The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-23 00:00:00

SALES BY AUCTION.

irviallEHOLD PROPERTY IN THE OLD JEWRY.
R• GEORGE ROBINS is instructed to SELL
ht. by PUBLIC COMPETITION, at the Auction Mart, on
41114; Oct. 3, at Twelve, by direction of the Trustees of
HENRY HEYMAN, ESQ., DECEASED,
AND FULL POWER OF SALE,
alable FREEHOLD PROPERTY, either for investment or
"* .Pation, land.tax redeemed. It is
t-
No. 7, IN THE OLD JEWRY;
-0 Bless of

altp THE LORD MAYOR'S COURT
er,,, "4. 7 also, and are immediately adjoining to the property
""a. Which consists of a very good residence, including
Rietki,ng A CAPITAL AND CAPACIOUS SHOP,
to flits' feet in depth, in a situation particularly eligible
444ttade, and nearly in front of Frederick's-place. The publicity
ii2reat thoroughfare of the Old Jewry will always insure an
atTilata rent to this freehold. There are sufficient bed.rooms, with
the tii, ftn, kitchen, and all useful family accommodation
lids .le i perspective when the City improvements will require
14,2,14 e, and it need hardly to be remarked the great pecuniary
'lage that will be the result.
ter.h4ticUlara may be had on the premises ; of Messrs. Amory,
koi"laall Moores, solicitors, Throgmorton-street ; at the Auction
at Mr. George Robins's offices, Covent.garden.
bliPon
nTANT TO CAPITALISTS.—THE CEDRYN SLATE
QUARRY,
OF. CONSIDERABLE EXTENT, IN HIGH
AV IMMENSE
AND CARRYING ON AT THIS MOMENT
IMMENSE TRAFFIC.
Vt. GEORGE ROBINS begs to notify to the
iht, Public he is directed by those interested in this value-
tst.„.°PartY, to SELL by AUCTION, at the Mart, London, on
7aY. the 17th October, at Twelve, in One Lot, and perem-
ii
VERY PROMISING INVESTMENT,
Iltli,,`'XDßYN SLATE QUARRY, OF GREAT EXTENT,
t` in Carnarvenshire, North Wales. If it be inquired why a
1101 that is so highly eulogised should be in the market, it is
clad (to use a very ancient and very homely adage), " too
)1.2.c00ks frequently spoil the broth." One competent person,
tag a brain farm, will speedily accomplish all that this
114'.naernent has in perspective, and even more under a talented
ton.
%be Slate is of excellent quality, of a rich grey.blue colour, and
had in abundance under a very thin cover.
ietiWork I. already about 40 yards wide, and is capable of
ntended to upwards of

MI, ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY YARDS,
7a
17,
al
na rdg ess itlhuomnbt et rh e osfli ignhetne s
tmrai
syk b e
This employedis an mi
noyset s t
ndevnatn
at ma_
ni a rare opportunity to any party with moderate capital to
The REALISE A LARGE FORTUNE.
v
l'4oer-. observations which follow are extracted from a Welsh
ktm:kld fully demonstrate the accuracy of the foregoing state-
-0'"" I have been in Carnarvonshire, to see the Quarry, and
Oq brielnion is, that there is something extraordinary in it; it
blade, with a few thousands outlay,
MOST EXTENSIVE CONCERN OF THIS SORT
bie THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
)41'14 of pure slates is ascertained to be no less than 180
iliyet,Aide, and at least half a mile in length, without any ob-
, and as deep as any parties may feel inclined to go,
u there is sufficient quantity of that useful material
SUPPLY THE WHOLE WORLD FOR CENTURIES
TO COME;
%%li" good management the profits would—they could not be less
can

hp, 100 to 150 per cent. upon the outlay, after it is put in
khr`r order. It will employ many hundred men to great
lint'gt Another desirable point connected with this concern
Ifat the cover of earth on the surface is only two or three yards
*liercas most of the quarries are under ten or fifteen yards
lopg • The workshops, waggons, and working utensils are in
Itth
6'ePair, as also the road, three miles of which has been made
1,„.114e n e of nearly 2,0001.;
4,"1S WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE PURCHASE.
NZ". Point is worthy of consideration, the work is on the side of
-ebrated Carnarvon Hills, and a sufficient declivity affbrds to
Rater a cheap conveyance to
bit" THE BEAUTIFUL EIGIA LAKE.
aPlendid waters are full of fish, and concequently afford lots
bkVletnent, and the hill prevents the impossibility of any annoy-
ilib„,t° the works from water. The distance to a capital
L'IS wharf is only seven miles, and but nine to the intended
tIESTER AND HOLYHEAD GREAT RAILWAY.
Ilaine of the concern is
4taat THE " CEDRYN QUARRY,"
teilwe about ten miles from Banger, and the same distance from
ay and Llanrwst, in the centre between the three towns.
It is held under

tot th THE RIGHT HON. LORD NEWBOROUGH
kt • - Unexpired term of twenty-eight years, which can be extended
tune
n conclusion, we can only add that the Quarry ought to pre.
Considerable sum, as it is
10)104 SURE FORTUNE FOR ANY SPIRITED PARTY
nY be lucky enough to get it."
ik„;,"ts unpretending statement of facts will convince even those
ItZned to be sceptical, that it is an investment free from doubt or
irtainty.
411 Particulars may be had on application to Mr. E. Owen,
*4l:°,ueer, Ruthin ; to Mr. George Robins, London ; the
1.14, Plnni Liverpool; the Albion, Manchester : and the White
Bristol.

OP;*----rs
.SITE MR. TROTTER'S PARK at SOUTH MIMS, and
A near to DANCER'S HILL, BARNET.
VILLA ABODE, with Gardens and Pleasure.grounds, and a
-..esne of Thirty-three Acres around it, the high North Road
posing through the Estate, and Mr. Byng's close by, Land-tax
hßemed.
R. GEORGE ROBINS is instructed by the
tm. Trustees for Sale of the late Henry Heyman, Esq., to
sat, kt 7 PUBLIC AUCTION, at the Mart, London, on Tones-
3, at Twelve, in Two Lots,
e - 4agirable FREEHOLD and COPYHOLD ESTATE,
terY bekt of the
It h MANOR, OF LORD SALISBURY.
" the )7111t fourteen miles from London, and on the completion
tirent; "•°ndon and York Railway passing by it, it will be within
taiaUtes' ride of the great metropolis. It comprehends a very
PRETTY VILLA ABODE,
lithe unpretending,
KNOWN AS LAUREL COTTAGE,
alitio Pretending, but with great capability ; to achieve this, in
tbdid"s Ur, 4it ;
made known that ais outlay of 2001. or 300/. will be
to bl o
e t
fullyt renown, and render i ; this, with the aid f a cleveradequate artiste,
to will
all there resto it
L
libla ancia en
Wants of a citizen or respectable family.
Ikes THE REV. G. M. MYERS
bittios'aalesticated here for several years; at Michaelmas his occu-
-14,1: Will cease, and the purchaser may have possession at a
ht,,.,11's notice. The situation is very prepossessing ;itis a little
Ithred from, but in full view of, the high north road ; the gardens
Nihe,ll, encircle it are improved by thriving plantations, and the
is adorned by a large conservatory and grapery ; the coach.
e and stables, and the farm-buildings, are shut out of view,
ample. The neighbourhood is very sociable, and the
13' select. The ensemble has
PARKISH CHARACTER, EXTENDING TO

