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BANK OF 111GLAs4.0, ot.a. n lz, 1844.
TAB COURT of DIRECTORS of the GO-
VEENOR and COMPANY of the BANK of ENGLAND,
g;/ c notice,
That a GENERAL COURT will be held at the Bank on TruntsDAY,
the 21st instant, at Eleven o'Clock in the forenoon, to CONSIDER
of a DIVIDEND

NATIONAL ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE.
COUNCIL OF THE LEAGUE beg to
announce that t'e next Meeting in COVENT-GARDEN
THEATRE, will take place To-Mounow EVENING, the 20th instant.
The Right Hon. the EARL of RADNOR will take the Chair pre-
cisely at Seven o'clock.

LONDON. and BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that all ARTICLES which have been
LEFT in the CARRIAGES of COMPANY, or have been FOUND
upon the RAILWAY, between the Ist of January and 31st of De-
cember, 1843, and which era not CLAIMED within One Month from
the date hereof, will be SOLD to defray expenses.
By order, E. CREED, Secretary.
Offices, Euston-station, March 13, 1841. •

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
FRENCH PLAYS.

M. Melesville's most clever and amusing comedic vaude-
ville, in five acts, entitled La Fille de Figaro, was produced
for the first time before an English audience, at this theatre,
last evening, with the most complete success. When this
comedy was originally brought out in Paris, it had a run of
upwards of a hundred nights. We are not surprised at this, for
La Fille de FiLaro is certainly one of the most. lively of modern
French plays. Madame Albert sustained the character
of the heroine, Aspasie, a revendeuse a la toilette,
that is to say, a milliner, who, from her lively wit, her fas-
cinating manners, and her talents for intrigue, has acquired
the sobriquet of La Fille de Figaro. The scene is laid in
Paris at. the commencement of the Consulate, and when the
curtain rises we are introduced to the shop of Aspasie, where
Pamela, Louise, Julie, and several others of the employes of
Aspasie, are at work. An unknown individual, enveloped in
a large cloak, enters, calls Pamela aside, and in a very mys-
terious manner delivers to her a note, charging her to give
it to Aspasie. Victor D'Heigny (M. Gaston), a lieutenant
of the army of Italy, then enters to purchase a cashmere shawl,
and, while he is so doing, Aspasie arrives, and lets him have
a superb one on credit, to be paid for when lie shall be pro-
moted to the rank of captain. Pamela then delivers to her
the note, which it appears is from Celene,a young lady, whose
mother had prevented Aspasie from committing suicide—
had enabled her to start in business in Paris, and had, on
her death-bed, commended Celene to her care. The note
states that M. St. RCiant—a rich army contractor, and her guar-
dian Was deterusineil on marrying her—that he had endea-
voured to ruin his younger brother Edouard, to whom she
was attached—and that she claimed the protection of
Aspasie; in whose house she intended to take
refuge. . Shortly afterwards St. Rdant (M. Barqui), the
very beau ideal of a rich and vulgar fop, arrives and in-
sists on searching the house for Celene. Whilst he is making
his search Celene arrives, and, by the ingenuity of Aspasie,
manages to elude him. The second act takes place in the
barrack-room of a cavalry regiment. Edouard (M. Bazin)
sits, in a melancholy mood, apart from his brother officers,
who are carousing. Aspasie enters; they all greet her, and
insist on her singing a Spanish song. She then gives Edouard
a note from Celene, appointing a meeting for the evening ;
but, alas ! the officers are all under orders not to quit their
barracks. The indefatigable Aspasie, however, by the timely
present of a cap to the Colonel's wife, procures for Edouard
leave of absence for two hours. While she has left the room
on this mission, Madame Duperron (Madame Couturier), the
wife of the sous-directeur a la guerre, and the lady for whom
Victor had purchased the cachemere, enters, but hearing As-
pasie approaching on her return, she is obliged to hide her-
self in Victor's chamber. Aspasie arrives with the leave, and
is immediately followed by Pamela, who states that M. St.
Rant has discovered Celene, has taken her away, and has,
as her guardian, declared that unless Edouard obtains his
promotion to a captaincy before night, and as a captain
claims her hand, lie will marry her himself. Aspasie
bids her not despair, for she, La Fille de Figaro,
will procure for him his commission and his bride
before • night. The trumpet, which announces ' that the
adjutant is on his rounds of inspection, is heard, and As-
pasie and Pamela are hurried into different rooms, and, while
the adjutant is inspecting the troops, Aspasie, Pamela,
and Madame Duperron, all veiled, are very adroitly conducted
to the door, not however until Aspasie has recognisd the
cachemere. The third act takes plaeo in the cabinet of
M. Duperron (M. Cartigny), the sous-directeur h. la guerre.
St. Wilrit, calls on him, and urges him by no means to con-
sent t'o recommend Edouard for promotion, while Duperron,
a weak-minded, self-sufficient old man (admirably acted by
M. Cartigny), always for Ming irrevocable resolutions
only to break them, promises to conform to St.
Re ant's desires. When St. Remit leaves him, Aspasie
enters, and at once tells him that he must recommend
Edouard for promotion. lie says that the only vacant
captain's commission had been promised, through the inte-
rest of' a high and powerful lady, to Victor, and that he must
keep his promise. The stranger who had brought the note
