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TE CHINESE COLLECTION, Hyde-park
corner, consisting of objects exclusively Chinese, surpas-
sing in extent and grandeur any similar display in the known
world, entirely filling the Spacious Saloon, 225 feet in
length, and embracing upwards of Fifty Figures, as large
as life, all fac-similes, in their Native Costumes, from the
highest Mandarin to the Blind Mendicant, also many thousand
specimens, illustrating the appearance, manners, and customs,
of more than Three Hundred Millions Chinese, is NOW
OPEN, from Ten till Ten.—Admittance, 2s. Gd. ; Children
under Twelve, Is.

FIVE PER CENT. DEBENTURES.
THE CORPORATION of EXETER are now
issuing (under Authority of Act of Parliament)
DEBENTURES bearing Interest at Five per Cent., payable
Half-yearly, in London or Exeter.
•Applications for these Debentures to be made to Messrs.
Jahn Field and Son, No. 9, Wainford-court, Throgmorton-
street.

_ STEAM TO NEW YORK.
Ii E GREAT WESTERN.
JL Lieutenant JAMES HOSKEN, R.N., Commander,
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Saturday, 1 Rh Feb., 1843, from Bristol, via Madeira.
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WHEREAS, a Petition of FREDERICK WIL-
LIAM NAYLOR BAYLEY, at present, and for ten
months last past residing at 11, Bell's-buildings, Salisbury-
square, Fleet-street, in the parish of Saint Bride, and city of Lon-
don, andpreviously of 15 , Gloucester- terrace, Fulham-road, in the
county of Middlesex, author, having been filed in the Court of
Bankruptcy, and the interim order for protlction from process
having been given to said Frederick William Yaylor Bayley, under
the provisions of an Act of Parliament passed in the Parliament
holden in the sth and 6th years of the reign of her present Ma-
jesty, intituled " An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors,"
the said Frederick William Naylor Bayley is hereby required to
appear in Court before Joshua Evans, Esquire, the Commis-
sioner acting in the matter of the said petition, on the 28th day
of December instant, at one o'clock in the afternoon precisely,
at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street, London, for the
purpose of being then and there examined touching his debts,
estate, and effects, and to be further dealt with according to
the provisions of the said Act.
All persons indebted to the said Frederick William Naylor
Bayley, or that have any of his effects, are not to pay or deliver
the same but to George Lackington, the official assignee, no-
minated in that behalf by the Commissioner acting in the mat-
ter of the said petition.
LEWIS and LEWIS, 10, Ely-place, Holborn.

SMYER SUPERSEDED, and those corrosive
1.3 and injurious metals called Nickel and German Silver
supplanted by the introduction of a new and perfectly match-
less ALBATA PLATE. C. WATSON (late ALDER-
MAN), Nos. 41 and 42, BARBICAN, and No. 16, NOR-
TON FOLG ATE, aided by a person of science in the amalga-
mation of metals, has succeeded in bringing to public notice the
most beautiful article ever yet offered ; possessing all the rich-
ness of Silver in appearance—with its durability and hardness
—with its perfect sweetness in use—undergoing, as it does, a
chemical process, by which all that is nauseous in mixed metals is
entirely extracted—resisfng all acids, may be cleaned as Silver,
and is manufactured into every article for the Table and Side-
board.

s. d. s. d.
Sauce Ladles ..... 1 9

Table Spoons and Forks,

per doz l6 6 Tea Spoons, per doz... 5 6
Dessert do., per doz l2 6 Gravy Spoons... 3 6
Soup Ladles 6 6
C. Watson begs the Public will understand that this metal
is peculiarly his own, and that Silver is net more different from
Gold, than his metal is from all others ; the Public will there-
fore have no difficulty in discovering the animus which directs
the virulent attacks made against him, by a party who is dally
suffering from the unparalleled success which has marked the
progress of ins New Plate since its introduction. C. W.,
unlike this party, courts comparison, feeling confident that the
result will establish its pre-eminence.
41 and 42, BARBICAN, and at 16 NORTON FOLGATE.

