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WTIGIITLY SHELTER for the HOUSELES
PRESIDENT—The Bight lion. the LOUD MATOR.
TaxesunEn —JOHN LAI;OUCIIERE, Esq.
In consequence of the inclement state of the weather, the Cents
Asylum was opened on the Evening of the 31st of December. The
applicants have been as follows :

Alen. I Women.

lli,ciren

Total.

Lodgings I Rations of Bree d.

915 1 309

1,364

Subscriptiong since

At the Committee Room.
.Tabez Jackson. Esq. .£3 0 01

J. Bradbury, Esq. . .
Messrs. Jacob Wrench
and Sons . .
James Lyon, Esq. •

1 1 0,

. 2 201
. 1 O('

T. S. Seagcr, Esq. . . 1 0 0
William Drysdale, Esq.. 5 0 0
E. P. . . . • . 0 10 0
J. L. M. . . . 5 00
Humanitas . . 2 2 0
John Hopkinson, Esq. . 1 1 0
Joseph Gondar, Esq. . 2 2 0
Rev. Wm. Deey . . 1 1 0
Mrs. Elizabeth Talver . 1 0 0
Thomas Hudson, Esq. 1 1 0
Tile Rev. A. H. Douglas 5 ()
Mrs. A. 11. Doughis . 5 0 0
Thomas Poston, Esq. . 3 0 0
.... 1 1 0
Thomas Ridgway. Esq. . 5 5 0
J. E. . . . 2 2 0
The Bishop of Peterbo-
rough . . . . 5 0 0,
T. P. Warren, Esq. . 2 2 0
Thos. Johnson, Esq. . 2 0 0
Chas. Kelsall, Esq. . . 5 5 0
Jas. Straclian, Esq.. . 1 1 0
B. Oliveira, Esq. . . 3 3 0
J.J.S. . . . 2 20
Bat. Main, Esq, per
Wm. Edwares, Esq.
Wm. Smith, Esq. .
Miss Smith . .
A. Brick well, Esq. .
Miss M. J. Player
Anthy. Mottley, Esq

4,$~A

those last reporte 1.

12,145

Frederick Squire, Esq. £3 3 4)
Mrs. W. Archer . 1 1 .3

At Sir J. W. Lub- ock and Co' g,
Miss C. NVheler, per Giyn

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and Co. . . . 1 1 .0
IL W. F. Stevenson, Esry. 5 5.. 0
Messrs. J. Watson, Son
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G. E. Hodgkinson, Esq. . 3 3 0
Capt. Houston Stewart . 5 0 0
Richard Williams, Esq. . 2 2 0
John Squire, Esq. . . 2 2 0
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Messrs. Janes Loyd and Co.
Messrs. Barnett, Hoare, and Co.
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London Joint-Stock Bank.
Londcn and Westminster Bank.
Union Bank of London.
N.B. This Society employs no I

Houseless Contmittee-room, 75,
January 15.

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Itolleston, Esq.

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:Messrs. Bouvcrle and Co.
London and Westminster Bank..
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inerrant collectors.
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Old Broad-street,

THE QUARTERLY REVIEW,,
No. CLXXI ,is published This Day.

CONTENTS:
I. Natural History of Man.
11. Clergy Relief Bill.
111. Agriculture—Draining.
IV. Memoirs of Lord Cloncurry and Mr. John O'Connell.
V. Free Trade.
VI. Venice.
VII. Lord Clarendon and the Orange Institution.
John Murray, Albemarle-street.

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FIRIDGE'S HEAL-ALL ; or Celebrated Em-
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land, as the most efficacious Remedy for Rheumatism, Lumbago,
P;iivs in the Limbs and Numbness, Sciatic and Paralytic Affections,
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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
OF TUESDAY.
DOWNING-STREET, JAN. 15, 1850.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Henry
Samuel Chapman and Sidney Stephen, Esq., to be
Judgos of the Supreme Court of the colony of New
Zealand.

Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Joseph
Michael O'Neill, Esq., to be her Majesty's Advocate for
the colony of Sierra Leone.

Her Majesty has fqrther been pleased t) appoint
Algernon Montagu, Esq., to be Stipendiary Magistrate
fur her Majekity's settlements in the Falkland Islands.

ADMIRALTY, JAW. 14.

The following promotions have this day taken place
conFequent on the death of Admiral of the Blue, Alex-
ander Wilmot Sehomberg:—

Vicc -Admiral of the Red, James Carthew, to bo Admiral

of the Blue.
Vice-Admiral of the White, John Wight, to be Vice-

, Admird of the Red.
Vice-Admiral of the Blue, Richard Thomas, to be Vice-

Admiral of the White.
Rear-Admiral of the Red, Sir Thomas John Cochrane,
K.C.8., to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue.
Rear-Admiral of the White, James Murray Gordon,
to be Rear-Admiral of the Red.
Rear-Admiral of the Blue, Peter John Douglas, to be
Rear-Admiral of the White.
Captain Sir Edmund Lyon!, Bast. G.C.8., K 0.11., to be
Rear-Admiral of the Blue.

