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GRAVE SEN.D FOR SIXPENCE.
BOAT AND RAILWAY INCLUDED.
T%e Star and Blackwell Packets leave the
BRUNSWICK WHARF, BLACKWALL.
WEEK DAYS.—At 9%, 10%, 12, 1%, 3%, and b.
SUNDAYS.—At 9%, 11, 1%, and S.
The Trains starting One Quarter of an Hour before cash of
these times.
FROM THE ROYAL TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND.
WEEK DAYS.—At 8%, 9%, 11% 1,3, and 4.
SUNDAYS.—At 8%, 11%, 3. and 5.
on Monday Mornings an extra Packet at half-past 7.
Fore Fare, 6d.; Chief Fare, 9d.
Bills of the times for boats calling at the intermediate Piers, to
be obtained at the Star Office, Blackwell Railway.
Star Office, Gravesend, Feb. 27.

TiFIE CAMPAIGN on the SUTLEJ creating
immense interest at the present moment, there is exhibiting
at the ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION Portraits of the
most Distinguished Men both in the SIKH ARMY and GOVERN-
MENT of LAHORE, taken by a lady of rank, distinguished in the
Fine Arts, during her residence in India. Also, Portraits of Sir Henry
Hardinge, Sir Robert and La.ty Sale, &c. By means of the OPAQUE
MICROSCOPE these interesting Portraits are on a magnilic. nt
scale. Mornings, at Half-past Four o'clock ; Evenings at a Quarter
to Ten. The LECTURES include those on ASTRONOMY, during
Lent on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, COLEMAN'S WORK-
ING MODEL ascending and descending Inclined Planes, &a. &e.

-1111HOMAS DEW JONES, otherwise WILLIAM
ii JONES.—TEN POUNDS REWARD will be paid to any
person giving Information of THE PRESENT ABODE of the above-
named Person, or proof of his death. He left the house of his
brother, Mr. George Edward Jones, in the neighbourhood of White-
chapCl, London, some time In the month of June, 1842, and has not
since .been heard of by his friends. He was then about seventeen
years of age, five feet six inches high, with sandy-coloured hair,
and grey eyes, was much freckled, and very stout. About 1841
he was in the employment of a farmer at Ongar, in Essex; and in
the beginning of 1842 he was in service at the White Swan Inn, To•-
tenham, Middlesex, and was called Bill Jones. He is supposed to
be in some humble employment in the country, or to have gone
to sea.

THOMAS DEW JONES himself will hear of something to his
advantage, by applying to Messrs. WALKER, GRANT, and Co ,
13, Kin es-road, Gray's Inn, London, to whom information respect.
ing him is to be sent.

VICOLL'S PALETOT of LLAMA CLOTH
LI registered 6 and 7 Vic., cap. 65. t'atronised by the Prince
Consort, Prince George of Cambridge, &c.
This overcoat recommends itself to the Public generally by its
peculiar elasticity and lightness, moderate price, and able defence
against the almost constant humidity of the climate of Great Britain.
To b. had in London only of the Patentees, 114, Regent-street.

FOROUT'S TOOTH-BRUSHES.
These celebrated Brushes are well known in most parts, of the
world, and esteemed for their durability and beauty of workmanship.
They retain the hair till quite worn out, are made of every degree of
hardness and variety of shape, to the extent of nearly I 0,) sorts, in-
cluding those reeommended by the principal dentists of our day, and
are sold at the usual price of Is. each, or by post for thirteen stumps.
Superior smooth-pointed TORTOISHELL COMBS, the workman-
ship of which is rarely equalled. The new and fashionable Comb for
Ladies' Head-dress in great abundance. Tail and Dressing Combs,
together with Front Combs, carved, turned, and plain. The stock,
for variety, colour, or extent, Is presumed to be the most complete
as well as the largest in London.

Prout's Brush and Comb Manufactory, 229, Strand, London, seven
houses west of Temple-bar. Established for Forty years.

