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GRAVESEND STAR PACKETS.
trore Cabin and Secon4 Class Railway NINEPENCE to
or from London and Gravesend.
saloon and k'irst Class ditto, OS E SHILLING.
To or from Blackwall.
Fore Cabin 6d. • Chief Cabin.... 9d.
Intermediate Piers .... •• .. 6d.
"'her Packets call at the Grays, (1-reenhith,, and Purfleet Piers.
The Packets call at the Pies as underlined (we Aber permitting).
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June 9, 1850.

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f. 155.;
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ARGUS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY,
39, THROGMORTON-STREET, BANK;
And 14, PALL-MALL.
Chairman—The Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR.
Deputy-Chairman—WlLLlAM LEAF, Esq.
Richard E. Arden, Esq. !J. llumphery, Esq., Aid.,
William Banbury, Esq. Rupert Ingleloy, Esq.
Edward Bates, Esq. (Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman.
Thomas Camplln, Esq. ' Jeremiah Pilcher, Esq.
James Cliff, Esq. !Lewis Pocock, Esq.
AUDlTORS—Professor Hall, 31. A.; J. B. Shuttleworth, Esq.
PHYSICIAN—Dr. Jeaffreson, 2 Finsbury-square.
StriGEON—W. Coulson, E^q., 2, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
CONSULTING ACTUARY—Professor Hall, M.A., of King's College.
STANDING COUNSEL—Sir John Itomilly, M.P., Solicitor-General.
SOLICITOR—WiIIiam Fisher, Esq., 19, Doughty-street.
ADVANTAGES OF ASSURING WITH THIS COMPANY.
In addition to a large subscribed capital, Policy holders have the
security of an Assurance Fund of more than a Quarter of a
Million, and an Income of 70,0001. a year, arising from the issue of
upwards of 6,500 Policies.

BONUS, OR PROFIT BRANCH.
Persons Assuring on the Bonus system will be annually entitled
to 80 per cent. of the profits on this branch (after payment of five
yearly Premiums) ; and the profit assigned to each Policy may
either be added to tko sum assured, or applied in reduction of the
Annual premium

NON-HONUS, OR LOW PREMIUM BRANCIL
The Tables on the non-participating principle afford peculiar ad-
vantages to the assured, not offered by any other Office—for where
the object is the least possible outlay, the payment of a certain sum
is secured to the Policy-holder, on the death of the Assured, at a re-
duced rate of Premium.

PREMIUMS TO ASSUAN £IOO.

One Year. 'Seven Years.

20 £0 17
30 I 1 1
40 I 1 5
50 1 14
60 3 2

$ I £Ol9 1
SII 2 7
O 1 6 9
1 1 19 10
4 3 17 0

WROLE TERM,

With Profits.

£1 15 10
2 5 5
3 0 7
4 6 8
6 12 9

Without Profits.

£1 11 10
2 0 7
2 14 10
4 0 11
6 0 10

ANY have assumed the use of the word
PALETOT, but the ONLY PATENTEES 'of the design and
material used in this unexpensive and gentlemanly article of dress
are, H. J. an D. NICOLL, Merchant Clothiers, • Paletot Patentees,
and Manufacturers of Cloth, who have agents in every principal
Town in the United Kingdom and its Colon,e!. Their London- Ad-
tress being REGENT. STREET or CORNIIILL, id e,t.
No. 114 REGENT. STREET, forms a department for PALE-
&e.

N. I (the next house), is devoted for MILITARY and DIPLO•
MATIC UNIFORMS.

No. 118 for I;O3ES and every novel or established article of
costume.

120 is excluziyely for BOYS' gnil YOUT'IS' CLOTHING, of un
..isual excellence ; and at 22, CORNIIILL. Specimens of all may b,
seen.•

In each Department skilfal and intelligent Assistants attend, and
:he admitted fact, " That an article to be really cheap should be
really good," is practically sustained.
11'tIOLESA LE liroo,-,LEN CLOTH and SHIPPING Entrance at
the rear It %VA/MICK-STREET, and CHANGE-ALLEY, in the.
CITY.

