The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-06 00:00:00

N°.18,237.] LONDON, THURSDAY
V N I S N 7 MARCH 6, 1851.

NI CO L L'S REGISTERED PALETOT
This garment exemplifies in its characteristics the genera 1
excellence and moderate prices observed throughout Messrs.
NICOLL'S establishment, where
DRESS for EVENING or MORNING WEAR has its allotted
space . _ _

UNIFORMS.—NavaI, Military, and Diplomatic, present, in their
department, the unusual aspect of fair prices for cash ; also
110,1 EA.—Municipal, Clerical, &c., have separate rooms, and are
placed on the same footing with the above.
BOY'S CLO I HlND.—This is a new department, wherein provi-
sion is also made for the display of much elegance and economy.
THE CITY ESTABLISHMENT corresponds with the above, and
is at 22, CORNIIILL, the entrance to the Shipping Department
being in Change-alley.
NICOLL'S TOGA can be used either as a cloak for the shoulders,
or a wrapper for the knees ; it is registered 6 and 7 Viet., cap. 65,
and can be had in London only of 11. J. and D. NICOLL, M ER-
CHANT CLOTHIERS, I'ALETOT PATENTEES, and MANU-
FAC TIMERS of CLOT:I, REGENT—STREET (from 114 to 120
inclusive), and 22, CORNII[LL.

•CALTTION.—M any have its-umed the use of the word " Paletot,"
but Messrs. Nicoll are the sole patentees of the design and material
(in winter or summer substances) employed in the manufacture of
this inexpensive and gentlemanly article of costume.

ICI ON PAIiLE FRANCAIS.
HERR ,PRICHT MAN DEUTSM.
QUI SI PARLA ITALIANO.
AQUI MABLASE EL ESPANOL.

LIVERIES.—As unusual preparations are now
.L 4 being niade in most families for the approaching Season,
Messrs. NICOLL are ready to submit estimates for prices (and draw-
ings where a change is considered to be desiratle), for a full snpply
of this branch of their business; such will present all the advantages
for which the other departments have now for a long period induced
much public favour.

11. J. and D. NICOLL, 114, 116, 118, 120, REGENT-STREET,
and 22, CORNHILL.

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

141'. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman.

*John Rawson, Esq.
*John Shaw, Esq.
i*Edmund S. Symes, Esq.
t*(lement Tabor, Esq.
t Joseph Thompson, Esq.
t*Augsistus Vigne, Esq•

*W. A. B. Bennett, Esq.
*Hugh Croft, Esq.
tElliotson, M.D„ F.R.S.
*Ralph Gough, Esq.
*M. C. Maher, Esq.
*John Moss, Esq.
ILDDITOZ.
tProfessor Wheatstone, F.R.S.
Erdotson, SI.D„ F.R.S„ 37, Conduit-street.
SURGEON.
I.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 Clenichy, Esq.
SUPERINTENDENT.
*W. A. Hawkins, Esq.
BANKERS.

t*Messrs. Glyn, liallifax, Mills, and Co., 61, Lombard-street.
SOLICITORS,

tMessrs. Sutton, Ewens, Ommanney and Prudence, 6, Basinghall•

street.
4W. Tatham, Esq., 22, Throgmorton-street.
RATIONAL 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 Tab,e 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 continuo the
Policy, 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 arid acknowledged,
so as to make them available as securities is the hands of
third parties.