to Aspasie, now enters in the same mysterious manner, and
implores protection from his pursuers. Duperron, who enters
into the joke of a man escaping from bailiffs, gives the
stranger his own dress and his wig and hat, and thus dis-
guised he escapes. As soon as he is gone Duperron asks
Aspasie who he is. " George Cadoudal," is the reply—
" and if he is taken it will be found that I have
lent him even to my very wig," exclaims the old man in an
agony-of terror. " I will save you if I have the commission,"
says kspasie, and Duperron sits down to prepare the neces-
sary documents, when his wife enters, and insists that the
commission shall be given to Victor. Duperron is called away
to the' Minister at War, and the ladies are left alone. "Quit
the room," exclaims Madame. " Not until I have the com-
mission, Madame," answers Aspasie, "and have it through
your interest. M. Victor bought the caclimere you wear at
my shop this morning. Three women, veiled, left the bar-
racks this afternoon—l was one of them, and a lady who
wore • the cachmere was another. Now shall I have the commis-
sion ? At this juncture Duperron returns, and announcing that
the Minister had informed him that Cadoudal had been taken
in the morning, and that he was out of the power of Aspasie,
sits down to -fill up the commission, bid, to the surprise of
the old'man, his wife now insists on the commission being
given to Edouard, and Aspasie goes off in triumph. The
fourth act introduces us to the boudoir of Josephine, in the
Tuileries. Aspasie manages to introduce herself here, and by
her address and tact induces Josephine to promise her inte-
rest in Edouard's behalf with the First Consul. Acting on
the superstition of Josephine with regard to the future,
Aspasie undertakes to tell her fortune. They are inter-
rupted- -by ' the announcement of the arrival of the
Emperor. " Ah! if he should find you here," ex-
claims Josephine. " La Fille de Figaro is prepared
for every emergency," answers Aspasie, and, closing the
doors for an instant, she throws off her female costume, and
appears attired as a young cavalry officer. Taking a letter
from the hand of Josephine, " Room for the bearer of dis-
patches for the First Consul," exclaims Aspasie, and the
guards salute her as she struts out. - The scene of the fifth
act is laid in the gardens of the Hotel St. Rdant, which are
illuminated for a fete given by the owner in honour of his ap-
proaching nuptials. Maskers are seen parading the grounds ;
Duperron is among them, and having heard that Cadoudal
was still at large, is full of fears. The Marchioness of
Miremont is announced, and Saint Want start&
Aspasie enters masked, and demands a few minutes' conversa-
tion with him ; at first, he treats the matter as a joke, but
hearing the name of a certain Father Dominic, he becomes
alarmed and grants her the interview. She at once tells him
that lie cannot marry Celene, as he has a wife already living
whom he had deserted, and driven to attempt suicide. ",Oh,
that was a sham marriage," exclaims St. Want. " What if,
thanks to the care of Dominic, it should prove a real one,"
replies Aspasie, "and what if I have the evidence of it in my
possession at this moment, which shall only he given up to
you when your brother is married to Celene?" Reluctantly
he Consents, and in the presence of the company states his
willingness to give Celene to Edouard, but adds, that unfor-
tunately the condition required by the First Consul has not
been complied with, as Edouard is not a captain. Madame
Dnperrou presents him with the commission. He publicly
joins their hands, and then the espiegle Aspasie delivers up the
certificate, the more willingly she says, as there is no-
thing in it to compromise him. It is too late to recal his consent,
and he is almost suffocated with rage and disappointment,
when Duperron enters, dragging in the supposed George Cadou-
dal attired in his own coat, hat, and wig; but this is only an-
other trick of Aspasie. The supposed George was a gentle-
man'well known to all present, who was actually escaping
froth hailiffs at the time that Duperron aided him. Nothing
could exceed the admirable manner in which Madame Albert
sustained this character; her transitions from grave to gay
and from gay to grave, were very frequent, and always appro
palate,. and we scarcely know which to admire the most—her
delightful light-heartedness and fascinating gaiety, or her
exquisitely touching pathos ; both were beautiful exceedinkly,
and la Fine de Figaro is one of the greatest triumphs which
even this accomplished artiste ever achieved. She was
called for at the fall of the curtain, and received with most
rapturous applause. 'The house was exceedingly well
attended, all the elite of the beau monde being present. •

And also, that another GENERAL COURT will be held at the
Bank on TUESDAY, the 9th of April next, from Ten o'Clock in the
forenoon till Four in the afternoon, for the election of a Governor
and Deputy-Governor for the year ensuing (which will be declared
that evening) ; and the same Court will be continued by adjourn-
ment, and held at the same place, and during the same hours, on
Wednesday, the 10th of April next, for the election of Twenty-four
Directors (which will also be one of the Quarterly General Courts
appointed by the Charter), and the election of the Twenty-four
Directors will be declared as soon as the scrutiny is over.
Printed Lists of the Proprietors having votes will be ready to be
delivered at the Bank on Tuesday, the 26th of March. •
(Signed) JOHN K.NIGHT, Secretary.

Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P., Thomas. Gisborne, Esq., ➢I.P., Mr.
Charles Lattimore, of Whethampstead, Hertfordshire, and other gen-
tlemen, will address the meeting.
Registered Members admitted as heretofore.—Doors to be opened
II of-pagt Si.' o'clock.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
The various ARTIFICIAL LIGHTS in Ancient and Modern
tee are familiarly explained by Dr. Ryan, at Two •'clock daily ,
illustrated by the LAMP of the ANCIENTS, the FIRT IMPROVE-
MENT by ARGAND, the BUDE, the DRUMMOND, the BOCCIUS,
the PKLLETAN, the CAMI'HINE LIGHTS, New FRENCH
LAMPS, BEALE'S LAMPS, &c., &c. The First Lecture, by Pro
fessor Bachbeffner, Ph. D. M.A., is at a Quarter-past Three o'clock.
ARMSTRONG'S HYDRO-ELECTRIC MACHINE at Three o'clock
and at Eight in the Evenings. NEW DISSOLVING VIEWS,
DIVER and DIVING BELL, Among the recent Deposits is the
HEAD of a MUMMY from TIIEBES, very remarkable.

N.B. By an Act passed in the 7th year of the reign of George 111.,
no person will be entitled to vote at the said election who shall not
have been sax calendar months possessed in his own right of the
Stock for weich he shall then give his vote, 11111085 the said Stock
shall have been acquired, or shall have come by bequest or marriage,
or by succession to an intestate's estate, or by the custom of the
City of London, or by any deed of settlement after the death of any
person who shall hare been entitled for life to the dividends of such
Stock.

Admission, Is.; Schools,

EAST INDIA HOUSE, JAW. 31, 1844,

THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY, do hereby giro Notice.

. That a QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT of the said COMPANY
will be held at their House In Leadcnhall-street, on WEDNESDAY, the
20th March, 1844, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon.
JAMES C. MELYILL, Secretary.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, MARCH 13, 1844

THE COURT of DIRECTORS' of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY de hereby give Notice— •

That a Proprietor of East India Stock-has postponed, until the
Quarterly General Court of the said Company, appointed to be held
at this House in Leadenhall-street, on WEDNESDAY. the 20th instant,
the motion of which he had previously given notice—viz.:
" That the dispatch of Lord Auckland, of the 17th Nov., 1838, by
which his Lordship rejected the proposed plan of the Bengal Go-
vernment, and-recommended the annual money. payment of' 60000
to the Temple of Juggernaut (to which recommendation the Di-
rectors assented by their dispatch of the 2,1 June, 1840) be considered
by the Court of Proprietors, on a motion for abrogating such money
payment upon the ground of no original pledge or engagement having
ever been given for the same by, or on behalf of, this Company, as er-
roneously alleged by Lord Auckland in his Dispatch."
That another Proprietor has given notice that at the said Quarterly
General Court, " Hs will call the attention of the Proprietors to the
subject of Appeals from the Courts of Sadder Adawlut, in India, to
the Privy Council, with the view to the substitution of a less expen-
sive, and as regards the law administered in the Native Courts, of a
more efficient Court of ultimate Appeal."
That another Proprietor has given notice of his intention to submit
the following motion at the said Quarterly General Court, viz.:—
" That there be laid before the Court of Proprietors Copies of all
Minutes of Proceedings of the Court of Directors, together with all
opinions that may hare been recorded by individual Directors on the
affairs of Sinde."

JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.

LONDON, EDINBURGH, and DUBLIN
LIFE COMPANY, 3, Charlotte-row, Mansion-house, and
18, Chancery-lane, London.
The indisputability of the policies granted by this Company ;
The obligation to pay the sum assured although the debt for which
the policy was taken may have been paid before the claim arises ;
Whole-world policies not confined to the limits of Europe ;
Option of half-premium payment for the first seven years.
These form a combination of advantages which can be obtained
only from the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Life Company.
ALEX. ROBERTSON, Manager.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ASCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNIIILL, LONDON.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.

The many novel and varied advantages bestowed by this Institu-
tion, both in its life assurance and deferred annuity departments, par-
ticularly the power to borrow two-thirds of premiums without ex-
pense or fOrfeiture—the great reduction of rates on short policies—
the option of selecting benefits and converting policies so as best to
suit the interest or necessity of the policy-holder during life, as well
as t• afford the full benefit to his famlly at death, and annual division
of profits, have already been so well appreciated by the public, that
the Society's great success and growing prosperity enabled the Di-
rectors, at their General Meeting in May last, to add to each policy
on the profit scale a bonus averaging fifty-five per cent. on the
amount already invested; and this bonus, according to an equitable
scale, may either be paid in cash, or applied in reduction of fame
premiums.

Another Semis will be declared in the present year.

DEFERRED ANNUITIE3.

The best and most varied provision for after-life hitherto offered—
every 21. 12s. per annum, paid from the age of twenty, will, at sixty-
five, give the policy-holder the choice of an annuity of 471. 16s. ed.,
or 3491. I Is. cash, or policy at death of 4661. Similar advantages at
fifty, fifty-five, and sixty, through an increased annual payment—
two-thirds payments lent at any time, and two-thirds returned to re-
presentatives In cases of premature death.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Sec.

