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NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE AND
EQUITABLE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES
26, CORNHILL, LONDON.

DIRECTOUS,

t*T. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman.
*W. A. B. Bennett, Esq. *John Rawson, Esq.
*Hugh Croft, Esq. *John Shaw, Esq.
tElliotson, M.D„ F.R.S. tlEdrannd S. Symea, Esq.
*Ralph Gough, Esq. t*Clement Tabor, Esq.
sM. C. Maher, Esq. t Joseph Thompson, Esq.
*John Moss, Esq. t*Augastus Vigne, Esq•
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AIIDITOII.
tProfessor Wheatstone, E.R.S.
PITYSICIAN.
*J. Elliotson, 32. D„ F.R.S„ 37, Conduit-street.
SIIItefiON.

t*E. S. Symes, Esq., 77, Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square.
ACTUARY.
t.W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., &c.
SECRETARY.
*D. T. Lyons Clanchy, Esq.
SUPERINTENDENT.
*W. A. Hawkins, Esq.
RANKERS.

t*Mesirs. Glyn, liallifax, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street.
NOLICITOES, _

Messrs. Sutton, Ewens, Ommanney and Prudence, 6, Basinghall.
street.
*W. Tatham, Esq., 22, Throgmorton-street.
NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE OFFICE.
CAPITAL-500,0001.

The WITHDRAWAL TABLE of the Society affords to the As-
sured the greatest possible present and prospective advantages that
can be conferred by Life Assurance. On this Table the Assured is
entitled, at any time, to receive at interest an immediate advance,
to the extent of one-half the amount of the paid annual Premiums,
without security, personal liability, or deposit of the Policy, but by
simple endorsement thereon ; or the half Premium may be with-
held during the whole continuance of the Policy. Also, in the
event of the Assured at any time not requiring to continue the
Polley, on its surrender one-half of the annual payments will be
returned by the Society. _ _ .

Lapsed Policies may be renewed without fine, on proof of health
and payment of arrears of Premium without interest.
Notices of Assignment of Policies registered and acknowledged,
so as to make them available as securities in the hands of
third parties.

—No Entrance Fees or any other charge beyond the Policy Stamp.
The present nuual income of the Society from Premiums is
63,0001.; the amount covered by the Policies of the Society is
1,751,557/. ; and the reserve(' profit, applicable to future bonus to.
the amounts to 82,4541.-554 t . At the last annual iayes-
tigation, reported `in 1850, the tontses declared to ,the As-
sured were, the option of a return of 15 per cent. on their Premiums
in cash, gr a reversionary a idition to the original sum assured by
each Policy varying from 20 to 65 per cent.
EXAMPLES OF BONUSES ALREADY DECLARED.

Extensive Travelling Leave granted without extra Premium
Moderate extra Premium for Residence in Tropical Climates.
EQUITABLE FIRE OFFICE.
Capital-500,0001.
(Incorporated under 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 110.)
The leading principles of this Office are—Moderate and equitable
Rates of Premium for each class of risk—Annual division of Profits.
The difficulty of collecting the elements on which to proportion
Premium to risk in Insurance against Loss by Fire has been so
great, that the rates at present charged are more the 'result of guess
than calculation.
It has been found by experience, that the total annual losses of the
different Established Companies have not been proportionate to the
amount of annual Premiums received by each.
It is of the highest importance, both to the Insured and Insurers,
that such an anomaly should cease, and an approximation to the
true risk be made. To secure this object the Equitable Fire Insu-
rance Company is established.
The true rate of Premium for Fire Insurance ran only be ap-
proached through Classification and Average, which has not hitherto
been sufficiently acted on, or systematically ap:4lled.
Whatever be the nominal rate, the bonus or return periodically to
the Insured will determine the true Premium equitably payable, as
security against loss for so great a calamity as fire, and the Insurer
is largely interested in this question, and will consult his interest by
supporting a system where, by a careful combination of Classifica-
tion and Average, the Premium will be proportioned to the risk.
The Equitable Fire Office will, by a constant analysis of its own
experience, from time to titre, adopt such rates of Premium as the
nature of the risk may justify, and will decline to enter into arrange-
ments as regards tariffs with other offices.
With this view an annual investigation will be made into each
class of risk, and a return of one moiety, or fifty per cent. of the nett
excess will be made to all classes of Insurers whose Policies have
been in force for three years.
Insurances against Loss by Fire are effected by this Company Upon
every description of Property on moderate terms.
Farming Stock insured at 3s. per cent, without the Average Clause.
Prospectuses, and every information may be obtained, on applica-
tion at the Office, or to any of its Agents.

National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society.
* Equitable Fire
f* Both Offices.

