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LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1841.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITU-
TION, REGENT-STREET.—MORNINGS and
EVENINGS except SA's URDAY EVENINGS.
The DISSOLVING VIEWS, including the FIRE of the
TOWER of LONDON; with the Military Signals. New
and varied LECTURES during the CHRISTMAS HOLI-
DAYL, will be adapted to tke taste of the Juvenile Visitors.
The DISSOLVING ORRERY,MICROSCOPE, DIVING
BELL, DIVER. Among the 2,000 Works of eminent Art,
Science, and Ingenuity, is a MODEL of NOAH'S ARK,
the comparative proportions of which correspond with those of
the present first class steamers. A VIEW of CANTON, by
a CHINESE ARTIST. The remarkable MODEL of ithe
UNDERCLIFF, of the Isle of Wight, and various COSMO-
RAMIC PICTURES, are added to the Evening Exhibition.
Admission to the whole, One Shilling.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 90.--It is confidently stated that
the Warspite, 50, Dido, 20, and Hazard, 16, are for ser-
vice in China, and are to be expedited as much as pos-
sible. The Warspite will go out of harbour on Monday
or Tuesday.

UNITED STATES' BONDS AND

BONDHOLDERS.

(From the New York Herald of the 27th of November.)
The bondholders have the endorsement of the United
States Bank and the Union Bank. The Committee of
the United States Bank stated that Biddle had no au-
thority to make the contract. The Union Bank has
made an assignment of all its property, and notified all
claimants upon the bank to file their claims within
eight months from the assignments, all such to preferred
creditors. Thd bank is utterly insolvent, and cannot pay
its liabilities independent of its endorsement—its money
is selling at thirty cents. on the dollar. Governor
M'Nott went to the people with the question of paying
or not paying, on the ground he assumed, and the result
is a decision in his favour. This is the state of affairs in
Mississippi.
The position of many of the other States is similar,
and has led to the fear that the same course may be
adopted by them. A great distinction is, however, to
be made between the States, and they may be divided
into three classes. The first comprises those, the debts
of which are perfectly within their means of payment,
and the public works require no increase of loans to per-
fect them. The second class are those whose debts are heavy
and beyond their income, but which have the means of
paying if taxation should be enforced. The third class
comprises those which require large sums to complete
the works in progress before they can become available,
and whose present debt is far beyond the ability of the
people to pay by taxation.
The following is a Table of Debts, Annual Interest on
Population, divided into Classes :

The Diao, Hon. Captain Keppel, arrived to-day, from
Sheerness, on her way to Plymouth.
The Belvidera, 38, sailed yesterday for the Mediter-
ranean. Lieut. Bullen takes charge of her until she
arrives at Genoa, when Captain the Hon. G. Grey will
rejoin her.
. .

-The Athol!, troop ship, Mr. Bellamy, Commander, is
ordered to proceed to Barbadoes with troops, calling at
Cork.

A NEW SET of DISSOLVING VIEWS is in prepara-
tion for the CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.

The Revenge, 74, and Indus, 78, have arrived at Lis_
bon from Gibraltar, where they are to be stationed.
The Resistance frigate, at Plymouth, is ordered to be
fitted as a troop-ship, with the same complement as the
Apollo.
The Tyne is ordered to be taken into dock when the
Carysfort is taken out.
The Owen Glendower, frigate, is fitting fora convict
ship. Government is going to send 300 convicts to
Gibraltar, to repair the fortifications.

TO CHEMISTS.—To be DISPOSED OF
immediately, in ono of the Best Towns in Somerset-
shire, an established DRUG BUSINESS, doing about 21s.
per Diem ; coming in, at a valuation, amounting to about 30(11.
For particulars apply to Air. Humpage, 3, Falcon-court, Fleet
street, between '1 welve and Three; or to A.8.C., PostOffiee-
Frome.

The Royal George yacht was paid off on Thursday, and
re-commissioned by Captain Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence.
The Hazard, 16, Commander Bell, will go out of har-
bour in the course of the ensuing week.
The Ganges, 84, HastingN,72, and Implacable, 72, are
ordered home to be paid off.
Her Majesty's ship -Winchester, bearing the flag of
Vice. Admiral Sir Charles Adam, arrived at Bermuda, on
the 12th of November, from Halifax, in four days. The
Winchester fell in with the Cleopatra and Racer off the
Island, the day previous to her arrival. The Cleopatra
proceeded to Barbadoes, and the Racer to Jamaica.
Captain Boxer, late,eetiltiiinding the Pique, has, we
see by the Colonial Papas, been recently sworn in as
Captain of the Port, and Harbour Master of Quebec.
The Avon steamer, Lieut. Jenkin, arrived on Sunday
from Plymouth, with newly-raised men, and left again
on Thursday, for Ireland, touching at Plymouth, Bristol,
and Liverpool.

