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UNION BANK ay *LONDON.
The DIRECTORS of the UNION BANK of LONDON hereby
give notice, that the GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors will
•be held at the Banking-house at Moorgate-street, on WEDNESDAY, the
10th day of July, at. Twelve o'Clock precisely, for the purpose of re-
ceiving the Annual Report of the Affairs of the Company, and declar-
ing a Divideial.

The fl.llowing Directors, viz., Sir Peter Laurie, and Andrew Spot-
- tisw,soe mid George WOrister, Esquires, retire from the Direction,
undo* the provisions of the Deed of Settlement, but being eligible offer
aid are recommended by the Directors for re-election.

By Order of the Court,
tz. ',f,,,mate-?treet, June 5, 1844. W. LAURIE, Secretary,
• .._

UNION BANK OF- 'LONDON.
The Directors 'hereby give notice, that the TRANSFER
l _ORS of the Company will be CLOSED than Saturday, the 22d
day of June, till Wednesday, the 24th day of July.

_ .
By Order of the Court,
s, Moorgate-street, June 6,1844. W. LAURIE, Secretary,

11HE NEXT DISTRIBUAON OF MONEY
IL DTVIDENDS AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED by HIS
i AJEMTY the EMPEROR of AINTRIA. contains Money Dividends
~f---- £5O .£6B £7O tin 490
£lO9 gilg £l2O £l5O 4200
X4OO £6OO .E,qoo Xl,OOO X 1,500
£5,000 and 23.900 sterling.
This Distribution contains as many Dividends as Bends.
-.mid a Dividend!

rffery

Smallest Dividend • - X5O
Largest Dividend - - £23,000
Direet fir Prospectus, with HAII particulars, without delay to
HEINE BROTHERS, at Hamburgh.
Or t* HEINE BROTHERS, at Lubeck.

ESTABLISHED 1821,
THE LONDON MARBLE AND STONE
WORKING COMPANY, are enabled, with their PATENT
MACHINERY, to execute Chimney Pieces, Monuments, Tablets,
Slabs for Furniture, and every description of such Work, with an
occur/eV; ripteityv Of execution, beauty and durability of Polish, and
reduction of cost, which cannot be obtained elsewhere.
The Public are invited to inspect their extensive SHOW-ROOMS,
containing the largest stock in this country.
The Trade supplied with every description of Rough Slab Blocks,
or Scantlings; or Blocks sent tw the WorkS cut to order.

Esher-street, nolywell-stseet, Milbank, Westminster.
Please to be accurate in copying the Address, to prevent impoal
lion, the Company having no connexion with any other Establish
went but that in Esher-street.

IMPERIAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,
Sun court, Cornhill, and No. 16, Pall-mall, London.
Notice is hereby given, that the ANNUAL DIVIDEND on the
Shares in the Subscription Capital of this Company will be paid to
the Proprietors at the Office In Sun-court, Cornhill, on aid stft6-
IYEDNisaDat, the 10th of July next, between the hours of Eleven and
Three o'Clock. izy order of the Directors,
June 17, 1844. SAMUEL INGALL, Actuary.
•
NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUrt;•
-ANCE SOCIETY,

26, CORNHILL, LONDON.
Capital :6500,000.

Empowered by Act of Parliament.
DIVISION OF PROFITS.
.1141 Inc sing Dr's.--

The steady sem

~access an.. _icreasing prosperity of the Society his
enabled the Directors, iit the last annual investigation, to declare :a
second Bonus, averaging GO per cent. on the amounts Invested en each
Policy effected on the Prat scale.

Alt IreFalmre

20 ,£1 1 4
30 I 1 6 4
40 1 )8 1
b 0 $ la 7

Annul Premium payable during

Id Five I Sd Five
Years. Years.

4th Fir*
Years.

Remainder
•f Life.

IEI bID Ll 16 11 ILI 16 9 £2 3 8;
112 2 1 19 1 2 7 4 217 6
2 4 4 214 6 r 3 7 31 4 3 4
3 9 4 4 6 bl b 6 3, 613 7

ITITR MORRISON:ReaIdent Director,
A Liberal COrri )01 on
;U ow is
Solicitors and Agektd.

ROYAL ACADEMY OrE.ARTS, TRAIAL-
The EXHIBITION of the ROYAL ACADEMY N now OPEN.
Admission (from Eight o Ciock till Seven) One Shilling. Catalogue

One Shilling.
HENRY HOWARD, R.A., Sec.

PITILHARMONIC SOCIETY.
The LAST CONCERT will take place on MONDAY EVENING
NExT, when will be performed Beethoven's Sinfonia Eroica. Trio
Corelll—Messrs. Lindley, Lucas, and Howell. scene, with Chorus,
from "As you Like it"—H. Smart. Dr. Mendelssohn Bartholdy's
First Walpurgis-night, with Chorus (first time in this country). Con-
certo Violin --Mr. Sainton. A Selection from Beethoven's Ruins of
Athens, with Chorus, M.S. (rst time in this country). And Weber's
Overture to Oberon. Vocalists—Miss A. Williams, Miss Dolby, Mr.
Allen, and Herr Staudigl. Leader—Mr. T. Cooke. Conductor—Dr.
Mendelssohn liar tholdy.

