The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-27 00:00:00

N°. 18,100.] LONDON, FRIDAY
:7 VENING SUN, SEPTEMBER 27, 1850.

CORD'S WELLINGTON FAMILY and
COMMERCIAL HOTEL, DALE-STREET, LIVERPOOL.

This Hotel, situated in the Immediate vicinity of the Exchange,
Docks, and other places of public and commercial resort, is fitted up
in first-rate style, and the accommodations for American, Foreign, as
well as English strangers. will be found everything that is desirable,
while the arrangements of the "Cuisine" are in the hands of a first-rate
Cook. The Proprietor urther wishes to intimate that his Coffee
and Commercial Rooms, as well as Sitting and Bed Rooms, will be
found second to none in the kingdom.

N.B. The charges for servants arc included in the Bill (except those
who only stay a few hours), viz., Waiter, Porter, and Chambermaid,
and it .is respectfully intimated that all further payment is unne-
cessary.

UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
Established by Act of Parliament in 1834.
8, Watorloo-place, Pall-mall, London ; 97, i;eorge-street, Edinburgh;
12, St. Vincent-Place, Glasgow; 4. coltege•green, Dublin.
LONDON BOARD.
CHARLES GRAHAM, Esq., Chairman.
CHARLES DOW ES, Esq., Dep cy Chairman.
H. Blair Avarne, Esq. J. G. Henriques, Esq.
E. L. Boyd, Esq., Resident. F. Chas. Maitland. Esq.
Charles B. Curtis, En. William Railton, Esq.
William Fairlie, Esq. F. IL Thomson. Esq.
D. Q. Henriques, Esq. Thomas Thorby, Esq.
The bonus added to policies from March, 1834, to the 31st
December, 1847, is as follows:

Sum Sum added to Sam added to Sum payable
Issured. Time Assured. Policy inlB4l Policyin 1848 at Death.
-,
£5OOO 13 years 10 mthsi £638 6 8 £787 10 0 £6470 16 8
• 5000 1 year .. .• 112 10 0 5112 10 0
1000- 12 years•• 100 00 157 10 0 1257 10 0
1000 7 years .. .. 157 10 0 1157 10 0
1000 j 1 year •• •• 22 10 0 1022 10 0
500 12 years 50 00 78 15 0 628-15 0
500 4 years .. •• 45 0 0 545 0 0
500 1 ye.tr .. .. 11 5 0 511 5 0

The Premiums, nevertheless, are on thl
only one-halt need be paid for the first
surance Is for Life.
Every information afforded on applicat
tor, 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall. Londoi

te most moderate scale, and
t five years when the In-

[on to the Resident Direc-

PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION (Enrolled under the Friendly
Society's Acts) and BENEVOLENT FUND, 42, Moorgate.street,
London.

Established 1840.
TRUSTEES.
Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. IW. G. Prescott, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, Jun., Esq. Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P.
TREASURER OF THE BENEVOLENT FUND.
John Abel Smith, Esq , 31. P.
Tolicies issued in 1850 to 21st August-283, for X 55,500.
Do. for corresponding period of 1849-260, for 51,170.

Increase in 1850 ...... • . 23, for £4.330
The Benefits of Mutual Life Assurance In all its branches, on a
medium of safe scale of rates, with economical management.
Assurances may be effected on the non.participatiug scale at re-
duced premiums.
Great facilities allowed for travelling to various parts of the word.
A liberal sum given for the surrender of policies.
Toe Board of Management meet on Wednesdays, at One; and the
Medical Officers on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at Half-past
Twelve o'clock, but every facility is given for effecting assurances on
other days.
DIVISION OF PROFITS every five years on policies of three
years' standing.
CLERKS assuring with this Association, ARE
ALL THE ADVANTAGES OF THE BENEVOLENTENTITLED TO
FUND.
Prospectuses, proposals, and every information may be obtained on
application at the Office, 42, Moorgatc-street.
By order of the Board,
PHILIP HENRY BYRNE, Secretary.
August 21, 1850.