1L J. and D. NICOLL, 114, 116, 118, 120, REGENT-STREET,
and 22, CORNIIII. -

VITOREE is a NEW IMPORTATION by the
Messrs NICOLL, through their Agent in INDIA.
It it a Cloth exceedingly well adapted, when formed into
a.PALETOT, for the races, the sea-side, or any place of public
amusement during the approaching warm weather. It has tlic pecu-
liarity of resisting, or counteracting, in a most remarkable manner,
the intense heat of the sun's rays, and is so light (weighing but six
ounces) that it can be conveniently WORN OVER ANOTHER
COAT, which it thus effectually preserves from *lust; and as it oc-
cupies, when folded, no more space than a' pocket-handerchlef, it
may be concealed in the same manner when not wanted. It, more-
over, conveys a most gentlemanly appearance, is very durable, and
when soiled, becomes new again by the simple process of washing.
The price is but ONE GUINEA. AND A HALF. The adaptation
of this article to the manuiacture of Paletots or Overcoats is PA-
TENTED by H. d. and D. NICOLL, 114, 116, 118, 120, REGENT-
STREET, and 22, CORNHILL, LONDON.

ROYAL • POLYTECHN IC INSTITUTION.
During this weak the ALPINE SINGERS will perform
several of their National Airs, daily at Four, and in the Evenings at
Half-past Eight. Dr. BACHHOFFNER'S SECOND LECTURE on
the PHILOSOPHY of SCIENTIFIC RECREATION,'vrith OPTICAL
EFFECTS, daily at Two, and every evening at a Qudrter-past
Nine.—Lecture by J. H. Pepper, Esq., on the, Chemistry of
Hydrogen, with special reference to its application for conveying by
Balloons Pyrotechnic and other Signals to Sir John Franklin,
daily at a Quarter-p 3st Three, and every Evening at Eight.--Dissolv-
ing Views illustrating the Arctic Regions and Ceylon ; also Views of
London in the Sixteenth Century, and as it now is.—Diver and
Diving-bell, &c., &c.

APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED.
LEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE
SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops,
and all Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad,
and by its tonic and invigorating properties enAbles the stomach to
perfectly digest the food.

The daily use of this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe,
guard to health.

Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrins, 6, Tere-street, Oxford-
street, London; and 68, Broad-street, Worcester; also by Messrs.
Barclay and Sons, Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other Oilmen
and Merchants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in
sauce.

N.B. To guard against imitations, see that the names of " LEA
and PERKINS" aro upon the label and patent cap of the bottle.

ItOYAL TABLE SA UCE.—CROSSE and
' BLACKWELL, Purveyors In Ordinary by Appointment to
her Majesty, beg respectfully to inform the nobilityand gentry, that
they continue to manufacture this deliciofis an i justly-celebrated
Sauce i handsome china vases for the table, and in pint and half-
iint bottles ; also their improved Essence of real Gorgona Anchovies,
Dinmore's Essence of Shrimps, for boiled and fried fish ; the celebrated
SohO Sauce, for game ; Sir Robert Peel's Sauce, for general purposes;
Anchovy Paste, Strasburg Potted Meats, &c. The whole of the
above, together with their superior Pickles, may be obtained of all
the principal sauce venders throughout the kingdom.
Manufactory, 21, Soho-square, London. Established 1706.

PROTECTION WITHOUT PUBLICITY, FOR PERSON AND

PROPEITY.
PARTIES whose affairs are embarrassed, and
who are proceeding, by means of law costs, and enormous
rates of nterest, to destruction, may, by recent Acts, obtain the
above Protection, and thereby save themselves 'from incarceration
and their families from ruin, by applying to Mt. WESTON, 6, Essex-
street, Strand. 011 ice hours, from 10 till 2; and 6 till 8.

