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EAST INDIA HOUSE JANUARY 24,
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY do hereby give notice,

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
The SHRINE of the NATIVITY (with the much-admired
change from Darkness to Light) is the subject just added to the New
Series of DISSOLVING VIEWS. CHILD'S CHROMATROPE,
exhibiting extraordinary aid beautiful effects. 'The PROTEOSCOPE.
The PHYSIOSCOPE. Dr. RYAN'S Popular LECTURES daily, and
on the Evenings of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Varied
Lectures Morning and Evenings, by Professor BACHHOFFNER.
Electrical efl)!ets produced by the comparative exhibition of the Two
most powefful ELECTRICAL MACHINES in the World. SUB-
MARINE EXPERIMENTS by means of the DIVER and
DIVING-BELL. Models, &c., explained. The Music is conducted
by T. Wallis, Mus. Doc.
Admission, Is.; Schools, Half-price.
A Now Edition of the CATALOGUE, containing Three Hundred
additional Works of Art, &c., since the last revisal, Is just published.
price Is.

GREAT AGGREGATE ANNUAL
MEETING OF THE LEAGUE.

expenses on registration business, and
the distribution of about 2,000,000 tracts;
by expense of meetings (more than 200
in number), including hire of rooms,
erection of hustings, and all expenses
connected with public meetings ; by
printing and stationery, newspapers, re-
porting, &e. ; expenses of League news-
paper, including salaries of conductors,
editors, and contributors, stamps, paper,
and printing (the average circulation
being, for the fifteen months, 20,000
copies per week, or 1,400,000 copies in
the whole) ; by deputation expenses, in-
cluding travelling expenses to attend
meetings and Parliamentary elections in
various parts of the United Kingdom ;
by salaries and expenses of lecturers,
including travelling expenses for lec-
tures delivered in 36 English and many
Welsh counties, in all exceeding 600
lectures ; by grants to local free-trade
committees for local expenses in regis-
tration, collecting of League fund, &c. ;
by agents, salaries of clerks, and weekly
wages ; by postage stamps for 300,000
letters, carriage, and postages;:by furni-
ture and fixtures ; by local expenses ;
by sundry office expenses, petty cash
and incidental expenses, including re-
pairs and alterations ; by rent, taxes,
and gas, including rent of Covent-garden
Theatre, house, offices, &c., in London
and Manchester
Balance down 26,675 19 9

That the rate of Exchange at which they will receive Cash for
ills on Bengal and Madras will, from the present date and until fur-
ther notico, be Is. Pd. the Company's Rupee ; and for Bills on Bom-
bay, Is. qd. the Company': Rupee.

MANCHESTER, THURSDAY MORNING.—The mem-
bers of the League had their general annual meeting
at the Free Trade Hall last night, and it was an over-
flowing and most enthusiastic gathering. A number
of influential members of the Council from distant
parts of the country (who had been summoned to at-
tend a preliminary meeting of their body at the
Council-room in Market-street) were present, and on
the platform, a!together, there were nearly 600 gen-
tlemen of wealth and influence, amongst whom we
may mention as the most prominent, R. Cobden, E2q.,
M.P. for Stockport ; J. Bright, Esq., M.P. for Dur-
ham ; W. Browne, Esq., merchant, Liverpool ; T. M.
Gibson, Esq., M.P. for Manchester ; L. Heyworth,
Esq., Liverpool ; W. Biggs, Esq., Leicester ; R.
11. Greg, Esq., Norcliffe llall ; J. G. Marshall,
Esq.; J. E. Baines, jun., Esq , Leeds ; F. Schwann,
Esq., and R. I). Jackson, Esq., Huddersfield;
Boden, Esq.; Derby ; E. Hollins, Esq., Stockport ; C.
E. Rawlins, Esq., and J. T. Crook, Esq., Liverpool ;
W. Hargreaves, Esq., Milnthorpe ; C. Potter, Esq.,
Darwen ; John and Robert Mather, Esqs., Liverpool;
J. Wrigley, Esq., Bury ; John Whittaker, Esq.,
Ashton ; John Walker, Esq., Bury; IL Ashworth,
Esq., E. Ashworth, Esq., and J. Crook, Esq., Bolton ;
John Brooks, Esq., magistrate ; John Bard, Esq. ;
Lawrence Rostorn, Esq.: W. Harvey, Esq. ; T. Wool-
ley, Esq.; Nicholls Heali; Esq.?, E. Armitage, Ecti.,
magistrate ; J. Bright, Esq.; J. Brotherton, Esq.,
M.P.; James Thomson, Esq., Wray, near Lancaster;
J. B. Smith, Esq., magistrate ; C. J. S. Walker, Esq.,
magistrate ; W. Arkroyd, Esq., Bury ; and J. Midg-
ley, Esq., of Rochdale.
GEORGE WILSON, Esq., Chairman of the Council,
rose to
b
toop; calling upon Mr. llki
ntheproceedings about haltf-parsed
t seven
o'clock,the
minutes of the last meeting, which, on the motion of
Mr. Cobden, seconded by Mr. Clay, of Rastrick, were
confirmed.

JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.

GRAVESEND STAR PACKETS leave the
Brunswick Pier, Blackwell, at 11, 3, and 4 on Sundays at

11 and 3.

From Terrace Pier, Gravesend, at 9i, 1, and 5 ; on Sundays at
91 and 5.
Fares to or fl'om London,.
Fore Cabin and Second Class Carriage, Ninepence.
Saloon and First Class Carriage, One Shilling.
To or from Illackwall.
Fore Cabin, Sixpence—Saloon, Ninepence.
Office, Gravesend, Nov. 29, 1844.