w tic THIRTY-THREE ACRES
14_ eadow and pasture, refreshed when in need by the
'valetm that divides it ; and the other boundary is the
it is HIGH NORTH TURNPIKE ROAD
'romediately vis-a-vis to
tad „1". TROTTER'S PARK AND LODGE G ATES,
''nly a short distance from the mansion of George Byng, Esq.,
ethe THE WORTHY M.P. FOR MIDDLESEX.
hi:resent occupier of the land is Mr. Taylor, of South Mims,
e tenancy expires Sept. 29 this year. The rent for the whole
only
e„ On Hundred Guineas a year. Its real value may be stated
tat
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY POUNDS.
is a considerable fFoutage to the high road,' calculated to
uPon successfully.
Ve estate can be seen at any time, with the permission of Mr.
lieend the villa by asking leave of the Rev. Mr. Myers. Par-
-144:8 had athe Green Man, Barnet ; of Mine Host of the
Par-
-11 Dragon, New-road (and very near to the property) ;of
144 at
1. Amory, Sewell, and Moores, solicitors, Throgtnorton-
tov the Auction Mart; and at Mr. George Robins's offices,
44, "Illarden. A lithographic drawing will accompany the par.
of sale.

SALE of FARMING STOCK at COLD HARBOUR FARM,
SWANLEY, near DARTFORD, KENT.
Essils. DICKSON and BELL have received
T
instructions to SELL by AUCTION, on the Premises,
on THURSDAY, the 11th day of October, 1844, by order of the
Proprietor, who has let the farm,
The valuable LIVE and DEAD FARMING STOCK, IM.
PLEMENTS of HUSBANDRY, and CROPS, comprising seven
excellent horses, three good cows in full milk, one hundred two-
tooth down wethers, twenty-five ewes and their lambs, a well-bred
ram, two breeding sows and three pigs, waggons, dung carts, fruit
van, harrows, rollers, ploughs, winnowing machine, three chaff-
cutters, and a variety of other implements suitable for a farm of 250
acres ; also a large stack of prime old saintfoin hay, two stacks of
wheat, two stacks of oats, and two large stacks of oak-root wood.
May be viewed one day preceding the sale. Catalogues had on
the premises ; at Jack's Coffee-house, Mark-lane; at the various
Inns in the neighbourhood; and at Messrs. Dickson and Bell's,
30, Bucklersbury, London.

QTRA.IV YARD.—HORSES taken for the
Winter into a very secure, sheltered, and, well-watered Straw-
yard, at East Wickham, near Welling, Kent, at Five Shillings per
Week. Distance from• London, ten miles, down the Dover-road.

AMERICAN ICE.-LYNN'S WATERLOO
HOTEL, RANELAGH-STREET, LIVERPOOL.

WILLIAM LYNN respectfully calls the attention of the nobility,
gentry, hotel-keepers, and others, to this beautiful and cheap article
of importation. It is in solid blocks, weighing from one to two hun-
dred pounds each, and is as clear as crystal ; it can be sent to any
distance, with very trifling waste ; and is used for a variety of pur-
poses that English Ice cannot he applied to.
W. L. has imported some PROVISION SAFES from America, for
the use and comfort of Private Families—

The REFRIGERATOR, or (as sometimes designated) a Miniature
Ice-house. This is a new and useful article of furniture, rapidly
coining into use in northern and southern climes ; it is designed to
keep cool and sweet such dishes in the culinary department as are
necessary to be protected frem the heat of the weather during tke
summer season.

The Refrigerator is now considered an indispensible article in the
economy of every good housewife ; the quantity of food it protects
from the weather will more than pay the cost of the article in
one year.
They may be seen in operation, in their various valuable and useful
purposes, at the Waterloo Hotel, and families can be supplied with
them on moderate terms.

American Ice, wholesale and retail.
Live Turtle and Turtle-soup sent to any part of the kingdom.

BURGESS' ESSENCE of ANCHOVIES,
Warehouse, 107, STRAND; corner of the Savoy-steps, London.

JOHN BURGESS and SON, being apprised of the numerous en-
deavours made by many persons to impose a spurious article for their
make, feel it incumbent on them to request the attention of the
public, in purchasing what they conceive to be the original to ob-
serve the Name and Address correspond with the above. The gene-
ral appearance of the spurious descriptions will deceive the un-
guarded ; and, for their detection, J. B. and Son, submit the following
cautions:-9.ome are in appearance at first sight, " the genuine," but
without name or address ; some " Burgess's Essence of Anchovies,"
and others " Burgiss's ;" and many more without address. Jahn
Burgess and Son, having been many years honoured with such dis-
tinguished approbation, feel every sentiment of respect towards the
public, and earnestly solicit them to inspect the labels previous to
purchasing what they conceive to be of their make, which they hope
will prevent many disappointments.
BURGESS' NEW SAUCE, for general purposes, having given such
great satisfaction, continues to be prepared by them, and is recom-
mended as a most useful and convenient sauce ; will keep good in all
climates.

Warehouse, 107, STRAND, corner of the Savoy.steps, London.
The Original Fish-sauce Warehouse.

SILVER SUPERSEDED, and those corrosive
and injurious Metals, called Nickel and German Silver, sup-
planted by the introduction of a new and perfectly matchless
ALBATA PLATE.