.11R A MPTON'S PILL of HEALTH.
Price Is. I%d. per box.
This excellent Family 1111 is a medicine of long-tried efficacy for
correcting all disorders of the stomach and bowels, the common
symptoms of which are costiveness,-fistrtlency, spasms, loss of appe-
tite, sick headachP. giddiness, sense of fulness after meals, dizziness
of the eyes, drowsiness, and pains in the stomach and bowels,: indi-
gestion, producing a torpid state of the liver, and a consequent inac-
tivity of the bowels, causing a disorganisation of every function of
the frame, will, in this meat excellent preparation, by a little perse-
verance, be effectually removed. Two or three doses will convince
the afflicted of its salutary effects. 'The stomach will speedily regain
its strength ; a lit althy action of the liver, bowels, and kidneys will
rapidly take place ; and instead of listlessness, heat, pain, and jaun-
diced appearance, strength, activity, and renewel health will be the
quick result of taking this medicine, according to the directions ac-
companying each box.
As a pleasant, safe, easy apperient, they unite the recommenda-
tion of a mild operation with he most successfUl effect, and require
no re-traint of diet or confinement during their use ; and for elderly
people they will be found to be the most comfortable medicine hi-
therto prepared.

Sold by P. Prout, 229, Strand, London. Price Is. I%d. and 2s. 9d.
per box ; also 53- the Vendors of Medicines generally throughout the
kingdom.

Ask for FRAMPTON' PILL OF lIEALTII, and observe the
same and address of " Themas Prout, 229 Strand, London," on the
Government Stamp.

THIRTY-FIRST EDITION.
n:ustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured EmgravirLTs on Steel.
ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCA-
PACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE.

New Edition, enlarged to 196 pages. Just pu'Aished, price 2s. 6d., or
by post, direct from the Establishment, 3s. 6d. in postage stamps,
rrHE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on
the infirmities and decay of the generative system, from ex-
cessive indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury,
with remarks on Marriage, and the means of obviating certain dis-
qualifications. Illustrated by 26 Coloured En4ravings. By R. and
L. PERRY and CO., Consulting Surgeons, 19, Berners-street, Ox-
ford-street, Lomion. Published by the Authors : sold by strange,

11, Paternoster-row ; Hannay, 63, and Sanger. 150, OxfOrd-streei ;
Starie, 23, Titehborne-street, Haymarket; and Gordon, 146, Leaden-
hall-street.

PART 1. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive
c gans, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings.
ART It. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive in-
dulgence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing
mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative
incapacity. Illustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings.
PART 111. treats of the diseases resulting from intection, either iu
the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for
their treatment. This section is illustrated by Seventeen Coloured
Eno avings.

PART IT. contains a Remedy for the Prevention of Disease by a
simple application, by which the danger of infection is obviated.
This important part of the Work should not escape the reader's
notice.

PART V. Is devoted to the consideration of marriage, and it 4 du.
ties. The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and the
whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into.
Tea CORDIAL BALM OF STRIACUM is exclusively employed in
treating nervous and sexual debility, impotence, &c., I Is. and 335.
per bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilitic
reined; , for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary
symptoms, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, I Is. and 335. per
bottle. Perry's Purifying Spedific Pills, 2s •9d , 4s. 6 ..and I Is.
per box, a certain remedy for gonorrkcea, gleet, stricture, and
chronic inflammation of the bladder. Consultation fee, if by letter,
11. it minute detail of the 'case is required: age, habits, and posi-
tion in society. I/. Packets, with advice, to be had at the Y•ta-
blishrnent ouly by which the fee, 1/., is saved. Messrc. Perry,
Surgeons, are in attendance daily at 19, Berners-street, Oxford-
street, London. from Eleven till Two and Fly, to (right; on Sun-
day trom Eleven to One

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL. JUNE 12.

STOCK EXCRANGE.—The market remains firm, and an
average amount of business doing, the only alteratiOn being
in Great Western, Quarters, which were done at 14 11-16,
and closed at 1434.

growers by no means anxious fellers. Fine fresh wheat readily
made is per quarter more money, and oats 6d. Beans rather
dull, and prices in favour of the buyer.
EDINBURGH MEAL MAREET, JUNE 11.—There were in
the meal market to-day 2d sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801b3.
imperial, whereof 19 sold thus :—7 at It 10s Od, 7 at 119 s 6d,
5 at 1193 Od, and 0 at 1/ 6s ; average price of the whole
11946 d 7.l2ths. 4& sacks flour, whereof 2 sold at 275. 13 sacks
pot-barley, whereof 12 sold thui :-2 at 1149, 2at I/ Is, and
8 at I/ Os Od.

