The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-20 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE EXPERIMENTAL FLEET.
TEE LATE TRIALS.—Facts ultimately creep out not-
withstanding the exertions that are made to suppress
them. Among them we may mention the jockeying
of the Queen, and the rolling of the Albion as de-
scribed in the following statement of plain facts, from
an officer on board one of the ships of the fleet :
" The time the wind blew a breeze two days only
during the cruise, the Trafalgar beat the Queen each
day dead to windward, with a head sea. When the
signal was made to open ports and run out lower-deck
guns, the Trafalgar's ports were up and guns out on
both sides, immediately. The Albion attempted to obey
the signal with one port, and closed it again directly ;
tried again a second time, but could not keep it open ;
tried the third time another port forward, but shipped
so much water that it was obliged to be closed. The
Trafalgar shipped no water, but proved her capabilities
as a man-of-war, with three tiers of guns available for
action ; but the Albion, a great 90-gun ship, larger
than the Trafalgar, had only one tier, and then rolling
so awfully that her shot, if the guns could have been
fired at all, must have gone over the Trafalgar in one
of her rolls, and under her keel in the other. The
Vanguard and the Superb also, in the attempt to open
their lower-deck ports, received a good ducking.
" When the Queen is heeling half a degree less than
the Trafalgar, she places 100 men on the weather side
of her deck, to keep her from going too much on her lee
side, this jockeying making the ship's company her
shifting ballast."
Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, C. 8., having, in conse-
quence of ill health, resigned the command of the expe-
rimental squadron, to the great regret of the officers
commanding the respective ships, that gallant officer will
return to the superintendence of Portsmouth dockyard,
with universal esteem. We have, on two occasions,
pointed out his probable successor in the superintend-
ence of the trial sailings, and we reiterate our belief that
in the gallant Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel Pym, K.C.8.,
the Admiralty and the country have an officer, whose
robust health, nerve, and great experience, will ensure
the satisfactory completion of the objects for which the
'experimental fleet was formed.
The fleet is at present under the command of Sir H.
Pigot, at Cork, and since their arrival at that place its
officers have been filling up the vacancies in their com-
plements.
The St. Vincent, 120, Captain Rowley, out of her
complement of 840, with 145 additional marines, 985, is
still about 80 short.

The Trafalgar, 120, Captain Martin, with the same
total complement, 935, is about 70 short.
The Queen, 110, Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, has
filled up her number 760, and 145 additional marines-
-905 men. _ . _

The Rodney, 91, Captain Collier, C. 8., has her com-
plement, 705, and 121 additional marines-826, within
hal r. a-dozen. . _

The Albion, 90, Captain N. Inekyer, C. 8., has her
full complement the same as the Rodney, 826, with a
gre-►ter number of able seamen than any ship in the
fleet.

The Canopuq, 84, Captain Fairfax Moresby, C. 8.,
has her full complement, 645, and 121 additional ma-
rines-766.

The Superb, 80, Captain Arrnar Lowry Corry, has her
full complement, 766.
The Vanguard, 80, Captain Willes, is a great number
of officera short of her full complement of 766 men.
The following officers have not joined their ships
Mate, G. M. Smith, appointe,d to the Trafalgar ; Mid-
shipmen A. Bathurst and E. W. Shaw. to the Rodney ;
IL 1). Mercere. to the Albion ; C. Fairholme and J.
Balfour, to the Superb ; Naval Cadet Juhn Hussey, to
the St. Vincent.

(From the Plymouth Times.)
The wise policy of the Board of Admiralty in having
stopped the building of certain ships on the models of the
Queen and Albion, and in bringing into competition the sail-
ing and other qualities of vessels of different modes of con•
struction, has been fully established both in the late trials
with the eight experimental brigs, and subsequently with
the same number of ships of the line.
Our present object is to call attention to the latter, to in-
quire what truths they elicit, what great practical facts can
be drawn from them—for without some such process as this,
the experimental fleet has been sent to sea in vain. It is
really not a little curious to observe in what a wholesale way
persons interested, either as partisans of the Surveyor of the
2sav3?, or as having a pounds-shillings-and-pence hold upon
the Navy Office, treat the question of naval science, without
inquiring at all into the conditions of the experiments made
—without classifying, arranging, or deducing any general
fact their entire point seems to be the stability of the
Surveyor of the Navy, as if their prejudiced opinions, or
sheer existence, depended on ships having won a sort
of race
a a sailing match ; and then, if it should so happen,
ship on the Surveyor's models obtains a slight ad-
vantage over others, there is immediately a large amount of
hard words thundered forth,
'ex cathedra," from Somerset
House, the purport of which is to vilify every one who has
had the hardihood to call
influestiou the infallibility of the
and
Surveyor of the Navy, thejudgment of those about him,
into whose incompetent andconceited hands too much of
the shipbuilding interest of the country is unhappily placed.
But let us look at this question in the plain, simple, dis-
passionate way in which any p
experiments, would
draw practical deductions from sci(e)nn.? •
be likely to view it. We will take fittt;set theex three-deckers as
five two-deckers as.
ships of one class; and,lnsecmoankdhhoi,
ships of another class.
led to inquire whether they are si this
milnrlayrraancgteedmoenn,t'twheatairs,e
rount of oving
whether they are all inipelled by the sa
ecers are soma earl
force. Now, the weights of the three-7de
the same, and the weights of the two-deckers
canvass,
that it'
they had really spread the same quantities of
interesting and not
experiment would have furnished very nvass, the
unimportant data for the naval architect; unfortunately,
however, the experiments are, in this point, a god devitiated, still they are not altogether without great claims to
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attention. We will take the two-deckers for example, four
of these—viz., Rodney, Canopus, Vanguard, and Superb—
have precisely the same dimensions of mast and yards, and
carry for all practical purposes about the same quantity of
sail. The Albion differs from these ships in having about
2,000 • square feet of canvass more than the others, and a
greater amount of mast and yards : in fact, the foremast of
the Albion would make a mainmast for the three-decker.
Any one, therefore, at all accustomed to draw deductions in.
science would immediately draw his pen through such a case
as this, as not being sufficiently comparative; that is to say,
supposing he wished to discover whether certain ships of a
former period either equalled or excelled certain other ships

of a more recent period. This, then, places the question to
be con-idered under the following arrangements :

Height of \ Are of Coi:structed by
Sail.
I s;r E. sepo.ng.
2 7
: t't. 3 in. square t ifhe Frci,,3 1.
Rodney *****i 9iso 5' 114 fe(4, sir W. Symonds.
Ships. 1, Gnus. pot::
28,0°C/ISir W. Symonds.
Csuain,eorpi)t s
Vanguard
.. . . . :
7.3...,
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67

