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No. 161699. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING Ny FEBRUARY 21, 1846. PRICE SD.

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CONTRACT FOR MEAT.
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seven o'clock in the evening, to contract for supplying the poor of
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T. D. ROBINSON. Vestry-clerk.
Feb. 21, 1846.

RAILWAY LEGISLATION.
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OBSERVATION S illustrative of the DEFECTS
of tho ENGLISH SYSTEM of RAILWAY LEGISLATION,
and of its Injurious Operation on the Public Interests; with iSuggos-
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• By JAMES MORRISON, Esq., m.r.
London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman.

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DR. CU LVE RWEL L ON MARRIAGE,
its HINDRANCES and OBLIGATIONS.

To be or not to be, that la the quettion."—Shakepeare.
Contents :---On Matrimonial Eligibility and Unfitneas—Laws of
Paternity—Phenemona of Gestation—On Maternal Influence—On
infelicitous and unproductive Unions--Cariosities of Medical Export-
°ACC, Cases, &c. &C.
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LAMERT ON DEBILITY, NERYOUSNESS, AND ALL
DISORDERS ARISING FROM aXCB6B, &a.
"lie, who in pleasure's downy arms
lie'er lost his health or youthful charms,
A hero lives, and justly coal
Exclaim, in use behold a man I"
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and terminating in Nervous Debility, Local and Constitutional
Weakness, and all those Sinkings, Anxieties, and Tremors, {villa)
afflict the Weak, the Sedentary, and the Delicate. With rractical
Observations on Marriage.
By SAMUEL LIMERT
FORD-SQUA , ConsultingAeon,
9, BEDY.ORD-STREET, BED LOON',
Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorer)
Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate
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the 61st Regiment, to be Captain, vice T. Redmond, de-
ceased, Feb. 4 ; Lieutenant J. Thomson, jun., to be Captain,
vice R. Parsons, deceased, Feb. 5 ; W. T. Hall, Esq., late
Lieutenant of the 6th Royal Regiment, to be Lieutenant,
vice J. Crowther, deceased; Lieutenant William Thomas
Hall, to be Adjutant, with the rank
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Walker to be Lieutenant, Feb. 6; Ensign J. Quallette to be
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Captain, vice Cooke, resigned, Feb. 11 ; J. Haythorne,
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Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire.
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Esq., to be Captain, vice the Hon. J. C. Talbot, resigned ; L.
Cope;Gent ,to be .ieutenant,:vicelDaniels, deceased„Feb. 14.
WHITEHALL, Dne. 24, 1845.
The Right llon. Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, Tint.,
Lord Chief Justice or Lne C,urt
Comnioa Pitne, hag ap-
pointed Edward Bryan Jones, of Newtown, in the county of
Montgomery, Gent., to be one of the Perpetual Commissioners
for taking the acknowledgments of deeds to be executed by
married women, under the Act passed for the abolition of
fines and recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple
modes of assurance, in and for the county of Montgomery,
also in and for the counties of Radnor and Salop.
WHITEHALL, FEB. 10.

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Machynlleth, in the county of Montgomery, Gent., to be a
Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
BANKRUPTS.

