
is published this day, in 3 vols., by Mr. Colburn, and
may now be had at all the libraries. The following new
works of fiction are also now ready :-2. Tho Roman
Traitor, by 11. W. Herbert, Esq., author of " Oliver
Cromwell. ' 3. Leontine, by Mrs. Moberly. 4. Marston,
by the author of" Salathiel. 5. Lost and Won, by the
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tion. 9. The Wild Irish Girl, by Lady Morgan, revised
with a new preface and notes, forming the new volume
of Colburn's Standard Novels, price 6s. bound, with
portrait.
THE HERRING FISHERY.--It is gratifying to learn
that for the last four years the take of herrings at the
Ferry-side has been gradually increasing. This useful
fish had before that period been a comparative stranger in
Carmarthen Bay, but now shoals frequent our shores, and
are easily captured by the fishermen. The size of the fish
this year has been much larger than previously.

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S 117 Ny OCTOBER 15, 1846.
No, 16,871. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING

lions, consume what they were growing.—(Hear, hear.)
He held in his hand a return of the imports of 1842
the year of the great strike, of the failure of the harvest
and of a general stagnation of trade—and during that
year he found we only imported of foreign and colonial
wheat 2,089,089 quarters, and yet in the present year,
with a plentiful harvest, we had imported the immensely
largo quantities he had reed.—(Applause.) He should
not do his duty if, knowine, he did not state these facts,
and let it be known that speculation was not only doing
mischief in corn, but in cotton also.—(Hear, and ap-
plause.) The resolution then passed unanimously..
Mr. R. Jr. RICHARDSON, in moving the memorial to
Lord John Russell, denied the accuracy of Mr. Mand-
ley's conclusions from his figures. Of 89,768 quarters of
wheat imported in September last, only 40,628 quarters
(nearly one-half) were taken for home consumption,
and Mr. Mandley's tables, rightly interpreted, would
show that not more than one-half of the corn imported
was entered for home consumption ; nay, that for some
time, the exports of wheat end flour had been nearly as
great as the imports. Mr. Mandley told them there was
no such thing as famine. What, was there none in Ire-
land ? He read tables of the rise of prices of provisions
in Ireland, and said that all over the continent of Europe
there was great scarcity of grain. The memorial did not
say that there was a famine, but that wheat was high-
priced. The Bs. or 10s. duty stood in the way of bring-
ing foreign wheat into the English market. He read
the memorial as follows :
" TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD JOHN RUSSELL, FIRST LORD
OF THE TREASURY, &C.
" The Memorial of the Working Classes of the Town of
Manchester, assembled in Public Meeting in the
Town-hall,
" Humbly showeth—That from the present extraor-
dinary price of bread, and of food generally, your memo-
rialists apprehend great distress, the addition of a single
penny to the price of the 41b. loaf requiring an increased
outlay of 1,0001. per week for bread alone in the town of
Manchester. The rise in the price of bread within a few
weeks has been nearly three-fifths of the whole cost, or
nearly 3,0001. per week for this town alone; which sum
is, of course, abstracted from the receipts of the general
tradesman, and is thus operative to the destruction of
the home market for manufactures. Your memorialists
fear that a continuance of such prices, with the prospect
of further increase, will, in the present state of trade, by
putting bread out of the reach of many of our country-
men, endanger the public peace ; your memorialists
conceive it, therefore, a matter of paramount importance
that every possible facility should be immediately given
to increase the amount of provisions in the United King-
dom. Your memorialists, therefore, respectfully, but
earnestly, entreat you to call an immediate Council, with
a view to opening the ports of the United Kingdom, and
admitting all kinds of provisions duty free.—And your
memorialists, &c."
It might be said that Government could not do this; but
a Minister had stated that Indian corn had been ad-
mitted into Ireland duty free, by order of the Ministers,
and surely they might do this again, and in England.
Sir Robert Peel had given us total repeal, but not im-
mediate. Lord John Russell had now the opportunity
of giving the rest, by making the repeal immediate.
Mr. JAMES COOPER, in seconding the adoption of the
memorial, remarked upon what he termed the singu-
larity of the fact, that whilst there was such an abun-
dance of food in England, according to the returns read
to the meeting, the poor of Ireland should be impove-
rished and dying. He denounced the speculators in
corn and cotton as °guilty of dishonesty, and supported
the view taken by Mr. Mandley, that there was no de-
ficiency in this country at the present time, and that it
was only necessary to open the ports to put a stop to the
practices by which so much evil was occasioned.