Now, the published statements all agree that in the late
trials with these ships the supaiority of the Rodney and
Canopus over the modern ships has been manifest ; in fact,
the N anguard and ,Superb were invariably beaten, even by
the three-deckers. If we take the Albion into the account,
however, the statements go to show that she has had upon
the whole the advantage, though in some instances very
slight, over the others ; but then it is to be remembered, that
she is a vessel of much greater power, both in capacity and in
proportionate area of sail, and therefore the experiment with
this ship is not comparative.
Now, .of the throe-deckers, we have the same source of

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discrepancy to contend with. It is admitted that the Queen
had out-sailed not only the other three-deckers, but the
whole fleet ; but then it is to be recollected that she has
nearly 3,000 square feet of cativas.s in her working sails
more than the other three-deckers, whilst her displacement
is nearly the same. We must look also the changes which
have been made in this ship since her last trials, in which she
was decidedly beaten by the St. Vincent. Now, here it is to
be observed, that no sooner did the Queen fail to realise all
the superfine reports set afloat about her from the Navy-
office, than she was taken into dock at Chatham for extensive
and expensive alterations; the plain. inference from which

. . •
a was, that if she was so splendid -ship as the Navy-office
writers described her to be, these alterations were unneces-
sary. If she was, on the contrary, as proves to have been
the case, a very indifferent ship before, such alterations would
be likely to improve her. Now the alterations were these:—
The stern-post was thrown aft at least two feet, and a new
rudder fitted; the bow was filled in and lengthened very
considerably by means of a false bow; she had four feet ad-
ditional gripe, and a false keel nine inches deep ; the position
of the masts was changed, and the internal fittings and ar-
rangements greatly altered ; in fact, she came out of the doc-
tors' hands altogether another kind of thing; and hence
could no longer be eonsidered as the same ship for any pur-
pose in practical science before experimented with. The
friends of Mr. White, the talented yacht-builder, at Cowes,
and who is now constructing some ships for the Admiralty, in-
sist upon the fact, that the present superiority of the Queen in
sailing arises from carrying out Mr. White's principles of
lengthening the bow, as applied by him to some of our fri-
gates. Be this, however, as it may, there can be no doubt,
according, to the late reports, that the Queen, thus altered,
has even succeeded in beating the Albion in general sailing
qualities. The experiments, however, must be considered
still in a state of progress; and we, therefore, feel unwilling
to enter upon any very lengthy discussion of them. It may
be that when a more severe winter's cruize shall have tested
further the qualities of these vessels, the question will assume
another character. In the present case, as appears by all the
accounts hitherto published, by far the greater number "of
trials have taken place in very moderate weather; whilst the
differences in the sailing have been commonly very small.
In the meantime we shall keep a vigilant eye upon the
further trials of these ships, and any changes or alterations
which may be made in them ; so that the merits of the great
question between the Surveyor's office and the country—viz.,
a profuse expenditure of the public money. upon an exclusive
and empirical system of ship-building in the Government
service be fairly and fearlessly laid open. And we tell the
interested Navy-office writers this, that no obloquy they may
endeavour to cast on us, no abusive or hard names with
which they may assail us, will in any degree tend to turn us
aside from the duty which, as public journalists, in a great
naval port, we owe not only to ourselves but to the navy. It
is now upwards of fifteen years since a great political party
came into power, under the flag of reform, with a view to
correcting abuses in different departments of the state. The
Board of Admiralty and the Navy Board especially fell under
the cognisance of the Reform Parliament, and the conse-
quence was, that most extensive changes took place,in that
department of the Admiralty. Now, we have no hesitation
in saying, that whatever abuses may have existed in the old
regime of the Navy Board, they have been far exceeded by
the regime which succeeded it ; there has been a far less sys-
tematic and fair state of things in our dockyards, a much
greater lavish of the public money, the general ability
and naval science of the service has been much
more confined and muzzled to suit the views of indi-
viduals. The iron hand of power has been exercised
with unscrupulous severity throughout the dockyard
service, and has been backed by a subserviency in
those whose interests were at stake quite unparalleled.
Above a million and a half of money have been expended
upon the building of ships designed upon the empirical views
of a single individual, and many of which are now known to
be deficient in very essential qualities. Besides this, we
have an enormous amount expended on our steam navy,
which, so far as the science of naval construction is concerned,
is left, notwithstanding, in a most unsatisfactory state. It
I is in vain that flattering and specious reports are got up to
blind the public upon all these points. Truth still continues
to dispel the vapours which are made by interested parties to
envelope it. A very illiterate writer in defence of the Navy-
office, through the columns of a London weekly print, ridi-
culously enough inquires, " Whence came the experimental
brigs?° and how does it happen " that so many ships of war,
from three-deckers to steamers, are now being built by dif-
ferent constructors?" We will tell him. They have pro-
ceeded from the succession to office of a firm, upright and in-
telligent Conservative Government, backed by the public
press, which has opened the eyes of the country to the real
state of naval architecture in the Government service. That
is the immediate source of these new proceedings ; but for this
we should have known nothing of such measures. Would
the late First Lord of the Admiralty or the present Surveyor
of the Navy have ever tolerated the building of ships for the
public service by the School c-f Naval Architecture?—Never.
Would the late Admiralty have ever sent such ships to sea in
competition with those designed by the Navy-office?—
Never. We recommend these gentlemen who appear to be
catching at straws with a view to save themselves from sink-
ing, to waste no more time in manufacturing excuses—no more
money in purchasing the privilege of abusing their opponents
in one or two solitary London journals, which find it con-
venient to print their paltry productions—their time is nearly
come. The whole of the surveyor's department must be re-
modelled, and something like an intelligent and thinking set
of men employed to conduct the department of our dock-
yards ; so that we may escape that random course of pro-
ceeding which is at once discreditable to the national science
and ruinous to her Majesty's Treasury.
The amount of the late trials with". the ships on the Sur-
veyor's models and these of former times appears to
be simply this, viz.. that all other things being equal,
those with a fuller midship section below the water line
have the best sailing qualities, since they have beaten the
Superb and Vanguard, two of the ships on the modern con-
struction, said to be the best ever produced. With respect
to the Queen, she is really anybody's ship, and there can
be little doubt but that she owes her success to a similar
quality, aided by recent alterations in her extremities.
When the Queen was first commenced, it is well known that
the Surveyor of the Navy was, by the late Admiralty, or-
dered to improve upon a ship then already in frame, and
which had a full midship section under water, after the old
school. It was upon this fact that the friends of the " in-
tuitive" system, directly the Queen had failed in her compe-
tition with the St. Vincent, began to disclaim her as not
being a vessel of their own immediate construction ; and we
remember well hearing thelate Sir Thomas Hardy condemned
for having interfered with the full development of the form
chosen by the Surveyor of the Navy. But now, however,
that the Queen, having a lengthened bow, after the plan re-
commended by Mr. White, is said to have succeeded, these
same persons are all alive to her merits. But the fact is, that
if the success of the Queen proves anything, it evidently
shows that with a midship section essentially different from
any other of the intuitive productions, she is a better ship,
since she has beaten another of their large class ships, viz.,
the Albion, an enormous ship on two decks, spreadity, a
much larger area of sail, from which we draw this important'
fact, that with a fuller and more buoyant midship section
under water, the Albion would have been a better ship, and
would then probably have carried the armament intended
for her, which now she does not.

