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

WEST LONDON RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that the WEST LONDON RAIL-
WAY COMPANY will be OPENED for public traffic MI MONDAY
NEXT, the 27th inst. Trains will start from the Kensington and
Shepherd's Bush Stations, to meet corresponding Trains on the Lon-
don and Birmingham and Great Western Railways respectively,
throughout that and the following days, of which due notice will be
given by advertisement. JOHN THOMPSON, Secretary.
(Vices, 11, Alichurch-lane, May 20, 1844.

THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION OF MONEY
DIVIDENDS AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED by lIIS
MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA contains Money Dividends
of— £5O £6O £7O £SO £9O
£lOO £llO £l2O £l5O £2OO
£4OO £6OO £BOO £l,OOO £1,500
£5,000 and 23,000 sterling.
This Distribution contains as many Dividends as Benda. Every
Rond a Dividend!
Smallett Dividend - - £5O
Largest Dividend - - £23,000.
Direct for Prospeatus, with Out particulars, without delay to
HEINE BROTHERS, at Hamburgh..
Or to HEINE BROTHERS, at Lubeck.

31 ONEY.—GRAND DISTRIBUTION of
70,1701. sterling, authorised I.y his Imperial Majesty, and the
Government of Austria, on the Ist JUNE NEXT, 'at Vienna. Highest
Prize, 23,0001. ; Lowest 501. ; 700 Prizes.
Apply fig• Prospectuses, to Messrs. F. E. Fuld and Co., bankers and
receivers-general, Frankfort ; or, to save postage, at 26, Bouverie-,
street, London, by letter only. Office hours from Twelve to Three.

IMPERIAL. RUSSIAN•POLISH LOAN of
150,000,000 Florins (of 1835), IMPERIAL AUSTRIAN LOAN
of 30,000,000 Florins (of 1839), guaranteed by their Majesties the
Emperor of Austria and the Emperor of Russia.
GRAND DISTRIBUTIONS AT WARSAW AND TIENNA.

In the Russian-Polish Loan the following Dividends will be reim-
bursed:—One of 1,000,00011., one of 300,0009., two of 150,00011., six of
25,000f1., eight of 14,0009., &c., together 7,000 dividends, gaining
7,970,0009. Smallest dividend 75011., largest 1,000,00011.
In the Anstritur:Loan 700 bonds will obtairt 701,100f1, in lots of
-230,00011., 50,00011., 13,00011., 10,0009., &c. Smallest dividend 5009.
10 florins are equal to 1/. sterling, a trifle more or less, as per day's
exchange. The prices are-
-1 Russian-Polish Scrip for £2 10 1 Austrian Scrip for .£3 0
4 do. do. do. 10 0 6 do. do. 15 0
9 do. do. do. 20 0 13 do. do. 30 0
Payable by bank notes, remittances, or drafts. Dividends reim-
bursable at Frankfort, Paris, London, or New York, at the option of
the holders

71save postages, foreign subscribers may apply to his houses in Paris,
New York, and at Mr. A. Schwarzr,child's, 1, Plough-court, Lombard-
street, London, by letter only. Prospectuses, with full particulars,
and Lists cf the Distribution, promptly forwarded to every share-
holder abroad .

J A. SCHWARZSCHILD Banker and Receiver-General.

Frankfort-ou-lia hie, April, 1844

*4,', A Florin being 25., it follows that a fifth share at 12s. in the
Austrian Government Distribution is relatively mush more valuable
than one Red Bond in the private speculation of tho 25th.

SALE BY SHARE S,
OF TIIE FOLLOWING VALUABLE PROPERTIES:—
I. A PRINCELY CHATEAU, with the Grounds and Ap-
purtenances belonging thereto, situate on the banks of
the Lake of Geneva, Switzerland, valued at £32,000
2. A SPLENDID MANSION, and its Dependencies, situated
in the town of Vevay, Switzerland, valued at ..
3. A FINE BATH HOTEL, and its Dependencies, with a
very abundant Spring of Mineral Water, situated on the
banks of the Lake of Geneva •..

Forming a Total (In 40,000 Shares of ,L 1 each) 0f...... £40,000
The kale will positively take place in the town *1 Sion, Canton of
Valais, Switzerland, on the 16th of SEPTEMBER, 1844, whatever may
be the number of Shares sold at that time. The value of the Shares
sold will be deposited In the hands of Messrs. Rougemont, Brothers,
London, until the transfer of the property to the new proprietors.
For Shares, Conditions of Sale, Prospectuses, &c.; &c., apply, post-
paid, to Mr. Frederick Quin, General Agent for the United Kingdom,
No. 25, Southampton-street, Strand ; or to Mr. Joseph Thomas, No.
1, Finch-lane, Cornhill, London.

LONDON, EDINBURGII, 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.

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

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

- .
This Office is provided with very accurately constructed Tables, by
which it can ASSURE DISEASED LIVES on Equitablo Terms.
The Extra Premium discontinued on restoration of the Assured to
permanent health.

INCREASED ANNUITIES granted on unsound Lives, the amount
varying with the particular disease.
Members of CONSUMPTIVE FAMILIES assured at Equitable
Rates. _ . .

HEALTHY LIVES are Assured at Lower Rates than at most
other offices.

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

QELLING OFF, CARPETS, CHINTZES,
►►77 SILK and WORSTED DAMASKS, TABOURETS, and CA-
BINET FURNITURE.

LUCK, KENT, and CUMMING, of No. 4, Regent-street, opposite
Messrs. Howell and James's, beg respectfully to inform their Friends
and the Public, that in consequence of one of the Partners retiring,
they intend relinquishing their West-End Establishment, and are
Selling Off at less than Prime Cost. A splendid Aubusson Carpet,
18 by 15, at Half Price.
The Lease of the Premises to be Disposed Of.

DAVIES'S FINE WAX CANDLES, Ix.sd. per lb.;
they only require trial to prove them the handsomest and
'most e,oncanical candles in existence, that do not require snuffing.
Genuine Sperm Candles, 2s. per lb.—Superior transparent Wax, 2s.—
Genuine Wax, 2s. 3d.—Best kitchen and office Candles, 51d.—Extra
fine Moulded Candles, with the improved Wax Wicks, 7d.—Yellow
Soap, 465., 525., and fibs. per 1121bs.—Mottled, 60s. and 64s.—Wind-
sor and Palm, Is. 4d. per packet.—Old Brown Windsor, Is. 9d.—Rose,
2s.—Camphor, 2s.—Superior Almond, 2s. 6d.—Superfine Sealing-
wax, 4s. 6d. per lb.—Refined Sperm Oil, Gs. per gallon—Solar Oil,
3s. 6d.—For Cash, at DAVIES'S Old Established Warehouse, 63, St.
Martin's-lane (opposite New Slaughter's Coffeehouse), Charing-cross.

THE BEST MEDICINE, FOR INDIGESTION.
NORTON'S • CAMOMILE PILLS are confi-
dently recommended as a simple, but certain remedy, to all
who suffer from Indigestion, Sick Headache, Bilious and Liver Com-
plaints; they act as a powerful tonic and gentle aperient, imparting
strength to the stomach, and composure to the nervous system.
Sold in bottles at Is. lid., 2s. 9d., and Ils. each, by A. Willoughby
and Co., late B. G. Windus, 61, Bishopsgate Without; and nearly
all Medicine Vendors.

INTERESTING TO LADIES.
TO MESSRS. ROWLAND AND SON, 20, HAT FON.
G A R DEN, LONDON.
Percy-place, Landport, Portsmouth, April 4, 1814.
Gentlemen,—l think it but an act of justice to inform you of the
benefit I have detived from the use of your admirable Macassar 011.
About six months ago I found my hair getting daily more weak and
thin, and much discoloured trona a practice I had adopted of wetting
it continually ; fearing that I should lose it entirely, and hearing of
the efficacy of your Macassar Oil, I have for some time past con-
stantly used it, and the result is, that my hair is now perfectly re-
stored and much improved in appearance and colour, having become
thick, dark, and glossy ; it also curls freely without the use of paper,
whioh it never did before. To all my friends I have warmly recom-
mended your Macassar Oil as an excellent restorative aed preserva-
tive for the hair. As I have an objection to see my name in print, I
beg you will not publish it; but you are at liberty to show this letter,
or make any other use you please cf it, and re er applicants to me,
necessary, in proof of the efficacy of your Macassar Oil.
Your obedient servant

ROWLAND'S MACASSAIt OIL preserves and renroduces the
Hair; prevents it from falling .ir or turning Grey; Changes Grey
Hair to its Original Colour ; frees it from Scurf and Dandruff, and
makes it beautifully so't and curly.
Price 3e. 6d.,75., Family bottles (equal to 4 small), 10s. 6d., and double

that:siZe. 21s.

CAUTION—Each genuine bottle has the words ROWLAND'S
MACASiAR OIL engraved in two lines on the Wrapper; anion
the back of the Wrapper nearly 1,5110 times, eentaining ::9,02S letters.
Sold by the Proprietors, A Rowland and Son, 20, Hatton-garden,
London, and by Chemists and Perfumers.
Be sure to ask for .• Rowland's" Macassar Oil. All others are
Fraudulent Counterfeits! !!

LAIR'S GOUT and RIIEUAIATIC PILLS.
The decided superiority of this Medicine over every other
itherto offered to the public for the cure of those dreadfully painful
diseases, gout, ifteumatic gout, rheumatism, lumbago, sciatica, &c ,
is so fully manifested by the increasing sale, and the testimony of
thousands in every rank of life, that those who are aware of the ex-
isten of such a remedy, and have not availed themselves of trying
its efficacy, cannot truly be objects of sympathy. The testimonials of
the astonishing effects of this medicine are universally accompanied
by the fact that no inconvenience of any sort attends its administra-
tion, but that the patient, without feeling the operation of the medi-
cine, is universally left in a stronger and better state of health than
experienced previous to being aftlic'ed with this disease; and in all
cases of acute suffering great relief is experienced in a few hours,
and a cure is generally effected in two or three days.
Sold by Thomas Front, 229, Strand, London ; and, by his app Ant-
"lent ,by all respectable Medicine Vendors throughout the United
Kingdom. Pace 2s. NI. per box.
Ask for BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS, and observe
the name and address of " Thomas Front, 239, Strand, London,"
impressed upon the Government &amp affixed to each Box of the
Genuine Medici..

