The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-24 00:00:00

METHOD OF BUILDING ON A
DAMP SOIL.

In building on a damp soil, having provided for the
drainage of the site and its vicinit, the walls to a
little above the ground-line should be built with
mortar incorporated with some ingredient giving it
the property of a hydraulic cement, or such as would
set under water ; otherwise the mortar will never
properly harden, but be inclined rather to decompose,
and will always facilitate the rise of damp into the
walls of the superstructure. Where there does not
appear imperative occasion for incurring this extra
expense, and indeed in all other cases than the one
named, it is well to introduce near, but out of contact
with the ground, a course of some material which is
of a nature much more impermeable to moisture than
the generality of building materials, a thin plate of
some incorrodible metal for example, or a. layer of
hard slates in Roman cement, or of coal -tar and sand ;
either of these will intercept the rise of damp. In
buildings of brick, it is the more necessary to have
recourse to such measures, since that material is very
absorbent in its nature, draws up damp to a consi-
derable height, and retains it for a long time. Where
the walls of a building in which no such precautions
have been taken, have become damp, it would have a
salutary effect to dig out the earth which lies against
them, and apply a coat of concrete, or Roman cement,
to the parts under the ground-line, then fill in the
earth again ; the current would thus be effectually
stemmed, and on the right side of the wall ; and all
short-sighted attempts to shut it out from within, by
means of tarred-paper, or tea-lead, rendered unne-
cessary. It is plain that where water is collecting, it
must either run out or run over; and if an internal
coating resists the percolation, the more is the pity,
since the consequence must be the rise and spread of
the mischief.----The Builder.

POLAR SEA EXPEDITION't. 17 ~14r)
POLAR LAND JOURNE
These are two letters addressed to Sir J.
Bart., Secretary to the Admiralty, by D,.JYaii**,.. -
medical officer in her Majesty's service, to`ireki)3l4*-71
were indebted for former contributions on lig,.
subject, published, respectively, in The Sunlit-X
-6:i,
bruary 15, November 15 and 30, in the 'year
1836. The views therein hazarded on important-
geographical and physical features of the remote coasts
which were the objects of British exploration, as proba-
ble, appear to have been largely con firmed by the results
of the actual surveys subsequently executed ; a fact at
once honourable to the sagacity and observation of our.
author, and entitling any future speculations of his
on similar topics, to an attentive reception by the
public. To this extent the letters before us may •
claim similar commendation with the earlier papers
above noticed ; but we could wish that in addressing
Sir John Barrow a little more of the swirlier in niudo
had been adopted. The first letter commences with
" a careful digest of the services" performed in this
line of geographical enterprise since 1818, when Sir
John " first entered on that field of research." The
author appears to us to speak disparagingly of
the merits of Captain Sir George Back's
most generous and remarkable voyage, and
in subsequent passages to attach far more
value and authority to Captain Sir John Ross's
quarto, than we are apt to think it will ever com-
mand with the public. There is little consideration .
shown for the highly important additions furnished
by Sir Edward Parry to Polar hydrography. The
merits of that ill-rewarded and most intelligent officer,
the late Captain Lyon, are indeed casually adverted
to ; but the great performance of the boat's crew dis-
patched under orders from Captain Beechey, R.N.,
along the shores of the Polar Sea to meet, if possible,
the land expedition of Captain Franklin, advancinglin
an opposite direction from the mouth of the Copper;
mine or, it might be, the Mackenzie River, is passed
over in absolute silence. The "Blossom's boat" is blot-
ted out of this record. Yet wefully concur in many of.
the important positions which the author takes up
The various services in the attempts to " solve the pro-
blem of a North Polar passage between the Atlantic
and Pacific Oseans," are thus smartly summed up :
" The Polar Sea Expeditions amount to ten, the Polar
Land Journeys to three ; seven out of the ten Polar Sea
Expeditions may be briely described :—Captain Lyon's
expedition was modestly called by him an unsuccess-
ful attempt to reach Repulse Bay;' in the body of the
narrative of Captain Back's expedition will be found the
same tale which Captain Lyon told on his title-page ;
Captain Ross returned, after four years' wintering, with-
out :advancing a step towards the object in view; Cap-
tain Parry failed in his attempt to reach the Polar Sea
by Regent's Inlet, as well as Behring's Strait, to the
Pole ; Captain Beechey saw the Polar Sea, and that is
all ; and Captain Buchan was not so fortunate as Cap-
tain Beechey."
Notwithstanding our regret that more courtesy and
temper have not been demonstrated by the author to-
wards Sir J. Barrow, in parts of these letters, we must
go all lengths with him in the just reflections involved in
his argument, to show the original error of some of
the Hon. Baronet's conclusions, and the characteristic
tenacity with which that functionary persisted in
such error. We can find room for the following ex-
tract only :
" The great difficulty in the way of these various at-
tempts, all know, was ice, but no one, not even the
author of the Chronological History of Arctic
Voyages,' has inquired where was it found, and where
was it not found, and, therefore, where was it for the
future to be avoided. That which forced itself, especially
upon Sir Edward Parry's mind, was the fact of the ad-
herence of ice to those shores which had an eastern
aspect, while those of an opposite character were free.
I have tested this fact in connexion with the movements
of the various Polar Sea Expeditions which have been
set afloat since 1818, and I find that in every instance
the difficulties arose from the same cause—the clinging
to lands having an eastern aspect. It may be as well to
mention them, for facts are always worth repeating. Sir
Edward Parry, in his second expedition, made attempts
for two successive summers, to penetrate the eastern
entrance of the Fury and Heels Strait, and
failed ; and, in his third expedition, he lost the
Fury
,while pushing his way along the eastern land
of North Somerset. Sir John Ross, in his second
expedition, was four years advancing four miles
along the same eastern land, and was at last obliged to
abandon his vessel. Captain Lyon and Sir George Back
made separately unsuccessful attempts to reach Repulse
Bay, which has an eastern aspect.
" How, it may be inquired, is this general difficulty to
be avoided? By doing, from experience, that which
Baffin and Ross did from instinct, by taking the road,
which is fairly open to us—the lands that have a western
aspect. The difficulty then is clearly one of our own
seeking, and no longer presents an insurmountable bar-
rier to arctic research."

It is always a welcome labour to do homage to
those matchless displays of British intrepidity, courage,
and humanity, physical powers of endurance, and
moral fortitude, which were so nobly developed in the
two overland expeditions of Sir John Franklin and
his party, and the successful completion of the tra-
verse from the shores of the Polar Sea to the eastern
coasts of Behring's Straits, at the northern extremity
of the Great Pacific Ocean, by a traveller whom our
author justly eulogises as " great "—the prematurely
deceased Mr. Simpson, with his gallant comrades of
the North-West Company's memorable enterprise:—
" And now let me call your attention to the other ser-
vice which has been at work upon this interesting ques-
tion. I mean the Polar Land Journeys, those fruitful
missions, but for which you would have been deprived
of some one or another of your favourite Polar Sea Ex-
peditions. A short survey of the Polar Land Journeys
will afford a standard of comparison with the Polar Sea
Expeditions, and develop the true position. The pub-
lication of the travels of Hearne, the fur trader, for
which we are indebted to a Frenchman, demonstrated
that the Polar Sea could be reached overland by way of
Canada, and the success which attended the fitstGovern-
ment expedition, proved that the opinion which had
been formed, was in every way correct. The distance
between the Coppermine River and Point Turnagain, as
Sir John Franklin named the point of his retrograde
movement, was thus made known to us. A second ex-
pedition added the distance between the Mackenzie and
the Coppermine, and as far westward of the Mackenzie
as Foggy Island, which far suppassed in extent the pros-
perous voyage of Sir Edward Parry, in 1819 and 1820.
A third expedition eclipsed all, and left to be surveyed
but a small portion of the North American boundary
of the Polar Sea ; in that portion, small as it is, rests the
problem of three centuries.
" Is not this sufficient encouragement to send a fourth?
The fruits of the ten Polar Sea Expeditions will not ba-
lance with those of the last of the three Polar Land
Journeys ; and the harvest of the first and the least suc-
cessful of these interesting missions is greater than that
which remains to be gathered, while in expenditure the
three Land Journeys have certainly not cost more than
two, if one, of the ten Polar Sea Expeditions. Even the
little that has been done by the Polar Sea Expeditions
is of doubtful character. Bank's Land, North Somerset,
the North Georgian Group of Islands, and the boun-
daries of Barrow Strait are still problems ; they are the
lesser puzzles which I have mentioned. It is not so
with the labours of Franklin, Richardson, and Simpson ;
the footing they made is permanent, while Croker's
Mountains have dissolved, and islands threaten to be
continents, and continents islands, the natural conse-
quence of discovery in ships."
The second letter is ingenious and acute ; but we
have no more room for extracts. •