DISEASED AND HEALTLIY LIVES ASSURED.
MEDICAL, INVALID, AND GENERAL
LIFE OFFICE.

THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION OF MONEY
DIVIDENDS AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED by HIS
MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA contains Money Dividends
of— £6B £7O £72 £lo £9O
£lOO £llO £l2O £l5O £2OO
£250 £3OO £5OO £6OO £750
£l,OOO £1,200 £1,750 £4,000 & £21,000
Amounting together to £154,308 sterllag.

This Distrii;ution contains as many Dividends as Buds. Every
Bond a Dividend!
Smallest Dividend - - £6B
Largest Dividend - - £21,000
Direct for Prospectus, with full particulars, without delay to
HEINE BROTHERS, at Hamburgh.
Or te HEINE BROTHERS, at Lubeck.

STANDARD BOOKS FOR STUDENTS OF GERMAN.
12m0., 7s. 6d. bound.

11R. NOEHDEN'S GERMAN GRAMMAR.
The Ninth Edition, corrected and revised by the Rev. C. IL
F. BIALLOBLOTZKY, Ph. D., Master of German and Hebrew to
the City of London Corporation School, &e. &c.
NOEHDEN'S GERMANEXERCISES. Seventh Edit., 6s. boards.
KEY, by SCHULTZ. Fourth Edition, 3s. 6d. boards.
RABENIIORST'S GERMAN DICTIONARY. Sixth Edition,
materially improved by D. BOILEAU. 7s. bound.

25, PALL-MALL, LONDON.
Capital, £500,000.,

This Office is provided with very accurately constructed Tables, by
which it can ASSURE DISEASED LIVES on Equitable Terms.
The Extra Premium discontinued on restoration of the Assured to
permanent health. •
INCREASED ANNUITIES granted on unsound Lives, tke amount
varying with the particular disease.

Members of CONSUMPTIVE FAMILIES assured at Equitable
Rates.
fIEALTHY LIVES are Assured at Lower Rates than at most
other offices.

Policies of twelve months' standing are not affected by Suicides,.
Duelling, &c. ; and Assigned Policies are valid from the date of the
Policy should death ensue tl'ont any of these causes.
F. G. P. NEISON, Actuary.

pELICAN LIFE A
70, LOMBARD-STREET
Established 1797.

Dizzo

M. Attwood, Esq., M.P.
John Coope, Esq.
W. Cotton, Esq., F.R.S.
Sir W. Curtis, Bart.
Wm. Davis, Esq.
Richard Fuller, Esq.
J. A. Gordon, Esq., M,D., F.R.S.

SSURANCE OFFICE,
C, and 57, CIIA.RING-CROSS.

;OM
Sir Wm. Hey gate, Batt
Kirkman D. Hodgson, Esq.
R. H. Lawrence, Esq.
J. Petty Muspratt, Esq.
G. S. Storey, Esq.
C. H. Turner, Esq.
M. Whiting, Esq.

The plan of this Office will be found to comprise all the solid ad-
vantages of Life Assurance.
Persons have the option of Insuring upon the Return or Non-
Return Systems ; and the Tables, which include Ascending and De-
seending Scales of Premium, have been formed to suit the con-
venience of all parties.
The Rates have recently been reduced agreeably to the most ap-
proved calculations ; they are also verified by the experience of the
Office during forty years, are as low as consistent with safety ; those
adapted to the RETURN SYSTEM entitle its' assured to an equitable
participation in the surplus premium, according to the plan detailed
in the Company's Prospectus.

The Assured under both Systems will possess the guarantee of a
large Paid-up Capital, and the further security of a responsible body
of Proprietors, without being exposed to the liabilities of partnership.
Policies are purchased on liberal terms when the object of an
assurance is effected ; or, loans will be granted thereon to the extent
of five-sixths of such purchase-money.

--
Prospectuses and every information obtained on application at the
Offices as above, or to the Agents of the Company appointed in every
city and principal town in the kingdom

R. TUCKER, Secretary.

AUSTRALASIAN, COLONIAL, and GENE-
RAL LIFE ASSURANCH and ANNUITY COMPANY,
126, Blskopsgate-street, corner of Conlinll.
Capital 200,0001., in 2,000 Shares.
DIRECTORS.•

Edward Barnard, Esq., F.R.S. Gideon Colquhoun, Esq.
Robert Brooks, Esq. Charles E. Mangles, Esq,
Henry Buckle, Esq. Richard Onslow, Esq.
Juhn Henry Capper, Esq. William Walker, Esq.
BANKERS—Union Bank of Loudon. . _ _

COLONIAL BANKERS—The Bank of Australasia (Incorporated by:Royal
Charter, 1833), No. 2, Moorgate-street.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Maples, Pearse, Stevens, and Co.
PHYsIcIAN—Dr. Fraser, 62, Guildford-street, Russell-square.
SECRETARY—Edward Ilyley, Esq.

