CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY, DEC. 17.-The weather turned frosty this morning, and to-day is clear, wind N. W. The arrivals are moderate, except of Oa s. The trade in Wheat is quite in retail at present; the foreign as it arrives goes into granary under bond. The bad condition of the English Wheat, caused by the continued wet weather, has lowered the averages so as to raise the duty on foreign to 223 8d. Barley continues flat. Oats have declined Is. under the pressure of the supplies of inferior quality. There is no alteration in Flour. IMPORTATIONS Into London from December 12 to December 16, both inclusive. 5990 scks. scks - brla Beans. Peas. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Six Weeks (Governs DIVIDENDS. ton, Church court, Old Jewry. T. Eskrigge, Warrington, Lancashire, cotton manufacture? [Adlington and Co. Bedford row. J. Peel, Newcastle upon Tyne, picture dealer. (Plumptra, J. Ingham, Halifax, Yorkshire, stone mason. [Jaques and Co. C. Carr, Heaton Norris, Lancashire, cotton manufacturer. R. Coleman, Manchester, mercer. (Baxter, Lincoln's inn fields. M. Potter and J. Lever, Manchester, manufacturers. [Milne and Co. Harcourt buildings, Temple. A. W. Pollock, Liverpool, commission merchant. [Sharpe and Co. Bedford row. DIVIDENDS. January 6, B. Coleman, Liverpool, stock broker-January 6, G. Pound, Dalston, licensed victualler-December 30, T. Bret tell, Rupert street, Haymarket, printer-January 5, F. Child, Cannon street, attorney-at law-January 5, W. Scoons, Maid- January 7, G. E. Debenham, Bayham street South, Camden stone, innkeeper-January 5, T. Birks, sen. Marlborough road, Town, builder-January 8, W. H. Lamport, Plymouth, silverlate Blackland's lane, Chelsea, tallow melter-January 11, E. Smith-January 7, J. Clemetson, Upper Thames street, grocer Tyler, Birchhills, near Walsall, Staffordshire, ironmaster-January 7, C. Power, Old City chambers, Bishopsgate street, January 10, T. Syers, Liverpool, tailor-January 9, E. E. P., underwriter-January 8, W. Baner, Oxford street, lac-manB., and J. A. Cooper, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, clothiersJanuary 7, J. H. C. Albrecht, of Fenchurch street, spice broker January 5, G Taylor, Leicester, bosier-January 8, R. Calde-January 7, H. W. Guyon, City, insurance broker- January cott, Chester, draper-January 4, B. W. Browne, Lowestoft, 7. W. Gate, Carlisle, timber merchant-January 10, D. W. Suffolk, cooper-January 6, J. Hamilton, Manchester, calico Morris, Tredegar Iron Works, Monmouthshire, draper-Janprinter-January 5, C. and W. Sydebotham, Liverpool, ship uary 14, E. Savage, Newcastle upon-Tyne, dealer in marine stores-January 8, I. Evans, Bridgend, Glamorganshire, ironmonger-January 8, J. Dawson, Liverpool, scrivener -January W. Playne, Gloucester, saddler-H. Pountney, jun. Bir. 14, E. 0. Pile, Newcastle upon Tyne, grocer-January 26, B. mingham, grocer-J. R. Berry, Cambridge, wine merchant- Dawes, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, tallow chandler-Frid. H. Thompson, King street, and Chadwell street, Clerkenwell, January 8, T. Lanchester, South Biddick, Durham, ship buil1515 timber merchant-J. N. Lane, Birmingham, chemist-J. Gra-der-January 13, J. Dudding, Liverpool, paint manufacturer165 ham, Manchester, linen draper-B. Sarson, Birmingham, and January 12, T. G. Wake, Castle Cary, Somersetshire, scrivener. 2480 Dudley Port, Staffordshire, iron master-F. G. Noakes, Deal, CERTIFICATES-JANUARY 7. 470 tailor. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. 4d Prices of Hay and Straw, per lead of 36 trusses. ...32 3s 0d to 4 48 0d | Clover. 4 4 Od to 52 108 Od Straw.... Il 143 Od to 17 188 od The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the freturns made in the week ending Dec. 14, is 39s. 7d. per cwt. HOP MARKET, MONDAY. A large quantity of old Hops has been sold during the past week; the greater part has been taken off for exportation. The trade for other descriptions continues firm and steady. COAL MARKET, WEDNESDAY. smiths. CERTIFICATES-JANUARY 4. D. and P. Macfarlane, Glasgow, dyers-J. W. and D. Mackie, printer-W. Savage, Surrey street, Strand, lodging-house Friday, December 17. 1st Foot-Major G. Pipon, from half-pay Unattached, to be 8th Foot-Paymaster B. Hartley, from the 43th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Lucas, appointed to a Recruiting District. Price of Coals per ton at the close of the market:-Adair's, sign, vice Young, appointed Quartermaster; J. R. D. Mat 41st Foot-Ensigo and Quartermaster W. Burns to be En158 6d-Buddle's West Hartley, 16s 6d-Hebburn Main, 17-thews, Gent, to be Esign, by purchase, vice Burns, who reHolywell Main, 17s-New Tanfield Moor, 14s 6d-Ord's Red heugh, 14 6d. Wall's End:-Clark and Co., 15s 6d-Gosforth, tires; H. W. Dennie. Gent to be Ensin, without purchase, 19s 6d-Hedley, 17s 9d-Hilda, 178 6d-Hotspur, 16-Killing vice Wallace, appointed to the 26th Foot; Ensign W. Young worth, 17s-Newmarch, 17s-Northumberland, 16 6d-Ram- to be Quartermaster, vice Burns, appointed Ensign. sey, 16s-Braddyll's Hetton, 20s Gd-Belmont. 16s 9d-Hetton, vice FitzGerald, appointed to the 74th. 46th Foot-E. Bythesea, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, 20s 6d-Lambton, 20s 3d-Russell's Hetton, 20s 3d-Stewart's, 72nd Foot-D. Dambreck, M.D. from Staff-Surgeon of the 20s 9d-Pelton, 13s-Bentley's Hartley, 19s-Caradoc, 20s 9dCassop, 20s 6d-Kelloe, 20s 6d-Hartlepool, 19s 6d-Adelaide, Second Class, to be Surgeon, vice Clarke, promoted on the Staff. 19s 3d-Brown's Deanery, 18s 6d-Evenwood, 178-Gordon, 178-South Durham, 18« 9d-Tees Hetton, 16s-Tees, 193 6dWest Teas, 17s 6d-West Hetton, 178 94 -Anthracite, 208Hardley, 178- Howard's Netherton Main, 15s 9d.- Ships arrived, 42. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES. Tuesday, December 14. WAR OFFICE, DECEMBER 14. 1st Dragoons-Lieut. J. Yorke, to be Capt. by purchase, vice Brevet Major Owen, who retires; Cornet W. B. Barttelot, to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Yorke; T. Thoroton, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Barttelot. teth Light Dragoons--Surgeon D. Murray, M.D. from the 13th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice W. R. Rogers, who retires upon half-pay. 7th Foot-Lieut. T. St V. H. C. Troubridge, to be Capt. by purchase, vice Bernal, who retires. 8th Foot-Ensign W. Bayly, to be Adjutant, vice Holmes, promoted. 92d Foot-Lieut. J. Cox, to be Capt. by purchase, vice Bayly, who retires; Ensign J. C. Gordon, to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Cox; C. Gordon, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice J. C. Gordon. 89th Foot-Capt. J. D. Blythe, from half pay Unattached, to Staff-Col. T. F. Wade, from half pay Unattached, to be De- Hospital Staff-Surgeon T Clarke, from the 72nd Foot, to be Staff Surgeon of the First Class, vice S. Jeyes, M.D. who retires upon half pay; Assistant-Surgeon A. Thom, from the Staff, to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class; Assistant-Surgeon P. Anglin, M.D. from the Staff, to be Staff Surgeon of the Second Class. Brevet-Lieut. Col. R. B. Coles, half-pay Unattached, to be of the 74th Foot, are G. Cumming, not G. Canning, as pre- PARTNERSHIPS DISSolved G. K Geill, Whittle le-woods, Lancashire, calico printer-F. chant-Q. Crawford, Cumnock, Ayrshire, merchant. BIRTHS. On Thursday, Mrs W. Hazlitt, of a son, still-born. On the 15th inst. at St George's church, Hanover square, On the 10th inst. at his house in Chancery lane, after a painful illness of several months, in the 44th year of his age, John Sydney Taylor, Esq, A.M., of the Middle Temple. On the 1th inst. at Brompton, in the 41st year of his age, very much esteemed and greatly regretted, Henry Clarke, Esq., surgeon, formerly of Lamb's Conduit street Foundling, and afterwards of Walton on Thames, Surrey. On Tuesday evening, rather suddenly, Lady Elizabeth Mathew, the last of the Llandaff family. The title is extinct. On Wednesday, at the Linnean Society's apartments, Soko square, the distinguished naturalist, Professor David Don. On Thursday morning, at his residence, Woolwich common, Lieut.