DAVIES'S CANDLES, 41d. and sd. ; Pal-
mer's 634 d. per lb. ; magnums, Bd.; mid size, 734 d.;
wax-wick moulds, 6d. ; composite, 736 d., 9d., and 934 d. ;
Botanic wax candles, ls.; German wax, Is. 2d.; tine wax, Is. 5d.;
genuine wax, 2s. 3d. • sperm candles, 2s 2d. to 2s. 4d.; transparent
wax, Is. 4d. to 2s. 4d:. mottled soap 565. and 60s. per 112 lbs. ; yel-
low soap, 445., 503., and 565. ; Windsor soap, is. 4d. per packet ;
brown Windsor, Is 9d. ; rose, 2s. ; almond, 28. 6d.; sperm al,
7s. 6d. per gallon ; solar, 3s. 6d. ; seal, 4s. ; argand or cobza, 4s. 6d.;
sealing wax, 4s. 6d. per lb., for cash, at DAVIES'S old established
warehouse, 63, St. Martin's-lane, opposite Westminster County
Court.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
Lectures on the Music of Wales, by Ellis Roberts, Esq. (Harp •
Ist to R.R.H. the Prince of Wales), with Vocal Illustrations by Miss
Blanche Younge, R.A. of Music, on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday,
and Friday Evenings at Eight, and on Saturday, at Three.—The Ce-
lebrated Juvenile Harpists (the Lockwood Family) will perform
Trios, under the direction of Mr. Frederick Cbatterton, daily at
Four.—Lecture by Dr. Bachhoffner on Voltaic Electricity, in which
will be exhibited Allman's Patent Electric Light.—Lecture by J. H.
Pepper, Esq., on Fire and its Antagonists, with brilliant Experiments.
—Exhibition of the Oxy-Hydrogen Microscope.—New Series of
Dissolving Views, illustrating some of the Royal Residences of Europe.
Admission, is.—Schools, Half-price. . .

Open daily from Eleven till Five o'clock, and every Evening (ex-
:ept Saturday) from Seven till Ralf-past Ten.

LAURENT'S GRAND CAFNO,
Licensed by Act of Parliament.

ARGYLL ROOMS, GREAT WINDMILL-
STREET, ST. JAMES'S.
(Sole Lessee, Charles Emile Laurent, jun., 57, Brompton-square.)
OPEN EVERY EVENING,
With LAURENT'S UNRIVALLED BAND.
Principal Cornet-a-Pistons, M. Boulconrt.
Doors open at Half-past Eight o'clock—Dancing to commence at
Nine and terminate at Half-past Eleven o'clock precisely.
Admission, One Shilling.

EXTRAORDINARY MUSICAL ATTRACTION!
ROYAL MUSIC HALL, ADELAIDE
STREET, :STRAND.
SIGNOR MONTELLI, Director of the Italian Operatic Company,
begs to announce he has entered Into arrangements to give a
Series of
GRAND VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL ENTERTAINMENTS,
On MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and FRIDAY EVENINGS
(alternately with the Apollonican performances)—commencing
MONDAY, 10th FEBRUARY, 1851.
SIGNOR MONTELLI has already secured the services of the
eminent Vocalists and Instrumentalists in London, namely:—

rrEA.—ARRIVAL of the FORFARSHIRE.
A_ This vessel has just arrived from China, having brought, in-
disputably, the choicest chops of the new season's Congou. We wish
to draw the especial notice of Families and Hotelkeepers to the
unusual excellence of the above cargo, which we are selling at four
shillings and fourpence per pound.
Also strong full-flavoured Congeal at 3s. Bd. to 4s.
And peculiar choice Assam Souchong at 4s. Bd. to ss.
SIDNEY, WELLS, and MiINDUELL.

No. 8, Ludgate-hill
Families resident in any part of the kingdom can be supplied a
the above prices, and the Teas carefully packed in lead.
The Customs' overweight of two pounds on chests containing
841b5., and of one pound on half chests of about 401b5., invariably
allowed.

No. 8, Ludgate•hlll.

SIDNEY, WELLS, and MANDUELL.

LOSS OF
TEETH.
A NEW and very curious invention connected with Dental
Surgery has been introduced by Mr. HOWARD, of 17, George-street,
Hanover-square ; it is the production of an entirely NEW DESCRIP-
TION OF ARTIFICIAL TEETH, fixed without springs, wires, or
ligatures. They so perfrctly resemble natural teeth, as not to be
distinguished from the originals by the closest observer. They will
never change colour or decay, and will be found very superior to
any teeth ever before used. This method does not require the ex-
traction of any Teeth or Roots, or any painful operation, and will
support and preserve the Teeth that are loose, and is guaranteed to
restore articulation and mastication. The invention is of importance
to many persons, and those who are interested in it should avail
themselves of Mr. Howard's NEW DISCOVERY.

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.
IPSWICH, FEB. 11. . _

The market was thinly supplied with wheat; the sale was
very heavy, and only the samples in good dry condition com-
manded any sale. Barleys were not in such large supply, and
were sold a little in favour of the buyer. We noticed some
quantity of peas, which meta dull sale.

