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London, England, 1846-12-19

PUBLICATIONS.

ELIZA COOK'S PO,EMS.
Just published, the Fourth Edition of MELAIA, and other
Poems, beautifully illustrated, price 10s. 6d. cloth, and 15s. morocco,
elegant. " The work 13 well got up, and will form a handsome
Christmas Gift." Also the "Second Series," with a finely executed
Portrait of the Author, price ss. cloth.
" Eliza Cook's poetry appeals at once to the soul by its simple
truthfulness. Many a roof has rung with her beautiful ballads."—
Literary Gazette.
" Eliza Cook has the daring which belongs to genius alone. There
is health in her poetry, and it 13 likely to make her readers happier
and better.."—Sunday Times.
" Some of the poems are so exceedingly beautiful as to strike us
with a kind of wonder."—Bell'a Weekly Messenger.
London : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co„ and 011ivier, Pall Mall.
Orders received by all Booksellers.
London, England, 1846-12-19

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.

BY, PERMISSION.-PROFESSOR
SCH(ENBEIN'S GUN COTTON, differing from all other spe-
cimens recently before the public, is LECTURED on, with other ex-
plosive compounds, by Dr. RYAN, daily at Half past Three, -and on
the evenings of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
The principle of the ELECTRIC TELF.GRAPH DEMONSTRA-
TED daily, by Professor BACHHOFFNER, especially with reference
to the new patent of Messrs. Nott arid Gamble, called the ROYAY.
ELECTRO-MAGNETIC TELEGRAPII. By the OXYHYDROGEN
MICROSCOPE are exhibited specimens of the DISEASED POTATOE,
showing the Leaves, Cuttings of the Tubers, &e., together with the
DES rRUCTIVE INSECT, supposed, by A. Sinee, Esq., F.A.S., to
be the cause of the disease. The PHYSIOSCOPE, DIVING EX-
PERIMENTS, the DISSOLVING VIEWS, by Smith, &c. &c.
Admission ls. Schools, half-price.
London, England, 1846-12-19

DRAWING-ROOM, LIBRARY, and DIN-
ING-ROOM ORNAMENTS in ITALIAN ALABASTER,
BRONZE, MARBLE, and DERBYSHIRE SPAR, consisting of
Groups, Vases, Figures, beautiful inlaid Tables, Watch. stands, Cali-
dlesticks, Obelisks, Inkstands, raperweights, &c., chiefly copied from
the antique, and imported by J. TENNANT, late Blare, 149, Strand,
London.

J. Tennant has an extensive assortment of Shells, Minerals, and
FOFSiIS, and arranges elementary Collections to facilitate the study of
Conchology, Mmei alogy, or Geology, from 2 to 50 guineas each ; he
also gives Private Instruction in Mineralogy.
London, England, 1846-12-19

FRENCH ITALIAN OPERA

When M. Gardoni made
,his first appearance at the
Acade aie Ruyale two years ago, we recollect we stated
that he had gone to the wrung side of tire-Boulevards,
and that his place was at the Italian Opera. His brilliant
debut at this theatre on Tl,ursday / roves the correctness
of that opinion. His fine pure tenor, cramped and dis-
guised by his singing in French, came out in his native
language with a fulness and beauty of tone which
seemed to take the public here entirely by surprise,
and, aided by his gallant youthful figure and hand•
some features, at once established him a favourite—a
judgment which, we must remark, the fairer- part of
the auditory assisted in ratifying with unusual zeal and
animation. The opera selected fur the occasion
was L'Elisir d 'Amore, which had the merit also of
introducing another novelty, namely, Ronconi, in the
part of Dulcamara, and in which, though succeeding the
inimitable Lablache, he was brilliantly successful—keep-
ingthe public in continued mats throughout the whole
part. his great predecessor is more spontaneous in his
humour, but it is difficult to imagine a more perfect picture
of an Italian charlatan than Ronconi in this character. He
was immensely applauded. Mum Persiani sang with all
her usual exuberance of ornament, and was encored in the
duo with Ronconi, whose imitations of some of her fiori-
ture convulsed the house with laughter. Tagliafico's
Sergeant is by many degrees his best character, but, with
Coletti in the theatre' why was such a part confided to
a secondary al tiste? The opera went off admirably,
and we have to congratulate the director on the posses-
sion of a tenor who relieves us from all apprehensions of
disappointment in future. Gardoni's first air drew doWn
vast applause, and in the duo with Tugliafico he was even
more successful, for he was compelled to repeat the
principal passage, by an irresistible demand from the
entire assemblage. At the close of the piece the calls
for the Mutant were loud and general, and he appeared
to bow his thanks, accompanied by the principal
performers.
London, England, 1846-12-19

DUTCH MAIL.