C. WATSON, 41 and 42, Barbican, and 16, Norton Folgate, aided by
a person of Science in the amalgamation-of Metals, has succeeded in
bringing to Public Notice the most beautiful Article ever yet offered;
possessing all the richness of Silver in appearance, with all its dura-
bility and hardness—with its perfect sweetness in use, undergoing, as
it does, a Chemical Process, by which, all that is nauseous in mixed
Metals is entirely extracted—resisting all Acids—may be cleaned as
silver, and is manufactured into every Article for the Table and
Sideboard:—

Fiddle. Threaded. King's.
Table Spowas and Forks, 16s. 6d. doz. 30s. I 355.
Desert Ditto ••• • • • 12s. 6d. 255. I 28s.
Tea Spoons.. ... • • ss. 6d. —12 s. Gd. 13s. Gd.
Sugar Tongs
C. WATSON begs the Public will understand that this Metal is
peculiarly his own, and that Silver is not more different from Gold
than his metal is from all others—on its intrinsic merit alone he
wishes it to be tested, and from the daily increasing eulogiums he re-
ceives, he is convinced that nothing can prevent its becoming an
article of universal wear.

C. Watson's handsomely Illustrated Catalogue and Price Currant
is just published, and Families who regard economy and elegance
should possess themselves of this useful Book, which may be had
Gratis, and Post Free, from the above Address.
PATENT PARAGON CAMPIIINE LAMPS.
The perfection of these Lamps over the Vesta has bees
happily attained by the invention of two parallel flat rings—a larger
and a smaller forming a cone round the margin of the wick, which
cause a rapid reverberation of air against the flame—thus condensing
every particle of volatilized vapour, it is free from smoke or smell,
having perfect combustion, and in full action, emits a light equal to
16 wax candles.

C. Watson's Warehouses, 41 and 42, Barbican, and 16, Norton
Folgate, will contain, throughout the season, all the most elegant
recherche and new patterns, comprising Or-molu, China, Glass, and
Opal.
Old Oil Lamps fitted with the Paragon Head for 21s. And the
Paragon Apparatus applied to the Vesta for 6s. The Spirit analysed
and recommended by Dr. Ure, is delivered in screw cans by C.
Watson's carts, at 4s. per gallon.
41 & 42, BARBICAN, and 16, NORTON FOLGATE.

THE DONCASTER CUP.
`We cannot do wrong if we try to get up
An advertisement touching " the Doncaster Cup."
Whet we think of this " Cup," and the bustle it makes,
A-'d the horses, the joclCes, the course, and the stakes—
When we think of the es,rts to gain the rich prize,
Many pleasing reflections are sure to arise.
The scene of a race-course has ever dis lay'd
A likeness which bears on the " circle" of trade.
Don't smile, gentle reader, don't smile! for we trust
We can show you thrt such a comparison's just,
And you'll all of you own, ere the verses are done,
'Twas a capital " hit" of E. MOSES and SON.
As trade is a race-cou -se. each tradesman, of " course,"
Can only be vicw'd in the light of a horse,
And the " Cup" to which all the " swift animals press
Is public approval—or rather " success."
/s ow the two fleetest " horses" that ever have run
Are the public's own fav'rit es, E. MOSES and SON.
The " cup of success" hasbeen gain'd by these men
With glorious triumph again and again.
They, for years, have display's', in the ",race-course of trade,"
Exertions which no other tradesmen have made.
And none in the " circles" of commerce have won,
Such glorious prizes as HOSE' and SON. ,
N.B. For the convenience of parties residing from town, on appli-
cation, directions for self-measurement will be forwarded post free.
READY MADE. s. d.
Shooting Coats in every variety from • 10 0
Velveteen ditto, seven pockets
Tweed Taglionts
Ditto, ditto, with silk facings, cellars, and cuffs
Cashmarette coats in every shape, handsomely trimmed 1 10 0
An immense stock of Blouses
summer vests
Cashmere and Persian ditto, in every variety 'is. to
Black satin vests
Ditto, cloth ditto 0 4 6
Cloth trousers
Single milled doe
A great variety of summer ditto
Dress Coat, edged"
Frock ditto, ..... ...... 1 6 0

EAST INDIA HOUSE, SEPTEMBER 18, 1844.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY do hereby give notice,
That the QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT of the said COM-
PANY appointed to be held at their House, in Leadenhall-street, on
WEDNESDAY, the 25th instant, is made special for the purpose of sub-
mit lug to the Proprietors of East India Stock for confirmation, the
Resolution of the General Court of this day approving the Resolution
of the Court of Directors, of the 21st of August last, granting an an-
nuity of One Thousand Pounds (1,0001.) to Major-General Sir William
Nott, G.C.8., upon the grounds therein stated.
J. D. DICKINSON, Deputy Secretary.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, SEPT. 18, 1844.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY do hereby give notice,
That a PROPRIETOR of the EAST INDIA STOCK has postponed
until the QUARTERLY COURT of the said COMPANY, appointed
to be held at their House in Leadenhall-street, on WEDNESDAY, the
25th inst., the Motion of which he had previOusly given notice, viz.:—
" That the Dispatch of Lord Auckland, of the 17th November,
1833, by which his Lordship rejected the proposed plan of the Bengal
Government, and recommended the immull money payment of
6,0001. to the Temple of Juggernaut (to which recommendation the
Directors assented, by their Dispatch of June 2, 1840), be considered
by the Court of Proprietors on motion for abrogating such money pay-
ment, upon the ground of no original pledge or engagement having
ever been given for the same, by, or on behalf of, this Company, as
erroneously alleged by Lord Auckland in his DFspatch."
" That a PROPRIETOR has given notice, that at the said QUAR-
TERLY GENERAL COURT he will call the attention of the Pro-
prietors to the treatment of his Majesty tke King of Delhi by the
Government of India ;" and
That a PROPRIETOR has given notice that, at the said QUAR-
TERLY GENERAL COURT; "he will call the attention of the Pro-
prietors to the state of the Police in the Presidencies of Bengal and
Agra, and to the state of the Jails in all the Presidencies of India."
J. D. DICKINSON, Deputy Secretary.

LETTERS OF CREDIT ON INDIA.
The UNION BANE OF LONDON, as ♦gents for the BANK
of WESTERN INDIA, are authorised to issue LETTERS of CRE-
DIT for any Moneys paid to them, to be re-paid in Rupees, at the
current rate of Exchange on the day of presentation, at the offices of
the bank of Western India, In Bombay, Calcutta. and Colombo.
Similar Letters of Credit may be obtained at any of the branches
of the National Bank of Scotland, and of the Provincial Bank of
Ireland.

