The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-26 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY G
DECEMBER 6.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
CALL FOR SECOND INSTALMENT OF 21. 10s. PER
SHARE, ON 251. ,HARES, MAKING 51. PAID.
The Directors of the Great Western Railway having resolved, at
a meeting held this day, to call, under the provisions of the Acts of
Parliament, for an instal.nent of 2/. 10s. per Share on 251. Shares,
'notice is hereby given, that the Proprietors are requested to pay on
or before the 20th day of January next, to any of the undermen-
tioned bankers, the said sum of 21. 10s on each of their respective
251. Shares, viz. :
Lendon—Messrs. Glyn,Hallifax, Mills, and Co. ; at tke Great Western
Railway Office, 29, Gresham-street, City.
Bristol—Messsrs. Miles, Harford, and Co. ; Messrs. Baillie, Ames,
and Co. ; Stuckey's Banking Company ; the West of England and
South Wales District Bank.
Liverpool—The Bank of Liverpool.
Cheltenham—Tke County of Gloucester Bank.
Reading—Messrs. I. and C. Simonds and Ce.
By order of 'the Board of Directors,
CIIAS. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary.
London Terminus, Paddington, Dec. 4, 1845.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
CALL FOR ELEVENTH INSTALMENT OF 51. PER
SHARE, ON 1001. SHARES, MAKING 851. PAID.
The Directors of the Great Western Railway having resolved, at a
meeting held this day, to call, under the provisions of the Acts of Par-
liament, for an instalment of 51. per share on 1001. shares, notice
is hereby given, that the Proprietors are requested to pay on or before
the th day of January next, to any of the under-mentioned bankers,
the said sum of 51. on each of their respective 1001. shares, viz :
London —Messrs. Glb n, Hallifai, Mills, and Co.; at the Great
Western Railway Office, 29, Gresham-street, City.
Bristol—Messrs. Miles, Harford, and Co. ; Messrs. Bane, Ames,
and Co. ; Stuckey's Banking Company ; the West of England and
Routh Wales District Bank.
Liverpool—The Bank of Liverpool.
Cheltenham—The County 01 Gloucester Bank.
Reading—Messrs. I. and C. Simonds and Co.
By order of the Board of Directors,
CHAR. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary.
London Terminus, Paddington, Dec. 4, 1845.

OXFORD, THAME, HIGH WYCOMBE,
AND UXBRIDGE JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that no farther application for shares In
this Company will be received after the 27th inst.
By order,
IL MORTON CALM', Secretary.
43, Moorgate-street, Dec. 17, 180.

THE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT
RAILWAY.
The Committee if Management beg is annsusco that, in eorapliance
with the applications and suggestions of several gentlemen of sips
rience, they have instructed the several bankers named in their
Letters of Allotment to continue to receive the preliminary deposits
'frottrfllts-thile. Until-fife 7fli of January next, In order that those
parties to whoth Shares in this Company have been allotted may con
suit their own convenience, by paying theltrat deposit at the present
time, or paying the whole deposit on or before the 7th if January
next. • •
Sy order of the Board,
Z. HUBBERSTT, Booretary.
Moorgato-chambers, Moorgate-street, Dee. 19, 1845.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
DEPOSIT ON EASTERN COUNTIES YORK EXTENSION

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
The Public are informed that the following ALTERATIONS
in the arrangement of the PASSENGER TRAINS will come into
operation on the Ist January, 1846, viz. :
CAMBRIDGE LINE.—DOWN TRAINS.

Two additional Trains, consisting of First, Second, and Third
Class Carriages, will leave London for Hertford and intermediate
Stations, at 10.30 A.m., and 1 30 P.M. respectively, every day
except Sundays.
The Trains leaving London for Hertford at Twelve o'clock Noon,
and 4.30, and Seven o'Clock Evening, will consist of First, Second,
and Third Class Carriages, and not First and Second Class only as
heretofore, and will stop, if required, to take up or set down passen-
gers at any of the intermediate Stations.
The 2.30. P.M. Train from London to Ely and intermediate Stations
will have First and Second Class Carriages attached, in addition to
Third Class, as at present.
UP TRAINS.

