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London, England, 1851-10-07 00:00:00

N°.18,421,] LONDON TUESDAY 1.
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iL,-,tl 9 OCTOBER 75 1851.

THE LONDON INDISPUTABLE LIFE
POLICY COMPANY.
No. 72, Lombard-street and 24, Connaught-terrace.
TRUSTEES.
Richard Spooner, Esq., 'M.P.

J. Campbell Renton, Esq., M.F. James Fuller Madox, Esq,
Richard Malins, Esq., Q.C. William Wilberforce, Esq.

The POLICIES are I NDISPUTABLE, in terms of the Deed of
Settlement of the Company, duly registered, and are not, therefore,
dependent for their validity on the construction to be put upon pre-
vious statements or the official papers which preceded them, or upon
reports, prospecttres, or other varying documents. They are thus
rendered CERTAIN FAMILY PROVISIONS, AND NEGOTIABLE
DOCUMENTS OF SECURITY.

Owing to this important improvement in the practice of life
assurance, the progress of this company has been rapid from the
commencement of Its business, and is steadily advancing._

ALEXANDER ROBERTSON: Manager.

EQUITABLE FIRE
PANY, 26, CORN

INSURANCE COM.
HILL, LONDON.

DIRECTORS.
T. LAITIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman.
W. A. B. Bennett, Esq. John Rawson, Esq.
Hugh Croft, Esq. John Shaw, Esq.
Ralph Gough, Esq. Wm. Scott. Esq
Sir A. W. Hillary, Bart. Edmond S. Symes, Esq.
M. C. Maher, Esq. Clement Taber, Esq.
John Moss, Esq. Augustus Vigne, Esq.
The Policy Holders in this office are respectfully informed that the
Michaelmas Renewals are In the hands of the several agents of the
Company, and should be paid on or before the 14th of October.
The Equilable Fire Office will, by a constant analysis of its own
experience, from time to time, adopt such rates of premium as the
nature of the risk may justify, and with this view an annual investi-
gation will he made into each class of risk, and a return of one
moiety, or fifty per cent. of the net excess, will be made to all classes
of Insurers whose policies have been in force for three years-
Farming Stock insured at 3s. per cent. without the Average
Clause.

Losses are made good without deduction or discount.
Prospectuses, and every information may be obtained, on applica•
Lion at the Office, or to any of its Agents.

EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY.
LONDON, Auuusr 8, 1851.
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of Proprietors held
this day, the Hen. JOHN CHETWYND TALBOT, Q.C., the Chair-
man of the Company, in the chair,
A report was read, from which it appeared—
That the Income of the Company fhe the year end-
ing"..l ;me 30, 1851. was „ . £143,338 1 9
The Premium bn Policies issued in the year .. 5,399 13 9
The Claims on decease of Lives Assured .. 83,691 1 9
The Expenses .. .. • . • . .. 5,686 5 0
The total Assets of the Company .. .. 704,010 14 0
The Report entered into further details, and finished by stating
that the Directors felt it unnecessary to dwell further upon the items
of the year's account, as the quinquennial valuation to be made in
June next was so near.
The Report was unanimously adopted, and some routine business
having been disposed of, the thanks of the meeting were very
cordially voted to the Chairman, Directors, and officers of the Com-
pany—when the meeting separated.
The Premiums required by this Company are very moderate, and
Moreover are accurately adjusted.
The Assured of the purticipating class share the whole surplas,
less 20 per cent. only.
The Lives assured may travel and live in any part of the globe,
not within thirty-three deg. of the equa'or, without extra charge.
Transfers are registered, and assignments may be effected on
forms supplied by the Company; and in all particulars the interests
of the Assured are carefully consulted.
3, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, September, 1851.

ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION,
(Established by Royal Charter of his Majesty George 1., A.D. 1720),
For SEA, FIRE, and LIFE ASSURANCES.
OFFICES—ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
BRANCH OFFICE-29, PALL-MALL.
GovEalloa—Thomas Tooke, Esq.
gUE-GOVERNOR—The Hon. J. T. Leslie Melville.
DENITY-GOVERNOZ—George Pearkes Barclay, Esq.

llenry Bainbridge, Esq. -
Edmond S. P. Calvert, Esq.
John Garrett Cattley, Esq.
Alexander Colvin, Esq.
Edward Maxwell Daniell, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq.
Riversdale Wm. Grenfell, Esq.
Robert Itanbury, jun., Esq.
Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq.
William Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.
Lancelot Holland, Esq.
Sir John Wm. Lubbock, Bart.
MEDICAL REFEREE—SaII-Mel Say,