MADE TR MEASURE.
Sporting Coats in The most approved style
Velveteen ditto, ditto, seven pockets 1.
tweed coats, trimmed with silk "o'l6 0
Cashmere,—fineSaxony...::4
Cashmarette. New and improved article, warranted water-
-4 ,proof, trimmed with silk, collar, cuffs, Ac....
vests, 78. each, or three for ' I 9 6
Cashmere vests, in choice patterns
Trousers, adapted for the season
Milled Victona, and plain doe ... 0 17 0
Best quality West of England 1 3 0
Super Black
Best Dress
Dress Coat
Ditto, ditto, best manufactured
Frock Coat
Best manufactured. 3 3 0
Mourning to any extent can be had at five minutes' notice, at the
following prices s
Men's Suits, dress coat, vest, and trousers from 1 16 0
Boys' ditto, jacket, vest, and trousers . from 0 18 0
Imeotersitcr.— Any article purchased or ordered, if not approved
of ,exchanged, or the money returned.
°biers e—E. MOSES and SON, Tailors Wholesale and Retail
Woolen Drapers, Outfitters. and General ",+areh ousemen, 154, Mi-
nories. and 96, Aldgate,City, opposite the Church.
CAUTION.—E. Moses and Son are obliged to guard th 'public
3gainst imposition, having learned that the untradesmanlike
falsehood of being connected with them, or it's the same concern,
has oeen resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons.
They have no connexion whatever with any other establishment,
and those who desire genuine Cheap Clothing should (to prevent
disappointment, &c.) call or send to, 154, Minories, or 86, Aldgate,
oppesite the Church.
N.B. No business transacted at this Establishment from sunset on
Fridav till sunset on Saturday, when business is resumed till twelve
o'clock,

By order of the Directors,
W. W. SCRIMGEOUIt, Manager.
Union Bank tg*London, No. 8, Moorgate-street.

T ONDON and BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.
NOTICE.

On and after the First of October next, a TRAIN for the CON-
VEYANCE of THIRD-CLASS PASSENGERS, at a PENNY per
PASSENGER per MILE, will leave the EUSTON STATION
DAILY (SUNDAYS INCLUDED), at Seven in the Morning, ar-
riving at Three o'clock in the Afternoon in Birmingham, where a
Third-Class Train will be in readiness to carry Passengers forward to
Liverpool, Manchester, &c., by ftle Grand Junction Railway, at the
same price. _

The Return Train will leave Birmingham daily at Half-past Two
in the Afternoon, and bring on the Passengers by the Third-Class
Train from the Grand Junction Railway, arriving in London at a
Quarter before Ten o'clock.—By order,
(Signed)
Euston Station, 18th September, 1844.

L'Z'r TO CAPITALISTS.
---.WSIVE AND IMPORTANT SALE OF LANDED
ESTATES IN NORTH WALES.
k4ll. LLOYD has been honoured with instrue-
th tions to SELL, by AUCTION,at the Town.hall, Pwllheli,
fe county of Carnarvon, on MONDAY, October 21, 1844, and
lii°ll°*iing. days, each day at Twelve o'clock punctually, subject
40,"• conditions as shall be then produced, in about 2110 Lots,
"arid singular those capital:
FARMS, MESSU AGES, TENEMENTS, AND
ttUideT' HERIDITAMENTS,
• the several parishes of Llanstumdwy, Llanflhangel.y-
ihiCrni Llanarmon, Llangybi, Abererch, Llannor, Llandegwn-
thinentaa, Llangian, Deno, and Pwllheli, comprising nearly
.rip".• EIGHT THOUSAND ACRES
htei, ior arable, pasture, and meadow land, well cultivated, with
cut buildings, in good repair, and most respectably tenanted.
eritisluost desirable and important property is situate in the fertile
Ibitkii!44 ItUral districts of Lleyn and Eifionydd, and presents to ca.
14%11, an opportunity for investment, of a character rarely of.
ttitti7 the public competition. It abounds in eligible sites for the
f
14414111 NE VILLAS AND FAMILY RESIDENCES,
tit. and
the most romantic and picturesque views of mountain,
fitvalley scenery, with a variety of good.sised farms, most In.
tail; to agriculturists. The lots in the more immediate vicinity

Cashiers-wanted. No premium required;

PATRONISED BY HER MAJESTY, HIS ROYAL HIGH-
NESS PRINCE ALBERT, THE ROYAL FAMILY, AND
NOBILITY, AND THE SEVERAL SOVEREIGNS AND

COURTS OF EUROPE.
ROWLAND'S MACASSOR OIL, for the
Growth and Preserving and Beautifying the Human Hair.
Price 3s. 6d., 75.. Family Bottles (equal to four small), 10e. 6d.,
and double that size, 21s.
CAUTION.—The words " Rowland's Macassar Oil" are engraved
on the Wrapper of each genuine bottle; and on the back of the
Wrapper 1,500 times, containing 28,026 letters. Without this,
" None are genuine."

R, CREED, Secretary.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
CAPTAIN WARNER'S EXPERIMENT having gives rise
to a general desire for information on the PROPERTIES of the EX-
PLOSIVE COMPOUNDS at the ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTI-
TUTION, the EXPERIMENTS (so highly interesting) are continued
with perfect safety, illustrative of Dr. RYAN'S POPULAR LEC-
TURE on EXPLOSIVE COMPOUNDS, every Afternoon at half-past
Three o'clock, and in the Evenings of Monday, Wednesday, and
Fridays, at a Quarter before Nine o'clock. The varied Lectures of
Professor BACHHOFFNER daily. The HYDRO-ELECTRIC MA-
CHINE, LONGBOTTOM'S PHYSIOSCOPE, and other original and
beautiful Optical Effects, &c., &c.
Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-priCe.

LD ARTICLES RE-PLATED, and restored
to their original appearance, at a, comparatively small cost.
WARD and CO., PATENT VOLTAIC ELECTRO PLATERS,
GILDERS, and MANUFACTURERS, respectfully invite the atten-
tion of. Clubs, Tavern, Hotel, and Housekeepers generally, to this
beautiful and economical process of restoring worn-out plated wares.
218, Regent-street.

ttkitn SEAPORT TOWN OF PWLLHELI,
TAB particular attention by their arrangement fur villa purposes.
talsitPlantations interspersed about the estate are features of pro-
lotortif Profit, and afford some of the best woodcock shooting in the

MARBLE, BRONZE, ALABASTER, AND
DERBYSHIRE SPAR ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-
room, Library, and Dining-room, consisting of Figures, Groups,
Vases, Candlesticks, Inkstands, Obelisks, Chess Tables, Watch-
stands, Paper Weights, &c., Imported and Manufactured by J.
TENNANT, late Mawe, 149, Strand, London.
J. Tennant arranges elementary collections of Minerals, Shells,
and Fossils, to facilitate the interesting study of Mineralogy, Con-
chology, or Geology, at 2. 5, 10, 20, to 50 guineas each. He also gives
Private Instruction in Mineralogy.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNHILL, LONDON.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The steady success and increasing prosperity of the Society has
enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a
Second Bonus, averaging 60 per cent. on the amounts invested on each
Policy effected on the Profit scale.
EXAMPLES.

