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society: Advertisements for fancy fairs. • An interlinear joe miller. • Evenings in ramsgate. • Extract from the… • Farming for ladies. • Fatima’s lament.t… • Gems of fashionable philosophy. • Gems of fashionable philosophy. • Gems of fashionable philosophy. • Professor slowcoa… • Reflections on a fancy ball. • The eccentricities of genius. • The family lacon. • The mysteries of … • The stranger’s gu… • Thoughts and maxi…
sovereignty: Sovereigns of europe.
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tobacco and smoking: Reflections on a fancy ball. • The oxford reading man to his chum. • The stranger’s gu… • Thoughts and maxi…
travel and tourism: A day’s journey t… • Evenings in ramsgate. • I have sailed upo… • Reflections on a fancy ball. • The oxford reading man to his chum. • The stranger’s gu…
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voting: Alphabetical list… • Officers of the house of commons. • right of voting. • The house of comm…
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writers and literary culture: An interlinear joe miller. • Evenings in ramsgate. • Extract from the… • Guy’s modern geography. young england. • The eccentricities of genius. • The oxford reading man to his chum.
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PUNCHS POCKET BOOK FOR 1845.

CONTAINING
RULED PAGES FOR CASH ACCOUNTS AND MEMORANDA
FOR EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR ;
An Almanack ;
and a variety of useful and valuable business information.

Illustrated with a coloured Frontispiece, six Steel Engravings by Leech and numerous Woodcuts.

IN TWO PARTS

PART I.

The State. — 3
  • The Royal Family [of England] 3
  • Sovereigns of Europe 3
  • The Queen’s Ministers 4
  • Officers of State in Scotland 4
  • Officers of State in Ireland 5
  • The Queen’s Household, [&c.] 5
  • Prince Albert’s Household 6
  • The Prince of Wales’s EstablishmentEstblishmt 6
  • The Queen Dowager’s Household 6
  • Duchess of Kent’s Household 6
  • Ambassadors and Ministers Abroad 6
  • Ambassadors and Ministers in England 7
  • Lords Lieutenant, &c., of the several counties of England and Wales 7
  • Lords Lieutenant of Scotland 7
  • Lords Lieutenant of Ireland 7
  • Government Offices and Officers 8
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    The Legislature. — 10
  • The House of Peers 10
  • Peeresses 14
  • Peers who are minors 14
  • Officers of the House of Peers 15
  • The House of Commons 15
  • Alphabetical List of the House of Commons 20
  • Officers of the House of Commons 23
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    The Population. 24
  • Total of Population in Counties 24
  • Registration of Births, &c. 25
  • Summary of the Population 26
  • Summary of Occupations 27
  • Right of Voting 28
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    Law. — 29
  • English Courts of Law 29
  • Scottish Courts of Law 30
  • Irish Courts of Law 31
  • Law Terms and Returns 32
  • Quarter Sessions 32
  • University Terms 32
  • Rate of Allowance to Witnesses 32
  • Public Offices, [with hours of attendance] 33
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    Taxes. — 35
  • Assessed Taxes 35
  • Windows 37
  • Property and Income Tax Table 38
  • Stamps 38
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    Commerce. — 40
  • Corporation of the City of London 40
  • Sheriffs and Under-Sheriffs 41
  • East India Company 41
  • Bank of England 41
  • Bankers in London and Westminster 42
  • Army Agents 43
  • Navy and Prize Agents [in London] 43
  • Transfer Days of the Public Funds 44
  • Weights and Measures 44
  • Table to Calculate Wages, [and other Payments] 45
  • [Short] Rules for Calculation 46
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    Post and Transit. — 46
  • Post Office [Regulations] 46
  • Hackney Coach and Cab Fares 50
  • Watermen’s Fares 50
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    Amusements. — 51
  • Theatres [in London] 51
  • Amusements, Exhibitions, &c. 51
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    Astronomical Notices. — 52
  • General Notes for the Year [1845] 52
  • High Water at London Bridge 53
  • Eclipses in 1845 55
  • Calendar 56
  • Cash Account 62
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    THE STATE.

    THE ROYAL FAMILY OF ENGLAND.

    Born.
    QUEEN ALEXANDRINA VICTORIA (Acc. June 20, 1837)May 24, 1819
    Prince Albert Francis Augustus Charles EmanuelAug. 26, 1819
    Albert Edward, Prince of WalesNov. 9, 1841
    Albert Ernest AlfredAug. 6, 1844
    Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa, Princess RoyalNov. 21, 1840
    Alice Maud MaryApr. 25, 1843
    Dowager Queen Adelaide Amelia Louisa Teresa CarolineAug. 13, 1792
    Ernest Augustus, King of HanoverJune 5, 1771
    His Son, George FrederickMay 27, 1819
    Adolphus Frederick, Duke of CambridgeFeb. 24, 1774
    His Son, George William FrederickMar. 26, 1819
    His Daughter, Augusta CarolineJuly 19, 1822
    His Daughter, Mary AdelaideNov. 27, 1833
    Princess Mary, Duchess of GloucesterApr. 25, 1776
    Princess SophiaNov. 3, 1777
    Princess Sophia Matilda of GloucesterMay 29, 1773
    Victoria Maria Louisa, Duchess of KentAug. 17, 1786
    Augusta Wilhelmina Louisa, Duchess of CambridgeJuly 25, 1797
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    SOVEREIGNS OF EUROPE.

    Born.Acces.
    Austria-BohemiaFerdinand I.Emperor17931835
    BadenCharles LeopoldGrand Duke17901830
    BavariaLouis CharlesKing17861826
    BelgiumLeopold I.King17901831
    - 4 - ↑ {f.4} Denmark-HolsteinChristian VIII.King17861839
    EnglandVictoriaQueen18191837
    FranceLouis Philippe I.King17731830
    GreeceOthoKing18151832
    HanoverErnestKing17711837
    Hesse DarmstadtLouis II.Grand Duke17771830
    Hesse CasselWilliam II.Elector17771821
    LuccaCharles LouisDuke17991824
    ModenaFrancis IV.Duke17791815
    Naples and SicilyFerdinand II.King18101830
    NetherlandsWilliam II.King17921840
    ParmaMaria LouisaDuchess17911814
    PortugalMaria da GloriaQueen18191826
    Prussia-BrandenburgFrederic IV.King17951840
    RomeGregory XVI.Pope17651830
    Russia and PolandNicholas I.Emperor17961825
    SardiniaCharles AlbertKing18001831
    SaxonyFrederick AugustusKing17971836
    SpainIsabella II.Queen18301833
    Sweden and NorwayOscarKing1844
    SwitzerlandConfederate CantonsLandamman—
    TurkeyAbdul MedjidGrand Signior18231839
    TuscanyLeopold II.Grand Duke17971824
    WurtembergWilliam I.King17811816
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    THE QUEEN’S MINISTERS.

  • First Lord of the Treasury, Sir R. Peel, Bart.
  • Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt. Hon. H. Goulburn
  • Lord Chancellor, Lord Lyndhurst
  • Lord President of the Council, Lord Wharncliffe
  • Lord Privy Seal, Dk. of Buccleuch
  • Home Secretary, Sir J. R. Graham
  • Foreign Secretary, El. of Aberdeen
  • Colonial Secretary, Lord Stanley
  • First Lord of Admiralty, Earl of Haddington
  • Com.-in-Chief, Duke of Wellington
  • Pres. of Bd. of Control, Earl of Ripon
  • Pres. of Bd. of Trade, Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone
  • Paymaster-General, Rt. Hn. Sir Ed. Knatchbull
  • Chanc. of the Duchy of Lancaster, Lord G. W. Somerset
  • Chief Sec. for Ireland, Lord Eliot

    • The above form the Cabinet.

  • Postmaster-Gen., Earl Lonsdale
  • Lord Chamberlain, Earl Delawarr
  • Lord Steward, Earl of Liverpool
  • Master of the Horse, Earl of Jersey
  • First Com. of Land Revenue, Earl of Lincoln
  • Mast. of Mint, Rt. Hn. W. E. Gladstone
  • Secretary at War, Sir T. Freemantle
  • Master-General of Ordnance, Right Hon. Sir G. Murray
  • Attorney-Gen., Sir William Follett
  • Solicitor-Gen., Sir FrederickFredk. Thesiger
    • Keyword Tags : politics, London, government, list, columns, Britain, England, royalty

    OFFICERS OF STATE IN SCOTLAND.

  • Hereditary Lord High Constable, and Kt. Marischal, Earl of Erroll
  • Hered. Royal Stand. Bearer, H. S. Wedderburn
  • Lord President and Lord Justice Gen., Right Hon. David Boyle
  • Lord Privy Seal, Viscount Melville
  • Lord Register, Right Hon. William Dundas
  • Hereditary Master of Household, Duke of Argyll
  • Hered. Standard Bearer, Earl of Lauderdale
  • Hered. Armour Bearer, Lady Seton-Steuart of Touch-Seton
  • Hered. Usher of White Rod, Heirs of the late Sir P. Walker, Kt.
  • Physicians in Ordinary, John Abercrombie, M. D., Jas. Home, M. D., John Thomson, - 5 - ↑ {f.5} M. D. — Deans of Chapel Royal, John Lee, D. D., Rev. Arch Bennie, and Norman McLeod, D. D. — Dean of the Thistle, Geo. Cook, D. D. — Capt.-G. of Queen’s Body-Guard, Duke of Buccleuch.
  • Commander of the Forces, Maj.-Gen. Sir Neil Douglas.
    • Keyword Tags : Scotland, government, list, columns, aristocracy, military, faith and religion, health and medicine

    OFFICERS OF STATE IN IRELAND.

  • Lord Lieutenant, Lord Heytesbury.
  • Lord High Chancellor, Rt. Hon. Sir Edw. B. Sugden.
  • Chief Secretary and Keeper of Privy Seal, Rt. Hon. Lord Eliot.
  • Under Sec., Edward Lucas, Esq.
  • Private Sec., Arthur Magennis, Esq.
  • Lord Almoner, Archbp. of Armagh.
  • State Steward, Capt. Francis H. G. Seymour.
  • Comptroller, Major Parker.
  • Keeper of Records and Ulster King at Arms, Sir W. Betham.
  • Chamberlain, G. L’Estrange, Esq.
  • Dean of the Chapel, Rev. H. W. Tighe.
  • Gentleman Usher, F. Willis, Esq.
  • Master of the Horse, J. W. Williams, Esq.
  • Commander of the Forces, Rt. Hon. Lt.-Gen. Sir E. Blakeney, K. C. B.
  • Military Secretary, Lt.-Cl. Greaves.
  • Commander of the Artillery, Col. A. Munro, K. H.
  • Commander of the Engineers, Col. Lewis, C. B.
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    THE QUEEN’S HOUSEHOLD, &c.

  • Hered. Joint Great Chamberlain of England, Ld. Willoughby D’Eresby — Sec., Major E. Macarthur.
  • Hered. Earl Marshal, Duke of Norfolk, K. G. — Sec., W. A. Blount, Esq.
  • Lord Steward, Earl of Liverpool — Treas., Earl Jermyn — Comp., Hn. G. L. Dawson Damer — Master of Household, Hon. Chas. Augustus Murray — Sec. to Board of Green Cloth, Sir Thos. Marrable
  • Lord Chamberlain, Earl Delawarr
  • Vice-Chamberlain, Ld. Ernest Bruce — Comptroller of Accounts, Sir William Martins — Lords in Waiting, Marquis of Ormonde, Earl of Morton, Earl of Hardwicke, Earl of Warwick, Viscount Sydney, Lord Rivers, Viscount Hawarden, and Lord Byron — Grooms in Waiting, Vice-Adm. Sir R. Otway, Bart., Capt. H. Meynell, Sir H. Seton, Sir F. Stovin, Hon. Capt. A. Duncombe, Hon. Capt. A. N. Hood, J. R. Ormsby-GoreOrmsby Gore, Lieut.-Col. Berkeley Drummond — Pages of Honour in Ordinary, H. J. Byng, Esq. ; G. J. R. Wynyard, Esq. ; G. G. Gordon, A. S. Wortley, Esq. — Keeper of Privy Purse, Major-Gen. Sir H. Wheatley — Master of Ceremonies, Sir R. Chester — Assistant and Marshal, T. S. Hyde, Esq. — Poet Laureat, W. Wordsworth, Esq. — Examiner of Plays, J. Mitchell Kemble, Esq. — Principal Portrait Painter, Sir G. Hayter.
  • Mistress of the Robes, the Duchess of Buccleuch — Principal Lady of the Bedchamber, Viscountess Jocelyn.
  • Ladies of the Bedchamber, Countess of Charlemont, Lady Portman, Countess of Dunmore, Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, Viscountess Canning, Countess of Sandwich, Marchioness of Douro — Extra Lady, Duchess of Norfolk — Maids of Honour, Hon. H. Pitt, Hon. C. Cocks, Hon. M. Paget, Miss Murray, Hon. Lady Maria Kerr, Miss Anson, Hon. Miss Devereux, Hon. Miss C. Hamilton.
  • Master of the Horse, Earl of Jersey — Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal, Lord C. Wellesley — Equerries in Ordinary, Lt.-Col. Hon. C. Grey, Lt.-Col. E. Buckley, Col. W. Wemyss, Hon. C. G. J. Arbuthnot.
  • - 6 - ↑ {f.6} Master of Stag Hounds, Earl of Rosslyn.
  • Hereditary Grand Falconer, Duke of St. Alban’s.
  • Lord High Almoner, Archbishop of York — Sec., Jos. Hanby, Esq.
  • Hered. Grand Almoner, Marquis of Exeter.
  • Sub-Almoner, Rev. E. Goodenough, D. D.
  • Physicians, Sir J. Clark, Bt., M. D., W. F. Chambers, M. D.
  • First Physician Accoucheur, Chas. Locock, Esq., M. D.
  • Serjeant Surgeons, Sir B. C. Brodie, Bt., Robert Keate, Esq.
  • Clerk of the Closet, Bishop of Norwich — Deputy Clerks of the Closet, the Dean of Hereford, the Bishop of Sodor and Man, and the Rev. John Vane, M. A.
  • Dean of the Chapel, Bisp. of London.
  • Captain of Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, Lord Forester.
  • Captain of Yeomen of Queen’s Guard, Earl of Beverley.
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    PRINCE ALBERT’S HOUSEHOLD.

  • Groom of the Stole, Marq. of Exeter.
  • Treasurer, Geo. Edw. Anson, Esq.
  • Gentlemen of the Bedchamber, Lord G. Lennox and Marquis of Granby.
  • Equerries, Lt.-Col. Bouverie, Lt.-Col. Wylde, and Sir Ed. Bowater.
  • Grooms of Bedchamber, Sir G. Anson and Lieut. F. Seymour.
    • Keyword Tags : royalty, house and home, aristocracy, list, columns

    THE PRINCE OF WALES’S ESTABLISHMENT.

  • Treasurer and Cofferer, G. E. Anson, Esq.
  • Chancellor and Keeper of Great Seal, Ths. Pemberton Leigh, Esq.
  • Attorney-General, Hon. John Chetwynd Talbot.
    • Keyword Tags : royalty, columns, finances, list, aristocracy

    THE QUEEN DOWAGER’S HOUSEHOLD.

  • Lord Chamberlain, Earl Howe.
  • Ladies of the Bedchamber, Marchs. of Ormonde, March. of Wellesley, Countess of Brownlow, Lady Clinton, Countess of Sheffield, Viscts, Barrington, Marchioness of Ely.
  • Master of the Horse, El. of Denbigh.
  • Vice-Chamberlain and Treasurer, Hon. W. Ashley.
  • Physicians, W. F. Chambers, M. D., Sir D. Davies.
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    DUCHESS OF KENT’S HOUSEHOLD.

  • Comptroller, Col. Sir G. Couper, Bt.
  • Physician, Isaac Wilson, M. D.
  • Surgeon, Richard Blagden, Esq.
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    AMBASSADORS AND MINISTERS ABROAD.

    AustriaRt. Hon. Sir R. Gordon
    BavariaJ. R. Milbanke, Esq.
    BelgiumSir G. H. Seymour
    BrazilH. C. J. Hamilton, Esq.
    ColombiaW. Turner, Esq.
    DenmarkSir H. W. W. Wynn
    FranceLord Cowley
    FrankfortHon. W. T. H. Strangways
    GreeceSir E. Lyons, Bt.
    HanoverHon. J. D. Bligh
    MexicoChas. Bankhead, Esq.
    NaplesHon. W. Temple
    NetherlandsSir E. C. Disbrowe
    PeruW. Pitt Adams, Esq.
    PortugalLd. Howard de Walden
    PrussiaEarl of Westmoreland
    Rio de la PlataJ. H. Mandeville, Esq.
    RussiaLd. Stuart de Rothesay
    SardiniaHon. R. Abercromby
    SaxonyHon. F. R. Forbes
    SpainH. L. Bulwer, Esq.
    SwedenSir T. Cartwright
    SwitzerlandD. R. Morier, Esq.
    TurkeySir S. Canning
    TuscanyLord Holland
    United StatesRich. Pakenham, Esq.
    VenezuelaB. H. Wilson, Esq.
    WurtembergSir Alexander Males
    Keyword Tags : government, international, Americas, Asia, Europe, list, columns, Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Russia

    ↑ - 7 - {f.7} AMBASSADORS AND MINISTERS IN ENGLAND.

    AustriaPrince Esterhazy
    BavariaBaron de Cetto
    BelgiumM. Van de Weyer
    BrazilMarquess Lisboa
    Colombia
    DenmarkCount Bille Brahe
    FranceComte de St. Aulaire
    GreeceMons. Tricoupi
    HanoverCount Kielmansegge
    MexicoT. Murphy, Esq.
    NetherlandsChevalier Dedel
    PortugalBaron de Moncorvo
    PrussiaBaron Bülow
    Rio de la PlataDon M. Moreno
    RussiaBaron de Brunow
    SardiniaCount Pollon
    SaxonyM. de Gersdorff
    SiciliesPrince de Castelcicala
    SpainDon de Pampillo
    SwedenCount Bjornstjerna
    SwitzerlandJ. L. Prevost, Esq.
    TurkeyAli Effendi
    United StatesEdw. Everett, Esq.
    VenezuelaM. Alejo Fortique
    WurtembergCount de Mandelsloh
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    LORDS LIEUTENANT, &c., OF THE SEVERAL COUNTIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

    ENGLAND.

  • Bedford, Earl De Grey
  • Berks, Earl of Abingdon
  • Bucks, Lord Carrington
  • Cambridge, E. of Hardwicke
  • Chester, Earl of Stamford & Warrington
  • Cornwall, Sir W. Trelawny — Lord Warden, H. R. H. Prince Albert
  • Cumberland, E. of Lonsdale
  • Derby, Duke of Devonshire
  • Devon, Earl Fortescue
  • Dorset, Earl Digby
  • Durham, Ma. of Londonderry
  • Essex, Viscount Maynard
  • Gloucester, E. Fitzhardinge
  • Hereford, Lord Bateman
  • Hertford, Earl of Verulam
  • Huntingdon, E. of Sandwich
  • Kent, Earl Thanet
  • Lancashire, Earl of Derby
  • Leicester, Duke of Rutland
  • Lincoln, Earl Brownlow
  • Middlesex, Mqs. of Salisbury
  • Monmouth, C. H. Leigh, Esq.
  • Norfolk, Lord Wodehouse
  • Northampton, Mq. of Exeter
  • Northumberland, Duke of Northumberland
  • Nottingham, Earl of Scarborough
  • Oxford, D. of Marlborough
  • Rutland, Marquis of Exeter
  • Shropshire, D. of Sutherland
  • Somerset, Lord Portman
  • Southampton, Duke of Wellington
  • Stafford, Earl Talbot
  • Suffolk, Duke of Grafton
  • Surrey, Earl of Lovelace
  • Sussex, Duke of Richmond
  • Tower-Hamlets, D. of Wellington
  • Warwick, Earl Brooke and of Warwick
  • Westmoreland, E. of Lonsdale
  • Wilts, Mq. of Lansdowne
  • Worcester, Lord Lyttelton
  • York, E.-Riding, L. Wenlock
  • York, West Riding, Lord Wharncliffe
  • York, North Riding, Earl of Zetland

    • WALES.

  • Anglesey, M. of Anglesey
  • Brecon, H. Williams, Esq.
  • Cardigan, Wm. E. Powell, Esq., M. P.
  • Carmarthen, Lord Dynevor
  • Carnarvon, Ld. Willoughby d’Eresby
  • Denbigh, Middltn. Biddulph Esq.
  • Flint, M. of Westminster
  • Glamorgan, Marquis of Bute
  • Merioneth, E. L. Mostyn, Esq.
  • Montgomery, Earl of Powis
  • Pembroke, Sir John Owen Bart., M. P.
  • Radnor, Lord Rodney
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    LORDS LIEUTENANT OF SCOTLAND.

  • Aberdeen, Earl of Erroll
  • Argyll, Mqs. of Breadalbane
  • Ayr, Earl of Eglinton
  • Banff, Earl of Fife
  • Berwick, Earl of Lauderdale
  • Bute, Marquis of Bute
  • Caithness, Earl of Caithness
  • Clackmannan, Hon. G. R. Abercromby
  • Cromarty, R. Macleod, Esq.
  • Dumbarton, Sr J. Colquhoun, Bart.
  • Dumfries, M. of Queensberry
  • Edinburgh, D. of Buccleuch
  • Elgin, Earl of Moray
  • Fife, Capt. J. Erskine Wemyss, R. N.
  • Forfar, Earl of Airlie
  • Haddington, M. Tweeddale
  • Inverness, Earl of Seafield
  • Kincardine, V. Arbuthnott
  • Kinross, Vice-Adml. Sir C. Adam
  • Kircudbright, E. of Galloway
  • Lanark, Duke of Hamilton
  • Linlithgow, Earl of Rosebery
  • Nairn, Wm. Brodie, Esq.
  • Orkney & Zetland, Hon. J. C. Dundas
  • Peebles, Earl of Wemyss
  • Perth, Earl of Kinnoul
  • Renfrew, Earl of Glasgow
  • Ross, Colonel Hugh Duncan Baillie
  • Roxburgh, Dk. of Buccleuch
  • Selkirk, Lord Montagu
  • Stirling, Duke of Montrose
  • Sutherland, D. of Sutherland
  • Wigton, Earl of Galloway
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    LORDS LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND.

  • Antrim, Earl of Belfast
  • Armagh, Earl of Gosford
  • Carlow, Hon. J. Ponsonby
  • Cavan, Marquis of Headfort
  • Clare, Sir Lucius O’Brien
  • Cork, Earl of Bandon
  • - 8 - ↑ {f.8} Donegal, Mrqs. of Donegal
  • Down, Marquis of Downshire
  • Dublin, Earl of Meath
  • Fermanagh, Earl of Erne
  • Galway, M. of Clanricarde
  • Kerry, Earl of Kenmare
  • Kildare, Duke of Leinster
  • Kilkenny, V. Duncannon.
  • King’s County, Earl of Rosse
  • Leitrim, Earl of Leitrim
  • Limerick, Hon. T. H. Fitzgibbon
  • Londonderry, Sir R. A. Ferguson, Bart.
  • Longford, H. White, Esq.
  • Louth, Rt. Hon. Sir. P. Bellew, Bart.
  • Mayo, Marquis of Sligo
  • Meath, Lord Dunsany
  • Monaghan. Baron Rossmore
  • Queen’s County, V. de Vesci
  • Roscommon, V. Lorton
  • Sligo, Col. A. F. K. Gore
  • Tipperary, Earl of Donoughmore
  • Tyrone, Earl of Charlemont
  • Waterford, Lord Stuart de Decies
  • Westmeath, M. of Westmeath
  • Wexford, Lord Carew
  • Wicklow, Earl of Wicklow
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    GOVERNMENT OFFICES AND OFFICERS.

    treasury.

  • Lords Commissioners , Rt. Hon. Sir R. Peel, Bart., Rt. Hon. H. Goulburn, Alex. Pringle, Esq., J. M. Gaskell, Esq., H. B. Baring, Esq., Lord A. Lennox.
  • Secretaries, Sir G. Clarke, John Young, Esq., M. P.
  • Assist. Sec., C. E. Trevelyan, Esq.
  • Solicitor, G. Maule, Esq.
  • Paymaster, W. Sargent, Esq.
  • Chief Clerk, S. R. Leake, Esq.
  • Cashiers, W. Halden, Esq. E. Kitchen, Esq.
  • Accountant, J. Miller, Esq.

    • exchequer.

  • Chancellor, Rt. Hon. H. Goulburn
  • Comptroller, Ld. Monteagle
  • Assistant, A. Eden, Esq.
  • Chief Clerk, F. T. Ottey, Esq.
  • Accountant, G. S. Frederick, Esq.

    • home office.

  • Sec. of State, Rt. Hon. Sir J. Graham
  • Under Secs., S. M. Phillips, Esq., Hon. H. M. Sutton.
  • Chief Clerk, T. H. Plasket, Esq.
  • Private Sec., Capt. O’Brien.

    • foreign office.

  • Sec. of State, Earl of Aberdeen
  • Under Secs., Visct. Canning, H. U. Addington, Esq.
  • Chief Clerk, T. Bidwell, Esq.
  • Private Sec., C. G. Dawkins, Esq.

    • colonial office.

  • Sec. of State, Lord Stanley
  • Under Secs., G. W. Hope, Esq., Jas. Stephen, Esq.
  • Chief Clerk, Peter Smith, Esq.
  • Private Sec., Col. the Hon. E. B. Wilbraham.

    • irish office.

  • Chief Sec., Lord Eliot
  • Chief Clerk, Geo. Trundle, Esq.
  • Assistant, Hon. S. D. Montagu
  • Private Sec., C. H. W. A’Court, Esq.
  • Counsel, H. M. O’Hanlan, Esq.

    • board of trade.

  • President, Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone
  • Vice President, Earl of Dalhousie
  • The Archbishop of Canterbury, The Cabinet Ministers — and Rt. Hon. Chas. Arbuthnot.
  • Secretaries, C. C. F. Greville, Esq., Hon. W. Bathurst
  • Assist. Secs., J. MacGregorMacgregor, Esq., J. G. S. Lefevre, Esq.
  • Private Sec., S. H. Northcote, Esq.

    • board of control.

  • President, Earl of Ripon, and the Cabinet Ministers
  • Secretaries, T. E. Tennent, Esq., Hon. W. B. Baring
  • Private Sec., A. Gordon, Esq.
  • Solicitor, R. Groom, Esq.

    • admiralty.

  • Lords Commissioners , Earl of Haddington, Hon. Sir G. Cockburn, Bart., Sir W. H. Gage, Adm. W. Bowles, Hon. W. Gordon, Rt. Hon. H. T. L. Corry.
  • Secretaries, Hon. S. Herbert, Sir John Barrow, Bt.
  • Private Sec., Capt. Hamilton, R. N.
  • Chief Clerk, H. F. Amedroz, Esq.
  • Hydrograph., Capt. Francis Beaufort
  • Assistant, M. Walker, Esq.
  • Civ. Architect, Capt. Brandreth
  • Astron. Royal, G. B. Airy Esq.
  • Assistant, Rev. R. Main, M. A.

    • civil department.
    Somerset House.

  • Surveyor, Sir W. Symonds, F. R. S.
  • Assistant, John Edye, Esq., F. R. S.
  • Storekeeper, Hon. R. Dundas
  • Chief Clerk, T. Collings, Esq.
  • Accountant, J. T. Briggs, Esq.
  • Deputy Accountant, O’Bryan Woolsey, Esq.
  • Victualling, J. Meek, Esq.
  • Chief Clerk, W. Leyburn, Esq.
  • Insp.-Gen., Sir W. Burnett
  • Chief Clerk, B. Fosset, Esq.

    • admiralty court.

  • Adm. Judge, Right Hon. S. Lushington, D. C. L.
  • Registrar, H. B. Swabey, Esq.
  • Queen’s Adv., Sir J. Dodson, L. L. D.
  • Adm. Adv., J. Phillimore, D. C. L.
  • Judge Adv., H. J. Shepherd, Esq.
  • Queen’s Proc., Iltid Nicholl, Esq.
  • Ad. Proc., W. Townsend, Esq.
  • Marshal, Hon. Hugh Lindsay
  • Solicitor, Chas. Jones, Esq.

    • judge advocate-general’s office.

  • Judge Adv., J. N. Nicholl, D. C. L.
  • Deputy, F. N. Rogers, Esq. Q. C.

    • war office.

  • Sec. at War, Sir T. Freemantle
  • Deputy, L. Sulivan, Esq.
  • Examiner, E. Marshall, Esq.
  • First Clerk, J. Borrow, Esq.
  • Senior Clerks , H. Milton, R. C. Kirby, J. M. Sandham, J. - 9 - {f.9} Crooms, F. Kimpton, G. White, W. Anderson, J. Hanby, Esqs.
  • Private Sec., Capt. R. B. Wood

    • paymaster-general’s office.

  • Paymr. Gen., Rt. Hon. Sir E. Knatchbull
  • Accountant, W. G. Anderson, Esq.
  • Paymaster, T. Powis, Esq.
  • Principal Clerks , P. Graves ; T. Morris ; H. Burslem ; T. Philpot ; J. Sturton ; J. Perrier ; H. Harrison ; A. Skottowe ; Esqs.

    • com. in chief’s office.

  • Horse Guards.
  • Com. in Chief, Duke of Wellington
  • Private Sec. Alegro Greville, Esq.
  • Mil. Sec. Lt.-g. Lord F. Somerset.
  • Aides-de-camp, Col. Hon. G. Anson, Lt.-C. Mar. of. Douro, Cornet Earl of March, Cornet Mar. of Worcester.
  • Assists. to Mil. Sec., F. H. Lindsay, Esq., F. Fergusson, Esq.

    • adjutant-general’s office.

  • Horse Guards.
  • Adj.-Gen., Gen. Sir J. Macdonald
  • Deputy, M.-Gen. G. Brown
  • Assistant, Col. Cochrane
  • Deputy, Major Roche Mead
  • First Clerk, R. Cannon, Esq.

    • quarter-master-general’s office.

  • Horse Guards.
  • Qu.-Ma.-Gen., Gen. Sir J. W. Gordon
  • Assistant, Col. J. Freeth
  • Deputy, Capt. John Enoch
  • Confiden. Clk., J.O’Neil, Esq.
  • First Clerk, T. Marsh, Esq.

    • board of ordnance.

  • Master Gen., Sir G. Murray
  • Surv. Gen., Col. J. Peel
  • Clerk, Capt. H. Boldero
  • Storekeeper, F. R. Bonham, Esq.
  • Secretary to Master Gen., Maj.-Gen. Sir F. Trench
  • Secretary to Board, R.Byam, Esq.
  • Aide-de-camp, Capt. H. W. Paget

    • woods and forests.

  • Commissioners, Earl of Lincoln, Alex. Milne, Esq. Hon. C. A. Gore

    • Rangers, Keepers, &c.

  • Windsor Great Park, Sir W. H. Freemantle
  • Bushy Park, Queen Dowager
  • St. James’s Park, Prince Albert
  • Hyde Park, Prince Albert
  • Richmond Park, Duke of Cambridge
  • Greenwich Park, Princess Sophia of Gloucester
  • Hampton Ct., Lady Bloomfield
  • New Forest, Rt. Hon. W. S. Bourne
  • Whittlebury Forest, Duke of Grafton
  • Waltham Forest, Hon. W. P. L. Wellesley
  • Wychwood Forest, Ld. Churchill
  • Dean Forest, Earl of Lincoln

    • queen’s mint.

  • Master Worker, Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone
  • Deputy, J. W. Morrison, Esq.
  • Comptroller, W. H. Barton, Esq.
  • Chief Engraver, Wm. Wyon, Esq.
  • Assistant, J. B. Merlin, Esq.
  • Cf. Medallist, B. Pistrucci, Esq.
  • Assayer, H. Bingley, Esq.
  • Solicitor, Joseph Blunt Esq.

    • state paper office.

  • Keeper, Rt. Hon. H. Hobhouse
  • Deputy, C. Lechmere, Esq.
  • Chief Clerk, R. Lemon, Esq.
  • Junior Clerk, T. Temple

    • privy seal.

  • Lord P. Seal, Duke of Buccleuch
  • Private Sec., Hon. G. C. Talbot
  • Chief Clerk, J. G. Donne, Esq.
  • (by Patent) R. Eden, Esq.
  • Junior Clerk, Mr. W. Goodwin
  • Keeper of Rec., R. Eden, Esq.

    • signet office.

  • Keepers of the Signet, the 3 Secretaries of State
  • Chief Clerks, Rt. Hon. Sir B. Taylor, Rev. W. H. E. Bentinck, J. Gage, Esq.
  • Deputies, T. H. Plasket, Esq., B. Taylor, Esq.
  • Rec. Keepers, E. D. Jones, Esq., H. W. Sanders, Esq.

    • general post-office.

  • Postm.-Gen., Earl Lonsdale
  • Secretary, Col. Maberly
  • Assist. Sec., T. Lawrence, Esq.
  • Surv. of M. Co., G. Stow, Esq.
  • Supr. of For. and Ind. Offs. W. Bokenham, Esq.
  • Accomp. Gen., Charles T. Court, Esq.
  • Solicitor, M. B. Peacock, Esq.

    • custom house.

  • Chairman, R. B. Dean, Esq.
  • Deputy, Hon. E. R. Stewart
  • Commissioners , H. Richmond Esq., S. G. Lushington, Esq., Hn. W. Cust, Hon. H. Legge, C. C. Smith, Esq., Hon. E. Spring Rice, Rt. Hon. G. Dawson
  • Secretary, C. Scovell, Esq.
  • Assistant, W. Maclean, Esq.
  • Receiver Gen., Sir W. Boothby, Bart.
  • Compt. Gen., W. Dickinson, Esq.
  • Solicitor, J. G. Walford, Esq.

    • excise office.

  • Chairman, J. Wood, Esq.
  • Deputy, Hart Davis, Esq.
  • Commissioners , Sir J. C. Mortlock, T. Harrison, Esq., H. F. Stephenson, Esq., Hon. W. H. Percy, C. J. Herries, Esq.
  • Secretary, J. C. Freeling, Esq.
  • Assistant, C. Browne, Esq.
  • Receiver Gen., J. Dennis, Esq.
  • Compt. and Aud., Vaughan Davies, Esq.
  • Solicitors, W. K. Dehany, Esq., P. W. Mayow, Esq.

    • stamp and tax office.

  • Chairman, H. L. Wickham, Esq.
  • Deputy, J. Thornton, Esq.
  • Commissioners, C. P. Rushworth, Esq., H. S. Montagu, Esq., Capt. E. Saurin
  • Secretary, C. Pressly, Esq.
  • Assist. Sec., T. Keogh, Esq.
  • Receiver Gen., W. Everett, Esq.
  • Comptroller, T. Lightfoot, Esq.
  • Comptroller of Legacy Duties, C. Trevor, Esq.
  • Solicitor, Joseph Timm, Esq.

    • poor law commission.

  • Commissioners , G. Nicholls, Esq., G. C. Lewis, Esq., Sir E. W. Head, Bart.
  • Secretary, E. Chadwick, Esq.
  • - 10 - ↑ {f.10} Assistant Secretaries , G. Coode, Esq., W. G. Lumley, Esq.
  • Assistant Commissioners , Edwd. Gulson, Alfred Power, Esq., W. H. T. Hawley, W. J. Gilbert, Esq., *R. Hall, M. D., R. Weale, Esq., E. C. Tufnell, Esq., Sir J. Walsham, Bart., E. Senior, Esq., Hon. C. S. Clements, *W. J. Hancock, Esq., *J. O’Donoghue, H. W. Parker, Esq., *R. M. Muggeridge, Esq., *C. G. Otway, Esq., *J. Burke, Esq., Col. Ths. Francis Wade
  • Chief Clerk, *A. Moore, Esq.
  • Those distinguished by a * are serving in Ireland.

    • tithe commission.

  • W. Blamire, Esq., T. W. Buller, Esq., Rev. Richard Jones, M. A., Wm. Wakefield Attree, Esq.

    • colonial land and emigration commissioners.

  • 9, ark street, Westminster.
  • T. F. Elliot, Esq., Hon. E. E. Villiers, J. G. S. Lefevre, Esq.
  • Secretary, S. Walcott, Esq.

    • Government Emigration Office.

  • London, Lieut. Lean, R. N.
  • Liverpool, Lieut. Henry, R. N.
  • Dublin, Lieut. Hodder, R. N.
  • Cork, Lieut. Friend, R. N.
  • Belfast, Lieut. Starke, R. N.
  • Sligo, Lt. Shuttleworth, R. N.
  • Londonderry, Lieut. Ramsay, R. N.
  • Limerick, Mr. Lynch, R. N.
  • Leith. Lieut. Forrest, R. N.
  • Greenock, Lieut. Hemmaus, R. N.

    • metropolis roads.

  • Secretary, J. L. Panter, Esq.
  • Surveyor-Gen., Sir James McAdam
  • Accountant, R. Robertson, Esq.
  • Assistant, V. C. Wright, Esq.
  • Inspector, H. Browse, Esq.
  • Solicitor, J. W. Lyon, Esq.

    • registry of metropolitan buildings.

  • Registrar, A. Symonds, Esq.
  • Official Referees, Sir Robt. Smirke, Mr. Jas. Pennethorne, Mr. Thos. Cubitt.

    • general register office.

  • Reg. Gen., G. Graham, Esq.
  • Chief Clerk, Thos. Mann, Esq.
  • First Cl. of Records, E. Edwards, Esq.
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    THE LEGISLATURE.

    THE HOUSE OF PEERS

    ⁂ The titles here given are those by which the noblemen sit in the House of Peers.
    Princes of the Blood Royal  2
    Dukes 20
    Marquises 18
    Earls112
    Viscounts 21
    Barons195
    Peers of Scotland (elected 1841) 16
    Peers of Ireland (elected for life) 28
    English Archbishops and Bishops 26
    Irish representative Archbishops and Bishops  4
    Total442
    * Marked thus are Scotch Peers. o Marked thus are Irish Peers. a Marked thus are Scotch Represen. Peers. b Marked thus are Irish Represen. Peers.

    - 11 - {f.11} royal dukes.

  • Cumberland, Prince E. A., 1799, o
  • Cambridge, Pr. A. F., 1801

    • archbishops.

  • Canterbury, Wm. Howley, 1828
  • York, Edw. Harcourt, 1807
  • Dublin, Rt. Hon. Richard Whately, DD. 1831, b

    • dukes.

  • Beaufort, H. Somerset, 1682
  • Bedford, F. Russell, 1694
  • Brandon, Alex. H. Douglas, 1711 (Hamilton, D., 1643, *)
  • Buckingham and Chandos, Rich. Grenville, 1822, o
  • Cleveland, Henry Vaue, 1833
  • Devonshire, Wm. Spencer Cavendish, 1694
  • Grafton, H. Fitzroy, 1675
  • Leeds, Francis Godolphin D’Arcy Osborne, 1694, *
  • Manchester, George Montagu, 1719
  • Marlborough, G. Churchill, 1702
  • Newcastle, Henry Pelham Clinton, 1756
  • Norfolk, H. C. Howard, 1483
  • Northumberland, H. Percy, 1766
  • Portland, W. H. Cavendish Scott Bentinck, 1716
  • Richmond, Chas. G. Lennox, 1675, *
  • Rutland, J. H. Manners, 1703
  • St. Alban’s, Wm. Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 1683
  • Somerset, Edw. Adolph. St. Maur, 1546
  • Sutherland, George Leveson Gower, 1833
  • Wellington, A. Wellesley, 1814

    • marquises.

  • Abercorn, James Hamilton, 1790, * o
  • Ailesbury, Chas. Bruce, 1821
  • Ailsa, Arch. Kennedy, 1831 (Cassilis. E. *)
  • Anglesey, Henry William Paget, 1815
  • Breadalbane, J. Campbell, 1831, *
  • Bristol, F. W. Hervey, 1826
  • Bute, J. C. Stuart, 1796, *
  • Camden, G. Chas. Pratt, 1812
  • Cholmondeley, Geo. Horatio Cholmondeley, 1815
  • Exeter, Brownlow Cecil, 1801
  • Hertford, Rich. Seymour Conway, 1793, o
  • Lansdowne, H. Petty, 1784
  • Normanby, Constantine H. Phipps, 1838, o
  • Northampton, S. J. Alwyne Compton, 1812
  • Salisbury, Js. Brownlow W. Gascoigne-Cecil, 1789
  • Thomond, William O’Brien, 1801, o (Tadcaster, L.)
  • Townshend, George Ferrers Townshend, 1786
  • Tweeddale, G. Hay, 1694, o
  • Westmeath, Geo. Thomas J. Nugent, 1822, o
  • Westminster, R. Grosvenor, 1831
  • Winchester, J. Burroughes Paulet, 1551

    • earls.