Two additional Trains of First, Second, and Third Class car-
riages will leave Hertford for London at 10.45 a.m., and
2.30 P.M. respectively, stopping, if required, at any of the interme-
diate stations.

The 8.15 and 9.15 (not 9.30, as heretofore) A.M., and 12.30 P.M.
trains will take First, Second, and Third Class Passengers, and not
First and Second Class only, as at present, and the 9.15 train will, if
required, stop at any of the intermediate stations between Hertford
and London. •

The 9.30 A.m. train from Ely to London, and intermediate sta-
tions, will hereafter consist of First, Second, and Third Class carriages.
The Mail train, heretofore arriving in London at 5.22 A.m., will be
due at dye o'clock.
COLCHESTER LINE.—DOWN TRAINS.

The 7.30 A.M. Train from London will be discontinued, Third
Class Carriages being attached to the 8.30 A.M. Train.
The One o'Clock P.M. Train from London will consist of First,
Second, and Third Class Carriages, and goods will be discontinued to
be sent by this Train.
The 1.30 P.M. Train from London will be discontinued, and a Train
at 2.15 substituted.
The Train leaving London at Three o'clock will be EXPRESS,
stopping at Romford, Brentwood, and Chelmsford, and arriving at
Colchester at about 4.30 o'clock.
The 6.30 P.M. Train from London to Brentwood, and intermediate
stations, will have Third Class Carriages attached, in addition to First
and Second as at present.
UP TRAINS.
The Six o'clock P.M. Train, from Colchester, will consist of First,
Second, and Third Class Carriages.
The Seven o'clock P.M. Train from Colchester will be discon-
tinued. _ _ _

.....
The Six o'clock r.m. Train from Colchester on Sundays will be dis-
continued, and a Train substituted to leare Colchester at 5.30 P.M.
A considerable Reduction will take place, on the Ist of January
in some of the Short Fares on both lines. For particulars, see Time
Bills, which may be had on application, at any of the Company's
Stations or Coach-offices in connexion with the Company, on and
after the 29th instant.

By order,
C. P. RONEY, Secretary,
Offices, Shoreditch Station, London, Dec. 23, 1845.

GRAND UNION RAILWAY.
ISSUE OF SPALDING AND BRANDON JUNCTION
RAILWAY SHARES.
Notice is hereby given, that the Shareholders of the Grand Union
Railway who are desirous of taking shares in the Spalding and Bran-
don Junction line, are required to send in the original scrip for re-
gistry on or before the 6th of January, 1846.
The scrip must be accompanied by a letter, signed by the owner
with his name in full, his occupation, and residence,stating the quan-
tity of scrip, and the respective numbers sent in for registry, together
with the name of a party in London to whom reference may be made
as to responsibility, otherwise it cannot be received. A receipt will
be given for the scrip deposited, and at the expiration of two days (if
the holder be considered sufficiently responsible by the Directors) it
will be returned, together with a letter of allotment for the Spalding
and Brandon Junction Railway shares. The allotment will be in
the proportion of one share for every five of the Grand Union Rail-
way scrip. Application must be made on er before the day above-
named, otherwise no claim for the Spalding and Brandon Junction
shares will be recognised.
The deposits will be payable at the several Bankers specified on
the Letter of Allotment, on or before the 15th of January, and the
Deeds will lie for signature as under, when theßankers' receipts may
be exchanged for Scrip Certilleates.
London—At the Company's Offices, 78, Cornhill, and at the Offices
of the Norfolk Railway Company, Guildhall-buildings, from the sth
to lath January, 1846, inclusive, between the hours of Ten and Five
o'clock.

Nottingham—At the Offices of the Grand Union Railway Com-
pany, St. Peter's• square, Friday, 16th January, 1846.
Leeds—At the White Horse, Saturday, 17th January, 1846.
Manchester—At the Albion Hotel, Monday, 19th January, 1846.

Liverpool—At the Angel Hotel, Tuesday, loth January, 1846.

As it is understood that Parliament will meet on the 22d January,
the time for payment of Deposits and execution of the Deeds can on
no account be extended. The Plans, Sections, and Books of Refe-
rence were deposited with the Board of Trade and the several Clerks
of the Peace on Saturday, the 29th November, and all necessary
arrangements have been made for obtaining an Act in the ensuing
session of Parliament.
By order, ALFRED BEESTON, Secretary.
78, Cornhill, Dec. 24, 1845.

