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endowments of all kinds for future or existing Children.
The usual Commission to Solicitors.
Prospectuses and Marks for Buildings may be had of. and
P?oposals for Insurances, &c., be forwarded to the Agents in
thOr respective Districts, or to the Office in London. Agents
are appointed in the principal Towns in the Kingdom.
W. SHAW, Managing Director.

WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY
, Office-49, Parliament-street, Westminster.
Capital 500,0001; 10,000 Shares, 501. each.
Deposit Si. each Share.
This Society is established for the Assurance of Lives, upon
Principles combining economy with perfect security.

DIRECTORS.
N. Edgeworth Bicknell, Esq., 28, Upper Bedford-place.
William Cabell, Esq., Newington-place, Surrey.
Thomas Somers Cocks, jun., Esq.,, Charing Cross.
George Henry Drew, Esq., Bermondsey.
William Evans, Esq., Millbank. •
William Freeman, Esq., Millbank-street.
Prancis Fuller, Esq., Poultry, London aryl Croydon.
James Hunt, Esq., Whitehall.
"°llll Arnott Lethbridge, Esq., Greenwich Hospital.
Almond Lucas, Esq., Millbank-street.
George Kennet Pollock, Esq., Great George-street,
,aWest-
minster.
Jame Lys Seager, Esq., Millbank.
.1011 n Baxley White, Esq., Millbank-street, and Swanscombe.
irel,ll Carter Wood, E‘q., Artillery Place, Westminster,
eary Wrench, Esq., King William-street, London Bridge.
William Whatele , Es TRUSTEES.
y q. L. C. Humfrey, Esq.
George Drew, Esq.
AUDITORS.
Ot MOS Biddulph, Esq. John Freeman, Esq.
John Bazley White, jun., Esq.
CONSULTING COUNSEL—WiIIiam Page Wood, Esq.
eGNVEYA NCING COUNSEL —Samuel Jay, Esq.
iiirstel.an—William Richard Basham, Esq., 17r
Chemter-street, Grosvenor-place.
jiult .e 1" 'Ns—Alfred Leggatt, Esq.; George D. Pollock, Esq.
---111eFsrs. Cocks, Riddulph, and Co., Charing-cross.
Licrrous—Messrs. J. L. Bicknell and J. C. Lethbridge,
25, Abingdon-street, Westminster.
TA lILE OF rarmtusis TO ASSURE £lOO FOR. THE WHOLE
TERM OF LIFE.

`ge:
Annual Prem. Age. Annual Prem. Age. Ann.Prem.
9.5 'CI 14 2 35 £2 11 0 50 £4 3 3
Z.io 118 11 40 219 6 55 55 4
2 4 8 45 3 9 1 60 615 3

'rh
bp,,ere object of this Society is to afford to the A,sured all the
otp it" °f Life-Assurance, at a great reduction in the rates
retnium.

De FOR EXA 31 PLE.
f'ol-1 "(43 aged 30 may with this Society assure his life for
wi,,,i4 ky tti nu'alpayment of lIL 3s. 4d., which in a Society
him 'vine Bonus is held out as a main inducement, would. cost
Num ,_
' -s• 7r. 4d., or, in other words, for the same annual pre-
/le , ne could at this Office assure very nearly 6001., whereby
(I,(\crires AN IMMEDIATE AND CERTAIN BONUS
"' 100 L
'Ali particulars as to Shares, Loans, Assurances,
obtained On if required,
or:varded to the country. &c. may be
application to the Secretary ; and,
Parties in the countr) eligible for undertaking Agencies are
Isequested to apply.
A very liberal Commi.sion allowed to Solicitors and Agents.
EDW. T. RICHARDSON, Actuary and Sec.

ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPER

NATIONAL PROVIDENT INSTITU-
TION,
Enrolled under A ets of Parliament rela4 ing to Friendly Societies
For I'd UTUAL ASSURANCE of LIVES,
ENDOWMENTS, and ANNUITIES.
13, Nicholas-lane, King William-street, London.
DIRECTORS.
C. P. Bousfieid, Esq. Thomas Hodgkin, M.D.
John Bradbury, Esq. R. Ingham, Esq.
Cash, Esq. Joseph Janson, Esq.
Thomas Castle, Esq. S. Hayhurst Lucas, Esq.
James Crofts, Esq. C. Lushiugton, Esq.
John Feltbam, Esq. John St. Barbe, Esq.
Joseph Hargrave, Esq Richard Shortridge, Esq.
Samuel Smith, Esq.
MEDICAL DIRECTORS.
J. T. Conquest, F.L.S. I Thomas Bevan, M.D. F.L.S.
SOLICITORS.—Messrs. Hardwick and Davidson.
Members whose Premiums become due on the Ist October
next are reminded that the same must be paid within Thirty
Days from that time.

Among the privileges to be derived by affecting assurances
in this Institution, is that of Members being able to secure the
benefit of their Policies to Nominees free of any charge. The
Whole of the Profits are divided among the Members
Prospectuses, together with the Report to the Sixth Annual
Meeting of Membets, held on the 15th December last, and every
other information, may be obtained by applying at the Office,
or of the Agents and Medical Referees in the country.
JOSEPH MARSH, Secretary.
London, September 22, 1842.