ROWLAND'S KALYDOR
for Improving and Beautifying the Skin and Complexion. Price
4s. 6d. and Ss. 6d. per bottle, duty included.
ROWLAND'S ODONTO,

).e
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Bemis Bonus in 17., Niwt
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of th.llilt to 1501,!and presents an elegant well preserved specimen
anth- 'Wier style of architecture of that period. It is surrounded
*NI well-grown timber and thriving pleasure plantations and
Oq °tlk It is distant from the sea about one mile, and is situate
4
)11,- banks of the River Dwyfor, which in part belongs to the
'MI), under
!aid wh A ROYAL GRANT,
kfm,"erein a weir is erected, always affording in the season, a
View ft
supply of salmon and trout. It embraces a magnificent

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The SALE, by SIIARES, of ESTATES, STOCKS, and BONDS,
besides the CASINO at BADEN, with the GRAND HOTEL Ala
VILLE do VIVNNE, estimated at
ONE ➢PILLION TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND FRANCS,

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,
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acres, in' exchange of which arc offered to the Winner
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year 1836, and Twenty-five Thousand Francs, in ready Money,
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ones, notwithstanding the difference in price per lb.
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given above, as there are some imitations sold under the name" Com-
posite," by which Price's Patent Candles were originally made
public.
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Belmont, Vauxhall; or from Palmer and Co., Sutton-street, Cler-
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THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE PASSIONS.
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By R. J. CULTERWELL, M.D.,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Licentiate of
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" Of human ills and frailties I discourse,
Those taught by nature and by art acquir'd.
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" He who ih pleasure's downy arms
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9. BEDFORD-STREET, BED F 0 RD- SQ U A RE, LONDON,
Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary
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hotn ATMOSPHERIC LINE OF RAILWAY
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tottni,J.cilitY for the advantageous interchange of agricultural
sht"..ties. The property has also the advantage of being inter-
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-e Pwlllieli and Carnarvon Turnpike-road in one eV -
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sol A ‘" of the late proprietor, and in pursuance of the provision of
room: Of Parliament, which obtained the Royal Assent in the
1, or August, 1842.
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kingdom, but contains 'many grateful evidences of its benign 'Millen e.
The toll-ming cult selected from among those with which the pro-
prietor has beers favoured, is submitted to the public :

TO MR. PROUT, 229, STRAND.
Hurst, Sussex, Nov. 6 1843.
Sir,-1 have the pleasure to inform you that a tenon holding an
official situation, noticing in one of my bills that 1 was agent for
Blair's Clout and Rheumatic Pills, was induced to try them; he sent
for a bo,A, and had only taken them one day before he found wonder-
ful rsaiet. The second day he was able to walk without his crutches,
and, on the fourth day was completely cured and able to perform his
Ordinary occupation.
Previous to this he was generally laid up every year for several
weeks, after leeches and fomentations had been applied, and medi-
cine, taken to no purpose. I have obtained the above statement from
a personal interview, and have sent this for publication if you think it
worthy, and shall be mo t happy at any time to satsify any party
desirous of ascertaining its authenticity.—l am, Sir, your obedient
servant, THOMAS WYBORN, Chemist.

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impurities of the skin, continues to maintain a repute commensu.
rate with its specific properties, of speedily eradicating every species
of eruptive malady, discolouration, &c., and of preserving and en-
hancing the beauty of the complexion by a congenial action upon
the skin, as perfectly innocent as it is agreeable and efficacious.
" Itobt. Shaw, London," is in white letters on the Government
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Quarts,Ss. Rd, Sold by all Perfumers and ledleine vendors,

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and address of Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," impressed
upon the Oevernent Stamp affixed to each Ibex of the genuine
m
Medicine,

and Denman ; but alder visum—the millions must
starve upon lumpers, and even find them curtailed by
repeal rent and priests' rent, while the master agitators
feast and fatten at substantial and tasteful banquets,
for which, directly or indirectly, the lumper eaters
must pay. The business of the celebration com-
menced by reading the letters of apology from
invited guests, and a long correspondence it was.
Somebody once complimented a worthless fellow
by saying, that the "negative catalogue of his
good qualities was indeed a long one ;" so the
negative catalogue of tke guests at this O'Connell
festival was, indeed, very long; so long as to
exhaust pretty nearly the whole list of respect-
able names, at any time pledged to Whiggery and
Liberalism. The only nobleman in actual presence
was, after all, but a very modern Irish Lord—poor
Lord French, therepresentative of a bankrupt banker
and an ex-justice of the peace for the county of
Galway. The gentleman class was represented
by Mr. Smith O'Brien, the ex-Conserva-
tive Member for Ennis, heir to the best
pensioned family in Ireland for several gene-
rations, and, as everybody knows, the prince of
fribbles. The great body of the meeting was made
up of Romanist bishops and Romanist priests,
Rooneys and Mulrooneys, &c. The affair was in-
tended as a triumph, and a triumph certainly it is,
but to whom is it a triumph ? If it is not a triumph
to Sir R. Peel and to the Attorney-General for Ire-
land, we are at a loss to know what are the trophies of
good government. We have given the speeches pretty
wily with a view to this very object, that the English
reader may compare them with his recollection of the
speecheiathe same parties fast year, and by a com-
parison measure the mighty change that has been
wrought in the prospects, the spirits, and the means
of mischief indulged and exercised at Mallow, Tara,
Mullaghmast, and the other scenes of the mon-
ster meetings. The monster meeting are for ever
crushed; and there, on Thursday, was their
old monster father—toothless and fangless—meekly
gulping federalism, and actually preaching the
value of the British connection. Pistol chewing
his leek was a too respectable type of the ab-
ject prostration of the incendiary upon this festi-
val given in his honour, and attended by hun-
dreds who would be- only too much delighted to
applaud' his hackneyed common-places of treason if
he had only dared to, repeat them, but he did not
dare. " The vinegar-cruet" of his afflicted ima-
gination was present to his mind's eye, to sour his
joys and make his blood curdle at the first sugges-
tion of any of the old seditious topics. He talked
nothing of hurling defiance at the Saxon Attorney-
General. Oh, no. The very name of the Right
Hon. T. Smith would have sent him up the chim-
ney. Is not this a triumph—a triumph equal
to any of the twelve labours ? If Lord Bacon lived
in our day he would certainly add to his interpreta-
tion of the fables of the ancients, an explanation that
the Lernean monster was an old incendiary, direct-
ing an organised and extensive conspiracy, and
that Hercules was an Attorney-General, who
lopped the brute's heads in detail, taking good care
to provide against their reproduction, by the severe
cautery of the law. This single speech, in which no
one word of treason or sedition can be found, though
proceeding from lips from which scarcely anything
but treason or sedition has escaped for the last
forty years—this " miracle instead of wit," the one
not seditious speech from Daniel O'Connell, is in-
deed a testimony to the Government and the Attorney
General, as proud as fancy can conceive. And now
let us look to the future of Ireland, and to the
probable effect of the great triumph of the law.
The agitation will be continued, at least in
the attempt, because "no agitation, no rent,"
and the rent cannot be dispensed with. But
we have, in the instructions issued by the
Repeal Association, evidence of some misgiving as
to the success of the project. "The people," say
these instructions, " are now committed to repeal!
A nation cannot, without the deepest dishonour,
abandon opinions so loudly and so unanimously pro-
claimed." This appeal to the point of honour looks
very like apprehension that some strong appeal is
required; it is followed, however, at a little distance,
by proof that the parties making it are very much in
earnest.