DISPUTED LITE POLICIES.
" A trial of considerable interest to Life Assurance Offices and the
public was concluded yesterday in the Court of Exchequer. The
Eagle Company held a policy for an assurance of 5391. in the Albion
Company as security for an advance, the payment of which policy
was now disputed by the Albion, on the ground that at the time it
was effected the fact of the assured party having been a man of in-
temperate habits was concealed from the office. The chief evidence
turne I upon the question as to the degree of intemperance that had
been exhibited, and the result was, that a verdict was given against
the resisting office, not only for the amount of the policy, but also for
401. interest from the date when it became due.. The circumstance
of the action being brought by one office against another presents a
striking illustration of the uncertainty which may attach to all po-
licies under the present system, and shows that the only mode by
which absolute security can be obtained by the public must lie in the
general adoption by Assurance Offices of the plan of proteeting them-
selves in every case by due inquiries before the grantim-• f each po-
licy; and of afterwards assuming the fhll responsibility of the com-
pleteness of such inquiries by holding themselves precluded from
raising any future question. In the present case two offices are
found to be diametrically opposed in their opinions as to what can
properly invalidate a claim, and yet the public are expected to be
able to guare themselves against such contingences. Similar cases
have occurred before, and even if they were more rare, they would
seriously injure the progress of life assurance. The very principle
upon which the business is founded is the removal of uncertainty,
and whenever that principle is counteracted in the slightest degree,
the people who would be the first to resort to its advantages are the
first to be deterred."—Times, July 11, 1850.
THE LONDON INDISPUTABLE LIFE
POLICY COMPANY
No. 72, LOMBARD-STREET, LONDON.
TRUSTEES.
f. Campbell Renton, Esq., M.P. I Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P.
Richard Malins, Esq., Q.C. James Fuller Madox, Esq.
William Wilberforce, Esq.
DIRECTORS.
Robert Henry Forman, Esq.
John Hamilton, Esq.
James Fuller Madox, Esq.
John Matthews, Esq.
C. Octavius Parnell, Esq.

William Adams, Esq.
John Atkins, Esq.
Henry Augustus Bevan, Esq.
J. Thompson Bramwell, Esq.
John Dangertlcld, Esq.

AUDITORS.
George Cumming, Esq. Jawies Turner, Esq.
William D. Starling, Esq. !David Henry Stone, Esq.
SECRETARY—David Alison, Esq.
elputicL, .a.ctwootts, atm C.
PADDINGTON LOCAL BOARD.
24, Connaught-terrace, Edgevrare -road.
Rev. James Sherbold Boone, A.lll , Stanhope-street, Hyde-park.
Captain Creed, Norfolk-crescent, Oxford-square.
Charles Pemberton, Esq., Eastbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, and Lin
coin's Inn-fields.
Thomas Jervis Antos, Esq., York-street, Portman-square.
George Y. Robson. Esq., Eastbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, and New•
square, Lincoln's Inn.

Secretary, Chas. Hogltton, Esq.
The POLICIES of this Company, being INDISPUTABLE, form
Family Provisions and Negotiable Securities, for their validity is not
dependent, as in the case of ordinary Policies, upon the import of
previous reports and other documents.
Owing to this important improvement in the practice of Life As-
surance, the progress of this Company has been rapid from the com-
mencement of its business, and is steadily advancing.
Copies of the Report of the last Annual Meeting will be forwarded,
on application, to Solicitors, to whom Commission is allowed.
ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, Manager.

T" E CIDER CELLARS,
MAIDEN-LANE.
The Public is respectfully informed that the above popular Tavern
having been entirely redecorated, is now OPEN for the Winter
season. The vocal portion of the Entertainment is sustained by
the first available talent, Innuling Mr. Ross, the celebrated per-
sonation singer, and Mr. Moody.
The Refreshments are of the best description, and every attention
is paid to the comforts and wishes of the visitors.
Gentlemen will find the Cider Cellars the most agreeable all best
conducted resort after the Theatres for Suppers, &c.,in the metro-
polis.

The Chair is taken every Evening at Half-past Eight o'clock.

FLOOR CLOTHS,
Best Quality Warranted - 2s. 6d. per square yard.
Persian and Turkey pattern - 2s. 9d. do.
Common Floor Cloth from - Is. 10d. do.
A. quantity of Remnants cheap.—N.lt. No higher Prices.
JOWETT, Manufacturer, 532, New Oxford-street.

