The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-16 00:00:00

No. 16,641. LUNDOIN, TUESDAY DIORNING SUN-7 DECEMBER 16, 1845.

AT a MEETING of the ELECTORS ofC
CITY of LONDON, held at the Guildhall, on Monday, 15th
December, 1845, the Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR in the Chair,
the following resolutions were unanimously adopted :

On the motion got JOHN DILLON, Esq., seconded by RALPH RI-

cARDO,
Esq.—
let. "That the principle of protection in commerce is unsound;
false in theory and in practice; delusive to the classes who seek pro-
tection ; and incurious to the community at large. That the great
practical rule of leaving all commerce unfettered, applies more pecu-
liarly', and on still stronger grounds, ofjustice as well as policy, to the
trade in corn, and in all articles whatsoever which form the food of
the people, than to any other trade."
- - -

On tile motion of J. MALTBY RoistmsoN, Esq., seconded by

MILLER CHRISTY, Esq.-
2d. " That the protective law, commonly called the corn-law, has in
this country wholly failed in either benefiting the agriculturists, or
in providing for the wants and protecting the interests of the com-
munity. That it has engendered strife among classes at home, and
provoked against us hostility and retaliation abroad. That It has
neither secured the promised stability in price, nor regularity in
supply. That it has neither made us independent of foreign supply,
nor provided for against the recurrence of scarcity and famine. That
the sliding-scale particularly has added the risks of chance and the
spirit of gambling to the common Imgularities of trade and the
uncertainty of the season. That this law, whilst it has altogether
tailed in realising the advantages promised by its supporters, has
brought upon us all, and more than all, the evils predicted by those
who were opposed to its introduction."
Oa the motion of CHARLES PERKINS, Esq.. seconded by WIL-

ILIABL HAWES, Esq.-
3d. " That looking to the present political, commercial, and!econo.
mical state of this country, it is indispensable (as part of a more
liberal and enlightened system of policy) that the present corn-law,
and all laws which levy a tax upon the food of the great mass of
the people, should be immediately repealed."
On the motion of P. A. TAYLOR, Esq., seconded by Dr.
BOWSING,
4th. " That our four representatives be requested and instructed to
support such repeal in the Commons House of Parliament."
On the motion of W. WessAv, Esq., seconded by JOHN

DILLON, Esq.—

sth. " That the cordial thanks of ihis-mecting be given to the Right
don. the Lord Mayor for his kindness in calling this meeting, and
for his ability and impartiality in presiding at the same."

NORFOLKRAILWAY.-GOODS TRAFFIC.
The Directors respectfully give notice to the public that the
goods trains are now running.
The Company undertake to forward all sorts of merchandise,
grain, cattle, Sec., between Yarmouth, Norwich, Attleborough,
Thetford, Brandon, and London.
The classification of goods, and scale of rates, may be had on ap-
plication at the Secretary's office, London, and to the Superintendent
of the Norwich Station.
Guildhall-buildings, London

RICHARD TILL, Secretary,

SI TAFFORDS HIRE POTTERIES and LIVER-
POOL and MANCHESTER DIRECT RAILWAY.
The Committee regret that circumstances, over which they had oo
control, have prevented the necessary deposit of the Plans, &c., in
time for the ensuing session of Parliament, and which will be fully
explained to the Shareholders at a future period.
In the meantime, it is due to the Solicitors of the Company to
state that no blame attaches to them.
(Signed) R. E. HE ATHCOTE, Chairman.
1, Hope-street, Piccadilly, Manchester, Dec. 11, 1845.

OXFORD, THAME, HIGH WYCOMBE,
AND UXBRIDGE JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Offices, 43, Moorgate-street.
THE MANAGING COMMITTEE.
Hubert da Burgh, Esq., Chairman.
Viscount Curzon, Deputy-Chairman.
Lord Albert Conyngham Deane John Hoare, Esq.
Lieut.-Col. Lothian Dicksoa John Lane, Esq.

Charles Collins, Esq.
Thomas Edwards, Esq.
Frederick Wm. Etheridge, Ilsq.

Malcolm Maclean, Esq.
Richard Christopher Preston,Esq.
Richard Twiss, Esq.

A. W. Hillary, Esq. - - I
The Committee of Management have deferred closing their Share
Lists until they were assured that the standing orders of Parliament
had been complied with. The Plans and Sections having been duly
deposited with the Board of Trade and the several Clerks of the
Peace of the counties through which the line passes, they now give
notice that no application for Shares will be received after the 27th
instant, and until that period they will continue to be received at the
Offices of the Company, 43, Moorgate-street ; of the Solicitor, F. T.
Gel!, Esq., Carlton-chambers, 8, Regent-street; and of the following
Brokers :—R. 11. Wilkins, Esq., 4. Bank-chambers, London ; Henry
Brenchly, Esq., Cushion-court, Old Broad-street, London.
R. MORTON CALEY, Secretary.

