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No. 16,936. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EITENIATG
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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
he evenings of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

slower rate. Had it been stationary it is impossible to
sea' how many lives must have been sacrificed. The con-
cussion was tremendous, and one at least of the passen-
gers was severely cut and wounded, while all were much
bruised and shaken. The engine was thrown off the rails
completely disabled, while the tender was dashed to
pieces. The parties in charge of the coal train said they
showed the danger signal lamp three quarters of a mile
to the engineer of the
before they were run into, and, if so, the blame attachable
passenger train is of a very serious
nature, and calls for the most searching inquiry, in justice
sach imminent danger,
to the community at large, whose lives are thus
when unfortuis*lYput in
Coralled to
be passengers on the E,linburgh and Glasgow Railway."
The CHAIRMAN sail the memorial embraced an ac-
count of the accident as nearly as he could recollect the
circumstances. He understood since that one of the
passengers (Dr. Ballantyne) had been dangerously
wounded, and all were more or less bruised. It was
for those present to say if they would adopt the above
memorial, or what other steps they were
_prepared to
take. He had written to the secretary of the com-
pany that morning, requesting his attendance here,
along with any other of the directors he might think
it necessary to bring with him, but as yet none of them.
had made their appearance.
Mr. CRUICKSHANRS, another passenger, next ad-
dressed the meeting. He entirely approved of the terms
of the memorial. There was evidently the grossest mis-
management on the part of the officers en the line, and
it could not be reprehended in too strong terms. When
this accident occurred at Bishop-bridge, the passengers
on coming out to the cold wintry air, found the door of
the station-house there locked, and no one in attendance
upon it. Women and children in a state of the greatest
distress were running to and fro. Not a drop of water
could they obtain for the faint and wounded, and a full
half hour elapsed before they could get any assistance
from the railway servants.
Air. WRIGHT, t ecretary of the company, here entered
the meeting, and was accommodated with a chair. Ile
explained that he had received a notice 'inviting him to
attend, and he had been prevented from appearing
sooner, as he wished to have the chairman or deputy-
chairman along with him. He belie heiwyer„ that
one or both these gentlemen Wititlbe'Vel;e4intoediately.
Mr. MORTON, a passenger, said—lt was evident there
was gross carelessness manifested in regard to the con-
duct of the line. After the collision occurred they were
coolly told by the engineer in charge of the train, that
if they had unfortunately been going at greater speed,
and been three minutes earlier in coming up, all of the
passengers might have been killed.
Mr. WRIGHT, secretary to the company, said it was
evident that there had been some gross irregularity on
the part of the servants, but tho fullest investigation into
all the, circumstances would be made by the directors,
when he believed it would be found that this accident
was not occasioned by the want of regulations, but from
the carelessness of the servants, for which the directors
could not be found fault with.
Mr. DAVIES, jun. (to Mr. Wright)—Why is it that
engines are sent out that are insufficient ?
Mr. WRIGHT—Some of the late accidents happened
to new engines.
Mr. ORR suggested that they should do nothing to
injure the interests of the company, while they took
every means in their power to obtain a satisfactory ex-
planation of this accident, and saw that steps were taken
to prevent a recurrence of any similar casualty.
Mr. MORTON proposed that the Board of Trade have
their attention called to the mismanagement on this line, ;
and that they be memorialised to interfere to prevent a
repetition of those numerous accidents that had occurred
of late.
Mr. GREENE, a shareholder, suggested that the
meeting deal with the directors, will were not to blame,
in a mild and conciliatory spirit, because it was evidently
their interest that such thin ;s should not take place, and
it would be their duty to make the most searching inquiry
into the whole facts of this case.
Mr. HENRY DUNLOP, of Craigton, who had by this
dine arrived, after having had read over to him the me-
morial proposed by the chairman, said—He had only a
short time previously been informed of this accident, and
he thought that in the meantime they ought to express
their thankfulness that no loss of life had occurred in
connexion with it. At the same time, he thought it right
that the gentlemen present should take every necessary
step for the safety of the line. The directors of late had
been quite annoyed at the number of accidents on the line,
and had done everything they could to prevent them, but
with all their care and attention they had been unable to
prevent such occurrences.- For his brother directors, he
could assure this meeting that every attention would be
given to any memorial which might be addressed to
them on the subject. In the meantime they had not
had time to inquire into the cause of the accident ; but
the servants of the company were to be examine on
Monday first, when the strictest investigation would be
msde of their conduct. It was only a few days ago
since an accident occurred from the neglect of orders by
the servants of the company. On inquiry into the cause
of the accident, the directors had dismissed the station
keeper, who ought to have seen that his servant did his
duty, and along with him the servant who had
neglected the signals. That was all the directors could
do, and otherwise he could assure this meeting that no
effort was wanting on their part to prevent such casual-
ties, which were obviously not for the interest of the
company.--(Hear, hear.)
Mr. DAVIES, jun., said those present had nothing to
do with the pecuniary interests of the company. They
were here for the protection of their lives, and the ful-
lest investigation should be made into the facts of the
case. For this purpose, and for the satisfaction of the
public, he wished to know from Mr. Dunlop if, at the
inquiry on Monday, the reporters of the public press
would be admitted.
Mr. DUNLOP said—Certainly. The directors were
anxious for the fullest inquiry, and he would propose
that the sheriff of the county, or some other official
person, ought to superintend the inquiry.
Mr. CRUICRSHANRS, who had previously moved a re-
solution calling upon the Board of Trade to interfere in
the management of this line, and to supersede the di-
rectors, until they were satisfied that the directors had
taken all proper steps fur the efficient working of the
line, here intimated his willingness to withdraw his mo-
tion, on the understanding that the fullest and most
satisfactory inquiry would be made by the directors, and
everything done to satisfy the' public, and put the line in
a position of safety. At the same time Mr. Cruick-
shenks assured Mr. Dunlop that the resolution he had
moved was not dictated by any other motive than a de-
sire for the public safety.
After some further conversation, the above memorial
was unanimously adopted, and a small committee was
appointed to attend the investigation by the railway
company on Monday first.
The meeting, after voting thanks to the chairman,
broke up.

