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THE ATLAS TO ALISON'S HISTORY OF
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MAPS and PLANS :-
PARIS at the OUTBREAK of N OUNT THABOR, 1799.
the REVOLUTION. STOCKICH, 1799.
The NETHERLANDS, &c., il- ZURICH, 1799.
lustrating the Campaigns of NOVI, 1799.
1792 to 1795 HOHENLINDEN, 1800.
FRANCE, for the Campaigns of COPENHAGEN, 1801.
1793. LA VENDEE, Re. AUSTERLITZ, 1805.
NORTHERN ITALY, SOUTH JENA, 1806.
GERMANY, &c., to illustrate PULTUSK, 1806.
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LOWER EGYPT, and Part of HEILSBERG, 1807.
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OPEIIA T I 0 N S AROUND
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PLEURAS, 1794. HANAU, 1813.
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HJ RAILWAY.

TO THE SHAREHOLDERS.
Two years ago I attended a General Meeting at Nine Elms, and
then told my brother Shareholders and our Directors that all our ef-
forts to obtain the Aet for the Cornwall and Devon Central Railway
would prove unavailitw. I was sure of it from a knowledge of facts,
which I then tried to bring before you, but I was not believed. I
need scarcely remind you that the errors in your deposit plans, with
some of which I was acquainted, eauoed the rkjection of uur BM on
the first day that it was brought before the Standing Order Com-
mittee.
Yesterday I attended a meeting at Nine Elms, but it was not easy
to give expression there to facto which it is important for you to
know. I therefore take this means of informing you, that the mile-
age receipts of the Railway, as well as our dividends, are diminished
by the extension of our line. lam in possession of an official docu-
ment, by which I find that in 1845 we had 92% miles of Railway in
operation, bringing in a gross weekly return of about 631. per mile.
In 1346 the Line was extended to 105 miles, and returned about
531. per mile per week. This reduction of 101. per mile per week
may be accounted for by tke circumstance of the fares being reduced;
but in 1847 we have 188 miles open with a return of only 381. per
mile per week, being 151. per mile less than the former year.
With these figures before us, we need not be at a loss to account
for a diminution in the Dividend. If such be the result of our exten-
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the public.
It is probable that same who voted yesterday for extensions west-
ward are hardly aware that we have already spent more than a quar-
ter of a million sterling in this fruitless game; and not only so, but
that the ground which it is proposed to occupy was pronounced by
the late Thomas Telford to be the most difficult district for road con
struction of any he had examined in the whole course of his life.
I remain, y,urs respectfully,
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The Lord Bishop of London has licensed the Rev.
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Church of Sr. Mark, Old street road. A district forming
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer has received 71.
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different times evaded." Tho amount will be paid into
the receipt of the Exchequer.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen held a Court and Privy Council at three
o'clock yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace
At the Court the Earl of Aberdeen had an audience
of the Queen, and delivered to her Majesty the riband
and badge of the. Order of the Bath, worn by his
brother, the late Sir Robert Gordon.
The Privy Council was attended by his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, the Lord President, the
Lord Chancellor, the First Lord of the Treasury, the
Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Co-
lonial Departments ; the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Chancellor of
the Duchy of Lancaster, the President of the Board
of Control for the Affairs of India, the President of
the Board of Trade, the Lord Steward, the Lord
Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, and the Groom
of the Stole to Prince Albert.
The Queen in Council made an alteration in the
Sheriffs for Radnorshire and Nottinghamshire.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in Waiting.
Her Majesty gave audience to the Marquis of
Lansdowne, Lord John Russell, and Viscount
Palmerston.
The Court was attended by the Marquis of An-
glesey, Gold Stick in Waiting ; Lord Elphinstone,
Lord in Waiting ; the Treasurer of the Household,
the 'Vice-Chamberlain, the Comptroller of the House-
hold, and Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Robert Boyle,
Groom in Waiting.
Their Royal llighnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Saxe-Coburg visited her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent, at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's,
yesterday, and also visited their Royal Highnesses
the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, at Cambridge
House.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales,
Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess
Alice, took walking and riding exercise yesterday.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Helena was taken
an airing yesterday.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent dined
with her Majesty and Prince Albert yesterday
evening.
Colonel Bouverie has relieved Colonel Seymour in
the duties of Equerry in Waiting to his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and
the Duchess of Gloucester visited the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge yesterday.
Sir William C. Ross, R.A., took the last sitting for
the miniature of her oyal Highness the Duchess of
Saxe-Coburg, painted by command of the Queen.