Mr. MANDLEY, in explanation, read the weekly re-
turns of the amount of wheat entered for home consump-
tion from the week ending on the 9th of July up to the
last return, and argued that the amounts had only de-
creased because of the high rate of duty, but that corn
had still been bonded, and was ready to be released
when the duty had diminished. He advocated the
opening of the ports, because it would have the effect of
causing an immediate fall in the price of grain, although
he promised the meeting that i❑ less than six weeks
they would have corn much cheaper; but the opening
of the ports was desirable, since it would cause what he
termed the speculators in the wants of the people to burn

their fingers.
The Rev. Mr. WHITE, from Ireland, made a few re-
marks on the present condition of the population of that
country, asserting that where 500 or 600 persons who
had no means of subsistence applied at a Government
works for employment, only fifty or sixty could he en-
gaged, and the remainder had to return to their homes
without money or food.
The memorial was unanimously adopted, and thanks
having been voted to the chairman, with a request that
he would forward it to Lord John Russell for presenta-
tion, the proceedings terminated shortly after ten o'clock.

THE REGISTRATIONS.
CITY OF LONDON.

At ten o'clock yesterday morning the Barrister re-
sumed the revision of the householders' lists. The lists
of the following parishes were revised :—Allhallows
Lombard-street, Allhallows, Staining, St. Dioni's Back-
church, St. Edmund the King and Martyr—in the Lang-
bourn and Lime-street Ward.
The following is the result of the clay's revision:—
OBJECTIONS.

Allowed.

Failed or
withdrawn.
Liberals
Conservatives .
Double l7

CLAIMS.

Allowed.

I)isallowed.

The foregoing does not include the result of the revi-
sion in the parish of St. Edmund the King and Martyr ;
several cases stand over in that parish, and the return
therefore was not made out.

The Court adjourned to this morning at ten o'clock,
when the Barrister proceeded with the revision of th•
following parishes :—St.. Peter, Cornhill ; St. Michael,
Cornhill ; the parishes in the ward of Portsoken ; and
the parish of St. Olave, Hart-street, Tower Ward.

PRICE SD.

Lam/ L~Y~I/1~/

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

No return was made by the Conservative agent.

ROCHESTER.

At ten o'clock on Tuesday morning, the 13th instant,
John David Chambers, Esq., held a court at the Guild-
hall of this city, to revise the list of voters in the election
of knights of the shire for the county of Kent. This
district includes the Laythe of Ayleslord, c ,ntaining 20
parishes, and it is very remarkable that there was not a
case for the Court. Mr. Chambers, therefore, adjourned
his sitting until three o'clock in the afternoon, when he
announced that he should take the lists for the city
and borough to revise; and at that hour the Court as-
sembled.

Mr. Jones, solicitor, of Greenwich, appeared on behalf
of the Liberals, and Mr. Matthews, of Gravesend, for the
Conservatives. _ _ _

The freemen's lists, which contained 29 objections and
6 claims, were agreed between the parties to be taken
first, and, owing to the number of cases of household
qualification to be decided, there being 121 persons on
the list objected to,' besides 11 claims,, the Court is
expected to last three days. It opened this morning at
ten o'clock, to finish the freemen's lists.

THE NEW PLANET.
(From the-Durham Advertiser.)
Esh, near Durham, Oct. 8, 1846.
But a few months have elapsed since the discovery of
the small planet Astrma, the companion of the small
planets Juno, Ceres, Pallas, and Vesta, already known.
The last few days have brought us the intelligence of the
discovery of another new planet, under circumstances so
unexampled as to form the most brilliant achievement of
theoretical and practical astronomy. Some of your
readers may be interested in a familiar explanation of
the steps which have led to this interesting discovery.
The motions of all the planets are effected by the gra-
vitation of the planets to one another ; and the places of
the planets in the heavens are computed beforehand, so
that the positions given by observation can be con-

stantly compared with those previously calculated. Now
the observed motions of the planet Uranus, the most
distant hitherto known in our system, when thus com-
pared, were found not to .agree with the motions which
the planet would have, after allowing for the influence
of the known planets, and when it was found that the
deviations were far greater than any which could be
ascribed to mere errors of observation, that they were
of a regular character, and of such a nature as would
arise from the action of a still more distant planet,

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 14.—The Wasp, 16, CoMmander
Sidney H. 17ssher, arrived this morning from the Coast
of Africa station, whereon she has been employed
during the greater part of the last four years in tho
suppression of the slave trade. She is ordered to sail, at
daylight to-morrow, for Sheerness, to be paid off. She
sailed from the Congo (Kabenda) station on the. 7th of
August, leaving there the Larne, 18, Commander Brii-
-16, Commander Hope. She ar-
bane, and the tittern,
rived at St. Helena Ell the 21st of 'Augnst, but firings no
more recent news of int.rest from that island than wo
reported by the Maria Soames. She sailed from Ascen-
sion on the 9th ult., leaving there the Actaeon, 26, Cap.
tarn Mansell (from whom she iZings Admiralty dis-
patches, which have been forwarded I; rail this even-
ing) ; the Favourite, 18, Commander JaiZrray ; and the
Cygnet, 6, Commander Montresor : the lat:er had been
surveyed and pronounced fit for further service.
The island of Ascension was healthy, as P:as the