1 Permit-
.'
.-.,,i.,1 i Annual IPolleT Bonus In vent Re-
ti ' Pre- Itaken ' addition Bonus in duction of
o ° mime. 'eut in to Sum Cash. Annual
s: " Assured. Premium.
- ! !
X s. il. X s d. £ s. d.
1837 292 6 9 139 :6 9 22 13 1
1 1838 267 11 4 126 17 2 19 19 7
1839 241 18 6 113 17 7 17 8 8
.e X s.d. 1840 193 12 6 93 16 8 14 0 10
11000 74 3 4., 1841 I 189 12 6 89 516 13 g 11
1842 I 162 16 8 76 18 4 11 8 3
1843 115 10 10 55 10 10 8 1 10
1844 77 19 2 38 15 10 5 9 11
, ..., 1645 66 15 0 44 10 0 4 10 1

Extensive Travelling Leave granted without extra Premium
Moderate extra Premium for Residence in Tropical Climates.
EQUITABLE FIRE OFFICE.
Capital-500,0001.
(Incorporated ander 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 110.)

The leading principles of this Office ar3 —Moderate and equitable
Rates 01 Premium for each class or risk—Annual division of Profits.
l'he difficulty of collecting the elements on which to proportion
rremium 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 sound 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 aporoximation 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 can only be ap-
,roached through Classification and Average, which has not hitherto
been sufficiently acted n, or systematically applied.
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 tire, 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 time, 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 fitly 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.

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

CATHOLIC LAW AND GENERAL LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY,
, NEW COVENTRY-STREET, LEICESTER-SQUARE, LONDON.
The FOURTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Proprie-
tors of this Company took place on the 25th instant, at the Head
Office, at One o'clock precisely. The following is extracted from the
report, which is too lengthy for publication :
During the past year no claims have arisen from deaths in England.
and but two in Ireland—one for 5001. and the other for 280/.—making
together 7001., which have been paid. This is far below the expected
mortality, and is especially favourable, when it is remembered how
severely the life offices generally suffered from the epidemic of last
year.

The number of lives assured between the let of June, 1849, and
the 31st of Slay, 1850, was more than double the number issued in
the twelve months preceding.
Proposals were made for 138 Policies, amounting to 52,9631.25. 6d.:
of these 123, comprising 106 lives, were accepted for 45,1251. 6s.
sixteen Policies lapsed, representing 6,0481., upon which 3201. 3s.
was received by the Company in the shape of premiums.
Since the commencement of the Company to the Ist of June last,
assurance were effected to the extent of 110,972/. 128 6d., pro-
ducing in annual premiums 3,7321. 11s. 6d. Of these 54 lapsed,
amounting to 23,9901. 16s. 6d., of which the annual premiums were
741/. Is., leaving the yearly income on the Ist of June last equal to
2,991/. 15s. 11d.
since last meeting loans were applied for to the extent of 17,700/.,
but 1,1531. I Is. 10d. only was advanced.
The I)irectors were also highly gratified to report that within the
last four months +hey had considerably extended their business on
the Continent, having appointed, as Head Agent in France, Monsieur
de I'Etang, a gentleman of high standing in Paris, distinguished for
his integrity and ability in financial and in all assurance natters,
who, under the sanction and patronage of the Archbishop of Paris,
the Cardinal Archbish sp of Lyons, and Monseigneur Parisis, Eveque
de Langres, has already within the last three months effected a con•
siderable amount of business, not only in Life Assurances, but in An-
nuities both Immediate and Deferred.
se' approving of the Report, and returning
rend Chairman, Bishop Morris, the Vice-
Chairman, Actuary, Secretary, thanks Af tAfter
tvoarit the it
and Medical Officers of the establish-
ment, the meeting separated, highly gratified at its present results
various resolutions, lutßioen,
and future prospects.

NITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSI
COMPANY.
Established by Act of Parliament in 1834.
8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London ; 97, ,;eorge-street
12, St. Vincent-place, Glasgow; 4, College. green,
The bonus added to policies from March, 1834,
December, 1847,15 as follows :

'RANCE

;, Edinburgh;
Dublin.