TILE HAGUE, DEC. 15.—The official journal published
a Royal Decree, of the 10th of this month, for putting
out of circulation the old coins of one florin and half
florin, after the 25th of December. The same journal
publishes the condition of the loan of one million, being
the fourth series of tke loan of eight millions for
defraying the expenses occasioned by the draining of
the Lake of Haerlem, fixed by the royal decree of the
sth of December, 1846. This loan is to be contracted
by virtue cf the law of the 22d of March, 1839, with
interest of 41 per cent. There remains a series of one
million of this loan to be negotiated, which will not
take place during the year 1847.
ROTTERDAM, DEC. 14.—1 n consequence of the heavy
fall of snow, the Meuse is covered with frozen snow, so
that several steam-boats are prevented from leaving the
port as usual this morning.
ST. PETERSEURGH, DEC. I.—On the 28th of No-
vember our winter began with a very sharp N. E. wind,
and a heavy fall of snow, with 6 degrees of cold. On
the following day the Neva brought down much ice, so
that the bridge between the city and the islands had to
be taken up. To-day the snow was deep, and the cold
increased to 9 degrees.
BERLIN, DEC. 11.—The police were on the alert last
night, in consequence of the discovery of Communist
movements, and has arrested several mechanics' ap-
prentices in a public-house. It is added, that many of
the better classes, among others, the well-known writers
Behrens, are slid to be seriously implicated, and have,
therefore, been taken from their houses during the
night, and lodged in safe custody.
FRANKFORT, DEC. 12.—The report of a conspiracy,
said to have been discovered on the Rhine, appears to
be unfounded. Very urgent warnings have, however,
been sent by diplomatic channels from Paris to several
Courts, announcing that emissaries of the Propaganda
intended to visit the Rhenish provinces and central
Germany.
COLOGNE, DEC. 13.--We learn that ice floated down
yesterday from the Marne, and to-day from the Moselle,
into the Rhine. The latter came down to-day as far as
Andernach. The bridge here is taken up.
BRESLAU, DEC. I.—Our commercial journal pub-
lishes the following official notice:—
" The undersigned deputies of the city and mer-
chants of Breslau consider it is their duty,
on their return from Berlin, to inform the
public, that the highest public authorities have acknow-
ledged the importance of the preservation of free trade,
with the territory of the republic of Cracow, secured by
article 8, of the 3d of May, 1815, in the fullest extent ;
and that they have received the satisfactory assurance
that the maintenance of this free trade will be the un-
conditional basis of the . commercial regulations to be
agreed upon with the Austrian authorities."
London, England, 1846-12-19

THE CORN TRADE

WAKEFIELD, FRIDAY.—We have a small arrival of
all grain at our market this morning. This is accounted
fir by the impediment in the canals by ice, which pre-
vents the vessels from making their passage. Wheat
has, in consequence, advanced upou last week's prices
55 to Gs. per quarter, barley also from is. to Gs. put'
quarter, with a limited business at these quotations. In
other articles no alteration.

IayEarooL,YRIDAY.—The arrivals of all kinds of pro.
duce are extremely small, owing to the continuance of
• asterl) winds, consisting of 5,456 quarters of wheat.
365 quarters of oats, 4,380 quarters of Indian corn, 466
loads cf oatmeal, and 184 sacks and 5,465 barrels of

11 ur ; whilst the exports for the same period ere 4,933
quarters of wheat, 676 quarters of barley, IS3 quarters
of peas, 3,345 quarters of Indian corn, 6,574 barrels nr.d
924 sacks of flour. The tranrections in what
since Tuesday have been to a moderate cx-
tent, at an advance of Id. per 'Nibs. Of flour
in bond a few thousand barrels have changed hands, at
:365. to 365. 6d. per barrel in store for Western Canal. In
duty•paid parcels there has been little done, but it is
hell for 6d. per barrel advance. There has nut been
much passing in oats and oatmeal, or Indian corn, the
high prices required restricting the demand to small
parcels for immediate consumption. Malt, barley, beans,
and peas are firm at previous rates. At our market this
morning there was a moderate demand for wheat at an
improvement of 2d. to 3(1.' per 701b5., but this advance
checked the sale. Free flour met a slow ash, at 6d. per
barrel advance, and bonded was rather easier to pur-
chase than yesterday. Oats were 2d. per 451b5., barley
3d. p2r 601b5., and Egyptian beans 2s. to 3s. per 480Ibs.
dearer, being very scarce. The small quantity of Indian
corn here held for 725. per 4801bs. Oatmeal was Is. per
load higher.
GLASGOW, DEC. 16.—From the north, east, end south
heavy snow-storms are reported, vOrich impeded the
carting° of grain to markets, and, combined with con-
trary winds, have kept out supplies. Here and in the
surrounding districts we had a week of sharp frost, but
no snow. The trade has been very lively since our last,
owing to an increased demand from Ireland for all the
secondary qualities of grain and flour, consequently
wheat and flour have advanced 2s. to 3s. per boll or sack.
Barley has to be written Is. to 2s. dearer per 3201 b.
Oats and oatmeal are held ls. to 2s. higher per boll or.
load respectively. Beans and peas, especially the latter,
realised an advance of ls. to Is. 6d. per bell of 2801bs.
At this day's market there was a gocd attendance of
town and country buyers, and the sales effected pro-
ceeded easily at the above enhancement.
London, England, 1846-12-19

DRAWING-110011 CLOCKS.

A B. SAVORY and SONS, No. 9, Cornhill,
• London, opposite the Bank of England, invite attention to
a splendid variety of Rosewood, China, Bronze, and Ormolu
CLOCKS; they go for eight days, and strike the hours and half hours.
Price Four Guineas, Seven Guineas, and Ten Guineas each, and up-
"aids. Tii paformam:e is wafraiited.
A Pamphlet, with detailed lists of prices, and illustrated with
sketches, may be had on application, gratis, or sent to all parts of
Great Britain and Ireland, postage free, in answer to a paid letter.
London, England, 1846-12-19

FRENCH ITALIAN OPERA.