PIK QUARTER. PER QUARTER.
Wheat, red
Ditto, white. 443 to 48s Oats OO3 to OOs
Barley, malting ... 23s to 27s Rye OOs to OOs
Ditto, grinding ... 20s to 22s Malt. ...... ....
Beans ......, 27s to 28s Flour, per sack ... 00s to 00s

AVERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING TEL 8, 1851.

Wheat ...... 1,317 quarters, at 39i Id
2,065 ~ 22s 9d
Oats .......
Beans. 57 „ 27s 6d
Peas
HULL, FEB. 11.
_ _ _

Messrs. Taylor and Bright's Circular states :—With a con-
tinuance of mild open weather we can only repeat the old tale
of a dull inanimate trade. The frost reported in our last was
only of, one day's duration, and so mild is the weather both
here and on the Continent, that the Hamburgh steamers com-
mence running as usual this week. At to•day's market we
had a good supply of English wheat, good conditioned parcels
only maintaining last week's prices, whilst in other cases, a
reduction of is per quarter had to be submitted to. The busi-
ness done in foreign was of the merest retail character. The
barley market very heavy, and progress in sales difficult. No
transactions to report in any kind of spring corn. The lin-
seed market is rather dull, and cakes, owing to the unusually
mild weather, are somewhat easier to buy. Nothing doing in
rapeseed, and of cakes we are without imports.
The following are the present prices of grain:—

8. B.
Wheat, English, red 35 to 40
Do. white ......
Dantzic and Ko-
nigsberg 42 46
Pomeranian and
Hamburgh . 3B 40
Danish, Holstein, & _ _

s. s.
Peas, white and yel. 27 30
Do. grey
Linseed, Black Sea 4B 50
Do. Petersburgh
Do.Riga&Archngl 3B 42
Do. Konigsberg
Per ton.

Friesland ' 36 381Lins. e,Hull 7/ 2s6dto7/5s
Russian and Odessa 35 40 Do. fine foreign
Oats, English
Do. Danish... l4 16 Rapeseed
Do. Friesland l6 18 Rape cakes...B7s 6d to Oos Od
Do. Russ. & Odessa 14 16 Tares, English ......85s 008
Barley, malting 24 281 Do. foreign 23s 36,
Do. grinding 2O .`i2 Guano 6/ to 101 us
Beans .. 26 30 Bones, do 95s Od to Oos Od
Do. foreign
CORK, FEB. 19.
__ _

Barrels. . Currency.
00 White wheat 00s Od to 00s Od 00s Od-20 stone
14 Red wheat. 16s 9d to 19s 9d 00s Od-20 do
142 Barley
0 Bere
222 Oats
30 Pigs 2ss Od to 30s 6d COs Od per cwt
Quantity sold at the Highest Prices:-
0 barrels white wheat; 3 red; 62 barley; 0 bere ; 1 oats;
6 pigs.
Quantity of Grain and Number of Pigs sold last week:—
Wheat, 205. Barley, 981. Oats, 4,696. Pigs, 619.
PRICES OF BUTTER.
CANT. I CURRENCY.
First quality ......... 811
Second quality
Third quality.
Fourth quality
Fifth quality
Sixth quality
_ _

First quality ......... 9os
Second quality
Third quality .. 80s
Fourth quality
Fifth quality
Sixth quality _ b6s

Return of Cattle sold for the week ending Feb. 1 :
Pigs, 1,061. Sheep, 264. Cows, 160.
Coax.—Flour—First 11 s 6d to 12s fsd ; extra 13s Od ;
seconds, 10s 6d to 11 s 6d; households 93 to 108 Od; thirds, 7a to 8s
per cwt. Oatmeal 103 to 10s 6d; Indian meal7s 3d to 7s 6d; wheat.
meal, 108 to 10s 6d per cwt. Indian corn 715 s Od to 71103 per
ton. Bran 90s to 95s0d per ton. Hay—Farmers 20s to 445; average
38s; dealers 44s to 508 Od; average 48s per ton. Straw—Farmers
22s Od to 38s Od; average 303; dealers 388 Od to 00s Od;
average 001 04 per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to 03 ;
household loaf 5d to 01 per 41b. Fresh butter, 10d to
12d per lb. Eggs-4s 10d to 58 Od per hundred. Coals—
Newport 16s Od; Lydney 17s; Landore 14s; Neath Culm,
13s 6d per ton. Tallow 371 Od to 38s per cwt.
Whisky, 25 o. p., 55 9d per imperial gallon. Meat
—Beef 4id to 6d; mutton 5d to 7d; veal 4d to
5d ; pork 4d to Od ; bacon 7d to 8d ; sausages 5d per lb
Hops 6110 s to 0/ Os per cwt. Bangor slates 312 s 6d to 315 s per
ton. Bark—Barbary 71 Os to 8/ Os ; Valonia 151 to 02; Frencb
61 Os ; Spanish 01 per ton. Fleece Wool 14s to 15s per stone.
Hemp 321 to 34/ per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 21s to 00s ; red
ditto, 24s to 003 per barrel ; Newfoundland, 10/ to 11110 s per
ton. Timber—Memel, 80s per ton ; red pine, 31 10s ; yellow
ditto, 21 15s per ton; deals, 12s to 15s per 100. Hides—
Market 22s to 325; salted 23s to 326 per owt ; calf skins
3id to 3d per lb. Potatoes, white lid to 10d; Minions,
10d to 12d. Guano— Peruvian, 11/ lOs ; lchaboe, Si to 91103
per ton. Tar—Archangel, 19s per barrel.