to the 31st

A stired. Time Assured.
Sum Sum added to Sam added to Sum payable
Policy inlB4llPolicy in 18481 at Death.
; 1
i--___.- _--_ ----,
£5OOO 113 years 10 mths.£63B 6 8 £787 10 0 £6470 16 8
5000 1 1 year 112 10 0 5112 10 0
.. ..
1000 'l2 years 100 0 0 157 10 0 1257 10 0
1000 7 years .. 157 10 0 1157 10 0
..
1000 1 year 22 10 0 1022 10 0
500 !12 years 50 0••0 78 15 0 628 IS 0
500 1 4 years 45 0 0 545 0 0
500 , 1 year .. ..
.. .. 11 5 0 , 511 5 0

-------
The Premiums, nevertheless, are on the most moderate scale, and
only one-half need be paid fur the first five years when the In-
mrance is for Life.
Every information afforded on application to the Resident Direc-
tor, 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.

I)R.. LA'MERT ON Tit SECRET INFIRMITIES OF it/UTH
IND MATURITY.
With Plain Directions for their Prevention and Curs.
FIFTY COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL.
',lst publisnou, in French, English, German, Dutch, Spanish, and
Italian, in a Seateg Envelope, 2s. tid., or post-tree, from the
Author, for forty-two stamps,
SEL F-PRESERVATION; a
Medical Treatise on the Physiology of Marriage, and on
he Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity,
sually acquired at an early period of life,
whieh destroy
he physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural
oelings, and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical
lo.ervations on the certain Prevention and successful Treatment of
Nervous Debility, Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis,
Atricture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from India-
lretion, as adopted by Lallemand, Ricord, and other eminent mem-
.lxplaining their structures, uses, and functions,
hers of the faculty in France. With Fifty coloured Engravings,
injuries that are produced in them by solitary
illustrating the tnatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Re-
habits, excesses. an
parnodduthctie vveaOriroguasus, d
feettoo .
LA'MERT, BY SAMUEL 31.D.,
37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON.
Doctor of Medicine. Matriculated Member of the University of Rdin-
bnrgh,Honorary Member if the London Hospital Medical Society,
Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Member of the Ilunterian
Medical Society of Edinburgh, &c., &c.
This work contains a plain and complete description of the ana-
tomy and physiology of the reproductive organs, and of their relative
conditions in health and disease. The author, who has taken the
highest medical honours, as evidenced by the diplomas and testimo-
nials inserted in the work, is the only legally qualified medical man
who has exclusively, and for many years, devoted his studies to
the treatment of these complaints. Ile may be consulted VI ith ad-
vantage by all those whose constitutions may have become debili-
tated through secret practices acquired is youth. or by the excesses
9f later years, whereby the pleasures of life are marred, the objects
of marriage frustrated, and existence itself rendered a term of un-
ce acing misery and regret.
,Published by the Author, and may be had of J. Gilbert, 49, Pater-
noster-row ; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; Starie, Titchborne-street,
Haymarket ; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street ; Mann, 23, Cornhill,
Or free by post for forty-two stamps, from the author's residence, woo
may be consulted cn these disorders personally, or by letter, daily,
I iron 3,403 till two, awl from six till eight.

Now ready, at all the Libraries, crown Bvo., is. 6d, cloth, with
Portrait,
r rHE FEMALE JESUI C ; or, the Spy in the
Family. Including her Autobiography, or " Seventeen Years
of Convent Life," and her recent Intrigues in a Protestant Family
near London.

SHIP NE WS.

LIVERP3OL, MARCH s.—Wind N. N.W.—Sarah and
Louisa arrived here yesterday, from Mobile, was struck
by lightniv during a hurricane in February, in lat. 39,
long. 50, which damaged mizenmast, stove cabin, &e.,
and set several articles on fire, but was extinguished
without doing material da:nage. Arrd. Lenora, from
Demerara; Louisa, from St. Domingo; Pyramid, Helena,
Houghton, and Ocean Star, from Now Orleans; John
Horrocks, from Demerara; Imperial, from Wilmington;
Philadelphia, from Philadelphia; Sisters and Medea,
from Constantinople; Argo, William Herdman, Trident,
and Gulnare, from Alexandria, Egypt; Irmodo, fom
Trieste; Rloid and Rosebud, from Palermo; Catherine,
from Marseilles; Union, from St. Übe's; Content, from
Trieste; Parkfield, from Callao; Union, from Ostend.
PORTOIOUTH, MARCH 3.--Favourite, from London,
for Barbadoes, has put in with loss of stanchions, bul-
warks, &c., having been in contact, ou the Ist inst. off
Fairlee, with Ceres, Norwegian barque, from Stettin, for
Bristol.