When M. Gardoni made his first appearance at the
Acad‘mie Royale two years ago, we recollect we stated
that he had gone to the wrong side of the Boulevards,
and that his place was at the Italian Opera. His brilliant
debut at this theatre on Thursday ',roves the correctness
of that opinion. His fine pure tenor, cramped and dis-
guised by his singing in French, came out in his native
language with a fulness and beauty of tone which
seemed to take the public here entirely by surprise,
and, aided by his " gallant youthful figure and hand-
some features, at once established him a favourite—a
judgment which, we must remark, the fairer part of
the auditory assisted in ratifying with unusual zeal and
animation. The opera selected for the occasion
was L'Elisir d'Amore, which had the merit also of
introducing another novelty, namely, Ronconi, in the
part of Dulcamara, and in which, though succeeding the
inimitable Lablache, he was brilliantly successful—keep-
ing the public in continued roars throughout the whole
part. His great predecessor is more spontaneous in his
humour, but it is difficult to imagine a more perfect picture
of an Italian charlatan than Ronconi in this character. He
was immensely applauded. Mme. Persiani sang with all
her usual exuberance of ornament, and was encored in the
duo with Ronconi, whose imitations of some of her fiori-
lure convulsed the house with laughter. Tagliafico's
Sergeant is by many degrees his best character, but, with
Coletti in the theatre, why was such a part confided to
a secondary waste? The opera went off admirably,
and we have to congratulate the director on the posses-
sion of a tenor who relieves us from all apprehensions of
disappointment in future. Gardoni's first air drew down
vast applause, and in the duo with Tagliafico he was even
more successful, for he was compelled to repeat the
principal passage, by an irresistible demand from the
entire assemblage. At the close of the piece the calls
fur the debutant were loud and general, and he appeared
to bow his thanks, accompanied by the principal
performers.
London, England, 1846-12-19

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 18.—At nine o'clock this morning
the St. Vincent, Victory, Vengeance, Penelope, and
other ships in harbour, dressed in colours to receive her
Majesty on her return from the Isle of Wight to
Windsor.

The Polyphemus steam-vessel, Commander James J.
M'Cleverty, sailed last night soon after sunset, to distri-
bute water and provisions to such distressed merchant
vessels as she may find windbound in the Channel.
The Cyclops steam-frigate, Captain W. F. Lapidge,
has been found on examination to be very defective in
her hull, 'and as her repairs will require docking and
occupy some considerable time, she has been ordered to
Sheerness for that purpose, all our docks but one being
fully occupied, and that one will be wanted earlier than
her repairs can be completed. She is expected to sail
to-morrow.

The Sinbad lighter sailed this morning for Woolwich
and Deptford.
The Myrtle steam tender, Mr. Balliston, Second Master
Commanding, was taken into the basin to-day to make
good defects.
The Emerald tender returned yesterday from Jersey,
with newly raised men and boys for the service.
The Hampshire (timber barque) was floated on Wed-
nesday night, and was taken into the Camber yesterday
to have her ballast trimmed, and the vessel put to rights
after her week's immersion.

The Penelope steam frigate, Captain W. Giffard, was
removed from her hulk yesterday, and placed at moor-
ings to try her compasses. The Cyclops took her place
alongside the Blake hulk to refit.
In Harbour—The St. Vincent, Victory, Vengeance,
Victoria and Albert, Excellent, Naiad, Sparrow, and
Penelope ; the Cyclops, Fairy, and Echo steamers.
At Spithead—The Mutine.
In the Basin—The Resistance, Crocodile, and Myrtle
steamer.

In Dock—The Prince Regent, Edinburgh, Ajax,
Leander, Champion, and Serpent.
SHEERNESS, DEC. 17.—The following memorandum,
issued by the gallant and distinguished Captain-Super-
intendent of this dockyard, will explain the nature of
the intended measure for organizing the workmen of
the several dockyards into a volunteer corps for the de-
fence of the ports
London, England, 1846-12-19

(Here follow the signature of the merchants.)

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, DECEMBER 18.
STOCK EXCHANGE.--The sales are—Bristol and Exeter,
New, 7—Great Western, New, 7—Midland (Bristol and Glou-
cester), 4914—North British, 363/ —Ditto, Half Shares, 16—
Ditto, Third Shares, 2y p.—North Staffordshire, 31. 13s. 9d.
p.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 514—Ditto (B),
I% P• _ _
London, England, 1846-12-19

DRAWING-ROOM, LIBRARY, and DIN-
ING-ROOM ORNAMENTS in ITALIAN ALABASTER,
BRONZE, MARBLE, and DERBYSHIRE SPAR. consisting of
Groups, Vases, Figures, beautiful inlaid Tables, Watch- standS, Can-
dlesticks, Obelisks, Inkstands, Paperweights, &c., chiefly copied from
the antique, and imported by J. TENNANT, late Mawe,l49, Strand,
London.
J. Tennant has an extensive assortment of Shells, Minerals, and
Fossils, and arranges elementary Collections to facilitate the study of
Conchology, M alogy, or Geo!ogy, from 2to 50 guineas each ;he
also gives Private Instruction in Mineralogy.
London, England, 1846-12-26

TIMES, Nor. 18, 1846.

The forty-eighth annual publication of this work—the volume for
847—is now issued. It is a wonderfully different affair from the old
Directory, which used to - onsist of little or nothing more than the
alphabetical list of tradesmen ; it comprises now, and has for some
years, a " Street Directory," a " Trades' Directory," a " Court Di-
rectory," a "Postal Directory," a "Conveyance Directory," with a
host of other little digests. The volume appears to have been very
carefully revised, and supplies the latest information. 01 course,
the postal treaty with Prussia has not been overlooked ; and in
minor points the work seems to bear the test of a search into mat-
ters in 'which changes have been very recent.