  • Abergavenny, H. Neville, 1784
  • Abingdon, Montagu Bertie, 1682
  • Airlie, D. Ogilvie, 1639, o
  • Albemarle, Wm. Charles Keppel, 1696
  • Amherst, W. Pitt Amherst, 1826
  • Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, 1730
  • Auckland, Geo. Eden, 1839, o
  • Aylesford, H. Finch, 1714
  • Bandon, J. Bernard, 1795, o.
  • Bathurst, H. G. Bathurst, 1772
  • Beauchamp, John Reginald Beauchamp Pindar, 1815
  • Beverley, Geo. Percy, 1790.
  • Bradford, G. Augustus Fred. H. Bridgeman, 1815
  • Brownlow, John Cust, 1815
  • Buckinghamshire, G. R. Hampden, 1746
  • Burlington, Wm. Cavendish, 1831
  • Cadogan, G. Cadogan, 1800
  • Caledon, Jas. Dupré Alexander, 1800, o
  • Camperdown, R. Dundas Duncan Haldane, 1831
  • Cardigan, James Thomas Brudenell, 1661
  • Carlisle, Geo. Howard, 1661
  • Carnarvon, Henry. John. G. Herbert, 1793
  • Cathcart, Charles Murray Cathcart, 1814, *
  • Cawdor, J. F. Campbell, 1827
  • Charlemont, Francis W. Caulfeild, 1763, o
  • Charleville, Chas. Wm. Bury 1806, o
  • Chesterfield, Geo. Stanhope, 1628
  • Chichester, H. T. Pelham, 1801
  • Clarendon, G. W. F. Villiers, 1776
  • Cornwallis, Js. Mann, 1753
  • Cowper, G. A. F. Cowper, 1718
  • Craven, Wm. Craven, 1801
  • Dartmouth, W. Legge, 1711
  • De Grey, T. P. De Grey, 1816
  • Delawarr, G. J. West, 1761
  • Denbigh, Wm. Basil Percy Fielding, 1622, o
  • Derby, Edw. Stanley, 1485
  • Devon, W. Courtenay, 1553
  • Digby, Edw. Digby, 1790, o
  • Doncaster, Walter F. Scott-Douglas, 1662 (Buccleuch and Queensberry, D. 1663 *)
  • Ducie, H. G. F. Moreton, 1837
  • Dunraven, W. H. Quin, 1822, o
  • Effingham, Kenneth, A. Howard, 1837
  • Egremont, G. Wyndham 1749
  • Eldon, John Scott, 1821
  • Ellenborough, Ed. Law, 1844
  • Essex, A. Algernon Capel, 1661
  • Falmouth, G. H. Boscawen, 1821
  • Ferrers, W. Sewallis Shirley, 1711
  • Fitzhardinge, W. F. Berkeley, 1841
  • Fitzwilliam, Chas. W. Wentworth Fitzwilliam, 1716, o
  • Fortescue, Hugh Fortescue, 1719
  • Gainsborough, Charles Noel Noel, 1841
  • Glengall, R. Butler, 1816, o
  • Gosford, A. Acheson, 1806, o (Lord Worlingham)
  • Graham, J., 1722 (Montrose, D., 1707, *)
  • Granville, Granville Leveson Gower, 1833
  • Grey, Charles Grey, 1806
  • Guildford, Rev. F. North, 1752
  • Harborough, Robt. Sherard, 1719, o
  • Hardwicke, C. P. Yorke, 1754
  • Harewood, H. Lascelles, 1812
  • Harrington, Chas. Stanhope, 1742
  • Harrowby, Dudl. Ryder, 1809
  • Hillsborough, A. Blundell Sandys Trumbull Hill, 1772 (Downshire, M. 1789,) o
  • Home, Cospatrick, Alex. R. Home, 1605, o
  • Howe, R. W. Penn Curzon Howe, 1821
  • Huntingdon, F. T. Henry Hastings, 1529
  • Ilchester, H. Stephen Fox-Strangeways, 1756
  • Innes, J. H. R. Innes Ker, 1837 (Roxburgh, D., 1707, *)
  • Jersey, Geo. Villiers, 1697, o
  • Leven and Melville, David Leslie Melville, 1690, o
  • - 12 - {f.12} Leicester and Holkham, T. Wm. Coke, 1837
  • Lichfield, T. W. Anson, 1831
  • Limerick, Edm. H. Pery, 1803, o b, (Foxford, L.)
  • Lindsey, Alb. Bertie, 1626
  • Liverpool, Chas. Cecil Cope Jenkinson, 1796
  • Lonsdale, W. Lowther, 1807
  • Lovelace, Wm. Baron King, 1838
  • Lucan, G. C. Bingham, 1795 o
  • Macclesfield, T. Parker, 1721
  • Malmesbury, Jas. Howard Harris, 1800
  • Mansfield, Wm. D. Murray, 1792, *
  • Manvers, Charles Herbert Pierrepont, 1806
  • Mayo, John Bourke, 1785, o
  • Minto, G. Kynynmond, 1813
  • Morley, Edm. Parker, 1815,
  • Morton, George Sholto Douglas, 1458, o
  • Mountcashel, Step. Moore, 1781, o
  • Mount Edgcumbe, Ernest Augustus Edgcumbe, 1789
  • Munster, Wm. George Fitz-Clarence, 1831
  • Nelson, Horatio Nelson, 1805
  • Onslow, A. G. Onslow, 1801
  • Orford, Hor. Walpole, 1806
  • Orkney, Thomas John Fitzmaurice, 1696, o
  • Oxford and Mortimer, Edw. Harley, 1711
  • Pembroke & Montgomery, Robt. Hen. Herbert, 1551
  • Pomfret, G. Wm. R. Fermor, 1721
  • Portsmouth, John Charles Wallop, 1743
  • Poulett, John Poulett, 1706
  • Powis, E. Herbert, 1804, o
  • Radnor, W. P. Bouverie, 1765
  • Ripon, F. J. Robinson, 1833
  • Romney, C. Marsham, 1801
  • Rosslyn, James Alexander St. Clair Erskine, 1801
  • Saint Germans, Wm. Eliot, 1815
  • Sandwich, J. W. Montagu, 1660
  • Scarborough, J. Saville-Lumley, 1690, o
  • Seafield, F. W. Grant, 1701, o
  • Selkirk, Dunbar Js. Douglas, 1646, o
  • Shaftesbury, Cropley Ash. Cooper, 1672
  • Shrewsbury, J. Talbot, 1442, o
  • Somers, J. Somers Cocks 1821
  • Spencer, J. C. Spencer, 1765
  • Stamford and Warrington, Geo. Harry Grey, 1628
  • Stanhope, Philip Henry Stanhope, 1718
  • Stradbroke, J. E. Cornwallis Rous, 1821
  • Strange, John Murray, 1786 (Atholl, D. 1703, *)
  • Suffolk and Berkshire, Ths. Howard, 1603
  • Talbot, Charles Chetwynd Talbot, 1784
  • Tankerville, Charles Aug. Bennet, 1714
  • Thanet, Henry Tufton, 1628
  • Vane, Chas. Wm. Vane, 1823 (Londonderry, M. 1816, o)
  • Verulam, Jn. Walter Grimston, 1815, * o
  • Waldegrave, Geo. Edward Waldegrave, 1685
  • Warwick and Brooke, Henry Rich. Greville, 1747
  • Westmoreland, J. Fane, 1624
  • Wicklow, W. Howard, 1793, o
  • Wilton, Thomas Grosvenor Egerton, 1801
  • Winchilsea & Nottingham, Geo. Finch Hatton, 1628
  • Yarborough, C. Anderson Pelham, 1837
  • Zetland, Lawrence Dundas, 1838

    • viscounts.

  • Arbuthnot, Jn. Arbuthnot, 1641, o
  • Beresford, Wm. Carr Beresford, 1823
  • Bolingbroke and St. John, Henry St. John, 1712
  • Canning, C. J., 1827
  • Canterbury, C. M. Sutton, 1835
  • Clancarty, Wm. T. Trench, 1823, (E. Clancarty, 1803, o)
  • Combermere, Stapleton Cotton, 1826
  • De Vesci, J. Vesey, 1776, o
  • Doneraile, Hayes St. Leger, 1785, o
  • Exmouth, E. Pellew, 1816
  • Gordon, G. Hamilton, 1814 (Aberdeen, E. 1682, *)
  • Hawarden, C. Maude, 1791, o
  • Hereford, Revd. R. F. Devereux, 1550
  • Hill, Rowland Hill, 1842
  • Hood, Samuel Hood, 1796, o
  • Hutchinson, J. Hely Hutchinson, 1821 (Donoughmore, E. 1800, o)
  • Lake, Warwick Lake, 1807
  • Leinster, A. F. Fitzgerald, 1747, o (Leinster, D. 1766)
  • Lorton, R. E. King, 1806, o
  • Maynard, Henry Maynard, 1766
  • Melville, R. S. Dundas, 1802
  • O’Neill, J. B. R. O’Neill, 1795, o
  • Ponsonby of Imokilly, John Ponsonby, 1839
  • St. Vincent, E. Jervis, 1801
  • Sidmouth, Wm. Leonard Addington, 1805
  • Strathallan, Js. Drummond, 1686, o
  • Sydney, J. R. Townshend, 1789
  • Torrington, G. Byng, 1721

    • bishops.

  • Bangor, C. Bethell, 1830
  • Bath and Wells, G. H. Law, 1824
  • Carlisle, Hon. Hugh Percy, 1827
  • Chester, J. Bird Sumner, 1828
  • Chichester, A. T. Gilbert, 1842
  • Durham, Edw. Maltby, 1836
  • Ely, J. Allen, 1836
  • Exeter, Henry Phillpotts, 1830
  • Gloucester and Bristol, Jas. Henry Monk, 1830
  • Hereford, T. Musgrave, 1837
  • Lichfield, Jn. Lonsdale, 1843
  • Lincoln, John Kaye, 1827
  • Llandaff, E. Copleston, 1827
  • London, C. J. BloomfieldBlomfield, 1828
  • Norwich, Edw. Stanley, 1837
  • Oxford, Hon. R. Bagot, 1829
  • Peterborough, G. Davys, 1839
  • Ripon, C. T. Longley, 1836
  • Rochester, G. Murray, 1827
  • St. Asaph, W. Carey, 1830
  • St. David’s, Connop Thirlwall, 1840
  • Salisbury, E. Denison, 1837
  • Winchester, C. R. Sumner, 1827
  • Worcester, H. Pepys, 1841, and three of the twelve Irish Bishops in annual rotation

    • barons.

  • Abercromby, G. Ralph, 1801
  • Abinger, Rt. Scarlett, 1835
  • Alvanley, William Arden, 1801
  • Ardrossan, Arch. William, 1806 (Eglinton, E. 1607, *)
  • Arundell of Wardour, Henry Benedict Arundell, 1605
  • Ashburton, A. Baring, 1835
  • Audley, G. E. Tuchet, 1297
  • Bagot, Wm. Bagot, 1780
  • Bateman, William Bateman Hanbury, 1837
  • Bayning, Rev. Hen. Wm. Powlett, 1797
  • Beaumont, Miles Thomas Stapleton, 1307
  • Beauvale, F. J. Lamb, 1839
  • - 13 - {f.13} Berners, Rev. H. Wilson, 1455
  • Berwick, Rev. Rich. Noel Hill, 1784
  • Bexley, N. Vansittart, 1823
  • Blayney, Cadwallader Davis Blayney, 1621, o
  • Bolton, Wm. Orde-PowlettOrde Powlett, 1797
  • Boston, George Irby, 1761
  • Boyle, E. Boyle, 1711, (Cork and Orrery, E. o)
  • Braybrooke, R. Griffin, 1788
  • Brodrick, George Alan Brodrick, 1796 (Middleton, V. 1717, o)
  • Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, 1830
  • Bruce, G. W. Frederick, 1746
  • Byron, George Anson, 1643
  • Calthorpe, George Gough Calthorpe, 1796
  • Camoys, Thos. Stonor, 1383
  • Campbell, John Campbell, 1841
  • Carbery, J. Freke, 1715, o
  • Carew, R. Shapland Carew, 1834, o
  • Carleton, Rich. Boyle, 1786 (Shannon, E. 1756, o)
  • Carrington, R. John, 1796, o
  • Carteret, Rev. J. Thynne, 1784
  • Carysfort, J. Proby, 1801 (Carysfort, E. 1789, o)
  • Castlemaine, R. Handcock, 1812, o
  • Chaworth, J. Chambre Brabazon, 1831 (Meath, E. 1627, o)
  • Churchill, Francis Almeric Spencer, 1815
  • Clanbrassill, Robt. Jocelyn, 1821 (Roden, E. 1771, o)
  • Clanwilliam, Rich. Meade, 1828 (Clanwilliam, E. 1776, o)
  • Clements, N., 1831, (Leitrim E. 1795, o)
  • Clifford of Chudleigh, Hugh Charles, 1672
  • Clinton, Chs. Rodolph Trefusis, 1299
  • Clonbrock, R. Dillon, 1790, o
  • Cloncurry, V. Browne-Lawless, 1789, o
  • Colborne, N. W. R. Colborne 1839
  • Colchester, Chs. Abbot, 1817
  • Colville of Culross, John Colville, 1609, o
  • Congleton, Jn. Parnell, 1841
  • Cottenham, Charles Christ. Pepys, 1836
  • Cowley, H. Wellesley, 1828
  • Crewe, Hungerford Crewe, 1806
  • Crofton, Ed. Crofton, 1797, o
  • Dacre, Thos. Brand, 1307
  • Dalhousie, Jas. A. Ramsay, 1815 (Dalhousie, E. 1633, *)
  • De Freyne, A. French, 1839
  • Delamere, Thos. Cholmondeley, 1821
  • Delisle and Dudley, P. C. Sidney, 1835
  • De Mauley, Wm. Francis Spencer Ponsonby, 1838
  • Denman, T. Denman, 1834
  • De Ros, W. L. Lascelles de Ros, 1264
  • De Saumarez, Rev. James Saumarez, 1831
  • De Tabley, G. Warren, 1826
  • Dinorben, W. L. Hughes, 1831
  • Dorchester, Guy Carleton, 1786
  • Dormer, Joseph Thaddeus Dormer, 1615
  • Douglas of Douglas, Arch. Douglas, 1790
  • Downes, Ulysses Burgh, 1822, o
  • Dunalley, H. Prittie, 1800 o
  • Dunfermline, James Abercromby, 1839
  • Dunmore, Alex. Edw. Murray, 1831, (E. 1686 *)
  • Dunsany, Edward Plunket, 1461, o
  • Dynevor, G. Talbot Rice, 1780
  • Erskine, David Montagu Erskine, 1806
  • Farnham, Henry Maxwell, 1756, o
  • Feversham, W. Duncombe, 1826
  • Fife, James Duff, 1827 (Fife, E. 1759, o)
  • Fingall, Arthur James Plunket, 1830 (Fingall, E. 1628, o)
  • Fisherwick, G. H. Chichester, 1796 (Donegal, M. 1791, o)
  • Fitzgibbon, J. Fitzgibbon, 1799 (Clare, E. 1795, o)
  • Foley, T. H. Foley, 1776
  • Forester, J. G. Weld Forester, 1821
  • Furnival, R. Wogan Talbot, 1839 (Talbot de Malahide, B. 1831)
  • Gage, H. Hall Gage, 1790 (Gage, V. 1720, o)
  • Gardner, Alan Legge Gardner, 1800
  • Gifford, R. F. Gifford, 1824,
  • Glenelg, C. Grant, 1835
  • Glenlyon, Geo. Aug. Fred. Murray, 1821
  • Godolphin, F. Godolphin Osborne, 1832
  • Grantley, Fletcher Norton, 1782
  • Grinstead, W. Willoughby Cole, 1815, o (Earl of Enniskillen, 1789)
  • Hamilton, R. Montgomery, 1831 (Belhaven and Stenton, L. *)
  • Harris, W. G. Harris, 1815
  • Hastings, J. Astley, 1289
  • Hatherton, E. J. Littleton, 1835
  • Hawke, E. W. Hawke, 1776
  • Hay, T. R. D. Hay, 1712 (Kinnoul, E., 1704, *)
  • Heytesbury, W. A’Court, 1828
  • Holland, H. E. Fox, 1762
  • Howard de Walden, Chas. Aug. Ellis, 1597
  • Howden, J. F. Caradoc, 1819 o
  • Hunsdon, Lucius Cary, 1832 (Falkland, V. 1620, *)
  • Keane, Ed. Arthur Wellington Keane, 1839
  • Kenlis, T. Taylour, 1831 (Headfort, M. 1800, o)
  • Kenmare, V. Brown, 1841 (Kenmare, E. o)
  • Kenyon, G. Kenyon, 1788
  • Ker, 1821 (Lothian M. *)
  • Kilmarnock, W. G. Hay-Carr, 1831 (Erroll, E. 1453*)
  • Kingston, R. King, 1821 (Kingston, E. 1768, o)
  • Kintore, A. A. Keith Falconer, 1838 (Kintore, E. *)
  • Langdale, H. Bickersteth, 1836
  • Lauderdale, Jas., 1806 (Lauderdale, E., 1624 *)
  • Leigh, Chandos Leigh, 1839
  • Lilford, T. Atherton Powys, 1797
  • Lismore, C. O’Callaghan, 1838 (Lismore, V. 1806, o)
  • Loftus, J. Loftus, 1801 (Ely M. o)
  • Lovat, T. A. Frazer, 1837
  • Lovel and Holland, G. J. Perceval, 1762 (Egmont, E. 1733, o)
  • Lurgan, C. Brownlow, 1839
  • Lyndhurst, J. Singleton Copley, 1827
  • Lyttelton, G. W. Lyttelton, 1794, o
  • Manners, J. T. Sutton, 1807
  • Maryborough, W. Wellesley Pole, 1821, (Mornington E. 1760 o)
  • Melbourne, W. Lamb, 1815, (Melbourne, V., 1781 o)
  • Meldrum, G. Gordon, 1815 (Huntley, M., 1599.*)
  • Melrose, T. Hamilton, 1827 (Haddington, E., 1619, *)
  • - 14 - ↑ {f.14} Methuen, P. Methuen, 1838
  • Middleton, D. Willoughby, 1711
  • Minster, F. Nathaniel Conyngham, 1824 (Conyngham, M., 1816, o)
  • Monson, F. J. Monson, 1728
  • Montagu, H. J. Montagu Scott, 1786
  • Monteagle, H. P. Browne, 1806 (Sligo, M., 1800, o)
  • Monteagle of Brandon, T. Spring Rice, 1839
  • Montfort, H. Bromley, 1741
  • Mostyn, E. Pryce Lloyd, 1831
  • Northwick, J. Rushout, 1797
  • Oriel, J. Skeffington, 1821 (Massarene, V. 1660)
  • Ormonde, J. Butler, 1821 (Ormonde, M., 1825, o)
  • Oxenfoord, J. H. Dalrymple, 1841 (Stair, E., 1703)
  • Paget, H. Paget, 1550 (Uxbridge, E.)
  • Panmure, Wm. Ramsay Maule, 1831
  • Penshurst, Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, 1824 (Strangford, V., 1628, o)
  • Petre, W. H. F. Petrie, 1603
  • Plunket, W. Conyngham Plunket, 1827
  • Poltimore, G. W. Bampfylde, 1831
  • Polwarth, H. F. H. Scott, 1690, o
  • Ponsonby, J. W., 1739 (Besborough, E., o)
  • Portman, E. Berkeley Portman, 1837
  • Prudhoe, A. Percy, 1816
  • Ranfurly, T. Knox, 1826 (Ranfurly, E., 1831, o)
  • Ravensworth, T. H. Liddell, 1821
  • Rayleigh, J. J. Strutt, 1821
  • Reay, Eric Mackay, 1628, o
  • Redesdale, J. T. F. Mitford, 1802
  • Rivers, G. Pitt Rivers, 1802
  • Rodney, Rev. S. Rodney, 1782
  • Rollo, J. Rollo, 1651, o
  • Rosebery, A. J. Primrose, 1828 (Rosebery, E., 1703, *)
  • Ross, J. Carr Boyle, 1815 (Glasgow, E. 1703, *)
  • Rossie, G. W. Fox Kinnaird, 1831 (Kinnaird, L., 1682, *)
  • Rossmore, H. R. Westenra, 1796, o
  • St. John of Bletso, St. Andrew Beauchamp, 1558
  • Saltersford, J. T. Stopford, 1726 (Courtoun, E. 1762, o)
  • Saltoun, A. G. Frazer, 1445o
  • Sandys, A. M. W. Hill, 1802
  • Saye and Sele, G. W. E. T. Fiennes, 1447
  • Scarsdale, N. Curzon, 1761
  • Seaford, C. Rose Ellis, 1826
  • Seaton, J. Colborne, 1839
  • Sefton, C. W. Molyneux, 1831, (Sefton, E., 1771, o)
  • Sheffield, G. Aug. Fred. C. Holroyd, 1802 (Sheffield, E., 1816, o)
  • Sherborne, J. Dutton, 1784
  • Silchester, E. M. Pakenham (Longford, E., 1785, o)
  • Sinclair, C. St. Clair, 1489, o
  • Skelmersdale, E. Bootle Wilbraham, 1828
  • Somerhill, Ulick John De Burgh, 1825 (Clanricarde, M., o)
  • Sondes, G. J. Milles, 1760
  • Southampton, C. Fitzroy, 1780
  • Stafford, G. W. Jerningham, 1640
  • Stanley of Alderley, J. T. Stanley, 1839
  • Stanley of Bickerstaffe, Edw. Smith-Stanley
  • Stewart of Garlies, Randolph Stewart, 1796 (Galloway, E., 1623, *)
  • Stourton, W. Stourton, 1448
  • Strafford, J. Byng, 1835
  • Stuart de Decies, H. V. Stuart, 1839
  • Stuart of Castle Stuart, F. Stuart, 1796 (Moray, E., 1561, *)
  • Stuart de Rothesay, Charles Stuart, 1828
  • Sudeley, C. H. Tracy, 1838
  • Suffield, E. Vernon, Harbord, 1786
  • Sundridge and Hamilton, J. D. E. H. Campbell, 1776 (Argyll, D., 1701, *)
  • Templemore, H. Spencer Chichester, 1831
  • Tenterden, J. H. Abbott, 1827
  • Teynham, G. H. R. Curzon, 1616
  • Thurlow, E. T. H. Thurlow, 1792
  • Tyrone, H. Beresford, 1786 (Waterford, M., 1789, o)
  • Vaux of Harrowden, G. Mostyn, 1523
  • Vernon, G. J. Warren, 1762
  • Vivian, C. Crespigny Vivian, 1841
  • Walsingham T. De Grey, 1780
  • Ward, W. Ward, 1664
  • Wemyss, F., 1821 (Wemyss and March, E., 1633)
  • Wenlock, P. B. Thompson, 1839
  • Western, C. Callis Western, 1833
  • Wharncliffe, J. Arch. Stuart-Wortley, 1826
  • Wigan, J. Lindsay, 1825 (Balcarres, E., 1650 *)
  • Willoughby de Broke, H. Peyton Verney, 1492
  • Willoughby de Eresby, P. R. Drummond, 1313
  • Wodehouse, J. Wodehouse, 1797
  • Wrottesley, J. Wrottesley, 1838
  • Wynford, W. D. Best, 1829
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    PEERESSES.

  • De la Zouche, Baroness, 1308, Bisshopp
  • Le Despencer, Baroness, 1261, Stapleton
  • De Clifford, Baroness, 1269, Russell
  • Grey de Ruthyn, Baroness, 1324, Rawdon Hastings
  • Braye, Baroness, 1509-47, Otway-Cave
  • Mansfield, Countess, 1778, Greville
  • Bassett, Baroness, 1797, Basset
  • Nairne and Keith, Baroness, 1803, Elphinstone
  • Wenman, Baroness, 1834, Wykham
  • Stratheden, Baroness, 1836, Campbell
  • Semphill, Baroness, 1489, Chandler
  • Inverness, Duch. Underwood
  • North, Baroness, 1683, North
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    PEERS WHO ARE MINORS.

  • Bath, Marquis, 1852
  • Clifden, Viscount, 1846
  • Coventry, Earl, 1859
  • Darnley, Earl, 1848
  • Drogheda, Marquis, 1846
  • Durham, Earl, 1849
  • Granard, Earl, 1854
  • Grey of Groby, Baron, 1848
  • Hastings, Marquis, 1853
  • Hopetoun, Earl, 1852
  • Lothian, Marquis, 1853
  • Ribblesdale, Baron, 1849
    • - 15 - ↑ {f.15} ⁂ To obviate the difficulty of finding the names of those Scotch and Irish Peers who sit in Parliament under English Titles, but who are not commonly addressed by them, we subjoin the following List of them ; as also of English Peers who have a higher title by courtesy.
  • Aberdeen, E. (see Gordon, V.)
  • Argyll, D. (see Sundridge and Hamilton, L.)
  • Atholl, D. (see Strange, E.)
  • Balcarres, E. (see Wigan, L.)
  • Belhaven, L. (see Hamilton, L.)
  • Besborough, E. (see Ponsonby. L.)
  • Buccleuch, D. (see Doncaster, E.)
  • Clanricarde, M. (see Somerhill, L.)
  • Clare, E. (see Fitzgibbon, L.)
  • Conyngham, M. (see Minster, L.)
  • Cork, E. (see Boyle, L.)
  • Courtown, E. (see Saltersford, L.)
  • Donegal, M. (see Fisherwick, L.)
  • Donoughmore, E. (see Hutchinson, V.)
  • Downshire, M. (see Hillsborough, E.)
  • Eglinton, E. (see Ardrossan, L.)
  • Egmont, E. (see Lovel, L.)
  • Ely, M. (see Loftus, L.)
  • Enniskillen, E. (see Grinstead, L.)
  • Erroll, E. (see Kilmarnock, L.)
  • Falkland, V. (see Hunsdon, L.)
  • Galloway, E. (see Stewart of Garlies, L.)
  • Glasgow, E. (see Ross, L.)
  • Haddington, E. (see Melrose, L.)
  • Hamilton, D. (see Brandon, D.)
  • Headfort, M. (see Kenlis, L.)
  • HuntleyHuntly, M. (see Meldrum, L.)
  • Kinnoul, E. (see Hay, L.)
  • Leitrim, E. (see Clements, L.)
  • Londonderry, M. (see Vane, E.)
  • Lothian, M. (see Ker, L.)
  • Meath, E. (see Chaworth, L.)
  • Massarene, V. (see Oriel, L.)
  • Middleton, V. (see Brodrick, L.)
  • Montrose, D. (see Graham, E.)
  • Moray, E. (see Stuart of Castle Stuart, L.)
  • Mornington, E. (see Maryborough, L.)
  • Roden, E. (see ClanbrassillClanbrassil, L.)
  • Roxburgh, (see Innes, E.)
  • Shannon, E. (see Carleton, L.)
  • Sligo, M. (see Monteagle, L.)
  • Strangford, V. (see Penshurst, L.)
  • Talbot de Malahide (see Furnival, L.)
  • Uxbridge, E. (see Paget, L.)
  • Waterford, M. (see Tyrone, L.)
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    OFFICERS OF THE HOUSE OF PEERS.

  • Chairman of Committees, Earl of Shaftesbury
  • Clerk of the Parliaments, Rt. Hon. Sir G. H. Rose, Bart.
  • Clerk Assistant, John Wm. Birch, Esq.
  • Additional Clerk Assistant, B. Currey, Esq.
  • Counsel to the Chairman of Committees, R. Palk, Esq.
  • Reading Clerk, and Clerk of Private Committees, W. Rose, Esq.
  • Clerk of the Journals, Edw. Parratt, Esq.
  • Clerk of the Engrossments, W. E. Walmisley, Esq.
  • Librarian, J. F. Leary, Esq.
  • Clerk of the Enrolments, H. Stone Smith, Esq.
  • Short-hand Writer, W. B. Gurney, Esq.
  • Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, Sir A. W. Clifford, Bt.
  • Yeoman Usher, J. Pulman, Esq.
  • Sergeant-at-arms, Lt.-Col. A. Perceval
  • Deputy, Mr. W. Butt
  • Receiver of Fees, Mr. Shells
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    THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
    Speaker, Rt. Hon. Charles Shaw Lefevre.

    ENGLAND AND WALES.

    EnglishCounty Members144469
    Universities  4
    Cities and Boroughs321
    WelshCounty Members 15 29
    Cities and Boroughs 14
    ScotchCounty Members 30 53
    Cities and Boroughs 23
    IrishCounty Members 64105
    University  2
    Cities and Boroughs 39
    Total Number of Members656
  •   1 Abingdon, Sir Frederick Thesiger.
  •   2 Albans, St., G. W. J. Repton, Earl of Listowel
  •   3 Andover, R. Etwall, Lord W. Paget
  •   4 Angleseyshire, W. O. Stanley
  •   5 Arundel, Earl of Arundel and Surrey
  •   6 Ashburton, J. Matheson
  •   7 Ashton-under-Lyne, C. Hindley
  •   8 Aylesbury, Capt. C. J. B. Hamilton, Rice R. Clayton
  •   9 Banbury, H. W. Tancred
  •  10 Barnstaple, F. Hodgson, Montag. Gore
  •  11 Bassetlaw (East Retford)-Capt. Hon. A. Duncombe, Granville H. Vernon
  •  12 Bath, Visc. Duncan, J. A. Roebuck
  •  13 Beaumaris, Lt.-Cl. F. Paget
  •  14 Bedfordshire, Visc. Alford, W. Astell
  •  15 Bedford, Capt. F. Polhill, H. Stuart
  •  16 Berkshire, R. Palmer, P. Pusey, Vis. Barrington
  •  17 - 16 - {f.16} Berwick-upon-Tweed, R. Hodgson, M. Forster
  •  18 Beverley, J. Towneley, J. W. Hogg
  •  19 Bewdley, Sir T. E. Winnington, Bart.
  •  20 Birmingham, G. F. Muntz, R. Spooner
  •  21 Blackburn, W. Feilden, J. Hornby
  •  22 Bodmin, J. Dunn Gardner, Sir S. T. Spry
  •  23 Bolton, P. Ainsworth, J. Bowring
  •  24 Boston, J. S. Brownrigg, Sir J. Duke
  •  25 Bradford, J. Hardy, W. Busfeild
  •  26 Breconshire, Col. T. Wood
  •  27 Brecon, C. M. R. Morgan
  •  28 Bridgnorth, T. C. Whitmore, Sir R. Pigot, Bt.
  •  29 Bridgewater, H. Broadwood, T. Seaton Forman
  •  30 Bridport, T. A. Mitchell, A. D. R. W. B. Cochrane
  •  31 Brighton, Capt. G. R. Pechell, R. N., Lord A. Hervey
  •  32 Bristol, P. W. S. Miles, Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley.
  •  33 Buckinghamshire, C. G. Dupré, C. R. Scott Murray, Hon. Capt. W. E. Fitzmaurice
  •  34 Buckingham, Sir T. F. Fremantle, Bart., Sir J. Chetwode, Bart.
  •  35 Bury, Lancashire, R. Walker
  •  36 Bury St. Edmunds, Earl Jermyn, Rt. Hon. Ld. C. Fitzroy
  •  37 Calne, Earl of Shelburne
  •  38 Cambridgeshire, Hon. E. T. Yorke, Capt. Rd. J. Eaton, J. P. Allix
  •  39 Cambridge University, Rt. Hon. H. Goulburn, Hon. C. E. Law
  •  40 Cambridge, Hon. J. H. T. M. Sutton, Fitzroy Kelly
  •  41 Canterbury, J. Bradshaw, Hon. G. A. F. P. S. Smythe
  •  42 Cardiff, &c., Rt. Hon. J. Nicholl, LL. D.
  •  43 Cardiganshire, Col. W. E. Powell
  •  44 Cardigan, &c., P. Pryse
  •  45 Carlisle, P. H. Howard, W. Marshall
  •  46 Carmarthenshire, Hon. G. R. R. Trevor, D. A. S. Davies
  •  47 Carmarthen, D. Morris
  •  48 Carnarvonshire, Hon. E. G. D. Pennant
  •  49 Carnarvon, &c., W. B. Hughes
  •  50 Chatham, Rt. Hon. G. S. Byng
  •  51 Cheltenham, Hon. C. F. Berkeley
  •  52 Cheshire (North), W. T. Egerton, G. C. Legh
  •  53 Cheshire (South), Sir P. de M. G. Egerton, Bt., J. Tollemache
  •  54 Chester, Ld. R. Grosvenor, J. Jervis
  •  55 Chichester, Ld. A. Lennox, J. A. Smith
  •  56 Chippenham, J. Neeld, Capt. H. G. Boldero
  •  57 Christchurch, Capt. Harris
  •  58 Cirencester, W. Cripps, Lord Villiers
  •  59 Clitheroe, Edw. Cardwell
  •  60 Cockermouth, H. A. Aglionby, E. Horsman
  •  61 Colchester, R. Sanderson, Sir G. H. Smyth, Bt.
  •  62 Cornwall (West) E. W. W. Pendarves, Sir C. Lemon, Bart.
  •  63 Cornwall (East), Lord Eliot, W. Rashleigh
  •  64 Coventry, Rt. Hon. E. Ellice, W. Williams
  •  65 Cricklade, &c., J. Neeld, Capt. Hn. H. Howard
  •  66 Cumberland, (East), Hon. C. W. G. Howard, W. James
  •  67 Cumberland (West), E. Stanley, S. Irton
  •  68 Dartmouth, &c., Sir J. H. Seale, Bart.
  •  69 Denbighshire, Hon. W. Bagot, Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart.
  •  70 Denbigh, &c., T. Mainwaring
  •  71 Derbyshire (North) Hon. G. H. Cavendish, W. Evans
  •  72 Derbyshire (South), E. M. Mundy, C. R. Colville
  •  73 Derby, E. Strutt, Hon. J. G. B. Ponsonby
  •  74 Devizes, G. H. W. Heneage, Ludlow Bruges
  •  75 Devonport, H. Tufnell, Rt. Hon. Sir G. Grey, Bart.
  •  76 Devonshire, (North), Sir T. D. Acland, Bart., L. W. Buck
  •  77 Devonshire (South), Sir J. B. Y. Buller, Bart., Lord Courtenay
  •  78 Dorchester, Hon. A. H. A. Cooper, Rt. Hon. Sir J. Graham, Bart.
  •  79 Dorsetshire, Lord Ashley, H. C. Sturt, G. Bankes
  •  80 Dover, Sir J. R. Reid, Bt., E. R. Rice
  •  81 Droitwich, J. S. Pacington
  •  82 Dudley, John Benbow
  •  83 Durham County (North), H. Lambton, Hon. H. T. Liddell
  •  84 Durham Co. (South), Ld. H. Vane, J. Bowes
  •  85 Durham City, T. C. Granger, John Bright
  •  86 Essex (North), Sir J. T. Tyrell, Bart., C. G. Round
  •  87 Essex (South), T. W. Bramston, G. Palmer
  •  88 Evesham, Lord M. Hill, P. Borthwick
  •  89 Exeter, Sir W. W. Follett, E. Divett
  •  90 Eye, Maj.-Gen. Sir E. Kerrison, Bart.
  •  91 Finsbury, T. S. Duncombe, T. Wakley
  •  92 Flintshire, Sir S. Rich. Glynne
  •  93 Flint, &c., Sir R. B. W. Bulkeley, Bart.
  •  94 Frome, T. Sheppard
  •  95 Gateshead, W. Hutt
  •  96 Glamorganshire, C. R. M. Talbot, Visc. Adare
  •  97 Gloucestershire (East), C. W. Codrington, Hon. F. Charteris
  •  98 Gloucestershire (West), Hon. G. C. G. F. Berkeley, R. B. Hale
  •  99 Gloucester, J. Phillpotts, M. F. F. Berkeley
  • 100 Grantham, G. E. Welby, Hon. F. J. Tollemache
  • 101 Great Grimsby, E. Heneage
  • 102 Greenwich, &c., Capt. J. W. D. Dundas, R. N., E. G. Barnard
  • 103 Guildford, Capt. Ross D. Mangles, C. B. Wall
  • 104 Halifax, E. Protheroe C. Wood
  • 105 Hampshire (North), Rt. Hon. C. S. Lefevre, Sir W. Heathcote, Bt.
  • 106 Hampshire (South), H. C. Compton, Lord C. Wellesley
  • 107 Harwich, J. Attwood Maj. W. Beresford
  • - 17 - {f.17} 108 Hastings, R. Hollond, M. Brisco
  • 109 Haverfordwest, &c., Sir R. Bulkeley, P. Philipps, Bart.
  • 110 Helston, Sir R. R. Vyvyan, Bart.
  • 111 Hereford, E. B. Clive, R. Pulsford
  • 112 Herefordshire, K. Hoskins, T. B. M. Baskerville, J. Bailey, jun.
  • 113 Hertfordshire, Viscount Grimston, A. Smith, Hon. G. D. Ryder
  • 114 Hertford. Visc. Mahon, Hon. W. F. Cowper
  • 115 Honiton, Col. H. D. Baillie, F. A. Mac Geachy
  • 116 Horsham, R. H. Hurst
  • 117 Huddersfield, W. R. C. Stansfield
  • 118 Huntingdonshire, E. Fellowes, G. Thornhill
  • 119 Huntingdon, Sir F. Pollock, Col. J. Peel
  • 120 Hythe, S. Marjoribanks
  • 121 Ipswich, Capt. J. N. Gladstone, S. L. Fox
  • 122 Ives, St., W. Tyringham Praed
  • 123 Kendal, H. Warburton
  • 124 Kent (East), Rt. Hon. Sir E. Knatchbull, Bt., J. P. Plumptre
  • 125 Kent (West), Sir Edm. Filmer, Bart., Visc. Marsham
  • 126 Kidderminster R. Godson
  • 127 King’s Lynn, Lord Geo. Bentinck, Viscount Jocelyn
  • 128 Kingston-upon-Hull, Sir J. Hanmer, Bart., Sir W. C. James, Bart.
  • 129 Knaresborough, A. Lawson, W. B. Ferrand
  • 130 Lambeth, B. Hawes, jun. Rt. Hon. C. T. D’Eyncourt
  • 131 Lancashire (North), J. W. Patten, J. T. Clifton
  • 132 Lancashire (South), Ld. F. L. Egerton, J. Entwisle
  • 133 Lancaster, T. Greene, G. Marton
  • 134 Launceston, Admiral W. Bowles
  • 135 Leeds, W. Beckett, W. Aldam
  • 136 Leicestershire (North), Lord C. S. Manners, E. B. Farnham
  • 137 Leicestershire (South), H. Halford, C. W. Packe
  • 138 Leicester, Sir J. Easthope, Bt., W. Ellis
  • 139 Leominster, C. Greenaway, G. Arkwright
  • 140 Lewes, H. Elphinstone, D. C. L., Hon. H. Fitzroy
  • 141 Lichfield, Lord A. H. Paget, Lord Leveson
  • 142 Lincolnshire (Pts. of Lindsey), Ld. Worsley R. A. Christopher
  • 143 Lincolnshire (Pts. of Kesteven & Holland) C. Turnor, Sir J. Trollope, Bart.
  • 144 Lincoln, Col. C. D. W. Sibthorp, W. R. Collett
  • 145 Liskeard, C. Buller, jun.
  • 146 Liverpool, Visc. Sandon, Sir H. Douglas
  • 147 London, J. Masterman, J. Pattison, G. Lyall, Lord John Russell
  • 148 Ludlow, B. Botfield, J. Ackers
  • 149 Lyme Regis, T. Hussey
  • 150 Lymington, J. Stewart, W. A. Mackinnon
  • 151 Macclesfield, J. Brocklehurst, T. Grimsditch
  • 152 Maidstone, A. J. B. Hope, G. Dodd
  • 153 Maldon, Q. Dick, J. Round
  • 154 Malmesbury, Hon. J. K. Howard
  • 155 Malton, J. W. Childers, J. E. Denison
  • 156 Manchester, M. Philips, T. M. Gibson
  • 157 Marlborough, Lord E. A. C. B. Bruce, Maj. H. B. Baring
  • 158 Marlow (Great), T. P. Williams, R. Hampden
  • 159 Marylebone, Sir B. Hall, Bart., Sir C. Napier
  • 160 Merionethshire, R. Richards
  • 161 Merthyr Tydvil, Sir J. J. Guest, Bart.
  • 162 Middlesex, G. Byng, Lt.-Col. T. Wood, jun.
  • 163 Midhurst, Sir H. B. Seymour
  • 164 Monmouthshire, Lord G. Somerset, C. O. S. Morgan
  • 165 Monmouth, &c., R. J. Blewitt
  • 166 Montgomeryshire, Rt. Hon. C. W. W. Wynn
  • 167 Montgomery, &c., Hon. H. Cholmondeley
  • 168 Morpeth, Capt. Hon. E. G. Granville Howard, R. N.
  • 169 Newark-upon-Trent, W. E. Gladstone, Lord J. Manners
  • 170 Newcastle, E. Buckley, J. C. Colquhoun
  • 171 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, W. Ord, J. Hodgson Hinde
  • 172 Newport, C. W. Martin, W. J. Hamilton
  • 173 Norfolk (East), E. Wodehouse, H. N. Burroughes
  • 174 Norfolk (West) W. Bagge, W. L. W. Chute
  • 175 Northallerton, W. B. Wrightson
  • 176 Northamptonshire (Nth) T. P. Maunsell, A. S. O’BrienO Brien
  • 177 Northamptonshire (Sth), W. R. Cartwright, Sir C. Knightley, Bart.
  • 178 Northampton, R. V. Smith, R. Currie
  • 179 Northumberland, (Nth), Ld. Ossulston, Addison J. B. Cresswell
  • 180 Northumberland, (Sth), M. Bell, S. C. H. Ogle
  • 181 Norwich, Mrq. of Douro, B. Smith
  • 182 Nottinghamshire, (Nth), T. Houldsworth, H. G. Knight
  • 183 Nottinghamshire, (Sth), Earl of Lincoln, Col. Lancelot Rolleston
  • 184 Nottingham, Rt. Hon. Sir J. C. Hobhouse, Bt., Thos. Gisborne
  • 185 Oldham, J. Fielden, Maj. Gen. W. A. Johnson
  • 186 Oxfordsh., Ld. Norreys, G. G. Harcourt, J. W. Henley
  • 187 Oxford City, Js. Haughton Langston, Donald Maclean
  • 188 Oxford University, T. G. B. Estcourt, D. C. L., Sir R. H. Inglis, Bt., D. C. L.
  • 189 Pembrokeshire, Viscount Emlyn
  • 190 Pembroke, &c., Sir John Owen, Bart.
  • 191 Penryn and Falmouth, Capt. J. C. W. Vivian, Capt. J. H. Plumridge R. N.
  • - 18 - {f.18} 192 Peterborough, Hon. G. W. Fitzwilliam, Sir R. Heron, Bart.
  • 193 Petersfield, Sir W. G. H. Jolliffe, Bart.
  • 194 Plymouth, T. Gill., Visc. Ebrington
  • 195 Pontefract, Visc. Pollington, Rich. Monckton Milnes
  • 196 Poole, Hon. C. F. A. C. Ponsonby, G. R. Phillips
  • 197 Portsmouth, Rt. Hon. F. T. Baring, Sir G. T. Staunton, Bart.
  • 198 Preston, Sir H. Fleetwood, Bart., Sir Geo. Strickland, Bart.
  • 199 Radnorshire, Sir John Benn Walsh, Bt.
  • 200 Radnor, &c., R. Price
  • 201 Reading, C. Russell, Vis. Chelsea
  • 202 Reigate, Visc. Eastnor
  • 203 Richmond, Hon. J. C. Dundas, Hon. Wm. N. R. Colborne
  • 204 Ripon, Rt. Hon. T. C. B. Smith, Sir G. Cockburn
  • 205 Rochdale, W. Sharman Crawford
  • 206 Rochester, J. D. Stod. Douglas, W. H. Bodkin
  • 207 Rutlandshire, G. J. Heathcote, Hon. W. H. Dawnay
  • 208 Rye, H. Barrett Curteis
  • 209 Salford, J. Brotherton
  • 210 Salisbury, Ambrose Hussey, J. H. Campbell
  • 211 Sandwich, Sir E. T. Troubridge, Bart., H.H, Lindsay
  • 212 Scarborough, Sir J. V. B. Johnstone, Bart., Maj.-Gen. Sir F. W. Trench
  • 213 Shaftesbury, Ld. Howard
  • 214 Sheffield, J. Parker, H. G. Ward
  • 215 Shoreham (New), &c. Sir C. M. Burrell, Bart., C. Goring
  • 216 Shrewsbury, G. Tomline, B. Disraeli
  • 217 Shropshire (North), W. O. Gore, Visc. Clive
  • 218 Shropshire (South), Hon. R. H. Clive, Viscount Newport
  • 219 Somersetshire (East), Col. W. G. Langton, W. Miles
  • 220 Somersetshire (West), T. D. Acland, F. H. Dickinson
  • 221 Southampton, H. St. Jn. Mildmay, G. W. Hope
  • 222 South Shields, J. Twizell Wawn
  • 223 Southwark, J. Humphery, B. Wood
  • 224 Staffordshire (North), J. D. W. Russell, C. B. Adderley
  • 225 Staffordshire (South), Vis. Ingestre, Lt.-Col. Hon. G. Anson
  • 226 Stafford, Hon. S. T. Carnegie, E. Buller
  • 227 Stamford, Mq. of Granby, Sir G. Clerk, Bart.
  • 228 Stockport, H. Marsland, R. Cobden
  • 229 Stoke-upon-Trent, J. L. Ricardo, W. T. Copeland
  • 230 Stroud, W. H. Stanton, G. P. Scrope
  • 231 Suffolk, (East), Lord Henniker, Lord Rendlesham
  • 232 Suffolk, (West), Lt.-Col. R. Rushbrooke, H. Spencer Waddington
  • 233 Sunderland, D. Barclay, Vist. Howick
  • 234 Surrey (East), H. Kemble, E. Antrobus
  • 235 Surrey (West), W. J. Denison, Jn. Trotter
  • 236 Sussex (East), G. Darby, A. Eliott Fuller
  • 237 Sussex (West), Earl of March, Col. C. Wyndham
  • 238 Swansea, &c., J. H. Vivian
  • 239 Tamworth, Rt. Hon. Sir R. Peel, Bart., Capt. E. H. A’Court, R. N.
  • 240 Tavistock, Ld. E. Russell, J. S. Trelawney
  • 241 Taunton, Rt. Hon. H. Labouchere, Sir Thos. Edw. Colebrooke
  • 242 Tewkesbury, W. Dowdeswell, J. Martin
  • 243 Thetford, Hon. W. B. Baring, Sir J. Flower, Bart.
  • 244 Thirsk, J. Bell
  • 245 Tiverton, J. Heathcoat, Visct. Palmerston
  • 246 Totnes, Lord Seymour, C. B. Baldwin
  • 247 Tower Hamlets, Sir W. Clay, Bart., C. R. Fox
  • 248 Truro, J. E. Vivian, E. Turner
  • 249 Tynemouth, H. Mitcalfe
  • 250 Wakefield, Hon. W. Sebright Lascelles
  • 251 Wallingford, W. S. Blackstone
  • 252 Walsall, R. Scott
  • 253 Wareham, J. S. W. S. E. Drax
  • 254 Warrington, J. I. Blackburne
  • 255 Warwickshire (North), W. S. Dugdale, Chas. N. Newdegate
  • 256 Warwickshire (South), Sir J. Mordaunt, Bart., E. J. Shirley
  • 257 Warwick, Sir C. E. Douglas, W. Collins
  • 258 Wells, R. Blakemore, W. G. Hayter
  • 259 Wenlock, Capt. Hon. G. C. W. Forester, J. M. Gaskell
  • 260 Westbury, Sir R. Lopes, Bart.
  • 261 Westminster, J. T. Leader, Capt. Hon. H. J. Rous, R. N.
  • 262 Westmoreland, Lt.-Col. Hon. H. C. Lowther, Alderm. W. Thompson
  • 263 Weymouth, &c., Ralph Bernal, Wm. Dougal Christie
  • 264 Whitby, A. Chapman
  • 265 Whitehaven, M. Attwood
  • 266 Wigan, P. Greenall, Ch. Standish
  • 267 Wight, Isle of, Hon. W. H. A. A’Court Holmes
  • 268 Wilton, Vis. Somerton
  • 269 Wiltshire (North), W. Long, T. H. S. Sotheron
  • 270 Wiltshire (South), J. Benett, Hon. S. Herbert
  • 271 Winchester, J. B. East, D. C. L., B. Escott
  • 272 Windsor, J. Ramsbottom, R. Neville
  • 273 Wolverhampton, Hon. C. P. Villiers, T. Thornely
  • 274 Woodstock, Marquis of Blandford
  • 275 Worcestershire (East), J. Barneby, J. A. Taylor
  • 276 Worcestershire (West), Major-General Hon. H. B. Lygon, F. W. Knight
  • 277 Worcester, Sir T. Wilde, J. Bailey
  • 278 Wycombe, G. H. Dashwood, Capt. R. Osborne
  • 279 Yarmouth, C. E. Rumbold, W. Wilshere
  • 280 Yorkshire (East. Rid.), H. Broadley, Lord Hotham
  • - 19 - {f.19} 281 Yorkshire, (West Rid.), Hon. J. S. Wortley, E. B. Denison
  • 282 Yorkshire (North Rid.), E. S. Cayley, Hon. O. Duncombe
  • 283 York, J. H. Lowther, H. G. R. Yorke