THE QUARTERLY REVIEW,
No. CLXXIV., 'rill be published on Wednesday, October 2.

CONTENTS:
I. Tic'enor's History of Spanish Literature.
11. Church and Education in Wales.
111. Forms of Salutation.
IV. Siluria and California.
V. Mure on the Literature of Greece.
VI. Metropolitan Water Supply.
VII. Anecdotes of the Provisional Government.
VIII. Cochrane's Young Italy.
LX. Last Days of Louis Philippe.
John Murray, Albemarle-street.

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COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of
business.
Mr. ANDERTON gave notice of a motion, that it be
referred to the Boundaries Committee to consider the
expediency of applying to Parliament to extend the
London (City) Small Debts Act, 1847 (10th and
11th Victoria), for the recovery of small debts to the
amount of 501., thereby assimilating the same to 'the
present County Courts Acts, and that they do report
thereon to the Court.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. BROWN, the chairman of the Officers and
Clerks Committee, brought up a report for awarding
an allowance of 2751. a year to Mr. R. S. Jupp,
upon his resignation of the office of Chief Clerk of
the Sheriffs' Court, to be paid out of the general fund
of that court.
MOTION FOR EXTENDING THE USEFULNESS OF THE
LIBRARY.
Mr. BLADES said, that as the organ of the Library
Committee, he was bound to call the attention of the
Court to the further consideration of the report of the
29th of July, on the reference for extending the use-
fulness of the library. Ile regretted the present po-
sition of the library, and could readily imagine that
if members, instead of being obliged to cross the, hall
and ascend a flight of stew, had immediate and ready
access directly by door or passage frutu the rcutliug-
room into the library, a much greater resort to the
treasures of the latter might be expected.—(Elear.)
It might not be uninteresting to the Court to be re-
minded that the library, which at present numbered
nearly 20,000 volumes, and with its sister institution,
the Museum, was increasing in public estimation, was
established in the year 1824. Of the committee then
formed, time had swept away every member, with
the exception of two, but it was not a little remarkable
that he had spared the two members who had taken
the most decided and active part in its primary insti-
tution, and he had to congratulate the Court on the
presence amongst them on that day of one of those
gentlemen—Mr. Richard Taylor—(Cheers)—whose
literary tastes and attainments, and the bent and bias
of whose mind, peculiarly adapted him to the task of
discrimination.—(Cheers.) The other survivor—Mr.
Richard Lambert Jones—was the first chairman of the
committee; he filled that office for 18 successive years
(no indifferent test of the value in which he was held)
and to his fostering care, untiring attention, and libe-
ral contributions, the library was also greatly in-
debted.—(Cheers.) " Speaking of that gentleman
as a member of this Court," said Mr. Blades, " but
believing that to his exertions the library in a great
measure owed its success, if not its existence, I will
venture to say that if he had done no more, and he
certainly has done much, in connexion with this
Corporation for the service of his fellovv•citizens,
he has earned a fair title to their grateful recollec-
tion, and will, in my opinion, leave behind him a more
enduring and appropriate memorial than the marble
bust which ornaments this hall."—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. Blades then moved, as in duty bound in his
official character, that the report be adopted, and re-
ferred back to the committee for execution, but he
reserved to himself the privilege of making any re-
marks he might, think proper as an individual member
of the Court.
The following is the resolution agreed to by the
select committee appointed by the general committee,
and adopted by the latter:—
" Resolved,—That this select committee, having
perused with attention the report of the select commit-
tee of the House of Commons on public libraries recently
printed, and perceiving how very far behind we are as
compared with the majority of cities on the continent in
facilities for self-improvement, arc of opinion, and re-
commend, that under proper regulations and restrictions
the members of the Corporation should be allowed to
take home books from the Guildhall library. That in
allowing this advantage to members of the Corporation
it be recommended that all works of reference, works in
foreign languages, and illustrated and other costly
works, and works that cannot be easily replaced, should
be especially excepted."
Mr. BLAKE expressed surprise at the singular
omission of remarks as to the expediency or inexpe-
diency of lending out the books of the library—the
great point to which the attention of the committee
was directed by the Court. He contended that if no
loss or damage were likely to be sustained, there
could exist no reasonable objection to the recommen-
dation of the committee, and that, at all events, the
amount of injury to the library, under a liberal alte-
ration of the kind suggested, could bear no proportion
to the amount of service which must be rendered by
an extended diffusion of its valuable contents.—
(Hear, hear.) He assured the Court that the sub-
ject had excited a warm interest out of doors, and
that if the suggestion of the report were adopted, the
amount of donations, which was now extremely con-
fined, would soon testify to the general approbation
of their growing liberality. lle expressed regret that
the opinion of the officers of the Corporation was ad-
verse to the principle which he advocated, and he
concluded a speech which was very. much applauded
by impressing upon those around him the paramount
duty of gratifying that appetite for books which their
great exertions for the rising generation had so
powerfully created.
Mr. RICHARD TAYLOR did not consider that the
speech of Mr. Blake was exactly adapted to the sub-
ject of the report. The existence of loans of books in
some of the continental towns alluded to referred to
places of exceedingly limited population, where all
the residents were known to the authorities, and
where such facilities as every street in London pos-
sessed were not in existence. It would not be diffi-
cult to conjecture what inconveniences would be
likely to arise to the Corporation from a plan of lend-
ing their books to a population consisting of two
millions of people.—(Laughter.) The loans in the
places alluded to bore no analogy to the case of Lon-
don. But the report did not recommend any course
intended fur the benefit of the public. It merely
meant that under certain regulations the members
themselves should take home books. The Court
knew well that five or six books at a time were to be
had from the innumerable circulating libraries; and
surely it would be most irrational to incur the danger
of loss or damage to a library such as the Corporation
possessed—a library raised for the purposes of the

