The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-04 00:00:00

N0.17,507.] LONDON, SATURDAY NING

GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE COMPANY.
Co. 11, LOMBA?ID-gTREET, at the Entrance for the Old Post..

office, London.
DIRECTORS.
JOHN DIXON, Esq., Chairman.
JOHN MARTIN, Esq., M.P., Deputy-Chairman.
Henry Hulse Berens, Esq. Lewis Loyd, jun., Esq.
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. George Lyall, Esq.
Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Stewart Marjoribanks, Esq.
Thomson llankey, jun., Es 4. Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
John Harvey, Esq. ' James Morris, Esq.
hobo G. Hubbard, Esq. Henry Norman, Esq.
George Johnstone, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, jun., Esq.
John Labouchere, Esq. John Titoraton, Esq.
John Lech, Esq. ,Tames Tulloch, Esq.
TORS.
~antuel Joacs Loyd, Esq.
Henry Sykes Tornton, Esq.
ACTUARY—Griffith Davies, Esq., F.R.S.
In the LIFE DEPARTMENT, Assurances may be effected at
ow Rates without participation in the Profits ; or at moderate Rates
with participation in one moiety of the Profits every seven years. At
each of the three Septennial divisions which this Company has made,
the Bonuses amounted to about I per cent. per annum on the sum
assured, or about 27 per cent. on the amount of premium received ;
and the whole amount of Reversionary Bonus allotted by the Com-
pany exceeded 530,0001.

AUDI

A. W. Robarts, Esq.

LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their values, pro-
vided such Policies shall have been erected a sufficient time to have
attained in each case a value not under 501.

In the FIRE DEPARTMENT, a -Return of profit was declared
on the 7th of June, upon the premiums received on all Policies
which had been in force seven years at Christmas 1847, and the same
!s now in course of payment daily (Friday and Saturday excepted),
between the hours of ten and three o'clock, at the Head Office; and
also by the Agents in the Country Districts.
GEORGE KEYS. Secretary.

UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANT.— 8, Waterloo-place, Pall•rnall, London; 97
George-street, Edinburgh; 12, St. Vincent-place, Glasgow; 4, Col-
lege-green, Dublin.
SECOND SEPTENNIAL DIVISION OF PROFITS.

. -- --
This Company, established by Act of-Parliament in 1834, affords
lite most perfect security in a large paid.up Capital, and in the great
success which has attended it since its commencement—lTS ANNUAL
INCOME BEING UPWA/tDS OF 94,0001.
In 1841 the Company added a bonus of 21. per cent. per annum on
the sum insured to all Policies of the participating class from the
time they were effected, to the 31st of December, 1840, and from
that date to ilst December, 1847, 211, 1. per cent. per annum was
added at the General Meeting en the 6th of July, 1848.
The bonus thus added to policies from March, 1834, to the 21st of
December, 1847, is as follows:

Sur
Assured

X5OOO
5000
5000
iOOO
5000
bOOO
1000

Time Assured. Sum added tel
olicy inlB4ll

13 years 10 mths .£683 6
12 years 500 0
11 years 300 0
R years 100 0
6 years ..
4 years • .
2 years .. .

Sum added to Sum payable
!Policy in 184 i at Death.

£787 10 0 £6470 16 8
787 10 0 6287 10 0
787 10 0 6087 IS 0
787 10 0 5887 10 0
675 0 0 6675 0 0
451 0 0 6450 0 0
225 0 0 6225 0 0

The Premiums, nevertheless, are on the most moderate scale, and
only one-half need bo paid for the first five years where the In-
surance is for Life.
No Entrance Money or charge except the Policy Stamp.
Every information will be afforded on applicati•n to the Resident
l)lreetor, No. $, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.

PROMOTER LIFE ASSURANCE AND
ANNUITY COMPANY,
9, Chatham-place, Blackfrlars, London.—Established in ISM
Subscribed Capital, 240,0001.
DIRECTORS.
The Right Hon. W. G. Hayter, Robert Palk, Esq.
M.P. ' John Louis Prevost, Esq.
Charles Johnston, Esq. Samuel Smith, Esq.
John Towgood Kemble, Esq. Le Marchant Thomas, Esq.
John G. Shaw Lefevre, F.R.S.