    • IRELAND

  • 284 Antrim Co., J. Irving, N. Alexander
  • 285 Armagh County, Visct. Acheson, Lt.-Col. W. Verner
  • 286 Armagh, Lt.-Col. J. D. Rawdon
  • 287 Athlone, Westmeath, Jn. Collett
  • 288 Bandon-bridge, Viscount Bernard
  • 289 Belfast, J. E. Tennent, David R. Ross
  • 290 Carlow County, Col. H. Bruen, T. Bunbury
  • 291 Carlow, Capt. B. V. Layard
  • 292 Carrickfergus, P. Kirk
  • 293 Cashel, J. Stock, LL. D.
  • 294 Cavan County, J. Young, Hon. J. P. Maxwell
  • 295 Clare County, Maj. W. N. McNamara, C. O’Brien
  • 296 Clonmel, Rt. Hon. D. R. Pigot
  • 297 Coleraine, John Boyd
  • 298 Cork County, D. O’Connell, E. B. Roche
  • 299 Cork, F. S. Murphy, D. Callaghan
  • 300 Donegal County, Sir E. S. Hayes, Bart., Col. E. M. Conolly
  • 301 Downpatrick, D. S. Kerr
  • 302 Downshire, Visc. Castlereagh, Earl of Hillsborough
  • 303 Drogheda, Sir W. M. Somerville, Bart.
  • 304 Dublin Co., J. H. Hamilton, Capt. T. E. Taylor
  • 305 Dublin, E. Grogan, Wm. Hen. Gregory
  • 306 Dublin University, Rt. Hon. F. Shaw, G. A. Hamilton
  • 307 Dundalk, T. N. Redington
  • 308 Dungannon, Viscount Northland
  • 309 Dungarvan, Rt. Hon. R. L. Shiel
  • 310 Ennis, Clare, H. Bridgeman
  • 311 Enniskillen, Hon. H. A. Cole
  • 312 Fermanagh County, Sir A. B. Brooke, Bart., M. E. Archdall
  • 313 Galway Co., J. J. Bodkin, T. B. Martin
  • 314 Galway, M. J. Blake, Sir V. Blake, Bart.
  • 315 Kerry County, Hon. W. Browne, M. J. O’Connell
  • 316 Kildare Co., R. M. O’Ferrall, R. Archbold
  • 317 Kilkenny County, Hon. P. Butler, P. S. Butler
  • 318 Kilkenny, J. O’Connell
  • 319 King’s County, Lt.-Col. Hon. J. C. Westenra, Sir A. Armstrong, Bart.
  • 320 Kinsale, W. H. Watson
  • 321 Leitrim County, Visct. Clements, Samuel White
  • 322 Limerick Co., W. Smith O’Brien, C. Powell
  • 323 Limerick, J. O’Brien, Jas. Kelly
  • 324 Lisburn, Capt. H. Meynell, R. N.
  • 325 Londonderry Co., Capt. T. Jones, R. N., T. Bateson
  • 326 Londonderry, Sir R. A. Ferguson, Bt.
  • 327 Longford Co., Col. H. White, Ant. Lefroy
  • 328 Louth County, R. M. Bellew, Hon. T. V. Dawson
  • 329 Mallow, Sir D. J. Norreys, Bart.
  • 330 Mayo Co., R. D. Browne, M. Blake
  • 331 Meath Co., H. Grattan, Mat. E. Corbally
  • 332 Monaghan County, E. P. Shirley, Chas. Powell Leslie
  • 333 Newry, Visc. Newry and Morne
  • 334 New Ross, Hon. R. Gore, R. N.
  • 335 Portarlington, Rt. Hon. Col. G. L. D. Damer
  • 336 Queen’s County, Sir C. H. Coote, Bart., Hon. T. Vesey
  • 337 Roscommon Co. F. French, D. O’Connor (O’Connor Don)
  • 338 Sligo Co., W. R. O. Gore, J. Ffolliott
  • 339 Sligo, J. P. Somers
  • 340 Tipperary, Hon. R. O. Cave, N. Maher
  • 341 Tralee, M. O’Connell
  • 342 Tyrone Co., Rt. Hon. H. T. L. Corry, Ld. Claude Hamilton
  • 343 Waterford Co., W. V. Stuart, Hon. R. S. Carew
  • 344 Waterford, Sir H. Winston Barron, T. Wyse
  • 345 Westmeath, H. M. Tuite, B. J. Chapman
  • 346 Wexford Co., Capt. V. F. Hatton, R. N., J. Power
  • 347 Wexford, Sir T. Esmonde, Bart.
  • 348 Wicklow Co., Col. W. Acton, Sir R. Howard, Bart.
  • 349 Youghall, Hon. C. C. Cavendish

    • SCOTLAND.

  • 350 Aberdeen Co., Capt. Hon. W. Gordon, R. N.
  • 351 Aberdeen, A. Bannerman
  • 352 Andrew’s, St., &c., E. Ellice, jun.
  • 353 Argyle Co., Rt. Hon. D. McNeillMcNeil
  • 354 Ayr Co., A. Oswald
  • 355 Ayr, Irvine, &c., Lord J. C. Stuart
  • 356 Banff Co., J. Duff
  • 357 Bute Co., Hon. J. A. S. Wortley
  • 358 Berwick Co., Sir H. P. H. Campbell, Bart.
  • 359 Caithness Co., G. Traill
  • 360 Clackmannan and Kinross, Maj.-Gen. Wm. Morison
  • 361 Dumbarton Co., A. Smollett, jun.
  • 362 Dumfries Co., J. J. H. Johnstone
  • 363 Dumfries, &c., W. Ewart
  • 364 Dundee, G. Duncan
  • 365 Edinburgh Co., W. R. Ramsay
  • 366 Edinburgh, Rt. Hon. T. B. Macaulay, W. G. Craig
  • 367 Elgin and Nairn, C. L. C. Bruce
  • 368 Elgin, Banff, &c., Sir A. L. Hay
  • 369 Falkirk Dist., W. Baird
  • - 20 - ↑ {f.20} 370 Fife Co., Capt. J. E. Wemyss, R. N.
  • 371 Forfar Co., Lord J. F. Gordon Hallyburton
  • 372 Glasgow, J. Oswald, J. Dennistoun
  • 373 Greenock, R. Wallace
  • 374 Haddington Co., Sir T. B. Hepburn, Bart.
  • 375 Haddington, &c., J. M. Balfour, jun.
  • 376 Inverness Co., H. J. Baillie, jun.
  • 377 Inverness, &c., James Morrison
  • 378 Kilmarnock, &c., — Bouverie
  • 379 Kincardine Co., Ma.-Ge. Hon. H. Arbuthnot
  • 380 Kirkaldy, &c., Lt.-Col. R. Ferguson
  • 381 Kirkcudbright Stewartry, Alex. Murray
  • 382 Lanark Co., W. Lockhart
  • 383 Leith, &c., A. Rutherfurd
  • 384 Linlithgow Co., Hon. C. Hope
  • 385 Montrose, Forfar, &c., Jos. Hume
  • 386 Orkney, Nairne, &c., F. Dundas
  • 387 Paisley, A. Hastie
  • 388 Peebles Co., W. F. Mackenzie
  • 389 Perth Co., H. H. Drummond
  • 390 Perth, Rt. Hn. F. Maule
  • 391 Renfrew Co., P. M. Stewart
  • 392 Ross and Cromarty, T. Mackenzie
  • 393 Roxburgh Co., Hn. F. Scott
  • 394 Selkirk Co., A. Pringle
  • 395 Stirling Co., W. Forbes
  • 396 Stirling, Culross, &c., Lord Dalmeny
  • 397 Sutherland Co., D. Dundas
  • 398 Wick, Kirkwall, &c., J. Loch
  • 399 Wigton Co., Capt. J. Dalrymple
  • 400 Wigton, &c., Sir J. McTaggart, Bart.
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    ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
    (The figures refer to the previous list.)

    Acheson, Viscount285
    Ackers, Jas.148
    Acland, T. D.220
    Acland, Sir T. D., Bart. 76
    A’Court, Capt. E. H.239
    Acton, Col. W.348
    Adare, Viscount 96
    Adderley, C. B.224
    Aglionby, H. A. 60
    Ainsworth, P. 23
    Aldam, W.135
    Alexander, N.284
    Alford, Viscount 14
    Allix, J. P. 38
    Anson, Lt.-Col. Hon. G.225
    Antrobus, E.234
    Arbuthnot, Maj.-Gen. Hon. H.379
    Archbold, R.316
    Archdall, M. E.312
    Arkwright, Geo.139
    Armstrong, Sir. A., Bart.319
    Arundel and Surrey, Earl of  5
    Ashley-Cooper, Hon. A. H. 78
    Ashley, Lord 79
    Astell, W. 14
    Attwood, J.107
    Attwood, M.265
    Bagge, W.174
    Bagot, Hon. W. 69
    Baillie, Col. H. D.115
    Baillie, H. J. jun.376
    Bailey, J.277
    Bailey, J. jun.112
    Baird, W.369
    Baldwin, C. B.246
    Balfour, J. M. jun.375
    Bankes, G. 79
    Bannerman, A.351
    Barclay, D.233
    Baring, Maj. H. B.157
    Baring, Rt. Hon. F. T.197
    Baring, Hon. W. B.243
    Barnard, E. G.102
    Barneby, J.275
    Barrington, Visc. 16
    Barron, Sir H. W., Bt.344
    Baskerville, Th. B. M.112
    Bateson, T.325
    Beckett, W.135
    Bell, J.244
    Bell, M.180
    Bellew, R. M.328
    Benbow, John 82
    Benett, J.270
    Bentinck, Lord G.127
    Beresford, Major W.107
    Berkeley, Hon. G. C. G. F. 98
    Berkeley, Hon. C. F. 51
    Berkeley, Hon. F. H. F. 32
    Berkeley, Capt. M. F. 99
    Bernal, Ralph263
    Bernard, Viscount288
    Blackburne, J. I.254
    Blackstone, W. S.251
    Blake, M. J.314
    Blake, Sir V., Bart.314
    Blake, M.330
    Blakemore, R.258
    Blandford, Marquis of274
    Blewitt, R. J.165
    Bodkin, J. J.313
    Bodkin, W. H.206
    Boldero, Capt. H. G. 56
    Borthwick, P. 88
    Botfield, B.148
    Bouverie, —.378
    Bowes, John 84
    Bowles, Admiral W.134
    Bowring, J., LLD. 23
    Boyd, John297
    Bradshaw, J. 41
    Bramston, T. W. 87
    Bridgeman, H.310
    Bright, John 85
    Brisco, Musgrave108
    Broadley, H.280
    Broadwood, H. 29
    Brocklehurst, J.151
    Brooke, Sir A. B. Bart.312
    Brotherton, Joseph209
    Browne, R. D.330
    Browne, Hon. W.315
    Brownrigg, J. S. 24
    Bruce, Lord E. A. C. B.157
    Bruce, C. L. C.367
    Bruen, Col. H.290
    Bruges, Ludlow 74
    Buck, L. W. 76
    Buckley, E.170
    Bulkeley, Sir R. B. W. Bart. 93
    Buller, C. jun.145
    Buller, E.226
    Buller, Sir J. B. Y. Bart. 77
    Bunbury, T.290
    Burrell, Sir C. M. Bt.215
    Burroughes, H. N.173
    Busfeild, W. 25
    Butler, Hon. P.317
    Butler, P. S.317
    Byng, George162
    Byng, Rt. Hon. G. S. 50
    Callaghan, D.299
    Campbell, J. H.210
    Campbell, Sir H. Bart.358
    Cardwell, Edw. 59
    Carew, Hon. R. S.343
    Carnegie, Hon. S. T.226
    Cartwright, W. R.177
    Castlereagh, Visc.302
    Cave, Hon. R. O.340
    Cavendish, Hon. G. H. 71
    Cavendish, Hon. C. C.349
    Cayley, E. S.282
    Chapman, Aaron264
    Chapman, B. J.345
    Charteris, Hon. F. 97
    Chelsea, Visc.201
    Chetwode, Sir J. Bart. 34
    - 21 - {f.21} Childers, J. W.155
    Cholmondeley, Hon. Hugh167
    Christie, Wm. D.263
    Christopher, R. A.142
    Chute, W. L. W.174
    Clay, Sir W. Bart.247
    Clayton, R. R.  8
    Clements, Visc.321
    Clerk, Sir G. Bart.227
    Clifton, Jno. Talbot,131
    Clive, Visc.217
    Clive, Hon. R. H.218
    Clive, E. B.111
    Cobden, R.228
    Cochrane, A. D. R. W. 30
    Cockburn, Sir G.204
    Codrington, C. W. 97
    Colborne, Hon. W. N. R.203
    Cole, Hon. H. A.311
    Colebrooke, Sir T. E. Bt.241
    Collett, John287
    Collett, W. R.144
    Collins, W.257
    Colquhoun, J. C.170
    Colville, C. R. 72
    Compton, H. C.106
    Conolly, Col. E. M.300
    Coote, Sir C. H. Bart.336
    Copeland, Ald. W. T.229
    Corbally, M. E.331
    Corry, Rt. Hon. H. T.342
    Courtenay, Lord 77
    Cowper, Hon. W. F.114
    Craig, W. G.366
    Crawford, W. S.205
    Cresswell, A. J. B.179
    Cripps, W. 58
    Currie, Raikes178
    Curteis, H. B.208
    Dalmeny, Lord396
    Dalrymple, Capt. J.399
    Damer, Rt. Hon. Col. G. L. D.335
    Darby, George236
    Dashwood, G. H.278
    Davies, D. A. S. 46
    Dawnay, Hon. W. H.207
    Dawson, Hon. T. V.328
    Denison, W. J.235
    Denison, E. B.281
    Denison, J. E.155
    Dennistoun, J.372
    D’Eyncourt, Rt. Hon. C. T.130
    Dick, Q.153
    Dickinson, F. H.220
    Disraeli, Benj.216
    Divett, Edward 89
    Dodd, George152
    Douglas, J. D. S.206
    Douglas, Sir C. E.257
    Douglas, Sir Howard146
    Douro, Marquis of181
    Dowdeswell, W.242
    Drax, J. S. W. S. E.253
    Drummond, H. H.389
    Duff, J.356
    Dugdale, W. S.255
    Duke, Sir J. 24
    Duncan, Visc. 12
    Duncan, G.364
    Duncombe, Hon. O.282
    Duncombe, Capt. Hon. Arth. 11
    Duncombe, T. S. 91
    Dundas, Hon. J. C.203
    Dundas, David397
    Dundas, F.386
    Dundas, Capt. J. W.102
    Dunn-Gardner, John 22
    Dupré, C. G. 33
    East, J. B.271
    Easthope, Sir J. Bart.138
    Eastnor, Visc.202
    Eaton, Capt. R. J. 38
    Ebrington, Visc.194
    Egerton, W. T. 52
    Egerton, Lord F. L.132
    Egerton, Sir P. de Malpas G. Bart. 53
    Eliot, Lord 63
    Ellice, Rt. Hon. E. 64
    Ellice, E. jun.352
    Ellis, W.138
    Elphinstone, H.140
    Entwisle, J.132
    Emlyn, Visc.189
    Escott, B.271
    Esmonde, Sir T. Bart.347
    Estcourt, T. G. B.188
    Etwall, Ralph  3
    Evans, W. 71
    Ewart, W.363
    Farnham, E. B.136
    Feilden, W. 21
    Fellowes, E.118
    Ferguson, Sir R. A. Bt.326
    Ferguson, Lt.-Col. R.380
    Ferrand, W. B.129
    Ffolliott, John338
    Fielden, John185
    Filmer, Sir E. Bt.125
    Fitzmaurice, Hon. Capt. W. E. 33
    Fitzroy, Rt. Hon. Ld. C. 36
    Fitzroy, Hon. H.140
    Fitzwilliam, Hon. G. W.192
    Fleetwood, Sir H. Bt.198
    Flower, Sir J. Bart.243
    Follett, Sir W. W. 89
    Forbes, W.395
    Forester, Capt. Hon. G. C. W.259
    Forman, T. S. 29
    Forster, M. 17
    Fox, Col. C. R.247
    Fox, Sackville Lane121
    Fremantle, Sir T. F. Bt. 34
    French, F.337
    Fuller, A. E.236
    Gaskell, J. M.259
    Gibson, T. M.156
    Gill, T.194
    Gisborne, jun. T.184
    Gladstone, Capt. J. N.121
    Gladstone, Rt. Hon. W. E.169
    Glynne, Sir S. R. 92
    Godson, R.126
    Gordon, Capt. Hon. W.350
    Gore, M. 10
    Gore, Hon. R.334
    Gore, W. O.217
    Gore, W. R. O.338
    Goring, C.215
    Goulburn, Rt. Hon. H. 39
    Graham, Rt. Hon. Sir J. R. G. Bart. 78
    Granby, Marquis of227
    Graneer, T. C. 85
    Grattan, H.331
    Greenall, P.266
    Greenaway, C.139
    Greene, T.133
    Gregory, Wm. H.305
    Grey, Rt. Hon. Sir G. Bt. 75
    Grimsditch, T.151
    Grimston, Visc.113
    Grogan, E.305
    Grosvenor, Lord R. 54
    Guest, Sir J. J. Bart.161
    Hale, R. B. 98
    Halford, H.137
    Hall, Sir. B. Bart.159
    Hallyburton, Ld. J. F. G.371
    Hamilton, Lord C.342
    Hamilton, Capt. C. J. B.  8
    Hamilton, G. A.306
    Hamilton, J. H.304
    Hamilton, W. J.172
    Hampden, R.158
    Hanmer, Sir J. Bart.128
    Harcourt, G. G.186
    Hardy, J. 25
    Harris, Capt. 57
    Hastie, A.387
    Hatton, Capt. V. F.346
    Hawes, Benj. jun.130
    Hay, Sir A. L.368
    Hayes, Sir E. S. Bart.300
    Hayter, W. G.258
    Heathcoat, John245
    Heathcote, G. J.207
    Heathcote, Sir W. Bart.105
    Heneage, E.101
    Heneage, G. H. W. 74
    Henley, J. W.186
    Henniker, Lord231
    Hepburn, Sir T. B. Bt.374
    Herbert, Hon. S.270
    Heron, Sir R. Bart.192
    Hervey, Lord A. 31
    Hill, Lord M. 88
    Hillsborough, E. of302
    Hinde, J. Hodgson171
    - 22 - {f.22} Hindley, C.  7
    Hobhouse, Rt. Hon. Sir J. C. Bart.184
    Hodgson, F. 10
    Hodgson, R. 17
    Hogg, J. W. 18
    Hollond, R.108
    Holmes, Hon. W. H. A. à Court267
    Hope, Hon. Charles384
    Hope, A. J. B.152
    Hope, G. Wm.221
    Hornby, John 21
    Horsman, E. 60
    Hoskins, K.112
    Hotham, Lord280
    Houldsworth, T.182
    Howard, Sir R. Bart.348
    Howard, P. H. 45
    Howard, Capt. Hon. E. G. G.168
    Howard, Hon. C. W. G. 66
    Howard, Capt. Hon. H. 65
    Howard, Hon. J. K.154
    Howard, Lord213
    Howick, Visc.233
    Hughes, W. B. 49
    Hume, Joseph385
    Humphery, John223
    Hurst, Robt. H.116
    Hussey, Ambrose210
    Hussey, Thomas149
    Hutt, William 95
    Ingestre, Visc.225
    Inglis, Sir R. H. Bart.188
    Irton, S. 67
    Irving, J.284
    James, W. 66
    James, Sir W. C. Bart.128
    Jermyn, Earl 36
    Jervis, J. 54
    Jocelyn, Visc.127
    Johnson, Maj.-Gen.185
    Johnstone, J. J. H.362
    Johnstone, Sir J. V. B. Bart.212
    Jolliffe, Sir W. G. Bart.193
    Jones, Capt. T.325
    Kelly, Fitzroy 40
    Kelly, James323
    Kemble, H.234
    Kerr, D. S.301
    Kerrison, Sir E. Bart. 90
    Kirk, P.292
    Knatchbull, Rt. Hon. Sir E. Bart.124
    Knight, H. G.182
    Knight, F. W.276
    Knightley, Sir C. Bart.177
    Labouchere, Rt. Hon. H.241
    Lambton, H. 83
    Langston, J. H.187
    Langton, Col. W. G.219
    Lascelles, Hon. W. S.250
    Law, Hon. C. E. 39
    Lawson, A.129
    Layard, Capt. B. V.291
    Leader, J. T.261
    Lefevre, Rt. Hon. C. S. (Speaker)105
    Lefroy, Anthony327
    Legh, G. C. 52
    Lemon, Sir C. Bart. 62
    Lennox, Lord A. 55
    Leslie, C. Powell332
    Leveson, Lord141
    Liddell, Hon H. T. 83
    Lincoln, Earl of183
    Lindsay, H. H.211
    Listowel, Earl of  2
    Loch, James398
    Lockhart, W.382
    Long, W.269
    Lopes, Sir R. Bart.260
    Lowther, Lt.-Col. Hon. H. C.262
    Lowther, J. H.283
    Lyall, G.147
    Lygon, Maj. Gen. Hon. H. B.276
    Macaulay, Rt. Hon. T. B.366
    MacGeachy, F. A.115
    Mackenzie, T.392
    Mackenzie, W. F.388
    Mackinnon, W. A.150
    Maclean, D.187
    Macnamara, Maj. W.295
    McNeill, Rt. Hon. D.353
    McTaggart, Sir J. Bart.400
    Maher, N.340
    Mahon, Viscount114
    Mainwaring, T. 70
    Mangles, Capt. R. D.103
    Manners, Lord C. S.136
    Manners, Lord J.169
    March, Earl of237
    Marjoribanks, S.120
    Marshall, W. 45
    Marsham, Visc.125
    Marsland, H.228
    Martin, C. W.172
    Martin, J.242
    Martin, T. B.313
    Marton, G.133
    Masterman, J.147
    Matheson, James  6
    Maule, Rt. Hon. F.389
    Maunsell, T. P.176
    Maxwell, Hon. Capt. J. P.294
    Meynell, Capt. H.324
    Mildmay, H. St. John221
    Miles, P. W. S. 32
    Miles, W.219
    Milnes, R. M.195
    Mitcalfe, H.249
    Mitchell, T. A. 30
    Mordaunt, Sir J. Bart.256
    Morgan, C. M. R. 27
    Morgan, Ch. O. S.164
    Morison, Major-Gen. W.360
    Morris, D. 47
    Morrison, James377
    Mundy, E. M. 72
    Muntz, G. F. 20
    Murphy, F. S.299
    Murray, Alex.381
    Murray, C. R. S. 33
    Napier, Sir C.159
    Neeld, Joseph 56
    Neeld, John 65
    Neville, R.272
    Newdegate, Charles Newdegate255
    Newport, Viscount218
    Newry & Morne, Visc.333
    Nicholl, Rt. Hon. J. 42
    NorreysNorroys, Sir D. J. Bart.329
    Norreys, Lord186
    Northland, Viscount308
    O’Brien, W. S.322
    O’Brien, C.295
    O’Brien, A. S.176
    O’Brien, J.323
    O’Connell, D.298
    O’Connell, M.341
    O’Connell, J.318
    O’Connell, M. J.315
    O’Connor, D.337
    O’Ferrall, R. M.316
    Ogle, S. C. H.179
    Ord, W.171
    Osborne, Capt. R.278
    Ossulston, Lord179
    Oswald, Alex.354
    Oswald, James372
    Owen, Sir J. Bart.190
    Packe, C. W.137
    Paget, Lt.-Col F. 13
    Paget, Lord A. H.141
    Paget, Lord W.  3
    Pakington, J. S. 81
    Palmer, R. 16
    Palmer, G. 87
    Palmerston, Viscount245
    Parker, John214
    Patten, J. W.131
    Pattison, James147
    Pechell, Capt. G. R. 31
    Peel, Rt. Hon. Sir R. Bt.239
    Peel ; Colonel J.119
    Pendarves, E. W. W. 62
    Pennant, Hon. E. G. D. 48
    Philips, M.156
    Philips, G. R.196
    Philipps, Sir R. B. P. Bt.109
    Phillpotts, J. 99
    Pigot, Sir R. Bart. 28
    Pigot, Rt. Hon. D. R.296
    Plumptre, J. P.124
    Plumridge, Capt. J. H.191
    Polhill, Captain F. 15
    Pollington, Viscount195
    Pollock, Sir F.119
    - 23 - ↑ {f.23} Ponsonby, Hon. J. G. B. 73
    Ponsonby, Hon. C. F. A. C.196
    Powell, Col. W. E. 43
    Powell, C.322
    Power, J.346
    Praed, W. T.122
    Price, R.200
    Pringle, A.394
    Protheroe, E.104
    Pryse, P. 44
    Pulsford, R.111
    Pusey, P. 16
    Ramsay, W. R.365
    Ramsbottom, J.272
    Rashleigh, W. 63
    Rawdon, Lt.-Col. J. D.286
    Redington, T. N.307
    Reid, Sir J. R. Bart. 80
    Rendlesham, Lord231
    Repton, G. W. J.  2
    Ricardo, J. L.229
    Rice, E. R. 80
    Richards, R.160
    Roche, E. B.298
    Roebuck, J. A. 12
    Rolleston, Col. L.183
    Ross, David R.289
    Round, J.153
    Round, C. G. 86
    Rous, Capt. Hon. H. J.261
    Rumbold, C. E.279
    Rushbrooke, Lt.-Col. R.232
    Russell, Lord J.147
    Russell, C.201
    Russell, Lord E.240
    Russell, J. D. W.224
    Rutherfurd, A.383
    Ryder, Hon. G. D.113
    Sanderson, R. 61
    Sandon, Viscount146
    Scott, R.252
    Scott, Hon. F.393
    Scrope, G. P.230
    Seale, Sir J. H. Bart. 68
    Seymour, Lord246
    Seymour, Sir H. B.163
    Shaw, Rt. Hon. F.306
    Sheil, Rt. Hon. R. L.309
    Shelburne, Earl of 37
    Sheppard, T. 94
    Shirley, E. J.256
    Shirley, E. P.332
    Sibthorp, Colonel144
    Smith, A.,113
    Smith, B.,181
    Smith, J. A. 55
    Smith, R. V.178
    Smith, Rt. Hon. T. B. C.204
    Smollett, Alexander361
    Smyth, Sir G. H. Bart. 61
    Smythe, Hon. G. S. 41
    Somers, John Patrick339
    Somerset, Lord Granville164
    Somerton, Viscount268
    Somerville, Sir W. M. Bt.303
    Sotheron, T. H. S.269
    Spooner, R. 20
    Spry, Sir S. T. 22
    Standish, Chas.266
    Stanley, Edw. 67
    Stanley, Hon. W. O.  4
    Stansfield, W. R. C.117
    Stanton, W. H.230
    Staunton, Sir G. T. Bt.197
    Stewart, John150
    Stewart, P. W.391
    Stock, Joseph, LL. D.293
    Strickland, Sir G. Bart.198
    Strutt, Edw. 73
    Stuart, Henry 15
    Stuart, Lord J. C.355
    Stuart, Wm. Villiers343
    Sturt, H. C. 79
    Sutton, Hon. J. Manners 40
    Talbot, C. R. M. 96
    Tancred, H. W.  9
    Taylor, James Arthur275
    Taylor, Capt. T. E.304
    Tennent, J. Emerson289
    Thesiger, Sir Frederick  1
    Thompson, Ald. W.262
    Thorneley, Thomas273
    Thornhill, George118
    Tollemache, F. J.100
    Tollemache, John 53
    Tomline, George216
    Towneley, John 18
    Traill, George359
    Trelawney, John S.240
    Trench, Maj.-Gen. Sir F.212
    Trevor, Hon. G. R. R. 46
    Trollope, Sir John, Bart.143
    Trotter, John235
    Troubridge, Sir E. T. Bt.211
    Tufnell, Henry 75
    Tuite, Hugh Morgan345
    Turner, Edmund248
    Turnor, Christopher143
    Tyrell, Sir J. T. Bart. 86
    Vane, Lord Harry 84
    Verner, Lt.-Col.285
    Vernon, G. H. 11
    Vesey, Hon. Thomas336
    Villiers, Hon. Chas. P.273
    Villiers, Lord 58
    Vivian, Capt. J. C. W.191
    Vivian, John Henry238
    Vivian, John Ennis248
    Vyvyan, Sir R. R. Bart.110
    Waddington, H. S.232
    Wakley, Thos. 91
    Walker, Richard 35
    Wall, Chas. B.103
    Wallace, Robt.373
    Walsh, Sir J. B. Bart.199
    Warburton, H.123
    Ward, H. G.214
    Watson, W. H.320
    Wawn, J. T.222
    Welby, G. E.100
    Wellesley, Lord Chas.106
    Wemyss, Capt. J. E., R. N.370
    Westenra, Lt.-Col. Hon. J. C.319
    White, Samuel321
    White, Col. Henry327
    Whitmore, T. C. 28
    Wilde, Sir Thomas277
    Williams, T. P.158
    Williams, William 64
    Wilshere, William279
    Winnington, Sir T. E. Bt. 19
    Wodehouse, Edmond173
    Wood, Col. Thomas 26
    Wood, Lt.-Col. T. jun.162
    Wood, Benjamin223
    Wood, Charles104
    Worsley, Lord142
    Wortley, Hon. John S.281
    Wortley, Hon. Jas. S.357
    Wrightson, W. B.175
    Wyndham, Col. Chas.237
    Wynn, Rt. Hon. C. W. W.166
    Wynn, Sir W. W. Bart. 69
    Wyse, Thomas344
    Yorke, Hon. E. T. 33
    Yorke, H. G. R.283
    Young, John294
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    OFFICERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

  • Chief Clerk, John Henry Ley, Esq.
  • Clerk Assistant, W. Ley, Esq.
  • Second Clerk Assistant, H. Ley, Esq.
  • Clerk of the Fees, John E. Dorrington, Esq.
  • Assistants, Messrs. A. Jones, G. Ley, W. Rose, —. Marriott
  • Accountant, J. J. Wilkinson, Esq.
  • Committee Clerks, R. Chalmers, G. Whittam, G. Dyson, R. K. Gibbons, Esqs.
  • Assistants, Messrs. J. Rose, Pole, C. Gunnell, Frere, Mayne, Creed
  • Clerk of the Journals, J. Gudge, Esq. — Assistants, Messrs. Rowland, Postletwaite, Gray, Jeanneret, W. Ley, Bull
  • Clerks of the Ingrossments, Messrs. S. W. Gunnell, G. Gunnell, Ginger
  • Clerks’ Private Bill Office, Messrs. Hawes, Hodgkin
  • Examiner of Election Recognizances, Jas. Booth, Esq.
  • - 24 - ↑ {f.24} Examiner for Taxation of Costs on Private Bills, J. Rose, Esq.
  • Librarian, T. Vardon, Esq.
  • — Assistant, Mr. T. E. May.
  • — Messenger, Mr. Kay
  • Short-hand Writer, W. B. Gurney, Esq. — Deliverer of Votes, Mr. C. Paskin
  • Assistant Sergeant, R. A. Gosset, Esq.
  • Housekeeper, Mr. J. Bellamy, Assistant, Mr. E. Bellamy
  • Chaplain, Rev. G. T. Andrews M. A.
  • Secretary to the Speaker, C. E. Lefroy, Esq.
  • Sergeant-at-Arms, Sir W. Gosset. — Deputy, John Clementson, Esq.
  • Train Bearer, Robt. Baily
  • Printers of the Journals, &c. J. & L. J. Hansard, Esqs.
  • Printers of the Votes, J. B. Nichols, Esq., and Son.
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    THE POPULATION.[Comment by SL] : This section was introduced in the 1844 pocket book but only continued for one year. It is worth noting that 1845 marked the onset of the Great Irish Famine (also known in Ireland as 'An Gorta Mór'). Between 1845 and 1852, the long-standing negligence of British government policy in Ireland resulted in national catastrophe when Irish potato crops began to fail due to an infection known as blight. Described by Kevin Whelan as 'the single most important event in Ireland in the modern period' (137), the Famine resulted in the death of over 1 million people and the emmigration of over 2 million. Within this context, it is possible that the publishers chose to omit census data from their pocket books from 1846 onwards, especially as such data could contradict Punch's polemical representations of The Famine across its various publications. For further information, see Kevin Whelan, 'The Cultural Effects of the Famine,' in The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture, eds. Joe Cleary and Claire Connolly (Cambridge University Press, 2005), 137-54; Leslie A. Williams, Daniel O'Connell, The British Press and The Irish Famine: Killing Remarks (Ashgate, 2003).