DIRECTORS.
Charles John Manning, Esq.
Henry Nelson, Esq.
Edward Howley Palmer, Esq.
John Henry Pelly, Esq.
Abraham George RobartS, Esq,
Charles Robinson, Esq.
Thomas Smith, Esq.
William Soltau, Esq.
Joseph Soames, Esq.
William Wallace, Esq.
Oetavius Wigram, Esq.
Charles Baring Young, Esq.
Esq., F.R.S., Consulting Surgeon

St. Helen's-place.
Notice.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of Fire Pre-
miums falling due at Michaelmas will expire on the 14th of October.
Life Assurance may be effected to the extent of Ten Thousand
Pounds on one Life; with, or, at lower Premiums, without partici-
pation in profits.
The Reversionary BONUS on Participating Life Policies has
amounted on an average to 46 per Cent. on the amount of Premiums
paid.
The Fees of medical referees are paid by the Corporation.
This Corporation has held a high position during upwards of a
Century and a Quarter, and affords unquestionable security by its
capital-stock.

ALEX. GREEN, Secretary.

BRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
1, Princes-street, Bank, London.
Established August 1, 1837.
Empowered by special Act of Parliament, 4th Viet., cap. 9.
CnnascArt— Colonel ROBERT ALEXANDER, Blackheath Park,
ADVANTAGES OF THIS INSTITUTION.
Halt Credit Rates of Premium.
Persons assured according to these rates are allowed credit
for half the amount of the first seven annual premiums,
paying interest thereon at the rate of five per cent. per annum, with
the option of paying off the arrears of premiums, at any time, or
having the amount deducted from the sum assured when the policy
becomes a claim.

Half Premium for Whole Premium after
Age. Seven Years. Seven Years.
A 0. d. X s. (1.
30 1 1 9 2 3 6
40 1 9 2 2 18 4
50 2 2 6 4 5 0
60 3 6 8 6 13 4

E. R. FOSTER, Resident Director.
ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary.

THE GREATEST WONDER IN LONDON IS
BATTY'S GRAND NATIONAL
HIPPODROME, Kensington.

OPEN DAILY.
LAST .
In consequence of the Evenings drawing in, the Doors will be
opened at Ilalf•past Four, and the performance commence at Fire
o'clock.

An entire Charm of Performance each Representation.
The proprietor, determined to keep pace with its rival, the Great
Exhibition, has decided upon continuing the Hippodrome open until
the close of the Crystal Palace, and begs to intimate to his patrons
and the public that as he opened on the qtme day as the Palace of
Industry, and as his career of success is without parallel, that he
would impress upon the minds of his friends the necessity of an early
visit, as it will positively close on the llth of October. This Evening
and during the week, the performances will assume the most novel
and unions caste.
In addition to the large and talented corps of this Establishment,
they will he assisted by the principal artists of Astley's Theatre
Royal. The evening's amusements will terminate with a brilliant
display of Fireworks.
Mr. Ratty has much pleasure in announcing to his Patrons that
The
O:iIiriI,I4ITRSDAY, Oct. 9, the Last Grand DAY PERFORMANCE
given. Doors open at One, to commence precisely at Two.
ments wiIIURD
onentertainmentssr in the Evening as usual.
consume.AY a Grand Fete will take place, and the Entertain-
neeconclude with a magnificent display of Fireworks. In
of the length of the programme, the performance will
commence at Fo o'clock.
Private Bo
Doors open at
xes II
alt-past Four, commence precisely at Five.
Admission to the it- - - - £1 Is. Od.
milt-class do. Reserved
Seat 3
- 3s. Od.
Second do. . 2s. Od.
Third do. - - - Is. Od.
- Os. 6d.

THE EDINBURGH REVIEW,
No. CXCII.
Will be published on Saturday next, the 11th inst.
CONTENTS.
I. Comparative Philology. Bopp.
11. Dennistoun's Dukes of Urbino.
111. Sources of Expression in Architecture. Ruskin.
IV. Juvenile Delinquents.
V. Mirabeau's Correspondence.
VI. The Metamorphoses of Apuleius.
VII. Neapolitan Justice.
VIII. The Anglo-Catholic Theory.
IX. The Catalogue of the Great Exhibition.
Note to Article VI. of Last Number.
London : Longman and Co. Edinburgh : A and C. Black.