DIRECT WESTERN RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management have much satisfaction in
informing the Shareholders that, notwithstanding the late period at
which this Company was formed, they have been enabled to comply
with the standing orders of Parliament, and to deposit in proper
time the Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference at the Board of
Trade, and with the respective Clerks of the Peace in the several
counties through which it is proposed this railway shall pass. The
requisite notices to owners and occupiers are now in course of active
preparation.
The Committee have additional pleasure in assuring the Share-
holders that the great care and indefatigable industry bestow. d on
the preparation of these documents will enable them to stand the test
of the strictest scrutiny betbre Parliament, and in the end fully sus•
tain the high position which this Company has attained.
The Committee are now actively engaged in taking all further steps
necessary for effectually carrying out this important undertaking.
The resolutions to support it, ado:,ted at public meetings recently
held in the city of Wells, at Shepton Mallet, and elsewhere, and the
great local support promised by the landowners on the line, as well
as the negotiations now pending towards amalgamations between
this Company and ether powerful and influential Companies, afford
the strongest grounds for believing that their exertions for obtaining
the consent of Parliament hi the approaching session will be crowned
with complete success.
By order,
20, Poultry, December 13, 1845

T. H. SAUNDERS, Secretary

ECONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
6, NEW BRIDGE-STREET, BLACKFRIARS, LONDON.
Established 1823.
Empowered by Act of Parliament, 3 William IV.
CHAIRMAN—The Right Hon. THOMAS FRANKLAND
DEPUTY CHAIRMAN—HENRY FREDERICK STEPHENSON, Esq.
The following are among the advantages offered by this Society :
Lower Rates of Premium than those of any other office, which en-
title the assured to participate in the profits, and considerably lower
Lan those of any other Mutual Assurance Society.
No Proprietary participate in the profits, the whole being divisible
among the Assured.
The first Bonus, in 1834, averaged 161. per cent on the Premiums paid.
The second ditto 1839, ditto 311. ditto since the Ist division.
The third ditto 1844, ditto 361. ditto since the 2d division.
Prospectuses and full particulars may be obtained on application to
CAMPBELL JAMES DOWNER, Secretary.

NAILIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNHILL, LONDOII.
Capital Z 500,008.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This institution osiers Important and substantial adv,tn-
ages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities.
the assured has, on all occasions, the power to bornw, without ex-
Ana or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid,
:see table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion
of his interests to meet other conveniences or necessity. AntlllllCei
or terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates.
DIVISION OF PROFIT:.
The success and increasing prosperity of the Society has enable?.
he Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a third
Bonus, varying front ail to 75 per cent. on the premiums paid on
each Policy effected on the Profit scale.
EIA.MPLES.

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.01000 74 3 4 11139138 13
1840 89 0

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74 13 10 11 lil 6
61 14 3 9 210
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£395 II 1
346 2 3
296 13 4
247 4

The division of proftto is annual, and the next will be made in De-
somber of he present year.

F. FERGUSON CAIROUX, See.

CADETS for INDlA.—Every information con-
nected with OUTFITS for INDIA, particale.rs of Passage
by Ship and by the Overland route, detailed Lists o! Outfits both for
Ladies and Gentlemen, with the necessary variations for officers,
writers, cadets, assistant-surgeons, and others, may be had on ap-
plication to Messrs. THRESHER and GLENNY, East India and
Colonial Outfitters, 152, Strand, London, where all outfits are sup-
ied at the wholesale prices.

¶RANDY AND CAPSULES.—Mr. BETTS
(the late firm of J. T. BETTS and CO.), Patent Brandy
Distiller, 7 Smithfield Bars, feelis it due to himself and thewash to
state, that, the Manufacture of the PATENT BRANDY ot,
and never has been known to any person except to himself and one
of his eons. And that he was suceeeded in the business of the Dis-
tillery, 7, Smithfield Bars, by his sons, J. T. BETTS, Jan., and CO.,
on his retiring therefrom, in 1843.
Mr. BETTS further states, that he is the sole Patentee, manufac-
turer, and vendor of the Metallic Capsule, (or solid metal covering
for the muths of bottles), that n• other Brandy in England, except
BETTS'So PATENT BRANDY, is thereby protected ; the Patent
Metallic Capsule if, therefore, applied to any other Brandy, must
have been surreptitiously obtained.
Metallic Capsule 'Manufactory, 1, Wharf-road, City-road.

BETTS'S PATENT BRAN DY, 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 35. 6d., bottle included, by the most
respectable dealers, lists of whom miy be obtained at the Distillery,
where quantities of not less titan two gallons, in bulk or bottles, are
supplied. Address, 7, Smithfield-bars.
TTBREAKING UP!
he " breaking up" will soon take place,
And then, what joy ninnies the face ?
In fancy can each school -boy trace
The promised Suit from HYAM !
What joy—what rapture fills his breast,
To be so grand—so richly dress'd ?
Mid what delights them all the best,
They must be bought of RYAM I
Then, parents, call at HYAM'S MART,
His Tunics. and Hussar Suits smart,
Are such as must please every heart,
Because they come from HYAM I
The juveniles, with ruddy face,
You here can dress with neatness—grace ;
Some thousand sizes here you trace,
Produced with care by HYAM !
List of Prices for Winter Garments ready-made :