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LONDON DISPENSARY.

On Friday evening a Special General Meeting o
the Governors of this Charity was held at the Dis.
pensary-house, Church-street, Spitalfields, for the
purpose of considerin€, the propriety of confirming a
resolution past at the last monthly meeting for erect-
ing a new building in the line of street now opening
from Spitalfields Church to Whitechapel Church,
and also to adopt a petition to her Majesty's
Commissioners of Woods and Forests, praying of
them to grant a site for the building in this new line
of street.

Mr. Soper having taken the chair at six o'clock,
the Secretary read the draft of a petition to the Com-
missioners of Woods and Forests, embodying the
above prayer; which was unanimously adopted, on the
motion of Mr. Copp, after a few verbal amendments,
one of which was, that the site of ground should be
within the Spitalfields district.
Mr. BOWERBANK said it would be a matter for fu-
ture consideration as to whether the Governors might
not hereafter deem it more advisable to refrain from
building or laying out one penny beyond what their
rents brought in annually. However, if it were the
opinion that the site when granted would not be an
eligible one, they might take premises elsewhere, be-
cause they were bound to observe the strictest eco-
nomy in the present distressed state of the district.
On the motion of Mr. BOUSFIELD, it was agreed to,
that the presentation of the petition should be in-
trusted to a committee, to consist of the chair Man.
the vice-chairman, and the -secretary; after which, a
vote of thanks was passed to the Chairman for his
courtesy in the' chair, and the meeting separated.

EX-PRESIDENT ADAMS'• OPIN lON
ON TEXAS ANNEXATION. '

LETTER FROM MR. ADAMS.
The anniversery of West India emancipation was
celebrated on the Ist ult. at various places in New
England. At Concord, an oration was delivered by
Ralph Waldo Emerson; and at Hingham, there Ilas
a meeting of 500 in a grove, a pic-nic, &c. The fol-
lowing letter was read, being from John Quincy
Adams to a friend:—
"In declining the invitation which I received last
summer to attend the celebration of the Ist of August,

it was in nowise my intention to express disapproba-
tion of the celebration itself. The abolition of slavery

in the colonies of Great Britain, by the Parliament of
that realm, was an event at which, if the whole human
race could have been concentrated in one person, the
heart of that person would have leaped for joy. The
restoration of eight hundred thousand beings from a
state of grinding oppression, to the rights bestowed
upon them by the God of nature at their birth, was
of itself a cause of rejoicing to the pure in heart
throughout the habitable earth. But that is not the
only or the most radiant glory of that day. It was
the pledge of power and of will of the mightiest na-
tion upon the globe that the bondage of man should
cease; that the manacle and fetter shall drop from
every limb ; that the ties of nature shall no longer be
outraged by man's inhumanity.to man ; that the self-
evident truths of our declaration of independence shall
no longer be idle mockeries, belied by the transcendant
power of slavery welded into our constitution. It
was the voice of the herald, like that of John the
Baptist in the wilderness, proclaiming as with the
trumpet of the archangel, that the standing, funda-
mental policy of the British empire was thenceforth
the peaceable ab9lition of slavery throughout the
world.

" Well then may the friends of freedom and of man
rejoice at the annual return of that day. Well may
they, from far and wide, assemble and meet together
in mutual gratulation at the return of so blessed a
day. Well may they come in crowds to cheer and
encourage one another to contribute, every one ac-
cording to his ability, to the final consummation of
this glorious and stupendous undertaking. My un-
willingness to participate in it arose only from shame
for the honour and good name of my country, whose
Government, under a false and treacherous pretence
of co-operating with Great Britain fur the suppression
of one of the forms of this execrable system of slavery,
has now been fol. a series of years pursuing and ma-
turing a counteraction of the purpose of universal
emancipation, and organising an opposite system fur
the maintenance, preservation, propagation, and per-
petuation of slavery throughout the earth.
" For the last fifteen years this unhallowed pur-
pose has been constantly, perseveringly, and unblush-
ingly persisted in, with a pertinacity of exertion and
perfidy in the use of the means never yet surpassed
by any conspiracy ever formed against the li-
berties of mankind. The dismemberment of the
neighbouring republic of Mexico, the re-institution
of slavery throughout an immense portion of her
territory, and the purchase or conquest of Ca-
lifornia, with the lying pretension of re-annex-
ing Texas to this Union, have been, and yet are,
among these profligate and unprincipled means. All
absurd and preposterous attempt to pick a quarrel with
Great Britain, upon false and frivolous pretences, is
another. The utter prostration of the exclusive constitu-
tional powers of Congress to declare war—the whole
compound budget of blunders and of crimes—the abor-
tive negotiations of a treaty of plunder and robbery,
which the Senate had the common sense and common
honesty almost unanimously to reject—the glaring
falsehood by which the Texans themselves were in-
veigled into negotiation—all these, and many more
enormities of the deepest dye, are but part and parcels
of the agony of slavery struggling for existence and
perpetuation against the awakening conscience of
mankind.