ZADKIEL'S ALMANAC for ]852
Twenty-second Year. Thirtieth Thousand !
Fate of France! - Fate of Ireland !—The Nfaeic Crystal again
farther Visions.—Great Eclipse of the Sun: Its wonderful Effects :
Pope Pio Bono feels them, as do Italy and Rome.
Published by A. Hall and Co., Paternoster-row.
Price Sixpence, post free Tenpence.

DR. C ILILVERWELL'S NEW WORKS.
To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-rew ; Carvalho;
(47, Fleet-street; Mann, 39, Cornhill; or direct from the author,
price One Shilling each ; by post, Is. 6d.

ENJOYMENT OF LIFE.
"Health, Recreation, and rational Use of Time."

Cotrnstrrs:—Early Rising—prittg and Summer Mornings—Ex-
cursions about the Environs of London—The Parks, Lanes, Mlle,
rorests, Fields, High-roads, and other pleasant places—Country
Trips and Rambles—The Sea—Lcndon at Night--Evening.. at Home
—Music—The Drama—On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping, Bathing, Air,
Rost, Ease, Occupation, &e.,

PRAGMENTS FROM TICE MOUNTAI24B. Two Vole,
Vol I.

A VISIT TO THE LAKES;SEETCH_OF EDINBIThiGH,

Vol. 1L

THE LAKES OF KILLARNEY ;
DUBLIN, &o.
WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID.
"That throe score years and ten our course may ran."
popular review of almost every form (cense and cure) of ner-
voasly-debilitated health and enfeebled constitution, that harasses
the young, besets the man of pleasure, business, er study, and eia.
bitters old ago, with tables and MOS And Physical rogn-
laloa efevVr.--, -day Life.

fC,241 OF

/V.
THE PASSIONS.
" What passions hurt the body—what improik
Truths as refined as Athens over heard."
Sztisancr pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The advent
of the passions. Chastity and its infringements. The casualties of
licentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narrative,
sad remediativo. advocacy of early marriages.
V.

THE MARRIAGE STATE.
' To be or not to be, that is the question.'
PR34XAMME:—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and re-
ligion regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and
choice, on both sides, as to age, temperament, complexion, and
figure, to secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them.
Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion.
Oases, &c.

By R. J. CULVERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A.
1124) Twantv-lvi, yearr Medical and Forensic Referee In these
matters. Reception hours daily till Five. Evenings, Seven till
Nine 10, Argyll-place, Regent-street.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE COURT-MARTIAL AT STONEHOUSE.—A court
assembled at the Royal Marine Barracks, Stonehouse,
on Saturday last, for the trial of First Lieutenant
Charles Thomas Forest Onslow, on a charge of in-
toxication while on duty. On the opening of the
court a question was raised on the informality of the
Admiralty warrant, in the latter part of which an
error in the Christian name of the prisoner was dis-
covered. The court was in consequence ordered to
be cleared, and on its being re-opened was adjourned
sine die.

APPOINTMENTS.

Chaplain—Rev. J. R. Moffat (1847), to the Rod-
ney, 92, Portsmouth.
Second Master—Wm. J. Reddell (1849), to the
Victory flag 'ship, Portsmouth.
Boatswain—Robert Shearer, to the Hercules store-
ship, for Malta.
The:Royal:yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain Lord
Adolphus Fitzclarence, with her tender, the Fairy, in
charge of Commander Crispin, arrived at Liverpool
on Saturday.
Confiance steam-tug, having undergone a thorough
repair, has been taken out of dock at Devonport, and
is now complete for service.
Dauntless screw steam-frigate, Captain Halsted,
and Sutlej, Indiaman, were still at anchor in St.
Helen's Roads yesterday; the weather was still un-
settled. _ _ _ _

Desperate screw steam• frigate, arrived at Spithead
yesterday morming, from Devonport, en route for
Woolwich.
Modeste, 18, Commander Lord W. Compton, has
left Sheerness for Portsmouth, en route to the Me-
diterranean.

