The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-17 00:00:00

No. 16,716.

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING

GRAVESEND STAR and BLACKWALL
PACKETS.
Packet and Railway Fare included It. one Payment.
FROM THE BRUNSWICK WHARF, BLACKIVALL.
The Trains starting One Quarter of •n Hour before each of

P U.

t use times.
WEEK DAYS.—At 95%, 1051, 11, 12, 1%, 3%, 5,6, and 7.
SUNDAYS.—At 951, 101, li, 1%, 5,6, and 7.
FROM "'HE ISE TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND.
WEEK DAY 3. 7i, 951, 356, 11% 1,3, 4,5, and 6.
SUNDAYS.—At 7g, 8%, 11%, 3,
4,5, 6, and 7.
LOWEST FARES.
Fore Cabin and Second Class Railway, 6d.
Salosn and First Class Railway, 9d.

" Blessed is he that considereth the Poor."
POOR MAN'S GUARDIAN SOCIETY,
76, Great Portland-street.
Instituted to Aid the Poor in their Applications for Parochical Re-
lief and to secure to them the Legal and Humane Dispensation
of the Law.

VICE-PRESIDENTS.
John Walter, Esq., Bear Wood, Berks.
Thomas Wakley. Esq., M.P., Bedford-square.
Charles Cochrane, Esq., Devonshire-place.
The Lord Viscount Ranleagh, Park-place, St. James's
Charles Dickens, Esq., Devonshire-terrace.
John Fielden, Esq., M.P. for Oldham.
Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., F.R.S.
The Committee feel much pleasure in announcing to the Friends of
the Society, that the public Meeting, convened on the Bth instant,
at the Li erary and Scientific Institution, Edward-street, Portman-
square, presided over by Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., F.R S., was
numerously and re -pectably attended, and that an ample account of
its proceedings had been kindly given by the daily and weekly
papers. The rules for the government of this Society having now
been approved and adopted, they may be had on application to the
Secretary.
The Committee confidently hope, from the smallness of the pecu-
niary qualification, that the operative classes will evince a readiness
in enrolling their names as members of the Society, as they are de-
sirous of enlisting their early support and co-operation.
Rule 5. That a donor of live gaineas be considered a life member
of the Society, who, with annual subscribers of 10s. 6d. each, shall
be eligible for election on the Committee ; and that a contributor of
is. annually to the funds of the Society be entitled to a card of mem-
bership, admitting him to the privilege of attending and voting at all
public meetings of the society.
The beautiful drawing, illustrative of the benevolent objects of the
Society, executed expressly and gratuitously by Sir W. C. Ross, por-
trait painter to her. Majesty, Is now in theJsands of the engraver, 48
it is intended to he printed on every shilling card of membership.
The Committee feel that the Society is sufficiently organized as to
encourage them to enter upon their active duties, by investigating
two cases of apparent cruelty, involved in considerable mystery.
They beg the public will freely communicate with the Society, taking
care to have the information duly authenticated.
They are happy to announce the following commencement of sub
scriptions, made at the public meeting referring to :
Charles Dickens, Esq , Devonshire terrace - -
Mr. Metcalfe, 130 B, Oxford-street - - -
B. Bond Cabbell, Esq., F.R.S., Temple
Charles Cochrane, Esq., Devonshire-place - -
Henry Heald, Esq. 25, Throgmorton-street -
J. S. Waley, Esq., n, Devonshire-place
John Walter, Esq., of Bear Wood
Charles Jones, Esq., Cavendish-square
Captain Evans, 15, Upper Porchester-street -
J. S. Buckingham, Esq., 13, George-street -
M.
0 10 0
Mr. S. 3f. Young - . - - 010 6
Mr. S. E. Bridgman, Wigmore-street - - - 010 6
Mr. Garth r; 20, Princes-street - - - - 010 6
H. Heath, Esq.
E. Staines, Esq.
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11l subscriptions are requested to be paid to the credit of the
" Poor Man's Guardian Society," at Sir Claude Scott and Co.'s,
Cavendish square ; or to Mr. John Jones, secretary, 76, Great Port-
land-street.