A NEW SOVEREIGN CLARENCE AND HARNESS

"/[ORE THAN FOUR YEARS have now
elapied since W. BERDOE, introduced his VENTI-
LATING WATERPROOF; also his well-known WATER-
PROOF FROCK, in lieu of the" Mackintosh." The host of
imitations of bosh, mid the increasing extensive sale of the latter,
among the friends of those who have adopted it, are sufficient
proofs of their success. For the coming season, W. B. has
now ready a large stock of the most modern and appropriate
materials. Also of first-rate Garments for Shooting, Fishing,
Travelling, Riding, Driving, &c., &c., warranted (without
confining perspiration) to exclude any description or quantity
of rain whatever.

WALTER BERDOE, Tailor, Waterproofer, &c., G 9
CORN HILL, eight (lours from Bishopsgate-street.

QUARTERLY SALE OF MISCELLANEOUS FOR.
FELTED PROPERTY:
AXESSRS. DEBENIIAM and STORR evil
—Y_EL SELL at their Rooms, King-street, Covent-garden
on MONDAY, October 3, and following days (Sunday excepted;
at Eleven,

Several thousand volumes of books in every department of
literature and science, a collection of fine original paintings and
drawings, proof engravings; brilliant toned cabinet, grand, and
square pianofortes, splendid pedal harps. fine old violins, violin-
cellos, flutes, trumpets, cornopeans, &c. ; excellent mathe-
matical, surgical, optical, philosophical, instruments ; carvings,
sculpture, intaglios, fine old and rare china, and bronzes, and a
variety of effects reserved agreeably to Act of Parliament for
quarter sale, and pledged in months prior to November 1841,
with the following pawnbrokers, viz. :—Attenborough, Richard;
Attenbormigh, ilichard, jun. ; Attenhorough, Robert;
Attenburough, George, late W. Cordwell ; Aldridge ;
Aldons and Son ' • Alexander, late Jenkins ; Archbutt,
J. ; Barker, R.; Barker, G. ; Bassett; Burlton; Benton,
G.; Benton, E. ; Burgess, J. ; Bromley and Crush ; Baylis,
E. ; Buer ; Crouch ' • Cotturell ; Clunes ; Cogswell ; Coley ;
Clark ; Fillmer, 'Thomas; Franklin; Fleming : Goodburn ;
Gray; Grant; Graygoose ; Goolden ; Morrison; Knowles;
King; Lindner; Livermoore and Tranah ; Loveday ; Lin-
wood; Lawton; Mills; Matthews; Mullins; Masland; ?dun.
caster and Warre ; Priest ; Page and Kennedy ; Reynolds and
Field ; Richards ; Stevens;Sayer ; Smanone, late Page and
Smallbone ; Stephens ; Sharwood ; Smith, T. ; Smith, T.
and E.; Thompson; Tarrant; Townsend, W. D.; Turner,
E. W ; Ti gey ; Tomlinson ; Tighe ; Vaughan ; Whartons ;
Wharton ; Walter, J. ; Walter, C.; Walter, T. B.; Walms-
leys ; Wiles ; Watt • Walker ; and Young.
May be viewed, and catalogues had at the rooms.

FOR SALE.
ALIGHT, HANDSOME, ROOMY SOVE-
REIGN CLARENCE. with Single and Pair Horse-
fittings, and Double Harness ; the whole were completed to the
order of a gentleman who is obliged to leave England, and
will be sold a great sacrifice,in order to effect an immediate sale.
To be seen at No. 40, Long-acre.

TO BE PEREMPTORILY SOLD, pursuant to
Orders of the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, made
n certain Causes, PESHALL v. HUGHES, and PESHALL
v. HUGHES, with the approbation of Sir GEORGE Rom
one of the Masters of the said Court, at the Green Dragon
Hotel, in the City of Hereford, on FRIDAY, the 30th day of
September, 1842, in Three Lots,
Certain FREEHOLD, COPYHOLD, and LEASEHOLD
ESTATES in the Parishes of CANON PYON and WI-
THIN GTON. in the County of Hereford, late the property of
FRANCIS EDWA RDS, Esq., deceased, consisting of
First. All that FREEHOLD and LEASEHOLD ESTATE
called UPPER DERNDALE ESTATE, situate in the Parish
of Canon Pyon aforesaid, containing 247 Acres, 3 Roods, 24
Perches, or thereabouts.
Second. All that Piece of COPYHOLD LAND called
the HOP GROUND, in the Parish of Withingten, containing
2 Acres, 2 Roods, 13 Perches, or thereabouts.
Third. All those Two Pieces or Parcels of COPPICE or
WOOD LAND, situate in the said Parish cf Canon Pyon,
containing respectively 6 Acres, 6 Perches, and 11 Acres,
1 Rood. 7 Perches, or thereabouts.

Particulars and Conditions of Sale may be had (gratis) at
the said Master's Chambers, in Southampton-bu.ldings, Chan-
cery-lane, London ; of Messrs. G:lbert, Hooke, and Street,
Solicitors, Philpot-lane, London ; of Mr. William Aston, Soli-
citor, Hereford ; and at the principal Inns at Hereford, Led-
bury, Ross, Leominster, Worcester, and Cheltenham.

UNDER THE ESPECIAL PATRONAGE OF H.R.H
PRINCE ALBERT.
THE SPORTING
Edited by " CRAVEN."
The OCTOBER Number, embellished with a Portrait o,
Scott, the celebrated Jockey, and an etching of Character,
by Leech, contains—
HYDE MARSTON, Chap. XXI. By the Editor.
The French Turf. By Lord Doncaster Races. By " Cra-
William Lennox. ven."
Field Sports in Western Aus- Wolf Hunt on Hampstead Heath
tralia. By a British Offi- by Leoctine Foy.
cer. Cricketing and Rowing for the
Thoughts on Racing Stock. By Month.
Chiron. Monthly Memorabilia.
Satan's Summer Seat. Literature.
Turf ReOter, &c. &c.
London : Mitchell, Sporting Review Office, 33, Old Bond-
street.