ASSURANCES may be effected with this Company at unusually
favourable rates, affording every variety of accommodation to the
assured. Participation in profits, ascending and denending scales of
premium, permission to retain one-third of the premium, which is
charged as a debt against the policy, tables fir the assurance of a
sum payable in the event of death to the executors of the assured, or
to himself upon the attainment of the ages of 45, 50, or 60.
TO EMIGRANTS, TO THE AUSTItALASIAN COLONIES in
particular, who are assured for the whole term of life, this Company
offers the advantages of permission to proceed to, to reside in, and t•
return from those colonies without extra premium ; and to pay their
premiums there.

London: Longman, Brown, and Co. ; T. Cadell ; Milan and Co. ;
Whittaker and Co. ; Simpkin and Co. ; Duncan and Malcolm ; J.
Maynard ; C. Dolman ; D. Nutt; and L. Booth.

2 vols. post Svo., with Portrait, after Sir Godfrey Kneller, 18s. cloth,
THE LIFE of • ADDISON. By LUCY
AIKIN. Illustrated by many of his Letters and Private
Papers never before published.

By
a happy industry, Miss Atkin has given us a connected and
almost unbroken memoir through the means of a correspondence
replete with interest, and at once both lively and agreeable. The
letters containing Addison's account of his progress in the French
language during his tour, and his description of men and things,
abound in that tasteful humour which is his peculiar forte, and in
which, through the whole range of English literature, he is without a
rival."—Atlas. -

WHITE'S FARRIERY—IMPROVED BY SPOONER.
With coloured frontispiece and woodcuts, Bvo., 165., cloth.
ACOMPENDIUM of the VETERINARY
ART. By JAMES WHITE. 17th Edition, entirely recon-
structed, with considerable additions and alterations, bringing the
work up to the present state of Veterinary Science. By W. C.
SPOONER.

Also, lately published, Bvo., Os., cloth,

WHITE'S COMPENDIUM of CATTLE MEDICINE. Gth Edi-
tion, re-arranged, with copious Additions and Notes. By W. C.
SPOONER.
London : Longman and Co. ; T. Tegg ; Whittaker and Co.; Shnp-
kin and Co. ; Houiston and Stoneman ; and C. Dolman.

BETTS AND CO., PATENT BRANDY
DISTILLERS, 7, SMITHFIELD BARS, have placed the
produce of this country, the Grain grown upon British soil, and
malted and distilled by native Industry, upon an equality with the
produce and skill of the Continent. Their PALE and COLOURED
BRANDY is a pure, wholesome, and palatable spirit, tree from acid,
and equal in quality to the best Cognac, at about half the price. It is
prescribed by the highest medical authorities at Guy's, St. George'::,
and the Westminster Hospital, and at other principal hospitals and
infirmaries throughout the. kingdom. In stone jars, at 18s. per gallon,
jar included; and in bottles six to the gallon, at 20s. per gallon, or
3s. 6d. per bottle, the bottles and packages included. A single bottle
may be had from the most respectable dealers in town and country,
of whose names lists may be obtained from the patentees.
To prevent fraud, every bottle has the cork and mouth secured by
the Patent Metallic Capsules (not tin foil) embossed with the words
" BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY, 7, SMITRFIELD BARS."

Just published, Fourth Edition, greatly enlarged, Bvo., with nearly
Two Hundred and Forty Illustrations on Wood, 215., cloth,
FLEMENTS of PRACTICAL AGRICUL-
A TUBE; comprehending the Cultivation of Plants, the Hus-
bandry of Domestic Animals, and the Economy of the Farm.
By DAVID LOW, Esq., F.R.S.E.,
Professor of Agriculture in the University of Edinburgh.
" The best work on farming in our lauguage."—Gardeners'
Chronicle.

Lately published, by Professor Low,
The BREEDS of the DOMESTICATED ANIMALS of the BRI-
TISII ISLANDS. 2 vols. 4t0., 16 Guineas, with 52 coloured Plates,
half-bound morocco.

London : Longman, Brown, Given, and Longmans.

ALLSOPP'S EAST INDIA PALE ALE.
In consequence of an advertisement issued by Messrs. Bass
and Co.. in the London and provincial newspapers, we were under
the necessity of addressing a letter to those gentlemen on the 2111th
ult.. informing them that their statements of the pr.ces of Pale Ale
in India, and the shit ments thereto, as far as we were concerned,
were " grossly incorrect," and that if the advertisement were not
withdrawn, we should feel compelled publicly to allude to tl.e inac-
curacy of it. We have, therefore, no alternative but to declare
publicly, what we informed them privately, that almost every state.
went is It grossly incorrect." We take this opportunity of giving
accounts of the latest bona fide wholesale sales of each Ale, as veri-
fied by the various prices current, and have only to refer partie to
those connected with India for a confirmation of these facts.
CAL( DIVA : Rupees.
December, 1813—Allsopp 7'7 per hhd 1 Bon& fide sales, as per
Bass
MADRAS: Rupees.
December, 1843—Allsopp ;0 per hhd.7j Bona Ade sales, as rer
Bass
BOMBAY: Rupees.
December, 184.1—Allsopp 6651 pedrahtohcf.sl Bong fide
,s sales,as per
Current.
Bass
The total shipments of one year past, from October to Ocioter,
nclnsive, were : Madras ai.d
Calcutta.