BIRMINGH %M INSTITUTION FOR
THE RELIEF OF DEAFNESS.
(From the Midland Counties Herald, Dec. 24.)
The subscribers to the Institution for the Relief of
Deafness, held their annual meeting on Tuesday, at ihe
Public Office, in this town. Lord Cali horp, nresi.fed.
In opening the proceedings, his LORDSHIP reinarked
that, ander any circumstances, deafness roust be a se-
rious privation, and often a very great affliction, but par-
ticularly so in a state of society such as that in which we
live, which offered so many opportunities of action and
employment, and so many means of rendering the power
of hearing a channel of instruction, improvement, and
enjoyment to its possessors, In such a state of society,
of course, deafness or deficiency of hearing must be felt
las a peculiarly aggravated affliction ; but, happily, the
very circumstances which aggravated its pressure brought
with them the means of alleviation ; since it was in ex-
actly such a state of society that there was the
highest advancement of skill and medical science,
and of that humane and patient attention which was
instrumental in alleviating the infirmity. The object
of that institution, he need not say, was to promote
that species of benefit to the poor ; and it was, there-
fore, with great satisfaction he was able to say,
not merely that a benefit such as that was contem-
plated by the institution, but that it had to a certain ex-
tent been realised by it. Within the last few days, be
had himself'seen some of the patients under the care of
Mr. Dufton, and certainly the degree of benefit which
they derived spoke strongly in favour of the claims of
the institution, restricted as its operations had neces-
sarily been. In the cases of two or three females in sei-
vice, whose hearing had been seriously affec'ed, he had
been gratified to find that they had become fitted again
for services for which they must have continued other-
wise to be totally disqualiffed. In the case of one per-
son, 55 years of age, who had been for several years suf.
fering from deafness, a complete cure had been efiecteil.
Several very young children, too, had derived very great
benefit from the institution. In the ewe of one child,
which from its infancy had been quite deaf, the power.
of hearing had been, he would not say restored, but
conferred : and as a consequence it had since obtained
the power of speech. Instances of this kind were
etifenUted in the big hest degree te. recommend the in-
stitu lion, since they proved most strongly what
immense advantages were obtained-- through the
means used by those who were already under the care of
the institution. Those means were the more satisfactory
to himself, because they did not involve painful or distress.
ing operations, or the use of remedies which might be
trying or injurious to the constitution of the patient, but
consisted in the careful and patient attention of the sur-
geon, and the use of those remedies which his experi-
ence bad approved as most conducive to the relief of
deafness, and which, therefore, offered the strongest
ground of hope that the recovery would not be tempo-
rary but permanent and effectual. After the great satis-
faction which he bad felt in having had the opportunity
of judging for himself as to the operation of the institu-
tion, he felt quite strongly called upon to state the re-
sult of-his inquiries. Those facts showed that not only
in its object, but in its management, that institution de-
served the support of every humane and philanthropic
person. If in its very infancy and dawn those benefits
had been realised, there was every ground to hope that,
when its claims on the public were more generally under-
ally understood, its sphere of operation would be en-
larged, and it would receive a greater degree of public
support.
,The report was then read by Mr. SARGANT, in the
absence of Mr. W. Chance, jun. It appeared that
the number of patients during the year had reached
241 ; of whom 110 were males, and 131 females ; that
229 had been deaf in both ears, and 22 in one ear
only; and that in 18 cases the deafness had been here-
ditary. Of the 94 cases cured, 22 had been deaf less
than one year, 36 between one and five years, 25 between
five and ten ditto, 6 between ten and fifteen ditto, 4
between fifteen and twenty ditto, and 1 had been deaf
for thirty years. Of the 83 cases relieved, 20 had been
deaf under five years, 26 between five and ten ditto,
21 between ten and fifteen ditto, 6 between fifteen and
twenty ditto, and 10 between twenty and thirty ditto.
Of the 41 incurable cases, 24 had been deaf under twenty
years, and 17 between twenty and sixty ditto. There
were 23 cases still under treatment, making a total of
241 cases. The statement of accounts showed a balance
in hand of 5a 16s. lid.
The report was unanimously adopted, and various
resolutions moved and seconded by the Rev. Isaac
Spooner, Alderman Geach, Mr. Sargent, &c.; the
speakers narrating various instances in which the insti-
tution had conferred much benefit, and passing the
hieheat eulogiums on the skill and kindness of Mr.
Dafton.
Thanks having been voted to the Chairman, and
suitably acknowledged, the proceedings terminated.

The principle of the ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH DEMONSTRA-
TED daily, by Professor BACIIIIOFFNER, especially with reference
o the new patent of If emus. Nutt and Gamble, By the OXY HYDRO-
GEN MICROSCOPE are exhibited specimens of the DISEASED PO-
T.LTOId, showing the Leases, Cuttings of the Tubers, &c., together
with the DES PRUCTITE INSECT, supposed, by A. Snsee, Esq.,
F.A.S., t be the cause of the disease. Tke PHYSIOSCOPE,
EXPERIME W TS, DISSOLVING TIEWS, by Smith, &C.