    TOTAL OF POPULATION IN COUNTIES.

    ENGLAND.

    Bedford   107,937
    Berks   160,226
    Buckingham   155,989
    Cambridge   164,509
    Chester   395,300
    Cornwall   341,269
    Cumberland   177,912
    Derby   272,202
    Devon   533,731
    Dorset   174,743
    Durham   324,277
    Essex   344,995
    Gloucester   431,307
    Hereford   114,438
    Hertford   157,237
    Huntingdon    58,699
    Kent   548,161
    Lancaster 1,667,064
    Leicester   215,855
    Lincoln   362,717
    Middlesex 1,576,616
    Monmouth   134,349
    Norfolk   412,621
    Northampton   199,061
    Northumberland   250,268
    Nottingham   249,773
    Oxford   161,573
    Rutland    21,340
    Salop   239,014
    Somerset   436,002
    SouthamptonSouthamptn (Hants)   354,940
    Stafford   510,206
    Suffolk   315,129
    Surrey   582,613
    Sussex   299,770
    Warwick   402,121
    Westmoreland    56,469
    Wilts   260,007
    Worcester   233,484
    York (E. Riding)   193,676
     City of York & Ainstey    38,322
    York (N. Riding)   204,662
    York (W. Riding) 1,154,924
    Total Population of England14,995,508

    WALES.

    Anglesey 50,890
    Brecon 53,295
    Cardigan 68,380
    Caermarthen106,482
    Caernarvon 81,068
    Denbigh 89,291
    Flint 66,547
    Glamorgan173,462
    Merioneth 39,238
    Montgomery 69,220
    Pembroke 88,262
    Radnor 25,186
    Total Population of Wales911,321

    ↑ - 25 - {f.25} SCOTLAND.

    Aberdeen*  192,283
    Argyll   97,140
    Ayr*  164,522
    Banff   50,076
    Berwick   34,427
    Bute   15,695
    Caithness   36,197
    Clackmannan   19,116
    Dumbarton*   44,295
    Dumfries   72,825
    Edinburgh*  225,623
    Elgin (Moray)   34,994
    Fife*  140,310
    Forfar*  170,400
    Haddington   35,781
    Inverness*   97,615
    Kincardine   33,052
    Kinross    8,763
    Kircudbright, Stewartry of   41,099
    Lanark*  427,113
    Linlithgow*   26,848
    Nairn    9,218
    Orkney & Shetland*   60,796
    Peebles   10,520
    Perth*  138,151
    Renfrew*  154,755
    Ross and Cromarty   78,980
    Roxburgh   46,003
    Selkirk    7,989
    Stirling*   82,179
    Sutherland   24,666
    Wigtown   39,179
    Total Population of Scotland2,620,610

    Note. — In the Totals of Counties thus marked, (*) are included 4,715 persons who were resident in Barracks on the night of the 6th June, 1841 ; also 1,775 persons on board vessels in harbours.

    IRELAND.

    Leinster.
    Carlow   86,228
    Drogheda Town   16,261
    Dublin City  232,726
    Dublin  140,047
    Kildare  114,488
    Kilkenny City   19,071
    Kilkenny  183,349
    King’s  146,857
    Longford  115,491
    Louth  111,979
    Meath  183,828
    Queen’s  153,930
    Westmeath  141,300
    Wexford  202,033
    Wicklow  126,143
    Total1,973,731
    Munster.
    Clare  286,394
    Cork City   80,720
    Cork  773,398
    Kerry  293,880
    Limerick City   48,391
    Limerick  281,638
    Tipperary  435,553
    Waterford City   23,216
    Waterford  172,971
    Total2,396,161
    Connaught.
    Galway Town   17,275
    Galway  422,923
    Leitrim  155,297
    Mayo  388,887
    Roscommon  253,589
    Sligo  181,002
    Total1,418,973
    Ulster.
    Antrim  276,188
    Armagh  232,393
    Belfast Town   75,308
    Carrickfergus    9,379
    Cavan  243,158
    Donegal  296,448
    Down  361,446
    Fermanagh  156,481
    Londonderry  222,174
    Monaghan  200,442
    Tyrone  312,956
    Total2,386,373
    Total Population of Ireland8,175,238

    ISLANDS IN THE BRITISH SEAS.

    Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm and Jethou 28,538
    Jersey 47,556
    Man 47,985
    Total Population124,079
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    REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, &c.

    Births. — Persons should cause their children to be registered within forty-two days after birth, by giving personal notice to the registrar of their district, without any fee whatever. Registration may be effected after the expiration of the forty-two days, and within six months, on payment of a fee of 7s. 6d. ; but after six months, no birth can be registered.

    Deaths. — Intimation should be given of deaths in the same manner as births. This is of importance to be done early, as the undertaker must have a certificate to give to the minister who reads the funeral service, without which he may refuse to bury the body.

    As the cause of death[Comment by FB] : 'The Deaths Registration Act in 1836 established a national network of registrars and centralised registration. Although Parliament had taken this important step, the accuracy of registration remained well below what would be expected today. It was still fairly easy, for example, to conceal deaths in suspicious circumstances. The 1836 Act did not require the cause of death to be certified by a medical practitioner, and stillbirths often went unrecorded. This was because until the Medical Register Act of 1858, doctors' qualifications were not defined, and so proper medical certification was impossible.' Source: 'Recording and Registering Death,' UK Parliament. See also: Bill for registering Births, Deaths and Marriages in England (as amended by Lords) 1836. is to be entered, sound discretion should be exercised in ascertaining the real nature of the deceased’s death, for which important purpose every facility should be given.

    Keyword Tags : prose, law and order, death, children, family

    ↑ - 26 - {f.26} SUMMARY OF THE POPULATION AND HOUSES IN GREAT BRITAIN AND
    IRELAND, AND ISLANDS IN THE BRITISH SEAS.*

    Persons. 1841.Houses. 1841.Increase of Population as compared with the returns of 1831.
    Males.Females.Total.Inhabited.UninhabitedBuilding.1831.Incr.1841.
    England 7,321,875 7,673,63314,995,5082,753,295162,75625,88213,091,00514.514,995,508
    Wales   447,533   463,788   911,321  188,196 10,133 1,769   806,18213.0   911,321
    Persons ascertained to have been travelling by Railways and Canals during the night of 6th June, 1841     4,003       893     4,896     4,896
    Eng. & Wls. 7,773,411 8,138,31415,911,7252,941,491172,88927,65113,897,18714.515,911,725
    Scotland 1,241,276 1,379,334 2,620,610  503,451 24,295 2,763 2,365,11411.1 2,620,610
    Islds. in the Brit. Seas    57,598    66,481   124,079   19,159    865   220   103,71019.6   124,079
    Great Britain 9,072,285 9,584,12918,656,4143,464,101198,04930,63416,366,01114.018,656,414
    Ireland 4,019,629 4,155,609 8,175,2381,328,889 52,219 3,313No return
    United King13,091,91413,739,73826,831,6524,792,990250,26833,947

    * This Return includes only such part of the Army, Navy, and Merchant Seamen, as were at the time of the Census within the Kingdom on shore.

    Keyword Tags : grid or table format, England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Britain, railways, military, maritime, gender

    ↑ - 27 - {f.27} SUMMARY OF THE OCCUPATIONS OF THE POPULATION OF GREAT BRITAIN,[Comment by FB] : ‘1841 was the first ‘modern’ census, led by the General Registrar ‘Mr Lister’, with forms filled out by households directly. Many people couldn’t read or write and getting all the returns was a challenge but the exercise of people filling in their own census was deemed a success. It was also the first census form available in Welsh.’ From, 'Story of the Census,’ Office for National Statistics, 2022.
    comprised in the census of 1841.

    OCCUPATIONS.[Comment by FB] : This ‘Occupations’ column calls for reflection about Victorian-era classifications of occupations. For instance, the ‘other educated persons’ section remains unclear as to the activities it actually encompasses. The ‘Almspeople, Pensioners, Paupers, and Lunatics’ section is in line with the 1834 New Poor Law (Poor Law Amendment Act), listing workhouse and jail inmates together.England and Wales.Scotland.Islands in the British Seas.Army abroad and in Ireland.Navy & Mrchnt, Seamen afloat.Total
    Commerce, Trade, and Manufactures 2,619,206  473,581 17,589—— 3,110,376
    Agriculture, including Graziers and Gardeners 1,261,448  229,337  8,493—— 1,499,278
    Labourers a   673,922   84,573  3,373——   761,868
    Army at home and abroad, including Army half-pay and E. I. C.’s Service    36,763    4,631    84089,23096,799   131,463
    Navy and Merchant Seamen on shore and afloat, including Half-pay and Marines, Fishermen, Watermen, &c. b    95,193   24,359  2,279——   218,631
    Professional Persons, Clerical, Legal, and Medical    53,041    9,709    434——    63,184
    Other educated persons   123,878   18,099    859——   142,836
    Government Civil Service c    14,088    2,777     94——    16,959
    Parochial, Police, and Church Officers, &c. d    22,125    3,085     65——    25,275
    Domestic Servants   999,048  158,650  7,535—— 1,165,233
    Persons returned as Independent   445,973   58,291  7,176——   511,440
    Almspeople, Pensioners, Paupers, and Lunatics e   176,206   21,690  1,173—   957 f   200,026
    Total returned under the foregoing heads 6,520,8911,088,782 49,91089,23097,756 7,846,569
    Residue of Population 9,390,8661,531,402 74,130— 1,467 g10,997,865 h
    General Total15,911,7572,620,184124,04089,23099,22318,844,434 i
    a Labourers whose particular employment is not specified, miners, quarrymen, messengers, &c., included. b 70,000 merchant seamen, in addition, are supposed to have been at sea when the Census was taken. c Exclusive of many returned as messengers, &c., or engaged in trade. d Exclusive of many engaged in trade. e This includes in Workhouses 24,129 males, and 30,800 females, 20 years old and upwards ; and 24,060 males, and 21,540 females, under 20 : Hospitals, 5,081 males, and 2,688 females, 20 years old and upwards ; and 1,464 males, and 1,215 females, under 20 : Gaols, 14,083 males, and 3,176 females, 20 years old and upwards ; and 3,998 males and 1,073 females, under 20 : Lunatic Asylums, 5,355 males, and 5,572 females, 20 years old and upwards ; and 110 males, and 181 females, under 20. f Convicts on board the hulks in the Medway. g Persons employed on board the hulks in the Medway, and passengers on board her Majesty’s ships. h This amount consists of 276,526 males, and 3,594,366 females, 20 years old and upwards ; and 3,434,456 males, and 3,692,517 females, under 20. i This amount consists of 4,961,045 males, and 5,280,742 females, 20 years old and upwards ; and 4,301,081 males, and 4,301,566 females, under 20.
    Keyword Tags : grid or table format, work, England, Britain, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, commerce and trade, military, maritime, poverty, government, faith and religion, disability

    ↑ - 28 - {f.28} RIGHT OF VOTING.

    COUNTIES.

    1. Freeholders. — Of inheritance of the yearly value of 40s. above rents and charges.

    For life or lives of the yearly value of 10l. above rents and charges.

    For life or lives of the yearly value of 40s. above rents and charges, occupied by such freeholders ; or, although not occupied, which would have entitled them to vote on the 7th of June, 1832 : or acquired after that time by marriage, devise, or by promotion to a benefice or office.

    Freeholds for life may be acquired in right of a benefice or an office — as clergymen, parish clerks, dissenting ministers, &c., with salaries derived from lands, the freehold of which is in the voter, or in other parties subject to a trust, in writing, entitling the voter to receive the salary either for life, or for an indefinite period : they may also arise from tithes, rent-charges, &c.

    2. Copyholders. — For life or larger estate of copyhold, or any other tenure except freehold, of the yearly value of 10l. above rents and charges.

    3. Leaseholders. — Lessee of 10l. clear yearly value, above rents and charges, for not less than sixty years, occupied or not.

    Lessee of 50l. clear yearly value, above rents and charges, for not less than twenty years.

    Assignee of the residue of such terms.

    Sub-lessee, or his assignee, of such terms — if occupying.

    Tenant actually occupying lands, &c., at yearly rent not less than 50l.

    Freeholders and copyholders must have been in possession or in receipt of their profits for six calendar months, and leaseholders for twelve months, and tenants must have occupied twelve months before the last day of July in each year — except in cases of descent, devise, marriage, or promotion.

    CITIES AND BOROUGHS

    1. Owners or tenants actually occupying any house, shop, &c., of 10l. yearly value ; or of such value, together with land of which they are owners, or which they hold under the same landlord ; or of premises held in immediate succession.

    Joint occupiers of such premises, and of such value, as shall give 10l. yearly to each occupier.

    The premises must be occupied for twelve calendar months, and the voter have resided for six months, before the last day of July, in the borough, or within seven miles. He must have been rated for the poor during such twelve months, and must have paid the rates due to the 6th of April preceding on or before the 20th of July. If persons otherwise qualified are not rated, a claim may be made upon the overseers to put their names on the rate ; and thereupon, and on payment or tender of the rates, they are to be deemed rated from the date of the then existing rate.

    2. Freemen made after the 1st of March, 1831, if by any other right than birth or servitude, are not to be registered ; nor in right of birth, unless it was derived from a freeman entitled before that time, or thereafter becoming free by servitude.

    3. A saving of the rights of persons otherwise entitled to vote on the 7th of June, 1832.

    CITIES AND TOWNS.

    counties of themselves.

    1. Freeholders — as for Counties.

    2. Burgage tenants in possession of rents and profits for twelve months (unless qualified by descent, marriage, devise, or promotion), and resident for six months before the last day of July within the city, or seven miles thereof.

    3. Occupiers and freemen as in other cities and boroughs.

    Keyword Tags : columns, prose, voting, law and order, land and property, Britain

    ↑ - 29 - {f.29} LAW.

    ENGLISH COURTS OF LAW.

    court of chancery.

  • Lord High Chancellor, Lord Lyndhurst.
  • Chief Sec., H. J. Pery, Esq.
  • Master of the Rolls, Lord Langdale — Chief Sec., G. W. Saunders, Esq. — Under Sec., J. M. Murray, Esq.
  • Vice Chancellors, Right Hon. Sir L. Shadwell, Right Hon. Sir J. L. Knight Bruce, Right Hon. Sir Jas. Wigram.
  • Accountant Gen., Wm. Russell, Esq.
  • Masters in Chancery, J. E. Dowdeswell, Esq., J. W. Farrar, Esq., Sir G. Wilson, Wm. Brougham, Esq., N. W. Senior, Esq., A. H. Lynch, Esq., S. Duckworth, Esq., Sir W. Horne, W. Wingfield, Esq., Sir G. Rose, and Richard Richards, Esq.

    • courts of law.

  • Queen’s Bench — Lord Chief Justice, Lord Denman. Judges, Sir J. PattisonPatteson, Sir J. Williams, Sir J. T. Coleridge, and Sir W. Wightman.
  • Common Pleas — Lord Chief Justice, Rt. Hon. Sir N. C. Tindal. Judges, Sir T. Coltman, Rt. Hon. T. Erskine, Sir W. H. Maule, and Sir C. CresswellCreswell.
  • Exchequer — Lord Chief Baron, Sir F. Pollock. Barons, Rt. Hon. Sir J. Parke, Sir E. H. Alderson, Sir J. Gurney, Sir R. M. Rolfe. Cursitor Baron, G. Bankes, Esq. Accountant-General, R. Richards, Esq. Queen’s Remembrancer, H. W. Vincent, Esq.

    • law officers.

  • Attorney-General, Sir W. W. Follett.
  • Solicitor-General, Sir F. Thesiger.

    • ecclesiastical courts.

  • Vicar General’s Office — Vicar Gen. and Dean of Peculiars, Rt. Hon. Sir H. Jenner. Registrar, J. Moore, Esq.
  • Court of Arches — Official Principal, Rt. Hon. Sir H. Jenner. Registrar, Wm. Townsend, Esq.
  • Prerogative Court — Master, Right Hon. Sir H. Jenner. Registrars, Rev. G. Moore, Rev. R. Moore. Deputy Registrars, C. Dyneley, J. Iggulden, and W. F. Gostling, Esqrs.
  • Faculty Office — Master, Sir John Dobson, D. C. L. Registrar, Hon. J. H. T. Manners Sutton. Deputies, P. C. Moore, J. Sharpe, Esqrs.
  • Consistory Court — Judge, Rt. Hon. S. Lushington, D. C. L. Regist. Rev. Rd. Watson, M. A. Deputy Registrar, J. Shepherd, Esq.

    • ↑ - 30 - {f.30} admiralty court.

  • Judge of the Admiralty, Right Hon. S. Lushington, D. C. L. Queen’s-Adv.-Gen. Sir J. Dodson, D. C. L. Admiralty Adv., J. Phillimore, D. C. L. Counsel to Admiralty and Navy and Judge-Advocate of Fleet, H. J. Shepherd, Esq. Registrar, (vacant). Dep. Registrar, H. B. Swabey, Esq. Marshal, Hon. Hugh Lindsay.

    • court of bankruptcy.

  • Chief Judge, Vice.-Chan. Bruce. — Chief Registrars, Mr. Serj. Edw. Lawes and Mr. Barber. Commissioners, Sir C. F. Williams, Mr. Serj. GoulburnGoulbourn, J. Evans, J. S. M. Fonblanque, R. G. C. Fane, and E. Holroyd, Esq.

    • insolvent debtors’ court.

  • Chief Commissioner, H. R. Reynolds, Esq. — Commissioners, J. G. Harris, Wm. J. Law, and D. Pollock, Esqs. — Provisional Assignee, S. Sturges, Esq.
  • Chief Clerk, J. Masey, Esq. — Tax Master, H. C. Richards, Esq. — Clerk of the Rules, C. V. White, Esq.

    • marshalsea and palace courts.

  • Knight Marshal, Sir C. M. Lamb, Bart. — Steward of the Court, W. Brent Brent, Esq. — Dep. Steward, C. J. Knowles, Esq. — Prothonotary, Sir H. F. Campbell. — Dep. J. C. Hewlett, Esq.

    • courts of request.

  • City, near Guildhall. Court-days. Wed. and Sat. at 11 ; office hours on other days, 10 till 1. — Southwark, Swan-st., Trinity-sq., Court-days, Tu. and Fri. at 10 ; other days, 9 till 2. — Tower Hamlets, Osborne-st., Whitechapel. Court-days, Tu. and Fri at 10 ; other days, 9 till 2. — Westminster, Castle-st., Leicester-sq. Court-days, Tu. and Thur. at 11 ; other days, at 10. — Middlesex, Kingsgate-st., Holborn. Court-days, Mon. and Th. at 9 ; other days, 9 till 3.

    • metropolitan police courts.

  • City : Mansion House, Lord Mayor. — Guildhall, an Alderman.
  • Bow street, T. J. Hall, S. Twyford, and D. Jardine, Esqs. — Queensquare, J. P. Burrell, Esq., and — Bond, Esq. — Marlborough-street, E. H. Maltby and J. Hardwick, Esqs. — High-street, Marylebone, J. Rawlinson and G. Long, Esqs. — Clerkenwell, J. Greenwood and Boyce Combe, Esqs. — Worship-street, R. E. Broughton and P. Bingham, Esqs. — Lambeth-street, Whitechapel, Hon. G. C. Norton and T. Henry, Esq. — Union Hall, Southwark, J. Traill and J. Cottingham, Esqs. — Thames Police, W. J. Broderip and W. Ballantine, Esqs. — Greenwich and Woolwich, H. Jeremy and W. Grove, Esqs. At Greenwich from 10 till half-past 1 ; at Woolwich from 2 till 5, daily. — Kensington and Wandsworth, T. Paynter and G. Clive, Esqs.

    • N. B. The City Police is under the control of the city authorities, directed by D. W. Harvey, Esq. ; and the Metropolitan Police under that of the Commissioners, Lieut.-Col. Rowan and Richard Mayne, Esq., whose office is in Scotland-yard, Charing Cross.

    Keyword Tags : columns, list, law and order, work, faith and religion, maritime, finances, directory

    SCOTTISH COURTS OF LAW.

    court of session.

    Inner House — First Division.

  • † The Lord President — Rt. Hon. David Boyle.
  • † J. H. Mackenzie, Lord Mackenzie ; J. Fullerton, Lord Fullerton ; F. Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey.
  • Principal Clerks, Macvey Napier, Esq., James Walker, Esq. — Jury Clerks, W. Clerk, Jos. Murray.

    • - 31 - ↑ {f.31} Second Division.

  • † The Lord Justice Clerk — J. Hope.
  • † Alex. Wood, Lord Wood ; † J. H. Forbes, Lord Medwyn ; †Sir J. W. Moncrieff, Bart., Lord Moncrieff.
  • Outer House — Permanent Ordinaries attached equally to both Divisions of the Court.
  • †H. Cockburn, Lord Cockburn ; J. Cuninghame, Lord Cuninghame ; Sir J. A. Murray, Lord Murray ; James Ivory, Lord Ivory ; Patrick Robertson, Lord Robertson.
  • Principal Clerks, Thomas Thomson, Esq., John Russell, Esq.

    • court of exchequer.

  • Judges from 12th of August, 1844, to 12th August, 1845 — Lords Murray and Ivory.
  • Queen’s Remembrancer, J. Henderson.
  • Auditor, Hon. G. Murray.

    • law officers.

  • Lord Advocate, Rt. Hon. Duncan McNeill.
  • Solicitor-General, Adam Anderson.
  • Advocates Depute, Adam Urquhart, David Milne, Mark Napier, and Charles Neaves.
  • Crown Agent, James Tytler, Esq.
  • Clerk of Justiciary, Patrick Boyle.
    • Keyword Tags : columns, finances, law and order, Scotland

    IRISH COURTS OF LAW.

    court of chancery.

  • Lord Chancellor, Rt. Hon. Sir. Ed. B. Sugden, knt. Secretary, H. Sugden, Esq.
  • Master of the Rolls, Rt. Hon. F. Blackburne.
  • Deputy, Robert Wogan, Esq.
  • Masters in Chancery, W. Henn, Esq., J. S. Townsend, Esq., Thes. Gold, Esq., Edw. Litton, Esq.
  • Accomptant-Gen., S. Barrington, Esq.
  • Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper, C. Fitzsimon, Esq.

    • court of queen’s bench.

  • Lord Chief Justice, Rt. Hon. E. Pennefather. — Judges, Chas. Burton, P. C. Crampton, Rt. Hon. Louis Perrin.
  • Clerk of the Crown, Walter Bourne, Esq.

    • court of common pleas.

  • Lord Chief Justice, Rt. Hon. John Doherty. — Judges, Robert Torrens, Rt. Hon. Nicholas Ball, J. D. Jackson.

    • court of exchequer.

  • Lord Chief Baron, Rt. Hon. Maziere Brady.
  • Barons, R. Pennefather, Rt. Hon. J. Richards, Rt. Hon. T. Lefroy.
  • Chief Remembrancer, A. Lyle, Esq.
  • Second Remembrancer, W. T. Hamilton, Esq.
  • Accountant-Gen., David Mahony, Esq.

    • ecclesiastical courts.

  • Vicar-Gen. of Consistorial Courts. Joseph Radcliffe, LL. D.
  • Judge of Prerogative Court, Rt, Hon. R. Keatinge, LL. D.
  • Registrar of Metropolitan Court, Rev. C. C. Beresford.
  • Registrar of Prerogative Court, W. Stewart, Esq.

    • court of admiralty.

  • Judge, Joseph Stock, LL. D.
  • Surrogate, Joseph Radcliffe, LL. D.
  • Queen’s Advocate Gen., Sir T. Staples, Bart.
  • Registrar, John Anster, LL. D.

    • insolvent debtors’ court.

  • Commissioners, Richard Farrell and W. H. Curran, Esqs. — Chief Clerk, P. Burrows, jun., Esq.

    • bankrupt court.

  • Commissioners, John Macan, Esq., and Hon. P. Plunket. — Registrars, - 32 - ↑ {f.32} Barry Collins and J. O’DonoghueO’Donnoghue, Esqs.

    • law officers.

  • Attorney-Gen., Rt. Hon. T. B. C. Smith.
  • Solicitor-General, R. W. Greene, Esq.
  • Sergeants, Joseph Stock, LL. D., M. P. ; R. B. Warren, Esq., Q. C. ; and John Howley, Esq., Q. C.
    • Keyword Tags : columns, finances, law and order, Ireland, faith and religion

    LAW TERMS AND RETURNS

  • Hilary Term begins Jan. 11, ends Jan. 31.
  • Easter Term begins April 15, ends May 11.
  • Trinity Term begins May 25, ends June 15.
  • Michaelmas Term begins Nov. 2, ends Nov. 25.

    • The first General Return Day for every term is the fourth day before the first day of the term, both days being reckoned in the computation. There were also three other General Return Days in the term upon which certain writs were returnable ; but now, by the statute 1 Will. IV. cap. 3, sec. 2, “all writs now usually returnable before any of his Majesty’s Courts of King’s Bench, Common Pleas, or Exchequer, respectively, on General Return Days, that shall be made returnable after the 1st of January, 1831, may be made returnable on the third day exclusive before the commencement of each term, or on any day (not being Sunday) between that day and the third day exclusive before the last day of the term ; and the day for appearance shall, as heretofore, be the third day after such return, exclusive of the day of return ; or in case such third day shall fall on a Sunday, then on the fourth day after such return, exclusive of such day of return.” When the terms themselves commence on a Sunday the term is dated from such day, although the sittings do not commence till the following day.

    Keyword Tags : prose, calendar, law and order, finances, holidays and celebrations

    Quarter Sessions.

    By the Act 1 Will. IV. c. 70, it is enacted, that “in the year 1831, and afterwards, the justices of the peace in every county, riding, or division, for which Quarter Sessions of the Peace by law ought to be held, shall hold their general Quarter Sessions of the Peace in the first week after the 11th of October, in the first week after the 28th of December, in the first week after the 31st of March, and in the first week after the 24th of June.”

    Keyword Tags : prose, calendar, law and order, holidays and celebrations

    UNIVERSITY TERMS.

    oxford.cambridge.
    BeginsEndsBeginsDividesEnds
    LentJan. 14Mar. 15Jan. 13Feb. 12, noonMar. 14
    EasterApril 2May 10April 2May 18, midn.July 4
    TrinityMay 14July 5
    MichaelmasOct. 10Dec. 17Oct. 10Nov. 12, midn.Dec. 16
    Oxford Act, and Camb. Commencement, July 1.
    Keyword Tags : grid or table format, calendar, holidays and celebrations, education

    RATE OF ALLOWANCE TO WITNESSES.

    For Attendance and Expenses.Per day.
    £s.d.
    Surgeons, Surveyors, & Attorneys2 20
    Merchants1 10
    Tradesmen0150
    Journeymen Mechanics0 70
    For Travelling1s.0d.per mile.
    The Attorney in the cause13
    Keyword Tags : finances, work, law and order

    ↑ - 33 - {f.33} PUBLIC OFFICES,
    with hours of attendance.

  • Accountant General’s Office, Chancery-lane, 9 to 2, and 4 to 7 ; and for delivery of Drafts, 11 to 2
  • Adjutant-General’s Office, Horse Guards, 11 to 5
  • Admiralty Court, College-square, Doctors’ Commons, 9 to 7
  • Admiralty Register Office, Paul’s Bakehouse-court, Godliman-street, 10 to 3 and 4
  • Admiralty Naval Department, Whitehall, 10 to 5
  • Admiralty Civil Department, Somerset House, 10 to 4
  • Affidavit Office, 10, Symond’s Inn, 10 to 4 ; in long vacation, 11 to 1
  • Annuity (Government) Office, 19, Old Jewry, 10 to 3
  • Apothecaries’ Hall, Water-lane, Blackfriars, 9 to 8 ; Solicitor’s Office, 1 to 3
  • Arches’ Registry, 20, Great Knight Rider-street, 10 to 4
  • Army Medical Board Office, 13, St. James’s Place, 11 to 4
  • Army Pay Office, now called Paymaster General’s Office by Act of Parliament, Whitehall, 10 to 4
  • Bankrupts’ Office, 2, Quality-court, Chancery-lane, 10 to 3, and 6 to 8
  • Bankruptcy Court, 82, Basinghall-street, 10 to 4
  • Board of Control for East India Affairs, Cannon-row, Westminster, 10 to 4
  • Board of General Officers, 6, Whitehall Yard, 10 to 4
  • Board of Green Cloth, St. James’s Palace, 11 to 4
  • Board of Trade, Whitehall, 10 to 4
  • Board of Works, consolidated with Commissioners of Woods and Forests and Land Revenue by Act of Parliament, 1 and 2, Whitehall-place, 10 to 4
  • Borough Court of Southwark, St. Margaret’s-hill, Monday, 3 to 4
  • Children’s Employment Commission, 5, Trafalgar square, 9 to 5
  • Church Commission, &c., and Commissioners of Charities, 13, Great George-street, Westminster
  • City Police Commissioners’ Office, 26, Old Jewry, 9 to 5
  • City Solicitor’s Off., Guildhall, 10 to 7
  • Commander-in-Chief’s Office, Horse Guards, 10 to 5
  • Commissioners for Promoting the Fine Arts, Gwydir House, Whitehall, 10 to 4
  • Commissioners of Police, 4, Whitehall-place, 10 to 4
  • Council Office, Whitehall, 10 to 4
  • Custom-house, LowerThames-street, In-door Offices, 10 to 4 ; Waterside Offices, from 1st March to 31st Oct., 8 to 4 ; from 1st Nov. to 28th Feb. 9 to 4
  • Dean and Chapter of Westminster’s Office, 10, Benet’s hill, 9½ to 5
  • Doctors’ Commons, south side of St. Paul’s Churchyard
  • Duchy of Cornwall Office, Somerset House, 10 to 4
  • Duchy of Lancaster Office, Lancaster-place, Waterloo-bridge, 10 to 4
  • East India House, Leadenhall-street, 10 to 4
  • Ecclesiastical Commissioners Office, 5, Whitehall Place, 10 to 4
  • Emigration (Government) Office, London Docks, 10 to 4
  • Exchequer Bill Loan Office, S. Sea House, 10 to 4
  • Excise Office, Broad-street, 9 to 3
  • Excise Export Office, 49, Great Tower street, 9 to 3
  • Faculty Office, 10, Knight Rider-st., 9 to 4
  • Fen Office, 6, Serjeants’ Inn, 10 to 2, Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays
  • First Fruits’ Office, Dean’s yard, Westminster, consolidated with Queen Anne’s Bounty Office, 10 to 4
  • Foreign Marriage, Baptism, and Burial Office, Bishop of London’s Office, 3, Godliman-street, 10 to 5
  • - 34 - {f.34} French Passport Office, 6, Poland-st. ; Passports applied for, 11 to 5 ; granted next day, 1 to 3
  • Gazette Office, Cannon-row, 10 to 5
  • Gazette Advert. Office, 42, Chancery-lane
  • General Register Office of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, 7 and 8, Somerset-place, 10 to 4
  • Greenwich Out-Pension Off., Tower-hill, 10 to 4
  • Hackney Carriage Office, 3, Princes-street, Storey’s Gate, 10 to 4
  • Half-pay Office. See Army Pay Office
  • Harbour Master’s Office, St. Katharine’s Stairs, 9 to 4
  • Herald’s College Office, St. Benet’s hill, Doctors’ Commons, 10 to 4
  • Insolvent Debtors’ Ct., Portugal-st., 10 to 4
  • Invalid Office, 4, Northumberland-street, Strand, 10 to 4
  • Irish Deeds Registry and Affidavit Office, 10, Southampton Buildings, 10 to 4
  • Irish Office, 18, Gt. Queen-street, Westminster, 11 to 5
  • Judges’ Chambers. Rolls’-gardens, Chancery-lane, 11 to 5 in term, and 11 to 3 in vacation, except from Aug. 10 to Oct. 24, when 11 to 2 only
  • Land Tax Register Office, Somerset House, 10 to 4
  • Legacy Duty Office, Somerset House, 10 to 4
  • Lord Chamberlain’s Office, Stable-yard, St. James’s, 11 to 4
  • Lord Mayor’s Court Office, 7, Old Jewry, 10 to 4
  • Lunacy, Offices of Metropolitan Commissioners in, Abingdon-st., 10 to 4
  • Lunatic Office, Quality-court, Chancery-lane, 10 to 4
  • Lunatic Visitors’ Office, 45, Lincoln’s-inn-fields, 10 to 5
  • Marshalsea and Palace Courts, Great Scotland Yard ; Office, 15, Chancery-lane, ½ past 9 to 2, and 4 to 7 ; on Court days, ½ past 9 to 1, and 3 to 6
  • Masters in Chancery Office, 25, Southampton Buildings, 10 to 4 ; in vacation, 10 to 2 ; in long vacation, 11 to 1
  • Metropolitan Roads, North of the Thames, 22, Whitehall-place, 10 to 5
  • Metropolitan Police Office, Scotland Yard, 10 to 4
  • Ordnance Office, 86, Pall Mall, 10 to 6, and Tower, 10 to 4
  • Palace Court Office, 15, Chancery-lane, ½ past 9 to 2, and 4 to 7. On court days, ½ past 9 to 1, and 3 to 6
  • Patent Office, 13, Serle-street, Lincoln’s-inn, 10 to 4
  • Pay Office of the Army, Pay Office of the Navy — consolidated. See Army Pay Office
  • Plantation Office, Whitehall, 11 to 3
  • Police Offices, 10 to 5
  • Poor Law Commission, Somerset House, 10 to 5
  • Post Office, St. Martin’s-le-Grand
  • Prerogative Court, College-square, Doctors’ Commons, 10 to 4
  • Prerogative Will Office, 6, Great Knight Rider-street, 10 to 4, and 10 to 3 in winter
  • Presentation Office, 4, Old-square, Lincoln’s-inn, 10 to 5
  • Prevention of Cruelty Society, 2 Panton-street, Haymarket, 10 to 4
  • Public Office in Chancery, Southampton-buildings, 10 to 4
  • Public Record Office — Head Office, Rolls’ House, Chancery-lane. Branch Offices, Rolls’ Chapel, Tower, Chapter House, Poet’s Corner, and Carlton Ride, 10 to 4
  • Queen Anne’s Bounty Office, Dean’s Yard, Westminster ; Treasurer’s Department, 10 to 2 ; Secretary’s and First Fruits and Tenths Department, 10 to 4
  • Register Office of Deeds in Middle-sex, Bell Yard, Temple Bar, open daily from 10 to 3. Registrar attends 11 to 2 only.
  • Registrar General’s Office, 7 and 8, Somerset-place, 10 to 4
  • - 35 - ↑ {f.35} Registrar of Metropolitan Buildings, 3, Trafalgar-sq., Charing Cross
  • Royal Marine Office, 22, New-street, Spring Gardens, 10 to 5
  • School of Design, Somerset House
  • South Australian Colonization Commissioners, 9, Park-street, Westm., 11 to 5½
  • Sons of the Clergy, 2, Bloomsbury-place, Bloomsbury-square
  • Stamp Office, Somerset House, 10 to 4. No money received after 3
  • State Paper Office, 12, Duke-street, Westminster, 11 to 4
  • Stock Exchange, Capel-court, Bank
  • Tax Office, Somerset House, 10 to 4
  • Tenths Office, consolidated with Queen Anne’s Bounty Office, 10 to 2
  • Tithe Commissioners’ Office, 9, Somerset-place, Somerset House, 9 to 6
  • Transport Office, Somerset House, 10 to 4
  • Treasury Office, Whitehall, 10 to 4
  • Vicars General and Peculiars’ Office, Bell Yard, Doctors’ Commons, 9 to 7
  • Victualling Office, Somerset House, 10 to 4
  • War Office, Horse Guards, 10 to 4
  • Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, Public Works and Buildings Office, Whitehall-place, 10 to 4.
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    TAXES.

    ASSESSED TAXES.

    By 3 & 4 Victoria, cap. 17, an additional ten per cent. to be charged on all the Assessed Taxes.

    ARMORIAL BEARINGS. — Any person keeping a coach or other carriage, and using or wearing any armorial bearing, to pay annually 2l. 8s. Any person not keeping a coach, &c., but liable to the window duty, to pay annually 1l. 4s., and every other description of persons 12s. annually.

    CARRIAGES. — For every coach, chariot, landau, chaise, caravan, &c. with four wheels (except carriages or coaches licensed by the Commissioners for managing the Stamp Duties), is to be paid as follows : —

    £s.d.
    For 1, 6 00
    2,13 00
    3,21 00
    4,30 00
    5,39 76
    6,49 40
    7,59100
    8,70 80
    9, and upwards81136

    And so on at the same rate for any number of such carriages.

    - 36 - {f.36} For every additional body used on the same carriage£ 3 30
    For every carriage kept for the purpose of being let to hire without horses, for any period of time less than one year£ 3 00
    For every such carriage let to hire for travelling post, by the day, or by the mile, by any post-master or inn-keeper, &c., duly licensed ; and for every stage coach or diligence, with four wheels, duly entered£ 5 50
    Carriages travelling at less than four miles in the hour not to be deemed stage carriages.
    For every carriage with four wheels drawn only by one horse, let to hire£ 4100
    For every calash, chair, &c., with two or three wheels, drawn by one horse£ 3 50
    Ditto, if drawn by two or more horses or mules£ 4100
    And for every additional body successively used on calashes, chaises, curricles, chairs, or cars, with less than four wheels£ 1116

    Carriages with less than four wheels, drawn by one horse, not exceeding 21l. in value ; are exempt.

    DOGS.[Comment by FB] : For more information about taxes on dogs, see Ingrid H. Tague, ‘Eighteenth-Century English Debates on a Dog Tax,’ The Historical Journal 51, no. 4 (2008). — For every greyhound kept by any person, whether his property or not, 1l. For every other species of dog, where more than one is kept, 14s.

    And every person who shall inhabit any dwelling-house, assessed to any of the duties on inhabited houses, or on windows or lights, and shall keep one dog and no more, not being of the above description, 8s. for such dog.

    But this duty is not to extend to dogs not six months old ; the proof of which to lie on the owner, on an appeal to the commissioners.

    Persons compounding for their hounds to be charged 36l.

    Farmers, with farm under 100l. value, and shepherds having a direct interest in the flocks tended by them, are exempt from dogs kept for the care of the sheep.

    GAME. — Every deputed gamekeeper must take a certificate from the clerk of the peace, and pay annually 1l. 5s. — Every other person, 3l. 13s. — Fee for the certificate, 1s. — Any person killing game without a certificate, forfeits 20l. — Persons refusing to show their certificates, or to tell their names and places of abode to a person having a certificate, forfeits 50l.

    Certificates do not exempt unqualified persons from the former laws.

    Gamekeeper hunting out of his manor, is deemed to have no certificate.

    DEALERS. — Persons licensed to deal in Game are to take out a certificate, charged with a duty of 2l. ; but certificated persons may sell Game to licensed dealers, if paying the duty of 3l. 13s. 6d.

    HAIR POWDER. — Every person who wears it to pay annually 1l. 3s. 6d. No person to pay for more than two unmarried daughters.

    HORSES. — For every horse, mare, or gelding, used for riding or drawing carriages, pay annually —

    No.£s.d.
     1 1 89
     2 4146
     3 7169
     411 00
     513189
     617 80
     720183
     823180
     927 69
    1031150
    1134186
    1238 20
    1341 89
    1444126
    1547163
    1651 00
    1754 80
    1858 10
    1961150
    2066 00

    For horses let to hire, each 1l. 8s. 9d. — Race-horses, each, 3l. 10s.

    Butchers’ Horses. — Where one is kept only for his trade, 1l. 8s. 9d. ; and where two are kept, 10s. 6d. for the second.

    - 37 - ↑ {f.37} Horses not exceeding 13 hands high, used for riding or drawing any carriage, 1l. 1s. each.

    Horses used by bailiffs solely in the concern of any farm are exempt.

    Other horses of 13 hands high, and mules, pay each annually 10s. 6d.

    All mares kept for the sole purpose of breeding, to be wholly exempt from duty whilst so kept.

    Farmers allowed to use one of their husbandry horses, free of the riding horse duty, to ride to market, church, elections, or to commission of appeal.

    A husbandry horse, occasionally ridden by any one occupying a farm of less annual value than 100l. is exempt ; as are also horses employed by market-gardeners in their business. Also horses of clergymen, of every persuasion, with a stipend under 120l., one horse each duty free. Husbandry horses, though rode occasionally, and one horse, where the farm is less than 500l. Horses rode by bailiff or herdsman ; hackney coach horses, and horses which have not at any time been used, are wholly exempt.

    INCOME AND PROPERTY TAX. — By an Act of 6 Victoria, an assessment of 3½ per cent. is to be charged on profits arising from property, professions, trades, and offices ; and dividends payable out of the revenue of Foreign States, until the 6th of April, 1845.

