The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-14 00:00:00

N0.17)51.5.] LONDON, TUESDAY

Under the Management of IhSe Clothworkers'liß Company.
At the Court to be holden on the 6th of December next, this
Company will DISTRIBUTE to SIX POOR WIDOWS of De-
cayed Housekeepers the amount devisable under the above Trust,
being about 8/. each.

Applicants am required to produce a Certificate, or other proof of
the death of the husband. The application must be made In writing,
and must state such particulars relative to the Applicant as may be
proper to be considered in deciding on her claim, and name refe-
rences from whom information may be obtained respecting the
party, and for verifying the statement made concerning her condi-
tion and circumstances.

All Applications are to be 'addressed as early as possible to the
Company's Hall, in Mincing-lane, and none can be received and
considered after the 23d of November instant. Printed Forms of
Application may be obtained at the Hall.
ROBERT BECKWITH TOWSE, Clerk.
Clothworkers' Hall, November, 1848.

ICOTTISH WIDOWS' FUND and LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
Founded A.D. 1815, and Constituted by Act of Parliament.
INVESTED CAPITAL,
Arising from the Accumulation of the Premiums,
TWO MILLIONS.
ANNUAL REVENUE,
upwards of
THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS.
This office is the oldest, and has all along been, and still continues
the most successful in Scotland. The business has steadily and ra-
pidly increased ever since the Society was established ; and a more
satisfactory proof of its present stability and the continued confidence
reposed in it by the public cannot be desired than the simple fact,
that notwithstanding all the trying changes and depresssions of the
times, the amount of assurances passed during the last twelve years
has been, on an average, upwards of Half a Million annually, nor
can there be much doubt that its popularity has been in a great mea-
sure, if not entirely, owing to the equity of the principles on which
it is founded, and the manner In which its affairs have been con•
ducted.
1. This Society does not profess to insure at the lowest possible
rate compatible with safety, but it does profess to secure, and does
secure to its members, the fall benefit of which such a society is ca
pable. The profits of the society belong to the insured alone, and are
appropriated amongst them, and applied for their behoof on princi-
ples of strict equity.
2. In selecting the lives of the insured, the directors have always
exercised great care and caution ; the practice being that of not af-
fording undue facilities to the admission of parties desirous of becom-
ing members, but of affording every facility towards their accommo-
dation after they have been admitted, and of settling, every claim
with the least possible trouble and delay after it has become due.
3. Every care is taken in accumulating and investing the funds ;•
and from their large amount, many opportunities of doing this profit-
ably present themselves to this society not open to others.
4. The business of the society is conducted in as economical a man-
lier as is consistent with efficiency. From the great extent of the
business, and the comparatively small expense attending its manage-
ment, a considerable saving in this particular, as contrasted with al,
offices doing a smaller amount of business, must necessarily be se-•
cured for the benefit of the members.
5. The practical operation of the principles above referred to may
be judged of from the fact, that in the event of the death in the pre•
sent year (after payment of the yearly premium) of a member in-
sused in any of the years from 1815 to 1819, for every 1,0001. insured,
his representatives would receive ••••.. • • .. •••• t• • • £1,917 19 10
If insured in the year 1825 for 1,0001. they would re-

ceive.. •. • • ••• • • • ..... • • 1,522 4 5
If insured in the year 1830 for 1,0001. they would re-
From the operation of these principles also, it has resulted that
there were appropriated and divided amongst the members :
At the first period of the investigation, exactly two-thirds of the
profits realised previous thereto.
At the second period, nearly three font ills of the profits realised
between the first and second periods.
At the third period nearly four-fifths of the profits realised between
the second and third periods.
At the fourth period nearly six-aevenths of the profits realised be-
tween the third and fourth periods.
Besides which, there has been appropriated and set apart, as a
guarantee fund, in terms of the laws of the society, for the mainten-
ance of its stability (the property of the members alone), the large
sum ot upwards of 205,0001.
Forms of proposal, and every necessary information may be ob-
tained on application at the Head Office, or at any of the Society's
Agencies

JOIIN MACKENZIE, Manager.
WM. GEORGE, Chief Clerk.
HEAD OFFICE.-5, St. Andrew-square, Edinburgh,
October, 1848.
OFFICES IN LONDON-4, Royal Exchange-buildings, and 7, Pa
mall West.