-General Phipps. This gallant officer was 81 years of age, and was a commissioned officer for 62 years. On Wednesday afternoon, at his residence, High Beech, after a painful illness, Mr Serjeant Arabin. The deceased was 66 years of age, and held the following lucrative appoint ments: One of the judges of the Central Criminal Court, deputy judge advocate, one of the verders of Epping and Haiohault Forests, besides various other smaller appointments, from which he derived an income, it is stated, in the aggre gate, of 10,0.0% per annum. On Monday last, at Bath, the Dowager Countess of Belmore. On Sunday last, Mr Wynne, of Hazlewood, Sligo, brotherin-law of the Countess de Grey. On the 9th inst. at his residence in Upper Baker street, in the Private Bill Office, House of Commons. the 67th year of his age, Edward Johnson, Esq., Chief Clerk of On Friday week, at his house in Guildford street, Brunswick square, Mr Birch, for many years alderman of the city of London. On the 12th of October, at Bombay, Louisa, wife of the Hon. Sir Erskine Perry, one of the Judges of her Majesty's Supreme Court at that Presidency. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. 13th Foot-W. F. Pounsett, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Scott, promoted; Assistant Surgeon J. Robertson, M D. to G. P. Jennings and A. L. Saul, Manchester, printers-H. be Surgeon, vice Murray, appointed to the 10th Light Dragoons; Lord and J. Nicholson, Lee-head, near Huddersfield, painters T. G. Sentt, M D. to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Robertson. -A. Bird and S. F. Palmer, Birmingham, chemists-A. War 28th Foot-Lieut. H. H. Lake, from the 31st Foot, to be ner and W. Steel, Birmingham, die sinkers-J. Battersby and On the night of Friday last, at the Adelphi hotel, in this Lieut. vice T. Bunbury, who retires upon half-pay of the 54th H. A. Duckworth, Liverpool-D., J., and R. H. Broadhurst, town, Philip Courtney, Esq, barrister-at-law. Mr Courtney Foot. Manchester, merchants; as far ar regards J. Broadhurst-G. H. bad contracted the dangerous habit of taking medicines with31st Foot-Lieut. J. L. Wilton, from half pay of the 54th Matterson and F. B. Cooper, Parliament street, Yorkshire, out consulting a professional adviser. Having recently come Foot, to be Lieut. vice Lake, appointed to the 28th Foot. woollen drapers-W. A. and H. A. Mitchell, Newcastle upon-back from Ireland, he had purchased a phial of solution of 46th Foot-Assistant-Surgeon J. A. D. M'Bean, from the Tyne, printers-L. Griffiths and B. Shepherd. Regent street acetate of morphia, and a second phial of solution of muriate Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Cowen, promoted to be T. K. and T. A. Sargood-W. Moul and W. Tagg, Blue of morphia, the whole, or the greater portion of both of which, Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class. Anchor yard, York street, coach curriers-P. and W. Sayers, it would seem, he swallowed; death ensued on the following Wiston, Sussex, farmers-T. S. Eddowes, J. Bettelly, and F. J. evening.-Liverpool Mart. Bury, Liverpool, chain cable manufacturers-S. Decastro and R. A. Watson, Knightsbridge, chemists-J. Bickerton, jun. and R. H. Fisher, Hatfield street, Blackfriars, hat manufac. turers-R. Scotson and J. Miller, Wheelton, Lancashire, cotton manufacturers-J. Creed and S. Evetts, St Paul's square, Birmingham, lamp manufacturers-R. H. Robertson and J. H. Jackson-J. S. Reid and J. R. Crisp, Liverpool, commission merchants-Elizabeth, S., W. J., and E R. Seller, Foregate street, Chester, brewers; as far as regards Elizabeth and S. Seller-H. Minton and J. Boyle, Stoke-upon-Trent, earthenware manufacturers-W. Dearg and J. W. Baxter, Mistley, Essex, ironmongers-J. W. Parker and C. Warburg, King William street, Charing cross, vegetable fever drops manufacturers-T. Gunn and S. Bovingdon, Green street, Theobald's road, engravers-W. Choat, C. Cook, and T. Stock, Chelmsford, livery stable keepers; as far as regards T. Stock-H. Waterhouse,. J. Thompson, and W. Boulton, Manchester, cotton spinners. J. Ford, Bristol, warehouseman. 2d West India Regiment-J. C. M'Pherson, Gent. to be {OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DECEMBER 11. Royal Artillery-Second Capt. E. F. Grant, to be Adjutant, vice Dupuis, who resigns the Adjutancy only. Royal Engineers-Second Lieut. R. Burnaby, to be First Lieat. vice Durnford, promoted. INSOLVENTS. D. and L. Phillips, Shoreditch, silversmiths. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLed. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. H. R. Cooksey and J. P. Handley-T. and W. Bamford and M. Wheatley, Babbington Colliery, Nottinghamshire, black amiths-D. Griffin and W. H. Freason, West Ham, Essex, cotton manufacturers-J. Cotterell and Co. Darlaston, Staf fordshire, cast-iron hinge makers (if any ever existed)-C H. Weigali and J. Maken, Conduit street, Hanover square, tailors -J. M'Laren, Nephews, and Bryan, Manchester, general J. Smith, Leek, Staffordshire, brewer. merchants, as far as regards W. Bryan-T. G. and J. Barlow, Bucklersbury, and Wenlock Iron wharf, Wenlock basin, City J. Walker, Wardour street, Oxford street, auctioneer. [Cranch road, iron merchants-Rees and Gough, Newport, Monmouthshire, coal merchants-T. Lupton and Co. Leeds, wool merchants-J. Maclehose and R. Nelson, Glasgow, booksellers. INSOLVENT. F. Sherwin, Bruton street, Berkeley square, dentist. W. M'Evoy and J. Johnson, Harrow road, stone masons. [Turner W. Keep, Northumberland street, Strand, tailor. [Parken and H. Castle, Lucas street, Rotherhithe, shipowner. [Haslam and W. M. Potts, Newcastle upon-Tyne, grocer. [Galsworthy and G. Shaw, Wakefield, Yorkshire, grocer. [Laurence and Taylor, R. Haslam, Little Bolton. Lancashire, cotton spinner. [Morris W. Ballinger, Swansea, Glamorganshire, baker. [Williams B. Fisher, Walsall, Staffordshire, ironmonger. (Philpot and J. Trubsbaw, jun. Stafford, ironfounder, [White and Eyre, THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR YATES. N MONDAY, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday will be acted (first time), embracing the whole Work, never before dramatised, the Adelphi Version of BARNABY RUDGE. Characters by Messrs Yates, O. Smith, Lyon, Wright, Wilkinson, Paul Bedford; Miss Chaplin, and Mrs Yates. After which, the Grand Burlesque Opera of NORMA. Pellio, Mrs H. P. Grattan: Adalgisa, Mr Wright: Norma Mr Paul Bedford. With (for the last Four Nights) TEN THOUSAND A YEAR. OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.The DISSOLVING VIEWS, including the FIRE of the TOWER of LONDON, with the Military Signals. New and varied Lectures during the Christmas Holy days, will be adapted to the taste of the Juvenile Visitors. The DISSOLVING ORRERY, MICROSCOPE, DIVING BELL and DIVER. Among the 2,000 works of eminent art. science, and ingenuity, is a Model of Noah's Ark, the comparative proportions of which correspond with those of the present first class steamers. VIEW of CANTON by a Chinese Artist. The remarkable Model of the UNDERCLIFF of the ISLE of WIGHT, and various COSMORAMIC VIEWS are added in the Evening Exhibitions. Admi⚫sion, E. Wilson, King street, St Giles's, stationer. [Gale, Basing.nuary next, between the hours of Ten in the Morning and Five in ball street. . H. Hughes, Wrexham, Denbighshire, licensed victualler. J. Rogers, Shrewsbury, hop dealer. [Pownall and Cross, the Evening, after which time no Picture or other Work of Art will sible. N.B. No Picture will be received for sale that is not bona fide be received. Portraits and Drawings in Watercolours are inadmisthe property of the artist. With the hope of encouraging the exertions of young Artists, the Directors take this opportunity of again announcing their intention of giving next year four Premiums of Futy Guineas each WILLIAM BARNARD, Keeper. for Pictures that have not been previously exhibited. HE ANNUAL DISTRIBUTION of RE-TE consequence of large arrivals of new Teas, prices have fallen EAS at WHOLESALE PRICES.THE WARDS to the Pupils of Mr THOMAS WALTON'S SCHOOL, and INSANE ALBANY HOUSE, KENT ROAD, took place on Monday the 13th considerably. We are now selling Excellent CONGOU at Four Shillings per Pound, and the finest imported, at Five Shillings. We subunit the The old Scholars will learn with pleasure that the Rev. John following list of present prices :Vane, M.A. Rector of Wrington, &c. presided on the occasion.