The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-27 00:00:00

No. 16,651. LoNDONI SATURDAY moRNING suN, DECEMBER i 7, /845.

CilitiAntis IioLIDAYB,

ROYAL PoL YTEuHN le INSTITUTION,
Lectures for this period of the year, by I)r. Ryan and
Professor Bachoffner in CHEMBTRY and NATURAL PHILO-
.SOPHY Will be 111thorated by interesting and brilliant experiments.
'A Lecture oh the PREVALENT DISEASE In POTATOES will be
delivered by Dr. Ryan, and also on the ATMOSPHERIC RAIL-
WAY, by Professor Bachoffner, a Working Model of which, car-
ryl'g several persons, is exhibited daily. The additions to the
OPAQUE MICROSCOPE, DISSOLVING VIEWS, and CHROMA-
TROPE are very effective. The PIIYSIOSCOPE. Submarine Ex-
periments by means of the DIVER and DIVING BELL. Among
the Variotts additionS to the Working Models is enleman's NEW
AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE, fbr ascending and de-
scending inclined Planes. A magnificent Collection of TROPICAL
FRUITS. Mr. Downs, the celebrated. Flute Player, will take part
in the Music, conducted by I)r. Wallis. Open from Eleven to Half-
past Five, an I from Seven to Half-past Ten in the Evening.
. . . . _

UNIVERSAL GAS-LIGHT COMPANY.-
ratektflUtitT ANNOUNCEMENT.
Capitalloo,ooo/., in 5,006 Shatce of per Share. .• .
Deposit 10s. per 100/: Shares, in accordatite With the Act..
(Provisio ally Registered.)
Under the Management of a Provisional Committee.
CoXmitThrittri Cneonsr —Profe,sor Ryan, M.D., LL.D., Royal
Col-
Ptrtrimotith, and Royal Polytechnic Institution.
ENGINEER—Henry Frafiel§, Peg., Patentee, 40, Elizabeth-street,
Eaton-equals.
BANKERS—Sir Claude Scott, Bart., and Co.
SoraciToa —F. S. W..Fesenmeyer, Esq., 23, Bedford-rOW.
SECRETARY—Mr. William Nicholson.
()Inca df the Company and Working Factories, 159, Drury-lane.
The Company Is formed for the purpose of carrying out, more ef-
fectually working, and bringing into general tige, an invention se-
cured by letters patent for an improved manufacture of git S..
The apparatus is so portable it can be fitted up on any descrip-
tion of !marling, eel' at a kitchen range, without affecting the do-
mestic arrangements, and the fife ttSed in ordinary in generating the
gas will be ample to produce steam for warming the most extensive
preen lass.
The most eminent engineers and chemists unite in opinion that
the invention is not only- practicable and free from smell or annoy-
ance, but by this valuable patent is secured the manufacture of a
pure and superior gas, not only on new, but sound, scientific, chemical,
and mechanical principles, which have been hitherto overlooked in
the common modes of manufacture ; besides, this gas possesses more
of the iiitiminatittz power, and will burn longer, than that now In me,
in the proportion Of 40 per Cent: In favour of the invention.
The patent method is applicable o lighting generally, but more
especially small towns, villages, lighthouset, Colleges, churches, dock-
yards, theatres, public offices, prisons, barracks, railway stations,
m amfactories, printing-sffices, madhouQes, hospitals, and schoels,
etc., and warming the buildings, without extra expense.
The benefits Winn would accrue to lighthouses, dockyards, and
nuinerou, localities, Whefe the ordinary gas .cannot t e conveyed
without the formation of many neW Acts and Companies, or at im-
mense expense, would be sufficient to obtain for this Cqmpany the
inost prominent and prosperous position.
The great saving to the consumer, the small portion of room requi-
site ibl file efeCtiOn of the apparatus, the simplicity of its working,
and the brilliancy of the gal, Will insure the adoption of the invention
throughout the kingdom ; and although the public can be supplied at
a price which will defy competition, the Company can confidently
hold out to the shareholders a return upon their capital of not less
than fifty per cent.
The COMpaily being for advanced, will be in a situation, when hilly
registered, to take contracts litlibedlately.
Applications for shares, in the usual form, to be made to, and
further particulars obtained of, the Solicitor, and also the Secretary,
at the Company's offices, where may be seen the apparatus at work,
and the brilliancy of the gas exemplified.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNHILL, LONDON.
Capital 1500,000.
SmpeWered by Act of Parliament.
Thhi institution offers ittiptfftnnt and suastantial advan•
tag with respect both to Life. Assurances and Deferred Annuities.
The ass fired has, on all occasions, the power to borriw, without ea-
p6iiit ,n* forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid,
(see table); also the Uption of selecting benefits, and the conversion
of hi. interests to meet ether conveniences er necessity. Assurances
for terms of years are granted on the loweSt possible rates.
DIVISION OF PROFITg.
The s access afid if:ores-sing prosperity of the Society has enabled
the Directors, at the last dlintisti investigation, to declare a third
Bonus, varying from 3u to 75 per cent. on the premiums pail on
each Policy effected on the Profit scale.
EX A MPLES.

