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RY AUTHORITY of his MAJESTY the
../-/ EMPEROR of AUSTRIA.—WiII take place irrevocably on
the 16th of March, 1844, the DISTRIBUTION of NINE beautiful
ESTATES. •f a value from 1,480,054 Francs, and MONEY PRIZES
from 150,000 Francs dawn to 125 Francs of Common Bonds, and In
the Special Distribution of the Red Bonds 32,509 gains will be obtained,
and each Rod Bond must gain a higher or lower amount. Price of a
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one Red Bond ; for 10/. Eleven Common Bonds and Two Red ; for
201. Twenty-three Common Bonds and Three Red.
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EXCHEQUER BILL OFFICE,
2, WHITEHALL-YARD,
15th February, 1844.

The EXCHEQUER BILLS dated in the Month of March, 1843,
viz., p. 5 Viet. Sees. 2. Cap. 21, 9,100,000--1842; 5 and 6 Viet.
Cap. 115, £9,193,000-1842 ;

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Also,
The EXCHEQUER BILLS, dated from July, 1842, to March, 1843
(both inclusive), p. 2 and 3 William IV., Cap. 125, for Relief of West
India Islands, 3 Viet. Cap. 10, for carrying on Public Works, &c.,
with the Interest due thereon, will be PAID OFF on the 15th day
of March, 1844, when the interest will cease. Such Bills will be
received daily from 134f-oast Wen o'clock till Two. until and includ-
ing the 4th day of March, at this Office, where lists are to bif ob-
tained, cositaining instructions for arranging the Bills. The bearers
must endorse each Bill with their usual signatures, and write their
names and residences at the bottom of each list ; and where the
names of holders are inserted in Bills, the bearers, not being such
holders, must previously obtain their endorsements. The bearers
must attend to give receipts for the payment.
Payment may be obtained, if required, previous to the said 15th
day of March, upon leaving the Bills for examination one day prior
to that on which such payment is desired.
New Bills, bearing an interest of three half-pence by the day upon
every one hundred pounds, and dated the said 15th day of March,
may be obtained in whole or in part payment of principal of the Ex-
chequer Bills issued under the above-mentioned Acts of 5 Vic.
Seas. 2, Cap.2l, and 5 and 6 Vic., Cap. 115, upon stating the required
amount on the lists, delivered on or before the said 4th day of March,
which new Bills, with the interest on the Bills exchanged, will be
issued on the 16th day of March.
The Bills to be classed in separate lists, according to the Acts under
which they have been issued.
The Bills issued for carrying on public works and fisheries, and for
relief of West India Islands, will be paid off in money,
N.B.—All Exchequer Bills charged on supplies, dated prior to
March, 1843, have been advertised to be paid off.

BETTS AND CO., PATENT BRANDY
DISTILLERS, 7, SMITHFIELD BARS, have placed the
produce of this country, the Grain grown upon British soil, and
malted and distilled by native industry, upon an equality with the
produce and skill of the Continent. Their PALE and COLOURED
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and equal in quality to the best Cognac, at about half the price. It is
prescribed by the highest medical authorities at Guy's, St. George's,
aid the Westminster Hospital, and at other principal hospitals and
infirmaries throughout the kingdom. In stone jars, at 18s. per gallon,
jar included ; and in bottles six to the gallon, at 20s. per gallon, or
3s. 6d. per bottle, the bottles and packages included. A single bottle
may be had from the most respectable dealers in town and country,
of whose names lists may be obtained from the patentees.
To prevent fraud, every bottle has the cork and mouth secured by
the Patent Metallic Capsules (not tin foil) embossed with the words
" BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY, 7, SMITHFIELD BARS."

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NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
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26, CORNMILL, LONDON.
Capital Z. 500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
The many novel and varied advantages bestowed by this Institu-
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the option of selecting benefits and converting. policies so as beet to
suit the interest or necessity •f the policy-holder during life, as well
as to afford the full beiefit to his family at death, and annual division
of profits, have already been so well appreciated by the public, that
the Society's great success and growing prosperity enabled the Di-
rectors, at their General Meeting in May last, to add to each policy
•n the profit scale a bonus averaging fifty-five per cent. on the
amount already invested ; and this bonus, according to an equitabie
scale, may either be. paid in cash, •r applied in reduction of luta*
premiums

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TIIE CHRONICLES OF CLOVERNOOK.
BY THE EDITOR.
I. The Hermit of Bellyftille continues his Account of the Land of
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11. Of the Schools of Tarveytop—of its Nurslings and Scholars.
111. Of the Civil War of the Turveytopians, and its Pleasant End.
Birmingham and its Vicinity.
The Shawl Buyer, an Incident of 1843, by Miss Camilla Toalmin.
Winter, the King; and Spring, the Poet (from the Swedish of Vita-

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Deal and Its Boatmen.
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The Bravo Husband—a Tale of Italy.
Galileo, the Martyr of Truth, by W. H. Dixon.
Belles of England—The Duchess of Richmond ; thi Duchess of De-

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Tom Honinfamies Guardian Sprite, by the late John L'Estrango.
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Sketches of Parisian Life, No. IL—The "Coquette," or " Femme a
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IURSUANT to a DECREE of the HIGH
COURT of CHANCERY, made in a cause, WHIBLEY
against HEBB, the Creditors of WILLIAM HEBB, formerly of Clay.
pool, in the county of Lincoln, sheep salesman, and late of King's-
row, Pentonville, in the county of Middlesex, who died in the month
of March, 1838, are. on or befbre the 2d day of April next, to
come in and prove their debia.before Sir Oippiis Witsow, one of the
Masters of the said Court, at his Chambers, in Southampton-buildings,
Chaneery-lane, London; or, in default thereof, they will be perem-
torily excluded the benefit of the said decree.
WEIR and SMITH, Plaintiff's Solicitors,
Cooper's Hall, Basinghall-street.

TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, FEB. 26, Mt

Orders for the Court's change of mourning, on Thursday,;
the ith of March next, for his late Royal Highness the
Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha, father of his Royal Highness,
Prince Albert, and uncle and father-in-law to her Majesty,:
vix.:—The ladies to wear black silk, fringed or plain li-,
nen, white gloves, necklaces and ear-rings, black or,
white shoes, fans and tippets. The gentlemen to wear
black, full trimmed, fringed or plain linen, black swords 144
buckles. The Court to change the mourning farther, on,
Thursday the 14th of March next, via.—The ladies to wear,
black silk or velvet, coloured ribbons, fans and tippets, or plain
white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuffs, with black
ribbons. The gentlemen to wear black goats, and black or,
plain white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuff waist- ,
coats, full trimmed, coloured swords and buckles. And, on
Thursday, the 21st of March next, the Court to go out of
mourning.

WHITEHALL, FEE. 21.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Pilgrim, jun., of
Chapel-field, in the city of Norwich, Gent., to be a Muter
Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
The Lord Chancellor has also appointed James Ainsworth;
of Blackburn, in the county palatine of Lancaster, Gent., to
be a Muter Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.