IE PERFECT SUBSTITUTL for SILVER.
The high estimate formed by the public during the ten years
WILLIAM S. BURTON'S (late RIPPON and BURTON'S) chemi-
cally purified material has been before it (made into every useful and
ornamental article usually made in silver, possessing, as it does, the
characteristic purity and durability of silver), has called into exist-
ence the deleterious compounds of " Albata Plate," " Berlin Silver,"
and other so-called substitutes • they are at beat bad imitations of
the genuine articles manufactued and sold only by him.
Fiddle Threaded King's
Table Spoons and Forks, full size per Pattern. Pattern. Pattern.

dozen .. • • ...... ....... 12s. Od. 28s. Od. 30s. Od
Dessert ditto and ditto, ditto .....• 10s. Oct. 21s. Od. 255. Od
Tea ditto and ditto, ditto •... bs. Od. 1 is. Od. 12s. Od

Gravy ditto .. .•.. • . ............ 3s. Od. 6s. Od. 7s. Od.
NICKEL ELECTRO-PLATED.--The REAL NICKEL SILVER,
introduced and made only by WILLIAM S. BURTON (late RIPPON
and BURTON'S), when plated by the patent process of Messrs. El-
kington and Co., is beyond all comparison the very best article, next
to sterling silver, that can be employed as such either usefully or orna-
mentally. In the lengthened and increasing popularity of the ma•
terial itself, and the high character of the method of plating, the
public have a guarantee that the articles sold by W. S. Burton (and
by him only) are, as it regards wear, immeasurably superior to what
can be supplied at any other house, while by no possible test can
they be distinguished from real silver.
Fiddle. Thread. King's.
Tea Spoons, per dozen ... . ... ....... ISs. 325. • • 385.
Dessert Forks „
Dessert Spoons „ •.• . • 309. • . 325. • . 625.
Table Forks
Table Spoons „ .... •• • ... •• • • 405 • - 725. • . 80s.

Tea and coffee sets, waiters, candlesticks, &c., at proportionate
prices. All kinds of re-plating done by the patent process. Detailed
catalogues, with engravings, as well as of every ironmongery article
sent (per post) tree.
WILLIAM S. BURTON'S (late RIPPON and BURTON'S) stock
of general Furnishing Ironmongery is literally the largest in the
world, and as no language can be employed to give a correct idea of
its variety and extent, purchasers are invited to call and inspectit.-
39, Oxford-street (corner of Newman street.) Established In Wells-
street, 1820.

JONES'S DEMULCENT COUGH LO-
ZENGES, the best remedy ever discovered. Persons afflicted
Frith Gough, asthma, difficulty of breathing, consumption, or other
liseases or derangement of the respiratory organs, will experience
immediate relief, and derive permanent benefit, by the use of
JONES'S DEMULCENT COUGH LOZENGES, which are so erica
clans, that they will eut short the most violent paroxysm of cough-
ing, and are so agreeable to the palate that they may be eaten
as a confection. _ _

Sold by the proprietor, Peter Jones, operative chemist, 11, Norton-
folgate, Bishopsgate-street, London, in boxes ls. 1 d., and in tins at
2s. :Id. each, duty included; and by most chemists and patent medi—
cine vendors in town and country.

Wholesale Agents—Barclay and Son, Farringdon-street; Edwards,
St. Paul's Churchyard.

F.JASE AND COMFORT IN SHAVING.-B
and S. COWVAN'S invaluable CANTON STROP, or Quad-
rilateral Chinese Razor-Sharpener, patronised by his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, renders the operation of shaving pleasant to the most
tender skin. By a very simple process, the keenest edge may very
speedily be given to the bluntest razor. B. and S. Cowvan's pecu-
liarly tempered Razors and Tooth and Shaving-powder. Specimens
of the strops are exhibited at the Royal Polytechnic Institution.
From the many flattering testimonials received, the following, from
that most eminent surgeon, Mr. C. Aston Key, is selected :
" Sirs,—" I hare made trial of your razor-strop, and find It to an-
swer better than any strop that I have hitherto used for giving a
keen edge to cutting instruments for anatomical and surgical pur-
poses." " C. ASTON KEY."
Many others may be seen at the inventors', B. and S. Cowvan,
164, Fench rch-street, where the strops, kc., may be obtained, and
of all respectable perfumers, &c., price bs. Gd., 7s. Gd., and 9s. 6d.
Cowyan's Canton Razor-strop Paste at Is. a packet. The Shaving-
powder, ls. 6d. ; and Prussian Court Toothpowder at 15. 6d. and
2s. 6d per box.
Caution.—None are genuine except marked and spelt " B. and S.
Cowvan."