QCOTTISH MUSIC.
kJ Mr. WILSON'S FIRST APPEARANCE this Season.
Mr. WILSON will give his SELECTED ENTERTAIN-
MENT at the MUSIC-HALL, Store-street, Tuts EVENING,
Deeember 2ti, in which he will sing the following admired
Songs of Scotland

Pianoforte accompanyist, Mr. Land.
Part I.—" My am fireside ;" " Saw ye my wee thing ?"
" Auld Robin Gray ;" " The Laird o' Cockpen ;" " Will ye
gang wi' me, Lizzie Lindsay?" " Scots wha bd'e wi' Wallace
bled ;" " Get up and bar the door."
Part II.—" The Reel o' Tullochgorum ;" " Where hae .ye
been a' day, my boy Tammy ?" " Allister M'Allister ;"
" Come under my plaidie ;" " There's nae luck aboot the
house ;" " Vl oo'd and married and a'."
To commence at Eight.
Tickets, 2s. each; Reserved Seats on the Orchestra, 28.6 d.;
Private Boxes for six persons, 15s. ; for eight, U. ; and
Programmes to be had at the principal Music-shops, and at
the Hall.

Book I. of " The Scottish Songs," as sang by Mr. Wilson,
and arranged by him, is now published, and may be had at
Messrs. Cramer, Addison, and Co.'s; and at Messrs. Duff
and Co.'s.

IVT ATIONAL MERCANTILE LIFE ASSUR-
_L N ANCE SOCIETY.
ROBERT CURREY, Esq., Chairman.
The Directors, Members, and friends of this Society WILL
DINE TOGETHER, at the London Coffee House, Ludgate_
hill, on THURSDAY, the 29th of December, 1842, at six
o'clock precisely. Tickets, One Guinea.
STEWARDS.
Messrs. E. Baker, Messrs. C. Sympson,
J. Capper, W. R. Spicer,
J. IL Carter, J. Spicer,
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W. M'Culloch, G. Stockdale,
T. Reid, J. Walsh,
R. Ridley, R. Wilcoxon,
T. Roberts. W. Williams.
Tickets may be had at the bar of the London Coffee /louse,
of the Stewards, and of Mr. Jenkin Jones, Secretary, it the
Office, Arthur-street West, London-bridge.
By order of the Stewards,
JENKIN JONES.

MANCHESTER.—OLD SPREAD EAGLE HOTEL,
HANGING DITCH.
(BACK ENTRANCE FROM CANNON•STREET.)
WF. WESTALL respectfully informs the
• COMMERCIAL PUBLIC that he has taken and
entered upon the above newly built, spacious, elegant, and con-
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the Thatched House Tavern, and trusts, from the liberal system
he intends to adhere to in catering for the taste and comfort of
the public, to receive a fair share of support. The Wines,
Spirits, and Cigars, have been selected with the greatest care,
and will be found of first-rate quality. London Porter, Burton
Ales, &c. Capital Stabling and Coach-house.

Now ready, price Is.,
S COTCII FARMING in ENGLAND.
By ROBERT HYDE GREG, Esq.
Also, by the same Author,
SCOTCH FARMING in the LOTHIANS. Third
Edition. Price 3d.

James Ridgway, Piccadilly.
Also,
JOHNSON and SHAW'S FARMERS' ALMANAC
for 1843, Price Is.

MA ST ERNIAN READY—COMPLETE.
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NEW PERIODICAL.
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No. I. of a New Periodical Work, with Original Designs by
J. L. Croquis and other Eminent Artists, entitled
C HRONICLES OF THE CAREWORN.
By EDWARD WEST.
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a series of Views taken in India, on steel, including a Portrait
of Lady Sale, a favourable opportunity presents itself fur Ladies
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being given Monthly, and is equal to four other Magazines for
general information, &c.

