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THE CURRENCY AND THE ANTI-
CORN-LAW LEAGUE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Office of the Society for the Emancipation of
Industry, 15, Exeter-hall, May
.10, 1845.
SIR,—I request the favour of your giving insertion in
your columns to the accompanying correspondence
between the Committee of the Society for the Emanci-
pation of Industry and the Council of the Anti-Corn-
law League.
The object of the Society will be obvious, namely, the
development of the truth on an all important social ques-
tion, entering as it does most certainly into the consi-
deration severally of " Free-trade" and " Protection,"
now so much discussed within and without the walls of
Parliament.
As the Council of the Anti-Corn-law League have
shown themselves either unable or unwilling to justify a
princ:ple to which they are publicly pledged, the Com-
mittee of the Society for the Emancipation of Industry,
after waiting more than a month without receiving the
requested communication, have determined, with your
permission, to give publicity to the correspondence
through the medium of your paper.
In taking this step, the Committee of the Society are
making another attempt to point out the true and only
means of alleviating the distress acknowledged on all
hands to prevail among the labouring classes, and to ex-
pose the fallacious character of the system of currency
now existing in England—a system which, in its exten-
sion as proposed to Scotland and Ireland, modified even
as it is by the abandonment of an important fl ature,
will but aggravate the misery of the industrious popula-
tion, and accelerate the ruin which, as a consequence of
the Monetary Bill of 1819, and its " coraVernent " of
1844, impends over the whole British empire.-1 have
the honour to remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
ANDREW SPOTTISWOODE, Chairman.
No. 1.
Office of the Society for the Emancipation of
Industry, 15, Exeter-hall, Feb. 18, 1845.
Sir,—Perceiving an inconsistency between the prin•
ciples on which the Anti-Cornlaw League is founded
(viz., those of perfectly free trade in all commodities),
and the public and Parliamentary votes of some of the
principal members of the League, with reference to one
particular commodity, " gold," the Committee of the
e
Society for the Emancipation of Industry
favoured with answers to the following questions, vie.:—
First, Is the Anti-Corn Law League prepared to ad-
mit b
that the commodity " gold" ought to be subjected to
the law of supply and demand, and all the consequences
of that law, as well as cotton, iron, or any other com-
modity?
Second, If so, is the League prepared to maintain that
when the Legislature select COLD as the money of the
country, it should, as COIN, be exempt from that law of
supply and demand to which it is so admitted the mer
chantable metal ought to be subject?
I am requested by the Committee of the Society to
ask the favour of an early reply to this communication,
and I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
(Signed) ANDREW SPOTTISWOODE, Chairman.
To the Chairman of the Anti-Corn-Law League.
No. 2.
National Anti-Corn-Law League, 67, Fleet-street,
London, February 28, 1845.
Sir,—l beg to acknowledge the receipt of your favour
of the 18th inst., and I am directed to refer you for a
solution of the questions you have proposed to the ac-
knowledged authorities on political economy, as the
Council are not desirous to enter into controversy on
such points.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
A. L. SAUL.
Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Chairman, &c. &c.
No. 3.
Office of the Society for the Emancipation of
Industry, 15, Exeter Hall, March 3, 1845.
Gentlemen,—l am requested by the Committee of
the Society for the Emancipation of Industry to ac-
knowledge the receipt of the reply of the Council of the
Anti-Corn-law League, through Mr. A. L. Saul, to the
communication made to them on the 18th of last month.
As the Council of the League and their lecturers have
d the wages of labour, the Committee of the
Society, as part of that public, felt themselves justified
prices an
in-
structorspl acd
themselves
and interpreters
prominently
of
the effects
with all courtesy in asking a reply to the questions pro-
pounded in their former communication. Anxious to
investigate the truth, and not being aware who are the
writers whom the Council consider to be the acknow-
ledged authorities on political economy, the Committee
request to be informed.
The Council of the League must at the same time be
aware that the fundamental principles of any society can
never be identified in the miscellaneous writings of
other parties, and that unless the Council are prepared
explicitly to avow.and explain their own opinions, they
Will never be able to maintain that position in public es-
timation to which they have aspired.
The Committee of the Society for the Emancipation of
Industry, with a view to the establishment of correct
opinions on thou subject in question, propose to give pub-
licity to this correspondence ; and, in order that the
Council of the Anti... Corn-law League m4y fully under-
stand the object of their former questions, they beg leave
to add one raore
3. If gold, the measure of value, be excluded from the
' l w of supply and demand, and its price be fixed as it
Inow is, dues it not inevitably follow that all prices whe-