SHIP NEWS.
SANTA CRUZ, rENERIFFE.
The following is an extract from a letter from Lloyd's
agents at Santa Cruz, Teneriffe :
" The Spanish Government has granted us permission to
erect a depot for coals close to the Mole, which will enable
us in a short time to supply 200 tons of coals per day in all
weather. The local authorities also, desirous of removing
every obstacle to trade, recommended the concession of all
the privileges sought for by the British Government on be-
half of the Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's vessels,
which has been, we learn to-day, granted.
"These vessels will now be carriers to England of almost
all the cochineal produced on this island, of which about
650,0001 b. were exported in 1850.
" The Spanish Government has established a line of steam-
packets between Cadiz and Havannah, calling at this port,
but the definitive arrangements have not yet, bean made
public."

GRAVESEND, FEB. 11. —Wind W.S.W., light, fine.
Arrival —Abeona, from Taganrog; Julius, from Rostock;
Joanna Catharine, from Moulmein ; Diamant, from Boston ;
Columbine, from Havre; Cnsarea, from Jersey.
Sailed—Nile, for Malta ; Queen of the Isles, for Terceira ;
Giraffe, for Rotterdam ; Montezuma, for Naples ; Emerald,
for Boulogne; Garland Grove, for Port Adelaide; Helles-
pont, for the Cape.
VESSELC SPOKEN WITH.
Agamemnon, from London to the West Indies, on the 9th
ult., in lat 20 N., long. 35 W.
An English transport ship, painted yellow, in let. 47 N.,
long. 10 W.
Diadem, from London for the Cape of Good Hope, Dec. 31,
in lat 3 N., long. 22 W. ; all well.
Reliance, of Glasgow, for New York, Dec. 20.
Columbus, from Liverpool for the Brazils, Jan. 6.
Collingwuod, Nov. 5, in lat. 37, long. 20 W.
Cresswell, from London fur New Zealand, Dec. 22, in long. 16.
Henry, from Havre for San Francisco, Dec. 31, in lat. 4,
long. 22.
Sir Robert Sale, from China for London, Jan. 17,35 N., 35 W.
Coromandel, from Madras, Nov. 25, in lat. 46 S., long. 29 W.
Teido, from Callao for Cowes, in long. 36 W.
Gardens, Feb. 3, in lat. 48 N., long. 17 W.
Danish ship Cherusther, Dee. 31, lading for Calcutta, in
lat 3 N., long. W. 19.

SEABORNE MAILS.
[N signifies that the mails are sent from the General Post-office
by the night—and M by the morning—dispatch.]

When made up in From what When
PLACES. General Post-office port die-
due.
London. patched.
---
America (by Brit. pkt.)NlFebruary 14.. .. Liverpool .. Feb. 26
America (by U.S. pkt.) N February 21 .; Liverpool .. Feb. 17
America (by U.S. pkt.) 311 March 8 Southampt. Feb. 22
Africa (West coast).- Nll4th of the month Plymouth March 3;
Alexandria*........ Nj 19th & 30th of mo. Dover .. Feb. 18
Belgium .. NlDally • • .. .. Dover .. Daily
Brazil .. . 1119th of the month Southampt. Feb. 24
Buenos Ayres .. 3119th of the month Southampt. Feb. 24
California(viaChagres) 31117th of month Southampt. Feb. 20
Cape of Good Hope N 14th of month Plymouth.. March 3
Constantinople* •••• N 7th 17th 27th of mo Dover .. Feb. 20
Central America .. 31,2 d & 17th of mon. Southampt. Feb 20
Channel Isles • • .. NiMon., Wed., & Fri. Southampt. Tn. Th. Sit
Chili .. • • .. 31117th of the month Southampt. Feb. 20
France • • .. M & 17, ,Twice daily .. Dover .. Twicedaily
Greece* • • .. • • IN7th 17th 27th of mo Dover .. Fey. 20
Hamburgh • • .. N Tuesday & Friday London .. Tues. Sat.
Holland .• 311Wednes. & Satur. London .. Mois.Thur
Honduras .. • • . N,l7th of the monthlSouthampt. Feb. 20
Ireland .• •• M & NiTwice daily .. ..11Iolyhead Twicedally
India (via Southamp.) 31'20th of the month' Southampt. Feb. 28
India (viaMarsellles) Nl7th& 24th of moutn Dover • . Feb. 23
Mediterranean (via
Southampton) •• 3/120th of the month Sonthampt. Feb. 28
Mediterranean (tea.marseineo Nlth&24th ofmonth Dover .. Feb. 23
3119th of the month Southampt. March 12
Mexico 3.112 d of the month.. Southampt. March 5
& 30th of month
,7th,17 th,l9th,27thi' I Dover Feb. 20
N,sth 15th 25th ofmo Dover .. Feb. 12
Madeiralta.
Napless •
U
Papal States* 31
,sth 15th25th am° Dover .. Feb. 12
reninsular..
3117th 17th 27th of mo Southampt. Fob. 15
Peru .. 31,17 th of the month Southampt. Feb. 20
Tuscany* .▪ .
• • •• Nlsth 15th 25th ofmolDover • • Feb. 12
West Indies .. M 17th of the month (Southampt. Feb. 20
West Indies (except
Havanna & Nassau) 31,2 d of the month .. Southampt. March 5
French packet via Marseilles.
* The mails to those countries thus marked (0) are conveyed by