Retired Captain the Right Hon. Kenelm Lord Somer-
ville has also been promoted to be a Retired Rear-Ad-
miral on the terms stated In the London Gazette of the
Ist of Sept., 1846, but without increase of pay.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Dorsetshire.
Francis Pitney Brouncker Martin, Esq., to be Deputy-
Lieutenant, Jan. 9.
WIIITEHAL, JAN. 10.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Newbould,
of Sheffield, in the county of York, Gent., to be a Mas-
ter Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
BA.NKRUPTS. _

William Lee, bargebuilder, I,otberithe, to surrender,
Jan. 24, at one, and Feb. 28, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Birchin-lane,
Coruhill; Chester, Blackfriars-road.
Jonathan Payne, livery-stable keeper, Milton-street,
Dorset-square, Jan 22, at two, and Feb. 26, at
twelve, et the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official
assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street; Fuller, Hat-
ton-A-arden.
Benjamin Rawlings, linendraper, Queen's-row, Pim-
lico, Jan. 22, at twelve, and Feb. 21, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, °facial assignee, Coleman-
street-buildings; Parker, Sr. Paul's-churchyard.
John Morrish, cooper, Tiverton, Devonshire, Jan. 24,
at one, and Feb. 20, at eleven, at the Exeter District
Court. Ilernaman, official assignee, Exeter; Stogdon,

Exeter.
John Edward Todhunter, bookseller, Darlington,
Durham, Jan. 28, at twelve, and Feb. 21, at one, at the
Neevcastle-upomayne District Court. Baker, official
assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Allison, Darlington;
Ha, le, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, and New-
castle-upon-Tyne.
John Charles North, coal dealer, Stamford, Lincoln-
shire, Jan. 25, and March 1, at one, at the Birmingham
District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Nottingham;
Wratislaw, Rugby.
Vincent Cooke, cabinetmaker, Worcester, Jan. 29 and
Feb. 26, at to olve, at the Birmingham District Court.
ChriXe, official assignee, Birmingham; RO9OC, Bir-
ham.
John Muckleston, jun., grocer, Shrewsbury, Jan. 25,
and Feb. 20, at twelve, at the Birmingham District
Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham;
Britten and Sons, Bristol; Wright, Birmingham.
William Drabbes, innkeeper, Askern, Yorkshire, Jan.
29 and Feb. 18, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court.
Hope, official assigne", Leeds; Palmer, Doncaster;
Payne, Eddisor, Ford, and North, Leeds.
George Olney, merchant, Liverpool, Jan. 28, at
twelve, and Feb. 19, at eleven, at the Liverpool District
Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool; Evans
and Son, Liverpool.
Henry Sutcliffe and Joseph William Harris, cotton
spinners, Rochdale, Lancashire, Jan. 26 and Feb. 25, at
twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Ilobson,
.official assignee, Manchester; Sutton, Manchester.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
J. Reid, Edgeware-road, Bexley-heath, Woolwich,
Rochester, Chatham, and Maidstoue, draper, Feb. 8, at
,eleven—W. Woods and S. Thomas, Cheapside, whole-
sale hard waremen, Feb. 5, at half-past eleven— R. Wor-
ten, Melford, Suffolk, maltater, Feb. 1, at twelve—E.
Mumford, Great Maplestead, Essex, miller. Feb. 1, at
eleven—A. Rainey, Regent-street, Piccadilly, estate
agent and auctioneer, Feb. 1, at twelve—F. Adamson,
Bond-court, Walbrook, merchant, Feb. 1, at eleven—W.
Minton, Liverpool, linendrapeT, Feb. 1, at half-past
twelve—J. Alexander, Great Winchester-street, City,
merchant, Feb. 7, at eleven—J. Bickerton, Bread-street,
Cheapside, hat manufacturer, Feb. 7, at one—A. More-
crafr, Marlborough, Wilts, draper, Feb. 7, at two—J.
Flemming, Salters' Hall-court, Cannon-street, printer,
Feb. 7, at twelve.