£5 5 0
5 5 0
10 10 0
10 10 6
10 10 0
5 5 •
10 10 0
5 4 0

Wakefield, April 16th, 1846,

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR

ANCE SOCIETY,
26. CORNHILL, LONDON.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This institution offers important and sulastantial advan-
tages with respect both to, Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities.
The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borr)w, without ex-
pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid,
(see table); also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion
)f hi, interests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances
'or terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates.

DIVISION OF PROFIT'.
The success and increasing prosperity 01 the Society leas enablec
he Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a third
Bonus, varying from 3u to 75 per cent. on the premiums paid on
.ach Policy effected on the Prot scale.

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OLYAYS.
RNovelties of extrEASTEReir p interest and informcdion at the OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION
Scenes in the OREGON TERRITORY a part of an en-
tirely NESceW SERIES of DISSOLVING VIEWS.form PORTRAITS of
the most Distinguished Men in the SIKH GOVERNMENT and
ARMY of LAHORE, magnified by the OPAQUE MICROSCOPE ;
also, Portraits of Sir Henry Hardinge, Sir Robert and Lady Side. The
PHYSIOSCOPE and CHRO3IATROPE, with new and beautiful
variations. The most interesting of the Novelties at work are
MACINTOSH'S ROTARY ENGINE, COLEMAN'S PATENT
LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE for ascending and descending Inclined
Planes, FARRELL'S ARCHIMEDIAN RAILWAY, an ENVE-
LOPE CUTTING MACHINE, WOOD'S NEW PATENT STEAM-
ENGINE GOVERNOR, and the ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY.
Experiments with the DIVING BELL and DIVER. Lectures on
CHEMISTRY and NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, with brilliant ex-
periments.

Schools Half- price.
A brief Description Admission of the Oregon Territory, from Notes by a Nine
Years' Resident, presented to the Visitors:

UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF PRINCE ALBERT.
TSYDNGARDENS , BATH.
HE LARGEST HORSE IN THE WORLD
will be exhibited as above, during the Easter Week. The
MAMMOTH HORSE, " General Washington," the property of Mr.
Carter, the "Lion Klug." He is twenty hands in height, weighs
twenty-five hundred weight, and Is the most remarkable animal, as
regards size and shape, that has been ever seen.
Open from Ten In the Morning till Dusk.

TO COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS.
WANTED, A FIRST-RATE BUSINESS
MAN, to represent an established home.
Apply by letter to Messrs. J. and J. Colman, No. 1, Dovrgate-hill,
London.

MIDLAND
LEEDS, WAKEFIELD, AND MIDLAND
JUNCTION .RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that a MEETING of the L'ICRIPHOLDERS
in this Company will be held at the Stafford Arms Inn, Wakefield,
on MONDAT, the 27th day of April instant, at one o'clock in the
afternoon. A report of the present state and futare prospects of the
Company, and the Bill now before Parliament, will be then submitted
to the Scripholders, and their opinion and directions taken thereon.
The Directors are induced to call this meeting on account of the
intimation given by the Government authorities with reference to the
further proceedings of Railway Bilk; now before Parliament.
The votes at the meeting will be taken by the namber.of shares;
and to give distant holders the opportunity of voting, proxies have
been prepared, and may be obtained at the offices of the Company in
Cheapside, Wakefield.
All persons wishing to vote by proxy must, on or before the 24th
of April instant, deposit with the Secretary the scrip in respect of
which they claim to vote, for which an accountable receipt will be
given, and the scrip will be returned after the meeting.
Shareholders attending the meeting will be required to produce the
scrip in respect of which they claim to attend and vote.
By order of the Board,
HENRY BERNERS, Secretary.

SPENCER'S ESE LIQUID HAIR DYE
changes in a few minutes, without treuble, red or grey hair,
whiskers, eyebrows, moustaches, &c., to a dark brown or black, by
simply using a comb wetted with the liquid. One application will produce a pleasing and permanent change. Price 3s, 6d., 65., and
10s. per bottle.
To be had of the Proprietors, 29, Nottingham-place, Ficldgate-
street, Whitechapel-road, London ; also If Mr. Johnstone, 68, Corn-
hill ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Prout, 229, Strand ; hanger, 150, Oxford-
street; Barclay, Farringdon-street ; Atkinson, 24, Old Bond-
street; Hooper, 43, King William-street, London .bridge; Finnigin,
Milsom-street, Batt ; Elmore, Bull-street, Birmingham; and of most
Perfumers and Medicine 'Vendors is town and country. Sent to
aay part of the kingdom by receiving a remittance, pest-paid.
Please to ask for " Spencer and Co.'s Chinese Liquid Hair Dye."
Observe, the Proprietor's address is on the wrapper.