EDINBURGH HAT AND STRAW MARKET. JUNK "'—
Oat straw, from is Od t 0.93 Od per kemple of 16 stones Iron ;
wheat ditto, 8s Od to 94 Od; barley ditto, is Od to 8s Od.
Hay, from Is to is 2d per stone.

15ALKEITH MEAL MARKET, JUNE 10.—There were 128
bags oatmeal at this day's market ; sales dull ; bes,
oatmeal same as last week ; second 6,1 down ; that sold a
-463 6d was of inferior quality.
Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs.
imperial ..
Barleymeal, per ditto
Peasetneal

Flour ...

Pot barley

First Second
30s Od 28s 3d
—s Od —s 0A
—s Od —s Od
—3 Od —s 0(1
—s Od —s Od

Third
26, 6d
—s
—$ Od
—2 Od
—s Od

COAL MARK E----------T....-YESTERDAY.
Bate's West Hartley... 13$ Od Braddyll
Carr's Hartley
Davison'sWest Hartley 13s 6d Hetton
East Adairs Main..... Ils 6d Haswell
Holvwell
Ord's Redheugh
South Peareth I is 6d Lumley
ranfield Moor ......... 12s 6d Russell's Iletton
fanfield Moor Butes... 12s OdAtewart's
Townley l3s Od Caradoe ... ••••••"'
West Hartley
Wylam
Windsor's Pontop..., . 12s Od South Hartlepool
Wall's End, &c. South Kelloe
Elm Park
1,.,
Gibson
Harton 4 l3s .6(lWhitworth
Heaton
..
Hilda ' 133 3dlMaelean's Tees
Morrison l3s 3d Tees .. 4 ... .
Eden Main l4s 6dlilartley:_44444.
..4
Lambton Primrose
Bell
Shins at market, 199.

The Devon lighter, with Mr. Mills and a party of
riggers and seamen, will probably sail to-day for
Pembroke, to navigate the Liberty brig to this port,
where she is to be fitted for commission.
The crew of her Majesty's ship Albion got up her
lower yards and topmasts yesterday.
The infantry of the Dockyard Battalion, under the
command of Colonel W. Edye, marched from the
parade ground on Siturday afternoon to Granby-
:van', where they were exercised.
The Amphitrite, Captain Mac Dougall, arrived at
Valparaiso on the 19th April, with a large freight of
specie on board, and was ordered to proceed to Eng-
land early in the ensuing month. Lieutenant
Walker, who took command of the ship on the decease
of Captain Eden, and had charge of the treasure for a
period exceeding two months, will, we are happy to
say, receive a very handsome sum, as his "pro rata
itineris" proportion, which, with the promotion he
has so justly earned, and which we trust the Admi-
ralty will not withhold from him, will in some degree
compensate him for the anxiety he must have under-
gone. We hear the highest accounts of the efficient
state of the Amphitrite.
By late accounts from Monte Video we are sorry
to hear that the yellow fever was raging with great
severity, and some of the morning papers yesterday
announced the death of Commander Schomberg, of
her Majesty's ship Cormorant ; we have, however, the
pleasure to state that no official report of this commu-
nication has been received at the Admiralty, and we,
therefore, have, every reason to believe that it is no-
thing but a rumour.—Herald.
The ship Gilmore. Captain Maw, from Colombo
(Ceylon), for London, laden, with coffee and cinna-
mon, was off Plymouth on Tuesday, the 11th inst.
She brings home passengers Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher
and three children, who proceed to London in her, and
Mr. Lamb, G. Fraser, and two sons, who landed
here. The Gilmore left Colombo January the 19th,
and St. Helena the 13th of March. There were no
ships of war at St; Helena. Eleven slavers which
had been captured were breaking up, and 1,500
liberated Africans were on the island when she left.

