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N°.18,421.] LONDON, TUESDAY
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Rt. 1 7 OCTOBER 7, 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.P. I James Fuller Madox, Esq.
Richard Malins, Esq., Q.C. William Wilberforce, Esq.
The POLICIES are INDISPUTABLE, 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, prospectuses, 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, 2G, CORN

INSURANCE COM
HILL, LONDON.

DIRECTORS.
T. LAMir. MURRAY, Esq., Chairman.
W. A. B. Belrett, Esq. John Rawson, Esq.
Hugh Croft, Esq. Johh 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 informe I 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
excerience, 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 be 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-
tion at the Office, or to any of its Agents.

EAGLE INSURANCE. COMPANY.
LONDON", AUGUST 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 for the year end.
ing,June 1&51, Was - •••
.•Z140,338 1 9
The Premium on 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 Co.npany are very moderate, and
moreover are accurately adjusted.
The Assured of the purticipating class share the whole surplus,
less '2O 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.
GOVERNOR—Thomas Tooke, Esq.
Sun-GOVERNOR—The Hon. J. T. Leslie Melville.
DEPUTY-GOVERNOR—George Pearkes Barclay, Esq.
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.
Octavius Wigram, Esq.
Charles Baring young, Esq.
Esq., F.R.S., Consulting Surgeon,

Henry 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 Hanbury, jan., Esq.
Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq.
William Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.
Lancelot Holland, Esq.
Sir John Wm. Lubbock, Bart.
MEDICAL REFEREE—SamueI Solly,

St. Helen's-place.
Notice.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of Fire Pre-
miums tailing due at Michaelmas will expire on the 14th of October.
Life Assurance may he 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 Vict., cap. 9.
CHAIRMAN— 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 flee 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.

For Seeming Loans aid Debts.
A Table adapted especially for the securing of Loans and Debts, by
which the fullest security is obtained on ♦ery low, but gradually in-
creasing premiums. _ _ .

reticle; revived, without the exaction of a fine, at any time within
twelve mouths, if health remain unimpaired.
A Board of Directors in attendance daily at Two o'clock.
Age or the Assured in every case admitted in the Policy.
Medical attendants remun,rated in all cases for their reports.
Extract from the Half Credit Rates of Premium.

Annual Premium required for an Assurance of 1001. for the whole

Age.

Term of Life.

Half Premium for
Seven Years.

Whole Premium after
Seven Years.

£ 0. d. X 9. d.
119 2 3 6
1 9 2 2 18 4
226 4 5 0
6 13 4
3 6 8

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

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

OPEN DAILY.

LAST WEEK.
opened at Half past Four, and the performance
In consequence of the Evenings drawing in,cotmhemDeio4cogrsawtilkl,ivbee
o'clock.
An entire Change 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 hie patrons
and the public that as he opened on the same 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 Ilth of October. This Evening
and during the week, the performances will assume the most novel
and uninue caste.
In addition to the large and talented corps of this Establishment,
theymw.
Mr.
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atbtse assisted
misteudcbhy the principal artists of Astley's Theatre
Royal. The evening's amusements will terminate with a brilliant
display of Fireworks.
pleasure in announcing to his Patrons that
meOnntsSwA.l—'llut
on THURSDAY, Oct. 9, the Last Grand DAY PERFORMANCE
entertainments in the Evening as usual.
Theil b('
gi"ll.Doors open at One, to commence precisely at Two.
commenceco ns eciuencuFitlenrpfeotuhre
Halt-past Four,
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Doors open at
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aovation.
We cannot wonder atptaeAcri
in a " dextero,,,,
more chaste,
Attending this attempted
styles
the fashion of the way,
Nay Awoculranbgeettleesrssusiutdtdheenizishladies'style taste.
Barbarian modes, and rude unsightly
Are little suited to the British isles.
Though3tay str
iDvier s
to. Dexter,change
The English lady looks with scorning air a' '
On " Bloomer" habits fora " blooming', fair.
Chasteness of style the ladles crave to
here the English gentlemen agree. '
Hence that support which gentlemen bestow
On lIYAM'S noted houses as below.
The changes made by II YAM all admire.
As requisite improvements in attire.
The suits of lIYAM are pronortnced complete,
A s samples of the " elegantly neat."
The garments made by RYAN!, when inspected,
taste,
and Manufacturers
Show nothing that the eye would have rejected.
The cloth is faultless and the style is chaste,
Market-place.
Observe Andl—
Argyll-street.
n welly A and adapted
cto o
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Tailors,
astrictest
Clothiers,
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City Establishment London .. • • , Gracechurch-street.
Manchester-26, Market-street,
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Provincial Establishments.
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Birmingham-23, is
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Tew-street
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Ifl. Sources of Expression in Architecture. Ruskin.
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V. Mirab,atis Correspondence.
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VESSELS SPJIiEN