Single Tickets One Guinea, and Double Tickets, 11. 10s., to be had
of Me•isrs. Cramer and Co., 201, Regent-street.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC sti at ,
LONGIIOTTOM'S PHYSIOSCOPE exhibits the human face
with its varied expressions, on a gigantic scale, curiously contrasted
with the living man. The OPAQUE MICROSCOPE magnifies ef-
fectively a succession of WORKS of the PINE ARTS; also casts of
INSCRIPTIONS, taken by Miss Wilson from the WALLS of the
TOWER of LONDON, cut by Lord Guilford Dudley and other State
Prisoners. Arrangements have been made for Dr. RYAN to deliver
VARIED LECTURES on the evenings of Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday; and Professor BACHROFFNER on Tuesday and Thursday
evenings. These Lectures, as well as the Morning Lectures, will
abound •in interesting experiments. ARMSTRONG'S HYDRO-
ELECTRIC MACHINE. DIVING BELL and DIVER. NEW
DISSOLVING VIEWS, &c. &c. The Music is conducted by T.
Wallis, Mus. Dec.

RIDING HABlN.—Ladies "Are invited to in-
spect those made by Messrs. NICOLL, Habit-inakere to the
Queen and most of the Ladies of the Court. ,

Cards may be had at 114, Regent-street, London.
Messrs. Nicoll offer moderate prices•, as a fgrther inducenient to a
correct fitting habit,

IMPORTANT to FAMILIES FURNISHING.
—A considerable saving can be effected in the purchase of
Furnishing Ironmongery, by visiting the PANKLIBANON IRON
WORKS, 58, Baker-street, Portman-square, where may be in-
spected the most extensive STOCK of IRONMONGERY GOODS in
,he Kingdom, consisting of kitchen cooking utensils, German silver
wares, drawing-room stoves, shower and vapour baths, ornamental
:ron work, garden Implements, japanned water cans and toilette pails,
best Sheffield plate, kitchen ranges, fenders and lire-irons, tea trays,
ornamental wirework, flower stands, table cutlery, &e. Every article
being marked in plain figures, at the lowest possible price, will fully
convince purchase .e at this establishment of the great advantage re-
sulting ftom Cash payments, as the proprietors warrant every article
evt• the very best manufacture, at a saving of at least 30 per cent.—
THORPE, FALLOWS, and Co., 58, Baker-street, Portman-square.
—A liberal allowance to merchants and captains.

PRESERVES AND CONFECTIONERY.
The superiority of BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY, for Pre-
serves and Confectionery, is testified by the fact that it is preferred to
any other spirit by the most extensive Wholesale Confectioners in
the Metropolis ; for fortifying home-made wines it is invaluable ; as
an ordinary beverage it is congenial to the most delicate constitutions;
and, as a medical stimulant, it is peculiarly adapted to persons of
bilious or dyspeptic habits. Quantities of not less than Two Gallons,
supplied at the Distillery, 7 Smithfield-bars, in Stone Jars, at 18s. per
Gallon, exclusive of the price of the Jar ; and in Glass Bottles, at 20s.
per Gallon, Bottles and Case included.

Consumers of Brandy are respectfully Informed that J. T. BETTS,
Jun., and CO., will not be responsible for any Bottled Brandy that is
not protected against ft udulent substitution, by the Patent Metallic
Capsules, made of pure and solid metal (not tin-foil), embossed with
the words " Betts's Patent Brandy, 7, Smithfield-bars," to which at-
tention is especially directed.

AGNIFECENT DAMASK TABU:
M
CLOTHg, 5 yards long each
Dinner Napkins to match yard square, the dozen
Irish Cambric Handkerchiefs, equal to the finest French,
per dozen l2s. 6d.
Common Lawn Handkerchiefs, as. 6.1. per dozen ; very good,
per dozen
Undressed Irish Linen Sheetings, very superior, per pair 12s. 6d.
Ditto, nearly 3 yards wide, without a seam, per pair 15s. Od.
Common Linen Sheetings, from 3s. 9d. per pair ; and very
strong, or serva.its' use, per pair
Irish Linen , stout and free from dress, the piece of 26 yards,
for
Ditto, excellent quality, 26 yards for 25s ; and very fine, 26
ya-ds for ..
Yard-wide Irish, of the purest flax and finest texture, 26
yards tor 42s. Od.
The Directors of the NATIONAL LINEN CO ‘It'ANY, in
giving puhlicity to the prices thy are selling their MAN CFAC.
TURES at, and feelirg confident, • from the increased facility rf
communicition from their factories, they can offer unprecedented
advantages to Ladies requiring household linens, dic.. will fo.werd
g •ods t• tamilies residing either in town or country, for approval
previous to the payment, and any article sent not giving the frost
unq approbation can be returned. Ihe Company are also
bleachers of long cloths, calicoes, counterpanes, muslin', dimities,
dtc. They respectfully sol cit inquiries of the numerous families,
both in town and country, who have patronised their establishment,
and who can testify not only to the advantageous prices, but to the
superiority of their manufactures and bleach. •
Prospectuses containing full particulars of the various goods for
sale, with lists of it. ices, can be had at the warehous• s, or by post.
Retail entrance, 105, I. leet-street, corner of . arringdon.street, bottom
of Ludgate-hill.