Corporation alone. He approved of the adverse
opinion of the officers of the Corporation.—(Hear,
hear.) There was no difficulty attending the admis-
sion of those who wished to visit the Guildhall library.
Every member of the Court had it in his power to
issue a dozen tickets.—(Hear, hear.) He concluded
by advising the Court to negative the proposition, and
moving as an amendment that " It is not desirable
that any of the books should be allowed to be circu-
lated, or to be lent out of the library."
Mr. ANDERTON said the library was one of refer-
ence, and there could be no excuse for lending the
books, which could not, in fact, be useful to any
body not belonging to the Corporation.
Mr. Deputy PEWTRESS said he should like to see
the librarian's return of the members who attended
the library. He was sure that half-a-dozen per week
were not to be found upon the list. What he wished
was to give an opportunity to the members to make
extracts from the works contained in the library. It
was difficult for many to make such use of the books
in the library as they could make of them at their
own homes, where they would not be subject to in=
terruption or annoyance of any kind.—(Hear, hear.)
He thought the proposal of the committee was very
reasonable.
Mr. Deputy LOTT said there were many valuable
books and manuscripts of reference which he should
be very sorry to see removed for a moment out of the
custody of the librarian. 1 •
Mr. BLAKE—There are 800 works and 3,000
volumes, which are books of reference.
Mr. BOWEN thought that if the Court consented to
lend books of reference, they should have to deplore
a loss which it would be difficult to repair.
Mr. ELLIOT thought the recommsndatir R in the
report was a very small affair, but although small, it
was in the right direction, and therefore he considered
himself bound to support it.
Mr. Low said, he believed there had been but
one book lent from the library, and that was called
" The Minute-book of the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs,"
and had been presented by himself. After the lapse
of a considerable time, and after infinite trouble, he
traced it to the Hall of Commerce.—(Laughter.)
But he had to encounter more trouble before the
book reached its proper destination, and he was sure
that if the Court went upon the lending system
they would have many more serious cases of trans-
gression.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. BLADES begged to know from the advocates
of the loan system what, if he were to take a book of
reference home for his purpases, were others to do
who might stand as much or more in need of the in-
formation it ccntained ?—(Hear, hear.)
The amendment was, after a very long discussion,
carried by a large majority.