In the Country.
A. M. Paterson and J. Wa,lker, Kingswinford, Staf-
forihhire, ironfounders, Feb. 2, tit eleven, at the Court,
Birmingham—Sarah Ross and Timothy Ross, Leicester,
hosiers, Feb. 8, at twelve, at the Court, Nottingham—L.
Thompson, Westbromwich, Staffordshire, coach and
railway springmakor, Feb. 7, at twelve, at the Court,
Birmingham—W. Eccles, Walton-le-Dale, Lancashire,
cotton spinner, Feb. 8, at eleven, at the Court, Man-
chester—W. Clayton, Lsngeliffe, Yorkshire, banker,
Feb. 8, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester.
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.
J. C. Wetton, Crown-row, Mile-end-road, flour factor,
2d., any Thursday, between eleven and two, at the office
of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers.
R. Goring, Brentford, butcher, 4s. 9d., any Thursday,
between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell,
Guildhall- chambers.
R. T. Smith and Co., New Inn, Old Bailey, railway
carriers, 2s. 10d., any Thursday, between eleven and
two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers.
S. Leon, Rathbone-place, tsilor, 2s. 6d., any Thurs-
day. between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pen-
nell, Guildhall-chambers.
J. H. Garrod, Thornham Magna, Suffolk, grocer,
Is. 3d., any Thursday, between eleven and two, at the
oofffice .
TM,
Iro.
rlo'ledr
a,
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ens idl
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nh a 101-
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B. saler and chap.
man, 35., any Thursday, between eleven and two, at the
office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers.
J. Joyce. Warwick-lane, corn dealer, Is. 4d., any
Thursday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr.
Pennell, Guildhall-chambers.
J. Bossell, Farringdoc-street, glass cutter, 2s. 6d., any
Thursday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr.
nnell, Guildhall-chambers.
J. S. Stopford, A ustin-friars, merchant, 25., any
Thursday, b tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr.
Pennell, Guildhall-chambers.
J. Walters, Union-street, Southwark, and London-
wall, boils merchant and surgical instrument maker,
111., any Thursday, between eleven and two, at the
office of ar. Pennell, Quilalugl.cbarabers.

J. Williams, Ilampstead-road,- builder, la. 43., any
Thursday, between cloven sad two, at the office of Mr,
Pennell, Guildhall-chatsl)ers.
A. A;kins, Finsbury-square, tuerchan!,„ a further divi-
dend of -ad., towards the fist and a, cond dividend of 93.
and 7rl, on any 'Thursday, botween cloven and two, at
the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers.
J. G. Ufford, Idington, common brewer, 14;3., on any
Thursday, between eleven and two, at the office (f Mr
Pennell, G uildh all-(!harn hers.
A. Whi'o Bi.,hopweartnouth, Durb.sra, shipowner and
merchant, 7d., on Saturday, Jan. 19, or any subsequent
Saturday, between ten arld three, at the office of Mr.
Wahloy, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
T. Fenaick and R. Kydd, Tynemouth, common
brewera and spirit merchants, 2s. 7d., on Saturday,
Jan. 19, or any eubsequ2nt Saturday, between ten and
throe, at the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle•upon-
Tyne.
J. Clementson, Whitehaven, Cumberland, tobacconist,
75., on Saturday, Jan. 19, ur any subsi'quent Saturday,
between ten and three, at the office of Mr. Wakley,
Newcaatlt -upon-Tyne.

. -
A. Hurriion, Friars Goose, Gateshead, Durham,
alkali manufacturer, 2s. in part of first and second divi-
dends of and 4.., on Saturday, Jan. 19, or any sub-
segivut Saturday, between ten and three, at the office of
Mr. lira Newcastle-upon,-Tyne.
E. W. Smites, Blackburn, Lancashire, bookselle-,
.Ib. Hid., ou Tuesday, Jan. 15, or any subsequent Tues-
day, between ten and ono, at the office cf Mr. Hobson,
Manche ter.
S. Dodd, Manchester, fustian ntannf.oturer, 2a. &id.,
on Tuesday, jail. 15, or any subsoqumt Tuesday, be-
tween tea and one, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Man-
chester.

W. North, York, jeweller, 4-. 3d., on Tuesday,
Jae. 15, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven
--
and two, _at the office of Mr. Hop,,, Leeds.
NOTICE OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Ba%inghall-street.
J. Tuhey, willow-walk, Surrey, builder, Feb. 6, at
eleven—L. P. Capita, Duke's-place, Aldgat.2, fruit mer
chant, Feb. 6, at twelve—C. Bray, Landpott, South-
ampton, trader, Feb. 7, at half peat one.
In the Country.
P. Millard, Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire, grocer, Feb.
7, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—E. Tapson, Cardiff,
coal merchant, Feb. 6, at twelve, at the Court, Bristol—
R. J. Hicks, West Derby, paper manufacturer, Feb. 7,
at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—G. Chapman, Liver-
pool, victualler, F. b. 7, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool.