The Earl of Oxford bad an interview with Sir
George Gray yesterday. General Bell had also an
interview with the Right Hon. Baronet at the Home-
office.
Lord Rendlesham had an interview with the Right
lion. Edward Strutt, en Wednesday, at the office
of the Commissioners of Railways in the Board of
Trade.
The Earl St. Germans had an interview with Earl
Grey on Wednesday. Mr. Wilson, M.P., had also
an interview with the Noble Earl, on Wednesday, at
the Colonial-office.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had
a general meeting yesterday.
Lord Kinnaird had an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Mr. Hindley,
M.P., had also an interview yesterday with the Right
Hon. Baronet, at his official residence in Downing-
street. _

A deputation from the Society for the Encourage-
ment of Arts and Manufactures, consisting of Sir
John Boileau, Bart., Alr. G. Bailey, Mr. Cole, Mr.
Le Neve Foster, Mr. J. S. Lefevre, and Mr. Scott
Russell, had an interview with the Right Hon. Henry
Labouchere yesterday, at the Board of Trade, to sub-
mit a proposal for increasing the efficiency of the
Government Schools of Design, and the establishment
of a National Exhibition of British Manufactures.
Sir Edmund Head had an interview with Earl
Grey yesterday.
Dispatches from the Governor of the Cape of Good
Hope were received yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from
the Colonial-office, for the Governors of Malta, Ceylon,
and Hong-Kong.
A deputation from the Buckinghamshire Railway
had an interview with the Right Hon. Edward Strutt,
on Wednesday, at the office of the Commissioners of
Railways, on the presentation of the memorial to the
Railway Commissioners on the part of the local in-
terests of the Buckinghamshire Railway Company
and the county of Buckingham, against the proposed
alteration of the Birmingham and Oxford Railway
from a single gauge to a double gauge railway.
The deputation consisted of the Marquis of Chandos,
M.P. for Buckingham; Mr. J. P. Deering, M.P. for
Aylesbury; Mr. C. G. Dupre, M.P. for Buckingham-
shire ; Sir Harry Verney, Bart., M.P. for Bedford ;
Mr. James Trevor, sen., Broughton House ; Mr.
Robert Field, Banbury; Mr. J. Harrison, sen.,
Buckingham ; Mr. R. Peile, Banbury ; Mr. Joseph
Howard, Aylesbury ; Mr. W. J. E. Bartlett, Buck
ingham ; Mr. George King, Buckingham; Mr. R.
Rowland, Aylesbury ; Mr. S. B. Dudley, agent to
W. S. Lowndes, Esq., `Winslow; Mr. H. Humphreys,
Buckingham ; Mr. T. Hearn, Buckingham ; Mr.
Samuel Allen, Buckingham ; Captain Dewes, Mr.
Hunt, Mr. George Nelson, Rev. T. Silvester, Mr. T.
Swain, Mr. Wyndham Harding, Secretary to the
Company; and Messrs. Dorington and Ellicombe,
Parliamentary agents to the Company.
Dispatches were sent off, on Wednesday evening,
from the Colonial• office, for the Governors of the
West India colonies.
Dispatches were received, on Wednesday, at the
Colonial-office, from the Governors of the Cape of
Good Hope, New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land,
New Zealand, and South Australia.

THE EX-ROYAL FAMILY OF

FRANCE.