Just published, a New Edition, 18mo., 55., bound,
SUNISON'S ELEMENTS of EUCLID, viz., the
10 first Six Books, together with the XI. and XII., carefully cor-
rected by S. 3IAYNARD.

The above, with the addition 'of the Elements of Plane and
Spherical Trigonometry; and a Treatise on the Construction of the
Trigonometrical Canon. Also, a concise account of Logarithms. By
the Rev. A. ROBERTSON, D.D., F.R.S., Oxford. 25th Edition, re-
vised by S. MAYNARD, Bvo., 95., bound.

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TA.TTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
CHESTER CUP.
9 to 1 agst Col. Cradock's Pagan
15 to 1 agst Mr. Bristow's Pharaoh—taken
16 to 1 agst Mr. Collett's Cattonite
20 to 1 agst Mr. Milbank'-s
Sir Robert—t and aftwds off.
f-. 0 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Red Doer
22 to 1 agst Mr. Tuting's Tacita—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. lieseltine's The Prior—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Stanley's Vakeel—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. Stebbing's Celeste—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. Plummer's Alice Hawthorn
33 to 1 agst Lord Miltown's Scalteen—taken
40 to 1 agst Sir. Mostyn's General Pollock—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Speed's Everton—taken.
Out of the lot enumerated above, we may select Pharaoh,
Vakeel, Red Deer, and Tacita, as the most prominently in
demand. The first was backed rather freely at one time, at
14 and 15 to 1 ; Vakeel for a considerable amount, at 30 and
33 to 1, and afterwards at an improvement of several points.
The other two and the Prior, if not speculated upon to any
great extent, had supporters enough to raise them to a
premium on last week's prices. Pagan was not in demand,
and a strong opposition agst Sir Robert drove him back to 20
to 1, a fall of six points on the last quotation. 1,000 to 25
each was laid agst Evertor and General Pollock.
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
7 to 4 agst Mr. John Day's The Ugly Buck—taken
DERRY.
1100 to 200 agst Scott's lot—taken
13 to 2 agst Mr. John Day's The Ugly Buck—taken
13 to 2 agst Mr. Crockford's Rattan
15 to 1 sgst Col. Peel's Orlando—taken
20 to 1 agst Lord Maidstone's Cockamaroo--taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. Lichtwald's Leander
25 to 1 agst Mr. A. Wood's Running Rein
35 to 1 agst Sir. Scott's Sister to Grey Momus colt
40 to 1 agst Sir. Ongley's King of the Gipsies—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Apprentice—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Vat colt—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. J. Osborne's Mount Charles
50 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Campunero
66 to 1 agst Lord 'Westminster's Lancet
1000 to 1 agst Sir G. Heatlicote's Akbar—taken.
1000 to 1 agst Mr. Peek's Corodino
500 even between King of the Gipsies and Apprentice.
The betting against the two favourites, until late in the
day, made it difficult to say which had the call ; 300 to 100
was laid against them jointly, 675 to 100 twice, 13 to 2, and
in one instance 7 to 1 in fifties against Rattan ; no .definite
offers being made either in favour of or against The Ugly
Buck ; towards the close, however, his friends "came out" a
little, and it became evident that he was again in the ascen-
dant ; 13 to 2 was taken to 1001., and 11 to 10 laid on him for
choice—with this bet the business as it regarded them was
brought to a close. Orlando was supported with much spirit
at 15 and 16 to 1, and the Sister to Grey Momus colt eagerly
at 40 to 1, as long as it could be got; the other movements
were immaterial. The appearance of the Sister to Grey
Momus colt amongst the favourites has occasioned a good deal
of discussion as to the right of the parties who backed Scott's
lot prior to the publication of his name as a member of it, to
include him in their bets. A question of the same
kind was raised with regard to Seaport in September last,
and dropped, we believe, with a general understanding, that
although he had been some months at Stockbridge, the bets
laid against John Day's lot should comprehend only such
horses as were specified by name in the list published in
June. The present question is precisely the same, and in
the opinion of the majority of those spoken to on the subject
ought to be disposed of in the same way.
OAKS.
1000 to 100 agst Forth's lot—taken.
WARWICK SPRING RacEs.—The Queen of the Gipsies was
declared not to start for the Trial Stakes.

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THE FACTORIES BELL.

