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freight of the excrements of sea-fowl. It is not enough
Linn timber,
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that the revival of trade has occasioned new demands
If)oort ttoi
in the Mersey. It is not enough that a good har-
vest has enabled us to bridge over for a season the
howling gulf which yawns for our commercial sys-
tem, under the name of the sliding-scale. These
and other substitutes may mitigate the pressure;
occurring auspiciously as they do, they mitigate of
course the discontent ; but amongst thinking people
—and in Lancashire we trust there are some few
who think—they cannot, they ought not, to mitigate
the undisguised contempt which is inseparable from
a contemplation of the course taken by the Tories
on the questions relating to Brazil. We will ven-
ture to say that so strong a case of national injury
was never before made out against a party. It is
proved to demonstration. Mr. Ellis is our witness for
the last Sear; the Viscount Abrantes would bear
testimony for the present. Sir R. Peel is plausible
but this Brazilian indictment, speaking as it does
with a distinctness of accusation never hitherto sur-
passed ; charging him, as it will do, before the as-
sembled Comm Ons, with sacrificing the best interests
of the country to selfish party purposes, and the trade
and commerce of the empire to objects purely fac-
tious ; this Brazilian indictment will bring the true
merits of the Whig budget and the Tory intrigue un-
reservedly before the public, and the merchants of
England will see more clearly than they hitherto
have done, the enormous price they pay for the Peel
Administration. It costs us, they will see, a conti-
nuance of the sliding-scale. It costs us a continuance
of the con-tart struggle which ascendancy introduced
into Ireland, and which ever and anon breaks out,
with greater or less intensity, as the fires of the social
volcano are inflamed or assuaged by circumstances.
It costs us in France obsequiousness to a Minister
who does not ratify his treaties—who, alone, of mo-
dern statesmen, holds his head aloft, and assumes
the privileges of conventional equality with
diplomatists of other countries, without the chivalry
of standing or falling by his acts. We have a great
respect for M. Guizot—his industrious life, his emi-
nence in literature, the general firmness and fixity of
his public life, entitle him to much consideration at
our hands ; but really lie ought to ratify his treaties.
No one knows Vattel better; he is deeply read in
Grotius and in Puffendorf; there is not a page in the
" Law of Nations" with which he is not conversant ;
but we defy him to show a precedent more fatal to
diplomatic intercourse than that which he has esta-
blished; and we firmly believe that had Lord Pal-
merston been in power, the Crown of England would
have been saved from the indignity, and the cause of
humanity would not have suffered so serious a dis-
couragement Last year Ministers introduced a Bill
for the admission of free sugar; but upon discovering
that the favoured-nation clause would let in the sugars
of Louisiana, and some other districts, the moral
principle gave way, the fixity of their scruples
disappeared, Mr. Gladstone took again to his Igna-
tiox Loyola, and slave-grown sugar can come in.
When Lord Sandon moved his amendment, fixed
principles and a settled antipathy to slave productions
were the order of the day. Gentlemen who have
learned their emancipation lessons since the death of
Wilberforce presumed to lecture the associates of
that venerable man. The son of Mr. Gladstone re-
hearsed homilies on anti-slavery which would have
driven the old planter into hysterics ten years ago.
Sir R. Peel, who had never raised a finger for the
negro, but had borne their miseries with cheerful-
ness. for many years, of a sudden turned fanatical,
and you would have thought that he had sent his
card to Mr. Buxton to recruit the militia of philan-
thropy. But when the Sugar Bill of 1844 came be-
fore the Ihuse of Commons, fixed principles in sugar
were placed upon the footing of fixed principles in
Church and State ; and Sir R. Peel and Mr. Glad-
stone were as much prepared to vindicate the ano-
malous accidents of occasional incomings of slave
sugar as they were to draw distinctions between
coffee and muscovado. We have, therefore, much

II and 3.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OP THIS DAT.
TIMES.—It seems as if what pope call emigra-
tion could never be purified of its abuses, or become
(hat great national development which it might and
)ught to be, until the antipodes were actually brought
,vilhin twelve hours' journey of this metropolis.
Mankind are prone to be taken in. Colonists are
men msde to be cheated. These seem to be the

Frum Terrace Pier, Gravesend, at 91, 1, and b ; on Sundays at
91 and 5.
Fares to or from London.
Fore Cabin and Second Class Carriage, Ninepence.
Saloon and First Class Carriage, On• Shilling.
To or from Blackwall.
Fora Cabin, Sixpence—Saloon, Ninepence.
,;tar Office, iirttre-send, Nov. 29, 1544.