Abraham Trebout, jun., silk manufacturer, Steward-street,
Spitaltields, to surrender Feb. 27, at eleven, and April 3,
at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official
assignee, Basinghall-st. ; Smith and Taylor, Basinghall-st.
James Harriss, butcher, Leadenhall-market, Feb. 27, at
half-past one, and April 3, at two, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane ; Withing-
ton, Dean-street, Finsbury-square.
Henry Docker, oilman, Pall mall, March 5, at twelve,
and March 31, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry-chambers;
Goren, South Molton-street.
Charles Collins, yarn and commission agent, King William-
street, City, March 10, at half-past one, and April 3, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official
City, March 3, at two, and
s Earith, jun., ware-
housemen, Gresham-street,
it assignee;olllalldD aHniile r
Bfi
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rh aanacde r3C- -laneh ar
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March 31, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green,
official assignee, Coleman .street ; Sole and Co., Aldermanbury.
John Dalton, grocer, Wandsworth, March 5, at half-past
eleven, and March 31, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
iGraham,ars ado.fficial assignee,Coleman-street ; Blake, Black-
_
James Knox, carpenter, Black Horse-yard, Bond-street,
March 3 and April 7, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Black-
friars-road. fr
Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street ;
Goren, South Melton-street, Oxford-street.
Robert Kimpton, jeweller, Crescent, Jewin-street, Cripple-
gate, Feb. 27, at half-past twelve, and March 27, at two, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street; Goodman and Co., Coleman-street.
Thomas Maginnis Taylor, merchant, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, March 5, at eleven, and April 7, at two, at the New-
castle-upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee,
hNoeiwmcea,sitilea-lul
,paoand- Tyne;
Gibson, H Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Chis-
Inn-fields, London.
James Birkett, tanner, Cockermoutb, Feb. 27 and April 8,
at two, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker,
official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Waugh, Cocker-
mouth ; Cram, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Joseph Phillips, William Hague, and Samuel Hague, cot-
ton spinners, Manchester, March 3 and 25, at twelve, at the
Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manches-
ter ; Sharp, Field, and Jackson, Bedford-row, London ; Laces,
Myers, Rigge, and Roscoe, Liverpool.
Charles Collins, yarn dealer, Kidderminster, Marsh 14 and
30, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston,
official assignee, Birmingham ; Boycot, Kidderminster; Mot-
teram and Knowles, Birmingham.
John Choyce Chambers, needle manufacturer, Ipsley,
Warwickshire, March 2 and 30, at eleven, at the Birming-
ham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birming-
ham ; Browning, Redditch ; Nelson and Co., Gresham-
place, London.
James Milner, innkeeper, Stourport, Worcestershire, March
2 and April 3, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court.
Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham ; Ludlow, Birmingham ;
Dimmock and Burbey, Sise-lane, London.
Edwin Hoare, clothier, Painswick, Gloucestershire, March
9, at twelve, and April 6, at eleven, at the Bristol District
Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol ; Adey, Wooton-
under-Edge, Gloucestershire.
DIVIDENDS DECLARED.

IT. 11. Alexander, hardwareman, Clifton. street, Finsbury
—third div. of 12s. Yd. in the pound, on Saturday, Fob. 21,
and two following Saturdays, at the office of Mr. Groom, Ab-
church-lane, City.

T. Smyth, perfumer, Marchmont-street, Brunswick-square
—second dir. of 10d. in the pound, on Saturday, Feb. 21,
and two following Saturdays, at the office of Mr. Groom,
Abchurch-lane, City.
1N Verey, licensed victualler, High-street, Kingsland
first div. of 7.1. in the pound, on Monday, Feb. 23, and two
following Mondays, at the office of Mr. Alsager, Birchin-
lane, City.
J. F. Armstrong, coal merchant, Blackheath--second dir.
of Is. Id. in the pound, on Monday, Feb. 23, and two follow-
ing Mondays, at the office of Mr. Alsager, Birchin-lane, City.
J. Tunks, cowkeeper, Scardell-terrace, Kensington—first
div. of 3s. 6d. in the pound, on Monday, Feb. 23, and two
following Mondays, at the office of Mr. Alsager, Birchin-
lane, City.
J. Brakenbridge, tailor, Liverpool—first div. of 10s. in the
pound, on Wednesday, Feb. 25, or any subsequent Wednes-
day, at the office of Mr. Morgan, Liverpool.
E. Thomas, wine merchant, Clifton—first div. of 4s. in the
pound, on any Monday, at the office of Mr. Miller, Bristol.
J. S. Chard, tanner, Frome Selwooti, Somersetshire—first
div. of 10s. 10d. in the pound, on any Monday, at the office
of Mr. Miller, Bristol.
P. W. Smith. tanner, Bristol—second div. of 2s. 100. in
the pound, on any Monday, at the office of Mr. Acraman,
Bristol. _ _

F. Sneade, timber merchant, Chester—a div. of Is. 3id.
in the pound, on any Monday, at the office of Mr. Turner,
Liverpool.
J. L. Webster, Tattenhall, Chester—third div. of 4s. in
the pound, on any Monday, at the office of Mr. Turner,
Liverpool.
W. Harding, son., mason, Vincent-square, Westminster—
a div. of 85. in the pound, on any Friday, at the office of Mr.
Follett, Sambrook-court, Basingtiall- street.