    SERVANT-MEN. — Masters to pay yearly for one, 1l. 4s. — Two, 1l. 11s. each. — Three, 1l. 18s. each. — Four, 2l. 3s. 6d. each. — Five, 2l. 9s. each. — Six, 2l. 11s. 6d. each. — Seven, 2l. 12s. 6d. each. — Eight, 2l. 16s. each. — Nine, 3l. 1s. each. — Ten, 3l. 6s. 6d. each. — Eleven and upwards, 3l. 16s. 6d. each.

    SERVANTS’ CHARACTERS. — By an Act passed in the year 1794, persons giving characters false are liable to a penalty of 20l.

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    WINDOWS.
    Windows opened since April 5, 1835, not to be charged.

    No.Duty.
    £s.d.
     8 0166
     9 1 10
    10 1 80
    11 1163
    12 2 49
    13 2133
    14 3 19
    15 3100
    16 3186
    17 4 70
    18 4153
    19 5 39
    20 5123
    21 6 06
    22 6 90
    23 6176
    24 7 59
    25 7143
    26 8 29
    27 8110
    28 8196
    29 9 80
    30 9163
    3110 49
    3210133
    3311 16
    3411100
    3511183
    3612 69
    3712153
    3813 36
    3913120
    40 to 4414 89
    45 to 4915169
    50 to 5417 50
    55 to 5918130
    60 to 6419179
    65 to 6921 03
    70 to 7422 26
    75 to 7923 50
    80 to 8424 76
    85 to 8925103
    90 to 9426123
    95 to 9927149
    100 to 10929 86
    110 to 11931133
    120 to 12933183
    130 to 13936 30
    140 to 14938 80
    150 to 15940129
    160 to 16942179
    170 to 17945 26
    180 …46113

    And for every window exceeding 180, 1s. 6d.

    Every window that exceeds 11 feet by 4 feet 6 in., to be charged as two windows, except those so made before April 5, 1785, and shops, warehouses, &c.

    ↑ - 38 - {f.38} property and income taxincome-tax table.

    Income.Tax.
    ££s.d.
       1 0 0 7
       2 0 1 2
       3 0 1 9
       4 0 2 4
       5 0 211
       6 0 3 6
       7 0 4 1
       8 0 4 8
       9 0 5 3
      10 0 510
      11 0 6 5
      12 0 7 0
      13 0 7 7
      14 0 8 2
      15 0 8 9
      16 0 9 4
      17 0 911
      18 010 6
      19 011 1
      20 011 8
      21 012 3
      22 01210
      23 013 5
      24 014 0
      25 014 7
      26 015 2
      27 015 9
      28 016 4
      29 01611
      30 017 6
      40 1 3 4
      50 1 9 2
      60 115 0
      70 2 010
      80 2 6 8
      90 212 6
     100 218 4
     200 516 8
     300 815 0
     4001113 4
     5001411 8
     6001710 0
     70020 8 4
     80023 6 8
     90026 5 0
    100029 3 4
    15004315 0
    200058 6 8

    Fractional parts of a Pound — Shillings only.

  • 1s., 2s. — Nil.
  • 3s., 4s., 5s. — 1d.
  • 6s., 7s., 8s. — 2d.
  • 9s., 10s., 11s. — 3d.
  • 12s., 13s., 14s. — 4d.
  • 15s., 16s., 17s. — 5d.
  • 18s., 19s. — 6d.

    • Fractional parts of a Pound, including Pence.

  • 1d. to 2s. 10d. — Nil.
  • 2s. 11d. to 5s. 8d. — 1d.
  • 5s. 9d. to 8s. 6d. — 2d.
  • 8s. 7d. to 11s. 5d. — 3d.
  • 11s. 6d. to 14s. 3d. — 4d.
  • 14s. 4d. to 17s. 1d. — 5d.
  • 17s. 2d. to 19s. 11d. — 6d.
    • ⁂ Fractional parts of One Penny not to be charged.
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    STAMPS.

    Bills, Promissory Notes, &c.
    Not exceeding
    2 months after date,
    or 60 days after sight.    		Exceeding
    2 months after date,
    or 60 days after sight.
    £s.d.£s.d.
    If 40s. aboveand not exceeding5l. 5s.0 100 16
    5l. 5s.  20l.0 160 20
    £   20  300 200 26
    £   30  500 260 36
    £   50 1000 360 46
    £  100 2000 460 50
    £  200 3000 500 60
    £  300 5000 600 86
    £  50010000 860126
    £ 1000200001260150
    £ 2000300001501 50
    £ 3000—1 501100

    Penalty for post-dating bills, 100l.

    Bills of Lading3s.
    Foreign Bills of Exchange, in Sets.
    s.d.
    For every Bill of each set, not exceeding£  100 16
    Above £  100 & not exceeding£  200 30
    Above £  200 & not exceeding£  500 40
    Above £  500 & not exceeding£ 1000 50
    Above £ 1000 & not exceeding£ 2000 76
    Above £ 2000 & not exceeding£ 3000100
    Above £ 3000 & not exceeding…150
    Receipts.
    s.d.
    If £    5 and under£   10 03
    If £   10 and under£   20 06
    If £   20 and under£   50 10
    If £   50 and under£  100 16
    If £  100 and under£  200 26
    If £  200 and under£  300 40
    If £  300 and under£  500 50
    If £  500 and under£ 1000 76
    If £ 1000 or upwards100
    For any sum expressed “in full of all demands”100

    - 39 - {f.39} Penalty for giving receipts without a stamp, 10l. under 100l. ; and 20l. above that sum.

    Apprentices’ Indentures.
    £s.d.
    When the premium is under£   30 100
    If   30 and under£   50 200
    If   50 and under£  100 300
    If  100 and under£  200 600
    If  200 and under£  3001200
    If  300 and under£  4002000
    If  400 and under£  5002500
    If  500 and under£  6003000
    If  600 and under£  8004000
    If  800 and under£ 10005000
    If 1000 and upwards6000

    If no premium 1l., or 1l. 15s. if more than 1080 words.

    AGREEMENT.

    Of the value of 20l. and upwards, containing only 1,080 words, 1l. ; more than 1,080 words, 1l. 15s. ; and for every further 1,080 words, 1l. 5s.

    Appraisements.
    s.d.
    Not exceeding£  50 26
    Above £  50 & not exceed.£ 100 50
    Above £ 100 & not exceed.£ 200100
    Above £ 200 & not exceed.£ 500150
    Above £ 500 & not exceed.—200
    Bonds given as a Security for Money.
    £s.d.
    Not exceeding£     50 1 00
    Above £     50 & not ex.£    100 1100
    Above £    100 & not ex.£    200 2 00
    Above £    200 & not ex.£    300 3 00
    Above £    300 & not ex.£    500 4 00
    Above £    500 & not ex.£  1,000 5 00
    Above £  1,000 & not ex.£  2,000 6 00
    Above £  2,000 & not ex.£  3,000 7 00
    Above £  3,000 & not ex.£  4,000 8 00
    Above £  4,000 & not ex.£  5,000 9 00
    Above £  5,000 & not ex.£ 10,00012 00
    Above £ 10,000 & not ex.£ 15,00015 00
    Above £ 15,000 & not ex.£ 20,00020 00
    Above £ 20,000 & not ex.—25 00

    Progressive duty, 25s.

    Mortgages same duty as Bonds.

    Probates of Wills, and Letters of Administration.
    with a will.without a will.
    Above the value ofand under
    £££s.£s.
       20    50…  010
       50   100…  1
       20   100  010—
      100   200  2  3
      200   300  5  8
      300   450  8 11
      450   600 11 15
      600   800 15 22
      800 1,000 22 30
    1,000 1,500 30 45
    1,500 2,000 40 60
    2,000 3,000 50 75
    3,000 4,000 60 90
    4,000 5,000 80120
    5,000 6,000100150
    6,000 7,000120180
    7,000 8,000140210
    8,000 9,000160240
    9,00010,000180270

    Continuing to increase up to 1,000,000

    DUTIES ON LEGACIES.

    Of the Value of 20l. or upwards, out of Personal Estate, or charged upon Real Estate, &c. ; and upon every share of Residue : —

    To a child or parent, or any lineal descendant or ancestor of the deceased, 1l. per cent. — To a brother or sister, or their descendants, 3l. per cent. — To an uncle or aunt, or their descendants, 5l. per cent. — To a great uncle or great aunt, or their descendants, 6l. per cent. — To any other relation, or any stranger in blood, 10l. per cent. — Legacy to husband or wife, exempt.

    SPOILED STAMPS.

    The days for claiming the allowance at Somerset-house, are Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, from 12 to 2 o’clock. If parties reside within ten miles of London, application must be made within six calendar months - 40 - ↑ {f.40} from the time the stamps became spoiled, when not upon executed instruments ; and when upon such instruments, within six months from their date. If parties reside beyond the said limit of ten miles, the application must also be made within six months from the date, when the stamps are upon executed instruments ; but in all other cases, within twelve months from the date of the stamps becoming spoiled. The affidavit in support of the application, when not made before a Commissioner at Somerset-house, or a Distributor of Stamps in the country, when such Distributor is authorised to administer the same, must be upon a stamp of 2s. 6d., and made before a Master ExtraordinaryExtraord. in Chancery.

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    COMMERCE.

    CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF LONDON.

    LORD MAYOR.

  • Michael Gibbs, Esq., Walbrook
  • Elected Ald. 1838, Sher. 1840.

    • ALDERMEN.

  • Bridge without — Sir C. S. Hunter, Bt.
  • Tower — Mat. Prime Lucas, Esq.
  • Cheap — Wm. Thompson, Esq.
  • Langbourn — Sir John Key, Bt.
  • Aldersgate — Sir Peter Laurie
  • Lime-street — C. Farebrother, Esq.
  • Bishopsgate — W. T. Copeland, Esq.
  • Farringdon-within — T. Kelly, Esq.
  • Castle Baynard — Saml. Wilson, Esq.
  • Bridge-within — Sir C. Marshall
  • Cornhill — Sir John Pirie, Bart.
  • Aldgate — J. Humphery, Esq., MP.
  • Vintry — William Magnay, Esq.

    • RECORDER …… Hon. C. E. Law.

  • Cordwainer — Thomas Wood, Esq.
  • Dowgate — John Johnson, Esq.
  • Candlewick — Sir George Carroll, Kt.
  • Queenhithe — John K. Hooper, Esq.
  • Farringdon-without — Sir Jas. Duke, Bart., M. P.
  • Bassishaw — Thomas Farncomb, Esq.
  • Broad-street — John Musgrove, Esq.
  • - 41 - ↑ {f.41} Coleman-street — Wm. Hunter, Esq.
  • Cripplegate — Thomas Challis, Esq.
  • Bread-street — Hughes Hughes, Esq.
  • Billingsgate — Thomas Sidney, Esq.
  • Portsoken —
    • ⁂ All before the Recorder have passed the Chair.
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    SHERIFFS AND UNDER-SHERIFFSUNDER SHERIFFS.

  • William Hunter, Esq., Ald.
  • Thomas Sidney, Esq., Ald.
  • George Marten, Esq.
  • William Henry Ashurst, Esq.
  • CHAMBERLAIN, Anthony Brown, Esq., Ald.
  • Town Clerk, H. A. Merewether, Serjt.-at-Law.
  • Common Serjeant, J. Mirehouse, Esq.
  • Judge of Sheriffs’ Court, E. Bullock, Esq.
  • Common Pleaders, R. Gurney, Esq., A. Ryland, Esq., H. Randall, Esq. P. Laurie, Esq.
  • Comptroller of the Chamber, Thos. Saunders, Esq.
  • Remembrancer, E. Tyrrell, Esq.
  • Solicitor, C. Pearson, Esq.
  • Clerk of the Chamber, J. Sewell, Esq.
  • Clerk of Arraigns, J. Clark, Esq.
  • Coroner, W. Payne, Esq.
  • Clerk to Lord Mayor, R. S. Goodman
  • Collector of City Dues at the Custom House, E. Dew, Esq.
  • Sword Bearer, C. W. Hick, Esq.
  • Common Crier, S. Beddome, Esq.
  • Clerk of the City’s Works, J. B. Bunning, Esq.
  • City Marshals, N. Brown, and T. Theobalds
  • Bridge Masters, J. Watson and D. Gibbs

    • EAST INDIA COMPANY.* The alterations in the Bank Direction, and that of the East India Company, take place in April.

    Six Directors go out by rotation every year. The figure prefixed denotes the number of years they have each to serve.

    directors.

  • Chairman — (3) John Shepherd, Esq.
  • Deputy Chairman — (4) Sir Henry Willock, K. L. S. ; (1) John Cotton, Esq. ; (3) Henry Alexander, Esq. ; (2) William Astell, Esq., M. P. ; (2) William Butterworth Bayley, Esq. ; (3) Major-Gen. Sir Jeremiah Bryant ; (2) Russell Ellice, Esq. ; (2) Major-Gen. Archibald Galloway ; (2) Sir Richard Jenkins, G. C. B. ; (1) John Loch, Esq. ; (2) John Masterman, Esq., M. P. ; (1) Chas. Mills, Esq. ; (1) Wm. Henry Chicheley Plowden, Esq. ; (1) Henry Shank, Esq. ; (1) Henry St. George Tucker, Esq. ; (3) Francis Warden, Esq. ; (3) Sir William Young, Bart. ; (4) Sir Robt. Campbell, Bart. ; (4) Jas. Weir Hogg, Esq. ; (4) Lt.-Col. W. H. Sykes ; (4) Major-Gen. Archd. Robertson ; (3) Maj. Jas. Oliphant ; (4) John Claremont Whiteman.
  • Secretary — Jas. Cosmo Melville, Esq.
  • Deputy Sec. — John D. Dickinson, Esq.
    • Keyword Tags : India, columns, colonialism, commerce and trade, international

    BANK OF ENGLAND.* The alterations in the Bank Direction, and that of the East India Company, take place in April.

  • Governor — William Cotton, Esq.
  • Deputy — John Benjamin Heath, Esq.
  • Directors — Edwd. Henry Chapman, Esq. ; Arthur Edwd. Campbell, Esq. ; Bonamy Dobree, Esq. ; Abel Lewes Gower, Esq. ; Thomson Hankey, jun., Esq. ; John Oliver Hanson, Esq. ; Kirkman - 42 - ↑ {f.42} Daniel Hodgson, Esq. ; Henry Lancelot Holland, Esq. ; Thomas Newman Hunt, Esq. ; Charles Frederick Huth, Esq. ; Alfred Latham, Esq. ; Humphrey St. John Mildmay, Esq. ; James Morris, Esq. ; Sheffield Neave, Esq. ; George Warde Norman, Esq. ; John Horsley Palmer, Esq. ; James Pattison, Esq. ; Sir John Henry Pelly, Bart. ; Christopher Pearse, Esq. ; Henry James Prescott, Esq. ; Sir John Rae Reid, Bart. ; Wm. R. Robinson, Esq. ; William Thompson, Esq., and Alderman ; Thos. Tooke, jun., Esq.
  • Secretary — John Knight, Esq.
  • Deputy Sec. — John Watts, Esq.

    • branch banks of the bank of england.

    Birmingham — Bristol — Gloucester — Hull — Leeds — Liverpool — Manchester — Newcastle-upon-Tyne — Norwich — Portsmouth — Plymouth — Swansea.

    Keyword Tags : finances, England, columns, list

    BANKERS IN LONDON AND WESTMINSTER.

  • Bank of Australasia, 2, Moorgate-st.
  • Bk. Br. N. America, 7, St. Helen’s-pl.
  • Bank of Ceylon, 29, St. Swithin’s-la.
  • Bank of England, Threadneedle-st.
  • Barclay, Bevan, Tritton and Co., 54 Lombard-street.
  • Barnard, Dimsdale, Barnard, and Dimsdale, 50, Cornhill
  • Barnett, Hoares, & Co., 62, Lomb.-st
  • Biggerstaff, W. & J., 8, W. Smithfield
  • Bosanquet and Co., 73, Lombard-st.
  • Bouverie, Norman, and Murdoch, 11, Haymarket
  • Br. & Australian Bk., 21, Coleman-st
  • Br. & Colonial Bk., 50, Moorgate-st.
  • Brown, Janson, & Co., 32, Abchurch-l.
  • Call (Sir W. P., Bart.,) Marten, and Co., 25, Old Bond-street
  • Child and Co., 1, Fleet-street
  • Cockburn and Co., 4, Whitehall
  • Cocks and Biddulph, 43, Char. Cross
  • Colonial Bk., 13, Bishopsgate-within
  • Com. Bank of London, 3, Moorgate-st., & 6, Henrietta-st., Covent-gardengard..
  • Coutts and Co., 59, Strand
  • Cunliffe, Roger, 24, Bucklersbury
  • Cunliffes, Brooks, Cunliffe, and Co., 24, Lombard-street
  • Curries & Co., 29, Cornhill
  • Davies, Robert & Co., 187, Shoreditch
  • De Lisle, Janvrin, and De Lisle, 16, Devonshire-square, Bishopsgate
  • Denison, Heywood, Kennards, and Co., 4, Lombard-street
  • Dixons and Co., 25, Chancery-lane
  • Drewett & Fowler, 4, Princes-st. Bk.
  • Drummonds, 49, Charing-cross
  • Feltham (John), & Co., 42, Lomb-st.
  • Fullers and Co., 65, Moorgate-street
  • Glynn (Sir R. Carr, Bart.), Hallifax, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street
  • Goslings and Sharpe, 19, Fleet-street
  • Hanburys, Taylor, and Lloyds, 60, Lombard-street
  • Hankeys & Co., 7, Fenchurch-street
  • Herries, Farquhar, & Co., 16, St. James-street
  • Hill and Sons, 17, West Smithfield
  • Hoare (Sir H. Hugh, Bt.), C. H. M., H. R., and H. C., 37, Fleet-street
  • Hopkinson (Chas.), and Co., 3, Regent-st., Waterloo-place
  • Ionian Bank, 77, Basinghall-street
  • Johnston (H. & J.) & Co., 15, Bush-la
  • Jones and Son, 41, West Smithfield
  • Jones, Loyd, and Co., 43, Lothbury
  • Kinloch & Sons, 1, New Broad-street
  • London Jt. St. Bank, 5, Princes-st. Bk., Western Branch, 69, Pall Mall
  • London & County Joint Stock Banking Company, 71, Lombard-street ; branch, 41, West Smithfield
  • London & Dublin Bk., 5, Old Broad-st
  • London and Westminster Bank, 41, Lothbury. Branches, 9, Waterloopl. ; 213, High Holborn ; 155, Oxford-street ; 3, Wellington-street, Borough ; & 87, High-st. Whitech.
  • Lubbock (Sir J. W. Bt.), Lubbock, Forster, & Co., 11, Man.-house-st
  • Masterman, Peters, Mildred, Masterman, and Co., 35, Nicholas-lane
  • - 43 - ↑ {f.43} Metropolitan Bank, 4, Pall Mall East
  • Nat. Bk. of Ireland, 13, Old Broad-st
  • National Provincial Bank of England, 112, Bishopsgate within
  • Pickstock, John Luce, & Co., 39, Clement’s Lane
  • Pocklington and Lacey, 60, West Smithfield
  • Praed, Fane, Praed, and Johnston, 189, Fleet-street
  • Prescott, Grote, Ames, and Cave, 62, Threadneedle-street
  • Price (Sir Ch. Bart.), Marryat, Coleman, & Price, 3, King William-st
  • Prov. Bk. of Ireland, 42, Old Broad-st
  • Puget, Bainbridges, and Co., 12, St. Paul’s Church-yard
  • Ransom and Co., 1, Pall Mall East
  • Robarts, Curtis, & Co., 15, Lomb.-st
  • Rogers, Olding, & Co., 29, Clem.-la.
  • Royal Bk. of Australia, 2, Moorgate-st
  • Sapte, Banbury, Muspratt, & Co., 77, Lombard-street
  • Scott (Sir Claude, Bt.) and Co., 1, Cavendish-square
  • Smith, Payne, & Co., 1, Lombard-st
  • Smithfield Agency and Banking Co., 59, West Smithfield
  • Spooner, Attwoods, & Co., 27, Grace-church-street
  • Stallard, W. Henry, 76, W. Smithfield
  • Stevenson, Salt, & Sons, 20, Lomb-st
  • Stone, Martin, & Stones, 68, Lombard-street
  • Strahan, Paul, & Co., Temple Bar without, 217, Strand
  • Stride & Sons, 6, Copthall-Court
  • Tisdall, T. Geo., 15, West Smithfield
  • Twining, Richard, George, John Aldred, & Richard, 215, Strand
  • Union Bank of Australia, 38, Old Broad-street
  • Union Bank of London, 8, Moorgate-street. Branches, 4, Pall Mall East, and Argyll-place, Regent-street
  • Weston and Young, 6, Wellington-street, Southwark
  • Williams, Deacon, Labouchere, and Co., 20, Birchin-lane, Cornhill
  • Willis, Percival, & Co., 76, Lombard-street
    • Keyword Tags : finances, England, columns, list, London, international, empire, commerce and trade

    ARMY AGENTS.

  • Atkinson, J., Ely-place, Dublin
  • Barron & Smith, U. Chas. st. Westm
  • Borough, Sir Richard, & Co., Dublin
  • Cane & Co., Dawson-st. Dublin
  • Codd, Messrs., 15, Fludyer-st. Westm
  • Collyer, G. S., Park-pl., St. James’s
  • Cox & Co., Craig’s-ct., Charing-Cross
  • Kirkland, Sir John, 80, Pall Mall
  • Downes & Co., 14, Warwick-street, Charing Cross
  • Hopkinson & Co., Waterloo-place, Regent-street
  • Laurie, J., (agent for the Deccan prize-money), Charles-st., St. Jas.
  • Stoddart & M’Grigor, 17, Charles-st. St. James’s-square
    • Keyword Tags : columns, list, directory, military, London, Ireland, England

    NAVY AND PRIZE AGENTS IN LONDON.

  • Atkins and Son, 7, Walbrook
  • Barwis, W. H. B. 1, N. Boswell-ct.
  • Chard, W. & E., 3, Clifford’s Inn
  • Chippendale, J., 10, John-st. Adel.
  • Collier & Slee, 3, Brick-ct., Temple
  • Copland & Burnett, 22, Surry-street
  • Dufaur, Joseph, 13, Clement’s Inn
  • Goode, F., 15, Surry-st, Strand
  • Halford & Co., 41, Norfolk-street
  • Hallett & Robinson, 14, Gt. George-st
  • Hinxman, John, 34, Soho-square
  • Holmes and Folkard, 3, Lyon’s Inn
  • Loudonsack & Co., 1, James-st. Adel
  • Muspratt, J. P., 33, Abchurch-lane
  • Ommanney, Sir F., 22, Norfolk-st.
  • Pettet & Newton, 10, Lancaster-pl.
  • Slade, W., 21, Cecil-street, Strand
  • Stillwells’, 22, Arundel-street
  • Woodhead, J., 1, James-st., Adelphi

    • For Petty Officers and Seamen — Hutton and Sons, 25, Watling Street. - 44 - ↑ {f.44} IsaacIssac, Philip, 56, Great Prescott-street. Philpot, John, 3, Dowgate Hill — For Agents at the Outports see the Navy List.

    Marines — Cox and Son, 44, Hatton Garden.

    Keyword Tags : columns, list, maritime, London, military

    TRANSFER DAYS OF THE PUBLIC FUNDS.

    Stock.Transfer Days.Dividends Due.
    Bank StockTu. Wed. Thurs. and Fri.April 5, Oct. 10.
    3 per Cent. ConsolsTu. Wed. Thurs. and Fri.Jan. 5, July 5.
    3 per Cent. ReducedTu. Wed. Thurs. and Fri.April 5, Oct. 10.
    3 per Cent. 1726Tu. Wed. Thurs. and Fri.Jan. 5, July 5.
    3½ per Cent. ReducedTu. Wed. Thurs. and Fri.April 5, Oct. 10.
    3½ per Cent. 1818Tu. Wed. Thurs. and Fri.April 5, Oct. 10.
    New 3½ per Cent. AnnuitiesTu. Wed. Thurs. and Fri.Jan. 5, July 5.
    New 5 per Cent. AnnuitiesTu. Wed. Thurs. and Fri.Jan. 5, July 5.
    Consols Long AnnuitiesTu. Wed. Thurs. and Fri.April 5, Oct. 10.
    Annuities for Terms of Years, ending 10th Oct. 1859, pursuant to 10th Geo. IVTu. Wed. Thurs. and Fri.April 5, Oct. 10.
    Annuities for Terms of Years, ending 5th Jan. 1860, pursuant to 10th Geo. IVTu. Wed. Thurs. and Fri.Jan. 5, July 5.
    Life Annuitiesif purchased between Jan. 5 and April 4, or between July 5 and October 9.Jan. 5, July 5.
    if purchased between April 4 and July 5, between October 10 and January 4.April 5, Oct. 10.
    South Sea StockMon. Wed. and FridayJan. 5, July 5.
    3 per Cent. Old AnnuitiesMon. Wed. and FridayApril 5, Oct. 10.
    3 per Cent. New AnnuitiesTues. Thur. and SaturdayJan. 5, July 5.
    3 per Cent. 1751Tuesday and ThursdayJan. 5, July 5.
    East India StockTues. Thur. and SaturdayJan. 5, July 5.
    Interest on India BondsMarch 31, Sept. 30.
    Keyword Tags : grid or table format, finances, commerce and trade, India

    WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

    AVOIRDUPOIS WEIGHT.

    DrachmsOuncePoundQuarterHundredTon
        16    1
       256   16  1
     7,168  448 281
    28,6721,79211241
    573,44035,8402,24080201

    By a late Act the stone weight is to be 14lb., and 8 stone to be the cwt. ; and no contract is to be valid, if otherwise made.

    TROY WEIGHT.

    GrainsCaratPenny-weightOuncePound
       4  1
      24  1
     480 20 1
    5760240121

    LIQUID MEASURE.

    PintsQuartGallonHogsheadPuncheonPipeTun
        2  1
        8  4  1
      504252 631
      672336 841⅓1
    1,00850412621½1
    2,0161,0082524321
    QuartsGallonFirkinKilderkinBarrelHogsheadPuncheonButt
      4  1
     36  9 1
     72 18 21
    144 36 421
    216 54 631½1
    288 72 8421⅓
    432108126321

    ↑ - 45 - {f.45} DRY MEASURE.

     2 pints1 quart
     2 qs.1 pottle
     2 pots.1 gallon
     2 galls.1 peck
     4 pks.1 bush
     2 bush.1 strike
     4 bush.1 sack
     8 bush.1 qutr.
     4 qurs.1 chdn.
     5 qurs.1 wey
    10 qurs.1 last.

    SQUARE OR LAND MEASURE.

    144 inches1 square foot
      9 feet1 square yard
    272¼ feet1 rod brickw.
    100 feet1 sq. flooring
     16 poles1 chain
     40 poles1 rood
      4 roods, or 4840 s. y.1 acre
    640 acres1 square mile
     30 acres1 yard of land
    100 acres1 hide of land
     40 hides1 barony

    SOLID OR CUBE MEASURE.

    1728 inches1 solid foot
      27 feet1 yard
      40 feet unhewn1 ton
      50 feet hewn timber
     108 feet1 stack wood
     125 feet1 cord wood

    CLOTH MEASURE.

    InchesNailQuarter of a YardYardFlemish EllEnglish Ell
     2¼ 1
     9 41
    361641
    271231
    452051

    APOTHECARIES’ WEIGHT.

    GrainsScrupleDrachmOuncePound
       20  1
       60  3 1
      480 24 8 1
    5,76028896121

    Medical men use this weight in mixing medicines, but buy and sell simple Drugs by avoirdupois Weight.

    WINE MEASURE.

    Gals.
    Lisbon per pipe117
    Bucellas117
    Port115
    Sherry108
    Malaga105
    Teneriffe, per pipe100
    Vidonia100
    Sicilian 93
    Madeira 92
    Cape 92
    Tent, per hhd 52
    Claret 46
    Hermitage 46
    Hock, per aum 30
    Spanish red, per tun210

    LONG MEASURE.

     3 b. corns1 in.
     3 inches1 bnd.
     9 inches1 spn.
    12 inches1 foot
     3 feet1 yrd.
     5 feet1 pace
     6 feet1 fm.
     5½ yards1 pole
     4 poles1 chn.
    40 poles1 furlg.furg.
     8 furlgs.1 mile
     3 miles1 leag.
    69½ miles1 deg.
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    TABLE TO CALCULATE WAGES, AND OTHER PAYMENTS.

    Year.Per Mon.Per Week.Per Day.
    ££s.d.£s.d.s.d.
     10 1800 4¾0 0¾
     20 3400 9¼0 1¼
     30 5001 1¾0 2
     40 6801 6½0 2¾
     50 8401110 3¼
     6010002 3½0 4
     7011802 8¼0 4½
     8013403 0¾0 5¼
     9015003 5½0 6
    10016803100 6½
    11018404 2¾0 7¼
    121 0004 7¼0 8
    131 180411¾0 8½
    141 3405 4¼0 9¼
    151 5005 9010
    161 6806 1¾010½
    171 8406 6¼011¼
    1811000610¾011¾
    19111807 3½1 0½
    20113407 81 1¼

    If the wages be guineas, add one penny for every pound to each month, or one farthing for every pound to each week.

    Keyword Tags : grid or table format, work, finances, mathematics

    ↑ - 46 - {f.46} SHORT RULES FOR CALCULATION.

    To find the Value of a Dozen Articles.

    Take the price in pence as shillings, and if there are any farthings in the price, add threepence for each.

    Example. — 1 dozen yards at 2s. 8d. per yard. 2s. 8d. = 32d., which taken as shillings, is 1l. 12s.

    To find the Value of 100 Articles.

    For every farthing take as many pence and twice as many shillings.

    Example. — 100 at 1¼d. As many pence (5) + twice as many shillings (10) = 10s. 5d.

    To find the Value of a Pound at any Price per Ounce.

    Take the price in farthings as shillings, and divide by three.

    Example. — 1 lb. of tea at 5¼d. per oz. 5¼d. is 21 farthings ; taken as shillings, 21 ÷ 3 = 7s.

    To find the Value of an Ounce at any Price per Pound.

    Take the shillings as farthings, and multiply by three.

    Example. — At 6s. 6 × 3 = 18 farthings are 4½d.

    Keyword Tags : list, finances

    POST AND TRANSIT.

    POST OFFICEPOST-OFFICE REGULATIONS.

    INLAND.

    dispatch by evening mails from london. Letters can be posted at
    p.m.
    The Receiving Houses till5½
    With the letter-carriers with bells (with a fee of 1d.), from4½ to 5½
    At Branch Offices at Charing Cross, Old Cavendish-street, and Blackman-street, Borough, till6
    - 47 - {f.47} Or, with a fee of 1d., by stamps affixed to letter¼ to 7
    Lombard-street till 6 ; or, with fee, as above, till7

    St. Martin’s-le-Grand till 6 ; with 1d. fee, and postage paid in advance, either in stamps or coin, to 7 ; and from 7 to half-past 7, with a fee of 6d.

    dispatch by morning mails from london. Letters can be posted at
    The Receiving Houses and Branch Offices at Charing Cross, Old Cavendish-street, and Borough8 a.m.
    Lombard-street and St. Martin’s-le-Grand8½ a.m.

    LONDON DISTRICT POST.

    Comprising a circle of twelve miles from the General Post Office in St. Martin’s-le-Grand, and extending to Hampton Court, Hampton, and Sunbury, although beyond that distance.

    Letters must be posted at Receiving-houses in London,

  • Morning bef. 8 for the 10 o’clock dispatch.
  • Morning bef. 12 for the 1 o’clock dispatch.
  • Aft. before 3 for the 4 o’clock dispatch.
  • Aft. before 5 for the 6 o’clock dispatch.
  • Evening bef. 6 for the 8 next morning.

    • At the Principal Office, St. Martin’s-le-Grand, Letters must be posted,

  • Morning bef. 9 for the 10 o’clock dispatch
  • Aft. q. bef. 1 for the 1 o’clock dispatch
  • Aft. q. bef. 4 for the 4 o’clock dispatch
  • Even. q. bef. 6 for the 6 o’clock dispatch
  • Even. q. bef. 7 for the 8 next morning.

    • The deliveries in the country commence immediately upon the arrival of the dispatch from London, except the 8 o’clock night dispatch, which is not delivered till the next morning.

    For places within the three mile circle, and to which there are six dispatches from London daily : — Morning, 8 and 10 ; Afternoon, 1 and 4 ; Evening, 6 and 8 o’clock.

    Letters must be posted at Receiving-houses in London,

  • Morning bef. 8 for the 10 o’clock dispatch.
  • Morning bef. 12 for the 1 o’clock dispatch.
  • Aft. before 3 for the 4 o’clock dispatch.
  • Aft. before 5 for the 6 o’clock dispatch.
  • Evening bef. 6 for the 8 o’clock dispatch.
  • Evening bef. 8 for the 8 next morning.

    • Letters must be posted at the Principal Office, St. Martin’s-le-Grand.

  • Morning bef. 9 for the 10 o’clock dispatch.
  • Aft. q. bef. 1 for the 1 o’clock dispatch.
  • Aft. q. bef. 4 for the 4 o’clock dispatch.
  • Even. q. bef. 6 for the 6 o’clock dispatch.
  • Even. q. bef. 7 for the 8 o’clock dispatch.
  • Even. q. bef. 9 for the 8 next morning.

    • There are ten dispatches daily from one part of the metropolis to another, where letters —

    If posted at Receiving-houses in the morning —

  • Bef. 8 o’clock are dispatched for delivery at 10 o’clock.
  • Bef. 10 o’clock are dispatched for delivery at 12 o’clock.
  • Bef. 12 o’clock are dispatched for delivery at 1 o’clock.
  • Bef. 1 o’clock are dispatched for delivery at 2 o’clock.
  • Bef. 2 o’clock are dispatched for delivery at 3 o’clock.
  • Bef. 3 o’clock are dispatched for delivery at 4 o’clock.
  • Bef. 4 o’clock are dispatched for delivery at 5 o’clock.
  • Bef. 5 o’clock are dispatched for delivery at 6 o’clock.
  • Bef. 6 o’clock are dispatched for delivery at 8 o’clock.
  • Bef. 8 o’clock are dispatched for delivery at 8 next morningmor..

    • If posted at the Principal Office, St. Martin’s-le-Grand, in the morning —

  • Bef. 9 o’clock are dispatched for delivery at 10 o’clock.
  • Bef. 11 o’clock are dispatched for delivery at 12 o’clock.
  • q. bef. 1 o’clock are dispatched for delivery at 1 o’clock.
  • q. bef. 2 o’clock are dispatched for delivery at 2 o’clock.
  • q. bef. 3 o’clock are dispatched for delivery at 3 o’clock.
  • q. bef. 4 o’clock are dispatched for delivery at 4 o’clock.
  • q. bef. 5 o’clock are dispatched for delivery at 5 o’clock.
  • q. bef. 6 o’clock are dispatched for delivery at 6 o’clock.
  • Bef. 7 o’clock are dispatched for delivery at 8 o’clock.
  • Bef. 9 o’clock are dispatched for delivery at 8 next morningmor..

    • These deliveries occupy about one hour and a half from the time of dispatch.

    - 48 - {f.48} Rates of Postage, — From and to all parts of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, if pre-paid, and not exceeding —

    Half an OunceOne Penny.
    One OunceTwopence.
    Two OuncesFourpence.
    Three OuncesSixpence.

    And so on, adding Twopence for each Ounce, up to 16 Ounces, above which no packet can be forwarded through the Post Office, but will be sent to the Dead Letter Office, and notice to that effect sent to the person to whom such packet is directed, with the following exception : — Deeds, if sent in covers, and open at the ends, or tied and sealed without covers, the Postage must be paid according to the above rates, adding Twopence for every Ounce to the full weight of the package ; the above rates must be paid in advance, or double the amount of Postage will be charged upon the whole, or any portion of the Postage that may be left unpaid.

    Overcharges — In Postage may be recovered by producing the covers of Letters so overcharged.

    Letters when offered for delivery at the late residence of parties who may have removed from one part of the Metropolis to another, and then forwarded to their new residence, are charged a second Postage to the same amount as the first, unless they send notice of removal to the Principal Office, St. Martin’s-le-Grand ; by so doing saving of time will also be effected.

    Newspapers — To go by Evening Mails, must be posted at the Receiving and Branch Offices before half-past 5 ; or at St. Martin’s-le-Grand, before 6 ; but are received up to half-past 7 with a fee of One Halfpenny each. By the Morning Mails, at the Receiving Houses till 7 ; Charing Cross, Old Cavendish Street, and the Borough, till half-past 7 ; and at Lombard Street and St. Martin’s-le-Grand, a quarter before 8. If directed to persons who have removed, they may be re-directed and sent on free of charge.

    British Newspapers sent to Foreign countries where they are permitted to go free through the Foreign Post, go free ; but if otherwise, they are charged a British Postage of Twopence each, or a rate equivalent to the Foreign rate. French Newspapers are subject to a Postage in England of One Halfpenny. English Papers pay in France a Postage of 4 Centimes. Foreign Newspapers, in like manner, if printed in the language of the country from which they are forwarded.

    Newspapers passing through the London District Post are charged One Penny each, if posted and delivered within the three-mile circle, taking the Principal Office in St. Martin’s-le Grand as the centre ; but if posted to be delivered beyond that circle, or if posted beyond that circle to be delivered within it, they pass free.

    Money Orders. — Money Orders for sums under Five Pounds are granted by every post-town upon every other post-town in the United Kingdom, on application at the various offices ; and also by and upon certain offices in the metropolis, of which the postmasters are furnished with a list. Orders for sums not exceeding Two Pounds, are charged Threepence ; not exceeding Five Pounds, Sixpence ; above Five Pounds no Money order can be obtained. They are granted and paid between the hours of Ten and Four daily : they are paid only to the person for whom they were obtained, but he may depute another person to receive the money by signing the order, and giving his deputy the Christianchristian and surname, the address, and occupation of the person who originally obtained the Order, - 49 - {f.49} so that the deputy may be enabled to give those particulars when he presents the Order at the office for payment. Persons residing in London should instruct their correspondents who may obtain Money Orders, to make them payable at the most convenient of the London Offices, as Money Orders granted, bearing London only, can be paid only at the Principal Office, St. Martin’s-le-Grand.

    Money Letters, or Letters containing Notes or other valuable property, or not, may be registered at any of the Receiving-houses in the London District Post, for the sum of One Shilling each Letter, in addition to the Postage ; the shilling must be paid in cash and not in stamps : they must be posted half an hour earlier for each Dispatch than other Letters ; much risk is run in sending such Letters unregistered. Bank Notes and Cheques may be cut in half, and sent at two distinct times ; the second half not until the receipt of the first has been acknowledged : the numbers, dates, and amount should be carefully taken.

    morning mails are dispatched to
    Brighton,Cambridge,Edinburgh,
    Birmingham & Preston,Dover,Glasgow,
    Bristol,Dublin,Southampton,

    And the various post towns on these routes.

    foreign and ship letter mails
    Made up in London.

    Letters (except those for India, viâ Marseilles, which must be posted at the same hours as Inland Letters) for the Foreign Mails are received at the Branch Offices, Charing Cross, Old Cavendish Street, and the Borough, until Eight at Night on Tuesday and Friday, and Ten at St. Martin’s-le-Grand and Lombard Street ; at St. Martin’s-le-Grand only they are received up to Eleven with One Penny fee, and to half-past Eleven with Sixpence fee.

    Destination.When made up.When due.
    FranceDailyDaily
    BelgiumMon., Tues., Thurs., Fri.Sun., Mon., Thurs., Fri.
    HollandTuesday, FridayMonday, Thursday
    Hamburgh, Sweden, and NorwayTuesday, FridayTues., Sat., but usually arrive on the previous day
    Sweden and Norway (during the Summer Months) viâ HullFridayTuesday
    DublinTwice a dayTwice a day
    WaterfordDailyDaily
    DonaghadeeDailyDaily
    Guernsey and JerseyTuesday, FridayMonday, Thursday.

    Lisbon, Madeira, Vigo, Cadiz, Oporto, and Gibraltar, every Thursday.

    Malta, Greece, and Ionian Isles, viâ Southampton, on 1st, and the Thursday nearest to the 15th of each Month.

    Syria, Egypt, and India, viâ Southampton, 1st of the Month, or 2nd when 1st falls on a Sunday.

    Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Madeira, and Canary Isles, 1st Tuesday in each Month.

    - 50 - ↑ {f.50} British North America, Bermuda, and United States, 3rd and 18th of every Month, except in December, January, February, and March, when on 3rd only.

    Jamaica, Leeward Isles, Hayti, Porto Rico, and Cuba, 2nd and 17th of every month.

    Mexico, Panama, New Grenada, and Venezuela, 2nd of every Month.

    ☞ The French Mediterranean Packets leave Marseilles the 1st, 11th, and 2 st of each Month, at 5 p.m. ; and Alexandria the 6th, 16th, and 26th, at 4 p.m. Letters intended to be sent by these Packets must be addressed “viâ Marseilles, per French Packet.” Postage 1s. 3d. under a quarter of an ounce.

