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London, England, 1845-06-16 00:00:00

GREAT COUNTY DOWN RAILWAY.
CONTINUATION to MOIRA, on the ULSTER LINE,

through BAIT BRIDGE,

The local support the Great County Down Railway has been
guaranteed, and the favour it has been already received with in
England, induce the promoters to perfect the comprehensiveness of
their project, by taking means to extend their line directly through
BANBRIDGE, the seat of the linen manufactare, by way of
MOIRA, where it will fall in on the 'Ulster line, and thus secure the
important market of BELFAST on the north, while to Banbridge
will also be opened the port of WARRENPOINT, by way of
NEWRY on the south, which will be reached by a line almost pa-
rallel witk the existing mail-coach road.
Offices of the Great County Dowa, Belfast, Newry, and Warren-
point Railway Company, 37, Moorg,ate-street.
Detailed Prospectuses, with Maps, are now ready. Ap-
plications may be made in the usual form—those from
England, to the London Offices, 37, Moorgate-street ; from Ireland,
to the solicitors, Murland and Nelson, Downparrick ; Frazer, Mit-
chell, and Todd, Newry, and 63, Dominick-street, Dublin ; and to
the Secretary, R. Gordon, at Downpatrick. Also to Mr. Thomas
Hampson, broker, Mersey-chambers, Liverpool; and Messrs. Lynill
and Berlyn, Gross-street, Manchester. London brokers—Palmer,
Hope, and Company, Cornhill.
Jane 12, 1845.

;SHARES BY AUCTION, IN RAILWAY, MINING, AND
OTHER COMPANIES.
MESSRS. LAMOND and Co., Share Auctioneers,
beg to express to their friends and the public their grateful
sense of the patronage bestowed on their recent Public Sales of Shares
in Railway and other Companies, and they beg to announce that the
Sales will be continued in their Rooms at the undermentioned Hall,
on TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS, until further notice. The next Sale-
day being TO-MORROW, at TWO o'clock, at which they are in-
structed to submit Shares in various Railway Companies, &c., &c.
They have also instructions to offer the following Mining and
other Shares, viz. :—The Great Devonshire Consols, or Wheal Maria
Mine, Lamheroe Mine, West Wheal Maria Mine, Blaenavon Iron
Company, Australasian Bank, Gravesend Cemetery, Royal Mail Steam-
Packet Company, Waterman Company, Gosport Pier, London Gas
Company, New Renter's Share (Drury-lane Theatre).
Hall of Commerce, June 16, 1845.

GREAT BRITAIN STEAM-SHIP
PLYMOUTH to DUBLIN on FRIDAY, 20th JUNE, 1845.
Passengers must be on board in Plymouth Sound at Two o'clock
on Friday afternoon.
Fare to Kingstown, 11. lls. 6d.
Apply for passage at the Company's office, 65, Cornhill, or on board.

HERIFFS' FUND for MIDDLESEX and
LONDON.

PRESIDENTS.
William Hunter, Esq., Aldsrinan, 1. Sheriffs of London
Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman, j and Middlesex.
TRUSTEES.
William Thompson, Esq., Alderman, M.P.
Edward Archer Wild, Esq.
John Johnson, Esq., Alderman.
John Kinnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman.
TREASURER.—John Johnson, Esq , Alderman.
The Sheriffs respectfully submit the following statement of the
objects and uses of the Sheriff's Fund to the benevolent considera-
tion of the public. The Fund was established in the year 1808, dur-
ing the Shrievalty of the late Alderman Christopher Smith and Sir
Richard Phillips, and has for its object :-
1. The temporary relief of the distressed families and dependents
of persons in confinement.
2. A temporary provision for persons who, on being discharged
from confinement, have no means of present subsistence or habita-
tion.
3. The purchase of such tools, implements, and materials as may
be conducive to habits of industry in debtors and criminals.
4. The pecuniary aid of other objects of distress who come under
the official cognizance of the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex.
5. The establishment of an asylum for the reception of offenders
on their discharge from prison, where those who are willing to reform
have a home and shelter afforded to them, with suitable instruction
and employment, until they can be restored to their friends, or other-
wise provided for.
Each successive year has added Its testimony to the powerful
claims it possesses to the cordial and active support of the charitable
and the humane.
The important benefits it confers in alleviating the mass of human
misery and wretchedness which is daily brought under the official
notice of the Sheriffs, and in preventing the increase of crime, need
only to be more generally known to ensure for it a warmer interest
in the minds of the benevolent, and more extensive means of use-

fulness.
Since the establishment of the Central Criminal Court, the neces-
sity of this fund has been more urgently felt; criminals are now
brought for trial to Newgate, not only from all parts of London and
Middlesex, but also from the crowded and populous parts of Essex,
Kent, and Surrey, adjoining to the metropolis. The prisoners in
Newgate, in Giltspur-street, and 'in Whitecross-street, Prisons, are
all under the care of the Sheriffs ; and in Newgate alone there were
confined upwards of 3,000 persons during the past year.
It would be impossible to reconnt all the claims made upon them,
so numerous are they, and so varied in character.
Some appeal to their commiseration, having been unjustly charged
or committed uuon evidence which has not satisfied the grand jury
that there was case enough to send them to trial, and have conse-
quently ignored the bills presented against them; others for slight
offences have had a short imprisonment awarded to them, but it has
nevertheless been long enough to alienate friends, and to deprive the
offender of the shelter of a home ; others have only wanted a few
shillings to enable them to return to their relatives in the country,
or to purchase tools or implements of their trade, or a few articles of
decent attire, in order to obtain employment on their liberation,
which they would otherwise have been unable to procure, had it not
been for the bounty of the Sheriffs. The frequency of these claims
renders it impos-ible for the Sheriffs themselves to bear them en-
tirely, and they therefore call upon the public, whose almoners they
will gladly be, to assist them in this work of benevolence.
And the Sheriffs beg especially to call the attention of the public
to the Permanent Fund of this Society; to impress the necessi, y of
establishing an Asylum for the shelter and reformation of hopeful
cases of female offenders. A House of Mercy it might be well
called, where the penitent and youthful offender might find a shelter
and a home. It is only by the operation of an asylum that there is
any probability of checking the career of crime once entered upon.
As soon as a young female enters the walls of a prison her doom is
too often sealed—her character is blasted—she is deprived of that
which alone can enable her to earn an honest livelihood—spurned by
her friends, or perhaps ashamed to let them know of her disgrace,
where can she turn? And it is well known to many that there are
characters of the worst description constantly prowling about the
walls of a prison, awaiting the discharge of hapless girls so circum-
stanced, only to entice them to the commission of fresh crime, or
to allure them to a life of degradation and misery, by offering them
that shelter and sympathy which is denied them by the rest of the
world. In such an establishment the sincerity of the apparently pe-
nitent offender might be tested; many might be restored to their
friends ; and others, by proper instruction and after due probation,
might be fitted for future usefulness, and become respectable mem-
bers of society.