SAILORS' STRIKE IN LIVERPOOL.---00 Monday
nearly 2,000 sailors struck work, and paraded the town with
a band of music and flags. An ugly effigy of Mr. Labou-
chere was likewise paraded ou the end of a long pole. It
was generally understood among the men that they were to
make a bonfire of their tickets in the evening. They protest
not only against. the ICttw Marina Act, but against the old
one, by which they are compelled to subscribe a shilling a
month as hospital money, from which but few of them derive
any benefit.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Moniteur publishes the following communicated
note:—" In anticipation of the rejection which has just
taken place on the subject of the expenses of represen-
tation, numerous subscriptions have been organized.
This was an imposing and manifest testimony of sym-
pathy for, and approbation of, the conduct of the PRESI-
DENT. He is deeply affected at it, and cordially thanks
all those who had the idea; but he think it his duty to
sacrifice a personal satisfaction to the repose of the
country. Lie knows that the people will do him justice,
and that is sufficient for him. The PRESIDENT, there-
fore, refuses any subscription, however spontaneous and
national the character of it may be."
The Presse considers that the differences between the
PRESIDENT of the Republic and the National Assembly
are permanent and irreconcileable.
The Legitimatist journals are very bitter in their at-
tacks on the speech of M. DE MONTALEMBERT.
The Moniteur announces that the following modifica-
tions have been made in the command of the troops as-
sembled and maintained at Paris' in execution of the de-
cree of Bth July, 1848:—Instead of remaining separated
into two divisions, one of them three times more nume-
rous than the other, and in brigades not less unequal,
they are to be formed in three divisions, and in brigades
of about the same force. This change, the Moniteur
says, will be advantageous, because it is as much as pos-
sible the adoption of the system of division which is the
basis of the organisation of armies; and that journal
adds, that it will be effected without any movement of
troops. The Moniteur announces that the Ist of the
new divisions will be commanded by General CARRELET,
who commands the first military division; the 2d by
General GUILLABERT; the 3d by General LEVASSELTR.
There was a tolerable share of business transacted at
the Bourse, and Government securities continued to rise.
The Five per Cents. opened at 96f. Mc., and closed at
971.- -5c.; the Three perCenta; v.loaeii at the
New Loan, 96f 75c.; Orleans Railroad Shties, 985 f. ;
Havre, 277 f. 50c.; Avignon, 197 f. 50c.; Vierzon, 415 f. ;
Paris and Strasburg, 378 f. 75c; Tours and Nantes, 255 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEE. 11.
Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 164—Namur
and Liege, 83/—Northern of France, 151—Orleans and
Bordeaux, 4—Paris and Strasbourg, 10142—Rouen and Havre,
11%—Sambre and Meuse, 31A—Tours and Nantes, 514.

ADELAIDE GALLERY.
The above spacious gallery, well known to the London
pleasure-Seeker, has been elegantly fitted up as a con-
cert-room, and the first grand vocal and instrumental
concert, under the direction of Signor Montelli, came off
last night with great éclat. The principal vocalists are
Mdlle. Rummel, Madame Lemaire, Mias Binckes, Herr
Stofrogen, Mr. Mapleson, Signori Ronconi, Montelli, and
Campanella, Mr. Drayton, and the celebrated Spanish.
vocalist Dona Maria Martinez, the black Malibran. The
instrumentalists are Messrs. Rousselot and Demunck
(violoncello), Mons. Arban (cornet-I-piston), Remusat
and Briccialdi (flute), Mr. Gerhard Taylor (harp), Mr.
Sedgwick (concertina), Messrs. Sainton, Serola, &c.
(violin), and a host of others too numerous to mention.
Mons. Demunck's violoncello solo and Mr. G. Taylor's
performance on the harp were loudly applauded, as in-
deed they deserved ; the execution of both on their re-
spective instruments was marvellous. Madlle. Rummel
won golden opinions from the very splendid manner in
which she rendered the whole of the music allotted to
her. Signor Campanella, a new basso, ma3e a very suc-
cessful debilt, and will be a very efficient member of the
talented corps engaged for these concerts. The evening's
entertainment was pleasantly enlivened with some Spa-
nish songs by Madlle. Martinez. On the whole the
concert passed off excellently, and, judging from the
crowded state of the rooms, bids fair to be a very profit-
able speculation. The growing taste for good music
will lead people to where it is to be found, and so long as
the directors of these concerts place such an attractive
bill of fare before the public as they did on Monday
night, they will be supported,