PEDESTRIANISM.—The celebrated pedestrians, Wil-
liam Jackson (the American Deer), of Norwich, and
William Sheppard, of Birmingham, the competitors in
the late great running match for 200/., H hich was won
by the former, have been backed again for 1001. to run
five miles, the friends of Sheppard conceiving that his
powers of endurance and speed are equal, if not superior,
to those of Jackson at a shorter distance. In the pre-
vious contest they were matched to run for an hour, but
Sheppard broke down when within about four hundred
yards of the tenth mile, and his adversary, continuing
his course till the expiration of the hour, consequently
won the match. Another great match is on the tams
between Maxfield (alias the North Star), of Slough,
Jackson, who defeated Sheppard, and John Davies, a
Welshman, for 150/. (501. aside), to run a mile on a turn-
pike•-road ; the match to come off on the 11th of the en-
posted by each of the others, fur permission to run in
suing month. Sheppard offered to stake 70/. to the 604
the match; but this, it is said, has been refused.
PEDESTRIANISM.--A race between John Handley,
of Nottingham, and Thomas Needham, of Radford, a dis-
tance of three hundred yards, will come off next Monday
week. This race will excite much interest, both parties
being well-tried pedestrians. Although Handley has
acquired a great name, as a long runner, and is training
under the veteran Tom Middleton, his opponent is the
favourite amongst the " knowing ones." The sum to
be run for is 20/. on each side ; 201. of which were depo-
sitedcoeffn Poinpesthaendi)QerubTtrerolai,dt,w,holaemn a ttchner
fpoerdmees;
last Monday night.—On Monday last, a mile raise
tfroiranlso,l.c,
abmetew
won easily.--Nottingham Review.
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.--CHATIIAM, JAN. 22.
This morning a detachment of the 11th Regiment o
Foot, consiAing of 3 sergeants, 3k corporals, and 44 rank
cor orals '
and file, with 1 supernumerary, their, left P
head-quarters
at the Artillery Barracks, Br
ompton, near Chatham,
en route for Deptford, where they embark on board the
Mountstuart Elphinstone, convict ship,
611 tons burden
which vessel will drop down to Woolwich, to take in
convicts for Van Dienaan's Land. The detachment
which is to form a convict guard, is under the common(
of Major John Cassimir Harold and Ensign Hunter
(both officers are of the same corps). Seven women and
15 children accompany the troops. There is a report it
the garrison, that the remaining part of the 11th will ta•
sent out altogether to the colony, imtead of being
draught( d out in detachments us convict-guards, as more
troops are required in that island. 74th. Four Comport*
depot at this garrison will be removed to Canterbury,is
the early part of next month; and the Four Company
depot of the 46th Regiment, now at Dublin, will arrive a
this garrison to do garrison duty.
THE GREAT BRITAIN.—This leviathan of the deet
made another very successful trip down Channel on.;
Monday, as far as Ilfracombe. We understand that heel
speed was never less than 91 knots, and on her retort
reached as high as 121. To-morrow (Thursday) the
citizens of Bristol will hare to bid a long, and (we feat
a last farewell to this pride of their port, as she starts
of
a trip to London, there to become the
her' ‘ oynosurebee.
wondering eyes" previous to plying on
__station
tween Liverpool and New York.—.Brtatel Gazette.