DENTAL SURGERT.—EXTRACTION SUPERSEDED.
WESSRS. MOSELEY, Surgeon-Dentists (by
appointment to his Majesty the King or Hanover), 32, Hay-
maymarket, St. James's, In announcing that they way be consulted
daily, as usual, beg to invite attention to their method (peculiar to
their own practice) of filling decayed Teeth. Teeth, however badly
decayed, or however large the cavity,-filled with Gold, enabling the
patient to masticate with perfect ease, and rendering extraction un-
necessary.

Their TERREOUS ARTIFICIAL TEETH fixed without
Wires of any kind, or extraction of stumps, are not only quite inde-
structible and unchangeable in colour, but being of every shade na-
tural to the original, may be worn from one to a set, without the
slightest difference in shape or colour. Loose Teeth fastened without
ligatures and rendered perfectly firm.—Observe, 32, Haymarket,

FOR STOPPING DECAYED TEETH.
Price 4s. 6d.

Patronised by her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and
her Royal llighness the Duchess of Kent.

M: R. THOMAS'S SUCCEDANEUM,
for iTOPPING DECAYED TEETH, however large the
cavity. It is placed in the tooth in a soft state, without any pres-
sure or pain, and will remain firm in the tooth for many years, ren-
dering extraction unnecessary, arresting the farther progress of decay.
All persons can use Mr. Thomas's Succedaneum themselves with
,fise, as full directions are enclosed.
Prepared only by Mr. Thomas, Surgeon-Dentist, 64, Berners-street,
Oxford-street. Price 4s. 6d. ; and can be sent free by post.
Mr. Thomas continues to supply the lose of teeth on his new sys-
tem of Self-adhesion, without springs or wires. This method does
aot require the extraction of any teeth or roots, or any painful ope-
.ation whatever. At home from eleven till four.

FOR SALE, BELOW 'HALF their VALUE,
Upwards of TIIREE lILNDRED PICTURES of a superior
class. The whole Collection in handsome and expensive Gilt Frames,
ready for hanging without further expense. Among them are some
splendid Landscapes and Many very beautiful Scriptural Subjects.
To effect an early sale of the whole, very low suns will
be taken.
Gentlemen wanthw good Pictures will find this a rare opportunity
of getting them at a small cost. Apply to view them at 169, Strand,
near Somerset House, between Ten and Five o'clock.

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THE WATER CUBE. •
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ON the DECREASE of DISEASES effected
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SIR ROBERT ADAIR'S MISSION TO-':VIEkI-NA.
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ANHISTORICAL MEMOIR of a MISSION
to the COURT of -VIENNA, in 1806. By the Right Hon.
Sir ROBERT ADAIR. G.C.B. With a Selectian from his Dis-
patches, published by permission of the proper Authorities.
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Published this day, post Byo., 10s. 6d.,
111111 E MODERN SYRIANS; or, Native So-
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From Notes made during a Residence in those parts in 1841, 42, and 43.
By an ORIENTAL STUDENT.
London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longsnans.

This day Is published, in one thick volume, 8vo:, with nearly 1,000
Woodcuts, uniform with Messrs. Longman and Co.'s series of "One-
volume Encycloptedlas and Dictionaries," 505., bound in cloth,
AN ENCYCLOPIEDIA OF -DOMESTIC
ECONOMY ; comprising such subjects as are most imme-
diately connected with Housekeeping, as Building,---pumishing,
Servants, Cookery, Dress, Carriages, Health, Bic.• By —THOMAS
WEBSTER, F.G.S., &c.; assisted by the late Mrs. PARKES,
Author of " Domestic Duties."

ENCYCLOPXDIA BRITANNICA
SEVENTH EDITION.

•
Edited Ay Professor NAPIER.
The work is now completed in twenty-one volumes quarto, and
may be bad in every variety of binding.
An Index of 68,000 keferences, compiled with gieat' industry and
Judgment, is appended to the work, forming a ready key to its multi-
tlulous contents.

Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh ; and sold by all Itoaluellers

FOR FRIENDS IN INDIA.
THE OVERLAND MAIL having been POST-
PONED until MONDAY, the Bth instant, THE INDIAN
and COLONIAL EDITION of the ATLAS will be ready for dispatch
on that day. Persons wishing to send their own handwriting on the
Envelopes of the Paper are requested to call at the Office during the
present week, or enclose them by post of sufficient size. The Indian
Atlas contains every item of intelligence, carefully collated during
the past month, especially adapted for readers Resident in India and
the Colonies.
Office, 6, Southampton •street, Strand.