SPORTIN G INTELLIGENCE.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TUESDAY.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.-9 to 1 agst Ab-del-Kader
(t), 12 to 1 agst Sir John (t), 12 to 1 agst Vain Hope, 14 to
1 agst Rattrap, 15 to 1 agst Peter Simple (t), 20 to 1 aget
Half and-Half (t).
CHESTER CUP.-17 to 1 agst Rhesus (t), 20 to 1 agst
Haricot (t),22 to 1 agat Flying Gout, 25 to 1 agst Montague,
60 to 1 apt Black Doctor (t), 30 to 1 agst Italia% (t.), 33 to
T. apt The Knight of Avenel (t), 33 to 1 agst •Drather to
Dough (t), 40 to 1 agst Raby (t), 50 to 1 agat Nancy (t).
Dictum—Offers to take 30 to 1 about Marlborough Buck.
INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.—EPSOM SPRING
MEETING, 1851.
Weights for the City and Suburban Handicap, of 15 soya.
each, 10 ft, and five only if declared on the 27th inst.
Yrs st lb Yrs at lb
Mildew
Pitsford
Elthiron
Uriel
Snowstorm 5 7 12! Eva
5 7 12Grist ..... ......... 56 9
Raby
Rhesus 5 7 10TheJuggler ....... .... 5 6 9
The Moor
Cyprus 4 7 10 Handsome Doe
The Swede 4 7 10 Teeswater
Mark Tapley
Hagley 4 7 81Brington 4 6 4
Maid of Team Valley 5 7 glare-up —...,... ..... 4 6 2
Clermont a 7 611'he Swindler .. . .... 4 6 2
Woodlark
Alonzo 4 7 6iDuster, by Yaxley... 3 5 4
Christiana ... . 5 7 4Cnnus
Cheerful
Kathleen 4 7 2Tightwaist
Knight of Gwynne.. 4 7 2' Henrietta 3 5 2
Dulcet a 7 0 Britannia 3 5 2
I
Ch cby Gladiator, out Theorem -
of Khorassan's d... 4 7 0' Bc by Sir Hercules,
Gladiola ... ...... . ... 47 0 out of Empress
Zadoc
Bc by Sir Hercules, The Incurable 3 4 8
out of Dark Susan. 4 6 12 Scar 3 4 6
Windhound 4 6 12
Forfeits to be declared

on or before Feb. 27.

PEDESTRIANISM.
WALRING TO KENDAL AND BACK IN TWENTY- FOUR
HOURS.—On Monday last this feat, the accomplishment
of which by Tim Ingham, a few weeks ago, caused con-
siderable excitement in sporting circles, was attempted,
and, as we learn, completed, by an inhabitant of this
town, of the name of Wm. Durham, a potter, 31 years of
age, who accepted a challenge to perform the task for
a wager of 201. a side. As the clock struck twelve,
at noon, he left the Preston Town-hall, two or three
hundred persons being in attendance to witness the com-
mencement of this arduous undertaking, for which, we
understand, Durham, who has never been famed for any
pedestrian exploits, bad undergone no training whatever.
He set off at a good speed, and accomplished the first two
miles in twenty-two minutes, and reached Garstang is
little more than two hours. He rested there about a
quarter of an hour, in order to obtain some tea, by way
of refreshment, when he resumed his journey, and
reached Lancaster at a quarter past four. He remained
there only for a few minutes, when he commenced his
task, and having reached Milnthorpe, he again
rested a short spite° of time, and arrived in Kendal,
forty-four miles, at ten o'clock at night, being then,
as his friends say, very fresh and hearty. His agree-
ment was to go to the Town-hall, so having touched
that building, he rested for about half an hour at
the Oddfellows' Hall. He set off on his return
home at half-past ten at night, meeting with no particu-
lar adventure by the way, beyond being for a few
minutes unwell at Milanthorpe, and requiring a little
rest there. He resumed his journey, after lying down
about half an hour, and continued his walk at an even
pace, reaching Preston at twenty minutes past ten on
Tuesday morning, having completed his task in an hour
and thirty-two minutes within the appointed time. The
weather during the time was most unfavourable, and the
roads were very heavy.—Preston Chronicle.

THE ROYAL SOCIETY.