TRUSTEES.
John Deacon, Esq., John G. Shaw Lefevre, Esq., r.R.S., and
Charles Joknston, Esq.
This Society effects Assurances in every variety of form, and on
most advantageous terms, both on the bonus and non-bonus systems.
The Premiums, without participation in the Profits, are lower than
those of most other offices, whilst those on the participation scale hold
out the prospect of a handsome addition being made every Five
Years, to the sum assured. The holders of Equitable Policies can
secure their bonuses at the approaching division on the best terms
with this office.
Prospectuses, with tables of rates, and all farther particulars, may
be obtained at the office.

MICHAEL SAMARA, Secretary,

METROPOLITAN COUNTIES and
GENERAL LIFE ASiURANCE SOCIETY.
(Incorporated 7 and 8 Victoria, Cap. 110.)
27, Regent-street, Waterloo-place, London. Temporary Offices, 20,
Regent-street.
Assurances granted on one or more Lives, on Joint Lives, or Sur-
viverships ; also, Annuities, Immediate and Deferred.
An advantageous system of Loam in connexion with Life Assur-
ance, enabling parties to purchase Freehold or Leasehold Property.
Preference is given with regard to Loans to parties who have al-
ready effected Assurances in this Office.
Prospectuses and every variety of Table to be had, on application
at the Office, or to the Agents in the Country.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager.

THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL, with which is
incorporated lIOWITT'S JOURNAL.
The NOVEMBER Part, price Sevenpence, is embellished w'th
beautiful Engravings, and contains many Articles of great interest,
by Camilla Toulmin, H. M. It tthbone, Frances Brown, Dr. Scott Al-
lison, John Saunders, Goodwyn Barmby, Thomas Lee, H. R. Addi-
son, Dr. Gaspey, G. I. Gowan, F. W. N. Bayley, J. Passmore Ed-
wards, &c , &c.
The PEOPLE'S JOURNAL ALMANACK is now ready for de-
livery, price Torsi Half-pence.
Lo ;don : Willoughby and Co., 22, Warwick-lane.