LITERATURE.

MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF
THE MARQUIS WELLESLEY. By Robert
Rouiere Pearce, Esq. 3 Vole.
These memoirs, though not arranged in the best
manner, nor distinguished by much ability in writing,
are, however, of great value, as they embody the prin-
cipal events in the life of a most distinguished statesman,
and furnish many useful letters and documents necessary
to form a just estimate of the vast services which the
Marquis Wellesley rendered to his country. With the
exception of his illustrious brother and the immortal
Nelson, it would be difficult to find any one who did so
much to raise the character of England, or who achieved
such important victories. Mr. Pearce begins from the
beginning, and gives ample details of the Wellesley
family, its antiquity, and even royal descent, for he
traces it to one of the Kings of Ireland, the character
of the first Earl of Mornington, father of the Marquis,
his groat love for music, and many other circumstances,
with which the curiosity of the reader will be much gra-
tified. Till we read these volumes, we were not aware
that the family name was so lately changed as during
the administration of Lord Mornington in India, and
that when the Duke went out to that part of the world,
he was called the Hon. Arthur Wesley. The follow-
ing brief but interesting letter places the matter beyond
doubt, and it is curious to observe that the qualities for
which Wellington has been distinguished through his
long career, attracted so early the attention of the Mar-
quis Cornwallis. It is a simple letter of introduction
from a former Governor-General of India to Sir John
Shore, who preceded the Earl of Mornington in that
high station :
" Dear Sir—l beg leave to introduce to you Colo-
nel Wesley, who is Lieut.-Colonel of my regiment ;
he is a sensible man and a good officer, and will, I
have no doubt, conduct himself in a manner to merit
your approbation.—l am, &c.,—CORNIVALLIS."
It thus appears that Col. Wesley left for India a consi-
derable time before the Marquis was appointed Gover-
nor-General. These memoirs embrace the public life
of the Marquis from his first appearance in the Irish
House of Lords till his appointment as Lord-Lieutenant
of his native country ; but by far the most important
part of it relates to his Government in India. At the
period of his appointment, the year 1797, the British pos-
sessions in India were in a most defenceless, and conse-
quently, dangerous condition. French influence was all
powerful at several of the courts of the native princes,
and espeeially at Hyderabad and Nizam, as well as
throughout the greater part of the Mahratta territory.
Tippoo Saib was plotting against England—lie was in
constant correspondence with French agents, and even
the Government at Paris—he was enlisting French
troops into his service, and the Marquis Wellesley (then
Lord Mornington) had every reason to believe that is a
very short period after his arrival, India would be
invaded by a French army, His Lordship, with the
usual decision of his family, resolved at onco to defeat a
project which involved the fate oflndia ; and India, owing
to the parsimonious system lately adopted, was but little
fitted for a contest with Tippoo Seib and the other discon-
tented nabobs, aided by French reinforcements. Welles-
ley, however,would see no difficulties; he resolved to rouse
the sleepy officials appointed by the India House, and
announced that nothing short of depriving Tippoo
Saib of the power of doing mischief could afford
the British Government security against his de-
signs, as well as those of the French Directory.
When the fact was made known to General Harris,
then Governor of Madras, it created the utmost con-
sternation. The bare idea of the renewal of war with
Tippoo filled the members of that Government with ap-
prehensions, and several of them protested in the
strongest terms against the proposition to assemble an
army on the coast of Coromandel; even the Commander-