IlAnwtar, bancu 3.—The Aimuble Eugine, from
Seaham for Bordeaux, foundered off the Long Sand
last night; crew bayed.

MARYPORT, 3,—The Ann Wood, on shore
near Harrington, has been got off and towed in here.
DOVER, MARCH 3.—The George, of Shoreham, from
Shields for Folkstone, is very leaky, having grounded,
and it is feared has received considerable damage.
QUEENSTOWN, MARCH 3.—The Vivid, from New-
port for Galatz, has put in here with loss of foremast,
toretoptnast, &c.

GIBRALTAR, FEB. 23.--The Union, from Rio Hacho
for Marseilles, put in, Feb. 22, with loss of mainmast,
yards, sails, &c., and requires caulking in her upper
works.

BOULOGNE, MARCH 3.—The Jeannette and Anna,

from Leghorn for Antwerp, was in contact with a vessel
supposed a steamer, between Cape Grinez and the South
Foreland, yesterday morning, and sank; crew, except
one man, saved.
MEMEL, FEB. westerly wind of the 2-3 d
broke up the ice, and the harbour is now clear.
MADRAS, Jam. 25.—Tbe Princess Helena, of Cal-
cutta, from Adelaide for this port, struck upon the Pu-
licut Shoal in the night of the 16th of January, was
driven on the beach, about twelve miles north of this
place, and has become a total wreck; crew saved. The
Futtay, from Coringa for this port, sprung a leak at sea,
which gained so fast upon her that she was obliged to
be ran on the beach here on the 17th instant. The
Flora Kerr, fromithe Clyde for Calcutta, was spoken by
the Poictiers, arrived here, on the 3d instant, in long. 89
E., when she reported that she had been in contact dur-
ing the night of the 24th ult., with the Carnatic, from
Calcutta for the Mauritius, and had sustained consider-
able damage, starboard bow stove in, foremast-head and
bowsprit sprung, foretopmast carried away, and that
the Carnatic stayed by her for four days.
CAGLIARI, FEB. 26.—The Bezulcel, from Leghorn to
London, put into Porto Conti on the 15th of February,
with loss of rudder, bowsprit, and with other serious
damage, having experienced a heavy gale on the 7th of
February; has thrown some cargo and stores overboard,
and will have to discharge partly, to repair.
CALCUTTA, JAN. 20.—The American ship Charles
Cooper,lhence for London, has grounded on a mud-bank
five miles below this place, has not experienced any da-
mage, is being lightened, is expected off this evening,
and to proceed without being docked.
PERNAMBUCO, JAN. 20.—The Ellen Bryson, from Ca-
diz for Bahia, has buen totally wrecked on the shoals off
Cape San Roque; crew and part of materials saved.
GRAVESEND, MARCH W.S.W., squally,
with rain.