ONE HUNDRE-D AND SIXTH SALE.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, LONDON, Nov., 1848.
For SALE, by Order of the Honourable the Commissioners
of her Majesty's Customs, at the Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing-
lane, on Monday 13th, Tuesday 14th, Wednesday 15th, Thursday
16th, Friday 17th, Monday 20th, and Tuesday 21st of November,
1848, at Twelve o'clock at Noon precisely, the following GOODS
for home consumption, viz. :
Agate Anchors, Brooch Pieces, Buttons, Coat. fasteners, Knife
Handles, Penholders, Ilia heads, &c. ; Artificial Flowers, Barego and
Barege Shawls, Baskets, Berlin Iron Ware, Books ; Boxes : Card,
Copper enamelled, Glove, Needle, Paper, Perfumery, Segar, Snuff,
Work, Ste. ; Brandy ; Brass : Candelabras, Chandeliers, Cornices,
Ornaments, NaiD, Screws, &c. ; Buhl : Cabinets, Tables, &c. ; But-
tons, Cashmere, Cameos, Cambric Handkerchiefs (embroidered); Car.
pets: Aubusson, Turkey, Sze. ; China Ware: Bottles, Cups and Sau-
cers, Dishes. Ewers and Basins, with Soap and Brush Trays com-
plete, Garden-seats, Figures, Jars, Plates, Soup-basins with covers,
Toilet-pots, &e. ; Clock : Alarums, Cases t Clocks : Buhl, Bronze,
carriage, Chamber, Dutch Inlaid, Marble, Ormolu, Porcelain, Ste. ;
China Silk and Satin ; China or Indian Ink, Cologne Water, Coffee,
Coffee Biggins, Corks ready made, Crochet Needles, Damask for
Curtains, &c. ; Dresden, Sevres, and French porcelain ; Daguerreo-
type Plates ; Embroidery and Needle Work, viz.:—Caps, Cap-
pieces, Collars, Dress-pieces, Embroidery, Shawls, Scarfs. &c. ; Fea-
thers, dressed. —Fans, Geneva Gilt Tassels for Purses, Goat's-wool
Staffs, Hand Screens, Chinese, embroidered, &c. ; Instruments :
Levels, Microscopes, Sectors, &e. —lvory : Carved Card-cases, Chess-
men, Brooches, Backgammon-men and Boxes, Figures, Paper-
knives, Seals, Segar-cases, &e. ; Jewellery, viz.: Bracelets, Brooches,
Buckles, Ear-rings, Neck-chains, Pins, Studs, &c. ; Leather Boot-
jacks, Purses, Writing-cases, &c. ; Lace : Brussels, Blonde, and
Thread ; also Barhes, Collars, Cuffs, Scarfs, Shawls, Yeils, Sce. ;
Matches, Lucifer and Vesper; Machinery, Marqueterie, Cabinets,
Meerschaum and other Pipes and Bowls ; Musical Instruments, viz. :
Accordions, Cornepeans, Flutinas, Flutes, Piccolos, Guitars, Trom-
bones, Violins, and Violins (old) in Pieces ; Mosaics, Mother-o'•pearl
Counters, Needle-cases, Opera-gla,ses, Pictures, Pen-holders ; Pipe
Stems, Tubes, Bowls, Mouth-pieces, &c. ; Paper-hangings, Pistol-
stock, Purses ; Purse-slides, Garnitures, Tassels, &c. ; Rags : Chinese,
Turkey, &c.; Rum, Sandal-wood Boxes, Spa-ware; Seed:
Onion, Beans, Peas, &c.; Stockings and Socks, Segars, Segar Tubes,
Ste. ; Scent Bottles, mounted; Silk mixed Stuffs, Silk Manufactures,
viz. : Agraffes, Gloves, Head-dresses, Mitts, Shawls, &c. ; Stuffs,
Damask, &c. ; Shawls, Long and Square ; Snuff, Spirits, Plain and
Mixed ; Stays, Sugar, Swiss-cottages, &c. ; Table-covering, Tapes-
try, Tea, Tobacco, Toy, Prints, Tooth-brashes, Tomata Sauce, Tur-
nery, Utrecht Velvet, Vases (mounted), Veneers, Watches, Watch
Springs, Watchmakers' Tools, &c.; Wine, Writing-desks, Wood Car-
vings, Walking-sticks, &c.: and various other goods.
For Exportation only—Hats, Wine, Spirits, Pasteboard, Clocks,
Watches, Sze.

For Exportation, or for home consumption on payment of the
duties—Bonnets, Biscuit, Copper,. Cordials, Cologne Water, Coffee,
Flour, Handkerchiefs, Iron, Jewellery, Molasses, Pepper, Pimento,
Rice, Silk Ribbons, Silk Velvet, Saccades, Sugar, Spirits, Silk Ma-
nufactures, Tamarinds, Tea, Velvet, Wine, &c.—The above goods may
be viewed at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom-house, Thames-street ;
at the London, and the West India Docks; and at the Tobacco-
Ground, Rotherhithe, on Thursday 9th, Friday 10th, and Saturday
11th of November, 1848, from Ten o'clock in the Morning until
Three o'clock in the Afternoon, and on the days of Sale from
Ten o'clock in the Morning until Twelve o'clock at Noon. Take
notice, that goods sold at this sale will not be delivered until after
two clear days of the day on which they are soli, and that no lots
can b 3 paid for at the office of the receiver of fines, after Two o'clock
in the Afternoon ; and that on the days of sale, money will not be re-
ceived by the receiver of fines after Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon
Catalogues may be had at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom-
house, Thames-street, London, price Is. each.

HEAT HER'S TRUST.
Under the Management of the Clothworkers' 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 are 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 bq
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 llall.

ROBERT BECKWITH TOW SE, Clerk.
Clothworkers' Hall, November, 1848.