TO BOOKSELLERS, BOOKBINDERS, STATIONERS, &c.
N IVAN'N a tiFII7ITION, in To vvn or Country,
as BOOKBINDER, one who can Finish, Forward, and is
well-acquainted with stationery binding. Can make himself useful
in general. Has a testimonial from 1. is last employer, whom he has
served for several years.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
CALLS for TENTH INSTALMENT of 51. per SHARF, on
1001. SHARES, and FINAL INSTALMENT of 81. per FIFTH
SHARE of 201. each.
The Directors of the Great Western Railway having resolved at a
meeting, held this day, to call, under the provisions of the Acts of
Parliament for am instalment of 51. per Share on 1001. Shares, and
also an instalment of 81. per Share on the Fifth Shares of 201. each,
Notice is hereby given, that the Proprietors are requested to pay, on
ar before the 6th day of January peat, to any of the undermentioned
rankers the said sum of 51. on each of their respective 100/. Shares,
and the said sum of SI. on each of their respective Fifth Shares,
viz.:—
London • •

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favourite apothegms of the emigration companies;
And there is doubtless no small truth in them, though
very small morality. We must, unhappily, confess
hat nothing short of gross, palpable, physical demon-
itration will ever enable Englishmen is needy cir-
,mmstances to see that the back woods of Canada,

Address, A.B. 34, St. Martin's.lane, London.

ACCOUNTS.

the wilds of New Zealand are not every man's
El Dorado, or that intesested " emigation agents"
ire :not the appointed and trustworthy instruments
for raising any given desert or solitude whatever into
the most flourishing and civilised of peopled cities.
We are not by any means sure, indeed, that the
time when there will be a railway to the antipodes
-nay not be nearer at hand than ordinary folks
dream; but we despair, we must confess, of seeing
:t. in our own days altogether realised. New Zea-
land in the back parlour is the only thing that can
.lefeat the emigration jobbery ; and this is certainly
a consummation, as yet, more to be wished than
hoped for. European Princes, however, are already,
as we read, making " shooting excursions to Ceylon
and Bengal," and getting up tiger parties and ele-
phant battues to come off on the Indus or the
Ganges, as quietly as people in old times used to
arrange a grouse campaign for the Highlands of
Scotland. "Royal visits" are already becoming
terrifically enterprising. British India is no longer
too distant for a European potentate's morning
call ; and the sport which is to be expected on
the Himalayas seems as if it would soon be a
fashionable attraction in European Courts. This

AGENTLEMAN of EXPERIENCE in BAN K-
RUPT and other A7counts (having Dart of his time only
employed) would be glad to render his services to parties who may
require them, and to whom moderate terms would be an object.
Address, post paid, W. E., 16, Broad-street-buildings, City.

Messrs. Glyn, Hallifex, Mills, and Co., at the Great
Western Railway-otnce, 29, Cateatou-street, City.
Bristol ...... Messrs. Miles, Ilarferd, and Co.
Messrs. Elton, Baillie, Ames, and Co.
St tzekey's Banking Company.
The West of England and South Wales District Bank.
Liverpool.• .. The Bank of Liverpool.
Cheltenham.. Tao County of Gloucester Bank.
Reading . • • • Messrs. J. and C. Simonds and Co.
By order of the Board of Directors,
CHAS. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary.
London Terminus. Paddington, sth Dee., 1844

P lICEN IX FIRE-OFFICE, LOMBARD-
STREET and CHARING.CROSS.
Notice is hereby given, that the portion of the 10th condition of
the Policies of this Company which entitles the Company in cases
of loss to require a CERTIFICATE from the MINISTER and
CHURCHWARDENS, and other RESPECTABLE HOUSE-
HOLDERS, is hereby declared to he DISPENSED with.
THOS. RICHTER, Secretary.