The Duke do Nemours and the Duchess de Mont
pensier remained in privacy throughout yesterday at
East Sheen. Their Excellencies the Belgian Minister
and the French Minister visited their Royal Highnesses
during the day.
The Countess de Montjoie, one of the ladies in wait-
ing on the ex-Queen, arrived at Hertford House yester-
day, from France, attended by a female servant. The
Countess did* not alight at the embassy, but proceeded
direct to East Sheen, on learning the present residence
of the Duke de Nemours. Her Ladyship, we under-
stand, brings no intelligence whatever of the ex-King
and Queen.
A general officer, one of the Duke de Nemours' aides-
de-camp, also arrived in town during the morning, and
immediately proceeded to East Sheen.
M. Duchatel has arrived safely at Brighton, and re-
mains for the present at that watering place. Of M.
Guizot nothing is known ; and we regret to add that we
were in error yesterday in announcing the safe arrival in
England of the aged mother of the ex-Minister. The
lady who has accompanied the two daughters of M.
Guizot to London is their governess. Madame Guizot
is still in France.
The sympathy of the English people, apart from
political considerations, with the fallen fortunes of the
ex-King and his ministers is very general, and nothing
can exceed the empressement with which several of the
nobility and gentry have offered temporary domiciles
to the members of the Court of the Tuileries.
A Cabinet courier arrived in town from Brussels last
evening. At the date of his departure the moat perfect
order prevailed in that city.
The complimentary calls at the residence of !the Bel-
gian Legation yesterday included Lieutenant-Colonel
the Hon. C. B. Phipps and Mr. G. E. Anson, (of her
Majesty's household), the Duchess Dowager of Bedford
and Lady Rachel Rudsell, his Excellency the Neapolitan
Minister, his Excellency the Minister for the Nether-
laeds, the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl of Clare, Lady
Caroline Murray (lady in waiting on the Dtechess of
Gloucester), the Earl and Countess of Rosebisry, the
Mdlles. Guizot, Sir Colin and Lady Halkett, Lord Beau-
vale, Viscount and Viscountess Adare, the Baroness de
Rothschild, Mr. and Miss de Horsey, Sir Francis and
Lady Simpkinson, Lady Holland, Viscount Strangford,
his Excellency the Turkish Minister, Miss Burdett
Coutts, Lord and Lady Henley, Lord and Lady Fitzroy
Somerset, Viscount and Viscountess Canning, Lady
Anna Maria Dawson, Mr. and Mrs. Barker Cochrane,
Lord and Lady Seymour, Col. the Hon. G. L. and Mrs.
Dawson Darner. Mr. and Mrs. Brinsley Sheridem, &c.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALUS.-YESTRRDAY.

Business was to the following bets;-7.0 to 10
agst Flatcatcher for the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes;
2,000 to 50 agst Glen Saddel for the Chester Cup; and
400 to 10 agst Beverlac, 500 to 10 agst lierwun and
Flazeateher, and 200 even between Assault and Fla.,-
catcher, for the Derby. The room was very thinly
attended.

Lord and Lady John Russell gave a grand dinner
on Wednesday evening, in Chesham• place; to Marl Fitz-
wiliiam, the Bishop of Manchester, Lord a cid Lady
Monteagle, the Hon. S. Clements, Mr. Mathesoen, M.P.,
the lion. J. E. Elliott, M.P., Mr. Slaney, M.P, Mr. Rice,
and Mr. Wilson.
STRAND THEATRE.—Last night a bene:it took
place at this theatre, on behalf of the Free Hospital for
Women and Children, in North Audley-street. The
performances consisted of The Country Squire, The Cap-
tain's not a Miss, the amusing burlesque of Lucy of
Lammermoor, and a miscellaneous concert.
LIVERPOOL, TIIVESDAY.—A petition is now in
course of signature at the underwriters' rooms, praying
for a more efficient system of protection to British re-
sidents in China. Thejtev. Canon M`Neile's mew tihureh,
St. Paul's, was oonsecrated to-day.