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1845,
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,----1) Basinghall-street ; Hodson and Gibbs, King's-road, own." He has tried, and proved them as subservient to to lls ; sea damaged first class lOs 6d to Ile, second LATEST PRICES OF SHARES
trb libttion Gray's Inn.
Henry Isaacs, woollen draper, Yarmouth, Jan. 31, at 1 hshisapodiaacoaosrdhaencooeuwlditwhitehhe.
past. 8s
futurepolicy will be lOs, third 9s, small sound siftings 9s 6d, and sea damaged
purpose
8s to 9s per cwt. Madras has been in good demand at IN RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND
eleven, and March 4, at twelve, at the Court of Bank- STANDARD. -We insert elsewhere the opinion former currency. The market is in a dull state for Java. OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK.
SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. ruptcy, Basinghallestreet. Graham, official assignee, given by the Queen's Advocate and Mr. Bothell against Patna Rico at 13s 6d to 17s per cwt.
_nen- Coleman-street ; Sale and Worthington, Manchester ; the several measures proposed to be offered to the Ox- INDIGO.-To-day shippers and the home trade pur- From the Official List,
NEW PROJECTED RAILWAYS. Reed and Shaw, Friday-street, City. ford Convocation on the 13th proximo. We own that chased Bengal Indigo eagerly at the quarterly sale. The PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING.
AP. George Hawkins, clothier, Colchester, Feb. 7, at half- this opinion surprises us, not only because it seems, upon biddings increase in spirit as the sales proceed. Up to
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past two, and March 4, at twelve, at the Court of Bank- principle, very unduly to limit the power of the Uni - this day 1918 chests Bengal have passed the sale and have
(From the London Gazette of this Evening.) LONDON, JANUARY 24.
ruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lom- versity, but also because we have reason to believe that been almost all sold. 683 chests of Kurpahs have passed
RAILWAY DEPARTMENT, BOARD OF TRADE, bard-street, London ; Linklater, Leadenhall-street. the board had not taken the course that it adopted the sale, and nearly all sold at the lest sale's prices. Of
WHITEHALL, JAN. 24. Lionel Watling, butcher, Gilbert-street, Hanover- without the very best legal advice. However, if the 478 chests of regular Madras which have passed the RAILWAYS.
square, Jan. 31, at half-past two, and March 4, at one, , matter is to go off it is much better that it should go hammer, about 100 chests have been bought in ; the re-
Notice is hereby given, that the Board constituted by
the Minute of the Lords of the Committee of Privy
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, ' off upon a legal quibble tan in any other way. mainder sold for 2d to 3d discount on the October rates Dividend Amount ;
Frederick's-place, Old Jewry ; Pain and Hatherly, The board has honourably vindicated itself before the for the low and ordinary sorts, hilst the better descrip- Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
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COURCiI for Trade, of the 24th of August, 1844, for the Basinghall-street, and Great Marborough-street. country by seriously attempting to do what is right-and tioas nearly realised the last sale's prices. Annum. Stare.
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transaction of railway bnsiness, having had under con• Samuel Smeeton, cattle salesman, Sibbertoft, North- the country will " take the will for the deed," whatever SALTPETRE.-To-day rough was less wanted, and
Aberdeen ....... .... - Xs.C.X s. C.
4,461 bags of Calcutta at public sale were sold at a de- - 1 2 0 0
aicleration the following schemes for completing the ampton, Feb. s,__ at twelve, and March 4, at twelve, at the event. This is the position in which we are placed by
Birmingham & Gloster 31, Es. per sh. 100 0 0 100 0 0 111..
tern line of railway communication to Scotland, viz. the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, the real tyrant of this. nation,-the grim despot who dine of 6d per cwt, and grey rather damp, 71 per cent
Ditto, New,iss.7l dis. 15,5. 25 0 0 17 10 0 261 S
621
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• 26s . 50 0 0 5 0 0
Basinghall-street ; Weller, King's-road, Bedford row. paralyses every legitimate authority-" Law Costs." refraction, sold at 6d to 265, 5,1 ditto to 26s 6d, Brlglitou,Lews,B4,Bast. -
The Northumberland Railway, with Branch from
Joseph Evans, innkeeper, BOurton-on-the-Hill, Feb. To proceed by legal process against Mr. Ward would and, per cent. common 25s per cwt. 5 brls of Egyptian Bristol and Exeter •• • • Si. 1.6.1. per sh. 100 0 0I 70 0 0 76%
Berwick to Kelso, Ditto and Gloucester - 50 00'30 0 0 43
11, at twelve, and March 10, at eleven, at the Bristol probably cost the University ten thousand pounds, and were taken in at 25s for small white,
.41 per cent. re- Caledonian .......... -,.. 50 0 0 50 0 6%
The Newcastle and Berwick Railway, with Blanch District Court. Hutton, official tusignee, Bristol ; every attempt to enforce the proposed statute, if adopted, fraction. Cambridge and Lincoln - 25 0 0 110 0 3%
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from Berwick to Kelso, Tilsey, Mereton in Marsh. would probable, cost as much. The bishops in the same ••• TALLOW.-This afternoon at public 279 casks of New Chatham &Prtsinouth 20 0 0 1 0 0
way are precluded from clearing the Church of un- South Wales went at 35s to 40s 3d, 339 pkgs South Chester and Holyhead 5O 0 0 5 0 0 6%
Rue determined on reporting to Parliament in favour- 50 0
PRICE OF SUGAR. worthy or disgraceful ministers-" Vivatlex," as Tuggle American 36s 6d to 38s, 100 pkgs North American 39s Chichestert k
ie3,ll,rrton -
20 9 0 2 0 0 6%
Of the The Average Price of Brown or Muservado Sugar, for the makes his " Ignoramus" exclaim, and an " Ignoramus " to 39s 3:1, 102 pkgs Cape 39s 6d to 40s 6d, 291 casks St. - 30 0 4
Cornwall • • ....... :: :: • -..._
Newcastle and Berwick Railway, with Branch to week ending Jan. 21, 184-4, is 30s. 104 d. per cwt., exclusive he must be, who can patiently contemplate the con- Petersburg 37s to 38s 9d, and 252 casks of Odessa at Direct Northern...... - 50 0 0 210 0 2%
- 20 0 0 1 0 0 114
Kelso; of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im- tinuance of such a state of the law. 37s to 39) 6d per cwt. Direct Norwich ..
Disc, Iteccles, & Yrintli 25 0 0 110 0( IY,
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pertation thereof into Great Britain Ou.s.-Linseed Oil is still attracting attention, and Dublin & Belfast June. 50 0 0 210 0 534
And against the - - -
- FLANDERS MAIL. on the spot there has been a good demand at 23s 6d to Ditto and Galway.. - - 210 0 2%
Northumberland Railway, with Branch from Berwick
COURSE OF EXCHANGE,- (THIS DAY.) 23s 9d; for forward delivery extensive contracts have neetern.Countles . •;• ••• Si. per sh. 25 0 0 25 0 0 18%
to Kelso a Amsterdam CF. 12 8 Gibra1tar............... - BRUSSELS, JAN. 21.-The Chamber of Represens
been entered into at 24s to 24s Gd up to May and at D0.,1 erpetual, No.l 5/. per et. 613 4 313 4 1 pm.
ekta.l the Board having had under consideration the foL Ditto, at sight l2 6 Leghorn .........-... 31 relives discussed and adopted to-day the project of 24s 9d to 25s per cwt for distant months. The market Ditto, ditto, N 0.2...
Easteni Union . • ..... - 0134 1% Plu•
50 0 0 10 0 0 ' 11%
Rotterdam 2U. 12 Genoa • 26 10 law on the importation of cattle. It then proceeded is firm for Rape, and several transactions have taken Edinburgh & Glasgow 21.5 x.--
p. sh. 50 0 0 50 0 0 66
Sowing schemes for extending railway communication in
es Antwerp 26 10 Milan ... - to the project of law relative to contagious diseases place at 36s for Pale, and at 35s per cwt for brown. Ditto, Quarter Shares 1 ls. 3d. p. sh, 12 10 01210 0 161
the districts of Norfolk and Suffolk, viz. :- Hamburgh M.B. 13 14 Venice ..., ....... ..... 47 Ely and Bedford ..... - 25 0 0 10 0 1%
among cattle. Articles 1,2, and 3 were agreed to. Cocoa Nut 26s 6il to 28s per cwt are the rates paid forlo 0 0 210 0
The Bury and Ipswich Railway, Altona l3 14 Naples ..•-............. 39. i Grand Connection .. .. -
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 80 Palermo, per oz llBl The King of Bavaria has just adopted an important Ceylon. Palm Oil fine has been fetching 25s 6d to 26s Grand Junction ...... 10/. per ct. 100 0 0 too 0 0 224%
The Diss, Beceles, and Yarmouth, Ditto, 3 months 26 0 Lisbon 53 measure respecting the navigation of the Rhine; he For ewt. In Olive Oil there has been a good deal Ditto,itto Half Shares.. 101. per ct. 50 0050 0 0 1124
Ditto l
Shares 101. per ct. 25 0 0 25 0 0
The Dies and Colchester, Marseilles 26 5 Oporto... . . 53 has decided that goods embarked in one of the ports doing, Gallipoli has fetched 421 lOs to 434 Spanish 41/
41/, Barbary and Levant 391 to 401 per tun. G
The Direct East Dereham and Norwich, Bourdeaux 26 10 Rio Janeiro. 24 of Rhenish Bavaria shall enjoy the restitution of all to 421, Sicily Quarter
_ 50 0 0 5 0 0 10%
Northof England 31.5 a. 100 0 0 100 0 0 145%
'The - •• - 40 0 0 50 0 2714
The Disa and Colchester-Redham and Lodden Frankfort on Maihe .. 122 tolls coming to Bavaria, in the whole portion of theBo 0 o 172
Petersburgh, 3 Us... 37 Buenos Ayr‘.. - Common Fish Oils have been purchased with caution by Great lt (1)1 Mlitlb... .e.s .. 7/. per cent. t.
Branches, Berlin 7 NewYork,22dyssight - river through which they have passed.
the home trade. This afternoon at public sale 30 tuns of Ditto, Fin.ns..ar•••••••• 71. per
20 0g g 0
The Bastera Counties-Colchester and Bury Ex- Vienna, offer. 11.3 M. 10 Philadelphia, - This measure, which has been long since adopted
Southern sold at 27l lOs to 31s ss, 60 tuns of Sperm Guilford Junction..... 50 0 0 35 0 0
'lrieste, ditto
tension,at 821 to 831 5s for British, and HeaB4l - 11"ich '• •"•••• •• ••
dmatter los -
Madrid 36i Foreign Grt ild, bars_.£3 17 9by the other States. on the banks of that river, if they to 851 ;5..r) Itti (t).) I,i°
Hull and Selby .-• . •• 51. ss. pies. 50 0 0 50 0 0 73ij
The Ipswich and Norwich Extension, Cadiz
, . _ _____, Ditto, Qu .rter Shares - 12 10 0 10' 0 0
The Lynn and Ely, Bilbao 36 New Dout,lams..... 0 0 oKendal & Windermere - 25 0 0 110 0
New Dollars
......
..• 0494 It will lead sooner or later to the complete abolition Lancaster and Carlisle - 50 0015 0 0 24M
The Lynn and East Dereham, Barcelona 36LAW CHANGES.-We have reason to believe that Leeds and Bradford... - 50 005 0 0 18%
Seville - Silver i u Mars O4l. i of the Rhine toll, which is absolutely necessary, if Mr. Platt, Q.C., will be the new judge ;gbesuthisapaprooinito- LiDve.irttpoo,oilitl'Affsalichastr 101. per et. 1000010000
The London and Norwich Direct, the navigation of the river is to support the competi- ment is deferred until some other Chan which hares.. 101. per ct. 50 0 0 50 0 0
i.:c. nh.i.
1. 11 . s
._pp
peirr r
ec,
sttm
1..., .
25 0 0
The Norwich and Brandon - Diss and Dereham lion with the railways. contemplation shall be arranged. Mr. Horace Twiss is,
LoDnidtotou,s,QuittrnerinShharee
11001/.
perper ct. 25 0 0 25 0 0
Ditto, New Thirds
•• OF ENGLAND.
1,001,,,),
ddi to:
io.ll,
.N 7713811 ' Shares 110011:.Stock. 230
Branches, The King will not set out for Ardenne until to- we understand, to be the new Commissioner of Bank-
(From Friday Night's Gazette.)
The Wells and Thetford, morrow. His Majesty will be accompanied in this rupts ; and Mr. Sergeant Acberley, it is said, will sue-
decided on reporting to Parliament in favour of the An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Vic-
excursion by Mr. Conway. His Majesty will pro- reed Mr. Twiss '!is Vice-Chancellor of the Duchy of 3162
103 04 2
......0 0 4734
torts, cap.,32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the
London
Bury and Ipawich.bably go also to St. Hubert, and will return by the Lancaster. paper.80 0 0 50 0 0 5214
Ditto, Loan ~ores.. 51. percent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 12LAi
2 0 0 28
18thclay of January, 1845. .
Lo Ditto,olu'rde Pref. o
IrvleTtvo
rn. . 5
15/,.5p3e. rpceernt.
sh.
4181
12 15 4 - Iles
Ipswich and Norwich Extension, ems DEPARTMENT. end of the month. ---e---- ..-
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1 • X• CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 3.-It is well known that REPEAL OF THE WINDOW DUTY.
London and C:oydon - lot. priest.
Lynn and E1y,176 102 ---
79
against the Notes issued ~. 28,133,080 Governinent debt 11,015,100
t about four years ago the French Ambassador promised A meeting of the rate-payers of the parish of St. Do., New Cons. sills
Ditto, New ........ - 40 0 0 60 0 28
Other securities 2,984,900 the protection of his Government to the charitable James's, Westminster, was held yesterday evening in-
Diss and Colchester, Gold coin andl6
.5130
150
90 2
_lO 0 12},,i
900 4 0 0
society for the relief of poor Franks (Societe Com- Willis's Room, Brewer-street, for the purpose of nitro, e p.c. -
Eastern Counties, bullion
e Nsv
aani eds
3i- 'e:::„ .3, -..
London and York •• • 50 0 0 2 10 0 4%
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merciale Artigiana), which led to unpleasant discus- adopting the best means of obtaining the repeal of
Colttester and Bury Extension, Silrer bullion
mons with some representatives of Roman Catholic the window duty in the approaching session of Parlia- Lynn and Ely .... - 25 0 0 1 5 0 4M
Manchester and Leeds 11. 70,-Gd. P.S. 100 0 0 70 0 0 129
London and Norwich direct, ---
Powers whose subjects would not have the protection ment. Mr. Keith, churchwarden, took the chair Ditto, Half Shares.. 11.178.6d.p.5. 50 0 0 30 0 0 57%
£28,133,080 £28,133,080 Ditto, Quarter Shares 4s. 25 0 0 2 0 0
Norwich and Brandon-Diss Branch,
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. of a foreign Power forced upon them. The about seven o'clock, being supported by several of the Ditto, Sixteenths ... - 65 0 15 0 5M
Wells and Thetford, conduct of the French Legation was consideread parish officers and other respectable inhabitants. Mancliestr & Binning. 21. per share 40 0 0 40 0 0 56
Dated the 23d day of January, 1845. Ditto, Quarter Shares 10 0 0 20 0 6
and recommending the postponement, until a future to be wise, as a new attempt to appear as the first The CHAIRMAN said the meeting had been con- -
Midland .• • - Stock. 128
F of the BANKING DEPARTMENT. protecting power of the Catholic interests in the East, vened by the requisition of a large and respectable Ditto, Fifths ....... -- 20 0
Direct East Dereham and Norwich, .6. .C. which must seem the more strange in the present case, portion of the inhabitants, for the purpose of securing Ditto, Binn. & Derby 21. 13s. per eh, - Stock. 94
Proprietors'capi- Governmentsecu-Newcastle & Berwick - 25 0 0 110 0 10
NOrarleh and Brandon-Dereham Breech, as the question related to a temporal, purely charitable the repeal of the window duty. lie hoped the ex- Newcstle & Darl. June. 6s. 25 0024 0 0 62
tae 14,553,000 rities (includ-
Lyan and East Dereham, institution, in which all nations took part. An ample would be followed by other parishes in the North British ........ - - 710 0 11%
Rest 3,208,159 ingDeadWeight Northern and Eastern . 2/. ss. 50 0 0 45 0 0 62
arrangement has been made by which the Societe metropolis.-(Hear, hear.) The pariah of St. James
NNolor:tsi,tht.°Ken .t. .
Vise, Beccler, and Yarmouth, Publie deposits Annuity)
13,843,692
Artigiana is to be successively, for one year, under was peculiarly called upon to come forward at this
Portsmouth D itio:,hQaunadrptieli
rrreaSeiht,
da.
o.rne a.
.. 12 10 01210 0 17%
*sr end Colchester-Redham and Lodden Branches: (including Ex--
Other securities 8,627,598
7,588,085 the protection of the Catholic Powers which have juncture. - _ 215 0 3%
,mod OW-Board having had under consideration the fol- chequer,Savings Notes They were aware that an Act had recently
- 20 0 0 8 0 0 14%
banks Commis- Gold and silver representatives here, in alphabetical order. Austria been passed, called the Building Act. He had, with Ditto, New.. .. - 10 0 0 10 0 4%
Miming sehemes for extending railway communication 654,747 will be the first for 1845.50 0 0 210 0 2
stoners of Na- coin „.... his colleagues and the overseers, gone round the pa--
M lee fettle and north-west of Ireland, viz.:- tional Debt, and BELGIAN FUNDS.-BRUSSELS, JAN. 21. rish, for the purpose of ascertaining the number of Preston and Wyre - -
Itichnind& W. E June. - 50 0050 0 0
20 0 0 1 0 9 334
Tee Belfast and Ballymena Railway, dividend ac- Actual Debt, *. per Cent - houses which, under that Act, would next year be Rugby -
- - 1 0 0 2%
?eke Dublin avid Belfast Junction, with Branch to counts) 3,069,572 Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent - rendered unfit for dwellings unless they had windows Ditto, 2d Pref., 184 a - 25 0095 0 0
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 981, Sheffield and Lincoln.. 25 0 0 15 0 1%
Other deposits ... 8,803,570
sSsohhue:th:.Dl:llevv&oohn3..l,.Da.i.ui.cd.h.:en.s.tirr. 51. per cent. 100 0 o sa to 0
and areas, and he believed that the whole number
Drogheda and Kells, Ditto Three per Cent -
Seven day and 25 0 0 8 0 0 13
alfe Dublin and Drogheda-Howth Branch, Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto - would not be less than one thousand.-(Hear, hear.) Ditto, Quarter Shares -
other bills 1,079,821 Ditto, ditto 1840 - 50 002 10 0 4
sSroohuuainttihi-Eastern & Dori- le is. 33 2 4 -
The Dundalk and Enniskillen, - 50 0 0 10 0 0 151,4
Ditto, ditto 1844
The Great Werth Western (Irish), £30,714,122 £30,714,122 Ditto of the City, 1843 - Ditto,Newiss.lBl.dia 50 0 0 4 0 0 ' 21%
open a window, and yet that by another law= he -
The '.Mott' Railway, inland line (Armagh to M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Ditto, 1832 - should be punished if he did; for ... effect of rho stevensone rrtsmouth - - 210 0 5
Dublin), Dated the 23d day of January, 1845. Bank of Belgium 6O- - 2100 2%
-Brussels Papers, Jan. 22. window duty was to operate as a 17nalty.-(Hear, ' - 19 5 8 -
The Neestly and Enniskillen, Trent Valley ••••• • •• . - 20 0 0 20 0 11
The 'Meter Railway---Extension from Portadown to SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.-VitNNA, JAN. 15. hear.) He hoped that many meetings similar to that Yarmouth & Norwich - 20 0020 0 0 28M
• 5 per Cent. Metalliques - 20 0 0 80 0 15%
Armagh., FROM •THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. 4 per Cent. Ditto lOl3/
..Si made to the Government to abolish this infamous and York & North Midland 101. per ct. 50 0 0 50 0 0 108
DD
Ditto,oi t.t 0,,
cslaleralbil,rfyoS,Sliiclarrrai e spn
~.
h.• 101. per
hote determined on reporting to Parliament in favour of GLOBE.-Symptoms indicative of increasing discon- 3 per Cent. Ditto 7, A oppressive tax.-(Cheers.) - - 20 0 0 44%
Bedews and Ballymena, tent among the supporters of Ministers are exhibited at L0an,1834 - - 20 0 0 70
Ditto, 1839
Dublin and Belfast Junction, with Brauch to Drogheda the Agricultural Protection meetings. The near ap- -
Bank Shares 1621 M.P., regretting his unavoidable absence, and pro- Boulogne and Amiens. 20 0 0 20 0 4%
proach of the Parliamentary Session seems to have been - 1
and Kells, Esterhazy's Loan S7IA raising his cordial co-operation in Parliament. Gt. Northern of France - 120 0 0 40 0 5%
selected for these manifestations of landed dissatis-
Might and Drogleedet-Howth Branch, faction with the policy of Government-possibly with -Allgemeine Zeitung, Jan. 19. Mr. MAULE rose to propose the first resolution. Orleans and Vierzon.. - 120 0 0 20 0 11%
Orleans & Bourdeaux -- 120 0 0 2 0 0 774
Ulster Besteneion-Portadown to Armagh; the hope of awing Sir Robert Peel into obedience. He said there was no tax more severe or unnational Paris and Lyons...-. _ 120 0 0 20 0 3•4
And of the We scarcely know which is mcst the object of pity MARKET INTELLIGENCE. than the window duty. Ile was not aware at what Paris and Strasbourg..
Paris and Orleans..... - '2O 0 0 20 0 2,4
- i 20 0 0 20 0 0 44%
Dundalk end Enniskillen (with the exception of the to lookers on-a Minister whose policy is watched (From the London New Price Current of Jan. 24.) period the outrageous device of taxing this necessary Paris and Rouen ...... 21. '2OOO 20 0 0 44%
with jealousy, and whose measures are the subjects of element of existence originated, but as long as he R.,uen and Myr° - - -- 20 0012 0 0 , 28%
SUGAR.-To-day there was no public sale of any kind
Monaghan Branch), incessant upbraiding and complaint by theparty which of raw e
. sugar, but 5,000 bags of Bengal, 529 bags of Mau- could remember it had been reprobated as a most in -
Sway end Enniskillen (with the exception of the him in
placed him in power as the protector of their interests, ritius, and 301.eags of Madras are declared. In the British human and unrighteous mode of obtaining a revenue. JOINT-STOCK BANES.
porton of the line between Newry and Armagh) ; , •
or the
Dukeparty itself. " The agricultural interests,' said Plantation market there was little business transacted A poll-tax was not more hateful than a tax upon the
Dividend Amount
sabjeet to equitable arrangements for the construction the of Richmond in the House of Lords, " placed in any kind, and prices are still rlroopirg, making the light of heaven and the air they breathed. There had Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
and JO:it tee of the line between Enniskillen sad Clones, the Minister where he is, and it ean deprive him of decline for the week is to is 6d, excepting' for good and never been a period more favourable to the removal of Annum. Share.
cowmen to the two schemes ; and also for improving the power it conferred, if he _ betrays_ theT 0 in- fine yellow, which have generally sustained the former this most odious duty. The national revenue ex-
terests to which he owes his
head
ph ugh currency, the supply being scanty. The total sales for£ s. d. X 1/----. d.
ceeded by some millions the estimates of expenditure. Australasia .... • ..... 81. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 45%
the Sittlway communication by the Belfast Junction line
uttered by a Duke, the ea 0 the rotec- the week are only 990 hhds and tics, being a small
to Newry, and for securing due facilities to the Newry lion-to-Agriculture party, they wore vain words. From quantity. For fair brown Jamaica 51s per cwt was ac- There was also a disposition manifested in high guar- Brash North American 61. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 45M
Commercial of London 51. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0
tens to trace the sources of mortality, and one or two
traffic ; the day they were spoken, down to the present day, cepted. Colonial... - .... •.... 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0
And against the the agriculturists have filled the country with their com- REFINED.-The home trade have purchased rho low bulky volumes had been published in reference to the Londn and Westin'instr 61. per cent. 100 0020 0 0 27M
London Joint-Stock .• • 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14%
Great North Western (Irish), plaints of the sad consequences of Sir Robert Peel's and middling descriptions of Refined Goods with caution state of the smaller dwellings, and the necessity of Metropolitan -.••• . • • - 25 0 0 710 0
" sliding-scale " and tariff, followed, as they were, by his this week, but the refiners generally at present are not obtaining a free current of air. Under such circum- Provincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0025 0 0 44%
Vonthern Railway, inland line (Armagh to Dublin).
Canada Corn Bill and other measures of minor influence, inclined to further reduce their prices. Brown Lumps stances he thought the public had a peculiar claim to Na its
o no, 1 l Noefwii n eIW I •.' 85t: pperr cent. I'o 0 0 10
10 0
DALHOUSIE. but having the same tendency. Yet Sir 11.. Peel con- have been selling at 71s to 725; Standard Lumps 72s 6d; the abolition of the tax. He therefore begged to pro- Nat. Provnclal of Lang. 51. pere cent. '
100 0 0 35 0 o 15
C. W. PASLEY. G. R. PORTER. armies to preside over the councils of the country. In- Tittlers, low to middling, 71s to 735; good 73s 6d to 765; pose the following resolution :- " That the tax upon
D. O'BRIEN. S. LAING. different alike to the supplications and objurgations of fine and very fine 77s to 81s; Hamburgh Loaves 73s to windows, so styled, but, in reality, a tax upon light Ditto, Now...
I.,Tnion of Australia.... - 25 027 M
....- _------ - -- - the agriculturists and the other protected interests, 81s; double ditto 82s to 90s; and wet Lumps 70s to 71s and air, is in its very principle revolting, inhuman Luton of London - 51. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 o 12 !ii
TIIE LONDON GAZETTE. whom he deceived y his cajolings
.when leadey of per cwt. Bastards are plentiful, and prices are going
Opposition, he continues to alarm their apprehensions. down. There are free sellers at 37s to 39s for low, 40s to
wicked, and unchristian, denying, as it does, the full INSURANCE COMPANIES.
(THIS EVENING.) They meet, as they have often met, to upbraid Sir 42s for middling, 43s to 46s for good, and 47s to 52s per enjoyment of the first and most essential of heaven's
Robert Peel with his perfidy ; to deprecate any further cwt for fine. Pieces, fine at 65s to 68s, good Gls to 645, bounteous gifts, and, moreover, is in its practical
Name Dividend 'Amountcr Paid.
--.......-- of Company. per Price.
inroads upon their interests ; and to threaten him middling 678 to 60s, and low 53s to 56s per cwt. Treacle, a workings oppressive and injurious." Annum. Share.
WAR-OFFICE, JAN. 16, 1845.
with their vengeance if he venture to proceed another boiled from West India Molasses, selling at 20s to 21s, Mr. EWEN seconded the resolution, which was also
MEMORANDUM. Her Majesty has been graciously
patent 91 Ad t 235, and golden syrup 245 to z6s per supported by Dr. Costello, and carried unanimously £ a. C. .£ s. C.
step in the course of free trade, of.eehich he has o enl
andapproval "•n thep ab-y patent 18 0 .. Albion .............. 31. 10a. 500 0050 0 0 74
Mr. GEEsIN proposed the second resolution :- Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 195‘, pleased to permit the 76th Regiment to bear on its regi-
expressed his admiration . i.
.cwt. Crushed Sugar, for forward deliver, at 31s 3d to 31s
mental colour and appointments the word " Nive,' in
street." Which, we repeat, is most to be pitied-the ed per cwt Loaves are firm in price actin lively demand. " That this tax is grievously oppressive upon the in. 61. per cent, 100 005 0 0 031
commemoration of the gallantry displayed by the Regis acquired - •
betrayer, or the betrayed ; the Minister who Turkey, double refined 11 21- to 41bs on board British dustrial community, and bears with unequal, and Atl)itto Main. ..
s ... •. . •
Meat at the passage of the river Nive, in the month of
power by deception ; or the
.interysts which. trusted_ to ship 36s to 31s, Hamburgh 61bs 34s to 355, 9to tolbs therefore unjust pressure, upon that class which, for British Commercial
December. 1813. his smiles, and put a desired interpretation on his 33s Gcl, 13 to 141bs 32s 6d to 335. Tittlers 20 to 301bs chea.pness, occupy houses in those localities from
Cloricl,Med.&Gen.llfe sd. peart.cent. 110000
00
00
102 109
01 6%
County .......... • . • •
WAR-OFFICE, JAN. 24. ambiguous phrases ? The agriculturists now confess 325, and Prussian 40 to 541bs 31s 6d per cwt. Pieces
e 5 per ct.,}
fashion abandoned by the wealthy, and which houses massed
It 3d Regiment of Light Dragoons-Lieut. G. Forbes
that they find themselves in a worse position than are 25s to 275. Bastards 20s to 2ls for yellow, and 195 Crown ... •
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Jones, who retires. ;
they would have occupied had the Government they die- for Brown. Treacle 13s per cwt. The value of Dutch contribute, in proportion, more to the tax than the Ingle Gs. 50 0 0 50 0 5%
Crushed Sugar is 28s to 30s.
Cornet H. C. Morgan to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice choicest and most noble mansions." Economic Life
been allowed to pass the measure which excited t & 30e.be.
Forbes i W. 11. Urine, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase,
placedal dprovoked the combined • • b
their arms, an e opposition y MA URITIUS.-There i 8 still t d •
i a s rong desire on the part
Mr. W. ATECEETT seconded the resolution, which Eng.& Scot. Law Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 2%
rice Morgan, Jan. 24. which it was defeated. They are now the re of die- f-I
was carried unanimous y. European Life.. ... •• • 5 per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20
1000 0 0 250 0 0
9th Light Dragoons-Cornet W. C. Kortwright to be lo
content and anxiety. Perplexity as to the future in- market largely, has produced a further decline in prices Mr. LAWFORD proposed the following :-" That this Globe
Freemasons' .. •••• • • • • U. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Turner, who retires; W.
creases the burden of their dissatisfaction. They toil of ed for good and fine yellow, and is to is ed per cyst meeting earnestly recommend the parochial authori- • . Gl. per cent. ' Stock. - 142
Imperial •: ...... •• • • 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 49%
F. Richatds Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice
for low and middling and brown qualities.
without recompense, and have no hope of a beneficial
Kortwright, 'Jan. 24. ties of the metropolitan parishes to convene meetings Ito
Fire ........ 121. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 195
enal Life.... .•• • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 16
22e1 Foot-Lieut. W. D. Hilton, who was cashiered in change. Such is the staple of the lugubrious speeches EAST INDIA.-Bengal has met with little attention in their respective districts, for the purpose of form- Indemnity Marine •• • • 11. sh.& be. 100 0 0 513 1 30
the Gazette of the 23d ofJuly, 1844, has been restored to which have been delivered at several Agricultural Protec- this week, and the supply; having exceeded the wants ing committees to become members of a general me- Law Life ............ It. 55. 100 0 0 10 0 0 45%
tile 15ov/ice, Jan. 24. tionmeetingsrecently-heldindifferent parts of thecountry, of the trade, a decline in the value, of Is per cwt leas tro 1. po itan committee, which, by being thus composed, Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 .5
We have the proceedings of three 0.. f these meetings taken place ;by private contract little business has been London Fire -••• • .. . 10s. 25 0012 10 0 16
32d Poot-Lieut. G. Varasour, from 60th Foot, to be
transacted in white, brown, or yellow ; public sales of will concentrate within itself a power which, if well London Ship •..•• .• • • 10s. 25 0012 10 0 16
held within the present week. At Gloucester, the at- Marine ........ - .... 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0
Lieut. vice Griffin, promoted, Jan. 24. directed, must eventually tend to carry out the object
tendance at the anniversary meeting of the Farmers' 9,486 bags went of flatlet', a part only finding buyers. Med. Invlid & Gen. Life - 50 0 0 20 0 3
4.2 d Foot-Lieut. T. R. D. Its to be Adjutant, vice his meeting." He was glad to find that the large National Loan Fund.. 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2%
Club was extremely meagre ; and those who were pre- FOREIGN,-There has been no public sale of Foreign g' t
Cemplacil, promoted, Jan. 24. this week. Holders of yellow Havannah are un-gnparish of Alarylebone was stirring in this matter. National Life.. •• • .... 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 WI
sent were there rather to give utterance to complaints Sugar Palladium Life 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 20 0 2
5.5t8 Boot-Assistant-Surgeon G. Martin, M.D., fromethought that if all the parishes were united, there H
73d Foot. to be Surgeon, vice Shanks, promoted on the against the Government and their
alsandlords., than to wining to reduce their prices, and supply the markette.et. & es. - -
. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0
communicate anything satisfactory to their present sparingly • but the business transacted privately has could be no doubt of success. ••
PrOa'tenciitor Life.. -
I roi, lilt iit Life -.... ' -* ' 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24
4461t1n• 24'prospective condition. The report, though evi- been extremelylimited, • • -
still, if parcels were to be offered appointing a com Rock Life 4s. 50 0 010 0 4%
teat-Lieut. G. A. Taylor to be Captain, by or
dently drawn up with caution. stated that "On therather under present rates, they would find purchasers. mitres, and generally for the purpose of carrying out Royal Exchange 3l. per cent. Stock. - 185
' ♦i '0 C ld all wi o retires ; Ensign 11. Lt.
. lath • c a w , i of land, it had be ' t Sun Fire
- -
subject of the tenure been a poin White is not cheaper. Brown Brazil is not much wanted the object.
.e:to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Taylor ;J. C.Ditto Life .......... 11. Gs. - -
that had excited much doubt, whether it ought at present. White is held for the
former currency. In • Mr. HUGGETT observed that there was one light in Universal Life ....... 10%1. pr cat. 100 0 0 , 6 5 0 16
''. CS, dent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Coates,introduced for discussionin
properly to be
Jan. 24.
----, -- - . ,-.-.- . ,_ ._ ~_ i__ r :_..,,-...i. Society whose more immediate object was to promote to note. alThrrierl an aililitinnal reason for epplzino• the nholi- DOCKS.