    Keyword Tags : list, commerce and trade, London, letters, newspapers and periodicals, finances, international, Europe, France, law and order

    HACKNEY COACH AND CAB FARES.

    By Distance. — For every hackney carriage drawn by two horses, for any distance within, and not exceeding, one mile, 1s. ; and for any distance exceeding one mile, after the rate of 6d. for every half mile, and for every fractional part of half a mile.

    By Time. — For any time within and not exceeding thirty minutes, 1s. ; above thirty minutes, and not exceeding forty-five minutes, 1s. 6d. ; above forty-five minutes, and not exceeding one hour, 2s. ; and for any further time exceeding one hour, after the rate of 6d. for every fifteen minutes, and 6d. for any fractional part of fifteen minutes.

    ☞ For every hackney carriage drawn by one horse, two-thirds only of the above fares are to be taken.

    Back Fare. — If discharged beyond the limits of the Metropolis, that is to say, beyond a circle of three miles from the General Post-Office, between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m., the full fare back to the nearest point of the limits of the Metropolis, or back to the stand where hired, at the option of the hirer ; if discharged between 5 a.m. and 8 p.m., more than four miles beyond the limits of the Metropolis (that is, seven miles from the General Post-Office), sixpence per mile (or fourpence per mile for Cabs) back to the limits or to the stand where hired.

    Drivers are compellable to drive to any distance not exceeding five miles from the General Post-Office, or five miles from the place where hired. Penalty, 40s. — Hackney Carriages standing in any street to be deemed plying for hire. Penalty, 40s. — Agreement to pay more than legal fare, not binding ; to pay less, binding. — Drivers entitled to deposit for waiting ; penalty for refusing to wait or account for deposit, 40s. — Penalty for permitting persons to ride without consent of hirers, 40s. — Persons refusing to pay their hire, or for damage, may be committed to prison. — Property left in carriages to be deposited within four days at the Stamp Office. Penalty, 20l. If not claimed within a year, delivered to driver or sold.

    Keyword Tags : vehicles and transportation, law and order, commerce and trade, London, finances

    WATERMEN’S FARES.

    By Distance. — Every half-mile, scullers, 3d. ; oars, 6d. Scullers take four and oars six persons at those fares.

    By Time. — Oars 1s. per half-hour ; scullers, 6d. By the day (which is from 7 to 8 o’clock from Michaelmas to Lady-day, and from that day to Michaelmas, from 6 to 6), oars, 12s., scullers, 6s.

    Watermen are liable to a penalty of 5l. for not having a book of their fares.

    Keyword Tags : vehicles and transportation, finances, London, commerce and trade

    ↑ - 51 - {f.51} AMUSEMENTS.

    THEATRES IN LONDON.

  • Adelphi, Strand.
  • Astley’s, Westminster Bridge Road.
  • City of London, Norton Falgate.
  • Covent Garden, Bow-street.
  • Drury Lane.
  • Garrick, Leman-street, Goodman’s-fields.
  • Italian Opera, Haymarket.
  • Haymarket.
  • Lyceum, Upper Wellington-street, Strand.
  • Marylebone.
  • Olympic, Wych-street, Strand.
  • Pavilion, Whitechapel-road.
  • Princess’s, Oxford-street.
  • Queen’s, Tottenham-street.
  • Sadler’s Wells, John-str.-road, Islington.
  • St. James’s Theatre, King-street.
  • Strand, near Somerset House.
  • Surrey, St. George’s-fields.
  • Victoria, New Cut, Lambeth.
    • Keyword Tags : spectacles and entertainment, theatre, London, directory, list, columns

    AMUSEMENTS, EXHIBITIONS, ETC.

  • National Gallery, Trafalgar Square — Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and, in Easter and Whitsun Weeks, Friday also ; 10 to 5 : closed for six weeks from end of second week in September.
  • Dulwich Gallery, Dulwich College — Every week day, except Friday, from 10 to 5 in summer ; 11 to 3 in winter. Tickets to be had gratis of Mr. Moon, Finch-lane, Cornhill ; Graves, Pall-Mall ; or Colnaghi, Cockspur-street. No tickets to be had in Dulwich. Schools, and children under fourteen, not admitted.
  • British Museum, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury — Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and, in Easter and Whitsun Weeks, Tuesday and Thursday also ; 10 to 4 ; and from May to September, 10 to 7 ; closed the first week in January, May, and September. Children under eight years old not admitted.
  • East India Company’s Museum, India House, Leadenhall Street — Saturday, 11 to 3.
  • Missionaries’ Museum Bloomfield Street, Moorfields — Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, 10 to 3 ; March 25th to Sept. 29th, 10 to 4.
  • Geological Museum, Craig’s Court, Charing Cross — Daily, 10 to 4.
  • Entomological Society’s Museum, 17, Old Bond Street — Every Tuesday, 3 to 8.
  • Soane Museum, 13, Lincoln’s-Inn Fields — April, May, and June, Thursday and Friday. Admission by ticket, to be applied for on the premises a day or two beforehand.
  • College of Surgeons’ Museum, Lincoln’s-Inn Fields — The first four days in the week, 12 to 4, with orders from members. Closed in September.
  • Royal Institution Museum, Albemarle Street (Minerals) — Daily, 10 to 4, by member’s order.
  • United Service Museum, Middle Scotland Yard — Daily, 11 to 4, by member’s order.
  • Society of Arts, John Street, Adelphi — Any day, except Wednesday, 10 to 2, by member’s order.
  • - 52 - ↑ {f.52} School of Design, Somerset House — Monday, 1 to 3, except August and September.
  • Royal Military Repository, Woolwich — Daily, 9 to 11 and 1 to 4, by ticket from Master General of Ordnance, or personal introduction by an officer. To the Dockyard free.
  • Deptford Dockyard — Daily, 10 to 3.
  • The Mint, Tower Hill — Daily, 11 to 3 ; with order to be obtained from Deputy Master.
  • Hampton Court Gardens — Every week day from 10 to 4, Friday excepted. On Sundays, from 2 to 4.
  • Kew Gardens — Pleasure Grounds, Sunday and Thursday, from 12 till sunset, from Midsummer till Michaelmas ; the Botanical Gardens and Arboretum every day, Sundays excepted, to strangers, from 1 to 3, at any season.
  • Temple Gardens — Every evening from June 18th to August 31st, from 6 in the evening till dusk ; and from 8 in the morning till dusk throughout the year, on order from a bencher.
  • Horticultural Society’s Garden, Chiswick — Daily, by member’s ticket.
  • Bazaars, &c. — Pantheon, Oxford-street ; Bazaar, Soho-square ; Lowther Bazaar, 35, Strand : Pantechnicon, Pimlico, Western Exchange, Old Bond-street ; Lowther Arcade, West Strand ; Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly ; King-street Bazaar, Portman-square.
    • Keyword Tags : columns, list, directory, art, spectacles and entertainment, GLAM, parks and gardens, commerce and trade, India, military

    ASTRONOMICAL NOTICES.

    GENERAL NOTES FOR THE YEAR 1845.

    Golden Number3
    Epact22
    Solar Cycle6
    Dominical LetterE
    Roman Indiction3
    Julian Period6558
    EpiphanyJan. 6
    Septuagesima SundayJan. 19
    Quinquagesima SundayFeb. 2
    Ash WednesdayFeb. 5
    First Sunday in LentFeb. 9
    Easter SundayMarch 23
    Rogation SundayApril 27
    Ascension DayMay 1
    WhitsundayMay 11
    Trinity SundayMay 18
    Advent SundayNov. 30
    Ember DaysFeb. 12, 14, 15
    Ember DaysMay 14, 16, 17
    Ember DaysSept. 17, 19, 20
    Ember DaysDec. 17, 19, 20
    Sunday after Epiphany1
    Sundays after Trinity27

    The year 5606 of the Jewish era commences on Oct. 2, 1845.

    The year 1261 of the Mohammedan era commences on Jan. 10, 1845.

    Ramâdan (Month of Abstinence observed by the Turks) commences on Sept. 3, 1845.

    Keyword Tags : list, columns, calendar, holidays and celebrations, faith and religion, astronomy

    ↑ - 53 - {f.53} HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

    Day of the Month.Morn.After.
    h.m.h.m.
    Jan. 1 6 9 659
     2 724 751
     3 821 857
     4 9341013
     510511128
     6— 0 4
     7 037 1 6
     8 135 2 1
     9 225 252
    10 316 339
    11 4 1 424
    12 446 5 6
    13 527 549
    14 6 7 629
    15 651 712
    16 735 8 0
    17 831 9 9
    18 9451022
    1911 21138
    20— 015
    21 041 1 5
    22 128 149
    23 2 6 226
    24 242 3 0
    25 317 332
    26 349 4 5
    27 421 437
    28 436 513
    29 531 551
    30 6 9 631
    31 654 719
    Feb. 1 745 819
     2 859 942
     310271112
     41153—
     5 026 1 0
     6 128 153
     7 218 240
     8 3 3 324
     9 344 4 3
    10 424 442
    11 5 1 519
    12 535 554
    13 613 630
    14 652 712
    15 738 8 7
    16 843 925
    1710 81051
    181131—
    19 0 7 037
    20 1 1 122
    21 141 2 1
    22 219 236
    23 253 3 9
    24 326 342
    25 358 415
    26 434 452
    27 5 8 528
    28 547 6 8
    Mar. 1 631 658
     2 726 8 2
     3 843 927
     410151059
     51144—
     6 020 047
     7 115 140
     8 2 2 224
     9 244 3 2
    10 320 339
    11 357 414
    12 431 449
    13 5 5 521
    14 540 558
    15 616 639
    16 659 724
    17 756 833
    18 91810 0
    1910421120
    201155—
    21 023 048
    22 1 8 129
    23 147 2 5
    24 220 239
    25 256 313
    26 334 351
    27 4 9 429
    28 449 5 9
    29 532 554
    30 622 649
    31 719 754
    April 1 836 922
     210 51048
     31129—
     4 0 1 030
     5 053 116
     6 139 2 0
     7 217 237
     8 255 314
     9 331 347
    10 4 4 421
    11 437 453
    12 511 529
    13 549 6 8
    14 629 653
    15 720 753
    16 829 912
    17 9491027
    1811 11133
    19— 0 1
    20 023 046
    21 1 8 128
    22 147 2 6
    23 227 248
    24 3 8 329
    25 350 412
    26 434 458
    27 523 547
    28 614 644
    29 716 750
    30 828 9 9
    May 1 9471023
     211 11132
     3— 0 1
     4 028 050
     5 113 135
     6 154 213
     7 233 251
     8 3 7 326
     9 341 357
    10 415 432
    11 449 5 8
    12 524 544
    13 6 6 629
    14 652 718
    15 746 821
    - 54 - {f.54} 16 858 931
    1710 41035
    1811 71136
    19— 0 1
    20 027 051
    21 117 138
    22 2 2 228
    23 249 313
    24 337 4 0
    25 426 450
    26 515 542
    27 6 7 636
    28 7 4 736
    29 8 6 838
    30 917 948
    3110201052
    June 111231155
     2— 022
     3 046 110
     4 131 153
     5 212 230
     6 249 3 5
     7 325 340
     8 358 414
     9 430 448
    10 5 6 525
    11 543 6 3
    12 624 647
    13 711 738
    14 8 6 840
    15 914 945
    1610161048
    1711211151
    18— 022
    19 049 117
    20 142 210
    21 236 3 2
    22 328 352
    23 415 440
    24 5 5 529
    25 554 618
    26 644 7 8
    27 735 8 3
    28 832 9 8
    29 93810 9
    3010431118
    July 11151—
     2 020 045
     3 1 8 130
     4 152 212
     5 229 249
     6 3 7 324
     7 339 357
     8 412 429
     9 445 5 2
    10 521 538
    11 559 619
    12 641 7 4
    13 728 755
    14 825 9 1
    15 9371012
    1610491127
    1712 0—
    18 034 1 3
    19 133 158
    20 225 251
    21 315 339
    22 4 1 422
    23 446 5 7
    24 529 551
    25 612 635
    26 658 722
    27 746 814
    28 850 924
    2910 01036
    3011161150
    31— 023
    Aug. 1 049 112
     2 132 153
     3 211 228
     4 247 3 2
     5 318 335
     6 349 4 5
     7 420 438
     8 455 511
     9 529 549
    10 6 9 630
    11 655 722
    12 750 826
    13 9 7 948
    1410301114
    151152—
    16 023 056
    17 123 149
    18 211 237
    19 258 320
    20 342 4 1
    21 422 441
    22 5 1 520
    23 540 559
    24 619 641
    25 7 3 729
    26 759 836
    27 916 957
    2810371115
    291151—
    30 021 043
    31 1 6 126
    Sept. 1 145 2 2
     2 218 236
     3 251 3 7
     4 323 339
     5 355 412
     6 431 446
     7 5 5 525
     8 544 6 6
     9 632 658
    10 729 8 7
    11 852 937
    12102211 5
    131143—
    14 014 042
    15 1 7 133
    16 156 215
    17 237 256
    18 316 336
    19 354 413
    20 431 448
    21 5 7 526
    22 545 6 5
    23 627 650
    24 717 750
    25 830 911
    26 9531032
    2711 91143
    28— 011
    29 032 053
    30 110 130
    - 55 - ↑ {f.55} Oct. 1 146 2 3
     2 219 238
     3 253 312
     4 330 347
     5 4 6 425
     6 445 5 6
     7 527 553
     8 621 650
     9 723 759
    10 845 929
    1110131052
    1211281158
    13— 024
    14 047 112
    15 133 153
    16 213 232
    17 252 312
    18 330 348
    19 4 5 421
    20 440 458
    21 516 536
    22 556 618
    23 643 7 7
    24 742 820
    25 859 938
    2610141049
    27 1201150
    28— 011
    29 033 053
    30 113 131
    31 150 2 9
    Nov. 1 229 247
     2 3 8 328
     3 350 410
     4 433 456
     5 521 546
     6 611 642
     7 714 751
     8 830 911
     9 9471026
    1011 31134
    11— 0 2
    12 028 049
    13 113 134
    14 154 215
    15 234 251
    16 311 327
    17 345 4 1
    18 418 435
    19 453 512
    20 531 552
    21 613 636
    22 7 0 728
    23 759 835
    24 911 945
    2510161047
    2611201148
    27— 013
    28 035 1 0
    29 124 145
    30 2 6 229
    Dec. 1 252 315
     2 337 4 0
     3 425 449
     4 513 539
     5 6 7 633
     6 659 730
     7 8 2 838
     8 913 947
     910211057
    101131—
    11 0 1 027
    12 051 113
    13 136 156
    14 216 237
    15 255 312
    16 328 347
    17 4 3 420
    18 437 454
    19 511 531
    20 549 6 7
    21 627 648
    22 711 737
    23 8 5 839
    24 914 949
    2510231058
    261132—
    27 0 3 031
    28 056 123
    29 149 213
    30 238 3 5
    31 329 352
    Keyword Tags : grid or table format, list, London, astronomy

    ECLIPSES IN 1845.

    In the year 1845, there will be two Eclipses of the Sun, and two of the Moon.

    1st. An annular Eclipse of the Sun, May 6, partially visible at Greenwich.

    Begins 8 h 31 m a.m.
    Greatest phase 9 h 36 m a.m.
    Ends10 h 47 m a.m.

    2nd. A total Eclipse of the Moon, May 21, invisible at Greenwich.

    3rd. An annular Eclipse of the Sun, October 30, invisible at Greenwich.

    4th. A partial Eclipse of the Moon, Nov. 13-14, visible at Greenwich.

    First contact with the penumbra 9 h 57 m
    First contact with the shadow11 h 10 m
    Middle of the eclipse12 h 49 m
    Last contact with the shadow 2 h 28 m
    Last contact with the penumbra 3 h 61 m
    Keyword Tags : list, astronomy, meteorology and climate

    ↑ - [56] - {f.56} CALENDAR.

    JANUARY XXXI.
    Last Quarter  1 day at 3 21 after.
    New Moon  8 day at 7 12 morn.
    First Quarter 15 day at 8 50 morn.
    Full Moon 23 day at 2 20 after.
    Last Quarter 31 day at 3 55 morn.
    Days of theSundays, Saints’ Days, &c.Moon’s Age.
    M.W.Y.
     1W 1Circumcision22
     2Th 2Day 7h. 50m. long23
     3F 324
     4S 425
     5S 52 Sun. af. Christ.26
     6M 6Epiph. Tw. Day O. C. D.27
     7Tu 728
     8W 8LucianN
     9Th 9 1
    10F10 2
    11S11Hilary Term beg. 3
    12S121 Sun. aft. Epiph. 4
    13M13Hilary. C. T. beg. 5
    14Tu14Oxford Term beg. 6
    15W15 7
    16Th16Day 8h. 17m. long 8
    17F17 9
    18S18Prisca. O. Tw. D.10
    19S19Septuages. Sun.11
    20M20Fabian12
    21Tu21Agnes13
    22W22Vincent14
    23Th23F
    24F2416
    25S25Conv. of St. Paul17
    26S26Sexagesima Sun.18
    27M2719
    28Tu2820
    29W2921
    30Th30K. Charles I. mar.22
    31F31Hilary Term ends23
    FEBRUARY XXVIII.
    New Moon  6 day at  6 35 after.
    First Quarter 14 day at  4 59 morn.
    Full Moon 22 day at  6 46 morn.
    Last Quarter 28 day at 10 13 morn.
    Days of theSundays, Saints’ Days, &c.Moon’s Age.
    M.W.Y.
     1S32Part. & Ph. sh. end24
     2S33Quinquages. Sun. Purif. C.25
     3M34Blaise26
     4Tu35Shrove Tuesday27
     5W36Ash Wed. Agatha28
     6Th37Day 9h. 21m. l.N
     7F38 1
     8S39 2
     9S401 Sun. in Lent 3
    10M41Q. Vict. m. 1840 4
    11Tu42 5
    12W43Camb. div. n. Emb. Emb. D. 6
    13Th44 7
    14F45Val. O. Cand. D. 8
    15S46Tweed Fish. beg. 9
    16S472 Sun. in Lent10
    17M4811
    18Tu4912
    19W5013
    20Th5114
    21F52Day 10h. 16m. l.15
    22S53F
    23S543 Sun. in Lent17
    24M55St. Matthias.18
    25Tu5619
    26W5720
    27Th58Hare hunting ends21
    28F5922
    MARCH XXXI.
    New Moon  8 day at 6 36 morn.
    First Quarter 16 day at 1 52 morn.
    Full Moon 23 day at 8 18 even.
    Last Quarter 30 day at 5  0 after.
    Days of theSundays, Saints’ Days, &c.Moon’s Age.
    M.W.Y.
     1S 60David23
     2S 614 Sun. in Lent Chad.24
     3M 62Day 10 h. 59 m. l.25
     4Tu 6326
     5W 6427
     6Th 6528
     7F 66Perpetua29
     8S 67N
     9S 685 Sun. in Lent 1
    10M 69 2
    11Tu 70 3
    12W 71Gregory 4
    13Th 72 5
    14F 73Camb. Term ends 6
    15S 74Oxford Term ends 7
    16S 75Palm Sunday 8
    17M 76St. Patrick. 9
    18Tu 77Edw. K. W. S.10
    19W 7811
    20Th 79Maundy Thurs.12
    21F 80Good Friday Benedict 13
    22S 8114
    23S 82Easter SundayF
    24M 83Easter Monday16
    25Tu 84East. T. Annun.17
    26W 85Day 12 h. 31 m. l.18
    27Th 8619
    28F 8720
    29S 8821
    30S 89Low Sunday22
    31M 9023
    APRIL XXX.
    New Moon  6 day at 7 40 even.
    First Quarter 14 day at 9 23 even.
    Full Moon 22 day at 7 12 morn.
    Last Quarter 28 day at 11 19 even.
    Days of theSundays, Saints’ Days, &c.Moon’s Age.
    M.W.Y.
     1Tu 91Day 12h. 55.m lo.24
     2W 92Ox. & Ca. E. T. b.25
     3Th 93Rich. Bp. Chich.26
     4F 94St. Ambrose27
     5S 9528
     6S 962 Sun. af. Easter Old Lady DayN
     7M 97 1
     8Tu 98 2
     9W 99 3
    10Th100 4
    11F101 5
    12S102 6
    13S1033 Sun. af. Easter 7
    14M104 8
    15Tu105Easter Term beg. 9
    16W106Day 13 h. 52 m. l.10
    17Th10711
    18F10812
    19S109Alphege13
    20S1104 Sun. af. Easter14
    21M11115
    22Tu112F
    23W113St. George17
    24Th11418
    25F115St. Mark. Prs. Al. born 19
    26S11620
    27S117Rogation Sunday21
    28M118Rog. Day22
    29Tu119Rog. Day23
    30W120Rog. Day24
    MAY XXXI.
    New Moon  6 day at 9 57 morn.
    First Quarter 14 day at 2  8 after.
    Full Moon 21 day at 3 58 after.
    Last Quarter 28 day at 6 25 even.
    Days of theSundays, Saints’ Days, &c.Moon’s Age.
    M.W.Y.
     1Th121Ascen. St. P. & J.25
     2F122Beltane26
     3S123Inv. of the Cross27
     4S124Sun. aft. Ascen.28
     5M125Day 15 h. 2 m. lo.29
     6Tu126John Ev. à P. L.N
     7W127 1
     8Th128Easter Term ends 2
     9F129 3
    10S130Oxford E. T. ends 4
    11S131Whit Sunday 5
    12M132Whit Monday 6
    13Tu133Wh. T. O. M. D. 7
    14W134Oxf. Tr. T. begins. Emb. Day 8
    15Th135 9
    16F136Ember Day10
    17S137Ember Day11
    18S138Tr. Sun. C. E. T.d.12
    19M139Dunstan13
    20Tu140Day 15 h. 47 m. l. Trinity Term. b.14
    21W141F
    22Th142Corpus Christi16
    23F14317
    24S144Queen Victoria b.18
    25S1451 Sun. aft. Trin.19
    26M146Augustin20
    27Tu147Van Bede21
    28W14822
    29Th149Rest. K. Chas. II.23
    30F150All Day or Twilig. till July 25.24
    31S15125
    JUNE XXX.
    New Moon  5 day at  1  7 morn.
    First Quarter 13 day at  3 43 morn.
    Full Moon 19 day at 11 18 even.
    Last Quarter 26 day at  3 27 after.
    Days of theSundays, Saints’ Days, &c.Moon’s Age.
    M.W.Y.
     1S1522 S. af. Tr. Nic.26
     2M153Day 16 h. 6 m. l.27
     3Tu15428
     4W15529
     5Th156BonifaceN
     6F157 1
     7S158 2
     8S1593 Sun. aft. Trin. 3
     9M160 4
    10Tu161 5
    11W162St. Barnabas 6
    12Th163Trinity Term ends 7
    13F164 8
    14S165 9
    15S1664 Sun. aft. Trin.10
    16M16711
    17Tu168St. Alban12
    18W169Day 16h. 34m. l. Tr. Ed. K. W. S. 13
    19Th170F
    20F171Queen Acc. 183715
    21S172Q. Vic. Pro. L. D.16
    22S1735 Sun. aft. Trin. Mids. Day 17
    23M17418
    24Tu175Nat. J. Baptist19
    25W17620
    26Th17721
    27F17822
    28S179Qu. Vic. cr. 183823
    29S1806 Sun. aft. Trin. St. Peter24
    30M18125
    JULY XXXI.
    New Moon  4 day at 4 29 after.
    First Quarter 12 day at 2 22 after.
    Full Moon 19 day at 6  2 morn.
    Last Quarter 26 day at 3 20 morn.
    Days of theSundays, Saints’ Days, &c.Moon’s Age.
    M.W.Y.
     1Tu182Oxf. Act & C. Com.26
     2W183Vis. B. V. Mary27
     3Th184Dog days begin28
     4F185Camb. E. T endsN
     5S186Oxford Trin. T. e. 1
     6S1877 Sun. aft. Trin. 2
     7M188 3
     8Tu189 4
     9W190 5
    10Th191Day 16h. 16m. l. 6
    11F192Old St. Peter 7
    12S193 8
    13S1948 Sun. aft. Trin. 9
    14M19510
    15Tu196Swithin11
    16W19712
    17Th19813
    18F19914
    19S200F
    20S2019 Sun. aft. Trin. Margaret16
    21M20217
    22Tu203St. Mary Magd.18
    23W204Day 15h. 47m. l.19
    24Th20520
    25F206St. James21
    26S207St. Anne22
    27S20810 Sun. af. Trin.23
    28M20924
    29Tu21025
    30W21126
    31Th21227
    AUGUST XXXI.
    New Moon  3 day at  7 24 morn.
    First Quarter 10 day at 10 40 even.
    Full Moon 17 day at 1 16 after.
    Last Quarter 24 day at  6 27 even.
    Days of theSundays, Saints’ Days, &c.Moon’s Age.
    M.W.Y.
     1F213Lammas Day28
     2S214Day 15h. 19m. l.29
     3S21511 Sun. af. Trin.N
     4M216 1
     5Tu217 2
     6W218Transfiguration 3
     7Th219Name of Jesus 4
     8F220 5
     9S221 6
    10S22212 S.a.T. St. La. 7
    11M223Dog days end 8
    12Tu224Grouse shoot. beg. 9
    13W225Dow. Q. Adel. b. Old Lammas D. 10
    14Th22611
    15F227Day 14h. 33m. l.12
    16S22813
    17S22913 Sun. af. Trin. Duch. of Kent b. F
    18M23015
    19Tu23116
    20W23217
    21Th233Blk. Cock Shoot. begins18
    22F23419
    23S23520
    24S23614 Sun. af. Trin. St. Bartholom.21
    25M23722
    26Tu238Prince Albert b.23
    27W23924
    28Th240St. Augustin25
    29F241St. Joh. Bap. beh.26
    30S24227
    31S24315 Sun. af. Trin.28
    SEPTEMBER XXX.
    New Moon  1 day at  9 34 even.
    First Quarter  9 day at  5 23 morn.
    Full Moon 15 day at 10 13 even.
    Last Quarter 23 day at  0 25 after.
    Days of theSundays, Saints’ Days, &c.Moon’s Age.
    M.W.Y.
     1M244Giles. Part. sh. b.N
     2Tu245Day 13 h. 26 m. l. 1
     3W246 2
     4Th247 3
     5F248Old St. Barth. Enurchus 4
     6S249 5
     7S25016 Sun. af. Trin. 6
     8M251Nat. B. V. Mary 7
     9Tu252 8
    10W253 9
    11Th25410
    12F25511
    13S256Fish. N. of Tw. cl.12
    14S25717 Sun. af. Trin. Holy Cross 13
    15M258F
    16Tu259Day 12 h. 32 m. l.15
    17W260Lambert. Em. D.16
    18Th26117
    19F262Ember Day18
    20S263Ember Day19
    21S26418 Sun. af. Trin. St. Matthew.20
    22M26521
    23Tu26622
    24W26723
    25Th26824
    26F269St. Cyp. Old H. Rood25
    27S27026
    28S27119 Sun. af. Trin.27
    29M272St. Mich. M. Day28
    30Tu273St. Jerome29
    OCTOBER XXXI.
    New Moon  1 day at 10 58 morn.
    First Quarter  8 day at 11 31 morn.
    Full Moon 15 day at  9 56 morn.
    Last Quarter 23 day at  8 14 morn.
    New Moon 30 day at 11 41 even.
    Days of theSundays, Saints’ Days, &c.Moon’s Age.
    M.W.Y.
     1W274Remigius. Ph.s.b.N
     2Th275Day 11h. 30 m. l. 1
     3F276Old St. Matthew 2
     4S277 3
     5S27820 Sun. af. Trin. 4
     6M279Faith 5
     7Tu280 6
     8W281 7
     9Th282St. Denys. 8
    10F283Oxf. & Ca. M. T.b. 9
    11S284Old Mich. Day10
    12S28521 Sun. af. Trin.11
    13M286Tr. K. Ed. Conf.12
    14Tu287Tweed net fish. en.13
    15W288F
    16Th289Day 10 h. 35 m. l.15
    17F290Etheldreda. Foxhun. b.16
    18S291St. Luke.17
    19S29222 Sun. af. Trin.18
    20M29319
    21Tu29420
    22W29521
    23Th29622
    24F29723
    25S298Crispin24
    26S29923 Sun. af. Trin.25
    27M30026
    28Tu301St. Si. & St. Jude27
    29W30228
    30Th303Hare hunt. beg.N
    31F304All Hallows Eve 1
    NOVEMBER XXX.
    First Quarter  6 day at  6 14 even.
    Full Moon 14 day at  0 55 morn.
    Last Quarter 22 day at  4 26 morn.
    New Moon 29 day at 11 41 morn.
    Days of theSundays, Saints’ Days, &c.Moon’s Age.
    M.W.Y.
     1S305All Saints 2
     2S30624 S. a. Tr. All S. 3
     3M307Mich. Term begins 4
     4Tu308Day 9h. 25m. long 5
     5W309Gunpowder Plot 6
     6Th310Leonard 7
     7F311Tweed rod fish. en. 8
     8S312Ld. Mayor’s Day 9
     9S31325 Sun. af. Trin. Pr. of Wales b.10
    10M31411
    11Tu315Martin12
    12W316Ca. M. T. div. mid.13
    13Th317Britius14
    14F318F
    15S319Machutus16
    16S32026 Sun. af. Trin.17
    17M321Hugh, Bp. Linc.18
    18Tu32219
    19W323Day 8 h. 36 m. l.20
    20Th324Edm. K. & Mart.21
    21F325Pss. Royal born22
    22S326Cecilia23
    23S32727 Sun. af. Trin. St. Cl. O. St. M.24
    24M32825
    25Tu329Cath. Mich. T. en.26
    26W33027
    27Th33128
    28F33229
    29S333N
    30S3341 Sun. in Advent St. Andrew 1
    DECEMBER XXXI.
    First Quarter  6 day at  2 52 morn.
    Full Moon 13 day at  6 42 even.
    Last Quarter 21 day at 11 27 even.
    New Moon 28 day at 10 53 even.
    Days of theSundays, Saints’ Days, &c.Moon’s Age.
    M.W.Y.
     1M335Day 8 h. 6 m. lo. 2
     2Tu336 3
     3W337 4
     4Th338 5
     5F339 6
     6S340Nicolas 7
     7S3412 Sun. in Advent 8
     8M342Concep. B. V. M. 9
     9Tu34310
    10W34411
    11Th34512
    12F34613
    13S347LucyF
    14S3483 Sun. in Advent15
    15M34916
    16Tu350O Sap. C. M. T. en.17
    17W351Oxf. M. Term en. Ember Day18
    18Th35219
    19F353Ember Day20
    20S354Ember Day21
    21S3554 Su. in A. St. Th.22
    22M356Day 7 h. 44 m. l.23
    23Tu35724
    24W35825
    25Th359Christmas Day26
    26F360St. Stephen27
    27S361St. John28
    28S3621 Sun. af. Christ. Innocents’N
    29M363 1
    30Tu364 2
    31W365Silvester 3
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    ↑ - 62 - {f.62} CASH ACCOUNT.

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    - 86 - {f.86} [CASH ACCOUNT [Summary].]

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    - 139 - {f.139} [SOLAR INGRESSES.]

    Spring Quarter beginsMarch 205 h 45 mP.M.
    Summer Quarter beginsJune 212 h 43 mP.M.
    Autumn Quarter beginsSeptember 234 h 53 mA.M.
    Winter Quarter beginsDecember 2110 h 26 mP.M.

    It will be observed that Easter Day falls, in 1845, upon the very day of the first full moon next after the 21st of March, in direct opposition to the rule for finding Easter laid down in the Prayer Book, which would fix it a week later. The error in the Prayer Book arises from a mistake in the wording of the Act of Parliament (the 24 G. II., c. 23), under which the reformed, or Gregorian, Calendar was introduced into England, and the Nex Style adopted, in the year 1751. The same occurrence took place in 1818,[Comment by SL] : William Hone's The Every-day Book: Or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements (1826-1827) notes the consternation this early Easter date caused in 1818. According to this almanack, 'when the Festival of Easter falls near to Lady-day (the 25th of March), this country is threatened with some calamity' (144). In 1818, such a calamity is purported to have taken place when Queen Charlotte died in November of that year. when it was proposed to pass a new act, which should give a correct explanation of the rules adopted by the old one, but nothing has since been effected to rectify the blunder.

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    - [139v] - {f.139v} CONTENTS OF PART II.[Comment by SL] : The list of contents for Part II are presented in the guise of a mock-heroic poem. The mock-heroic poem was a popular form of satirical poetry in the eighteenth century and was conventionally presented in rhyming couplets. It borrows the heroic style of the classical epic (e.g. the invocation of muses) to explore contemporary (and often trivial) subject matter in a humorous manner. For further information, see Claude Rawson, ‘Mock-Heroic and English Poetry,’ in The Cambridge Companion to the Epic, ed. Catherine Bates (Cambridge University Press, 2010), 167-92.

  • ’Tis said an Index is a prosy thing :
    Punch, to re-verse it, will his Index sing.
    The Stranger’s Guide to the Great Metropolis,
    At hundred forty-one you cannot miss. 141
  • “I’ve sail’d upon the Ocean,” you will see
    By turning to one hundred forty-three. 143
  • A Day in Search of a Policeman spent,
    One hundred forty-four will straight present, 144
  • Three pages farther Fatima’s Lament. 147
  • Gems of Philosophy, your eyes await
    At page one hundred, sirs, and forty-eight. 148
  • Reflections on a Fancy Ball, to guide ’em,
    Maskers will find plac’d on the page — that’s idem. 148
  • Evenings in Ramsgate, next your minds engage —
    One hundred, aye, and fifty is the page. 150
  • And eight from that — at one five nine will come
    The Oxford Reading Man unto his Chum. 159
  • Domestic Hints appear, for those who need ’em,
    At page a hundred and sixty : reader, read ’em ! 160
  • Attornies, an Invective fierce and bold,
    Page one six one will fearlessly unfold. 161
  • The Eccentricities of Genius,
    Page one six two doth pleasantly discuss. 162
  • Extract from a Commissioner’s Report
    On Language, may at one six four be sought. 164
  • Syncretic’s Common-Place Book, short and trite,
    At one six six attention doth invite ;
    While on the self-same page (how very near !) 166
  • Songs of the Advertisers do appear. 166
  • The Family Lacon (strongly recommended)
    O’er hundred and sixty-seven is extended. 167
  • The Chieftain’s Onslaught, is at one six eight :
    Oh, shed a tear of pity o’er his fate ! 168
  • At one six nine is balsam for your grief —
    Reflections upon Bills are on that leaf. 169
  • An Interlinear Miller—pleasant Joe ! —
    Is upon page one seven two, I know. 172
  • The Mysteries of London claim your laughter
    At one seven four ; while just two pages after. 174
  • That is to say hundred and seventy-six,
    Lines to a Schoolboy your attention fix. 176
  • Hundred and seventy-seven gives beginners
    Some Thoughts and Maxims upon Public Dinners. 177
  • Hundred and eighty you’ll instructive deem —
    Farming for Ladies, is the pleasant theme. 180
  • At one eight one, if knowledge you require,
    You’ll find Statistics of Great London’s Fire. 181
  • On the next page (that’s odd though, by the bye)
    Modern Geography, Young England — Guy. 182
  • Proverbs for Scotchmen burst upon the sight
    At one eight three : they’re by a thrifty wight. 183
  • Advertisements for Fancy-Fairs, you’ll see
    At one eight four ; where else, sirs, should they be ? 184
  • An article on Bank of England Pills
    Hundred and eighty-five much more than fills. 185
  • Hundred and ninety has for its Contents —
    Slowcoach on Rise of Chimney Ornaments. 190
  • Essays, ’twixt Intervals of Business penn’d,
    By an Attorney, do the volume end :
    The page is just one hundred ninety-two ; —
    Read now our Pocket-Book completely through. 192

    • ↑ - [141] - {f.141} PART II.

    THE STRANGER’S GUIDE TO THE GREAT
    METROPOLIS.

    HAVING arrived in London, drive immediately to the Clarendon — to Mivart’s[Comment by SL] : Established in 1812, this famous London hotel has been known as Claridge's since 1854. — to the Thatched House — the London Tavern — or the Crown and Anchor, as you may fancy the locality. If you have but little money to spend, it is most essential that you choose one of these hostelries, upon the golden maxim of all travellers, that the best inn is always the cheapest.

    Give the coach or cabman whatever he may ask. He will, doubtless, know you to be a stranger,[Comment by SL] : The representation of the so-called 'stranger' in this passage relies on long-standing anti-semitic stereotypes. As Gerry Black observes, cigar making was traditionally associated with Dutch Jews, many of whom migrated to London's East End in the nineteenth century. In its satirical description of Jewish cigar makers undercutting 'native' industry by selling inferior products and not paying taxes, this passage is typical of anti-semitic discourse in the period. For further information, see Gerry Black, 'Bernhard Baron: Tobacco and Philanthropy,' Jewish Historical Studies 36 (1999): 71-80. and that knowledge will operate upon what he conceives to be the best feelings of his nature.

    If stopped in the street, and asked by a stranger in a sweet, low, confidential voice — “Vether you’d like some nice cigars —some rale Avannahs ?” immediately (that is supposing you to be a smoker) answer “Yes ;” and follow the civil creature into any court or alley he may lead you. These people sell the best article ; and for this reason — they are not crushed by that shameful burden upon native industry — rent and taxes.

    If you like a bouquet in your button-hole, go into the inclosure of Saint James’s Park. There, flowers are cultivated by the Government expressly for the people. Should you also - 142 - {f.142} like a cutting of any of the shrubs to take home with you — to plant as a souvenir of your visit — you have only to provide yourself with a good knife, and cut accordingly. If you walk in the Park, it is also thought etiquette in strangers to cut their names in at least one of the sentry-boxes.

    If you are an admirer of the drama, look at all the play-bills before you decide upon the house you will visit. By no means go to the theatre that placards “Immense attraction : crowded and overflowing audiences.” Men and women are nightly killed in the struggle to gain admission ; although their deaths —from a shameful league that exists between the managers and the coroners — are never published.

    If you would buy a cheap service of plate, never go to a silversmith’s. There is an auction-room in Cheapside always open from ten in the morning to ten at night, for the especial convenience of persons from the country.

    Your fine taste will doubtless lead you to visit St. Paul’s and Westminster Abbey. It may happen — we say it may happen — that some unprincipled and insidious person may ask you for money. Whereupon, immediately call a policeman, and give the offender into custody. If the policeman refuse to take the charge, force your way into the building, and this will immediately bring the affair before a magistrate.

    You should also visit the National Gallery. Do not fail to provide yourself with a stout silk handkerchief, to rub any picture you may take a fancy to.[Comment by FB] : In 1845, London was already a polluted city because of the many coal-burning industries located there. For example, the June 1841 Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on National Monuments and Works of Art described the National Gallery as ‘wretchedly ventilated’ and generally dusty on account of the increasing number of visitors. It is only by this precaution —for handkerchiefs are not found by the establishment — that you can properly bring out the lights of an ancient master.

    Should you observe any shop, where it is written — “Selling off : immense sacrifice !” immediately buy in a stock of goods for self and family. To-morrow the shop may be closed, and the golden opportunity never return.

    The soldiers are exercised every morning in St. James’s Park. It is always taken as a compliment from any stranger if he will condescend to give one or two words of command.

    You will doubtless like to read at least one daily paper during your sojourn in town. These studies you may wish to pursue in perfect solitude. You can, with very little interest, - 143 - ↑ {f.143} obtain this advantage at the British and Foreign Institute, Hanover Square. It will only cost you fifteen pounds.

    If you ascend to the top of the York Column, fail not to provide yourself with a bottle of ginger-beer : you will need such refreshment. When you have drunk the beer, drop the bottle to the sentinel below. It is a trifling perquisite that the poor man always looks for.

    Also, when you visit the pit of the Opera, take your own porter and sandwiches — for such articles sold there are not fit for any decent person. Mem. : it is allowed to uncork only between the acts.

    We feel that many other directions might be profitably given to the Stranger in London ; but we also feel that if he punctually follow the few we have here laid down for him, he will never, until the latest day of his life, forget his visit to the Great Metropolis.

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    I HAVE SAILED UPON THE OCEAN.
    words by jones. music by smith.

    I have sailed upon the ocean,
     I have been upon the sea ;
    I have felt the vessel’s motion
     While the wind was on her lee.
    I have been where iron paddles
     Have borne us o’er the wave,
    I have shaken friendly daddles
     With the good, the bold, the brave !

    I have seen the gallant seaman,
     With his jacket all of blue ;
    I have seen the sunset gleamin’
     On the wave with roseate hue :
    I have watch’d the day grow fairer,
     As from clouds the sky grew free ;
    But believe me, dearest Sarah,
     I always thought of thee !

    - 144 - ↑ {f.144} Yes ! ocean, sea, and ship too,—
     Wind, paddles, waves, and friends,
    Whom friendship loves to skip to,
     While its hand it still extends.
    The seaman in his jacket,
     The sunset on the tide,
    Give rapture — yet I lack it
     If you’re not at my side.