ANT[-GRAHAM WAFERS AND -ENVE•
LOPES. Mr. PUNCH has just published a Sheet of Emble-
matical Devices, with Mottoes, for SIR JAMES FOUCHE GRA-
HAM, which, from the peculiar appropriateness •of their sarcasm,
backed by the extraordinary adhesiveness of their gum, are adapted
to stick to the Home Secretary for life. Price 2d.
Mr. PUNCH has alto on sale, price one Penny each, or 7s. fat per
100, a good stinging Envelope, illustrative of Sir J. F. G. dispatching
his Paul Prys to Man in his different relations.
Punch Office, 194, Strand; and to be had of all Booksellers and

Newsmen.

I'llE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE PASSIONS.
How to live-happiest, how avoid the pains,
The diappointinents, and disgust of those
Who would in pleasure all their hours employ."
Elegant pocket edition (20 engravings) price Is., by post Is. 6d.
ON CHASTITY —its Abuses and Diseases—On
Marriage--On Infelicitous and Unproductive Unions— On Ma-
rital Eligibility and Unfltness—Law of Divorce.
By R. J. CULVERWELL, M.D., Member of the Royal College of
Surgeons.
Not in vain such labours have we tried,
If ought this book, the fickle health confirm.
To you, ye Delicate! I write for you,
I tame my youth to philosophic cares,
And grew still paler by the andnight lamps."
Art of Health.
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Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Mann, 39, Cornklll ; and the Author, 21,
krundel-street, Strand.
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DR. SILVER'S NEW WORK.
6. My tormentors, arm'd with deadly stings,
Mangle my apprehensive tenderest parts;
Exasperate, exulcerate, and raise
Just published, ?lice five shillings ;
Dire inflammation, which no cooling herb
Nor medicinal liquor can assuage. ,
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URETHRA, without CUTTING or CAUSTIC, and other
DISEASES of the MALE GENITALS. Illustrated with nume-
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trichsen, Oxford.street ; Spettigue, 67, Chancery-lane; John-
ston, Chemist, Cornhill; and also by the Author, No. ;0, Great Rus-
sell-street, Bloomsbury-square Londt.n.

LA ME•IT ON DEBILITY, NERVOUSNESS, AND ALL
DISORDERS ARISING FROM EXCESS, Ike..
"He who ple,sure's downy arms
Neer►lost his health or seuttifti 'charms,
A hero lives, and justly can
Exclaim, in me behold a man !" -
Just published
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orsent by post, free, to any address, 3s. M.,
CZ ELF-PRESERVATION : a Popular Essay on
those concealed disorders originating in youthful excesses,
and terminating in N ervousDebility, Local and Constitutional
Weakness, and all those Sinkings, 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 Reiteration
Ply SAMUEL LAMEST, Consulting Surgeon,
9, BEDFORD-STREET, ItEDFORD-SQUA RE, 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, air frequently marred and prevented
through the follies and frailties of early indiscretions. To such,
Imong others, this Essay addresses itself; and by its perusal many
questions may be satisfactorily adjusted that admit of ne appeal even
to the most confidential friend "—Staford Gazette.
"The design of this work will be tolerably obvious from its title,
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stitibring from nervous debility and general weakness-"—Wakefield
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Sydney Smythe, M.P., in I vol. Svo., price 125., which
can now be had of all booksellers. Mr. Colburn has
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tthhee
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mattern s , 0
Denmark. comprising the
Cott •
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COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL,--ypOpnlay a Court
was 11.1 I fur the diqatPh of public business, Mr. R.
there no longer existed any
Taylof. r.,se to sta,te. tiVitllle '44l,,jeet of opening letters
of such public importanoe, If
been wiop4,,d, the ilOsticin would
occasion fix the interference of the C(u•poration, by pe-
tition,
orperl,lit,ihreadtonaot
that 0ur,..--(Liear,
gladlthat genoarpep losi b?cn 10
°ll6eiatr.“:i)l4lllll;:vKeibneCgi:vas
prudent ai. to dro? Ow .1,f):_11f,`,4 of peiitioning ea the
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suhjeat. li4 A'siwrst hoped that the Ci)wn'it':; would
be,'llot a Private-f-h 3
-1:t 1 Vut)lic Committee.—(Cries of
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should lio lauded Do contributing 500/. to the Wellington and
Nelson statues. " What is it compared to what we did ?"
wobesecrovuetdribliuisteß,oill'ael
blriQigne
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„.....euncit,