We return to the debate of Friday, the subject of which
was continued last evening, and brought, for the time at
least, to a very unexpected but welcome conclusion. Lord
Ashley's speech cannot fail to produce everywhere the same
deep and even gloomy impression which it evidently did
produce in the House. It exhibits a vast and apparently
incurable state of wretchedness in the very heart of this
great and wealthy country. It cannot be refuted. It is
truth all over. The details are true ; the style is unaffected ;
the tone is even, deep, and broad ;...the convictions of the
speaker are sincere, his object disinterested, and his prin-
ciples beyond dispute. Notwithstanding the unavoidable
length of the speech, and the multiplicity of its parts, the
reader is carried forwards by a kind of mournful curiosity
through a succession of miseries, all so closely and yet so
naturally arranged, as to preclude relief to the eye, and
almost hope to the mind. He sits down from the perusal
with spirits prostrated and nerves paralyzed. He has re-
ceived a tremendous blow, and is stunned. For a time he
cannot get over it, and has not his wits about him. At last
he revives and reflects. _ _

Even Sir James Graham, proof as he must be against all
kinds of rhetorical battery, is staggered. He replies as if
from a mere dogged adherence to the plan of his Bill. He
sticks to it as a kind of refuge. He cannot be eloquent, as
if his position may perhaps be right, but is rather anti-heroic.
The succeeding speakers have had time to recover, and show
greater fullness, freedom, and argument. But yet all, even Mr.
Bright, betray an impression most creditable to Lord Ashley,
and deeply responsive to the truths and duties he has
declared.

But-the blow, great as it is, does not wholly and utterly
destroy recollection, and stupify the senses. As soon as one
recovers enough to bring the speech to a test, much is found
in it that the judgment cannot approve.
In the first place, ion as the speech is, there is one capital
omission, thus briefly recognised :
" It is not my intention to enter into the commercial argu-
ment of the question. I hold that which is morally wrong
never can be politically right; and, therefore, I will put the
question on the grounds on which I have always endeavoured
to put it—those of justice and humanity, and the moral and
physical welfare of a large portion of our countrymen."
Now, what does this really come to ? What is meant by
" the commercial argument of the question," and treating
the question " on the grounds of justice and humanity?"
At first, it sounds rather grand, for " commercial arguments.'
are something very mundane, and " justice and humanity"
♦ery celestial. But the basest and vilest things are often
necessary to the highest ; and the same mysterious law of
Providence which makes meat and drink necessary to a hero,
the kitchen to the dining-room, the factory to Almack's, and
the labourer to the Lord, does also establish a link, which
Lord Ashley can neither break nor disregard, between com-
mercial arguments and grounds of justice and humanity.
You must first put your hands into your pockets, and have
previously filled those pockets in some honest way, before you
can play the benefactor, either on a private or a public scale.
We must stoop to be reasonable, and condescend to work.
Providence has implanted in us heavenly instincts, but made
us men.

The most important question just now is—not the question
of fact, which, after ten years' continual exposure, is by
this time known to all men, and, we maintain, should forth-
with be acted upon without a month's further delay; but—
the question of ways and means. It is proposed to reduce
by nearly one-sixth the working time of nearly the whole
amount of labour—some people say it virtually involves the
whole—at the command of the manufacturer. He replies,
that such a reduction will ruin him, and his workmen too,
for of course they hang together. They just go on as it is;
and even one hour's less working power will stop the whole
machine. Now, we cannot go the length of Mr. Senior's cal-
culation on the subject, which, like some other of that gen-
tloman's theories, requires a large accommodation to practice.
But we do say, that we wish we could be sure that the
ten hours' time involved only a reduction to ten hours'
wages. The operative is associated with a mighty coadjutor
—the mill—whose wages cannot be lowered to a ten hours'
time, and for whose fatal obstinacy the living agent must
make up, besides the reduction on his own account. There
arc, happily, some qualifying considerations—such as that
ten hours' human labour is worth much more proportionably
than twelve, and that such a restriction will have a tendency to
equalise supply and demand; but the broad facts of the case
are as we have stated them ; and we cannot refuse the testi-
mony of those most conversant with the subject, confirmed as
it is by the common sense of all men. At least it is a ques-
tion, and a very necessary one. There remains, too, another
and equally necessary question—how is that loss to be met ?
that ruin to be provided against ? But what does
Lord Ashley say?—" Gentlemen,--I am going to prove
an immense amount of misery. The master manufac-
turers are working their people beyond the limits of human
endurance. I propose to stop them. 'lt is not my inten-
tion to enter into the commercial argument of the question.'
I shall not inquire what loss my measure will entail on the
employers—whether it will close their mills, and bring the
whole population to most horrible wretchedness, starvation,
and death ; nor shall I inquire whether the class to which I
belong has had any hand in producing this state of things—
whether we can make any sacrifices to mend what may he
partly our fault, and whether the nation can or ought to help
the millowner. ' I hold that which is morally wrong never
can be politically right; and therefore I will put the ques-
tion on the grounds of justice and humanity," &c. Why,
what sort of justice, and humanity is this?
Lord Ashley need not have been ashamed to confess him-
self not quite up to the commercial argument. All men
have their lines, and this is not his. But we will tell
him what he might have done. He might have said—" I
will leave to others the commercial argument, and if the,
make out tolerably to my satisfaction that the present Is
really a question between over-working and death—that my
ten hours' time is not practicable, unless the landowner not
only talks, but puts his shoulder to the wheel—and that it
will cause such a reduction of profits as must be met in some
way or other by the nation at large—then I, for one, am quite
prepared to abide the result of the inquiry, and recommend
to Parliament some relaxation of the burdens which pecu-
liarly affect manufacture. That which is morally right can-
not be politically wrong; and I will accordingly stand all the
consequences of an act which is incumbent on the broad
grounds of justice and humanity." There would have been
nothing grovelling, or commercial, or inconsistent with the
highest regard for justice and humanity in such a declara-
tion. The absence of it is not a little calculated to damage
his cause. .