NATIONAL MERCANTILE LIFE ASSU-
RANCE COMPANY, Arthur-street West, Lundon-br.:dge.

MPLOYAIENT.—Persons having a little time
to spare are apprised that Agents continue to be appointed is
London, and country towns, by the EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY,
or the sale of their celebrated teas.
Offices, No. 9, Great St. Helen's-churchyard, Biahopsgate-street.
They are packed in showy leaden canisters, from one ounce to a
found, with the price and weight marked on sack packet, and but
ittle trouble is occasioned by the sale. The license is only I is. per
annum, and many during the last nineteen years have realised con-
siderable incomes by the agency without one shilling let or loss.
Application to be made (If by letter post-paid) as above.
FORGERY.—CAUTION.—Some unprincipled
persons are advertising spurious Teas under a forged title, in
the hope of passing them off as Captain PII)i)ING'S TEAS. Pur-
chasers of his Howoua's Teas will observe that all genuine packages
bear his signature thus—" Captain John Rhodes ridding, lion. Com-
pany's Service." The advantages possessed by Captain ridding—
among others, the having secared for himself the exclusive importa-
tion of these Teas—are the result of eight voyages made to China,
and five years spent in that country.
Captain ridding has only two agents in London—Verrey, 229, Re-
gent-street, corner of Hanover-street ; also 3, Pall-mai!, next the
Haymarket ; aid T. Littlejohn and Son, 77, King William-street, City.
For country agencies, address to Captain ridding, College-hill.

Esta;,lished in 1837

Lives continue to be assured in this Office OS EVERT KNOWN
SYSTEM—Annuities Immediate and deferred.

ADVANTAAIES.

A BONUS of TWO-THIRDS of the PROFITS allotted to the
assured.
LOWER RATES of PREMIUM cltarged for assurances without
Profits.
PREMIUMS payable Annually, Half-yearly, or Quarterly.
AMONGST OTHER DESCRIPTIONS of ASSURANCES granted
by this Office, is the important one, originated by the Society, of
securing a sum to the assured—himself on his attaining any given
age, or to his family in the event of his earlier death.
CREDIT ALLOWED (without Security) for One-half the amount
of the first Five Annual Premiums, paying interest thereon at 51.
per Cent. per annum.
FRED. BANKART, } Secretaries.
JOAN L. EVANS,

is all very promising; but even this annihilation
of space, and twice as much as this, is nothing to
what is wanted for the interests of emigrants. Emi •
oration companies have still a wonderful knack of
turning the impediments of time and space into
instruments of gain. We have now a poor gentleman,
whose memorial appear► in another column,—who
complains that the New Zealand Company in Lon-
don has sold to him prime New Zealand land, war-
ranted of the first quality, which—after one year's
voyage and two more years' fruitless search for it—
he has discovered never to have been in existence at

NATIONAL
MERCANTILE LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
Arthur street West, London-bridge.
The Directors, Members, and Friends of this Society will Dine
together at the London Tavern, Bishopegate.street Within, on
MONDAY, the 25d inst., at Five o'Clock precisely.
ROBERT WILCOXON, Esq., in the Chair.
Tickets, One Guinea, to be had at the Office of the Society, of
the Stewards, and at the Bar of the London Tavern.
Dec. 7, 1844.

COGAN and GILLO'S NOVARGENT, or
SILVER SOLUTION, re-silvers worn out Plated Articles,
by immediately depositing a Coating of Pure Silver on the surface,
and Preserves and cleanses Silver, Plated ware, and German
Silver. It is used 'with less trouble than cleaning, and is war-
ranted not to contain Mercury or anything injurious. It has been
highly approved by Dr. Ryan, Professor of Chemistry to the Royal
Polytechnic Institution ,and other eminent Chemists and Silversmiths.
Sold wholesale by BARCLAY and SONS, 95, Farringdon-street,
London; and by JOSEPH RODGERS :and SONS, 6, Norfolk-street,
Sheffield ; and to be had in bottles, with full directions, at Is. and
3s. eacb, of all the rrincipal Chemists, Silversmiths, and Furnishing
Ironmongers in the Kingdom.
BEWARE OF IMITATION.—The genuine are all signed on the
wrapper, oy the Inventors, I. D. COGAN and R. GILLO.

LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITY
socrETY.
AUSTRALASIAN, COLONIAL, AND GENERAL LIFE
ASSURANCE and ANNUITY SOCIETY.
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.
Joluf Henry Capper, Esq. William Walker, Esq.
SECRETARY—Edward Ityley, Esq.
The following are specimens of the promiuuns charged by tkis Coln-
pally for the tt,curance of 1001.
Age. 20 I 30 i 40 59 I 60

all. Why, could there he imagined a case less illus-
trative than this is of the extreme policy or practice
of the emigration companies? This is merely in the
ordinary line of business. This is only a specimen
of that ordinary line of business which is, in our opi-
nion, so infinitely more disgraceful to the inventors
and practisers of it, than it can possibly be uncompli-
mentary to the sagacity of its unfortunate dupes, that
we hardly like even to introduce this latt:T element
of consideration into the question at all. It were idle,
indeed, to think that land in New Zealand is to the
New Zealand Company in the same predicament as
land in Middlesex or Surrey ; or that it is equally
safe to deal with an emigration society for " warranted"
commodities lying beyond the Straits of Malacca as
for property situated only at the end of the Croydon
Railway. But when people will think so,--why, then
the Company say, " Whose fault is it that such belief
is turned to account?" Infatuation indeed ! To
imagine that an emigration company is to be trusted
on the point, of all others in the world, of a bargain
and sale of land! Why, for what other object is an
emigration company formed at all, if not for this, of
getting rid of supposed landed estates to would-be
emigrants ? Our memorialist's case is undoubtedly
a hard one. He was, unfortunately, guilty of be-
lieving in the New Zealand Company. This was his
only fault. lie purchased of them, " a section of land,"
he tells us, "in what is termed the second series

£1 1031 £2 0 71 £2 1531 £1 1 $ 1 Xi 3 9

An. Prom

This Company offers the advantages of th• guarantee of an ample
subscxlbed capital—of permission to retain one-third of the premium
in their own hands (the portion so retained, with interest upon it,
being deducted from the policy when it become a claim),—of ascend-
ing, descending, and other scales of premiums,—and of participation
in the profits at the end of every five years.
TO EMIGRANTS, TO THIS AUSTRALASIAN COLONIES,
assured for the whole of life, this Company offer the permission to
proceed to, and reside in, any of those colonies without extra pro-
mium, and to pay their premiums there. For residence in New
Zealand, a moderate extra premium is charged.
In Sydney, a Board of Directors, and Agents in all the principal
settlements—Bankers in the colony. The Bank of Anstralasia (in •
corperatal by Royal Charter, 1835), No. 2, Moorgate-street, London