.SCOTCH BANKING.
(From the Perthshzre Advertiser.)
Many of our readers will remember that, in 1826, it
was proposed to abolish the small• note circulation of
Scotland ; but, thanks to " Malachi Malagrowther,
and others, who effectually instructed and excited the
public mind on the subject, the Minister of that day
was forced, in all haste, to abandon the measure.
It would appear, however, that now, after the lapse
of nearly eighteen years, the " Scottish system of
banking" is again—not, indeed, directly, but dan-
gerously as insidiously—threatened with an invasion of
its rights and privileges, without the slightest attempt
being made to show that these have been in any manner
abused, or that the proposed alteration " will be for the
evident utility of the subject's within Scotland." We
fear that-the public are not sufficiently alive to the nature
and tendency of the contemplated changes. They
seem to rely too confidently upon the dura-
bility of the existing system ; nor, in sooth,
is this much to be wondered at ; for, have not our
banks been in, operation for nearly a century and
a half ! and what better prOof can be had as to their
usefulness and the soundness of their principles, than
length of duration, and continuance of esteem ?
During that long period, the adaptation of the system
to the requirements of the country, and to the habits
of the people, must have been often examined and com-
pared ; and the fact of its being still prized so highly
must surely be because these frequent comparisons have
confirmed opinion in its favour. And along with the
batiksi hai--*Mkigormonslnt,,Sitc.
What says Sir WakerScott-:
" It is not less unquestionable, that the consequence:or
the banking system, as conducted in Scotland, has been
attended with the greatest advantage to the country.
The facility which it has afforded to the industrious and
enterprising agriculturist or manufacturer, as well as to
the trustees of the public in 'executing national works,
bas converted Scotland from a poor, miserable, and barren
country, into -one where, if Nature has done less, Art and
Industry have done more, -than in perhaps any country
in Europe, England herself not excepted."
Up to the time at which Sir Walter thus wrote, there
was no restriction in regard to the establishment of new
banks of issue •, but now, while Sir It. Peel affects not to
interfere with Scotland in his new Bill, we are neverthe-
less prohibited from establishing any more banks. Per-
haps, however, since the time when " Malachi" stirred
his countrymen, banks of issue in Scotland have been
springing up like mushrooms, and the Premier was com•
pelled to interpose a decided stop. Let us see, then, how
the fact stands ; We have it in evidence given before
the Select Committee on Banks of Issue—that since
1825 the number of Banks bas diminished. In 1825
there: were 32 banks of issue, and in 1841 only 29 !
No doubt the number of agencies, or branch banks,
has increased very much, but chiefly in agricultural
and poor districts, where they are of great benefit
to that description of the population. Mr. Kennedy,
a landed proprietor and banker' in Ayrshire, in his evi-
dence before the Committee, on being asked, "Are you
of opinion that the increase of banking establishments in
Scotland had been only commensurate with the increas-
ing trade and manufactures of the country?" answers,
"I do not think that there are more banks at the present
moment in Scotland than are necessary for the welfare
of Scotland ; and at the same time, although the profits
en banking in Scotland are •kept very low by competi-
tion, still I think there is room for us all." But since
1141 we find that the number has still further de-
creased, and is now only 20, while there is not a single
private banker left. Where, then, it may be asked, is
the necessity for such a measure in regard to Scot-
land ? Do we not find that where new banks had

started, and after feeling their way for a little, and dis-
covering that there was no room for them, that they
quietly merged into some more fortunate neighbour ?
Are we then tamely to allow one of our most valuable
privileges to be abrogated, merely to please the Minis-
ter, so that, if need were, we could not, as heretofore,
establish a bank, however great the necessity there-
for, either from "junctions" or other causes? No, no,
Sir Robert. We have not asked your advice. Being
perfectly sound, and "in the best of health," we decline
being operated upon at all, and beg to return this in-
geniously-formed pill, wherewith you would " dose" us.
So much for the restriction of new banks. Let us
hear the Premier upon another point. He says—
" The existing banks shall continue to enjoy their
privileges, provided they do not exceed certain defi-
nite limits "—that is, increase the amount of their
issues—" to be calculated upon an average of the
last two years." " But if they should at any time
discofitinue their issues, they shall lose that privi-
lege." Is not that very fair ? The bankers are only
told again and again that they are simply not to be al-
lowed to increase their issues ; but what is the effect
and evident intention of this part of his plan, save to
contract the circulation, and that to a very consider
able extent ? We shall make this statement plain in
a few words. The Premier knew quite well that the
circulation of Scotland fluctuates very considerably
at different periods of the year, its minimum
being in March, from which it goes on increasing
till June. It then falls again a little for a month
or two, and afterwards increases until the end of
November, when it reaches its maximum. This occurs
year after year, thereby showing that the circulation is
governed by local causes, and cannot be regulated by the
foreign exchanges. A few of these causes are—the
purchasing of cattle in the spring months ; the payment
of wages at Whitsunday ; preparing for Midsummer
rents ; the employment of work-people generally during
the summer and harvest ; and, lastly, the great country
flitting term of Martinmas.