MIDLAND It
TENDER for STORES for Six Months.
The Directors of the Midland Railway Company are prepared to
receive Tenders for Locomotive Stores, viz :
IRON—Tires, Axles, Bar and Sheet, Castings, Bolts, Rivets,
Nail., &c.
COPPER—Sheet, Rod, and Tile.
BRASS—Tubes, Cypkons, Cocks, &c.
STEEL—Spring, Cast, Blister and Shear, Files and Springe.
TIMBER.
Oil, Tallow, Grease, &c.
Painters' Varnishes, Turpentine, Brushes, &c.
LEATHER —Butts, Pipes, Buffers, and Straps.
Ropes, Spunyarn, Tarred Band, and Flax.
Cotton Waste.
Cloth for Carriage Linings, Lace, Horsehair, &c.
LAMPS.
The specification of articles required will be ready for inspection
at the Locomotive Office, Derby, on and after November 8.
No Tender will be received on and after November 1.
By order,

Derby, October 26, 1846.

J. F. BELL, Secretary,

A It R I A G E.
L . One half the world are desolately single, and the other
supposing them married, questionably contented. Diffidence, or a
sense of right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes em-
bitter the latter. Tho solitary one may shield himself under the plea
sf caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un-
.s.ornprosiag harry ; but the truth lies deeper. Physical incapacity,
end broken health, are the great hindrances to domestic happiness
end social content. The dowry should net be the only marriage set-
f•ement. Honour and justice demand that health should form as item
in the compact; it alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes or
leglect wound more sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, if
these surmises concern you, procure Dr. CULVERWELL'S little
"On Single and Married Life, " pub. in 2 vols., is.
lach (by cost, in stamps, Is. 6d. each). Let no imaginatively
refine!, or prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered
Sy misinterpretation of their supposed contents, from obtaining
tier's. They are not intended certainly for mere idle cariosity, but
'sr the closet perusal of those mere deeply interested, to whom
they are offered as antagonistic to the empyrical trash put forth on
the above subjects, by unqualified authors, which alone or
•ogether, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other
Rile publications claim your attention (same price Is. each,
by post is. 6d.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and
Xvoid," and " How to be Happy." They are not merely
damphlets, but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are they the
mere ephemeral scribblings of the hour, but the study of the author's
,ife, who ewes his present existence, health, and position to this ob-
servance of the maxims he would inculcate—to do unto others as he
would be done unto—to live after nature's laws—and to keep always
as the "sunny side of the way." The above works may he bad of
Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row; Carvallus, 147, Fleet•street • Mann,
39, Cornhill ; Nalson, 457, West Strand ; or direct (by post or other-
s" ise) from the author (who may be conferred with personally,
sn3rnings and fivenings). 10, Argyil-plaee Regent-street; and all
rt vdtsellers.

Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel.
)N PIIYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPA-
CITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE.
clew Edition, enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 2s. 6d., or
by pest, direct from the Establishment, 3s. 6d. In postage stamps,
HE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on
the infirmities and decay of the generative system, from ex-
cessive indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury,
with remarks on Marriage, and the means of obviating certain dis-
waliflcations. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By R. and
L. PERRY and CO., 19, Berners-stroet, Oxford-street, London.
Published by the Authors : sold by Strange, 21, Patenioster-rew ,
Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; Stark, 23, Titehborne-.
street, Haymarket; and Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street.
PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive
argane, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings.
PART 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive indul-
gence, and their lamentable effects en the system, producing mental
and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative Incapacity.
It is illustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings.
PART 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in
the primary or secondary form, and cantatas explicit directions for
their treatment. The consequences of early neglect and of the abuse
at mercury, are also clearly pointed out. This section is illustrated
'ay Seventeen Coloured Engravings.
PART IV. treats of the Prevention of Disease by a simple ap-
alleatlige, by which the danger of infection is obviated. Its action
is simple but sure. It acts with the virus chemically, and destroys
its power on the system. This important part of the Work should
be read by every Young Man entering into life.
PART V. is devoted to the consideration of marriage, and its
luties. The crises of unproductive union are also considered, and
'he whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into.
TneConisioL BALM OF STRIAOUM is exclusively employed in treat-
ag nervous and sexual debility, impotence, &c., lls .and 335. per
bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilitic
remedy, for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary symp-
(ns, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, I Is. and 335. per bottle.
~eery's Purifying Specific Pills, 2s. oil., 4s. 6d., and 1 is. per box, a
certain .emedy in gonorrhoea, gleet, strictures, and chronic inflamma-
• ion of the bladder. Consultation fee, if by letter, 11. 51. Packets
with advice tube had at the Establishment only, by which the fee,
1., is saved. Attendance daily at 19, llereers-street, from Eleven
it Two. and Vivo to Richt ; on Sandays from Eleven to One.