Admissioa ls. Schools, half-pricb.
An entire NEW and BEAUTIFUL SERIES of DISSOLVING
MEWS will be introduocci at CHRISTMAS, and tko Institutioa will
be open oa the evening of Saturday, the 26th.

TUNNELLING THE ALPS.—The Moniteur Beige
announces that experiments have been made within the
last few days, in order to test the efficacy of a machine
just invented, for the purpose of effecting a new and
speedy method of boring tunnels. It is proposed to
apply this machine to the construction of the great tun-
nel about to be commenced in connexion with one of the
Italian lines. The machine was placed in front of the
web, and effected a bore to the depth of 18} centimetres
in 35 minutes. At this rate the new invention will com-
plete upwards of five metres of bore per day, and the
proposed tunnel through Mount Cenis will be finished
in the space of three years. The experiments hare been
repeated twice before several of the first engineers of
France, and with the most complete success.
THE ACTOR AND THE AUTHOR.—After continu-
ing his dramatic apprenticeship at the Od6on, where he
was still condemned to play the confidants, though in
tragedy instead of in spectacle, Frilderick offered his ser-
vices to the manager of the Ambigu, who had just ac-
cepted I 'Auberye des Adrets, a melodrama which appeared
to him (and was in reality) sufficiently commonplace to
admit of the principal character being entrusted to a
debutant. He did not, therefore, scruple to admit
the young actor into his company, and gave him
the part of Redmond to study. The eventful
night came, and the two first acts of the piece
having gone off very heavily, l'Auberge des Adrets
was generally regarded as a failure; Ftiderick, how-
ever, suddenly hit upon the ingenious idea of making
Redmond a comic instead of a melodramatic rascal, and
began to introduce all kinds of drolleries into his part,
which, backed-by the equally laughable acting of Serres,
put the audience into an ecstacy of delight, and decided
the triumphant success of piece and performer. One of
the authors had sent his bonne to see the first represen-
tation, and was waiting anxiously for her return in order
to know the result, when, to his surprise, she came back
hat dly able to speak for laughing. " Ah, sir," she ex-
claimed, as soon as she had recovered her breath, " what
an excellent piece ! how funny it is ! lam sure I never
laughed so much in my life !" " What !" cried the
amazed and indignant author, " laugh at my melodranle
This comes of entrusting the leading character to an
actor sans conscience !" However, on going himself to
see the piece, he laughed like the rest, and following the
example of his collaborateur, pocketed his author's dues
with great good humour.— Hervey's Theatres of Paris.
TRAGICAL SUICIDE AT LEWISHAM.—A suicide of a
melancholy character was committed OR Saturday after-
noon by a youth named Sandon, aged 18, the son of a
person in independent circumstances, residing in King's-
place, Lewisham. In the course of the evening he had
been playing at cards with a younger brother, and during
the progress of the game he seized a knife, which he
flourished about frantically, declaring that he would cut
his throat. The threat was treated with carelessness,
being viewed in the light of a joke. Having repaired to
the garden, his prolonged absence excited some ap-
prehension, and it was discovered by those who went to
seek him, that he had inflicted a wound of so deadly a
character upon his throat that his head was severed from
his body, with the exception of being connected by a
small piece of skin. The medical assistance of Mr.
Steele, a neighbouring surgeon, was called in, but it was,
of course, unavailing.
WICKED HOAX.—A hoax, doubtless in imitation
of, and prompted by, that practised on a tradesman in
London lately, was played off here this week, with con-
siderable effect. On Tuesday morning numerous trades-
men received, through the post, letters (unpaid) dated
" George Inn, Snargate-street," containing orders of
various kinds, and purporting to be written by the
worthy landlord; Mr. Philpott, or Mrs. Philpott. The
parties were generally required to be at the " George "
at half-past ten o'clock, A.M. Accordingly, punctually
at that hour an undertaker was in attendance, to take
the measure of a gentleman, just dead, for a coffin, and
to do the other requisites appertaining to his calling
on the solemn occasion ; nor had sufficient time
elapsed for explanation as to the hoax when
up came a carriage to drive out a party for a
morning ride. Presently there came two butchers' men
with legs of mutton, two grocers' lads with each a huge
cheese, a tobacconist with a box of the best Havannahs,
and other such like necessaries, as per order. Mean-
while, also, a fashionable hair-dresser, "kit in hand,'
entered' to shave the dead man ; and apace the chimney-
sweepers were seen to enter, shouldering the implements
of their craft ; while the dustman called in to ascertain
"further particulars" about fetching the night-cart. In
the midst of the hubbub, a gentleman, from the upper
end of the town, dropped in to inquire what it was "to
his interest" that Mr. Philpott had to tell him. The
perpetrators of this wicked hoax, who, as yet, remain un-
discovered, are doubtless chuckling over the success of
their project ; but it is not unlikely they may soon be
brought to light, and made to answer for their wanton
cruelty.—Dover Chronicle.