    The day, the clouds, and all, love,
     The sky when getting clear,
    Give pleasure very small, love,
     If thou shouldst not be near.
    I’ve sail’d upon the ocean !
     I’ve been upon the sea ;
    Ri-fol-lol, (what a notion !)
     Fol-lol-de-diddle-dee !

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    A DAY’S JOURNEY THROUGH LONDON IN
    SEARCH OF A POLICEMAN.

    I had heard a great deal about policemen, — of their extreme civility ; their large whiskers ; their extensive boots ; their great utility and military deportment ; but I never recollected to have seen one. Thinking it but right that every Englishman should see the sights of his country, I rose one fine morning with the determination of exploring my native town, in search of a being whose existence had always seemed to me no less apocryphal than that of the phœnix or dodo. My dear wife did her utmost to dissuade me from the fruitless expedition, but, seeing I was determined to succeed, or else sink in the effort, she kindly gave me my umbrella, a pair of sandwiches, and a strong injunction to be home by tea. To these, she further added a half-crown and the latch-key. At that touching proof of matrimonial confidence the tears nearly came into my eyes ; but I thought it better to conceal my emotion, though, I must say, my heart misgave me a little as she closed - 145 - {f.145} the door. A mixed feeling of ridicule and fear came over me, and I strongly wished myself within again.

    However, I started on my journey, vigorously prepared for the worst. I had not walked about for more than three hours when loud sounds of, “P’lice ! P’lice !” fell on my affrighted ears. I ran like a madman to the spot — thinking I had already succeeded in the object of my journey — and saw a large crowd assembled at the end of Field Lane.[Comment by FB] : In Oliver Twist (1838), Dickens describes Field Lane as ‘the emporium of petty larceny’: 'Near to the spot on which Snow Hill and Holborn Hill meet, there opens, upon the right hand as you come out of the City, a narrow and dismal alley leading to Saffron Hill. In its filthy shops are exposed for sale huge bunches of second-hand silk handkerchiefs of all sizes and patterns; for here reside the traders who purchase them from pickpockets. Hundreds of these handkerchiefs hang dangling from pegs outside the windows, or flaunting from the door posts; and the shelves within are piled with them. Confined as the limits of Field Lane are, it has its barber, its coffee shop, its beer shop, and its fried fish warehouse. It is a commercial colony of itself: the emporium of petty larceny: visited at early morning and setting in of dusk, by silent merchants, who traffic in dark back parlours, and who go as strangely as they come. Here the clothesman, the shoe vamper, and the rag merchant, display their goods as sign boards to the petty thief: here stores of old iron and bones, and heaps of mildewy fragments of woollen stuff and linen rust and rot in the grimy cellars.' See Oliver Twist, chap. xxvi and 'Field Lane,' The Grub Street Project. Accessed 28 May 2025. It was as usual, a man and his wife quarrelling. I could not help feeling for the poor husband, and wishing that a policeman would come every minute to take the unnatural woman into custody ; but not a single member of that mysterious corps answered to his name.

    Nothing dispirited, I wandered to the city. I threaded my way through cabs, bulls, coaches, flocks of sheep, and omnibusses, as far as the Mansion House. I had heard of the great order kept by the police amongst the Cheapside omnibusses ; but this story, like the force itself, I found all a fiction. Three o’clock had arrived, and yet I had not seen anything with large whiskers and boots that answered at all to the description of a policeman.

    I was much pleased with discovering on a parish engine-house the following inscription : “The keys are kept by the police.” My hopes rose immediately on reading this ; but, alas ! as I read on, I found there was no address of the keeper given, and I felt, with a cold shudder, that the whole parish would to a certainty be burnt to the ground if the extinction of the flames depended on the previous finding of a policeman.

    I was preparing to release my sandwiches, as I felt very hungry, when a stupid shopboy, who was reading a novel, ran violently against me and knocked the parcel I was unpapering into the gutter. I involuntarily cried “police,” but the word died away before I got to the second syllable, as it struck me forcibly it was the very thing I had come out in search of.

    I carried myself into a pastrycook’s, and was preparing to demolish a Bath bun, when I thought I would first make sure I had my money safe about me. I tried first one pocket, then another, when, in my despair, I recollected I had tied the half-crown for safety in the corner of my handkerchief ; but, alas ! - 146 - {f.146} that article had gone too. It must have left me in Field Lane. I thought I should have dropt under the effects of my strong disappointment and appetite. I confess the horrible thought then came into my mind to eat the Bath bun, and to let the young lady find the policeman, if she could, to take me into custody. By that means alone I fancied I could succeed in my Utopian search.

    After this the feeling of romantic adventure gradually left me. I became sensible there were mysteries in human nature never intended for presumptuous man to penetrate — and I grew convinced that a policeman was one of them. I had intended visiting the different police offices in London, and making a pilgrimage to Scotland Yard, in the hope of seeing, in my lifetime, one of the species, before it became extinct ; but I thought it would be braving my destiny too rashly. I had lost enough already, besides I was very hungry, and was anxious to obey my dear wife’s injunction to be home by tea. I jumped into a cab, reckless of the expense, and reached Pentonville as the clock was striking eight. I was looking out of the window of the vehicle, when I observed a man sneaking up the area steps of our very house. A chill — a horrible presentiment came over me. I instantly jumped out, and collared him. My wife heard the cab stop — she came running to the door. I asked her, without betraying more fear than I could help, who was the fellow whom I was holding by the collar, and oh ! never shall I forget the sensation, when she told me he was a — —

    Reader, in all humility, I confess I had not the slightest feeling of triumph when I learnt I had succeeded in the object of my journey through London, and had actually, at last, found out — a Policeman !

    Moral. Keep a pretty “plain cook,” and a well-stocked larder, and you never need go far from home in search of a Policeman.

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    ↑ - 147 - {f.147} FATIMA’S LAMENT.[Comment by SL] : The poem's title likely alludes to the daughter of the Prophet Mohammed. Fatima is one of the most important female figures in Islam, especially in the Shi'ite tradition. It may also refer to Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826), whose comic opera Abu Hassan (1811) includes a character called Fatima. As part of an elaborate plot to convince other characters that her husband is dead, Fatima sings an aria lamenting him. For more, see Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, 'Who Is Fatima? Gender, Culture, and Representation in Islam,’ Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 1, no. 2 (2005), 1-24; John Warrack, ‘Weber, Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von (1786–1826), Composer and Conductor,’ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 23 September 2004.

    I feel this wayward frame of mine
     Expand from day to day,
    Oh that these tears of bitter brine
     Could wash its bulk away !
    They tell me I am getting plump ;
     I know it. I am Fat.
    Horror ! I’d rather have a hump,
     Or any thing, than that.

    The vulgar mind can never know
     The pain of getting stout,
    And having, every month or so,
     Its dresses all let out.
    The spirit with refinement graced,
     Is that which feels, alone,
    What anguish ’tis to call a waist
     A size too large to own !

    Vain is the corset ; worse than vain
     The slender Paris shoe ;
    Redundance rend’ring but more plain :
     They squeeze, but don’t subdue ;
    Unwisely is the cincture tight
     Round yielding fullness tied ;
    Such aids but aggravate the fright
     Which they were meant to hide.

    Oh ! how have I deserved to be
     The figure that I am ?
    I live on little else than tea,
     Whilst happier maidens cram ;
    I’m quizz’d by all, — my Henry, too,
     Views me with alter’d eye ;
    Unhappy me ! what can I do
     But go up-stairs and cry ?

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    ↑ - 148 - {f.148} GEMS OF FASHIONABLE PHILOSOPHY.

    The man who would be helped a second time to soup is a savage.

    Raleigh may have been a great man, but he must have had a vulgar mind, or he would never have introduced tobacco and potatoes into his native land.

    He that can eat with a steel fork is a cannibal, but he that can put a knife to his mouth is a madman who might become a suicide.[Comment by SL] : In Charles Dickens’ famous novel of 1861, Great Expectations, humour arises when Pip's friend Herbert Pocket reminds the hero that ‘in London it is not the custom to put the knife in the mouth - for fear of accidents.’ Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, ed. Edgar Rosenberg (Norton, 1999), 99.

    He that would attempt to enter the stalls at Drury Lane Theatre (since the new regulations as to costume) in a frock coat, is a scoundrel ; but he that would pin back the skirts, to deceive the door-keeper, is a poltroon and a hypocrite.

    The feelings of youth can never be perfectly restored. Their freshness once gone is gone for ever. Like the kid glove — which may be cleaned again and again, but will never be equal to new, whatever a selfish world may allege to the contrary.

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    REFLECTIONS ON A FANCY BALL.

    It was once said by a sage, who has since been swamped in the busy sea of life, “that the man who goes to a fancy ball should either be a philosopher or a fool ;” so that, if the dogma held good, Newton might have spent half his life in the Lowther-rooms, where from the dullness of the proceeding the centre of gravity might possibly have suggested itself. Bacon might perhaps have been out of his element at “the only masked ball of the season ;” while the very idea of Paley purchasing a character-ticket and donning a domino is repugnant to all our finest feelings. Who can picture Doctor Johnson in the garb of a Greek, with his short white petticoat and crimson fly — his little round red cap covering the summit of that intellectual head — and his yataghan getting between the legs of one who marched far in advance of his own contemporaries ? Or, to go still further back, who can fancy Cincinnatus, that

    - 149 - {f.149} truest of all philosophers, in a hussar jacket, an enormous pair of spurs, and a riding-whip ? Yet such would be the curious conglomeration that would be arrived at if the theory of the sage — the gentleman whom we alluded to as having been swamped in the busy sea of life — were to be literally carried into practice.

    Determined to meet the views of the sage, if I possibly could, I resolved on going to the last fancy ball, either as a fool or as a philosopher ; but having read the proceedings of the British Association for the advancement of science,[Comment by SL] : This organisation was founded in September 1831 with the aim of promoting and encouraging the development of the sciences in Great Britain. The organisation remains extant, but has been known as the British Science Association since 2009. For further information, see A. D. Orange, 'The Origins of the British Association for the Advancement of Science,’ The British Journal for the History of Science 6, no. 2 (1972): 152-76. it struck me that the two characters — I mean, of course, the philosopher and the fool — could very easily be united. I, therefore, purchased a clown’s dress, and wrapping myself up in the mental Taglioni of philosophy, I sallied forth to the last masquerade of the season, determined to think for myself, and thus assert the dignity of British cogitation.

    I regret to acknowledge that philosophy deserted me, and I commenced playing the fool with some energy. I shall, however, pass over the ball itself, and state in a few words what became of some of the principal characters. Macbeth retired with Jane Shore to a neighbouring oyster-shop ; and Ivanhoe fell helplessly intoxicated into the arms of Mr. Superintendent Mallalieu ;[Comment by SL] : Likely a reference to Francis Mallalieu, a superintendant of the R Division (i.e. Greenwich Divsion) of the London Metropolitan Police. Mallalieu appears to have been a respected and well-known individual within government and legislative circles in the nineteenth century. For example, in the wake of the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, he was appointed Inspector-General of Barbados by a special act, thereby ensuring him a lead role in the reorganisation of the Barbados police force. For further information see Georgina Sinclair, Colonial Policing and the Imperial Endgame 1945-1980: 'At the End of the Line' (Manchester University Press, 2006), 13. Richard the Third rushed frantically into Covent Garden Market, offering his kingdom for a kidney pudding ; and one of the Two Gentlemen of Verona pelted policeman K 555, with summer cabbages ; Napoleon the Great seated himself in a tub of native oysters ; and Reginald Front de Bœuf insisted on exchanging cards with a Smithfield Drover, of whom the knight was demanding in broken accents the satisfaction of a gentleman. But the most lamentable picture of all was that of Mark Antony seated in a public-house, pouring forth an eloquent oration over the beer of Barclay and Perkins. As for myself, it took me till the afternoon of the next day to get home, for I believe that, somehow or other, I went round by Bow-street, and paid five shillings more than the regular fare that would have sufficed, had I taken a cab direct to my own residence.

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    ↑ - 150 - {f.150} EVENINGS IN RAMSGATE.

    I shall not disguise the fact of my having stolen the idea of Evenings in Ramsgate from Moore’s “Evenings in Greece.” Ramsgate, where the scene is laid, was a watering-place even so early as the time of Hengist, but nobody seemed to be aware of it. Egbert never resided there, nor was it a favourite resort in the time of the Heptarchy. During the Commonwealth the bathing is believed to have been almost as good as it is now ; and probably an odd Puritan or two might have indulged in a dip on the coast of Kent, but there is no reason to believe that Ramsgate had the preference. There is a good deal of learning on the subject in the Sixpenny Guide Books, to which I refer the curious.

    The wind is something more than stiff ;
     The silver moon adorns the sky ;
    The gallant coast-guard, on the cliff,
     Strains through a telescope his eye.
    The sea puts forth its glittering charms,
     Keeping its moonlit waves in motion ;
    The Pier is stretching forth its arms,
     As if it would embrace the ocean ;
    The beacon-tower with its light,
     Doth warn the mariner of danger ;
    Its clock proclaims the time of night
     Unto the lounging London stranger.
    How beautiful is evening’s hour !
     When Nature sends the moon at full
    To rob the garish gas of power,
     And make the public lamps look dull.
    Like the bright brilliance born of oil,
     When placed between a pair of dips,
    Their small effect ’tis sure to spoil,
     Their paltry light it must eclipse.

    - 151 - {f.151} There’s a library built on the brow of a hill,
     Or rather ’tis perched on the top of a rock.
    Old novels the shelves of its reading-room fill ;
     Clocks, vases, et cetera, serve for its stock.
    And though those old novels belong to the past,
     The pliant subscribers keep reading them on ;
    So those very old novels preserve to the last
     All the value of new when their novelty’s gone.

    The room is lighted with a pound
     Of goodly composition sixes ;
    Upon the company around
     His eye the old librarian fixes.
    He takes the dice-box in his hand,
     The dice within he loudly rattles ;
    A sale he trusts thus to command
     For many of his goods and chattels.
    He looks towards a bright-eyed girl,
     What does his eager glance reveal ?
    It bids the maiden give a twirl
     To Fortune’s ever-changing wheel.
    She turns it with a nimble hand,
     So fair and delicate her fingers,
    That amid those who pass the stand,
     One captive youth beside her lingers.
    He softly murmurs in her ear,
     And she replies in accents thrilling ;
    That gentle murmuring, I fear,
     Has cost the captive youth a shilling.
    Alas ! that man should court his doom,
     Seeking the loveliness which cheats him ;
    E’en as the gnat in evening’s gloom,
     Flies smack into the mouth that eats him !
    Or, even as the silly fly,
     When summer with its sunbeam crowns him,
    Though not particularly dry,
     Blunders into the milk that drowns him.

    - 152 - {f.152} But one there was surpassing far
    All others in that gay bazaar ;
    A creature fair — a creature young —
    A creature such as poets sung
    When they described the fairest features
    That grac’d the loveliest of creatures —
    She was a thing of life and light,
    That look’d extremely well at night.
    Her well-macassared raven tresses
     Hung o’er her whiten’dwhiten d neck and shoulders,
    Which the most low of low-neck’d dresses
     Kindly revealed to all beholders.
    The centres of her cheeks disclose
    The deep vermilion of the rose ;
    While at the sides, that lovely girl
    Wears the rich powder of the pearl,
    Adding, by its unequalled whiteness,
    Unto the deep vermilion’s brightness.
    Her eye-brows (truth ’twere vain to blink)
    Are partly made of Indian ink.
    But oh ! has India aught too rare
    To lavish on a maid so fair ?
    Her form would shame the sculptor’s art —
    No stone, no chisel, could impart
    The beauty of that wasp-like waist
    When that sweet girl is tightly laced.
    Her waist, to sculpture, all must own
    Would only be a waste of stone.

    The opening bars of a popular air —
     A beautiful ballad of feeling and grace —
    Are played on a Broadwood piano — a square —
     With several notes out of tune in the bass.
    And there, on the top of a kind of a box —
     A platform they term it — a maiden there sits,
    Who gives the piano such violent knocks,
     They threaten to break all the keys into bits.
    - 153 - {f.153} She dreams she is dwelling in marble halls,
     But, carried away by the words she is saying,
    So heavy her fist on the instrument falls,
     She must dream, on a marble piano she’s playing.

    But there is one amongst the crowd
    For whom those notes are not too loud,
    Rivetted to the spot he stands
    Clapping together both his hands,
    And when that lovely girl has gone
    The youth still keeps applauding on ;
    Till, with enthusiastic roar,
    He bellows out a wild “encore !”
    His words are answered by a shout
    Of — “Turn that silly fellow out.”

    As the foaming soda water
     Bursts from the cork that corked it,
    Did the youth turn to the quarter
     Which in tone insulting balked it —
     When, with enthusiastic roar,
     He bellowed out a wild encore.
     Oh, fatal beauty ! must thy charms
     Be still the cue for war’s alarms ?
     Must Smith and Johnson madly fight
     Because Amelia’s neck is white ?
     Must Snobson boldly Thomson dare
     Because Matilda Jones is fair ?
     Must Snooks and Buggins come to blows
     About Eliza’s Roman nose ?
     Must angry kith contend with kin
     About Lucretia’s dimpled chin ?
     Alas, that beauty e’er should be
     The cause of mortal enmity !

    - 154 - {f.154} The angry youth, with dark eye flashing,
     Appeared on vengeance firmly bent :
    Offering to any six a thrashing
     Who wouldn’t tell him what they meant.
    The room his rage was nearly clearing,
     The old librarian seemed to doubt
    A moment — then the hot youth nearing,
     The old librarian kick’d him out.

     And when the angry youth was gone,
     The raffling still went calmly on :
     Still did the wheel of fortune turn ;
     Still did the pound of sixes burn ;
     Still were the idle loungers willing
     Sixpence to win — and lose a shilling.
    With patience, too, they looked about,
     Indulging still the futile hope
    That they could take their tickets out
     In anything but squares of soap.
    And once again the maiden sung,
     But ere the song was finished half
    She missed the stranger bold and young,
     And burst into a frantic laugh.
    In vain the audience kindly cheer’d —
     She got no further than the middle —
    And some one present volunteer’d
     A grand concerto on the fiddle.

    And the maiden of Ramsgate in memory’s fits
     On the youth who encored her repeatedly calls,
    While thumping a cottage piano she sits,
     Still dreaming she’s dwelling in marble halls.

    ’Tis evening — ’tis the silent hour
     When Nature seems to seek repose ;
    The busy bee has left the flower,
     And in the hive begins to dose.
    - 155 - {f.155} The sparrow now no longer pours
     His merry chirp on all around,
    But in his nest serenely snores,
     While breezes mock the tuneful sound.
    ’Tis twilight — in the gay marquee
    ’Tis rather difficult to see ;
    Though still, with paper in his hands
    Some spectacled subscriber stands,
    Now coming closer to the door ;
     And now, the chilly air unheeding,
    He stands on the unshelter’d shore
     Determin’d to continue reading.
    The vex’d attendant feigns a cough,
    Expecting thus to get him off ;
    Takes in the chairs — and shuts the tent ;
    But still upon the journal bent
    The spectacled subscriber stays,
     Conning the Times with aspect solemn
    As if he wouldn’t miss a phrase —
     A single word — in any column :
    As, at a chop-house poor and cheap,
     Where papers are exceeding rare,
    One customer the Times will keep,
     So that none else the news can share ;
    Then, having kept it long enough,
     To him that ’s suffer’d next to win it
    He hands it ; while, in accents bluff,
     He coolly says — “there ’s nothing in it.”

    Sweet is the sound of tinkling bell,
     Worn as a necklace by the sheep :
    Sweet is the lowing in the dell
     Of heifer, falling off to sleep :
    Sweet is the hum of passing gnat,
     Whizzing at eve our heads above ;
    But sweeter, sweeter e’en than that
     Is the first gush of woman’s love.
    - 156 - {f.156} So thought a youth who stole along
     The margin of the roaring sea,
    Humming unto himself, a song
     Of wild, unequal melody.
    That youth betrays upon his hair,
     Of grey precocious, just an inkling
    As if the pepper-box of care
     Had given it a little sprinkling.
    A partial stooping in his gait
     Would hint to casual beholders,
    That grief had found, to bear its weight,
     A porter’s knot upon his shoulders.
    A furrow on his manly brow
    Betray’d the track of sorrow’s plough ;
    And on his feelings any one
    Might see that mangling had been done.

    There is a staircase leading from the heights
    Down to the shore — one of the grandest flights
    That human enterprise did ever dare ;
    When, having in its eye a wondrous stair,
    High on the topmost step a form is seen
    In bonnet close, and veil of muslin green ;
    Down — down — descending in a style could cope
    With the light bounding of the antelope.
    But stay ! the brain a better image crosses ;
    The form descends like one of Astley’s horses,
    Which trots down stairs with action free and natty,
    When tutor’d by the skilful hand of Batty.

    She ’s coming — she ’s coming ; — her footsteps are sounding
    As o’er the stone stairs she is actively bounding.
    The footsteps now are heard no more,
    They ’re muffled by the sandy shore.
    And now the youth upon the sand
    Waving with vehemence his hand,
    - 157 - {f.157} Makes signal to the sylph-like thing
    Who to his arms prepares to spring.
    Another moment more reveals,
    A father at his daughter’s heels,
    Who, standing very near the water,
    Addresses thus his wayward daughter :
    “Was it for this, my daughter dear,
     That I indulged a father’s fooling,
    Paying some forty pounds a year
     For extra masters and for schooling ?
    Was it for this, that I allow’d
     For learning French a pound a quarter ?
    Was it for this, I always vowed
     To make a lady of my daughter ?
    Was it for this ?” — He might have gone
     In such a style much longer on,
    But that the youth did place his toe
     Behind the anxious father’s heel
    And in an instant laid him low ;
    The sands were very soft, and so
    It was not probable the blow
     He would severely feel.

    Away, away the lovers ran,
    And some time after that old man
    To cure him of a fit of vapour,
    Was conning o’er the morning paper,
    And in the marriages he found
    His daughter was in wedlock bound.

    Again a youth upon the sand
    Is seen impatiently to stand ;
    Again a form with footstep light,
    Descends that formidable flight.
    A father she has been to seek,
    After the absence of a week,
    - 158 - {f.158} And to a husband gently takes him ;
     That husband waiting on the sands ;
    The father cordially shakes him,
     At once — by both — yes, both his hands.
     The tears are standing in the old man’s eyes,
     “There, take her,” feelingly the old man cries,
     “But you must keep, remember, within bounds —
     At present only fifty thousand pounds.
     But, when into the chest of Davy Jones,
     I throw my very venerable bones,
     Then you shall have” — “Oh prithee say no more”
     Exclaims the happy youth upon the shore,
     “I’m strong and I can work, nor am I loth
     To do the very best I can for both.”
    But the poet alas the truth must tell,
     The youth on the shore was an idle talker ;
    He thought of the cash, and aside there fell,
     From the lips of the youth a muttered — “Walker.”

    Ten years have glided like the wind away,
     And now at Ramsgate near the gay marquee,
    A group of seven little children play, —
     Whose can those seven little children be ?
    They do belong to him who stood of yore
    Waiting a sylphlike form upon the shore ;
    That sylphlike form, ’twere idle now to flatter,
    Has grown, alas, considerably fatter.
     He, who an ardent youth, would wait for hours
     In summer’s scorching sun or winter’s showers,
     Attends no more the coming of his wife ;
     He makes her wait for him — but such is life.

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    THE OXFORD READING MAN TO HIS CHUM.

    Dear Ned,

    I have been owing you a letter for these three weeks ; but if you were here yourself, I don’t think you could bring yourself to write. Perhaps it is something in the air. I came

    - 159 - ↑ {f.159} down as you know, a month ago, intending to read no end. I can’t tell how it is ; but though there are no amusements in this place, one’s time slips away imperceptibly. This morning I breakfasted at eight ; you should see the eggs and ham, and cream we get here ! I had that ; and then they brought me a jug of ale — such ale ! Well then the morning was so fine that I couldn’t stay in, so I went down to the beach to enjoy the fresh air. I took my old meerschaum with me and Bell’s Life,[Comment by SL] : Founded in 1822, the printer Robert Bell originally published this weekly broadsheet as Life in London. It was purchased by the owner of The Observer, William Innell Clement, in 1824 and became known as Bell’s Life in London & Sporting Chronicle under the editorship of Vincent George Dowling. By 1845, the size of the publication had increased from four to eight pages and it was widely recognised as Britain's leading sports newspaper. For further information see; ‘Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle,’ The British Newspaper Archive. and there I sat on a bit of rock with not a cloud to be seen overhead, the sea as still as a pond, and nothing stirring but a few sea-gulls sailing about half-asleep. Well, do you know, I couldn’t move for the life of me till dinner ; and somehow I find I can’t work of an evening. You will wonder how I have amused myself. Well, I don’t know, picking up shells and shrimps on the beach, watching the vessels pass, and now and then sauntering along the shore with a gun, popping at the puffins. However, I mean seriously to set to work to-morrow. S. P. Q. R. or what is it that old Cicero ends his letters with ?

    Yours sincerely,

    Vincent Dormer.

    P. S. I weighed 11½ st. when I left Oxford ; now I should think I must be 12 st. How about Caxton’s pointer ? I see that the odds for the sweepstakes are 2 to 1 against Coningsby.

    From the Same to the Same.

    Dear Ned,

    So you thought I should never get to work ? You are out, my boy. I began reading this morning (by Jove, how it has been raining all day !) and have been walking into Euripides like a brick, cramming Medea in style. By the by, what are the odds for the St. Leger against “Jason ?” I ’ll bet you what you like I get up the play in a week, though those choral odes are deuced up-hill work ; and every now and then a fellow comes to a regular dead lock. Talking of that, how did you settle about the cab your tilbury ran against ? Oh ! and how about the cup that is to be rowed for next term ? the - 160 - ↑ {f.160} allusion to the Argonauts put me in mind of it this morning : what a lark it would be to pull some day for a golden fleece ! A propos of fleece, were any of our men in for it through Running Rein ? I was all right, having taken care to hedge, which just saved my bacon. Bacon, I may observe, is a thing that you get here in perfection. The scenery is allowed to be very fine ; but the ground is rough and uneven ; there ’s no room for a canter anywhere, except here and there on the downs, and a gallop cross country is out of the question. With the exception of one tolerable pony, I hav’n’t seen a decent animal. Κατὰ news, the only thing worth mentioning is, that there is a regatta coming off to-morrow at Cowes, which, I calculate, as the Yankees say, I shall go and see, and will send you due particulars. But jam satis ! so adieu for the present, old fellow, and believe me,

    Sincerely yours,

    V. D.

    P. S. I wish you could send us down a box of cigars and the Era.[Comment by SL] : Established by a body of licensed publicans, The Era commenced in 1838 as a general weekly newspaper targeted at those within the industry. Originally a liberal-leaning publication, it later became more conservative. A relatively expensive purchase, it was regarded highly for its sports coverage and theatrical content. For further information see ‘The Era,’ The British Newspaper Archive.

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    DOMESTIC HINTS.

    Salt of sorrel will expel the stains of ink ; but oh ! what salt will cure the summer-freckles ?

    How very nice are boiled soles, and how much cheaper they come than fried ! What a pity it is that families so seldom have them.

    How very dear are black crape trimmings, how soon they are spoiled by damp, and how distressing it is to see nice mourning fade ! Fair widow, in thine evening walk, bethink thee of the dew, and let a parasol, at least, be the companion of thy loneliness.

    We know too well how heat affects the hand. When thou goest to church, wear the old gloves to the crowded evening service ; reserve the best for thy devotions in the morning.

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    ↑ - 161 - {f.161} ATTORNIES.
    An Invective.
    by a victim.

    Friends, neighbours, countrymen, I take
     The liberty to warn ye
    Against that universal scourge,
     A rascally Attorney.

    In ev’ry town you travel thro’,
     The first thing you discern is
    A plate of brass, with letters large,
     Some “Rogue and Co., Attornies.”

    When debts and duns are plaguing one,
     The thought a constant thorn is,
    All others may be satisfied,
     But never the Attornies.

    When lands are gone and body bare
     As any babe new-born is,
    The wretch may call his soul his own —
     His skin is his Attorney’s.

    From good men’s hate I ’d screen the man
     Whose name my bitterest scorn is ;
    To yield him to that deeper curse,
     The friendship of Attornies.

    When dawn dispels the feverish dream,
     My first prayer in the morn is,
    Oh keep me from all evil things !
     But still more from Attornies.

    And when, at night, I go to bed,
     It always my concern is,
    To finish with a bumper-toast,
     “Confusion to Attornies.”

    So I will lead a pious life,
     That, when to die my turn is,
    My soul may find a resting place,
     Where there are no Attornies.

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    ↑ - 162 - {f.162} THE ECCENTRICITIES OF GENIUS.

    We remember hearing an amiable old lady say, in her strong admiration for Dickens, that it was not astonishing he wrote so well, considering it was his invariable habit to associate with the class he intended to depict. “I have been told,” said she, “that on one occasion he wore a paper cap and a white apron, and sold penknives with fourteen blades for a whole week at the Elephant and Castle, purposely to study, at his leisure, the characteristics of Tigers[Comment by BQ] : Tiger were liveried grooms or footmen, usually young boys, often seen riding outside of fashionable carriages as part of their duties. and Omnibus-Cads.”[Comment by SL] : Now an obsolete term used in the nineteenth century to refer to a bus conductor. See: ‘Omnibus Cad, N,’ Oxford English Dictionary, March 2025. We were so struck with this extraordinary fact, which we do not recollect having heard before, that we applied to the same old lady to oblige us with some more particulars of authors, which, after the outlay of a few white compliments, she readily consented to do. The following are the most peculiar of her private communications : —

    Mr. Grant, she told us, when he was writing his celebrated work of The Great Metropolis, used to spend four hours regularly every day in visiting the different coffee-shops in London. He drank a cup of tea and coffee, and ate one, if not two, thick slices of bread and butter, at every shop, so as to be able to report, conscientiously, on the respective merits of each. He spent a little fortune in this way, and he has now such a violent antipathy to tea, in consequence of the horrible quantities he drank then, that he cannot come into a room, where there is a tea-caddy, without immediately fainting away. This antipathy to tea is to be the more regretted as it necessarily prevents Mr. Grant mixing in those little coteries of which he was formerly no less the pride than the ornament. Such, alas ! are the sacrifices literature exacts from the delicate-minded sons of Genius !

    Mr. Harrison Ainsworth wrote his celebrated Turpin’s Ride to York between the acts at Astley’s Theatre. He was so struck, when visiting that place of entertainment, with Mr. Hillier’s Courier of St. Petersburgh that the thought involuntarily came into his mind to give literature, and his forthcoming work, the benefit of his new impressions. The whole of - 163 - {f.163} the graphic description was written in pencil, on the crown of his hat, entirely on the back of play-bills, and he filled no less than six, at a penny a piece, in this way.

    Lord William Lennox is so particular about the composition of his novels that he generally engages a secretary to read aloud to him The Antiquary, Tylney Hall, or some other popular work, whilst he is dictating to another. This was the plan he pursued when he wrote his very cleverly compiled, original work, The Tuft-Hunter. He has been heard to boast, that there is not a comma’s difference between similar descriptions in that work and those above mentioned. His memory in fact is so retentive, that he can tell the author of every passage through the whole three volumes. This confession in a literary man cannot, on account of its candour, be called less than wonderful !

    Mr. Benjamin D’Israeli, weeks before writing his Coningsby, never missed a day without religiously going through Holywell Street. He would frequently take an old waistcoat, or a seedy pair of trowsers, with him, as an excuse to enter a shop, and get into conversation with any of the venerable patriarchs in that street. In fact, it is said that a certain Mr. Solomons, who gave Mr. D’Israeli a bullfinch for a last year’s paletot, is the identical prototype of “Sidonia ;”[Comment by SL] : Sidonia is a character from the mid-Victorian political novel, Coningsby (1844), written by Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881). As an educated and wealthy Spanish Jew, Sidonia encourages the eponymous hero of the novel to develop a new vision of English greatness based on Jewish values and character. Robert O'Kell refutes the common claim (perhaps alluded to satirically in this passage) that D'Israeli's Sidonia was modelled upon Baron Solomon de Rothschild, with whom Disraeli had become acquainted in Paris in 1842. Sidonia has also been interpreted as a fictionalised portrait of Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1808-1879) and of the author himself. For further information, see Robert O’Kell, ‘Disraeli’s “Coningsby”: Political Manifesto or Psychological Romance?’ Victorian Studies 23, no. 1 (1979): 57–78.  but as again it is said that Mr. D’Israeli himself is the original of that great character, who can decide ?

    Mrs. Ellis,[Comment by SL] : Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799–1872) was a writer and educationist who published a wide range of materials, including verse, fiction, and travel writing. During her own lifetime, her most celebrated works were conduct books, such as Daughters of England (1842), which is mentioned here. For further information, see H. S. Twycross-Martin, ‘Ellis [née Stickney], Sarah (1799–1872), Writer and Educationist,’ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 23 September 2004. in her ardour for literature, went so far as to enter as a maid-of-all-work in a young ladies’ boarding school, at Hammersmith. This she did for two quarters, purposely to have daily opportunities of studying the female character for her celebrated Daughters of England. She used to write down her impressions every night, in bed, when all the candles were put out. It is said she convened a council of monthly nurses, to glean information for her no less celebrated Mothers, but the particulars she got in this way were so astounding that she was afraid to use them.

    Alfred Crowquill frequently makes his sketches on his left thumb-nail. On one occasion, when dining out, a very hot - 164 - ↑ {f.164} plate was handed to him. In the agony of pain he put the burnt finger into his mouth, and lost, to his inconsolable regret, the best likeness of a brewer’s drayman he had ever drawn.

    Buckstone, whenever he has a genteel character to act, walks about the streets till he finds the most promising-looking gentleman, and then invites him home to supper. On one occasion, however, he suffered sadly from his enterprising hospitality — for, having spent half a night in studying a gentleman-at-arms, he fell asleep from sheer exhaustion, and discovered the next morning he had lost a couple of spoons, a pair of sugar-tongs, a brandy bottle quite full, a miniature set with diamonds, and three old wigs. It must be stated, though, in favour of Buckstone’s gentleman, that the wigs were sent back the following day.

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    EXTRACT
    from
    The Report of the Commission appointed to inquire into the
    progress and prospects of the English Language.

    Professor Downy, of St. Giles’s in the Fields, examined : —

    Perfectly recollects the time when the expressions “shocking bad hat” and “flare up” were in constant use. Did not think highly of either, but is of opinion that “flare up” was the best. Is sure they are entirely gone by, and that no one, with the slightest regard for fashion, would now utter them. Thinks “Has your mother sold her mangle” is nearly obsolete, and, therefore, considers the Prize Comedy, in which this phrase was so conspicuous, as behind its age. Remembers the expression “Things are getting rather screwy” in the same work, but considers it altogether illegitimate, and not sanctioned by any authority. Looks upon “Rum ti tum with the chill off” as a very happy and facetious assemblage of words, but has no clear notion what it means. Is certain, however, that it cannot mean the Spectator newspaper, as that periodical always has the chill on. Looks upon the rapid progress of - 165 - {f.165} “fast” and “slow,” conveying a sense of praise and dispraise, as altogether unprecedented, except by that of the word “shy,” signifying “indifferent.” Considers “This is the slowest thing I ever clapped eyes on,” as applied to the generality of modern five-act plays, to be a most felicitous expression. Is not sure whether he would rather call the ballet of Zelia “slow” or “shy,” but is inclined to think he would call it both. Once heard a Westminster scholar call a low person a “sky,” but is convinced the word never got into general usage. Is proud to express his firm belief that the phrases “No great shakes,” “brace of shakes,” “Walker,” and “I’m blow’d,” are immortal, and beyond the influence of fashion. Thinks that what is said of ShakespeareShakspeare may likewise be said of them —

    “They are not for an age, but for all time.”

    Mr. Peregrine, of the Travellers’ Club, examined.

    Has frequently been to New York. Has occasionally read the “New York Herald,” but feels great contrition on account of the same, and does not intend to read it again. Has heard the phrases “loafer” and “rowdy,” and at New York, the former signifying a vagabond, and the latter a kicker-up of disturbances. Is sure these words have never been current in this country. Does not conceive it would be a great national blessing if they were. Looks upon “opinionate” as a very superfluous word, inasmuch as all its functions may be performed by “opine,” and has no great notion of “screamer” as a complimentary expression. Thinks highly of “slanting-dicular,” and as we have no corresponding word in England, believes it might be imported with advantage. Does not know whether such importation would be found facilitated by Sir Robert Peel’s New Tariff, such affairs not being his “look-out.” Is perfectly aware of the financial sense of the word “repudiate.” Has often illustrated the doctrine it implies on his own private creditors, indeed many of his travels have been undertaken in consequence. Does not know whether a slang expression is to language what an appoggiatura is to music, not having the remotest notion what an appoggiatura may be.

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    ↑ - 166 - {f.166} THE SYNCRETICS’ COMMON-PLACE BOOK ;
    or, few things in many words.

    How beautiful is nature, and how comparatively ugly is art. Can all the artificers of Axminster produce a carpet like the green grass ? Echo answers that the attempt would be utterly ridiculous.

    The mountain torrent, with its stream of gushing liquid, beats hollow the paltry fountain in the temple ; and who would think of comparing Mont Blanc with the dome at the top of the National Gallery ? The sky with its variegated hues, the rainbow with its many colours, cast into shade the gaudiest of shop-shutters, which only seem to mock the plumage of that peacock who is indebted to nature for a tail which art could never grace him with.

    How vast is time compared with the clocks by which we are in the habit of counting it. How immeasurable is space, and how contemptible is the foot-rule by which alone we form all our ideas of measurement.

    Wisdom is like oats : there is a good deal of chaff to be beaten out of it, and the soundest philosopher is he who best can bear the soundest thrashing.

    Friendship, like pickled onions, will keep a long time, but a bad pickle is trying to both, for neither can be well preserved under such circumstances.

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    SONGS OF THE ADVERTISERS.

    I want a butler’s place, but have a bias
    For entering a family that ’s pious,
    Fun to the morals may be deleterious,
    So I prefer a situation serious.
    Mirth may a levity of mind provoke,
    Give me a master who can’t make a joke.
    Wages expected, forty pounds a year,
    My clothes, and half a crown a week for beer.

    - 167 - ↑ {f.167} These wages will include my go’ng up-stairs
    To join the fam’ly twice a day in prayers,
    It can’t be done for less — and for the price
    About the sect I sha’n’t be over-nice.
    Protestant creeds I charge the same all round,
    If Cath’lic I expect an extra pound.

    An active maid-of-all-work I,
     Accustomed wooden floors to scrub,
    Can roast a joint or make a pie,
     Have no objection to the tub.
    Am of a sentimental turn,
     Detest the busy heartless crowd,
    The tales of love I proudly spurn,
     And wish “no followers allow’d.”

    For honeyed words I do not care,
     They throw no magic spell around me,
    But for propriety so rare
     My tea and sugar must be found me.
    Of love I never felt the flame,
     To say it I may well be proud,
    The candle ends I always claim,
     When I’ve “no followers allow’d.”

    Flirting with butcher’s boy or sweep
     No missus e’er will find me tripping,
    Unto myself I always keep,
     I, by-the-by, expect the dripping.
    I’ve often turned in scorn aside
     When milkmen have affection vow’d,
    And I have said with honest pride
     “There ar’n’t no followers allow’d.”

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    THE FAMILY LACON.

    Black satinet may be renovated by gin and water ; but pause ere you entrust the operation to the laundress. Oh - 168 - ↑ {f.168} that the self-same fluid would renew the satinet of the bosom !

    Wouldst thou prevent the white kid glove, whilst laid by, from turning yellow ? wrap it up in blue paper. But when beauty is laid up, (especially on the shelf,) what envelope will preserve her complexion ?

    How difficult, to a lady, is the task of cleaning her silk stockings ! How much more difficult to her husband to find the money to pay for them !

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    THE CHIEFTAIN’S ONSLAUGHT.[Comment by SL] : This narrative parodies the early nineteenth-century 'National Tale' - a type of fiction that sought to celebrate the distinct cultural history and landscape of the diverse nations of the newly formed United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. A popular mode of fiction pioneered by celebrated Romantic-era authors such as Maria Edgeworth, Sydney Owenson, and Walter Scott, the National Tale had become rather shopworn by 1845. For further information, see Ina Ferris, The Romantic National Tale and the Question of Ireland (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
    A Fragment.