PUBLIC NOTICE.
434, OXFORD-STREET.

TO-„SHIPPERS, OWNERS, CAPTAINS, AND OTHERS.
Copies of Testimonials, Gratis, by all Agents.
GRIMSTONE'S EYE SNUFF.—Under the
Patronage of his late Majesty, her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, and the Lords 01 the Treasury, is universally re-
commended by the Faculty for its efficacy in removing disorders
ncident to the Eyes and Fiend.
SIGHT RESTORED !—NERVOUS HEAD-ACHE AND
DEA b NESS CURED!
By the most simple, delightful, and fra rant Compound!
Its mode of application is fraught with pleasure; many thousand
cures have been accomplished by its use, at a trilling expense, yet
certain in its operation. If testimonies be necessary to induce the
sufferer to make trial, Kings, Lords, and Commons have used it.
rise Lords of the reasut y have sanctioned its use. Their late Ma-
esties, the Duchess of Kent, the most eminent Oculists, Medical
Practitioners--with that gigantic balance, the Press—have eulogised
Grimstone's celebrated Herbaceous Compound, known as "Grim.
stone's Eye Snuff," for its efficacy in removing all diseases incident
to the Eyes and Head. G. J. Guthrie , Esq., F.R.S. See .1. B. Lach-
field, F.sq.'s Letter, Whitehall. Dr. Thomas. Dr. Andrews calls it
a national blessing—see his Reports touching its utility. The late
Mr. Abernethy, with many others, recommend Grimstone's Eye
Snuff, and call it " Man's best Friend," and the "Student's Vade
Mecum." Fee the many thousand letters of Testimonies, of un
doubted medical authority, with others of the first respectability.
Nottingham, Aug.2B, 184 t
This extraordinary cure is attested by Mr. James Wilcockson,
Foreign Snuff and Cigar Merchant, Nottingham.
to Mr. W. Grimstone.
Sir, I feel great pleasure in sending you the particulars •f my
case, and the miraculous cure performed on myself, by using your
truly valuable Eye-Snuff. Sir, I am now in my ninety-third year,
and a native of Holland, have been in this country twenty-six
years. Whether from change of climate, or my advanced age, I
cannot say, but for six years I hare been deprived of sight, there-
fore unable to fol:ow my business. Ido most sincerely believe I
should have remained in dareness and pain but for the kind recom.
mendation of a friend to use your invention. 1 purchased a 2s. 4d.
canister of your Agent, Mr. Wilcockson, tobacconist, who knows
the above to be facts, and wit hear witness to my extraordinary
recovery of that most inestimable blessing of our life—. Perfect
Sight"—l declare has proceeded from the use of your Eye Snuff.
For the sake of tho,e suffering, you may make what use you please
of this letter ; Mr. Wilcockson and many others will vetch for its
truth. 1 refer the sufferers to this gentleman, being your Agent,
and so wellknown in Nottingham.
I am, Sir, your obliged servant,
Aug. IN, 1841. ANNNIS ZENIA MASSENIA.
I'.S.—Sir,-1 should not de you justice without stating my relief
was almost instantaneous. My
eyes became clear and free from
humour, and by persevering in its use very frequently, I am
enabled to read small print without the aid of glasses, and continue
to enjoy God's blessing—Sight! free from pain I have reason to be
grateful, and do recommend your Eye Snuff to all 1 Know.
Nottingham. A. Z. M.
Observe the Caution—W. GRIMSTONE is the sole inventor,
and the only genuine is prepared by bins.
This Odoriferous Herbacer us Compound of Herbs is sold in
canisters, at 83., Is. Id., is. Id., 4s. 4d., Bs.,
and 15s. (Id. each, by the
Proprietor, W. (iRIMST'JNE, at No. 434, Oxford-street, Totten-
nain-ceurt-road end (late of No. :9, Broad-street, Bloomsbury),
and at the Herbary, Highgde ; and, can also be obtained in all the
principal Towns and Cities A liberal allowance to Shippers
Owners, Captains, and all Vendors of Grimstone's Eye Snuff. Psis
celebrated Snuff is shipped to all quarters of the globe, and retains
its benign qualities in every climate All Snuffs and Cigars shipped
on the shortest notice.
lIERIJAR Y, filekiOATE.

ETTERS of CREDIT on BOMBAY.—The
UNION BANK of LONDON having been appointed AGENTS
for the BANK of WESTERN INDIA, are authorised to receive
sums not exceeding 5001., to be accounted for ht Bombay, in rupees
at the exchange of the day.
By order of the Directors,
W. W. SCRIMGEOUR, Manager.
Union Bank of London, No. 5, Moorgate-street. .

ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, TRAFAL
GAR. SQUARE.
The EXHIBITION of the ROYAL ACADEMY is now OPEN.
Admission (from Eight o Clock till SeTee) One Shilling. Catalogue

One Shilling.
HENRI' 'TOWARD, R.A., See

MUSIC or FRANCE.
Without Extra Charge to the Public, at the

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC ISSTITUTION.
The Directors have engaged Mr. C. E. HORN, to deliver
A SERIES of LECTURES on the MUSIC of EIGHT different
NATIONS. The MUSIC of FRANCE commences on the 20th
instant, and will he continued during the week, on Monday, Wednes-
day, and Friday Evenings, at Eight o'clock ; And on Tuesday, Thurs-
day, and Saturday,' at Three o'clock, with VOCAL and INSTRU-
MENTAL ILLUSTRATIONS.. All the other LECTURES and
EXHIBITIONS as usual. LONGISOTTOM'S PHYSIOSCOPE and
OPAQUE MICROSCOPE. NEW DISSOLVING VIEWS, ARM-
STRONG'S lITDRO-ELECTRIC MACHINE, &e.
Admission, Is.; Schools, Half-price.

GENERAL TOM THUMB (for a few days
longer), the American Dwarf, under the especial patronage
of her Majesty and the Royal Family, exhibiting every Day and
Evening, previous to visiting Paris, in CATLIN'S spacious INDIAN
GALLERY, EGYPTIAN HALL, Piccadilly, from Eleven to One,
Half-past Two to Five, and from Seven to Nine o'Clock, giving
illustrations of Napoleon, the Grecian Statues, Singing, Dancing, &c.
This wonderful man in miniature weighs only FIFTEEN POUNDS,
and is smaller than any infant that evtr walked alone. The elegant
r eritsrtom
_her. Majesty and the Queen Dowager may be also seen:
ral wears his Court Dress daily at Half-past Twelve.
The General continues to wait on the Nobility and Gentry on due
notice.

Admission One Shilling.
The General has never appeared on the stage of the Haymarket
Theatre as has been represented.

EXCIIEQUE BILL-OFFICE
2, WHITEHALL-YARD, MAT 20, 1844.
The EXCHEQUER BILLS dated in the months of April and
June, 1843, 'VIZ. :
P. 6 Vie. cap. 1, £262,000, 1843.
6 Vic. cap. 17, £9,050,000, 1843.
Also,
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The EXCHEQUER BILLS, dated April, May, and June, 1843, p.
3 Vic., cap. 10, for carrying on Public Works, &c., with the interest
due thereon, will be paid off on the 18th day of June, when the in-
terest will cease. Such Bills will he received daily from half-past
Ten o'clock till Two, until and including the 7th day of June, at this
Office, where Lists are to be obtained, containing instructions for ar-
ranging the Bills. The bearers must indorse each Bill with their
usual signatures, and write their names and residences at the bottom
of each List; and where the names of holders are inserted in Bills,
the bearers, not being such holders, must previously obtain their en-
dorsements. The bearers must attend to give reeeipts for the
payment.
Payment may be obtained, if required, previous to the said 18th
day of June, upon leaving the Bills for examination one day prior to
that on which such payment is desired.
New Bills, bearing an interest of One Penny-halfpenny by the day
upon every One Hundred Pounds, and dated the said 18th day of
June, may be obtained in whole or in part payment of principal of
the Exchequer Bills issued under the above-mentioned Acts of 6 Vic.,
cap. I, and 6 Vic., cap. 17, upon stating the required amount on the
Lists, delivered on or before the said 7th day of June, which New
Bills, with the interest on the Bills exchanged, will be issued on the
19th day efJune.
The Bills to be classed in separate Lists, according to the Acts un-
der which they have been issued.
The Bills issued for carrying on Public Works and Fisheries will
be paid off in Monday.
N.B. All Exchequer Bills charged on Supplies dated prior to April,
1843, have been advertised to be paid off.

FPSOM RACES.-DORLING'S RETURN
_11:-.1 LISTS for TOWN and COUNTRY.—FuII RETURNS of
EACH DAY'S RACES will be published every day, and sent by
EXPRESS to Town in time to be forwarded by post tho same night
to all parts of the kingdom, price I s. each day, including postage, &c.
FULL RETURN LISTS will also be published in LONDON at
Seven o'Clock in the evening, of each day's racing, •by George W.
Jordan, 282, Strand, (opposite Norfolk-street,) price Sixpence. May
be ordered of all Newsmen.
The Trade supplied on the usual terms, on giving a day's notice.

Now ready, Volume the First, 12m0., bound in boards, price 6e.,
THE REBELLION IN THE CEVENNES ;
an Historical Novel, in Two Volumes. Translated from the
German of L. TIECK, by Madame BURETTE.
D. Nutt, Fleet-street; Williams and Norgate, Henrietta-street,
Covent-garden.

Just published, price 4s. fid., in boards,

••
THE ANGLICAN CHURCH the CREA-
TURE and SLAVE of the STATE : being the Refutation
of certain Puseylte Claims advanced on behalf of the Established
Church : in a Series of Lectures delivered before the Academy of the
Catholic Religion, by the Rev. P. COOPER, of the Church of the
Conception, Dublin ; Prebendary, &c.
London : C. Dolman, 61, Bond-street ; Dublin : .T. Cumming.