in-Chief, Lord Harris, shrunk at first sight from the
enterprise, but, like a good soldier, answered—" On my
part, your Lordship may depend on my following your
instructions implicitly." Remonstrances, however, were
still urged by the timid ; and difficulties for money, and
men, and everything, were pointed out ; but the noble
Governor-General could see no " lion in the way;" ho
saw that victory was within his reach, that the strength
of England was equal to the task, and notwithstanding
Tippoo's 700 elephants, 6,000 camels, 300,000 fire-locks,
200,000 swords, 2,000 pieces of cannon, and a regular
away of 100,000 men, with 40,000 irregular infantry,
he resolved to lose not a moment in bringing the affair
to an issue. With that view, he began with Nizam ;
induced the ruler of that territory to admit, in place of
2,000, 6,000 subsidiary British troops into his pay,
and compelled him, by great tact and daring,
to disband the whole French corps as soon
as the British troops should arrive. Eleven
thousand men laid down their arms on promise of pay
and future employment, and the French officers com-
manding thew were delivered up to the British com-
mander, who sent them, with all their property and
arrears of pay, to France. The result of this great
negotiation raised the spirits of the officials at Madras;
Marquis Wellesley began to be regarded as a man of some
ability, and its effects were visible on the rulers of the
neighbouring states. Tippoo, however, still held out, and
endeavoured, by deceit and lying, to protract the contest
till he could be assured of speedy assistance from France.
That the Governor-General was determined to anti-
cipate, and he accordingly gave directions to General
Harris to put his army in motion and pursue Tippoo
Sultan to his last retreat. In the short space of two
morths the war was brought to a close, and a kingdom
yielding an annual revenue of more than a million
sterling was transferred in full sovereignty to the East
India Company. In nearly all his other measures for
the better government of India, the Marquis was equally
successful, yet the directors and he never acted cor-
dially together. He had reason also to complain of want
of support from the Board of Control, at the head of
which was Henry Dundas, afterwards Lord Melville. In
a letter to Lord Castlereagh, dated 1805, he states
the difficulties he had to contend with in these words:—
" The motives of the conduct of my personal enemies at
the India-house are sufficiently evident; and my expecta-
tions from that quarter are rather disappointed by any
transient and momentary gleam of justice and reason, which
may acideutally appear in the general tumult of personal pre-
judice and vindictive fury. But from your Lordship I con-
fidently expect more comprehensive views of policy and early
jnstice. Perhaps my long habits of familiar acquaintance
with the affairs of this country may render objects clear and
distinct to my comprehension, which may require explana-
tion and illustration for the information •f others. My
situation, however, is, under such circumstances, become
most painful, and indeed dangerous—exposed to the most
severe responsibility and pressed by the constant and urgent
necessity of acting for the security of this vast empire, upon
the view of local exigencies, with limited means of exertion,
with a certainty of the most indefatigable counteraction from
the India-house, and with a doubt of timely, effectual, or
direct support from the Crown."
In adverting to the conduct of the directors he uses
different language, and his provocation must have been
great, for with this exception he speaks mildly, and
generally favourably of almost every person about
whom he writes. He appears to have been a man of a
most amiable disposition, with a mind totally inaccessible
to envy, jealousy, or personal hatred. The following
extracts, however, will show that he could resent perse-
cution, and also that he preferred the interests of his
country to the favour of the Lords of Leadenh all-street :