Arrd. Primrose and the Shamrock, from Seville ;
Lusitania, from Oporto; Circassian, from Cadiz; Louisa,
from Malaga ; Daniel Brock and the Concordia, from
Guernsey; Aroe, from Alexandria; Mary Nixon, from
Callow; Queen Dowager, from Genoa; Three Brothers,
from Groningen; Emma, from Amens; Primrose, from
Seville ; Batavier, from Rotterdam; Albion, from Bou-
logne; Sir E. Banks, from Ostend ; Two Friends, from
Guernsey ; John, from Lignes ; Le Coq, from Cher-
bourg ; Doncaster, from Oporto ; David Banks, from
Jaffa; Lady Newburgh, from Oporto; Fox, from Malta;
Ocean Bram., from Alexandria; Galen, from Patras;
Maria, from Smyrna; Queen Dowager, from Genoa;
Joven Ignatio, from Tarragona; Mermaid, from Malta;
Ocean, from St. Übe's; Native, from Seville; Huntress,
from Smyrna; City of the Sultan, from Odessa; Joshua
Carroll, from Nantes; Harriet, from Leghorn; Janvarin,
from Girgenti.
Sailed—Najaden, for Teneriffe; Oliver Cromwell, for
Shanghae; Roscommon and Diana, for Harlingen;
Nancy, for Alicante; Triton, for Ostend; Amanda, for
Honduras; Rhine and Magnet, for Rotterdam; Governor
Harcourt, for Newport; Sandale, for Oporto; Vene-
zuela, for Havre; Stadt DordrPtcb, for Dordt; Countess
of Lonsdale, for Hamburgh; Thames, for Hamburgh.

VESSELS SioREN WITH.
Margaret brig, Feb. 10, in lat. 39 N., long. 16 W.

Carrschoonei, Feb. 12, long. 16 W., lat. 40 N.
Oceani!e, from Stettin for Valparaiso, Feb. 11, in lat. 42
N., long. 17 W.
Utility, of Newcastle, Jan. 11, in lat. 39 N., long. 6 E.
Maid of Erin schooner, bound out, Feb. 9.

Antonato, Bremen brig, bound out,.Feb. 24, in lat 48 N.,

long. 8 W.
sis, of Livopool, in lat. 40 N., long. 10, W.

SEABORNE MAILS.
[ti signifies that the malls are sent from the General Post-office
by the night—and ➢f by the morning—dispatch.)

When made up in I From what When
PLACES. General Post-office) port dis- due.
London. patched.
America (by Brit. pkt.)N March 14 .. .. Liverpool March 12
America (by U.S. pkt.) N March 7 .. .. Liverpool March 16
America (by US. pkt.) M March 8 .. Southampt. March 8
Africa (West coast).. N 14th of the month Plymouth March 3
Alexandria* N 19th & 30th of mo. Dover .. March 18
Belgium • • • • • • N Daily • Dover .. Daily
Brazil • • • .. 9th of the month Southampt. Feb. 24
Buenos Ayres • • .. M 9th of the month Southampt. Feb. 24
Califomla(viaChagres)M 17th of month Southampt. March 7
Cape of Good Hope N 14th of month Plymouth•• March 3
Constantinople* .. • • N 7th 17th 27th of mo Dover .. March 10
Central America .. M2d & 17th of mon. Southampt. March 7
Channel Isles • • .. N Mon., Wed., &Fri. Southampt. Ta. Th. Sa
Chili .. •• .• M 17th of the month Southampt. March 20
France M& N Twice daily .. .. Dover .. Twicedally
Greece* •• • • • • N 7 th 17th 27th efmo Dover .. March 10
Hamburgh • • .. N Tuesday & Friday London .. Tues. Sat,
Holland .. • • M Wednes. & Satur. London .. Alom.Tltur
Honduras .. . N 17th of the month Southampt. March 20
Ireland • • .. M& N Twice daily Holyhead .. Twicedally
India (via Southamp.) M 20th of the month Southampt. March 28
India (via Marseilles) N 7th& 24th ofnaonth Dover • • March 23
Mediterranean (via
.•
• • 771:1
Southampton) • • Ml2oth of the month Southampt. March 28
,%1 editerranean (via
Mexico /11* of the month.. Southampt. March 7
72tiltihio9fmontthhiDover • • March 23
Madeira • • • • • • Ml9th of the month Southampt. March 12
Malta* • • • • N
ot 30th :)f monthtln 11 Dover March 10
Naples* N sth 15th 25th ofmolDover March 12
Marseilles)
Papal States* N sth 15th 25th of moll Dover .. M arch 12
Peninsular •• •• •• 31!7th 17th 27th of mo Southampt. March 6
Peru 11,17 th of the month Southampt. March 20
Tuscany* .• • . N'
;sth 15th 25th of mo:Dover • . March 12
West Indies .. 'l7th of the month Southampt. March 20
West Indies (except
Havanna & Nassau) M2d of the month Southampt. March 7