CAMBRIDGE and LINCOLN RAILWAY
The Provisional Committee beg to acquaint their Share-
holders that the arrangements for extending the line of the Eastern
Counties Company from Cambridge to York, with Branches to Spal-
ding, Boston, Stamford, and Sleaford, have been completed.
The capital of the proposed extension has been so adjusted, that
the holder of each Original and each Extension Share in the Cam-
bridge and Lincoln Company will be entitled to receive in exchange
one Share of V/. in the Stock of the Eastern Counties York Extension.
Etch Scripholder will be required to forward to the Secretary of
the Company, not later than SATURDAY, the 3d of January next, an
application in the subjoined form, and to inclose therewith the grip
now held by him
The receipt of all Shares sent for registry and exchange will be
acknowledged by return of post ; and net later than seven days after-
waits a Letter of Allotment for the same number of Eastern Coun-
ties York Extension Shares will be forwarded to the Scripholder.
Sh^rebrokers and Agents will understand that Cambridge and
Lincoln Scrip cannot he exchanged for Letters of Allotment in the
Eastern Counties York Extension unless the Form of Application
be filled up and signed by the parties for whom they transmit them.
HENRY BARNBTT, Chairman.
By order,
C. P. RONEY, Secretary.
30, Great Winchester-street, Dec. 18, 1841.
To the Provisional Committee of the Cambridge and Lincoln
Railway.
-, 184 .

Gentlemen,—Herewith I forward to you Scrip for
Original and Extension Shares in the above Company ;
in respect of which I request you to obtain for me a Letter of Al-
lotment for Eastern Counties York Extension Shares,
being in the proportion of one Share in that Company for sash Share
that I hold in the Cambridge and L Name Railw
fullay.
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Usual 6ignature.... ••• • • • • •
Description .. • • • • . • • • • • .• • •
Place of Abode •• .. • • • • • • • •
This form must, in every ease, be filled up in the handwriting of the
applicant.

CH li, I S T M A S!!!
Awake my lyre with tuneful lay,
And " welcome" give to " Christmas Day !"
It is a joyous, happy time,
When music, mirth, and love combine,
To strew our path with roses bright,
And mingle friendship with delight !
And what is most essential—say,
To give eclat to " Christmas Day ?"
Why " Clothing !" that we own's a fact ;
We therefore tell you how to act
Away to " Ilyam's "—order there
Habiliments of beauty rare I
And then with confidence and joy
Most charmingly your time employ ;
In scenes of pleasure bright and gay,
You'll pass a happy " Christmas Day ! !"
List of Prices for Winter Garments ready-made :

Gentlemen's Over-coats from .. •.•• • • • • .......... ..

Gentlemen's Chesterfield and Taglionis, from► •• ..... —• • 0 15 0

Gentlemen's D'Orsays and Glenlyons .. •••• • • ..

_
Boys' Over-coats ........ ••• • • • ............. . ...... ... 0 8 0
Youths' Chesterfields and Taglionis •••••••• .. • • • • • ..... 0 10 6
Dress Coats, in all colours, braided edges, from ••••.. • • 1 1 0

Surtouts, ditto ditto • • . .
Trousers, In Cloth and Doeskin, from ............ ••• • • • 0 8 6
Vests, splendid patterns, in every material, from •••• . • • 0 4 6
List of Prices for Winter Garments to order, in first-rats style and
fashion : s. d.

Chesterfield and Taglion! Over-coats, from .............. ' 0 18 0
D'Orsay and Glenlyon ditto, from ••••• • • . • • 1 10 0
Albert and Codrington walking ditto
Youths' Taglionis and Chesterfields 0 14 0
Dress Coots, made in superior style, from •• .. 1 10 0
Surtouts, from •• • ..... ••• • • • ... ••• • •
Trousers, in Black and Fancy Doeskin, from ••••. • • • • • 0 15 0
Vests, of the newest materials, from 0 7 0

The Ordered Department Is conducted entirely distinct and sepa-
rate from the Ready-made, and buyers will find patterns and ma-
terials quite original.
An immense assortment of Youths' clothes kept constantly on
hand, of warranted durability, at very reduced prices. Mourning of
every description, and to any extent, can be had at live minutes'
notice.
A book, entitled " The Talk of the Town," containing list of
prices, can be had on applyiag to L. ranteChilethcca,
GraceetturCh-street,rlondon. )
No buaineas trimostrAt4 un 4atuallys until gat rrening.