CERTIFICATES GRANTED.
J. M. Levine and M. Levison, Norwich, jewellers,
certificate of the third class—J. B.`Elworthy, Bridge-
water, draper—J. Elliott, East Ham, cattle dealer—W.
Fortesque, Artillery-place, Woolwich, baker—J. Knight,
Ipswich, licensed victualler—J. M. Gardner, Bristol.
draper, certificate of the first class, at the expiration of
21 days from Jan. 7-1--J. Evans, Gilbert-street, Oxford-
street, wine and spifit merchant—E. Brien, Bristol,
upholsterer, certificate of the second class, at the expi-
ration of six months from- Jan. 2—J. Carter, Bristol,
victualler, certificate of the first class—G. Sedgwick,
Moorgate-street, stationer, certificate of the third class—
P. Healey, Birmingham, factor, certificate of the first
class—J. W. Gowing, East Deraham, Norfolk, certificate
of the third class, at the expiration of 21 days from Jan.
11—J. Roberts, Kidderminster, clothier, certificate of
he third class, at the expiration of 21 days from Jan. 11.

THE CHOLERA,' AND THE TEMPERATURE OF THE
THAMES.
_ _

A table on cage 3 exhibits, in addition to the results
which were printed last week, the proportion of deaths
f%-em cholera in every district of London under the
several water companies. It shows also for each di-
trict the genera! mortality at other times, and the
pr;ncipal circumstances which affect the health of
the people. Thus, in all London, 66 in 10,000 in •
habitants died of cholera; the annual rate of mortality
from all causes is about 252 in 10,000 ; the aver-
age elevation of the dwellings above the Thames
high-water mark is estimated at 39 feet; the persons
to an acre, 30; the persons to each inhabited house;
7 or 8 (exactly 7.4); the average annual value of the
houses assessed under the income-tax (1842-3) was
401.; and the average expense of house and shop room
to each person is 5.5951. annually (Si. 12s. nearly);
2s. 24. weekly ; 3 5-7 d., or somewhat less than 4d.
daily. The drainage,. density, and poverty of the
districts, it will be seen, have all a certain influence
on the mortality ; and the deaths from cholera vary
al o with the water supplies. Of the inhabitants of
districts supplied with Thames water taken from the
river above Hammersmith, from 6 to 17 in 10,000
died; of the inhabitants of districts supplied with
water from the river below Battersea numbers vary-
ing from 31 to 111, 166, 194, and 268 in 10,000 lost
their lives. The sewerage of all these districts is bad.
The Thames, besides supplying water to a great
portion of the inhabitants for washing, cleansing, and
all domestic purposes, presents the large evaporating
sui face of about 2,245 acres ; which must be taken
into account in estimating the causes of the great.
JlLlity of cholera in London. The contents of the
virts and drains and watereloseta are disgorged by
the great sewers into the waters; and are agitated
with the mud in dirty solution, from which vapours
are given off day and night in quantities which the
phenomena of a " London fog' reveal. The cold
still air then condenses, and arrests the matter which
at other times enters the atmosphere invisibly, and
escapes observation. The mean night temperature of
the Thames from May 27th to September 15th, 1849,
was 64 deg. ; the mean lowest observed temperature
of the air was .52 deg. ; so that the wide simmering
waters were breathing into the vot sleeping city
Wilted vapours which the temperature of the air
would not sustain.

Undoubtedly, vegetable and animal matters in
water or air, however noxious they may be, undergo
decomposition, and are ultimately converted into their
inorganic elements—water, carbonic acid, ammonia,
different salts and substances. It is chiefly a process
of oxidation, and the rapidity of the transformations
depends on the oxygen present, the temperature, and
other circumstances. With a view to assist in de-
termining the effects of the Thames on the health of
London, Captain Dawson, R E., of the Tithe-office,
estimated fir the Registrar-General the areas of the
several districts, 'as well as of the surface of the
Thames in London, and Captain Sanders, of the
Dreadnought Hospital, has since 1844 taken obser-
vations on the temperature of this body of water,
which have been sent to the Astronomer-Royal, and
inserted by him in the weekly meteorological table.
It is a fact well worthy of attention, that after the
temperature of the Thames has risen above 60 deg.,
diarrhoea, cholera, and dysentery become prevalent,
and disappear as the temperature subsides. The
cholera reached London in the new epidemic form
about October, 1848 ; it prevailed through the win-
ter, and destroyed 94 lives in the second week of
January, when the temperature of the Thames was
37 deg. ' - it declined rapidly through April and May;
the night temperature of the Thames then rose to
62 deg. in the week ending June 2 ; with some fluc-
tuations it went up to 68 deg. in Jalv, and remained
above 60 deg, until the middle of September (Sep-
tember 15). The deaths from cholera during the 16
weeks were 9, 22, 42. 49, 124, 152, 339, 678, 783,
926, 823, 1,230, 1,272, 1,663, 2,02k0.1,682. The
mean night temperature of the Thames fell to 56
deg.; the deaths from cholera to 839 in the week
September 16-22 ; the temperature gradually fell to
38 deg. in the last week of November, when there
was only one death from cholera registered.
The seven districts of London in which the morta-
lity is highest from ordinary causes are the West
London District (between Smithfield and the
Thames), St. Saviour's, Whitechapel, St. George's-
in-the-East, Chelsea, St. Olave's, and Rotherhithe.
They all adjoin the Thames.