THE REV. T. WILSON'S CATECHISMS.
Just published, price 9d.,
THE CATECHISM OF MUSIC.
By W. A. WORDSWORTH, Esq.,
Also, New Editions of the following Catechisms, by the Rev. T. Wilson
Price 9d. each.
First Lessons in Natural Philosophy.
Second Lessons in Natural Philosophy,
Third Lessons In Natural Philosophy.
First Catechism of Common Things.
Second Catechsim of Common Things.
Third Catechism of Common Things.
Catechism of Bible History.
Catechism of English 'History.
The First Catechism of Geography.
*-* The great success which has attended the First, Second, and
Third Mother's Catechism of this Rev. I). Blair, had induced the pub-
lishers to further extend the utility of this system, by a continued
Series on the most important subjects, under the superintendence
and editorship of the Rev. T. Wilson. The want of such a series
skilfully executed, has long been felt.
• London : Marton and Clark. Holborn-hill. •

DR. DICKSON'S WORKS.
FALLACY of the ART of PHYSIC, as
taught in the Schools. Price 6s.
FALLACIES of the FACULTY. People's Edition, enlarged,
price 2s. Gd.
" This work has at last been fairly praised and abused into fame.
It is a clever, stimulating, and suggestive book, and the present edi-
tion is considerably enlarged by the accumulation of illustrativo
facts. It is ill other respects improved."—Tait's Magazine.
Simpkin and Marshall, 5, Stationers'-court; J. 011ivier, 59, Tall-
man ; and all Booksellers.

THIS PHYSIOLOGY OF THE PASSIONS.
" There are passions grateful to the breast,
And yet no friend to life : perhaps they please
Or to excess, and dissipate the soul,
Or while they please, torment."
Elegant pocket edition (20 engravings) price Is., by post Is. 6d.
THE PHYSIOLOGY OP THE PASSIONS,
their Purport and Control. On Chastity, its abuses and diseases
arising therefrom—on Marriage ; its duties and denials—on infeli-
citous and unproductive unions.—Law of Divorce, &C.
By It. J. CULNE.RWELL, M.D., Member of the Royal College of
Surgeons, &c.
" But happy they, the happiest of their kind,
Whom gentler stars unite ; and in one fate,
Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend."
Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet-street
Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Mann, 39, Cornkill ; and the Author, 21
Arundel-street, Strand.
At home, daily, till -Two ; evenings, Seven till Nine.

LAMERT ON DEBILITY, NERVOUSNESS, AND ALL
DISORDERS ARISING FROM EXCESS, &c.
" He who ih pleasure's downy arms
Ne'er lost his health or youthftilcharms,
A hero lives, and justly can
Exclaim, in me beho'd a man!"
Just"published (in a sealed envelope), Tenth Edition, price 2.. 6d.,
•r sent by post, free, to any address, 3s. 611..
SELF-PRESERVATION : Popular. Esmay on
those concealed disorders originating in youthful excesses,
and terminating in Nervous Debility, Local and Constitutional
Weakness, and all those Sinking., Anxieties, and Tremors, which
afflict the Weak, the Sedentary, and the Delicate. With Practical
Observations on Marriage, and on the Anatomy, Physiology, and
Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, with plain Directions for
their perfect Restoration
By SAMUEL LAMERT, Consulting Surgeon
9, BEDFORD-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON,
Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary
Member of the London Hospita 1 Medical Society, Licentiate of
Apothecary's Hall, London,&c.
" The various positions of Lover, Husband, and Parent, the in-
herent privileges of mankind, ate frequently marred and prevented
through the follies and frailties of early indiscretions. To such,
among others, this Essay addressee itself; and by its perusal many
questions may be satisfactorily adjusted that admit of ne appeal even
to the most confidential friend."—Stafford Gazette.
" The design of this work will be tolerably obvious from its title,
and we cordially recommend the author and his book to all who are
suffering from nervous debility and general weakness."—Wakefield
Journal.
Published by the Author, and sold in London by S. Gilbert, 51 and
52, Paternoster-row; Starie, 23, Tichbome-street, Quadrant, Regent
street; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; Noble, 114, Chancery-
Line; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street ; and by all Booksellers.
At home every day till '1 hree, and from Five til Eight.

THE ALBERT DOCK AT LIVERPOOL.—The work
at and surrounding this dock, under the able superintendence
of the clock surveyor, is now proceeding with almost incre-
dible rapidity. The warehouses are several stories high, and
the form of the dock itself can now be distinctly seen.
WILL Or VISCOUNT SIDMOUTTL—The will and
cocicil of the late Henry Addington Viscount Sidmouth,
have just been proved in Doctors'-commons by Thomas
Grimston Bucknall Estcourt, Thomas Hoskins, and William
Townsend, Esqrs. The will is dated in 1841, and gives nearly
the whole of his property to his son Leonard Addington (now
Viscount Sidmouth); to Earl Powis, "the full-length por-
traits of :George the. Third and Queen Charlotte," and the
remainder of his pictures, which are considered one of the
finest collections, including many of the old masters), to his
son. To valet, butler, housekeeper, footmen, grooms, and a
host of other domestics, legacies varying from 51. to 2001.
The codicil is dated as lately as 1843. The personal property
is sworn under 35,000/. After a very few unimportant legacies,
he gives the residue of his property to his son.
We are able to announce that Sir Hugh Pigot,
Knight, C 8., K.C.H., Rear Admiral of the White, has been
appointed to the command of the Particular Service Squa-
dron, Rear Admiral Bowles having been appointed one of the
Lords of the Admiralty. Sir Hugh entered the Royal Navy
Ist May, 1788 ; wa.9 made Lieutenant 12th November, 1794 ;
Commander 29th April, 1802 ; was posted Bth May, 1804;
and hoisted his flag as Rear Admiral 10th January, 18.37.
The record of his services rendered is that, whilst in com-
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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

7RO)t THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—Church-rates continue to supply matter for
expensive, and we will add, disgraceful litigation. Several
cases, which have recently been uublished in the daily
journals, are calculated to diminish the influence which
the national Establishment ought to exercise, with salu-
tary effect, upon public opinion, and the confidence which
ought to be felt in the impartiality of the authorities who
administer the law. We have invariably employed our
efforts to induce the members of t Established
Church and the dissidents from her creed and worship,
to unite in an application to the Legislature for an altera-
tion in the law, which is unhappily so fruitful in oc-
casions of expensive and injurious strife. We have
less hope than ever of effecting amicable arrangements
between the belligerents. But the dispute—which appeal"
interminable, if its termination is allowed to rest upoN
a compromise between the advocates for and opponeitt of
the existing system—produces a state of things with
which the Legislature ought to interfere for the purpose of
applying a remedy. A law which would place the repara-
tion of the structures upon the taxation of the country,
and compel the members of the Established Church to
provide what is requisite for the performance of public
worship in the churches, according to the rites
and ceremonies of her liturgy, wo d remove this
constantly arising cause of parochial rife. In many
lin
parishes the expense incurred by litiga has amounted
to More than the entire amount of t rate which oc-
casioned the altercation and-the subsequent legal pro-
ceedings in the Courts. This was the case in the still
unterminated Braintree church-rate dispute. There
the costs—which were eventuallycast upon the parish, or
rather upon the churchwardens, owing to the rate being
pronounced invalid—would have built a new church
from the foundation. Two cases illustrative of the evil
of church-rates, as now provided for, hare taken Owe
within the last few days. The one was decided in the
Court of Queen's Bench, on appeal from Sir H. Jenner
Fust, the judge before whom the proceedings were
brought, and the case decided in the Arches Court.
The parties, " Francis and otbers," inhabitants of St.
George Colegate, in the city of Norwich, were cited by
Archdeacon Bathurst, to appear in that Court for refusing
to join in making a church-rate. Archdeacon Bathurst,
acting in concurrence with other Archdeacons in that
diocese, actually instituted proceedings against these
parties, and brought them into the " Court Christian,"
to answer " for having contumaciously obstructed, or
at least refused to make, or join, or concur in the
making, of a sufficient rate for the necessary repair of
the church of the parish of St. George, Colegate, in the
city of Norwich, they being parishioners of that parish,
and liable, as such, to a rate for the repair of the church."
Mr. Francis appeared to the citation ; and pleaded,
by way of protest, that he had not been guilty of any
ecclesiastical offence in the matters alleged against him.
Sir Herbert Jenner Fust, after argument, decided
that an ecclesiastical offence had been committed by
Mr. Francis, in "refusing to make, or join, or concur
in making, a church-rate.' A writ of prohibition
was obtained in the Court of Queen's Bench; and
Lord Denman delivered a judgment, remarkable for
clearness, in which the judgment of Sir H. Jenner Fust
' was reversed, and all proceedings in the suit stayed.
The power of vestry•meetings to refuse church
rates was fully recognised. The expense of these pro-
ceedings must have been very ccleisiderable. This, how-
ever, is the least part of the mischief produced by such
contests. Their influence upon the public mind with
reference to religion generally, and to the Established
Church in particular, is extensively injurious, and ought
to be stayed. Another case of the same character and
tendency was disposed of by the Judicial Committee of
Privy Council, on appeal from a decision of the same
Judge, on Thursday last. A churck-rate had been made
in a vestry meeting, of the parish of Hornchurch, in
Essex. Against the validity of this rate, Pigott, an in-
habitant of the chapelry of Itomford, alleged to be
situate within the parish of Hornchurch, appealed, on
various grounds. The Court of Arches decided against
the party who impugned the validity of the rate.
Pigott, who is a very poor man, had conducted
his case in person. On the decision of the Court
below being pronounced against him, he appealed to
the Judicial Committee, where he obtained the able
assistance of Mr. Roebuck and Mr. Mellor. The deci-
sion of the Judge of the Ecclesiastical Court was re-
versed, and the whole proceedings quashed. The judg-
ment was given on only one ground. The Court, by
Lord Brougham, who presided, stated that as the rate
was manifestly bad on this ground, it was unnecessary to
co into the others. Several hundred pounds have
been spent in this litigation ; and materials 4or
future litigation are suggested, of which par-
ties will avail themselves in fthare. If those
who cling to the existing system refuse to be
influenced by a love of peace, let them at least listen
to the voice of prudence. The requirements of the law
to give validity to a Church-rate are so numerous, and
the probability that one or more errors will be detected,
in any rate which may be disputed, so great, tent almost
every appeal brought against a rate is susxessfuly prose-
cuted. if the law expenses incurred in prosecuting and
resisting appeals, andin enforcing payment of Church-
rates, were ascertained, it would go far to produce a
desire for a final settlement of the question in those now
most attached to the existing law, and most strenuous in
maintaining it.