the attention of astronomers was directed to ascertain
whether the disturbances were such as to point out
the position of the disturbing planet. As long ago as
the year 1842, a communication took place between Sir
John Herschel and the lamented German astronomer,
Bessel, on this subject ; and there is reason to suppose
that some researches on the subject will be found among
Bessel's papers • for, in a letter written, Nov. 14, 1842,
to Sir J. Herscel, Bessel says, " In reference to our
conversation at Collingwood, I announce to you that
Uranus is not forgotten." The question was, however,
taken up by other astronomers. Le Verrier, in France,
and Mr. Adams, of St. John's College, Cambridge, in
England, each in ignorance of each other's labours, pro-
ceeded to investigate this most intricate question, and
arrived independently at the same conclusion, that the
probable place of the suspected planet was about 325
deg. of heliocentric longitude. This was sufficient to
point out, within certain limits, the part of the heavens
at which the planet, if visible, would be seen ; and, in
consequence, Professor Challis, at Cambridge, for the
last two months, was engaged in mapping the neigh-
bouring stars, with a view of detecting the planet. Sir
John Herschel alluded to the probability that the
planet would be detected in the speech which he made
on resigning the chair at the late meeting of the
British Association. Having observed that the last
twelve months has given another new planet to our sys-
tem, he added, "It has done more. It has given us the
probable prospect of the discovery of another. We see
it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain.
Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-
reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly in-
ferior to ocular demonstation." _ _ _

This eloquent and glowing anticipation of the future
was soon to receive its accomplishment. On the 31st of
August Le Verrier made public the following elements
of the orbit of the supposed planet, deduced by most
laborious calculation from the observed disturbances:—
Semiaxis major
Eccentricity 0,10761
Longitude of Perihelion 284 deg. 45 min.
Mean long., Jan. 1,1847 318 deg. 47 min.
Periodic time 217,317 siderial years.

Mass ----
3900
He also -announced that the planet would probably
present a disc of about 3 sec. in magnitude. This an-
nouncement reached Dr. Galle, at Berlin. on the 23d' of
September, and on the same evening Dr. Galle, on com-
paring the stars in Dr. Bremiker's chart with the
heavens, found a star of the eighth magnitude which was
not marked upon the map. The place of this star was
accurately observed, and on comparing this piano with
its position on the following night, its motion, amounting
to about 4 deg. in right ascension, and 30 min. in decli-
nation, was detected ; and this star was proved to be the
expected new planet.
It ought to be noticed that the new investigations of
Le Verrier, accompanied with a recommendation to as-
tronomers to search for the planet by examining whether
any star presented a sensible disc, did not reach Cam-
bridge till September 29, and that Professor Challis, on
that very evening, singled out, one star, as seeming to
have a disc, and that star was the planet. Thus the
theory, derived by most abstruse calculation, from long-
continued accurate observation, has been completely
verified ; and a triumph has been gained which will go
down'to.posterity among tho most brilliant of astrono-
mical discoveries.

The known boundaries of our planetary system have
thus been nearly doubled; a planet is added to it requir-
ing more than 217 years to complete its revolution round
the sun; and moving in regions so remote as to receive
but 1-1300th part of the light and heat which our earth
enjoys.
It will remain to be discovered whether; as seems most
probable, this planet is accompanied with a train of at-
tendant satellites; whether its motions are in accordance
with the known laws of gravitation; or whether it, in
turn, is to s2rve as the means of a still further extension
of the solar system.
There is one circumstance connected with this new
planet which is too remarkable to be overlooked. It was
long since noticed by Bode, that the distance of the
planets from the sun follows a peculiar law, which may
be thus stated—that if the distance of Mercury from the
sun is assumed to be 4, the distance of Venus, the next
planet, is 3 added to 4, or 7; that of the earth, which is
next, is twice 3 added to 4, or 10; and thus, for the re-
maining planets, the distances from each other are
doubled every time, as may be seen from the following
table:—
Distance from
Name of Planet. Difference.
the Sun.
Mercury 4 3
Venus 7 3
Earth lO 7
Mars
Small Planet 2B 24
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus .. 196 192
New Planet
The distance of the new planet, then, approximately
satisfies this very remarkable law ; and the little
stranger is at once recognised as bearing a strong family
likeness to the other members of our system.
The new planet was observed at Durham observatory
Oct. 3 and Oct. 6 ; and the following results obtained:--;-
Greenwich Greenwich
mean time. R.A. mean time. H.D.D.
Oct. 3... 8.48 21.52.31.07
Oct. 6...11.88 .20.92 Oet. 6...11.25.6 103.28.55.1
TEMPLE CHEVALLIER.