LONDON MARBLE AND STONE
WORKINCS COMPANY, Esher-street, Holywell-street, Milbank,
Westminster (established 1821), are enabled, with their PATENT
MACIIINEItY, to execute Chimney Pieces, :Monuments, Tablets,
Slabs for Furniture, and every description of such Work, with an
accuracy, rapidity of execution, beauty and durability of Polish, and
reduction of cost, which cannot be obtained elsewhere.
The Public are invited to inspect their exter,sive SEOW-ROOMS,
containing the largest stock in this country.
The Trade supplied with every description of Rough Slab Blocks,
or Scantlings; or Blocks sent to the Works cut to order.
Please to be accurate in copying the Address, to prevent imposi-
tion, the Company having no connexion with any other Establish-
ment but that in Esher-street.

ESTATES— RADNORMIRE.
TO BE PEREMPTORILY SOLD, pursuant
to an ORDER of tho HIGH COURT of CHANCERY,
made in a Cause of" GRAVENOR v. MILES," with the approba.
tion of Sir GIFFIN WILSON, one of the Masters of the Court,
at the Radnorshire Arms Hotel, Presteign, in the county of
Radnor, on MEE DIY, the 4th day of February, 1845, between the
hours of Four and Five in the afternoon, in Two Lots,

A FREEHOLD ESTATE, called LLANTRUSSA, containing
54 A. 1 Pt. OS p., situate in the parish of Llanvihangel Nantmellan,
in the county of Radnor, in the occupation of Thomas Miles. Thar
estate comprises a farm-house, with farm-yard enclosed, and barns,
stables, and outbuildings, and several pieces of arable, pasture, and
woodland, and has a right of common over 1,400 acres of land near
the farm.

Particulars may be had (gratis) at the said Master's Chambers, in
Seuthampton-buildin,gs, Chancery-lane, London; of Mr. T. King
Stephens, solicitor, Presteign; of Messrs. White, Eyre, and White,
solicitors, Bedford-row, London ; of Messrs. Thomas, Jones, and
Sons, solicitors, Millman-place, Bedford row ; of Mr. Humphreys,
auctioneer, Presteign ; at the Itadnorshire Arms Hotel, Presteign;
and the Oxford Arms Hotel, Kington, Herefordshire.
WIIITE, EYRE, and WHITE, Plaintiff's Solicitors.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNHILL, LONDON.
Capital X 500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
DIVISION. OF PROFITS.
The steady success and increasing prosperity of the Soclety has
enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation to declare a
second Bonus, avera.7ing 60 per cent. on the amounts ill Tested on each
Policy effected on the Profit scale.
EXAMPLES.

-1

X 0. d. X 5. d.
170 9 3 77 5 1
144 2 2 64 5 6
116 I G 0 51 5 11

Premium.

Boma
added.

Bonus in
Cash.

£ s. L
1837
74 4 1838
1839

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1"0 2. 7
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5 ° 0
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X s. d.
12 3 9
9 16 4
7 11 9

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£ 8. ds
346 2 3
296 13 4
247 4 5

The division of profits is annual, and the next will be made in De-
cember of 'he present year.
This institution offers many important and substantial advan-
tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities.
The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borr)w, without ex-
pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid,
(see table); also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion
of his interests to meet other conveniences er necessity. Assurances
tor terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Sec.

CIIIVEPPE and Co., Wine-merchants, are now
LTI bottling PORTS of the highest character, at 305., 325., 345.,
and 365. p, r dozen, to which they respectfully invite the attention
of their friends and the public. Fine old trusted wines, from two to
eight years in bottle, at 42e., 455., 485., 305., and 545. per dozen ; very
superior Sherries, pale, brown, and gold coloured, from 305., 345.,
3Ge., 408., and upwards; also a curious Amontillado Sherry at 50s.
A large stock of all description of wines constantly on hand, in-
cluding a rare Felection of Hocks and Moselles, received direct front
their own agent uu the Rhine.
J. S. and Co. beg respectfully to observe that their principle of
business is not to sell a low priced article at the expense of quality,
but to supply their friends with the finest wines that are imported,
at as low a price for cash as may be commensurate with a fair and mo-
derate profit.
Lists of wines and prices sent on application, and country orders
mmediately attended to on receiving a cash remittance or a re-
ference.—Office, Berner's-street ; sellars, 27, Marshall-stroet,
Regent -street.

AHAPPY NEW ,YEAR!
L
As this is the season of pleasure and joy,
We could not much better a moment employ,
Than fellow the accents of kindness sincere,
And pledge to the public a happy new year!
Oh ! happy, thrice happy, and bless'd may It be ;
May trade still extend and our csmmerce be free;
May the sunshine of peace in its glory appear,
And crown the bright hopes of " a happy new year! "

novEs.
WALKER'S PATENT PIICENIX STOVES
require fuel but once a day ; are durable, economic 1, ft ee
from dust or danger of fire,, and from explosive gases, are admirably
adapted for Warming Churches, Chapels, Schools, Entrance nails,
Front or Work Shops, From Three to Eighteen Guineas.
Prospectuses and Testimonials may be had, gratis, at 302, Oxford-
street, near Bond-street, London ; or at 55, Oxford-street, Birming-
ham, at which places the Stoves may be seen constantly in use.