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ANCE SOCIETY,

LICENSED VICTUALLERS' AND
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-
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Adelaide-place, London-bridge, No. 444, West Strand,
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their own localities. The help which would have
been readily extended to Paisley by those resident in
Manchester, has been demanded by masses perishing
around them in their own town, or in those other
densely-populated places within a short distance of it.
The general distress of the country, which we charge
on the Corn and Provision-laws, has paralyzed the
powers of extended benevolence, by restricting its ex-
ertions to the localities within which its agents have
their own residence. Thus are the Corn-laws, and
their kindred enactments, chargeable, either imme-
diately or remotely, with national distress, and with
snch instances of local destitution as is presented by
the population of Paisley.
STANDARD.—There has rarely occurred a case
in which the exposure of deliberate and systematic
fraud has been so complete, as in the recent attempt
to excite discontent and alarm in the agricultural
class by the threat of a meditated change in the pro-
tecting laws. The enterprise was begun by a series
of misrepresentations of the speeches of noblemen and
gentlemen connected with the landed interest, and sup-
posed to be in the confidence of the Government—
misrepresentations as gross and audacious as ever
were employed to deceive the public. These misrepre-
sentations supplied texts from which the Whig-Ra-
dical journals expatiated, day by day, upon the un-
grateful and dishonest policy of the Government. At
length the artificers of fraud had wrought themselves
up to the pitch of confidence to dare anything, and
forth came the impudent lying announcement of the
Globe, that the graduated scale was forthwith
to be replaced by a fixed duty. It is not
to be wondered at that a scheme of false-
hood, so artful and so audacious, succeeded in
swaying the opinions of some of even our most in-
telligent and honest journals, pat iicularly, if like
the Times, these journals had a bias in favour of
the change announced ; perhaps it is as little
astonishing that the pseudo-Conservative journal,
written and compiled in concert with the evening
organ of the Whig-Radical Ministry, affected to
give implicit credit to a story dishonourable to Sir
Robert Peel's Government, and even went beyond
its Whig-Radical playfellow in pretending to cast
doubt upon the contradiction of the lie, when
that contradiction appeared by authority in the Stand-
ard. That this combined movement of Whig-Radicals
and mock Conservatives, which succeeded to some ex-
tent in imposing upon even honest and intelligent
journals, has proved at least temporarily injurious to
Sir Robert Peel's Government cannot be doubted. It
was designed for that purpose, and for that purpose
only ; and how could it fail of misleading simple-
minded men, who believe :others as honov"able and
candid as themselves, such as constitute the majority
of the agricultural class ?

DREADFUL FIRE at LIVERPOOL.
(FURTHER PARTICULARS.)
Great as the destruction is, the result may be con •
sidered as a fortunate escape, and the town owe the
credit to the fire-police in particular. No accident,
happily, occurred to life or limb, so far as we could
learn, though one man had a fearful and narrow escape.
The first estimates made of a loss are generally
much exaggerated, and for this there may be some
excuse. The loss, we believe, will be found (in
place of 70,0001. to 100,000/.) to be, in all, from
45,000/. to 47,0001.—chiefly in the following articles :-
7,000 to 8,000 quarters of wheat,
1,400 bags of cotton,
50 casks of madder,
100 barrels of tar and turpentine,
30 to 40 tons of dyewood, &c.
About 91 tuns of olive oil, worth about 5,0001. (not
included in our estimate), are vet in the cellars of the
eastern warehouse (called " C.rane's"), but every hope
is entertained that it will be saved. The western
warehouse is called " Guyton's." The fire was so far
suhdued by one o'clock, the flames being reduced to
the vaulted cellars under the west yard, that little ap-
prehension was entertained of its spreading to any of
the adjacent property, much of which was long in
jeopardy.
The two warehouses were both of great height, and
covered an area (together) or 1,460 yards. One con-
tained prineipally grain, wool, and some brimstone ; the
other cotton, grain, fustic, and tallow.
'During the early part of the fire, Lieuteiaant But-
ler, in command of H.M.S. Etna, sent his marines on
shore, in charge of Mr. Wright, chief officer under
him ; Captain Cumming, of the 15th Regiment, from
the barracks, Duke-street, without requisition, also
brought up his men, and rendered efficient services, in
maintaining order and keeping ample space for the
firemen, until their services were gratefully dispensed
with.—Liverpool Standard.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Dec. ?4.
IN THE MATTER OF GEORGE JOY.