KING FASHION to E. MOSES and SON.
Messrs. MOSES and SON, I've a wish to inquire
Concerning your present spring stock of attire.
The season of winter is now nearly gone,
And I want to he told how your fashions get on,
Have you thought upon any new styles for the s:,:ring ?
Have you any new cloths to present to your King?
Are your ever-coats choice, Messrs. MOSES and SON ?
And in gentlemen's under-coats, what have you done?
I'm anxious, my friends, very anxious, indeed,
To know how your trowsers and waistcoats proceed.
Inform me, I pray, Messrs. MOSES and SON,
For the season of spring-time will soon have begun.
E. MOSES AND SON TO KING FASHION'.
Your Majesty wishes to know what is done
In matters of fashion by MOSES and SON.
And therefore we beg to inform you, good King,
That all things are ready to welcome the spring.
We've beautiful waistcoats of toreign design,
Where neatness and elegance choicely combine.
E. MOSES and SON (as you'll say when you view
Have elegant over and under-coats, too.
And as for the trowsers. there's nought to excel 'em,
Abundance of credit they do, when we sell 'em.
Altogether, you'll have to confess, worthy King,
That MOSES and SON have dons much for the spring.
LIST OF PRICES.
READY MADE. X e. d.
Beaver Tiglionis ....... ........ ..... .......from 0 8 6
Chesterfields or ,2odringtons ..... ................ 0 10 6
D'Orsays, Attols, l'embroke, and every description of
Winter Coats
...... 1 5 0
Bey's' Winter Coats in every style .............. from 0 8 6
Winter treasers, lined .........•
0 10 6
Dress Coats, edged ................. .............. 1 0 0
Frock, ditto •••••••••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • - 1 5 0
Roll Collar Ve5t...... • ..... •
Double-breasted

Boys' Hussar and Tunic suits... ..... „ ........ 0 18
Ditto, Winter l'rousers . ................ •• 0 3 0
Ditto. ditto Yeats .•••••.• • • • • • • • • ................ 0 1 6
MADE TO MEASURE.
Winter Coats, in every style and shape, handsomely
Milled cloth Great Coats, velvet collar and cuffs ...... 1 12 0
Tweed Wrappers ......
Ditto Trousers .. ••..••••• • • • • • • • .................. 0 8 6
Winter Trousers, in all the new patterns • • ....... •.. 0 12 0
Doeskin ditt0............ ......... 0 10 6
Best quality, or dress do ........• .• . • .............. 1 6 0
Ditto, best quality made •• . • • •
Frock Coats..... • ...... ...... .................... 113 0
Ditto, best quality made •• • • •. • •
Cashmere Ye5t5..............
Satin do., plain or fancy ........ ••• • • •
Boys' Hussar and Tunic suits... .....
The New Work, entitled " Habiliment Hall," with full di
rections for self-measurement, may be had on application, or for.
warded, " Post Free."
Observe—E. MOSES and SON, Tailors, Woollen Drapers, Hat.
ters, and Outfitters, Minories, and Aldgate, City, London.
ImeoßrANT.—Any article purchased ordered, if not approved of or
exchanged, or the money returned.
N.B. No business transacted at this Establishment from sunseteri
Friday till sunset on Saturday, when business is resumed at twelve
o clock.
CAUTION.—. 7.2. Moses and Son are obliged to guard the public
against imposition, having learned that the untradesmanlike false-
hood of being connected with them, or its the same concern, has
been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons. They
have no connexion whatever *mitts any other estaislishment, in or out
of London, and those who desire genuine Cheat Clothing should (to
prevent disappointment, &c.) still or send to 154, =Rodeo, or 86,
Aldgote, opposite the Church.