Standard, from Liverpool for Halifax, on the 10th of
September, in la'. 50 N., long. 12 W.
Midas, from Callan for Queenatown, on the 6th of Sep-
tember, in lat. 31 N.. long. 36 W.
Bathurst, from Sierra Laone for Honduras, on the 19th
of August, in lat. 19 N., long. 51 W.
T. Clarkq, 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.
Seindia, from Singapore. for Hawburgh, on the 7th of

September, in lat. .13 N., long. 25 W.
Geelong, from Adelaide for London, on the 14th of Sq-
tember, in Ist 21 N., lone 33W.
Mary Carson, on the 31 of October, off Bardsey.
Henrietta, from Maceio for Plymouth, on the 4th of
September. in Ist. 3 I, long. 38.
Waldemar, of Hamburgh, from San Francisco for tbo
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 lat. 45, long. 30. - -
Maidstone, from Loudon for elleutta, on the sth of
August, in lat. 8 N., long 24 W., of Paris.
Clara, for Rid Janeiro, on the 7th of August, in lat.
11 N., long. 26 W.
Undine, from London for Hobart Town, on the 11th of
August, Cape Verd Islands, steering E., distant 25
leagues.
England'4Queen, from Mazatlan 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 Ist of Au-
gust, in lat. 36 S., long. 21 E.
China, from Algoa Bay for London,4n4t. 86 N., long.
21 E
Creole, from California, for Falmouth, on the 3i of Sep-
tember, in lat. 15, long. 28.

MILITARY STATIONS.

(From the United Service Magazine for October.)