•• ististh 15th 25th of mo:
„.._ - .of month 1
Naples* •• •• •• .N sth 15t1125thofmo,1
Papal States* .. .. N sth 15th 25th ofmol
17th of the month '
Peninsular•• •• •• M!7th 17th 27th of mo'
Peru
•• .. .• •• 117th of the month
ilaYallrla & Nassau) M 2d of the month ..
. The mails to those countries thus mar'
French packs •ia Marseilles.
..* The mails for Brazil, Buenos Ayr
lirvsTuscany*,West
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si
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s. (
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p.
t. m I
made up on the morning of the 10th of
the 9th falling on a Sunday.

ISouthampt.
Eed (*) are c

March 7
mreyel by

;, and Madeira, will be
[arch, in consequence of

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.
A woman named Eliza Driscoll was charged with ob-
taining 21. from Messrs. Fox and Henderson, the con-
tractors, under false pretences.
the prosecutors, said that
in James April Ipasutnthetnperisaogne,enrt
Spring-gardens,
at their railway gauge-
-wstidr7ivt' of Dennis. Mack, who was killed on
SPring-gardens, and represented
37. She stated that she was
in great want of 405., to complete the purchase of a pony
and open a green-gr.ocere
.! shop. She was told to call
again, and inean.while witness wrote to the prosecutors
h°thifieeresEeilarisnatesiCrtnhewCe Counties Railway.
(who were executing some works for the railway), and
subsequently received authority to pay her the sum.
The prisoner called again, and the money was paid to
her.
Ann Mack proved that she was the real widow of the
prisoner,her late husband knew
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Evidence was given of the payment of 21. to the pri-
soner upon the above pretence by the cashier of the pro-
secutors. The woman affected to be ignorant of the
whole transaction when apprehended, but she was iden-
kianrgra
titled by the witnesses on being taken by the constable to
the Crystal Palace.
The prisoner denied that she was the woman who had
received the money, and declared that she had never
seen the prosecutors or their agents before.
Mr. HENRY committed her for trial.
ete force, charged by
ctive
CLERICEN WELL.
Frederick Curtis, a smart-100
ynte,ilinngthme acitt;stodways b
fr ought
Sergeant
Archdeacon Hale, of Charterhouse-square, with having
obtained a situation in his service with a false character.
o before
Smith, hlr
of Comboth e
don a warrant
Mr. Hale, son of the archdeacon, attended, and com-
municated that his father could not attend, in conse-
quence of his clerical duties on Ash Wednesday.
It appears that the prisoner,, some months ago, en-
tered the service of Mr. k reshfield, solicitor to the Bank
of England, when he gave a reference to a person re-
siding at Moreton, near Norwich; and, on application
being made, a high character was given of the prisoner,
who was received into the service. His subsequent con-
duct, however, caused great suspicion; and, on inquiries
being made at Moreton, it was ascertained that the per-
son to whom he had referred was his father in•law, who
had surreptitiously recommended him. He was prose-
cuted. and sentenced to three months' imprisonment in
the House of Correction.
Archdeacon Hale consulted with the police, and at-
tended at this court in company of Sergeant Smith,
when a warrant was granted tor the prisoner's appre•
hension at the expiration of his term of imprisonment;
and yesterday Sergeant Smith took him into custody on
leaving the prison.
In answer to a question, Mr. Hale said the prisoner
got drunk while in his father's service, and was guilty of
other misconduct.
Sergeant Smith said that on searching the prisoner he
found a number of pawnbrokers' duplicates in his pos-

session, for articles of silver plate, &c., which he sus-
pected to have been stolen.
Mr. COMBS, after a private consultation with Mr.
Hale and the clerk, committed the prisoner to the
sessions.