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Cash.

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1838 165 13 • 74 13 10
611000 74 3 4 1839 133 13 6 61 14 3
1840 89 0 0 41 13 4

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346 2 3
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247 45

T d",rision of pronts is annual, and the next will be made in De-
own ,rr of the present year.

F. FERGUSON CAMROtrX. Bee.

GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE COMPANY.
.Yo. 11, LOMBARD-STREET, at the Entrance of the Old Post
office, London.
DIRECTORS.
JOHN LABOUCHERE, Esq., Chairman.
JOHN DIXON, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
Henry Hulse Berens, Esq. George Lys.ll, Esq., M.P.
John W. Buckle, Esq. Stewart Marjoribanks, Esq., M.P.
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. John Martin, Esq., M.P.
Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
Thomson Hankey,jun., Esq. Robert Mitford, Esq.
John Harvey, Esq. James Morris, Esq.
George Johnstone, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, jun., Esq.
Joh. Loch, Esq. John Thornton, Esq.
Lewis Loyd, jun., Esq. James Tunnel', Esq.
TORS.
Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq.

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NATIONAL MERCANTILE LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY.
ROBERT WILCOXON, Esq., Chairman.
The D!rectors, Members, and Friends of this Society will DINE
together at the LONDON TAVERN, Bishonsgate.street Within, on
TUEIDAY, the 30th of December, 1845, at Five o'Clock precisely.
Tickets, One Guinea.
STEWARDS.
Messrs. Midlane, H.
Dtilledge, R. 0.
Newton, J. S.
Reed, T,
Ridley, A.
Ridley, R.
Roberts, T.
Rumsey, W. S.
Satchel', T. H.
Smith, W. H.
Starr, P.
Stockdale, G.
Stokes, J.
Sutton, T. P.
Tilt, W.
Toleman, J.
Walsh, J.
Williams, W.
Wilson, C.
Wood, F. G.

Messrs. Mars, J.
Bally, A. H.
Barrett, J.
Bligh, F. J. • • • •
Brimkston, T.
Brooks, J. W.
Carter, I, D.
Child, H. M.
Crampton, T. H.
Crease, 0.
Cutliey. J. R. • - •
Englefleld, J. .
Evans, J. L.
Godshall,
eloodall, M.
Hewitt, G.
Hicks, M.
llodgkinson, W, S.
Jones, S.
Loder, R.
M'Culloch, W.
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PUBLICATIONS.

THE BUILDER, •au Illustrated Periodical,
devoted to the Arts of Construction•and Decoration, No. 151,
for December 27, price 3d., contains:—Address to our Readers on
Close of the Year—Gothic Ornaments from York Cathedral, with
Five Engravings—The. Egg-form Sewer, with a Diagram—AwSrds
of Official Referees re.: petting Fees, Roof Coverings, Shop Fronts,
Width of Streets, &c.—Westminster Court of Sewers: Reply to Mr.
Leslie's pamphlet—City Antiquities : Mt. Tite v. Mr. Roach Smith—
Con- plaint against the District Surveyor at Lewisham—Coloured
Decorations—Railway Jottings--Foreign -Architectural Intelligence
—Notices of Timber Sales, &c.-office, 2, York-street,Covent-garden.
*..* The, First Number.of Anew volurup (the fourth) will appear
on Saturday, Jan. 3.

MURRAY'S HOME AND COLONIAL LIBRARY.
On January Ist, in Two Parts, post fivo., 2s. Gd. each,
L (1E GYPSIES of SPAIN; their MANNERS,
)lISTOMS, and CEREMONIES. By GEORGE BORROW,
E sq Author of " The Bible in Spain."
John Murray, Albemarle-street.

NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF " ORION."
On Monday, in small Bvo crimson cloth, gilt edges,

BA L D. RMANCES. O
- By It. 11. HORNE, Esq.
1. The Noble Heart, a Bohemian Chronicle.
2. The Monk of Swineshead Abbey, a Ballad Chronicle of the
Death of King John.
3. Bedd Gelert, a Welsh Legend of the Valley and the Tomb.
4. The Three Knights of Camolott, a Fairy Tale.
5. The Ballad of Debora, or the Passion of Andrea Como.
6. Ben Capstan, a Ballad of the Night-Watch.
7. The Elf of the Woodlands, a Child's Story.
Charles Oilier, 19, Southampton-street, Strand.

AIT'S. EDINBURGH MAGAZINE,
AA Price One Shilling monthly ; or 12s. a year.
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A Volume commences with the January Number.

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COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE
MAGAZINE fer JANUARY, 1846.

CONTENTS :
I. The Submarine Propellor, or Archimidean Screw.
2. On the Military Feeling, Institutions, and Instruction of Great
Britain.
3. Ziela, the Battle Field of Vent, Vidi, Tici.
4. The Curiosities of War; a Discourse upon the Ancient Fortifica-
tions of England.
5. Memoirs of an Old Sailor.
6. The Evil Eve.
7. The Cabool Captives. By Captain Airey, 3d Buffs.
8. The Military Constitution of our Indian Empire, No. 3.
9. An Incident in Basque Roads. By Flexible Grummet.
10. The Surprise. ♦n Incident of the late War.
11. Remarks on Egypt and the French Expedition of 1798. By

Colonel 'Napier.
17. A Sketch of lturburra, and the Arrival of the Klutfalak.
13. Observations upon Infantry Drill. By Brevet-Major Sparks,
38th Regiment.
14. On the Recruiting of the Army.
15. Experimental Squadron.
18. Petition from the War Veterans.
17. Attack on Borneo Pirates.
18. Lord Ranelagh and the Defence of the Country.
19. Affairs of India.
Stations of the Army and Navy—Promotions and Appointments—
with all the Professional News of the Month. . .

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COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY
MAGAZINE.
Edited by W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq.
Contents for'JANUARY. No. CCCI.
I. The Murderer's Confession. --By Horace Smith.
11. The Westminster Play. By Sergeant Talfourd.
HI. Echoes from the Backwoods. By Captain Levinge.
IV. The Vision of Carl Van Quiet. By Charles Hooton.
V. New Year's Day. By Dudley Costello.
VI. The Privateersman. By Captain Marryat, R.N.
VII. The Robertses on their Travels. By Mrs. Trollope. (Concluded.)
VIII. Beauchamp. By G. P. R. James, Esq.
IX. Sonnet to Sergeant Talfourd. By E. Kenealy.
N. Old Romances concerning Bernardo del Carpio. By John
Ozenford.
XI. Sketches Or the Lives of Lords Stowell and Eldon.
XII. Lights and Shades. By W. 11. Maxwell, Esq.
XIII. The Old Pilgrim Ferry. By Andrew Winter.
XIV. Travels and Opinions of Mr. Jolly Green.
XV. Revelations of London. By the Editor.
XVI. Literature of the Month.
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WITH AN ILLUSTRATION BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.
AINSWORTH'S MAGAZINE.
Contents for JANUARY.
No. XLVIII.
I. The Count of Monte Christo.
11. The Guerilla's Daughter.
111. Tom Walker's Story. By Jackson Lee.
IV. The Miseries of a Prize. By George Raymond.
V. Life and Writings of Nimrod. By the Author of "timidity
Cross."
VI. Deeds not Words. By J. E. Carpenter.
'V 11. How Miss Mountnorris got a Husband. By Shirley Brooks.
VIII. Saib and Nounnahall. By Thomas Miller.
IX. The Diamond Lance and the Golden Basin. A Breton Le-
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X. Shelley. By E. Kenealy.
XI. Dreams. By J. L. Forrest.
XII. SIR LIONEL FLAMSTEAD.
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4. On the History of Pantomimes. In a Letter to Oliver Yorke, Esq.
5. The Pride of a Spoiled Beauty. Chapter I.
6. Public Patronage of Men of Letters.
7. The First Flower-Painter. A Legend of Sicyon.
8. Contemporary Orators. No. VI. The Right Hon. T. B.
Macaulay.
9. Titmarsh's Tour through Turkeydom.
10. Of Railways. By Morgan Rattler, Esq., M.A., An Apprentice
of the Law.
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It AIL WAY MUTUAL PROTECTION
SOCIETY.
the Solicitors, Messrs. Amory, Sewell, and Moores, 25,
The Committee sit daily from Twelve till Three, at the offices of
Throgmorton-
street, London, where the rules, &c. of the Society may be obtained.
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ARI S AND LYONS R AILWAY.
(GANNERO.N'S COMPANY.)
A PUBLIC MEETING of the .Shareholders of this Company will
be helt.at the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, on FrIDAY
NEXT, the 2d of January, 1846, at Twelve for One o'clock precisely,
to receive the report of the Committee relative to the general fusion
of the Companies formed to bid for this line, and on other matters.
By order,
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FRIDAY NIGHTS GAZETTE.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 26, 1845.
It is hereby 'notified, that the Right Honourable the
Earl of Aberdeen, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affaires,
has received dispatches from
Mr. Turner, her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at Monte
Video, dated the 24th of September last, and from Mr.
ouseley, her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary accre-
dited to the Argentine Republic, dated the 31st of October,
last, announcing that a blockade of the ports and coast of
the province of Buenos Ayres was established, on the
24th of the said month of September, by the vessels of
the British and French squadrons; that the term of
fifteen days had been granted for the departure of neutral
vessels from the port of Buenos Ayres ; and that the
commanders of the blockading forces bad been authorised
farther to extend that term to the 31st of the said month
of October.