Now, we submit that by taking the average of the
two preceding years as the maximum for the future
(instead of allowing the issues to vary as the com-
merce and local necessities of the country demand),
the circulation of the kingdom will be curtailed—just
when it will be most required—some 20 per cent ;
and in agricultural districts, such as this, a great deal
more Yet, if you believe Sir Robert, " our existing
privileges are to be continued!" and does he not also

take credit for having said nothing on the subject of
small dotes? But we would ask, why avoid the dis-
cussion of the whole matter, since the entire question
of currency is involved in his measure. There must
have been a reason for this evasion. Was it from a
dread of discussion? We rather suspect it was.
The banking system of Scotland is deservedly in high
repute, its principles being sound, and affording to the
public a full accommodation on the cheapest possible
terms, yielding, at the same time, a reasonable profit to
the banker. Neither is it found that a free competition
and a multiplication of banks and branches, have a ten-
dency to increase the circulation, nor has it increased
with the wealth of the nation.

Let us now look at the matter in another light. The
circulation of Scotland, including its small notes,
amounts only to about 11. a head of the whole popula-
tion, whereas in England, where there are no notes
under SL, it amounts to 2L a head. Yet, as England is
to be operated on, Scotland, forsooth, must be dealt with
too, merely for the sake of uniformity.
Having thus shown that there is no calve for
interfering with our national privilege of Banking,
and pointed out the effects that wial ensue, if this
Bill, as it at present stands, be allowed to pass, we shall
now shortly inquire, on whom
will the loss fall ? This is
an important question. It cannot be supposed 'that the
banks will bear ; their profits will not admit of it, for,
is not the present system based upon the power that the
circulation gives them to allow a high rate of deposit in-
terest ; and if that be taken from them, they must make
it up from some other source. They would at once increase
their charges—perhaps charge a commission on the debit
side of the account, as in some places in England—
and allow less interest, or probably none at all. . On
the other hand, depositors might withdraw their
deposits, and, 'in times of difficulty, force the banks
to press their customers 'to repay advances made to
them, and thus bring on a state of things that we
fortunately have only heard of, and certainly never
can wish to experience. It follows, then, that the
loss will fall upon the community. High and low—
rich and poor—all will feel it. And though all this
is not attempted to be done at once, the Premier's
scheme clearly points to all banks of issue being
absorbed in one Leviathan institution. Only allow the
wedge to enter, and we may have it pushed home much
sooner than we dream of.

We should, then, promptly act upon the advice of
Malachi Malagrowther," tendered during a former sea-
son of peril to the banking system of Scotland
" Let all ranks and bodies of men in North Britain
express, by petition, their senseof the injustice which
is offered to the country, and the distress which will
probably be* the necessary consequence. Without the
power of issuing their own totes, the Banks cannot
supply the manufacturer with that credit which ena-
bles him to pay his 'workmen, and wait his return ;
or accommodate the farmer with that fund
which makes it easy for hint to discharge his
rent and give wages to his labp,urers4 while in the act
of performing pipensiye operations which are to treble
or quadruple the virocluce of his, rum, The trustees on
the high roads and other public works, so ready to
stake their peraoual credit for carrying on public
inaprovements, will no longer possess the power of
doing so. The whole existing state of great is
to be altered from top to bottom gad Miuis,irs
are silent on any ramecly which such a state
of thing woUld iinkieriously require.. These are
subjec,tk florth strugglitig fort' And rather • of
I.re
more importance than 1r.%
garierally
..
eounty rileetim. The English egiSlature seems
to stultify our
n
law authorities in their
dcparr
in but let us at least try they will
listen to the ,united voice a u Matters which so
intimately ecineerit its. welfare, that almost every man
musthave,formed a judgment on the subject, from some-
thing like personal experience. For my ors,cannot
doiiht the re§itit:•'

In 1.54.5, when the Venetian Senate was compelle,i
by the public eXigencies to.lay a general tax on the city, the
celebrated painter, Titian, was the only person exempted
from the impost--a noble homage to genius, which attats at
ciFfi tAle 44onlitT aid the wiodom et the Vovie4t..