LEEDS AND CARL ISLE RAILWAY
COIIIPANY.

Notice is hereby given, that a Meeting. of Shareholders of
this Company, will take place at the City of London Tavern,
Bishopsgate-street, on MONDAY, the sth of January, 1846, at One
o'clock precisely, to lay before the Proprietors the terms of the
amalgamation which has been agreed to with the Yorkshire and
Glasgow Union Railway Company, and the general state of this
Company. By order of the committee of Management,
C. LOCOCK WEBB, Secretary.
Gresham-rooms, Basinghall-street.

LONDON and BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.
NOTICE.
The following Reductions in the Fares of Passengers, and the
Rates for Parcels, between London, Birmingham, and Liierpool,
will take place on the Ist of January, 1846 :
LONDON TO LIVERPOOL.
Fares of Passengers.
By Express and Select Trains .................. from 475. to 455.
By other Trains, First Class.. .. from 40s. to 375.
Do. Second Class ...... •• ............ from 31s. to 275.
From LONDON to BIRMINGHAM the Reductions will be
Fares of Passengers.
By Express and Select Trains, First Class.. ..... .from 275. to 255.
By Mix.d Fast ditto . ditto •....... from 235. to 20s.
Ditto ditto - Second Class ......from 17s. to 14s.
Th,, Fares for Intermediate Distances will be Reduced in pro-
portion.
The Rates for small Parcels, not exceeding 12Ibs. weight, will be
reduced between London and Liverpool, from 2s. 6d. to 2s. ; and be-
tween London and Birmingham, from Is. 6tl. up, and Is. 3d. down,
to 18. each way.

By or4er, R. CREED, Secretary,
Office, Euston-statlon, Dec. 24, 1845.

RAILWAY' LITIGATION.
At a meeting of persons, held the 17th day of December,
845, at No. 25, Throgmorton-street, London, to consider the objects
ated in an advertisement recently published, and which was read
as follows :

RAILWAY MUTUAL PROTECTION

This Society is a voluntary association of persons interested in the
success and judicious administration of railways ; and especially for
ascertaining the present state of the law as affecting the rights and
liabilities of those connected with railways and railway projects.
That in the undefined state of the law touching the various rela-
tions in which persons connected with railways find themselves
placed, great inducements are offered to the resistance of just de-
mands, and to the enforcement of groundless claims; in either case
imposing very serious expenses, amounting in the one to the denial
of justice, and in the other to the infliction of positive wrong.
It is obvious that individuals having to enforce their rights against,
or to resist unwarrantable claims by bodies corporate in their cha-
racter, and having in their hands large funds, will do so at a serious
disadvantage, without an arrangement for co-operation and mutual
assistance, and the aid of a subscribed fund. It is therefore agreed
that a fund shall be provided by subscription, and that the following
rules and regulations shall be binding upon the members of the
Society.

That a Committee of seven perms, including the President, to be
called the Council, shall be appointed to conduct the businesime the
Society.
That a president shall be appointed, whose sanction, with two of
the Council, shall be necessary to all decisions touching the institution
or defence of proceedings at law or in equity.
That the Council shall consider the case of any member of the
Society which may be brought before them, and shall advise whether
any and what proceedings shall be taken, either at law, In equity, or
otherwise, for the protection or assertion of the rights of such mem-
ber, and that all such proceedings as may be suggested by the Council
shall be submitted to the solicitors of the Society.
That, for the guidance of the Council, and for the satisfaction of
the members of the Society, the opinions of several counsel at the
equity and common law bars shall be taken upon the various and
most prominent questions which may affect the rights and liabilities
of the subscribers and allottees of shares, as well as the Directors,
Managing and Provisional Committeemen, of railways and railway
projects.
That the names of persons seeking to become members of the So-
ciety shall be submitted to the Council, who shall have the absolute
power of admission.
That an annual subscription of Two Guineas shall be paid by each
member of the Society, on or before the Ist of January in each year,
and no person shall be deemed a member until such subscription
be paid.