Wind westerly.
Woor.wicu, JUNE 12.—The Right Hon:. Sir
Francis T. Baring, Bart., held a levee yesterday at
Whitehall, and it was attended by the following
officers :

Rear-Admiral John Peter Douglas.
Captains—Sir George A. Westphal, Knt. (1819),
Thomas Martin (1826), Edward R. Williams (1827),
William Ramsay (1838), Hon. Henry A. Murray
(1841), and Gordon G Macdonald (1846).
Commanders Adam Cuppage (1830), John
Wheatley (1832), R. B. Crawford (1842), and
James F. B. Wainwright (1850).
Lieutenants—William H. Dixon (1807), John R.
Baker (1828), John 0. Freeland (1838), Charles
Wake (1846), W. Thorne, F. H. M. Martin, and E.
Chambers (1849).
Surgeon—John Robertson, M.D. _

The Sampson steam-frigate arrived at Devonport
from Woolwich, in charge of Lieutenant Robertson,
at seven o'clock, A.M., on Sunday last, having made an
excellent passage round, averaging on the entire dis-
tance between the two ports a speed of very nearly
ten knots per hour, against a head sea and strong
wind. The draught of water of the Sampson
during her voyage to Devonport was 14 feet 5
inches forward and 14 feet 6 inches aft, and her
engines worked remarkably well, being supplied with
steam from three boilers on a plan of Mr. Humphrys,
Chief Engineer at Woolwich Dockyard, which pro-
duced an ample supply of steam without the least
symptom of priming. The plan also possesses the great
advantage of allowing the boilers to be placed low in
the vessel. Lieutenant Robertson, and the riggers
who navigated her, embarked in the evening of the
day on which they arrived in the Confiance steam-
.

vessel on their return to Woolwich, where they ar-
rived yesterday evening, having touched at Ports-
mouth to take in a supply, of coals.
The Retribution steam-frigate will be out of the
hands of the engineers fitting her engines to-morrow,
and is expected to be tried down the river on Satur-
day, or in the early part of next week. •

APPOINTMENTS.
Mate—J. G. F. Dyer, to the Victory flag-ship at
Portsmouth.

Midshipman—Lord Francis M. Conyngham, to the
Albion, 90, at Devonport.
Clerk—Joseph.Hayward (1844), to the Havannsh,
19, New Zealand.

Clerk's Assistant—William Noble, to the Dolphin
3, Sheernees.

Naval Cadet—Cecil G. Sloane Stanley, to the
Albion.

ROYAL ARTILLERY.

The following General Orders have just been issued to
shoov the chsnges which have take,' place in conse•
quence of the redretuent of four Lieuteniut-Colonels on
full pay.

GENERAL ORDER.
Deputy Adjutant-General's Office, Woolwich,
June 4.
No. I.—Her Majesty has been pleased to approve of
the following promotions in the Royal Regiment of Ar-
tillery, viz. :
Brevet-Major Thomas Arscot Lethbridge to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, vice Wright, retired on full pay.
Brevet-Major Henry Robert Eardly Wilmot to be
Captain, vice Lethbridge.
First-Lieutenant George Thomas Field to be Second-
Captain, vice Eardly Wilmot.
Second-Lieutenant Thomas Longworth Dames to be
First-Lieutenant, vies Field.
Brevet-Major William How Hennis to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, vice Bent, retired on full pay.
Second-Captain William Bethnal Gardner to be Cap-
tain, vice Hennis.
First-Lieutenant Arthur Comyn Pigou to be Second-
Captain, vice Gardner.
Second-Lieutenant Charles Carpenter to be First-
Lieutenant, vice Pigou.—Dated May 23, 1850.
No. 2.—ln consequence of the above promotions, the
undermentionel officers are posted to battalions as fol-
lows, viz.:—
Lieutenant-Colonel Bloomfield, to the sth battalion,
on Lieutenant-Colonel's pay.
Lieutenant-Colonel Palliser, to the 11th battalion, on
Lieutenant-Colonel's pay.
Lieutenant-Colonel Lethbridge, to the sth battalion,
on Major's pay.
Lieutenant-Colonel Hennis, to the Gth battalion, on
Major's pay.
No. 3.—His Lordship the Master-General has ap-
pointed Lieutenant H. Bent to be Subaltern-In- pector at
the Royal Military Repository, vice Field, promoted.
11. D. Ross, Deputy Adjutant-General.
GENERAL ORDER.
Deputy Adjutant-General's-office, Woolwich,
June 6.
No. I.—Her Majesty has been pleased to approve of
the following promotions in the Royal Regiment of
Artillery, viz.:—
Brevet-Major Daniel Thorndike, to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, vice Story, reired on full pay.
Second-Captain John Lefroy, to be Captain, vice
Thorndike.
First-Lieutenant David M'Dowal Fraser, to be Captain,
vice Lefroy.
Second-Lieutenant William Jones St. John, to be
First-Lieutenant, vice Fraser.
Brevet-Major Harry Stow, to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
vice Bent, retired on full pay.
Second-Captain Charles James Buchanan Riddle, to
be Captain, vice Stow.
First-Lieutenant James Drummond Telfer to be Cap-
tain, vice Riddle.
Second-Lieutenant William Gilly Andrews to be
First-Lieutenant, vice T,,lfer.—Dated May 27, 1850.
In consequence of the foregoing promotions the under-
mentioned officers are poste' to battalions as follows,
viz.:

Lieutenant-Colonel litacbean to 4th battalion, on Lieu-
tenant-Colonel's pay.
Lieutenant-Colonel Garstin to 4th battalion, on Lieu-
tenant-Colonel's pay.
lieutenant-Colonel Thorndiko to 7th battalion, on
Major's pay.
Lieutenant-Colonel Stow, to Bth battalion, on Major's
pay-
No. 2.—His Lordship the Master-General has been
pleased to make the following appointments:—
Lieutenant G. L. M. Tupper to the Royal Horse Ar-
tillery, vice Fraser promoted.
Lieutenant H. O. Fitzhugh to the Cadet Company,
vice Telfer. Lieutenant St. John is therefore posted to
Captain Mitchell's company, 10th battalion, vice,
Tupper, and Lieutenant Andrews to Captain Ormsby
company, 6th battalion, vice Fitzhugh.
H. 1). Ross, Deputy Adjutant-General.
The whole of the lieutenant-colonels who have re-
tired on full pay have seen considerable service.
Lieutenant-Colonel Wright served in Spain from the
Ist of January, 1810, to the 31st of December, 1810,
inoluding the defence of Cadiz, Matagorda, and Tarifa,
and was 42 years on full pay. Lieutenant-Colonel
Bent was in the expedition to Walcheren au '. the bom-
bardment of Flushing; in the Peninsular campaigns
from October, 1810, toJune, 1813, including the siege of
Badajoz, battle of Albuera, covering the second siege of
Bidajoz, capture of General Gerald's corps at Arroyo de
Moll nos, covering the third siege of Badajez, retreat from
Madrid into Portugal, and the different affairs connected
therewith. lie was severely wounded at San Munos, and
was 42 years on full pay. Lieut.-Colonel St•Ty served in
the Peninsula and France from November, 1812, to May,
1814, including the siege of Gan Sebastian and passages
of the Bidassoa and Adour; his period of service ex-
tended to 41 years of full pay. Lieutenant-Colonel
James served in the Peninsula and France from October,
1812, to May, 1814, including the battles of Vittoria.
the Pyrenees. Nivelle, end Oftbei, and subsequently in
the American war.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
CHRONICLE.—The reader will find, under the
heading " Court. of Bankruptcy," a compendious
summary of one of thl4anerratives of reckless
adventure and merited -ter which, from time
to time. the judicial annale 'of insolvency offer to
the student of human nature. The main outlines
of this almost fabulous-looking tale of a squendered
fortune will be found in the private examination
f Edward Thomas Delidield,ll considerable portion of
which was yesterday read by Mr. Commissioner Fane,
in pronouncing judgment on the bankrupt's c!aiiii
to a certificate. It is needless to remind the reader
that Mr. Delafield had a start in life such as fortune
vouchsafes only to her most favoured children. In the
month of January, 1845, when this young gentle-
man completed his 21st year, he found himself
absolute master of upwards of 100,0001., together
with a share in the profits of a long-established and
lucrative brewing business. Of this noble fortune,
with all the fine opportunities and prospects apper-
taining to it, nothing now remains except assets to the
extent of 1,0961., towards a dividend on debts
amounting to between 30,0001. and 40,0001. That is
to say, in the space of little more than four years, Mr.
Delafield has spent, lent, given, lost, or other-
wise run through his original capital of 100,0004
plus the interest and profits thereon accruing
during the continuance of his partnership in
the brewery (being a further sum of upwards of
14,0001.), plus the amount of his unpaid debts—the
whole amounting, in round numbers, to upwards of
140,0001. The first question that one naturally asks,
on hearing of so magnificent a ruin, is, where is
the money all gone ? What picture galleries,
museums, or parks has this unfortunate gentle-
man presented to the nation ? What ,hospitals,
colleges, or churches has he built and endowed ?
For what princes, peers, ambassadors, sarans and
literati has he kept open house ? Or what " provi-
sionally registered" Grand Direct Junction railways
have numbered him among their directors ? No! it