113 ATENT TEA and COFFEE SERVICES.
1 Royal Letters Patent have just beers granted for the
production of articles as durable as, and bearing an almost exact
resemblance to, elaborately chased or frosted silver, at a twen-
tieth of its cost. TEA and COFFEE SETS are now ready,
and are not more distinguished for their extreme elegance than
for the ease with which their attractive appearance is main-
tained, for which purpose neither wash-leathers, cloths, pastes,
or powders are required. Tea-pots, 14s. ; Coffee-pots, 17s.
Engravings sent postage free.
BRASS POLES FOR WINDOW CURTAINS.
rrabs cornice poles 1 inch diameter. Is. 2d. per foot, two
inches diameter Is. 6d., a two-inch pole three feet six inches
long, complete with rings, fads, and brackets 16s. ; register
stoves &I. per inch; elliptic stoves, 4d. per inch ; bronzed
fenders, f“ur feet long, 9s. _

Catalogue gratis (postage free) containing engravings and
the prices of stoves, fenders, tire-irons, kitchen utensils, and
every article in furnishing irotanongery.—RlPON and BUR.
TON, WELLS-STREET, OXFORD-STREET.—Esta.
Wished 1820.

REVIEW,

PRICES OF AMERICAN PRO-
VISIONS.
(From a Correspondent at New York.)
NEW YORK, AUG. 25.—1 send you beneath a list
of certain articles of ordinary use in housekeeping,
with their present retail prices, in this city. For
better convenience these prices are stated in English
currency.

You will perceive that the prime necessary of life,
wheaten flour, is not cheap in comparison with the
others. There are general causes to account for that
circumstance. In the first place, this is not the chief
wheat-growing quarter of the Union. Then, again,
you must consider, that by the time this article is
sold here to the final purchaser, it has passed through
more hands, and more profit have to be received upon
it by dealers, than that flour or wheat which would
be transported direct from the ports shipping to Eng-
land. There is also another thing to be borne in mind
as respects all corn or grain in this country—that the
Americans have been recently so deeply engaged in
mercantile and speculative pursuits, as to have neg-
lected, in a great measure, their more sober aid safe
occupations on- the land. The rage of speculation,
however, has of late received a signal check, and there
appears at present no chance of its ever being revived
to.the same extent. Under these circumstances it
not at all improbable that in the course of anothe-
season or two the "staff of life" at New York may
become lower in price by full one-third than it is at
this moment.

s. d. .£ s. d.

Flour, best wheaten (per barrel
of 1961b5.) 1 5 0
Ditto, Rye ditto
Bread, wheaten, 41b. loaf 6.1
Indian corn meal, per 100Ibs.
_ . _ ..

Beef, roasting per lb.
Ditto, boiling
Mutton
Lamb 0 4 to 0 5

WORKING of the NkfW CORN-LAW.

-
(From the Examiner.)
Account of Wheat and Flour entered for Horn(
Consumption at ten of the principal Ports o,
Great Britain in each Week since the passim:
of the New Corn-law, with the Average Prict
and Hates of Duty :

Week Quarters Average Rate of Amount of
following. entered. Price. Duty. Duty.
-- -----
3. d. s. d. X.
April 28... 30,159 59 1 13 0 4,683
May 5... 31,072 59 3 13 0 10,131
9, 12... 7,033 59 8 13 0 3,952
19 19... 30,600 60 0 12 0 17,064
7, 26... 19,591 60 5 12 0 10,178
Jane 2... 7,511 GO 9 12 0 3,882
„ 9... . 19,121 61 3 11 0 10,055
99 16•• • 8,424 61 9 11 0 4,112
„ 23... 321411 62 3. 10 0 13,257
99 30.• • . 53,978 63 0 9 0
21,973
July 7... 17,204 63 7 9 0 7,084
99 14... 95.610 '64 1 8 0 34,816
7, 21... 62,209 '64 5 8 0 21,800
28... 71,644 • 64 7 8 0 25,382
Aug. 4... 364,073 64 7 8 0 137,914
9, 11... 1,354,797 64 2 8 0 525,012
V, 18... 155,761 63 0 9 0 66,347
99 25... 96,733 61 10 11 0 45,788
•

18 -wet-ks. 12,457,931

62 1 I 8 4- I 974,024

It is remarkable that the average duty, Bs. 4d.,
is so near the fixed duty proposed by the Mel-
bourne Ministry, and that of the 2,457,931 quar-
ters entered, 1,948,333 paid the Bs. duty, the
amount entered at other duties having only been
509,598, little more than a fourth of that which
paid the Bs. duty. We point out this circum-
stance, not as any argument for an eight-shilling
duty (which we are convinced would be too
high), but as it shows that the best working of
Sir Robert Peel's new scale is within the range
of the eight-shilling duty, with all the objection
belonging to so high a duty, and without th,
steadiness which would have belonged to the
whole operation of a fixed duty.
We see that the Quarterly Review, whence
the above table is taken, repeats the hacknied
‘'allacy that the eight-shilling fixed duty would
'lave been so much added to the price to the
consumer. The obvious truth is, that the duty is
;aid by the foreigner or the importer, whose
profit is the difference between the foreign price,
he charges of freight, &c., and the British mar-
ket price, minus the duty. To say that the duty
would be so much added to the home-market
price is in effect to say that the corn would not
be in the market at all ; and this addition of the
duty to the market price is only fithcied to take
Mace when corn has reached 725. At all prices
below, it is seen clearly enough that the foreian
importer sells at our market price, and that if he
lid not pay the duty, his profit would be so
such the more, and not his price so much the
ess. If; when our average is 625., the foreign
mport could be made at 455. without the duty,
he importer would sell at 625., and the differ-
nce made by the duty would be, that lie would
g fixed duty as
too high,)
tave a less profit by Bs.
We
object
not to
from an
event of any one very bad harvest, but as it
would to some extent check the supply which it
m efeigalra of- shiitlsl i
onieration in the
would be desirable to have in seasons when