That members who shall not renew their subscriptions on or before
the Ist day of January, 1847, and so en from time to time, on or
before any succeeding Ist of January, shall cease to be members of
the Society.

That any subscriber who may desire to confide his owu case to the
Council of the Society, May do so in strict confidence, and if his case
is one which the Council deem to be within the scope of the Society,
may then have the option of requiring his interests to be considered
by the solicitors of the Company upon the payment to the funds of
the Society of such further sum of money as may appear to the Coun-
cil appropriate and reasonable, or of placing the business in other
hands upon his own responsibility.
That all subscribers shall be entitled to the benefit of the opinions
of counsel propo•cd to be taken for the guidance of the Council, and
also of the advice of the counsel and of the solicitors. . _

That Daniel Whittle Harvey, Esq., be appointed the President of
the Council. - _ _

That R. P. Davis, Esq., be appointed the Treasurer, and Messrs.
Amory, Sewell, and Moores, the solicitors of the Society.
That the Council shall have power to make rules for the manage-
ment of the business of the Society, providel they are not repugnant
to the above rules. And that no subscriber shall be liable for any
costs, charges, and expenses whatever beyond his subscription, and
such other expenses as shall have been provided for by his engage-
ments with the Council.

DAVIES'S BEST MOULD CANDLES, 6d.
per lb., with the improved Wax Wicks ; Store Candles,
M.; Hale's Superb Composite, 914 d. ; Price's, 18d.; Ogleby's Bo-
tanic Wax, Is.; German Wax, Is. 2d.; Fine Wax, Is. Sd.;
Transparent Wax, Is. Bd. ; Genuine Wax, Is. Id. ; Genuine Sperm,
Is. Bd.; Palmer's Metallic, 6%d. and Sd.; Hale's Metallic, 7%d.;
Yellow Soap, 465., 525., and 88s. per 1121bs ; Mottled, 60s. and
645.; White Windsor, Is. 4d. per Packet ; Palm, Is. 4d.; Old
Brown Windsor, ls. 9d. ; Rose. 25.; Almond, 2s. 6d. ; Superfine
Sealing Wax, 4s. 6d. per lb.; Genuine Sperm 011, 7s. 6d. per gallon
Ogleby's Patent Oil, equal to Sperm, 4s. 6d. ; Solar, 3s. 6d.
For Cash, at DAVIES'S Old Established Warehense, 63, it. Mar-
tin's-lane, opposite New Slaughter's Coffee-house.

FOR STOPPING DECAYED TEETH.
Price 2s. 6d.
Patronised by her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and

her Royal highness the Duchess of Kent.
MR. THOMAS'S SUCCEDANEUM for
stopping decayed Teeth, however large the cavity. is
placed in the tooth without any pressure or pain, and will remain
firm in the tooth for many years, rendering extraction unnecessary,
arresting the further progress of decay. 111 persons can use Mr.
Thomas's Succedanetun themselves with ease, as full directions are
Inclosed. Price 2s. 6d.

Sold by Savory, 220, Regent-street; Sanger, 150, Oxford-street;
Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Prout, 229, Strand ; Johnson, 68, Cornhill ;
Hannay, 63, Oxford street ; and all medicine venders.
Mr. Thomas continues to supply the loss of teeth upon his sew
system of self-adhesion, without springs er wires. This method
does not require the extraction of any teeth or roots, or any painful
operation whatever.
Mr. Thomas, Surgeon Dentist, 64, Bemers-street, Oxford-street.

ROWLAND'S ODONTO;
•r, PEARL DENTIFRICE.
Patronised by the Queen, and the Royal Family of great Britain,
_ .

and the several Sovereigns and Courts 01 lurope.
White Powder for the. Teeth, compounded of the choicest and
most recherche ingredients of the Oriental Herbal— the leading re-
quisites of -cleanliness and efficacy being present in the highest pos-
sible degree. It extirpates all tartarous adhesions to the Teeth, and
ensures a pearl-like whiteness to the enamelled surface. Its anti-
septic and anti-scorbutic properties arrest the further progress of
decay of the Teeth, and induce a healthy action of the Gums. The
Breath also attains a fragrant sweetness truly grateful to its pos-
sessor.