STANDARD.—There is a homely English proverb,
full of good sense, like most of our old English adages,
which we think may be usefully remembered at this
particular moment. The proverb is this, that " one
ought not to cut his nose to vex his face."
The principle conveyed in this simple suggestion
is of great value in politics ; for in political
transactions it is that men will be most frequently
offended by the friends in whom they repose most
confidence. It is not easy to find a single ques-
tion upon which even all men pursuing the same
end will think alike, but to find a succession of
such questions from year to year, is an utter impos-
sibility. Now, as in the conduct of public affairs the
actors must ever constitute only a very small portion
of the party to which they belong,_ it is very
plain that these actors must often give offence to many
of those engaged with them in the same common
cause ; but to resent this offence, not merely by war
upon the persons who give it, but upon the principles of
the party, is surely a plain case of "cutting the nose to
vex the face." At present some honest men of the
Conservative party, and a great many professing Con-
servatives who are not honest, are labouring to excite
public indignation against her Majesty's Ministers. Now,
of the honest Conservatives we would ask what must
be the end of their success, supposing that they should
succeed in runnir.g down Sir Robert Peel's Cabinet ?
The question is a serious one, for they may suc-
ceed, if they persevere in the course that they are
pursuing. Lord J. Russell, Lord Howick, &c., have
already stripped off their Whig liveries, ready to take
the reins as soon as they •shall be wrested from Sir R.
Peel's hands, with a resolution, however, to put them
on again as soon as they are settled upon the box.
Let Conservatives only remember the facility with
which the change was made in 1830 by the effect of
Tory apathy or Tory aid, and the return that the Whigs
made to them, and then think twice before they again
"cut their noses to vex their faces," having now far less
provocation than they had fourteen years ago. Do they
want another ten years of Whig rule ? As Conserva-
tives, they must have some care for the institutions of
the country. Do they wish to place these institutions
once more at the mercy of Whig rulers, because it is
surmised that the present Ministers, though greatly miti-
gating it, have not violently reversed the whole of the
Whig policy (this is the complaint) will Conservatives
consent to return to the arms of the Whigs? We speak
here of the efforts made by honest men to run down her
Majesty's Ministers, and N e wish broadly to mark the
distinction between running down a Cabinet and voting
against it, or advising others to vote against it. The
first must, if successful, be always fatal to the party to
which the Cabinet belongs. the other may, in many
cases, augment the personal influence of Ministers,
while it puti "them out of office for a moment, and it
may' at the same time greatly exalt the character of
the party to which the retiring Ministers belong. It is
a great mistake that division in politics is weakness. An
honest division of opinion, not fundamental, is much more
frequently an accession of strength, because (+erecter
is strength, in public opinion ; but compromise is
always weakness—fur whether dishonest or not, 'it
looks like honesty. We could have heartily de-
sired that upon the occasion of Lord Ashley's late
proposition, every Member 'of the House of Commons
had voted according to his osvii conscientious judgment,
the effect of which would undoubtedly have been to leave
the Ministry in a minority, and remove them for a mo-
ment from office ; but it would have been for a moment
only. Without a dissolution of Parliament the Con-
servative majority would have insisted upon the resump-
tion of office by a Ministry that had achieved so much
for the peace, the wealth, the prosperity, and safety
of the country ; or with a dissolution, the present
Conservative majority of 100 would have been about
doubled, by reason of that very stand made for the la-
bouring classes by the Conservatiies In Parliament.
Lord John Russell, Lord Howick, -and the other
Whigs saw this, and they hedged, as the jockey's
phrase is, in contemplation of the possible appeal to
the country ; we will not give any more charitable con-
struction to their pirouette, because we do not find one
of them offering amends to the memory of the great and
good man who commenced the work of protection,
and whom they persecuted for doing so—Michael
Thomas Sadler the only man of whom we know
anything that ever deserved to go before Lord
Ashley. To have out-voted Ministers on the
factory question would have done no harm, but a
great deal of good, to the Conservative party; but what
possible good can result to the Conservative interests
from the attempt to run down the Conservative Cabinet
—the best Ministry, too, that the country has had for
half a century? Will abuse of Sir R. Peel's Govern-
ment tell in favour of a Conservative candidate on the
hustings, or anywhere else? And, next, we would have
our readers to remember the parties who urge them into
a course prima facie so unwise.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY
' COMPANY.

A special general Meeting of this Company was held
yesterday, at the .Paddington Station, the Chairman of
ihe Board of Directors in the chair.

The CHAIRMAN said that,, as the meeting-was small,
he believed the business would be small also. The
Directors had called the Proprietors together for the
fist purpose of askin them to confirm the sanction which they
had already on o occasions given to the Bill for enabling
this Company to nice with, and subscribe 150,000/. to,
the South Devon ailway Company. The Bill had been
road 11 second time, having unanimously passed through
the Committee, and would shortly be read a third time,
notwithstanding the great opposition which had been
offered to it. But, according tole Standing Order of the
House of Lords, before the Bill could be read in that
House, it was necessary that the draft should have been
approved of and accepted by three. fifths of the Pro-
prietors present at a general meeting specially convened
for the purpose of taking that subject into consideration.
To comply with that Standing Order the present meeting
had been called. The Secretary would then read the
report of the Directors.
The SECRETARY read the report, which stated, almost
as concisely, the matter contained in the opening expla-
nation of the Chairman. The report further stated that
on the 10th instant the Royal Assent was given to the
Bill for enabling the Company to amalgate with the
Oxford and Cheltenham Railway 'Companies, whereby
they would all be under one management, and the lines
would be completed at less cost.
On the motion of Mr. WISHAW, seconded by another
Proprietor, the report was received.
The SECRETARY then read the clauses in the South
Devon Railway Bill which applied to this Company ;
and, after a brief conversation,
Mr.iSsrrrnEns moved a resolution, to the effect that
the Pl'oprietors present approve of those clauses.
The resolution was seconded, and adopted uanimously.
A PROrRIETOR begged to suggest that some means
should be adopted by the Directors to give the Proprie-
tors more early intelligence of the approaching special
meeting. He thought the Secretary should be instructed
to write to the Proprietors, instead of leaving the matter
to the chance of their seeing the—Overtisements. For
his part, he had not seen the advertisement until late on
Saturday evening.
The CHAIRMAN said that the advertisements were in-
serted in strict accordance with the Act of Parliament.
If they were to write to every Proprietor the Secretary
would have to write 2,500 letters.---(Hear, hear.) Still
he thought the suggestion of the Hon. Proprietor was of
importance, and the Directors would give it due consi-.
deration.

Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the
meeting separated.

SALE of MR. JEREMIAH HARMAN'S
COLLECTION OF PICTURES.

On Saturday the sale of the pictures which formed this
valuable collection was resumed and terminated. As on the
first day's sale, the great room of Messrs. Christie and Man-
son, in king-street, St. James's, was crowded to suffocation
by company, and all ingress at the door was, after the com-
mencement of the day's;sale, totally impossible. The most
valuable pictures were sold on Saturday and produced very
good prices ; indeed, one or two of them brought prices al-
most unprecedented • thus proving that a taste for what is
really good in art has not deteriorated in this country, and
that works of the highest class are almost like bank-notes
and will always command a real value in the market. The
proceeds of the sale on the first day amounted in round num-
bers to about 9,0001., the proceeds of the sale on Saturday to
about 17,0001. or 18,0001., making the whole produce nearly
27,0001. for 115 pictures. The principal lots were knocked
down at the following prices :
Lot 65. A Boy leaning on a Bank fondling a Pigeon.—
Titian. 150 guineas.
Lot 76. A Portrait of Charles I.—Vandyck. 151 guineas.
Bought by Mr. Norton.
Lot 79. A Cat with dead Birds, Grapes, &c.—Snyders. 105
guineas. Bought by Mr. Seguier.
Lot 81. A Portrait of a Gentleman. Very fine.—By Ron-
dani. 250 guineas.
Lot 83. The High Priest in the Holy of Holies.—Rem-
brandt. 150 guineas.
Lot 87. The Magdalen contemplating the Cross.—Carlo
Dolce. This delightful picture was bought by Mr. Pennell
for 690 guineas.
Lot 89. A Landscape—a Storm ; with figures.—Gaspar
Poussin. 209 guineas:- Bought by Mr. Gardner.
Lot 90. An infant Christ asleep. A finished study.—By
Guido. 153 guineas.
Lot 94. A view of Dort.—By Cuyp. In his luminous and
brilliant manner. The purchaser was Mr. Mawson. The price
1,010 guineas.

Lot 96. A Dutch River Scene.—Vanderneer. Bought by
Mr. Sloane Stanley for 210 guineas.
Lot 97. Portrait of Gonsalvo de Ferrand in armour on
horseback.—Bv Georgione. 250 guineas.
Lot 99. A Virgin and Child, with Angels and Saints.—
Garofalo. 240 guineas. Bought by Mr. Buchanan.
Lot 100. Tfie Ménage Hollandais.—Adrian Van Ostande.
One of the gems of the collection. It has been engraved
several times. Mr. Buchanan bought it for 1,320 guineas.
Lot 101. Christ and the Woman of Samaria.—Annibale
Caracci. Sold to Mr. Seguier for 225 guineas.
Lot 102. A view near Haerlem.—Paul Potter. It has been
engraved. It was bought for 800 guineas by Mr. Higginson.
Lot 103. A picture called the " Tabby Cat," and mentioned
in Smith's catalogue.—G. Matzen 260 guineas. Bought by
Mr. Nieuboys.
Lot 105. Portrait called " The Duke of Hamilton." It is
mentioned in Smith's catalogue, and has been engraved by
Heath.—Vandyck. 240 guineas. Bought by Mr. Lloyd.
Lot 106. A Storm and Shipwreck.—W. Vandervelde. Men-
tioned in Smith's catalogue. 470 guineas. Mr. Higginson.
Lot 108. A Landscape, with figures, by Rubens.—lt has
been engraved by Bolswert, and is mentioned in Smith's
catalogue. It was brought into this country from Holland
In 1818 by Mr. Emmerson. 510 guineas. Bought by Mr.
Gardner.
Lot 109. Peasants regaling at a Guinguette.—Jan Steen.
610 guineas. Bought, we understood, by Mr. Norton.
Lot 110. A sea view, called le Coup de Canon.—W. Van-
eervelde. Formerly in the collection of the Count de Merle.
1,380 guineas. The bidding for this picture was very ani-
mated; it was ultimately knocked down to Mr. Mawsort.
Lot 111. Portrait of a Venetian Lady.—Sebastian del
Piombo. Bought by Mr. Nieuboys for 430 guineas.
Lot 112. Le Bonnet Vert.—Teniers. Formerly in the ca-
binet of M. Vauderlys. A beautiful gem. 660 guineas. Mr.
Mawson.