T A TIO NA L LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNJIILL, LONDON.
Capital 2500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This institution offers important and sahsttntial advan-
tages with respect both t* Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities.
The assured has, on all occasions, the power to berr)vr, 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
of hi interests to Inert other conveni.nces sr necessity. Assurances
for terms of years ere granted on the lowest possible rates.
DIVISION OF PROFIT:.
The success and incrcusing prosperity or the Society has enabled
:he Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a third
Bonus, varying from ilu to 75 par cent. on the premiums paid on
each Policy effected on the Profit scale.
EXAMPLIAB.

_,
0 Premium. ;;), ; BGlirts Remain il . 5 •0 ~.f..
. added. Cash. r- e. 5 •;4 1.4 5
• H howß.wR. :cis.
d.. 1837 £l9l 13 5
60 1000 74 3 4 X 8713 b 41317 1 139511 1
1838 165 13 0 74 13 10 11 8 6 346 2 3
1839 133 13 6 61 14 3 9 210 296 13 4
.1840 89 0 0 41 13 4 6 0 0 247 4 8

Tao avision of profita is annual, and the next will be made in De-
cember of the present year.

F. FERGUSON CAMROITX, Sea.

BRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE
_ COMPANY. _

1, Princes-street, Bank, London.
Empowered by special Act of Parliament, 4th Viet., eap. 9.
ADVANTAGES OF THIS INSTITUTION.
MUTUAL ASSURANCE BRANCH.

Complete security afforded to the Assured by means of an ample
subscribed capital, and the large funds accumulated from the pre-
miums on upwards of 6,000 policies.
Half the amount only of theniaififtif VET tiii-iiquired during the
first five years, the remaining half premiums being paid out of the
profits, which, after five years, will be annually divided among the
Assured.

MITTUAL ASSITRANCE BRANCII. I PROPRIETARY BRANCH.
Half Pre- Whole Pre- Half Pre- Whole Pre-
Age. mium, first mium, after Age. mium, first mium, after
BYO years. live years. seven years. seven years.

s. d. £ s. d.
20 1 0 0 2 0 0
25 1 2 2 2 4 4
30 1 4 11 2 9 10
35 1 8 6 2 17 0
40 1 13 3 3 6 6
45 1 19 6 3 19 0
50 2 7 9 4 15 6
55 2 18 10 5 17 8
PETER

s. d: s. d.
20 0 18 0 1 16 0
25 0 19 I 1 19 2
30 1 1 9 2 3 6
35 1 4 11 2 19 10
40 1 9 2 218 4
45 1 14 10 3 9 8
50 2 2 6 4 5 0
55 2 12 9 5 6 6
'ORRISON, Resident Director.

NOTICE TO EQUITABLE POLICY HOLDZI2S.

NITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
dJ COMPANY,

No. 8, Waterloo-place, Pan-mall, London.

The attention of Equitable Policy Holders is particularly called to
the HALF CREDIT SCALES of PREMIUM of this Company, by
which table the bonus to be declared at the next investigation, in
January, 1850, may be secured at a pfesent annual payment of one-
half the rates charged by other companies. In the event of death the
sum insured will be paid less the amount of premiums on credit. Should
the life insured survive the declaration of the bonus, the policy may be
allowed to lapse, and the Comphny will renounce all claim for the
half premiums which may be due thereon, or, in the event of the
party being at that time in bad health, the policy can be kept up
by commenting to pay the fall premium of the age as when first
accepted. The above plan, originating with the Company, was
found peculiarly advantageous at the last equitable division iu 1840,
whey. it was largely adopted. and many of the policies then effected
are still in force, and large bonuses have been added to them on the
scale of the following table;—
Sum Assured. Time Assured. Sum addedito Policy.
£5,000
5,000 .• • 6 years ••• • ..
5,000 ........ 4 years .•••• • • • • • 400 0 0
5,000 .• • • 2 3 ears ..

Prospectuses and every information may be obtained on application
to the Resident Directors, Edward Boyd, Esq., and F. Lennox Boyd,
Esq., at the offices, 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mail, London.