INDEBTEDNESS OF THE SEVERAL STATES.
Ist class. Population. Debt. Yearly Interest.
Maine 401,796 1,678,367 99,000
Massachusetts. 737,438 7,272,839 313,641

New York 2,432,835 22,000,000 1,110,000
Ohio 1,515,696 13,724755 823,485
Kentucky 777,359 3,70,500 222,000

Tennesse

6,688,191 31,614,647 2,725,534

Captain Sir John Hill is re-appointed to the Superin-
tendence of the Victualling Establishment at Deptford ;
Captain Sir W. 0. Pell; to be Superintendent of Sheer-
ness Yard ; Captain Sir F. Collier, to be Superintendent
of Pembroke Yard ; Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel Pyre, to
be Superintendent of Plymouth Yard ; Captain Phipps
Hornby, to be Comptroller• General of the Coast Guard
Service, vice Bowles, promoted ; Captain Peter Fisher is
appointed Superintendent at the Victualling Yard at
Deptford.
Rear• Admiral Wise is appointed to the command at
the Cape of Good Hope, and Captain Sydney nacres
will L• his Flag Captain.
Capt. John Carter, superseded Rear-Admiral Sir E.
Chetham, as Superintendent of Hasler Hospital, on
Monday last.
Mr. Jonathan Gain, Purser, R.N., has been sent for by
the Buard of Admiralty, and is undergoing an examina-
tion on matters relative to that class of officers.

The Tartar, revenue cutter, Lieut. Butcher, on Thurs-
day towed into this harbour the Danish brig Falster, E.
Sedemins, master, from Studland Bay, having towed her
there from sea, off Durlston Head, the morning before,
with the loss of her mainmast and fore top-sail yard.
She sailed from Hamburgh on the" Ist inst., carried away
her mainmast, westward of Portland, at nine a. in. on
Wednesday, and is bound to the Havannah with a gene-
ral cargo, but not full.
The Wellington and Quebec, outward bound liners
for New York, with about 150 sail of other outward
bound vessels. (of almost every nation), are detained by
strong foul winds.
At Spithead—Dido.
In Harbour—St. Vincent, Victory, Queen, Excellent,
Vindictive, Warspite, Royal George, Hazard, Pantaloon,
Rapid, Echo steam-tug, Athol troop-ship.
PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY, DEC. 10.—The Pique, 36,
Captain H. Forbes, sailed for Halifax, the 9th ; arrived
the Apo:lo and Sapyhire troop-ships from Portsmouth.—
The Espoir, 10, Lieut. Paulson, arrived from Lisbon the
11th, and came into harbour the 15th tt be paid off.—
The Crocodile, 26, has been taken into dock to have her
defects made good.—The Madagascar, Aigle, and Harle-
quin, sailed for their destinations, the 14th, with a fine
breeze from the northward, but the wind shifted in the
night, and we fear they have not cleared the Channel.—
The Spy, 3, arrived from Liverpool the 15th, with vo-
lunteers.—The Implacable, 76, Captain Edward Harvey,
and Hastings, 72, Captain J. Lawrence, are ordered to
England, on the arrival of the Malabar, at Gibraltar ;
the Implacable, to Plymouth, and the Hastings, to Spit-
head.

In Harbour —Caledonia, San Josef, Minden, Isis, Fly,
Ferret, Espoir, and Alban steamer.
In the Sound.—Malabar, Belleisle, Apollo, Sapphire,
North Star, Spy. A warrant officer, named Sharp, and
boy belonging•ta her Majesty's ship Stag, -lying in Ha-
moaze., left the shore on Thursday last to go on board in
the ship's boat, but being suddenly overtaken by a squall,
the boat filled, and bath were drowned. The bodies
have not yet been picked up.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.

PROMOTIONS.—Assistant Surgeons —James M`Bain
(1827), of the Mastiff; John Andrews (1828), of the
Ranger; E. Davies (1829), of the Comet; Robert Ste-
venson (1829), of the Alert; 11. G. R. Page (1830), of
Greenwich Hospital; H. F. Osman (1830); Wm. White
(1830), of the Thalia; Robert M'Leau (1830), of the
Poictiers; Wm. Chartres (1831), of the Howe; Thomas
Corral (18g1), of the Camperdown; John H. Carruthers
(1832), of the Locust; O'Neil Ferguson (1832), of the
Cornwallis—to the rank of Surgeon.
theTm Formidable,ENTs.— vice Troubridge, promoted ;
AP"iNCaptainstothec Sirarysfort.Charles Sullivan,
Bart., tot'
omas Carpenter, to Scout; W. A.
Lordlvcmi iloisG:
Commanders—Thomas
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;ITelit
Robert Sharpe, to Fantome; E. Car-
penter, to Geyser steam-frigate; Nicholas Robillaird, to
Seaflower (new Establishment).
Lieutenants—E. Earle, to command Rapid ; Henry S.
Hawker, to the Royal George; Henry St. John Georges,
and G. W. Wilkinson (supernumeraries), to the St. Vin-
cent ; G. L. Norcock, Robert Phillips, and John Elliot,
to the North Star ; George Edwin Patey, to the Cale-
donia ; R. K. Jenkins' to the Ferret ; Thomas Crofton,
to the Minden; J. T. Nott, to command the Partridge,
at Rio de Janeiro ; and J. M'Neil Boyd (additional), to
the St. Vincent ; W. S. Sanders, to the Growler.
Master—John Tucker, to the Growler.
Masters' Assistants—Thomas Huss, to the Vindictive ;
J. Studwell, to the Victory, for service in the Alban
steamer. _