of the Company's settlements in New Zealand; and,
by the terms of his purchase (1), he was entitled to
choose the aforesaid section, not only in any of the
settlements or territories alleged to be then in posses-
sion of the Company, but also in any other they
might afterwards acquire !" This was in August.,
1839. Unfortunate man ! Deeply, indeed, did he
atone for his single error. How great a punishment
is involved in the making eon), pneehase" as his!
A ~etieo, too r Poor deluded individual We
wonder how much it was that he gave for his bar-
gain—how much was added to the price for his
liberty of choice—how much fur the right of ranging
through all the vast domains which the Company
" might hereafter acquire." The memorialist does
not himself say bow much he gave. " With the
fullest confidence," he shortly says, he set out for
New Zealand. He had no more idea that he could
be imposed upon than if he had only had the Croydon
Railway instead of a brace of tropics between *him-
self and his bargain. Innocent, unsuspecting crea-
ture! He went ! He went, and took his family
with him ; but when he got to the antipodes he
found, as most other people do' that he and his were
all precisely reversed ;—that he stood upon his head,
instead of upon his heels, as he had expected ; and, that,
among other wonderful transmutations, the "settle-
ments" of the New Zealand Company were "translated"
also. The roguery, in short, came out. After two years'
fruitless badgering with the Company's one " agent,"
the unhappy memorialist found, after all, that his
magnificent right of choice was only a theory, and
had practical existence nowhere save in the bureaux
of the London Directory of the Company ; and after
having been most effectually and completely " done"
in every possible way, the unhappy man returned
home in July, 1844, without either his family, his
money, or his land, to memorialise (but in vain) the
Colonial Secretary I Such is the unhappy fate of
colonists who become such only on the speculation of
screwing a bargain out of those whose express and
only business it is to be bargained withal! Such is
emigration in the hands of an emigration company-.
This poor gentleman's case is evidently not a singular
or by any means an uncommon one. It is a system.
People are led over to our colonies—settlements
are—it would be a mockery to say founded—but,
settlements are crudely thrown out, or swelled
to unwieldy numbers, merely and solely upon
the ground of the single assumed fact—a " fact"
which, as in this instance, often turns out to
be entirely an assumption, and no fact at all
—that unoccupied land is to be had in New Zealand
or Canada, for which there are unoccupied buyers
here in ingland. The sole notion of colonisation
seems to be, in the eyes of one class of politicians in
this country, " Sell the land. The buyers will do
the rest." So everything is thus left to take care of
itself ; and the practical result is, that sometimes even
the land, the sale of which was to be the great
foundation of the whole, turns out to be a mere fiction
and a sham, arid the intended colonist only a ruined
and deluded dupe. Such is modern colonisation—
such is the system which we have to compare with
the great colonial developments of ancient Greece and
Rome—with the communities which sprang into life
and vigour at once, like Minerva armed from the head
of Jove, full-grown and perfect, the worthy and in
all respects complete imitation of the institutions and
framework of the parent state. We recommend the
contrast to the attentive consideration of Mr. Charles
Buller. He has already signified that he is by no
means blind to its existence; we think that the more
it is considered, and the more public attention
becomes fixed upon our modern methods of
colonisation, the more remarkable will be found our
inferiority in this point to the heathen empires of old.
CHRONICLE.—The merchants of London are
to entertain Sir Henry Pottinger at dinner to-mor-
row. He is to receive a similar mark of the estima-
tion in which his services are held by the merchants
of Liverpool on Monday next. We trust that the
town of Liverpool, in commemorating the services
of Sir Henry Pottiager, will not forget those of
Viscount Sandon. The first has opened the trade
with China, the second has closed that with Brazil.
Sir Henry Pottinger is distinguished for the magni-
tude of his benefits ; Viscount Sandon for the unex-
ampled extent of his destructiveness. To the arms of
one, and to the faction of the other, we owe widely
different results. Under the guidance of Lord Pal-
merston, the Baronet has enlarged the boundaries of
British power; and, without the injustice and other
questionable accompaniments of power which occa-
sionally detracted from their renown, has added, like
a Hastings or a Clive, a new hemisphere to the com-
merce of Englishmen. The latter, under the guidance
of Sir R. Peel, has obtained a notoriety scarcely less
distinctive, and has placed himself on a par in com-
mercial mischievousness with the author of the sliding-
scale. It is but fair, then, that a town like Liverpool,
which has so deep an interest in China and Brazil,
should give some little indication of her gratitude to
the diplomatist and also the statesman. The truth
is, that, like the Ministers, they are in a fix. Nothing
could be inure agreeable to them, as Tories, than to
turn out the late Administration ; but nothing could
he more disagreeable to all, except West Indians,
than the loss of the extensive commerce with Brazil.
It is not enough that we have refuge in guano, and
have our shipping employed, in greater numbers than
could have been believed three years ago, in the

faith in their waist of fixity ; we cannot suppose they
will lose the Brazils for the sake of an ounce weight
of consistency.