HUGH M`KEAN, Agent.

COMMERCIAL HOUSE MARINE 'VIEW
HOTEL, GRAND PARADE, PORTSMOUTH.
J. BURGESS, in returning his sincere thanl-a to kis Friends and
Visitors to Portsmouth, for their sappoii since taking the above
Hotel, begs to inform Commercial Ganineri that at the solicitation
of many, he has appropriated a commodious Sitting-room and Sets of
Apartments for their use.
The House commands a view of the Isle of Wight, Spithead, St.
Helen's, &c., and is close to the Victoria Pier.
J. B. flatters himself his Table, Wines, Soc., will be found worthy
of support.

NTICOLL'S REGISTERED PALETOT.—This
L I most gentlemanly and useful over-coat retains its original mo-
derate price, and being adapted for the autumn and winter months,
has already been honoured with the patronage of his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, Prince George of Cambridge, Prince Edward of Saxe-
Weimar, his Grace the Duke of Wellington, and the chief ornaments
of the Court, the Pulpit, and the Bar. The above can be obtained
in London only of FL J. and D. NICOLL, 114, 116, 120, Regent-
street, and 22, Cornhill.

CANDLE LAMPS.-BY ROYAL LETTERS
PATENT.—Every improvement possible is now secured. A
doable chain spring. A detached cup to receive the overflovv. Pu-
rity of light, caused by the intimate connexion o• oxygen a Ith the
point of ignition ; thus nothing is left undone. The designs are chaste
or gorgeous. All tastes can be suited. English opal, or cut and
gilded Bohemian glass lamps, and papier macho pillars richly ern-
blazened, to be had at all prices. The best and cheapest stock to
select from is at the Establishment of the METROPOLITAN LIGHT
COMPANY, RICHARD CLARK, Resident Manager, 447, West
Strand, corner of Adelaide-street.

NEW GAS BURNERS.-ROYAL LETTERS
PATENT.—Their names are, the Star—the Comet—the
Golden—the Glass—le Ring—aid the Reflecting Burners. It is
proved, beyond docbt, by men of Science and gas engineers, that no
other Gas Burners bear comparison with them. Bright as crystal Is
the light. Ne smoke emitted. The most economical and the most
elegant of all. The improvements are so evident, all should have
them.

SCIENTIFIC OPINION.
Laboratory, Royal Polytechnic Institution,
October 21, 1848.

Sir,—After a careful examination of your New Gas Burners,
which I have tested in comparison with the best hitherto known, I
am compelled to acknowledge that your recent discovery is superior
to all others in economy, and in the purity of the flame produced
by

.;y the simple, yet truly scientific arrangements of your burners,
you have succeeded perfectly in obtaining the proper supply of air,
both in quantity and position ; thus, the flame is, at all tines, steady
and intensely luminous; while even under suddenly increased pres-
sure, or during draughts of air, no smoke is given off.
I remain, Sir, yours faithfully,
JOHN RYAN, M.D., LL.D.,
Professor of Chemistry.

Mr. Richard Clark, Strand.
The whole of the burners are constantly burning at the Establish-
ment of the METROPOLITAN LIGHT COMPANY, RICHARD
CLARK, Resident Manager, 447, West Strand, corner of Adeloide-
street.

VIYEBROWS, MOUSTACHIOS, and WHIS-
KERS produced in a few weeks, and Baldness removed and
orevented by the use of GRIMSTONE'S AROMATIC REGENE,
RATOR, an essential spirit, drawn from aromatic herbs and flowers-
e few drops of which cure headache in a few minutes ; It is also a
'nest delightful, fragrant toilet perfume. Sold only ht triangular
'mottles, protected by the Government stamp, at 4s. ; double the size,
.s.; and double this size, 11s. each ; enclosed in a Pamphlet, eon-
aining testimonials of undoubted authority, entitled" Three Minutes'
tdvice on the Growth and Preservation of the Human Hair, &c."
By pest, 4s. 6d., 7s. Sd„ and 125., for money orders eels.
Sold wholesale only at Grimstone's lierbary, Highgate, near
London ; and by Messrs. Barclay and Son, Farringdon-street ; Sanger,
Word-street; Messrs. Butler and Co.,Cheopside Fisher and Toiler,
-londuit-street ; Mr. Johnston, medicine warehouse, 68, Conihill •
and by all Chemists, Perfumers, and others For Edinburgh, J. and
It. Raimes, Leith-walk ; for Manchester, eresehe and sen, Adver