-These BLACK TEAS. annual visits of the Clergy are particularly cheering and animating, and all practical teachers will admit that the boys derive lasting benefit from having their various duties pointed out in a clear and persuasive manner. PERSONS. SIR,-I am directed by the Poor Law Commissioners to request that you will call the early attention of the Board of Guardians, to which you act as Clerk, to the subject of the means which the Commissioners have determined to adopt for effecting the restoration of strayed children, and insane persons found wandering abroad, to their friends and relatives. After conferring with the Metropolitan Commissioners of Police, and the Commissioner of Police for the City of London, the Poor Law Com missioners have determined on issuing the order, of which three copies MESMERISM.-On TUESDAY EVENING, the are herewith transmitted to you. You are requested to place one of those Copies in the hands of the Master of your Workhouse, and direct his attention to its provisions. The Commissioners of Police for the Metropolis and for the City of London will respectively take care that all possible publicity is given to the notices forwarded to them by affixing the same at the principal Police Stations, and the Poor Law Commissioners do not doubt that the Guardians will zealously co-operate in promoting the speedy restoration of children, and helpless persons, to their parents or friends. Independently of the obvious humanity of such a measure, the Poor Law Commissioners conceive that it will have a tendency to prevent the prolonged chargeability of parties found destitute under such circumstances. The need of some measure for this purpose is proved by the fact, that in the six months of the year 1810, from March to August inclusive, not less than 349 children were found by the Police and sent to different Workhouses within the Metropolitan Police district. A printed List of all the Stations of the Metropolitan and City Police, is given. It will be necessary that the Master of the Workhouse and the Clerk to the Guardians should be furnished with a sufficient number of printed notices in the proper form. The Commissioners will take care to give due publicity to this circular, and to their order, by advertisement in the public papers. I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient Servant, To the GUARDIANS of the POOR of the several Unions and unto annexed. To the CHURCHWARDENS and OVERSEERS of the several Parishes and Places comprised within the said Unions, and of the several other Parishes nained in the said Schedule. To the CLERK or CLERKS to the Justices of the Petty Sessions held for the Division or Divisions in which the Parishes and Places comprised within the said Unions and the other Parishes named in the said Schedule are situate; and to all others whom it may concern. IN PURSUANCE of the authorities vested in Us by an Act of Parliament, passed in the fifth year of the Reign of King William the Fourth, intituled An Act for the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws relating to the Poor in England and Wales," We, the Poor Law Commissioners, do hereby Order and Direct, as follows: ART. 1.-Whenever any child supposed to have strayed, or any insane person wandering abroad whose friends or relations are unknown, shall have been received into any Workhouse belonging to any of the Unions or Parishes mentioned in the Schedule hereunto annexed, the Master or other person having charge of such Workhouse shall properly fill up four Notices in the Forms marked A or Brespectively, in printed List, and shall forthwith cause one of such Notices to be affixed on the outer gate of the said Workhouse, and shall forward one other of the same so filled up, to each of the three Police Stations, whether of the Metropolitan or City Police, nearest to the place where such child or insane person shall be understood to have been found. ART. 2-If at the expiration of twenty-four hours from the reception of such child or insane person into such Workhouse, no claim or inquiry respecting the same shall have been made at the Workhouse in which uch child or insane person shail have been received, the Master or other person having charge of such Workhouse shall send a copy of the notice already filled up as herein before directed to the Clerk to the Guardians of the Parish or Union to which such Workhouse may belong, and such Clerk shall immediately cause to be prepared forty-eight copies of the notice so filled up and forwarded to hini, and shall forthwith transmit thirty-six copies of such notice to the Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police, at their Chief Office, and twelve copies of such notice to the Commissioner of Police for the City of London, at his Office. ART. 3.-In the construction of this present Order 1.-The word "Child" shall be taken to signify every person being or appearing to be under twelve years of age. 2. The words "Insane Person" shall be taken to signify any SCHEDULE CONTAINING THE NAMES OF THE UNIONS AND G. C. LEWIS. FOR RHEUMATISM, FEVERS COLDS, COUGHS, &c. 21st December, at the LONDON TAVERN, Bishopsgate street, Mr JONATHAN DUNCAN will deliver a LECTURE, illustrating the Phenomena usually attributed to Animal Magnetism, but which he will, for the first time, explain on strict Physiological and Anatomical Principles. The assumed existence of a magnetic fluid will be demonstrated to be untrue, and the various states of Somnolency, Somnambulism, Catalepsy, and Clairvoyance will be produced without personal contact or any manipulations whatever. The great object of the Lecturer will be to strip the subject of the mystery in which it has hitherto been veiled.-Admission, 2s. 6d.-The Lecture will commence at Half-past Seven o'clock precisely. ITTLE BOYS suffering under Weakness Contrac tions of the Limbs, or other Chronic Complaints, may be received into the family of a PHYSICIAN, an old Member of the College of Surgeons, living in the preferable part of Blackheath. Education attended to. Appropriate Machines for rest, exercise, and extension, are provided, as well as Baths, Douches, Pony Carriages, &c. For further particulars apply to Mr Gilbert, Estate Ageut, Blackheath; or at Mr Newman's, 122 Regent street. IFTS to the POOR-CHARITABLE betonging to the late G. Preston, corner of Wailing street, Government Contractor and General Agent for Charitable Institutions, has been purchased in one lot by BROOKS and CO., 47 DUKE STREET, MANCHESTER SQUARE, consisting of BLANKETS, RUGS, COUN-largest and best Stock of every description of Sportsmen's Clothing, at 49 TERPANES, FLANNELS, CLOAKS, SHEETS, STOCKINGS, and ably made, 21s Lombard street. An immense stock of Taglionis and Great Coats, fashiona variety of other Goods suitable for charitable purposes. The Nobility, Gentry, and Clergy, have now an opportunity of pursuperfine Dress Coat....£2 7 61 Buckskin Trousers, 17s. to £100 D. Frock do., silk facings 2 100 Winter Waistcoats. 7s. to... 0 10 6 chasing from the above stock at the following list of prices:Morning Dressing Gowns 0 15 0 Scarlet Hunting Coats 3 3 0 3,500 pair of stout Yorkshire Blankets, at per pair, 4s. 9d. Army Cloth Blue Spanish Ladies' Riding Habits, 31. 3s.4 0 0 1,250 do. of Witney Blankets, large and stout, at per pair, 7s. 6d. Cloak, 94 yards round... 2 10 0 Suit of best Livery 336 176 Pieces of Welch Flannel, usual width, at per yard, 6ğd. The New Waterproof Cloak 1 10 Boys' Camlet Cloaks. 80 DOUDNEY and SON, 49 Lombard street.-Established 1784. 193 Pieces very stout real Welch, and wide, at per yard, 81. and 91d. 70 Pieces that measure yard wide, fine and stout, 11d. and 124. 17 Bales of Russia Sheets, ready made, at per pair, 1s. 9d., 2s. 6d., and 3s. 6d. 20 Dozen of Children's Cloaks, lined and wadded, each, 2s. 63. and 3s. 9d. 275 Women's Grey Duffell Cloaks, with Hoods (large), each, 7s. 6c. and 86. 