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London, England, 1848-01-21 00:00:00

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OPAL" 'HOTEL G RAINGE R- STREET,
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QtIARLES. STATES solicits the patronage of his
BHOTFIIdft 'Ellitli-LLEIIB to the akoye Establishment, 'which
kas recently be newly tliroisked and laid out expressly for a Com-
mercial Hotel.

The COMMERCIAL ROOM, one of bite largest aid mod elegantly
fitted in Mao it is Loped will ire &and complete is every
respect.

:I:he BLD•ROOIfq. (Sixty la number) have been fliralsked 1a
style whiek mist easare the xpanakittima of all ♦isitsrt.

GestJewell travelling with STOCK eau at all times kave SNOW'
ROOMS without any extra ebarge.

-The Music Hall, Lecture Room, and Royal Motel Assembly Roill
ae.-ull attached, and under the same numeral-neat.
-The Royal Hotel is is the most central gauntlet is Newcastle.

WANTED; a PAaTNER in an Engineering
and Boiler-making Establishment, in full work, well-situ-
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fully employed with work for Steam-boat Companies and other par-
ties of the highest responsibility, and is capable of considerable ex-
tension. Insufficiency of Capital is the alone cause of the present
advertisement, and to a party with from 7,00,/. to ;0,0001. at conn-.
inand, the present offers a good opportunity for a safe and advanta-
geous investment. References of the highest respectability will be
given and required.

MUSICAL BOXES.—A large stock of the
first quality, playing upWards of 600 airs, overtures, &c..
including selections from the following favourite operas :—Tbe Bo-
hemian Girl, Maritana, Daughter of St. Mark, the Bondman, &c.
A Catalogue of the Music, is now published, and may be had, gra-
iq,-on application to T. COX SAVORY and Co., Watchmakers, &c.,
47, Cornhill (seven doors from Gracecburch.street), London.

DAVIES'S CANDLES, 6d. per lb. ; Genuine
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Rose, 2s. ; Almond, 2s. Gd. ; Sealing Wax, 4s. 6d.; Hale's Paragon
Composite, requiring no snulling, 10.1. per lb.
For Cash—At DAVIES'S Old RstabiLsbed Warehouse, 63, St.
Martin's-lane. opposite Slaughter's Coffee-house.

ivIAMOND • OIL LAMP.-NEW LIGHT.
The Diamond Lamp is the best light in the world—is used is
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gives double the light of candle laMps, at one-half the expense—this
is beyond-doutit. Designs suited to every taste—the Diamond Lamp.
is pertection in Light—the public will have none other—it can be
fitted to any person's lamp pillar, • •
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Company, 131C.IIARD CLARK, Resident Manager, 447, West Strand.

EYEBROWS, MOUSTACHIOS, and WHIS-
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'RUMENTS.

A It, It I A
One half the wont are desolately single, and the ether
supposing them married, questionably contented. Diffidence, or a
senso of right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes cm-
litter the latter. The solitary use may shield himself ander the plea
of cautien and worldly prudence, and the Indissoluble, regret an-
comprosiaK ; bat the truth lies deeper. Physical incapacity,
and broken health, are the great hindrances to dohnestie happiness
and social contest. The dowry should net be the only marriage set-
:lenient. Honour and justicodensaid that health sheuld form an item '
in the compact ; it alone dignities the alliance. Blighted Imes or
neglect *mind more sorely than poverty or inh•fortane. Reader, it
:hese surmises concern yon, procure Dr. CULYERIVELL'S little
MEMOIRS 'On single and Married Life," pub. in I vols., Is.
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by post Is. Gd.) called " What to Eat, Driak, and
Avoid," and " How to be Happy." They are not merely
pamphlets, but equal iu quantity a library volume, nor aro they the
mere ephemeral seribblings of the hour, but the study of the author's
!ife,who owes his present existence, health, and resit's* to this ob-
servance of the maxims he would inculcate—to dm ant* others as ke
would be done unto—te live atter nature's laws—aid to keep always
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,nornings and (Netting!), 10, Argyll-place Repent-street; aal all
Booksellers.

THE LATH MURDER AT NAILSEA, SOMZIISETSHIRE.
—BIRMINGHAM, WEDNEsDAY.—A young man named
John Mansfield alias Jakenays, about IS years of age,
was brought before John Leigh, IJsq., a magistrate at
Wt et Bromwich, near this town, charged with having
been concerned in the murder of John Wall, in Sumer-
setshire, in the month of December last. It will be in
the recollection of our readers that Wall was sitting in
his cottage, when he heard some persons break a pane
of glass in the window of the room in which he was sit-
ting, and on turning round he received the contents of a ,
gun in his left thigh, of which he died. The prisoner
and his brother were seen by the deceased at the win-
dow, and one of them (not the prisoner) fired the gun.
The prisoner came to work at Oldbury, where he was
apprehended a few days ago. When before the magis-
trate he admitted he was one of the three persons who
wore at Wall's house, but denied having discharged the
gun. Ile was remanded, and information forwarded to
the authorities in Soniersetshiro.
THE LONDON COFFEE ♦ND E ATI:IG HOUSE
licumis,—Yesterday morning the half yi arly general
meeting n the subscribers and friends of the above as-
sociation was held at the li'reemasons"ravern, Mr. J.
Chislett in the chair. The report stated that the insti-
tution was established in 1837, for relieving aged and
f:inayed members of the trade, their widows, and or-
phans. Tinro a►re now five pensioners on the funds,
three males and two females, who receive each 131. per
annum. The financial statement was favourable, the
funds amounting to near 2,000/, _ _ _