On Thursday evening a very interesting paper, pre-
pared by Mr. Dickenson, on the supply of water from
the chalk stratum in the neighbourhood of London, was
read to the members of the Royal Society. Mr. Dicken-
son records therein the results of observations extending
over a space of 40 years, and of careful experiments car-
ried on for a period of 15 years. The locality within
which his inquiries have been chiefly made is that
whence the Colne and the other chalk streams on the
north side of the London basin take their origin. His
paper has a two-fold object—first, to explain and illus-
trate the supply of subterranean water which is found
at certain depths in the chalk stratum, together with
the circumstances that influence its natural outflow by
springs and rivers; secondly, to examine the
practicability of draining off that water by a
non-natural mode of exhaustion, and the changes that
would be produced by carrying such an operation into
effect on a large scale. The first and most elaborate
part of the paper will prove chiefly interesting to geolo-
gists; the last is of great practical importance as the
opinion of a close observer most intimately acquainted
with the subject on one of the schemes afoot for a bet-
ter supply of water to the metropolis. Mr. Dickenson's
paper begins by explaining that the outcroppings of
the chalk in Kent and Surrey on the south side of
the Thames, and in Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire,
and Essex on the north side, are the uplifted margins of
a great bed, the hollow of which is filled with strata of
sand, gravel, and London clay. This trough-like form
of the chalk stratum is combined with great absorbent
powers, water percolating through its fissures and cre-
vices till arrested by the argillaceous beds which
extend beneath it, and which are impervious.
Thus are formed those subterranean reservoirs which
Dr. Buckland describes in his Bridgewater Treatise, and
from which some have supposed that, by means of
pumps, a copious supply of water could be obtained fur
the metropolis. In order to form an estimate of the
capabilities of the reservoirs in the chalk stratum. Mr.
Dickenson's paper furnishes some interesting data, the
result of experiments chiefly made with Dr. Dalton's
gauge for estimating the supply of perennial
springs and rivers by percolation from the surface.
These data, as Mr. Dickenson very properly observes,
" show the necessity of extreme caution in making pro-
spective computations as to the flow of water resulting
from an average amount of percolating rain." They,
however, furnish some results which are worth
recording. The replenishment of the great reser-
voir appears from these data never to commence
sooner than October, and is found to terminate
almost invariably in March. But of an average sum-
mer fall of rain, amounting to 12.17 inches, the percola-
tion amounts only to 62 decimal parts cf an inch, the per-
colation during winter being 9.61 inches, Mr. Dicken-
son argues that it is by continuous heavy rains that the
subterranean reservoir is supplied, and that water
in descending does so perpendicularly through the
crevices until it arrives at the depth where they
are all filled with water. The reservoir fills up
in winter and spring from the rain falling, and sub-
sides in summer and autumn from the outflow of springs.
The highest level of subterranean water, therefore,
Mr. Dickenson places between April and June, the
lowest in December; end this, he says, confirms the
old proverb thst "as the days lengthen the springs
strengthen." He points out that, owing to the re-
plenishment of the internal reservoir depending al-
most entirely on winter rains, the supply of the
springs and rivers derived from it is not only variable,
but in a certain degree precarious; the irregularity in
the supply of water, however, being far beyond that
in the annual fall of rain, and that irregularity de-
pending upon the uncertain manner in which the
process of percolation goes on. From a length-
ened experience, Mr. Dickenson lays it down that
the springs and rivers of the chalk formation are the
sole natural outlets of its subterranean reservoir, and
that, judging from the flow of those outlets, the
Dalton gauge indicates pretty accurately the rate at
%,4 hich the reservoir is supplied. His paper proceeds to
show how, by the influence of hydrostatic pressure,
water which has percolated down to the point of satu-
ration is kept in continual though gradual move-
ment towards its natural vent, the half-yearly alterna-
tion in the flow being compared to the high and low
services of the water companies; and it being ob-
served that when the spring-heads of the streams
are found highest up the valleys, then the numerous
springs which augment them through almost every yard
of their course contribute an increased supply propor-
tioned to the increase of power by which the water is
impelled towards them. From experiments made by
him Mr. Dickenson comes to the conclusion that a de-
clivity of 13 feet 6 inches, or thereabeuts, in the mile
is requisite to overcome the natural obstructions to
lateral percolation. He thinks that " the whole of the
summer rain is evaporated or required for vegetation,
and that the rain of winter is made available for a
great hydraulic system of most admirable contri-
vance, and productive of inestimable advantages in
the districts of country supplied throughout the
year by this formation of springs and rivers. On the
second branch of his subject—viz., the feasibility of
tapping the chalk stratum at its outcrop, in the
vafley of the Colne, near Watford, and pumping from
one or two large and deep wells a supply of water suffi-
cient for the metropolis, Mr. Dickenson pronounces a
decidedly adverse opinion. He thinks the supply would
be very far short of that obtained by the New River,
and that the upper part of the valley of the Colne
would have all its springs and wells destroyed there-
by, and some space of the river entirely dried up. The
paper was illustrated by a very beautiful and ingenious
model showing a section of the chalk formation and the
action of water within it, and the connexion between
the subterranean reservoir and those external
springs which form its natural outlets and con-
stituted the river. Mr. Dickknson briefly ex-
plained this model, which was examined vs ith great
interest by the members of the society present. A short
discussion then ensued, in which Sir Roderick
Murchison, the Bishop of Oxford, and others took part.
Sir Roderick thanked Mr. Dickenson for the careful and
valuable observations which his paper contained, bat
seemed to imply that these observations applied rather
to superficial waters issuing from the chalk than to
the great subterranean reservoir which Dr. Buckland
had described, and which rested upon the chalk marl,
the lowest stratification of the chalk formation. The
Bishop of Oxford also spoke briefly with reference to
the flow of chalk streams from either side of the escarp-
ment on the south of the London basin, and also with
respect to the phenomena of " lavants" or springs,
which, though for the most part dry, gush out suddenly
after a period of muck rain falling, and flow steadily for
a short interval. Tho discussion was closed by Mr.
Dickenson, who confined himself to exposing the adsur-
dities broached by a Mr. Homisham, a gentleman who,
though permitted to address the society, is we believe
not a fellow.