ANATOMICAL LECTURES.
Br JOHN STRICKLAND, EsQ•
On Saturday evening last, the 25th ultimo, the lec-
tures on artistic anatomy recently delivered by Mr.
Strickland, in the Gallery of the Society of British
Artists, Suffolk-street, Pall Mall, were brought to a
conclusion. Tie subject of the final lecture was the
" Foot," one of the most exquisite portions of the
human frame, whether considered in regard to its adap-
tation for the support of the entire body, to the infinite
ingenuity of its construction, or to the incomparable
beauty of its form. Throughout the whole course of
these interesting and remarkable lectures Mr. Strickland
displayed a perfect familiarity with his profession, and
an originality of thought worthy of the nephew of a
man whose name is for ever illustrious in science—we
mean the celebrated Major Ca right. With the ex-
ception perhaps of the elgeenTtion of the structure
of the brain, tle • discourse upon the " foot"
was among the most able of the series—it conveyed
an abundance of information very happily
grouped together and illustrated by appropriate
diagrams. It was clearly demonstrated by the
lecturer that of all parts of our anatomy, the foot was
not only one of the most admirable, but the most cruelly
treated by the preposterous fashions engendered by
civilisation. lleformities had become so universal in
consequence in this member that they were unconsciously
copied by sculptors and painters I but what was visible
in the limnings of Murillo or Rubens, were not so in the
antique statues discovered among the ruins of Babylon,
where the models of the ancient workers in marble
were not distorted by boot-leather—where, in short,
those models were not the fianeurs of Bond-street, but
the huntsmen of Nimrod. Speaking of the shoe, the
lecturer very happily observed—" Finally," said he, " the
shoe is a symmetrical coffin •in which the grace, variety,
and beauty of nature, being first assassinated, is then
buried." These absurd consequences of the formalities
introduced by artificial life suggested a panegyric upon
the pristine vigour and nobility of the Redmen. In his
enthusiasm upon this topic Mr. Strickland appears to
coincide with the intelligent and adventurous Mr. Catlin,
and in the admiration of both for the aborigines of
North America we sympathise to the very uttermost.
We have listened ourself to Catlin when he has been de-
picting the glorious race of the Redmen among whom he
has wandered so long—we have heard him tell of their
grace, of their agility, of their strength, of their elo-
quence, of their probity, of their virtues, and of their
heroism, and, warming with his subject, we have heard
him lament over the havoc made among that splendid
family by the insidious advances of the white man. We
were therefore able to appreciate the more truly the
feelings of Mr. Strickland, when he broke out into the
following beautitul and impassioned exclamations :
" What was it," said he, "that inspired Catlin with a
zeal and enthusiasm to undergo unknown privations
and hardships ? It was the beholding the stately
march, the noble step of nature's untutored
gentleman. Whose mind dared to contemplate some
other scene of existence where no fiends torment, nor
Christian thirsts for gold. Upon whom the European
has stoles a march, as in the dead of the night of his
simple and honest mind; and, having conceals d his tiger-
features under the lamb-like mask of religion and pro-
pri. ty, has arisen as a highway robber and a murderer,
and swept his race and people into one common grave.
Lo! the consuming fire of the wilderness having arisen
at the Atlantic has reached the Pacific shores, scarcely
able to scorch up the tears that have watered that land,
or the innocent blood that has been shed in it. The sins
of a people possessing no written language, have
been eagerly seized on to palliate the refined ini-
quity of civilisation which has made use alter•
nately of poison, the bayonet, and the bullet.
While, to save the trouble of slaughter, the little
children of the Redman—the joy and hope of his man-
hood— have been thrown to be torn in pieces by the
bloodhound as a reward for his sagacity in tracing them
to their hiding place iu the desert swamps of Florida.
Our watch fires are gone out, say they ; our bows
are unstrung; our arrows are broken; and we travel to
the land of our forefathers at the setting sun!"
As a fragment of these very elegant and striking lec-
tures—lectures which have proved profound in ana-
tomical research—the foregoing is not unworthy of
remembrance; it is a passage selected almost at random,
and one of peculiar fervour, passion, and humanity. We
may add that the lecturer was listened to throughout
with marked attention by a numerous and cultivated
audience.