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM TFIE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—The Arctic expeditions have now re-
turned to report their successes in the search after
Sir John Franklin and his companions. Without
attempting any simplification of the discoveries or
conjectures of their several commanders—which in-
deed would be no easy task—we think the time has
arrived for some general review of our proceedings
and some deliberate reflection on the course which it
may befit the Government of this country to adopt.
The exertions made to accomplish the object in view
have been in the highest degree meritorious. We
have had expeditions fitted out by the nation with all
the resources of our arsenals and all the aids of science,
and intru:ted to some of the best officers in the service
of the Qzeen. We have had other expeditions dispatched
through the zeal and liberality of individuals, and large
rewards, independent of honour and distinction,
have been offered to stimulate that private enterprise
which sn often outstrips the most strenuous public
efforts. The Hudson's Bay Company have concen-
trated on the same object all the extraordinary means
at their disposal on the spot. They have sent out
exploring companies, effected communications with
natives, maintained signal stations, and distributed
over air and sea notifications of the pending search.
Neither has American hardihood been withheld from
the work. We are sometimes surpassed by our kins-
men of the States in acts of venturesome audacity,
but on this occasion they have made common cause
with ourselves and shared the common success of the
experiment. In fact, the one great object of English-
men and Americans, Queen's ships and merchant
ships, whalers, cruisers, and volunteers, in these parts,
has been to discover some trace of our missing navi-
gators. It would be difficult, in short, to suggest
any scheme for attaining our ends which has not been
already put in practice. Such being the case, what
up to the present moment has been the result of our
exertions ? We speak without any wish to discourage
when we say that it is almost nothing at all. Even
the latest and best ordered expeditions have hardly in-
creased our knowledge in any material respect. It
was rendered probable some time ago that Sir John
Franklin's fate bad not been that which was at first
anticipated, and that he passed at least one winter in
safety upon the ice. But beyond this point our in-
formation has not proceeded. There is not even a
general agreement as to the path which the missing
expedition probably took, the fortune it has probably
experienced, or the direction in which the search
may be best renewed. We are, in fact, no wiser
than we were before, and all our recent exertions have
gone virtually for nothing. It is with no kind of
satisfaction that we record these conclusions, but we
do not see how it is possible to maintain that any
material point has been gained by our tenacious per-
severance and untiring zeal. Under these circum-
stances the next duties of Government become a se-
rious question for consideration. If it befits a nation
like ours to spare no efforts in such a rescue as this,
it also unquestionably befits us to regulate our efforts
by some definite plan, and to carry them only to such
a point as sound reason may dictate. As regards the
original character and purpose of those " Arctic ex-
peditions" which originated our present perplexities
we conceive there can hardly be two opinions sur-
viving. The very case before us shows what we may
too probably lose, and every year's experience has
taught us the little we could gain. The old idea of
a "North-west passage," and its importance to Euro-
pean navigation, must have been long since exploded.
Nothing could be clearer, even before the departure
of Sir Jobn Franklin, than that no such passage could
possibly exist under any available conditions. Whether
it was or was not practicable for a particular expedi-
tion to force a way from Baffin's Bay to Behring's
Straits might, perhaps, be an edifying geographical
enigma, but it was at any rate no practical question.
There could never be a passage .for vessels of com-
merce, nor could any substantial interests be concerned
in the result. It was utterly impossible that any per-
manent way could be maintained through such regions
as these. Whether the communication between ocean
and ocean was intercepted by solid land or perpetual ice
signified but little, so long as the impediment was
so manifest and insuperable. In the present day the
problem would hardly command even a speculative
interest. We have learnt to deal with the globe most
comprehensively. We manipulate the planet which
we inhabit as a child plays with the ball. We not
only put a " girdle round the earth," but we try it
in twenty different forms, taking oceans and conti-
nents for nothing in our computations. Whether we
shall reach the Antipodes by a western or an eastern
passage is at this moment a matter of debate. We
are told that we shall get to Calcutta in twelve days,
and to China in little more than a fortnight, while
steamers are already plying between the great At-
lantic and the great Pacific. Yet amidst all this ex-
perimental voyaging nobcdy has ever conceived that
the Pclar Sea cculd become a highway, or that the
best course to California would be by Behring's
Straits. The problem of the north-west passage is
as obsolete as the quadrature of the circle, and we
can only now lament that so much has been staked on
its solution. But though we do not think the geogra-
phical importance of these expeditions commensurable
with the cost or exposure of a single sloop's crew,
we unhesitatingly admit that our obligation to
rescue those who have been dispatched on the enter-
prise is of a very different magnitude. It signifies
supremely little whether Boothia Felix is a penin-
sula, an island, or a gulf—in fact, it seems not im-
probable that it may be all three in turn, according
as the " land" of these parts acquires or loses consis-
tency from the influence of the season. But it does
import most emphatically to our national honour that
we should ascertain the fate of our missing country-
then, and redeem them, if living, from the dangers to
which they have been consigned. As yet we have
made no substantial progress in the attempt; and it
becomes us, therefore, at this conjuncture, with the
prospect of another expedition in the ensuing spring,
to revise our plans of action, and endeavour to put the
work in a satisfactory shape for completion in some way
or other. In the first place, that no time may be con-
sumed in useless explorations, it is clearly advisable to
decide, according to the best opinions, what are the
particular localities in which there is any probability
of our obtaining the information we desire. Hitherto
we seem to have been merely groping in the ice upon
the speculation of coming somewhere or other upon
some traces to guide us. But our Arctic navigators
are now a numerous body, and their experience should
enable them at least to point out what parts should be
searched and what passed by. When this decision
shall have. been arrived at, we conceive it would be
desirable to invest the officers dispatched on the expe-
dition with as large a discretion as possible. Let
them be well furnished, well appointed, and well sup-
ported, and then let them employ the resources at
their disposal in any way suggested by actual cir-
cumstances. We suggest, too, that our efforts might
be maintained with a little more continuous perseve-
rance. As it is certainly not impracticable, and not
absolutely unsafe, to winter on the ice, it seems
unfortunate that any ships should have been
compelled by their instructions to return home
with eighteen months' provisions still remaining, and
with both vessels and crews in good working order. We
shall never attain our end by sailing up to the ice and
then sailing back again. There is a point in these
expeditions which must needs be discernible enough
to an experienced commander beyond which it is un-
advisable to proceed, and that point therefore should
be reached as quickly and as effectually as possible.
The exact limit cannot be defined in the offices of the
Admiralty ; it can only be ascertained on the spot, and
carte blanche should be accordingly given to the
officers employed. The problem is one which de-
pends entirely upon individual resolution and discre •
tion. If good men are selected, ample resources fur-
nished, and full liberty of action allowed, we could
hardly fail of arriving at some conclusive decision, and
this course we consider should be adopted forthwith.
We can only trust that the result might be the resto-
ration of Sir John Franklin to his country ; but in any
case we hope that these efforts may terminate the na-
tional propensity for Arctic expeditions.
ADVERTISER.—The article which we yester-
day copied from a Sunday paper, which has access to
official information, relative to the state of the forth-
coming quarter's revenue, will have been read with
I much gratification by all classes, save one. The ex-
ceptional class are the habitual croakers—a set of
men who exist in all countries, but who are just now
particularly numerous in England. These men live
on disasters. National reverses are the aliment of
their souls. Without something calamitous, either
real or imaginary, they could not manage to live at
all. They are, happily for themselves, men of fertile
imaginations—so that where they have no real evils
on which to feed, they can fancy that they are sur-
rounded by them. There is, fortunately for all but
themselves, abundant room for the exercise, just now,
of the wits of these persons. They never had greater
need to call their imaginative faculties into play ; for
there never was a time when appearances and pro-
spects were so much against them. They must have
felt sadly disappointed and fearfully crest-fallen, when
they read the anticipations of our Sunday contem-
porary, respecting the revenue returns, which will
be laid before the country next Friday—the word
anticipations being, in this instance, synonymous
with :actual facts. The forthcoming returns will be a
sore trial to the croakers. They will prove the heaviest
blow and greatest discouragement they ever re-

[PRICE SD.

