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THE ROBBERY at Alvsars. ROGERS and
CO.'S, the Bankers,

RICHMOND and WEST-END JUNCTION
RAILWAY.

A paragraph having appeared in some of the Railway journals,
and copied into the, Morning Papers, to the effect that the plans,
&c., of the projected Richmond Railway were not lodged with the
Board of Trade till after the 30th November last, the Committee
beg to state to their Subscribers and the Public that there is no
foundation whatever for the above statement with regard to this
railway.

The Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference, of the projected
Line, were duly prepared and deposited, in a very perfect state,
within the period required by, and in compliance with, the stand.
ing orders of Parliament.
The Committee avail themselves of this opportunity to correct
an erroneous impression which prevails that any shares remain still
to be appropriated, the whole of the capital required having been
long since subscribed for, and the deposits paid upon the same.

By order,
(Signed) RICHARD MEADE, Secretary.
3, Moorgate,street, Dec. 134 h, 1844.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
MUSIC OF DIFFERENT NATIONS.
Mr. C. E. HORN will recommence his Lectures on the above sub-
ject on Tuesday evening, the 17th inst., at Half-past Eight o'clock,
and will continue them on Tuesday and Thursday Evenings. The
first subject will be the MUSIC of ENGLAND, with Vocal and In-
strumental Illustrations, Dr. RYAN'S LECTURES are delivered at
a Quarter past Three daily, and in the Evenings of Monday,
Wednesday, and Fridays, at a Quarter to Nine. Professor BACH-
HOFFNER'S Lectures daily. The I'ROTEOSCOI'E, PHYSIOSCOPE,
DISSOLVING VIEWS, DIVING-BELL and DIVER, &c., &c.
. .

Admission, Is.; Schools, Half-price.
A New Edition of the CATALOGUE, containing Three Hundred
additional Works of Art, &c., since the last revisal, is just published
price la.

FMPLOYMENT.—Persons having a little time
A to spare are apprised that'Agents continue to be appointed in
London, and country towns, by the EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY,
or the sale of their celebrated teas.

Offices, No. 9, Great St. Helen's-churchyard, Bishopsgate-street.
They are packed in showy leaden canisters, from one ounce to a
pound, with the price and weight marked on each packet, and but
ittle trouble is occasioned by the sale. The license is only lie. per
annum, and many during the last ninetcea years hare realised con-
siderable incomes by the agency without •ne shilling let or loss.
Application to be made (If by letter post-paid) as above.

GENERAL TOM THUMB.
The AMERICAN MAN in MINIATURE will return
to London and hold his PUBLIC LEVEES at the Gallery, in
Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, commencing Monday, December 23, and
continuing through the holidays, after which he leaves for the
Continent. The General has been visiting the principal towns in
England, Scotland, and Ireland, and has met with unprecedented
success. Whilst in Edinburgh the General was presented with a
beautiful Highland dress, of the Royal Stuart Tartan, manufac.
tured by Messrs. Meyers and Mortimer, in which he will appear
at each exhibition, in addition to his Citizen, Napoleon, and Court
dress. Hours of Exhibition from Eleven to One, Three to Five,
and from Seven to Nine. Doors open half an hour previous.
Admission (regardless of age), One Shilling. The General's new
and elegant carriage, drawn by two of the smallest ponies in the
country, with coachman and footman in splendid liveries, will pass
through the principal streets daily.
N.B. Visitors will find the Suffolk-street Gallery far superior to
the rooms formerly occupied by the General at the Egyptian Hall,
access easy, and the rooms well warmed and beautifully lighted
with gas.

TUE FINEST WAX AND SPERMACETI
CANDLES.—Those who burn these are respectfully
recommended to make one trial whether PRICE'S PATENT
CANDLES, at one-third of the cost, do not burn better.

They may be had of respectable dealers throughout the kingdom,
if care can be taken to prevent any imitations being passed off as
the Patent Candles; and the Trade may obtain them wholesale from
Edward Price and Co., Belmont, Vauxhall, and Palmer and Co.,
Sutton-street, Clerkenwell.

trict Court—J. Parker, coach builder, Manchester, Jan.
10, at one, at the Manchester District Court—J. White-
head, common brewer, Ainsworth, Lancashire, Jan. 16,
at twelve, at the Manchester District Court—J. J. Gar-
nett, bankers, Nantwich, Cheshire, Jan. 15, at half-past
twelve, nt the Liverpool District Court—T. Todd, cotton
dealer, Manchester, Dec. 31, at eleven, at the Manchester
District Court.

CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown
to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned.
H. Deacon, coal merchant, Waterloo--oad, Jan. 4
F. Cock, painter, Lambeth-walk, Jan. 4—W. Walker,
hatter, Birmingham, Jan. 6—J. Garratt, grocer, Tipton,
Staffordshire, Jan. 6—J. Whitehead, brewer, Ains-
worth, Lancashire. Jan. 16—C. Alderton, tailor, Brigh-
ton, Jan. 3—G. Croxton, glass dealer, Manchester, Jan.
3—G. T. F. Johnson, chemist, Norwich, Jan. 3-11.
Brady, brush manufacturer, Hull, Jan. B.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
W. W. Jackson and J. Smith, dealers in waterproof
fabrics, Manchester—D. Barker and W. Cotton, corn
dealers, Dorset-place, Pall-mall East—S. and H. Gale,
Judd-place West, St. Pancras—J. Millard and G. Dow-
ding, maltsters, Old Sodbury, Gloucestershire—L. Un-
derwood and W. Hall, fishmongers, Adam-street West,
Bryanstone-square—ll. J. Garrett and F. B. Walter,
eating-house keepers, Shoe-lane—S. King and J. Tuck,
ironmongers, Bath —A. Lewis, Eh. Lewis, M. Lewis,
and E. Lewis, milliners, Cardigan—J. Cartwright, T.
Appleton, and P. Cort, bleachers, Turton, Lancashire (so
far as regards J. Cartwright)—W. Gould and F. W.
Nichols, carriers, Blandford Forum, Dorsetshire—R. C.
Dangar, 11. Bowden, and N. 'Marshall, porter merchants,
Plymouth (so tar as regards R. C. Dangar)—W. Tyde-
man and J. Morgn, coal merchants, Chelmsford-- R.
Childs and J. Baker, tailors; Queen Ann-street, Caven-
dish•square—R. Beaumont, F. Kennedy, and. W. Binks,
stockbrokers, Bradford, Yorkshire—B. Brooking and
11. Bate, surgeons, Bow-street, Covent-garden—Wm.
Stirling, W. Stirling, and J. Beckton, cotton spinners,
Manchester—H. Gledhill, J. Gledhill, W. Scott, and J.
Holliday, coal merchants, Adwalton, Yorkshire--T.
Harrison and G. East, glass manufacturers, Birmingham.

easily broken upon a feather bed, than a steel anvil."
And never was the principle of the great philosopher
illustrated more faithfully or more successfully
applied, than by Sir Henry Pottinger ; he prepared
the softest conditions to serve as the basis of his pacific
negotiation, and upon those soft conditions he shattered
into fragments that obdurate barrier which had from the
creation separated China from the world—almost literally
" toto penitas divisa orbe." We freely concede to Sir H.
Pottinger all the praise of this great, this inappreciable
achievement; and in conceding it we do not feel that we
do the least wrong to the Government under which he
acted. To put fit men into fitting offices, and having
put them there, to repose unbounded confidence in them,
is the one secret of success in all the affairs of life, great
and small ; the master's eye may be useful to keep the
labourer from idleness, or to restrain the cashier from
dishonesty ; but in the details of complicated affairs,
the master's eye, the master's opinions, the master's
interference can do nothing but mischief, for this
plain reason, that the party who conducts the details
must of necessity know more about them than any one
else can. The more highly, therefore, we esteem the
services of Sir Henry Pottinger, the more highly
must we speak of the wisdom that left him free to
the exercise of his own powerful talents. There is,
is this respect, the reverse of an opposition of in-
terests between Sir Henry and her Majesty's Mi-
nisters. We cannot admire the wisdom with which the
confidence of the Government has been employed and
repaid, without as much admiring the wisdom with
which it was reposed. Nor let this latter wisdom
be lightly prized. We are, happily, rich in examples
of sagacity and fidelity in the public service, but
instances of the courage and self-denial which
embrace the risk of loss, or embrace any other
serious responsibility, in reliance upon the sagacity and
fidelity of others—rare, in all the concerns of life, are
most rare in political affairs. It is impossible to read
the dispatches of Lord Nelson or the Duke of Wel-
lington, or any of the multitudinous correspondences
published in Parliamentary reports, without a
painful sense of the extent to which the public
service has always suffered by the imperfect
confidence which all the Governments before the
present, have generally reposed in public servants. This,
we repeat it, must be the effect of cowardice or self-
conceit, or, in the case of governments, of a habit de-
rived from the constant indulgence of these weaknesses
by former governments. It is not the least of the merits
of Sir Robert Peel's Government if it has boldly broken
through this wretched habit in allcases, as it certainly has;
and with what splendid success we see in the cases of
China and Canada. having thus hastily alluded to the
difficulties to be encountered in opening the Chinese
empire, and to the innocency and even generosity of
the means employed, we need not expend a word in
allusion to the boundless advantages obtained by a free
pacific communication with three hundred and fifty
millions of men, previously as much estranged from us
as if they occupied another planet. These advantages
will not be felt perhaps for a few years to a groat extent,
but they are vast beyond the power of imagination to
conceive. •

not be able to do so in Canada, and that American
flour would be smuggled in there.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIBN thought that nothing but
unmixed good would follow from every member of
the Society speaking out his sentiments. They were
all agreed as to the necessity of protecting agriculture;
but of course there must be various opinions as to the
means by which it could be best afforded, and the ex-
tent to which it should go. Looking at the spirit
which characterised the proposition which had been
put forward that day, and at the concord which pre-
vailed, he could not but rejoice, and give his unqua-
lified support to this cause.—(Hear, hear.)
After a few words from Mr. F. WOODWARD,
Mr. NEWDEGATE said he was glad the tenant-
farmers had spoken out as they had done, but he, as
a landlord, would say for himself, that he most deeply
deplored the wretched condition of the tenant-
farmers. The spirit and activity which the landlords
manifested in the different societies to which they
belonged, showed that they were not indifferent to
the condition of the tenant-farmers. With regard to
the allusion which had been made to the Anti-Corn-
law League, he saw that Mr. Villiers had said its
ghost would haunt them, but it was like the ghost in
Hamlet, who worked underground ; for he knew that
they were secretly corrupting the constituencies of
the kingdom.—(Cheers.)
Mr. MILES said that he knew the tenant-farmers
were enduring the utmost possible distress, and he
only wished that they had had more support from
the agriculturists when the Canada Corn Bill was
passing through Parlianient.
The Duke of CLEVELAND then proposed a vote of
thanks to the Noble Chairman, which was carried ;
after which the meeting adjourned till the 3d of
February, when the dinner of the Society is to take
place.