Pioneer steam-tender, Lieutenant-Commander
Sherrard Osborne, has arrived at Woolwich, in ad-
vance of Captain Austin's Arctic squadron.
Vulcan screw troop-ship, Master-Commander Penn,
on her way from Portsmouth to Cork and the Cape,
put into Torbay bn Sunday.
DEYONPORT, SUNDAY. ^ The weather is still
squally. The St. George, ordinary guard-ship, struck
lower yards and topmasts on Friday. The Ocean,
freight-ship, is expected at this port, to take in pro-
visions from the Royal William Victualling-yard, for
the Cape of Good Hope.
WOOLWICEI, OCT. 6.—The Monkey steam-vessel,
took the Lady Franklin, sailing vessel, recently com-
manded by Captain Penny, in tow this morning and
proceeded with her for Chatham.
__ _ _

Commander Henry Eden, Mr. Macdonald, master-
attendant (who has just returned from leave of ab-
sence), Mr. Lang, master shipwright, Mr. Atherton,
chief engineer, Mr. John Penn, of marine engine
celebrity, and Mr. F. P. Smith, inventor of the screw
propeller, with a number of gentlemen, attended in
the chain-testing room in the dockyard to-day to
witness experiments with a new decription of chains
submitted by a Monsieur Sisco, a native of France,
the Lords of the Admiralty having ordered that every
facility should be afforded of ascertaining their
quality and value compared with the chains now in
use in her Majesty's service. The new chains are
made of common hoop-iron of the breadth required,
and wound on a reel by machinery into an oval shape
and to the same breadth as the outer surface, which
is rounded off after the whole has been brazed in
passing through a furnace of molten metal. The
usual test of an iron chain for naval ser-
vice of two inches in diameter is 72 tons strain,
but many links break with the application of far
less power, and vet the other ports of the chain are
found qualified to pass the required ordeal. M. Sisco's
chain of two inches broad and two inches thick, with
stays in the centre of each of the two links, was
plac
of
placed in theiin
etesting-frame, e
diameter,
attached to
the testing-
chaina hydraulic
power being applied, one of the links was length-
ened five-eights of an inch and the other one-
eigth of an inch, when it reached a strain of
110 tons, and the 2:15 inch testing-chain broke off in
two places when the strain reached 114 tons. The
hoop-iron chain had some openings in one of the
links, which had been imperfectly brazed, but it did;not
appear to have been made otherwise defective. One
link of the same dimensions, two inches thick and two
inches broad, was afterwards placed in the testing-
frame, and when a strain of 70 tons was applied it
had lengthened one-twelfth of an inch; with 80 tons,
one-eighth of an inch ; with 100 tons, three-sixteenths;
with 110 tons, one-fourth of an inch ; with 115 tons,
five-sixteenths ; and when it resisted 120 tons strain
it was considered advisable not to continue the strain,
as it was so great as to loosen the stone frame on
which the machine rested, and liable to damage other
parts of the powerful iron-frame of the machine.
The strain applied on this occasion was one ton more
than had ever been previously applied, and the hoop
chain was only slightly opened on one side. When
teinnhhoqoatuuiecgirsohiseetset were made as to the price at which the hoop
moreuhel di r supplied,bheopledrinegw
pt
.o
wt it
he arwns awtshesert
eaetseeomd n
amt hueacnthtehgheray would
greater
chains,
ran.
proportion.

13ORTSMOUTII, MONDAY.—The Right Hon. Sir
Francis Baring, M.P., First Lord of the Admiralty,
arrived here to-day on a private visit to patronise a
local charity—the Beneficial Society—a long-conti-
nued annual custom bath with Sir Francis and his
colleague, Sir G. Staunton, M.P., the other Member
for this borough. Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs,
G.C.M.G., the Commander-in.-Chief of this port,
Visited Sir Francis at the George Hotel. Captain
Charles Eden, R,N., the First Lord's private secre-
tary, accompanied him in his visit.
The Odin steam-frigate, Commander Sir William
Wiseman, which lately bore the British Ambassador
to St. Petersburgh, returned to this port to-day, and
will resume her place in the advanced steam fleet.
The Rattler steam-sloop, Commander Arthur
Mellersh, arrived this morning from Woolwich to
embark the Lieutenant-Governor of this garrison,
Lady Fitzclarence, and daughter, for the island of
Madeira. The Rattler proceeds thence to the East
India and China station to take the place of the
Reynard screw sloop, lately lost on that station. On
her passage round to this port the Rattler encountered
foul weather, and in a gale off Beechey-head caraied
away the head berthing and part of her head-rails.
She has come into harbour to refit.