. _
AN ENGLISH Bailor IN CUINA.-It is intended,
as soon as the liccps,sary arrangements can ho made, to
found a new bishopric somewhere in the Chinese seas,
probably at Victoria, llong-Kong. Towards the funds
for this purpose these is at present upwards of 18,000/.
in hand ;,W:0/. of which is for a college, granted in part
by anonymous donors, and tbp remainder collected
under a pastoral letter by the Bishop of .t,ondon.) The
remaining sum necessary is to be collected by voluntary
subscriptions, about 20,000/. being required before the
consent of thp tfoverliwei4t IQr the fonudation of a new
L see can be expected.

CITY COMMISSIONERS OF

SEWERS.
Commissioners of Sewers assembled nt the
Gui?dhall on Tueqlav, for the purpose of accelerat-
ing the sanitary improvement of tho City. Deputy
Peacock its the chair.

The contractor for scavenging one of the districts
ippeared to answer the complaint of an inspector of
the commission for not having re4Sioved a quantity of
rubbish which had been accumulated in an indigent
neighbourhood. His excuse' was, that his prede-
cessor in the contract had done his business so neg-
ligently that it required double work to clear away
the nuisance.

The CHAIRMAN said, it was the ,duty of the accused
to luok narrowly into the bUlineser he had engaged to
perform before he entered into the contract, and the
Commissioners could not under any circumstances
pArdon a deviation from the sanitary rules laid down
for his observance. As the contractor's labours were
only commencing, and as the persezi who preceded
him no doubt acted upon the old system of procrasti
nation, the penalty in the present case should not
exceed 403., but the second q3ffenee ahould visited
with a fine of 51., and that notice must siirifrfor all
other persons amenable for neglect of duty, Who were
to understand that in no case should there be a re-
mission of severe penalty.
Mr. ll.tw, the chief clerk. to the Commissioners,
read the following letter

" City of London Gas Company Works,
Dorset•street, Jan. 12, 1848.
" Sir,--I am directed by the committee of manage-
ment of these works to acquaint you, for the infor-
mation of the Hon. the Commissioners of Sewers for
the City of London, that from and after the 25th of
March next this company's price for gas to consumers
by meter will be reduced from 7s. to 6s. per 1,000
cubic feet.

"I am your obedient servant,
"D. RENHAM, Secretary.°
The CIIAIRMAN—That is the first move made by

the gas companies, and must lead to a further re-
duction in that most necessary article. We must
consider it to be the result of the adoption of the
sanitary system, connected with which gas is most
essential.
Mr. GODSON sail there appeared in the newspapers
a brief statement of what had taken place in the com-
mittee last week relative to the exorbitant demand

for the supply of gas in the City and to that ex
posure he considered the public were indebted for
the promised reduction of 16 per cent. lie had
urged the necessity of making a stir last year upon
the subject, but the suggestion, like all former ones
to the same effect, fell unnoticed. The question *as
most important to the City. They paid, he believed,
upwards of 12,000/. a year for gas, and be 'sbould
most willingly join in any attempt to break down the
existing monopoly, and to invite some other company
to come forward with a supply.
Mr HARRISON thought highly of a sugiAtion
made some time ago, to the effect that the ci4poia•
tion should /endeavour to purchase all the' pipes by
which gas was communicated through the city, as
the only means of destroying the monopoly by which
their fellow citizens suffered so much. Light and
water were the two most essential things in the con-
sideration cf the sanitary question, and if the
committee persisted, as he knew they would, in the
vigorous prosecution of their labours, they would ac-
complish a reduction in the price of gas much more
nearly approaching the price of the article in other
For the present deter-
mination upon the part -it" the City of London
Gas Company, • the" were indebted to the
present chairman —(Hear, hear.) They lied
not as yet had -ay intelligence on the subject of re-
duction fr,..t the Chartered Gas Company, the only
other _ornpany in the city. Such was the manage-
with respect to gas, that in many instances the
price varied most essentially, houses on the borders of
the city being charged infinitely more than the houses
opposite to them in the county. The manner in which
the other large corporations were supplied with gas
was a reproach to the corporation of London. The
City. paid nearly twice as much as it ought to pay,
and ought to look to Nottingham and Liverpool as
authority for the cheap terms upon which an abundant
supply could be obtained.
" .