MOANING CHRONICLE, Nov. 20, 184 G.
The powers of expansion exhibited by this most useful annual
volume appears really unlimited. Published during a series of forty-
eight 3 ears in a metropolis whose dwellings increase in number by an
yearly average of some 14,000, and whose commerce expands in still
larger measure, the " Post-office Directory" has become enormously
enhanced in bulk, a.; also in the complicated variety of its indis-
pensable contents. The admirable success with which the really
enormous difficulties of his task has been overcome by the inde-
fatigable publisher has been proved by the experience of many years ;
and we need say little more than that the present volume presents
the same tokens as its predecessors, of intelligent method and inge-
nuity of arrangement, in packing into reasonable compass, and pro-
ducing in lucid order, its millions of facts and references. Within
2,000 pages every man may learn everything he ought to know about
every one of his co-dwellers in the great metropolis, their businesses,
as well as everything necessary to facilitate him in his own. The
very rapid extension of our railway system, and the new postal ar-
rangements with some continental states, have rendered necessary
some extensive additions to the sections appropriated to Conveyance
and the Post-office. We find the information given under those heads
not only as full and accurate as it was well possible to make them,
but more new and recent than we should have thought attainable in
a work of such magnitude. Prefixed to the volume is about the best
map of London we happen to have met with. •
London, England, 1846-12-26

RAIL WA Y SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, DECEMBER 24.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market for railway stocks has
shown increased firmness to. day, prices
generally better, and
very little stock offering in the market. The sales are—
Chester and Birkenhead, 50%—East Lancashire, New, 3%
Ditto, New (scrip), 1 9-16 p.—Eastern Counties, 23—Edin-
burgh, Leith, and Granton, 2014—Ditto, Preference, 21—
London and North-Western, 193—Ditto, Quarters, New,
13% p.—Manchester and Leeds Zxtension, 1% p.—Mid-
land, New, 514 p.—North UnionA.A4L22s—Ditto (B), 155
Sheffield and Manchester;,-gutEbr o. 1, 33/4 p.—South-
Eastern and Dover, No. 1,4% p.—Ditto, New, No. 4, 7-16
p.—York and Newcastle, 38—Ditto, New, 5% p.—York
and Selby (East and West Riding), 131%1 p.—Ditto, New,
12% p.—Belfast and Ballymena, 634 dis.—Dundee and
Perth, p.—Ditto, New, 7% p.—Edinburgh and Northern,
New 251. Shares. 2% p.—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, Ex-
tension, 14 dis.—Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 4 p.—
Leeds and Thirsk, New, par—Ditto, Preference, 1% p.—Am-
bergate and Eastern Junction, 3-16 p.—Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire Junction, 1 5-16 p.—Birmingham and
Oxford Junction, 9% p.—Boston, Stamford, and Birming-
ham, % p.—Buckinghamshire, 1-16 p.—East Lincolnshire,
1 1-16 p.—Glasgow and Dumfries, 114 p.—Liverpool, Man-
chester, and Newcastle Junction, par—London and York par
—Ditto, Direct Northern, % dis.—Newry ' and Warren-
point, 3% p.—North Staffordshire, 4% p.—Shrewsbury and
Hereford, dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 2% p.
—Ditto (B), 11/s p.—Shropshire Union, 14 dis.— Sheffield and
Lincolnshire, 3/4 dis.—West Riding Union, 1 15-16 p.
MANCHESTER, DECEMBER 24.

STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Ambergate, Notting-
ham, and Boston, 1-16 p.—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire 7-16 p.— Birmingham and Oxford Junction, 9%
—Blackburn, Clitheroe, &c., % dis.—Boston, Stamford, and
Birmingham, 9-16 prem.—Buckingliamshire, par—Eastern
Counties, Perpetual, No. 2, 7—East Lancashire, 314 p.—
Ditto, New (scrip), 1 9-16 p.--Fleetwood, Preston, and West
Riding, 3-16 p.—Glasgow and Dumfries, 1% p.—Hudders-
field and Manchester Railway and Canal, 44 p.—Leeds
and Thirsk, 11/2 dis.—Ditto, Preferentials, 114 p.—Liver-
pool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 1% c. dis.—Man-
chester and Leeds Extension, 11/2 p.--Manchester, Bolton,
and Bury Extension, 11%. p.—North British Quarters, 21/4 p.
—Ditto, Extension, p.—Dittn, Thirds, 2 15-16 p.—North
Staffordshire, 4 3-16 p.—Northern Counties Union, 114 dis.
Oldham Alliance, p.—Preston and Wyre, Halves (A), 21/2
p.—Shropshire Union, 1/8 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover,
No. 4, 7.16 p.—Waterford, Wexford, and Valentia, 235. dis.
—West Riding Union, 2 1-16 p —York and Newcastle, Pre-
ference, 5% p.
London, England, 1846-12-26

GLOBE, Nov. 21, 1846.

Kelly's invaluable work, the "gc Director
euise
an
of
made its appearance for the ensuin year. The vast rr;:ess '`43 just
'nation which this book contains mulcts it not only desirable hifor-
solutely necessary as a part of the office furniture of every
man
ab_
business, and scarcely less necessary, ineed, for every
requires to know anything concerning the trades, professions' who
localities of the great motropolls. In its present extended form,' the
book is an absolute curiosity; the labour and expense which has
cost to bring it to its present state of perfection must have been im-
mense. In turning over its 2,0. 00 pages, one hardly knows which
most to be struck with and admire—the exce'lent arrangement and
utility of such a compilation, or the magnitude of the city which re-
quires such a directory. The classification of the various profes-
trades, and callings in the court, commercial, and law depart-
ments of the work on the ono hand, and the arrangement of the
streets of London on the other, as well as the great mass of informa-
tion of various kinds connected with the Post-office, and the different
modes of intercommunication, make it altogether. as complete a di-
rectory as can be desired, orasit is well possible to conceive. The
volume, moreover, contains an excellent map of London and the
suburbs. corrected down to the latest strides of " bricks and mortar."