JOHN E. COOPER, Hon. Sec
Sessions' House, Old Bailey, May 20, 1845.

THE NEW HISTORICAL NOVEL.
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_LTA.. A TALE OF TUE COURT OF GEORGE I.
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George I. could now furnish. We recommend Maids of Honour as
the wittiest and most sprightly novel of the season."—Tait's
Magazine.
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Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
JONATHAN SHARP;
Or, THE ADVENTURES OF A KENTUCKIAN.

Written by Himself.
This narrative is worthy of De Foe. It is fhll of romance from
beginning to end. There is scarcely a chapter in the work that
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—New Monthly Magazine.
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Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 yols. post Bvo.,
MR. J. FENIMORE COOPER'S
NEW WORK.
SATANSTOE ; or, the Family of Little Page.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Re-engagement of the Danseuses Viennoises.
TO-MORROW EVENING
Will be performed Bellini's Opera of LA SONNAMBULA. Amina,
Madame Castellon; Terese, Madame Bellini; Lisa, Mdlle. A.
Rosetti ; Count Rodolfo, Sig. F. Lablache ; Elvino, Sig. Mario.
Between the Acts the Danseuses Viennoises will appear in the
Mazurka, and in the course of the Evening in the New admired Pas
Oriental.
To conclude with LA ESMERALDA. La Esmeralda, Mdlle
Carlotta Grisi ; Fleur de Lys, Madame Petit Stephan ; Phoebus de
Chateupers, M. St. Leon ; Pierre Gringoire, M. Perrot.
In the Third Tableau Will be introduced the admired " Pas de
Quatre" (composed by Mdlle. L. Grahn), by Mdlle. L. Grahn, Mes-
dames Moncelet, Cassan, and Demelisse.
Applications ior Boxes, Stalls, Ind Pit Tickets to be made at the
Opera-office, Colonnszle. Haymarket.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Madame GRIST has the honour to inform her Friends, the Sub-
scribers to the Opera, and the Public that HE it BENEFIT will
ake place

ON THURSDAY, JUNE 19,
When will be performed Rossini's Opera Seria, oTELLo.
Desdemona, Madame Grisi ; Emilia, Madame Bellini ; Elmiro,
Sig. Lablache ; lago, Sig. Fornasari ; Rodrigo, Sig. Corelli ; Il Doge,
Sig. Dai Fiori ; Otello, Sig. Mario.
The DANSEUSES VIENNOISES, whose talent has been secured
for Five more Nights, will appear in some of their most admired Pas.
Selection from the Ballet of EOLINE. Eollne, Mdlle. Lucile
Grahn. Comprising the celebrated Mazurka d'Extase, by Mdlle.
Lucille Grahn and M. Perrot.
A Divertissement, in which Mdlle. Cerito and M. St. Leon will
appear.
Selections from the Opera o f LINDA DI CHAMOUNI. In which
Madame Castellan, Mdlle. P.rambilla, and Sig. Morlant will appear.
Together with the principal Tableaux from the Ballet of LA
ESMERALDA. La Esmeralda, Madame Carlotta Grisi.
,applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the ilex-
office, Opera Colonnade.
Doors open at Seven, to commence at Half-past Seven o,Clock.

Will be repeated an entirely new and Original Opera. entitled
THE ENCHANTRESS. The Music composed by M. W. Balfe; the
"Abretto, by M. de St. Georges and Mr. Bunn.
Mr. Balfe will, on this occasion, preside in the Orchestra.
Don Sylvio, Mr W. Harrison ; Ramir, Mr. Borrani ; Duke
d'Aquila, Mr. Weiss; Nugnez, Mr. H. Horncastle; Stella, Madame
Anna Thillon.
After which will be produced a Comic Ballet, in Two Acts, en-
titled NATALIE ; eu, La Laitiere Suisse. The Ballet produced by
M. Silvain. The Duke, Mr. Birt ; Count, Monsieur Silvain ; Edward,
Mr. A. Webster ; Brockman, Mr. Howell, Alfred, Mr. W. H. Payne;
Natalie, Md le. Louise ; Betzy, Madame Giubilei ; Catarine, Mdlle.
Adele; the Duchess, Mrs. W. H. Payne.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARK.ET.
LESSEE, UR. B. WEBSTER.
THIS EVENING
Will be repeated a New and Original Comedy, by Douglas Jerrold,
entitled TIME WORKS WONDERS. Goldthumb, Mr. W. Farren ;
Felix iloldthumb, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Bantam, Mr. Buckstone ;
Miss Bessy Tulip, Madame Vestris ; Florentine, Miss Fortescue ;
Miss Tucker, Mrs. Glover ; Patty, Mrs. Humby.
After which, will be repeated an entirely New Farce, called THE
KINt; AND I. Period, 1691. Sir William Melrose, Mr. H. Holl ;
Burchell, Mr. James Bland ; Perkin Pyefinch, Mr. Backstone ; Jcssie
Donald, Miss Julia Bennett.
To conclude with THE MILLINER'S HOLIDAY.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE,
THIS EVENING