4 .s. d•
Gentlemen's Over-coats from .. .. ............. •••••• • • • 0 9 0
0 15 0
Gentlemen's Chesterfield and Taglionis, from •• • • •• • •
1 1 0
Gentlemen's D'Orsays and Glenlyons .• • • ..... ...... .• •
Boys' Over-coats ••••••.•••••_ • • • • • • • • • • • • •
youths' Chesterfields and Taglionis ••••• . • • .. ... • • .... 6
1 1p• • . • 0 10 6
..Dress Coats, in all colours, braided edges, from •. • • .... .. 1 1
Surtouts, ditto ditto • • ... ..... ........ •••••••• • • • • • • • • 1 4 0
Trousers, in Cloth and Doeskin, from ...... •• • ....... 0 8 6
6
Vests, splendid patterns, in every material, •from ...... 0 4
List of Prices for Winter Garments to order, in first-rate style and
fashion : X s. d.
Chesterfield mad Taglioni Over-coats, from •••• .. • ....... 0 18 0
D'Orsay and Glenlyon ditto, from .. ••• • • • .............. 1 10 0
Albert and Codrington walking ditto .. •• • ..... ... _1 5 0
Youths' Taglionis and Chesterfields ••..•• • • • • .......... 0 14 0
Dress Coots, made in superior style, from . ... ...... 1 10 0
s'artoats, from .
Trousers, in Black aful Fancy Doeskin, from ••. • . • ...... 8 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 five minutes'
notice.
A book, entitled " The Talk of the Town," containing list of
1 prices, can be had on applying to L. Hyam, Pantechnetheca, 36,
Gracechurch-street, London.
No business transacted un Saturdays until the evening.

DREDGE'S HEAL-ALL,
or CELEBRATED EMBROCATION,
flag long been known throughout the West of England as the
most efficacious remedy for rheumatism, lumbago, pains In the
limbs and numbness, sciatic and paralytic affections, face-ache,
sprains and bruises, barns and scalds, spasms and cramp, stiffness
of the Joints or neck, frozen limbs, chilblains before they are
broken. It is likewise an infallible cure for that dangerous disorder,
the quinsey or sore throat, in which it was never known to fall fail
a few hours' application.
OBSERVE—That none can be genuine unless the Stamp affixed
to each Bottle contains the Name and Address of BARCLAY and
SONS, No. 95, F rringdoa- street, who have purchased the property
in this valuable article from the executors of the Inventor, William
Dredge, late of Wishford, Wilts.—Retail price, Is. lid. and 2s. 9d.
per bottle ; and sold retail, by all respectable medicine venders in
tern and country.

ROYAL POL YTECHNIC
A Lecture on the PREVALENT DISEASE in POTATOES,
and the Means of extracting the Starch as an Article of Food, will
be delivered by Dr. Ryan, daily, at Half-past Three., and on the
Evenings of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at Nine.
Professor flachoffner's ♦aried Lectures, with experiments, in one
of which he clearly explains the principle of the ATMOSPHERIC
RAILWAY, a model of whisk is at work Daily. Mr. Downs, the
celebrated Flutist, will perform, at Three o'Clock, on Tuesdays,
Thursdays, and Saturdays. tiuleman's NEW AMERICAN LOCO-
MOTIVE ENGINE, for as 'ending and descending inclined Planes.
A beautiful series of DISSOLVING VIEWS. New OPTICAL IN-
STRU AIENTS, *sc. Experiments with the DIVER and DIVING
BELL, &c &c.
Admission, One Shilling. Scheele, Plalf-price.

IMMENSE SALE OF LAMPS AT HALF-PRICE.
CLARK and COMPANY, 447, West Strand,
beg to announce that they intend masing extensive alterations
in their establishment, and, In consequence, are compelled to dispose
of a large portion of their immense and excellent stock of lamps.
The stock consists of the New Light, Clark's Patent Carcel Oil Lamp
(the best oil lamp ever made), Solar Lamps, and all other oil lamps.
Young's Vesta Spirit Lamp, the Gem Spirit Lamps, Oil and Candle
Chandeliers, Candelabras, and Ormolu Candlesticks, and richly cut
Lustres ; Palmer's Magnum Candle Lamps, and every description of
Palmer's and Clark's Candle Lamps that can be required. In fact,
their immense variety provides a choice for all, and gives all satisfac-
tion. The whole will be sold considerably under the usual charges.
The reduction in prices commence Tuesday, IGth December, and
will only continue one month, or perhaps less.
Please write down Address, CLARK and Co., 447, WEST STRAND,
the immense Lamp Depot.

GREAT ANTI - CORN - LAW

MEETING.

On Thursday night, a numerous and highly influential
meeting of the citizens of Glasgow was held in the City
Hall, Candleriggs, called by the Hon. the Lord Provost,
in obedience to a numerously-signed requisition, for the
purpose of considering the propriety of petitioning Par-
liament to repeal the corn and provision laws, and of
memorialising Sir Robert Peel to take immediate mea-
sures for obtaining an Order in Council fur opening the
ports for the admission of grain and other provisions
tree of duty. The immense hall was crowded to over-
flowing, and there could not be fewer than between 4,000
and 5,000 individuals present. Hundreds left the doors
unable to gain admission.