As the most efficient and fragrant aromatic Tooth Powder ever
known, ROWLAND'S ODONTO has for a long series of years oc-
cupied a distinguished place at the toilets of the Sovereigns and the
Nobility throughout Europe, while the general demand kr it at once
announces the favour in which it is universally held.
Price 2s. 9d. per Box.
CAUTION.—To protect the publid from Fraud, the Hon. Com-
missioners of Stamps have directed the Proprietors' Name and
Address to be engraved on the Government Stamp, thus—
A. ROWLAND and SON, 20, Hatton-garden,
and which is affixed on each Box.
Bold by the Proprietors, and by Chemists and Perfumers.
*ee All others are fraudulent imitations.

prSepsireitf
EYE-BROWS, MOUSTACHES, and WHIS-
KERS produced in a few weeks by using
pea uli an
ar essentialoperu
drawn from choice Aromatic Herbs, the
which are known only to the Inventor, and although perfectly inno-
cent in itself, will produce new Hair on bald places, caused by weak-
nesi of comititution, or where Nature has net bestowed this orna-
ment °fib* human figure. It has been known to many of the Nobi-
lity and Gentry upwards of eleven years, some of whom the Inven-
tor most sincerely thanks for their attestation of its merits, in the
certainty of restoring Hair and giving it additional lustre and
strength. Its virtues are manifold—it preveats the Nair from fall-
ing off or turning gray ; a few drops on the crown of the head will
remove the most distressing pain is that part produced by or at-
tended with faintness ; and is acknowledge d by the Faculty as the
only specific known to cure that disease of the head called Forigo
de calvans (which causes the Hair to come oft in patches) ; a few
applications removes dandruff. This wonderful discovery is fully ex-
plained in a pamphlet containing testimonials to its regenerating
new Hair upon bald places, entitled, " Three Minutes' Advice on the
Growth and I'reservation of the Human Hair," by W. Grimstone,
Inventor of the Aromatic Regenerator for the Growth of the Human
Hair, and a certain preventative of headache and fainting ; also a
toilet perfume—hearing the Inventor's signature, Herbary, High.
gate, near London.
triangular
Government stamp
sntaammep,intreel;ldtd,
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wchasoitetshaiesreaonn4
at
retail, by all Chemists, Druggists, and Perfumers, and by special
appointment ,
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CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.
ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION,
Lectures for this period of the year, by Dr. Ryan and
Protegsor Bachoffner in CHEMISTRY and NATURAL PHILO-
SOPHY will be illustrated by interesting and brilliant experiments.
A Lecture on the PREVALEN.T 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-
ryitg several persons, is exhibited daily. The additions to the
OPAQUE MICROSCOPE, DISSOLVING VIEWS, and CHROMA-
TROPE are very effective. The PHYSIOSCOPE. Submarine Ex-
periments by means of the DIVER and DIVING BELL. Among
the various additions to the Working Models is e,eleman's NEW
AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE, for ascending and de-
scending Inclined Planes. A magnificent Collection of TROPICAL
FRUITS. Mr. Downe, the celebrated Flute Player, will take part
in the Music, conducted by Dr. Wallis. Open from Eleven to Half-
past Five, and from Seven to Half-past Ten in the Evening.
Admission, One Shilling. Schaels, Half-price.

STUNT, 57, STRAND, LONDON.-WEL-
LI. • LINGTON BOOTS, made to Measure, ONE GUINEA. Su-
perior workmanship, the finest French leather, very durable, and
pleasant for tender feet.--Cash on delivery.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-

AIME SOCIETY,
2G, CORI:MILL, LONDON.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliameat.
This institution oilers important and substantial advan-
tages with respect both t 4 Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities.
The asisred has, on all occasions, the power to bornw, without ex-
pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid,
(see tab'e); also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion
of his interests to meet other conveniences er necessity. Assurances
for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates.