WEEKLY DISPATCH, Nov. 15. 1846.
The forty-eighth annual publication of this highly important and
useful work has just been issued ; and we must confess that its bulky
appearance has surprised us not a little; and when we reflect that
the price remains unaltered, although the expense of collecting the
materials must have increased, we are pleased at the liberality of
Mr. Kelly, the proprietor. In a commercial point of view, perhaps,
no book ever contained so much useful matter. Among other infor-
mation, there is an " •ial Directory," a "Street Directory," a
" Commercial Directory," a " Trades' Directory," a " Law Dire-
tory," a " Court Directory," a " Parliamentary Directory," a
" City Directory," a " Conveyance Directory," and a " Banking
Directory ;" in fact, the volume contains much that is interesting
and valuable to the tradesman, the merchant, the lawyer, and per-
sons in ordinary life, as well as to the gentlemen who occasionally
dabbles in trade. Every description of information has been cor-
rected to the latest possible period : and that information is arranged
with a clearness and simplicity which must have involved great ac-
tivity of mind and exertion of body. Sewed with the book is an
excellently engraved man of London, more extended and accurate as
to the suburbs, than any map we have seen ; and to make it as com-
plete a reference as possible, an almanac is introduced. In the " Postal
Directory," there arc the new rates with various parts of the Conti-
nent, which will come Into operation on the Ist of January. Alto-
gether this new issue surpasses any of its 'predecessors ; and we are
not surprised that other directories should have gone to the tomb of
all the Capulets.
London, England, 1846-12-26

WHITEHALL, DiC. 11.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed George Wiles, of Hor-
bling, in the county of Linceln, Gent., to be a Maitter Ex-
traordinary in the High Court of Chancery.

WHITEHALL, DEC. 17.

The Lord Chancellor has appc;inted Thomas Thompson, of
Bishop Wearmouth, in the county Palatine of Durham,
Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of
Chancery.
London, England, 1846-12-26

By W. 31. THACKERAY.

. _
Author of " The Trish Sketch Book ;" " Journey from Cornhill to
Grand Cairo ;" of " Jeames's Diary," and the " Snob Papers," in
Punch, &c. &c.
Bills and Advertisement. will be received at the Office, during the
month.
London: Pablished at the Punch Office, 85, Fleet-street; J. Men-
zies, Edinburgh ; J. M'Leod, Glasgow ; J. M`Glashan, Dablin.
London, England, 1846-12-26

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

---
PORTSMOITEH, THURSDAY.—The Lorus of the Admi-
ralty have decided upon superseding the Victory in the
ordinary guard duties of this port. That time honoured
ship is at length to be paid off into " ordinary" herself,
and her moorings taken up by the Nelson or Neptune,
120.

The Commander in-Chief, Admiral Sir C. Ogle, Bart„
mustered the crew and inspected the Penelope, 22,
steam-frigate, Captain Gifford, this day, and was pleased
to express his satisfaction at her appearance and effi-
ciency for service.
The Mercury tender, Second Master Scarlett, returned
last night from Poole and the neighbourhood, with
newly raised men and boys for her Majesty's naval
service.

The Manceuvrer navy lighter arrived this afternoon
with stores from the eastward.

Commander E. S. Crouch (1821) died in the Royal
Hospital, Haslar, on Tuesday evening, from an affection
of the brain. The gallant officer was seized with illness
only on Sunday last. lie died in commission as Com-
mander of the Victory, which appointment he had only
held about Fix weeks. He was Lieutenant of the Ame-
thyst at the capture of the French frigate Thetis in 1808,
and of the Hannibal at the capture of the Sultan° in
1814. Gaz?tted 1808, 1814. The gallant deceased
was highly respected in his profession. Commander
Crouch, of the Devastation, is the deceased veteran's
eldest son.

Much surprise is expressed at the absence of the
Daphne with freight from the Pacific. She was over-
taken by a transpi,rt a week since, which vessel sailed
in company with her three days, and then gate her the
go-by and made Spithead on Sunday evening last. The
Daphne is a new vessel, on the design of Sir AV. Sy-
monds, Surveyor of the Navy.

DRUNKEN LoGic.—A man of Wellinborough,
being brought up for drunkenness denied the charge,
inasmuch as he knew what he was about. "If I war
drunk," said he, " and know'd I war drunk, then I
warn't drunk; but if I war drunk, and didn'tknoW I war
drunk, then I war drunk."—Boston Herald.
London, England, 1846-12-26

JOHN BULL, Nov. 28, 1846.

This annual leviathan is already completed and published; but as
a proof that the rapidity with which it must have passed through the
press has not operated against its careful accuracy, we may men-
tion that the changes rendered necessary by the very recent decease
of Mr. Stewart, M.lll, for Renfrewshire, are duly attended to. (See
PP. 1669 and 1676.) We have so fre4uently expressed our approba-
tion of this most valuable work, that we hardly know how to vary
our commendation. It contains everything which can possibly be
required in a directory--so full, s^ complete, so comprehensive are all
its details. And when to this we add the extreme accuracy which
pervades every department, we know not what else can be said in
. is praise. The machinery by which such yoluminous information is

E ASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
EXTENSION STOCK, No. 1.
Warrants for the HALF-YEARLY INTEREST on this Stock,
due on the 4th January, 1847, will be transmitted to the Registered
Proprietors on that day.
The Holders of Unregistered Certificates will be required to leave
them at this Office two clear days previous to the warrants being
made out.
London, England, 1846-12-26

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NEW WORK BY 'MICHAEL ANGELO TITMARSIT.
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FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 22, 1846.
The Queen has been pleased to approte of M. Manoel de
Oliviera Santo , as Consul at the Cape of Good Mope for the
Emperor of Brazil.