We observed on the platform the following gentle- I
men :—The Hon. the Members for the city, Messrs. Os-
wald and Dennistoun, the Hon. the Lord Provost,
Bailie Anderson, Bailie Whitehead, Bailie Brodie, Bailie
M•Kinlay, and Bailie Stewart, Professor Win. Thomson,
of the University of Glasgow, the Rev. Dr. Kidaton,
Rev. Dr. King, Rev. Dr. M•Far!ane of Erskine Church,
Rev. Mr. M'Ewan, Alexander Graham, Esq., Walter
Buchanan, Esq., James Turner, Esq., of Thrushgrove,
John Hamilton, Esq., John Wilson, Esq., of Dundyvan,
R ,bert. Bartholomew, Esq., John Tennant, Esq. Charles
Tennant, Esq , J. Robertson, Esq., William Mills, Esq.,
Robert Hutcheson, Esq., &c, &c. On the Committee
and requisitionists making their appearance on the plat-
form, they were greeted with loud cheering.
ALEX. GRAHAM, Esq., in a few remarks, referring to
the important service which the Lord Provost had for a
lengthened period, both in his private and official capa-
city, rendered to the cause of tree-trade, proposed that
his Lordship be requested to take the chair.
The LORD PROVOST, on taking the chair, expressed
the pleasure which he fell at laing eaTled upon to preside
at the meeting. He denounced the corn-laws as being
injurious to every class of the community, and read an
extract from an old document of the Town Council of
Glasgow, dated 1791, to show that at that period, when
it was proposed to introduce a corn-law, the members
held it to be unwise and it:expedient. His Lordship then
introduced
The Rev. Dr. KING, who being received with loud
cheers, moved the adoption of the first resolution, to
the effect that it is the opinion of the meeting that the
prospects of the country are calculated to excite well-
grounded apprehensions, and under these circumstances,
it is the opinion of the meeting that it is the boupden
duty of the Government, to respond to the unanimous
voice of the country, by issuing an order to opea the
ports for the immediate admission of food from all quar-
ters, duty free.
Mr. OSWALD, M.P., rose to second the resolution pro-
posed by Dr. King, and was received with loud cheering.
He said—My Lord rrovost and Gentlemen, I am happy
and proud of the opportunity of congratulating you on
the appearance of this magnificent assemblage, and this
city because of such a meeting taking place.—(Cheers.)
While you thus muster in thousands and demonstrate
your opposition to monopoly, do not forget that the
battle is not altogther won. I believe there is not
the slightest doubt that Sir Robert Peel, and the
whole of the Administration, have placed in her
Majesty's hands their resignation. I believe also that
Lord John Russell has her Majesty's command to form a
new Administration ; but it will depend greatly upon
meetings like this, and the spirit of the people at large,
whether or not Lord John Russell, or any other person,
can repeal bad, and carry out good laws for the benefit
of the entire people.—(Cheers.) You may be called
upon to support him, and those who support him will not
need to he backward in the contest, for believe me, the
monopolists in the House of Commons, and throughout
the country at large, will not tamely submit to give up
their present privileges without a struggle, and nothing
would delight them so much as that any new Ad-
, ministration formed should be thrown out, and Sir
Robert Peel called back again to office. But if the
people come forward throughout the country, as
Glasgow has done to-night, you need be in no fear as, to
the result of the struggle. While, however, you go on in
your exertions, never lose sight of this, that the corn-
laws, from first to last, were enucted and have for their
object to make rents higher than they otherwise would
have been, or ought to be, and they call never give up
that under any circumstances, unless a very great pre-
p mdetating interest in the country tells them that these
laws must be abolished, and if once abolished, I promise
you we will never hear anything more about them.—
(Cheers.) Never relax in your exertions ; be unani-
mous ; you have the ball at your foot ; go on, and I hope
you a be successful. The Hon. Memer resumed his
seat amid loud cheering, during which the resolution was
put from the chair, arid carried by acclamation.
Mr. WALTER BUCHANAN. amid loud cheers, proposed
the next resolution :—" That, in the opinion of this
meeting, there can be no security ierainst the frequent
and periodical returns of scarcity, excepting in the total
repeal of the corn and prevision laws. The experience
of the list ten years has fully demonstrated that the
prosperity of the country depends on low prices of food,
while high prices have uniformly produced stagnation
in manufactures and commerce, loss of capital, redue-
tion of the wages of labour, and, as a necessary conse-