SHIP NEWS.
QUARANTINE NOTICE.
Gibraltar, Sept. 25.
All vessels arriving at this port from Lisbon, and the
line of coast between that port and Oporto, aro to per-
form three days' quarantine of observation.
GRAVESEND, OCT. 6.—Wind S.W., fine.
Arrived—Leon, from Harlingen; Citizen, fromßotter-
dam; Acis, from Denia; Roscommon, from Rotterdam;
Sir E. Banks, from llavre; Soho, from Antwerp; John
Ball, from Hamburgh; Rhine, from Ostend.
Sailed.—Joseph Somes, for Sydney; Magnet, for Rot-

terdam; Rsoger, for Bremen; Mr. Simpson, for Batavia;
Fame, for CalaiQ; Neptune, for Tonningen.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

Standard, from Liverpool for Halifax, on the 10th of
September, in lat. 50 N., long. 12 W.
Midas, from Callao for Queenstown, on the 6th of Sep-
tember, in lat. 31 N., long. 36 W.
Bathurst, from Sierra Leone for Honduras, on the 19th
of August, in lat. 19 N., long. 51 W.
T. Clarke, from Singapore for London, on the 28th of
August, in lat. 9 S., long. 13 W.
Arabian, from the Mauritius for London,:on the 31st of
August, in lat. 4 S., long. 19 W.
Scindia, from Singapore, for Ilamburgh, on the 7th of
September, in lat. 13 N., long. 25 W.
Geelong, from Adelaide for London, on the 14th of Sep-
tember, in lat 21 N., long 33W.
Miry Carson, on the 31 of October, off Bardsey.
Henrietta, from Maceio for Plymouth, on the 4th of
September, in lat. 31, long. 38.
Waldemar, of Hamburgh, from San Francisco for the
Sandwich Isles, on the 25th of July, in lat. 31 N.,
long. 136 W.
Colonist, from Gloucester for Quebec, on the 9th of Au-
gust, in let. 45, long. 30.
Maidstone, from London for Calcutta, on the sth of
August, in Ist. 8 N., long 24 W., of Paris.
Clara, for Rio Janeiro, on the 7th of August, in let.
11 N., long. 26 W.
Undine, from London for Hobart Town, on the 11th of
August, Cape Verd Islands, steering E,, distant 25
leagues.

Englaind'signeen, from Mandan for Liverpool, on the
12th of August, off Cape Verde.
Village Girl, from England for Monte Video, on the
same day.
Secret, from Moulmein for London, on the lit of An.
gust, in lat. 36 S., long. 21 E.
China, from Alipp`.l3sylbr
2.l—E:-

lon, in lat. 86 N., long.

Creole, from California, for Falmouth, on the 3d of Sep-
tember, in lat. 15, long. 28.

MILITARY STATIONS.

(From the Ulited Service Magazine for October.)

Regiments & Corpl Troops for Service
Companies.

Ist Life-Guards
2d do
Royal Horse-Gds
Ist Dragoon- Gds
2d d 0...
3d de
4th do.
sth do..
6th do
7th do
Ist Dragoons
2d do
3d do..
4th do
6th do
7th Hussars
Bth do
9th Lancers
10th Hussars
11th Hu55ar5....,,,,,
12th Lancers
13th Light Dragoons
14th do
15th Hussars
16th Lancers
17th do
Gren. Gds. Ist ba
~ 2d bat
~ 3d bat
Coldstream Ist ba'
Guards 2d ba
Sctch Fusi- Ist ba.
lierGds. 2d ba
Ist F00t....
1
Ist bai
2d bat
1
2d d 0........
3d do.
4th do.
sth do.
6th do.
7th do
Bth do.
9th do
10th do.
11th d 0....... .
12th do.
Reserve Bat
13th do.
14th do.
15th do.
16th do
17th do.
18th do.
19th do.
20th do.
21st do.
22d do.
23d do.
Reserve Bat
24th do
25th d 0....,
26th do. ..
27th do.
28th do. ..
29th do.
30th do.
31st do.
32d do.
33d do.
34th do.
35th do.
36th do.
37th do.
38th do.
39th do.
40th do.
41st do.
42d do.
43d de.
44th d 0..-
45th do.
46th d 0...,..
47th do
48th d 0...
49th d 0...
50th do..
51st do..
52d do..
53d do..
54th do. .
55th do. .
56th do..
57th do..
58th do. .
59th do.

1 Ist bat
60th do. 2d bat
61st do.
62d do.
63d do.
64th do.
65th do.
66th do.
67th do.
68th do.
69th do.
70th do.

71st do.
Reserve Bat .
72d d 0.... ..... • ,
73d do
74th do.
75th do.
76th do.
77th do
78th do.
79th do. ....•
80th do.
81st d 0.........
82d de.