LLOYD'S SHIPPING:
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
Arrivals—Duke of Argyll, Bristow, from Madras, off Ports-
mouth,, sailed Feb. 24, Cape April 20; .Louisa Campbeii,
Darby, from China, off Scilly, sailed Feb. 23, Cape April 27,
St. Ifelena May 11; Commodore, Miller, from Bombay, off
cork, sailed Feb. 14, St. Helena May 4; Honduras, Hall,
from New South Wales, off Falmouth, sailed from Sydney
Feb. 13; Scotia, Drayner, from China, off the Wight, sailed
Feb. 23, Cape April-28; her Majesty's ship Childers, Wel-
lesley, from China, at Portsmouth, sailed Feb. 29, St. Helena
May 8, Ascension May 14 ; Hindostan, Redman, from Bengal,
off Penzance, sailed aan. 27, Madras Feb. 11, Cape April
St. Helena April 27 ; Imaum. of Muscat, Riches, from Port
Philip, off Castletawn, sailed Feb. 14, St. Helena 11.;ay 12 ;
losffatDsairtaurimotuiuths_;
Henry, Brown, from Van Diemen's Land, off - .1-almouth,
sailed from Launceston Feb. 22; Tvrian, Clarkson, from New
Zealand,Arriva
off Scilly.
from
-WOaseti:VirWitrcanh,g3,l-I:trch 23, fZroamnzibar
Ade-
laide
Guiana, 24th, from tie Cape ; Gipsey, 27th, from
Penang; Maria, 'from Riredeaux ; Tyrewald, April 2, from
Marseilles ; Argyll, 3,1, from Calcutta • Isabella Blyth, 4th,
from London, and ':'as loading for. London ,• Perle, 6th, from
Nantes ; Costairpolite, 7th, from Bourbon ; Planet;l3th, from
Ceylon.
Departures from Mauritius—Defiance, March 28, to
Madras; Mary Rowe, to London; Maine, to whaling; Ariel,
30th, to Madagascar ; Ann, to the Cape ; John Thomas Carr,
April 4,, to London; Tartar, to Madagascar; Niagara, to
London; Alfred, 6th, to Bourbon ; Robin Gray. 7th, to
Penang; Brenda, Bth, to London; Heart of Oak, cleared,
9th, to Liverpool William Pitt, loading for London.
Arrivals in China—Anne Jane, from London ; John Bibby,
_from-Liverpool ; -James Mattheson, March 21, from Liverpool.
- • -.-cmprung TO MARitiRS.
SUNKEN WRECK, RAMSEY, ISLE OF MA' N.
A letter received at Lloyd's, from their agent at Ramsey,
Isle of Man, states that the 'sloop Mexander.M‘Neal, which
sank in that bay in March last, has not been raised, as ex
pected, and as she lies in the direct tract of vessels with her
mast-head just above water, at low-water, advises masters of
vessels bound to that port accordingly. •

THE SALADIN.
Two letters have been received at Lloyd's to-day, from
Messrs. Johnson and Cargill, of Newcastle-on-Tyne (the
owners of the above vessel), received by them from the At-
torney-General at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and from Messrs.
Deblois, of Halifax, from which we extract the following :
" Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 17, 1844.
. "A great number of the letters and papers will be for-
warded. by this mail; also the bills of lading and bills of
exchange which were scattered about the vessel. The cabin
is described to have been in a state of entire disorder when
she was first boarded. The materials saved and brought to
Halifax have been appraised at 159/. currency, and will be
sold immediately. The specie, silvet and copper, are in the
charge of the Court.
(Signed) "J. W. JOHNSON, Attorney-General."
"Halifax, J 17, 44.
"A great number of loose papers and let ersune brokenlBopen,
and some bills of exchange, were found, which have been
lodged in the registry of the Court. The hull, we presume,
must be sold, as from her position she cannot be got off.
(Signed) " DEBLOIS and MARKEL."
The value of the cargo saved from the wreck is estimated
at 14,563/. 16s. 11d., and after deducting 2,912/. 15s. sd. (for
one-fifth difference of currency:. 16s. sterling being 1/. cur-
rency) leaves 11,6511. Is. 6d. sterling.

BANK OF AUSTRALASIA.
A Special Meeting of the Shareholders in this Bank was
held yesterday at the Office, No. 2, Moorgate-street, to con-
sider a proposition to be submitted to the Proprietors of en-
larging the property qualification of the Directors in the Com-
pany; Mr. Brownngg, M.P., in the Chair. Mr. 0. de
Beauvoir Priaulx, in moving a resolution to that effect,
said that the present qualification for being a Director
was the possession of twenty shares, which were equivalent
to 8001. His reason for submitting the proposition which he
now made was, because, as the capital of the Company had
been latterly much increased, he thought the property quali-
fication of the Directors should also be increased. A Pro-
prietor, in seconding the motion, said the whole amount of
property invested in the Company by the Directors was only
9,0001., and he thought it was not right that they
should have the management of a bank, the capital
of which exceeded two millions sterling, and it was con-
trary to the practice of the other banks of the metropo-
lis. Captain Grover opposed the. motion, because there
were only fifty-six Shareholders who held filly shares
to qualify them for the Direction, and those gentle-
men for the most part, consisted of old admirals, ge-
nerals, colonels, clergymen, and ladies. The proposed
measure would tend to make the management
a job, as it would throw it into the hands of a few persons.
He concluded by moving as an amendment, that it was in-
expedient to alter the qualification. The Chairman was op-
posed to the original motion for the same reasons as those
expressed by the Gallant General who had just sat down.
He did not think a large number of shares a good qualifica-
tion, because Directors having them might be anxious for
declaring a dividend, when such a course would, perhaps, be
injurious to the interests of the Company. Mr. Farrer, a
Director, strongly opposed any alteration in the deed of set-
tlement. After a very lengthened discussion, the original
motion was put and negatived by an overwhelming majority,
only three shareholders having voted in its favour.