ON NERVOUS DEBILITY AND GENERATIVE DISEASES.
Just published, the Thirty-sixth Thousand, an improved edition, re-
vised and corrected, 120 page; price 2s. in a sealed envelope, or
forwarded by the Authors, post paid, to any address, secure from
observation, for 2s. 6d., in postage stamps, illustrated with nu-
merous Anatomical Coloured Engravings.
MANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PREMA-
TURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for its PERFECT
RESTORATION.

A Medical Essay on tkose Diseases of the Generative Organs,
emanating frora Solitary and Sedentary Habits, indiscriminate Ex-
cesses, the Effects of Climate and Infection, &c., addressed to the
sufferer in Youth, Manhood, and Old Age; with Practical Remarks
on Marriage, the Treatment and Cure of Nervous and Mental De-
bility, Impotency, Syphilis, and other Urine-Genital Diseases, by
which even the mast shattered constitution may be restored, and
reach the fall period of life allotted to Man. The whole illustrated
with numerous Anatomical Engravings on Steel, in colour, explain-
ing the various functions, secretions, and structures of the repro-
ductive Organs is heaith and disease ; with instructions for private
correspondence, cases, &c.

•
By J. L. CURTIS and CO., Consulting Surgeons,
7 , Frith-street, Soho-square, London.
" ' Manhood.' A Medical Work.—To the gay and thought less we
trust this little work will serve as a beacou to warn them of the
danger attendant upon the too rash indulgence of their pa isions,
whilst to some it may serve as a monitor in the hour of tempta-
tion, and to the afflicted as a sure guide to health."—Chronicle.
'" Manhood.' By J. L. Curtis, and Co.—Their long expt rience
and reputation in the treatment of these painful diseases is the
patient's guarantee, and well deserves for the work its immense cir-
oulation."—Era.

" Curtis on Manhood' should be In the hands of youth and old
age. It is a medical publication, ably written, and developes the
treatment of a class of painful maladies which has too long been
the prey of the illiterate and the designing."— United Service
Gazette.

The Parent, who beholds his beloved child pining away, and fast
approaching to a premature grave, in consequence of some disease,
which, for want of careful investigation of its real cause, has been
set down to the score of consumption, will, on perusing this work,
be astonished to find, that in nine-tenths of the cases of young per-
sons of both sexes, who perish of what is called pulmonary con-
sumption, heart disease, tabes, &c., the sole and exclusive origin has
bees► the indulgence in certain destructive habits practised by youth
much more frequently than it is at all suspected.
N.B. Hours of consultation from Eleven till Two, and Six to
Eli:hi in the Evening.

[ADVERTISEMENT.].—Scorbutic humours Cured by
Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—Extract of a letter from
Mr. George F. Williams, of Blackrock, near Cork, dated
June 14, 1848.—T0 Professor Holloway, Sir,—l beg to
state for your satisfaction and for the information of
the afflicted, the wonderful effects your Ointment and
Pills have had upon me. I have suffered severely from
Scorbutic humours, and for the last seven years my eyes
have been dreadfully sore; during that period I tried
almost every remedy without obtaining the least relief;
at last I was prevailed upon to use your invaluable me-
dicines, which I did, and I am delighted to say that I am
perfectly cured by them. Sold by all Druggists, and
at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand,
London.