is none of these things. Mr. Delafield was neither
a Maecenas, nor a virtuoso, nor a " founder," nor an
entertainer of princes, nor a railway speculator. Nor
was he a "gambler," in the conventional sense of the
word. His case comes within none of the well-
known categories with which the statistics of insol-
vency have made us familiar. His habits were more
than sufficiently expensive, even for the possessor of
100,0001.—but that was not it. lie was, at times,
preposterously and culpably good-natured to his
friends—as when he made an actual present of no
less a sum than 5,0001. to one Mr. Arthur Webster—
but it was not his generosity that ruined him. After
deducting all items that come under the head of per-
sonal extravagance (including the Willow Bank
affair), there remains a vast residuum of loss yet un-
explained. To cut a long story short, the simple fact
is, that Mi. Delafield took it into his head—or had it
put into his head—to become the lessee of an Opera
House, with no other qualification for the business
than the command of money and a passion for music ;
and he*thereby succeeded in getting rid of 81,3001.
within somewhat less than two years. To this may
be added some minor operatic and theatrical losses, to
the extent of about 8,0001. more. Perhaps the must
extraordinary part of the whole story of Mr. Dela-
field's connexion with the Royal Italian Opera is the
beginning of it.. The following is his own account
of the affair, as given in his private examination :
"I know Thomas Frederick Beale, of 201, Regent-
street. I first became acquainted with him in the
spring of 1847; he was then engaged as acting ma-
nager of the Royal Italian Opera House, Covent-
garden, for Signor Persiani, who was at that time
the lessee. Some time in the month of July, 1847,
Beale came to me when I was in my box at the
theatre, and told me Persiani had left, and that money
was required to pay the artistes, or else the theatre
must close ; and said, if I would lend him my pro-
missory note for 3,0001., the Union Bank or his
father would discount it; he promising, with Mr.
Chappell, his solicitor, who was then present, to pro-
vide for it at maturity. I consented to this, and gave
my promissory not the following day. . .
No part of this 3,000/. was ever repaid to me,
either by Mr. Beale or his attorney. When I
gave this bill, I had no connexion with the theatre
beyond having my box there. I had no motive
iu giving this bill, except to assist the concern."
This almost passes belief. An extempore loan of
3,0001. to a men with whom his acquaintance was
but of a few weeks' standing, for' the mere purpose
of bolstering up an insolvent concern, whose respon-
slide head " had Leff I" A'ter such a commencement
nothing is incredible. We learn, almost without
surprise, that before that summer was over the in-
it,tuated youth was induced to join his new acquaint-
ance a, a partner—vainly attempting to limit his liabi-
lities, by a special agreement, to the sum of 15,0001. ;
and by this insane proceeding, and other arrange-
ments made in pursuance of it, he rendered himself
legally answerable for the whole of the existing en-
gageinents and liabilities of the concern, amounting
to about 20,0001. There is no occasion to go into
the details of what followed. In the ensuing month
of December, Mr. Delafield formally assumed those
plenary and personal responsibilities which he had
previously incurred unwittingly. Ile dissolved his
partnership with Beale, and took upon himself all the
debts and engagements of the theatre past and future.
The result may be briefly told in his own words.
Ile says, in his examination—" I was, in fact, en-
tirely ruined at the end of the season of 1848 ; my
balance at my bankers was quite exhausted, and I
began the season of 1849 by a loan of 2,0001. from
my bankers." For this " entirely ruined" man did
not feel it to be his duty to decline incurring further
liabilities which he was totally without the means of