The current Of popular feeling is, at the present mo-
ment, against any one who may do so, and my language
may be attributed to feelings of self-interest, to which I
do not pretend to be insensible, but which Ido not in
the least fear your assigning to me to any undue extent;
while, I entertain a hope that a long residence in the
north of Scotland, and I know not why I should not say
it, a devotion of at least an average contribution to the
claims of poverty and sickness, may, where I am known,
procure for me a similar acquittal.
Premising, then, that in what I have to advance, I
speak solely with refirence to rural and landward pa-
rishes, and chiefly, though by no means exclusively, to
those in the Highlands.
I. I fear that it is not by many very clearly seen,
what may be the effect in such districts of the new law ;
and that a result ruinous to the landholders, and, conse-
quently, to other classes, will arise from the endeavour
to raise its superstructure too exactly upon the widil
and straggling, and, as now considered, the uncer-
tain base of the old one ; and the difficult endea-
vour to make one enactment serve alike for north and
south, for town and country. I take at once, as a
fair instance, a parish near this, and presenting no very
peculiar features.
In this parish, it has been the practice of the Kirk-
session to endeavour to give aid to as great a number
as possible of those who appeared to require it, and
though the sums given are not large, there will, in these
twelve months, have been so relieved, about 180 persons
or families.

I may here observe, that should it be said that all
these cannot possibly be bona fide paupers, I reply that
it has not been the usage of Kirk-sessions in the High-
lands to be guided by the most rigid rules as to this.
In truth, they are not without excuse ; for it has so long
been held, and by no mean authorities, that parochial
relief in Scotland is given rather as an aid than for
maintenance ; that it is not wonderful, that small as
these funds frequently are, they are often very widely
diffused ; and I will not assert, that possibly an English
Poor-law Commissioner might not say, on examination
of this list, " I find of these ISO, not more, according to
the Scots law, than 40 real paupers—of these 10 should
have out-door relief ; 30 should go to the workhouse ;
and as for tile other 140, they may be poor, but they are
not paupers." He might, however, come to a very dif-
ferent conclusion, and, at all events, the numbers re-
lieved in the parish are as I have stated.
Of course, there are diversities of condition among
these ; but I take it there are few of them who could
not make out a board of gentlemen sitting in Edinburgh,
a case of poverty. The distinction between the regular
poors' roll and that of the occasional poor, it may be
remarked , has in practice never been much attended to
in the highlands, the poor being rather disposed in
classes, according to the amount paid to them, than
divided into two distinct sections ; and under these cir-
cumstances, there is not one of these recipients who, in
the present day at least, would not call himself a pauper,
or be so called by the agent who might take him by pe-
tition to the Supreme Court.
If, then, with the numbers of the poor thus deter-
mined under the whole law, you proceed under the new
law to adjust their rates of allowance, let us see what
will be the result in this parish.
Five guineas is, I believe, a fair quotation of the aye
rage annual sum which the promoters of these changes
demand from each individual or family.
This gives 9451. and the expense of management, me-
dical attmdance, and education of poor children being
added, it is clear that 1,0001. will not be an over-esti-
mate. The nett laud rental of the parish, or rather the
rental after paying Kirk, King, assessments for prisons,
roads, 84e., ordinary management, and unavoidable re-
pairs, may be stated at 2,700/. Ido not deduct mort-
gages incurred in improving the productiveness of the
soil, legal provisions to widows and children, bad debts,
or any of those ordinary drawbacks which a liberal pro-
prietor may well consider unavoidable ; but, taking the
nett rental as I have stated it, the charge for the poor
will be 37 per cent. I am, of course, aware that part of
this is payable by the tenantry nominally, but, it is very
obvious, really by the landlords—and as for what is ex-
igible from feuars and the like, it will not in many in-
stances be worth collecting.
These, in varying proportions and degrees, I know to
be the circumstances, not of one, but of fifty parishes,
or, possibly, many more ; and I desire to assure you,
that I am unconscious of exaggeration in my statement.
Its correctness is well known to hundreds, who, how-
ever, are, unfortunately, not legislators, and will only
be attempted to be denied or explained away by those
who, being acquainted with none but more wealthy
countries, are ignorant of it ; or by others who may be
seeking no more than a cheap reputation for philan-
thropy.