BY THE QUEEN.—A PROCLAMATION.
Victoria R. :
Whereas our Parliaeteent -stands prorogued to Tues.
day, the thirtieth day of December instant ; we, with
the advice of our Privy Council, do hereby publish and
declare, that the said Parliament shall be further pro-
rogued, on the said Tuesday, the thirtieth day of De-
cember instant, to Thuraday,ahe twenty,second day of
January next; and we have given order to our Chan
cellor of that part of our United Kingdom called Great
Britain, to prepare a Commission for proroguing the
same accordingly; and we do hereby further, with the
advice aforesaid, declare our royal will and pleasure, that
the said Parliament shall,on the said Thursday, the twenty-
second day of January next, assemble and be holden
for the dispatch of divers urgent and important affairs;
and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Knights,
Citizens, and Burgesses, and the Commissioners for
shires and burghs of the House of Commons, are hereby
required and commanded to give their attendance ac-
cordingly at Westminster, on the said Thursday, the
twenty-second day of January next.
Given at our Court, at Windsor, this twenty-third
day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and forty-five, and in the ninth year of
our reign.—God save the Queen.
At the Court at Windsor, the 23d day of December,
1845, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in
Council. Whereas in pursuance of an Act, passed in
the session of Parliament holden in the eighth and ninth
years of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled " An
Act for granting duties of ' Customs,' a certain Order in
Council was made and published, on the eighth
day of August, 1845, declaring what are the
foreign powers with which such treaties as in
the said recited Act are mentioned, are exist-
ing : and whereas a treaty is now existing between
her Majesty and the republio of Peru, but the
said republic was' omitted in the enumeration of
the foreign powers contained in the said Order of
the eighth day of August. And whereas it is expedient
that such omission should now be supplied, now,
therefore, her Majesty, by and with the advice of her
Privy Council, and in pursuance and exercise of the
' powers vested in her by the said recited Act of the eighth
and ninth years of her Majesty's reign, doth hereby
declare, that a treaty is now subsisting; between her
Majesty and the said republic of Peru. And the Right
Hon. the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Trea-
sury are to give the necessary directions herein accord-
ingly. C. C. GREVILLE.
At the Court at Windsor, the 23d day of December,
1845, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in
Council. Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint
the Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone to be one of
her Majesty's principal. Secretaries of State, he was this
day, by her Majesty's command, sworn one of her Ma-
jesty's principal Secretaries of State accordingly.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEC. 26.
Gentlemen Cadets to be Second Lieutenants.
Royal Regiment of Artillery--W; E. M. Reilly,
vice Robinson, promoted ; W. B. Saunders, vice Bid-
dulph, promoted ; C. 11. Smith, vice Vernon, promoted ;
11. T. Fitzhugh, vice Raynes, promoted ; W. H. Moody,
Tics Milman, promoted ; W. N. Hardy, vice Ken-
nedy, promoted ; J. L. Bolton, vice Lack, promoted;
J. 11. Lugg, vice Gilbert, deceased ; G. H. J. A.
Fraser, vice Baddeley, promoted ; T. Lambert, vice
Norie, promoted, Dec. IS.
Corps of Royal Engineers—C. B. P. N. H. Nugent,
vice Ward, promoted ; E. Belfield, vice Jesse, promoted ;
Honourable G. Wrottesley, vice Bourchier, pro-
moted ; St. Andrew St. John, vice Grain, promoted ;
E. C. A. Gordon, vice Grant, promoted ; W. Porter,
vice Browne, promoted ; J. J. Wilson, vice Somerset,
promoted ; G. F. Dawson, vice Montagu, promoted ;
G. St. J. Crofton, vice Mairis, promoted ; H. Phillpotts,
vice King, promoted, Dec. 18.
BANKRUPTS.
Charles William Toulmin, livery stable-keeper, South
Island-place, Clapham-road, to surrender Jan. 8 and
Feb. 6, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager,
official assignee, Birchin-lane ; Buchanan, Basinghall-
street.
Frederick Dixon, currier, Long-lane, Bermondsey,
Jan. 5 and Feb. 13, at half-past one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Basinghall. street;
Fry, Cheapside.
Francis Robinson, cowkeeper, Princes-street, Chelsea,