i
prices n this country may be nearer to those of
Europe and America. It is only by a low fixed
duty, if by any, that we can secure a steady
and regular supply, securing us against the cala-
mity of prices starvino the poor; and much as
we desire a free trade in corn, regarding it as we
do as the consummation devoutly to be wished
and steadily to be kept in view, yet a low fixed
duty we must be prepared to accept as a step-
ping-stone to the better state of things, saving
too violent a shock or alarm to existing interests.

of
itself. The
workingci lauoguet a
wasdon
demonstration
ebsetgraintinoinn
of the end of it.
The prospect is cheering; the sliding scale is
ast
Che Times gives warning that what has been done
shows cause for more to be done:—

"'We would now suggest, not as being in any hurry
.tbout the matter, but for the mature consideration of
Government, whether an experiment which has
hitherto answered so well does not tempt to a further
tdvance. If the duties are really of so little im-
?ortance to the farmer as the experience of the last
four months would show, and their reduction so
efficacious in throwing into our hands an abundance
of the staff of life, it may be thought that we are
wanting to ourselves in not pursuing to its legitimate
limits a course of so great promise, and open to so
little okection. And, indeed, the very fact that the
great increase of supply has not been sufficient to
over the prices would seem to imply
a sudden and
proportionate increase in demand, and to give force
find application, even beyond the speaker's intention,
to Sir R. Peel's argument, when he urged that the
population of the country was increasing faster than
their means of subsistence, and that it was the plain
luty of the Parliament to keep pace with that increase
.)3, the gradual extension of our sources of supply.
this necessary system
It can hardly be unsafe, one would think, to carry on
:>lenty which it is to accomplish begins to affect the
market.of extension, at least till the

Veal
Chickens, in summer
Ditto, autumn and winter
Butter, per lb.
Cheese, ditto 0 34- to 0 71
Rice, ditto
Potatoes, per bushel 1 1 to 1 3i
Lard, per lb. 0 31 to 0 41
Pork, salted, ditto 0 2k to 0 31
Hams, ditto
Shoulders, ditto 0 1i- to 0 24
Smoked beef, ditto
Ditto salmon, ditto
Ditto shad, ditto
Oil, per gallon
Tea, per lb., cheapest
Ditto, ditto, dearest
Coffee, ditto, raw, cheapest
Ditto, ditto, dearest ..
Sugar, loaf, ditto, best 0 7
Ditto, ditto, common 0 51
Ditto, New Orleans, ditto
Fruit, bunch raisins, per lb 0 11 to 0 31
Dried apples, per bushel
Ditto peaches, ditto
Brandy, per gallon
Rum, ditto
Vhiskey, ditto - to 2 9

" Lastly, the new scale bore a kind of approxima-
don,hemselves smaller and more regular.
to a fixed duty.. Thevariations were compressed
within narrower limits, and the differences were in
The result has
been a vast increase in the revenue, and a more steady
and sound state of the market. Here, too, we would
venture to suggest that the result is not only satisfac-
tory but encouraging. Success invites progress.
Advantages which have been gained by the present
might surely he doubled by a more extensive reform.
Ind such, we hope, before long will be the opinion of
.he Conservative leaders.
" We owe to Sir R. Peel thanks for what he hqs
lone. He has done, events show that it is so,--he
has done all that could he done at the moment. A
bolder attempt would have effected the disruption of
his own party, and that at a moment most critical for
the well-being of the country. But we shall still
hope to be more in his debt before we have done with
.uis
him.
oThp)i ere haws here never behasen an
doneereason given for
on
Figures are not
)rincsitplel ng
s; and we have not yet heard any argument
for the particular figures composing the present Corn-
law scale, excepting that there they were. The scale
has slid once; there is no visible reason why it may
not absolutely collapse. Duties have diminished one(
—we look to see them waste away a little more."