Another deficiency in the speech is one, perhaps, not so
much in Lord Ashley's power to amend. The black cata-
logue of miserable facts which he recites is not a catalogue
raisonn'&, but an auctioneer's list—a mere column of acci-
dents and offences. We allow that he has evidently used
not only all the diligence and research, but almost all the
penetration and jfidgment possible to one in his position.
One can see that where he has alleged facts by fives, he has
rejected them by fifties. and has been conscientiously and
nervously careful not to be misled by partial or hasty in-
formants. But this has not proved sufficient, as anybody
internally acquainted with the manufacturing system would
see, or rather feel, in a moment. He tells facts, important
facts, picked facts ; but even when a man is telling facts, and
that truly, it is always possible for those actually initiated in
tin subject to say whether lie knows them experimentally or
only second hand. There is a way of describing things pecu-
liar to those who live in them, and which cannot be bor-
rowed by one who is forced to "get up" the subject. The
speech as a whole, is erroneous and unfair just as Martin's
black, or red, or blue paintings are erroneous and unfair, if
meant for representations of nature.
His narrative is all one and the same; but the actual
state of the case endlessly varied and involved. There is the
greatest actual difference between millowner and millowner,
town and town. Some masters bestow an attention to the
comfort and improvement of their people which any land-
owner in England might do well to copy. Some mills are
worked by picked men, women, and children ; and others by
refuse-and riff-raff. Some persons, and even populations,
are intrinsically and incurably corrupt and reckless,_ and
would be so anywhere, whether in or out of a mill. Some
parents will neglect their children; some operatives will save
money, others will not. But it is useless to go on. Every
one who has lived in a manufacturing town knows that it
affords as great reliefs and exceptions as any other state of
society.
Again, who would guess from the speech that all
and almost every one of the inmates of this house of
bondage had, in fact, taken refuge in factories from a
still lower hell—an inadequately employed agricul-
tural population? If things are bad in Lancashire,
they must be wore elsewhere ; for we may de-
pend on it all these hundreds of thousands have not jumped
out of the frying pan into the fire. The most wretched of
the manufacturing class, and those who have doubtless fur-
nished most matter to this talc of woe, are the Irish immi-
grants. Parts of England also have sent there a quota not
much better. A brief personal history of everyindividual
alluded to by Lord Ashley would in most cases greatly
exonerate the factory from the charges of corruption and
oppression, and throw them back on the rural districts.
We are sorry to recur to the " commercial argument,"
but it is impossible to legislate fairly and wisely on this
subject without taking a comprehensive view of the state of
British labour and its existing relations to wealth. Thus,
the over-working of the operative is only another form of the
same evil as the under-paying of the labourer. If
it were possible to cultivate our fields with steam
and light them with gas, we should soon have to ask a Short-
time Bill for the country as well as for the town. Nature
times the labourer, so he is pinched in his pay. The old poor-
law was a sufficient pay act for the labourer. Mr. Senior, or
any other out-and-out political economist, would tell us at
once, that it and the Ten Hours' Bill stand on the sanie
footing. The nation no longer interferes between the farmer
and his labourer to protect the latter. The result is, that
rents have risen and wages fallen. Yet persons acquiesce in
that cessation of interference, and profit by it, who are now
for interfering between the mill-occupier and his operative,
to the almost certain loss of the former. Can any legislation
be just and permanent which is not consistent and compre-
hensive?

But if we are forced to point out the deficiences of Lord
Ashley's speech, what must be said of Sir James Gra-
ham's ? The commercial argument omitted in the former
is the substance of the latter. The two speakers pursue
lines so wholly distinct, and yet severally so true, that they
may run on in parallel directions for ever,withouta chance of
meeting. Lord Ashley aims at a legislative maximum of la-
bour, Sir James Graham a tninimum of profit. Humanity
without political prudence, and prudence without humanity !
Is there no middle term ? Is it impossible to be just as well as
generous? Of the two, we prefer a humanity, which acts
blindly perhaps at first, but feels its way to a happy result.
With -Sir James we can have no sympathy. Even with truth
in his mouth, he drives us to the other side. His former con-
federates and his present confederates alike deter us. When
,We listen to his arguments, and see him supported by Mr. M.
Gibson and Mr. Bright, the mind seems to waver between
sight and memory, and we doubt whether the scene before
us is not merely a vision of the past.—Times.

WILSON'S SCOTTISH ENTERTAINMENTS. - Last
week Mr. Wilson visited Edinburgh and Glasgow, and gave
two Entertainments in each place with great success, the
rooms on every occasion being crowded to excess. Last
night he was at his post again in Store-street, was never in
better voice or spirits, and delighted a very numerous audi-
tory, every private box being tilled, and the area crowded.
The entertainment was. " Anither Nicht wi' Burns," in
which Mr. Wilson recited the humorous poem of " Tam o'
Blunter" with great point.