83d do. ...........
84th do.
85th d 0.........
86th d 0...........
p7th do. ..........
88th do. ......... •
89th do. ......... .
90th do. .....
91st ...... .
Reserve 8at.....

92ddo ............ .••
93d do. .............
94th d 0.... ........ ,
95th do. .........
96th do. .........
97th do. ............
Reserve 8at........
98th do. ......
99th do. ............
Rifle f Ist bat..
Brigadel 2d bat..

Depots.

jillaidstone

Maidstone
,Maidstone

Illaidstone
liMaidstono

Ist West India Regiment Jamaica, Chatham.
COLONIAL CORI'S
2d do ...... .........
Cape of Good Hope Demerara, Chatham.
3d d 0... ............................ ... Jamaica, S. Leone, Ore.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment ...... ...
Cape Mounted Riflemen ......
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment Canada
St. Helena Regiment ............ .
Royal Newfoundland Vet. Companies Newfoundland
Royal Malta Fencibles ... ............

[ADVERTISEMENT J--Richard Atkinson and Co.,
Irish poplin manufacturers to the Queen, her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent, his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant,
&c., 31, College-green, Dublin.—Atkinson and Co. beg re-
spectrally to acquaint the nobility and gentry of Great
Britain, that they transmit specimens for inspection per post
free, and any poplins ordered are sent free of expense to Lon-
don, Liverpool, Bristol, Plymouth, Falmouth, or Glasgow,
from whence they are forwarded as addressed without any
delay, and at the risk of Atkinson and Co.
DARING STREET ROBBERT.—Yesterday informa-
tion was received that between twelve and one o'clock in the
morning, as IMr. Manson, of the East India-road, Poplar,
was proceeding homeward, and when within a short distance
of his residence, he was attacked by two men, one of them
grasping him tightly round the throat, which prevented him
making any alarm, whilst the other rifled his person of 211.,
leaving Mr. Manson in a state of insensibility from the ill
usage. They decamped, and got clear off. Ile describes his
assailants, one about 30, short and stout, dressed in a short
blue coat and cap; the other about 40, tall and stout, and
dressed in black.

FOREIGN EELS.- —An importation of several pack-
ages of eels has just taken place, by a vessel arrived from
Prince Edward's IF ,land. We are not aware of a previous
importation of eels from this distant part of the world, and
the arrival is ther Dfore of some interest and importance.