DUNN'S CHINESE EXHIBITION

SECOND NOTICE.
This splendid exhibition still continues to attract
iisitors from all parts of the town, in as unprecedented
a manner as might be expected. The Duke of Wel-
,ington has visited it no less than five times, accom-
panied by the Marchioness of Douro, and if further
proof were needed of his satisfaction beyond his re-
peated visits, he has, we understand, expressed his
gratification most unequivocally. At this immediate
2eriod, when the nobility and gentry are abroad, or
at their country seats, the magnificent apartment
which contains all the riches of Cathaia appears to
b 2 as fully thronged as ever by delighted and sur-
prised spectators. We had the pleasure of observing
one or two recent additions, • comprised in the case
numbered XLI. It contains, among other curiosities
)f a recherche order, one of those esculent nests pro-
duced by the Java swallow, chiefly among the rocks
and caves of Karang-bolang, and to secure which
forms as perilous a task as the gathering of samphire
on slanting cliffs. The appearance of this epicurean
trifle is that of a crisp, sweet, honey-comb
delicacy, and -when moistened by the rich sops
with which it is eaten, would doubtless
enrapture the palate of Apicius. In the same
case is a specimen of a dwarf-tree, for which Chinese
art is so celebrated. The Titan of the hills—be he of
the bamboo, cypress, elm, or orange genus—appears
here reduced to dimensions less than Liliputian, and
grows in full health for its full fbrest-life of fifty years
within the compass of a flower-pot. The one in
question is an elm, and the dwarfed stature of this
umbrageous tree is adniirably shown.
But the grand, and perhaps, primary beauty of the
exhibition consists in the women of the "land of
flowers," the ladies of " Cathaia the fair,"—not, how-
ever so much in themselves personally, for the
"bright bevy " of them on the whole, does not number
more than six. or seven, arrayed in their vestures of
silk and satinity ; but in the thousand little miracu-
lous ornaments wh:ch appertain to them—which the
arts, whether of carving, music, sculpture, or paint-
ing, have one and all laboured to administer to them
and their pleasures. Turn to case I. or case IV., as enu-
merated in Mr. Langdon's excellent synopsis, and
" .Muh-wang," or the " King of Woods," as the rich
rose-wood of China is called, has devoted the siimotl;
and splendid texture of its timber, to fabricate foi
them alone their exquisite work-tables, foot-stools;
and screens. Ivories, in every delicate shape, form
their chess, their fans, and their baskets, and the
beauty of the cut-work in these specimens, out-para-
gons beyond measure, the Qpus reticulatum, and its best
specimens, among the ancients. It is for them that
the highest literary graduates of the realm, those who
wear the white stone called the Chay-hew, or who
have attained to the rank of Keu-jur, dedicate their
time and talents to produce the charming novels,
which so enamour the fancy, and of which Mr. Lane,
it will be recollected, has given us recently many in
an English dress, under a series of poetic
tales and " fragrant" histories. Nor is the
element or style in which they live other than
the most refined and pleasurable. Waited on by
sedulous attendants, their tables are constantly
strewed with flowers, brilliant in their profusion, and
exquisite of odour : tasty baskets filled with the same,
are mixed with diminutive plates, which contain a
vast variety of cakes, sweetmeats, and delicious nick-
knacks, of which the forms are as ingenious as they
are varied. Administrant to their taste, the ruby..
rinded lichi affords them its aromatic flavour, finer
than any fruit of the tropics, while the pears of
Pekin decorate their boudoirs and sideboards. If
their taper fingers arc soiled in the least by touching
these, napkins steeped in tepid water, anti fragrant
with otto of ro-es, immediately rectify the abuse.
It must not be supposed, however, that the women
of China are thus universally the beings of a per-
fumed and undisturbed existence. The same case

(IV.) which presents us with ladies of rank magnifi-
cently attired, and their hair in wreaths of flowers,
presents us also with representations of the common
domestics in their plain coarse garments, handing the
tea, or otherwise menially employed. Again in case
VI. there appears a still coarser specimen of these
females, in the person of a Chinese boatwoman, carry-
ing a child on her back, and another boatwoman,
mother of the former, with a pipe in her mouth. Not
that a pipe is a sign of female barbarism : the scented
lady lips her pipe as gracefully in China as the dark-
eyed beauties of Seville and La Granja, while indeed
the former carries undeviatingly at her waist the
never-absent tobacco-pouch, consistently elegant,
of course, in material, form, and workmanship.
Besides her pipe, however, the boatwoman carries
other implements. Representing a large class in
China, she has in her hand a painted block of wood,
resembling a gourd, which is the safeguard for her
child when on the water, while she wears, at times of
rain, the common rush cloak, which hangs upon the
wall, made of bamboo-leaves, and of a very rough ap-
pearance and texture. Her chief means of subsistence
is rice, which, when out of the husk is called " Me,"

and when boiled "Fan ;" with her and her family i
is the " staff of life."

Of the general cast of Chinese beauty, Englishmen,
who have made it a study abroad, have no very extra•
ordinary conceptions. The full blue eye of the north,
or that of darker ray, cannot be put in contrast for a
moment with the mere optical loopholes, or glistening
eyelets of the Chinese women, though the lover and
the flatterer designate them by the fanciful, but ordi-
nary epithet, of " silver seas." The full cheek of the
British lady, with its just admixture of "crimson and
native white," is peerless, compared to the universal
run of Chinese faces, which are never without due
complements of paint or rouge, and a box of which
last article is among the usual presents to a bride on
her nuptial's. The symmetry of shape, which is the
distinguishing recommendation of European loveliness,
is totally spoilt in the Chinese beauty by the contracted

"willow • Waist ;" and gracefulness; or-agility of step
is totally destroyed by the bandaged foot and its limp-
ing movements. Still there is much to praise in them ;
their hands are as exquisitely delicate and slender as
those of the " rosy • fingered Eos ;" their eyebrows have
a curve of beauty as fine as a pencil line, and their
countenances, if deficient in strength of expression,

are possessed of great prettiness and sweetness. With
regard to the moral and social virtues, they flourish
in a Chinese home, and in the persons and deportment
of the Cathaian ladies, in as amiable proportion as any-
where on earth.