11d. 200 Dozen of Guernsey Frocks, per dozen, 12s. 9d., 14s. 6d., and 18s. 280 Pieces of Prints, will wash well, per yard, 1., 34d., and 4d. Several Hundred Dozen of Men's Grey Lambs' Wool Stockings, and Women's Black Worsted and Cotton, Boys' and Children's Stockings, at nearly one half the cost, intended to be shipped to America with an immense stock of other useful goods suitable for poor persons; and to those clergymen who supply their own parishes, a very considerable saving will accrue to them by applying at BROOKS and CO, 47 DUKE STREET, MANCHESTER SQUARE, established nearly fifty years. Particular attention paid to orders received from the country, and the goods forwarded carriage free. C M ECHI'S ELEGANCIES, for presents and use, manufactured on the premises, No. 4 Leadenhall street, near the East India House, London. wholesale, retail, and for export. Ladies and gentlemen's dressing case, in leather, wood, and papier mache, from 100 guineas each down to 25s.; writing desks, 25 guineas down to 12.; work boxes, 20 guineas to 10s.; ladies' cabinets and jewel cases, assorted; ta caddies, the most elegant in the world, 127. to fil. each down to 7s. fid.; adies' papier maché work-boxes, 10. each; papier maché work-boxes, 12. down to 3.; netting-boxes, 30s. to 23s; card boxes, 5. 5s. to 11s.; sets of tea trays, 20 guineas to 5.; bottle cases, 30s. each; companions, 2. 10. to 10s. 6d. each; poll screens, 97. the pair; hand screens, 50s, to 20s the pair; card racks, 40 to 25s. the pair; note and cake baskets, 501. to 20s. each; bagatelle tables, 18. 10s. to 31. 10s. each; leather writing cases, containing a complete dressing apparatus, 154. 10. to 51 10s. ; pear. and fancy card cases. 31. 10s. to 10s. each; ivory hair brushes, 41. to 2. 10s. per pair; splendid cases of seven-day razors, 104, to 27. 10s. the set; ivory handle and other highly-finished strops, from 25s. to 3s. each; Wharncliffe penknives, sporting knives, and fancy scissors, 31. to 5s. each; splendid cases of agate, peal, and ivory desert knives and table knives, from 424. to table inkstands, from 1 to 7s 6d. each. The quality generally of Mechi's manufactures, the elegance of their display, and the rare combination of excellence and economy, with a very extensive choice of stock, will amply repay the trouble of a visit to his depot, 4 Leadenhall street. VHRISTMAS and NEW-YEAR'S PRESENTS.That gay and jocund period is now about to arrive, when the intercourse of Love and Friendship, from almost immemorial usage, is dis-4 4s. the case; a rich variety of slate, bronze, gilt, and papier maché and played by the exchange of gifts. If the kind judgment may be consulted in the choice of a Christmas, or New Year's Gift, it will surely decide upon something which has for its object the promotion of personal comfort, health, and beauty-of something which may create, or effectually preserve, a CHARM-a gratification which can only be obtained through the aid of Messrs KOWLAND'S three grand discoveries for the Toil t-their MACASSAR OIL, KALYDOR, and ODONTO, or PEARL DENTIFRICE. Experience has long sufficed to incontestably prove their mild, innoxious, yet efficacious operation upon the Hair, Skin, and DINNER SERVICES. NEWINGTON and SANDER respectfully inform the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public, that they have ready for inspection, at their spacious Show Rooms, 319 and 320 High Holborn, a magnificent selection of the newest designs for the season in Dinner Services. Long Services-142 pieces of richly Painted and Gilt Porcelain and Ironstone hina, 14. to 45.; ditto, rich Coloured Japan and India patterns, Gilt, 97. to 13.; ditto, superior Earthenware, to dine 12 Persons, 27. 10s. to 54.; interior ditto, 17. 15s. to 2.5s. An extensive assortment of both plain and costly Tea and Coffee, Breakfast, and Dessert Services. Toilet Sets in great variety. Plain ard Cut Glass of every description. All kinds of Ware for household p 1 poses. mild and effectual Remedy for those disorders which originate in a morbid action of the Liver and Biliary Organs-namely, Indigestion, Loss of Appetite, Head-ache, Heartburn, Flatulencies, Spasms, Costiveness, Affections of the Liver, &c., &c. DIXON'S ANTIBILIOUS PILLS (which do not contain Mercury in any shape) have met with more general approval than any other Medicine whatsoever. They unite every recommendation of mild operation with successful effect; and require no restraint or confinement during their use. In tropical climates, where the consequences of redundant and vitiated bile are so prevalent and alarming, they are an invaluable and efficient protection. They are likewise peculiarly calculated to correct disorders arising from excesses of the table, to restore the tone of the stomach, and to remove most complaints occasioned by irregularity of the bowels. Sold in boxes, at 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d, 11s., and 22s. (each box being sealed with the arms of the Proprietor, and none are genuine which have not George Dixon" engraved on the Government Stamp), by Messrs Barclays, Farringdon street; Butler, chemist, Cheapside (corner of St Paul's), London, and Sackville street, Dublin; Sutton, Bow churchyard: Newberry, 45, Edwards, 67 St Paul's churchyard; and the principal dealers in Patent Medicine. HENRY'S CALCINED MAGNESIA continues to be prepared, with the most scrupulous care and attention, by Messrs Thomas and William Henry, Manufacturing (hemists, Manchester. It is sold in bottles, price 2s. 9d. or with glass stoppers at 4. Od. Stamp included, with full directions for its use, by their various agents in the metropolis, and throughout the United Kingdoms; but it cannot be genuine unless their names are engraved on the government stamp, which is fixed over the cork or stopper of each bottle. Sold in London, wholesale, by Messrs Barclay and Sons, Farringdon and Co., Newbery and Sons, E. Ed Dmost valuable Medicine ever discovered for Colds, Coughs, Agues, street; Subtoutier, St Paul's Churchyard; and of most of the venders of Fevers, Rheumatism, Pains in the Breast, Limbs, and Joints, and for most complaints where Colds are the origin. In Fevers it has always been found particularly efficacious, and when taken in an early stage of the complaint, has, in numberless instances, pre vented its running on to Typhus. There are various imitations of this Medicine by different pretenders, all of them utter strangers to the true preparation; purchasers are therefore cautioned to be very particular in asking for "Dicey and Co.'s Bateman's Drops," and observing that Dicey and Co." is engraved on the stamp affixed over the cork. All others are counterfeit. the Magnesia may be had, authenticated by a similar stamp, HENRY'S AROMATIC SPIRIT of VINEGAR, the invention of Mr Henry, and the only genuine preparation of that article. MRS A REAL BLESSING TO MOTHERS. JOHNSON'S AMERICAN SOOTHING SYRUP, which has been held in such high estimation for so many years, for relieving Children when suffering from painful Dentition, still continues to be prepared according to Mrs Johnson's Original id in bottles at 1s. 1d. each, by W. Sutton and Co. (late Dicey and Recipe, and with the same success, by Barclay and Sons, 95 Farringdon Sutton), No. 10 Bow Churchyard, London, and by all the principal Book-street, whose name and address are engraved on the stamp. Full direcsellers, Druggists, and Medicine Venders. Of whom may also be had, tions are enclosed with each bottle. Price 2s. 9d.-Be sure to ask for CARPENTER'SSPECIFIC for the HOOPING COUGH. Price 18.1d. MRS JOHNSON'S SOOTHING SYRUP. CARPENTER'S EMBROCATION for ditto (to be rubbed in over the pit of the stomach and chest), 1s. 9d. the bottle. The above are the most safe and certain remedies ever discovered for that distressing and too often fatal disorder. DR RADCLIFFE'S ELIXIR, a most salutary medicine, used as a general sweetener of the blood, and for all eruptions, whether contracted by too free living, surfeits, or proceeding from scurvy, or humours after the measles, small-pox, &c. Price is. 1d. the bottle. DICEY and Co.'s Genuine DAFFY'S ELIXIR, in bottles at 2s, and 28. 