Lot 113. The Age of Innocence.—Sir J. Reynolds. This
picture fetched the highest price of this class of art ever
given for a picture of Sir Joshua's ; it was bought by Mr.
Vernon for 1,520 guineas.
Lot 114. Peasants passing a Ford.—_M. Hobbima. A noble
landscape by this master, who has repeated the study of the
trees in the centre of the picture from a landscape of a still
finer character in the possession of Mr. Farrer. It is men-
tioned in Smith's catalogue, and is signed and dated 1662.
This beautiful work of art was purchased for 1,850 guineas
by the Baron de Rothschild.
Lot 115. Aneas with his Father and Son visiting Helenus.
—Claude. 1,750 guineas. Bought by Mr..lCieuboys. It is
mentioned in Smith's catalogue.

IRELAND.
THE STATE TRIALS.

Dunux, MAY -opens on Wednesday
next. It is considered probable that the judges of the Court
of Queen's Bench will deliver judgment on the following day,
Thursday, upon the new trial motion. There is no doubt
that the Court have determined not to hear counsel on the
part of the traversers, in reply to the Attorney-General, on
the new cases introduced in the argument by the Crown. It
is understood that Chief Justice Pennefather has prepared a
very elaborate judgment, stating at length his reasons for re-
fusing a new trial, and defending those portions of his charge
to the jury which have been so strongly animadverted upon
by the counsel for the traversal.

The Conservatives still assert, very confidently, that the
Court will be unanimous in refusing a new tui al, unless in the
case of the Rev. Mr. Tierney. In that event, the argument
on the motion for arrest of judgment would be in progress at
the close of the next week.
THE SPY SYSTEM.

It is really appalling to contemplate the extent and atrocity
of the police spy system, which, ever since the accession of
the present Government, has been in active operation. The
ramifications of this system extend to various counties, and
new disclosures are made almost daily. The inquiries re-
specting the police villanies in the Queen's County is still in
progress at Dublin Castle, and more policemen are said to be
implicated. The Tipperary Vindicate? of this day contains
the following :—" lurther evidence is forthcoming of the
nefarious plot concocted to entrap the unsuspecting people in
the meshes of crime. The charges are not confined to Ogle,
Lyndon, and Parker—others are said to be deeply implicated
in the oul and hideous conspiracy, to get up prosecutions,
and trade on the liberties and lives of the innocent. It is
confidently stated that since the accession of the present Go-
vernment to office, a great portion of the police force has be-
come tainted with the morbid appetite of transporting and
hanging,inotrensive men for rewards. That this is the fault
of the Executive would plainly appear from the observations
made in the House of Lords by the Marquis of Normanby, on
Tuesday night, when calling for an investigation into Stipen-
diary Grey's case. Be this as it may, we have now to inform
our readers that two other police constables, named O'Leary
and Cantrill, have been brought up to Dublin within the last
few days, and that they are undergoing an examination into
a series of charges preferred against them by Revington, who
seems to have rejoiced in the peculiar confidence of the een"
coctors of plots against the people."
NEW STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE. ,

Mr. 11. Pollock has been appointed stipendiary magistrate
at Thurles, in the loom of Mr. Grey, whose disml4sal formed
the subject of debate in the House of Lords on Tuesday.

Bell's Life in London of Sunday, May 26, will
give the most correct account of the four days' sport at Epsom,
with a portrait of the winner of the Derby. Contents of
Bell's Life of last Sunday, May 19 :—Fifteen columns of
Sporting events, including Paris Races, and a peep at the
French Derby (Chantilly), an epitome of the week's mis-
cellaneous news, and 100 advertisements, chiefly connected
with Sporting matters. The insertion of a single advertise-
ment in Bell's Life may be equally beneficial to that of half
a dozen in some journals. A sixpence, or six penny stamps,
to Mr. Clement, Jun., 170, Strand, will at all times insure a
copy of Bell's Lift by return of post. The vreekly sale of
Bell's Life exceeds 20,000 copies. It is regularly published
in time for the Saturday afternoon railways. Bell's Life of
June 2 will contain an engraving of the Ascot Cup.
ETON COLLEGE 4TH OF JUNE REGATTA.—We have
been requested by the authorities of Eton College to state,
that the annual regatta will take place on the 4th proximo,
as usual, and not on the 3d, as had been contemplated, in
consequence of the races at Ascot, which commence on the
4th of June.

THE FINALE OF THE FACTORY
DEBATE.
(From the Examiner )
The defeat of Lord Ashley's amendment by the large ma-
jority of 158 is no triumph of principle,' no sign that on im•
proved knowledge and reflection the error of the former votes
on the same question has been discovered and corrected ; it
is merely the result of subserViency to the Ministry, whose
existence is preferred to all other objects and considerations.
There is a majority for imposing restrictions on labour, and
for confiscating a portion of the capital invested in- mills;
but thpse who would not scruple te overthrow our manufac-
turing system are restrained by the fear of upsetting an Ad•
ministration. The principles, if the name be given to them,
are under suppression, but their bias will probably appear
before this Parliament is dissolved, and in that case the
great Conservative rally and triumph will have given the
first representative to doctrines worthy of Jack Cade, and
breaking in at once on the rights both of industry and pro-
perty.
The division of Monday night will not remedy any of the
mischief that has been done by the preceding votes; it will
not put down or discourage the Short Wages agitation. The
delusion is now fixed in the minds of a large portion of the
work-people, and the cruelty is done which cannot be undone,
of adding an unreal cause of discontent to a lot which is
hard enough without imaginary grievances. The notion has
been sanctioned that Parliament can regulate wages, that it
can abridge labesr without diminishing the remuneration for
it, end this insane idea will spread through all the provinces
of industry. Sir Robert Peel, in his masterly speech an
Monday night, produced an example of the working of the
delusion—

" Here is a circular issued by a body as important as the
workers in cotton factories, ' The Miners' Association of
Great Britain and Ireland.'—(Hear, hear.) They make these
demands.—(' Hear, hear,' from Mr. Ferranti.) To which, it
appears the Hon. Gentleman, of course consistently upon his
principles, is prepared to yield, but to which I am not.
They are urged, however, upon the same principles as those
on which we are now appealed to; and, if the presumption
be that those who are employed know best their own inte-
rests, of course our yielding in the present case would but
provide a precedent for repeated concessions to all similar
demands in future periods.—(Hear, hear.) This, then,
is the address of the turned-out miners; they enumerate
their grievances, and thus enunciate their proposed reme-
dies: We ask, yea, we would say, demand, first, these
boons, as the redress of those grievances—first, we wish
to work eight hours per day and no more—(Assenting cheers)
—secondly, we wish to receive 4s. a-day wages—(Laughter,
andHeanhear)—thirdly, we wish to be paid weekly—(Hear,
hear}—fourthly, we wish to be united for our security.'
'Friends and fellow-countrymen, we now appeal to your
sympathy, and ask you, in the name of justice, whether to
be buried in the caverns of the earth, inhaling the most
_noxious air for eight hours a-day, be not enough ?'—(Loud
cries of Hear, hear.') Whatever is morally wrong, cannot
,be politically right.—(Laughter from the supporters of the
Ministry, cheers from others.) We ask you is 4s. a-day too
much for'digging out of the bowels of the earth so useful a
commodity as coal, our lives all the while in the most immi-
nent peril—(Hear)—every moment threatening us with the
most horrible death—(Hear)—and no provision for our wives
and children?'"

It is remarkable that, throughout the debates on the Fac-
tory question, not a syllable has been said in defence of the
millowners rights against the proposed confiscation of a sixth
of their properties._ _

It Beans as if it had been agreed that if reducing the hours
of work would improve the condition of the operatives, the
improvement should be effected at the cost of the capitalists.
No one protested against robbing Paul if it could be made
certain that Peter could get twelve hours' pay for his ten
hours' work.

For nights the discussion was, whether wages would or
would not fall with diminished production, as if upon a con-
clusion in the negative a clear case would have been made
out for taking from the millowners a sixth of their profits, or
for ruining many of them altogether.
Mr. M. Milnes, indeed, remarked with infinite coolness
that, if Lord Ashley's amendment were carried, the manu-
facturers would make up for the shortened time by improved
machinery, as if the millowner could afford to provide him-
self with new machinery as an idle gentleman purchases a
trinket or piece of furniture of a new fashion. The machi-
nery in many factories has cost more than a hundred thou-
sand pounds, and would require as large an outlay to substi-
tute improved machinery for that which legislative restric-
tions had made unequal to the remunerating production.
Manufacturers cannot all afford to be in the newest fashion
of machinery; their means of refurnishing their mills do not
keep pace with mechanical improvement; and hence the
greater number of factories are now worked with inferior
machinery, which would be utterly inadequate if there were
a further reduction of the working hours. To tell these pro-
prietors that they must make up for shorter time by im-
proved machinery would be much the same as advising a
man who complained of the sacking of his house that he could
set it all right by employing a fashionable upholsterer.
If some of these fine gentlemen who talk so glibly of fac-
tories would take the trouble to go and look at one, they
would find that its machinery was not to be thrown aside
and renewed as easily as a toothpick.
Lord llowick advocates the Short 'Wages project as a check
to the too eager pursuit of wealth :
"If a too eager pursuit of wealth put to hazard the moral
condition of the people and impeded their moral improve-
ment, that pursuit it was the duty of Government to mode-
rate. The people should not be allowed to follow the pursuit
of wealth to the neglect of still higher objects."
He would impoverish spinners, weavers, and millowners for
their moral advantage. lie is shocked that people in earning
ten shillings a week neglect higher objects than money-get-
tinq, and accordingly he would mulct them of a sixteeth of
their little incomes, to give them leisure for moral cultiva-
tion, which it is absolutely certain will occupy the time
hitherto devoted to work.