COLLISION on the MANCHESTER

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squadron on the coast generally.
The Benguela division of the coast squadron, at the
above date, consisted
.of the Espoir, 10, Commander
Hand ; and the Rapid, 10, Commander Gooch.
The Congo division, where the stave trade is carried
on more perseveringly than at any other part.of the
coast, consisted of the Larne, Bittern, Waterwitch, 8,
Commander Birch; the Heroine, 8, Commander Ed-•
munds; the Hecate steam-sloop, Commander-West; tly.
Prometheus steam-sloop, COmmander Hay ; 'and the
Kingfi,her, 12, Commander Brown.

AND BOLTON RAILWAY.

MANCHESTER, WEDNESDAY.—This morning, at a
little before nine o'clock, an alarming collision took place
at the Windsor-bridge station of the Manchester and
Bolton Railway, about two miles from this town. The
Windsor-bridge station is only used on Wednesdays, to
accommodate the butchers and cattle-dealers attending
the great cattle market at Salford. Besides the Bolton
Company the East Lancashire Railway Company also
make use of the Bolton line as far as Clifton. The
traffic on that portion of the line is consequently very
great. It appears that one of the Bolton trains left that
town this morning at a quarter-past eight o'clock, arrived
at Windsor-bridge at about a quarter before nine
o'clock—a little behind its usual time. The train con-,
sisted of an engine, two luggage waggons, and
five passenger carriages. The butchers had just
got out of the carriages. when Mr. Woodruffe, the
station-keeper, heard a.. train arriving, and noticed
ono of the East Lancashire Railway Company's trains
approaching along the curve at a rapid rate. He
gave an alarm, and the engineer of the Bolton train put
on the steam, in, order to get away.- The steam being
set on to aftill pressure, the jerk occasioned by the
engine being so suddenly put in motion, broke the cou-
pling rod by which the three last carriages had been
attached to the train, which were, in consequence, left
standing loose, when the East Lancashire train came up
and dashed against the last,(a third-class) carriage with
a frightful crash. All those carriages were thrown oft'
the rail. The one struck was smashed almost to pieces;
and the other two were so much damaged that they will
be useless for the future. It appears, not a single pas-
senger received injury worth speaking of, and there was
only one who was so shaken as to be unable to walk. He
was assisted to the Windsor Castle public-house, where,
by the aid of a few stimulants, he speedily recovered.
The engineer of the East Lancashire train complained
that the slipperyness of the rails was the reason why he
could not stop his train sooner. _

A number Of workmen having been sent for the broken
carriages, they were taken away, and the obstruction
removed, in the course of an hour and a half.

The damage done will, we hear, amount to about 4001.,
and a strict inquiry will be instituted into the cause of
the accident.

Ai the Bight of Benin—The Styx steam sloop, Com-
mander Chaos; the Ranger, 10, Commander Anderson;
the Flying Fish, Commander Dyke; Pantaloon, 10,
Commander Douglas; and thellydra steam-sloop, Com-
mander Young.
At the Gallinas The Nimrod, 20, Commander
Dacres; the Alert, 6, Commander Ellis; the Ferret 8,
Commander Sprigg; the Star, 10, Commander ilb kin;
and the Rolla, 10, Commander Simpson.
The Lily, 16, Commander Newton, was off Congo.
The French squadron had been active in detecting
and detaining slavers, and the American corvette Ma-
rian lately detained an American vessel at Kabenda,
the Casquet, on suspicion of being engaged in the slave
trade.

The Brazilian Minister transacted business yesterday
at the Foreign-office,

The Wasp brought home Commander Hockin, late of
the Wasp and Star; Lieutenant Munton, late of the
Actaeon; Mr. Jones, late paymaster and purser of the
Cygnet; and the late paymaster and purser of the Lily.
The Echo steam-tug and Drake, lighter, brought the
depot companies of the 91st Regiment from Park-
hurst barracks to-day to assist in doing the garrison
duty at Portsmouth.
WOOLWICH, OCT. 14. The Wildfire steam-vessel,
Second Master George Brockman, arrived at INToolwilt
yesterday from Sheerness.
The Garland, Dover steam-packet, Captain Smithott,
arrived at Woolwich to day from Dover, to have some
defects made good, which she sustained by touching
Dover Harbour.

Captain Houston Stewart, C. 8., Superintendent of her
Majesty's dockyard, Woolwich, is on leave at present.
Commodore Sir Francis A. Collier, C. 8., and K.C.11.,
visited Woolwich dockyard to-day, and remained -some
time at the office.