Second Master and Pilot—Henry Hunter, to the Atholl,
vice Paul, promoted ; G. H. K. Bower (second Master)
to William and Mary, for service of the Lightning, vice
Tucker, promoted.
Surgeons—Alfred G. C. Tucker, to the Minden ; Jas.
M‘Bain, to the Mastiff,

Assistant Surgeons—Dr. David Thompson (b), to the
Minden ; Dr. John Henderson, to the Caledonia ; Dr.
the Fly
to the Royal George yacht ;
Fly ; Alexander Paterson (1811),
At.;
William Maitland, to St. Vincent ; Arthur Adams, to
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Haslar Hospital.
Purser—John Milner to the Growler.
Mates—Thomas J. Smyth, and Edward J. Voules, to
the Caledonia ; C. A. Gordon, G. Greathead, and John
Franklin, to the Queen ; W. T. Lower, to the Excellent.
Hallowes, (from the Powerful),
to the Belvidere ; G. T. F. Hornby, to Growler ; Geo.
Winthrop, to the St. Vincent.
Clerks—C. Jones, to Warspite ;W. H. Bateman, (in
charge), to the Pantaloon ; J. Paine, Secretary's Clerk,
to the St. Vincent.

Naval. Instructor—Mr. W. Stewart Harvey, to the
Malabar.

Mr. George Magrath Ley Pasco has passed for a com-
mission in the Royal Marines, which he will receive on
Tuesday next.

CORONER'S INQUEST.-Late on Saturday night
an inquest was held at the King's Arms Tavern, Ifolborn-
hill, betore Mr. Payne, the City Coroner, on view of the
body of Mr. Ezra Hodgkins, aged 59, formerly an opu-
lent innkeeper and coach-master, who committed suicide
under circumstances of a most afflicting nature. Thomas
Showle, porter to Mr. Parker, proprietor of the King's
Arms, proved discovering the deceased about 11 o'clock
on Friday morning suspended by a rope to a horse rack
in one of the stables in the yard of the inn ; he imme-
diately cut him down. Mr. Parker, the proprietor of the
inn, said he had known the deceased a great number of
years ; he was formerly an innkeeper and coachmaster
in wealthy circumstances, but of late years had been so
far reduced as to be cotnpeiled to drive coaches and do
whatever jobs he could obtvi.n. The change in his cir-
cumstances was mainly attributable to the long coaches
being taken off the roads in consequence of the railways ;
he was a sober, respectable man. Mr. George Butcher,
of the 13e11,Holborn-hill. said he had known the deceased
for a length of time ; saw him last on Friday morning,
when he told witness that he had got a badge to drive a
cab, but that he had been so unfortunate as not to be
able to take home daily sufficient money to his employer,
who in consequence dismissed him ; he was very dejected
at the time and wept bitterly. The Jury after coin-
-1
menting, upon the melancholy nature of the case, re-
turteudnaDvEerNdiDct
EoAII.---On Saturday night last thef " Temporary mental derangement."
SUDDEN
family of Mr. Goater, the extensive fishmonger to the
Royal Family, of Hungerford Market, and who resided
at No. 8, Buckingham-street, Strand, were alarmed by
the sudden illness of that gentleman, who, in attempting
to walk across the drawing-room, dropped down appa-
rently in a fit. Medical assistance was instantly pro-
cured by the family, but, on their arrival, life was found
to be quite extinct. The deceased was a very early
riser, and invariably went to Billingsgate Market with
his cart as early as the business of that place commenced.
The body awaits a Coroner's inquest. The„ deceased
was universally respected by all who knew him.
The Commissioners of Customs directed, not
long since, that stock should be taken in all the bonded
warehouses in the port of London, and we are sorry now
to learn, that in the warehouses in the immediate
vicinity of the Custom House, and attached to what are
called the " Legal Quays," deficiences to the amount of
many thousand pounds have been found to exist bz
reason of the removal of bonded goods without the pay-
ment of duty. This applies only to the " Legal Quays,"
and not to the large Companies' docks, the warehouses of
which have not m examined.—Observer.