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 couutry is
rather prosperous at present. We do not see how
c country
admission
they can do otherwise. The fact is too palpable to be
denied—too demonstrative to be disputed. It would
be an utterly hopeless thing to attempt to convince
the ry that
missiton is not w
in
and
a healtahtyoannned. happy
unreservedlyno
condition. It will, therefore, be their wiser course to
make
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 t.o 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, whose 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•keown 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 hy-
pothesis, that the country is at this moment on the
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. With
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 back 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 him. 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, Anipthill, Andover, Andover-road, Arundel, Ash-
ford, Atherstone, Attletorough, Aylesbury, Banbury,
Barnesley, Basingstoke, Bath, Battle, Bedford, Belford,
Belper, Berkhampstead, Berwick, Bewdley, Bicester,
Billericay, Bilstone, Birkenhead, Birmingham, Bishop's
Stortford, Blackburn, Blandford, Bognor, Bolton, Bos-
ton, Brackley, Bradford (Yorkshire), Bradford (Wilt-
shire), Brandon, Brentwood, Bridgwater, Bridport,
Brighton, Bristol, Broadway, Brom.grove, uckingham
Burford, Bromley, Bury (Lancashire), Bury St. Ed-
mund's, Cambridge, Canterbury, Carlisle, 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, Cuckfie!d, Dar-
lington, Dartford, Daventry, Deal, Derby, Devizes,
Dorking, Dorchester, Dover, Downham, Droitwich, Dud-
ley, Dunmow, Durham, Eastbourne, East Grinstead,
Eceleshall, Edenbridge, Ely, Emsworth, Eustone, Ep-
ping, Epsom, Exeter, Esher, Evesham, Farnham, Fare-
ham, Fsrringdon, Fenny Stratford, Feversham, Folk-
stone, Frome, Gateshead, Gloucester, Godalming, Goa-
port, Grantham, Gravesend, Guernsey, Guildford,
Hales a orth, Halifax, Harlow, Harwich, Hatfield,
Hastings, Havant, Hemel Hempstead, Henley-on-
Thames, Hereford, Hertford, Hexham, Higham Ferrers,
High Wycomb, Hoddesden, Holbeach, Horsham, Hud-
dersfield, Huntingdon, Hy the, 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, Melksham, Melton
Mowbray, Milnthorpe, Monmouth, Morpetb, Moreton
in the Marsh, Nantwich, Newark, Newnh am,
Newcastle-on-Tyne, Newmarket, Newport (Isle
of Wight), Newport Pagnel, Newport (Salop),
Northampton, North Shields, Norwich, Northwieh,
Nottingham, Nuneaton, Oakham, Odiam, li Ongar,
Oundle, Oxford, Penrith, Perahore, Peterborough, Pe-
tersfield, Poole, Portsmouth, Presteign, Preston, Pres-
ton Brook, Queenborough, Ramsgate, Reading, Rei-
gate, Ringwood, Rickmansworth, Ripley, Rochdale,
Rochester, Ross. Rotkerham, Rugby, Rugeley, Rumsey,
Ryde, Rye, Saffron Walden, Salisbury, Sandbach, Sand-
wich, Saxmundliam, Sevenoaks, Sheerness, Sheffield,
Shepton Mallet, Sherborne, Shields (North), Shoreham,
Shrewsbury, Sittingbourne, Slough, Shields (South),
Southampton, Spalding, Stafford, Staines
Stamtord,
Staplehnrst, St. Alban's, St. Ive's (Hunt.), St.
Leonard's, Stockport, Stone, Stourbridge,-Stoney Strat-
ford, Stowmarket, Stratford-on-Avon, Stroud, Sunder-.
land, Swindon, Tamworth, Taunton, Tenbury, Tenter-
den, Tetbary, Tewkesbury, Thane, Thetford, Think,
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 (Somersetahire), Welwyn, Weymouth,
Westbury, West Bromwich, Weston-super-Mare, White -
haven, Wigan, Wimbornei Winchester, Winohfield,
Windsor, Winslow, Wisbeacb, Witham, Witney, Wo-
burn,,Wokingham, Wolverhampton, Woodbridge, Wood
stock, Worcester, Workington, Worthing, Wymond-
ham, Yarmouth, Yeovil, York, and the whole of Ireland
and Scotland.
Newsvenders and other persons using these mails are
reminded that bags to the above named towns sr!,for-
warded from London to these places every morning,
They
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At the General
Lombard-street, the boxes will close for newspapers
at :a quarter before 8 A.M., and for letters at half-past
8 A.M.

PERvEESIONS To RomE.--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
c4thouo church atishogton on Sunday evening last.