respectively, the first being formed by means of a
public tax on all shipping passing the said harbour,
the latter by means of money borrowed and secured
on the tolls to be taken on landing passengers and
goods, it will be necessary to consider and to report
upon each separately.
" That with reference to Margate
_Harbour, it
appears to this Committee that since 1833 the ma-
nagement of this concern has been, on the whole,
creditable to those wbo have undertaken it. That
although various irregularities are alleged to have
been practised under former management, none are at
present imputed to those who now conduct that con-
cern. And that as the treasurer of the pier company
is bound to make an annual return to Parliament of
their receipts and expenditure, the public at large and
the shareholders have the customary check on the
proceedings of the directors of this company.
" With reference to Ram4gate Harbour, your Com-
mittee are of opinion that it can be well maintained
without any longer requiring dues or tolls to be
exacted from vessels not actually entering the said
harbour; and that all dues and tolls now taken from
all vessels, British and foreign, passing up or down
Channel, ought wholly to cease and determine. In
coming to this opinion they have considered that the
present trustees and their predecessors have had a
large income annually derived from the public, placed
at their entire disposal, and that they have to the
best of their judgment, from time to time, laid out the
same in constructing the present harbour, and in
rendering it as commodious as possible to make it
under the disadvantages of its locality with reference
to the want of a natural backwater, and to its inac-
cessibility at certain periods of the tide, and during
the prevalence of particular winds. That for many
years past the trustees have been principally engaged
in adding to the strength and embellishments of the
works and appearance of the harbour, while its
actual condition as a harbour of refuge has continued
in very much the same state, being in fact susceptible
of no material improvement. That the large revenue
annually arising from the tolls exacted from the
passing shipping appears now to be no longer appli-
cable to any legitimate object ; while the original
purpose for which they were ordered to be levied
being fully attained, and no real improvement being
either in contemplation or practicable, there cannot
be a doubt as to the justice and propriety of relieving
all vessels whatever from the payment of these passing
dues or tolls.

" It further appears to your Committee that the
annual interest of a large accumulated fund of above
62,0001., together with the rents and profits of land
and premises yielding upwards of 1,6601. per annum,
and other valuable property belonging to the trust,
with a toll of 6d. per ton, which your Committee re-
commend to be imposed upon all vessels, without
exception, entering the 'harbour for the first time in
any year, and Id. per ton for each time after wards
in the same year, will form a fund which, in the
opinion of your Committee, will be amply sufficient,
under proper management, for the maintenance and
future repairs of the harbour.
With respect to the present management of the
harbour, while your Committee recognises the indi-
vidual respectability and integrity of the trustees,
none of whom, however, are resident in Ramsgate,
yet looking to the evidence, it feels called upon to
express an opinion that the trust has failed, as from
the nature of its original constitution was almost ine-
vitable, to ensure that vigilance of management and
strict economy necessary in a work of this descrip-
tion, supported exclusively by a tax on ships, not,one
in a hundred of which ever entered the harbour.
Your Committee would, therefore, recommend that
the harbour be placed, as soon as possible, under a
more responsible and economical management.
"In conclusion, your Committee submit to your
Honourable House that the pressure on the shipping
and commercial interest of the country is such, that
the subject ought to be brought under consideration
at the earliest convenient opportunity. In dealing
with a question like the present, of great public in-
terest and importance, your Committee respectfully,
submit that the interposition of her Majesty's Go-
vernment would be calculated to ensure a more
speedy and satisfactory conclusion than might other-
wise be attained, but if from stress of business, or
any other cause, the state and future management of
Ramsgate Harbour, and the present exaction of the
passing dues should fail to attract the attention of the
Government, your Committee strongly recommend
that their report should be brought under the notice
of the House, either by the Chairman or some other
Member, as early as may be in the ensuing session of
Parliament.
"August 1, 1850."
* See Report of Committee on Foreign Trade and
Navigation, dated July 23, 1822.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY.—Her Majesty's frigate
Thetis, 40, Commander Kuper, which touched on
Redding-point on Tuesday, was yesterday towed up
Hatnoaze by the Confiance steam-vessel. Seamen
and marines from the Albion and Impregnable, and
from the other ships in port in commission, were im-
mediately ordered on duty in endeavouring to get her
ready for docking to-day. The tides are, however,
falling back, and it is not likely she can be docked
until the next springs. It is suggested that by having
taken her at once to the sheer-hulk much time could'
have been saved in taking out her guns. The ground-
ing of the Thetis will probably lead to an Admiralty