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Rae decisive and systematic plan of groyning, in Order
to repel this encroaclunent, be at once adopted, it is inbv
possible to predict what mischief may arise to this
valuable harbour.
Harwich also offers an instance of the necessity of
again defining the limits of ports, as the ,corporation of
Ipswich claims by charter and daily exercises the right
of levying anchorage dues upon vessels lyiitg close to
the face of the town of Harwich, and manifestly far
removed from the natural limit of the port of Ipswich.
It appears from the Parliamentary returns that the
aggregate debt of the several ports of the United King-
dom, exclusive of docks in the port of Landon, exceeds
4,000,000/ sterling; one-fourth part, therefore, of the
whole harbour income of 800,0004 a year must be an-
nually apprepriated to pay the interest of this debt,
which will consequently materially cripple the means
for future improvements. This large sum, although
borrowed with the sanction of the Legislature, has been
laid out entirely by several local boards, without the
slightest control being exercised over it either by Par-
liament or by any other power specially charged to
watch over the interest of the public.
Among the numerous cases of the misapplication of
harbour funds, to which we have already had occasion
to refer, a sum of more than 28,000/. expeoded last year
in Parliamentary and legal expenses connected with
Bills for the improvement of harbours, seems to your
Commission to be a most impolitic and unnecessary out-
lay, and one which might be entirely prevented ffy the
establishment of a harbour conservancy board, such As
we have humbly ventured to submit to your Majesty's
consideration.
From the competition already commenced between
we fear that unless
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have received since that report was presented fully con-
vince us of the correctness of the opinions we then ex-
pr sed, and we feel confident-that, if the various and tie-
qu ntly conflicting auth6rities,.•to whaait guardianship
Ith conservancy of this noble river is entrusted, could be •
s
in aced to co-operate cordially in its improvement, and
to carryon their operations jointly on one sound and
telifsirai -Sys:,em, the impediments which now ajscredit
dui local administrations and endanger the commerce of
the metropolis, might be speedily and cheaply removed.
And in strong corroboration of our own view of this sub-
ject, we subjoin the following extract feolu the report
of 'a select Committee of the House of Cut omens in the
year 1836, specially appointed to inquire into the state
of the port of London:—
"That this Committee are of opinion that the various
conflicting ig
• • • sll'and claims of the Admiralty,
the Trinity e, nd the Corporation of the city of Lon-
doa, over the fiver Thames below the brid,es, have had
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a most injurious effect upon the interests of navigation ;
that it is desirable they should be consolidated and vested
in pome one responsible body, and that means should be
found to provide for the removal of shoals and obstruc-
tions in the bed of the river."
All these fat's and considerations induce us most
earinestly to repeat the recommendation, which we ven-
tured dutifully to submit to your Majesty in our former
report, that all the tidal harbours in the United King-
'loin be placed under the special care of a board of ob-
servancy, to be formed under the authority and provi-
sions of an /Vet of Parliament (of which we annex a
Bill), being fully convinced that any less stringent and
decisive measures will be found wholly inadequate for
the accomplishment of the great national object which
your Majesty has been graciously pleased to direct us to
consider and examine.
All which we humbly certify to your Majesty.
William Bowles, Rear-Admiral, M.l'., chairman ;
J. J. Gordon Bremer, Captain, R.N. ; Joseph
Hume, M.P. ; Aaron Chapman, M.P. ; Edward
R. Rice, M.P. ; Thomas Baring, M.P. ; F.
Beaufort, Hydrographer • G. B. Airy, Astro-
nomer Royal ; John Washington, Captain,
R.N. ; Richard Godson, Q.C. and M.P., Coun-
sel to the Admiralty.
London, 20th March, 1846.