Jan. 2, at one, and Jan. 30, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee; Wansey, Moor-
gate-street.
Joseph Lankshear, surgeon, Seymour-row, Little
Chelsea, Jan. 7, at half-past eleven, and Feb. 4, at half-
past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official
assignee, Basinghall-street ; Thompson, Bucklersbury.
George Augustus Absalom, victualler, Portsea, Jan.
6, at one, and Feb. 6, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place,
Old Jewry; Corner, Dean-street, Tooley-street, South-
wark.
Curtis Williamson, wine-merchant, Great Portland.
street, Jan. 6, at two, and Feb. 3, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frede-
rick's-place, Old Jewry; Bristow and Tarrant, Bond-
court, Walbrook.
Edward Streeter, railroad contractor, Bristol, Jan. 9,
at one, and Feb. 6, at eleven, at the Bristol District
Court. Acransan, official assignee, Bristol ; Hopkins,
Bristol.
William Wailes, grocer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Jan. 13, at half-past one, and Feb. 10, at two, at the
Newcastle.upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official
assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Chater, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne ; Scaife. Newcastle; Bennett, Bolding, and
Pope, Scott's -yard Cannon-street, City.
Philip Phillips, steel pen-maker, Birmingham, Jan.
13, and Feb. 6, at eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Jabett,
Birmingham.
. DIV.IDENDS DECLARED.
W. H. Hayward and R. Collier, cotton spinners, Man.
chester—first and final div. of 12s. in the pound, any
Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Pott, Manchester.
W. H. Hayward, cotton spinner, Manchester—first
and final div. of 20s. in the pound, any Tuesday, at the
office of Mr. Pott, Manchester.
W. Brown and T. Preston, jun., cotton spinners,
Manchester—first div. of 4s. Id. in the pound, Jan. 13, !
or any subsequent Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Pott,
Manchester.
T .Pre.s t o
inn,
theju pound,n, cotton
Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Pott, Manchester.
J. Austin, brick.maker, Manchester—for interest due,
any Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Manchester.
on
Jan. sp in
Inz
or any subsequent/ Manchester—first
div. of Is
S. Jevons, shoemaker, Lincoln—first div. of 2s. id. in
the pound, Dec. 27, and . three following
urch-lane. Saturdays, at
the office of Mr. Groom, Abch
J. E. Smirk ,
' licensed victualler, Broad.court, Bow-
street—first div. of 2s. Bd. in the pound, Dec. 27, and
three following Saturdays, at the office of Mr. Groom,
Abchurch-lane.
Sta
draper, nton, Suffolk—first div. of 4s.
J. Farrow,
Dec 27, and three following Saturdays,
6d. in the pound, D •
Ab
church-lane.
ro,
at the office of Mr. GTOO
J. W. Robson and J. Barron, patent-pump manufac-
turers, St. Ana's-
place, Li_inehouse--first div. of 53. in
the pound, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street.
G. H. and G. C. Green, wholesale stationers, Buck-
fi t div: of Is. ed. in the pound, any Satur-
day,lersbury— rs d
at the office of Dir. Ldwar s, Frederick's-place,
Old Jewry.
kee er Mo
J. Braithwaite, inn ,p
div. of 3s. 21d. in the pound, at the office of Mr. Wakley,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
DIVIDENDS.
A t the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
J. Pegrum, carpenter, Robert-street, North Brixton,
,Tan. 23, at eleven—W. F. Mills, merchant, High Hol-
born, at half: past
on
the Country-
A. Hinds; and. J. Thompson, sharebrokers, Leeds,
Jan; 23, at eleven, at the Lea's District Court—A. 'Endes,
sharebroker, Leeds, Jan. 2:i, at eleven, at the Leeds Dis-
trict Court—, • and J. Thompson, sharebrekers, Leeds,
Jan. 23,' at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—J.
Thompson, sharebroker, li!eds, Jan. 23, at eleven, at
the Leeds District Court.
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to
the contrary, on the lay herein mentioned.
J. Mortimer, bookseller, Adelaide. street, West Strand,
Jan. 16—mr. • Lejeune, corn merchant, Southampton,
Jan: 17—R, Hutchinson, eatherseller, Jewry-street,
Aldgate, Jan.• 16—G. Staight, cutler, Skinner-street
Snow-hill, Jan. 27—J. Gibscn, oilman, Motcomb. street,
Belgrave-spare, Jan. 16—.1 H. Walter, ironmonger,
Camberviell, Jae: 23L-G. Ccoper, cinder burner, South
Shields, Jan. .16 C. Brcgden, bookseller, Lincoln,
Jan. 19—S. and J. Burton, chemists, Kingston-upon-