quence, the degradation of the physical and moral condi-
tion of the people. For these evils there is no remedy,
while laws exist which produce artificial scarcity, and
nothing short of their total repeal will insure the peace
and prosperity of the country, or afford contentment to
her Majesty's subjects."
Mr. DEratisToux, M.P., in rising to second the reso-
lution,e
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sult has been, however, that you had the news twenty-
four hours before I arrived. But the question is, how is
this question to be settled? However much it is our
interest to have this question settled, it is also the interest
of the aristocracy themselves that it should be no longer
delayed. Because I can see that there is a feeling which
is growing up in the minds of the operative, and the
manufacturing, and the commercial classes, of deadly
hatred towards that class, and if it is allowed to go on,
there is no saying where it may end. Therefore, it
behoves those in power to put an end to this feeling, and
to do sway with these most odious laws. Mr. Cobden,
at a meeting which he lately addressed, said we must
be aware lest Sir Robert Peel, in giving us the corn-
law, require a compensation. Compensation, indeed !
Who ever heard of robbers getting compensation
from those whom they had plundered ? If there is
to be any compensation going, it is us who ought to get
it. The whole fee sample of the land in this country
would not be a sufficient compensation for the fifty years
that they have been plundering us. Now, my Lord,
there is no doubt but the Duke of Wellington may sue •
ceed, but I venture to prophecy that it will be but for a
season, and that, by the zealous co •operation of all classes,
these laws—every shred and patch of them—shall be torn
from his reluctant grasp by the unanimous declaration of
an indignant people.—(Great applause.)
The meeting was also addressed by Professor W.
Thomson and Sir J. Higginbotham, and a memorial to
Sir R. Peel and a petition to Parliament founded on the
resolutions agreed to, after which,
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THE BITER BlT.—we can vouch (says the
Essex Standard) for the accuracy of the following state.
ment :—A few evenings since, a gentleman, somewhat re-
markable for his penurious and parsimonious habits, got inside
one of the Bow and Stratford omnibuses to proceed to the
latter place. When the omnibus had arrived about midway,
he thought he observed a partridge lying on the opposite
a gude wife," somewhat elated,
seat, and instantly took his place beside it, and succeeded in
its contents into an adjoining
depositing it in his handkerchief, and subsequently in his
to her surprise and dismay,
coat pocket, without being observed. When he arrived home
Plump partridge, a huge water-
he intimated to his better half that he had brought a fine
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friends, a large dog of the Newfoundland breed stopped him,
the dog from him, but it would not leave him, but increased
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its exertions to draw his attention; at length Le followed it,
and it led the way to a deep rut on the other side of the road,
and at some distance from the spot where they were, and
there Mr. Digghs found a man lying with his face downwards
in the ditch, and nearly dead. He was found to be a sawyer
employed at White Abbey, and he, the dog, and Mr. Digghs
were all strangers to each other. The dog was discovered to
be the property of Mr. John Barraclough, timber-merchant.
—Leeds Intelligences.
DEATH raost GOOD FORT •
UNE.—Lately an elec-
tion for pensioners upon the Holborn estate charity took
place in the vestry-roots. of St. Clement Danes. Amongst
the twenty successful candidates was a Mr. Solomon, who
had been 48 years a respectable inhabitant householder,
but who has latterly been much reduced in circumstances.
By his election he was entitled to 30/. a year and resident
in an almshouse. Last Wednesday he received the first
monthly instalment of his pension, and after being paid ex-
hibited great joy, and was constantly boasting of his great
I good luck, which, he said, " made him a gentleman." On
Thursday he was in the most excellent spirits, and continue
his expressions of joy; but the people of the house, No. 7,
Newcastle-street, Strand, where he lived, not seeing him
leave his room in the morning, went into it to inquire after
him, when they found him partially dressed, and stretched
upph the floor il. the l.st ;tgonies of death, which he did rigt
sari
.
~I .0 many hours. Mr. Lovett, the Seigeoe `who was
N
palled in to attend him, gave it as his Opinion that lie died
from excess be joy, at his success in being" elected 4 pen-
sioners
It was stated SPteray, op Thann, that a lArgg
house in Yorkshire hint failed--thatia ih the lL ,
:ties summit to
nearly 500,000/.—tbat it was extensively concerned in the
South American trade, and that several houses, dic., of Liver-
pool are deeply implicated.—Liverriool Journal,

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EGYPT.

DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF JERUSALEM.

ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 30.—0 n the morning of the 26th
we received from Cairo the melancholy news of the
death of Bishop Alexander, of Jerusalem, who, it ap-
pears, died only five hours distant from Cairo, on the
desert. He was accompanied by his lady and daughter.
Colonel Barnett received an express shortly after his
death, with a request to send out and bring the body to
Cairo, An autopsy was held on the body by Dr. Ab-
bott, and it appears he died of an apoplectic fit.
Great preparations are making in Cairo for the wed-
ding of the Pacha's daughter.