Thew Petrel packet arrived yesterday from Ireland,
where she was driven by stress of weather. She will
go up harbour to-day to refit.
Mr. John Eddy, pilot, who this morning brought
in the merchant brig Alexander Steward, Captain D.
Williams, from Civita Vecchia, with cement, for or,
ders, reports that at 7 P.M., Wednesday, saw a large
two-decked man-of-war, looking like a 74, six leagues
S.S.IV. of the Lizard, steering up channel, say east
by south, under jib, three top-gallant sails, three top-
sails, fore and main course and spanker; her topsails
were reefed and studding sails taken in just before
sun down, she had an ensign at the peak, hoisted ap-
parently to the Fox, 42, Commander Lambert,
which was at 6 P.M. three or four miles to the wind-
ward of the Lizard. The stranger had a poop and
forecastle, and seemed to have checkered sides. The
wind was free from south-west, and if it continued
she would probably be off Portland at 10 this morn-
ing, and arrive at Portsmouth, say, at 7 this evening.
PEMBROKE DOCKYARD.—The Marten, 12-gun
brig, launched on Thursday, will when rigged be
navigated round to Devonport, and immediately be
put into commission. The following is a list of her
principal dimensions :

Length over all ... Feet. Inches,
... 125 Ditto between the perpendiculars ... 105 0
6
Ditto of keel for tonnage ... ... 82 2f
Breadth, extreme
.. • ... 33 6f
Ditto, for tonnage ... ..• ••• 33 2f
•••
Ditto, moulded ... 32 8i
Depth of hold
••• ••• ... 15 0
Burden ... ••• ... 481 29-94 tons.
The Lords of the Admiralty, at their late visit,
minutely inspected the ships in progress, the stores,
and the state of every article used in the building,
the official documents of the establishment, and the
condition of the various buildings and erections. The
workmen were duly mustered and passed in review,
after which they received the customary half-holiday.
The detachment of Marines in the fortified barracks,
under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Mitchell,
Commandant of the Garrison, were likewise inspected.
Sir F. Baring expressed himself to Sir Thomas
Pasley, Superintendent of the establishment, in terms
of the warmest approbation respecting the efficiency
of the various departments. The Board were saluted
on arrival and departure with the usual salute of 19
guns.

Lieutenant E. N. Heygate, of the Royal En-
gineers, will leave for Nova Scotia, and will be suc-
ceeded by Lieutenant W. Stace, lately from Gibraltar.
WooLwicit, SEPT. 26.—The Firefly steam-sloop,
Commander George A. Seymour, left Woolwich
yesterday for Greenhithe, to have her compasses ad-
justed by Captain Johnson. Previous to her taking
up her station at the moorings there she made
six runs up and down the measured mile, to test
her engines and ascertain her speed, which was
found to be on the average 7f knots per
hour. She is a paddle-wheel steam-vessel of 550
tons, with engines of 220-horse power by Maudslay,
Sons, and Field. Shortly after she left Woolwich a
telegraphic communication was received by Commo-
dore Henry Eden to obtain the assistance of Com-
mander Seymour in a court of inquiry ordered to be
held at Woolwich Dockyard to-day, on Mr. Button,
chief-engineer of the Teazer, recently returned from
the coast of Africa, on a charge of disobedience of
orders on the passage of the vessel from Ascension to
England. An express me=senger was consequently
sent to communicate the order of the Admiralty to
Commander Seymour, and he left the Firefly in
charge of Lieutenant Trevenen, and assisted Com-
modore Henry Eden in the court of inquiry which
was held here to-dav, and left at half-past three P.M.
by the North Kent. Railway for Greenhithe, to re-
sume the command of the Firefly after her further
trial to day.
The Wasp steam-sloop left Woolwich at half-past
one o'clock P.m, to-day, on a short experimental trial
of her engines:and screw-propeller, and although her

engines are only in the proportion of one-horse power
to every ten tons, she started remarkably well against
tide, and will evidently realise the expectation that
she will make six knots per hour with steam alone.
She appears a very fine vessel, and admirably adapted
for the service she is to be employed upon—the cap-
ture of slavers on the coast of Africa. The Monkey
steam-vessel went down at the same time to try her
engines.