32d Foot—Lieut. G. Varasour, from 60th Foot, to be
Lieut. rice Griffin, promoted, Jan. 24.
42.c1 Foot—Lieut. T. R. D. Hay to be Adjutant, vice
QttaapLa, promoted, Jan. 24.
55th Boot—Assistant-Surgeon G. Martin, M.D., from
3d Floot.. to be Surgeon, vice Shanks, promoted on the
l
Wa- 24.
tt Faut--Lieut, G. A. Taylor to be Captain, by
: ' as vice Caldwell, who retires ; Ensign 11. L.
...: to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Taylor ; J. C.
'., es, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Coates,
Jan. 24.
9 Dl.Foat--Ensign O. Latouche to be be Lieutenant,
kis
by Astse, vice Viscount Suirdale, who retires, Jan.
24 ; ign R. Itetd to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
II i who retires, Jan. i,4 ;F. A. Hardy, Gent., to be
Lweiv
by purchase, vice Labuclae, Jan. 24 ; Gentleman
Cadet . Groker, from the Royal Military College, to
be Ermigris by purchase. vice heid, Jan. 23.
3(1 W at Intha Regiment—Licut. W. D. Hilton, from
-tor
the 22d. t, to be Lie pant, vice Tench, deceased ;
Ensign N bleat to be ;lieutenant, by purchase, rice
Raton, who retires ; J. O'Flanagan; Gent., to be Ensign,
by trnrcba.se, vice Smith, Jan. 24.
a LN.-terrAcnEn.—Lientenant W. Ready (Staff-Lieute-
nant and Adjutant of the Invalid Depot at Chatham), to
be Carain, without purchase, Jan. 24.
STAFS.—Lieutenant G. Rand, from the 49th Foot, to
Le Staff-Lieutenant and Adjutant of the Invalid Depot,
at Chatham, vice Ready, promoted. Jan. 24.
kialiortNnum.r-The names of the Lieutenant, of the
Eth Foot; promoted on 19th November 1844, are John
henry Rethft.t de Robeck, and not John Henry Edward
flobtok„ as siatted in the Gazette of that date.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JAN. 22.:
___