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mon law, for neglect of duty.

INTERESTING DISCOVERIES AT

WESTHANI ABBEY, ESSEX.

A few cLys since thel workmen employed in exca-
vating for the new branch railway which is intended to
run from the Stratford station of the Eastern Counties
line to the mouth of the River Lea, near Blackwall,
lighted upon some curious and interesting remains con-
nected with that monastic edifice, the only portion of
which previously remaining was the low heavy Gothic
entrance adjoining the Adam and Eve public-house.
Just where tho line crosses at the rise of the Adam and
Eve gardens, and not more than about two feet below
the grassy surface, a sort of chamber was discovered,
which, however, was nearly half destroyed before
the men began to clear away with any caution, but
what remained was sufficiently perfect on Sunday last
to show its size and form. It is of an oblong shape,
rounded at one "end and square at the other, about
twelve feet long, eight feet wide, and five feet in depth.
The outer wall, which is of strong masonry, is about
six inches thick. Within that is a layer of cement,
which is again lined with thin red tiles of peculiarly
close texture ; and over these, on a thinner stratum
of cement, the sides are (or rather were, for the
greater part has been already taken away by
curiosity) neatly lined throughout with Dutch
tiles finely glazed, similar to those seen on old-fashioned
fire-places, but without the designs, being all of a pure
whit,. It is clear that this chamber, which, when whole,
must have been a very handsome one, was intended as a
lavatory, for which purpose a well, which was discovered
within two or three feet of it, furnished an abundant
supply of water ; but there was no trace of any
he sting apparatus. Had only common precaution been
used, this curious relic of other days might have
been preserved and removed entire. It would be very
de,irable, when so much excavation is going on through-
out the country, if workmen had instructions, espe-
cially near the old sites of ancient edifices and historic
places, to pause on any unusual appearances until an
examination by qualified persons takes place. At a
short distance was found a number of human bones,
amongst which was one skeleton, nearly perfect,
the last remains, perhaps, of one of the fair recluses
for whose use the bath had been constructed. These
relics of mortality, it is said, were instantly dese-
crated by some sacrilegious wretch, who took and dis-
posed of them to a bone purchaser for a few pence.
A few yards lower down towards the Thames the work-
men broke into an archway very strongly built, some-
what after the Danish manner, which has given rise to
much conjecture. The passage, into which an entrance
is effected through the opening, runs east and west; and
some supposed that it formed a subterraneons mode of
escape to the inmates of the abbey as far as Barking, in
the event of any impending danger. If so, the journey
would be a very tedious one, for if the passage does not
open as it proceeds, the traveller would have to crawl
on his hands and knees the entire was . The mare
general opinion is, that it is an old aqueduct leading
to the river. If so, it is very large, and built with great
strength. The place is well worth the visit of some
antiquary qualified to decide between conflicting con-
clusions.

FEROCIOUS BAND OF ROBBERS.
A trial, which has highly interested the inhabitants of
the Pyrilnees Orientales, commenced on the 2d instant,
before the Court of Assizes at Montpellier, and con-
tinued to engage its attention without intermission until
the 9th. For a long time the frontier of Catalonia was
infested with a ferocious band of robbers, known under
the name of " Traboucayres," from their being generally
armed with a species of carbine, or rather ;blunderbuss,
called a trabouc. Towards the end of last year the
special commissary of police stationed at Perthus ob-
tained information which convinced him that the
small village of Las Illas, on the French side of
the boundary, had long been made by these bandits
their place of retreat from out of the reach of
the authorities of Spain. Hereupon a strict watch
was kept over the houses in the place, and more
particularly that of a farmer named Vincent Justafri
They were frequently surrounded and searched, but the
counter-vigilance of the malefactors was such that the
police, though in great force, was always defeated in
finding them, although traces of their having been pre-
sent immediately before were apparent from the frag-
ments of a larger repast than could be required for the
family being found on their tables, from there being
also scattered about cards that bad been played with,
and even pieces of money, part of what had been staked
on the game ; and, lastly, by expressions used by mem-
bers of Justafrd's family, which had been overheard.
Indeed, it was afterwards proved that during more
than one one of these searches the brigands were in
the house of Justafrb, concealed in a secret space be-
tween the ceiling of the stable and the floor of the hay
and corn-loft. Detachments of soldiers were posted at
every essential point along the French side of the frontier,
when about one in the afternoon of December 6, that
stationed at the mill on the river Mouga, within the
territory of Custiyas, received notice from the Alcalde
of Ribeilles, on the Spanish side, that some men of sus-
picious character had been seen in the forest near
Faytons, in France. The sergeant went out immediately
with four of his men, to explore the country. Coming
to the top of a rock which commanded the woods, he
observed, a few yards below him, a movement in the
brushwopd that convinced him some persons were there
endeavouring to hide themselves, and cried " Who goes
there?" ." Spain," was the reply. " What regiment?"
" Traboucayres." " Lay down your arms and sur•
render," was the word of the sergeant ; but it was
scarcely out of his mouth ere a volley went over the
heads of him and his party. He immediately returned
the fire, and with his own musket killed one man,
while another was brought down by one of his men.
It was then found that htt had to contend with fourteen
brigands, all armed with their traboucs, while he
had only with him four soldiers and a guide. Somewhat
dispirited by the loss of their own men, and perhaps
thinking the force opposed to them was greater than it
really was, the Traboucayres retreated towards the
Spanish frontier. Here, however, they found the bank
of the Mouga well guarded by a party under the Alcalde
of Rebeilles. Upon this the brigands took up a po-
sition under some oaks, and recommenced their fire upon
the French, but finding that they were likely to be placed
between the two fires they retreated along the river, and
the French, from their inadequate number, and the
nature of the ground, found that all further pursuit
would be useless. The French and Spanish soldiers
both remained on the alert till the next day, when
the commandant of the company came from Saint
Laurent with a reinforcement of gendarmery, and
the woods of Faytons were again entered and searched.
The body of one of the bandits killed the day bef,re was
found, and in a hollow of a rock close by were perceived
the feet of another man endeavouring to conceal himself.
On being challenged he begged not to be fired upon, as
he was unarmed and would surrender. He a knitted
that he belonged to the band, and received pay at the
rate of 2f. 50c. a day. Ho protested that he had not
fired, but this was contradicted by the appearance of two
carabines on the spot, both of which had evidently been
discharged. This man, whose name was Cercos, after-
wards acknowledged that he was one of those who had
assailed the sergeant's body, and had come back into the
wood to endeavour to carry off the body of his slain
comrade, and have it buried. The res; of the band
after the defeat made their way back to La; Illas, where
three more of them were arrested as they were making
their way from the house of Justaft é to a public-house
called " Classe Haute." Among these was a man
named Fang, believed to be the captain of the Trabou-
cayres. While these prisoners were under examination
another search was made at the farm of Vincent Jus-
tafr6, and during the time the authorities were search-
ing the house, two gendarmes, placed as guards at the
outbuilding, were rushed upon and killed by fourteen
Traboucayres, all of whom escaped for the time, but
some of them have since been taken, and will be
brought to trial separately. The men arraigned on the
present prosecution were Vincent Justafr6, the farmer,
Jacques Justafr4, his brother, and Jacques Laporte, the
keeper of a house of public entertainment, all of Las
Illas, Jacques Pontounet, of Nlassanet, in Spain, son-in-
law of Laporte, all accused as harbourers of the bri-
gands, and resisters of the authorised force of France,
and the four brigands who had been taken in the con-
flict. The witnesses were numerous, and as some of
them were Spaniards, their examination prolonged the
trial to the length we have mentioned. Their evidence
consisted chiefly in details of the conflicts between
the armed force and the brigands, and the circum-
stances establishing the connexion between the Trabou-
cayres and the two Justafrtla, Laporte, and Pontounet,
and produced nothing of interest beyond the proof of
the facts, with their circumstances. On the 9th, the
President having summed up with great care and im-
partiality, the fate of the prisoners was submitted to
the jury, who, at eleven in the evening, retired, and
remained in deliberation till four in the morning. The
Court being then resumed, and the prisoners being
called in, the foreman of the jury delivered in the
verdict. It declared Farr& Rolland, Renard, and
Pontounet, not guilty ; whereupon the President
immediately ordered them to be discharged. Cercos
was found guilty of having made himself party of
an association of malefactors, of being an accomplice in
the crime of armed rebellion against the lawful authori-
ties, and of complicity in an at tempt to kill agents of the
public force in the exercise of their functions. Vincent
Justafr6 was found guilty of all the above offences, ex-
cept the attempt to kill ; and Jacques Justafre and La-
porte of harbouring known malefactors. The jury found
extenuating circumstances in favour of the three last.
Consequently, the President sentenced Cercos to the psi_
of death, and condemned Vincent Justafre to close con
finement with hard labour for eight years, Laporte to
simple imprisonment for five years, and Jacques Jus-
tafre to the like punishment for one year.—Gaiignarti.