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
NEWPORT PAGNELL STEEPLECHASE.
3 to 1 agst Lord Strathmore's Red Lancer
10 to 1 agst Mr. Cartwright's Justice to England—t
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
10 to 3 agst Captain Maddock's Proceed—taken
11 to 2 agst Mr. Buchanan's Alfred—taken
7 to 1 agst Lord Strathmore's St. Leger
12 to 1 agst Captain Barnett's Boxkeeper
15 to 1 agst Mr. Harrison's Venom
15 to 1 agst Mr. Holdforth na Wolverhampton
The field for choice agst three. 500 even laid early
in the afternoon on the three favourites and Wolver-
hampton agst the field. Proceed and Alfred were the
only horses in favour; St. Leger was on the decline, and
Wolverhampton, after being backed at 10 to 1, receded
to 15 to 1.

CHESTER CUP.
33 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Cossack
,000 to 15 agst Mr. Bouverie's War Eagle
,000 to 15 apt Mr. Eddison's lletman Platoff colt—
taken and afterwards offered

1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Fugleman taken
and afterwards offered
1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Armstrong's Vesta taken and
afterwards offered
1,000 to 10 agst Mr. J. Scott's The Stinger—taken
40 to 1 was taken eagerly about Cossack, and, but in
one instance only, 1,000 to 30. Nothing else in req'iest.
DERBY.

4 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Flying Dutchman—take
9 to 2
40 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's The Knout—taken to 2001.
40 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Strongbow—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Holmes's Montague—taken

PEDESTRIANIS
JAMES DELANEY AND RICHARDS.—The question of
speed between these men received its solution yesterday
on Wandsworth-common, the distance being ono hun-
dred yards, for 31. aside, Delaney receiving two yards
start. It will be in the recollection of our readers that
Richards beat Seward a short time back in a " spin " of
sixty yards. The men started between four and five
o'clock, in the presence of 400 or 500 spectators. The
betting ranged from 3 to 2 and 2 to 1 on Delaney, who
never looked in better " fettle." After sixteen or
eighteen false starts, Delaney bounded off with a slight
lead, was never caught, and, after a good race, was de-
clared the winner by two yards.

SPURIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
POST.—Though Sir Robert Peel be a very vain man,
and though his vanity be not the less absorbing that it
is sedate, it is difficult to believe that he should have
taken any offence at not being invited to the Lord
Mayor's " banquet" last Thursday. We should scarcely
have supposed that even the total omission of any allu-
sion to him or his policy on such an occasion could have
made him sore. And yet it appears from the journal
whose daily duty it is to flatter him, that he ought to
have been of the company, and that he ought to have re-
ceived all the congratulations on the preservation of the
public peace in this country which were addressed to
the Whig Ministers of the Crown. The journal in ques•
tion, after bedaubing in the most preposterous manner
an unnamed statesman, describing him as one whose
good government " has diffused contentment and prospe-
rity through every corner of our land (I!)—whose watch-
ful care has dried up the sources of disaffection, and left
no seeds of bitterness to germinate under the unnatura'
heat of revolutionary agitation—whose mild, vigorous,
and sagacious rule has taught the people of this country
to have confidence in their Government," &c., &c., &c.
—after, all these flowers of speech, the journalist ex-
claims that he " remembers such a statesman, but can-
not find his name in the list of the company at the Lord
Mayor's dinner." To the " candid wisdom," we are
as:ured, of this gentleman, who was not at the Lord
Mayor's dinner, to his " voluntary sacrifice of power
and popularity, it was due that in February last the
ou'vriers of England were eating untaxed bread!" It is
not to Lord John Russell and Sir George Grey, we are
told, but to " the men who were unseated to make room
for them, that the nation owes its thanks for its deli-
verance from bankruptcy and anarchy.", Finally, the
honest and independent youroWistssunable a‘z,lonzer to
repress the name- ofhlehero, 'bursts out Thus:—" Lord
John has had the good fortune to govern, at a time
of .unexampled confusion, a great nation tractable
enough to be reined with a silken thread. History will
record his name as that of the Minister under whom the
English Constitution bore uninjured the shock of the
revolution of February, whilst it identifies Sir Robert
Peel with the great and beneficial changes which he has
wrought in our commercial policy. Let his contempo-
raries rectify the verdict, by ass,gning to the services of
the one their legitimate connexion with the successes of
the other." What sickening sycophancy We remem-
ber, while Sir R. Peel was yet Minister, there was a
subordinate member of the Government, who, though
born a Lord, seemed to rejoice in the assiduity with which
he could perform the services of a lackey. We could not
but think of him in reading the lamentation over Peel's
absence from Guildhall, and the extravagant nonsense
with which that lamentation is combined. Even for two
lines the writer of this fulsomeness cannot keep his mind to
one point. We are invited to worship Peelbecause his was a
voluntary sacrifice of power, and then to think little of the
present Ministers in comparison with those who were
" unseated" to make room for them. If Peel and his
men were doing such extraordinary good to England,
why did they voluntarily sacrifice their power? If it
was no act of theirs—if they wero really unseated
through the disgust of some of their opponents and the
ambition of others—if they were driven from power
against their will, why call it a voluntary sacrifice ?
But what kind of dream or delusion can it be, or
what effrontery, which leads the Peelite journal to
boast of contentment and prosperity diffused through
every corner of our land ? Does not every one know
that the very contrary is the real state of the
country ? Everywhere trade is depressed. Every-
where the working classes are out of employment.
Everywhere, alas! we find gloom and sadness at the
poor man's hearth; and even the once comfortable
middle classes—the lately thriving tradesmen, and the
merchants who when Peel came into office were affluent
are now full of depression and anxiety; some of them
bankrupt, many of them forced to beg indulgence from
their creditors, and the whole manufacturing and mer-
cantile class of England and Scotland utterly disap-
pointed at the practical result of those free-trade meet.-
sures from which they were taught to expect, and from
which, unfortunately, they did expect so much. And as
to the repeal of the corn-laws, even if that Act had done
the good to the trade of England which it has utterly
failed to do, it were strange indeed if Sir R. Peel should
have the credit of it. If a commander to whom a be-
leaguered citadel is intrusted praises himself unceasingly
for his devotedness to the cause which is attacked, and
then steals out in the night and opens the gates to the
enemy, it is not usual to assign to such a hero the tri-
umph of the conquest. Yet that was precisely the con-
duct of Sir R. Peel in respect to the corn-laws. " I should
like to know rho has done more than I have," he
exclaimed, "in the cause of protection to British
agriculture, and in the support of the corn-laws ?"
This was his boast when no serious danger threatened
the corn-laws—when overwhelming majorities of Tories
and Whigs were voting In their favour. But when fortune
turned, and the courage and constancy of an honest
leader were required by the Protectionists, then they
were betrayed by Sir Robert Peel and the servile band
of mindless Lords and clever official men by whom he
was surrounded. This was his share in the repeal of
the corn-laws. And it may be observed—if any words
of so faithless a man be worth noting—that in the fare-
well speech of Peel as Minister, he owned that not he had
repealed the corn-laws, but Cobden, that man of " un-