DIVISION OF PROFIT 7.
The slccess and incree.sing prosperity of the Society has enabled
the Directors, at tho last annual investigation, to declare a third
Bonus, varying from 3‘i to 75 per cent. on the premium paid on
each Policy effected on the Profit scale.

ToJe.dlsrisiess.of pronto is annual, an,' the next will be made in Do-
ren* 4er of the present year.

F. FERGUSON CLIEROUX, Sec

LAW FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY.
(Completely- Registered under the Act 7th and Bth Vict.,
cap. 110).

Offices, Nes. 5 and 6, Chancery-lane.
Subscribed Capital, Five Millions Sterling.
TRUSTEES.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Devon
The Right Hon. Lord Cottenham
The Right Hon. the Vice Chancellor of England
The Right Hon. the Lord Chief Baron
The Right Hon. Sir Herbert Jenner Fust (Dean of the Arches, &c.)
William Wingfield, Esq. (Master in Chancery)
Richard Richards, Esq., M.P. (Master in Chancery.)

.11ETTS'S PA.TENT BRANDY, certified by the
Faculty of England to be the purest spirit, and guaranteed
by the Patent Metallic Capsules, embossed Betts's Patent Brandy,
7, Smithfield-bars," is sold at 3s. 6d., bottle included, by the most
respectable dealers, lists of whom may be obtained at the Distillery,
where quantities of not less tkan two gallons, in bulk or bottles, are
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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 he 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 com-
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 1,452,0001.,
against 2,102,000/. 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 hare 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 powerful 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. His 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 pursued with respect to the admission of the pro-
duce of so large a proportion of the population. Eighty
per cent. 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, not 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 for 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 some 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 see open to them a steady
and a constant market in this country, it will be
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, thin
could have been accomplished by years of negotiation,
or by any other concession which we could have
made to that country.

PROSECUTIONS UNDER LORD

ASHLEY'S ACT.

On the 14th instant three cases came on for trial
before the Sheriff of Clackmannayshire at Alloa, at the
instance of the Procurator-Fiscal of the county, against
Mr. Fife, the oversman, and several of the workmen at
Clackmannan Colliery, for the employment of females
below ground at these works, in contravention of Lord
Ashley's Act. Various objections were stated to the
relevancy of the complaint by the agents for the pri-
soners, which were all repelled✓ by the Sheriff. Fife, the
oversman, and one of the workmen then pleaded guilty,
and were fined in the minimum penalty of 51. each. The
complaints in the other cases were not insisted in, the
prosecutor remarking that he was of opinion that the
' ends of justice would be satisfied by the conviction of
the oversman and the workman who had pleaded guilty.
Before the Court dismissed, the Sheriff addressed
the prisoners and the audience in nearly the following
terms:—

"I think it proper to makea few further observations
on the cases w hich have been tried here to-day before
the panels and the audience (which I observe consists
almost wholly of colliers) leave the Court-room. After
most careful inquiry into the state of the mining popula-
tion throughout the United Kingdom, the Legislature
deemed it right to pass the Act 5 and 6 Vic., chap. 99,
prohibiting the employment of women and girls in mines
and collieries; and I feel satisfied that when the provi-
sions of the Act come to be fairly carried into effect,
the public and the colliers themselves will be convinced'
that the Legislature has judged wisely in passing such
an enactment. The sort of work which women were
employed to perform below ground, in dragging or push-
ing heavy waggons, was ill-adapted to their bodily con•
formation, and had a degrading influence upon their
characters. No doubt, in depriving them all at once of
employment below ground, many cases of individual
hardship would occur, and some difficulty might at first
be experienced in procuring other employment; but
these difficulties, I am satisfied would soon be overcom,,.
I have been at the trouble of making inquiry at the col-
lieries on the other side of the Forth, where they have
for some time past given up the practice of employing
females below ground ; and I find that the colliers them-
selves are quite satisfied that the practice was a bad one,
and that it is much better, both for themselves and their
families, that it should not be persisted in. This opinion
is now very generally entertained over the country, and
the employment of female labour below ground has, for
a considerable time past, been abandoned at almost
every colliery throughout the kingdom, excepting at
Clackmannan ; and it is a disgsace to this county, and 1
feel it to be so, that such a degrading practice has been