THE GOVERNMENT DRAINAGE
BELL.

The Government B:11 (prepared by Sir James Gra-
ham) for the improvement of the sewerage and drainage
of towns and plpulous districts, and for making provi-
sion for an ample supply of water, and for otherwise
promoting the health and convenience of the inhabitants,
is now printed, and avowedly for the purpose of consi-
deration during the recess. It occupies 110 pages, and
the heads of the clauses alone fill seven folic► pages,
closely printed. It is intended that the Act shall extend
to the whole of England and %Vales, except London, and
come into operation in such places as her Majesty, by the
advice of her Privy Council, and after inquiry by an
inspector, shall order. The Secretary of State is to
appoint the inspectors, the salaries of whom are to be
paid out of the consolidated fund. A certain number
of commissioners are to be elected by owners and occu-
piers, and the number of commissioners are to he in pro-
portion to the number of inhabitants. At the first elec.
tion, owners and occupiers of property rated to the poor
to the amount of 101. are to have a right to vote ; and
one third of the commissioners are to go out of office
every third year. In corp:aate towns a certain number
of the commissioners are also to bo selected from the
town council. Commissioners are also to be selected
from borough justices and from local boards of trustees,
and their property qualification is to vary according to
the population.
Commissioners to appoint a civil engineer to be a sur-
veyor.
Lands and buildings to be provided for the deposit of
refuse, materials for highways (of which the Commis-
sioners are to be the surveyors), carts, implements, &c.
Commissioners to pave and flag, not only the public
streets, but, if necessary, others also, and charge the
expenses in the latter case, to the owners of adjoining
property ; after which, streets before private, to be main-
tained by the public.
The surveyor to fix the levels of new streets.

A new street—if a carriav road—tobe notless than
thirty feet wide ; if a footway only. twenty feet. If, in
either case, the building be higher than thirty or twenty
feet, the street or footway to be so much wider. Foot-
ways to be opened at the entrance, from the ground up-
wards, the full width of the roads.
A medical officer is proposed to be appointed, subject
to the approval of the Secretary of State, to inquire into
and report upon the sanitary condition of any town or
di trict, and such medical officer is to perform past
modern examinations when required b;• the Coroner.
The commissioners may further, on report of the said
medical officer, order filthy and unwholesome houses to
be cleansed and whitewashed ; and an inspector of
nuisances is to be appointed for superintending the
general execution of the provisions of this Act ; and
for receiving complaints and laying information, if ne-
cessary.
Commissioners to receive notice to build or re-build,
or
rmotici.eictmainads,etifioart
dlerritgmea. y be properly fixed, anti
oles to be trapped.
b accumulations
Glcrneuosgt luz
duet°p
.cabtorolnyr Inspectors
olodging inspected,
fognfinufiiglstinreivteonbteed Streets to be scavenged, Drains, cesspools, &c., to
ged, stagnant pools removed, and
appointed.
sbteeri:dpaE.'nedtevdfsited.
are not to be made
Slaughter-hous_s to berse to
aouulttsthaendeocneslel anrtsoufntdheer streets i
srtate the best
without
Commissioners,t
The inspector is to make a re
the supply of water, and, it neLosrsar
means of increasing it. The commissioners on the sufficiency of
tract with water companies for a supply, oar maymtt leaseeu.
any powers vested in them. They have power toy pu
chase springs of water, &c., by agreement ; but they

The system of smuggling by means of dogs, is re-
presented by the Valenciennes Journals to he still carried on with un-
abated activity. A few days ago ten dogs, laden with tobacco, and
and tarot the°eitorsA
two men, who had the direction of them, were caught by the officers
or the Customs at Alescon. The journal adds, that a man on horse-
: the man attempted to escape the officers fired,
bacsanikel azacalso been taken at Aubigny-au-Bac, with 2001bs. of the