THE 'WEATHER.
THE ACCIDENTS ON THE ICE, Sze:
The slight fall of snow which took place during Sun-
day night did not have any material effect in diminish-
ing the severity of the frost which had previously existed.
At seven o'clock yesterday morning the mercury in the
thermometer at the Receiving-house, Hvde•park, stood
as low as 24 ; at noon it had reached 27 degrees, and
varied throughout the afternoon from that point to 29}
up to six o'clock, when it rose to 32, the freezing point.
The wind throughout the day continued blowing, though
not severely, from the N.N.E.
The Parks were, from an early hour, again thronged
by respectably-dressed people. The ice on the Serpen-
tine and the round pond of Kensington-gardens had, in
consequence of the continued frost during the night of
Sunday, considerably improved in condition, but still in
many parts it was exceedingly dangerous, and in no few
instances were the services of the icemen called into re-
quisition. With the exception of several immersions,
no accident of anything like a serious character occurred.
It is computed that from 8,000 to 10,000 persons must
have been on the Serpentine during the day.
In the Regent's Park, although the snow which fell
during the previous night rendered the surface of the
ice on the ornamental waters, through its adhesion to it
during the earlier part of the day, exceedingly dangerous,
still the ice itself was found in excellent condition, and
upwards of two inches and a half in thickness. Through.
out the day this place was visited by several thousand
persons. The only casualty which occurred was to a
young gentleman, named Bingham, a medical student,
residing in Maida Vale, Edgware-road, who, coming in
violent collision with a gentleman who was skating in an
opposite direction, was thrown down and received a
severe fracture of the right thigh. Being in company
with several friends, a cab was procured, and he was at
once conveyed to his residence. Although the members
of the Skating Club have not yet pitched their tent in
this Park, a number of its members were observed,
during the day, enjoying this healthful recreation. The
spot selected by them was not, as usual, facing Sussex-
terrace,- but in the more secluded part of the ornamental
water, near the Marquis of Hertford's villa.
The number of persons on the lake of St. James's
Park was limited, in consequence of the extreme in-
security of the ice ir man 7 places, owing to breakages
made therein for the aquatic birds, and also on account
of the accident which had taken place on Sunday. It
is now feared that several persons were on that occa
sion drowned. During the day the Humane Society's
men have been employed in dragging, and what con
firms this belief is, that three or four hats bave been
found, and the reporter was informed that one of them
had been identified by a female as belonging to her son.
who had not been home since he went out on Sunday
afternoon. Up to seven o'clock last evening, however,
no bodies had been found.

A NEW AND IMPORTANT EDITION OF THE SILENT
FRIEND ON HUMAN FRAILTY.
Just published, price 2s. fid. and free by post (in a sealed envelope).
Price •Is. 6d.,
THE SILENT FRIEND ; a Medical Work on
Human Frailty and Physical Decay, its causes, and the
banefill effects of excessive indulgence and infection, illustrated
by engravings, with observations on Marriage, and directions for
the removal of certain disqualifications.
Ply R. and L. PERRY and CO.
Published by the Authors, aid sold at their Residence, 19, Berner&
street, Ox ford.street • also by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row; Furkis„
Compton-street, Soho ; Noble, 109, Chancery.lane; Hannay and
Co., 63, Oxford-street; J. Gordon, 146, Leadenleall-street, Lon-
don; and: by all Booksellers in Town and Country

ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE.

beautiful structure, is composed of nine arches of
sixty feet span, in the neighbourhood of the pro-
perty of the Hon. B. Percy. The Leamington sta-
tio❑ is somewhat inconveniently placed at a dis-
tance of one mile from both Leamington and
Warwick, and the fact of its being only
a single line is probably attributable to the
extortionate demands on the Company for land, which
in some instances had to be purchased at 7001. and
8001. per acre. The principal part of the line runs
through the estate of the Earl of Warwick and Lord
Leigh, the latter of whom has had the family escut-
cheon engraved in very beautiful style in large
granite characters in the front of one of the bridges.
The first train to-day started from the Leamington
station at twenty minutes past eight in the morning,
its departure being witnessed by a large proportion of
the population of the town, who continued during the
day to throng the various avenues to the line, await-
ing the arrival and departure of the trains, which
performed the distance (nine miles) in between
eighteeen and twenty minutes. The event was cele-
brated by a public dinner of the inhabitants at the
Regent, the principal hotel in the town, where about
100 gentlemen sat down to a sumptuous dinner pre-
pared by Messrs. Breach and Jeffry. Captain Mus-
grove, 'R.N., took the chair, supported by Dr.
Jephson, Hon. Colonel Cathcart, Hon. W. Somer-
ville, Dr. Middleton, Rev. H. Harper, Captain Mor-
gan, Mr. Hanbury, Mr. Drinkwater, and several of
the fashionable residents.