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW.-QUICK TRAINS.—In
reference to the manner in which the trains on this line
of railway are usually conducted, and the speed at
which the engines are sometimes worked, a corre-
spondent says :—" On Wednesday last I left Glasgow
for Edinburgh by the eleven o'clock forenoon train,
and was fortunate enough to roach the latter town by
two o'clock, thus accomplishing the distance, by
one of the fast trains of the company, in the in-
credibly short space of three hours—putting me in the
position of being just ono hour behind the time
appointed for transacting the business for which I set
out. The reason assigned for the delay by those in
charge of the train was, the condition of the engine and
the want of steam. So much was this the case, that on
the road the engine several times nearly came to a full
stand, perhaps with a view to a friendly salute from the
next train which followed it. On returning by the after-
noon slow train at five o'clock—which ought, in the
ordinary course, to have reached Glasgow at half-past
Ne VC —another of the excellent engines of the company
(No. 3, North British) broke down when about four miles
out of Edinburgh. Luckily, on account of ;he snail way
pace at which the train was going previous to the occurrence
no lives were lost, and no bones were broken. The passen-
gers, however, had the agreeable alternative of going out
into the open air with the prospect of being nearly frozen
to death, or remaining in the carriages with the risk of
having themselves coor(ey)d. After an elapse of two
hours, during which the passengers amused themselves as
they best might, in an atmosphere by no means sultry,
an engine was brought from Edinburgh, not much supe-
rior to its predecessor, by which the train reached Glas-
gow at ten o'clock, thus accomplishing the distance in
five hours." Looking to the frequency of such casual-
ties, our correspondent suggests that the railway com-
pany might in future not improperly provide each train
with a truck containing a team of horses to draw the
engine in the event of similar accidents, and a few bas-
kets of refreshments for pic-nic parties, that may neces-
sarily require to be formed on the line.—Glasyow Satur-
day Post.

THE PAVEMENTS OF PARIS.—From official returns
lately published, on the paving and maintenance of
moafinki:is a 2
1;203883;000000
the pavements of Paris, it appears that the paved
surface of the streets of that capital is 3,321,000
squaresquare
yards,ya r d s
andof which
thep
Corporation
statera ti
nn
yards. The charge of keeping up this pavement
is fixed st 53,0001. To this must be added the
cost of keeping up the public roads laid with gravel,
bitumen, or small flints, such as the roads, side-
walks, and alleys 01 the promenade of the Champs
Elysees, the quaff Montebello, the exterior and inte-
rior Boulevards, and a great number of other places. A
square yard of pavement cost 3d per annum for keep
ing up• The most considerable operation, and which.
from its expense, only occurs at distant periods, is taking
up and replacing the old pavement, which costs Is. 10d.
per square yard, not including, of course, the cost of
the new stone. The budget of the Corporation of Paris
allots 10,000/. per annum for this purpose, a very in-
te in the centre
engPalais Royal,
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neighbourhoodihne t
hcompletequarters
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the Boulevards, the Bourse, and the Place Vend6ine. In
the suburbs and more distant quarters, however, a com-
plete repaving is required only every 40 years. In spite
of the care shown in keeping the pavement of the richest,
most central, and most frequented streets of Paris in good
order, it is remarkable that these are exactly in the
most unsatisfactory condition, 13,4ng the rues de la
Chaus,6e•d'-Antin, Laffitie, St. Lazard, St. Denis, Mont-
martre, du-13ae, de la Harre, the boulevards and quays.