ADMIRALTY, DEC. 18.
Corps of Royal Marines—Captain and Brevet Major
Thomas Wearing to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Hewes, re-
tired on full pay; First Lieutenant Phineas Priest to be
Captain, vice Wearing, promoted; Second Lieutenant John
Manger to be First Lieutenant, vice Priest, promoted.
OFFICE OF THE POOR-LAW COMMISSIONERS..
Somerset House, Dec. 24.
In pursuance of an Act passed in the session of Parliament
held in the fourth and fifth years of the reign of his late
Majesty King William the Fourth, cap. 76, intituled "An
Act for the amendment and better administration of the
laws relating to the poor in England and Wales.
This is to give notice, that the Poor-law Commissioners
have appointed Aneurin Owen, of Egryn, in the county of
Denbigh, Esq., to be an Assistant Commissioner of Poor-
laws; and that the said Aneurin Owen, on this said 24th
day of December, took the oath required by the said Act,
before the Hon. Mr. Justice Erle, one of the Judges of her
Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench, at his chambers, in Rolls'-
gardens, Chancery-lane.—By order of the Board,
W. G. LUMLEY, Assistant Secretary.
London, England, 1846-12-26

SUN, Nov. 18, 1846.

The present is the forty-eighth annual edition of the " Post-office
London Directory," and a truly marvellous efort of compilation it
is. The " Post-office Directory" has been for some years under the
management of Mr. Kelly. Until he became the manager of this
work, there were divers other directories In the field. They have,
however, an disappeared, and the " Post-Office Directory" now rules
alone. This astonishing sucessc, however, has not had the effeet of
making the proprietor of this gigantic work careless. He is too
thorough a man of business, not to be perfectly aware that the
fruits of his success can only be reaped by a continuance of the same
untiring energy by which the success wits in the first instance
achia„d and accordingly we find Pat the " Post-office Directory"
for 1847 is even more highly finished in all its elaborate arrange-
ments than any former edition of the book. The extent and mi-
nuteness of the details furnished render the work indispensable to
particular every
e'
npmaegrecial and mercantile establishment. So admirably,
however, is this roultifarions information digested and arranged, that
tents are
there is not the slightest difficulty experienced in referring to the
:n:ncei:of up-
wardsclearrneausiorefdatrorafnugrenmilnttheinianfo,rmoraktiociol—nsaistmingarvoefllous
of 2,000 closely but clearly printed octavo pages. Its con-
the Directory,"
r e arrangedetery,, , underthe , , vsairrieoeuts as,- for instance, the
Directory ,+ Directory," the " Commercial
portant alterations htartking Directory,"
„ Court
" Trades' Directory," the " Law Directory,"
Postal' Directory."
Directory," the .?.is'''' the " Parliamentary Directory," the
the .. City Directory," the " Conveyance
on the Ist
tory." The new P0„.7 been introduced into the " Postal Direc-
and some others. Many itn-
changes in the rates of
of
jatreaty with Prussia, which comes into ope-
rationßaden, Bavaria, Bremen. rage
er, is illustrated
Bremen,
next, will effect very considerable
Hanover, Lubeck, Meckl
yg w
detailedede °
a nicinit hueergr w.h
to places in the Austrian dominions,
b
emnark, the German States, Ilamburgh,
pub?leertainly
Ictssn igae,
sSaarxeo
fnuyl
1, , Oldenburgh, Poland, Prussia,
aY, Wurtemburgh, &c., &c. These
volume. The work, moreov ' Postal Directory "of the present
and accurately drawn map of London by a clearly engraved
inches to the mile. This
totDirecory le In 1847. on a scale of three
work of the Fort ever offered the the most complete
ness, but the indispensable necessity of such Of not only the useful-
ness can for a moment entertain a doubt ;-- a work, no man of bini-
pleteness and fulness of the information furnaltl. considering the com-
outlay of time and of capital that must ha,veB V. and the enormous
acquire and digest the information, the yeryucen Made in order to
which the work is published is really wonderful. reasonable price at
London, England, 1846-12-26

NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF " WHITEFRIARS."
Row ready at all the Libraries, in three vols.
c/ESAR BORGIA.
AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE.
By the Author of " Whitefriars."
" It was a bold design to attempt an historical romance on such t
foundation. The author maintains his ground ably. He is master
of his subject, and displays rare accomplishments, fine invention,
and cultivated taste."—Atlas.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborongh-street.

NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF " WHITEFRIARS."
Now ready at all the Libraries, in three vols.
CiESAR BOR GIA.
AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE.
By the Author of " Whitefriars."
" It was a bold design to attempt an historical romance on such a
foundation. The author maintains his ground ably. He is master
of his subject, and displays rare accomplishments, fine invention,
and cultivated taste."—Atlas.
Henry Col bum, Publisher. 13, Great Marlborough-street.
London, England, 1846-12-26

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NEW WORK BY MICHAEL ANGELO TITMARSH.
On the First of January, to be continued in Monthly Parts, pries is.
each, with numerous Illustrations on Steel and Wood,
VA NIT Y F AI R:
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CIETY.