9d. each. * See that "Dicey and Co." is in the stamp. DICEY and CO.'S Anderson's TRUE SCOTS PILLS, price is. 12. the box. Ask particularly for Dicey and Co.'s. BETTON'S BRITISH OIL (the only Genuine), the superior efficacy Price Is. 9d. of which is too well known to require any comment. MARSHALL'S HEAL-ALL and STYPTIC, for Chilblains, Fresh Wounds, Bruises, &c. Price is. id. the bottle. Ask particularly for Marshall's Heal-Ali." OOLOO'S CHINESE CEMENT. THE By Goss and Co., Consulting Surgeons, London. The above Works are intended to instruct those interested in these subjects on points of importance to health or ease of mind, and may be had of Sherwood and Co., 23 Paternoster row; Onwhyn, 4 Catherine street. Strand; Ollivier, 59 Pallmall, London; Perter, 72 Grafton street, DubThe present Proprietor (the Rev. G. Godbold, Rector of Greatham, lin; and of all booksellers. Price 5s. each, or if sent free by post, 6s. Hants) has appointed Messrs Barclay and Sons, 95 Farringdon street, Messrs GOSS may be consulted every day; and patients in the remotes London, his agents for the sale of the Vegetable Balsam; where the parts of the country can be treated successfully on their describing medicine may be had at 11s. the pint bottle, and 22s. the quart (duty in-minutely the case, and if enclosing a fee of 14. for advice, an anese cluded), and at every principal Medicine vender's in town and country. be immediately sent. Medicines can be forwarded to any part of the None is genuine without the signature of the proprietor, written upon world; no difficulty can occur, as the Medicines will be securely packed, the label, and also the name engraved on the government stamp. and carefully protected from observation. FURS. The RUSSIAN and CANADIAN FUR COMPANY respectfully announce to the Nobility and Gentry, that they have now on sale at their Warehouse, No. 244 REGENT STREET, the most splendid and extensive assortment of manufactured FURS ever offered for inspection, all manufactured from skins of this year's importation, and guaranteed free from moth, dye, or other imperfection. The Company particularly call attention to their unrivalled Stock of genuine RUSSIAN and HUDSON'S BAY SABLES, which they can offer at full 20 per cent. below the usual prices for goods of the same description: the stock also comprises every other kind of FASHIONABLE FUR-viz, RUSSIAN ERMINE, CHINCHILLA, MINK, SQUIR REL, LYNX, FOX, FITCH, &c. Having the advantage of being all perfectly new, it includes very novelty of the seas n, am ng which may be mentioned the PATENT VICTORIA MANTELET, the FUR SPENCER with Sleeves, and the FASHIONABLE FLAT BOAS.-The Company beg leave to state that their Retail Establishment was origina ly opened for the sale of genuine and perfect Furs at a moderate price and by pursuing a system of undeviating integrity it has (although opened but two years since) been rewarded by the largest share of paronage ever obtained by any one house, and which it shall always be the endeavour of the Proprietors to maintain, by a strict adherence to the sa ne principle. E. C. BOURNE, Managing Proprietor. N.B. Furs sent for approval to all parts of the Kingdom. Furs altered, repaired or allowed for in exchange. UR COATS.-The RUSSIAN and CANADIAN FUR COMPANY respectfully inform Noblemen and Gentlemen that they have now ready at their Warehouse, 244 REGENT STREET, a very superb stock of FUR COATS and WAISTCOATS, manufactured from the Hudson's Bay Seal, the Astracan and Persian Lamb, and various other elegant Furs, likewise of Waterproof Cloth, lined and Trimmed with Fur, and manufactured under the superintendence of a first-rate Westend Tailor. Also a variety of Fur Travelling Caps, Boots, and Gloves, with Cloak-linings and Drawing-room Rugs, Foot Muffs, &c. Company being Importers of skins, can offer there and every other article at a considerably less price than any other establishment in England. F. C. BOURNE, Managing Proprietor. CHEAP and TEMPERATE ENJOYriends (who at this festive season of the year are enjoying each other's society) their BRITISH WINES: reasonable in price, exquisite is quality, and beneficial to the constitution; being manufactured from the best fruit that can be obtained. They beg to call particular attention to their highly celebrated GINGER WINE, which can be confidently recommended, more especially to those afflicted with spasms, flatulency, &c. &c. as producing immediate relief. The following British Wines, delivered within six miles, at 18s. per dozen :Parsnip, Ginger, Grape, Orange, Calcavella, Frontigniac, Lunelle, Mountain, Old Established Ginger Wine Warehouse, 17 Lower Holborn, opposite BR Thirteenth Annual Announcement. These favourite little packages, which are admirably well adapted for Presents, and serve likewise as precursors of more extensive Orders, contain a well-selected assortment of CHOICE SPIRITS, at the prices annexed;-per Sealed Bottle, and per Imperial Gallon: 2 bottles of Brett's Improved Brandy, at 3s. 6d. or 18s. 1 bottle of Strong Unsweetened Gin, at 2s. 6d. or 12s. 1 bottle of Old Jamaica Rum, at 3s. or 15s. 2 pint bottles of Liqueur Ginger Brandy, at 2s. or 18s. The 8 Bottles and Hamper inclusive for One Pound. WINE HAMPERS packed as may be required. A Post-office Money-order, from any part of the Country, specifying conveyance, will command instant attention. For LONDON, the Contents of a Spirit Hamper, only 188.-Bottles returnable. HENRY BRETT and Co, Old Furnival's inn, Holborn bars. BOTTLING SEASON-Gen lemen and Families are respectfully informed, that the BOTTLING of PORT WINES has COMMENCED at the GRAY'S INN WINE ESTABLISHMENT; they consist of the greatest variety, from that of an can-mical kind to those of the most superior description, so as to meet the means and wishes of every class of consumers, at the lowest prices prompt payment ought to command: Per pipe, 651, 754., 841. Per qr. pipe, 17., 19. 10., 217. 10s. Per dozen, 248, 275., 30s., 33s, and 36s. HENEKEY, KISLINGBURY. and CO. Gray's inn Wine Establishment, 23 High Holborn, London. NOTE-A few pipes of extraordinary old wines of high character and fall flavour, at 934. and 100%. per pipe. MUTUAL ADVANTAGE. It is not generally known that WINES of the first quality in the London Docks may be had in EXCHANGE for any description of Goods suited for shipping, from 151. to any amount, at prices equally low as those adver tised for cash This is a desirable opportunity for persons who hold an unsaleable stock to convert it into tangible property.-Apply to Messrą Wm. Fell and Co., 26 Friday street, Cheapside. Kennett Kingsford, Esq, Savage gardens, Chairman. Benjamin 1fill, Esq., Welbeck street, Deputy Chairman. Alexander Anderson, Esq., York | John M'Guffie, Esq., Osnaburgh place, Portman square. John Atkins, Esq., White Hart court, Lombard street. James Bidden, Esq., Spread Eagle count. Captain F. Brandreth, Scots' Fusilier Guards. James Hartley, Esq., Mecklenburg square. street. John Maclean Lee, Esq., Seething lane. J. Marmaduke Rosseter, Esq., Kennington terrace. Vice-Admiral Robert Honyman. Alex. Robertson, Esq., Portland terrace, Regent's park, Manager. Auditors-H. H. Cannan, Esq., Firsbury square; Robert E. Alison, Esq., Cornhill. Medical Adviser-Marshall Hall, M.D., F.R.S., L. and E. Secretary-F. Edgell, Esq., Noel street. Solicitors-Messrs Palmer, France, and Palmer, Bedford row. "A policy of Life Assurance is always an evidence of prudent foresight." CONSTITUTION OF THE COMPANY.-This is the only Guaranteed Mutual Life Company-all other Assurance Companies are either Mutual, in which the parties assured are also their own assurers, there being no Shareholders and no original Capita'-or Proprietary, in which the assured have no share in the profits, which belong exclusively to the Shareholders-or Mixed, in which the assured have the option, on payment of larger premiums, of participating in a portion only of the profits. By the Constitution of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Company the Mutual Class of the assured are entitled to the whole of the Mutual Profits, as if they had been assured in a purely Mutual Society, and they have also the security of the funds of the Company supplied by the Shareholders, who guarantee by the subscribed Capital, the payment of the sums assured the assured themselves being relieved from all responsibility, and thus placed in right of the advantages afforded both by Mutual Societies and Proprietary Companies. 40 1 14 41 19 22 11 4 2 19 93 9 5 4 3 4 5 4 7 6 13 9 PRACTICE OF THE COMPANY.