We are quite ready to admit that there is too eager a pur-
suit of wealth in this country, but the factories are not more
forward in the chase than the shop, the counting-house, the
bar, and every profession and vocation that can be named ;
and we cannot think it within the province of the:Legislature
to contrive checks to this propensity, as, amongst other ob-
jections, there will always be danger of its destroying the
livelihood of people in the attempt to control the excess of
industry. There are lawyers who work their brains and
lungs for sixteen hours a day, and who kill themselves by so
doing; but the Legislature would hardly pass a Bill appoint-
ing inspectors of chambers and courts, and prohibiting at-
tendance in them for more than ten or twelve hours a day.
The correction of the pursuit of Mammon to the neglect
of higher objects is the proper business of the Church, whose
heads so forcibly illustrate the scriptural precept that riches
are the root of all evil, by insisting that bishops cannot main-
tain their respectability without incomes of many thousands
a year, and that 150,000/. a- year is an inadequate sum for
twenty six prelates.•
But throughout the Short Wages argument there is the
assumption that the factory work-people are in a worse
mental and bodily condition than persons of the same classes
in other employments, which is utterly false. They are
better fed, better clothed, better lodged, better educated, and
more moral than the rural labourers; and if they have not
the advantage of working in the open air, they are, on the
other hand, 'palled the rheumatism and other ailments re-
sulting from exposure to wet and the vicissitudes of weather.
Mr. Charles Buller, indeed, asks—
" Could any Hon. Member deny that labour protracted to
the period of twelve hours a-day did not greatly interfere,
and was inconsistent with the moral improvement, education,
and well-being of the people who were subjected to it?"
The condition of the factory population is the practical
denial of the question; and if the labour which is proved to
be accompanied with the greatest demoralisation, the densest
ignorance, and the worst diet and lodging, is to be put under
Parliamentary regulation, it is that of the rural population
that the landowners in Parliament should commence their
experiments upon, by some Bill for improving the labourer's
state by the confiscation of a sixth of the landlord's estates.
If the factory work-people are deficient in morality, educa-
tion, and the comforts of the poor, let us be told in what
other province of labour the advantages wanting in their
case are to be found. Are we living in the midst of a moral,
educated, and prosperous populace ? What is it that we see
all around us ? As Mr. C. Wood remarks, " the greatest
amount of depravity and vice is displayed in the haunts of
the greatest poverty," and to make the poor poorer is the
proposal of Lord Howick, by the arbitrary confiscation of a
sixth of their property in their industry.
The truth is almost confessed that there is no peculiar oc-
casion for interference with factory labour, except that it is
so easy—that they present so inviting an opportunity for
meddling. As an idle boy throws a stone at a bird or beast,
not from any provocation or but simply because it
had the ill luck to offer so fair a mark, legislators have their
fling at factories because they are such broad objects for
interference.

We must except, however, one special argument of Mr. C.
Buller—

" He referred to the necessity—the absolute importance,
of keeping the two sexes to their own distinct and proper pro-
vinces.—(Cheers.) A master manufacturer had put forth a
statement on this subject. What was that statement with
regard to the proportion of men and women employed in
the manufacturing districts ? Why, in the large town of
Manchester it was stated that of the labouring portion of
the population employed in the factories three-fifths were
females and two-fifths were males ; as three to two.—(Hear,
hear.) That was a great evil, requiring certainly legislative
interference."
This logic is borrowed from the Duke of Wellington. The
absolute importance of keeping the two sexes in their proper
provinces is asserted, it being assumed at the same time that
spinning and weaving and piecing slender threads are in the
indisputable province of male labour, and that women are as
much out of place in such employments as at the forge or
plough. This point being so summarily settled, it is next
found that the women in factories are to the men in the pm_
portion of three to two, and that, declares Mr. C. Buller, ex
cathedra, is a great evil. But how, in what respect a great
evil ?
If Mr. C. Buller will look about him he will find that the
women employed in rubbing and scrubbing, in private houses,
are in more than the proportion of six to one males, and to
his polite horror lie will find that in the immense majority of
houses no man is employed, women blacking shoes, brushing
clothes, cleaning knives, besides sweeping, bed-making, roast-
ing and boiling, and all the rest of a household drudgery.
No Lord Ashley has yet calculated how many miles a maid
of all work paces over in the course of a day, how many
things she turns her hand to, ortohow much punishment at
the treadmill her errands updown stairs will amount.
Nor has any return been hadand
of the number who are killed
annually by falls in the work of cleaning windows, to save
the expense of a glazier.
The same reason that accounts for the employment of
women instead of men in families explains their preponder-
ance
in factories, they are equal to the work required, and
their labour is cheaper.
But Mr. Buller thinks them out of place in the factory,
which they notoriously prefer to domestic service. Spinning
and weaving have, however, from all antiquity, been deemed
fit female occupations, and the difference in the improved art
of them is, that the steam-engine does the heavier part of the
work, and leaves to the operative only what requires an at-
tentive eye and a light hand.
Women serving in haberdasher? shops attend standing for
a' longer time, and go over more ground in stepping to and
fro, than piercers or weavers in a mill, and they undergo a

• Eccleaiast4cal Report of 1835.

trouble and vexation from the whimsies of customers that sAL-11
the factory work-woman is exempt froM. But•nti one has ,
discovered that women are out of their province in a haber- 1
dasher's shop, or that the business of measuring yards of:
ribbons and. fingering laces should be left to glen
sively.
-Si- -If Mr. C.'Buller could, as he wishes, turn the wome • t?-
of the factories, where would- they find those" proptiprO-,. • :r
vinces" to which lie is so anxious to confine them ? Some
might get into the Domestic drudgery, which they are so'
glad to quit for factory employment ; more would be thrown
into the workhouse, and many would fall to prostitution. Is
the workhouse or the brothel a more suitable province than
the factory?
Mr. Hawes is too intelligent and too honest to deny that
short wages must be the consequence of short work; but he
is for imposing the restrictions as a way in his view of get-
ting rid of the corn restrictions. But how ? There is but
one way in which such an effect can be produced, namely,
by so damaging the manufacturing interests that for deliver-
ance from sheer ruin they must make a struggle of des-
peration for the abolition of the corn-laws. To do this
evil that good may come of it seems to us as little
consistent with prudence as with sound morality. The
mischief would be certain, but not so sure the expected
remedy:
And what right has a legislator to take from the poor
operatives a sixth of their little incomes, and from the mill-
owners the same portion of their profits, that through their
sufferings a certain reform may be brought about ? Other
supporters of Lord Ashley's proposal believe, or pretend, that
the work-people would not be the losers by it, that wages
would not be reduced; but Mr. Hawes does not countenance
the delusion which induces the operatives to pray for re-
strictions, and he would find few indeed of the youngest and
least reflecting among.them to consent to his scheme for
bringing about the abolition of the corn-laws by cutting off
a sixth of their wages.
Lord Howick, who is always consistent, as be proposes to
diminish the production of our cotton mills, endeavours to
reconcile us to such a result by showing that it would not
materially affect- our foreign trade. The rise in the price
of the article his Lordship thinks of little consequence, as
" Any practical merchant would tell them that, if a cargo
of cotton goods was sent to Rio, it was not the price which
determined whether the speculation would be a profitable
or a losing one. If lie was forced to pay a heavy premium
for a bill of exchange, the' consignment might be a losing
business ; whereas, if he paid a less premium, and received
only the same price for his goods, the speculation might be a
profitable one. _ _

- It would tie well for Lord Howick to bring this doctrine to
the test of experiment. Let him, for example, send a cargo
of British brandy to Bordeaux, or a consignment of velvet to
Lyons, and upon such ventures he will ascertain Whether the
premiunt of exchange is the main element or a very secondary
one in the profits offoreign trade. If we send a dearer article
to a foreign market, it 18 4* same thing as sending fine not
in demand, and our cotton, raised in price, would be as much
a drug in competition with the cheaper American article
as our brandy, velvet, or cambric in the French market.
Lord Howick instructs us to look to imports only as the
essential of foreign trade. •
In Swift'S advice to servants the same economy is taught,
all the servants being admonished to swell the bills in their
respective departments for their master's honour, the butler
to order in as much wine as possible, the cook as much meat,
the coachman the greatest possible quantity of hay and corn,
without troubling their heads about the payment.
A spendthrift, who must have had a glimpse of the same
principles, used to say that he reckoned his yearly income by
casting up his bills. These were the imports, in his view,
payment for them the export, which he thought quite im-
material.

Carrying out the doctrine of Lord Howick to its extreme
conclusion, if, instead of reducing manufacturing production
a sixth, it were destroyed altogether, the foreign trade would
be nearly as prosperous as ever, or, to use his own word, the
inconvenience would be small.
We confess that we rather incline to the opinion of Sir K.
Peel, that importation and exportation are of equal import-
ance, and that we cannot receive commodities in our porta
without sending out something in payment of them, unless,
indeed, we adopt the economy of Swift's servants or the
spendthrift.

THE FACTORIES BILL.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—ln your paper of Wednesday evening, May 15, in a
list purporting to contain the names of those whose aid was
withheld from Lord Ashley, on Monday last, May 18, von
mention the names of the Hon. Colonel Butler, and Ifr.
Fitzstephen French.
_ _

Colonel Butler paired on that occasion with Mr. Williams,
the Member for Great Marlow, in favour of the Ten Hours'
Amendment, and Mr. French, to my knowledge, voted for
Lord Ashley in company with myself—other newspapers,
particularly the Sunday ones, have copied Those erroneous
statements; and as public opinion is rather strong upon this
question, they would do well to rectify these and other such
inaccuracies.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
No. 3, Queen-square, Saturday. P. S. BUTLER, M.P.