It may be remarked, in addition to Naat is said by
the writer of the above, that while American wheaten
dour was in April last selling in the London market
at 38s. the barrel, duty paid, the same article is now
as low with us as 30s.

LONGEVITY.
The following details are extracted from a curious
hook by M. Lejoncourt, recently
published, and en-
titled " Lcs Centenaires, Anciens et Madernes :"
" There have died in England, in the course of the
last century, 49 persons who have reached from • 136
to 180 years of age. Of those seven reached 134
years, four 138, two 146, four lA
--5, one 159, one 160,
one 168, one 169, and one 175.
The
n2sdied there 135 years
official returns
of Russia show that there were in that empire in 1814
years, and one who
persons who had
oshelad%d'
,e
pna a
snpdse
eri
dsno nll6sBo3a.Bg e dI
therenu Ip,
Bw3mdsri, de:ici onfl
a,1238
passed 100, of whom 125 were upwards of 120, 111
were from 121 to 125, three from 126 to 130, five from
131 to 140, one was 145, three were from 150 to 155,
preserved his senses
one was 160, and one 165. In France we do not live
so long, yet the following instances of longevity are
e state he was 9.
times. The last
, worthy of notice. In 1710, a Peinastanetr,ryn,aamgeedd",jea
ttoimethhee
last,entered
up-
wardsli tZar d ,
of die;lloa.t Dun-lenftanoi,
years of age, and the bride 18, who two years after-
wards made him a father. • A cure of Lisieux,
named Desroches, died in 1712, aged 113. He cele-
ndi
nlvoasthe married
ui arr i
atgen
brated mass a few days before his death, and resided
91 years in the parish. In the same year died Jaques
Thevenot, a labourer at Chateau, Vilain, aged 114,
married three tunes, and the father of 39 children,
and an officer named Bultrade, buried at St. Germain,
aged 115, leaving behind 17 children, the eldest 74,
and the youngest 12. In 1718, an apothecary, named
Le Baupin, died at Chateaubriand, 107 years old. He was
married twice, and was upwr.rds of 80 when he con-
tracted
the second marriage.. He was the father of
32 children-16 by each wife; and he was 103 years
old when his wife was delivefed of two fine ',J fi L
—oys, who
died upwards of ninety years later. In 1747 died at,
Lourdes, M. Nazon de Vige, 118 years old. He was
passionately fond of shooting, and had good sport not
long before his death. He was upwards of 100 when
he married. In 1757 a farmer of Bar near Tulle,
named Nouthac, died at the age of 115. He never
had a day's sickness, was married three times, was 92
when he entered the state of wedlccic the second time,
by which union he had several children, and was 102
when he married the third time."

STADE DUTIES..—We should like to know whethe.
Lord de Grey's frequent interviews upon the Conti-
nent with that august personage, whose 'merit Hines
has excited such tender sympathy in this country, have
had any thing to do with the increase of the Stade
Duties, to which the Tory papers admit that Lord
Aberdeen has assented? We can see no other rea-
sonable ground for the conversion of one-sixteenth
into one-eighth, as the toll to be lev'ed upon British
merchandise for the benefit of a trumpery Power like
Hanover, without one vestige of right to show for it.
Lord Palmerston invariably refused to listen to anv
such pretensions ; but then Lord Palmerston had
nothing to hope from Trinity College, of which the
King of Hanover is the Chancellor ! Lord Palmer-
ston was at daggers drawn with the Orange Lodges,
of which the King of Hanover was Grand Master !
Lord Palmerston had no terms to keep with that
" bastard aristocracy" which makes Protestantism its
stalking horse, and his Hanovei ian Majesty its hero!
•He acted, in short, with perfect freedoin from per-
sonal or party considerations in dealing with this
question ; and the result of a long and careful inves-
tigation of the claims of Hanover was this, that we
should have given, and Hanover would have taken.
;list one-half of the Stade Duties which Lord Aber-
leeni is said to have conceded by treaty. There must
• e something at the bottom of this. Can Lord de
Arty clear up the mystery ? Weekly Chronicle.
THE WILL OF THE LATE MR. LONGMAN —The
will of the late T. N. Longman, Esq., of the firm of
Rees, Orme, and Co., the well-known booksellers of
Paternoster-rcw, has just been proved, by the execu-
tors, in the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of
Canterbury, in Doctors' Commons. The personal
property of the deceased has been sworn under the
:One of .(40D,C00/., which is principally left to his
widow and family.
MEETHYR.—Tranquillity is perfectly restored here,
Ind the prospects of improver ent in the works are the
.11-absorbing topics. One furnace is to be put in blast
.t Periydarren, yncl three at Cyfarthfa, including the twe
it Ynysrach, with as little delay as possible.--Monmouth-
shire Merlin,