THE FINEST WAX AN I) SPERMACETI
CANDLES.—Those who burn these are respectfully
recommended to make one trial whether PRICE'S PATENT
CANDLES, at one-third of the cost, do not burn better.
They may be had of respectable dealers throughout the kingdom,
if care can be taken to prevent any imitations being passed off as
the Patent Candles ; and the Trade may obtain them wholesale from
Edward Price and Co., Belmont, Vauxhall, nd Palmer and Co.,
Sutton-street, Clerkenwell.

D AVIES'S CANDLES, sd. and 51d. per lb.
Wax Candles, Is. 2d.—Fine Wax, Is.

Hale's Superb Composite, requiring no gnulling, 101i1,

_
Genuine Wax, 25. 3d.— Transparent Wax, 2s. 2d.—Genuine
sperm, 2s. 2d.—Extra fine Moulded Candles, with the improved
Waxed Wicks,:6d.—Yellow Soap, 465., 525., and 58s. per 1121bs.—
Mottled, 60s. and 64s.—Wind+or, Is. 4d. per packet. —Palm, Is. 44.
Old Brown Windsor, Is. sd.—Rose, 25.--Superior Almond, 2s. 63.
Superfine Sealing-wax, 48.64. per lb.—Refined Sperm 011, 7s. 6d. per
gallon—Solar Oil, 3s. 6d.

May the rich be endear'd to the poor by their worth;
May concord and harmony dwell on the eat th !
May justice and truth in their brightness appear,
And all things combine for a happy new year!

For Cash, at DAVIES'S Old Established Warehouse, G 3, St
Martin's-lane (opposite New Slaughter's Coffee-house), Charing-cross

PUBLICATIONS.

May the people be "clothed " as brave Englishmen should,
With " garments "of usefulness—gorgeous and good;
May they purchase of Ilyam, and then it is clear
The y " save half their cash for a happy new year!

May Ilyam's endeavours be proudly confirmed,
And increase the bright laurels already he's earn'd;
May his efforts still brighten the vast hemisphere,
And add to the joys of a happy new year:

The style of his garments, their beauty and make,
Are such as precedence must proudly now take;
Whilst the saving effected, distinctly and clear,
Is half of your cash, on each happy new year!
Observe—All garments at this establishment are marked the
price in plain figures, from which no abatement is made. Any
article exchanged, which is not approved of, or the money returned.
L. H 1 AM, Tailoring and Outfitting Establishment, Pantech.
netheca, 36, Gracecburch.street.

READY-MADE DEPARTMENT.
Taglioni sr Chesterfield coats, from • ... ...... •••£0 9 6
Glenlyon or Waterford Riding ditto, from
The Parisian Envelope, from
Albert Walking Coat, from
Boys' and Youths' Taglionis, or Chesterfields, from 0 8 6
Men's Dress Coats, any colour, from ... 1 1 0
Ditto Surtout ditto, ditto, from .
Ditto Block Trousers, from
Ditto ditto Vest, from .. . 0 4 6
Ditto Tweed Trousers, from
Ditto Buckskin Trousers, from
Ditto Fancy Vest, from
Tunic suit, from
Hussar suit, from
Men's Moleskin Trousers, from -.) 6
Ditto, ditto, very best quality, rule pockets, from.., 0 6 6
Office Coats, from
BESPOKE DEPARTMENT.

Taglioni or Chesterfield Coats, from 0 15 0
Olenlyon or Waterford Riding ditto, from 1 0 0
The Parisian Envelope, from
Albert Walking Coat, from .. 1 10 0
Boys' and Youths' Taglionis and Chesterfields, from • 12 0
Men's Dress Coats, any colour 1 10 0
Ditto Surtouts, ditto, from
Ditto Doeskin Trousers, any pattern, from ... 0 15 0
Ditto Black dress Trousers, front .. 0 18 0
Ditto Fashionable Vests, in endless variety, from ...... 0 7 0
A New Book, entitled " The Age of Wonders," containing a
detailed List of Prices, Fashions, and Description of material fur
the present season, can be had by applying to Mr. L. lIYAM,
Pantechnetheca, 36, Gracechurch.street, London.

Effingham Wilson, No. I I, Royal Exchange, has just published
ADESCRIPTION OF THE ROYAL EX-
CHANGES. With a Memoir of Sir Thomas Gresham,
Founder of the original Burge in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. With
IR Embellishments, 2s. Gd. handsomely bound.
" We are glad to welcome this publisher back to his old place of
business. His house has issued many valuable commercial works.
Ills first publication In his new establishment is both well timed and
well calculated to secure public favour."—Britannia.

%VADE'S LONDON REVIEW for February,
price Is., will contain :—TheChurch of England—Commerce
of the Prairies—Fellowships of the Royal Society—The Devil's Pic-
ture Gallery—Travels in Abyssinia—Vestiges of Creation, &o.
" There is a raciness and point in some of the papers, and an
amount of information in others, which we in vain look fbr in the
generality of contemporary periodicals."—Observer.
W. S. Orr and Co., Amen-corner ; W. Curry, jun., and Co., Dub-
lin ; Fraser and Co., Edinburgh ; and all Booksllers.

SECOND EDITION.
Now ready, price 25.,
REPLY to a Pamphlet entitled " INDIA and
LORD ELLENBOROUGII."
By ZETA.
J. 011Ivier, 59, Pall-mall.