PUBLICATIONS.

THE GREAT BELL OF ST. PAUL'S
will be a weekly Newspaper, the size of the Dispatch, edited
by two Members of Parhament, and conducted in each department
by the most eminent literati. To insure a proper knowledge ofpublic
events, and for the promotion of better taste in newspaper literature
among the people in general, THE GREAT BELL OF ST. PAUL'S
will he published on the 21st of March, at Threepence each number.
Advertisements and communications for the Proprietor to be sent
to Lewes and Lowe. City Advertisement and General Steam Printing
Offices, 3, Castle- court, Cornhill.

SECOND SERIES OF TALES OF THE COLONIES.
In three volumes, post Bvo., price 14 I ls. 6d.,
THE BUSHRANGER OF VAN DIEMAN'S
LAND. By CHARLES ROWCROFT, Esq., Author of
" Tales of the Colonies," &c.
Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill, London.

Just published, price 68.,
HE MEMORABILIA of XENOPHON :
JI„ Books I. and 11. from the Test of Dr. It. Kilmer ; adapted to
the HAMILTONIAN SYSTEM, by an interlinear and analytical
Translation, accompanied by Copious Notes, partly Original, and
partly Selected from Kiihmer, Bornemann, and other German Com-
mentators. By JOHN W .UNDERWOOD; Son-in-law and several
years partner of Mr. Hamilton.
Souter and Law, 131, Fleet-street ; where may be had (gratis) the
History, Principles, Practice, and Results of the Hamiltonian System,
with a List of all the Books on the true Plan of Mr. James
Hamilton.

Elegant Pocket Edition, price is., by poet Is. 6d.
DR. CULVERWELL ON. MARRIAGE,
its HINDRANCES and OBLIGATIONS.
" To be or not to be, that is the question."—Shakspeare.
Contents :--On Matrimonial Eligibility and Unfitness—Laws
Paternity—Phenemena of Gestation—On Maternal Influence—Or
infelicitous and unproductive Unions—Curiosities of Medical Experi-
ence, Cases, &c. &c.
Also Companion to the same, price Is., by post is. 6d.

CHASTITY ; its ABUSES and DISEASES (72 Engravings).
These two interesting little volumes are not intended for idle or In-
discriminate perusal, but they are earnestly offered to the attentive
consideration of those who may be more legitimately and perhaps
painfully interested.
Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row; Carvalho, 147, Fleet-street;
Mann, 39, Cornhill, and all booksellers, or direct front the Author,
21, Arundel-street, Strand. At home daily till 2 ; Evenings, 7 till 9

FOURTEENTH EDITION of the SILENT FRIEND on Human
Frailty, with Coloured Engravings.
Jest published, price 2a. 6d., free by post (in a sealed envelope) 3s. 6d.,
THE SILENT FRIEND ; a Medical Work on
the Infirmities of the System n both sexes ; and on the loss
of the reproductive powers, with means of restoration. The baneful
effects of indulge' ce, &c., are fully pointed out. Illustrated by En-
gravings; followed by observations on Marriage.
Ey R. and L. PERRY and Co., Consulting Surgeons, London.

Published by the Authors, and may be had at their residence
19, BERNERS-STREET, OXFORD-STREET.
Sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row ; Hannay and Co., 63, Ox-
ford-street; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street ; Purkiss, Compton-
street, Soho; Sanger and Co., Oxford-street; and all Booksellers.
" We regard the work before us, the ' Silent Friend,' as a work
embracing most clear and prattles-1 views of a aeries of complaint,
hitherto little understood, and passed over by a majority of the me-
dical profession, for what reason we are at a loss to know. We mu, t
iaowever confess that a perusal of this work has left such a favourable
imprission on our minds, that we not only recommand, but cordially
wish every one who is the victim of past folly, or suffering from indis
cretlon, to profit ky the advice contained in its pages."—Age and Argus,
The COUDIAL BALM of SYILLACUM is exclusively directed
to the cure of nervous debility, irregularity, vteakness, loss of ap-
petite, indigestion, consumptive habits, and debilities arising from
excess, Sec. In bottles, price I Is., or the quantity of four in one
bottle for lbs., jy which Ils. are saved. The five-pound cases may
be had as usual.

