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N'.17)956.] LONDON, FRIDAY E E
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4 , APRIL 12 1850.

CONFERENCE.

NATIONAL REFOR ASSOCIATION.
OFFICES, 11, POULTRY, LONDON.
February 25. 1850.
In 'pursuance of the recommendation of a meeting of Reformers
held in the city of London, on Thursday, December 20, )849 (Sir
Joshua Walmsley, M.P., in the Chair), to hold a Conference of the
Friends of Reform from all parts of the kingdom, the Council have
decided that the CONFERENCE shall be held on TUESDAY, the
23d, and WEDNESDAY, the 24th of April next, the sittings to com-
mence at eleven o'clock in the forenoon. The objects of the Cott.
ference will be to receive reports from delegates in reference, to the
progress of the Reform Movement, to deviie means of carrying out
with promptitude and vigour the objects of the Askociation, and to
complete the arra»vernents for realfsing the fund of 10,0001., re-
quired for the present year's operations.
The gentlemen eligible to a tend the Conference will be :
1. Thu Members of Parliament who support Mr. Ilume's motion.

2 Those elected by Association, or Committees who have a iopted
the principles of the National Reform Association.
The Council requests that immediate steps be taken by the Frien
of Reform to appoint representatives, whose names should bo fur-
nished to the Secretary as soon as the Nominations arc made.

By order of the Council,
THOMAS BEGGS, Secretary.

TO EVERY FAMILY in the KINGDOM and
the PUBLIC UNIVERSALLY.

CLARK'S HARVEY'S SAUCE, Clark's Reading sauce, also
essence of anchovies, mushroom ketchup, French capers, cayenne
pepper, all at Gd, per bottle ; real India soy, 9d. per bottle ; finest
Gorgona anchovies, in bottles ls. each, Is. 4d. per lb., or 225. 6,31. er
double barrel; anchovy paste, for breakfast, luncheons, &c., le. per
pot; Yarmouth bloater paste, for ditto, Bd. per pot; superfine salad
oil, Bd. per bottle; real Dantzlc spruce, 10s. 6d. per keg, or Is. 3d.
per quart bottle ; mustard, in lb. bottle squares, from 6d. to le. 4d.
each for the finest article, also in 91b. and 181 b. casks, f,om 4d. to
Is. 3d. per lb for the best; beA London pickles, 7d. per bottle, or 6s.
per dozen, of various sorts ; malt vinegar, from Is. 4d. to 2s. 6,1 per
gallon for the b .st ; new lemons, from 3s. Gd. per 100; fresh lemon
juice, h ilf-p nts, 2s, 9d., pints 4s. 61, quarts Bs. per dozen ; also in
packages, from two gallons to 120 gallons, at ls. per gallon ; dried
peel, ls. 7d. per lb. ; St. Michael and other table oranges, 16s. per
original chest, or from 2s. 6d. per 100 ; new Seville oranges, from
Bs. 6d. , er 100 or Is. 4d. per dozen ; fresh Seville orange juice, 2..
per gallon; dried peel, 2s. 9d. per lb. ; black pepper, ls. per lb. ;
white pepper, Is. 4d. per lb. ; ginger from Gd. per lb.; coves, from
Is. 4d. per lb.; isinglass, from Sc. 6,1. per lb. ; maccaroni, from 7d.
per lb. ; vermicelli, 10d. per lb.; cayenne pepper, 2s. 3d. per lb. ;
allspice, 9d. per lb. ; fine m'xed spice, 2s. 6d. per lb. Terms cssh.
All orders, by post or otherwise, delivered free three miles from
the city.

CLARK and CO., Italian, fru't, and spice merchants, and mustard
manufacturers, 40, Coleman-street, City.