The CRAIRNIAN then called upon the Secretary to
read the report of the Council and the treasurer's
financial statement of accounts, of which the follow-
ing are copies :
" The report which the Council have now to submit to
their constituents extends over a period of fifteen months,
from September 28, 1843, to the 31st December, 1844.
" In the address presented at the meeting in Covent •
garden Theatre, September 23, 1643, the Council ex-
plained the course of action it proposed fur the future,
and the distinguishing feature of this plan was the de-
termination to make the movement essentially an elec-
toral one.

" To give effect to the extensive'operations here pro-
posed, the Council having a full reliance ou the zeal and
co-operation of their countrymen, asked for a contribu-
tion of one hundred thousand pounds, a sum which,
whilst it would furnish evidence of the increasing in-
fluence of free-trade:opinions, would be sufficient to meet
the estimated expenditure of the League.
" In conformity with this plan, the whole of England
and Wales was divided into thirteen electoral districts.
To each of these districts a competent agent was ap-
pointed by the Council, whose duty it was personally and
repeatedly to visit each borough in his district, to pro-
mote and superintend the formation of local registra-
tion committees, and to give advice and render assistance
in all matters relating to the registration, and, wherever
practicable, to secure the appointment of an active local
agent, having a knowledge of the law and practice of the
revision courts. It was also his duty to make perio-
dical returns of the state of each constituency, and of
the means available for increasing the strength of the
:.rec-traders on the register.
" Under this arrangement 160 borough 3 in England
and Wales have been: visited during the past year.
The Council have obtained a mass of information which
will enable them to direct their future efforts with greater
efficiency, while the returns already in their possession
show an undoubted gain in 112 of the boroughs thus
acted upon, and in many of these the improvement on
the reaister i 3 such as to ensure the return of free•
traders in the place of monopolists, in the event of an
election.
" Simultaneously with these electoral movements, the
communications between the Council of the League and
every portion of the kingdom have, by means of corres-
pondence and deputations, been not only maintained,
but greatly increased during the past year. Moro than
200 meetings, attended by a deputation from the Coun-
cil, have been held in England and Scotland since Octo-
ber, 1843. Of these meetings, more than 150 have been
held in Parliamentary boroughs, and the increased num-
bers by which they have been in all cases attended, and
the zeal and enthusiasm manifested, prove the extent
arid the depth of the public conviction in favour of free
trade. Besides these, the great meetings held in Covent-
garden Theatre, London, and in the Free Trade Hall,
Manchester, show that the question has lost none of
its hold on the public mind in the metropolis, or
in this town, the birthplace of the League.
" The lecturers of the League have visited and lec-
tured in 36 out of 40 counties of England, and in nearly
all the Welsh counties. The demand for this mode of
instruction has been much greater than the Council have
been able to supply, the desire for lecturers having been
especially maniftsted in the agricultural districts.
" More than 2,000,000 of stamped and other publica-
tions have been distributed. In addition to these, there
has been an average weekly publication of 20,000 copies
of the League paper, 15,000 to subscribers to the League
Fund, besides a sale of 5,000 copies weekly, amounting
in 67 weeks to 1,340,000 copies, making the total distri-
bution of publications nearly 3} millions.
" The correspondence, since the last report, has more
than doubled, the number of letters received at the
League offices in London and Manchester, being about
25,600, while the numbers dispatched from the two
offices have been about 300,000.
" Until recently, with the exception of Lancashire and
Middlesex, the Council had not directed their attention
to the county registration. In South Lancashire, having
the data furnished by the late contested election, they
proceeded at once to a thorough examination of the re-
gister, and the result of the last registration in this divi-
sion of the county was a gain of 1,750 votes to the free-
traders. In North Lancashire there was a gain of more
than 500 votes, and in Middlesex an accession of strength
was also secured.