Repeated visits, instead of diminishing, only tend to
augment, in the mind's eye, the magnificence and in-
structive nature of Mr. Dunn's exhibition. The pro-
vinces of the earth, the air, and the sea, have each

contributed their quota. In one case the "Ring-necked
Pheasant," groups with the " Golden Oriole," and
the " Mandarin Duck." In another, the conchology
of the seas and shores, from Pekin to the southern-
most province of the empire, may be scanned. The
butterflies that have flitted over the flowers of impe-
rial gardens, the birds that have glistened in the fields
of Ilonan, the fishes that have swam in the waters of
Singsuhay, and the tea-plants that have bloomed on
the cliffs of Quang-tong and a score of other pro-
vinces, have here contributed their wings, their forms,
their blossoms, and their brilliancies, to furnish a treat
to European eyes, which never could have been con-
templated in a collection. Yet this unprecedented
work has been wonderfully, effected by the research,
industry, and genius of the proprietor.
To enumerate the personages of title and quality
who have visited this exhibition, or made it a favourite
promenade, would far exceed our space, since, follow-
it the example of her Majesty and the Prince,
carcely any one of note but has done so. Among
those we may more especially mention are the Duke of
Wellington, the late Marquis Wellesley, the Duchess
of Kent, the Duke of Northumberland, the Duchess

of Sutherland, the Marquis of Anglesea, the Duke of
Devonshire, the Countess of 131essington, the Duke

of Cambridge and the Princess Augusta, the Sardi-
nian Minister, the Duke of .Beaufort, the Prince of
• axe Gotha, the Russian, Austrian, and Swedish
Ambassadors, the Duke of Brunswick, Lord Alfred
Paget, Lord Amherst, Lord Jocelyn, Mr. J. Davis, &c.

Qurcx TRAVELLING.—The General Steam Naviga-
tion Company's favourite steam-ship Rainbow, Cap-
tain John Fife, that left Antwerp on Sunday after-
noon, landed her passengers at the Brunswick Pier,
Blackwall, the following morning, having made the
run across in 16 hours, a performance that cannot be
equalled by any other vessel.
The General Steam Navigation Company's mail-
packet Giraffe,. Captain R. Stranack, arrived on Sun-
day, from Rotterdam, with a number of fashionables;
and the Dutch mail of Saturday. The passage oc•
cupied only 214- hcurs.
SOMNAMBULISM.—A few nights ago a young wo-
man in this town got up in her sleep, and, with. a pair of
scissors, cut off the whole of her ringlets, and retired to
hed again without Lein;; conscious of what she had done.
What is mole ren arliiible, she had taken more than
usual pains with her hair the night before. —Bradford
Ileralb.

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HAYMARKET THEATRE.
A most touching and beautiful drama entitled
Grandfather IVhitehead, was produced at this theatre
last evening. It is an adaptation from the French,
:)y Mr. Mark Lemon ; and if all our adapters had the
caste to select, and the skill to adapt that Mr. Mark
Lemon has exhibited in the present instance, we
should be for the establishment of a free trade in
dramatic literature with our continental neighbour:
at once. Grandfather Whitehead (Mr. W. Far.
ren) is an old man of ninety, kind-hearted, in-
dulgent, and benevolent, who lives with Dray-
ton (Mr. Tilbury), a builder, his son-in-law,
and whose great delight is in indulging and spoiling
his grandson, Edward Drayton (Master George
Webster), a boy about eight years of age. Grand-
father Whitehead is now poor, having only an an-
nuity of fifty pounds a-year, independent of his son-
in-law, which annuity is paid him by Driver (Mr.
Strickland), a sharp, cunning attorney, but of whose
bounty Driver is the instrument Grandfather White-
head is ignorant. But although now poor, Grand•
father hitehead was once a thriving merchant, rich
in worldly wealth; but the unsuspecting, trusting, kind-
heartedness of Grandfather Whitehead had been no
match for the keen worldly knowledge of his quon-
Jam partner Langley (Mr. Stuart), apd the benevo-
ent old man had been utterly ruined by the machi.
nations of one whom as an orphan foundling he hat'
adopted, brought up, and enriched with ball his for-
tune; yet Grandfather Whitehead is happier far in
his honest poverty, than Gabriel Langley with his iii
not wealth. Langley is indeed miserable—he feels
4t3hat he is the despised of all good men, and in order
to ease the pangs of his conscience, he, through
Driver, allows Grandfather Whitehead, the annuity of
tifty pounds. At the period when the action of the
‘lrarna commences, Drayton is in difficulties, and has
Applied to Driver for a loan of thirty pounds, offering
as a security Grandfather Whitehead's annuity. This
is done without the knowledge of Grandfather %Vitae-
head. Driver accedes to Drayton's proposal, and
goes to his house with the money. Grandfathei
Whitehead is present when Driver arrives, and greets
Trim cheerfully, telling him that he had had a presen-
timent that he should that day receive his halt* yearly
allowance. Driver is about to undeceive him when
Louisa Drayton (Mrs. Edwin Yarnold) interferes,
begging him not to let her grandfather
know the real state of affairs, as it would
distress him unnecesssarily, and having received
twenty-five pounds from Driver (who charges five
for expenses), puts the same in a bureau, and goes te,
;eek her father. Grandfather Whitehead having
.een her put down the money, goes to the bureau,
and finding exactly the amount of his allowance,
Shen takes it, and goes out; and' having paid certain
little debts which he owed in the neighbourhood,
spends the remainder in a gold chain as a wedding
gift for Louisa, and in toys for his pet Edward
On his return, Louisa explains to him the
final mistake he has made, and tells him than
her father is ruined. He stands thunderstruck
She flies to her father—he is heard without threaten.
ing to turn Grandfather Whitehead out of the house