-Important improvements have been introduced into Life Assurance practice by this Company, whereby the mode of obtaining policies is simplified, all doubts as to their validity are removed, and their application is much extended. The policies are indefeasible and indisputable, unless they have been fraudulently obtained. They at once create for the assured an unquestionable right in reversion, easily negotiable, and valuable as a collateral security in pecuniary transactions. One-half of the premiums may remain unpaid for seven years, affording a greater facility and more economical plan for loan transactions and family provisions than any other which has been suggested, allowing a policy to be dropped at one-half of the usual sacrifice, and entitling the assured at a future period, when loss of health may prevent him from obtaining a new assurance, to continue a policy for double the amount of the sum for which he has paid premiums. Credit Table to assure 100Z. Age 15 16 2 12 5 Whole World Policies, entitling the party to go to or reside in any part of the World, are granted on payment of a small additional premium according to the circumstances of the case, but fixed and determined at the time of granting the policy. Provisions for Old Age may be made by the purchase of an annuity to commence at any defined age, or by effecting a Life Assurance according to the following table, whereby the sum assured is made payable to the ssured himself on his attaining 60 years of age, and in the event of his death before that time it is payable to his heirs or assigns. 50 To assure 100%. to the assured himself at 60, or to his heirs. Age 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 £2 1928 7 2 17 10 3 10 0 4 6 4 5 11 4 7 10 10 11 11 Chronic Diseases form no bar to the granting of policies upon the lives of persons suffering from them; an additional premium being charged ccording to the nature of the risk. The Agents of the Company and the Manager in London will, on application, forward, free of expense, Forms of Proposal and every requisite information to parties des rous of effecting assurances. All official communications are considered strictly confidential. REEMASONS' and GENERAL Bankers-Messrs Glyn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co. LIFE ASSURANCE. Advantages. Perfect security from a large paid up Capital and accumulations-Equitable Rates-Power to Borrow two-thirds Premiums paid, without expense or forfeiture-and Profits annually divided. N.B. Policies for short periods, at lower Rates than at any other Office, with option of continuance for Life, at the usual Rates. DEFERRED ANNUITIES. The best and most varied provision for after life hitherto offered,-21. 12s. per annum (1s. a week) at 20, will at 65 give the Policy-holder the choice of an Annuity of 471. 16s. 6d., or 3491. 11s. cash, or Policy at death of 4661. Similar advantages at 50, 55, and 60.-two-thirds payments lent at any time, and two-thirds returned in case of premature death. The detailed Plans and last Annual Report to be had at the Office, at any of its Branches, or, on application, will be forwarded post free. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Sec. and FOREIGN LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION and LOAN BANK: to be empowered by Act of Parliament. Capital, 580,000., in 20,000 shares of 25/. each. Deposit, 27. 10s. per share. DIRECTORS. ACHILLES BRITISH George Henry Brown, Esq. Thomas R. Davison, Esq. Robert Embleton, Esq. Arthur Bolland Field, Esq. 1. Credit until death, with privilege of payment at any time previously, for one half of the premiums for the first five years upon Assurances for the whole of life; a plan peculiarly advantageous for securing loans. 2. Sums may be assured to become payable at given ages. 3. Policies not forfeited immediately, if the Premium remain overdue, and fraud alone, not error, vitiates them. 4. Officers in the Army and Navy and other persons residing abroad, assured upon equitable terms. 5. Immediate Survivorship, and Deferred Annuities. All the rates will be found to have been ma le upon the lowest possible computation consistent with security JOSEPH BERRIDGE, Secretary. COUN LIFE OFFICE, 50 Regent street, Piccadilly. UNTY FIRE OFFICE, and PROVIDENT JOHN A. BEAUMONT, Esq. Managing Director. The advantages offered to the public by the above Offices are such as result from a course of uninterrupted prosperity, the fruits of a prudent and economical management for a period of thirty-five years. At the present time so many establishments exist, vving with each other in the profession of benefits to the public, which numerous failures and consequent ruin to many industrious tamilies have proved to be fallacious, that the Directors think they will best discharge their duty to the proprietors and to the public by a simple statement of the advantages which have been realised by these Offices. The County Fire Office has not only settled all claims with promptitude and liberality, but has, trom its first establishment, made large returns to the insured. These amount at the present time to 125,000. The Provident Life Office has at each septennial period divided the whole of the profits, subject to a deduction of about a twentieth part only, among the insured. The benefits actually secured to lives insured in this Office may be judged of by the following Table:Bonuses in Bonuses in Bonus in 1841. John Milner, Esq. Agents are appointed in all the principal towns. MAUNDER'S POPULAR TREASURIES. HE TREASURY of KNOWLEDGE, and LIBRARY of REFERENCE. By SAMUEL MAUNDER. Thirteenth Edition, 8s. 6d. A sufficient number of shares having been taken, the business of this Association commences this day. Prospectuses to be had, aud applications for the remaining shares and agencies to be made, at the temporary offices, 35 New Broad street, city. Dec. 1, 1841. ADOLPHUS COURVOISIER, Sec. N.B. Removing to 24 Lombard street (Messrs Whitmore's late Bankinghouse. CLER bury. 2. The SCIENTIFIC and LITERARY TREASURY; a NEW and POPULAR ENCYCLOPEDIA of the BELLES LETTRES; condensed in form, familiar in style, and embracing an extensive range of subjects in LITERATURE, SCIENCE, and ART. Second Edition, 10s. 3. THE BIOGRAPHICAL TREASURY, containing the Lives of Upwards of 12,000 Eminent Persons, brought down to the present time. Third Edition, 8s. 6d. These Works are indeed locomotives on the railroad of the mind, to bring with speed and profit the eager traveller to the terminus he must long seek in vain by any other course."-Atlas. London: Longman, Brown, and Co. ESTHER COPLEY'S NEW WORK FOR CHILDREN. In One Pocket Volume, embellished with Two fine Engravings, price 2s. 6d. bound, LERICAL, MEDICAL, and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, No. 78 Great Russell street, BloomsAn EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of this Society will be held at the Office in Great Russell street, on THURSDAY the 6th Day of JANUARY ensuing, at 11 for 12 o'Clock, for the purpose of DECLARING & BONUS out of the PROFITS arising from the GENERAL BUSINESS of the SOCIETY, and at that meeting the persons assured will have the privilege of being present. DOPLAR GROVE; or, Little Harry and his Uncle POPLAR London: printed for Thomas Tegg, 73 Cheapside; where may be had, written by Esther Copley, EARLY FRIENDSHIPS, a Tale, 2s. 6d. also, BREAKFAST TABLE SCIENCE, by Wright, price 2s. 6d., Second Edition. In boards, with an Engraving, price 3s. DILATATION by FLUID PRESSURE APPLIED CARE PREATMENT more than 300 Steel Plate Illustrations. Just published by the Author, On Friday, the 24th, by H. Hooper, 13 Pallmall East, THE CONTENTS: 1. Music; and the Committee of Council for Education. It is rather a singular fact, that in the present age of Periodical Literature, no attempt has hitherto been made to chronicle the events of each month in a condensed and interesting shape, forming what may correctly be denominated a Monthly Historical Register and Review of everything relating to the Religious-Political-Commercial-and Agricultural interests of Great Britain, Ireland, and the Colonies. To supply this desideratum, it is proposed to publish monthly, commencing on the 1st of January, 1842, the BRITISH MONTHLY MAGAZINE." As a Register of all the Religious, Political, Commercial, Agricultural, Literary, Scientific, Naval, Military, Colonial, Foreign, and General News of the Mouth. With leading articles on the various current topics. James Nisbet, 21 Berners street; Smith, Elder, and Co. Cornhill. DEDICATED BY PERMISSION TO HER MAJESTY. On the 1st of January, to be continued Monthly, price 2s. 6d. illustrated with many Plates and Wood Engravings, HISTORY of BRITISH LAND BIRDS, INDIGENOUS and MIGRATORY, including their Organization, Habits and Relations, Remarks on Classification and Nomenclature, and the principal Organs of Birds. By WILLIAM MACGILLIVRAY, M‚A. F.R.S.E. Professor of Natural History, Marischal College, Aberdeen. "I look on Mr Macgillivray's History of British Birds' as the best work on British Ornithological Science with which I am acquainted."