enied_t proosopder eomuos
ceived. We are curious to know on what tack they
will now go. They will, we fancy, be constrained
for very decency's sake, to admit that the country is
rather
n sat tr
apt irve
esentot.
beldVispdun.ot
Isteewohuolvii
dthey can do otherwise. The fact ise toooted palpable to be
be an utterly hopeless thing to attempt to convince
the country that it is not now in a healthy and happy condition. It will, therefore, be their wiser course to
make that admission unreservedly and at once. The
only sustenance that we can see for their croaking
dispositions is in the future. That they may
picture
in as gloomy colours as they please. No one can
contradict them there. We have no facts to marshal
against their predictions. No one can tell to a cer-
tainty what may be the condition of the country two
or three years hence. For at least one year, humanly
speaking, we are safe. We have a present
certainty
of twelve months' unparalleled prosperity before us.
The class, there, to whom We allude, whoese very
existence is wrapped up in gloom and disaster, should
apply themselves to the portraiture of the state in
which matters may be some few years hence. Let
their imaginations be exercised on the apprehended
calamities which will befal the country in 1854 or
1855. They may affirm with impunity that before
we have seen the end of either of these years, Eng-
land will be involved in utter and irretrievable ruin.
These persons have at least the authority of one
well-known individual for the adoption of this
course. Mr. Henry Drummond, the Member for
West Surrey, has set them an example. Compelled to
give up the idea of clinging any longer to the by..
pothesis, that the country is at this moment on the t
verge of ruin, Mr. Drummond has bethought himself
of postponing the catastrophe, which was sure to
follow the repeal of the corn-laws, till some future
time. He does not commit himself to any definite
period for the distressing occurrence. In this he acts
wisely. It is to come some day. But on what day,
deponent sayeth not. He does not even name the
year. It was to have happened before now ; but it
has not happened. Mr. Drummond postpones the
period of its occurrence with the same easy, cool
facility with which the Irishmen of St. Giles's, seven
or eight years ago, postponed the day on which Lon-
don was to be swallowed up by an earthquake. IVith
the croaking section of the community, we are
willing to do a stroke of business. If they give us up
the present, we shall give them up the future. If
they admit that just now the country is in a state
of unexampled prosperity, we can have no
hesitation in admitting, that some time or
other grievous disasters may befal Great Britain.
Let those that feel so disposed brood over the future.
Let them picture to their own minds, the time to
come, in the most sombre colours which can occur to
their imaginations. We are too thankful for the pre-
sent, to suffer our sense of the blessings we now
enjoy, to be impaired by the contemplation of what is
within the range of possibility at some distant, inde-
finite day. As to the cause of the unparalleled pros-
perity which pervades every branch of trade and
commerce, there cannot be two opinions. Free trade
has done it all. That which we were assured was to
precipitate a crisis in the financial and commercial
condition of the country, as well as drive all the
farmers into the Gazette, and send the landlords, in
the lump, to the workhouse, is now proved to have
been the means of saving the country. Under the
ascendancy of Protection, England, in all its interests
—its agricultural interests among the number—was
rapidly hurrying to ruin. Just at the critical moment,
when a longer persistence in a restrictive com-
mercial policy would have proved fatal, Sir Ro-
bert Peel resolved on reversing that policy. He
made up his mind to do it at all hazards. He
was the only man in her Majesty's domi-
nions that was competent for the task. He set
about the work directly. He applied himself to it
with a self-sacrifice, both in regard to his ease and to
his party and personal friendships, of the greatness of
which none but himself could form any idea. He
accomplished it in defiance of an opposition the most
formidable which ever any Minister had to encounter.
The greatness of the boon which he coferred on the
country is now beginning to be seen and felt by all.
Of the benefits of which his great free-trade measures
are destined to be productive in the future, it would
not be possible to form an exaggerated notion. There
is just only one drawback to the pleasure with which
the country looks batik on those free-trade measures
which are now spreading plenty and producing
prosperity among all classes of the community. The
illustrious author of those measures is no longer
susceptible of the gratification which a nation's admi-
ration and a nation's gratitude could not fail to have
afforded hint. He has been snatched from our midst
just when he was beginning to be seen by all in the
light of a great benefactor. Had he but lived until
now—had his life been prolonged for one year more,
it is easy to perceive with what inexpressible delight
he would have looked around him, and beheld in all
parts of the country, and among all classes of her
Majesty's subjects, that unprecedented prosperity of
whieh his policy has been productive.