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ; or, The Irish
Settler. The Duke of Anjou, Miss Woolgar ; Captain O'Rourke,
Mr. Hudson.
After which, an Original Terpsichorean Barletta, called POWDER
AND BALL ; or, St. Tibbs's Eve. Mr. Montgomerie Tibbs, Mr.
Lambert ; Captain Kidgiove, Mr. Selby ; Jacob Gerkin, Mr. Wright ;
Mrs. Montgomerie Tibbs, Mrs. Frank Matthews ; Sally Knobbs,
Miss Woolgar.
To be followed by the highly successful dnd Original Farce, called
THE IRISH DRAGOON. Mr. Brown Sherry, Mr. Selby ; Paddy
Murphy O'Brallaghan, Mr. Hudson.
To conclude with MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL.
Mr. Snugsby, Mr. Lambert; Lieutenant O'Scupper, R.N., Mr. Paul
Bedford; Mr. Felix Fluffy, Mr. Wright; Emily, Miss Fortesene.

SHERIFFS' FUND SOCIETY.
The FIRST DINNER on behalf of this Institution will be holden
at the LONDON TAVERN, Bishopsgate-street, on TUESDAY,
June 17.
Field Marshal his Royal Highness the DUKE of CAMBRIDGE,
K.G., in the Chair.
STEWARDS.
William Hunter, Esq., Alderman, Sheriffs of London
Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman, 3 and Middlesex.
George Marten, Esq., 1 Under Sheriffs.
William Henry Ashurst, Es ~
Lansdowne, the Most Noble Mar- Helbert, John Helbert, Esq.
quis of, K.G. ,Herring, Robert William, Esq.
Llandaff,theßight Reverend Lord Blade, John, Esq.
Bishop of !Hitchcock, George, Esq.
Ashburton, the Right Hon. Lord. Honiball, James, Esq.
Beauvale, the Right Hon. Lord. Home, Rev. Thomas Hartwell
Dynevor, the Right Hon Lord. Isherwood, N. T., Esq.
Middleton, the Right Hon. Lord. Jeffrey, John, Esq.
Stuart, Lord Dudley C. Jennings, Rev. John
Booth, Sir F., Bt. (late Sheriff). Jerram, John, Esq.
Butler, the Hon. Chas. Lennox. 'Johnson, Richard, Esq.
Hunter, Sir Claudius S., Bart., Jones, William, Esq.
Alderman. King, William, Esq.
Inglis, Sir R. H., Bart., M.P. Labouchere, John, Esq.
Larpent, Sir George, Bart. Lloyd, Robert, Esq.
Magnay, Sir William, Bart. Al- Locke, J ohn, Esq.
derman. Ludlow, Rev. William
Pirie, Sir John, Bt., Alderman M`Cabe, Robert, Esq.
Merewether, Mr. Sergeant. Macmurdo, Gilbert, Esq.
Mon:cflore, Sir Moses, I.R.S. Maynard, Joseph, Esq. (late Un-
(late Sheriff). der-Sheriff')
Poland, Sir William Henry (late Meteyard, Horace, Wm., Esq.
Sheriff). Monteflore, Joseph M., Esq.
Blakemore, Rich., Esq., M.P. Moxhay, E. F., Esq.
Bodkin, Wm. Hy., Esq., M.P. Nelson, F. G. P., Esq.
Copeland, Wm. Taylor, Esq., Noble, John, Esq.
M.P., Alderman. Obbard, Robert, Esq. (Deputy)
Duke, Sir James, Aid., M.P. Oxenham, Samuel, Esq.
Humpher-, John, Esq., Alder- Palmer, Samuel, Esq.
man, M.P. Partridge, Joseph Ashby, Esq.
Hutt, William, Esq., M.P. Paynter, William, Esq.
Masterman, John, Esq., M.P. Pearson, Charles, Esq. (City So-
Somes, Joseph, Esq., M.P. I.citor.)
Stewart, Patrick M., M.P. Peek, James, Esq.
Thesiger, Sir Frederick, M.P. Peek, Rich., Esq. (late Sheriff.)
(Solicitor-General.) Pepys, Edmund, Esq.
Wood, Lieut.-Col. Thos., M.P. Perkins, Joseph, Esq.
Carroll, Sir George, Alderman. Philippe, R. 31., Esq.
Challis, Thos., Esq., Alderman. Phillips, James, Esq. •
Farebrother, Charles, Esq., Ald. Filcher, Jeremiah, Esq. (late
Farncomb, Thomas, Esq., Ald. Sheriff.)
Johnson, John, Esq., Alderman Potter, George W. K., Esq. (Se-
(Treasurer). condary.)
Kelly, Thomas, Esq., Alderman. Price, Ralph, Esq.
Lucas, Matthias P., Esq., Aid. Pritchard, William, Esq. (High
Moon, Francis G., Esq., Ald. Bailiff of Southwark.)
Musgrove, John, Esq., AM. Read, Septimus, Esq.
Wood, Thos., Esq., Alderman. Reeves, James, Esq.
Addis, John, Esq. Ridley, Samuel, Esq.
Allan, David, Esq. (Deputy). Robarts, A. W., Esq.
Anderton, James, Esq. (late Un- Russell, Rev. John, D.D.
der-Sheriff). 10/and, Archer, Esq.
liaggalley, Richard, Esq. Salmon, Frederick, Esq.
Ballantine, William, Esq. Salomons, David, Esq. (late She.
Barclay, Gurney, Esq. riff.)
Buried, Israel, Esq. Salomons, Philip, Esq.
Barrett, Joseph Radcliffe, Esq. Sayer, Charles, Esq.
(late Under• Sheriff). Shaw, Benjamin, Esq.
Bedford, Joshua T., Esq. (De- Shaw, John, Esq .
puty(. Simmons, E. R., Esq.
Bentley, James, Esq. Smith, F. C., Esq.
Bewley, Joseph, Esq. Smith, Newman, Esq.
Blackmore, Robert, Esq. Spottiswoode, Andrew, Esq. (late
Bracher, George, Esq. Sheriff.)
Brown, John, Esq. (Deputy). Sterry, Samuel H., Esq.
Brown, John Dudin, Esq. Steven, Robert, Esq.
Buckmaster, John, Esq. Sumner, R., Esq.
Burchell, James, Esq. Sykes, John, Esq.
Burge, Wm.,;Esq., Q.C., F.R.S. Symons, Samuel L. De, Esq.
Cabbell, Benj. Bond, Esq. Taylor, Richard, Esq., F.S.A.
Caldecott, Andrew, Esq. Teague, James
Carter, John, Esq. Thompson, Mr. Sergeant.
Channell, Mr. Sergeant. Thornborrow, William, Esq.
Charles, Joseph, Esq. Thornton, Richard, Esq.
Clark, John, Esq. Underwood, Joseph, Esq.
Cohen, Benjamin, Esq. Vivian, Rev. J. W., D.D.
Cope, William W., Esq. Waymouth, Major.
Davies, Benjamin, Esq. Westwood, Robert, Esq., (De-
Deacon, John, Esq. puty).
I)ealtry, Rev. W., D.D. White, Thomas, Esq.
Dillon, John, Esq. White, W. Forster, Esq.
Dixon, John, Esq. Wilde, Edward A., Esq. (late
Doane, Richard, Esq. Sheriff).
Dowling, Mr. Sergeant. Wilde, H. Si, Esq.
Eagleton, Edward, Esq. Wilkins, Charles, Esq.
Evans, Wm., Esq. (late Sheriff). Wilkinson, Wm., Esq.
Fardell, John, Esq. Wilson, James Helbert, Esq.
Freeman, William, Esq. Wire, D. W., Esq. (late Under
lover, Mr. Sergeant. Sheriff ).
;oodman, Richard, Esq. Wix, Rev. Samuel, M.A., F.R.S.
;uedalla, Haim, Esq. Wix, William, Esq.
lardwick, Benjamin, Esq. (late Wood, John, Esq.
...Sheriff.) Wood, Joseph Carter, Esq.
Woolff, Rev. Joseph, D.D.