TURKEY.
NEW COMMERCIAL TREA IT BETWEEN
RUSSIA AND THE PORTE.
RAILWAYS IN TURKEY.
CseesTexueoems, Nov. 27.—The principal intelli-
gence I have to-day to send you is, that Russia has at
last entered into a new commercial treaty with the Porte,
which will place her in the same commercial eelations with
this country as the other nations of Europe. This measure
so long urged, especially by Great Britain, on the Cabinet
of St. Petersburgh, and so long delayed, has certainly
been very reluctantly adopted. Since 1839, when
England and other western states trading with the Otto-
man empire formed their present common treaty of com-
merce, for so their separate treaties may be called, with
the Porte, it has been a constant complaint against Rus-
sia that she has refused to trade with this country on the
same terms as other nations.
It is perhaps necessary to remind your readers that
the commercial treaty of 1839, alluded to, was framed
for the express purpose of putting an end to a system of
trade which was alike injurious to the foreign and the
native merchant, and to the general consumer. 'Up to
the date just named, many of the most important objects
of commerce in Turkey could not be brought into the
market for foreign importation without a firman from
the Turkish Government. This firman was sold to certain
merchants for a sum a good deal under the value of the
merchandise they, by virtue of the firman, became pos-
sessed of. The merchandise, corn or wool, or whatever
it might be, was then sold again, and a third time,
perhaps, before it came fairly into the public mart.
And by this means a very large revenue was secured
to the Porte, and the most vicious monopolies were
established. In the interior provinces of Turkey
especially, this system was found to be most vexa-
tious, ruinously to the disadvantage of the fair,
unprotected trader, whilst it enriched enormously fa-
voured individuals. The public revenue, however, ac-
cruing therefrom could not be dispensed with till some
other source of revenue should be opened. England,
therefore, and other nations agreed with the Porte that,
on the condition of these firman monopolies being
abolished, the import duties on foreign merchandise and
the expert duties on the home produce and manufactures
of this country should be considerably augmented. The
tariff was accordingly raised to 5 per cent. for imports,
and to 12 per cent. (altogether) for exports. By this
arrangement all parties were great gainers. By the
suppression of monopolies the commerce of Turkey with
foreign nations has, within the last few years, been
much increased. But Russia refused from the beginning
to adopt the new arrangement, and by so doing she set
all fairness at defiance, as she necessarily partook of all
the advantages which England and other States had
been glad to purchase at a heavy cost. The tariff to
which Russian trade till now has been subject in this
country has only been 3 per cent. for import
_duties and 5 per cent. for exports. She has
thus for several years enjoyed here immense cote-
mereiel privileges, which she has had all to herself,
and of course Russian merchants have thriven, in what-
ever part of the Ottoman empire they have opened busi-
ness, above those of any other nation. These advan-
tages are not, however, to be relinquished. After a long
negotiation of two years the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh
has consented to be placed on the same commercial foot-
ing with the Porte as other foreign States. The Eng-
lish and French merchants here naturally rejoice
much in this event ; the more so as they had fully
persuaded themselves that it would never be brought
to pass.
Another event, which may turn out to be of much
greater importance still, I have now to mention to you.
Three railroad companies—one in England, one in
Belgium, and one in Sardinia—have made proposals to
the Ottoman Government to undertake, on their own
I risk and responsibility, lines of railroad in Turkey, on
the condition, of course, of possessing a secure right of
property in the enterprise—a right of a sort which no
European has ever yet been suffered to hold in this
empire. The Porte, lam informed, is now entertaining
these proposals with a very good will to close at least
with one of them ; and as Reschid Paella will now be
at the head of affairs here, one may feel pretty sure that
Turkish bigotry against European innovations and
improvements will not be allowed to hinder the fair con-
sideration of a project which looks so full of promise of
progress for the country. It is certainly too soon to an-
ticipate the consequences of such a project, yet so preg-
nant with mighty consequences must it be, should it ever
be realised, that it is difficult not to look forward to
them. One word only, however, I will say thereupon;
viz., that frequency cf communication and intercourse
between different parts of this empire, or between any
two of its distant and important sites, seems the only
possible means of rousing its inhabitants into a sense
of their being not scattered like communities, or rather
mere groups of individuals—but a people; and that as
the people, or popular liberties in other countries have
produced all the great mechanical inventions of the
present age in the west, so the introduction '.of the
greatest of these inventions into the east would in its
turn produce a people—would, if anything could, give a
public life and will, a consciousness of aggregate
national existence to numerous populations which at
present exist in utter disconnexion, simply as loose
crowds, inhabiting the same place. Au reste, not to
dwell on a view which may seem to you unfit for a
letter, all are agreed that the first want of this empire
is the want of roads. Instead of roads, then, to give
railroads would be making a giant stride in advance.
And as to the practicability of the thing, I have the
opinion of a very accomplished Turk, holding an
important offi.ce under the Government of the Porte,
and of several Europeans who have long been
inhabitants of this country, that the enterprise would
offer every probability of success. Three lines
of road have even already been spoken of—one from this
capital to Adrianople, another to Smyrna, and a third to
Varna. I will speak only of the advantages which the
Adrianople line would present. That city has very ex-
tensive commercial relations with Constantinople, and
yet the communication between these two first cities of
the Ottoman empire is a most fatiguing, tedious, and ex-
pensive one. By land it requires four or five days' tra-
velling on horseback on bad roads (the distance is 150
miles, and by water there are in every season difficulties
of another kind. The port of Enos is nearly blocked up
with the accumulated deposits of the River Maritza, and
is therefore a very unsafe harbour, and the river itself;
full of rocks, in winter has its banks generally over-
flooded, and in summer has often so scanty a stream in
its channels, that large boats cannot sail up to Adrian •
ople. A railroad, consequently, on this line would offer
the best prospects of success. lam assured by those
whose opinion is of weight, that the speculation could
not fail to be a very profitable one. The English
proposal on this subject to the Porte has
come from two substantial mercantile houses of
Liverpool. I hope it wili meet no impediment from the
question of property, the very considerable property its
atlopt ion would give to foreigners on the Ottoman territory.
If this qnestion does not interpose a hindering obstruc-
tion, one will hare to rejoice that the rage for railways
has taken this eastern direction, for whilst lucre by the
establishment of railroad lines in this country would
primely be sought, this appetite for gainful enterprise
would furnish, at the same time, the most powerful
means of giving a civilising impulse to the whole east,
whereby the work otherwise of centuries may haply be
accomplished in a single generation.
I told you in my last letter that the disarming of the
Lebanon had been completed, and with respect to the
Lebanon, strictly speaking, this information was correct.
But I learn that numerous bands of Druses and limo-
nites have taken refuge in the Hauran, a mountain close
upon the Lebanon, inhabited by the tribe of the Metualis,
which spot, from its strong natural defences, it will be
extremely difficult to disarm. The disarming of it by
Ibrahim Pacha was made at a very great sacrifice of
men, and it is said by many that unless the inhabitants
can be induced to surrender their arms on terms, the
military force under Narvik Paella must be increased in
[ order to effect that purpose.
M. de Bourquenay has addressed a note of an apolo-
getic character to the Porte, on the subject of the me-
nace made by the Belle Poule to violate the Ottoman
territory to rescue the French dragoman who had been
arrested and put in prison, as I wrote to you in a former
letter, by the Turkish authorities. It appears that the
boat's crew of the Freneh steamer did not on that occa-
sion land ; but their commander threatened only to do
so, if the demand of the French Consul were not com-
plied with. It is to apologise for this threat that the
French Ambassador has addressed the note I speak of
to the Porte. his tone is much changed since his late
explosions. But no doubt in this instance he has acted
with the dignity befitting the representative of a great
nation in apologising for a gross insult offered to the Ot-
toman Government by the malapert hot-headed violence
of the French Consul at Beyroue
A dispatch from Reschid Pacha has been received by
the Porte, in which the ex-ambassador from this country
to France declares he shall with all possible expedition
take his departure from Paris. He is expected here
on the 14th of next month, but may possibly arrive on
the 4th.
I have just learnt that the Purte has issued circulars
prohibiting the exportation of corn from Rouinelia, after
the expiration of a month, on the pretext of the great
scarcity that exists throughout the empire, but especially
in Syria. But this subject is too important to be treated
of at the close of a letter; therefore, having mentioned
the fact, I will say no mode.—Cliroeiie4 C'triespondezt.