plained not that the daily press existed at the price of
5c1., as it did. He would leave that press to its present
customers; but still he said that they should have a
press that the rest of the community could patronise
also.—(Cheers.) What a curious exception the daily
press was to every other article of Consumption! If
they wanted a dictionary, for example, they could have
one at any price, varying from a shilling to a guinea;
bat if they wanted a newspaper, sd.—neither more nor
less—was the magical price at which it was to be pur-
chased. They were told that a cheap article must ne-
cessarily be of a low character. He denied it. Toe
cheap newspaper might not be quite so witty or fasci-
nating, perhaps, in style as some of the dearer publics.
tions, but it still might be as honest, straightforward,
and direct to the purpose--and if he wanted a good and
wholesome taste he should not go upward, but if he
wanted a meretricious taste he should find it there.—
(Cheers.) Montesquieu had said that, though mankind
was reprobate in detail, it was wise in the gross, and he
had no doubt if the medium of literary and political in-
formation were made free to all, that the benefit must
be general and universal. He looked upon the repeal of
the advertisement duty as the sine qua non for a cheap
press. In fact, there could not be a cheap press until
those duties were repealed. They must do with the
press as they had done with corn, and they should al-
ways find in him a Free-trader in knowledge.--(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMLN here read a letter of apology from
Mr. Scholefield, M.P., for non-attendance, and another
from Mr. Ewart, M.P. The latter Hon. Member en-
closed 51, towards the object of the meeting.—(Cheers.)
A person named SHAM, who addressed the meeting
amid considerable interruption,_ contended that the only
way to remove the taxes on knowledge was to struggle
to obtain universal suffrage. The people would have no
power to obtain these or similar fiscal reductions until
they were properly represented.—(Cheers.)
The resolution was then put, and carried unanimously.
Mr. IlicKsoff, who was introduced to the meeting as
the late editor of the Westminster Review, moved the
second resolution as follows: _
" That the excise on pager, the tax on advertisements,
and the stamp on newspapers, though apparently uncon-
nected taxes, are in reality parts of one system, which
restricts the freedom of the press by hampering it with
fiscal burdens."

He bad not anticipated meeting them to-night, but he
had received that morning a communication from a friend
of his now abroad, in the shape of a cheque upon Barclay
and Co. for 1001. on behalf of the objects for which they
were now assembled. This donation was from Mr. Ed-
ward Lombe, a liberal Norfolk landowner, the donor of
500/. to the National Public School Association. Mr.
Lombe viewed the abolition of what he called the infa-
mous taxes on knowledge as an educational question.—
(Hear, hear.) And he (Mr. Hickson) recommended this
view to the consideration of all the friends of national
education.—(Hear.) The object of education was to
make good citizens of the people by teaching every
member of the community to understand the laws he was
called upon to obey.—(Hear.) But how could they teach
the poor man the nature of the laws if they prohibited the
circulation of the only publications that treated of the
administration of those laws? Newspapers were only ac-
cessible to the poor man at the public-house, but what
was wanted was that they should enter the cottage door.
Such publications as the Penny Magazine, Chambers's
Tracts, and Chambers's Journal, of which he did not
wish to speak depreciatingly, did not come home enough
to the real objects and business of life, and the working
classes would sacrifice them all to the cheap news-
paper. There was some reason for the allegation that
the higher classes in continuing the taxes on knowledge
had a sinister object in view, viz., the maintenance
of political privileges and political monopoly. If
ever the people carried the repeal of these taxes it
would be by taking the matter into their own hands.
He believed it to be within the mark that there would
be ten newspapers for one if the taxes on knowledge
were repealed, and thus increased and more remune-
rating employment would be given, not only to journey-
man printers, but to the whole literary profession. The
local press would be especially benefited. The Ruesell
Administration appeared to be entering upon another
lease of power.—(Several voices—" A short one!")
They had lost very considerably the confidence of the
country.—(Great cheering.) Ho trusted they would
turn over a new leaf.—(A cry—" It is too late!") At
all events a general election was close at hand, and, al-
though he was not favourable to pledges, he hoped the
taxes on knowledge would be admitted to stand as the
first to be repealed by a Liberal Ministry and Parlia-
ment.—(Cheers.)
Dr. LEE seconded the resolution, but wished it had
included the duty upon foreign books and the ocean
penny postage.