Under•

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
LESSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed Shakspeare's Tragedy of MACBETH. Mac-
beth, Mr. Wallack ; Macduff, Mr. Archer; Banquo, Mr. Lynne ;
Lady Macbeth, Miss Cushman.
After which, a New Divertissement, called A COURT BALL Ibf
1740. In which will be introduced the Dances as performed at her
Majesty's Bal Costume, with the Original Music.
To conclude with HIGH LIFE BELOW STAIRS.

THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM.
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY.
THIS EVENING
Will be repeated a New and Original Comedy, in Two Acts,
entitled FRIENDS AT COURT. Principal Characters by Messrs.
F. Vining, A. Wigan, Diddear, Turner, Collier, and Bender ; Mrs.
Keeley, Miss Villars, and Miss Fairbrother.
After which, an entirely New, Original, ard Novel Grand Fairy
BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT In, which Les Danseuses Anglaise i
will appear.
To be followed with the Farce of PERSONS ABOUT TO MARRY.
Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Meadows, and Mrs. Woollidge.
To conclude with an entirely New Operatic, Dramatic, Chivalric,
Fairy, Romantic Burlesque, entitled CINDERELLA. The Principal
characters by Mr. Keeley, Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Frank Mathews, Mr.
J. W. Collier, Mrs•: Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss. Fairbrother, Mrs.
Woollidge, Miss Grove, Miss Howard, &c

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—FItENCH PLAYS.
Last Night but Two of Monsieur Achard's Engagement.
THIS EVENING
The Performances will commence, at eight o'clock precisely, with
LE PETIT HOMME GRIS. Guillery, M. Achard; MadamQ
Guillery, Mdlle. Eliza Forgeot.
After which, a New Petite Comedy, entitled L'AMOUR EN COM-
MANDITE. Desire Madapolam, Monsieur Achard.
To conclude with BRUNO, LE FILEUR. Bruno, to Fileur, M.
Lienard ; Couturier, M. Achard.
Boxes, 6s. ; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. Doors
will be opened at Seven o'clock, and the Performances commence
at llalf-past.

- -
QUEEN'S THEATRE.
First Night of the Nautical Drama of " Juniper Jack; or. My Aunt's
Hobby ;" written by Mrs. Hallett (Authoress of " Woman's
Whims," &c., and dedicatTHlSed to
EVENINCooke, Esq.
G,
Will be performed THE LADYE OF LAMBETH.
To be foil wed by JUNIPER JACK. " The Sailor," by Mr.
J. Parry, Jack's Botanical Aunt, Mrs. Menders; Justine, Miss
Stoker, who will sing the New Ballad of " The Day ne went to Sea."
To conclude with the Domestic Drama of JOHN STAFFORD.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHPATRE.
PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY.
THIS EVENING
Will he performed THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Introducing
the Double Company of French and English Artistes. The Em-
peror Napoleon by Mr. Gomersal, who is engaged expressly for this
occasion.
New Scenes in the Circle, presenting the first talent of British and
Foreign Equestrians of the present day.
To conclude with the New Grand Pantomlc Spectacle of THE
GREEK RENEGADE.
By particular desire, A GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE,
on THURSDAY, June 19, :o commence at Two o'clock, terminating
at Four. - -

farmer, Jas., Esq. (late Sheriff)
iteathcote, Rev. R. B.
Dinner on the table at Half-past
Tickets, One Guinea each, may
London Tavern; and of the Hon.
Old Bailey.

Five for Six o'clock precisely.
. be had of the Stewards ; at the
. Secretary, at the Sessions House,
JOHN E. COOPER, Hon. Sec.