Hull, Jan. 21—W. Bickerton, timber merchant, King-
ston-upon-Hull, Jan. 22—J. and D. Woodhead, dyers,
Nttbertong, Yorkshire, Jan. 26—H. Blunt, licensed vic-
tualler, Lancashire, Jan. 16—R. Warr, auctioneer, Bea-
minster, Dorsetshire, Jan. 20—T. Arnold, veterinary
surgeon, Shrewsbury, Jan. 17—J. 0. Harvey, grocer,
Newark, Nottinghamshire, Jan. 17—J. Rawsthorne,
general agent, Manchester, Jan. 21—A. Featherston-
haulgh, butcher, Great Bhlton, Lancashire, Jan. 19—J.
Isherwood, innkeeper, BOlton, Lancashire—H. and W.
Kimber, wine merchants, Water-lane, City, Jan. 16 —H.
Reynolds, cabinet maker, Manchester, Jan. 16--J. Bur-
rell and T. Hall, ironmongers, Thetford, Norfolk, Jan. 16
—H. Mallinson, manufacturer of cotton goods, Almond-
bury, Yorkshire, Jan. 16.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
_ _

H. Banks and W. Crosby, stockbrokers, Warrington
—C. Harris and J. Hogan, soda-water manufacturers,
Northampton—J. L. Hine and E. Healey, law stationer 3,
Manchester—M. Dain and C. Dain, York-terrace, Kent-
road—T. D'Almaine and T. G. Mackinlay, mnsicsellers,
Soho-square—T. Warner and W. Warner, upholsterers,
Long Sutton, Linconshira7-D. Grant, A. Grant, and J.
Grant, stockbrokers, Leeds—D. Little, and P. Littlejohn,
commission agents, Liverpool—J. Henderson and C. C.
Stephenson, stockbrokers, Leeds—S. Tellet, J. Tellet, G.
Tellet, and E. Tellet, builders, Kirkdale, Lancashire—
C. APCallum, B. Worley, and W. Musket:, ship brokers,
Mark-lane, City—H. Smith and S. W. Cooper, toy
dealers, Chiswell-street—E. Davies and S. F. Turner,
fender makers, Dudley, Worcestershire.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
William Allan, oil merchant, Glasgow, Jan. 2 and
Jan. 23, at two, at the counting-room of J. Gourley,
Glasgow.
Stephen Davidson, builder, Bairdston, Lanarkshire,
Dec. 29 and Jan. 24, at twelve, at the office of Mr.
Kippen, Glasgow.
Duncan M'Gilvray, Atilor, Edinburgh, Dec. 29 and
Jan. 24, at twelve, at the,Royal Exchange Coffee-house,
Edinburgh.
Duncan Morrison, merchant, Glasgow, Jan: 2 and
Jan. 23, at one, at the Black Bull Inn, Glasgow.