Tne CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE, a remedy
for *curdling out and purifying the blood from scurvy, blotches
en the head, face, and body, ulcerations, and those painful
affections arising from improper treatment or the effects of mercury,
removing secondary symptoms, and all eruptions of the akin. Priee
Ile. and 335. per bottle.

PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS, price 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d.,
Ind l Is. per box, are the most effectual remedy foi strictures, imam►
matron, Sac., without hindrance to business.

Consultation fee, If by letter, 11. Mute detail of cases neeassary.
Me.srs. R. and L. Perry and Co., surgeons, may be consulted, as
usual, at 19, Lterners-street, ftrord-street, Londln. daily, and at
106, Duke-sreet, Liverpool, (very Thursday, Friday, and Saturday ;
and at 10, St. Bohn-street, Deansgate, Manche der, on Mondays,
Tuesdays. and Wednesdays.

LAMERT ON DEBILITY. NERVOUSNESS, AND ALL
DISORDERS ARISING FROM EXCESS, &c.
" Ile, who in pleasure's downy arms
Ne'er lost his health or youthful charms,
A hero lives, and justly eaa
Exclaim, in me behold a man I"
Just published (in a sealed envelope), Tenth Edition, price 2s '6d., or
sent by post, free, to any address, 3s. 6d.,
SELF-PRESERVATION : a Popular Essay on
those concealed disorders, originating in vouththl excesses
and terminating in Nervous Debility, Local and Constitutional
Weakness, and all those Sinkings, Anxieties, and Tremors, which
afflict the Weak, the Sedentary, and the Delicate. With Practical
Observations on Marriage.
By SAMUEL LAMERT, Consulting Surgeon,
9, BEDFORD-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON,
Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary
Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate
Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c.
" The various positions of Lover, Husband, and Parent, the in.
herent privileges of mankind, are frequently marred and prevented
through the follies and frailties of early indiscretions. To such, among
others, this Essay addresses itself; and by its perusal many questions
may be satisfactorily adjusted that admit of no appeal even to the
most confidential friend."—Stafferd Gazette.
"Long experience in the treatment of a class of diseases hitherto
neglected and most imperfectly understood by the great bulk of the
medical profession, has enabled the writer to prove that there are
concealed causes of Nervous Debility in existence, where the mere
routine practitioner would never dream of finding them; traceable
to certain habits, forn•.Jng the most secret, yet deadly, and fatal
springs of domestic misery, and premature mertalify."—Wakefield
Journal.
Published by the Author, and sold in London by S. Gilbert, 51 and
52, Paternoster-row; Starie, 23, Tiehborne-street, Quadrant, Regent-
street ; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; Noble, 114, Chancery
ane Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street ; and by all Booksellers.
At home every day till Three, and from Five till Elzht.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday a Court was held for the despatch of pub-
lic business. The paper of business presented a long
list, but the subject of greatest interest was a promised
motion for the consideration of the propriety of providing
better abodes for the working classes. The galleries
were crowded with a most respectable auditory.
The Court was occupied for a length of time in discus-
sing the merits of a petition from the rector, church-
wardens, and parishioners of St. James, Dake's-place,
for aid in the purchase of an organ.
It was contended by those who advocated the peti-
tion, that as the churches of the rich parishes of the
City were supplied with organs, it would be invidious to
deny to the poor parishes the advantage of church mu-
sic—a luxury of the most pure and exquisite description,
and not calculated, like luxuries of another kind, to
draw away the mind from the contemplation of the most
sublime objects. By the opponents to the petition it
was objected, that as the parish of St. James, Duke's-
place, was an indigent parish, it would be very cruel in
the Court to aid it in the purchase of an organ, for the
possession of such a luxury would entail upon the poor
parishioners a heavy annual expenditure in the shape of
an organist ; that, after all, the music of the human
voice, eloquently uttering the poetry of the Church in
full harmony, far exceeded the music of the pipes and
whistles of the:mechanical instrument ; and that if the
Corporation had established a precedent by acceding to
the requests of the parish of St. Peter's, Cornhill, and
other affluent parishes, for similar indulgences, the cor-
poration had a very powerful argument for their acqui-
escence in the very considerable sums, of
).rKT4ey paid in
tho form of rates,. Sec. -