SINGULAR DRAM—The death of a young woman
was lately occasioned in a somewhat curious manner,
near Charleroy. Two dogs were fighting near the mouth
of a coal-mine, in the vicinity of that town, when, in
their struggles, they approached the brink of the pit and
rolled over, to the great mirth of the spectators of the
combat. Lamentable cries, however, were immediately
heard issuing from the mine. The dogs, in their fall,
had alighted on, and broken, the cover of the basket
which was ascending the shaft, and the pieces falling on
the young girl who was coming up in it, fractured her
skull in so shocking a manner that she died on the spot.
TUR CONDR DR Mobrramourc—The Conde de
Montemolin was engaged during the greater part of the
day in giving audiences to several of the Spanish officer*
of distinction now in London. The Conde alio roof4vpd
visits from some of the English nobility gnd gentry
town, and allerwgds walked to the par 4
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TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 28.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Geor. Grey, r,
to be Governor-in-Chief f and over the island- of e.
land, and Governor and Commander-in Chief
each of the two separe e provin. s of N
Munster.
Her Majesty has further been pleased to ieproie E, ward
John Eyre, Esq., to be Lieutenant-Governor of each of the
two said separate provinces of New Ulster and New Munster.
DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 28.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Sir John Gaspard
Le Merchant, Knt., Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, to be
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the island of
Newfoundland and its dependencies.
WAR OFFICE, DEC. 29.
Ist Regiment of Life Guards—Lieutenant the Honourable
Wellington Henry Stapleton Cotton to be Captain by pur-
chase, vice Anderton, who retires; Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant
Hugh William Boulton to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Cotton; Edward John Cornwallis Lord Eliot to be Cornet
and Sub-Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Boulton, Dec. 29.
3d Light Dragoons—Cornet Edward Joseph Thackwell to
be Lieutenant, by purchase. vice Ireland, who retires ;
Thomas Clement Belmore St. George, Gent., to be Cornet, by
purchase, vice Thackwell, Dec. 29.
4th Light Dragoons—Major Lord George Augustus Frede
rick Paget to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Van-
deleur, who retires; Captain Henry Fane to be Major, by
purchase, vice Lord George Paget; Lieutenant Fenwick
Boyce Barron to be Captain, by purchase, vice Fane ; Cornet
Conrad Montgomery to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Barron ; Henry Astley Sparke, Gent. to be Cornet, by pur-
chase, vice Montgomery, Dec. 29.
9th Light Dragoons--Surgeon Robert Joynt Gordon
Grant, from the 16th Light Dragoons, to be Surgeon, vice
Wood, who exchanges, Dec. 29.
16th Light Dragoons—Surgeon Arthur Wood, M.D., from
9th Light Dragoons, to be Surgeon, vice Grant, who ex-
changta Dec. 29.
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieutenant-Colonel
Lord Thomas Cecil, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain
and Lieutenant-Colonel (repaying the difference), vice John
Henry Pringle, who exchanges ; Brevet Major Lieutenant
and Captain Charles Ash Windham to be Captain and Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Lord Thomas
'Cecil, who retires, December 29. Ensign and
Lieutenant (Adjutant) Poulett George Henry
Somerset to have the rank of Lieutenant and Captain, Dec.
28; Ensign and Lieutenant George John Whyte Melville to
be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Windham;
William Henry Reeve, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Melville, Dec. 29.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Bingham Henry Edward Muller,
Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Rivers, pro-
moted in the 36th Foot, Dec. 29.
sth Foot—Captain Samuel Barton Jeffries, from half-pay
25th Light Dragoons, to be Captain; Lieutenant William
Chester Master to be Captain, by purchase, vice Jeffries, who
retires; Second Lieutenant William Robert Crawford Potter
to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Master; George
Bennett, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Potter, Dec. 29.
lath Foot—Assistant Surgeon Frederick William Tupper,
from
pointed to 57th
the Fe
Stet,
affo t
Dec.
beAssistant Surgeon, vice Prout, ap-
,
19th Foot—Ensign James Cole Taylor, from the 74th Foot,
to be Ensign, vice Palmer, who exchanges, Dec. 29.
27th Foot—Acting Sergeant Major William Crozier to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Dickson, appointed to the sth
Foot, Dec. 29.
30th Foot—Ensign James Rose to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Whitmore, appointed Adjutant, Dec. 28 ;
Ensign Frederick Augustus Edwardes to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Shum, promoted, Dec. 29; Gentleman Cadet
Thomas William Cator, from Royal Military College, to be
Ensign, vice Rose; William Warren Hastings Greene, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Edwardes, Dec. 30 ; Lieu-
tenant Edmund Augustus Whitmore to be Adjutant, vice
Macdonald, promoted, Dec. 28.
36th Foot—Ensign Cecil Rivers, from Ist Foot, to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Carew, promoted, De-
cember 29.
48th Foot—Staff Assistant Surgeon James Dickson to be
Assistant Surgeon, vice Johnston, promoted on the Staff,
Dec. 29.
56th Foot—Lieutenant Richardson Anderson to beCaptain,
by purchase, vice Barclay, who retires; Ensign Henry John
Tolcher to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Anderson ;
Frederick John Gothleipe Saunders, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Tolcher, Dec. 29.
61st Foot—Captain George Fitzßoy, from half-pay Royal
West India Rangers, to be Captain, vice William Ward,
who exchanges; Lieutenant John Fortescue Brickdale to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Fitzßoy, who retires, Dec.
29; Ensign Edward Shawe Powys to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Maher, deceased, Oct. 3 ;
Ensign Richard Gunn Brackenbury to be Lieutenant by
purchase, vice Brickdale; Gentleman Cadet John Nagel,
from the. Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice Powys,
Dec. 29. Thomas Harrison Harrison, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Brackenbury, Dec. 30.
64th Foot—Ensign Robert Bickerstaff to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Maddi on, who retires; Edward William
Armstrong. Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bicker-
staff, Dec. 29.
66th Foot—Joseph Thomas La Presle, Gent., to be As-
sistant-Surgeon, vice Cowper, promoted in the 56th Foot,
Dec. 22.
67th Foot—To be Captains without purchase—Lieutenant
Capel Coape, Dec. 29 ; Lieutenant Stonehouse George Bun-
bury, Dec 30.
To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Lieutenant William
Du Vernet, from 50th Foot • Ensign James Graham; En-
sign Fiztmanrice Pratt, vice Foot;
Dec. 29.
To he Ensigns, without purchase—Gentleman Cadet Ed-
ward Daubeney, from Royal Military College; Gentleman
Cadet Alfred Addington Jones, from Royal Military College,
Dec. 29; William Wallace Davy, Gent., vice Graham, Dec.
30; William Cumming Shells, Gent., vice Pratt, Dec. 31.
74th Foot—Ensign Henry Wellington Palmer, from 19th
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Taylor, who exchanges, Dec. 29.
77th Foot—Ensign Robert Mostyn to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Walpole, who retires; William Ronalds,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Mostyn, Dec. 29.
85th Foot, Brevet Colonel Benjamin Chapman Browne,
from half-pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice
Sir J. G. Le Merchant, who exchanges; Major Brook Taylor
to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Browne, who
retires; Captain John Blackburn to be Major, by purchase,
vice Taylor, Dec. 29 ; Lieutenant Evelyn Latimer Parrett to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Patterson, who retires, Dec. 28;
Lieut. Lord Spencer Scott Compton to be Captain by pur-
chase, vice Blackburn, Dec. 22; Ensign William Alexander
Filder to be Lieutenant :by purchase, vice Parrett, Dec. 28 ;
Ensign the Hon. William Stuart Knox to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Lord S. Compton, Sir Henry Hope, Edwards,
Baronet, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Filder, Dec. 28 ;
Frederick Thistlethwaite, Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Knox, Dec. 29.
94th Foot—Lieut. William Henry Dore to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Deere, deceased; Ensign Herbert
Taylor M'Crea to be Lieutenant, vice Dore. Dec. 17 ; Richard
Hull Lewis, Gent., to be Ensign, vice M'Crea, Dec. 29.
2d West India Regiment—Ensign Archibald W. Dickson
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hill, who retires ;
Charles De Blaquiere, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Dickson, Dec. 29.