discharging, or to deny himself costly personal indul-
gences,
which from that period could only be en-
joyed at the expense of his creditors. Ruined though
he was, at the end of the season of 1848, he went on
through the season of 1849, and increased his deficit
by 25,0001. more. In the course of the spring of that
year, after having assigned over the remnant of his
available property to Beale, to cover advances made
by the latter for the purpose of carrying on the
theatre, he retired to Brussels to avoid arrest, and on
the 12:11 of July he became a bankrupt. Such is
a summary of that series of transactions respecting
which Mr. Commissioner Pane thinks, "on the
whole, and upon full consideration of all the
circumstances," that "he shall best discharge
his public duty by granting the bankrupt a
common certificate, without attaching any con-
dition." It is not our wish to say anything which
may needlessly wound the feelings of a gentleman on
whom the natural penalties of his faults and follies
has fallen so heavily, and we abstain therefore from
fully commenting on those features of the case which
might have seemed to justify, if not to compel, a
somewhat severer judgment. But whether the Com-
missioner's decision be right or wrong in substance,
the greater part of the reasons on which he professes
to ground it are, in our opinion, alike fallacious and
mischievous ; and they excite our utter amazement as
coming from the lips of an authorized and judicial
exponent of the principles of commercial morality.
Mr. Commissioner Pane, it will be observed, bases
his lenient view of the bankrupt's case (inter alia)
on his " extreme youth," on " the circumstance that
he could hardly be deemed a trader," and on " the
deceptions of which he had been mad, e the victim."
Of the nature of these " deceptions,' and how far
any,, deception was practised on Mr. Delafield
against which the merest common sense ought not to
have been a more than sufficient preservative, every
reader has ample means of deciding for himself. The
two other pleas which we have quoted from the Com-
missioner's judgment are really monstrous. The law
of the land declares Mr. Delafield to be of full age—
absolute master of his property, and absolutely re-
sponsible for his actions ; it also declares that he is
to be "deemed a trader," to all intents and purposes,
as much as any merchant, banker, or shopkeeper in
Great Britain ; and when Mr. Commissioner Pane
takes it upon him, in administering the law of which
he is a sworn servant, to pronounce the bankrupt al-
most a minor, and " hardly a trader," he takes a
liberty which is alike unwarrantable and indecorous.
More flagrant still, if possible, is the inventive in-
genuity which this judicial advocate displays when
he urges, in the bankrupt's favour, that " he might
have thought that, in inducing Beale to furnish funds
to go on with, he was doing the best he could for the
creditors"—a suggestion which (if the principle were
carried out) would give license and impunity to
every imaginable description of mercantile reckless-
nesse
and gambling. Perhaps Mr. Commissioner
Pane will take an early opportunity of. informingot
the commercial public, first, at what precise period
a man's life, after the 21st birthday, he considers the
t irresponsibilities of nonage or " extrecT,ee
classesyh to
f
be at an end—secondly,
" traders within the statute:warheattopbree henceforth d
thirdly, what re-
garded as " hardly traders
pre-
cise
descriptions of commercial irregularity are to
be deemed henceforth justifiable the ground that a
so-and-so. As the
bankrupt "might have thought"
matter stands, we can only say of this extraordinary
judgment, that it is fatally calculatedlatows andcon morals.
confound the
fundamental principles of mercantile
TIMES . —The decision given by Mr. Commis-
sioner Pane,
in the case of Thomas E. Delafield,
appears at first sight remarkable for its leniency,
when we consider the enormous extent of the bank-
rupt's liabilities the short til2lo in which these liabi-