DISASTERS IN THE IRISH CHANNEL.—KINGS-
TOWN, FEB. 6.—The master of the schooner Cambria ar-
rived this day from Bristol, bound to Nantz, picked up a
Greek seaman floating on a spar, and much exhausted,
twelve miles south of Wicklow Head, at four r.x. yesterday,
who belonged to a Greek vessel from Liverpool to Alexandria,
with a general cargo, which vessel was wrecked on Tuesday
night on the Arklow Bank, he being the only survivor of
the ill-fated vessel, sixteen in number. The master of the
Cambria could not learn the name of the vessel wrecked,
from the man saved not knowing his language; but it ap-
pears the vessel soon broke up, as the master of the schooner
observed large quantities of wreck floating about. The man
saved was put on board the Eltinea, a Greek brig, which
sailed immediately after for Cardiff. Later accounts state,
that the vessel to which the poor fellow belonged was the
Greek brig Maria Terpsitha, Dimitro captain. The master
of the brig Delight, from Workington, bound to Cork, which
put into Kingstown Harbour on Thursday night from stress
of weather, reported his leaving on Wednesday, the sth inst.,
five miles S. E. of Wicklow Head, picked off a part of the
wreck of the ill-fated vessel seven of her crew ; one poor
fellow had one of his legs broken, and two others tome ribs
broken. The wounded men were sent to the hospital. The
crew consisted of seventeen persons, the master and eight of
whom were drowned. The master of the Delight did every-
thing in his power to alleviate their suffering.

IMPORTS OF GRAIN, FLOUR, AND LIVE STOCK.
—A return has been published of the quantities of grain,
flour, and live stock imported into the United Kingdom in
the year 1849. The aggregate of trade between the United
Kingdom and foreign countries and colonies, exclusive of the
above items, amounted during that year to 84,832,522/., ac-
cording to official valuation. The quantities of grain and
flour of all sorts imported amounted to 10,669,661 quarters,
and the imports of live stock amounted to 185,368 heads, the
official value of both classes of imports belt% 99,170,602/.
The exports of British produce and manufacture during the
period referred to amounted, according to the declared
value, to 60,152,6071.

CLOAKED PICKPOCKETS.—EarIy in the present
week a party of pickpockets were pursuing their vocation in
Sheffield in a novel manner. The operator was a neatly at-
tired, innocent-looking little boy in hat and cloak, accony:
Hying a respectable looking woman, apparently his mother;
and a man acted in conjunction with them, keeping' Severallyapprize
at a respectable distance, though near enough
them telegraphically of danger. The “ dodge"t
the counter
woman to walk into a shop and take her stand
folds of her
alongside of any likely person, and in the ample .
while he
'We innocent
cloak to conceal the neatly-dressed little innocent
visit was for the
to Sheffield
for their artful tactics were
quietly rifled the victim's pockets.
proved anunprofitable speculation,
discreetly vanished before the
discovered, and therefore they
Perhaps this tribute to their skill,
police could entrap them. Their
while it enhances their reputation, will be of service to the
public —She ield Times.
TB B Inisu TRADE.—Since our last con-
siderable
produced in the trade by the
circumstance
ilil
that
a number of the leading commission
houses have
so altered their rates of discount on yarns as to
cause an advance of fully 3d. per bundle on nearly all num-
bers.
excitement
j Ell
has been
This change is considered to have been precipitate, and
an impression prevails that a serious reaction must inevitably
take place in the manufacturing districts should the advance
be generally insisted ou. With this exception the business
of the week does not require any special notice. Large sales
of yarns are still being effected, and in the cloth markets the
demand keeps fully equal to the supply. In Ballymena, on
Saturday, spinners and bleachers bought largely on specula-
tion. We have received later advices from the United States,
where we are glad to find the sales are brisk at remunerative
prices.—Banner of Ulster.

CIVIL LIST PENSIONS.—The numb r of pensions
charged upon the civil list between June 20.1849, and June
20, 1550, is 12, and amounting to a total of 1,2001. The
Parliamentary paper giving this information was omitted to
be presented at the proper time last session.