[PRICE on.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 15.—Admiral of the Blue
Alexander Wilmot Schomberg died at his residence,
Bognor, Sussex, near this port, on Sunday, in the
76th year of his age He was a lieutenant of the
Solebay, 32, and served on shore at the reduction of
the French West India islands in 1794; and was
second in the G!atton, 56, in action with five French
frigates, in 1796 ; captain of the Loire, 48, em-
ployed in co-operation with the patriots on the coast
of Galicia, and captured the French ship Liebe, of 34
guns, in 1807. He subsequently commanded the
Dictator, 64, the York, 74, on the home and North
American stations ; the Melville, 74, fur the Medi-
terranean station. Between 1810 and 1812 we find
him chiefly employed in command of light squadrons
in the Baltic, where he watched a Russian fleet
in the Gulf of Finland, afforded great security
to trade, and so completely blockaded the
Danish cruisers that a single sloop•of-war
was a sufficient protection for any fleet of mer-
chantmen crossing the North Sea. He continued on
the Mediterranean station in the Melville, 74, until
promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral, on the
23d of July, 1830. On the termination of the war
Admiral Schomberg suggested to Lord Melville
(then First Lord of the Admiralty) a plan, much
approved at the time—although eight or nine years
elapsed before any of his suggestions were adopted—
for victualling the seamen and marines of the fleet,
wherein he was the first to propose the substitution of
tea, sugar, &c., for half the usual allowance of spirits.
In 1818 he printed, for private circulation, a tract
entitled " Naval Suggestions," many of which have
been embraced ; and in 1832 he love .tp_the world
his " Practical Hint; nn Buitang,ltigging, Arming,
and Equipping his Majesty's Ships of War, &c."
The commissions of the late Admiral bore date :
_ .

Lieutenant, July 26, 1793 ; Commander, July 24,
1795 ; Captain, Jan. 1, 1801 ; Rear-Admiral, July
22, 1830 ; Vice•Adiniral, Nov. 23, 1841; Admiral,
Oct. 9, 1849.

Retired Surgeon Guy Acheson (1804) died a few
days since in Dublin.

The Sidon steam-frigate bad her steam up in the
harbour to-day, but was not taken out, as it was
deemed there was too much wind to allow of a fair
result as to speed being arrived at.
Rio DE JANEIRO, OCT., 1849.—Commodore Sir
Thomas Herbert, K.C.8., has been to Buenos Ayres
in the Harpy iron steamer, to visit Rosas, before sail-
ing to England in the Raleigh, 50, which visit was
returned by the Governor at the lodging-rooms of the
Commodore. Exchange was 62 to 62i ; the market
glutted with ships and goods.
The Hydra steam-sloop, Commander G. Skipwith,
sailed hence on the llth instant, at 10 P.M., to cruise
to the northward. On the 15th, at 10.30 A.m., between
Manguinos and Pum, she sighted a brig at the dis-
tance of ten miles running along the land in a north-
easterly direction. She immediately chased, and the
stranger altered her course to gain the land ; the
Hydra having cut off her retreat, and no possible
means of escape being left to the brig, the latter run
shore in a high surf. The Hydra then anchored
about two miles off the brig and sent her boats to
board. She was found to be the Imogene, of about
200 tons, which had left Rio three months previously,
and had on board about 550 slaves from Benguela. An
hour elapsed before the Hydra's boats reached the brig,
during which time the crewof the brig landed, and suc-
ceeded in taking with them about 150 slaves, nearly
the whole having swam ashore, leaving, on the arrival
of the boats, about 400 black., of which number 352
were taken on board the Hydra. It now getting
dark, the sea increasing, and the weather threatening,
Commander Skipwith recalled his boats, leaving still
about 50 of the slaves, who were most likely landed
next day. No papers were found on board. Several
shots were fired from the Hydra to brini the brig to,
but no notice was taken of them. On the Hydra's
boats boarding, and until they left, the crew of the
slaver, protected by a sand-bank, kept up an irregular
fire of musketry, wounding Mr. Crawford, the senior
lieutenant of the Hydra, three of her crew, and one
black, slightly. The slaves have since been put on
board her Majesty's ship Crescent, at this port, and
are soon to be sent to Demerara, in charge of Acting-
Lieutenant Howesott and Assistant-Surgeon Patrick,
of the Hydra.
The Southampton, 50, Rear-Admiral Reynolds,
sailed on the morning of the 13th, for the Plats, to
relieve the Raleigh, Commodore Sir Thos. Herbert.
The Cormorant steam-slap, Commander Schom-
berg, arrived here from England on the 20th ult.
The Harpy iron steam-vessel is to be kept on the
station as a tender. Her officers and men are going
home, and she is to be attached to the flag-ship.
On the 30th the Kestrel packet, Lieutenant Baker,
sails for Monte Video; the Spider packet, Lieutenant
fraydon, for Santa Catalena; and the Griffon, Lieut.
Thurburn, for Pernambuco.