I may be told that I am more alarmed than is neces-
sary ; that things will not be so very bad ' • that we
may have implicit faith in the board, and so forth. It
may he so ; but this assurance will hardly have much
value till the figures I have given are disproved ; and,
as to the proposed board, several of whom are my
valued friends, while I beg to say of one and all of
those who as yet compose it, that I do not think it
possible to select, in the kingdom, the same number of
individuals, better fitted by character and ability, for
this or any similar duty ; nevertheless, as I cannot tell
how long we may have their services, and am equally
ign m'ant of the rules by which they or their successors
may he guided, I must be permitted to express my be-
lief; that few will be content to hold their estates under
any such doubtful tenure.
But, if such be the state of matters in parishes like
the one I have referred to, what will be the fate of many
who possess estates in the north-west highlands and
INlands ? I firmly believe, that in many of these the
nett rental will not give to the whole of those whom the
kirk session would w ish to r( Have, any thing approach-
ing to the allowance which is contended for ; and, if
this be so, there can be but one result. Such of these
unfortunate proprietors as have no other source of in-
come, must follow the footsteps of those whom the an-
nihilation, by legislation. of the kelp manufacture, drove
to Australia and elsewhere, of whom several occur to
my memory, at this moment, and will, as readily, to
yours.
The owner of ten thousand a-year may contrive to
surrender 37 per cent. ; the owner of one thousand can
hardly do so ; and ite natural unwillingness of all men
tp descend, in their own neighbourhooti4 from the toT to
the bottom of the social scale, will cause their estates to
tp be handed over to their creditors, who will become
known to the residents or them, only through the medium
of un agent, whose more stringent management may per-
haps induce them to doubt if they have, after all, been
gainers by the change—while the undrained, neglected,
and wood-stripped soil, and ruined mansion, will, remind

To close these remarks, I beg leave to make the fol-
lowing suggestions—:
1. That it be expressly enacted, that the receipt of
relief, under the existing law, shall, in itself, constitute
no claim whatever under the new one ; but that the
local Board, or the paid inspector, be directed, as the
first act of their administration, to make a new survey,
and submit, to the general Board, their opinion as to
those who come, in law, strictly under the denomination
of paupers ; dividing these into two classes, viz., those
to whom out of-door relief is more suitable, and may
safely be given, and those to whom a Poor-house is a
more fitting asylum.
2. That in all parishes, without exception, a poor-
house be permitted, and that unions of parishes, for this
purpose, be also allowed, without limitation as to popu-
lation; and that existing buildings may be temporarily,
fitted up, and used as poor-houses, till the wants and con-
venience of the parish or union are ascertained.
3. That the possession of land, under the circum-
stance, and to the extent above alluded to, be held a
bar to parochial relief being afforded to any one residing
upon it, and
4. That some reasonable limit of so much in the
pound on the nett or gross rental of the parish be fixed
as that beyond which poors rate shall in no case be
leviable ; and that this limit be varied in different pa-
rishes in the ratio of their rentals, which generally
afford a fair indication of their relative circumstances.
These amendments, if I may, without great presump
tion, so style them, appear to me indispensable to pre-
vent consequences, which, I fear, are hardly contem-
plated, and which, I am sure, you do not desire.
I am well aware that there are many other aspects
in which the whole of this subject may be viewed, but so
much has been addressed to the public, and may con-
tinue to be so, with reference to these, that I gladly
confine myself to that which has more specially given '
rise to the foregoing remarks.
I have striven to give to the subject of these an accu-
rate, and, I hope, an impartial, examination ; and now,
in common with others, await, in deep and natural
anxiety, the final resolve of the Legislature upon this
momentous subject.—l have the honour to be, my dear
14,rd, yours very faithfully,