BREVET.—Lieutenant Colonel Lord Thomas Cecil, of the
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, to be Colonel in the
Army, Nov. 9; Captain Samuel Barton Jeffries, of the sth
Foot, to be Major, in the Army, Jan. 10, 1837; Captain
George Fitzroy, of 61st Foot, to be Major in the Army, June
28, 1838.

Unattached.—Lieutenant Henry Capadose, from Bth Foot,
to be Captain, without purchase, Dec. 29.
Chaplain.—The Reverend William Walrond Jackson,
M.A., to be Chaplain to the Forces, Dec. 21.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—Assistant-Surgeon James Townsend
Oswald Johnston, M.D., f orn the 48th Foot, to be Staff-
surgeon of the Second Class, Dec. 29; Assistant-surgeon
Alexander Adam Prout, from 13► h Foot, to be Assistant-
surgeon to the Forces, Oct 1.

• and.
W. H. Mercer, watch inat.tuacturers, CA/Velll a, re-
gerds W. H. Mercer)—A. and W. P. Lewis, colonial brokers,
Mincing-lane, City—R. Pent and W. Yardley, ironfonmlers.
Halshaw-moor, Lancashire—W. Wilscn and W. Kirwin.
screw bolt makers, Manchester—T. Perks and C. Jones,
builders, Aston, Warwickshire—E. A. flutr-ett. J. Ynnol,an.
and H. D. Vaughan, schoolmistresses, I.i.sor. • .ov. t
J. Baker, J. 1 ticker, H ticket :.h• ‘‘• T r •'•
meh, Trump-,trey; Lion, , • ;;,,
Baker)—Jl. Weinman and W. N wmar.., s Cable-
-1 , elic/ose-square—W. Wehb and W Gough,
Geldart and J. S Bolton, ct al merch,,9,..s,
,Norwie --J. Hoby, E. Robson, hnd R. Fin .wles, trin.ze
manufac urers, Skinner-street, City—G. S. Pasley and J.
Sharpe, ;. lass merchants, Albert-place, High-street, Houton
Old 'Vol; n—T. Millard and W. Olive, wheelwrights, 01-
veYton, C/coucestershire.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEC. ZS.
Errata in Gazette of the 22d instant.—FJr Gentleman
Cadet the Honourable John James Bury, to be Second Lieut-
enant, in the," Royalißegiment of Artillery," read, to be
Second Lieutenant in the Corps of Royal Engineers, vice De
Butts, promoted.
And for Gentleman Cadet Alexander Mackenzie, to be
Second Lieutenant, in the Corps of Royal Engineers, vice De
Butts, promoted, read vice Stace, promoted.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenapt of Oxfordshire.
Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia—Thonois Kemp ',4toiT,
Gent. to be Lieutenant. vice Gardiner, promoted, Dec.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Gloucee.ter,hire.
Royal Gloucestershire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry--
Frederick Marcus Callaghan, Gent., to be Lieittenant, vice
Haythorne, resigned, Dec. 14.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
Thomas William Clark, brewer, Strood, Kent
BANKRUPTS.
Mary Ann Shenston, scale manufacturer, Brewer-street,
Somers-town, to surrender Jan. 15, at half-past twelve, and
Feb. 9, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official
assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street; Kell and Chaffers,
Bedford-row.

REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN
TRADE, DURING THE PAST WEEK.
The weather was, in the early part of the week, wet,
and the ice, by which many of the canals and water-
courses NI ere blocked tip when we last addressed our
reader, has entirely disappeared. There is, conse-
quently, no longer any impediment to the conveyance
of gra n by water-carriage ; and if similar weather
should I ave been experienced on the Continent, some
of the livers there have probably been set free from their
icy bonds: in which case, a few more eareors of corn
might probably reach us from the north of Europe. The
change from severe frost to comparatively mild weather
would, under ordinary circumstances, have been billowed
by a re-action in the trade; but we are at present placed
in such a peculiar position, that past experience scarcely
affords a parallel. Events which in common seasons
might have a great influence pass now without Producing
any effect ; and so has it been with the recent change in
the weather. The facility afforded by the re-opening of
the inland navigation to procure supplies, is viewed as
favourable rather than otherwise ; and no one appears
for a moment to believe that the demand will not prove
sufficiently extensive to take off all the corn the farmers
are likely to be enabled to bring forward. That the
merchants, millers, and bakers are generally but indif-
ferently stocked in all parts of the kingdom, is a fact
which admits of no question ; and an opinion is daily
gaining ground, that the liberal manner in which the
growers have brought forward their wheat, ever since
harvest, has so greatly diminished their stocks, as to
leave much less on hand than is generally the case at this
period of the year. Meanwhile, the old foreign wheat
is fast disappearing from our granaries. At the princi-
pal ports of the west coast, nearly a clearance has been
made by shipments to Ireland; ail the demand from the
rame quarter is beginning to tell on the London stocks.
All that has hitherto been sent from England to the
sister isle has gone into consumption as soon as received:
no accumulation has taken place there,. and as it is quite
evident that with the loss of the potato crop, the r,
-f .