" The abortion of slave-mongering diplomacy, mis-
capild v treaty, attempted in the last hours o
an Administration detested and despised even
by" "his' oivic p.artisafis,7i'S— the' last ;,act, off'
_this'
knot ' of " conspirators `agAnst ' humaii freedom,.
'Their *foul and 'filthy purpose hag- at length"been
extorted from them. It is, by an exterminating
war, to rob Mexico of her provinces, and to defend
and perpetuate slavery by open war with England for
undertaking to abolish it throughout the world. A
self-styled President of the United States, and two
successive Secretaries of State of his own appoint-
ment, have, with shameless effrontery, avowed that
their project of wholesale treachery, robbery, and
murder, was undertaken and pursued for the delibe-
rate
purpose of overreaching, overturning, and de-
stroying the system of policy of the British
nation to promote the abolition of slavery through-
out the world. I have long foreseen and
watched the progress of the two systems towards this
issue, and have given formal warning to my coun-
trymen, of it, by speeches in the House of Re-
presentatives in 1836, 1838, and 1842 ; by ad-
dresses to my constituents-1837 at Quincy, in
1842 at Braintree, and in 1843 at Dedham, and by
an address signed by twenty-two other Members of
Congress and myself, to the people•of the free States,
at the close of the session of 1844—an address
falsely charged by the forty-ball weathercock here of
Texan annexation, nullification, and the blessing
slavery, as threatening the dissolution of the Union.
I have seen the steady and gradual approaches bf
the two systems to the conflict of mortal combat, in all
their phases, from the strictly confidential letter of
Andrew Jackson,_ of 10th December, 1833, to the
Secretary, not Governor of Arkansas territory, to
that consummate device of slave-holding democracy,
the two-thirds rule of the late Democratic Convention
at Baltimore, and to the casting down of the glove of
defiance by our present Secretary of State, in his
letter to the British Plenipotentiary of the 18th April
last. The glove was indeed not taken up. We are
yet to learn with what ears the sound of the trumpet
of slavery was listened to by the British Queen and
her Ministers. We are yet to learn whether the suc-
cessor of Elizabeth on the throne of England, and her
Burleighs mid Walsinghams, upon hearing that their
avowed purpose to promote universal emancipation
and the extinction of slavery upon the earth, is to be
met by the man-robbers of our own country with ex-
terminating war, will like craven cowards turn their
back and flee, or eat their own-words, or disclaim the
purpose which they have avowed. That, my friend,
is the issue flung in their faces by President Tyler,
and his Secretary John C. Calhoun. And that is the
pledged, to the extent and
issue to which they have
beyond the extent of their power, you and me, and
f
the free people of this Union, and their poorstertimeity,
and
for
life and death, for peace and war,
eternity. •
Shall we respond affirmatively to the pledge? No,
by the God of justice and mercy ! No. My heart is
full to overflowing, but I have no more room for
words. Proceed, then, to celebrate and solemnise the
emancipation of eig'lt hundred thousand British
slaves, whose bonds have been loosened by British
hands. Invoke the blessing of the Almighty with
prayer that the
,day may speedily come when the
oppressed millions of our land shall be raised to the
dignity and enjoy
.the rights of freedom, and when
the soil of Texas herself shall be.as free as our own.
I cannot be with you, for age and infirmity forbid ;
but for every supplication breathed, by you for the
universal emancipation of man and the extinction of
slavery upon earth, my voice shall respond'Amen !'

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"I- - .--RAILWAYS.
(From the Gazette of Friday.)
: ,11.',-1: - Railway Department, Board of Trade,
It+
Whitehall, Sept. 19, 1544.
Referring to the notice in the Gazette of Ile 23d
August, announcing the intention of the Railway 801 l
1110--; to examine into certain schemes therein enumerated.
_ with a view to the presentation to Parliament of minutes
or reports thereon, in the event of their becoming the
subjects of application to Parliament, the Board hereby
PRICA. give notice, that it is further their intention to exatnine„
with a similar view, into the following schemes, viz.;-
1. The schemes proposed for connecting Portsmouth
with London, by more direct lines of railway comma-
-17 ON TIL, nication. -
2. The Richmond and West-end Junction, and other
schemes for forming a central terminus in the neighbour-
hood of Waterloo and Hungerford bridgei.
The principal points into which inquiry will be wade
-7.----.. in connection with the above schemes, are as follows:-
1. The ability and bona fide intention of the promoters
to prosecute their application to Parliament, next ses-
sion, for Bills to authorise their several undertahings.
2. The advantages to be obtained, in a national point
of view, in completing or extending important lines of
railway communication.
3. The amount of local advantage afforded to the
towns and districts more immediately affected.
4. The engineering circumstances of the line, so far a
may be necessary to form a general judgment of the cha-
racter of the undertaking.
5. The estimates of cost of construction, and of trsffie
and working expenses, so far as may be necessary to
judge of the probability of the line being completed and
efficiently worked, in the event of its being sanctioned
by Parliament, and with a view to drawing a comparison
between the merit of competing lines of railway.
The inquiry, in conformity with the recommendation
of the fifth Report of the Select Committee on Railways,
will not embrace questions of private property or inter-
est, which will be reserved altogether for the considera-
tion of the Legislature.
DALHOUSIE. D. O'BRIEN.
C. W. PASLEY. S. LAING.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From Friday's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Vie.
toria, cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the
7th day of September, 1844.
ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
X.-
Notes issued ... 28,500,880

Government debt 11,015,100
Other securities 2,984,900
Gold coin and
bullion 12,806,794
Silver bullion

£28,500,880,

'M. MA]
Dated the 19th day of Sep

A 287500,886
RSIIALL, Cashien
Itember, 1844.

BANKING I)
X.

:PARTMENT.

Proprietors' capi-
tal 14,553,000
Rest 3,565,796'
Public deposits
(including Ex-
chequer;savings'
banks, Commis-
sioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
dividend ac-
counts)
Other deposits
Seven day and
other bills 1,007,670

£32,018,634
M. MA:
Dated the 19th day of Sel

Government secu-
rities (inelud-
ingDeadWeight
Annuity) 14,554,834
Other securities 8,146,689
Notes
Gold and silver

coin

£32,018,634
ISIIALL, Chief Cashier.
►tember, 1844.

RAILWAY RETURNS.