LIGHTER THAN THE FINEST FLANNELS.
THRESHER'S INDIA GAUZE WAIST-
COATS, manufactured expressly for warm climates, are per-
fectly free from every irritating or disagreeable quality. They are
manufactured by THRESHER and GLENNY, and can only be pro-
cured at their East India Outfitting Establishment, 152, Strand,
London. It is very important to notice that every article is marked
" Thresher's India Gauze," as no other material possesses the same
absorbent qualities.

THREATENED ASSASSINATION.—It appears that a
weigher, from information given to an inspector-general that the
former had entered into fraudulent collusion with parties, had been
officially degraded, or put back from superior to inferior duties,
and ultimately placed under suspension, by reason of his mal-
practices. Being of a vindictive spirit, it would seem that he
openly protested that he would shoot one or two of the heads of the
Customs department, his fancied oppressors. This coming to the
knowledge of the inspector-general (the principal object, it is
said, of the man's deadly hatred), and from his known determined
and at
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gross delinquency was absolutely proved against the weigher for at
the time he held out his threat of assassinationms '
investigation. his case was under

annual
lee y Duke of Wellington's Brand
at ATphs banquet
honourand
versary of the victory of Waterloo, wiubeof the thirtieth stint.
Highness Prince Albert, General the Marquis given
to his Royal
Lieuts.-General Lord Stafford, G.C.8., Sir E. 7(fe,4l.4gl"eat G.C.8.;
roy Somerset, Sir A, H. Barnard ; Major-Generalsrel'Hord Fitz..
Lygon, Sir E. Bowater, Sir H. D. Ross, Sir Robert Gardiner, P.
George Scovell ; Colonels Sir J. Shackwell, Hon. G. Anson,tot
stream Guards, &c.
The Duke of Devonshire has left Devonshire
House for his marine residence at Kemp Town, Brighton. There
is no preparation in progress to justify the statement that the
Noble Duke intends to give a fek costume at his villa at Chis-
wick.

HE SUN, LONDON, MOIstDAY EVENING, JUN. 16, 1845.

precedents in limine. The successful diplomacy of Sir
HENRY POrrINGER is in itself, its results, and their in-
fluences, amply sufficient to constitute and found a pre-
cedent. One of the most remarkable events in modern
history has been, undoubtedly, the establishment of
commercial and diplomatic relations between China
.and this country ; and, through this country, with
other States and nations possessing European institutions
and civilisation. When the trade which has been opened
through Sir HENRY POTTINGER'S admirable tact, spirit,
and management, between Great Britain and so many
points in the Chinese empire, shall have gradually as•
sumed that method, and organised those relations which
it will ere long attain, there can be no doubt that as the
demands and acquirements of those Asiatic markets
become better ascertained and skilfully provided for, an
immense expansion of our trade with China itself, the
islands of the Indian Archipelago, and the vast coun-
tries lying to the east and south of the Bay of Bengal,
will speedily take place. There is no greater benefactor
to his countrymen than a British functionary who multi-
plies the resources, and secures the permanency, of their
commerce. As a public benefactor in this invalu-
able and distinguished class, no man has done
more signal service, for ages past, than Sir
HENRY. How few have rendered the commonwealth
as much I It is unnecessary, however, to elaborate a pro •
position which men of all parties and opinions without he-
sitation concede. The question then arises, what shall
be the amount of the acknowledgment wherewith a
grateful country shall reward so eminent a public
servant ? Sir HENRY POTTINGER appears to have too
entirely identified himself with his mission—to have too
spiritedly and disinterestedly devoted all his energies
and means to the conduct, maintenance, and successful
completion of his remarkable negotiations with the
Chinese government, to have been likely to derive pecu-
niary advantages from his position, had its appointments
been twice as liberal as they were. Besides, his labours
being ended, he is left without any continuing salary or
payment of any kind. It would seem that he has little
or no patrimonial fortune at all to fall back upon. In
sbort we cannot conceive stronger claims upon the public
generosity, a more meritorious person, or services more
nationally important.
Now what is the annuity for this eminent man's life,
which the Minister advises the Crown to recommend to
Parliament to grant ? Let us premise that Sir HENRY'S
protracted residence in China, and his endurance of ex-
traordinary bodily fatigue, combined with the incessant
pressure of severe mental. anxiety, have seriously im-
paired, as we understand, his health—a circumstance not
to be overlooked in appreciating the value of the an-
nuity to be granted—namely, 1,5001. a year, limited to
his own life. This does appear to our apprehension a
very inadequate amount of reward. It is obviously no
sort of measure of, bears no reasonable proportion to, the
services performed. That is an unavoidable incident in
these cases which we may regret, but cannot hope to
remedy. In the nature of things, national acknowledg-
ments of this kind can be but testimonial rewards,
not equivalents. But we have a perfect right to try the
amount of this annuity by that of other testimonial re-
wards in specific cases. Let us take the analogy of pensions
granted for civil and diplomatic services. It is not near
so much as some of the pensions we perceive to be en-
joyed by those who have filled other, but surely not
more important embassies. It is only 300/. a-year more
than after, we forget how many, or, rather, how few
years' service, the holders of civil offices, such as Secre-
taries to the Treasury, Chancellors of the Exchequer,
Paymasters of the Forces, &c., become entitled for life.
If we mistake not, Mr. GOULBURN himszlf, prior
to his last taking office, enjoyed a pension of this
kind, of between 1,200/. and 1,500/. per annum, and this
he will return to on laying down cffice. Writing still
from memory, we believe that a brother of the Pre-
mier's, no longer in office, is still in the receipt of a
civil pension of much the same kind. Can it be gravely
meant to put the services of Mr. GOULBURN on a level
with those of Sir H. POTTINGER ? If Mr. GOULBURN'S
pension be 1,200/., should Sir H. POTTINGER'S on any
principle, whether of equivalent or testimonial reward,
be but 3001. per year more ? But on the lists of those
pensions there are recipients of equal sums, whose
official services can by no means compete with those even
of Mr. GOULBURN. Is a man like Sir H. POTTINGER
to be classed in the same category as to official pensions
with those men ? But let us take another case of mili-
tary service. The late General Sir JOHN KEANE, one
of the luckiest soldiers of fortune, to be sure, who ever
secured the good opinion of the moat sagacious and most
renowned commander of his age, led the first British
army which entered the territories north-west of the
Indus. It is true that that army was eminently success-
ful in its operations ; but with a most frightful and im-
provident sacrifice of human life, of beasts of burden,
commissariat stores, &c. There were no positions
secured—no facilities established in the event of a re-
treat ; and the General tarnished his own reputation by
something like mean and unworthy jealousy manifested
in his conduct towards the lamented and gallant Colonel
DENNIS, and still more by his un-Britishlike acquies-
cence in the barbarous and wholesale murders perpe-
trated in cold blood by our infamous ally
SCHAH SOOJAH, on his prisoners in a memorable
instance which Mr. HUME vainly endeavoured to bring
under the notice and reprobation of the House of Com-
mons. Sir JOHN, however, obtained the incredible re-
ward of the honours of the Peerage, and 2,000/. per
year for his own and two lives. There is as little com-
parison between any services that were rendered to his
country by the military career of the late Lord KEANE
and the signal benefits which the diplomatic exertions of
Sir HENRY POTTINGER have secured for it, as there can
be between the character, the ir.tellect, and attainments
of the mere soldier, and the statesman-like capacity
and enlightened benevolence of the accomplished diplo-
matist. Will the Legislature be indeed content to give
a less income to Sir HERRY POTTINGER for his OWn life,
than it decreed to Lord KEANE for two lives ? We
trust that it will show a better appreciation of pri-
vate character, personal talents, and public merits.