adorned eloquence," before whose superior political sa-
gacity the Peel wisdom thought it not unbecoming to
bow. The flatterer of Sir R. Peel asserts that the pre-
sent is " the feeblest Ministry that ever held office in a
free country." We agree that it is a very feeble admin•
istration, especially miserable in finance, and especially
mischievous in regard to Great Britain's foreign rela-
tions. But feebleness of political action and poverty of
resource, though they be lamentable defects in a govern-
ment, are not so bad as incapacity to feel what is due to
honour and honesty in the management of public affairs.
Upon the wisdom of the Whigs we certainly place very
little reliance, but we should be Sorry to exchange even
the Whigs for men upon whose word we could place no
reliance at all. '
WEEKLY DISPATCH.—In any ordinary case,
when a great measure is expected, it is but candid to
wait and peruse all its details and conditions before we
take any step to oppose it. But the threatened railway
amalgamation, the attempt to put the most commercial
half of England under the control, as to its traffic, of one
company, is an event for the corning of which we cannot
quietly wait. The history of railways is before us. We
have seen that already the roads of the kingdom have
been monopolized in a manner which no other plan ever
pretended to. Under the old turnpike system there
might be but one road to a place, but its tolls were regu
lated by the extent of making and repairs; and some
jobbery, the nurse of our age an country, was all we ha f
to complain of. A coach passenger might be over-
charged a shilling on his share for turnpikes, in 200 or 300
miles. But there were as many coaches as the traffic would
pay, competing, keeping down fares, and preventing in-
civility and imposition. Now it is one road, one coach,
and one van concern. The railway company is like the
French Republic, ono and indivisib C. This is
perhaps
necessary for safety and regularity, but it is in' itself an
undoubted evil. So far from being encouraged and
extended, it is to be limited with the most jealous -
It is nothing—nothing whatever to the pu
still that,
care.
under such monopoly they may
be carried more
cheaply, swiftly, and conveniently than they were be-
fore. The public has a full right and title to the ad-
vantage of steam carriage, to all the benefit of the pro-
gress of science, excepting only that part religiously to
be set aside to remunerate the inventors, and thereby to
encourage new inventions. The railroad companies are
traders, and nothing more. Often they have not stood
honourably even in that light. They are bound to do
better for the public than any other parties can do, if
they keep their monopoly—.that is, better than any
other parties using the same new appliances, not mere
old coaching concerns, but new railroad competitors.
Monopoly can be held under no other title. It is not
easy to get to the entire depth of railway accounts; but
we have already shown, with regard to the great Nor-
thern, that its dividend, if it were but 3 per cent. on its
present capital, would be a handsome remuneration,
con-
sidering how that capita: has been created by new shares,
given to shareholders a
par, when they would have been
sold in the market at mor than cent. per cent. If Par-
liament is applied to, it is bound, in the first place, to
have full and clear accounts, not only owfhailolhsutcko capital h false in-
crease of capital, but of the way in
has been expended. It ought strictly to investigate all
the unrivalled rascalities oflaw,ps;soscekd-joexbbooinpgtioannadlcaonnd-
tektohyes declared
peoplelarod
that trade should prove a
con-
tracts. Parliament has already
extreme laws, immensely improving one property, de-
preciating another beyond precedenttogiv
the means of working their trade, because
public
When they
ofne b e
benefit.
d
come to Parliament again, let what they have
seen first, before we enter intothewcoant sortsider ofatio whatstewards
consideration
they desire to do. Let us see k
they have been of this great public trust. Wteeharvigehsotmtoe •
data as to their conduct,
when we see forty millions in
amount of new undertakings abandoned,
the
enter on which was won at an enormous
field.ou Letslegalexpense,
to keep other companies our
tof tk
demanding a social auusthseos-
what plea they can set up for
rity utterly unexampled. And let us consider the tri-
bunal before which they are going
too
this enormous
extension of a bad monopoly. Is it ooknow that suchmuch to call it
a tribunal of accomplices? Mica we
or such a legislator has had his opposition bought oft' by
the payment of twice—aye, or of ten times,
the value of
his land; when we know that another has been, we will
not say bribed, because the word is unwelcome, or bought,
or—we are puzzled for a word—conciliated—aye, con
ciliated, by an allotment of shares, that even a bishop
has solicited such an accommodation for a connexion
and received it, that the system has been carried on till
Mr. Hudson could stand up in the House of Commons
and defy the Government to do that which it thought
just and necessary for the public weal, relying opt sup
port which, one way or other, was secured and bound to
him—let us ask if the people ought not at once, not Only
to consider as much as they see of the measure, but the
means of forcing their representatives to do them justice
upon it. These three companies have not done buying
but
buying
ha sliares to give, up influence. They may not ve
their patronage is enormous. W.hen .
a legislator cannot
pocket premiums, he will not, we despise places
for those who burthen him. The thing is quite in keep-
ing with the trade which faction carries on in the go-
vernment patronage. There is
nothing to blush atabout
it, when you are-used-to. it. Among poor common men
it would be dishonest rascality, among privileged ones it