GLOBE.—Symptoms indicative of increasing discon-
tent among the supporters of Ministers are exhibited at
the Agricultural Protection meetings. The near ap-
proach of the Parliamentary Session seems to have been
selected for these manifestations of landed dissatis-
faction with the policy of Government—possibly with
the hope of awing Sir Robert Peel into obedience.
We scarcely know which is meat the object of pity
to lookers on—a Minister whose policy is watched
with jealousy, and whose measures aro the subjects of
incessant upbraiding and complaint by the party which
placed him in power as the protector of their interests,
or the party itself. " The agricultural interests," said
the Duke of Richmond in the House of Lords, " placed
the Minister where he is, and it ean deprive him of
the power it conferred, if he betrays the in-
terests to which he owes his elevation." Though
uttered by a Duke, the head of the Protec-
tion-to-Agriculture party, they wore vain words. From
the day they were spoken, down to the present day,
the agriculturists have filled the country with their com-
plaints of the sad consequences of Sir Robert Peel's
" sliding-scale and tariff, followed, as they were, by his
Canada Corn Bill and other measures of minor influence,
but having the same tendency. Yet Sir R. Peel con-
tinues to preside over the councils of the country. In-
different alike to the supplications and objurgations of
the agriculturists and the other protected interests,
whom he deceived by his cajolings when leader of
Opposition, he continues to alarm their apprehensions.
They meet, as they have often met, to upbraid Sir
Robert Peel with his perfidy ; to deprecate any further
inroads upon their interests ; and to threaten him
with their vengeance if he venture to proceed another
step in the course of free trade, ofewhich he has openly
expressed his admiration and approval " in the ab-
stract." Which, we repeat, is most to be pitied—the
betrayer, or the betrayed ; the Minister who acquired
power by deception ; or the interests which trusted to
his smiles, and put a desired interpretation on his
ambiguous phrases ? The agriculturists now confess
that they find themselves in a worse position than
they would have occupied had the Government they dis-
placed been allowed to pass the measure which excited
their alarms, and provoked the combined opposition by
which it was defeated. They are now the prey of dis-
content and anxiety. Perplexity as to the future in-
creases the burden of their dissatisfaction. They toil
without recompense, and have no hope of a beneficial
change. Such is the staple of the lugubrious speeches
which have been delivered at several Agricultural Protec-
tion meetings recently held in different parts of the country.
We have the proceedings of three of these meetings
held within the present week. At Gloucester, the at-
tendance at the anniversary meeting of the Farmers'
Club was extremely meagre ; and those who were pre-
sent were there rather to give utterance to complaints
against the Government and their landlords, than to
communicate anything satisfactory as to their present
or prospective condition. The report, though evi-
dently drawn up with caution, stated that " On the
subject of the tenure of land, it had been a point
that had excited much doubt, whether it ought
properly to be introduced for discussion in a
Society whose more immediate object was to promote
practical improvements in agriculture. It was, however,
held, that nu very great advancement could be made in
farming unless some security was felt in the tenure by
which the farmer held his land, so as to secure him a
return for capital expended, and therefore the Committee
had sanctioned the introduction of the subject, which
would foul] one of the early questions for discussion."
This question gave rise to considerable disagreement.
Whether the landlord should not make the outlay,
and charge a per tentage upon the rent, instead
of requiring the tenant to supply the means of improved
cultivation out of his diminished resources, was warmly
debated. In the end, however, " a Committee was ap-
pointed to draw up a form of agreement between land-
lord and tenant, suitable to the wants of the Vale of
Gloucester." One tenant-farmer (a Mr. Watts) declared,
that the cause of the very thin attendance at the meet-
ing was " the disinclination of landlords to help their
tenants in these times of difficulty and distress." Another
declared, " these were not times for farmers to lay out
their money in improvements." The health of Earl
Ducie being given from the chair, was the signal for
considerable altercation ; some refusing to drink the
toast because of his Lordship's speech at a meet-
ing of the Anti-Corn-law League in Covent-garden
Theatre, in which he declared an opinion fa-
vourable to the abolition of the corn-laws ; others
calling upon the objectors to confute his Lordship's
arguments before they refused to drink his health on
account of them. Is not this a pretty state of things
at a Farmers' Protection dinner ? Verily the straw is
moving—and in the right direction too. At the North-
ampton Agricultural Protection meeting on Wed-
nesday, the symptoms of dissatisfaction with the
measures of Ministers were yet more unequivocal.
Sir Charles Knightley, one of the county Members,
spoke out his mind in terms which would be
worthy of attention were they likely to be fol-
lowed up in Parliament by any movement indicative
of a settled purpose. As it is, they are mere empty com-
plaints ; expressive, however, of the deep regrets of the
party for having sold themselves to Pee], who leads
them captive at his will. The Hon. Baronet, how-
ever, did his best to convince his auditory that he felt
and deplored the helpless condition in which they had
placed themselves. He begun at the beginning ; enu-
merated each of the measures relating to agriculture
which Sir Robert Peel has introduced, and showed
the evil effects of those measures on the interests of
agriculture. At the Sussex Agricultural Protection
Society meeting, held yesterday, the Duke of Richmond
in the chair, there was much of compliment to the Noble
Duke who presided—much of earnest exhortation to
union of opinion and action, in order to effectually stem
the torrent which was setting in against " protection ;"
and a manifest wish on the part of the Duke to modify
and subdue the restlessness and discontent which existed
on account of the policy which her Majesty's Ministers
have adopted with respect to agricultural produce.
The Duke has had the mortifying and nauseous
task imposed on him of eating his own leek. His threat
of expelling Peel has failed. The agricultural
Members in the House of Commons have shown that
they lack the pluck for which his Grace of Richmond
gave them credit, when he lifted up his warning voice in
Parliament, and threatened the Minister with venge-
ance.moatsoheclass
snr
altreo.i
biTheynerndtt haveieprriee l
hasbroke
donen faith a
withi t wtiht he
agriculturists, their constituents,
and
s
eesttsa.ntaTghoni
eirsinvolt,eisth thinteir speeches the lloeueeseheosf
aCtotmhe-
hustings. Sir Robert Peel knew of what kind of stuff
his majority was composed, and he actedaccordingly.
Like the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hol:i .Baronet
know and still knows, ho " can do what he will with bis