EYEBROWS MUSTACHIOS, and WHISKERS produced in a
few weeks, and Baldness removed and prevented, by the use of
GRIM ST 0 N E'S AROMATIC
REGENERATOR.

you are in want of that beautiful adornment of the human
flgare, a natural supply of human hair, obtain through the post, or
of any wholesale or retail chemist or druggist, or perfumer, an 111.
bottle of Grimstone's Aromatic Regenerator. This is an essential
spirit, drawn from aromatic herbs and flowers (grown at his Her-
bary, Highgate), which has been long known to the nobility and
gentry, by whom it is highly appreciated for its manifold virtues, too
numerous to be set forth in an advertisement, but may be read in his
pamphlet, In which the bottles are enclosed.
Each pamphlet has the signature of William Grimstone, Merchant,
Herbary, Highgate, and will be found at page 11, uWer the copy of
Mrs. Weekly's Letter to the Editor of the " Times" newspaper, 7th
of August, 1846.

This pamphlet Is forwarded through the post, on receiving two
postage stamps.

The Aromatic Regenerator can be forwarded through the post on
receiving a post-office order for 4s. 6d., 7s. Bd., or 125., which in-
cludes the postage with the case.

The llt. size contains four of the 4s.
A few bf its many lit tues, as thousands can prove, are published
in the pamphlet enclosed with each bottle.

Reader, reflect for a fcw minutes, and if you are 40 years of age
you will remember the thousands of blind you meet with in your
walks, others with various coloured eye-shades ; indeed, such was
the demand for eye-shades, that it was a business. What has re-
moved those sightless beings, and given place to a straightforward,
clear-sighted people (the climate is the same) ? I'll tell you the cause
—the universal use of Grimstone's Eye Snuff 1 and because it cured
Ophthalmia, Gutta Serena, cataract, Nervous Headach, and Deaf-
ness, the Lords of the Treasury directed it to be denominated a medi-
cine, and to be stamped. Although this advanced its charaeter, 67
cases of cure being proved by the informers, still it was an act of
oppression ; as in 1825 the Solicitor of Stamps, Godfrey Sykes, Esq.,
altered the label, and sanctioned its sale under order of the Lords of
the Treasury; the letter of protection, signed by Herries, Esq., to
Mr. William Grimstone, hearing date 18th February, 1525. This was
on account of its curative qualities, being sold at that time is cants•
tern, within the reach of every poor family. But under this order of
Government it is obliged to he stamped.
GRI3ISTONE'S MEDICATED EYE SNUFF, sold in canisters,
inclosed in a pamphlet of medical and other testimonials, under the
Government order, at is. ltd., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. each. The
Pamphlets sold at ld. each. If through the post, Is. Bd., 3a. 6d., and
ss. Bcl., including postage, &c. The following letter is one out f the
many thousand proofs.
Read the following Medical Testimony to the cure of five cases
of Gutta Serena, from G. 11. Boutell, Professor of Galvanism:—
. " Southsea, near Portsmouth, Hants, sth Nov., 1848.
" Ma. W. GRIMSTONE.—Sir—I must in justice to you send the fol-
lowing Testimonial with regard to the extraordinary efficacy of your
Eye Snuff in cases of Gutta Serena. I have used it in five cases with
the most astonishing benefit and cure. Sir, you may advertise this !
or make what use you please. The cures have wholly astonished
me.and thousands of others.—T am, Sir, &c.,
G. 11. BOUTELL, Professor of Galvanism."
All letters to Mr. William Grimstone, Herbary, Highgate, near
London, at which establishment he continues to manufacture his
far-famed HERB TOBACCO, so much esteemed in all foreign parts.
Tne following letter, in testimony of its delightful qualities, is from
the author of tke " Pleasures of Home :"
" Springfield Cottage, Honiton, Devon, 15th August, 1848.
" Sir,—l cannot deny myself the pleasure of stating hoii highly I
esteem your Herb Tobacco. I have now found in it a substitute for
the choice leaf, hitherto obtained by me from a friend in Constanti-
nople. lam sure that lovers of mild, fragrant Tobacco would find
yours a great and acceptable gift, at a very reasonable price.

" I am your obedient servant,
" STUART FARQUHARSON, D.C.L.