the new convention for the suppression of the slave
trade. The Jesuits, we are glad to find, receive no

We record in another part of the paper the particu-
lars of a very interesting scene which lately took place
at Bombay, interesting not only on account of the ac-
complishment of a noble work constructed chiefly for the
benefit of the lower classes in that part of India, but for
the encouragement, as far as honours can go, it gives to
native princes and merchants to improve their country
and ally themselves with rulers who, notwithstanding
some egregious faults, not to say crimes of their ser-
vants, have conferrred inestimable blessings on India.
The scene, which took place in April last, was at the
inauguration of the great causeway constructed for
uniting the islands of Bombay and Salsette, and thereby
forming a safe and useful communication between the
populous towns of Mahim and Bandora. The whole
undertaking was completed at the expense of a private
individual, the lady of Sir JAMSETJEE JEJEEBHOY, well
known in this country for his generous deeds and his
patriotic spirit, and for which, the SOVEREIGN was
pleased to confer on him the honour of knighthood.
This causeway, rivalling in many respects a Roman
road, cost, with the approaches, the sum of 167,000
rupees, or about 16,8001., and was appropriately named
after its munificent founder—to be a memorial in after
ages of the gratitude of the Indian Government, and of
the patriotic spirit displayed by the wife of a native
merchant of Bombay. The eulogium pronounced by Sir
GEORGE ARTHUR, the splendid military ceremony,
and the studied honours conferred on these two indivi-
duals, in presence of a vast population, were all well-
timed and well-merited.

We have intelligence from Lisbon by the Royal Tar
steamer to the 9th inst., but it is not of importance. A
royal decree had been issued relative to the foreign trade
with the island of Madeira. According to that decree
the recent dues levied by the Board of Health, on ships
touching at Funchal, had been suspended, and the pre-
vious scale of dues re-established until the Commission
appointed to investigate the subject had made their
report.

The intelligence from Madrid is to the Bth inst. The
Government had received dispatches from Malaga,
stating that a riot had taken place in that city, in which
the provincial regiment of Jaea was implicated, but ac-
cording to the Castellano the accounts were greatly ex-
aggerated. The affair originated in a petty quarrel be-
tween some of the inhabitants and this regiment, and
was quickly suppressed. The capital remained per-
fectly tranquil, but the funds continues to decline to an
alarming extent, the Three per Cents., on the 7th, having
fallen to 30 for cash. The Espectidor had been con-
demned in a fine of 20,000 reals (2001.) for publishing
an article offensive to the Government. The case was
decided by the judges without a jury. The QUEEN
still remained at Barcelona, where it was understood
the greater part of the Ministry would be assembled
on the 24th, in order to be present at the celebration of
Queen CHRISTINA'S birth-day. Accounts from Bayonne,
of the 10th, announce the arrival of Mr. BULWER in
that town, on his way to London. CORTINA FALCON,
late Aide-de-camp to ESPARTERO, PRAT SANZ, and
several superior and subaltern officers of the Carlist
party were residing at Bayonne.
On the Madrid Bourse the Three per Cents. closed
at 30 for cash, and 31 at 60 days ; the Five per Cents.
at 21i at 60 days; and the Debt without Interest at 6i
at 60 days.

The articles in the Paris papers relate chiefly to the
discussion in the Chamber of Peers on the Jesuits, and

countenance from the Government, and the laws against
them are to be put in force without delay. No doubt
whatever exists that they have been intriguing with the
French bishops, and secretly forming plans for the ex-
tension of their influence, both at Court and in the
universities, under the guise of maintaining the Catholic
religion in its pristine purity; but the Ministers of LOUIS
PHILIPPE wisely reject their aid, and will not allow them
to meddle with education. This probably will excite
another philippic from Mr. O'CONNELL against CrUIZOT
and his royal master ; but Mr. O'CorrsELL's abuse finds
no echo in France. The French, to their honour, sup-
port almost unanimously the policy of their SOVEREIGN
on this question—they know well what miseries France
has suffered from the interference of priests, and would
risk another revolution rather than see them again in-
stalled in the Tuileries, as in the days of CHARLES X., or
allowed to corrupt the minds of youth by disseminating
their doctrines in the universities. This universal
feeling in Franee contrasts nobly with the bigotry of
Mr. O'CONNELL, who, as in the dark ages, would
exalt the priesthood above both sovereign and
people. In allusion to the discussion in the Peers,
the Journal des Debuts thus proclaims the in-
tentions of the Government :—" The laws shall be
executed, and they shall be executed without timidity
and without severity. No essential principle shall be
violated in the execution of the measures projected
against the societies not authorised by law. The So-
ciety of the Jesuits shall be dissolved, but the Jesuits
shall not be persecuted. Their dwellingS shall not be
violated, the right of property shall be respected, nor
shall the citizens be removed from the jurisdiction of
their natural judges. The laws shall be executed with-
out shocking by their execution the mildness and huma-
nity of our public customs. The laws shall be executed,
and the Charter shall not be violated."