COFFEE.—This afternoon the public sales comprised
680 mats of Manilla, 96 bags 210 brio of Rio, 216 casks
192 brls of West India, 27 bags of Mysore, and 605 bags
of Java. Manilla was nearly all disposed of, but at a
decline on former rates of Is to 2s per cwt; fine fine ord
coloury rather mixed went at 39s to 40s, fine
ord 38s to 38s 6d, good ord 375, repacked 37s 6d
to 40s. Rio was all taken in ; low mid coloury at 60s,
fine fine ordinary 50s to 545, fine ordinary 45s
to 45s 6(1. For West India the demand was extremely
limited, and nearly every lot was bought in at easier
rates—that is to say, Berbice mid at 81s to 88s, low
middling 70s to 755, fine fine ord 63s to 68s, fine ord 54s
to 58s, good ord 51s to 535, and low 40s to 48s Ja-
maica low mid unclean 70s, fine fine ord 60s to 635, ord
and good ord 51s to 525. Mysore was withdrawn. Java
taken in at 44s to 45s for bold yellow Company's kind,
and were considered moderato rates.

Other resolutions were proposed, appointing a com-
mittee, and generally for the purpose of carrying out
the object.
Mr. HUGGETT observed that there was one light in
which the matter had not been put, which would have
afforded an additional reason for seeking the aboli-
tion. This tax was made a condition of the elective
franchise, and formed an impediment to its exercise.
This he conceived to be a very powerful argument
against its continuance.
A vote of thanks was given to the Chairman, and
the meeting then separated.

Royal Rekireent of -Artillery—Captain and Brevet
Major R. B. Rawnsley to he Lieutenant-Colonel, vice
W. E. Jackson, retired on half-pay, Jan. 6 ; Second
Captain IL G. Teesdale to be Captain, vice Rawn-
slev ; First Lieutenant W. Fred. Crofton to be
Second Caplan, vice Teesdale ; Second Lieut. J. F.
L. Baddeley to be First Lieutenant, vice W• F. Crofton;
First Lieut. H. E. Morritt to he Second Captain, vice
Luard, retired ou half-pay; Second Lieut. J. A. Norie to
be First Lieutenant, vice Morritt ; Second Lieut. G. L.
Chandler to be First Lieutenant, vice E, M. Fyers, re.-
tired on fall pay, Jan. 17.
ADMIRALTY, JAN. 21.
Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieutenant A. Flemyng
to be Captain, vice IL W. Parke. appointed to the Ar-
tillery Companies of the Corps ; First Lieutenant W. B.
Langford to be Captain, vice T. Holloway, appointed to
the Artillery Companies of the Corps; Second Lieut. E. T.
T. Jones to be First Lieutenant, vice Flemyng, promoted;
Secorfd Lieutenant J. H. Jolliffo to be k irst Lieutenant,
vioe Langford, promoted; Second Lieutenant J. W. A.
Kennedy to be First Lieutenant, vice G. A. Schomberg,
appointed to the Artillery Companies of the Corps; Se-
cond Lieutenant R. Boyle to be First Lieutenant, vice J.
Roberts, appointed to the Artillery Companies of the
Corps.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk.
T ne- Hon. C. S. Cowper to be Deputy Lieutenant ; J.
B. Burroughes, Esq., to be ditto ; T. W. B. B. Proctor,
to be ditto; Haggard, Esq,, to be ditto ; 11. Vil-
ews, F4,q., to be ditto, Dec. 31, 1844.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
Hilary Term.—Eighth Victoria.