— J. J. Audubon. W. S. Orr and Co., Amen corner, Paternoster row. MAPS OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. the URETHRA and other CANALS, by means of a distended membranous Tube. By JAMES ARNOTT, M.D. "The volume abounds in sound sense and excellent practical information, and deserves a place in the library of every practical surgeon."— Lancet, July, 1841. John Churchill, Princes street, Soho. The same meeting will be made special in order that the Proprietors may take into consideration the revising and amending some of the Laws and Regulations of the Society pursuant to the Deed of Constitution. Dec. 18th, 1841. GEORGE H. PINCKARD, Secretary. ENGI 132 Fleet street, London. PICTORIAL TOPOGRAPHY OF ENGLAND. Messrs HOW and PARSONS will commence publishing, on January 1st, a new work, entitled NGLAND in the NINETEENTH CENTURY. Two Parts, at 2s. 6d. each, will then be issued, viz. :NORTHERN DIVISION, Part I, commencing LANCASHIRE. SOUTHERN DIVISION, Part I, commencing CORNWALL. The work now proposed will constitute a body of pictorial topography, on a novel and interesting plan, combining views and descriptions of the picturesque in nature with the wondrous in art, and exhibiting England as it is under its several aspects of natural scenery, historic memorials, and productive industry. Each county will be personally visited, and the illustrations drawn on the spot. Local customs, legends, and peculiarities, the old halls and battle fields, the varied systems of agriculture, and the great branches of our national industry, will be carefully noticed; and at the end of each county will be presented, in a tabular form. topographical and statistical information which is now spread over many volumes, embracing the Population Returns (1841), Benefices, Names of Incumbents, Tithe Commutations, Poor Law Unions, an Abstract of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, Charities, Schools, Places of Worship, Savings Banks Returns, Turnpike Trusts, Parliamentary Representation, Names of the Magistracy, Accounts of the Canals and Railroads, &c. &c. &c. The editorship of the work is committed to Mr Redding: Cornwall will be the production of his pen; the manufacturing details of Lancashire will be written by W. C. TAYLOR, LL.D., and the remaining portion by Mr Redding. 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If he tells the crimes tells their virtues, when they have any, then the mob attacks him with slander. But if he regards truth, let him expect martyrdom on both sides, and then he may go on fearless; and this is the course I take his fate. If he resolves to venture upon the dangerous precipice of tell of great men, they fall upon him with the iron hands of the law; if he myself.-DE FOE. HIGH CHURCH AND HIGH CORN. Church. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1841. " and trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land and dispossess the swain." PRICE 6 for the good of the great mass of the community. I contended that Parliament owed it to the interests of all-to Nothing can be more erroneous than to suppose that the interests of the whole community-whether it decided to the question of a free trade in corn is one of modern legislate on the subject or not, at least to decide; to adopt a growth, or that it is one exclusively supported by steady course; to attend to all the circumstances of that Radicals and Agitators, and "a few factious manu- eventful period, and then adhere with undeviating determifacturers." Pitt, Burke, and Lord Grenville were nation to whatever line of conduct its sense of public duty all, powerful opponents of commercial restrictions. might prescribe. Such would have been my feeling had the Burke expressed his dissent from the Corn Law of Corn Bill been lost. In that case I would never again have the last century, in the debates on the Bill of 1773. promoted it!" And even Lord North, in reference to that Bill, deHow much specious argumentation and sophistry clared that "the only way to have the people regu-is demolished by this plain out-spoken declaration. The great festival of the Church is now the great" larly supplied, and give a rational encourage-Lord Stanley, only the other day at Lancaster, Fast of the people. The Church was in the olden "ment to the growth of corn, was by a permanent claimed for this modern innovation of 1815 the time the main protector of the oppressed. Her "law, that the merchant might know when to ex- highest considerations of State Policy. Lord Livercoffers fed the poor. Her blessings consoled them. port and import;" which is precisely the object pool, who was its author, places it honestly on the But now her dignitaries are absorbed in the Rubric. of those who now advocate a fixed duty. The resist-ground of State charity;-charity to the poor and The Rubric, and "Protestantism" no longer, "is the ance of Lord Grenville to the Bill of 1815, and his needy landowners of England! And again, what only safe way to salvation," and accordingly the celebrated protest, are too well known to dwell becomes of Sir James Graham's paramount claim of Church is now the Rubric and the Rubric is the upon. He called upon the House to abstain from« Protection to native agriculture "?-Why it sinks all legislative interference, and powerfully and re-to the level of Protection only to the Landowners' Again, the State, or the State's Minister, is just peatedly condemned the principle of that Act, of breeches-pockets! Or the patriotic cry of "Indeat this Christmas time absorbed in the elaboration which he foretold the failure. Mr Pitt, it appears, pendence of foreigners"? Why that sinks to a of a new Corn Law and a Sliding-scale Duty; whose upon the authority of Mr Rose, who stated it more lower level still, an independence of the ordinary noble and seasonable object and ambition it is, to than once in the debates on the Bill of 1815 (which he obligations of morality. These obligations imoutdo all his predecessors in the skill with which in a most elaborate speech opposed), was prevailed posed a "new bargain;" but the fear of that he can conceal a plan to "baulk the farmers" once upon reluctantly to concur in Mr Western's Bill of distress" which other classes were compelled to more, and "starve the people " a little longer. 1804. And yet the object of that Bill was only to bear, was too strong for the landowner, and he Thus Church and State are leagued against the raise the import price to 66s. 5d., at which a low yielded to the temptation which his position and country to teach and to starve it into passive obe-duty of two shillings and sixpence attached, in lieu his power placed in his way. dience and non-resistance. 66 'Dig and Find, Plow of a duty under the present law of twenty shillings But what were the circumstances preceding and Reap, Fish and Take, Spin and Live, in a word, and eightpence at the same price! this nefarious transaction? The unprecedentedly Trade and Thrive," was the animated language of Perhaps, however, the most formidable prejudice high prices of previous years had stimulated the an old writer. But no, say our modern Statesmen is that which dreads to touch the Corn Law, as cultivation and production of corn. Large capital and Churchmen, less Industry and more Church is though it were the ark of the constitution, which had been invested; rents had risen to an exorthe only true policy. regards the Corn Law and the British Constitution bitant height; all during and under the peculiar Now the learning of the Rubric may be a very as inseparably linked together, and that the last occurrences of the late war, including the Bank good thing for the Clergy, but a hungry laity will must fall with the first; and that tradesmen might Restriction Act. Peace comes:--the restoration of be little likely to profit by it. A little learning on hereafter rule lords, as lords have hitherto ruled moderate prices would have been brought about, the Corn question would not be found altogether