The petitioner, a gentleman highly connected, who
is eighty-two years old, and at present confined in the
Queen's Prison, applied to be discharged under the
New Insolvent Debtors' Act. Mr. Joy had been in
prison since June 1841, and was now brought up
upon a writ of Habeas Corpus. His debts amounted
to 10,000/. ; he was engaged in a suit in Chancery,
from which he expected shortly to obtain a sum of
26,0001., the Master in Chancery having reported in
his favour.

Mr. PLATT, Q.C. and Mr. WALFORD, of the Chan-
cery bar, contended the Commissioner could order
the prisoner to be discharged under the new Act.
The petitioner was not a trader, nor had he become
indebted otherwise than in a proper manner, having
reasonable assurance of paying his debts when he con-
tracted them. The Act had clearly a 'retrospective
operation by the words "who shall have become in-
debted." The Act distinguishes those cases in which
persons became involved by "fraud, or gross or culpable
negligence." Here there had been nothing of the
sort ; this gentleman would pay all his debts upon
the termination of the suit in Chancery, until which
time he wished to be allowed to live outside a prison,
and attend the more easily to prosecute the suit. It
had been suggested that this Act would not apply to
persons in prison. The preamble stated that the Act
was to enable the Court to protect from all process
such as came within its meaning ; it could never have
been intended that because a man was in prison the
operation of the Act was to be stayed. The Court
would at any rate grant an order Nisi for the dis-
charge of the petitioner until the case could be brought
before .the Court of Queen's Bench and decided.
In opposition it was contended that the detaining
creditor only wished for security, and had no desire
to keep the petitioner in prison. The property was
vested in the Insolvent Debtors' Court, and this
Court had no power to interfere in the matter.
Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE expressed himself
clearlyof opinion that he had jurisdiction concurrently
to-grant an interim order of protection, notwithstand-
ing a vesting order was made by the Insolvent Debtors'
Court. He should not order a discharge, as the ques-
tion could be decided by the Court of Queen's Bench.
He would grant an interim order only until the 14th
of January.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(SATURDAY.)
MAN SION-HOUSE.
The LORD MAYOR stated, upon entering the Jus-
tice-room, that he had made inquiries amongst the
merchants and bankers, and principal tradesmen in
the City of London, on the subject of the requisition•
which had been presented to him a few days
ago rela-
tive to his interference in order to induce the citizens
of London to keep Monday, the 26th instant, as a
holiday, and he had found that if business was stopped
on that day many serious inconveniences would be
occasioned, as it happened that bills to the amount of
upwards of 2,000,000/. would fall due on the occasion.
Now, if Monday were made a holiday, and the sus-
pension of the usual avocations of men took place, it
would be necessary, according to the custom of the
trade, to pay all these bills on the Saturday previous
—an obligation which would very seriously embarrass
numbers of persons, inasmuch as the money to dis-
charge bills was frequently not procured till the day
on which they became due. It would, indeed, very
much delight him to see the suggestion of the requi-
sitionists carried into effect, as he entertained the opi-
nion they had so well and forcibly expressed, and it
was his intention to show how sincerely he approved
of them by allowing those individuals whom he em-
ployed to amuse themselves in any relaxation they
thought most advisable. Of course, those persons,
who had in such vast numbers signed the requisition,
would close business during Monday, and he had no
doubt the example would be extensively followed.
BURGLARY.--Six labouring men, named Kane,
Herrbrecter, Green, Ki,zgwell, Breton, and M'Keve,
were brought up charged with having broken into the
wine-vaults of Mr. Moore, a wine merchant, of Mile's-
lane, Upper Thames-street, and stolen 19 dozen of wine.
Inspector Chadwick, of the City Police, having re-
ceived information that Mr. Moore's Cellar had been
broken open by a number of workmen employed in
the neighbourhood, and who had made mortar in the
adjoining cellar, immediately caused every one of the
parties to be apprehended, and dispatched officers as