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THE BEAUTY of the HEAVENS: containing.
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" By its aid alone a competent knowledge of astronomy may be
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Now ready, beautifully bound, price 65.,
RHYMES and PICTURES : Pictures and
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number) are designed and printed in Germany, with all that grace-
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PUBLIC NOTICE.
434, OXFORD-STREET.
TO SHIPPERS, OWNERS, CAPTAINS, AND OTHERS.
Copies of Testimonials, Gratis, by all Agents.
RIMSTONE'S EYE SNUFF.—Under the
vir Patronage of his late Majesty, her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, and the Lords of the Treasury, is universally re-
commended by the Faculty for its efficacy in removing disorders
incident to the Eyes and Head.
• SIGHT RESTORED:—NERVOUS HEADACHE AND
DEAFNESS CURED!
By the most simple, delightful, and fragrant Compound!
Its mod (of application is fraught with pleasure; many thousand
cures have been accomplished by its use, at a trifling expense, yet
certain in its operation. If testimonies be necessary to induce the
sufferer to snake trial, Kings, Lords, and Commons have used it.
che Lords of the treasury have sanctioned its use. Their late Maw
jesties, the Duchess of Kent, the most eminent Oculists, Medical
Practitioners—with that gigantic balance, the Press—have eulogised
Grimstone's celebrated Herbaceous Compound, known as "Grim-
stone's Eye Snuff," for its efficacy in removing all diseases incident
to the Eyes and Head. G. J. Guthrie, Esq., R.B. See J. B. Lach-
field, Esq.'s Letter, Whitehall. Dr. Thomas. Dr. Andrews calls it
a national blessing—see his Reports touching its utility. The late
Mr. Abernethy, with many others, recommend Grimstone's Eye
Snuil, and call it " Man's best Friend," and the "Student's Vade
Mecum. '
Dr. Andrews also recommends its use as a preventive. See his
reports in Nov. 1031. He states that the tenacious sympathy of the
membrane, within the nostrils, with the nervous system, that Grim.
stome's Eye Snuff, when frequently taken, Insist be of the greatest
benefit to the consumer; and, further, recommends its universal
adoption as a preventative.
Dr. Thomas, of Hatfield, having witnessed many cases both of
headache and ophthalmia, has kindly given his testimony thereof.
A few of the many theusand Testimonials of Sight restored and
Deafness cured by GIUMSTONE'S EYE SNUFF:—
" To W. Grimstone, Esq. .4 April 20th. 1844.
" Dear Sir,-1 feel bound by a sense of justice to inform you of
the miraculous cure effected on myself by taking a few pinches of
the far celebrated Gnmstone's Eve Snuff, which, in my ease, ought
rather to be called 4 Ear Snuff,' it having etP•ctually relieved me from
a deafness from which I have been suffering for many years. You are
at liberty to make any use you please of this communication, since I
should much regret if the extraordinary qualities of your Eye Snuff
were not universally known.
" I am, dear Sir, your obedient servant,
Granton, Scotland. " MARGARET MACGREGOR.
" I can vouch for the truth of the foregoing facts and statemen
" May 8, 1844. " JAMES SHUTER, Kentbury, Berks. '
G. W. M. Reynolds, editor of Chamkers' London Journal, &c.. &c.
relies, edof excruciating pains, and can now write without spectacles
—3 ,Stamford-street, Blacefriar's-road.
Madame F. Leim, teeing the church, Park-street, Windsor; cured
of dimness of sight and headache.—filth SPptember, 1838, and 1843.
J. B. Lachfield, Esq. ; cured of Ophthalmia. Whitehall and
Thatched House Tavern —See His letters, 1838 and 1842.
Observe the Caution—W. GRIMSTONE is the sole inventor,
and the only genuine is prepared by him.
This Odoriferous Herbaceous Compound of Herbs is sold in
canisters, at Si, Is. Id., 'is. id., 45. 48., Ss., and 15s. fici. each, by the
Proprietor, W. GRIMSTONE, at No. 434, Oxforti.street, Totten-
ham-court-road end (late of No. 29, Broad-street, Bloomsbury),
and et the Herbarv, Highgate; and can also be obtained in all the
principal Towns "and Cities. A liberal allowance to Shippers
Owners, Captains and all Vendors of Grimstone's Eye Snuff This
celebrated Snuff Is shipped to all ouarters of the globe, and retains
its benign qualities in every climate All Snuffs and Cigars shipped
)n the shortest notice.
Any quantity can be forwarded through the General at' by
sending
so o
gmoriTiy.
like
11;o.oArti2s. 4(1, Canister, with ,post g ill vest
s.
• HER4Altli KIWIs A

TICE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE PASSIONS.
" What passions hurt the body, what improve ;
Truths as refined as Athens even heard."
The Sixtieth Thousand.-72 Engravings, price Is., by post, 18.6 d.
ON CHASTITY—its Abuses and Diseases—On
Marriage, its Hindrances and Obligations—On infelicitons
and Unproductive Unions—Curiosities of Medical Experience—
Cases, Correspondence, &c., &c.
By It. J. CULVERWELL, M.D.,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Licentiate of
the Hall, and twenty-three years Resident Practitioner in London.
I,Of human ills and frailties I discourse,
Those taught by nature and by art acqulr'd.
Of griefs conceal'd, and disappointments keen,
Which young and gentle—the matured wad sage—
The lonely and the mated—all sustain ;
In kindly spirit herein counsel's given,
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SUPPOSED SUICIDE IN THE TIIAMES.—On Wednes-
day Mr. Carter held an inquest at the York Arms,
Waterloo-bridge-road, on the body of George Gregory,
aged twenty, son of a widow keeping a greengrocer's
shop at 119, Lower-marsh, Lambeth. 'The evidence
takcn by the coroner proved that deceased was of weak
mind and so passionate, if jeered at or reprehended for
his conduct, that he was dangerous to himself and
others. Indeed, six months since, he had nearly drowned
in a water-butt a female relative who scolded him. In
November and December last his mother, the only per-
son that could govern him, became bed-ridden, and then
he gave himself up to intemperance, which increased the
natural defects of his temper. On the 18th ult., having
come home tipsy, a younger sister reprimanded him. lie
struck her and then ran out of the house. In the even-
ing he was seen weeping in the New-cut, and, in reply
to an acquaintance, said he had been " kicked and cuffed
at home, would return there no more, but go and drown
himself." Having said this, he ran off like a madman,
and was seen no wore Alive. Verdict, " Found drowned."