tradesmen, as all must have foreseen, at the termination so much beside their main object as would at first of the war, by foreign imports: the blessings sight appear. Adam Smith, Ricardo, and Malthus of peace would have been felt by an exhausted might be found as well deserving pillars of the But surely this delusion must be dissipated when people in moderate prices and the revival of Church as even Philpotts, Pusey, and Newman, we recollect that the English Constitution dates manufacturing industry, as a compensation for its They may preach about feeding the hungry, but beyond the year of our Lord 1815. That it was depression during those very years when agriculthe others teach us how to do it. They may up- Pitt,-who, without a prohibitory and scarcely a steps in, and by means of its preponderating power known in the time of Chatham and the second ture was flourishing. But the Landed Interest hold and claim tithe, but the others tell us how to make the burden light and the contribution willing. restrictive Corn Law, contrived to face every power in the House of Commons, compels a Prime Whilst, however, the Established Church are in Europe, whether singly or collectively, and to Minister to shut out foreign corn and create absorbed in settling nice points of ecclesiastical raise the renown and the power of England beyond artificial scarcity, in order to continue high prices, duty and discipline, and expounding High Church all former record. That fleets were equipped, lest "rents should fall," and landlords and tenants principles, which the Archbishop of Dublin has armies raised, battles fought and won, taxes paid, should make, as landlords were bound in justice stigmatised as "self-sufficient irregularities" and and the landed interest enriched, in spite of a free to make, "a new bargain," under the new, but "pretensions of supposed Antiquity' and 'Tradi- trade in corn! That during their time the arts easily foreseen circumstances. tion';" the dissenting clergy are as usual laying were not neglected, and that literature flourished; So this Corn Law, on which the Constitution the foundation of their power, in active works of that canals, harbours, docks, roads, were formed; reposes-on which the Landed Aristocracy rests, charity and popular sympathy. Withdrawn from and that England prospered, and grew alike in was an ignoble and dishonest conspiracy to ward topics of such high moment as the erection of Wealth and Power. Nay, even the great Black-off a pecuniary loss at the expense of other classes crosses and candlesticks in their churches, they are stone praised a Constitution, and Tories toasted of the community, and that largest of all classes, engaged, as heretofore, as pioneers in the great work it, as the envy of surrounding nations and the ad- the Labouring Poor. All the miserable declamation of ameliorating the condition of the people. What miration of the world, without a Corn Law and a about "undeviating determination was speedily John Wesley did for the spiritual ignorance of the sliding scale. If, therefore, the Corn Laws were tested by the subsequent "public duty" of Lord people, Dr Pye Smith and hundreds more are now abolished to-morrow, at least the constitution of Liverpool requiring him to consent to two other doing for the mitigation of their physical wants Pitt and Blackstone would remain to us. Corn Laws, that of 1822, and that which Mr Canand sufferings. The Dissenting Clergy are almost But to those who entertain this prejudice, it is ning introduced, which was avowedly Lord Liveruniversally actively co-operating with those who well to inform them that the Corn Bill of 1815, the pool's also! No doubt, by the worthy successors are seeking to repeal the Corn and Provision Laws. most violent infraction of the ancient Corn Laws of of such a Government, we shall again hear of that They divest the question of all party views. They the kingdom, was never intended to defend or up- same sense of public duty, the same high-sounding as much consider it a duty to remove every ob- hold the Constitution. The true motive of the Ca- and undeviating "determination" to adhere to the stacle to that supply of food which Providence has binet which introduced that law, their estimate of a right; accompanied, however, with another silent placed within the reach of the honest and unfet- Corn Law in the point of view we are now consi- but equally undeviating determination, "to pursue tered industry of man, as they did, without refer-dering it, was never known for five years after the expedient." Let it no longer be said, then, ence to sectarian views, to provide for the educa- it was introduced. And then, when their law had that the Corn Law has anything to do with the tion of the people. Their success did at length failed; when its first friends abused both its authors Constitution. That rests upon a foundation more goad the prelate slumbering in his stall," and and the measure too; when there was a cry to carry enduring than a mercenary and truckling enactthe Church at last adopted the cause of educa-"protection beyond monopoly," which Mr Hus-ment of a temporizing Ministry. tion. And why, when food for the body is the kisson very gravely said could not be done; when But it is apprehended by many worthy people that object instead of food for the mind, should the all that law could do for an interest had been done, repeal of the Corn Laws would give a rapidly inwell-endowed clergy of England look on as passive and had egregiously failed, then out came the creasing ascendancy to the manufacturing interest. and as cold as some of their own homilies? How truth. That henceforward the "factory bell," according to is it that the Church of the Poor sympathises so "What I recommended was," said Lord Liverpool," to Sir James Graham, would silence all other bells, little with the wants of the poor; and that the pass the Corn Bill (and thus give a further, and, under the even the bell that "knolls to church." Now we people see only the reviled Schismatics, and Soci- circumstances, I thought a proper protection to agriculture); imagine the Corn Laws do and are intended to nians, and Latitudinarians act for them and feel for but I delivered it as my opinion, that if it was not passed secure to the Landed Interest a larger portion of them? then, it ought not to be passed at all; and upon this ground, the surplus profits of industry than they are fairly There must be some explanation of this. Per-which, whether it be wise or not, is at least intelligible entitled to. They diminish profits, by increasing haps it is only Established fastidiousness, and that that I could conceive a case in which it might be expedient the cost of production. They waste capital, by to gentlemen of refinement their associates in this to give a further protection to the agriculturist, but that I forcing it into channels it would shun if left freely cause would be distasteful. Or they yield to the was persuaded that the worse course which it was possible to take its own course. They impose a double disdelusion that the Constitution would be endan- for the Legislature to adopt was, to hang the question up in advantage on manufacturing industry. They comgered were the Corn Laws repealed. Or, perad- doubt and uncertainty; that the consequence of not legis- pel the manufacturer to buy food, labour, and stock venture, they think it would be fatal to the Landed lating at all would be, that rents would fall,—that a compro- in the dearest market; they force him to sell the Interest, and that even a commuted tithe might mise would take place between the owners and occupiers of produce of his industry in the markets of the world not escape in such universal ruin. land, that the landlord and tenant would make a new bar against all competitors, and therefore in the cheapest 66 a Now we desire to abate, if we cannot remove, these gain, and that if, after all the distress incident to such markets. Now, to counteract this injurious interfeprejudices, which fetter the minds of many good changes had passed away, a new Corn Bill should be agreed rence with his industry, he resorts to the infinite men, and paralyze their otherwise active benevolence to, it would be most unequal and unjust in its operation. I powers of machinery, he seeks yearly for fresh in |