The remarks of the Opposition journals on the new
treaty possess little interest. Attempts are made to
show that it is not perfect, and still inferior to that con-
cluded between England and the United States. The
following remarks on the late return made to Parliament
of the number of steamers in our merchant service ap-
pear in the Journal des Debats. After stating that the
total number amounts to 900, it adds:—

" Compare with this the 110 steam-vessels which are em-
ployed in our commerce and the effective force of Great
Britain will appear considerable in proportion, and much
more so if there be added the 65 steamers belonging to the
English colonies. Our steam fleet, it is true, yields in
nothing, either in number or size of ships, to that of our
neighbours, but we must not lose sight of the fact that the
steam forces of a nation are not to be measured only by the
number of its ships of war. The commercial navy may also
be made an instrument of war, and has now become one of
the first elements of the power as well as of the prosperity of
a nation. Our Government has shown itself convinced of
this by applying to it a wider and more efficacious construc-
tion of the law of 1840 on the trans-Atlantic packets.
Austria, in concert with England, is increasing its means of
communication in the Mediterranean, between Trieste and
the ports of the Levant. We are in possession of a superiority
at this point which it behoves us to maintain at any cost."
The Gazette de Berri, a journal published in the south
of France, publishes the following farewell address of
Don CARLOS to the Spanish Eation