By W. M. TFIACKERAY.
Author of " The Irish Sketch Book ;" " Journey from Cornhill to
Grand Cairo ;" of " Jeames's Diary," and the " Snob Papers," in
Punch, &c. &c.
Bills and Advertisements will be received at the Office, during the
month.
London: Published at the Punch Office, 85, Fleet-street; J. Men-
ales, Edinburgh ; J. M'Leod, Glasgow ; J. M`Gla.shan,
London, England, 1846-12-26

ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Nov. 3 , =346.

This huge volume, the forty-eighth edition of the work, well sus-
tains the reputation enjoyed by the " Directory" of late years. In
the preface, the proprietor maintains that the high character of the
work is not referable to its mere connexion with the Post Office ;
for an important change has been gradually introduced into the
manner of collecting the information ; and a larger portion of the
work than heretofore has been confided to selected agents entirely
unconnected with the Post Office, this being in great part the plan of
compiling the editions for 1845 and 1846. Nor has the proprietor
rested content with his past success, hot has introduced many im-
portant alterations In this volume for 1847 and added to its bulk
without any increase in price. The " Postai Directory" is especially
improved, and there are numerous changes throughout the volume
to insure its completeness. The compilation must be a vast labour,
to be accomplished only by systematic subdivision and the most pains-
taking minuteness. The appearance of the volume has suggested a
very lively effusion, to be seen in another column ; and we trust the
enterprising proprietor of the " Directory" will find that his labours
are duly appreciated and remunerated. To a great commercial coun-
try this is an indispensable volume.
London, England, 1846-12-26

BY COMMANA OF HER MAJESTY'S POSTMASTER-

GENERAL.
CONTRACT for CONVEYING the LONDON
DISTRICT POST LETTER BAGS.
Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty's Postmaster-General
will be ready to receive Tenders on or before the 22d day of
JANUAZY next, for conveying the London District Post Lotter
Bags, twice a day, to Woodford Bridge, and twice to Woodford, by
mail-carts, stage coaches, omnibuses, or any other carriage conveying
passengers or parcels.
The conditions, and full particulars, may be seen on application
to the Superintending President of the London District Post-office,
General Post-office.

Tenders are to be sealed up, and addressed to "Her Majesty's
Postmaster-General," and endorsed, " Tenders for conveying the
Lvadon District Post Bags," and delivsred before Twelve o'clock on
the 22d January next.
General Post-office, Dec. 22, 1846.
London, England, 1846-12-26

DIRECT. BOMBAY and MADRAS RAIL-
WAY.

Notice.—The FIRST HALF YEAR'S INTEREST, at 4 per cent.
per annum, will continue to be PAID till the 31st inst. Scripholders
aro requested to present their Scrip at the offices of the Company
between the hours of Twelve and Three, when it will be stamped and
the interest paid at the same time.

By order, JAMES WARD, Secretary.
Offices of the Company, 58, Fencharch-street.
London, England, 1846-12-26

LEEDS, DECEMBER 24.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—Business has considerably increased
since our last, with steady prices, but yesterday and to-day
a decided movement for advance has taken place, which
promises to be well supported. Leeds and Thirsks, London
and Yorks, Melton and Driffields, North Westerns, North
Staffords, Sheffield, Rotherham, and Gooles, Dovers, York
and Newcastles, and Man Chester and Birminghams, are all
in demand at improved rates. The North British arrange-
ment is not yet brought to a close ; indeed, it is said a diffi-
culty has arisen in determining the proportionate value at
which the latter class of shares are to be taken. This has
made them duller than they otherwise would have been.
Calls for the new projections are now making %,‘ ith rapidity, but
the money is brought forward much better than many people
expected. The sues are—Ambergate, Nottingham, and
Boston, par—Birmingham and Oxford Junction, 9t, p.—
East Lancashire, New, 3% p.—Ditto, Scrip, 1% p.—East
Lincolnshire, 265. c. p.—Huddersfield and Manchester, 4 c. p.
—Leeds and Dewsbury, 10 c. p. c. n.—Ditto, Halves, 61/Q
c. p. c. n.—Leeds and Thirsk, 101. p. c. n.—Ditto, New,
p. c. n.—Ditto, Preference, 325. p.—Malton and Driffield
Junction, 265. c. p.—Manchester and Leeds Extension, % 1
p.—North British, Thirds, 3 p.—Ditto, Quarters (late Car-
lisle Branch), 495. p.—Ditto, Extension (scrip), 17s. 6d. p.
—North Staffordshire, 414 p.—North-Western, 16s. p.—
Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, 17s. 6d. p.—Direct
Northern, ss. 6d. dis.—Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, lls.
dis.—London and York, ss. dis.—West Riding Union,!4s. 6d.
London, England, 1846-12-26

SECOND COURSE.

" The importance of science to agriculture." " The
sciences that ought to be studied—chemistry, geology,
botany, vegetable physiology, animal physiology, and
veterinary practice; mechanics, architecture, and a course
of agricultural chemistry." " Nature of simple and
compound bodies." " Nature of soils, chemical combi-
nations in ditto." " Use of soils, permanent improve-
ment of ditto." " Crops suitable to each; modes of cul-
ture and management." " Manures—organic and
mineral ; their nature and chemical properties, modes of
management, and proper application ; kinds suited to
particular soils and crops." This is the second course.
London, England, 1846-12-26

MASONIC ANNUAL.

THE FREEMASONS' QUAItTERLY
REVIEW contains all the important events of the craft
during the current year. The number for DECEMBER completes
the volume, and contains among other subjects, the Letter from the
Grand Master of England to the Grand Master of Prussia, on the
Jewish Question—Freemasonary in Ireland—Revival of the High
Degrees in this Country—The Religion in which all Men agree—
Discussions in Grani Lodge—lmportant Reports and Correspondence
—Chit Chat—Poetry—Obituary, &c.

Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 20, Paternoster-row.
Price Three Shillings.
London, England, 1846-12-26

ICILY NIATIMETB.
SMITITFIELD.--Meadow Hay, 215 s to 31 17s ; Clover ditto
-3/ 5s to 4/ 165 ; and Straw, li 8-3 to 1/ 12s per load. Trade
dull, at our quotations.
CUJIBERLAND. —Meador IL:3', 2/ 8.; to 41; Clover ditto,
3/ 8s to 41 15a; and Straw, 11 8s to 11 12s per load. A
limited supply, and a sluggish demand.
WitrrEcitAi.sr--Meaativi Ilay, 21 5s to 31 15s; Cloves
ditto, 3/ 83 to 5l; and Straw. 1/ 8s to 1/ 12s per load
Supply moderately good, and trade dull.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,
RECEIVED THIS DAY.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY.
A blank day.

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Shropshire hds., Mon., Hawkestone; Wed., Child's-wood,
Ercall; Fri., Berrington Village--i to 11.
Brighton hrrs., Mon, Patcham ; Wed., Racecourse; Fri.,
Dyke--i to 11.
Crawley and Horsham lids, Mon., Holmbush ; Wed., the
Cock, Southwater ; Fri., Handcross Village—i to 11.
Brookside hrrs., Mon., Newmarket Hill ; Thurs., Tels-
corn be -tye--10
Dorrington hds.' ' Mon., Wiverton Hall • Wed., Chaddes-
don Hall ; Sat., C oleorton Toll-bar—i to 11.
Essex Union lids., Wed., Tiptree Windmill; Sat., South-
Minster-101.
Quorn hds., Mon., Shearsby Inn ; Tues., Charley Inn Mill.

RAILWAY RETURNS.
RAILWAY TAAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail-
Ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the
re,Peetive returns are made, together with the receipts of the same
week in the previous year:—

Week
ending

NAME OF RAILWAY.

Last ti •
week. r,

Dec.
18
17
22
20

A £
- 175
479 464
608 603
553 568
189 214
- 456

3,039 2,20

9,005 7.036
613 -

426 -

1,905 1,784
784 GBO

- 112
1,124 -
17,366 17,355

- 979
36,582 34;741

644 644
6,003 ~01s

5,703 5,516
- 844
7,688 7,356

17,929 16,231
1,278 1,717

410
1,263 1,038
1,095 -
- 5,769
- 4,6'26
495 421
1,648 948
6,361 5,451

553 --
1,251 1,162
679 583

5,142 4,757
London, England, 1846-12-26

MORNING CHRONICLE, NOT. 20, 1846.

The powers of expansion exhibited by this most useful annual
volume appears really unlimited. Published during a series of forty-
eight ) ears in a metropolis whose dwellings increase in number by au
yearly average of some 14,000, and whose commerce expands in still
larger measure, the " Post-office Directory" has become enormously
enhanced in bulk, as also in the complicated variety of its indis-
pensable contents. The admirable success with which the really
enormous difficulties of his task has been overcome by the inde-
fatigable publisher has been proved by the experience of many years;
and we need say little more than that the present volume presents
the same tokens as its predecessors, of intelligent method and inge-
nuity of arrangement, In packing into reasonable compass, and pro-
ducing in lucid order, its millions of facts and references. Within
1,000 pages every man may learn everything he ought to know about
every one of his co-dwellers in the great metropolis, their businesses,
as well as everything necessary to facilitate him in his own. The
very rapid extension of our railway system, and the new postal ar-
rangemeats with some
,continental states, have rendered necessary
some extensive additions to the sections appropriated to Conveyance
and the Post-office. We find the information given under those heads
not only as full 'and accurate as it was well possible to make them,
but more new and recent than we should have thought attainable in
a work of such magnitude. Prefixed to the volume is about the best
map of London we happen to have met with.
London, England, 1846-12-26

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CIETY.

By W. M. Ti! 4CKERAT.
Author of " The Irish Sketch Book ;," " Journey from Cornhill to
Grand Cairo ;" of " Jeames's Diary," and the " Snob Papers," in
Punch, &.c. &c.
Bills and Advertisements will be received at the Office, during the
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DEALINGS with the FIRM of DOMBUY
and SON, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation.

By CHARLES nICKENS.
With Illustrations by HABLOT K BROWNE.
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London, England, 1846-12-26

JOHN DULL, Nov. 28, 1846.

This annual leviathan is already completed and published; but as
a proof that the rapidity with which it must have passed through the
press has not operated against its care All accuracy, we may men-
tion that the changes rendered necessary by the very recent decease
of Mr. Stewart, M.M, for Renfrewshire, are duly attended to. (See
pp. 1669 and 1676.) We have .0 frequently expressed our approba-
tion of this most valuable work, that we hardly know how to vary
our commendation. It contains everything which can possibly be
required in a directory—so full, so complete, so comprehensive are all
its details. And when to this we add the extreme accuracy which
pervades every department, we know not what else can be said in
to palm The machinery by wl2ld NCI* TOlllllllollllilifig 38U011

The following Works will be published on the 31st inst.
VANITY FAIR.—PEN AND PENCIL
SKETCHES OF ENGLISH SOCIETY. No. I. By W. M.
THACKERAY (Tidinarsh). With Numerous Illustrations. Price Is.
THE COMIC HISTORY OP ENGLAND.
No. VII. By GILBERT A. A BECKETT. Illustrated by
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