Formerly the distance between Coventry and
Leamington occupied about an hour and a half ; by
rail the distance will be done in eighteen minutes.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
CITY, MONDAY EVENING.
TIMES.--The plans for the 220 railways having been
all sent in for the examination of the Board of Trade,
the numerous parties interested in these undertakings
are of course becoming anxious as to the fate of the
various schemes. As yet it is not known whether the
Board of Trade will reserve the expression of their
opinion for the opening of Parliament, Or whether they
will accept any plan for communicating their decisions
at once. Many of the proprietors hope that the latter
course will be adopted, considering that it will be very
tedious to wait for three or four months before they
learn the fate of their property. A letter addressed by
the Board of Trade to the directors, informing them of
their opinion, would probably be the most welcome form
of communication. So great would be the weight of
the Board of Trade in influencing Parliament, that if
their approval is obtained, the projectors do not seem
to anticipate any fatal obstacle on the part of the Legis-
lature, notwithstanding the ordeal of Committees.
In support of the movement which is now making to
obtain a repeal of the import duty on cotton wool, two
tables have been published in the Glasgow Argus, show-
ing the competition of the British spinner with those of
Europe and America. These tables contain the decimal
series of yarns, from No. 10 to No. 105, but a notion of
the results may be given by taking only the extreme
numbers. The import duty amounts to 5-16ths of a
penny, and 5 per cent. per lb., with 1-16th of a penny
for duty on waste. In the first table, which shows the
competition of our spinners with these of Europe, under
No. 10 there appears 3.50 d. for cost of material, 101
as the per centage of pressure of duty on that cost,
and 64 as the per centage of pressure of duty on the
cost of the twist. Under No. 100, the figures to these
three items are respectively 14d., ,2 per cent., and
II- per cent. ; and hence the table shows that the
pressure of the duty on the low numbers is unequal
as compared with that on the high numbers. The cost
of the cotton in the above calculation is estimated at the
present market price in Great Britain. In the second
table, which shows the competition with the American
spinners, the cost of the cotton is estimated at the price
of the port of shipment of America. Under No. 10, the
cost of material is set down at 2.75 d., the per centage of
pressure on material at 134, the per centage on cost of
twist at 8 per cent. Under No. 100 these items are, re-
spectively, 13.25 d., 3 per cent., and l per cent. There
is also 6-16ths of a penny per lb. paid by the British
spinner, as extra freight and insurance, more than the
American spinners. This, added to the duty, gives a
pressure of 12-16ths per lb., and this pressure on raw
material and on twist gives two additional items. The
pressure on No. 10 is 27 per cent. on raw material, and
16 per cent. on twist ; while on No. 100 it is 6 per cent.,
and 24 per cent.
CIIRONECLE.—We had lost sight of the proposed
" Dunedin Bank" in Edinburgh. It has, however, been
brought forward in a different, or at least modified, and
judging from the programme of business proposed for
the first meeting, which takes place on the 12th instant,
apparently in a successful shape. It is now before the
public as a Non-issuing Bank, and it is said that 200,0002
of the intended capital, all of which is to be paid up by
instalments, has been already subscribed. Should this
bank be established, it will form quite a new feature in
the history of Scotch banking. Much pains seems to
have been bestowed by its promoters in the preparation
of the plan and details, amongst which we observe it is
intended to reduce the time for regulating the exchange
between Edinburgh and London to eleven days, and to
make advances on the security of wholesale warehouse
stocks and bales of goods above a certain value.
SUN.—English Stocks have gone up again this afternoon
Consols haring attained the high price of 1004 4 for the
opening, without the dividend. Exchequer Bills were
58s. premium ; and New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents. remained firm at 103.
Spanish were henry at 241 for the Five per Cents.,
and 361 for the Three per Cents.; Portuguese Con-
verted were quoted 56 to 1 ; Russian were 1194 to i;
and Dutch Five per Cents. brought 991.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these :—Bristol and Exeter were 14 ; Cambridge
and Lincoln, 4 ; Churnet Valley, 14 to 1 ; Edinburgh
and Glasgow, 12; Great Southern and 'Western (Ire-
land), 34; Great North of England, 21 ; Ditto, New,
12 to If; Birmingham, 120 ; Ditto, Thirds, 364; Ditto,
Quarters, 244 to 231; South-Western, 444; Croydon,
2k ; Lynn and Ely, 11; North British, 4; Northen and
Eastern, 124; ; Richmond and West-End Junction, 14;
Rugby, ; Trent Valley, 7to 6i; York and North Mid-
land, 521; Orleans and Vierzon. 91 ; and Orleans and
Bordeaux, 44 premium. South Devon were at par;
London and Westminster, 61 ; Union of Australia, 2 ;
Ditto, New, j ; and Union of London, 24 premium.
We hare not yet heard of the West India mail, but
some information is expected to-morrow. It is proper
.0 observe that it is only just due.