" To Mr. William Grimstone, lierbary, Mitigate."
This extensively-famed Tobacco is sold by an chemists and drug-
gists, and others, with W. Grimstone's signature attached, at 71h d..
Is. I !id.. 2s. 9d., and 4s. Gd. each. including the Government stamps

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
LAMBETH.

A well-dressed and exceedingly interesting-looking
young woman applied to Mr. Elliott, for his advice
and assistance under the following distressing and
somewhat singular circumstances :

From the statement of the fair applicant, it appeared
that she is the daughter of a clergyman, who is and
has been for some years the curate of one of the most
important, as well as one of the most wealthy, pa-
rishes in the city of London, and is one of a family
of six children, who, with her father and mother,
had lived in great respectability and the utmost com-
fort for many years in the vicinity of the Camberwell-
gate. For some short time a dancing-master in the
neighbourhood paid her some attentions, and about two
months since they were married, her husband being
under the impression at the time that he should re-
ceive from her father 1501. in cash down, and also
looked forward to other pecuniary expectations.
Since their marriage, however, it unfortunately trans-
pired that her father was not married to her mother,
and had himself recently got united to another
woman. Her husband discovering this, and finding
his expectations as to money matters frustrated,
turned her out of doors. Her mother had not the
means to support her, and under these afflicting cir-
cumstances it was that she sought the advice and
kind assistance of his worship.
Mr. ELLIOTT remarked that the applicant's circum-
stances certainly were of a most distressing character,
and regretted he could not of himself afford her any
permanent assistance. Her husband, it was quite clear,
was bound by law to support her, but in order to
compel him to do so she must in the first instance
become chargeable to the parish in which she resided,
and then get the parish officers to move in the matter,
and this done, her husband would be compelled to
support her according to his means, or, in the event of
his refusing to do so, he would be liable to be sent to
the House of Correction.

--The applicant, who evidently felt the unpleasant if
not humiliating situation in which she was placed,
said she should act on his Worship's kind advice, and
apply to the officers of St. Mary's, Newington, in
which parish her husband as well as her mother re-
sided, and left the court for the purpose.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Mrs. Martha Yardley, landlady of a public-house
in Gloucester-street, Hoxton, appeared before Mr.
Hammill, upon an information exhibited against her
by Inspector Pascoe, of the N division, for unlawfully
permitting gambling upon her premises.
Mr. Joseph Ash, a bootmaker, in Jewin-street,
Cripplegate, stated that on the 25th ult. two well-
dressed men drove up in a gig to his father's ware-
house, on entering which they intimated that they
were commissioned to find a purchaser for a large
quantity of boots and shoes, which were to be sold
at a great sacrifice, and advising him to place 101. in
his pocket, invited him to accompany them, and they
would put him in a way of making an excel-
lent bargain. After some further conversation
they drove him in their chaise to the defendant's
house, where one of them proposed that he should

remain with his friend while he went to
fetch the owner of the boots, but they had scarcely
entered the place when a man of stylish appearance
Came in, and, after calling for some refreshment and
making remarks upon ordinary topics, proposed, as
they appeared to have an idle half-hour on their
hands, that they should join him in a game of billiards
'Witness's companion intimated that there was n.
accommodation of that kind there, but suggested
that they should retire to the rear of the pre-
mises to amuse themselves with a game at skittles,
to which the other expressed great repugnance,
as being a vulgar game which no gentleman un-
derstood ; but was ultimately induced to accede to it,
though seemingly with great reluctance. They ac-
cordingly proceeded to the ground, were the two
strangers commenced playing, the first of whom was
winning rapidly, when the one who had left returned
with the intimation that the stock witness intended to
purchase had been already sold, but he would intro-
duce him to another transaction that would be equally
advantageous. Feeling some interest in the result
of the game, as the man who had last entered ap-
peared to be a perfect gentleman, and had
already lost about 61., he closely watched the
proceedings of the players, who had commenced bet-
ting half-sovereigns, which were deposited in the
hands of the defendant's barman, who had joined them
in the interim, and acted as stakeholder, and three
half. sovereigns having been so deposited, he was asked
to place down a fourth.. to make even money, which
he did, and it was instantly pronounced to be lost. Two
other stakes of similar amount followed the same way,
and they having persuaded biro to play for a stake of
10/. a-side, he had nearly won the game, when a dispute
was raised about his money not having been deposited,
and he was induced to hasten home for the amount,
which his father refused to supply him with, and on
returning to the house .for a valuable meerschaum
pipe he had left there, he was told by the barman
that he had handed over the whole of the stakes to the
other men, all of whom he said had left the house,
although witness saw their chaise still standing
outside.