THE ARMY.
The following has just been issued for the guidance of
commanding officers of regiments:—
" (Circular, No. 1,073.)
" War-office, Sept. 19, 1850.
" Sir,—l am directed by the Secretary at War to
annex for your information and guidance a statement of
the drily rates of allowance to general and other staff-
officers, and to field and staff-officers of infantry recri-
ments, in lieu of forage for the horses required to 'be
kept by them for the public service, for the half-year
from April I, 1850, to September 30, 1850, agreeably to
which the charge for forage will be allowed.
" I am to add that if a charge at a different rate has
been already made, the same should be corrected accord-
ing to the said statement.

" I have, &c.,

" L. SIILIVAN.
" Officer commanding- the Regiment of .
Statement:of the daily rates of allowance in lieu of forage
for the period from the Ist of April, 1850, to the 30th
of September, 1850:
GREAT BRITAIN.
Rate of
Counties. Allowance.
S. D.
Berks 1 7
Chester 1 8
Devon
Dorset ....
Essex 1 9
Gloucester 1 7
Hants 1 9
Kent
Lancaster
Leicester
Middlesex 1 7
Norfolk 1 7
Northampton 1 8
Northumberland
Nottingham
Somerset
Suffolk
Sussex
Warwick
Worcester 1 9
York
Wales 1 7
North Britain
The counties in
which there are 1 7
no contracts ...
Monmouth 1 7
Jersey
Guernsey

IRELAND.

'Rate of
Counties. Allowance.

B. D.

Antrim
Armagh 1 4
Carlow
Cavan t / 4
Clare 1 4
Cork
Donegal 1 4
Down 1 4
Dublin
Fermanagh
Galway 1 4
Kerry 1 4
Kildare
Kilkenny
King's County
Leitrim
Limerick
Londonderry 1 4
Longford
Louth 1 4
Mayo 1 3
Meath
Monaghan 1 5
Queen's County
Roscommon
Sligo: 1 4
Tipperary 1 3
Tyrone
Waterford 1 4
Westmeath
Wexford
Wicklow