- GEORGE DEMPSTER
Skibo Castle, April, 1545.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIL—We understand it is the
intention of Government, in conjunction with the
Chester and Holyhead Railway Company, to have
the electric telegraph established on that line,
reaching from London to Holyhead, a distance of be-
tween 200 and 300 miles, and embracing in its route
the commercial capital) of Liverpool, Manchester,
and Birmingham. The success of the apparatus in
the South Western and the Adiscombe, between
London and Portsmouth, 88 miles, is said to be the
super- inducing:cause of its proposed establishment on
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invention on a scale of magnitude bids fair to effect a
radical change in the entire correspondence of the
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graphing from mart to mart, with marvellous
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miles, intelligence that may be received
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The establishment of telegraphic communication be-
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will give every facility for shipping purposes ; and in
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being daily dispatched, on the arrival of important
mails and merchantmen. The advantages, moreover,
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overlooked, either in a political or social point
of view. Lines of telegraph, we understand, have
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amongst other lines :—On the South Western, as a
Government telegraph for the Admiralty to Ports-
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telegraph, from Nine Elms to Southampton, 77
miles, with branch to Gosport, 21. On the South
Devon atmospheric line, now in progress, 52 miles.
On the Great Western, from Paddington to Slough,
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line. The above embraces an extent of nearly 250
miles, over which the telegraph principle is already in
operation ; and its adoption between London, Liver-
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add about 300 miles more.
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towns, north, south, east, and west. The Birming-
ham, Great Western, South Western, Dover, and
Brighton, we believe, dispatch pleasure trains, for one
fare each way, and the northern lines run short ones
to the various localities on the route. The Liverpool
and Manchester provide cheap waggon trains fzorn
Manchester to Liverpool and back, furnisluel with
seats, and have entered into arrangements with the
conductors of the various Sunday schools for con-
veyance of the scholars. The Manchester and Leeds
propose to convey whole Sunday schools from Man-
chester to Wakefield, and other places on their line
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The Manchester and Bolton run special trains at
reduced fares, every quarter f o an hour, to the liersal
Moor races, and make trips
from Manchester to Preston
an d Fleetwood, at which latter p.e 1
lace pleasure steamers
are to ply in different sea •
th journey • excursions during the day,
,„.:e from Manchester to Fleetwood to be per-
formed in little more
than two hours, allowing visitors
nine hours at Fleetwood.
The Manchester and Bir-
' mngliazee undeetal''e to
a aritahle institutions,
to Allersley and carry the members of clubs,
and schools, from Manchester
back, at 6d. each every day, and
the parents and friends of
the children at Is. They
also run trains to the Chester races, in each ease by
special train, so as to prevent a recurrence of the de-
lays of last season. The Hull and Selby and Midland
lines are to send excursion trains, with free trade
freights of visitors to London, from Leeds, York,

CHELTENHAM AND GREAT WESTERN.—TO-dAy
this line, which starts from the Swindon station,
opens as far as Glou,-,ester for passenger traffic only,
with intermediate stations at Tetbury-road and
Stroud. The remainder of the line will, we under-
stand, be completed without delay. The minor sta-
' Lions at Branscoinbe and Stonehouse will be opened
by June. By this line two complete routes will he
accessible—namely, via Birmingham and Swindon.
Swirr TRAINS.—It is proposed, we hear, to start
another fast train on the Great Western, to accom-
plish the distance between Exeter and London in 4}
hours. On Wednesday, one of the express trains on
the London and Birmingham ran the 112 miles in
2:1 hours. It is expected that the distance between
Liverpool and London, nearly 200 will pre-
sently be r.cl in 4,12 hours. The Midland
lines have joined in the general acceleration.
TEsTimoNiAl.s.—On Wednesday last a service of
plate, value 200 guineas, vas presented to Mr. Alder-'
man Carr, a director, by a number of shareholders in
the North Midland, in testimony of the sense they
entertained of his services in effecting economical re-
forms in connexion vs ith the Company. On the pre-
vious Friday a silver tea service was presented to Mr.
P. Clarke, late superintendent of the Midland Rail-
way, by the officers and heads of the establishment, as
a testimony to his efficient services. A similar testi-
monial has also been presented by the shareholders to
Mr. J. B. Badham, secretary to the Bristol and
Exeter line, of the value of 100 guineas, accompanied
by a purse of 1,150 guineas, subscribed for by nearly
400 shareholders. Mr. Linn, superintendent of the
Glasgow and Coal-bridge, was last week presented
with a watch and a purse of sovereigns by the officers
associated with him.