RAILwAT TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail•
ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the
respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the Dame
week in the previous year:—

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Sept. 14 Arbroath and Forfar ••• • . •
13 Birmingham and Gloucester ••••• • • • • • 2,828 2,213
- Brandling Junction . ••• ••••••• • • • • • • • - 818
14 Bristol and Gloucester ••••••• • • • • • • • 1,117 . -
13 Chester and Birkenhead ..••••• • . • • • • 650 505
12 Dublin and Drogheda. ••• • • -
17 Dublin and Kingstown •• • .
15 Dundee and Arbroath .••••••• • • • • • • • 532 257
14 Durham and Sunderland . .
14 Edinburgh and Glasgow .
15 Eastern Counties and North Eastern • • 4,427 4,067
14 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr •. • •-• • 1,547 1,449
14 Glasgow and Greenock.. .
14 Grand Junction .. • • ...... ••••• • • • .: 8,920 8,600
14 Great North of England •••••• • • • • • • 1,857 .1,499
15 . Great Western ... ...... ........ 17,471 15,070
13 Liverpool and Manchester
14 London and Birmingham . .... •
15 London and Blackwall- - ..... •• . •
14 London and Brighton . ..... ••-•. • • • • 5,909 5,717
17 London and Croydon ...
19 London and Greenwich ... • - .. 746 746
15 London and South Western -• • • • 8,030 7,202
12 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury .•• • • • 904 749
14 Manchester and Birmingham •.. . , 3,720 3,389
14 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc • • 8,324 7,212
14 Midland Counties •..
14 N•weastle and Darlington ••••• • • • • 1,112 -
14 Newcastle and Carlisle....
15 Newcastle and North Shields• •••• • • • 402 445
13 North Union and Bolton and Preston 1,875 1,109
16 Paris, Corbel], and Orleans •••• • • • ... 5,984 6,220
16 Paris and Bonen . • •
14 Preston and Wyre.. •.•.•••• • • • • • • • • 566 804
14 Sheffield and Manchester. .••••. • • • • • 911 661
19 South Eastern • •
14 • Taff Vale - . • •••••••••••••• 862 683
15 Ulster
15 Yarmouth and Norwich ...... •.• • • . 361 --
14 York and North Midland -

EXTENSIVE FIRE and PROBABLE
LOSS of LIFE.
On Saturday morning, a few minutes befoie one, a
very serious fire, and which it is feared will be at-
tended with fatal consequences, broke out in a large
double house, situate at 39, St. John-street, and oc-
cupied conjointly by a boot and shoemaker, named
Lambden, and a working jeweller, of the name of
Wheeler. The premises extended backwards a con-
siderable distance, and abutted upon Messrs. Palmer's
patent metallic candle factory, which was destroyed
by fire some time since. The first discovery was
made by police-constable G 121 ; smoke issuing
through the window-shutters, made him aware of
the alarming fact. The alarm was sounded in
the usual way, but a long tima elapsed before he
could arouse the inmates to ,a sense of their great
danger. In fact, before the officer could accomplish
that object, the whole of the lower part of the build-
ing became one vast sheet of flame, which rushed up-
wards to the other apartments. Upon the residents
(we understand there were no fewer than six or eight)
making their appearance at their respective windows,
ra most pitiable sight presented itself. The flames were
ascending from the shop completely to the top of the
building,- whilst the inmates were bewailing in a
half-frantic manner their 'impending fate. An
aged person (Mr. Lambden's father-in-law) sud-
denly precipitated himself from the second-floor
window, and fell with great violence to the
ground. He was picked up greatly injured,
and carried to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. His, son
was somewhat more fortunate, for on jumping from
the floor beneath he was caught by some of the neigh-
bours, and received very trifling injuries. Other per-
sons in the house made their escape in various ways—
some from the roof, and on to Messrs. Palmer's fac-
tory. The engines of the brigade, the West of Eng-
land Company, and parish, were soon at the spot, and
water being procured from the New River Com-
pany's mains, they were set to work ; those of the
brigade, under the superintendence of Mr.
Braidwood, and that of the West of Eng-
land under the direction of Mr. Connorton.
The fire, however, having obtained such a strong
hold of every part of the building, that the firemen,
from their first arrival, saw that .its destruction was
certain, they directe4the branches of their hose so as
to prevent it from extending further. Happily they
succeeded just as it reached the spacious factory ad-
joining. The engines were kept working until near
two o'clock, when it at last became apparent that the
flames were yielding beneath the exertions 'of the
firemen. The damage done is very considerable ; and
during the excitement that prevailed we were unable
to ascertain if any of the sufferers were insured. It
was reported a little girl was missing, but whether
she had perished in the flames is unknown.

DEATH OF THE CHEVALIER BiNKHAUSEN,
RUSSIAN CONSUL IN LONDON.—lntelligence has been
received of the death of this gentleman. The Chevalier
Benkhausen died at Wisbaden of retrocedent gout
Setting aside his very amiable and popular character, the
important office he held here for so many years, the con-
nexion ho has had with the trading community of this
country. through the Russian Company—with the arts
and artists, as being the medium of the Emperor of Rus-
sia's enlightened and generous liberality, and the im-
mense sums he has laid out here for his Government in
the construction of steam-vessels and engines of eiery
description—considering both his personal qualities'and
the position he held as a mediatbr, confers on this melan-
choly piece
of news great interest.
The regular steamer Antwerpen, Captain Jackson,
arrived at the Custom House yesterday morning early,
bringing a full cargo° of walnuts, upwards of 3,000
baskets. She had a large complement of passengers,
amongst whom rw.,,re the following:—The Hon. G.
Hamilton, the Hen. G. N. Dillon, Captain M'Dougall,
Dr. Latham, the Rev. B. Clayton, &e. The Antwerpen
got to Antwerp on Monday morning last upwards of-two
hours before the starting of the train which reaches Co-
loolie in the evening, and by which all the passengers for
the Rhine took their departure.
EXTRAORDINARY Low TIDES.—On Tuesday, at
Blackfriars, off Messrs. Iloppe's coal-wharf, a large
space of ground was to be seen covered with mudlarks,
who were eagerly seeking and turning up the earth in
search of coals, &e. A very valuable knife-box was
found, containing a set of elegantly-mounted knives' and
forks, which had evidently been thrown there for the
purpose of preventing detection. A valuable silver
watch was also picked up by some coal-porters near the
same spot. A quantity of ancient coins were discovered
near the Whitefriars-dock, in a state of great preserva-
tion. Several steam-boats were aground for some con-
siderable time; owing to the shallow state of the Oyer
. abo'e bridge.