    The Mac Higginbottoms, encamped in a time-worn recess, scooped in the steep side of Ben-Haverstock, awaited the approach of the enemy. Couched at the head of his clan, amid the verdant kail, lay Vich Ian Stubbs, supporting himself on his splenchan. Presently the martial coronach of Clan Mullins was heard swelling up Glen Chalkfarm, mingling with a terrific hiss, produced apparently by a column of vapour emitted from some unseen source. “Curragh, my tulips !” shouted Vich Ian Stubbs, and his followers were instantly on their legs. The feudal foes were now confronted, separated only by a narrow brae. Vich Ian Stubbs saw that not a moment was to be lost. “Gaberlunzie for Mac Higginbottom !” he exclaimed, “flare up to the fore !” and his followers, impetuously pressing before their leader, dashed, yelling the pibroch of “Polly Hopkins,” upon Clan Mullins. They met, hand to hand, foot to foot, in a ravine intersecting the Haverstock Trosach. Terrific was the struggle that ensued. Baylis of the Chambers cleft Hodder of the Lodgings to the brisket, and Allen of the Buildings fell a victim to Tomlins of the Rents ; whilst in another part of the field, Pearson of the Passage was felled by Tully of the Alley ; and Postans of the Two-pair-back, overthrew Ponny of the Front Parlour. At length, the Mac Higginbottoms appeared to give ground. Vich Ian Stubbs had hitherto been a passive spectator of the conflict ; but the - 169 - ↑ {f.169} lion was now fairly roused. “Tullochgorum, my bricks !” he shouted, in a voice of thunder — “Cock-a-leekie to the rescue !” Thus raising his native war-cry, he brought his target to a level, wrapped his claymore around him, drew his philabeg, and rushed into the thickest of the fray. * * *

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    MORAL REFLECTIONS ON BILLS.

    Was it not Mr. Ikey Solomons who, when sentenced to be transported for twenty years, called for a bill-stamp that he might accept the same for a thousand pounds ? And was it not the late lamented Lord Ellenborough who asked the prisoner for what he wanted the said bill-stamp ? And then and there, leaning over the Old Bailey dock, was it not Solomons who made this memorable reply — “For vot do I vont a bill-stamp, my lord ? — vy, I’ll tell you ; to cut the twenty year short : for I never know’d a man accept a bill that the time didn’t fly away like vinkin.”

    No : it was not Ikey who uttered this profound truth ; neither was it Lord Ellenborough who put the curious query. No matter ; truth is truth by whomsoever uttered. No lips can defile it.

    Therefore, reader, consider that Her Majesty’s stamp — all innocent though it seem — is a charm to steal away your golden months. Write on a three months’ document, “Accepted, John Green,” and ere you can turn three times comfortably in bed, the bill is what is called matured, that is, ripe for dropping upon you. The banker’s clerk knocks at the door ; leaves a square bit of paper in which you are politely requested to send the money — (pooh, pooh ! ridiculous !) — “between the hours of two and five.” You laugh hysterically at the invitation, and even ere the laugh has subsided, a short, concise epistle is forwarded from some benevolent attorney, who tells you that the money must be settled by twelve o’clock, “or” —

    No : not the ingenious handicraftsman who first crammed a service of plate into a cherry-stone, —

    Not the fine calligrapher who once penned an Act of Parliament in the circle of a silver penny, —

    - 170 - {f.170} Not he who crammed the whole Iliad into a book that he afterwards crammed into a walnut shell, —

    Not one of these ever did or could compress such a multitude of things — such a world of most significant meaning in such little space — as may be crowded in that attorney’s monosyllabic

    “Or” —

    There is in it writ — execution ! All the stones of the Queen’s Bench may be in those two magic letters — that all-comprehensive “or.” It may also contain that modest fabric, the Insolvent Court, Portugal-street ; it may, moreover, — according to the digestion or rather indigestion of the Commissioner — enshrine a retirement of three months in the sweet vicinity of St. George’s Fields. How much shame, wretchedness, self-abasement, downright cutting heartache, may exist in that — “or !”

    And therefore, if it be possible — nay, whether it be possible or not, for to do what is impossible makes the real genius — if it be possible, never give a bill. No : cheat the revenue of the stamp duty, and pay ready money.

    Our reflections are on Bills ; and it may be, we speak to some callow youth : to some ingenuous youngling in his vernal greenness. As yet to him shaving is a new experiment. He knoweth little of the ways of life, and the misery of a blunt razor. He hath come rejoicingly from school. At home — in the cabinet of his mother — is his silver medal for penmanship — a Telemachus bound in calf for moral conduct. Unhappy wretch ! how many silver medals, with the Queen’s gracious face upon them, shall his writing cost him ! Had he been only able to make his mark, he had been saved : but he falls a victim to his round-hand — he is doomed by his fine strokes up, and his thick strokes down.

    This youth has a friend — such a friend ! — what would he not do for him ? For the friend knows life ! The best taverns ; the best-mixed punch ; the best oyster-shops ; the best theatres ; the best way of doing everything. This friend approaches the - 171 - {f.171} youth — baby let us call him, although in the stern eye of the law he is of the age of acceptance, being one-and-twenty last week ; he approaches him with a bill stamp, and — the youth sees them not, but there are twenty little devils peeping over the friend’s shoulder, rubbing their hands, and twirling their barbed tails for very glee, —— it is done ! The youth — heaven help him ! — is down, “accepted.” It is “but a form,” says the friend, and he says truly. Hanging, too, is but a form !

    My son, “accommodate” is a good word, see that you abuse it not. Of house and board give to your friend all that the word in its largest hospitality implies. Accommodate with ready money, if — happy man ! — the coin be yours. But accommodate not upon paper. An accommodation bill is no other than an accommodation pillory ; with this difference ; that whereas the pillory commonly accommodates but for an hour, the bill may have “renewed” and “renewed” accommodation for months and months. Alas ! that renovare dolorem !

    Lay these things to your heart, my son, and be instructed. And when the friend of your bosom, or rather of your pocket, shall approach you with a bill-stamp, handing to you a quill with the self-same grace with which (it is upon record) the Devil handed Dr. Faustus an iron pen dipped in penal brimstone, to sign away his soul — then, my son, take from your poke this little book, your constant bosom companion, and, opening it at this very page, lay your finger on the words below — a golden maxim made over to you by Punch : —

    “He who accepteth a bill for another is, if alone in the world, merely an ass. He who flieth a kite for another, and yet is not alone, is an ass with this difference, — he may also be a robber.”

    And so much for accommodation, according to the stamp act !

    Nevertheless — for who will be instructed ? — it may happen that, being of a sanguine nature, you have not paid ready money ; no, you have given a bill. Time flies — he never flies so fast as when his wings have stamps upon them — and the bill is due. You cannot possess yourself of that stinging bit of paper. You desire renewal, wherefore the following form - 172 - ↑ {f.172} of letter to the holder, may possibly, with some advantage, be adopted : —

    Form of Application for the Renewal of a Bill.

    My dear Sir — Dear Sir — or Sir [as the case may be],

    My little bit of paper is due on Thursday next. An unforeseen circumstance, indeed an accident of a somewhat remarkable nature, will, I fear — for I am not yet positive upon the point — make it desirable for me to have the favour renewed. It would be somewhat painful for me to ask anybody but yourself this trifling indulgence : but there are persons of whom to solicit a favour is to feel — not an annoyance, no, but a gratification. You, sir, are of these persons : you, sir — but I will say no more. The self-same nature that ever prompts you to assist your friends, makes you reject even all lawful laudation. Therefore, we will, if you please, say for three months ; and, in the meantime,

    Believe me, yours very truly and obliged,

    —— ——.

    Probable Answer to the foregoing.

    Sir,

    I have paid your bill away. Where it is, I know not. It will, however, be duly presented, and therefore, as a friend, I would advise you to be provided for it.

    I remain, your obedient servant,

    —— ——.

    And therefore, my son, we say again — “Cheat the Revenue of the Stamp Duty, and always pay ready money.”

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    AN INTERLINEAR JOE MILLER.

    The following are a few specimens of a new work, which is intended for the use of persons who wish to joke in two languages. Our readers will intuitively see they are translations of some of the choicest beauties of our national humourist, Joe Miller. The work, which has been most carefully - 173 - {f.173} revised by M. Jules Janin, the celebrated linguist, is the first production, we understand, of a young gentleman “who has learnt French without a master.”

    Les Ouvrages de Monsieur Joseph Miller.

    A flowery Compliment. — A pretty Baroness of Grosvenor
    Un fleuri Compliment. — Un joli Baronne, de Grosvenor
    Square, asking a young nobleman, which he thought the
    Carré, demandant un jeune seigneur, quel il pensa le
    prettiest flowers, roses or tulips, he replied, with great
    plus joli fleurs, roses ou tulipes, il repliquea, avec immense
    gallantry, “Your ladyship’s two-lips * Two-lips has the same sound as tulips ; hence arises the joke. In French it is not so easy to render this ; but the literal translation of “Two-lips” was necessary to preserve the compliment gallantly meant to be paid. Besides, where would have been the meaning of “Votre dame tulipes avant tous le roses dans le monde ?” Why none at all ! — Note of the Translator. before all the roses
    courage, “Votre dame deux lèvres avant tous le roses
    in the world.”
    dans le monde.”
    Miss Pope was saying in the green-room of
    Mademoiselle Pape était disant dans le vert chambre de
    Drury Lane, that Garrick had an eye that would pene-
    Drury Ruelle, que Garrick avais un œil que voudrait pene-
    trate through a deal board. “Yes,” said Wewitzer, “I
    trer a travers un beaucoup navire. “Oui,” dit Vevitzer, “Je
    see : it is what we call a gimlet-eye.”
    vois : il est quoi nous appeler un vrille† Ce jeu de mots est pétillant, coquet, gai, gaillard, essentiellement Français. Le mot “vrille” exprime littéralement l’action de pénétrer, et rend à merveille le sens du mot anglais “gimlet.” Le même, n’est-ce-pas, avec “œil” et “eye ?” Je ne connais rien dans notre langue, (autrement si riche, féconde et pléthorique en plaisanteries,) qui puisse surpasser la finesse de ce jeu de mots, encore si frais et riant, de Mademoiselle Pape. — Jules Janin, traducteur du “Voyage Sentimental de Monsieur Sterne.” œil.”
     - 174 - ↑ {f.174} Harmonic Pun. — A Mr. George Sharp, look-
    Harmonique Pointe. — Un Monsieur Georges Aigu regar-
    ing rather dull one evening, a friend observed, G. Sharp
    dantdeant mieux stupide un soir, un ami observé G. Aigu
    was in rather a low key. “Oh !” replied a young lady
    était dans plutôt un bas clef. “Oh !” repliqué un jeune dame
    sarcastically, “Any one can see that G. Sharp
    un manière satirique, “Quelque un peut voir que G. Aigu
    is A flat.”* “Key” est “clef,” et “flat” est “plat.” Ainsi il n’y a rien laissé a l’imagination la plus glacée, la plus russe, la plus normale, à deviner : Heureux celui qui saisit, du premier coup-d’œil, les richesses, même celles qui ont été colorées avec le pinceau poétique de La Reine Mab, qui étincellent comme des étoiles dans un ciel d’hiver, dans la langue dotée du génie universel, fantastique, murmurant, pleurant, mélancolique, sévère, terrible, gentil, de Guillaume Sheakispere ! — J. J.
    est un plat.”
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    THE MYSTERIES OF LONDON.
    le natif de paris.

    His Birth. — The “Natif de Paris” is always born in London. Its fogs are proverbially the most favourable for him to acquire the true Parisian accent : Holborn is the hereditary place of his birth. The Seven Dials are his Chaussée D’Antin, and the Rookery his Champs Elysées. The “Natif de Paris” glories in having a father, who, he takes very good care to tell you, died at Waterloo, after giving three cheers “pour l’Empereur,” and yet is not too proud to beat carpets and run London errands. He is blest with a worthy mother, too, who, according to his version, has been decorated six times by Louis Philippe, and received at the Tuilleries, and yet does not object to sell hard-bake for her living at the corner of the Little Turnstile, Holborn.

    - 175 - {f.175} His Education. — The “Natif de Paris” never goes by any accident to an Université. A school at a penny a day is his College ; and he only loses his diploma as “Professeur de Français,” by being sent away because he is two weeks’ payment in arrear. From this, our “Natif de Paris” goes into the service of an original English dramatist, and learns, at the age of nineteen, the first words of his native tongue by reading the titles of the vaudevilles his master is translating. He then studies Nugent’s Dictionary, and travels through Merlet’s French Grammar. He soon knows as much as his master ; but, in his ambition, wishing to rival him by translating the same piece, he is thrown again upon the wood-pavement of London, without a countryman or a sou to help him. In his distress, he offers to teach a butcher’s daughter French in exchange for a dinner for each lesson. He teaches himself in teaching her, and, by the time he has grown fat in the daughter’s tuition, has become quite a proficient Frenchman. He purchases a copy of Télémaque, and, with the aid of a dictionary at a bookstall, draws up the following advertisement : —

    “MONSIEUR GUILLAUME STYLES, Natif de Paris, donne leçons en Français, pour six sous une leçon. Tirez la troisième cloche, à la droite, No. 3, Le Parc de Whetstone.”

    His fortune is made. He gets one pupil. Encouraged by this, he registers his name with his compatriote, Monsieur Fenwick de Porquet. He gets a situation in a school at Islington, upon the strength of some testimonials from French Professors, written by a Medical Student in London who had walked the hospitals and theatres at Paris for three years, and acquired his surgery and his French at the Chaumière. Our “Natif de Paris” cultivates a moustache, wears frogs to his coat, tweed trowsers, and long hair ; leaves off shaving, takes snuff, distinguishes himself with British high-lows and Berlin gloves, abuses “perfidious Albion,” talks broken English, and gets a sprinkling of pupils.

    His Habits. — The most characteristic trait about the “Natif de Paris” is his scrupulously avoiding all Frenchmen. He cannot bear the sight of one of his countrymen, and will not, under - 176 - ↑ {f.176} any pretence, speak to any one but an Englishman. His favourite haunt is the Surrey Theatre, where he prefers the indigenous productions of Fitzball and Wilkes to those of his national poets, Victor Hugo, and Corneille, of whose names he has never heard. His reading is chiefly confined to “Bell’s Life” and Jack Sheppard, and he has a very happy memory for the popular comic songs of the day. He is fond of tripe, and retains to the last a strong affection for the violent misapplication of the “v’s,” “w’s,” and “h’s,” which distinguished his childhood. There is one great peculiarity about the Natif de Paris — by no accident does he ever visit Paris. He lives and dies near the place of his birth, — London.

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    LINES TO AN UNFORTUNATE SCHOOLBOY,
    taken shopping during the christmas holidays.

    Unhappy victim of a bore,
     My boy, I pity thee ;
    I recollect, in days of yore,
     What shopping was to me :
    I know thy heart is far away
    Either in mischief or at play.

    Oh ! wouldst thou not be sliding now,
     My cloudy-visaged one,
    Or flinging snowballs ; — any how,
     At some good game of fun ?
    “Leap-frog,” “stag-out,” or “high-spy-high ?”
    I know thou’lt say, “Ah, wouldn’t I !”

    Thou didst come home intent on play,
     Along with other boys ;
    Not with mamma to spend the day.
     Are these thy Christmas joys ?
    Thus to be perched upon a stool !
    — I’m sure thou’dst rather be at school.

    - 177 - ↑ {f.177} Dost thou not long the squib to fire,
     To bid the cracker pop,
    To twang thy bow, my youthful ’squire,
     Or lash thy whirling top ?
    Thou wilt reply ; of course thou must,
    “Just don’t I rather — don’t I just !”

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    THOUGHTS AND MAXIMS ON PUBLIC DINNERS.
    by the duke of cambridge.

    How sweet is a dinner — a public dinner ! Beautiful is the Crown, but how much more beautiful blended with the Anchor ! What a noble fraternity are the Freemasons — but how much nobler their Tavern ! Sweet is a thatched cottage — but sweeter still a Thatched House ! Glorious is London — but is not the London Tavern at once the eye and heart of the Great Metropolis ?

    What a lovely thing is Charity, when accompanied with real turtle ! How ecstatic the emotions of the benevolent heart, when bounding to Champagne corks ! How serene, yet mellow, the feelings engendered by iced punch ! How do men, like melons, ripen under glasses !

    When man has dined, he is, or ought to be, at peace with all the world ! His heart swims in a sea of content : his pulses, sweetly as the notes of a musical snuff-box, play “There’s nothing in life can sadden us.” Daily care sits relaxed in his countenance, and whatever “speculation” he may have in his “eyes” on the Exchange, he has none at the genial board ; albeit, after a certain hour, he may see double.

    How very subtle the nervous mechanism between the heart and the breeches-pocket ! A great truth this, that I have learned as Chairman. Mr. Harvey only discovered the circulation of the blood — that it flowed through and through the heart. I have since discovered that it also carries with it “the circulating medium.” Thus, before a man has dined, his blood moves languidly ; it is like a duck-pond mantled with weeds : and then is his breeches-pocket close as a cockle. But - 178 - {f.178} dine him — dine him ! Warm his arterial liquid with eating and drinking, and the stream will sparkle like rubies in the sun — will flow like a summer brook. And lo ! then will his breeches-pocket open — yea, gape like a thirsty oyster ! And his gold will dance like fairies ; and, in the intensity of his delight, he will groan for the time when the paper shall come round, that he may book himself for a hundred.

    I have known men who, after dinner, have had their hearts drawn by their cheque-books in their breast-pockets — ay, drawn, even as with a blister ! Therefore, beautiful is a dinner. Surely Charity was born with a knife and fork in her hand, and a napkin under her double chin !

    Beautiful is Non nobis, sung by Messrs. Bedford, Stansbury, and Hawes ! Very solemn was the Poculum Poculorum of the late lamented Mr. Bellamy !

    How sublime it is to give “The Queen,” and “The rest of the Royal Family !” What emotions stir within the Englishman’s breast ; and, forgetful of impressment, and such trifles, he knocks the mahogany with his fist, and is, for the moment, very sure that Britons never — never — never — never will be slaves !

    [Comment by SL] : This humorous reference to the famous chorus of the eighteenth-century British patriotic song 'Rule Britannia' unintentionally underscores the hypocrisy and contradictions underscoring Punch's conventional pro-imperialist stance. Sweet it is to toast the Church, and sweeter still to have a very short speech of thanks “in return for the honour.”

    How delightful, too, when we want to get rid of them, is it to give “The Ladies !” How more than interesting to see them trying to smile all sorts of acknowledgments ; whilst, in their hearts, they think us brutes “for the honour we have done them.” They go to coffee, and take “our characters” along with them.

    Like the cooing of the dove is the voice of toast-master Toole ! Sweeter than nectar the contents of the “loving cup.”

    MAXIMS.

    I. When you go to a public dinner, always take with you your worst hat ; unless, being of an eccentric turn of mind, you would have a good beaver changed for a bad one. Men so inclined, are rarely disappointed.

    - 179 - {f.179} II. At the dinner, if possible, sit next to a gentleman of the press. The landlord knows him, and purely out of respect for his vocation gives him the best. The other company may in their drink be “going it very sloe,” whilst you and he shall be swallowing bee’s-wing.

    III. During the speeches of the Chairman and others, drink — but drink silently. Otherwise, orators are so long-winded, it is impossible, in the time allowed, to get drunk like a gentleman.

    IV. Cry “Hear, hear,” and huzza, but moderately. If you have dined as you ought to have dined, much cheering disarranges the gastric juice, and hastens intoxication.

    V. When the list of subscriptions is being read over, if you have only given a guinea, cough hard or blow your nose at “John Timkins, Esq. — one guinea,” that nobody may hear the precise amount. People may then think it a hundred.

    VI. When you retire from the tavern, eschew oyster-shops, and go straight home. Neither visit your customary hostel “for one” — “for only one more glass.” Else, in the thoughts of your family, the Freemasons may suffer for what the Cock and Bottle has really done. This is cruel.

    VII. Whilst sober, carefully separate your gold from the silver, dropping the costlier metal into your watch-fob. Otherwise, you may be liberal and not know it till the morning ; having given the cabman forty shillings for two.

    VIII. If, with prophetical forecast, you have made up your mind to be drunk, you have, of course, taken the latch-key. If not, and your wife lets you in, immediately begin to quarrel with the door-mat. This burst of temper will at once indicate your dangerous condition. When a quarrel must happen between man and wife, it is always best to have the first word.

    IX. Before you go to bed, take a manly resolution never to get drunk again ; also take one spoonful of carbonate of soda.

    X. In the morning, begin as soon as you awake to call yourself “an ass” — “a fool” — “a nincompoop.” This remorse will disarm your wife, and she will incontinently pity your headache.

    XI. When you go to business looking very ill, say “You - 180 - ↑ {f.180} can’t think what ails you — it must be the weather.” Ask now and then “If there is n’t thunder in the air ?”

    XII. Return home punctually to dine. Take mutton-broth. Go early to bed. Next morning, agree with your wife “that it is very silly for men to make such fools of themselves.” All right again for another public dinner.

    We have given these maxims according to the MS. ; but where the Royal Duke obtained the wisdom enshrined in them, it passes our wit to discover. Doubtless, it is intuitive.

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    FARMING FOR LADIES.

    This is the last new step in the march of mind. Surely no persuasion can be necessary to allure ladies to the practice of husbandry. The beneficial influence of country air and exercise on the complexion must alone be a sufficient inducement to quit the needle for the coulter. True, with reference to this point, apprehension may whisper “Freckles ;” but ingenuity triumphantly replies “Parasol.” How pleasing the task, how interesting the sight of the well-dressed footman, assiduously shading, whilst he respectfully follows, youth and loveliness at the plough-tail ! The fairy foot how aptly associated with the fallows ! Talk not of the difficulty of the thing ; we have often seen it surmounted by Cerito. The scene of the pas involves no prejudice to the chaussure.

    Here the question presents itself, whether the ladies should be adapted to their occupation, or it to them ? We are decidedly for the latter alternative. The office of woman is to adorn life ; and of course she cannot adorn life, rustic or urban, without being well dressed. Let the female agriculturist be a Ceres attired by the Graces. Let the same deities preside over her occupation and its implements. We recommend that the ploughshare should be gilt, and its handle padded with crimson velvet. We would have the flail inlaid with ivory, and its connecting ligament made of coloured leather. The pitchfork ought to be enamelled ; the cart-whip - 181 - ↑ {f.181} variegated, and bound with gold and silver wire. The cart and wagon themselves should resemble a fashionable equipage ; and the ladies should go in the same style to harvest-home as that in which they are driven to Almack’s.

    When we consider the different employments of ploughing, harrowing, sowing, reaping, mowing, thrashing, winnowing, carting guano, and feeding the pigs ; and reflect on the varied attitudes which they admit of, and the elegance which may be communicated to each, we shall see that practical agriculture, under female management, will speedily assume the character of one grand ballet. Thus the poetry of motion will be blended with the business of life. The barn will be approximated to the ball room ; the hayloft to the salon, and elegance will be imparted to the most ordinary job. How charming the idea of beauty riding Dobbin, with a side-saddle, to water !

    After the above observations, we beg to propose, as a toast at all future agricultural dinners, “The Fair Farmer.”

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    STATISTICS OF THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON.

    We have been favoured by a very particular friend at the Surrey Zoological Gardens with the following statistics of the property that was consumed at the above historical calamity : —

    Turpentine 3 gallons.
    Canvass45 yards.
    Tow16 lbs.
    Lucifers 2 halfpenny boxes.
    Straw 1 truss.
    Crackers 1 bundle.
    Gunpowder ½ lb.
    Roman Candles 6
    Shavings 3 sacks.
    Rockets10 to 15.

    Our friend has forgotten to inform us in what office the Thames was insured on the above occasion.

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    ↑ - 182 - {f.182} GUY’S MODERN GEOGRAPHY.
    young england.

    Young England is situate in Curzon-street, May Fair, and the parishes thereabouts. Its capital is the Carlton Club House. It was founded by a small colony of adventurers, who, having quarrelled with the old Tories, emigrated from Conservatism in the year 1842, and settled in the fashionable streets and squares of St. James’s, to try their own fortune.

    The founder of this new colony was one Benjamin D’Israeli,[Comment by SL] : During the mid-Victorian era, Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) took a lead role in the new conservative movement known as 'Young England'. Repeated allusions to Disraeli in this 1845 pocket book arguably reflect the growing profile of the movement in this period, which was largely due to his attempt to popularise the Young England movement through novels such as Coningsby (1844), Sybil (1845), and Tancred (1847). Disraeli would later serve as the British Prime Minister in 1868 and again from 1874-1880. Born into a Jewish émigré family, Disraeli is described here in pejorative terms through the use of anti-semitic tropes. For further information, see Jonathan Parry, ‘Disraeli, Benjamin, earl of Beaconsfield (1804–1881), Prime minister and Novelist,’ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 19 May 2011. better known as “Young Ben.” Very few accounts of this Hebraic Columbus have been handed down to us. Portraits of the period, however, as drawn by a celebrated artist, called “H. B.,” represent him with long ringlets, and a nose built in the Mosaic style of architecture just over the bridge. His principal merit seems to have been in wearing six or seven hats, all on the top of one another, and in writing a curious work, now quite lost to posterity, called “Coningsby ; or the Jew’s Own Book.” It was much laughed at at the time.

    The population of Young England is not very numerous. It consists, at present, of twenty-five souls, three of whom, according to the last census, are married men, ten single, and the rest little boys and children. They return only two members to Parliament, but have the privilege of sending as many representatives as they please to Almack’s.

    The possessions of Young England are not very rich or numerous. Their wealth consists principally in novels, poems, pamphlets, speeches, and contributions to albums and annuals, which generally meet with a ready sale in the literary markets of Colburn and Bentley. Besides these, Young England has a newspaper not yet published.

    Their territory extends from the N. W. side of Grosvenor Square on the west, to the opposition benches of the House of Commons on the south. They are bounded northwards by the Whigs ; and on the east by the Radicals, but they carry on very little commerce with either. In fact, the only articles they exchange with their neighbours, are civilities.

    - 183 - ↑ {f.183} Their habits are exceedingly simple. Their great haunts are, the House of Commons, fashionable parties, poor men’s lectures, Clubs, public and private dinners, and Fops’ Alley, during the engagements of Grisi and Elssler. They may be seen, too, at the French Plays, at Ascot, Epsom, and other Races ; and in the ring in Hyde Park, during the fashionable season. They like a little jewellery, and a well-built cab, and are especially greedy of newspaper praise, which they will devour positively raw.

    Their dress consists of a white waistcoat, polished boots, white kid gloves, surtout from Stulz, and a chapeau Français with the last Parisian brim. They never appear without a walking-stick, or a riding-whip, providing they have not a petition, or a speech, or a copy of one of their own works under their arm.

    This infant colony is still called “Young England,” as it has not yet arrived at years of discretion.

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    PROVERBS FOR SCOTCHMEN.

    A kid glove cleaned is a kid glove saved.

    It is hard to forgive, but much harder to give.

    Whoever lends to a friend, loses not only his friend, but his money too.

    A dinner to a dead poet is better than a crust of bread to a living one.

    A friend in need is a fool indeed.

    Count fifty before you put your hand to your pocket once.

    Keep your supper for your breakfast, and you ’ll die a rich man.

    Nothing venture, nothing lose.

    The English are like fiddlestrings, the more you screw them the more you ’ll get out of them.

    Every Scotchman for himself, and England for us all.

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    ↑ - 184 - {f.184} ADVERTISEMENTS FOR FANCY FAIRS.

    In order to prevent the necessity for personal “touting” at Fancy Fairs, which must be very disagreeable to the ladies of fashion who feel themselves in charity bound to practise it, the following forms of advertisements are respectfully submitted to the fair stall-keepers : —

    “The Lady Lavinia Dashington Scott,
    The public attention invites to a lot
    Of elegant articles, pretty and rare,
    Manufactured expressly to sell at the fair :
    The loveliest butterflies — delicate things,
    With bits of embroidered silk velvet for wings.
    They ’re cheap, I assure you ; ’twere pity to lose them,
    If you ’re only particular never to use them.
    Pen-wipers they’re called ; but of course if you soil them
    With ink from the pens, you ’ll be certain to spoil them :
    Their cheapness must tempt you to purchase, for oh !
    They ’re marked at a figure excessively low.
    But six shillings each, all the butterflies round ;
    Or, as a temptation, say four for a pound.
    ’Tis presumed that the public don’t need to be told,
    The fair advertiser takes nothing but gold :
    Of thorough politeness ’twere out of the range,
    If a beau were to talk to a lady of change.”

    The following form of a prose advertisement may be found serviceable to the aristocratic shopwoman : —

    “The Duchess of Datchet begs leave to remind the frequenters of Fancy Fairs that her stall will be opened to supply the public with Fancy Goods at Fancy Fair prices.

    “The following scale of charges, the Duchess humbly hopes, will meet the approbation of her customers.

    £s.d.
    A good useful Hand-screen, from (that is to say a long way from)0 76
    - 185 - ↑ {f.185} A Pot of Pomatum, with the words “strongly recommended for family use,” in the Duchess’s handwriting, on the label0 50
    A Bottle of Eau de Cologne, with a label pasted on by the Duchess’s own hand0100
    Superior do., for mixing1 00
    A good, stout, serviceable, highly-embroidered Woollen Rug, for a tea-urn, from0100
    A ditto, extra stout, from0150
    A tastefully-worked white Muslin Kettle-holder0100

    “The Duchess has also a large assortment of articles, of which she is unable to describe the use, including every variety of Nothing constructed of card, curiously worked in silk, after no particular designs of the Old Masters, by some of the young Misses.”

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    BANK OF ENGLAND PILLS.

    Englishmen are a pill-taking people. It may be their boast, that as they eat more roast beef and plum-pudding than any other nation, so do they, with a courage peculiar to themselves, bolt more drugs, mineral and vegetable, than the rest of the world beside. Indeed, make anything into a pill, and John Bull will swallow it. Verily, he hath a courageous stomach !

    The British government, too, overtly aids and abets the medicinal doings of its children, who have good leave to experimentalize on their intestinal machinery, so that they pay for it. By virtue of a stamp, a man may take the safest and most legal cut from this world into the next. If, with a criminal contempt of the pill-vendor, he jumps into the Thames or inserts his neck into a noose, — what a fuss there is with the coroner, the jury, the witnesses — what reflections upon the sanity of the deceased ! Now, let him make away with himself by means of pills, and he goes out of the world like a respectable man — pays Government duty for his death — and there is no beadle to summon a meddling coroner, and curious jury. Hence, our advice is, to all weary of this rate-and-tax-paying - 186 - {f.186} world, not to bring any discredit upon themselves by a rash appeal to water or rope, but to subside from life in a quiet, reputable manner, paying a government duty for death, and thus emulating the self-devotion of the old Roman. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori ! It is a sweet and gracious thing to die for the Stamp Office !

    The Bank of England Pills, however, have a peculiar operation upon the stomach : but their greatest influence — and mighty it is — is upon the pocket ! As other Pills exterminate any or all of the three thousand two hundred and ninety-seven diseases — for such is the present number, and it is continually being added to — that assail the flesh, so do the Bank of England Pills utterly eradicate that one malady which contains in itself all the other maladies of the world — Poverty ! What the Pills of Morrison will do for a disordered stomach, the Bank of England Pills will effect for a low pocket. Deranged secretions and deranged affairs are — we stake our reputation on the fact — equally put to rights by one and the other. It is an allowed truth that spendthrift habits, idleness, and a careless, uncalculating mind, result from imperfect biliary secretions. Now the Bank of England Pill nourishes the pocket through the liver, and is the safest, the most valuable medicine ever yet bestowed upon mankind !

    The Bank of England Pills are the legacy of Mr. John Elwes, familiarly known to a scoffing world as Old Elwes, the Miser. The prescription, fairly written upon a piece of ass’s skin, was found with other treasures, after his death, in a tea-pot. It fell into the hands of a broker, who, ignorant of his good fortune, sold it to the town attorney, who at the time was in the most dreadful state — the most hopeless condition of poverty — but who, by constantly taking the Pills, became richer and richer, and at length died worth a million. We trust nobody is so criminally volatile as to doubt this. Indeed, who, when they read of the miracles performed by Morrison and others of his kidney, can for a moment doubt the corresponding efficacy of the Bank of England bolus ?

    Happily, however, we have hundreds of letters — a very mountain of testimonials — to prove the wondrous virtues of - 187 - {f.187} the Bank of England Pill, and as these may speak more openly upon their excellence than it befits us to do, we shall without preface lay them before the reader :

    i.
    To the Proprietors of the Bank of England Pills.

    Gentlemen,

    I should have less feeling, less gratitude than a brute beast, were I not to return to you my heart and pocket-felt thanks for the miraculous effects of your Pills. I was, as you shall allow, in the most hopeless condition, when the miracle — for I can call it no other — fell upon me.

    I had run through a fortune of £10,000, and was at least that amount in debt. I was in the Queen’s Bench, having been remanded from the Insolvent Court for what they were pleased to call a fraudulent schedule. I was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment from the date of the vesting order. I had not a shilling — my friends had given me up. Nay, I was so dreadfully changed that some of my most intimate companions — men with whom I had formerly drunk and played — did not know me.

    In this state, accident led me to try the Bank of England Pills. The effect was miraculous. In a few days, I was enabled to leave the prison ; and in another week, there was not one of my old friends who did not immediately recognise me. From that time, Gentlemen, I have constantly taken your invaluable medicine ; and it is my most serious belief, that anybody who possesses a supply of the Bank of England Pills, possesses a never-failing remedy for the greatest malady of life. I never travel without them ; and am

    Your obedient and very grateful servant,

    John Jones.

    ii.

    Gentlemen,

    In an evil hour I took my money out of the safe three-and-a-halfs, and handed it over to the drab-coloured men of Pennsylvania. They were to pay me very handsomely indeed for the preference I gave them. Gentlemen, - 188 - {f.188} they never paid me a single cent. Whereupon, my pocket suddenly declined, and I felt myself in an alarming condition. I sought advice — I put my case before the world. I wrote letters to the Morning Chronicle ; yet all I could do did me no good — my condition remained as low as ever.

    At this time, the Bishop of ——, a very dear friend of mine, recommended to me your wonderful medicine. I have only taken one boxful, and am as well as can be. My bilious attack, excited by the drab-coloured men, has entirely subsided. My pocket is in a remarkably healthy state, and, indeed, I am a new man. All this I owe to your wonderful Pills ; and owing so much, I cannot but acknowledge it.

    Yours, very gratefully,

    Sydney Pith.

    P. S. Several of my acquaintance, troubled with Pennsylvanian bonds, having taken a sufficient dose of the Bank of England Pills, are entirely recovered.

    iii.

    Gentlemen,

    I have been long a dreadful sufferer : for some years past I thought my case incurable. My illness, indeed, commenced with the building of Waterloo Bridge. I then contracted the disease of shares, and have never had a moment’s health until last month. Every half-year, when the Bridge dividends were declared, I was seized with cold shivers. My circulation was very slow — my pulse gone to nothing — with a dreadful sinking of my money-bag. Every fresh attack left me weaker and weaker ; and I am positive that I could not have stood it another twelvemonth, had I not, in a happy moment, been recommended to try your Pills.

    Oh, gentlemen, how can I express my gratitude ! I had taken only three boxes, when the last half-yearly dividend came on. My cold shivers had left me — my pulse beat a healthful tune — my money-bag looked promising — I was altogether a new man.

    I have — as I think it a duty to my fellow-creatures — - 189 - {f.189} recommended the Bank of England Pills to a friend of mine, very ill indeed with Kensington railway shares. He tells me he is fast recovering, and joins his gratitude with mine.

    Your obedient servant,

    John Robinson.

    iv.

    Gentlemen,

    You are doubtless aware that, the year before last, I took Covent Garden Theatre. It was my malady to be infected with management — I was very bad indeed. You may possibly recollect that our seasons were very intermittent. We had one every other week. The treasury became lower and lower : the house closed, and, in fine, I cannot tell how much I suffered. I was bled excessively, and for many months remained in the very weakest condition. A few weeks ago, however, I tried a box of your Pills. They were recommended to me by a brother actor, who had suffered severely from a bad benefit, and who had been wonderfully relieved by your invaluable medicine. I took but one box — I say one box ! — and I am now as hearty as ever. I feel no effect from my recent loss of blood, but am in every respect restored by your wonderful Bank of England Pills.

    I remain, your obedient servant,

    Henry Wallack.

    P. S. There cannot be a finer medicine for all managers — London and Provincial.

    v.

    Mr. James Silk Buckingham, feeling that the British and Foreign Institute is daily getting worse and worse, earnestly requests of the proprietors that they will immediately forward to him a gross of boxes of their Bank of England Pills.

    To these the proprietors might add innumerable testimonials, but modesty and want of space prevent them. Therefore, - 190 - ↑ {f.190} it will be sufficient to state, that the Pills are to be had at the Mint, the Bank of England, and at all respectable bankers’, London and country, in boxes, at the price of one sovereign to one thousand.

    N. B. — No Pill is genuine unless marked with either “Georgius” or “Victoria.”

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    PROFESSOR SLOWCOACH ON THE RISE AND
    FALL OF CHIMNEY ORNAMENTS.

    We regret to observe that the Decorative Society, who hold their meetings in a back parlour at the West End, have not had fair-play from the press, which has cruelly hushed its reports, and exhibited a callous indifference to all its papers. In vain has Professor Slowcoach preferred statistical tables on the subject of handsome chairs ; in vain has he lavished his learning on the rise, progress, and ultimate fall of the Bell-rope in Great Britain.

    But we cannot do ample justice to the claims of Slowcoach without inserting an entire paper from his able sinciputcinciput. The following delicious fragment on Chimney Ornaments will send his name down to posterity hand-in-hand with the Candelabra, and future ages will erect to his memory a mental mantel-piece.

    Paper on Chimney Ornaments. Read at a Meeting of the Decorative Society. Professor Slowcoach, President. Present, several Members at first. Ultimately, Slowcoach solus.

    The Chimney is one of the earliest of our institutions. Cobbett speaks of it with veneration in his Cottage Economy, and later as well as earlier writers have alluded to it. It will be expected that I should go into the beginning of the Chimney, and I am happy to have it in my power to throw some light upon it.

    When fires were first invented as the means of warmth, they were lighted in huts ; and, as may be supposed, the smoke was disagreeable to the inmates. Some ingenious person — - 191 - {f.191} probably a Pict — alluded to the possibility of getting rid of the smoke, when one of his contemporaries — no doubt a Goth — threw cold water on the project, and, in the heat of the moment, contemptuously called it a chimera. “Chimera, indeed !” cried the Pict, “Marry come up. Chimera, eh !” and by constant playing on the word Chimera, we ultimately, by the common change of n into r, get Chimena — Chim’na — Chimney.

    It is very possible that Chimneys were anterior to Chimney-pieces, which are said to have been first constructed of rude bits of plank thrust into the wall, for our Saxon grandfathers to place their drinking horns upon, in their moments of fireside conviviality.

    From the drinking-horn we naturally get to the vase, but we can see no connecting link between that and the tea-cup, which implies a sudden leap of some centuries on the part of civilisation, for it carries us at once later than the introduction of tea ; since it is quite clear that tea must have been known before the invention of vessels to drink it out of.

    Having got thus far into the subject, I come at once to porcelain poodles and was Ribston pippins as ornaments for the chimney-piece. But I ought, perhaps, to have glanced at the era when white china cows, with green trees growing out of their tails, were first recognised on our mothers’ mantel-pieces. Card-racks were, I take it, the offshoots of the spirit that prevailed about the time of the Inquisition ; for I can trace the word rack to no other source whatever. This brings me down to the present century, when black velvet chimney-sweeps were found figuring as chimney ornaments, probably on account of the connection then opening with India, which gave us a kindlier feeling towards the coloured population.

    I now come ———

    At this point, Professor Slowcoach was interrupted by the housekeeper, who came to intimate that the room was going to be locked up for the night ; and the Professor, muttering something about “unfair treatment,” hastily retired.

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    ↑ - 192 - {f.192} ESSAY WRITTEN DURING THE INTERVALS OF
    BUSINESS. By an Attorney.
    on natural history.

    Whereas, Harmony pervades Creation, one would expect to find analogies between Nature and the Law, whether common or statute — nor is the said expectation disappointed. The young Cuckoo, to wit, as is well known, serves an ejectment on the young Hedge-sparrow, co-tenant of the same nest with himself, the said Cuckoo ; though it may be doubted whether, in so doing, he does not commit an assault. There is no question that the old Cuckoo, parent of the young Cuckoo aforesaid, in laying and depositing her egg in the said nest, the property of Hedge-sparrow the elder, is guilty of a trespass on the said property. In this case, however, there is no remedy ; which shows the superiority of the British over the merely Natural Law. Rooks are said to distrain upon each other’s nests. The hawk, owl, weasel, polecat, ferret, and other carnivora, serve writs of capias on their prey ; and I recollect many years ago witnessing, with interest, the apprehension of a chicken by a kite, on mesne process, the abolition of which, in cases of debt, is so deeply to be regretted.

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    lines suggested by seeing the evening star.

    How like to fading hopes you are,
    Beautiful little Evening Star :
    Now dimly bright — now brightly dim —
    Now circled by a misty rim ;
    Now twinkling with a dubious light,
    Now gone completely out of sight.
    How like to fading hopes you are,
    Beautiful little Evening Star.
      La, la, la, la, la, la,
       Beautiful Star !
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