Doer-Yann.--7lt is lithely that the present system
of mustering the workmen in the dockvaids will be done
4wtty with, and the old plan of " recailing" resumed. The
Lprde of the Adtnir4lty sortie time since ordered the attl.liOri-
tip'S at the cluck-yards to report upon the system ; and we
understaud that th 4 reports invariably condemn it as an in-
efficient check and a waste of time. Twenty-five boys are to
be entered in this dockyard as apprentices to shipwrights.—
Devanport independent.

PRICE SD.

OCCASIONAL SKETCHES-HERE
AND THERE.
No. IV.
WIIITEFIELD'S BONES!
" Whitefield's bones! and what of them? They have
long since been mingled with kindred dust massed
into the common clay.' Seventy-fire years have sunk
into the grave of ages since the Prince of Preachers
was laid down in the narrow bed, from which he never
rose but in the spirit. Only the memory of Whitefield
survives—his immortal part is now wearing its crown,
and with the Elders he is waving his palm; but of the
tabernacle' in which h.: tarritd on earth for a season,
no trace can remain. It was committed to dust
long, long ago,' and nothing but the blast of the
archangel's trump shall collect the scattered atoms, and
bid the dry bones live."
Such may be, percha.nce, the exclamation of the reader,
on glancing at Ce heading of this sketch; but let me
crave his patience whilst I relate, us simply as may be,
the particulars of a pilgrimage which, scarcely more
than two months ago, I made to Whitefield's bones, for,
to the everlastinc, disgrace of those who might prevent it,
they are exposed to the public view " a marvel and a
show."

I was spending a Sunday at Old Ipswich, in the latter
part of last September, when, by accident, I fell in with
an old inhabitant of the town who had heard Whitefield
preach there. He was a sort of patriarch of the place,
and as he sat on one of the stones which surrounded the
ancient orthodox meeting-house, his grey locks stream-
ing from beneath his queerly- shaped hat, and attired in
his primly-cut old-fashioned coat, he appeared no bad
representative of the departed Puritans who, in former
days, had soberly and decently obeyed the call of the
Sabbath bell, and worshipped in the same temple whose
stecole now cut its shadow athwart the green award
beneath.
A Sabbath in a New England village is quite a primi-
tive affair. The old-fashioned folk commence it on the
Saturday evening, but the custom is confined to, and
will probably die out with them. Where it is observed
in all its strictness, every occupation ceases about six
o'clock. All loud and boisterous talk is hushed, and the
old clock in the corner ticks audibly, whilst the family
circle, consisting as well of the domestics as of the
members of the family, gather round the wood fire, and
listen to the head of the house read and expound the
Scriptures.
As the bell of Old Ipawich church swung out that
bright Sabbath morning, it was a pretty sight to see the
village people corning from different points to the decay-
ing old church, which was situated, as most country
churches in New England are, on a hill top. Whilst I
was enjoying the scene, the old man to whom I have
alluded, and who was sitting on a stone, accosted me,
and asked if I was not a stranger in " those parts?"
On my informing him that I was, he became very
loquacious, and pointed out to me the various " lions"
of the neighbourhood, which consisted of such places
as " Heartbreak-hill," " Lovers'-lane," and other affec
tionately-named localities, and wound up by observing,
" I suppose, Sir, you've a-heard of Whitefield?" Of
Whitefield! to be sure I had; and then it occurred to
me that the celebrated preacher had often visited Ame-
rica, and recollections of a fine old mezzotint portrait of
him, which used to hang over the family mantel-piece
when I was a boy, became vivid, and my curiosity was
thoroughly excited as the old gentleman said, when I
nodded my head in reply to his query, " Well, I've
afseen Whitefield ; George Whitefield stood on this
very stone," and lie dropped his stick feebly from his
shaking hands, "and I heard him preach here."
" And do you remember anything about him?" I asked.
" Well, I guess, I do. I was but a bit of u boy then,
but here he stood on this stone, looking like a flying
angel, and we do call this Whitefield's pulpit to this day.
1 hat other stone, further on, is the one on which they
tell the devil lighted when he jumped over the church.'
The mark of his toes is to be seen now; but that's non-
sense, and neither here nor there."
" He'd a-preached in Boston, on the common," con-
tinued the old man, "in the morning, and came over
here to give a sermon in the afternoon, and he went
from here to Newburyport in the evening. There was
folk here from all parts to hear'n; so he was obligated
to speak outside, for the church warn't half big enough
for 'em, and no two ways about it. I've a-hearn many
pa-arsons sin', that time, but none on 'em could come
nigh he, anyhow they could fix it."
"Do you remember anything of his sermon ?" I
inquired.
" Oh ! I was too young to notice aright, Sir, but the
preacher himself and the crowds of people, but I know
he had a very sweet voice, and, as I said when he
spread his arms out, with his little Bible in his hand, he
looked for all the world like a flying angel. There
never were so many people afore or since in old Ipswich.
I suppose, Sir, you'll be goin' to see his bones ?"
" His bones—whose bones ?" I asked, in some asto-
nishment.
" Why, Mr. Whitefieid's. lie was buried at New-
buryport, and you can see 'em if you like. The sexton
shows 'em, but only strangers go to see 'em, I here."
I made up my mind that I would see them too, if pos-
sible; but I regarded the affair as an old man's story,
until I learned from other quarters that what he had
stated was true.
I attended service in the church, which is one of the
oldest in America, and was, therefore, more interesting
than a modern erection would have been. There was the
old pulpit, with elaborate carvings about it, and of a
forty-parson power size. It was surmounted by an
enormous sounding board, which was decorated by a
gilded star. There had been a similar gorgeous decora-
tion in front of the pulpit, but it had been considered too
gay by a rigid deacon, who scraped off, with his own
pious hands, the gold leaf. The pews were very capa-
cious, and square, old-fashioned high-backed chairs be-
ing used as seats. In a very high and deep gallery was
an ample space for the choir, which was an exceedingly
good one ; and en passunt, I would observe that the
Americans aro far beyond us so far as hymn singing is
concerned, and it would not be amiss if some of the dole-
ful tuneaters in our churches and chapels would imitate
our transatlantic brethren in this respect. After listen-
ing to the delightful congregational singing in New
England, the monotonous, melancholy music of our me-
tropolitan dissenting choirs, seemed to me dismal in tba
extreme. But to my more immediate subject.
On the following day, I went over to Newburyport
,by railroad, and having previously ascertained the inte•
resting spots, I proceeded first to the house in which
Whitefield died. It stands in School-street, and was at
one time the residence of the Rev. Jonathan Parsons,
the first regular pastor of the Presbyterian Society in
the town. It is a plain, unpretending structure, consist-
ing of two floors, and possessing no other claims to at-
tention than its being near the spot where the last scene
of Whitefield's career was enacted. I knocked at the
door, and asked of a servant girl who answered my sum-
mons, if I might be allowed to see the room in which
Mr. Whitefield died, taking it for granted that so meino-
rable an occurrence must have been familiar to her mind.
She looked me in the face for some time, and then
replied that no one of that name lived there ; and finding
I could make nothing of her, I was turning away, when
a lady came forward from a side room, and on learning
my business, and receiving my apologies for the intru-
sion, very courteously showed me up a flight of stairs
into a chamber which she said Mr. Whitefield used to