quickly to search their premises. In the house of
Kane and Herrbrecter were found five bottles of wine,
but nothing at all was found in the residences of the
others.
Mr. Moore stated that the wine produced was his.
He had not visited the cellar for seventeen days, and
upon going to it, on being informed that it had been
entered and plundered, he found that the partition be-
tween his cellar and that in which the prisoners
worked, and which was made •merely of lath and
plaister, had been broken through, and that the rob-
bery above-mentioned had been committed.
John King, a bricklayer, stated that he had been
employed formerly with the prisoners, but had been
discharged about five weeks ago, and had not since
worked with them. As he was standing at a picture-
shop in Gracechurch-street, Kane and Herrbrecter
came up to him and said they wished he had been with
them, as they had got plenty of wine. Then, said he,
"If you have, you can give me a bottle." 'They re-
plied that they would, and Kane brought him a bottle,
which he produced, and which Mr. Moore believed to
be his property. Kane also said he had plenty of wine
under the tiles of his house, and witness informed the
police of the circumstance.
Kane declared that King's evidence was wilful and
corrupt perjury, for that witness was the very person
who brought the four bottles of wine to his house,
and begged him to hide them from his (King's) wife,
suggesting at the same time the place of concealment
in the roof of the house. Kinn'had, he solemnly de-
clared, played tricks of the kind before, and got men
into difficulties.
The IlLoan MAYOR—I have no doubt that every
man at the bar has had his pull at the wine, bat I
have no evidence against the four last, whom I ac-
cordingly discharge. I sentence Kane to two months'
imprisonment, and Herrbrecter to one month's impri-
sonment.
Kane—For God's sake, my Lord, order that King's
premises be searched. I dare say some of the
wane will be found there.
The LORD MAYOR—Certainly, I shall cause them
to be searched. An officer was then d;'ected to
accompany King to his house and search it.
A man named William Wardle was brought before
the Lord Mayor under rather curious circumstances.
He had been examined at the Guildhall Police-office
on Friday, when Sir Peter Laurie, before whom the
Mansion-house business had been brought at that
office, remanded the case, in order that a further in-
vestigation might take place before his Lordship.
It appeared that the house of Mr. Hodges, a
tobacconist, 'Change-alley, had been broken open at
about five o'clock on Sunday, the 11th instant,
and robbed of cigars to the value of upwards
of 2501., although a policeman, namaed James
Storey, had passed a short time previously, and
declared that he had found all secure in the neigh-
bourhood. In consequence of the statement of Mr.
Hodges, the City Police Commissioner suspended
Storey and another policeman, much suspicion having
attached to the facts stated by the owner of the pre-
mises, that the housebreakers must have been engaged
in their operations for six hours, that the cigars must
have been carried out of the house to a distance of 30
yards, and that one cab would not have contained
them. Storey, after, as he declared, an indefatigable
search, laid his hands upon the prisoner some days after
the robbery, and charged him as a party engaged in
it, having seen him on the day the transaction oc-
curred passing through 'Change-alley, accompanied by
another man, And having also seen him a few days
previously in the same neighbourhood. Two other
policemen recognised the prisoner, who is certainly a
person of rather extraordinary visage, as having been
in the neighbourhood at the period mentioned by
Storey.
Mr. Humphreys, the solicitor, contended that there
was nothing at all in the statements of the' officerS
calculated to show that the prisoner had been concerned
in the robbery, and that Storey had apprehended Win
upon the calculation that his own character would be
freed from all imputation by such an act.
Mr. Hodges said he had a strong impression upon
his mind that he had seen the prisoner in his shop.
The LORD MAYOR, after having narrowly exa nined
the evidence, said it was clear, that if-the officers had
done their duty, so serious a robbery could not haste
occutred, and that the Commissioner had with grelt
propriety suspended them. Instead. of attending to
his business Storey had been loitering about, and, in-
stead of apprehending the priioner upon seeing
about the premises, according- to his statement,,or iin-.
mediately after the robbery was found to have been,
committed, he did - -not take any trouble, abont'the
matter until punishment took place in the shape of
suspension of the profits of his situation. The Lord
Mayor then requested to know who the.prisoner was,
as Storey said he had given a false address ?
Mr. Humphrey,for the prisoner, refused the address.
The LORD MAYOR called Gooch, the turnkey •of
the Compter, and asked whether he knew the person
at the bar ?—Gooch said he did—he had been brought
up before for attempting to rob a lady of her ptirse.
The LORD MAYOR said, as he was a character of
that kind, he should remand him.
It appeared, from the result of the investigation,
that gross negligence was attributable to the police.