"Hitherto the county registration has been almost en-
tirely neglected by the commercial, trading, and indus-
trious classes, and the Council resolved to invite their
friends everywhere to acquire that political influence to
which they are so justly entitled, by taking up their en-
franchisement for the counties. The appeal has been
received and acted upon with a promptitude and en en-
thusiasm surpassing their most sanguine expectations.
The Council have reason to believe that, within the last
three months, a sufficient number of persons have pur-
chased freehold qualifications in North Cheshire, South
Lancashire, and the West Riding of York, to secure to
those important constituences a free-trade majority ;
whilst a large addition to our ranks has been made in
Middlesex, North Lancashire, and several other populous
counties.
"'The Council view this as but the encouragin: com-
mencement of a movement to which they will devote
their primary attention during the ensuing year. The
Government of this country is at present in the hands of
a class, solely through the instrumentality of the Chan-
dos clause, which places the county representation at the
mercy of the landlords, through the votes of less than
200,000 tenants-at-will in England and Wales. From
calculations carefully made, the Council are convinced
that it will be practicable, in a short time, to induce
such a number of the friends of free trade to purchase
freehold qualifications, as will neutralise those dependent
voters at the poll, and give to the intelligent middle and
industrious classes their due influence in the Government
of this commercial country.
" The Council have now entered upon the seventh
year of their labours. Of the past they can speak with
satisfaction. They have seen public opinion gradually,
but surely becoming more and more settled in favour of
free trade ; the public press, the organ of that opinion,
uniting more earnestly and cordially with the exertions
omfotshien moving Leagueslowly ;
it
the
mayC be,abin buttch stillose movingmonopolists,
on in the
direction of free trade ; whilst, throughout the manu-
facturing districts, the return of active and prosperous
commerce has not only done nothing to abate the enthu-
siasm and determination of their friends, but has given
them enlarged means of advancing the object they have
so greatly at heart.
"The League is emphatically the representation of the
classes that live by industry ; it is an embodiment of the
spirit and energy of trade which is struggling to be free;
it seeks no private, no partial good, but the true and
permanent interests of the whole people ; hitherto it has
received a degree of support unknown to any other or-
ganisation in this country ; it has sought, by a faithful
discharge of its duties, to deserve the confidence reposed
in it : its success is to be seen wherever the opinion of
the people is freely manifested, and its complete and not
distant triumph is as certain as its determination is firm
and its principles are impregnable.
"By order of the Council,
" GEORGE WILSON, Chairman.
" Manchester, Jan. 22, 1845 "
1845.

FINANCIAL REPORT.—XIOO,OOO LE AGUE
FUND, 1843-4.
1842. ' RECEIPTS•
Sept. 9. To balance of cash in hand £2,476 10 3
Amount of subscriptions received to this
date ..................................... 82,735 3 5
Interest allowed by bankers 797 13 7

The announcement of the balance in hand of
26,6751. 19s. 9d. was received with loud and reiterated
bursts of cheering.
Mr. HicKIN, the Secretary, then read the minutes of
the preliminary special general meeting of the Council,
held that afternoon, at which the report and accounts
above given having been read and approved, the fol-
lowing resolution was also passed :—" That this
meeting of the General Council of the Anti-Corn-law
League having received very full and detailed reports
of the proceedings of the Executive Council in Man-
chester, expresses its perfect satisfaction with those
proceedings, its warm gratitude for the patriotic, self-
denying, and most laborious exertions of the Council
in the great cause of free trade, and requests them
to continue their labours in directing the future ope-
rations of the League."

£86,009 7 3

1845. ---
Jan. 1. To balance of eash in hand £26,675 19 9
1844. DISBURSEMENTS.
lec. 31. By registration and tract distri-
bution, including expenses in registra-
tion courts, wages of clerks, travelling