We trust it is by an oversight of the Committee of
Selection that Mr. Gibson Craig has been placed at
the head of the committee on the Porismouth lines.
In this committee is to be decided the question be-
tween the atmospheric and a locomotive line ; and to
have placed at the head of it a former member of the
atmospheric committee, one echo has signed his name
to Lord Hewick's report, and who, we perceive, in a
majority of cases, voted with Lord Howiek and
against Mr. Hodgson Hinde, in that committee, is to
have overlooked all the principles by which men are
usually guided, who wish to provide for a disputed
case an impartial tribunal.—llailway Chronicle.
The Midland Company have purchased the Melton
and Oakham Canal, at 60/. per share.
THE GRAND JUNCTION AND THE BROAD GUAGR.
—There has been, during the last few days, a rumour
to the effect that the Grand 'Junction Company will,
in the event of the Great Western Company proceed-
ing with their line from Oxford to Rugby and Bir-
ming, carry on the broad guage from the latter town
to Liverpool and Scotland, tl-ereby reducing the
journey from the metropolis to this town to three
hours and a half.—Liverpool Times.
As a: specimen of the unscrupulous manner in
which evidence is got up before Railway Commit-
tees of the House of Commons, it was asserted last
week, before the Committee on the North Lin-
colnshire that since
of the Hull and
coach running be-
tween Nottingham and Hull. The witness was from
from Nottingham to
Barton-upon-Humber • and yet there is a daily
thiscoach
self-same Barton waterside;
besides which, the Nottingham and Lincoln mail con-
nects with the Lincoln mail to Hull by way of New
Holland.—Notts Journal.
BRIGHTON.—Yesterday morning the office of the
London-bridge terminus of this line was besieged
by persons anxious to avail themselves of the oppoi•
tunity of visiting Brighton, and returning the same
day fbr as., the sum charged by the Directors yes-
terday, and which they have given notice will be
continued during the present week, for the thira-
class trains. Upwards of one thousand persons were
conveyed by the first train, and nearly the same
number by the second train, the other trains during
the day to Croydon and other places on the line were
also filled, nearly two thousand persons passing up
and down.

GREENWICH.-Up to seven o'clock last night up-
wards of 20,000 persons proceeded by the trains from
the London bridge station to Greenwich.

RAILWAY BATIIS.—The Dub;in and Kingstown
Railway Company announce that they will receive
proposals from persons wishing to become tenants fur
the present season for the Company's bathing places
at Salt-hill, Monkstown, and Blackrock. Ail sub-
scribers to the line, holders of railway, bathing, and
morning tickets, to have free cold bathing at any of
the Company's baths, the tenant Providing attend-
ance, towels, and all necessary accommodation, free of
charge. Baths are in daily use at Crewe 'for the
officers and servants of the Urand Junction Railway.
DARTMOUTH. LINE.—On Wednesday last a meeting
was held rat Dartmouth, with the view of promoting
the interests of the proposed line. After some deli.-
oeration the meeting was adjourned to a future day,
for the purpose of then forming a provisional com-
mittee, and for resolving on future measuns.

•
LEG A Ilumoußs.—lt has been mentioned in West-
minster- ball by some of its learned members, that a matter of con-
siderable interest in respect of admissions to the Inns of Court and
keeping terms for the bar, is about to engage the attention of the
heads of these places, and that important changes will most likely
be effected by the benchers in respect of persons applying to be
admitted, as a;so of assimilating the practice of keeping terms in
all of them. At the present time the Uye.laws of these places ma-
terially differ in the terms of regulations to be complied with to,
constitute qualification for admission, and fur being called to the
bar ; as, for instance, fees on entry and admission, University de-
grees, examination, terms to be kept, &c. It is stated that a
desire exists amongst several of the learned benchers of the Honour-
able Societies of Lincoln's Inn, the Inner and Middle Temple, cud
Gray's Inn, for carrying into effect a consolidation of their present
rules and regulations on the subject.
REV. DR. CHALMERS'S RhTIRRMENT FROM PUBLIC
BUSINESS OF TnE CHURCIL—L Preface to pamphlet " On.
the Economics of the Free Church of Scotland"].—" Inu_aq;
flouncing my determination now to retire from
itthwe l
111
business of the free church. I feel confident talget.7
*matter of choice. but a physi a
cf
-rmneeeredais, and the strength
the vigour nor the alertness oefitger
fir the debates of the
be ascribed to any decay of affection for el
hate. Inteisetbnerot
no longer remains with
spon deuce. " GiaVow " 1 corre-
assembly. or for the de_t.anriwles:orf.6scommittees and their