The petition was rejected by 54 to 42.
THE PUBLIC HEALTH.
_

Dr. LYNCH read and presented the following petition
to the Court :

To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, the Alder-
men, and Commonalty of the City of. London, in Com-
mon Council assembled.

The following petition from the Metropolitan Work-
ing Classes' Association for Improving the Public
Health, _ _ _

Humbly Showeth,—That the Corporation have set
the example of applying a large, and, as your petitioners
are informed, a sum of no less than 20,0001. per annum
to the improvement of the, City as a part of the me-
tropolis.
That your petitimers think the improvements goad
in themselves ; that the widening of the streets is good
as a means of ventilation ; that your petitioners admire
wide and magnificent streets, and take price in the im-
proved general aspect of the City and of the metropolis.
But they humbly submit that whilst all is thus made
fair and good to behold without, all should not be left
foul and miserable within ; and that these benefit,' may
be carried out otherwise than to the injury of the
working classes, which effect has been and is now pro-
duced.

Your petitioners aver, that by every old street occu•
pied by the labouring classes, pulled down to form a
new street, the evil of over-crowding the existing old
streets, courts, and tenements, near the street pulled
down, is geuerally aggravated.
Your petitioners know that this effect was produced
by the pulling down of houses to form the Farringdon
Market. They know (and it is in evidence before the
Commissioners for inquiring into the means of improv-
ing the health of towns) that the like effect was pro-
duced by the pulling down old houses to form the Black-
wall Railway. They know that the like effect has been
produced by the removal of the old and poor houses to
form the new streets which traverse the site of St. Giles.
Good new streets have been formed, but the poor po-
pula►_ion of St. Giles's has been only wedged in more
densely upon the poor population of Seven Dials, and
tie bad made worse. _

Your petitioners see that new lines of railway are
proposed to be carried, some into the City of London,
others through other parts of the metropolis, and that
large numbers of old houses are to be pulled down, but
they see no provision made, or consideration given, for
building new ones for the accommodation of the poor
people who camot remove from their places of work.
Your petitioners pray, that whilst the Corporation de-
votes its funds to the formation of new and magnificent
houses, it will, at the same time, exercise its power in
building for the working classes, at reasonable, and yet
remunerative rents, improved tenements, in numbers
equal to those pulled down, and by so doing a benefit
will be conferred, instead of an injury inflicted, on those
whose condition most needs improvement.
Your petitioners observe, with much satisfaction, that
new large main sewers are in course of construction
down the main streets. They regret, however, to find
that the streets occupied by the labouring classes are
still badly drained; that their houses are still left un •
drained• and whilst in the new prisons, and for the use
of prisoners, an apparatus of the nature of a water-
closet is provided, and a supply of water carried into
each cell; the houses of the working classes are only
provided with disgusting and unwholesome privies and
cesspools, and have only dear and bad supplies of water,
kept stagnant in butts in the yards, exposed to contami-
nation from soot and dust.

Your petitioners further pray, that at the same time
that drains for houses and sewers for streets are provided,
your Honourable Court will exercise its power, and in-
fluence to procure a good constant supply of water, to
make the drains and sewers to act, and constantly re
move all accumulations of offensive matter, and to have
such supplies carried at a cheap rate into every set of
rooms occupied by honest and industrious labouring men,
who are willing to pay a fair and reasonable rate for the
accommodation, whereas the price now charged for bad
supplies is proved to be more than three times the
amount for which the supplies of a better description
might be ensured.