,
sources of Ireland are not sufficient to support her
people, further supplies will have to be drawn from this
side of the Channel. In this state of affairs, we feel no
surprise that the somewhat dull advices from Mark-lane,
of Monday, should have failed to produce much €ffect
on quotations in the provincial markets ; indeed, it.ap-
pears clear to us that the upward movement has not yet
reached its height. Those who are of an opposite
opinion seem to ground their hopes solely on the stip-
plies from America ; they do not attempt to deny that
the totato crop has almost wholly failed in Ire:and—
that the produce in England has hardly come up to half
a crop ; neither is it disputed that the extraordinary
heat and the want of moisture, by which the suminpe
was characterised, caused the yield of all kinds of spring
corn to fall materially short of what is usually grown in
these islands ; but all these drawbacks are to be made
good by overwhelming supplies of American produce.
We have, on former occasions, asserted over and over
again our conviction that the supplies likely to reach us
from the ether side of the Atlantic had been exaggerated
and we see no r. ason to retract this r i hirin
the two moths t. erromiling, bete 3011, sh,ppcd
I
previous to that pert. d 1, .s, ot (oars., brigere is
reached our shores and b, en mostly consumed) the ex-
ports of Flour from New Yolk scarcely amounted to
200,000 brls.; and we question whether all the other
ports of the United States together, shipped an equal
quantity. For argument's sake we will say that 500.000
brls. have been despatched in October and November.
trom the American ports. How much of this unimpor-
tant uantit
qy (unimportant when our necessities are
taken into consideration ill go to France ? how much
to Newfoundland and the West Indian Island.? and what
quantity are we likely to receive ? It the who were
intended for Great Britain, and there were no French
buyers of bonded flour ready to take all they can get, it
would still be a mere trifle, but in our actual position we
have no hesitation in saying, that to expect the arrivals
of bread-stuffs from America to stop the rise in prices
in the British markets is perfectly ridiculous.
REVIEW OF FOREIGN CORN TRADE.
In consequence of the non arivul of the Il'lmburg
mails of 19th and 22d, we are without our usual advices
from the north of Europe. We have, however, Ham-
burg papers up to the 19th instant by way of Holland,
but very little information respecting the grain trade
can be collected from these. The frost appears to have
partially given way, but the chief rivers and harbours
were still closed by ice ; nor was it deemed probable that
the navigation would again be practicable until spring.
Letters from Dantzic, of the 12th inst., inform us that
the receipts of wheat from Upper and Lower Poland had
fallen materially short of expectation, a large number
of the barges having been frozen up on their passage
down the Vistula. This circumstance had assisted to
give confidence to holders ; and the advices from Great
Britain, France, and Belgium being of a character calcu-
lated to lead to the impression that buyers from all
those countries will in spring appear in the Baltic, few
holders of the article at Dantzic had manifested inclina-
tion to enter into contracts for spring shipment. The
only sale reported as having taken place since the pre-
vious post-day had been that of a parcel of ordinary
wheat, about 50 last, weighing per bushel 591b5., for
which equal to 525. per qr., free on board, had been ob-
tained. Fine mixed, of 601bs. weight, had been held at
545., and fine high-mixed parcels, weighing 611b5., at
565. per qr., with charges and interest till spring,
From Rostock and Stettin we have no advices ; and
the reports from ilamburgh, of the 19th, are of so
meagre a character as to afford little real information
relative to the state of affairs there. Thus much is,
however, certain, that the Elbe was then effectually
blocked up by Ice, and that it was deemed very impro-
bable that further shipments of grain would be made
either from thence or from Danish ports till spring.
Stocks of wheat were extremely small, and for local use
good qualities of red had brought what would be equal
to 565. per quarter in English money.
At all the Dutch and Belgian markets quotations of
wheat have lately risen considerably; an] though there is
hardly a margin at present for profits on shipmen's from
this country to the Netherlands, still there is a proba-
bility of buyers from thence visiting our markets.
In France wheat also continues to rise in value; and
whilst Marseilles affords so much better a market for
wheat than is to be met with in Great Britain there is
no prospect of supplies reaching this country from any
of the ports lying east of the Straits of Gibraltar.
Since writing the above, we have received liamburgh
letters of the 22d, and advises from Dantzic of the 19th
inst. At the latter place the weather was then still
severe, but at Hamburgh a rapid thaw ,et in; the Elbe
was, neve-rhele'ss, yet frozen up. The lively accounts
from hence had cause d an ',thane,. of 2,4. per quarts, as
on wheat;
kwienldlsinotthseprßinaghiccorans ahtadllarrinsehnurtinh,
Express.