he old man hears him, and saying, he will i

rorce Drayton to commit that sin, prepares to qt.
the house, without seeing any one. As he is about to
cross the threshold, he meets his little pet Edward
coming into the house, and the parting between the
old man and the child, was one of the most affecting
scenes ever witnessed. The acting of Farren went o
the heart—so intense was the interest •of the scene,
chat, save the sobs of the audience, not a sound wa:,
heard throughout the house as the old man hugged
the boy to his bosom, and prayed for blessings on
his head, and then directing the child's attention to
the toys, tottered forth alone. This scene concluded
the first act. The whole of the action in the second
act passes at Langley's house. Restless and con-
science-stricken, Langley rises in the early morn, and
sends his nephew, Bob Lincoln (Mr. Webster), who
is articled to Driver, to fetch his master. Lincoln
has, during his visits to Drayton's on Driver's busi-
ness, fallen in love with Louisa, and also be--
come acquainted with Grandfather White-
head; whose history he has heard, although
he knows not that Langley is the rascal who
has ruined him. On his way to Driver's, Lin-
coln finds Grandfather Whitehead sitting shivering on
the step of a door, and takes him into Langley's
house, where he. seats him by a fire, and brings hint
wine. Grandfather Whitehead, on discovering be-
neath whose roof he had taken shelter, declares that
he will not quit the place until he has seen Gabriel
Langley ; but on being told that his being found
there may bring Lincoln into trouble, ho consents to
withdraw, and suffer himself to be concealed in
a closet, until Lincoln comes to fetch him.
Lincoln in the meantime goes to inform Louisa
f Grandfather Whitehead's safety. Langley enters,
and shortly after Grandfather Whitehead, imagining
that he has been forgotten by Lincoln, quits his con-
cealment. Langley and Whitehead meet. The for-
mer demands what Whitehead would with him, and
offers him money if he will quit him, and rid him of
the presence of .an enemy. Old Whitehead calmly
replies that he had come to offer him forgive-
ness ; that he rejects his dross, and that since
his offer of forgiveness is refused, he will quit
the house. Langley leaves him, and Louisa and
Lincoln enter. Louisa rushes into the arms of her
grandfather, who learns from her that her father is in
prison for the debt. Grandfather Whitehead, on
hearing this, sends for Langley, and says he will ac-
cept his oiler of money, that for the sake of his
children he will humble himself to him, and, over-
come by his feelings, the old man sinks exhausted
into a chair. Then the memory of other days comes
upon him, and he is again the prosperous
merchant—he hears the cries of distress—be

rescues a boy from death—he learns he is
an orphan, and the orphan boy, Gabriel Langley,
is pressed to his bosom as his adopted son. Langley,
overcome by his feelings, falls at the old man's feet.
and help his forgiveness. His pet grandchild Edward
comes in and caresses him—the old man's senses gra-
dually return, and once again Grandfather Whitehead
is the happiest of created beings. Great as Farren is in
other characters, Grandfather Whitehead is certainly his
greatest. Never was the kind-hearted, honourable,
indulgent old man, better persotffied. There is a
natural truthfulness about Farren's Grandfather
Whitehead which goes direct to the heart, and the
tears of his auditors bore witness to the touching
pathos which he infused into the character. At the
Mil of the curtain he was loudly called for, and an-
nounced the piece for repetition amidst reiterated
bursts of applause. We repeat it, Grandfather White-
head is Farren's greatest character, and no lover of the
drama should omit seeing him in it. We cannot
close this notice without bestowing our approbation
of Master George Webster's acting as Edward Dray-
ton. He supported Farren admirably.

EXTRAORDINARY SCENE AT THE HAVRE THEATRE.
70n Sunday evening there was a crowded house to
witness the performance of an opera called La Dame
Blanche. In one of the scenes the stage had to be
left vacant for a moment or two. On perceiving this.
an Irish gentleman who was behind the, scenes in a
state of intoxication coolly walked on to the stage.
He was attired in a gaudy plaid shooting jacket,
with huge leather gaiters, &c., and carried a great
thick stick. The audience was for a moment lite-

rally astounded at the intrusion ; but anon rose a per-
fect storm of yells and hisses. The Irish gentleman,
therefore, stood still, looked fiercely at the audience,
end flourished his stick. Some of the audience,
thinking fun might be got out of him, gave him a
round•of applause, whilst others stormed more than
before. At length there was a pause, and—will you
believe it ?—the gentleman began singing one of his
national melodies, something about
but
wa .as nedopi
iial 1 isstrtdenr,c;Yraei considerable
eeft
" Oh ! Teddy's the boy for bewitching 'em.
Whoop 1 Hullaballoo ! Hullaballoo 1"
And as he sung he whooped, and yelled, and danced,
and flourished his thick stick right gloriously. Was
there ever such an exhibition ? The people. roared
again with laughter, and our friend the Irishman ap-
peared perfectly happy. But, alas, for Paddy ! the
stage-manager called for the assistance of the gens-
(formes, a party of whom rushed on the stage to ap-
prehend the Irishman;
the audience took his part. Some English sailors
pwandody,,, wereampi rie,asdend)t!
dicdalgleodit,ouftor"
hGeodiidt
ooNnv eer eodf
damage to the heads of his opponents by h.
el:e'er witnessed in a
,hiljejah. At length, however,
and lodged in the station-house ; and so endedverP
the most extraordinary scenes
theatre.—Dublin Paper.
By late accounts from the Ca
learn that her Maest s shi o
pe f
Good Hope, we
Blackwood, jy'
Esq., and her
PlYl commanded by
'
Bramble (tender to the Fly)s schooner
,ere lying in Simon's
+W ere
Bay, on the 9th July, but would shortly proceed to
that
Torres' Straits, to surveypassage, according to
instructions.
The Royal mews at `Windsor
mentary grant was obtained,, for which a Parlia-
reception of her Majesty's will be ready for the
present week, when th stud at the end of the
e horses will be immediately
conveye their new quarters.