THE 'IRON TRADE OF FRANCE

NOTES BY A TRAVELLER, ON THE PRO-
DUCTION AND MANUFACTURE OF IRON
IN FRANCE.
(From the Birmingham Jo'n•nol.)
It is, unfortunately, too notorious that the "protec-
tion " conceded to agricultural produce in England has
induced the continental nations to adopt a similar system
with regard to manufactures, and that in France, what
are called the protected interests," hold the same pre-
ponderance in the Legislature that the landed gentle.
men possess in England—we should rather say that
they are at this moment in possession of the whole le-
gislative power, being supported by the prevailing pub-
lic opinion of the most influential persons throughout
France. It is strange to find in almost every part
of the Continent a general delusion respecting the colonial
trade of England ; even statesmen are found to declare
that it is because of the large profits obtained by
the English in the colonial markets, that they are
enabled to undersell their European competitors in
neutral markets. The Belgian manufacturers, no longer
protected by discriminating duties, have abandoned the
Banda and Java markets, but instead of attributing their
inability to sustain English competition to our supe-
riority of production, they are persuaded that it arises
from our having large profits on the India trade, which
enable us to do without profit in the Java market.
We may well be astonished that so palpable a delusion
should be so generally prevalent, but we must re-
member that men may be brought to believe any
absurdity which is constantly reiterated, and of which
they are never permitted to see the refutation. The
entire press of France, whatever may be the dif-
ferences on questions of political party, is entirely,
under the control of the monopolist manufacturers,
and is therefore, interested in suppressing any fact
that may tend to show the injustice, the impolicy,
or the absurdity of the protective system. To a very
large party in France, the chief recommendation of ma-
nufacturing monopoly is, that it is anti-English ; this
party, though large, does not possess a majority, either
in numbers, intelligence, or wealth, but it more than
atones for this deficiency by its energy and activity. In
declaiming against foreign competition, and exciting
national prejudice, there are none more active than the
persons who are engaged in the production and manufac-
ture of iron in France, and we shall, therefore, take a
glance at the past state and present condition of that
branch of French industry. But, before doing so, we
deem it advisable to give a sketch of a collateral subject,
the production of coal in France, because this has not
hitherto been noticed by any English statisticians. Our
materials for this sketch are derived from the reports
made annually to the French Chambers, and from pri-
vate sources of information, which a concurrence of
favourable circumstances opened to our research.
Every one who has seen London from the top of St.
Paul's or the Monument, and Paris from the towers of
Notre Dame or the heights of Montmartre, must have
been struck by the peculiar aspect which the absence of
smoke gives to the latter city. The buildings stand out
in bold and prominent relief, without anything to soften
their stiff outlines ; and, on the other hand, without any
fog or mist to obscure the definition of their form.
Frenchmen, no doubt, will laugh at the prejudice which
leads us to lament the total absence of smoke as injurious
to the effect of the panoramic view, but it is fair to con-
fess that many Englishmen find the prospect of the
French capital harsh and startling, from the glaring
distinctness of its spires and pinnacles. It is, of
course, an article of faith with all Parisians that this
absence of smoke contributes equally to the beauty
of the city and the health of its inhabitants. So early as
1520 complaints were made of the introduction of Eng-
lish coals for domestic purposes into Paris, and the sub-
ject was referred to the consideration of the Faculty of
Medicine. A committee of inquiry was appointed, and,
after some delay, an elaborate report was presented,
stating that with certain precautions mi eral coal might
be consumed without involving any injury to public
health. When prejudices were removed, the new com-
bustible began to be regarded with favour. Henry IV.,
to encourage mining operations, remitted the tithe on
coal, to which minerals were subjected, as being what
the fedual laws called "royalties." Louis XIV., one of
the great patrons of the system of protection, imposed
a duty on foreign coals to encourage home-production.
This, at least, is the reason assigned in the royal edict ;
but many writers have ascribed the tax to a more selfish
motive—the monarch's dread that the consumption of
coal would interfere with the consumption of fire-wood
from the royal forests, which formed an important item
of the public revenue.
From the best statistical materials at our disposal, we
find that the consumption of mineral coal in France did
not exceed four millions and a half of metric quintals ;
each quintal being about an English hundred weight.
The present consumption averages about fifty millions of
quintals, and the following table will give the rate of
increase :

Coals of native Imported coals,
Years. production, m. q. m. Q.

Coals actually
consumed
minus those

exported, m. q.
1815
1820
1825
1830
1835
1840
1845
The last return is partially based on calculation, but it
is certainly under the amount that the completed return
will present. We have first to remark, that while the
amount of native coal has increased in the ratio of 1 to
4, that of imported coal has increased in the ratio of 1
to 7 ; but notwithstanding this increase, the consump-
tion of wood and charcoal is equal to three times the
consumption of mineral coal, amounting to forty-five
millions of steres, weighing one hundred and fifty mil-
lions of metric quintals.
In England the production of coal is to a great extent
identified with that of iron, because our coals and iron
are interstratified ; while, on the contrary, the iron
mines of France are for the most part situated at con-
siderable distances from the coal measures. Hence
charcoal is more extensively used than mineral coal in
the production of iron, and the proportionate amounts
are thus stated in the report of the Administration of
Mines for 1835, since which time there has been little
if any change in the relative proportions :
Metric Quintals. Value.
Charcoal ...... 6,090.000
Mineral coal 2,068,000
Coke

Wood
Turf

8,100 steres
6,500 ditto

39,000
~,
10,000 ~.

T0ta1....... 43,049.000 francs.
This statement is of great importance in explainine.
the Parliamentary strength of the iron monopoly in
France ; it shows that all the proprietors of forests are,
or believe that they are, deeply interested in its main-
tenance, and as the House of Orleans holds a vast pro-
perty in forests, the weight of the Government is se-
cured to the support of monopoly,
France possesses forty-six coal measures of varied ex-
tent. In 1841 concessions had been made of 392 mines,
256 of which were in actual work ; 670 pits were sunk,
and 365 galleries formed. The greatest depth was 479
metres (about 490 yards), in the mines of Auzin. The
service of the mines employed about 146 machines moved
by horses, and 388 steam-engines, having a force of
9,667 horses. The mining population was estimated at
30,000 in actual work. One-third of all the coal raised
in France came from the coal measures of the Loire, and
nearly another third from those of Valenciennes. A
glance at the map will show that the coal measures of
France are most inconveniently situated for traffic ;
means of transport are sadly wanting, and the selfish
interests of the forest proprietors are a great impedi•
ment to their being provided. We have been assured
by a person largely engaged in tho trede, that coal
which could be bought for fifty or sixty centimes at the
mouth of the pit, woul.l cost from three to four francs
at any of the great centres of consumption. There is a
growing jealousy, not to say hostility, between the pro-
prietors of mines and the proprietors of forests, to which
the increasing use of coal for domestic purposes has not
i little contributed. As yet the culinary arrangements
in French kitchens are chiefly contrived for burning
charcoal, but we observed in the ironware shops a great
number of kitchen ranges suited to mineral coal, and on
inquiry, we found that since the opening; of the railroad
to Saint Etienne, mineral coal was fast superseding wood
in Lyons and its neighbourhood.
We have dwelt at some length on this subject, because
the relations between the coal and iron trade of France
have been generally passed over by statistical writers ;
t as to
we a h
andin consequence, the secret of the Parliamentary in.
fluence possesei by the French monopolists of the iron
tre greata
reexatdevn extent
noticed,escape s detection.cigiefl yderived That
ade
strength,h
from the proprietors of- forests, who dread nothing so
much as a decline in the consumption of wood and
charcoal.
Before quitting this part of the subject, it may not be
amiss to notice that peat or turf is in some parts of
France as important an article of consumption for fuel
as it is in 'rebind ; the annual amount cut and raised is
more than five millions of quintals. The chief herbaries
are in the departments of the Lower Loire, Isere, Doubs,
Pas-de-Calais, La Somme, and L'Aisne.