sleep in.
I surveyed the room with some interest ; but the cha-
racter of it must have been greatly altered since White-
field's time, for there was a very pretty French bed, and
smart window curtains, and portraits of George Wash-
ington and General Jackson, and a whole army of Pre-
,idents, and a view of Bunker-hill Monument, and similar
matters, but nothing whatever to remind me of White-
Meld.
" Here is the place he died in," said the lady ; and
she showed me a little entry just outside the door of the
bed-chamber, directly over the entrance to the house.
A window in this recess commanded a view of the road
in front of the dwelling.
"He lay, the night before he died," said the lady,
"in that bedchamber, and when he was took for death
he ran out to this entry-window for breath, and died
whilst sitting in a chair opposite it."
A host of thoughts crowded to my mind as I stood on
the spot where the great man gasped, and gasped for
air, and then breathed out his life. So simply and so
graphically is the last scene of all described by his ser-
vant, Richard Smith, who attended him from England to
America the last time he ever crossed the Atlantic, that
I cannot forbear quoting here from his narrative. There
is no flourish or parade about it ; its interest lies in the
little fuels which it records, and which, in connexion
with Whitefield, are of such deep interest. " The ac-
count," it has been said, " has all the constituents of a
completed drama;" and what could close it more graphi-
cally than that single, simple fact, of " the people who
went weeping through the siree.s to their respective places
of abode ?"
"On the morning of his death, at a quarter-past four, be
waked, and said, My asthma, my asthma is coming
Haverhill,) (n I
wish I had not given out word to preach at
Monday; I don't think I shall be able; butl
shallsee whet
to-day will bring forth. If am no better to-morrow,
I will
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Mr. Parsons, who, thinking I knocked for him, rose and came
in. Be went to Whitetield's bed-side, and asked him how
he felt himself. He answered, am almost suffocated.
I can scarce breathe, my asthma chokes me.' I was
then not a little surprised, to hear how quick, and
with what difficulty, he drew his breath. Be got
out of bed, and went to open the window for air. This was
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exactly five o'clock. I went to him, and for about five
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nematto the other window, panting for breath, but could get
oNrivalmyagcoreuedting back, I saw death on his face ;
that I should ga back for Dr.
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wryelaire f;.
and he again said, amduia9.' Ilia. eyes were fixed, his
under lip drawn inwarcl evny time he drew breath ; he went
towards th?, and we Offered him some warm wine, with
tome lavender drops, which he refused. I persuaded him to
sit down in a chair, and have his cloak on ; he consented by a
sign, but could not speak. I than offered him the glass of
warm wine ; he tool"-, half of it, but it seemed as if it would
havg stopp,tl his breAth entirely. In a little time he brought
up el considerable quantity of phlegm and wind. I then
began to have sonic small hopes. Mr. Parsons said, he
thought Whitefield breathed more freely than he did, and
would recover. I said, No, Sir, he is certainly dying.' I was
continually employed in taking the phlegm out of his mouth
with a handkerchief, and bathing his temples with drops, rub-
bing his wrists, &c., to give him relief, ifpossible, but all in vain