M. E. EDWARDS supported the motion, and addressed
the meeting to show the additional employment that
would be given to large classes of persons in the printing
and paper-making trades, if the taxes on knowledge were
repealed. London, with 2,500,000 of people, had only
six morning papers, while in New York, with a popula-
tion of 500,000 or 600,000, there were thirteen.

Mr. M. Grusori. M.P., who was cordially received,
said it had devolved upon him to move the repeal of the
taxes on knowledge in the House of Commons, and he
hoped to renew that motion. But a Member of Parlia-
ment, in a like case, felt in a most forlorn situation un-
less he knew he was backed by public opinion.—(Hear,
hear.) It was fur the people to carry this as they had
carried other questions, and they must remember that
no free knowledge or any other kind of freedom had ever
been handed over to the people as a free and spontaneous
gift.—(l.lear, hear.) He was afraid there lay at the
root of the opposition to the repeal of these taxes en
unworthy jealousy on the part of governing men of
the spread of knowledge among the people.—(Cheers.)
It was said that the spread of cheap newspapers
would make government in this country impos-
sible. It was far more likely that ignorance would make
government impossible.—(Hear, hear.) It would be
much better that our institutions should rest upon the
basis of an enlightened public opinion. If they looked
forward to a period of universality of suffrage, nothing
could bo more important than that the great body of the
people should have brought within their reach the
means of understanding the laws under which they
lived. The Government was afraid to carry out impar-
tially and literally the provisions of the Newspaper Act,
which, he contended, ought therefore not to be continued
upon the statute-book. It might appear that, in asking
for the repeal of all these taxes at once, they were ask-
ing for too much, but they were all connected with each
other, and he for oae would not be contented until the
three duties were all repealed, and until the press was set
entirely free. He had no doubt whatever that the tax
upon advertisements was not a means of revenue, but a
revenue destroyer, since it struck at industry and
commerce, the prosperity of which produced revenue.
He ventured to say that if this tax were repealed in
the next year's returns of income the amount would not
be missed. It was not, in fact, a consideration of reve-
nue that prevented the repeal of this tax, but a dread of
extending cheap knowledge and cheap newspapers among
the working classes. The Chancellor of the Exchequer
was preparing a new Budget. He had no great confi-
dence that he would come forward with a proposition for
the repeal of the taxes upon knowledge; but they
must not be deterred from pressing on this question by
any statement that the financial arrangements of the
year were concluded. He held it to be perfectly fair and
Parliamentary to press all matters of this nature upon
the attention of the Government, and he trusted that he
should live to see the shackles struck from the press and
perfect freedom introduced.—(Cheers.)
The motion was carried unanimously.
On the motion of Mr. COLLETT, seconded by Mr.
HOLYOAKE, the following resolution was also carried, and
the meeting separated at midnight:—
" That by allowing a number of registered newspapers
to circulate a portion of their impression without stamps,
and denying the same privilege to others; and by per-
mitting news and political comments to be inserted in
the unstamped publications of the metropolis, while sup-
pressing similar publications in the country, the Board
of Inland Revenue has invested itself with the powers of
a censorship equally foreign to the laws of the land and
the feelings of the people of this country,"