SINGULAR CHARGE OF HOUSEBREAKING.-011
Monday last, at the Borough Police-court, a young man of
respectable appearance and connexions, named Robert
Wright, was placked in the dock under the following circum-
stances:—Mr. Sadler, superintendent of police, said the pri-
soner was the son of Mrs. Wright, grocer, of Heaton -lane,
and he was charged on suspicion of having forcibly, and with
felonious intent, entered the house where he himself resided,
with his mother and his brother, William Wright, and with
stealing a considerable sum of money therefrom. At six
o'clock on Sunday evening, the prisoner, with his mother and
brother, went out to go to Tivi tdale Chajiel, all the doors
and windows being left secured at home. The prisoner went
with them as far as the chapel crates, and then left them, and,
as he stated, weal up to the Ash public house, and also to see
a young woman with whom he is acquainted. The information
obtained we, that afterwards or at twenty minutes before
seven o'clock, he was seen to return, and go up the entry
which is next to the shop, and leads to the back door of the
premises in which the parties reside. Tie remained in the
house a short time, and then came down the entry again,
and it is stated by a young woman who sat at the entry end
daring the whole of this time that no other person went near
the back of the house that night. When the prisoner's
mother and brother returned from chapel, they immediately
discovered that the house bad been entered by means of a
false key, and upon s,,arching, the brother discovered that
the cash-box, which for safety had been placed under the
bed and mattress in which he and his brother slept, had been.
taken away, broken open, 21/. in gold and silver abstracte('.4
and the box afterwards thrown on the fire. Upon further
inquiry made the next morning, and on examination of the
premises, together with the account given by the brot her,
Mr. Sadler felt it necessary to apprehend the prisoner,, and
he now applied for his remand until Wednesday, in order
that the case against him might be prepared. Ile las ac-
cordingly remanded.---Manchater Guardian,.

SUPPLEMENT TO THE EVENING SUN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20,

(.PROSPECTS of THE WINE TRADE

WITH FRANCE.
(From the league.)

We lately receiv,d the following letter from M.
Bastiat, whose work on Cobden and the League has
been recently reviewed in this pap( r. Although, as he
has himself seen, the subject is cne which does not alto.
gather come within the scope of the League, we know
that it is one in which a deep interest is felt by the Free
Traders of France. The agriculturihts and wine-growers
of the south sensibly feel that they have been sacrificed
to the selfishness of the northern manufacturers, and
eagerly seek for a removal of those restrictions which,
by preventing exchange, set a limit to their productions.
In their own country, where the most influential part of
the press is under the influence of the monopolists, they
find it difficult to obtain a hearing ; and we are, there.
fore, glad to have an opportunity of giving to their com-
plaints the advantage of the publicity of our columns.

From tie Official List,

Name of Company.

,tl,erdeen ..

Armagh, Coleraine, &I

Portrush •
13irmingbam & Gloster,

Ditto, New, iss. 74 dis,
Birmingham Extens,
Brighton, Lews,& Bast.
Bristol and Exeter • •

Do. New ..

Ditto and Glouc42ster
Caledonian ..

Do. Extension
Cainbridg,e and Lincoln
Chester and Holyhead
Chichester & Brighton
Coventry, Nuneaton,
I3ir., & Lehecster
Cornwall
Direct No; ......
Dorect Norwich ......
Diss,Beccles, & Yrinth
Dublin & Belfast June.
Ditto and Galway ..
Do. and 3lullingar
Eastern Counties .....
Do., Perpetual, No. 1

Ditto, ditto, No. 2...
Eastern Union . ..
Do. Extension ......
Edinburgh & Glasgow

Ditto, Quarter Shares
Do. New Quarters
Ely and Bedford .• •• .
Grand Junction
Ditto, Half Shares • •

Ditto, Quarter Shares
at. Southern & Westernl
Do. Extension......
Do. Additional • .1
Great North of England
Ditto, New .........
Do. New ..........
Great 'Western
Ditto, Half Shares..
Ditto, Fifths. .......
Guildford, Farnham, &
Portsmouth ..
Harwich ... • • . I

Hull and Galnsborough,
Hulland Selby ... • ...1

Ditto, Quarter Shares'
Do. Half Shares ....
Kendal & Windermere
Kentish Coast ........
Lancaster and Carlisle
Leeds and Bradford...
Leicester and Bedford
Liverpool & Manchestr
Ditto. Half Shares..

RAILWAYS.

Dividend
per

Aiinum.

41. O. por sh
It.

12/.lGo—.per sh.!

Gs. per sh.

31. Os p. sh.
I I s 3d pr. sh

101. per ct
101. per ct
101. per ct

6/. N. p. sh
1/. p. sh.

81. per et.
8/. per et.
81. per et.

3/. 10s. pr. sh.
117 s. 6d. pr sh

Ditto, Quarter Shares
%ondon & Birmingham
Ditto, New Thirds..
Ditto,New 1,4 Shares
London and Blackwall
London and Brighton..
Do. Consolidated Bths
London and Croydon
Ditto, Guarntd. 5 p. c.
London qua Greenwich
Ditto, Pref. or Priv..
London and S. Western
Do., New Cons. Bths
Ditto, New
Do. New ..........
London and York .....
Lndonderry & Coleraine
Do. & Enniskillen ..
Lynn and Ely
Do. & Dcrcham
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto, Half Shares . •

9/. percent.
9/. per cent.
9/. per cent.
101. per ct.
10/. per ct.
101. per ct.
Gs.
3/. Os. per $ll

IGs. per sh.

Ditto, Quarter Shares
Ditto, Sixteenths ...
Manchestr & Birming.
v.,..