"Spaniards, my faithful defenders,-Called to the crown
of Spain by imprescriptible rights, my sole desire has con-
stantly been the happiness of my beloved country. That
happiness requires to-day my renunciation of those rights in
favour of my most beloved eldest son, Charles Louis, Prince
of the Asturias. No sacrifice could be painful to me when
the welfare of my country was in question. I have most
heartily subscribed to the act of renunciation in behalf of my
son, whom von will recognise as my legitimate successor, and
surround with the same affection and fidelity. He will take
care, on his side, to recompense according to their merit your
loyalty and constancy in supporting the sound principles
which alone can save Spain.
" In retiring from public life I feel a great satisfaction and
consolation in expressing to you my gratitude for the heroic
acts with which you astonished the world, and which will
ever remain engraved in my heart.
" Farewell, my constant defenders and faithful companions.
Pray the Almighty with me to remove the evils which op-
press our country, and give us more tranquil and happier
days. " Your affectionate and grateful King,
" Bourges, the 18th of May, 1845." " CARLOS.
The Presse says:-
" Don Carlos, it is well known, bas numerous creditors.
The act of abdication made at Bourges appears to have
thrown them into great anxiety. Who is to pay, they in-
quire, all the debts he :has contracted, and the obligations
of all kinds which bind him, or which he has authorised?
The manifesto of the son says nothing about, and does not
even allude to, the debts of the father."
The Moniteur contains a royal ordonnance, dated
June 10, which orders that foreign machinery be im-
ported only at the following places:-Dunkirk, Lille,
Valenciennes, Forbach, Sierck, Strasbourg, St. Louis,
Les Verrieres, Bellegarde, Toulon, Marseilles, Cette,
Bordeaux, Rochefort, Nantes, Lorient, Brest, Cher-
bourg, lionfleur, Rouen, Havre, Abbeville, Boulogne,
and Calais.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Satur-
day at 84f. 10c. ; the New Loan, at 84f. 30c.; the Five per
Cents. at 122 E 15c. ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,218 f. 75c. ;
Rouen, 1,095 f. • Vierzon, 802 f. 50e.; Havre, 875 f.;
Avignon, 1,035 i. ; Basle, 268 f. 75c. ; Spanish Actives.
3814 ; Ditto Three per Cents.; 41; Ditto Passives, 7%;
Old Deferred Stock, 8.
The following are the quotations for the new lines:-
Orleans and Bordeaux, 205 f. premium ; Boulogne, 107 f.
50c. ditto ; Troyes and Monteresu, 50f. ; Paris and Lyons
(Laffitte), 18f. 50c.; ditto (Colon) par; ditto (Ganneron),
6E 50c.; Northern line (Laffitte), 33f. 75c. ; ditto (Ro-
samel), 7f. 50c.; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 10f. ;
ditto (Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 6f. 50c ; ditto (Jacques
Lefevre), par ; Lyons and Avignon ( Lecointe), 18f. 75c. ; ditto
(Talabot), 42f. 50c. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), Bf. 50c. ;
Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), If. 50c. ; ditto and
Cette (Espeleta), 13f. 75c. ; Paris and Strasbourg (Ganneron),
12f. 50c • Dijon and Mulhouse, lf. 50c.; Dieppe and Fe-
camp, 28f. 75c.
LYONS, JUNE H.-Avignon and Marseilles, 1,0451'., for
the 15th inst. ; Paris and Orleans, 1,222 E, ditto ; Paris and
Rouen, 1,115 E, ditto; Oleans and Vierzon, 821 f., ditto.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess de
Nemours, took their departure about half-past eleven
o'clock this morning from the Bricklayers' Arms Station
of the South-Eastern Railway, on their return to the
Continent. Their Royal Highnesses left with their
suite by a special train.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The demand for Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday con-
tinued good, and former prices were firmly supported, al-
though there was no actual advance, speculators continued
to operate, and took 2,000 bales, making the total sales
8,000 bales. -In Shares a large amount of busi-
ness was done, and prices were well supported :-
Bandon and Bantry, 6s. ; Barnsley Junction, 6% % ; Ditto,
Half Shares, 668. 6d. ; Birkenhead and Cheshire Junction,
11 3/4 ; Blackburn and Accrington, 81/4 3/4 ; Blackburn, Dar-
wen, and Bolton, 4% ; Belfast and Ballymena, 8%; Belfast
and County Down, 345. 1%; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool,
16 ; Caledonian, 11% % ; Ditto Extension, 58s. ; Cam-
bridge and Lincoln, 5 4/ ; Cambridge and Oxford, 7s. %;
Chester and Birkenhead, 65 ; Ditto, New Shares, 59 % ;
Ditto, Half Shares, 321,6 ; Clitheroe Junction, 3% % ;
Dublin and Galway, 41/41/8 ; Dundee and Perth, 3% 1/, ;
Dublin, Mullingar, and Athlone, 51,4 5 ; Dundalk and Ennis..
killen, 5%; Eastern Counties, New Shares, 11; Edinburgh
and Northern, 445. ; Ely and Bedford, 2% 1,4 ; Glasgow and ,
Dumfries, 15s. 6d. ; Grand Junction, Eighth Shares, 21 ;
Goole and Doncaster, 245. ; Huddersfield Canal and Railway,
7% % ; Huddersfield and Sheffield, 6% 7 ; Leicester and
Birmingham, % 18s. ; Limerick and Waterford, 9 8% ;
Liverpool and Manchester, New Shares, 40 ; Liverpool,
Ormskirk, and Preston, 3; London and Brighton, 74% 75;
Londonderry and Coleraine, 4% ; Londonderry and Ennis-
killen, 43/4 ; London and South-Western, 82; Ditto, 501.
Shares, 14% ; Leeds and Dewsbury, 10%; Leeds and
Thirek, 6% 3/4 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 8 % ;
Manchester and Birmingham, New Shares, 81/4 7%; Man-
chester and Birmingham Continuation, 41s. 3d. ; Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Midland, 665. 3d. 3% ; Manchester
and Leeds, Half Shares, 75 ; Matlock and Midland, 5% %;
Midland Railway, 40/. Shares, 29% % ; Newark and
Sheffield, 2% 2; Newcastle and Berwick, 173% 13s. 9d. ;
Newry and Enniskillen, 5% ; North British, Half Shares,
63/4 ; North Kent, 5%; North Wales Mineral, New Shares,
51/2 ; North Western, 4% 1/4 ; Oxford and Birmingham
Junction, 4% 1/4 ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton,
51% 3s. gd. ; Preston and Wyre, New Shares, 33/4 ; Sheffield
and Manchester, Quarter Shares, 16%; Sheffield and Lin-
coln, 41s. 395. ; Shrewsbury and Herefordshire, 16s. 3d. 3/4 ;
Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 5 18s. 6d. ; Shrewsbury
and Trent Union, 1%; South-Eastern and Dover, 48 473/ ;
Ditto, New Shares, No. 1, 18% % ; Ditto, New Shares,
No. 2, 16% 17 ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 3, 83/4 ; Trent
Valley Continuation, 2%; Ulster, 49% ; Welsh Midland,
41/4 %; Worcester and Tring, 32% ; Jamaica and South
Midland, 1/4 ; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte's) 3 61s. ; Verona and
Ancona, 445.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 14.-The sales are
-Barnsley Junction, 6% %; Ditto, Half Shares, 31/4 ; Bolton,
Wigan, and Liverpool, 16 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 5 ;
Chester and Holyhead, 16%; Clitheroe Junction, 3 11-16 % ;
Cork and Waterford, 2%; Direct Northern, 314 ; Eastern
Counties, 20% %ex new ; Edinburgh and Glasgow , New
Quarter Shares, 7% 1,4 ; Erewash Valley, 25 ; Great Grimsby
and Sheffield Junction, 4 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, % ; Hud-
dersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 714 ; Hudders-
field and Sheffield Junction, 71/4 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 6% ;
Leeds and West Riding Junction, 7% ; Leicester and Bir-
mingham, 2 ; London and Brighton, 741/2 ; London and
York, 3% ; Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland,
5% 1/4 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 59% ; Ditto Continua-
tion and Welsh Junction, 1 15-16 3/4 ; Manchester, Sheffield,
and Midland Junction, 3% ; Newark and Sheffield, 21/2 ex
new ; North British, 24 ; Ditto, New Shares, 6% ; North
Eastern, 1 ls. 3d. prem. ; Oxtbrd and Birmingham Junction,
4%; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 51/4 ; Preston
and Wyre, 32 ex new; Ditto, Half Shares, 3% 1/2 ; Sheffield
and Lincolnshire Junction, 1% ex new; Shrewsbury, Here-
fordshire, and North Wales, 14 prem. ; Shrewsbury and Trent
Valley Union, 21/4 % ; South-Eastern and Dover, No. 1,
18% ; Ditto, No. 3,8% ; Trent Valley, 191/4 ; Wakefield,
Pontefract, and Goole, 16% ; Welsh Midland, 41/4 ; West
Yorkshire, 13/4 ; Paris and Lyons, French, 2%.
By the last accounts from Pennsylvania, we find that as
respects the State Debt, the Treasury exhibits rather an im
it
will aspect-but as regards foreign claims, we fear
will be some time before their wants are fully attended to.
Still however, any movement in the right direction must be
considered as satisfactory. The following is a quotation
from the New York Herald upon the subject, and which
must be of interest to the holders of bonds and shares in this
country.

dollars.
" Balance in Treasury, August 1, 1844 566,596
Appropriation for payment of interest due in August
1845

Deficiency for which checks are to be issued
" This is a very reasonable estimate of the ceudition of
the State Treasury on the Ist August, 1844, and shows