TEA.—lmporters of black and green still manifest
firmness, and will not sell but at fully previous rates.
For Pouchong better prices are obtained. Fine scented
Orange Pekoe must be quoted again dearer. Congou
is not much in request. Twankay has sustained the
former value. For Ilyson and Young Ilyson prices are
fully as high, but there is a pause in the demand. The
few parcels of Imperial and Gunpowder sold were
at former terms. At the public sales held
yesterday nierchats displayed firmness and bought
in and withdrew large parcels at full prices ;
of the total quantity offered, amounting to
21,179 packages, 5,000 were disposed of, 1,500 of which
consisted of Pouchong, which went at an advance on
sale's rates of Id to 2d, and on fine scented Orb; to
Peltee the rise was 2d per lb ; all other sorts of 'I rs
brought the former value, but the biddings for such were
languid.
SPICES.—This afternoon Black Pepper was in fair de-
mand, and 530 bags at public sale were sold at stiffer
rates. Sumatra, good c lean but stalky, fetched 2d to
20, inferior 21:1 ; 7 cases of Nutmegs, at 3s to 3s 5d for
brown Penang ; 1 case of Mace 2s 2d. Of Pimento 103
bags were sold at 3ad to aid for good middling, but
23 casks of wild Nutmegs were all withdrawn.
MOLASSES—To-day further reduced rates were taken
for We> t India Molasses. A parcel of fair St. Vincent
was sold at 19$ per cwt.
Coco A.— West India has met with little attention, and
the supply being on the increase, holders are compelled
to take prices rather under those previously quoted ; at
auction 202 bags of Trinidad were disposed of ; good
dark grey red at 45s to 475," middling ditto 42s
to 435, and very dark 41s per cwt. For Foreign
in consequence of the small supply.
prices keep up
RUM, BRANDY, AND BOLLANDS.—HoIders of Jamaica
Rum are not inclined to submit to any further decline in
prices at present ; 3s 6d to 3s 10d is the value of 30 to
33 per cent over, 3s lld to 4s 2d for good, 34 to 36 over,
and 4s 4d to 5s for fine. For Leewards, 2s 2id to 2s 3d
is the nearest value, proof strength. Calcutta 2s to 2s 1d
proof, with certificate. Demerara at 3s to 3s 3d for strong.
Brandy, the market has a firm appearance. Cognac, best
brands of the vintage of 1838, hhds 5s 3d, puns 5s Id ;
1839, hhds ss, puns 4s 10d ; 1840, hhds 58, puns 4s 10d;
1841, hhds 4s lhldds 4, ptst n6sd 4,
punss9d
4s
d
; 1842,4,
commonhhds 4s 2
Bd,s puns
4s 6d ; 1843, hhds to
2s I Id, mid to good mid 3s to 45, ar.d Bordeaux 2s 6d to
2s 9d per gallon ; Geneva Is 10d to is 10311 for shipping
sort, and 2s 4d to 3s 6d for fine fit for duty, but for ar-
rival there are sellers of the former at Is 9d to Is 9id
per gallon. British Corn Spirits at lOs 2d per gallon cash.
RlCE.—There are few purchasers of Bengal, and pre-
vious rates have been barely sustained ; good white at
lis to lls 6d ; good mid I Is, mid bold grain old but
dull rather dusty Ws 6d to Ils, mid mixed broken 105 6cl

THE GAME MANIA.

January 23, 1845.
Tr* Court will, on Saturday the Ist, and on Monday
the 3d, Tuesday the 4th, Wednesday the sth,
and Saturday the Bth days of February next,
and also on Monday the loth day of re:
ruary next, and the two next following days,
hold sittings, and will proceed in disposing of the busi-
ness in the Crown, Special, and New Trial Papers, and
giving judgment in cases then pending ; a selection will
be made from the Special Paper, and notice
THE iven.
BY COURT.

WHITEHALL, JAN. 23.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed William Smith,
un., of Sheffield, in the county of York, Gent., to be a
Masai- Rxtraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
BANKRUPTS.
William Dettraer, pianoforte-manufacturer, Upper
Marylebone-street, Jan. 31, and March 7, at twelve, at
the. Court of Baukruptcy, Pennell official assignee,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—The game-laws were passed by a landlording
Parliament, for the especial use of the " English
country gentleman." Hence the desire, as has been
for years, to increase game preserving, and monopo-
lise game to themselves. The game-laws, every one
knows, have been carried out with a savage ferocity
If one of the " lower orders" has been detected com-
mitting a theft, and he happened to be a poacher, the
full vengeance of the criminal law was sure to be dealt
out to him ; and more particularly in quarter sessions
and petite sessions. Most country magistrates would
get up at midnight after a game case, but keep people
waiting for several hours, perhaps a day, for any other
justicial matter, unless the accused was a poacher, then
the matter received different attention.

Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Blare.
--
.£ s. d. I £ s. d.
Aberdeen ........ •- • - - 2 0 0
Birmingham & Gloster 31. Es. perch. 100 0 0 100 0 0 111
Ditto, New, iss.7l tits. 15s. 25 0 0 17 10 0 26%
Brighton,Lews,& Bast. - 30 0 0 5 0 0
Bristol and Exeter •. • • 21.165. per sh. 100 0 0 70 0 0 76%
Ditto and Gloucester - 50 0 0 30 0 0 43
Caledonian .......... ..._.. 80 0 0 5 0 0 G%
Cambridge and Lincoln - 25 "0 0 110 0 3%
Chatham & Prtsmouth ' - 20 0 0 1 0 0
Chester and Ilolyhead - 50 0 0 50 0 631
Chichester & Brighton . - - 5 0 0
Churnet Valley .• • .... . - 20 9 0 20 0 6%
Cornwall .•.. • ....... - - 3 0 0 4
Direct Northern •.• • .. - 5e 0 0 210 0 234
Direct Norwich - 20 0 0 1 0 0 134
Diss, Beccles, & Yrmth - 2b 0 0 110 0 1%
Dublin & Belfast June. - 50 0 0 210 0 531
Ditto and Galway • . - - 2 10 0 234
Eastern Counties .• •
Do., Perpetual, No.l 51. per ct. 613 4 313 4 1 pm.
Ditto, ditto, N 0.2 - - 0 13 4 % pm.
East era Union - 50 0 0 10 0 0 11%
Edinburgh & Glasgow 21. Is. p. sh. 50 0 0 50 0 0 66
Ditto, Quarter Shares Ils. 3d. p. sh. 12 10 0 12 10 0 161 Q
Ely and Bedford - 25 0 0 1 0 0 1%
Grand Connection .. - E 0 0 0 210 0
Grand Junction .... . • 101. per et. 100 0 0 100 0 0 22434
Ditto, Half Shares lOl. per ct. 50 0 0 50 0 0 1121/
Ditto, Quarter Shares 101. per ct. 25 0 0 25 0 0
Gt. Southern /Western - 50 0 0 5 0 0 10%
Great North of England 31. Is. 100 0 0 100 0 0 149
Ditto, New... ••• . - - 40 0 0 6 0 0 273 _
Great Western ....• • • 71. percent. ILO 0 0 80 0 0 172
Ditto, Half Shares 7l.percent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 9931
Ditto, Fifths. 7l. per cent. 20 0 0 20 0 0 40
Guilford Junction - 50 0 0 35 0 0
- 20 0 0 1 0 0 1%
Hull and Selby ... -• • El. Is. pr et. 50 0 0 50 0 0 7331
Ditto, Qu zter Shares - 12 10 0 Io' 0 0
Kendal & Windermere - 25 0 0 1 10 0
Lancaster and Carlisle - 50 0 0 15 0 0 24%
Leeds and Bradford - 50 0 0 5 0 0 18%
Liverpool & Manchestr 101. per ct, 100 0 0 100 0 0
Ditto, Half Shares lOl. per et. 50 0 0 50 0 0
Ditto, Quarter Shares 101. per ct. 25 0 0 25 0 0
London & Birmingham 101. per et. - Stock. 230
Ditto, New Thirds lOl. per et. 32 0 0 2 0 0 43
Ditto,New % 'Shares 101. per ct. 25 0 0 2 0 0 28
London and Blackwall - 16 13 4 -7%
London and Brighton lt. ss. per sh. 50 0 0 50 0 0 52%
Ditto, Loan Notes 5l. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 1231
London and Greenwich - 12 15 4 - 11%
Ditto, Pref. or Priv -5/. percent. 18 17 2 - 24
London and 5. Western Si. ss. per sh. 41 6 10 - 79
Do., New Cons. Bths - 40 0 0 6 0 0 28
Ditto, New ...... - 50 0 0 210 0 1234
London and Czoydon -10 e. per eh. 13 15 9 - 16
Ditto, Guarntd. sp. c. - 9 0 0 4 0 0
London and York - 50 0 0 210 0 4%
Lynn and Ely - 25 0 0 1 5, 0 4%
Manchester and Leeds 41.7 x, 6d. p. 0. 100 0 0 70 0 0 129
Ditto, Half Shares 11.175.6d.p.5. 50 0 0 30 0 0 5734
Ditto, Quarter Shares 43. 25 0 0 2 0 0
Ditto, Sixteenths
Manchestr & Binning 2l. per share 40 0 0 40 0 0 56
Ditto, Quarter Shares - 10 0 0 2 0 0 6
Midland ....... ••• • • • 41. 4e. per eh. - Stock. 128
Ditto, Fifths - - 2 0 0
Ditto, Birm. & Derby 21.135. per sh, - Stock. 94
Newcastle & Berwick - 25 0 0 1 10 0 10
New cstle & Darl. June. 6s. 23 0 0 24 0 0 62
North British . - - 7 10 0 11%
Northern and Eastern . 21. ss. 50 0 0 45 0 0 62
Ditto, Scrip, iss. 51. d. 15s. 50 0 0 25 0 0 44%
Ditto, Quarter Shares - 12 10 0 12 10 0 1734
North Kent.. - - 2 15 0 3%
Norwich and Brandon . - 20 0 0 8 0 0 14%
Ditto, New • • - - 10 0 0 1 0 0 4%
Portsmouth Direct • ... - 80 0 0 210 0 2
Preston and Wyre - - - 50 0 0 50 0 0
Richmnd& W. E June. - 20 0 0 1 0 9 3%
Rugby - - 1 0 0 2%
Ditto, 2d Pref., 184/ - 25 0 0 95 0 0
Sheffield and Lincoln .. - 25 0 0 1 5 0 1%
Sheffield & Manchestr 51. per cent. 100 0 0 82 10 0
Ditto, Quarter Shares - 25 0 0 8 0 0 13
Shrws.,Wolv.,Dud.,Bir - 50 0 0 210 0 4
South Devon ......... - 50 0 0 10 0 0 1534
South-Eastern & Don. 11. ls. 33 2 4 - 48
Ditto, New iss.lBl.ffis - 50 0 0 4 0 0 211%
South Wales ......... - - 2 10 0 5
Stevenson's Prtsmouth - - 2 10 0 2%
Thames and Medway.. - 19 5 8 -
Trent Valley ...•• • • • . - 20 0 0 2 0 0 11
Yarmouth & Norwich - 20 0 0 20 0 0 2834
Ditto, New .... .... - 20 0 0 8 0 0 15%
York & North Midland 101. per ct. 50 0 0 60 0 0 108
Ditto, Half Shares. • 101. per ct. 25 0 0 23 0 0 5331
Do., Scarbro' Branch - - 20 0 0 443
Ditto, Selby Scrip .. - - 20 0 0 70
Ditto, Extension .. • . - 25 0 0 1 5 0 13%
Boulogne and Amiens. - 20 0 0 2 0 0 4%
Gt. Northern of France - 20 0 0 4 0 0 5%
Orleans and Vlerzon • • 20 0 0 2 0 0 113 n
-
Orleans & Bourdeaux - 20 0 0 2 0 0 7%
Paris and Lyons - .... - 20 0 0 2 0 0 334
Paris and Strasbourg.. - 20 0 0 2 0 0 2%
Paris and Orleans..... - 20 0 0 20 0 0 44%
Paris and Rouen ... ... 21. 20 0 0 20 0 0 44%
Rouen and Havre .... -. ;20 0 0 12 0 0 283