Ditto, Quarter Shares
Midland .........

Ditto, Fifths
Do. New .........,

Ditto, firm. & Derby
Newcastle & Berwick
Newcastle & Carlisle..
Newestle & Darl. Junc.
Do. New Brandllng
Newry & Enniskillen..
Newrk, Shetfld, & Bostn
North British ..
Do. New ..
Northern and Eastern .
Ditto, Scrip, its. 51. d.

Ditto, Quarter Shares
N. Kent & Direct Dover
North Wa1e5..........
Norwich and Brandon.
Ditto, New .
Oxford & Worcester
Preston and Wyre •• •
Richmond

Rugby .
Scottish Central .....

Do. Midland...... • .1
Sheffield and Lincoln ..
Sheffield & Manchestr
Ditto,Quarter Shares
:;oath Devon
South-Eastern & Dovr.
Ditto, New iss. 32/.ffis.
Do. New, No. 2 • • ..
Do. New, No. 3 ....
South Wales
Staines and Richmond
Trent Valley
Trent Valley and Holy-
head Junction
Waterford & Kilkenny
West Cornwall....
Yarmouth & Norwich.
Ditto, New • • • .

York & North Midland
Ditto, Half Shares..'
Do., Scarhro' Branch'

Ditto, Selby Scrip ..
Ditto, Extension ....
Bordeaux and Toulouse
Do. Cette (Espalete).
Boulogne and Amiens.
Dutch Rhenish........
Gt. Northern of France
Lyons and Avignon ..
Orleans and Viereon
Orleans & Bourdeaux
Paris & Lyons (Latlltte)
Do. (Ganneron's)....
Do. (Caton's)
Paris and Strasbourg ..
Paris & St. Quentin ..
Paris and Orleans.....
Paris and Rouen ......
Royal North of Spain..
Rouen and llavre
gambre and Meuse....
Strasbourg and Bale ..
Fours & Nantes (Mac-
kenzle's) ..........
Do. (Levevres)

41. per share
18s. pr. sh.

5/.l6s.persh,'
,21. 105. pr

121. per share.

61. per cent.

I/.125.6d.p.c

141.05. per sh.
ii/. 19s.pr sh.
per share,

2/. ss.
15s.

111.105.6d.p.5.'
12s. 10d. p. oh

4s. 6d.
101. per ct.
101. per ct.

101. per et

Amount
of
Share.

£ s. d.

25 0 0
100 0 0
25 0 0

LATEST. PRICES OF SHARES
IS RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE, AN')

OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK.

PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING

LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19.

Paid.

X s. d.
2 10 0

1 7 6
100 0 0
17 10 0

1 7 6
20 0 0
70 0 0

2 0 0
30 0 0
5 0 0

2 10 0

1 10 0
15 0 0
20 0 0

1 5 0
3 0 0
2 10 0
1 0 0
1 10 0
2 10 0

2 10 0

Price.

2%
129

19%
1% p.

4%
224
112

13%
2%
218
51:1%

163
92%

531,4
21%
3% p

16%
170

25%
133
15%

DOCKS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of I Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
X s. d. X 9. d.
Dmmercial • • 3/. per cent. Stock.

X s.d. X s. d
Jommercial .. • 3/. per cent. Stock.
Last and West India ,5341. pr cent. Stock.
Zast Country ... 1 I!. per sh. 100 0 0
London ••• • ••
St Katharine • • • • • • • • 1 5 per cent. Stock.
Southampton •••• •• • • (41. per cent. 50 0 0

139►%

118'

- I 110
50 0 0 I 30

INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
£ s. d. £ E. d.
Albion ••••••• : • • • • • • 31. lOs 500 0 0 50 0 0 73
Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 01 11 0 0 20
Ditto Marine... ••• . 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 50 0 6%
Atlas 138.6 d. pr sh; 50 0 0 5 0 0 17
British Commercial - 7s. per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 7
Clericl,Med. &Gen. Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 210 1 6%
County - - ........., 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0
Crown ........ ••• • • • 1 Zisanb. ds.l 40 0 0 5 0 0 10
Eagle • . .
Economic Life . ..... [4lse3eorsti - lOOO 0 0 250 0 0
Eng. & Scot. Law Life.. 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 3
European Life ••••• • • • 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20
Freemasons' ••• •••• • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0
Globe •• • ... • ..... •• • • 6/. per cent. Stock. - 142%
Guardian •• ••••• • • • • • 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 50%
Imperial Fire •••• • • • • 12/. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 235
Imperial Life. •••• • • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 16%
Indemnity Marine • • 1/. oh. & be. 100 0 0 513 1 28%
Law Life •••••• • • • • • • 1/. 55. 100 0 0 10 0 0 51
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 6%
London Fire ••••• • • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 16
London Ship •.••• • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 16
Marine ••••••• • • • • • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 10%
Med. Invlid & Gen. Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 3
National Loan Fund • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2%
National Life •
Palladium Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2/. 2s.
Phoenix - - 210
Protector Life •••• • • • • 5/. por cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1/. 2s.
Provident Life.. ••.• • • 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24
Rock Life •••••• • • • • • • 45. 50 0 010 0 4%
Royal Exchange Si. per cent. Stock. - 186
Sun Fire • - -
Ditto Life . 1/. 6s. - - 18
Universal Life

LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
-- —
£ s. d. X s. d
Bank of Scotland
Royal Bank of Scotland 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 16934
British Linen Company 81' per cent. 100 0 0 228
Commercial Bank •• • • 61. per cent. 100 0 0 171
National Bank 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 16%
Union Bank of Scotland 7341. pr cent. .-- 50 0 0 99
Western Bank .. ••• •• • W. per cent. 50 0 0 8534
I North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. 50 0 7178 1
Clydesdale Bank.... • • 61. per cent. 10 0 0 15%
Eastern Bank .. ... •• • 3/. per cent. 15 0 0 1134
Caledonian Bank
Edinb.& Glasgtiw Bank 51. per cent. 50 0 7%
City of Glasgow Bank . 5/. per cent. 815 0 15%
Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 1%
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14%
Incur. Co. of Scotlnd.• Si. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 10
North British Incur 9l. per cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 28%
Caledonian Fire Incur lO/. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 2434
Edinburgh Life Insur 6l. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 1934
Edin. &(41asg. Railway 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 90
Ditto, 34 Shares 5/. per cent. 12 10 0 AR paid. 21%
Edin., Leith, & Grantn 20 0 0 20 0 0 25
Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 73
Glasgw &Greenck Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 2234
Glsgw&Garnkirk Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 AU paid. 45
Dundee& Arbrothßall. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 373(
dtandard Life Assurnce.l 51 per out. 150 0 0 I 2 10 0 8