The CitaramAN—said Mr. Baines would now move
the report ; but before he did so, 'perhaps the meet-
ing would allow him to make one explanation with
respect to the fund. When they first launched the
address in which they asked from the country a con-
tribution of 100,000/., they had it in contemplation
to raise a large portion of that amount by a bazaar,
to be held in Covent-garden Theatre, but that bazaar
had not yet been held.—(Hear.) The amount re-
ceived, therefore, was quite as much as they had an-
ticipated. They proposed still to hold the bazaar, and
he had no doubt the amount then received would
carry them far beyond the sum originally expected.
—(Loud cheers.)
EDWARD BAINES, Esq., jun., Leeds, then moved—
" That the report of the proceedings of the General
Council of the League, which has now been read, be
adopted and confirmed by the meeting."
LAWRENCE HEYWORTII,: Esq., of Liverpool, se•
conded the resolution, which was carried with loud
cheering.
T. M. GIBSON, Esq., M.P., then came forward, and
was received with great cheering. He said it had
happened to him several times, within perhaps he
might say a recent period, to be asked in a sneering
way by gentlemen in the south of England how the
Anti-Corn-law League was getting on.—(Hear,
hear.) There was a way of asking a question which
beyond the mere words conveyed a very clear mean-
ing. The meaning of that question was, the idea,
the fond notion, that had been invented in the south
of England, that the League was retrograding. and
some even had gone the length of saying that the
League was extinct—(Hear, hear, and laughter)—
nay, more, rumour had said that a subscription was
even entered into to give a very large testimonial to a
writer who was supposed to have been instrumental
in bringing about a dissolution of the Anti-Corn-law
League.—(Renewed laughter.) lie wished some of
his southern friends could have been present at this
great assemblage—(Loud cheers)—he thought when
they heard of the large sums which had been sub-
scribed by the people of this country in support ofthe
League, and the large balance of something like
27,000/. which Row remained on hand to carry on
the agitation—(Loud cheers)—that they would feel
assured that the Anti-Corn-law League had escaped
all the dangers of infancy, and was now established
in mature and robust manhood, and that it would live
until it had accomplished the object for which it was
brought into existence.—(Loud cheering) It had
been predicted that the League could not live, because
repeal of the corn-law was only a political cry.
But it was no " cry."—(Hear, hear.) A cry was a
different thing; it meant the watchword of a party,
without any real intention of carrying the object into
effect.—(Hear, hear.) It was a " cry" to talk of
" our young Queen, and our old Constitution—
(Laughter)—and " the wooden walls of old Eng-
land."—(Cheers.) These were political cries. But
the distinction between the watchword or word of
union of this great Association and those political
cries was this, that the one was real, and the other
was merely used as a means of binding men together
in a sort of livery, which was known by the cry, as it
were, which they uttered, though there was no real
intention of carrying any political movement into
effect.—(Cheers.) But this was not so in the Anti-
Corn-law League. Politicians were beginning to
find that something was really meant, and that this
cry of free trade was not meant merely to bring po-
litical partisans into power, but was intended to
place in the hands of the great body of the middle
and working classes their full rights, which consisted
in having the free use of their power, and the full
enjoyment of the fruits of their industry.—(Cheers.)
The reason they were wrong in predicting the fai-
lure of this movement when times were good was,
that they never knew its reality, that they never
understood as they ought that it was not a mere im-
pulse, but was based upon an intelligent conviction.
—(Loud cheers.) It was not based upon the mere
contingency of whether times were good or bad, hut
upon the immutable principles of justice, which
would never change.—(Loud cheers.) They had
placed before them by the League, a plain, intelli-
gible, broad, and clear idea, and what was this
idea ? That merchants and manufacturers are
something in the land, as well as landowners
and farmers—(Loud cheers)—that commerce
was as lawful and legitimate a pursuit, and as advan-
tageous to the country, as agriculture.—(Hear.)
They now understood that commerce was as much a
productive power as agriculture, and that the one
produce was as much entitled to the protection of the
Legislature as the other.—(Cheers.) They were too
well informed upon this subject to render it necessary
to argue as to the bearing of this question upon coin-
merce. But with regard to the farmers :—The
farmers were assembling together, and grumblers
though they were reputed to be, their grumbling was
somewhat more remarkable than usual. And he
thought shey had good reason to grumble.—(Hear,
hear.) No class of men had been worse treated. It
was pretended that the Legislature had the benefit
of farmers in view before they repealed the taxes upon
land. It was said what a saving the farmer had had
by the alteration consequent upon the New Poor-law ;
" the poor-rate is much less than it used to be, the
poor farmer will get a better return by his occupa-
tion."—(Hear, hear.) But all that the farmer saved
in poor-rates went to rent.—(Cheers.) There never
was a greater mistake than to suppose that the Legis-
lature, when proposing to benefit the farmer, was not
really putting more money into the pockets of the
landowners.—(Cheers.) The landowner was the
object of favour; the farmer was merely held up
as a mask to their intentions. Now they had said
this in the League all along—it had been constantly
, stated that the corn-law was a question of rent—
(Hear, hear)—that the corn-law was never in-
' tended to compensate the farmer for the
different charges pressing upon the land, for all
these charges were calculated upon when the farmer
took his land, and allowed for in the rent.—(Hear,
hear.) As a proof that farmers themselves, compelled
by the pressure of the times—having made their con-
tract for their present rents under the notion that
prices would be higher than they now were—were
beginning to speak out upon the question, he Would
I take the liberty of reading them one or two remarks
from the speeches of tenant-farmers, at a meeting
! which took place in Gloucester, and which appearedna..
in the Times newspaper of Tuesday. If
the tLn ts
at-will dared speak out, there would be at the present
moment a very general cry of indignation on their
part at the way in which their credulity had been
practised upon by the Legislature, and at the way
they had been induced to re,y upon their faithless
patrons for protection .7 (Cheers.)
„The article was
headed "The Fariners Difficulties," §et out by