" TO LORD VISCOUNT CASTLERF.AGIL

" ' Fort William, 18t March, 1804.

" ' My dear Lord,—

" I request your Lordship to be assured of the deep sense
which I entertain of your honourable conduct towards me.
It is unnecessary to repeat to your Lordship my utter con-
temp,t of any opinions which may be entertained by
Mr. • and the Court of Directors, or to apprise you
that I a.xpect every practicable degree of injustice and base-
ness frcra; that faction.—l have the honour to be, &c.,
"' WELLESLEY.'
"Lord 'Wellesley speaks in a still higher strain of asperity
and anger in fi subsequent part of the same letter (19th of
June, 1804):--
'‘ 'Your Lordship may be assured that I entertain a just
sense of the sentiments of public and private honour from
which your conduct towards; me has proceeded; and that I
rely with the most entire confidence upon your Lordship's
justice and public spirit to frustrate the vindictive profligacy
of the Court of Directors, and to expose to the view of my
Sovereign and my country, in the most distinct and per-
spicuous manner, the motives, principles, conduct, and re-
sult, of every branch oit' :my administration in India. My
sincere and anxious hol to is, that every point of difference
between me and the Cc Curt of Directors may be fully ex-
plained to Parliament ; and to the public. Nor can your
Lordship and Mr. Add tington, by any act of friendship,
afford me a protection so grateful to my feelings, or so ad-
vantageous to my char& tter, as by a full disclosure to Par-
liament of every act or my administration, and of every
proceeding of the Court. of Directors, since I have had the
-misfortune to be subjecto.d to the ignominious tyranny of
I.eadenhall-street. lam induced to hope that I shall be en-
abled to relinquish the %service of my honourable employers
in the month of January or February next. Your Lordship,
I however, may be assured, that as no symptoms of tardy re-
znorse displayed by the ),lonourable Court, in consequence of
,my recent success in Ind] a, will vary my present estimation
of the faith and honour of my very worthy and approved
good masters, or protract my continuance in India for one
hour beyond the limits p rescribed by the public interests, so
no additional outrage, injury, or insult, which can issue from
the most loathsome den of the India-house, will accelerate
nay departure, while the public safety shall appear to require
pay aid in this arduous station.'"
The rest of the work is occupied chiefly with details
On the assistance which the Marquis in Parliament gave
'to his brother while commanding in the Peninsula, his
adainistration of Ireland, and a brief account of his
latt4 ‘r days. •

superstition; and, without any arrogant:boasting, we may
indeed regard the deeds accomplished in our own genera-
tion as a great and almost incontrovertible argument in
favour of the ultimate perfectability of mankind ; —this
of course always premising, that there be no vast and un-
foreseen recoil, either moral or natural. A portrait of
Sir John F. W. Herschcll is the frontispiece, and a
sketch of Mount Hecla forms an appropriate vignette—
that gigantic volcano having been in a state of eruption
during September and October last. There is not one
single page in the " Year Book of Facts" but what con-
veys some kind of useful or singular information to the
mind; in addition to which the style in which it is em-
bodied is at once popular and concise. Per se the volume
is of much value; in connexion with the more vo-
luminous works of a !scientific character, published
during the past twelve months, the present will prove
most admirable as a text-book.

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COUNT JULIAN; a Romance of Spanish History

By W. Gilmore Simms.
The author of this fiction has been already introduced
to the novel readers of Great Britain, through reprints
of some of his most successful productions. Among
these, " The Yemassee," " The Kinsmen," &c., identified
him as not the least gifted of American novelists, while
they tended much to extend his popularity. In the pre-
sent work, " Count Julian," the spirited proprietor of the
Novel Newspaper, brings an original, that is to say, a
hitherto unpublished romance, from the pen of Mr.
Simms, into his clever serial, of which it forms Part
LXXXI. As to giving a summary of the plot, or even
a mention of the catastrophe—we consider such a course
as the most ungrateful one a reviewer can adopt,
destroying as it does the main allurement of the work
under consideration—namely, its interest. We shall
therefore content ourselves with saying that " Count
Julian" is a somewhat fascinating, but also a somewhat
cumbrous story. A few actual occurrences form its
skeleton—imagination does the rest ; and this fact is
throughout too perceptible. The incidents are visionary
—singularly visionary. Some of the characters are too
repulsive— tinctured with a Sue-like villainy that de-
stroys their probability : of this cast is the Archbishop
Oppas, the like of whom never existed except in a
morbid fancy like that of Mr. Simms. We may par-
ticularize the description of the battle-scene as the most
powerfully wrought in the volume. The dust, and the
blood, and the yells, and the steam of the conflict envelope
the reader during its perusal. There are glimpses, too
—dainty ones and delicate—of the greenwood, with its
surging tree-tops and Os solemn army of grey trunks
and trailing boughs. Nor is there a lack of love-
passages, of trysts, and troth and plighted hearts ; the
belle passionne in the hands of Mr. Simms resembling in
some measure the golden key :of the Calendar in the
Arabian story—leading on to many episodes of other
and darker passions—revenge, and hatred, and envy,
and scorn, and malice. The text upon which the entire
fiction is fabricated is the " glorious fault," ambition.
As another illustration of that so-called crime, " Count
Julian" has an almost perplexing interest.