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TlMES.—Everybody is asking what has become
of the Protectionists. For some years past they have
come out with unusual force at this season, and we
were as sure to have a demonstration by Lord Stan-
hope or Mr. Newdegate, or the Marquis of Granby,
as a fat goose on Michaelmas-day. It makes one
shudder to think of the . dreadful auguries and stern
denunciations that began with the falling leaf, and
fell in one continuous shower till Midwinter. But
now all is still in the agricultural atmosphere. The
equinoxial gales will return in due season, but no
Duke of Richmond or Mr. Disraeli. Sir John Tyrell
is quiet, and the Earl of Winchilsea at peace with
mankind. We will confess ourselves not yet recon-
ciled to the change. Like the lady who could not
sleep except on the ground-floor of her mansion in
Piccadilly, we miss the rumble of Protectionists.
Their tameness is shocking to us. With the single
exception of the friendship they have struck up with
the draymen of Bankside, they have hardly stirred
a finger or wagged a tongue since the prorogation.
Lord Stanley has made a speech at Warrington
so full of civility and kindness to all parties as
hardly to be worth a report. At Newark, on Tues-
day, Mr. Ilildyard, whose contest with Lord Lincoln
rent the county in twain, could only recommend
landlords to lower their rents, and tenants to employ
more labourers, so as to save the first from the Ga-
zette, and the last from the union. The furious
Chowler interrupted him in vain, for the meeting was
all for peace. What does this presage? Is it the lull
before the storm, or are we really about to have a
grand fraternal embrace of all classes? Has Ana-
charsis liloots really carried the day ? Even the
Standard would be content with the destruction of
Llinbard-street, and the herald would be happy but
for the spectacle of Mordecai sitting in the gate.
Possibly so small an affair as our extinction would
satisfy them both. Nor is this all. Where are all
the calamities with which we are threatened ? The
land is not gone out of cultivation. Excursion trains
have visited Stonehenge, and returned without encoun-
tering either bustards or lions. The southdowns are
disappearing under the plough, and half the Wash is
being rescued from the ocean. As for the labourers,
who by this time were to be laying themselves down
to die at the door of the House of Commons, we hear
everywhere the complaint that, like the emancipated
" niggers,” they are getting quite saucy. In spite
of the most tremendous difficulty, a dearth
of material, the cotton mills manage to keep
t.t work. There is distress, it is true, for the
Irish bubble, and the colonial bubble, and the rail-
way bubble have all burst. Vicious systems will ul-
timately work themselves out, and frantic speculation
will end in a collapse. But, somehow, the mass of
the people are enjoying a great deal of" vulgar pros-
perity. One cannot help asking, ;then, when is the
explosion to come ? The catastrophe hangs fire.
England's sun is a long time setting. That sad event
was confidently announced twenty years ago, but it
has not yet taken place, on the testimony of alarm-
ists themselves, for they still predict it. So far, how-
ever, from the old alarm being fulfilled, a new alarm
has almost supplanted it in the timid and prophetic
Protectionist soul. The present fear is that the
foreigners about to visit us on the pretence of the
Exhibition next year, finding themselves in a
vast majority, bating England, and being
perfectly unanimous, will seizs the me-
tropolis and declare a republic ; or, at all events, do
us a mischief of some sort or other. Well, one nail
drives out another. A succession of bugbears is not
quite so oppressive as a constant one. Depend upon
it we shall have something else next year—the ap-
proach of a comet, or the conflagration of the Thames.
The middle classes have been very severely punished.
We have gone through a social revolution. The last
five years have scattered, partly over the rest of so-
ciety, and partly to the winds, the hard earnings of
many industrious families. It could not be other•
wise when the vast majority of the middle class, of
commercial and professional men, were the victims
of a mania in which they bought dearly what was
good for nothing, and undertook what was impos-
sible. Misfortunes seldom come alone, and they that
halted to become rich have found their difficulties
aggravated by famine and revolution. Hence pro-
perty has been destroyed, and property has changed
hands. But the labouring classes of this country
have been gainers. One of the most striking fea-
tures of the last five years, and of the present hour, is
the number of persons rising from the ranks. In-
dustry already gives proofs of its emancipation. The
wealth, and consequently the power, of the country
have been distributed among a larger and a humbler
class of owners. They have been divided as it were
into premiums for industry and talent, and have re-
warded the exertions of innumerable persons pushing
their way upwards from the plough, the shovel, and
the loom. It has often been complained that the ten-
dencies of our social state are too much in favour of
accumulation, and that the many are continually sa-
crificed for the aggrandisement of the few. Un-
questionably these tendencies are still at work,
and many great fortunes have been made, and
houses established on the commercial devasta-
tions of the last five years. But it is equally
certain that what the middle classes have lost has
not been altogether, or even mainly, swept up by
the giants of commerce. The more important result'
of the recent crisis has been the elevation of the work-
ing classes—the greater independence and comfort ofo
the whole, and the ascent of many among them t
superior and more lucrative employment. Such we
believe to be a fair account of the last five years. The
disasters of that period are now becoming matters of
history ; its benefits survive and grow. We never
have denied the existence of much calamity and dis •
tress, even though sure to see our statements tor- ,
tured into admissions against the operation of free
trade. But free trade is now at length fairly in ope-
ration,
and we may begin to form a judgment upon
it. Where, then is the ruin ? In what state do we
find ourselves ? In a state not of ruin, but of reco-
very. Notwithstanding a more than usual allowance
of difficulties, the country is now in a far more pros-
perous state than it has been at any time since the re-
peal of the corn-laws.
DAILY NE WS.—A representative system of t
government has its defects as well as advantages. The
latter, indeed, incalculably overbalance the former ;
but thAt is no roam why such defects should not be