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remarking that the guests were rather fewer than
usual. It said—" The room was as commodious, and
the viands as abundant and inviting as on any former
occasion, and the charge was the same—but the
guests were wanting.—(Loud laughter.) About
30 persons only were present, and of those a number
were landlords, and some belonged to the city."
Mr. Watts, a tenant-farmer, volunteered an expla-
nation, and he said, "I am sorry that our club is
continuing to fall off, and that the attendance at our
meetings has been so small. But, gentlemen, I told
you last year the reason of this, namely, the unwil-
lingness of many landlords to help their tenantry in
these times of difficulty and distress." He then went
on to say—" I am aware that many land surveyors
will advise their employers not to grant leases. The
reason is obvious ; instead of these men being called
upon once in seven years, they perhaps will not be
called upon to value the same farm more than once in
twenty-one years.—(Laughter.) I hope the time is
not far distant when every good farmer will be pro-
tected by a fair lease, and at such a rent as the prices
of produce, permanently reduced as they undoubtedly
are, will enable him to pay."—(Hear, hear.) So that
it seemed, after all, when the farmer wanted relief,
he did not look to rent. He knew there was a margin
there that could be borrowed upon. They had been
told—he dared say Mr. Cobden had been frequently
told—" If you were to abolish rents altogether, the
farmers could not afford to farm their lands under a re-
peal of the corn- laws." They did not say so at this meet-
ing of which he was reading. They had not said a word
about "special burdens" either. Here was not a
word said about the poor-rate, nor about the seasons, '
nor about any other difficulties whatever.—(Cheers.)
The only remark made by this tenant-farmer was,
that he wanted a lease, and that he wanted it at a fair
rent.—(Hear, hear.) And that was the whole ques-
tion. Now, what was it the farmers were afraid of
at the present moment from a repeal of the corn laws ?
Was it low prices ? Why, they had the low prices
now; prices were low. They said they wanted a
lowering of rent. But he asked them would they
ever get that lowering of rent until the corn-law was
abolished?—(No, no.) Would there ever be a
general adjustment of rent between the landlord and
his tenant throughout the kingdom until there was a
total abolition of protection ? Never. As a proof that
he was not speaking without authority when he said
this, what did Lord Liverpool say when the corn-law
was passed ? He said—" If you do not pass this
corn-law, there will be a general adjustment of rents
between landlords and tenants all over the kingdom,
and the farmer will start afresh upon a new basis."—
(Applause.) That would be the state of things now
if the corn-laws were repealed.—(Hear, hear.) The
League proposed to do all in its power to accomplish
what these farmers were asking for, and therefore he
would say that the League was emphatically the farmer's
friend. There never would be a more favourable
time for repealing the corn-laws than this. We were
often told by the present State physician, Sir Robert
Peel, " Your proposition may be very reasonable in
principle; but this is not the time."—(Laughter.)
Now he defied them, if ever they meant to repeal the
corn-laws, to point to any future time which could be
more favourable. Prices were already moderate,
there would be no change in the position of the far-
mer in that respect. Labourers were not now thrown
out of employment because prices were reduced, but
there was grow ing up from various causes a greatly
increased demand for labour.—(Hear.) But shat
a nonsensical argument it was about throwing
labourers out of employment by the repeal of the
corn-laws. Labourers could only be thrown out of
employment, and he supposed they meant by the
term thrown out of bread, by the land going out of
cultivation. Now, he would take the most extreme
case that could possibly be imagined, that of a great
number of acres of land being thrown out of culti-
vation, and, as they said, a great number of labourers
being thrown out of employment. Why, there
would only be three labourers employed on one acre
of land ; and did any human being who was fit to be
at large mean to assert that these three men could
not, by their own industry, live out of these 100
acres of land which it is alleged would be thrown
out of cultivation, whether the corn-laws were re-
pealed or not ?—(Loud cheers.) He held in his hand
a book that had just been published in London,
namely, a report of an association for " Promoting
the relief of Destitution in the Metropolis, and for
improving the condition of the Poor by means of
parochial and district visiting, under the super-
intendence and direction of the Bishop and
clergy." Now, this was a report of the Lord
Bishop of London, and they were entitled to have
a little conversation with the Bishop of London on
the corn-laws, not because he was a bishop, but
because as a legislator he was an assenting party to
their existence. In this report he said, "In the
course of this investigation it soon appeared, that
whatever might be the severity of the immediate pres-
sure, a still greater and more alarming evil existed in
its cause. It was found, on investigation, that the
condition of the labouring classes in too many in-
stances exhibited a downward tendency, arising from
pauperism. Whether this tendency might be ascribed
to the competition in trade, the manifold interruptions
to which so vast a traffic as that of Great Britain is
unavoidably exposed, and the consequent fluctuations
in wages and uncertainty of employment, or whether,
in particular districts, it might be traced to circum-
stances affecting the immediate locality alone, the fact
remained the same." Now, the Bishop said a more
alarming evil existed in the cause of all these disasters.
A very sensible remark.—(Applause end laughter.)
Perhaps it might be thought wrong to say that the
Bishop himself was a cause.—(Laughter.) nut unless
we were totally wrong in all our conclusiOns, the
Bishop of London, by not testifying his disapprobation
of the corn-laws in the House of Lords—unless we
were completely deceived in all our notions of cheap
food being a source of happiness to the community—
he said that there was nothing so very extreme in the
remark that the Bishop of London himself might
be considered as one of the causes of the evils
which he deplored.—(Loud cheers.) " Why," the
Bishop might say, " prices are low now, what
would you have ? The corn-laws have not prevented
you from having abundance of food ?" Yes,
but the answer was that the corn-laws answered no
purpose at all, unless it were to raise the price of
food. It did effect that sometimes. and therefore by
not opposing that law, as far as in him lay, the Bishop
of London did all he could to keep up the price of
corn.—(Cheers.) Surely it could never be necessary
with the Church to discuss the question of whether
plenty is an evil, or whether scarcity is a blessing.
The very prayer so often referred to as used in our
churches assumed that cheapness and plenty were
blessings. He asked, therefore, why this body, with
the Bishop at its head, did not come forward and help
them to repeal the corn-laws ?—(Cheers.) Mr. Gib-
son went on to express his conviction that the day was '
not far distant when this law would he erased from
the statute-book and consigned, as many other bar-
barisms have been before it, to everlasting oblivion.
J. BRIGHT, Esq., M.P., was the next speaker, and
was very cordially received. He said two things had
struck him in connection with this subject; one was
the certainty of the tendency of all corn-law legisla-
tion to plunder the industry of the country by creating
an artificial famine, and thereby to enrich the great
proprietors of the soil, and those who called themselves
the nobility.--(Cheers.) The corn-law of 1815
aimed to fix wheat at 80s. a quarter, a famine price,
which had only been attained in two years since, 1817
and 1818, which were years of distress, discontent,
and menaced insurrection in all the densely-peopled
districts of the kingdom. •But the object of that law
and its powers was to keep as near the famine price as it
might be safe to go,even though some few were starved
in the experiment. This law had no mercy in it, and
its framers had none. It was not of its mercy that ttiey
were not now plunged into utter desolation,
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their fathers had felt a deep interest in ; but they were
now better organised, and, if possible, more resolved.
This was a fitting time to ask what had the League
done ? In 1839 they had raised a subscription of about
5,0001., which was then thought a very serious amount ;
and ono knowing man had promised to repeal the corn-
laws for about s,oool.—(Laughter.) In 1840 another
subscription had been entered into—a guarantee fund
for three years, to be paid by instalments. In 1841
there took place the memorable meeting of seven
hundred ministers of religion, who, with all the force
and power which their character and calling could
give, denounced the law as one violating every
human right, and offensive in the sight of