BOW-STREET.

THE BLASPHEMOUS PAPERS IN HOLYWELL:STREET.

--Thomas Patterson was summoned before Mr. Twy-
ford for exhibiting in h:s shop, No. 8, Holy well-street,
eel Lain profane papers.
Mr. Chambers, the barrister, assisted by Mr. Ho-
ward, clerk to the Solicitor to the Treasury, attended
on the pat of the prosecution.
The defendant was called by name several times,
both IN:thin and outside the Court, but did not answer.
Mr. Chambers then requested that the service of
the summons might be proved.
Boyd, F 30, was sworn, and stated that he had
served copies of four summonses and fuser notices
(which he now produced) on the defendant on Tue
i -
day last, at half-past two o'clock in the afteiamon, n
a private room at this Court. He said it was of litth.
consequence giving him those, as he had received four
others at his shop the previous evening. (Witness
had left four copies at his house on Monday night.)
Mr. Chambers then requested that the summonses
might be read.
Mr. Burnaby proceeded to read the first summons,
and, on concluding an extract from one of the placards,
a voice in the Court was heard to exclaim " Hear."
Mr. TWYFORD instantly ordered an officer to take
the party into custody, and bring him before him.
A person was pointed out and brought iu front of
the Bench, who refused to give his name (which we
believe to be Ryall.)
Mr. TWYFORD asked him what he meant by the ex-
pression he had made use of, and he immediately
denied that he had done so. Several gentlemen,
however, stepped forward and swore that the prisoner
was the man.
Mr. TWYFORD thereupon ordered him to be turned
out of the Court, and not allowed to enter it again.
Order Imlng been restored,
Mr. Chambers rose and said that there were two
Acts of Parliament under which the offence was punish-
able. One, the Metropolitan Police Act; the other
the Act regulating the Police courts of the metropolis.
He thought it becoming on the part of those for whom
he appeared, to state, that he was very anxious the law
should be put in force, and it was not the intention of
the Government to lextend any leniency towards the
parties, as they were determined to suppress anything
which might be injurious to the religious feelings of
society. It might become the consideration of those
who made laws on a future occasion to extend the

limits of the power of Magistrates, for all that could be
done at present against persons guilty of the of
with which Patterson was charged was to fine them in
the penalty of 40s. for every separate offence proved
against them. The reason he (Mr. Chambers) had
not called on the Magistrate to grant a warrant on the
former occasion, was because there could not have
been sufficient time for Patterson (who it was sworn
was at Gloucester) to receive the summonses and to:
return to town in time for the examination, as `tie
summonses were not served until The-sday'nightt,' and
they could not by any possibility reach Gloticester
before Saturday morning. He now, howev6r, as it
was proved the summonses had been servo on the
man personally, should request that M'. Twyford
would grant warrants for his apprehension of the
earliest opportunity.
Mr. TWYFOED said, from the circumstancea of the
case, he saw no ground for refusing the application of
the Learned Counsel, and .he therefore ordered war-
rants to be issued intrnediatelylor Patterson's appre-
hension. The Learned Counsel then retired.
Mr. Hall, the Chief. Magistrate, was present to
watch the proceedings ; ;but seeing that the defendant
did not attend, and that the Learned Counsel merely
intended to apply for a warrant, he retired from the
Court, as .he was labouring under a severe cold.
QUEEN-SQUARE.
MUNIFICENT DONATION.—Mr. BOND, the sitting
Magistrate, said that it gave him great pleasure to ac-
knowledge, through the medium of the press, the re-
ceipt of a munificent donation of 201., to be applied
for the relief of the necessitous. The signature to the
note inclosing the money wits " 11. L. F." Mr.