Dr. Morgan, acting-surgeon of the Hydro, has
been superseded, and goes to Demerara in one of the
slave transports.
Mr. Ryan, master's assistant of the Griffon, and
Mr. Wildman, naval cadet of the Hydra, join the
Dalinluc, 20, Captain Wellesley.
The Raneira tender was sold out of her Majesty's
service at Buenos Ayres, a few days since, for 1,300
dolls., and next day was resold by the purchasers for
1,500 dolls.

APPOINTMENTS.

WooLwrcu, JAN. 15.—Assistant-Surgeon Henry
Loney (1846) to the Stromboli steam-sloop, cruising
in the English Channel.
Midshipman Francis T. Symour to the Gladiator
steam-frigate at Devonport.
The Lightning steam-vessel, Master Commander
Petley, returned to Woolwich, from Greenhithe, on
Saturday morning.
The Monkey steam-vessel, Master Commander
Bryant, returned to Wroolwich this morning from
towing the Investigator to the Downs.
Shortly after the crew of the Investigator were paid
wages in advance, at Greenhithe, on Friday last, six
of the men managed to get on shore, and it was ge-
nerally reported they had run and left the vessel. It
was subsequently found that, sailor-like, they wished,
as they had obtained their pay, to treat their friends
at Woolwich, and bid them goodbye a second time.
The facility of railway communication ,between
Greenhithe and Woolwich enabled them to accomplish
their wishes and return to Greenhithe the same night,
where they kept up their jollity with the friends they
had taken with them from Woolwich until five o'clock
A.M. on Saturday, when they were all found and taken
on board their vessel by Master-Commander Petley,
of the Lightning, with the sergeant of marines. The
men all declared they had no intention of being ab-
sent when the vessel was to sail.

THE COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON'S NEW NOVEL,
" COUNTRY QUARTERS."—" This novel is net the least
amusing of Lady Blessington's books, the interest of
which rests upon the ' sayings and doings' of the officers
of an English regiment who are quartered in a quiet
provincial town of Ireland. Young heat ti flutter, bright
eyes glitter, and old heads calculate. Iti pages are re-
plete with husband-hunting misses, match-making
mammas, and love-making, light-hearted aspirants for
conquest in love and glory. Its principal characters aro
%Nell drawn, and the secondary personages by whom
they are surrounded are sketched in Lady Blessington's
peculiarly racy style."-,- Weekly Times.

THE POOR AND THE FINE ARTS.—The exhibition
of paintings in Post-office-place was finally closed on
Saturday evening, having been open sixteen weeks.
During the last month the exhibition has been accessi-
ble to the working classes at 2d. each for adults, and ld.
for children; and, ;although many of the middle class
have availed themselves of the cheap rate of admission,
great numbers of the people in more humble circum-
stances have also attended. The fact that the weekly
receipts have been as great during the past month as
when the price of admix ion was ls. is conclusive evi-
dence that the poor as well as the rich are capable of
admiring and appreciating the beautiful in art. The
average weekly attendance during the month has been
upwards of 3,250, being six times greater than the at-
tendance at the original charge. The exhibition was
closed on Christmas-day, so that it has been opened
twenty-three days at the low prices; and it is calculated
that no fewer than 13,000 have availed themselves of the
opportunity thus afforded for visiting. the exhibition.
Last year the exhibition was open for seventeen days at
the charges of 2d, and ld , and 11,391 persons attended.
The number of pictures sold during tine exhibition has
been much smaller this year than om any previous occa-
sion.—Liverpool Albion.
sterda
PROTECTION MEETING AT LEWES.
of
b lteh teo afternoon a numerously attended meeting
and others of the county of Sussex, favo?.reaweo. On the
protec-
tion, was held in the Corn Excbanrot
—YeiarmerYs
Sir Henry
motion of the Sheriff, the chair wteasbyek
the Earl of Shef-
Shiffner, Barr. was stIP
Peßr'alt,2r Burrell, and other
gentlemen of influence in h
field, Mr. Frewin,
the county. The meeting was
Ellmae, Mr. Hillman, Mr. C.
addressed by Mr. ,an ot—er gent'e-
A number of resolutions
favour of protection
mei).
'we were adopted; also a petition to the Queen
Beard, Mr. Baxter,jMer.nFrexvin,
.M.P. d
to agriculture
to dissolve the present Parliament, and to call to her
councils men who possessed the confidence of the nation.