MADEIRA SWEET POTATOES.--A small parcel of
this root has been received by Messrs. Keeling and Hunt
from Madeira. The cultivation of sweet potatoes, as well
as other kinds from English seed, is being increased to
supply this market; and as the voyage is now made fr,m
Madeira to Southampton at an average of from eleven to
twelve days, they arrive in sound condition. Oranges
and bananas are also being cultivated to a considerable
extent for consumption in England, and a parcel of them
arrived by the same ship.

RAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE.
SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER RAlLWAY.—Traffic for
the week ending October 29. 1848—Passengers, Ist class,
1281. 12s. 9d.; 2d class, 325/. 16,. 7d.; 33 class, 771. 3s
—531/. 12s. 4d. Parcels, horses, &c., 261. 14s. 3d.; mer-
chandise, minerals, and live stock 7241. 6s. 4d.-1,2831.
'
12s. I Id. Corresponding week last year—Passengers,
parcels, &c., 258/. 103. 7d.; merchandise and live stock,
2971. I ls. lid.-5561. 2s. 6d. Increase, 727/. 103. sd.
EASTERN UNION ItAILWA.Y (now fifty-one miles and
a quarter, being amalgamated with the Ipswich and
Bury Railway).--Traffic for the week ending October
28, 1848, 1,3771. ss.
5d.; ditto ditto, October 31, 1847,
1,141/. 7s. 4d., after deducting payments due to other
companies. -,/

GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN (IRELAND), open
to Carlow and Limerick Junction, 131 miles.-Return of
weekly traffic for the week ending Saturday, October
28, 1848-Passenger traffic, parcels, and mails, &e.,
2,9211. 3s. ICI4I. Merchandise and cattle, 9061. ss. 100,
-Total, 3,827/. 9s. 81d.
MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN OF IRELAND.-Revenue
for the week ending October 29, 1848, for goods and
passengers (exclusive of mails), to Mullingar, fifty
miles, 1,1831. 14s. sd.
WATERFORD AND LIMERICK (25 miles open).-Traffic
for the week ending Saturday, Oct. 28, 1848-Passen-
gers, 2211. Is. 3d. ; goods and cattle, $3l. Bs. 4d. Total
(exclusive of mails), 304/. 9s. 7d.
ROUEN AND HAVRE RAILWAY.-The folbwing is a
return of the receipts on the Rouen and Havre Railway,
for the week ending the 28th of October, 1848:-Pas-
sengers, 22,927 f. 35c.; luggage, parcel:, &c., 1,394 f. 40c. ;
goods, 31,360 f. 95c. ; carriages and horses, 96f. 10c.;
miscellaneous, 2,150 f. 25c.-Total, 57,929 f. 05e.
PARIS AND ROUEN RAILWAY.-The following is a
return of the receipts on the Paris and Rouen Railway
for the week ending October 28, 1848:-Passengers,
63,818 f. 20c.; luggage, parcels, &c., 3,563 f. 40c.; go
70,792 f. 95c.; carriages and horses, 1,805 f. 55c.; miscel-
laneous, 4,448 f. Total for the week, 144,428 f. 10C.
DIEPPE RAILWAY.-The following is a return of the
receipts on the Rouen and Dieppe Railway for the week
ending October 28, 1848 :-Passengers, 3,928 f. 90c. ;
luggage, parcels, &c., 81f. 45c. ; goods, 4,8731. 05e. ;
carriages and horses, 14f. 5e.; miscellaneoua, 3,7421. 40e.
-Total for the week, 9,422 f. 90e.
AMIENS22
toA OctoberNDBOUL2O9G:TE RAILWAY.-Traffic
25,651 f. 45c. ;c from
October
merchandise, 6,1931. 85c.; total, 31,8451. 30e.-1,2741 •
receipts since 15th March, 1848, 43 7481. Total, 45,022 i.
RAILWAY COMMUNICATION BETWEEN FRANCE AND
GERMANY.-The administrative protocol containing the
international agreement between France, Belgium, and
Prussia, for the better arrangement of the traffic, has
just been closed and signed at Brussels.
FRENCH RAILWAY APPOINTMENTS.-M. de Vienne
has been appointed special commissioner of administra-
tive surveillance, on the line from Cornpieine to St.
Quentin. M. Gellion has received the same appointment
on the Strasburg and Bask..
BARTON AND NEW HOLLAND RAILWAY.- These
works are slowly progressing to a finish; men are em-
ployed in converting the house lately occupied by Air.
Wilkinson into a temporary station. The embankment
is completed to within about 120 yards of the Barton
extremity of the line, and the wire fencing is alto com-
pleted fur nearly the same distance. Not more than
twenty men are now engaged upon the works, the com-
pany having drafted their available force to hasten the
opening of the Market Rasen branch. This latter object
being accomplished, no time will be lost in bringing this
line to a conclusion.-Lincoln Mercury.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