FATAL OCCURRENCE.-THREE
LIVES LOST.
On Sunday night, between eight and nine, the most painful
excitement was produced in the neighbourhood of London-
bridge and Fresh-wharf; in consequence of a distressing acci-
dent, havOlving the loss of three lives, occurring on the river
at the foot of London-bridge steps. It appears that at about
half-past eight o'clock a beat under the charge of the son of a
waterman, -named Williamson„,a_young man about eighteen
years of age, pushed off from th stairs on the City side of
London-bridge, with about eleven boys (under the age of
twelve years) and three girls, intending to take them to the
Custom-house. The boat had not reached ten or a dozen yards
from the stairs, before she came athwart the tide, which was
running down very fast, and she was carried with great vio-
lence against the bows of the Diamond steamer, moored oft
Fresh wharf. Had they kept their seats, in all probability
nothing further would have happened, but unfortunately the
whole got up, and instantly the boat went down stern fore-
most, precipitating all of them into the water. The acci-
dent being observed by many hundreds of persons assembled
on the bridge, and on the different steam-boat piers, the ex-
citement that ensued was of a character easily conceived.
Fortunately a man having charge of the dumb-lighters in
front of Fresh-wharf was standing at the bow of the Diamond
steamer at the time. Ile threw overboard ropes and other
floatable articles for the children to lay hold of. Most of
them rose to the surface, and eleven, including the waterman,
were with great difficulty saved; but the remainder (some
say three, and others six) were drowned. Among them are
known to be two girls (one 16 and the other 18 years of age),
and also a boy eight years of age, whose parents are living
in Milton-street. Those saved were in a most exhausted
state. They were all immediately conveyed to the Royal
Humane Society-house—the. New castle, an Lower Thames-
street—where they received all possible assistance. Drags
were directly put into requisition, and search was made for
the bodies of those drowned, but, up to eleven o'clock, none
of them had been discovered.

Mr. Colvile,.M.P. for South Derbyshire, is, it is
understood, is to be the new Master of the Atherstone Hounds,
in the room of E. Applewhaite, Esq.
LADY PEEL'S ASSEMBLY.—On Saturday ni*ht
Lady Peel had an assembly at the family mansion in White-
hall-gardens. The splendid picture gallery and the several
saloons opening en suite on the first story, were thrown open
for the reception, and brilliantly illuminated. His Serene
Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar and the following
personages of rank and fashion were present :—The French
Ambassador and Countess de Ste. Aulaire, the Turkish Am-
basador, Baron Nicumann, the Russian Minister and
Milkiness Brunnow, and Mademoiselle Olga de Lechner, Prince
Castelcicala, the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de
Weyer, M. Dedel, Baron de Cetto, the Danish Minister and
Countess Reventlow, Count Pollen, Countess Bjornstjerna,
the Venezuelean Minister, the Brazilian Minister and the
Marchioness de Lisboa, the American Minister, Mrs. Everett
and Miss Everett, the Portuguese Minister and Baroness
Moncorvo, Baron Hugel, the Mexican Minister and Mrs.
Murphy, Baron Koller, Count Jarnac, Baron Scheoppingk,
Count Rosen, Baron Brockdorff, Baron Bremer, Baron
Bjornstjerna, and the Dukes—Buccleuch, Montrose. Duch-
esses-7 Northumberland, Bucdeuch, Montrose. Marquises
—Douro, Huntly, Ailesbury, Normanby, Ormonde, Salis-
bury, Kildare. Marchionesses—Aylesbury, Douro, Ormonde.
Earls—Devon, Normanton, Jersey, Delawarr, Beverley,
Besborough, Haddington, Kinnoull, Clarendon, Winchilsea,
Powis, Sheffield, Daitmouth. Countesses—Jersey, Delawarr,
Beverley, Haddington, Kinnoull, Clarendon, Nelson, Powis,
Dowager Mansfield, Wilton, Dartmouth. Viscounts—
Ossulston, Melville, Strangford, Parker, Sydney„ Villiers,
Mare, Mahon, IThwarden Clive, Ingestre. Viscountesses—
Adare, Sydney, Parker, Villiers, Mahon, Beresford, Maynard,
Ashbrooke. Lords—Prudhoe, Redesdale, John Manners,
Charles Wellesley ; and above 300 other persons of rank
and fashion. .

REDUCTION IN TILE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD. —lt is
not to be concealed that there is growing up a feeling of un-
easiness, if not discontent, about the reductions that are
constantly taking place in the Royal household. We allude
to the subject reluctantly, but, we hope, with a proper sense
of the delicacy with which it should be treated. The whole
case, reduced to figures, seems to resolve itself into the fol-
lowing particulars :—lndependently of the personal income
of the Sovereign and her Consort, of the augmentation of
Prince Albert's allowance by about 10,000/. a-year, derivable
from places and appointments conferred upon him by the
Queen, and of the large revenue drawn from the Duchy
of Cornwall for the use of the Prince of Wales, an annual sum
of 375,0001. is granted by Parliament for the maintenance of
the customary splendour of the Court. We have never heard a
single objection taken to the amount of that grant. On the con-
trary, we believe, if it were required, Parliament would at any
moment be prepared to increase it—the special purposes for
which it was originally designed being, of course, always kept in
view. Now, ofthat sum of 375,000/. per annum, reductions have
been effected to the amount of 25,000/. The rage for retrench-
ment which appears to have set in with the il people in
come-tsatresx
ts
reached the Palace itself, and equerries, d•t _mi
i sniver
chamber-pages, and all sorts of gold and
waiting have been cut down to meet the economical
spirit of the times. If a saving to the country had been
positively accomplished by this reduction of 25,0001.
per annum, it would be very ungracious on the part of the country to complain ; but the popular grievance con-
sists in the somewhat anomalous fact, that this very reduc-
tion will absolutely entail an increased burden upon the
public. The persons whose services are thus dropped out of
the Royal household must be pensioned ; but the pensions
are not to be paid out of the amount saved by their reduc-
tion, but are to constitute a fresh charge upon the national
Treasury. The consequence will be that the public expen-
diture, instead of being diminished by this 25,000/. a-year,
will, in fact, be augmented by the amount of the pensions.
To this conclusion all the information we possess at present
on the subject distinctly points. Perhaps it is intended to
return the surplus to Parliament ; but, as no indication of
such an intention has been made, and as Royal economy in
one department is generally directed with a view to enlarged
outlay in another, we do not anticipate the adoption of such
a course.— court Journal.
THE LATE MR. BECKYORD.—Mr. BeCkford'S fa-
ther, the alderman, was not a merchant, his connection with
the City was entirely political. He was the eldest son of Sir
Peter heckford, accounted the ricliestsubject in Europe, who
left also extensive estates to his younger children, viz.,
Julius, grandfather of the late Lord Rivers, Francis, whose
descendants now alone retain the name; Elizabeth, Coun-
tess of Effingham, and Ann, the mother of Lord Seaford.
Peter Beckford was the son of a successful soldier, Colonel
Beckford, Governor of Jamaica, who was nephew to Sir Tho-
mas Beckford, of Aslistead, in Surrey. The family had ori-
ginally large estates in Gloucestershire, &c., but Sir William
Beckford died fighting for King Richard on Bosworth field,
and the fortunes of the family fell with him. And you will
not be sorry to hear, that the works published by Mr. Beck-
ford did not exhaust his productive powers." Masses of
manuscripts remain which may be given to the public, and
which I do not think you will find unworthy the advantage
of your notice.—Correspondent m
scepods a
adent of the Athenmum.
DUNDEE TRADE, Ae i
rAaenv d
ftloht —Our markets are
andl n linens.
hemp,
ufltax aheyraatTon.
keeps without
steady, change. and prices
and hemp cedilla there is still nothing doing, and prices of
both articles are quite nominal. Indian jute is still wanted,
and fetches from 151. to M. per ton, according to quality. -
The advance in freights at Calcutta should affect the value
ofjute in this mazket.

liIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, MAY 21,
Will be performed Donizetti's Opera, entitled
DUN PASQUALE.
Norina, Madame Grist; Ernesto, Signor Mario; Dr. Malatesta,
Signor Fornasari ; and Don Pasquale, Signor Lablache.
Between the acts of the Opera the admired " La Ottana" by
Mdtle. Cerito.
To conclude with the Ballet of ALMA.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box
office, 01.era.colonnade.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Sigtvr LABLACHE has the honour to inform the Nobility, Sub-
etibors to the Opera. his Friends, and the Public, that HIS
SENEFIT will take place on THURSDAY EVENING, May '23
whin will be performed Cimarosa's Comic Opera, entitled
IL MATRIMONIO SEGRETO.
Elisetta, Madame Grisi ; Fidalma, Mdlle. Favanti ; Carolina,
Madame Persiani ; Paolino, Sig. Mario ; Count Robinson, Sig. 1..
ILAblache; and Geronimo, Sig. Lablache.
After which, a New Divertissement, entitled LA VIV AN DIERE,
introducing the Redowa ; or, Original Polka of Bohemia, by Aldlle.
Cerito and M. tt. Leon.
To conc;ude with the Grand Ballet of ALMA. Alma, Madame Cerito.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box
Oflico, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven. The Opera will
commence at Half past Seven.

THEATRE ROYAL. DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING. MAY 21,
Will be performed the opera of the BOHEMIAN GIRL Count
Arnheim,-Mr. Borrani; Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison ; Devilshoof,
Mr. Horncastle ; Arline. Miss Rainforth ; Queen of the Gipsies,
Mi 8 Betts.
After which, the Opera of CLARI. The Duke Vivaldi,
r. W West; Rehm°, Mr. Cooper : Jocoso, Mr. Hudson ; Nim.
pedoM, Mr. Meadows; Clari, Miss Rainforth ; Fidalma, Mrs. Tay-
I cure; Ninetta, Miss Betts.
To conclude with a Ballet Divertissement, ereitied THE FETE OF
TERPSICHORE.
Dress Boxes 75., Second trice 3s. 6d. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 55..
Second Price 35.; Pit 3s , Second Price 25.; Middle Gallery 25.,
Second Price Is.; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price tid.