GAMEKEEPER SHOT.—In the case of the game-
keeper Thorpe, who was shot near B. lack% ell, in Der-
byshire, last week, the adjourned inquest was held on
Tuesday, when the jury returned a verdict—That the
deceased was shot by some person, but whether wilfully
or by accident they could not ascertain. The case is
still in the bands cf the magistiates at Mansfield, for
further investigation.

COURT OF A-LDERIVIEN: --
Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of
business.
The SEIERIFFS reported to the Court that the City
prisons were in a healthy state.
In the representation of the state of the debtors'
prison, in Whitecross-street, by Mr. Burdon, the
governor, were the following paragraphs:—The
number of persons committed to the debtors' prison
far the past quarter shows an increase of 151 as com-
pared with the corresponding quarter of last year.
This in part may be accounted for by the increase of
business in the various County Courts, commitments
being now made from the districts
of Whitechapel
and the Tower Hamlets, which until the County
Courts Act came into operation had no prison to
commit to, and which commitments are, by
the Small Debts Amendment Act, made to
the debtors' prison. The prison is healthy,
clean, and in good order. During the year 74
prisoners have availed kthemselves of the privilege
of working in the prison work-room, and receiving
all their earnings : and 247 have been assisted from
various charitable funds, either in arranging with
their creditors, or by taking them through the In-
solvent Debtors' Court. Many future inmates of the
debtors' prison will experience a severe loss in the
lamented death of her late Majesty Queen Adelaide.
" I am unable (says Mr. Burdon) to state the ave-
rage annual number of those who were the recipients
of her bounty, her works of charity being done in
secret; and it was only in those cases which required
information I had the honour of being applied to."
ALLEGED DISQUALIFICATION UNDER THE NEW C 08...
PoRATION ACT.
The Court proceeded to take into consideration the
following petition against the return of two gentle-
men who were elected on St. Thomas's day, to serve
as Common Councilmen for the ward of Aldersgate.
" The humble petition of Robert Besley, an inhabitant
'householder of the ward of Aldersgate.
" That an Act was ,passed in the last session of the
Imperial Parliament, 12 and 13 Vic., entitled The
London Corporation Act,' by which the Legislature de-
fined the qualification required for members of the Court
of Common Council of the city of London.
" That in the 3d clause provision is made for the pre-
paring a list of inhabitant householders, who shall be
entitled to vote for aldermen, or common-councilmen,
or ward officers.
" That by the sth clause, under the head of qualifica-
tion for common-councilmen, it is enacted that a com-
mon-councilman must be a freeman of the city of Lou-
den, an occupier of premises of the annual value of 101.,
and who shall be registered in the register of the voters
for the city of London, now in use, in respect of premises
of the annual value above-mentioned.
" That at the last election of common-councilmen for
the ward of Aldersgate, two gentlemen (Mr. John
Lorkin and Mr. George Stacey) were returned by the
alderzran presiding as duly elected to fill the office of
common-councilman, neither of whom were at the time
of the election registered in the register of voters for the
city of London in use at elections for members to servo
in Parliament, and then in force in respect of premises of
the annual value of 101. That a written protest against
the return of these gentlemen was duly handed to the
presiding alderman before the return was made, and
objections taken previously to the election.

Your petitioner, then-fire, humbly prays your Wor-
shipful Court to declare this election, as far as these
two gentlemen are concerned, to be null and void, and
that the before-named Mr. John Lorkin and Mr. George
S'acey be declared by this Act of the Imperial Parlia-
ment disqualified to sit as members of the Court of Com-
mon Council, and that your Worshipful Court will fur-
ther cause a precept to Le issued f,r the election of two
qualified persons, instead of the before-named Mr. John
Lorkin and Mr. George Stacey, and your petitioner will
ever pray, (Signed) " ROBERT BESLEY,
" Fann-street, Aldersgate-street.
" London, Jan. 7, 1850."
The petitioner, who was, upon the suggestion of the
Recorder, allowed to correct an error in the drawing
up of the petition, which error, however, did not at
all interfere with the general meaning of the docu-
ment, proceeded to argue that Mr. Lorkin and Mr.
S'acey were to all intents and purposes disqualified by,
the new Act. He had uniformly supported the elec-
tion of the two gentlemen against whom he petitioned,
and he had had no occasion to withdraw that support
except for the purpose of testing the efficacy of the
New Corporation Bill, which he contended dimi-
nished instead of increased the franchise.

Mr. STACEY, in addressing the Court, said he was
perfectly aware of the excellent intentions of the pe-
titioner, but he believed the clause objected to as a
disfranchising clause would soon have an opposite
effect, and operate in considerably increasing thy
franchise.