Inspector Pearce stated that he had received nu-
merous complaints from persons who had suffered
from similar practices at the defendant's house, one
of whom, who was in attendance, had been trepanned
there, and lost an amount of 51. by the same juggling
process.

In answer to the charge the defendant said that she
had no personal knowledge of what had taken place in
the skittle-ground, and called her barman, iiidward
Coleman, who stated that after calling his mistress
down stairs t 4 attend to the business, he repaired to
the skittle-ground, and certainly acted in the ca-
pacity before described, but had no participation in
the alleged collusion, and supposed that the whole of
them were personal friends.
Mr. HAMMILL said he considered the case had
been clearly established, and after cautioping the de-
fendant, that if brought there again upon a like charge
she would be liable to a penalty of 101, to be afcer-
wards increased to 501. for any subsequent offence,
sentenced her to ply the full penalty of Si. imposed by
the statute for a first conviction, with the costs.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, APRIL 11.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-There was but a small amount of bu-
siness transacted to-day, and only trifling deviations from
last quotations. The transactions were-Great Western,
51'4-Ditto, Quarters, 12% dis.-Bristol and Exeter, M.
LIVERPOOL, Arun. 11.
STOCK EXCEIANOR.-Business on our Stock Exchange
was dull today, and prices had a tendency downwards.
The transactions were as follow:-Lancashire and Yorkshire,
Consol., 331/8-Ditto Fifths, 10% c. dis.-Ditto, Preference,
IN-London and North-Western, 104 c.-Ditto, New
Quarters, lls. Bd. - Midland, Halves, 27% dis. - South-
Eastern and Dover (No. 4), Registered, 444-Shrewsbury
and Chester (N. W. M.), Preference, guaranteed 8 per cent.,
12-North Union (A), guaranteed jointly by London and
North-Western and Lancashire and Yorkshire, 2351/8 -
Ditto (B), 16414 -York. Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E.
Purchase), guaranteed 6 per cent. till 1850, 7% dis. -Water-
ford and Limerick, 40th dis.
MANCHESTER, APRIL 11.
STOCK EXCHANGE. - The share market has been dull tr-
day, and the amount of business dno was limited. The
transactions were as follow :-East Lancashire, 6%-Ditto,
Quarters, 1 th-Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 10 19-16
dis.-London and North-Western, 1031,¢-Ditto, Manchester
and Birmingham, Quarters (C), 7-16 p.-Manchester, Shef-
field, and Lincolnshire. Eighths, 1 9-16-Ditto, Preference,
6%-Ditto, Grimsby (501. Shares), 61,2-North Staffordshire,
10 7-16 dis.-South-Eastern and Dover (No. 3), 13-Ditto,
Thirds, 438.
BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 11.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The share market continues ex-
tremely dull. The only transaction to-day was-London
and North. Western, New Quarters, 1% dis.
YORK, APRIL 10.
STOCK EXCHANGE. -The transactions to-day were as fol-
low :-York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 1. 114-East Lancashire,
ties, 74-Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, N. D. guaran-
teed 5 per cent., 17 -York and North Midland, Prefer-
ence, 61. 80. Sod. -North British, Preference (guaranteed 6
per cent. for five years, and 5 per cent. in perpetuity), 4%.
GLASGOW, Aran, 9.
Srocz EXCPIANGIC.- The transactions tn-day were as
follow:- Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves (No. 2),
4 -Edinburgh and Glasgow, 52 —Edinburgh and Bath-
gate, 53/4.