'Mi. PRIOR said, he was an advocate for a reduction
of price in gas ; but surely the London market could
not be supplied upon the terms on which Nottingham
and Liverpool—great coal districts—were accommo
dated. All things considered, there was not much
difference between the markets. Gentlemen, in the
consideration of the
,aanitary question, seemed to over-
look one very "esl4ential thing. The fetid at-
mosphere generated by gas happened to 14 .giorp;
itjuri..3 to the public health than aux
tion of nuisance, and the preparation of it was indis-
pensable. Tie well knew that gas companies would.
be delighted to cooperate with the Commissioners oi,
Sewers in abating the existing evil ; but it was quite
out of- the question that the charge for gas in London
could be reduced to the price paid in coal districts.
Mr. LAWRENCE said he saw no reason why gas
should not be had in London upon terms as reasonable
as those demanded elsewhere. With respect to the
nuisance arising from it, rio public contract ought to
be made for its supply without a strict specification
as to its purity. The question of purity should be in
every case
raised. In all other trades the purity of
the article to he supplied was looked to, and why it
should be overlooked in the article of gas he could
not comprehend. lle moved that the subject be re-
ferred to the Committee of General Purposes.
Deputy STEVENS said there never was a chairman
in the chair of !he sewers before the present one who
was upon the side of the public on the gas question
There was always some excuse ready the moment
economical charges were spoken of as likely to result
from letting other gas companies into the City. The
citizens then heard of the calamity of a perpetual
disturbance of pavements and a host of other miseries,
and every suggestion for the purpose of obtaining a
reasonable article met with the most decided
negative from the jobbers. For -twenty years
had some remedy been wished for in vain.
He hoped that there would be little future
cause of complaint, and that much practical benefit
would arise from the pressure from without, the only
power likely to operate in a case in which the divi-
dends paid by the only existing companies were in-
finitely beyond what they ought to be allowed to be.
The CHAIRMAN said, it was true the civic commu-
nity Were completely at the mercy of the • two gas
companies.
The subject was then referred to thei.ommittee for
strict investigation.

Memorials were presented from certain districts by
the church wardens of the parish, complaining of the
dirty state and the defective drainage of some of tho
most crowded, populous, poor lanes and alleys.
The CIIAIRMAN thanked the churchikardens, as-
sured them that immediate attention should be paid
to their complaints. and expressed an anxious hope
that similar activity and zeal in the cause of sanitary
reform would be displayed by the authorities in other
parishes.
The several inspectors having received directions
from the board as to future operations with respect to
drainage, the removal of mud, &c., the committee
adjourned.

THE ROYAL SAPPERS AND MlNERS.—Within the
last two years there were only 14 companies of this
branch of the ordnance corps. Subsequently three
companies were added at the same time as the tenth
battalion of the Royal Artillery was formed, and au ad-
ditional number of men attached to each of the former
companies. In December last another company was
formed at Chatham, and designated the 18th Company.
Preparations are now making, in compliance with orders
from the authorities of the Ordnance, to form five addi-
tional companies in April next, each company to consist
of 5 sergeantS, 5 corporals, 5 second corporals, 90 pri-
vates, awl 2 buglers. This intended increase of a corps
whose principal duties are to repair or construct fortifi•
cations, renders it probable that next season will exhibit
great activity in the construction of national defences for
the protection of this country, and for. the protection of
the most exposed colonial possession* of the United
Kingdom. This corps is commanded by officers of the
Royal Engineers.
GIGANTIC Cssic.—The attention of those engaged
in the wine trade has been this week attracted by an
extraordinary importation into the St. Katharine's
Dock, viz., an immense wine cask, the largest that ever
at p
entered the port of London. It arrived.by the Union,
Captain Dodd, from Cadiz,
and •
the entrance of A 1) Il vault, filling the space be-
tween two large pillars. Its dimensions are most ex-
traordinary, and the workmanship is of a most superior
quality. In a rou2h estimate it is •supposed to contain
very close upon 500 gallons of the choicest sherry.
The revenue authorities at the dock are somewhat
puzzled how to gauge it, the rules constructed for daily
use being too small for the purpose. Seen at a consider-
able distance, it towers above the other casks like Gul-
liver amongst the ,Lilliputians, and indeed forms the
most prominent object in the entire dock.
ALARMING Film—Between four and five yester-
day morning the most painful excitement prevailed for
the lives of the family of Mr, Houghton, painter, Cannon-
street, St. George's in the East. A fire, which had
obtained a firm hold, had been discovered raging among
some oil in the shop. The family were with some
difficulty aroused, and effected a retreat. When the
engines arrived water was in good aipply, and the flames
were arrested, but the stock was partially destroyed.
Mr. Houghton is insured in the Sun.