Your petitioners humbly represent that besides sewers'
rates, payment of scavenging, and cleansing rates are
made on account of most of the houses occupied by the
labouring classes. That whilst their houses are badly
drained, and the streets, in respect to which the owners
or occupiers pay scavenging rates, are badly cleansed ;
and that however the service of the scavenger may be
contracted for, and paid for, the duty is rarely, if ever,
properly done. Your petitioners beg leave to bring be-
fore your notice the evidence in this respect of the
medical officers, given in answer to the inquiries made
under the authority of the Government, and appended
to the Report on the Sanitory Condition of the Labour-
ing Population.
The petition, after quoting the evidence of several ex-
perienced and scientific persons, concludes with praying
the immediate attention of the Court to the object of
the petitioners.
Mr. KING requested to be informed, by one of the pe-
titioners who stood at the bar, who the chairman of the
association was ?

The petitioner replied that the chairman was the
Bishop of London.—(Cheers.) He gave equally satisfac-
tory answers to other questions.
Dr. LYNCH stated that as the petitioners were work-
ing men, and had been in waiting on three or four occa-
:ions, in the expectation that a question so vitally con-
cerning their interests would arise, and he thought the
Court would upon the prc sent occasion excuse the at-
tendance of more than one or two of their represen-
tatives.

Several members expressed their entire satisfaction at
the arrangement. _ _

Doctor LYNCH expressed a hope that the appeal made
to the Court would receive their countenance and sup-
port. ft was a subject of congratulation with every re-
flecting mind to see the working classes struggling to
improve their social condition. It was one of the most
gratifying results of the diffusion of useful knowledge,
and one of the best signs of the times. That laudable
endeavour had originated with their clear-headed
brethren in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dundee, where
public meetings were called and resolutions adopted,
which showed how well they understood the evils, and
the means best calculated to remove them. The deter-
mination to form similar associations in each of the great
towns of this country had met with encouragement
from the highest, the noblest, the most pious, and some
of the most scientific in the land.--(Hear, hear.) Ap-
pealing to the municipalities, to whom the guardianship
of the public heath essentially belonged, the petitioners
alluded with gratitude to the noble streets constructed
in the City, and he would take that opportunity to
acknowledge his obligations to Mr. R. L. Jones, and the
Court of Common Council, for the generous spirit in
arrangements.—(Hear,
i
and ,L it:rig ear,
which they had seconded his exertions in behalf of tl e
suffering poor. To return to the petitioners, however.
'
They stated, with great truth, that the wants of thepoor
H
who were dispossessed by the alterations had been en-
tirelyhear) overlooked in
a great evil, in thesew
ten-
dency to aggravate all the evils arising from the ne-
glect of proper sanatory regulations, and affecting the
comforts and even the lives of the working classes to an
ev,
extent that would appear quite incredible, if it were not
for the searching and well-digested, investigations
of the Parliamentary Commission for inquiring
into the health of towns.—(Hear, hoar.) No
public man should be ignorant of the facts disclosed
by the labours of that Commission, or of the invaluable
suggestion by which it proposed to alter a state of things
at once so melancholy and alarming. Within the last
half century the proportion of the agrieultural and
the manufacturing population had been more than re-
versed. Half a century ago the proportion of agricul-
turists to manufacturers was as two to one. At present
the portion of manufacturers to ag,riculturists was alinest
three to one.—(llear, hear.) Although with that in-
crease there had been a concurrent increase of wealth,
and although every other class had been benefited by the
march of science, ne provision had been made for the
benefit of the working classes. The result was that.one
half of the children born in Great Britain died before
they reached five years of age; and, taking the young
and the old together, twenty-six years was the average
at which people died in London, and seventeen in Li-
verpool. Fire thousand died annually of diseases which
might be prevented by proper precautions. Typhus, as
Mr. Chadwick justly observed, carried off every
year more than fell at the battle of Waterloo.
—(Wear, bear.) In the middle ages six millions
of peeple had been carried of in five years by the plague,
a bad form of typhus, but by the drainage or swamps,
the adoption of sewers, and other improvements, that
evil had been arrested. The gaol fever used to carry off
the prisoners by hundreds, as if the angel of death bad
smote them ; but by better arrangements that disease
was extirpated, and tho adoption of the plans suggested
in the petition would soon render typhus a disease