MONUMENT TO EBENEZER ELLIOTT.
The true-tempered men of Sheffield are about to do
a new honour to themselves by honouring the memory
of Ebenezer Elliott, the man whose iron pen drew up
the indictment against that public robber Corn-law ;
and never was indictment better drawn for conviction,
though a rare success attended the novel deed, for it
was only worded with common words, the words
themselves hot and glowing with hate of wrong.
Elliott struck from his subject—as the blacksmith
strikes from the red iron—sparkles of burning light;
and where they fell they consumed. BRs homely in-
dignation was sublimed by the intensity of his honesty ;
if his words were homely, they were made resistless
by the inexorable purpose that uttered them. But
the man had the true heart and soul of the poet, and
could love the simple and beautiful as passionately as
he denounced the selfish 'and the mean. He would
turn from the coronet of the corn-law landlord, the
thin.. he had hammered very small indeed, showing
with hid best vehemence how very, very little was a
symbol of social rank when misused for social wrong ;
he would turn from the battered bauble, and then from
the heart of a hedge-flower extract the balm of beauty
and the spirit of love.
The Corn-law Rhymes did greatest service. They
were the earliest utterances of a people contending
with a sense of inarticulate suffering. They sup-
plied the words; they gave a voice and meaning to
the labouring heart, and the true poet vindicated his
true mission by making his spirit pass into the spirits
of the many.

Very secure, indeed, in the genius of the corn-law
were the lordly corn-law landlords. Contemptuously
serene the titled Triptolemuses. There was, to be
a fitful noise—an sure,impatient grunt of the swine
multitude; impatient of high-priced meal. Yet all
went gaily in the House ; yea, in both Houses of
Landlords. And at the time there was a plain,
strong, vulgar man, putting -down certain syllables,
measuring out wordy lines—every line the sinew of
a Samson to pull down the heathen temple where
sat enshrined. And these words went
Monopoly
abroad. They were sung by workmen on their road
to labour—they were chanted at clubs ; they were
droned at the fireside. Wrong and indignation were
packed into verses, and made portable to the smallest
faculty. In the meanwhile, what cared the landlord
Commons—what the landlord Lords ?
Time rolled on, and Corn-law was condemned.
The indictment drawn by the poet was the draft after-
wards improved ; but Ebenezer Elliott was the first
drawer; and honoured be the men of Sheffield, who
seek to do monurneDtal homage to their patriotic poet I
modern statues to the sword. It
We have plenty of
is full time we had one to the pen.—Punch.

R R
COURT CI
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited
the Queen yesterday at Buckingham Palace, and
partook of luncheon with her Majesty and Prince
Albert.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yes-
terday afternoon at a meeting of the Royal Commis-
sion for the promotion of the exhibition of the works
of industry of all nations, to be held in the year 1851.
His Royal Highness arrived at the New Palace of
Westminster, at three o'clock, attended by Lieut.-
Colonel F. H Seymour. The Commissioners present
were—Earl Granville, Lord Overstone, Sir Robert
Peel, the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, Sir Richard
Westmscott, Sir Charles Lyell, Mr. T. Baring, M.P.,
Mr. T. Bazley, Mr Cobden, M.P., Mr, Cubitt, Mr.
Eastlake, Mr. T. F. Gibson, Mr. John Gott, and Mr.
Pusey, Mr. Scott Russell and Mr. Stafford
Northcote, the Secretaries to the Commission, were
in attendance. Colonel Reid, Chairman of the Execu-
tive Committee, was present. The meeting broke up
at twenty minutes past five o'clock.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by
Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Seymour, visited her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at
Gloucester House.

The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the
Royal Italian Opera House with their presence yes-
terday evening. The royal suite consisted of the Vis-
countess Canning, Hon. Miss Murray, Lord Elphin •
stone, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Lieut.-Colonel F.
H. Seymour.
Her Majesty's private band attended in Buckingham
Palace on Wednesday evening, and played the follow-
ing pieces :