- - - - -
THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE.
THIS EVENING, MAY 21,
Will be perforthed Sheridan's Comedy of THE RIVALS. Sir
Anthony At•solute Sir. W. Farren ; Captain Absolute, Mr. H.
Holl ; Faulkland, Mr. Stuart; Acres, Mr. Webster; Sir Lucius
o'l"rigger, Mr. Leonard; David, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Malaprop,
Mrs. Glover; Lysia Languish, Mrs. Nisbett; Julia, Miss E. Yar-
nold ; Lucy. Mrs. Humby.
After which, a New Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir
Charles' Coldstream, Bart., Mr. Charles Mathews; Sir Adonis
Leech. Mr. Tilbury ; Wurzle, Mr. James Bland ; Mary, Miss Julia
Bennett; Lady Claterbuck, Mrs. Humby.
To conclude with a New Comic Drama, called THE A BSENTEE.
Sir Patrick Delany, Mr. Tilbury ; Edward Macarthy (the Absentee),
Mr. Fi Holt; Larty Lurgan, Mr. Leonard; Norah, Miss Julia
Bennett; Katy, Miss Carre.
Orchestra Stalls, Ss. ; Boxes, ha. • Pit, ; Gallery, 25.; Upper
Gallery, Is. Half-price—Boxes, ; Pit 25.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper
Gallery, 6d. Doors opened at. Half-past Six, and the l'erformances
eummeace at Seven
Tickets and Places to be had of Mr 1. T. Archer, at the Box-
°dice, from Ten till Five.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING, MAY 21,
Will be repeated a New Comic Opera, entitled CROWN
DIAMONDS Count de Campo Mayor, Mr. Weiss; Don Men-
tion& de Sandoval, Mr. Allen; Rebolledo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; La
Catcrina, Madame Anna Thillon; Diana, Mils Grant.
To which will be added GONE TO TEXAS.
After which, A DIVERTISSEMENT.
To conclude with a Comic Drama, called BLASE; or, The Man
In Search..of a Sensation. Monsieur Blase, Mr. Wright; Grosfer,
Mr. Paul Bedford; Louise, Madame Eugouie Prosper; Madame
Pipou, Mrs. H. P. Grattan.

THEATRE ROY L LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA-
HOUSE.
Under the ifanagement of Mrs. KEELEY.
" Open Fesame; or, a Night with the Ferty Thieves," continues to
be nightly received with perfect enthusiasm by crowded and
fashionable audinces
THIS EVENING, MAY 21,
Will be performed a New Comedietta. entitled THE WHITE
FE A CHER. I'rincipal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Collier,
Craven, Yarnold, Miss Woolgar, and Miss Fairbrother.
After which. MY WIFE'S OUT. Principal Characters by Mr.
Keeley. Mr Wigan, Miss Chaplin, and Mrs. Keeley.
"To which will be added a new Comic Drama, called THE
LOVE BIRD& Eiincipal Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews,
Younge, Mrs. N onftige, Mrs. Usher, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Chaplin,
Miss Grove, and Miss Fortosoue.
To be followed by in Apropos Bagatelle, called POLK AM ANI A
Characters I,y Mr. F. Matthews, Mr. Wigan, Mr. Keeley, Miss
Woolgar, and Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with z• no 1 Burlesque Fairy Extravaganza, called
OPEN SESAME.; or. a Night with the Forty Thieves. Cha.
ream by Miss Wimilgar, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. Woollidgc, Miss
Turner, Miss Grove, Mrs. Wigan, Miss James, Miss Fairbrother,
and Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Mathews, Turner, Young; Wigan,
Yarnold, and Chaplin.
4 PRICES OF A DMISFION.—BaIcony Foxes, 45.; Upper
Boxes, Ss. ; Pit, 2s. • Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ;
Upper Boxes, Is ; Pit, P. Private Boxes on the Balcony Tier
(holding eight persons). 'Two Guineas Private Boxes on the Second
Tier (ho ding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private
Boxes on the Pit fier (holding six persons), One Guinea.

ASTLEY'S ROY A I. AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY.
;rand Attraction.
Last week of M. Plege, the great French Rope-dancer.
I.IIS r.:V ENING, MAY 21,
Will be repeated the 14,stoi ical Spectacle of the INVASION OF
ENGLAND BY WILMA hi THE CONQUEROR ,• or, the Battle
of Hastings. With all the effects of the Norman Conquest, Death
of Harold, &c.
Entire Change of the Splendid Scenes of the Circle.
To conclude with the Onental Spectacle of THE SECRET
MINE; or, the Hindoos o' the Ruby Cliff's.
The doors will open nightly at six o'clock, and the performances
commence at seven. Box-office opened daily from ten till four. The
private boxes have been reconstructed and decorated with care and
splendour.
Acting and stage-rn %Jager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE
THIS EVE%7ING, MAY 21.
Will be performed a New Drama, entitled HUGH, THE GIPSY.
Supported by Messrs. E. F. Saville, H. Hughes, It. Honner, Neville,
Va e, Mrs H. Vining, Miss Terrey, and Mrs. Lewis.
After which, a New Piece for the Million, entitled LA POLKA.
Auer" La Polka," Mr. CHARLES SLOM AN, will poetize ex-
temporaneously on subjects proposed by the audience.
To be followed by Mr. COX'S admired DISSOLVING VIEWS.
To conclude with an entirely New Drama, embracing all the
strong effects of the celebrated work, entitled WHITEFRIARS,
in which the entire Company will perform.
P aces and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.
o:hce, from Eleven to Four.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL
OPEN EVERY EVENING.
The WIZARD OF IHE NORTH'S New Wonders of Experi-
mental Philosophy and Natural Magic are the great source of attrac-
tion I As his season advances he will prove that he has "no rival ;"
in his peculiar art he will support the honour and dignity of the nation
which gave him. birth. Remember that he performs wonders every
evening, which, if only heard of, would never be believed. In
addition to his own Extraordinary Performance', which can have
no parallel in the world, he has other Novelties which wouldtill his
Theatre, independent of his Mystic Entertainment.
The WIZARD is proud to announce that he has engaged (for this
week only) The HIGHLAND DANCERS with their PIPERS who
had the honour of dancing before the Queen at Taymouth a
Dunkeld Castles, during her Maj 'sty's recent visit to the " land
o' cakes " 'I hey will nightly appear in full Highland costume and
dance their grand National Dances. This will be a Great Treat, as
it w ill convey to the mind a style quite unknown to England. The
THREE ARAB BROTHER' will repeat their classical perform.
ances, which are nightly received with most rapturous applause.
In consequence of the addition to the usual entertainments, the
Doors will open at Half-past Six, and the 1 erformance commence
at Eight.
Boxes, 35.; Pit. Is. Bd.; Gallery, Cd. Reserved Seats, and
Private Boxes can be secured at the theatre, and of all the Agents.
kiecond Price at Nine o'clock.

COMMENCEMENT OF THE SEASON,
ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS,
GRAND WHITSUN FETES.
ON WHIT-MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND
THURSDAY.
Strong as have been the claims of this favoured place of public
resort at the beginning of each season, the Proprietor feels justified
in asserting, that never before did it offer a tithe of the attractions
it now presents. The Gardens have been complete y renovated,
Statues and Fountains introduced, new and extensive Promenades
f 'Tined, and the most lavish expenditure in every department,
will evince the Troprietor's anxiety to insure a continuance of public
Patronage.
THE NEW GRAND PICTORIAL MODEL OF
LONDON IN THE OLDEN TIME I
Painted by Vanson and Telbin,
is the most gigantic achievement ever yet produced, and for grandeur
of compositi,n, fidelity of design, and beauty of execution, it far
exceeds any previous production. It accurately represents snarl
London—Old St. Paul's—Old London Bridge—Baynard's Castle, d
all the principal Churches and Buildings of the locality, and may
with truth be designated the most wonderful production of mo-
dern times.
THE MENAGERIE, ALWAYS UNRIVALLED,
HAS RECEIVED MANY VALUABLE ADDITIONS.
To defy all competition, the Proprietor has engaged the celebrated
AMERICAN DWARF TJM THUMB!
now exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.
The PROMENADE CONCERTS—the splendid Band of Fifty
Performars, conducted by Mr. Godfrey—will perform a selection of
the newest and most popular music.
The far-famed HIGHLAND DANCERS AND PIPERS are
also engaged', and will go through two acts of their National Dances,
which procured for them the distinguished approbation of her
Majesty and. Prince Albert at Taymouth Castle
And at Dusk will take place the most astounding exhibition ever
attemited, viz., a Reptesentatton of
THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON.
Mr. Southby (to whom in justice belongs the appellation of" Fire
King") has exhausted the resources of his art, to give effect to this
exhibitio Lon-ton Bridge, Old St. Paul's Cathedral, and other
Buildings wilt appear devoured by the devastating element, and
present a heap, of blackened ruins, in accordance with the best
delineations taken at the period, and the coup d'ceil will give a vivid
representation of a Great City destroyed by fire.
Doors of ea at Twelve. Admission, One Shilling.

EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY.
IMPORTANT NOTICE.

ONE SHILLING Admission to THE NAPOLEON MU-
SEUM, the most magnificent and extensive Collection of Histo-
rical Ciiriosities and Works of Art ever known to have been formed
by One Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a
cost of 60,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in-
structive and interesting manner, the most Important part of Euro-
pean history, viz.—CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and
LOUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR
NAPOLEON, in 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often,
during the last and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of
Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladies,
also many thousands of the Nobility and Public ; and the Pro-
prietor has recently been able to increase, by several very fine
pictures, &c., his previous almost incredible number and variety of
MS:3., Works of Art, and a multitude of valuable Relics, and other
curiosities, in this most instructive and, as hundreds have said it
ought to be, a National Museum. Many thousand have inspected it,
and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS
have stated that it ought to be. seen by every one. The price of admis-
sion is reduced to ONE SHILLING. _

The NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to be seen only at the "Egyptian
nan,"Piccadilly, daily from Ten till Dusk.

TIIE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MAT 20.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 39 ; Highest, 57 ; Noon, 55.
BAROMETER, N.E.
'f,TE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
f vezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair
u3oally placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.

WWI WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Atoning ... 7 minutes after 4 I Evening;... 24 minutes alter 4.

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