PRICE sp.

natical resistance on the other; and as long as
these two elements are engaged in a vast and active
conflict, the influence of Abd-el-Kader and the con•
duct of Marshal Bugeaud, the defection of certain tribes
or the loss of certain positions, are mere incidents which
might be counted in a campaign, but which shrink
into insignificance in comparison with the horrors of
interminable war. Out of the extreme of evil, how-
ever, we can alone anticipate a change for the better ;
and we cannot doubt that ere long some voices will
be raised in the Legislature of France to trace these
misfortunes to their true source. It is impossible to
blink at facts which are passing before the eyes of all
Europe; and the true policy of France is to take up
such a position in Africa as she can successfully and
permanently maintain—if, indeed, any such position
he possible. The attempt to mix up the old bug-bear
of the influence of England in this purely national
question is so absurd that we can hardly suppose it
will be resorted to, and the arrival of the Embassy
from the Court of Morocco, which is daily expected
in Paris, will give eclat to the ceremony of opening
the Chamber, and furnish an additional proof of the
sincere desire of the Emperor of Morroco to observe
his engagements with France and to keep clear of the
dangers of the war now raging on his frontiers.

CHRONICLE.—Whether we consider the imme-
diate or more remote consequences, we are induced to
regard that part of the President's Message which re-
fers to an alteration in the tariff, and the principles on
which he proposes to base the change, as the most im-
portant part of that voluminous document; and more
particularly so, when we view it in relation to the
changes, which in this country have now become in-
evitable, with respect to our corn and provision-laws.
Without treaties, or negotiations, or even as far as is
known, without immediate concert, the great and
material necessities which false commercial legisla-
tion brings upon a people, are of themselves about to
force upon the Legislatures of the United States and
Great Britain an entire revision of those laws of pro-
tection, made for the benefit of the privileged few at
the cost of the many. What Mr. Polk proposes
to Congress, purely from a reeard to American
interests, is precisely that for which we should
have stipulated, had we been negotiating for Bri-
tish interests. And the policy which Sir Robert
Peel now finds essential to meet the growing neces-
sities of this country, is precisely that for which an
American Minister, in the interest of his own coun-
try, would have striven most arduously. Without
negotiation or treaty, each country is, out of a regard
merely to its own necessities, pursuing a course emi-
nently calculated to promote the best interests of the
other. It is a new. era in international communica-
tion, which bids fair to eradicate those deeply-rooted
prejudices as to the advantages of reciprocity on which
commercial legislation has hitherto been based, and
out of respect to which the best interests of nations
have often been sacrificed, in order that an apparent
advantage should not be conferred upon others with-
out some acknowledged equivalent. The policy
about to be adopted in the United States (for the
President's majority both in the House of Represen-
tatives and in the Senate, induces us to look with con-
fidence to his recommendation being accepted), and
that which is even more certain before long to regu-
late the trade of this country, could not fail to bring
great and independent advantages to each, altoge-
ther irrespective of the course pursued by the other;
but those advantages will be greatly enhanced when
a similar policy is pursued by both. The fundamen-
tal laws of the United States prohibit the imposition
of any duty, except for the strict purposes of revenue;
yet so completely have class interests predominated in
the Legislature for the last twenty years, that
changes have been made from time to time more and
more favouring the principle of protection, and in
proportion less efficient for revenue, until at length
the American tariff, as passed in 1842, appears rather
designed for the purposes of protection alone, to
which revenue is a mere incident, than the con-
trary, as enjoined by the Constitution. Mr.
Polk undertakes to reform this growing, and now
inconvenient abuse. It is quite true that even
the proposers of the extravagant tariff of 1842 pro-
fessed its main objects to be those of revenue, and
not protection. Yet the slightest examination of it
shows how flimsy was such a pretext. For example,
that Act imposes a high duty upon sugar (equivalent
to nearly one hundred per cent. upon the prime cost)
imported from abroad, while at least one-half of the .
whole consumption is produced in the southern states,
and which is equally raised in price to the consumer,
without yielding any revenue to the State. This will
no doubt be contended to be a protection to the Loui-
siana sugar planter purely incidental to the revenue
duty imposed upon foreign sugar. But then we find,