THE ACCELERATED MID-DAY MAIL.
We have received a list of the several provincial
towns from which letters and newspapers are daily dis-
patched to the metropolis. This list, which is corrected
up to the Ist of October, is as follows :
Abergavenny, Abingdon, Accrington, Alnwick, Amers-
ham, Ampthill, Andover, Andover-road, Arundel, Ash-
ford, Atherstone, Attleborough, Aylesbury, Banbury,
Barneeley, Basingstoke, Bath, Battle, Bedford, Belford,
Belper, Berkhampstead. Berwick, Bewdley, Bicester,
Billericay, Bilstone, Birkenhead, Birmingham, Bishop's
Stortford, Blackburn, Blandford, Bognor, Bolton, 130s-
ton, Brackley, Bradford (Yorkshire), Bradford (Wilt-
shire), Brandon, Brentwood, Bridgwater, Brid port,
Brighton, Bristol, Broadway, Brom.grove, Buckingham,
Burford, Bromley, Bury (Lancasbire), Bury St. Ed-
mund's, Cambridge, Canterbury, Cerlisle, Chatham,
Chelmsford, Cheltenham, Chepstow, Chertsey, Chester,
Chesterfield, Chichester, Chippenham, Chipping Norton,
Christchurch, Chorley, Cirencester, Cobham, Cocker-
mouth, Colchester, Cottrington, Congleton, Coventry,
Cowes, Crewe, Cranbrook, Crawley, Cuckfield, Dar-
liugton, Dartford, Daventry, Deal, Derby, Devizes,
Dorking, Dorchester, Dover, Downham, Droitwich, Dud-
ley, Dunmow, Durham, Eastbourne, East G; instead,
Eccleshall, Edenbridge, Ely, Emsworth, Eustone, Ep-
ping, Epsom, Exeter, Esher, Evesham, Farnham, Fare-
ham, Farringdon, Fenny Stratford, Feversham, Folk-
stone, Frome, Gateshead, Gloucester, Godalmiug, Gos-
port, Grantham, Gravesend, Guernsey, Guildford,
Halesworth, Halifax, Harlow, Harwich, Hatfield,
Hastings, Havant, Hemel Hempstead, Henley-on-
Thames, Hereford, Hertford, Hexham, Higham Ferrers,
High Wycomb, Huddesden, Holbeach, Horsham, Hud-
dersfield, Huntingdon, Hythe, Ipswich, Ingatestone, Jer-
sey, Kelvedon, Kendal, Kenilworth, Kettering, Kidder-
minster, Knutsford, Lancaster, Launcester, Leather-
head, Ledbury, Leeds, Leicester, Leighton Buzzard,
Leominster, Lewes, Lichfield, Lincoln, Liphoek, Liver-
pool, Loughborough, Lowestoft, Ludlow, Lyme Lynn,
Lymington, Lyndhurst, Macclesfield, Maidenhead,' Maid-
stone, Malvern, Malden, Manchester, Manningtree,
March, Margate, Marlow, Maryport, Melkahaw, Melton
Mowbray, Milnthorpe, Monmouth, Morpeth, Moreton
in the Marsh, Nantwicb, Newark, Newnham,
Newcastle-on-Tyne, Newmarket, Newport (Isle
of Wight), Newport Pagnel, Newport (Salop),
Northampton, North Shields, Norwich, Northwich,
Nottingham, Nuneaton, Oakhatn, Odiam, Ongar,
Oundle, Oxford, Penrith, Pershore, Peterborough, Pe_
tersfield, Poole, Portsmouth, Presteign, Preston, Pres-
tonßochdale,
Brook, Queenborough,
Ramsgate,Reading, Rei-
gate, Ringwood, Rickmanswortb, Ripley,
Rochester, Ross, Rotherham, Rugby, Ru
ge eY, Rumsoy,
Ryde, Rye, Saffron Walden, Salisbury, Sandbach, Sand-
wich, Saxmundham, Sevenoaks, Sheerness, Sheffield,
, Shields (South),
Shepton Mallet, Sherborne, Shields (North), Shoreham,
Staines, Stamtord,
i st tpi nagl
dbionugr, n e,
Stafford, S 1 o h
Staplehurst, St. Alban, St. he's (Hunt.), St.
Shrewsbury,
o u t ham pto
Leonard's, Stockport, Stone, Stourbridge, Stoney Strat-
ford, Stowmarket, Stratford-on-Avon, Stroud, Sunder-
land, Swindon, Tamworth, Taunton, Tenbury, Tenter-
den, Totbury, Tewkesbury, Thane, Thetford, Thirsk,
Thrapstone , Tipton, Tiverton, Towcester, Tring, Trow-
bridge, Tunbridge, Tunbridge Wells, Ulverstone, Ux-
bridge, Ventnor, Wakefield, Wallingford, Walsall, Wal-
tham Cross, Wansford, Wantage, Ware, Wareham, War-
minster, Warrington, Warwick, Watford, Wednesbury,
Weedon, Wellingboro', Wellington (Somerset), Welling-
ton (Salop),Wells (Somersetshire), Welwyn, Weymouth,
Westbury, West Bromwich, Weston-super-Mare, White-
haven, Wigan, Wimborne, Winchester, Winchfield,
Windsor, Winslow, Wisbeach, Witham, Witney, Wo-
burn,-,Wokingham,Wolverhampton, Woodbridge, Woods
stock, Worcester, Workington, Worthing, Wymond-
ham, Yarmouth, Yeovil, York, and the whole of Ireland
and Scotland.

Newsvcnders and other persons using these mails aro
reminded that bags to the above named towns aro for-
warded from London to these places every morning, so
that the dispatch is outward as well as inward. They
should also remember that in dispatching letters and
papers outwards the following instructions should be at-
tended to:—
" The letter-boxes at the receiving houses will be open
till 7 A.M. for newspapers, and until 45 minutes past 7
Liu. for letters; and those at the branch offices, Charing_
cross, Old Cavendish-street, and the Borough, for news_
papers until half-past 7 A.M., and for letters until 8 A. 41.
At the General cost-office, and the Branch office
Lombard-street, the boxes will close for newspaperslu
at :a quarter before 8 A.M., and for letters at half-past
8 A.m.

PERVERSIONS TOROME.~.The" Sisterhood" for-
merly settled at St. Barnabas, Knightsbridge, under Mr.
Bennett, and latterly resident in Margaret-street, Cavendish-
square, were publicly received in a body into the Roman
Catholic Church at hluigtori QU Sunday eyoniug last,