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ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
TIIIS EVENING

Will be repeated a New and Original Nautical Drama, entitled
TUE YELLOW ADMIRAL; or, The Perils of the Battle and the
Breeze. Supported by the whole Company.
Atter which, an Original Laughable Farce, entitled WILFUL
MURDER. Mr. Cons,l, Mr. Ersser Jones; Pythagoras Sphoon,
Mr. J. Herbert ; Frank Featherly, Mr. T. H. Higgie Rhoda, Mrs.
0. Lee ; Whiskers, Miss E. Terry.
To conclude with an entirely New and Original Drama, entitled
THE OLD TOLL HOUSE ; or, The Carrier and his Dog. In which
Messrs. Cony, Blanchard, and the Dog Hector will perform.

A DIFFERENT SUBJECT EACH SEASONI-GRAND OPENING
FETES.

First Exhibition of the Colossal Pictorial Representation suggested
by H. R. H. PRINCE ALBERT. Under the Patronage of her
most Gracious MAJESTY, her Majesty the QUEEN DOWAGER,
H. It. H. PRINCE ALBERT, &c. &c.
ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
TO-DAY, AND THURSDAY,
A magnificent modelled Representation of EDINBURGH, the
Pride of Scotland and of S'cotchmen, and the immortal Scott's " Ain
Romantic Town," introducing the Old and New Town, the Nor'
Loch, as it formerly existed, the Calton Hill, Nelson's Monument,
Arthur's Seat, Salisbury Craggs, the Castle, Sir Walter Scott's Monu-
ment, the Royal Institution, Holyrood Palace, and all the most inter-
esting features of " Auid Reekie."
The Proprietor had the honour of submitting the Model to his
Royal Highness Prinee Albert, and he is delighted to say it met with
his most decide and perfect approval, and from the more than usual
care which has been observed in its execution, he points it out as the
happiest production of Mr. Danson's pencil. The drawings were
made by Mr. Danson on the spot, and present a bird's-eye view of
the principal objects of the Old and New Town, the Firth of Forth, &c.
The PROMENADE CONCERTS, so decidedly popular at this
Establishment, will this season be on an unusually effective scale. Mr.
GODFREY has been occupied since the close of last summer, in com-
posing and arranging a varied and pleasing succession of superior
Novelties, which will be produced in rotation, Including some Ori-
ginal Pieces by Foreign Composers, not yet nerfonned In this country.
At Dusk will take place the most extraordinary Exhibition of
FIREWORKS ever attempted. The ettlire of the Gigantic Model
will be Illuminated. The different devices in front of the houses, the
fires on the Calton Hill, Arthur's Seat, and the surrounding Moun-
tains, the illumination of Nelson's Monument, and all the rejoicings
which took place on her Majesty's Visit will be accurately pour-
trayed. And, as a Finale, a grand Aquatic Royal and Patriotic
Tableau, Fifty Feet In Height, will be exhibited in the centre of the
Lake ! The Portraits of her Majesty and Prince Albert, surmOtuited
by Fame, and surrounded by emblems and ether devices will be in-
troduced. The Tableau designed and executed by Mr. Danson.
Mr. Soutliby has been occupied for months in giving effect to this
matchless and superb design, which combined with the Feux D'Artl-
flee, the Salute and Discharge of Rockets tram the Castle and sur-
reuading heights, will form the most brilliant Pyrotechnic Display
ever witnessed.
Feeding of the Carnivore, at half-past Four ; Pelicans, &c., at
Five: Concert at Six; and Pyrotechnic Display at Vine.

Adiriisiim. One St, intim'

THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, MAT 12.

THIMMONETER, Lowest, 44 ; Highest., 55; Noon, 53.

BAROMETER, 29.82.—W1ND, N.
Nor —The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and
" Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the
Thermometer during tht preceding twenty-four hour 3. All
the other oleservations are made at noon.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. minutes after 5 I Evening .. 19 minutes after 6.

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