BRISTOL, Nov. 3.

&Isom ExcHANGE.S-The sales are—Great Western, Quar-
,ers, 3js dis.—Ditto, New, 234.di5._-_-_--Taff Vale, New, IA dis.

LIVERi)OOL, Nov. 3.

- - -
STOCK EXCLIANGR.— Ile market to-day has an im-
proved feeling, and prices are higher. The sales are—
Caledonian, Preference, 3/4 c. dis.—Great Northern 12%
dis. —Ditto (A Shares), Deferred, 4—Great Western, Quarter
Shares, 4 dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire (late Manchester
and Birmingham), Fifths, 4 dis.—Ditto, 101. Preference,
6s. 3d. p.—London and North. Western, 1181/2—Ditto,
Fifths, 4 p.—Ditto, 401. Shares (Liverpool and Man—
chester), 514 p.— Ditto, New Quarters, 235. 9d. —Ditto
(Leeds and Dewsbury), 39—Midland Stock, 83—Ditto, New
Halves, 9% dis.—North British, New Thirds, 3% —North
Staffordshire, 53% dis.—Scottish Central, 244—Shropshire
Union, 314 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, Thirds,
6i. 18s 91—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Pur-
chase), 113 dis.

MANCHESTER, Nov. 3.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—West Riding Union
5 11. 16 dis.— Leeds, Preference, i, p.—Manchester and Bir-
mingham, Quarters (A and B), 1 p.—Ditto, Quarters (C).
1% p. —Sheffield, Eighths, 7% dis.—Ditto, Quarters, No. 1,
9 dis. —North Staffordshire, 6% dis.—Shropshire Union, 3 ,24
dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 6 13.16—East Lan-
cashire, par c.—Leeds,.32/.. Shares, 95,E Sheffield, 39.

BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 3.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—North Staffordshire,
dis.— Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B), New, 4'4 dis,
—Shropshire Union, ni dis.—Smth Staffordshire, 4 dis.
YORK, Nor. 2.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business transacted to-day was
as follows: —North-Western, 114—York, Newcastle, and
Berwick, 2534—Ditt0.(G.N.,,E. Purchase), 6.

GLASGOW, Nov. 2.
STOCK ExcHarmic.—The sales are—Caledonian, Prefer•
ferenee, 775. 6d.— Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 45/6_
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 461/9—Ditto, Halves, No. 1
529. 6d.—Ditto, Preference, .535.—Great Northern, 725.
North British, 144—Ditto, Thirds, 70a.—Scottish Cen
tral, 23.

MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.—yesterday a man and
woman, named Thomas Cooke and Eliza Jones, were
brought before the magistrates at Manchester Ti
suspicion of murder.
T
Dole field, in which, at the
eprisoners reside in a court in
bottom of a flight of stone.
last week, with a fearful
steps, a man was found-duringone night at the end of
contused cut at the. back. of the
head. lie was carried in
infirmary, and died almost state of insensibility to the
a.ittirlimediately. The. evidence.
against the prisoners was
a woman living in the
court heard a cry of " Watch l'ltodn the night in question,
which was subsequently repeated,
peate , or repeated in part,
the word being suppressed when half uttered. Two
little girls were the next witnesses, and said that they
saw the male prisoner di ag a man who lay at the bottom
of the steps into his house and bathe his head with
water, and afterwards take
prisoners deniedim ai
back tol
knowledgethe
stepsa lid
leave him there. The
of
the affair. A surgeon from
the infirmary, who had
examined the head of
deceased, said the wound might
have been caused
by his falling backwards down the
steps, or by a blow from behind. The evidence against
the prisoners, or rather againstagainst the male prisoner (for
there was nothing
the woman), was considered
insufficient, and the case after they had been put back
t
in the dock several times It*, fresh evidence might be
obtained if possible, was di543135
KING'S COLLEGE Hosplr,7d*
A--From the reports issued by the committee of the above hospital it appears
that during the past year the benefits of the charity
were distributed among out-patienta to the number of
17,901,0 f whom 16,782 werereceived without lett( rs of
ownrecommendation—their
state of suffering and
disease at once admitting
themthe same
to the treatment of the
medical staff. During
dense
1,359 in-door
patient; were received, 268 only eb
being provided with re-
commendations. Owing to the
eunasteedpoapuudlatthie orluoefretahse
district in which the hospital is sit
ing prevalonce of sickness and disease, the wards of the
present buildinghave been found to be' far inadequate to
the: accommodation demanded, while in the out-patients'
department the rooms appropriated to their reception
have become much overcrowded, and most imperatively
require enlargement. It appears that the committee
have purchased an adjoining piece of ground, which is
now being cleared of the buildings upon it, previous
to the commencement of the proposed extension, and we
trust they will receive efficient support and co operation
in the progress of a work essential to the health of a
crowded quarter of the metropolis.
SHEERNESS, Nor. 2.--Much has been said rela-
tive to the state of Sheerness. We are now happy to say
that a petition numerously signed by the inhabitants
rated to the relief of the poor, in the parish of Minster,
has b,,en presented to the Honourable the Commissioners
of the Board of Health, at Gwydyr House, Whitehall,
London, praying that their Honourable Board would,
without delay, send one of their superintendent inspec-
tors to this place to make the preliminary inquiries into
the sanitary state of the town. We have much to thank
the press and our port officers for. They have really
awakened the town commissioners to a partial sense of
their duty at last, and during the present week more
dung and filth of every description has been turned out of
back premises, yards, piggeries, cow-sheds, slaughter-
houses, &c., than has been seen for nearly twelve months
past. We have also to thank the board of guardians,
part of whom are gentlemen farmers, and can duly op."
preciate the value of strong manure well deetoinposecl and
ready for use. Sheerness may, be made one of the
cleanest towns on the coast of Bent; and for natural re-
freshing sea air and scenery it will bear comparison with
any other similar port.
TIIE IRISII CONVICT MITCIIEL.—A correspondent
in Burntisland writes on Tuesday:—" I have just had a
conversation with a shipmaster, who, within these three
weeks, passed a day or two at Bermuda, where, he in-
forms me, he saw Mr. John Mitchel walking on the
quay, and looking well. Mitchel wore his own clothes,
and my friend learned that only once a month, when
the Governor inspects the convicts, was he compelled to
wear the dress of a convict. lle was lodged on board
the hulk, but had the privilege of walking the quay
throughout the day. Mitchel had as 4 been t
ed to assist
in writing up or keeping the convict books, but refused,
saying he would do nothing for the Government. In
this every one must think that the hot-headed man
acted at least ungratefully, seeing that this same Go.
vernment grants him so extraordinary privileges."—
Caledonian Mercury.
SOUTrI LA.NCASIIIRE REGISTRATION, 1848. The
revision of the Lists of Voters for the Southern Division
of the county of Lancaster was.
compkt si en Friday,
the 27th ult., before W. Come, P. A. Pickering,
and
J. P. Wilde, Esqrs. The following is the result: Con-
servatives struck off on objections:, 1,013; Liberals,
ditto, 455; gain to Liberals on objections, 558. new
claims (L), 410; struck off on objections, 3-407; new
claims (C), 41.5; struck off on objections, 79 336'.
gain to Liberals on new claims, 71; total, gain t(;
Liberals, 629.