Alderman THOMPSON looked upon the New Cor-
poration Act as an extension, and not a contraction
of the qualification, and moved that the petition be
dismissed.

Aldarman FAILEBROTHE seconded the motion,
which was unanimously agreed to.
Mr. Lorkin and Mr. Stacey therefore remain mem-
bers of the Court of Common Council.

THE NON-FREEMEN 05' THE CITY OF LONDON.
Mr. R. TAYLOR, the foreman of the inquest of the
ward of Farringdon Without, appeared for the pur-
pose of supporting the presentment handed into the
Court of Wardmote on Plough Monday, from the
district of St. Andrew's relative to the non-
freemen. He had found that many other present-
ments to the same effect had been made; and he re-
gretted that, for the twenty-five years during which,
to his knowledge, the grievance had been annually
complained of, no attempt had been made by either
department of the corporation to apply a remedy. In
fact, the return of non-freemen had become such a
farce, that some of the wards considered it to be ab -
surd to make any presentment at all upon the sub-
ject. How long, he wished to know, were 200 or
300 gentlemen to be compelled to give up their time
to the performance of such a farce ? There were
several serving with him on the inquest who were not
freemen, and they were obliged to serve in that office
although excluded from every other civic right. How
long was that system of annoyance to last? Mr. Taylor
proceeded to contend against the unjust practice of
compelling some retail dealers to take up their freedom
and excusing others from taking any trouble in the
matter—giving, in effect, a license to all whole-
sale dealers to do just as they pleased. The object of
the inquest was, he said, not by any means to use
compulsion in any case, but to extend the franchise
to all paying scot, and who should be returned in the
presentment by the wards; and they trusted that, in-
stead of being, as they appeared to be now, divided
into hostile parties, the citizens of London should
enjoy the privileges which constituted the great fea-
ture of their original institutions.
After a discussion, in which the arguments ac
frequently used in both courts on the question of the
freedom were repeated, the presentment was received,
and the inquest withdrew.
A memorial from the Court of Assistants of the
Hon. Artillery Company, and a communication from
Major Barnard, with resolutions passed at a meeting
of members of the company, were, we understand,
discussed with closed doors, and referred to the com-
mittee of privileges.
Adjourned.

rAr.isuAm, JAN. 14.—The following mysterious
discovery has produced no small amount of excitement
in this neighbourhood, the facts of which are not much
much unlike those connected with the recent child-
murder ease at the Old Bailey, at least as far as regards
the disposal of the body. An inquiry was instituted by
the county coroner, from which we gather the sub-
joined. In the course of last Tuesday, a carrier named
Stewart was desired by Mr. and Mrs. Smith, of the
Unicorn Inn, to call at the Reading Station of the Great
Western Railway, and inquire if there was a parcel for
a lady staying at their house. Ile called at the station
on the following day, and Dixon, ono of the railway
porters, stated there was a parcel directed " Mrs.
Smith. to be left at the Reading Station till called
for, carriage paid. Paddington." It was a round
shaped package, covered with canvas, and sewn round
the address. It was given to the carrier, who took it to
the Unicorn, but it not being the parcel expected by the
landlord or lady they declinel to receive it. Stewart
then conveyed it to another Mr. Smith, who lives in
and two other persons. On the calvass being removed
a light chip box covered with paper was found. The
box was forced open, and in it was discovered the body
of a female child wrapped up in a coarse cloth. Mr.
Newell, the constable, was called to take charge cf it,
and on Mr. Knowles, a surgeon, attending, he pro-
nounced it to be tao body of a newly-born infant. A
post mortem examination showed that it had been born
alive, and from the traces of violence on the face and
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distre•sed poor, to whom bread, coals, and potatoes were
plentifully distributed. At the Leicester-square Soup
Kitchen, hiam-yard, Great Windmill-street, 1,500 poor creatures v, ete relieved. At the Model Soup
Kitchen, Bath-sti eft, New-road, upwards of 800 were
relieved. At the Westminster Soup Kitchen, Lewisham-
street, Broad Sanctuary, upwards of 900 were fur-
nished with a plentiful meal. The Marylebone, Fins-
bury, and Spitalfi, Ids Benevolent Associations com-
menced distributing bread, meat, and coals to the poor.
At the Refuges for the Houseless, in Market-street,
Edgware-road, and Playhouse-yard, Whitecross-street,
400 persons received a shelter from the inelomercy of
the weathf-r and a substantial meal. A society of bene-
volent individuals are about to fit up several of the
arches of the South-Western Railway in Lambeth, ai
a shelter for the homeless during the present inclement
season.
TIIE Aastz.—lt is stated that the reduction is to
be 3,400 men—viz., that the 17 regiments, having now
first and reserve battalions, are to be consolidated and
reduced to 1,000 men each; the officers to remain en
seconds,