_
Dividend Amount 1.i.0%
Name of Company. , per of I ..,1.1•
Annum. Share. _----'
-- ----
! £ s, d. 230
East London.... .. B/. 100 0 0 - 91
Grand Junction 3l. 46 13 4 - 65
Kent ........... •• • • 2/. 10s. 100 0 0 - 61
Vauxhall .... ..... .. • 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 - 140
West Middlesex
CANALS. ---------"-°
Dividend ~.4,,,
Names of ~e 3,, Dividend ~,,,,, Names of E per E"--'
Companies. 1,-1 per 1)..- Companies. A Annum.
/J Annum. rn
.......--‘
-- -----
X X
Ashtn & Oldh 97 5/.55. pc 72 Monmoutlish 100 9,-,• 160- 92
Ashby-d-la-Z 113, 4/. 70 Mntgomrysh 100; 51- is
Barnsley.... 160 i 121. 180 Macclesfield. 1001 - 365
Basingstoke.. 100 - 5 Neath ...... 100 20/. 60
Brknk& A brg 1501 51. 85 Nottingham. 150 121. tin
Cromford.... 1001 181. 150 Peak Forest. 78 31- I oil
Dudley lOO 4/. 80 Regent's .... 33 1l• 54
Derby •• • •
Ellsmre&Chs 133; 41. I 58 Shropshire •,. 125 81. 123
Erewash .• . 100 321. 309 Somrset Coal 150 7/. 103. ii
Forth & Clyd 100 4/. 105 Do.LkFd St 12 Gl. P. e* 440
GraudJunctn 100 71. 100 Stffrd &Worc.l4o 281. 1 230
Grand Union 100 1/. 10s. 25 Shrewsbury-112f. Isl. ' 360
Glamemish . ' 172 1 1%/. 210 Stourbridge.. 145 201. 21
Glstr & Brkly, 00 - 8 IStrtfrd on Av 79 11. 10s.
Grantham
Huddersfield 57, - 20 Wye Rail./ 26 1/. 89.
Kennt & Alm 39 7s. 6d. 13 Trnt & Mr-'1 50 30/, 445
Lancaster
Leeds& Livrp 100 34/. 509 Thams &Med 19 -
Leicester .. • 140, 10/. 105 Worcstr &} 78 41. 49
Lelestra.N.tll 83 41. 60 Binning. i 11
Loughboroghil42l 70/. 1050 IWilts & Biks 67 11. 45•_2_,„./,

[AD[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Instruments for qnd
Hearing sent in the country by post. Patronised
ede;
General Sir Edward Paget, Sir Evan Lloyd Maiston, Fr t.
rick Goodfallow, Clayton Grosvenor Morrison, Dyott Be7ors,
son, Mackenzie, Galway, Riggs, Woolf, Murray, Walker' 'n•
Price, Lindsay, and Thackray,Major-General Sir H. v.'l'b
stone, P. Fyers, D. Macleod, llaiailton, Turner, WeitlYs',iisc,
Cock • Lieutenant-Generals Sir Henry Bouverie, Sir J. e •
donall, Sir R. Barton, Sir T. Dallas, and Sir Wm. En',,ta:;-,,et,
Admirals Lord John Hay, Sir G. Cockburn, Sir David .1"1-0,
Sir George Munday, Sir George Martin, Sir Jaw," op.
Whitshed, Sir D. Gold, Ross, Alexander, Curzons.
kinson, Hollis, Price, &c.—Messrs. S. and B. Solooo%
Opticians, have invented Spectacle Lenses upon $
construction. Immediately they are placed before irePo
fect vision, that mist and dullness which appear before tho r
is at once removed ; every object becomes clear and distinct
that the most aged and imperfect sight becomes bri3b
brilliant, and is brought to its youthful, natural, and orig ro,
state. Also, Achromatic Telescopes, Opera Glasses. 'diem
scopes, Invisible and all kinds of Acoustic lostrumentst
00,
" relief of most extreme deafness. Caution—Not in any 'late
netted with a person of the same name in their inn"
neighbourhood. To prevent mistakes, becautious, and ob,eeite
Only to be had at 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, 00°5
the York Hotel. Can be sent in the country by post. rll
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Ladies, whether temPnr" nt.
exposed to the scorching rays of the summer sun, or fregiut-d's
ing the crowded saloon, or close assembly, will find ROW sfott,
Kalydor a most refreshing preparation and auxiliary to cow
_lv
dispelling the cloud of languor and relaxation from the
..0,,
plexion, and immediately :affording the pleasing sensation;
tending restored elasticity of the skin. The numero.d
rieties of cutaneous eruptions, sunburn freckles, tan. onl, the
colourations, are pleasingly eradicated by the Kalydor, oed re,
skin rendered delicately clear and soft. Its purifying $0 t 55J
freshing properties have obtained its selection by the Conopt
the Royal Family of Great Britain, and those of the CI hot
of Europe, together with the elite of the aritt3eracY bor
ton. The high reputation it bears causes unprincipled God
keepers to offer their spurious " Kalydors" for sale, oref.ein•
of the most deleterious ingredients, containing
gents, utterly ruinous to the complexion, and by their.7en
lent action endangering health. It is therefore impost' re 011
purchasers to see that the words " Rowland's Kalydor"
the envelope (an engraving of exquisite beauty, front a tal
steel
plate by Messrs. Perkins, Bacon, and Co.) All other
fraudulent counterfeits.
mineral aSei,

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UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF MANY OF THE NOB
L L S COMPOUND ANTll3ll4luovd,
PILLS, prepared by Thomas Allen,.c_n
late of Mile-end• oto
Member of the R. yal College of Surgeons, London, and Lanj
of the Apothecaries' Company, and a pupil of the late eccenu a
celebrated John Abernethy, Esq., ; twenty--two years
cipal Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. During a rejospi;
trial of twenty years, these Pills have been found an In° ro'
remedy in cases of indigestion, liver, and bilious complainlarisi,
derangements of the digestive organs and obstructions, n_',Dc
action of the liver and bowels, which occasions more or 1e,55.,(1011,1
lowing symptoms, viz., heartburn, giddiness, acidity, n'l, sa"
sicknass, spasms, and flatulent distentions of the sion ~ „"scosr
bowels, drowsiness and dimness of sight, an uncomfortable with
tion experienced at the pit of the stomach soon after eating,
feeling of a weight of oppression, appetite impaired, breathini,
_oc-
cult, tenderness about the region of the liver, bowels irregn,l'!rt;!
times obstinately costive with languor and depression of sPT
In boxes at Is. I yel., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. Sold by Mr. A"e"-,;le
Chemist, 24, Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square, London ; WI, des
cop
Barclay and Sons, Farringdon-street ; and retail by most :Tie
druggists.