on the other hand, that the articles of tea and coffee
are admitted without the payment of any duty,
which, if charged, would operate solely to the advan-
tage of the Exchequer, the whole quantity
consumed being imported, and no part grown at
home. Whatever, therefore, in these cases the corn-
sumer would pay the State would receive. Then,
on the other hand, we find, with regard to manufac-
tured goods, that it is precisely in those descriptions
where a duty acts most to the protection of the home
manufactures that it is highest. In the case of coarse
woollens, in which the American manufacturers had
chiefly embarked, the duty imposed by the Act of
1842 has proved nearly prohibitory, and at the same
time acted as a great hardship upon the humbler
classes of society ; while that imposed upon fine
woollens, which were but little manufactured in the
States, was fixed at a comparatively low rate. The
result has been so rapid a decline in the import of
woollens, on which the revenue largely depended,
that the amount derived therefrom, at the increased
rate, is now rapidly declining. For the first ten
months of the present year the woollen goods
exported from this country to the United
States were only to the amount of 1,452,000/.,
against 2,102,0001. during the same period in 1844.
And every year, as the protected manufactures of
America are increased in consequence of these
privileges, it has become apparent that duties,
which have hitherto acted partially for revenue,
and partially for protection, are becoming entirely
prohibitory, and assume alone the latter character.
There can be no doubt that the existence of the pre-
sent tariff, since 1842, has called into existence a
large and influential class of pawerful interests,
which will be exerted to the utmost to defeat
the objects of Mr. Polk. We scarcely expect that the
President will have the courage to attack the pro-
tection enjoyed by the sugar-growers in the south
and the manufacturers of New England at the same
time. II is chief and first conflict will be with the
latter ; and the former have so many other interests
directly connected with a larger and freer com-
munication with this country, that they will, in
all probability, rather secure their support to the
policy of the President than provoke their an-
tagonism. As regards the influence hitherto exer-
cised by the manufacturers of New England upon
the masses in the western states, in which they have
hitherto commanded a majority, the new policy an-
nounced on the part of this country, in respect to the
introduction of American agricultural produce, can-
not fail to afford material assistance to the Govern-
ment in carrying their new tariff into effect. At the
last census of the United States, in 1840, the propor-
tion of the whole population engaged in agriculture
was more than eighty per cent.; while that engaged in
commerce and manufactures was under twenty per
cent. This fact alone shows how great must be the
influence exercised by this country, according to the
policy piPtsued with respect to the admission of the pro-
duce of so large a proportion of the population. Eighty
per rent. are buyers of manufactured goods, and
have no other interest but to obtain them as cheaply
as possible, provided they can find a market for their
produce. The cotton-growers in the south have always
been warm opponents of a high protective tariff
which excluded British manufactures, net only on
account of their direct interest to procure what they
require to purchase as low as possible, but also for
the purpose of promoting a more direct intercourse
with their best customers. The wheat-growers of
the west, on the contrary, have hitherto been sup-
porters of the protective policy to American manu-
factures, and have submitted to the enormous prices
which they pay fur every article they require to pur-
chase, for the sole object of raising up a home market
for their produce in the absence of a foreign one.
The alterations of our tariff in 1842, and in the last
session, have already exercised sonic influence over•
these important states, and this in some degree has
encouraged Mr. Polk to propose the changes to which
he alludes in his Message. The free introduction of
American wheat into this country will so greatly in-
crease this influence over that large portion of the
American public, and so closely unite their interests
with our own,.that when our newly-adopted policy
shall become generally known throughout the union
--when the farmers of Ohio sise open to them a steady
and a constant market in this country, it will he
found that we have done more by that act to remove
every feeling of hostility to British interests, and
created a stronger support to British commerce, thsu
could have been accomplished by years of negotiation,
or .by any other concession which we could have
made to that country.

•
AUCIIINT9UL ESTATE.—The trustees of Lord Fife
have purchased thiS estate for 70,0001. This, with the
other extensive' possessions of that family in Banffshire,
will give them a large influence in the county.—lnverness
Courser.