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
- -
X s. d. X a. d.
Australasia .......... 81. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 4534
Britsh North American 61. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 45%
Commercial of London 51. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0
Colonial .............. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0
Londn and Westminstr 01. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 271,E
London Joint-Stock .• • 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14%
Metropolitan ...• • • . • • 25 0 0 7 10 0
Provincial of Ireland•. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 44Y,
Ditto, New.• • • . • ... VI. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0
National of Ireland .. 51. per cent. 50 0 0 17 10 0 15%
Nat. Provnclal of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0
Ditto,
Union of Australia.... 25 0 0 '25 0 0 2714
Union of London 5l. per cent. 30 0 0 10 0 0 12!ii

The game-preservin,, propensity, the game-laws,
and the administration of them, are a great stain upon
our national character. LOOKER,-ON.
January, 22, 1845.

TUE OLDEST SOLDIER IN EUROPB.—On Wed-
nesday, the 22(1 inst., at the Roman Catholic chapel in
the London-road, the Poles assembled to attend the
funeral service in honour of their late General-in-Chief,
M. Casimir Malachowski. The Rev. H. Brzezinski,
the chaplain to the Polish refugees, officiated.
The Gallant General was eighty-three years of
age, and served no less than sixty-five years in the
armies which best served the cause of his unfortunwe
country. General Malachowski was one of the distin-
guished members of the six armies, viz., the army of
General Kosciuszko, the Polish Legion in the service of
France ; he was also a General in the army of the
Grand Duchy of Warsaw, of the French expeditionary
army to Russia, in that of the late Viennese Polish
Kingdom ; and, lastly, he was a General of the Polish
army in 1831. It was he who by mistake signed the
capitulation of Warsaw. As soon as he found out his
4i.tal mistake, he ordered a general parade of the
despairing army, and in the front of it in mostthe
i ener-
getic manner accused himself of the fact, invoking court-
martial and death for his unintentional crime , but the
gallant patriots, moved to tears by the self-accusation of
the grey-headed soldier, would not comply with his re-
quest. The General, faithful to the last, emigrated fur
the third time in his life from his native land, and on the
s;h instant died at Chantilly, near Paris, having served
sixty-five years, and fought in eighty-four pitched battles.
DEATH OF MRS. :NORTON.—It is with no ordinary
feelings of regret that we have to announce the death of
the lady of William Fletcher Norton, Esq., of Elton
Manor, in this county, at 40, Wellington-square, Ilast-
lags. This amiable and excellent lady had been for
some time in a declining state of health, and it had been
recommended by her medical adviser to try the air of
Hastings, where she accordingly went on the 21st De.
cember last. She appeared at first to derive some benefit
from the change, but this hope was soon dispelled ; she
gradually became weaker and weaker, till at length she
breathed her last on Saturday, the 18th inst., at twenty
rumutea Wore four o'clock.—Nottinghani Review,

DOCKS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per I of I Paid. Price.
Annum. i Share. II
£ s. d. £ s. d.
Commercial — 31. per cent. Stock.
East and West India... 6%1. pr cent. I Stock. 142
East Country ... • • ... 11. per sh. 100 0 0 21
London
St. Katharine •• • • ....1 5 per cent. , Stock. 118
Southampton ••••• • • • [ 41. per cent. I 50 0 0 , 50 0 0

WATEN,VFORICS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
£ s, d.
East London... •• • • • 100 0 0 230
Grand Junction •••• • • 31. 4G 13 4 90
Kent • .
Vauxhall 51. per cent. 100 0 0 CO
West Middlesex 41. 16s. pr et. 63 12 9 126

LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES.
JAN. 91, 1845.

Dicidend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Mara.
£ s. d. £ s. (1.
Bank of Scotland ...• • 61. per cent. E 100 0 0 172
Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. 100 0 0 168
British Linen Company 81* per cent. 100 0 0 226
Commercial Bank • • 61. per cent. 100 0 0 16736
National Bank 6l. per cent. 10 0 0 15%
Union Bank of Scotland 7 ;jl. pr cent, 50 0 0 57
Western Bank.... • 61. per cent., 50 0 0 76
North of Scotland Bank 6/. per cent. 5 0 0 7
Clydesdale Bank.... • . 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1435',
Eastern Bank.
Caledonian Bank
Edinb.& Glasgow Bauk 51. per cent. 5 0 0 732,
City of Glasgow Bank. 51. per cent. -- 815 0 134
Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 i 14
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14
Insur. Co. of Scotlnd. • 51. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 10
North British Incur.. • 91. per cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 2.11 i
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 25
Edinburgh Life Incur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 181 i
Edin.&(;la;.ltaiiway 4341. percent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 623.1.
Ditto, I,i Shares 4Y.percent. 12 10 0 All paid. 153.
Edin., Leith, & Grant!' 20 0 0 20 0 0 15
Gltasgw &Ayrshir Bail. 43. .percent. 50 0 0 All paid. 6114
Glasgw&Greenck Hail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 124
Glsgw & Garnkirk Rail. Si. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 25
Dundee&Arbroth 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 32

CANALS.
..: I
Names of e. Dividendl Names of 3a
Prise. Dividend
Companies. -% per Companies. er rice.
A Annump . P
a• Annum. :o
X 1 £
Ashtn & Oldhi 97,54,55. p o 72 Monmouthsh 10a Si. 160
Ashby-d-la-Z 113, 41. 70 Mntgomrysh 100 51. 98
Barnsley ....1160; 121. 180 Macclesfield. 100 - 15
Basingstoke. 1100' - 5 Neath ......100 201. 365
Brknk&Abrg.llso 51. 85 Nottingham . 150 121. 260
Cromford .... 100 181. 250 Peak Forest .78 31. 40
Dudley...... 100 41. 80 Regent's .. .. 33 11. 25
Derby .... .. ilOOl 81. 150 Rochdale .... 85 4/. 55
Ellsmre&Chs 1331 4/. 623! Shropshire • • 125 81. 120
Erewash ... 1001 321. 440 Somrset Coal 150 71. 10s. 123
Forth & Clyd 100' 41. 105 Do.Lkid St 12 6/. p. c. 11
GrandJunctnlloo 71. 157 St ffrd &Worc 140 281. 480
Grand Union 100 1/. 10s. 25 Shrewsbury.. 125 IN. 230
Glamorgush . i 1721 13%1. 210 Stourbridge .. 145 201. 360
Glstr &Brkly,lool - 8 Strtfrd on Av 7) 1/. 10s. 30
Grantham • .1150 12/. 185 Severn andl
Iluddersfleld., 571 - 20 Wye Rail. j 26 1/. Bs. 30
Kennt & Avn 391 7s. 6d. 10 Tmt & 34r- 7 „
Lancaster .• • 471 1/. 10. 40 sey, 1A sh.s .v 301. 405
Leeds& LivrPi 1001 341. 623 Thams &Med 18 ._,.. 10
Leicester ....140, 101. 139 Worcstr &"/ ~,
Leicstr &Nth 831 41. 70 Blrming..s i 8 41. 50
Jooughborogh i 1421 701. 1050 flits & Brks 67 11. 4s. 11

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday a Court of Common Council was held
at the usual hour for the dispatch of public business.
At the opening of the Court several members who
had not taken the oaths, and made and subscribed the
declaration prescribed by the statute as a substitute
and in lieu of the provisions of the Corporation and
Test Acts, at the several wardmotcs whereat they
had been respectively elected, were called to the table
for the purpose of taking the oath of office and sub-
scribing the declaration. Among those so called were
Mr. R. Taylor, who, however, retained his seat until
again called upon by the Town Clerk, when
Mr. R. TAYLOR rose, and was about to address the
Court, but

The LORD MAYOR interpose d, and remarked that,
acting ministerially as he (the Lord Mayor) then
was, he could not hear Mr. Taylor until he had been
sworn, and made the declaration required by law.
Mr. R. TAYLOR replied that he had been sworn, and
had made the declaration before the proper authority
at the wardmote.

The LORD MAYOR—I am told that you have not.
The TOWN CLERK informed the Court that the
declaration had not been returned to him by the
ward clerk.

A MEMBER—No, and the reason was that Mr.
Taylor, after having made it, walked away with it in
his pocket.—(A laugh.)
Mr. Wituams (I arringdon) said he had seen Mr.
Taylor make and Aubscribe the declaration.
Mr. R. TAYLOR--Yes, and I have it with me ;
but I wish to take this occasion to express my opinion
not merely on the folly, absurdity, and impertinence
of this declaration (of which this Court several years
ago expressed its unanimous condemnation),but more
especially at this time, of the intolerant and oppres-
sive use made of it by the Court of Aldermen to the
exclusion from office of Mr. Salomons and the virtual
disfranchisement of the electors of Portsoken. It is
most absurd and tyrannical. Mr. Taylor handed the
declaration to the Town Clerk, and thus the conversa-
tion dropped.