SOCIETY OF DANCERS.
Yesterday evening a general meeting of the theatrical
dancers, and of the professors and teachers of dancing, was
held at the Western Literary and Scientific Institution, Lei-
cester•square, for the purpose of forming a society, the ob-
ject of which would be to afford relief to aged and intirrft
members (both male and female) throughout the United
Kingdom. _

J:.I3YRNE, Esq., having been unanimously called to the
ehair, read a series of rules, for the purpose of carrying out
the intentions of the meeting for the regulation of the
society. He then addressed the meeting at considerable
length, and expressed his hope that those members of the
profession connected with the theatrical world, as well as
those engaged as professors, who possessed wealth and in
fluence, would come forward with liberality in favour of their
less fortunate brethren.

After a short but able address from Mr. ROBERT TIOLFORD,
Mr. W. OXBERRY, of the Princess's Theatre, moved that
the rules then read by the Chairman, be adopted, printed,
and put into circulation, by advertisement and otherwise.
He expressed his regret, that although almost every other
profession had its benevolent fund, upon which the members
could fall back in case of sickness or misfortune, yet, up to
the present moment, a class of persons so numerous as those
composing the meeting, had wholly neglected such an in v.
portant and benevolent subject.

A vote of thanks having been passed to the Chairman, the
meeting, which was most respectably attended, broke up.

LAUGHABLE MISTAKE.—A carrier in this neigh-
bourhood recently had to convey a barrel of Roman ce-
ment to a gentleman, and a barrel of guano to a farmer,
each of which he delivered to the wrong party. A plas-
terer commenced preparing the guano, which was given
to him as Roman cement, and, after much difficulty,
owing to the bad smell, he succeeded in plast3ring a few
yards of the gentleman's house, but the stench becoming
past his endurance, he called out to the gentleman, and
said, " I am very sorry, but I must beg of you to get
some other person to finish this job, far I never met with
such Roman cement before. I am quite sick, and the
smell will poison me if I go on ; besides (continued the
plasterer), did you ever see Roman cement so yellow ?"
The gentleman said there must be some mistake, fur it
evidently was not cement, and accompanied the plasterer
to the carrier's, where they found the farmer complain-
ing about the barrel of stuff that he had got. It was like
sand, but when mixed with water, it turned into stone,
and would flag his field instead of making the grass grow
almost as quick as winking, as he was told this new ma-
nure would do. His man had mixed water with some of
it and spread it out, and on returning a short time after-
wards, he found the stuff as hard as a flag, and came to '
him in breathless haste, saying, " mestur, I nevvur seed
sitch muck in aw my loife as yon new gunno muck, , for I
mixt sum on't who whattur, un its tamed into a flag
hin hittle mak' Bras gro hittle male out gro." " Oh ! (ex-
claimed the plasterer), that must be the Roman cement,
and I have been mixing up your guano instead of it."
The mistake of the carrier was rectified, and the parties
returned horne.—Bolten Free Press.
LOCAL NEGLECT. IN WALES.— (Front a Cor-
respondent.)—Whenever anything is proposed having a
practical bearing upon the good. of the community in
the principality of Wales, it is sure to be opposed
be some of the local magistrates. The pretence ge-
nerally put forward is either a wish to serve the
poor, or to save the county purse. The factious
opposition made to the honest working of the new
poor-law is an instance of the rotator, and the resist-
ance that has been offered in the counties of Carnarvon
and Anglesey to -the OrfOlion of a lunatic asylum for
North Wales
g.
it au instance of the later, The expense
has been wade the ground of Ka appointin a
keeper to a hew lock-up house at Bangor, and the
state of the old one is as follows :—lt is composed of
tvo rooms on the ground floor, each eight feet lung,
six feet wide, and seven feet high ; in one corner
of each there is a hole, without any covering, used as
a privy by the prisoners, as well as by the man who
keeps it, his wife, a grown up son, an adult lunatic, and
two pauper children. For nearly twelve months pre-
ceding the sth of last April, the straw put tOr prisoners
to lie on had not been changed, The situation Qc the
building is at the side of a ; in wet weather
KlAces the straw
the water oozes *sough the walls, and
as wet as di;, During the last
two months ar
Wentker no water ran throngh
sinks wivies, and the collection of !law n eNcromeni produced stench
unb

CIIWIAISTANTIAL
naveJ heard some
very extraordinry cases of murdil tried. I remember,
in opt Tinere I was counsel, fur a tong time the evidence
did not appear to touch the prisoner at all, and he
joked 0100 him with the most perliect unconcern,
keeining to think himself quite safe. At last the surgeon
was called, who stated deceased had been killed by a
shot, a rtnt-shot, la the head, atal he produced the
matted hair and stuff eat from 'ILO taken out of the
wound. it was all hardened with. blood. A basin of
warm water was brought into court, and, r,s the blood
was gmivally softened, a piece of printed paper up-
penred—the wadding 0. -t4 gun, which proved be -
half of a balhid. Tip, other half hail berg ii9Ad the
man':-. pocket when he 'Was talc. n: lle was hanged
Lo'rri.ldoit's Note Book, quoted an the Quari.rly.
Mr. Wallace transacted businessyesterday at the office
9f Chaniellsi Of tho,4eltiluer.