William Whitsed Coleman, provision merchant, South-
! ampton, Jan. 5, at two, and Feb. 9, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Messrs. Free-
man Bothamley, and Benthall, Coleman-street.
Henry Brewer, draper, Great Waltham, Essex, Jan. 9, at
twelve, and 30, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Fol-
lett, fficial assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street ;
Soles and Turner, Aldermanbury.
John Beddleton Morris, shoemaker, Hull, Jan. 13 and
Feb. 3, at ten, at the Leeds District Court. Kynaston, official
assignee, Hull; Hicks, Gray's Inn, London; Bell, or Levett
and Champney, Hull.
John Percy Moore, chemist, Plymouth, Jan. 14, and Feb.
4, at one, at the Exeter District Court. llirtzell, official
assignee, Exeter; Cross, Plymouth; Gregory and Co., Bed-
ford-row, London ; Terrell, Exeter.
Thomas Norton, builder, Birmingham, Jan. 9, and Feb. 6,
at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie,
official assignee, Birmingham ; Chesahire, Birmingham.
DIVIDENDS DECLARED.
W. Croser, merchants, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—first and
final div. of Bs. I Id. in the pound, on any Saturday, at
the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tine.
G. S. Coxwell, merchant, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—first and
final div. of Is bd. in the pound, on any Saturday, at the
office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
G. Nelson, farmer, Lazonby, Cumberland first and final
div. of ss. in the pound, on any Saturday, at the office of
Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
T. Langston, share broker, Manchester—first div. of 9d.
in the pound, on any Tuesdays at the ace of Mr. Fraser,
Manchester.

AMELIORATED CORN•LAW Al' ROME,--An edict
was publish,cl the Ist of the month, signed by the Sec-
retary Cardinal Gzzi, in reterenm to the cereal corn.
of itr' States of the Chttreh, to the oorpor!. that
price of graiii et=ta,bilsled th_ if
allbe lowered at the rat., r.f•

of 1821
ev.--I. al ;:c .. ' 1:. ~ : ...,:' t
(A;
That :-
Lt
~. r
i , ...
et the extr.,eil,n, of errtuu iv, In 1,1. .1‘ 1:...1,
shores shall be free, and its importation forbidden,
till the price arrives at 12 scudi the rubbio
(6401 b. Italian), from which sum shall commence tha
ancient gradations and taxes, up to the value of 14 scudi,
when shall be in force the prohibition against the ex-
portation cf indigmous Brain, and the importation of fo.
reign shall be free. Likewise that for the c ast of the Adriatic the exportation shall bk• free, and the importa-
tion forbidden, till the price shall arrive at 10 scudi the
rubbio; from which sum the ancient gradations and
taxes shall come into force, up to the value of 12
scudi, when the exportation of corn is forbidden, am?,
the importation is to be free. That for Turkish corn,
Portatiora for-
Bondi, 50
bthidedeexpp, otraptihoen
perhicaellsbheallfra7r,ivaendatt7hesciurndi,
50
1,
al
jocchi
bajoechi, the exportation is prohibited, and the impor-
tation arriving. at the cost of 9
the rubbio ;
•rendered free. This ulterior proof of his paternal
tation
care, in removing all occasion for disquietude from hit.
subjects, his Holiness trusts will be corresponded to by
submission and confidence on their part.—Roman Ad.
vertiser, Dec. 5.
ANGLING EXTRAORDINARY.—A very remarkable
scene occurred on the beach at Musselburgh on Mond-
last, in which a small dog signalised himself in a me..n:4
well worthy of record. It appears he had bee-4 in the
practice of swimming occasionally for any 1,-.
bird which may have come under the r ofortunate
ange of his
master's gun, and upon the occasion alluPued to he was in
waiting for this purpose. An ineffecf.ual shot at a bird
was followed by a sudden rush of tb:e dog into the water,
which at this particular spot is rather deep, and in which,
to his master's astonishment, he. almost immediately dis-
appeared. In a few moments ne again came to the sur-
face, and got footing on terr a firma ; but this time he was
not
at first alone, for
ose struggling fiercely with him was (as vim
suppd) -,e monster which he had caught,
and by which he r..ppeared about to be overcome. One,
or twice he vets fairly overturned, but still he fou ' a
-
bravely, and at length he succeeded in proving vieF.nt
The motger, when landed, turned out to be
nothin tor.
than a salmon of about Sibs. weight---a capture P'‘' lesa
if ever before, made by a dog.—Edinburgh rare)y,
A LITERARY CONSCIENCE,—The foll,e2S.
enclosing 51., was lately received by Cr `'Wing
wore,
R.N., of Braxted Lodge and we publito:iktain Dwcane,
as a curiosity, but as disproving th., vi it, not merely-
' gvaerl belief that.
book borrowers and book plunderers
with touches of conscience •II H - r troubled
are neve .
. entered air The hin-
closed Five pound note ';;is o f . 11^
UTS or ...,,oli iken from
the libraery at braxste-1 lodge
...tg A Lnlg wile atgoe A ser-
vant."—The write-
... - has certainly not profited much by
the books whQ•4oeTer they we— .
iv, , and if ever he return,
to hie old 1141 AR, it would be advisable to he
9 &14 wiV 1
4 %WI lkinkit"...ElSC4 410104

J. Gray, upholsterer, Manchester--Arst div. of Is. in the
pound, on any Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Man-
chester.

W. Dunnett, auctioneer, Manchester---second div. of 3d.
in the pound, on any Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Fraser,
Manchester.
T. Oxton, cart owner, Liverpool—first div. of 1 lAid. in the
pound, on 'Wednesday, Jan. 6, or any subsequent Wednes-
day, at the office of Mr. Morgan, Liverpool.
R. Brown, printer, Pemberton-row, Gough-square—first
div. of 3s. 41;..{d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the
office of Mr. Whitmore, lßaainghall-street.
W. MiDowall printer, Pemberton-row, Gough-squnre—
drat dlv. et 4s. 3c . in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the
office at Mr. Whi more, Fiesdnghell • gnat.
DIVIDENns.
At the Court of ildnkrupttw, lleitughall-street,
R, Ileohlty, paoer,licittl4 Audloy.4treet, Hanover-square,
at itatOrat sAam

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