ROWING MATCH.

The great scullers' contest between William Robins,
of Horsleydown, and Thomas Coombes, of l'Aillbanl4
came off yesterday, and, had it taken place at any-
thing like a seasonable period, would, no doubt, have
proved highly attractive. Notwithstanding the in-
clemency of the weather, Messrs. Chapman, Bump-
stead, Esrnshaw, and other members of the great
aquatic clubs, with a tolerable sprinkling of general
company, were present to witness it, and accompa-
nied the men throughout the entite distance. The
race was for 101. aside, and the distance from West-
minster to Putney, with tide. Coombes is the brother
of the champion, and, under his very.able training
end tuition, has, during the past three or four sea-
sons, distinguished himself as an oarsman and sculler,
more particulrrly in a race amongst picked men for
the iron steam-boat sovereigns. Robins is but little
known to the public, his principal performance being
an oars' wager with Lett, in which they won the
Duke of Buccleuch's purse last season. Both men
have been in severe training for the present contest,
and a first-rate exhibition was expected, but in this
the public were disappointed, it being one of the most
uneven runaway races on record. The men made
their appearance at half-past twelve, at Westminster-
bridge, when Mr. Bumpstead having consented to be
referee, they went to their stations—Coombes, who
had won the choice, to a pier near the centre, on the
Middlesex side, and his opponent to the next on the
south side. The start was taken evenly and well ;
but before they had cleared the new Houses of Par-
liament, Robins had almost drawn his boat clear of
his adversary, and, at the horseferry, was a full length
a-head. Coombes laboured hard to obtain the first
place, but from this moment to the termination of the
race never had a shadow of chance. Robins was two
lengths a-head at Vauxhall, eight or ten at Batter-
sea, and went through Putney-bridge the winner by
upwards of two hundred and fifty yards. Robins has
considerably the advantage of his opponent in weight ;
but his rowing of yesterday shows- that he will be a
very powerful antagonist to any first-Tate man.

SIB Usual' POTTINGEIL—NearIy the whole of the
tickets for the Liverpool banquet to Sir Henry Pot-
tinger have been sold off, and the subscriptions fur the
Liverpool testimonial to the distinguished Baronet are
on the increase. Accommodation can only be afforded
at the banquet for 392 gentlemen. The subscriptions
for the testimonial exceed 1,0001. In Manchester the
subscription exceeds 2,350/., and tho banquet in that
town is fixed for the 20th instant. The Mayor of 'Man-
chester will preside on the occasion. A suggestion has
been thrown out that the whole of the funds collected in
London, Liverpool, and Manchester should be united,
with the view of presenting Sir Henry with a testi-
monial of surpassing magnificence ; but we believe it is
a suggestion not very likely to be adopted.—Liverpool
Albion.
The two leading authorities, the Senate and College
of Elders, of liamhurgh, have declared themselves in
favour of the emancipation of the Israelites. The rea•
son assigned for this measure is, principally, the im-
mense sacrifices which the Hamburgh Jews have made
for the relief of the numerous victims of the great fire of
May, lii4a,